Stories from Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Dec. 3, 1933--Dec. 11, 2010 FIRTH, Nebraska -- Harry M. "Max" Wood, 77, died suddenly Saturday (Dec. 11, 2010), in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born on Dec. 3, 1933, in Marianna, Arkansas to George and Patricia (Howe) Wood. He graduated from high school in Trenton, Nebraska with the class of 1952 and spent three years in the U.S. Army serving in Korea...

Jan. 14, 1943--Dec. 11, 2010 OBERLIN, Kansas -- Myrna L. (Fisher) Wilson, 67, died Saturday (Dec. 11, 2010), in Oberlin. She was born Jan. 14, 1943, in Oberlin to Gilford and Lois (Nicodemus) Fisher. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1960...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Ministry is a family affair for the McElhannons. Eddie and his wife, Tracy, the founding pastors of Preston Assembly of God Church along with their children, Molly, 13, and Andy, 10, answered the call to McCook's First Assembly of God Church, 811 East C Street, with no hesitation late last summer. Eddie and Tracy are co-pastors who have been in ministry for 15 years and it's impossible to miss their enthusiasm for the church...

A few weeks ago we used this space to ask whether Americans were ready to make the sacrifices needed to put the country back on a sound fiscal footing. At issue was a proposal by leaders President Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission to make the cuts necessary to seriously take on the national deficit...

There comes a point in one's life that the younger generation refers to you as old and stupid. Well, in my way of thinking -- yes, I am older than them. I've been on this earth a considerable bit longer than they have been BUT I do not consider myself stupid. Just because I or anyone else may think differently does not make them stupid...

The song lyrics say "Two different worlds we live in" and we were reminded of that fact recently. Two different worlds, the one that people live in southwestern Nebraska and the one that people live in southern California. I make no judgment which is better, I just know which I chose and am thankful for that choice...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- A Lincoln, Nebraska, man representing the month-old Nebraska Water Balance Alliance explained the "water balance" concept at a meeting of the Republican River Riparian Restoration Partnership Dec. 7 in Cambridge, Nebraska. Frank Kwapnioski of North Platte and Lincoln said that Nebraska's water use is out of balance in some places, "but, in most cases, its' not significant, and we can correct this."...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Inside an old warehouse along some rumbling, dusty railroad tracks in McCook, are plans for a modern pub and restaurant, serving up trendy, local microbrews to the thirsty of this town of 8,000 in southwestern Nebraska, close to the Kansas border...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- McCook, Nebraska, Public Schools will share its TeamMates mentoring program with St. Patrick's Catholic School, also of McCook, following action Monday evening by the MPS board of education. MPS board members voted unanimously to open the MPS TeamMates program to St. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The new head of the McCook Work Ethic Camp sees ties to the community as crucial to the facility's role. Pam Morello, who was officially named warden of the McCook Work Ethic Camp in September, was named Acting Warden in August, when Warden Barb Lewien accepted a position with the Omaha Correctional Center. She was moved permanently into the position, overseeing the 150-160 population of the Nebraska Department of Corrections center, effective Sept. 8...

I heard a commentator talking on the radio about "pork" in the bill that extends the Bush tax cuts. I thought, that's funny, because I've never heard things like the child tax credit, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) fix, the ethanol tax credit, and a lot of other tax breaks referred to as "pork."...

May 7, 1922--Dec. 13, 2010 BIRD CITY, Kansas -- Floyd "Bud" Leland Frisbie, 88, died Monday (Dec. 13, 2010), at Cheynne County Hospital in St. Francis, Kansas. He was born May 7, 1922, in Atwood, Kansas. He was a farmer. He is survived by his wife, Helen (Pierpoint) Frisbie of Bird City; sons, Rick Frisbie McDonald and Kurt Frisbie of Monument, Colorado; daughters, Barbara "Babs" Antholz McDonald, and Marsha Tischhouser of Wilsey, Kansas; 11 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren...