Stories from Tuesday, August 21, 2012

McCook High School junior Ben Skiles holds the flag on the seventh hole at Heritage Hills Golf Course. Skiles hit a hole-in-one on the seventh hole last Thursday, hitting a seven iron about 150 yards from the blue tees. Fellow Bison boys golf team member Mack Alspaugh witnessed the rare shot along with Leeland Shires and Kevin Atkinson. The 17-year-old said he watched his ball bounce several times and roll into the cup for his first-ever ace...

Charles Wayne Dack July 3, 1926 - Aug. 18, 2012 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Charles Wayne Dack, 86, of McCook, passed away Aug. 18, 2012, at the V.A. Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was born July 3, 1926, to Charlie Oscar and Esther Mae (McKinney) Dack in McCook, Nebraska. He attended school in McCook and served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 -- 1946...

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...

75th birthday The family of Gwen (Patton) Klapal of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her 75th birthday. She was born Aug. 27, 1937, in McCook. Her family includes children, Laura Parde and Bill Marks, Shelly Tietz and husband, Mike, Brenda Simmonds and husband, Rod, Scott Smith and wife, Cheryl, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 710 W. 14th, McCook, NE 69001...

75th birthday The family of Bonnie (Beebe) Brenning of Culbertson, Nebraska, is requesting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday. She was born Aug. 26, 1932, in Frontier County. Her family includes children, Sue and husband, Leslie Fahrenbruch of Maywood, Nebraska, Mike and wife, Carolyn Brenning of Culbertson, Pat and wife, Julie Brenning of Colorado, eight grandchildren and 24 great- grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 72711 Ave. 377, Culbertson, NE 69024...

CULBERTSON, Nebraska --- The Culbertson CIP held its August meeting at the Bear Cave with four members present. The group will try to locate scaffolding to paint the building at the ball field and will try to get some high school students to do the painting. A suggestion was made to send out a letter in December or January to see if there is interest in some form of ball activity next summer...

Dawn Cribbs/McCook Daily Gazette Lisa Butterfield, left, a medication aide at Highland Park Assisted Living and Retirement Community in McCook, Nebraska, and Charlotte Marks, administrator at Highland Park, show off a beautiful flowered quilt, trimmed in lime green. ...

Was it wisdom or was it foresight encouraged the development of irrigation in this area of Southwestern Nebraska? A year of drought as we are experiencing at present with dryland crops failing and the irrigated looking to make outstanding yields puts irrigation in the wisdom column. How did it happen and will our good fortune continue?...

MCC's Lady Indians volleyball team will christen the new gym Aug. 29.

McCOOK, Nebraska -- It took 75 years, but a friendship quilt started in 1936 has finally been finished. Cindy Stark of North Platte, Nebraska, recently presented the queen-sized quilt to her mother, Geneva Cain of McCook, who will turn 93 on Aug. 25...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Twin Valleys Public Power District, based in Cambridge, Nebraska, has completed an agreement with Aclara to have the TWACS and Demand Response Management System (DRMS) installed beginning in 2013. The DRMS will replace the current load management system but will also include the ability to read residential and commercial meters. By the first quarter of 2016, the District should be able to remotely read all meters that are customer read...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Red Willow County, Nebraska's veterans service officer (VSO) gets a $4,334 raise in 2012-13. While that raise is $3,524 more than the average county employee raise of $810 for 2012-13, it's still $3,000 less than what VSO committee members told county commissioners Monday morning Tom Stritt is worth. And one committee member said Stritt warrants a raise closer to $14,000...

Phone taxes reduced, water and sewer rates to increase

It's been over a year of anxiously awaiting the completion of perhaps one of the most exciting additions to the McCook sports community in many years. All the hopes and dreams and anxiety and hard work will come to fruition Wednesday morning, Aug. 22, when the McCook Community College athletic department finally unveils the new $10 million MCC Events Center...

'm going to admit, there has been a few times that I've thought about paying a late-night visit to the new McCook Community College Events Center. I've driven past the new $10 million home for MCC athletics many times on my way home in the past month, eagerly anticipating the Wednesday, Aug. ...