Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2007

UNK Class D results Girls results Team scores: Bertrand 55, Hitchcock County 43.66, Eustis-Farnam 38, Palmer 36, Maxwell 36, Ansley 34, Brady 34, Wheeler Central 32, Rock County 26, Arcadia 25, Cedar Rapids 24, North Loup Scotia 12, Stapleton 10.33, Sargent 8, Elwood 8, Loup County 5...

May 29, 1911-March 16, 2007 IMPERIAL -- Margaret "Johnnie" Irene (Pugh) Leach, 95, died Friday (March 16, 2007) at Imperial Manor Nursing Home. She was born May 29, 1911, in St. Joseph, Mo., to Myrtle Cordelia (Lamberd) and Thomas Vincent Pugh. Her father died when she was 20 months old and had nicknamed her Johnnie, when she was born. Her mother then married Orley Coe. She attended Atlanta High School...

Nov. 1, 1918 - March 19, 2007 IMPERIAL --?Verna Anderson, 88, died Monday (March 19, 2007) at the Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. Verna (Samuelson) Anderson was born Nov. 1, 1918, to Oscar and Le Ella (Heiser) Samuelson, at Ogallala. She acquired her elementary education only 1/4 of a mile from her home in the South Platte River Valley. She graduated from Brule High School with the class of 1936...

April 1, 1922 - March 19, 2005 B. Virginia Lilienthal died Monday (March 19, 2005) at Community Hospital in McCook at the age of 84. She was born April 1, 1922, at Stamford, the daughter of the late Arthur and Matchen (Strickland) Goudie. She grew up at Trenton where she graduated from Trenton High School in 1939. She began teaching in the rural school in Hitchcock County...

The family of Jack and Verna (Burk) Poore of McDonald, Kan., are hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 60th wedding anniversary. They were married March 23, 1947, in Benkelman. Jack grew up in McCook. Children of the couple are Charlie and wife, Judy, Jimmie and wife, Jan and Curby Poore. They have six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at P O Box 98 McDonald, KS 67745...

A proposed ordinance that will offer full and partial waivers of fees for disposal fees at the Transfer Station underwent some retooling at the McCook City Council meeting Monday night. After much discussion and with the concensus that it can be modified again before it's finalized, the ordinance was approved on first reading as it was originally written, which includes McCook Housing Authority projects...

Community Hospital is proud to announce the completion and opening of the Rehabilitation Center this week. Patients needing rehabilitation services have the convenience of one parking area, one entrance, one admissions desk and one phone number. Patients scheduled for rehabilitation services including physical therapy, occupational therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary rehabilitation or speech should park on the northeast side of the hospital and enter through the new Rehabilitation Center en-trance. ...

Although the college baseball season has begun at the Jaycee Park Complex, don't expect to find peanuts or Cracker Jack. That's because Public Works Director Kyle Potthoff is still trying to find an organization or group to operate the concession stand at the park...

Town hall meetings are tentatively set for April for residents to weigh in on the one-cent city sales tax. These round table discussions at the Senior Center will be a way for the city to gather citizen input on the renewal of the tax, which will sunset in 2008 unless re-approved by voters...

The death of a 4-year-old after he was shot with an air rifle shows just how fragile life is, and how quickly a lack of knowledge can turn into tragedy. According to reports, a 10-year-old boy who, along with his older sister, was staying with friends while his mother moved out of state, found the broken pellet gun in the trash after a neighbor threw it out...

It was my intention to talk about Bootes the Herdsman this week but I discovered I had missed a small spring constellation, Coma Bere-nices, or Berenices's Hair. Coma Berenices (Koma BERE-nicezs) is a small constellation located between Leo and Bootes (BOW-oates) and is more of an asterism than an actual constellation. There are only three stars in the group and only one of them has an actual name...

Jan. 2, 1946 - March 18, 2007 ARAPAHOE -- James Thomas Utterback, 61, of Arapahoe died Sunday (March 18, 2007) at his home. He was born Jan. 2, 1946, at Arapahoe to James T. and Gladys L. (Reitz) Utterback. He attended school in Arapahoe and graduated with the class of 1965, from Arapahoe High School...