Stories from Wednesday, June 7, 2006

FCB Juniors split twinbill at North Platte

EUREKA, Mo. -- Omaha golf pro Chris Wiemers, a McCook High School alum who won the John Mullen Pro-Am last weekend, did not qualify for the U.S. Open, which will be played Thursday through Sunday at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Wiemers, who also won the Mullen Pro-Am Horse Race and helped his amateur partners win the team title, posted a 36-hole score of 151 Tuesday at the U.S. Open sectional qualifier at Fox Run Golf Course in Eureka, Mo., near St. Louis...

BRAN Ride Bicyclists make Cambridge stop By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor CAMBRIDGE -- Cristie Salinas of Lincoln is on her eighth BRAN ride; her 8-year-old son, Cadet, is on his first. "I've waited for a long time to go with him," she said, smiling down at the slender, long-legged boy wearing a bright blue bicycle helmet and matching shirt...

July 16, 1921 - June 3, 2006 Helen Ruth Ahrens, 84, died Sunday (June 4, 2006)?at the home of her daughter in McCook. She was born July 16, 1921, in Beemer, to William and Pauline (Meeske) Malchow. She grew up on the family farm in rural Beemer. She was confirmed on April 14, 1935, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Beemer. She graduated from Wisner High School in 1939...

Members of McCook's and Red Willow County's jail committee have homework to do before their next meeting and before September, when they will start a series of town hall meetings to explain to voters why the city and county need a new public safety center and jail...

Say what you will about Nebraska politicians, but one thing is sure -- they know how to take a hint. Tuesday came more signs that candidates want to be sure they're on the right side of the hot-button issues that can turn the tide in an election, especially ones where voters have to squint to see the difference between stances taken by hopefuls on either side of the ballot...

It was summertime. 1962. I was six, going on seven, whiling away the summer with relatives in Iowa. We were moving from Texas to Colorado and Daddy had left Mom and all five kids back home while he searched out a house for us and started his new job. We would join him in plenty of time to enroll in the upcoming school year, my first...

Once more, McCook is sponsoring The Carson and Barnes Circus. This is billed as "entertainment" for children. Is cruelty to animals "entertainment"? Elephants and other wild animals are trained by force. It is standard practice to hit, beat, shock, chain and whip them to make them perform ridiculous and sometimes frightening tricks that they cannot comprehend...

I offer my bonafides by telling you I am a cowboy poet and short story author. I have won awards in both genres and have performed with poets and musicians from coast to coast and from Canada to Texas and also Australia. I am a song writer and thereby affiliated with the WMA and the AWA. Recently I recited poetry in Maywood along with Mackay Brown, a notable cowboy poet in his own right and an honest man in all ways...

According to Meg Whitman, president and CEO of e-Bay Inc., your rights to the Internet are in deep trouble. The telephone and cable companies in control of Internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the Internet...