Stories from Monday, May 6, 2013

Helen Grace Howk Aug.16, 1918 - May 3, 2012 BIRD CITY, Kansas -- Helen (Morehouse) Grace Howk, 94, died Friday (May 3, 2013), at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman, Nebraska. She was born Aug. 16, 1918, in Davenport, Nebraska . She was a registered nurse...

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...

NORTH PLATTE,  Nebraska --Mid-Plains Community College students in the Associate Degree Nursing program will have a pinning ceremony at noon on Friday, May 10, at the McDonald-Belton Theater on the South Campus of North Platte Community College...

Well, we didn't get to the budget last week, but we were assured by Speaker Adams that starting the week of May 7 the budget would be the primary goal on the agenda. Last week the Legislature also passed several bills on Final Reading. Of those, Legislative Bill423, a bill introduced by the Agriculture Committee, passed with a 41-0 vote. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- A McCook man was sentenced to one year in state prison after being convicted of resisting arrest first offense on April 2, 2013, in Red Willow County Court. The offender, 36-year-old Stacy Arlo Talbot of 301 South Street, originally was arrested on charges of resisting arrest second offense and for making terroristic threats, following an incident at the Seaboard Grain railroad yard in January...

McCook Aerie No. 2769 presents Dan Stramel with a check for $500 to help fund the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall. Shown from left is Aerie Secretary, Dennis Durack and auxiliary trustee, Suzanne Cole.

LINCOLN, Nebraska -- Senators continued debating bills this week and passed many bills through their final reading. Here is a debriefing on the week: LB507: Sen. Kathy Campbell of Lincoln sponsored this bill to improve the quality of child care centers, which passed on a 27-0 vote Tuesday. It would require certain child care centers to participate in a quality rating and improvement system and change the eligibility for families to get assistance to use child care centers...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden established the Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) engineering design initiative at Rice University in 2006 with the goals of developing and improving access to health innovations for the world's poorest communities...

Mary Walters of Norton, Kansas, discusses the value of her 1920s-era "dogs playing poker" prints with antiques appraiser Tom Bassett during an antiques and collectibles appraisal fair fund-raiser Friday at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. ...

One-size-fits-all medicine suffered another blow with the announcement Friday that a routine blood test prostate cancer should no longer be routine. PSA -- prostate -specific antigen tests, once recommended routinely for men after a certain age -- should never be done without consulting with a doctor first, said the American Urological Association...

Recently we came across an article, which noted that the running of ultra-marathon races (endurance races of 50, 100, even 150 miles) was the fastest growing outdoor sport in America. McCook has at least two dedicated ultra-marathoners, who do credit to their sport. This brought to mind a race that originated in Nebraska some 120 years ago, a super race that tested the mettle of both man and beast, and in so doing set the standard for endurance horse races to today...

Mary Pate of McCook, Nebraska, captured a goose family portrait Friday in Barnett Park, McCook, Nebraska. She used these settings: 1/125, F 11.0, 62mm, ISO 100. The McCook Daily Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. Readers can contribute to our daily weather page, subject to space and color availability, by emailing photos to editor2@ocsmccook.com or bringing them into the Gazette offices at West First and E Streets. ...

77th birthday The family of Kathy Schaaf of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her birthday today,May 6. Her family includes husband, Don, children, Lisa Lee of Fort Collins, Colorado and Lorri Sughroue of McCook and six grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 1010 E. Second, McCook, NE 69001...

A total of $7,500 is needed to bring a replica of the Vietnam War Memorial to Weiland Field in McCook May 15 and local organizations are stepping up to the challenge. The McCook Elks Lodge donated $500 and St. John's Commandery, Masonic Bodies, donated $2,500. ...