Stories from Thursday, November 3, 2005

McCook to host Holdrege in state quarterfinal round Monday The No. 1-ranked McCook Bison football team scored three touchdowns on its first five offensive plays en route to a 38-8 dismantling of Gering in a first round Nebraska Class B state playoff game Wednesday at Weiland Field...

Season ends for Wauneta-Palisade ELWOOD -- Arapahoe romped over Elwood in the Nebraska Class D-1 eight-man football playoffs on Wednesday. Arapahoe has a 10-0 record. The Warriors will take on Crawford in the quarterfinals on Monday. Tyler Hamel led the Warriors in carries with 30 carries for 142 yards...

The quarterfinals for high school football start Monday night. Area Nebraska teams scheduled for Monday are: Class B -- McCook 10-0 hosts Holdrege 8-2 Class C-1 -- Cozad 9-1 vs Chase County 8-2 Class C-2 -- North Platte St. Pats 10-0 vs Cambridge 8-2...

Sept. 2, 1919--Oct. 30, 2005 ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. -- Ernest Lawrence "Ernie" Solko, 86, died Sunday (Oct. 30, 2005) at the Christian Care Center of Cheatham County in Ashland City. He was born Sept. 2, 1919, to Joseph and Elizabeth (Neuberger) Solko. He attended country school and St. Mary's School in Herndon...

Nov. 2, 1919--Nov. 1, 2005 COZAD -- Lloyd Maynard Helberg, 85, died Tuesday (Nov. 1, 2005) at Southview Manor Care Center in Cozad. He was born Nov. 2, 1919, in Brady to Ralph T. and Anna Grace (Ohlson) Helberg. He attended rural school until eighth grade...

"Move that truck!" With that cry, Richard, Katie, Josh, Daniel and Matthew McIntire got their first glimpse Sunday night of the results of countless hours of labor accomplished by more than 100 volunteers from McCook Christian Church on their modest home on West 13th Street...

It's been a long time since the value of irrigation was measured in Nebraska, so it was eye-opening last week when the Nebraska Policy Institute announced that irrigation added $4.5 billion to the state's economy in 2003. That's an immense amount of money, shown by the fact that the total is one and a half times larger than the state of Nebraska's annual budget. ...

**Dear Editor, The Danbury Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 276 wishes to thank Beverly Neil of Wayne, for the "unsolicited" letter about our Danbury Unit in the Gazette on Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. We appreciated the encouragement she gave our small unit. She encouraged ladies in the Danbury area to join our Danbury Unit. Yes, we would very much like to have new members, but you do not have to live in Danbury to be a member. Six of our active members live in McCook and one in Culbertson...

**Dear Editor, I know Andrea Sis' paper was meant as a showcase, but I have a few comments. First of all, the embryos resulting from abortion have never been and probably will never be used in stem cell research. This is merely a ploy used by anti-abortion activists on moral crusades...