Stories from Friday, January 26, 2007

Chelsey Quigley scores 22 for Roughriders SOUTHERN VALLEY -- Cheryl Braithwait burned up the nets for 33 points for the Arapahoe Warrior girls basketball team in Thursday's 62-54 win against Southwest in a semifinal game at the Republican Valley League...

Oct. 11, 1911 - Jan. 20, 2007 REDDING, Calif. -- Albertice Lucille (Kemp) Anderson, 88, died Saturday (Jan. 20, 2007) at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, Calif. She was born Oct. 11, 1911, in Lebanon, Kan. She married Farrell Anderson and worked as a school teacher for 42 years...

By the end of the month, one local man will be calling another country home for the next five weeks. Jeff Tidyman of McCook will spend a month in India as part of a Rotary exchange team. Tidyman, 34, is a civil and architectural engineer. He also serves as program manager for the TriEDGE program for entrepreneurship...

In a way, what we worry about is a measure of how well off we are in this country. While we worry about global warming and heart disease, others are more concerned about finding enough to eat, getting to work without being blown up by a suicide bomber, or dying from cholera contracted from unsanitary conditions...

I would like to correct the information that was given in my book review of "Paul Revere: A True Republican" on Jan. 18, 2007, in the Gazette. One lantern meant that the British would come by land. Two lanterns meant they would come by sea. Gen. Gage, the British commander in chief, was planning to destroy the munitions stored by the colonists at Concord, Mass. He also wanted to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams...

The meaning of democracy is the meaning of peace. Freedom is the price we pay for the democracy. And, furthermore, the democracy is the price we pay for opinions we take for constitutions in foreign countries where the communists are hiding and might attack us...

Here we go for a record long presidential campaign. I'm sure we will hear good plans for domestic programs on each side. And, as usual, taxes will be lowered and wasteful spending will be stopped just as it has for the last 70 years plus that I can remember...

McCook and Culbertson school board members discussed the possible merger of Culbertson into McCook's school system at a special meeting at noon Thursday. Culbertson now forms a Hitchcock County unified school district with Trenton and Stratton. Stratton school board members are discussing possible merger with Dundy County Public Schools in Benkelman, a move that would force Trenton and Culbertson to reconsider their options...

Feb. 4, 1917-Jan. 25, 2006 Virginia G. Wing, age 89, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 at McCook Community Hospital. She was born Feb. 4, 1917 to Harry and Edna (Newbrough) Burns at Fort Dodge, Iowa. She graduated from Fort Dodge High School. She married Dr. Charles E. Wing Sept. 21, 1940. To this union one daughter was born. She enjoyed playing her piano and organ, needlework, embroidery, sewing, art and crafts...

Oct. 17, 1939-Jan. 25, 2007 ELWOOD -- Donald Michael LeDuke, 67, died Thursday (Jan. 25, 2007), at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. He was born Oct. 17, 1939, at Woonsocket, R.I., to Michael and Ella (Ruhr) LeDuke. He graduated from Burrillville High School in Burrillville, R.I...

Indian men clip CCC; women rip BM The McCook Community College men's basketball team held off Central Community College-Columbus 62-60 Friday night at True Hall Gymnasium. The MCC women blasted Brown Mackie College-Salina, Kan., 82-44 in the early game Friday...

SOUTHERN VALLEY -- Southern Valley and Arapahoe's boys basketball teams will take to the floor for a chance at the Republican Valley League Tournament championship today, after winning their semifinal games on Friday night. The Eagles grabbed the win from Bertrand 54-32, while Arapahoe squeezed by Dundy County 47-42...