Stories from Monday, May 21, 2012

Verne R. Voss Feb. 4, 1926 - May 17, 2012 GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska -- LuVerne "Verne" Voss, 86, of Grand Island died Thursday, May 17, 2012, at the Grand Island Veterans Administration Medical Center with his family by his side. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Leo's Catholic Church in Grand Island. The Reverend Charles L. Torpey will officiate. Burial will be in the Grand Island Cemetery with military honors rendered by the United Veterans Honor Guard and the U.S. Navy...

Jean Case April 25, 1923 - May 17, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Jean Case, age 89, died Thursday May 17, 2012, at the Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. She was born April 25, 1923, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Henry and Barbara Annie (Robertson) Prosser. As a young child her family moved and settled on a ranch northeast of Leoti, Kansas. She spent her childhood in Leoti graduating in 1941...

Alan D. Addleman 　Feb. 13, 2012 - Jan. 1, 2012 HAYS, Kansas -- Alan Dale Addleman passed away Jan. 1, 2012, at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas, at the age of 79. He was born Feb. 13, 1932, in Oberlin, Kansas, the eldest child of Theodore "Ted" and Neva (Russell) Addleman...

Bernadine M. 'Bernie' Harris Jan. 1, 1926 - May 19, 2012 HOLDREGE, Nebraska -- Memorial services for Bernadine M. "Bernie" Harris will be conducted from the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege, Nebraska on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 2 p.m. with Rev. Darrel Wissmann officiating. Private family inurnment will be held at the Prairie Home Cemetery at Holdrege prior to the services...

James Richard Barnett Sept. 26, 1938 - May 15, 2012 GENEVA, Nebraska -- James Richard Barnett, 73, of Mound, Minnesota, died Tuesday (May 15, 2012), at Heritage Crossings Nursing Home in Geneva, Nebraska, following a short battle with cancer. He was born Sept. ...

McCook Daily Gazette The military outfit of Jeff Tidyman, of McCook, is displayed at the Sen. George Norris Home, at 706 Norris Avenue. Kids from kindergarten through fourth grade are invited to the Norris Home, Saturday, May 26, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ...

GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska -- Birthday greetings will reach Robert "Bob" Ruby at the Veteran's Hospital, 2300 W. Capital Ave., Grand Island, NE 68803. His birthday is May 29.

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Red Willow County Health Department is requesting the public's assistance in reporting dead birds as part of the 2012 West Nile Virus surveillance program. RWCHD will be taking phone reports on dead birds, collecting dead birds, and trapping mosquitoes in an effort to monitor the virus activity in this area. Birds that have been dead less than 24 hours and well-preserved will be eligible for collection...

Nancy Frecks, Gene O. Morris and Cloyd Clark (pictured, right, with Wes Daberkow of Lincoln) joined more than 500 community, university and organization leaders recently at the Rural Futures Conference in Lincoln. The conference was arranged and presented by the University of Nebraska to explore the creation of a Nebraska-based organization which would apply cutting edge research and practices in rural communities throughout the world. ...

Alycia Vrbas, left, and Dakota Vrbas, of Kimball, Nebraska, hide under an umbrella to stay dry Saturday at the 30th annual Early Rod Run in Atwood, Kansas. The girls stood beside the "Mud Taxi Bogger" owned by Shawn and Bob Adams of Trenton. The rod run and drag races were canceled because of heavy rain...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Twin Valleys Public Power District has been experiencing an unusually high demand for electricity for the month of May, according to officials. Because of the unusual weather conditions being experienced this year, there may be a need for irrigation load control during the remainder of the month of May...

REPUBLIC of SOUTH SUDAN -- Keri Dodge, formerly of McCook, has accepted a position in the South Sudan of northern Africa beginning June 1. She is with Samaritan's Purse, a nondenominational Christian humanitarian organization striving to provide relief to people in crisis situations worldwide in over 100 countries...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The Southwest Nebraska Leadership Institute Board of Directors has selected class members for the 2012-13 year. Twenty individuals were selected from 30 applications. The Leadership Institute Class of 2011-12 will include the following individuals from the business community: Sharon Bohling, McCook High School; Phillip Corey, First Financial Merchant Services; Christi Evans, Golden Plains Realty; Chrystal Evans, McCook Community College; Tacie Fawver, McCook Area Chamber of Commerce; Jeff Hancock, City of McCook; Jean Hester, KRD Credit; Theron Jarecke, J Distributing LLC; Mike Long, Wal-Mart Supercenter; Ben Pestel, McCook National Bank; Carol Schlegel, Red Willow County Visitors Committee; Ray Walter, Retired; Kerri Waugh, Nebraska Bull Service; Pat Weskamp; Weskamp Floral & Gifts; Sean Wolfe, Community Hospital and Gary Wolvin, AmFirst Bank, N.A.. ...

Norris and Kelley Park provided the battleground against malaria Saturday as walkers, volleyball teams and members of F.R.O.G. (Fitness Reaching Older Generations) raised funds to purchase special nets to be sent to countries in Africa where malaria a child every 45 seconds. ...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

Summer is supposed to be a fun time for kids, whether it's playing organized sports or simply enjoying a change of pace from school. It's also a great time for family activities, but we need be careful to make sure there isn't danger involved. The McCook Fire Department is getting involved by sponsoring an EMS for Children Day, from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the McCook Fire Station, 526 West B in McCook...

In August of 1945, a grizzled old frontiersman visited our city. His name was Capt. Jack Lloyd. He made an appearance at the old Temple Theater and held his audience entranced, as he described how in his own lifetime he had bridged the time between the really "Wild West" and the world as it was then, at the end of World War II...

The Students4Souls at O'Neill High School sent a big thanks to the community of McCook for supporting its Challenge by donating 1,712 pairs of shoes toward the 13,694 collected for distribution in Costa Rica this July. Coordinated by McCook native Connie (Hinz) Gildersleeve, the drive also benefitted from VK Electronics' donation of parking lot space for the April 21 shoe drive, as well as Erma and Harvey Hinz coordinating collection at St. ...