Stories from Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Bison spikers shake off rust against Longhorns

The McCook High School football team travels to Grand Island Thursday to take on the Northwest Vikings in the final regular-season game. Kickoff at GINW is 7 p.m. The Bison are taking aim at their seventh straight unbeaten regular season and 63rd straight regular season victory...

The family of Ellen (Fiala) Kennedy are requesting a card shower in honor of her 97th birthday. She was born Oct. 25, 1910, in Kanona, Kan. Cards of congratulations will reach her in care of Hillcrest Nursing Home, 309 W. Seventh, Room 211, McCook, NE 69001...

Saying that the Keystone Hotel project in McCook “has high merit,” the U.S. Economic Development Ad-ministration has invited the McCook Economic Devel-opment Corp. to submit a full application for $1,620,500. That’s good news for the McCook community because it means the federal agency is poised to fund half of the cost of the massive Keystone renovation project...

Get ready, McCook. The community’s biggest formal event in 16 years will take place Saturday night, Dec. 8. That’s when the George W. Norris Foundation and the McCook Quasquicentennial Committee presents the 2007 McCook Governor’s Ball at the Republican River Valley Event Center...

One of McCook's radio pioneers met the new regime Tuesday during Armada Media Corp.'s open house at the Coppermill Restaurant. Jack Rogers, left, who started with KBRL Radio in 1950, spent time visiting with Tommy Thompson, board chairman of Armada Media. ...

State officials thought it was a good deal when they signed the agreement with Kansas and other states, and the border region of the state it would most affect went along with them. Later, new officials were in office, and the folks in the border region decided it wasn’t such a great deal and stopped complying with the agreement, and the state officials went along with them...

Dismay. The word sums up how I felt when a presumed believer assured me, "I'm not promoting Christianity above other religions. I'm not sure what, if anything, makes one religion superior to any other." What? A friend and sister in the Lord experienced a similar encounter when a person said to her that the Muslim God and the Christian God are one in the same...

Isn’t it interesting how history will reveal itself to those who search for it? On page three of your “Memories” book, recently published by the Gazette, there is a wonderful view of McCook mainstreet. On the left-hand side of that photo is the “Commercial Hotel.”...

The Annual McCook Community Foundation Ban-quet on Oct. 18 and the excellent account of the event by Gene Morris now provides an opportunity for comment. The Legacy Award narrated by Ron Friehe was a real stunner and thankfully Alice came through with our appreciative acceptance comments while my two “thank you’s” and a “Bah Humbug” shortened that particular segment of the program...

May 6, 1924-Oct. 21, 2007   BENKELMAN -- Thelma B. Pettit, 83, died Sunday (Oct. 21, 2007), at the Sara Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. She was born May 6, 1924, on her family's farm in Cheyenne County, Kan., to Oscar and Bertha (Martin) Gunther and attended country school near her home.  She was a graduate of Bird City High School, and taught country school in Cheyenne County for several years...