Stories from Wednesday, March 8, 2006

The McCook Community College baseball team swept a Region IX doubleheader from Miles City, Mont., Tuesday at the Jaycees Sports Complex. MCC won the opener 10-4 and claimed the nightcap 2-1 in eight innings. The Indians improved to 5-1. The two teams will hook up again for a doubleheader at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Jaycees...

LA JUNTA, Colo. -- The McCook Community College women's basketball team's season ended Tuesday with a 76-49 loss to Western Nebraska in the quarterfinals of the Region IX women's basketball tournament. The Indians, who posted a 60-51 win over North Platte Monday in the first round, finished the season with an 11-20 record...

McCook funeral director John Herrmann describes a hero as "an individual who sees another in danger ... and has the courage to lay his own self-safety aside to prevent another's injury or death." Those words Herrmann imparted as he presented five "Hero" awards from the Nebraska Funeral Directors Association to the five men who, on July 13, 2005, safely brought down a plane facing a crash-landing at the airport in McCook...

On the face of it, it has all the makings of a giant government make-work boondoggle. Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson, joined by two Republican senators, from Alabama and Oklahoma, is proposing a 1,900-mile fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, aimed at keeping illegal immigrants out of the United States...

Whoa! Stop! Back up!  Whatever you do, don't invite Bingham back! Surely the City Council didn't rehire John Bingham, (in my opinion) the worst city manager that McCook has had in a long long time.  Surely there were more qualified candidates. Yes, I served on the council during most of Bingham's time at the helm in McCook. In my opinion John put a complete damper on any residential building in McCook by constantly hassling buil-ders...

God said, "It is not good for man to be alone." And, of course he was right. So he set about to rectify man's loneliness and created woman. I shan't apologize to my more liberal sisters; women were created with specific purpose, which, if discovered and fulfilled, is beyond anything we could dream up for ourselves. And the needs we were created to meet are found in our own hearts as well, which is why we, men and women, are so often better together than we are apart...

WAUNETA -- Anna Cooper, 82, died Tuesday (March 7, 2006) at the Chase County Hospital in Imperial. Survivors include daughters, Linda Kolpet and husband, Roger of Culbertson and Carol Stensvad and husband, Robert of McCook; a son, Monte Cooper and wife, Karleen of Wauneta; brother, Jake Tepley and wife, Lillian of Elsie; brother-in-law, Loren Draper of Imperial; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren...

July 18, 1921--March 5, 2006 BENKELMAN -- V. Dale Smith, 84, died Sunday (March 5, 2006) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. He was born July 18, 1921, on his family's farm north of Benkelman to Clarence Wilson and Velma (Stevens) Mullanix...