Stories from Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Brandon Crick places third with an 85 The McCook High School boys golf team placed fourth at the Ron Coleman Memorial Invitational at Heritage Hills Tuesday. The Bison posted a 368 score and were led individually by senior Brandon Crick, who finished as the third-place individual medalist with an 85. He edged out Kearney's Ben Porter in a playoff for the third-place medal...

Kayla Wilson has been playing softball since she was in kindergarten. The McCook High School senior's career will continue for four more years. Wilson, a catcher/third baseman and a three-year starter for the Bison softball team, signed a letter of intent Wednesday morning to play softball at Hastings College...

McCook Community College sophomore Adam Vaden of Kansas City has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball and has received a full-ride scholarship to attend Regis University in Denver this fall. "This is a major scholarship in terms of the dollar value and a deserving honor for a hard-working student athlete who had a very strong year," MCC men's basketball coach Ty Orton said...

IMPERIAL -- Chase County's track teams won their own invitational Tuesday. The Longhorn girls won the 400, 1600 and 400 meter weightman's relay. C ara Kunnemann earned two gold medals for the Longhorns, winning the 3200 and 1600. Chase County's boys team had three individual medal winners. Abel Hinojosa won the discus and shot...

STORM LAKE, Iowa -- The Nebraska Wesleyan University men's golf captured the two-day Buena Vista Spring Invitational at Storm Lake, Iowa. Tuesday's second round was played despite strong sustained winds. The Coyotes posted a team score of 610. McCook sophomore Tyler Lawson, competing for NWU, tied for 16th place with teammate Travis Davis with a two-day score of 156...

HASTINGS -- Sunday marked the end of the McCook Red Crush 161's volleyball season. The team participated in the Hastings AVP tournament at the Lynn Farrell Arena. "We played some good teams in pool play from Quad County, Superior Juniors and Queen City Jrs. (Hastings)," said coach Stephanie Williams...

Here is the summer schedule for the McCook Rebels 16 and under girls fsastpitch softball team: Chris Wallace coach April 30 North Platte Jr. Belles North Platte May 5-7 Lancaster Youth Softball Association Lincoln May 27-29 Ralston Girls Softball Association Ralston...

July 31, 1945 - April 15, 2006 Kenneth Emile Forgue, 60, of Richmond, Texas, formerly of Oberlin, died Saturday (April 15, 2006) at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He was born July 31, 1945, to Emile F. and Edna (Bedard) Forgue, in Plainville, Kan. He attended Zurich grade school and Palco high school...

Nov. 26, 1918 - April 17, 2006 CULBERTSON -- Wilma Irene Sitzman died Monday (April 17, 2006) at the Hillcrest Nursing home in McCook at the age of 87. She was born Nov. 26, 1918, at Stahl, Mo., the daughter of the late Walter Thomas and Alliwilda Bell (Harmon) Butler...

The family of Elaine (McClure) Keene of McCook is hosting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday. She was born April 22, 1921 in McCook. Her family include her husband, LaMoine Keene; daughter Dian Trail and husband, Chuck of McCook; and son Steve of Concord, Calif. She has four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...

KEARNEY -- While investigators still don't know who shot him, the Bartley man injured Monday night is in good condition today following surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Sam Cunningham, 24, suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg when someone shot his car as he drove on a city street near the football field in Bartley at 11:15 p.m., Monday...

Bryce Jones, a Hitchcock County third grader, listens to her heart through a stethoscope, one of nine stations that taught third graders about the functions of their body parts and healthy living during the fifth annual "Body Walk," hosted Tuesday and Wednesday by the Red Willow County and the Southwest Nebraska Public health departments. About 350 students represented schools in Red Willow, Chase, Hayes, Hitchcock, Frontier and Furnas counties...

Red Willow County Commissioner Leigh Hoyt said good-naturedly Monday morning that if he had turned down a request for a contribution from the McCook Humane Society, he would have been in trouble with his wife. Hoyt told humane society volunteer Marilyn Cuellar that his wife, Bev, is very supportive of the shelter's activities and their treatment of animals. ...

The McCook City Council's acceptance Monday night of development of a new city park is remarkable in a number of ways. For one thing, it's affirmation of the special place McCook holds in the hearts of those who have gone on to make their mark elsewhere...

My springtime routine is well in hand this year, with the weekly Lenten series finished and any number of other interesting stories crossing my desk, just in time for my spring vacation. I love this time of year and I especially love taking a "spring break." Must be leftovers from all my years in child nutrition...