Stories from Thursday, October 25, 2007

There will be meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in high school auditorium for all girls in grades 9-12 interested in playing basketball this season and their parents. The meeting will discuss rules and expectations, and a calendar of practices and game schedules will be handed out...

There’s talk on the legislative floor about the state taking over the funding of community colleges, said the executive director of the Nebraska Community College Association Wed-nesday night in McCook. The official, Dennis Baack, spoke at the regular meeting of the Mid Plains Community College Board of Governors meeting, at Tipton Theater on the McCook campus...

Helen S., an elderly woman on a fixed income, received Social Security and lived in her own home. Finances were tight but she lived frugally and budgeted her money to pay her bills each month. Then, she had to have surgery and lost track of what bills were paid...

For few minutes, a Hickman woman was the most popular mom among the Norris High School cheerleaders. If news reports are true, however, it probably didn’t take long for her to realize how foolish she’d been. Perhaps “foolish” is too kind of a word; how about “stupid”?...

Despite assurances today’s computerized keno machines are tamper proof, two of five McCook City Council members remained unconvinced. A motion to write an amended city code to allow employees to play the games passed by only one vote. The operator of McCook’s keno noted that chips in the machine include thousands of numbers chosen at random in advance, and if anyone disturbs the chip, the entire game is disabled...

It was déjà vu. There I stood in a room full of strangers, happily hugging one another and reacquainting themselves with their loved ones. While Shane, my oldest son, was at my side -- I still felt alone. Someone was missing. I began milling around looking at the faces of all the young men and women wearing their neatly pressed dress greens and berets. ...

Jan. 31, 1939 - Oct. 21, 2007 HAYS, Kan. -- Charles Hubert Weintz, 68, died Sunday (Oct. 21, 2007) in Hays, Kan.    He was born Jan. 31, 1939, to Maude (Howard) Weintz and Charles Herman Weintz in Windsor, Mo., and  attended school in Windsor until the family moved to Cambridge in 1950.   In 1956, the family moved to Arapahoe, where he graduated from high school in 1957.   He worked in McCook and served in the Army until he moved to Omaha to attend Barber College, graduating in 1963.   He enlisted in the U.S. ...

Jan. 30, 1953 - Oct. 24, 2007 HAYES CENTER -- Ida M. (Yost) Boyle, 54, died Wednesday (Oct. 24, 2007) at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. She was born Jan. 30, 1953, in McCook to Leroy and Deretha (Coulter) Yost. She grew up on a farm southwest of McCook. She attended Herndon Schools and Brown Mackie in Salina...

June 19, 1918 - Oct. 24, 2007 LeRoy John Leibrandt, 89, went to live with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday Oct. 24, 2007. He died at Community Hospital in McCook. He was born June 19, 1918, to John C. and Lydia (Geisler) Leibrandt on the farm southeast of McCook. He was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church - Ashcreek on July 4, 1918, and was confirmed April 9, 1933, by Reverend Lesel. He attended school to the eighth grade at District 25 School in Red Willow County...

Nov. 15, 1980 - Oct. 22, 2007 RENO Nev. -- Kelly Jo. Stalder, 26, formerly of Miller and Beaver City died Monday (Oct. 22, 2007) in Reno, Nev., from an auto accident. She was born Nov. 15, 1980, at Gothenburg to Rodney and Linda (Province) Stalder. She grew up in the Miller area. She spent some of her younger years in Beaver City. She graduated from Sumner-Eddyville-Miller High School in 1999. She was active in volleyball, track and basketball...

If home is where the heart is, the Lucero family will be at home anywhere they are all together. And come the summer of 2008, they will all be together in a newly built Habitat for Humanity Home. This family of five is the epitome of the all-American family; two boys, Adryan, 11, and Anthony, 8, and a charming little sister, Nevaeh Faith, 18 months. Add mom, Jessica, dad, Eric, and Daisy, a Lab and red bone coonhound mix (and official door greeter), and the family is complete...