Stories from Monday, August 26, 2013

OBERLIN,Kansas -- The Nebraska Brass will perform at the Oberlin Gateway Center on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Founded in 1987, the Nebraska Brass is one of the Midwest's most popular brass quintets and recently celebrated its 25th anniversary season. Audiences young and old enjoy serious musicianship and light-hearted humor as the group presents a variety of music ranging from classical to popular, including Dixieland and jazz...

McCOOK, Nebraska--The diabetic support group will meet Thursday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. at Community Hospital in the Prairie View A conference room. Monica Wacker, RN, Certified Diabetic Educator, will facilitate the meeting. Attendees will learn about carb counting, portion control and label reading...

Come one! Come all! It's time to celebrate! A legendary McCook business -- D&S Hardware, Nursery and Appliance Center -- has reached an important milestone in its life of service to McCook and the surrounding region of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- As McCook Community College kicks off the fall semester with a new campus CEO, one of the campus's true "old-timers" answers the back-to-school bell with an epic facelift and officials have revealed some positive enrollment trends...

NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- A proposed budget will be considered for advancing to a public hearing Sept. 11 at Wednesday's meeting of the Mid Plains Community College board of governors. Budget-related action items include consideration of a contract to update and develop the college website for not more than $52,000, creation of two assistant residence hall directors, one each in North Platte and McCook, recognition of representatives of the negotiating teams for the Mid-Plains Education Association, Mid-Plains Classified Staff Association, and consideringg a bid for security services for 2013-14.. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Annette Irwin of Omaha, formerly of McCook, plans an estate sale -- the proceeds of which she will donate to the McCook Humane Society -- on Friday and Saturday, Sept, 6 and 7, at the Rutt Building, 417 and 419 West B, in McCook...

Paul Janssen of Lincoln and his cousin Cassie Janssen of Gothenburg do a country swing at the McCook Chamber of Commerce mixer hosted by Janssen Kool Honda and Lee and Pat Janssen at the Janssens' "Mule Tuff Farm" Saturday evening. The Reggie Shaw Band of Omaha -- with guitarist Jesse Anderson of McCook -- played for the barn dance. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette)...

"Bluesa Bully" and Elizabeth Susag of Scobey, Montana, round the third barrel in the sixth annual Roper Apparel and Footwear Barrel Futurity Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Kiplinger Arena in McCook. The pair's time through the cloverleaf barrel pattern Saturday morning was 17.116 seconds. Libi' is the daughter of Judy and Gary Malone of rural Palisade, Nebraska...

After the Civil War, in the late 1860s, the land bordering the Republican River in Nebraska and Colorado was a rather busy place. There were still a few mountain men going through on their way to the Rockies, and there was a steady stream of prospectors eager to strike it rich in the gold fields of California, and more recently in the mountains of Colorado. ...

It can begin to get cool in the evening in August -- but the operative word is "can," especially this year. Associate Editor Dawn Cribbs noted that Sunday's high temperature was 101, low 72, for an average of 87 degrees, which was higher than the day's average high, 86 degrees...

Lacking the opportunity (to say nothing of the ability) to don light-colored clothing to reflect the heat, cattle take refuge in the only piece of shade available to combat the unseasonably high temperatures that have come to Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas in recent days. ...

Leon W. Flock April 11, 1920 - Aug. 25, 2013 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Leon W. Flock, age 93, passed away at his home in McCook on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Leon was born on April 11, 1920, to Chester and Hattie (Easton) Flock on the Merton Flock Farm south west of Maywood, Nebraska, in Frontier County. He attended grade school at Bluff View southwest of Maywood and then graduated from Curtis High School in 1937...

Zola F. Brown May 3, 1921 - Aug. 25, 2013 OBERLIN, Kansas-- Zola F. Brown, 92, of Oberlin, died Sunday (Aug. 25, 2013), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. She was born May 3, 1921, in Decatur County, Kansas, to Roy and Dollie (VanPelt) Maggard. She was raised on a farm in the Olive Township, northeast of Oberlin in Decatur County. She attended Decatur Community High School...

Eldon Eugene Hardwick July 14, 1943 - Aug. 25, 2013 BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Eldon Eugene Hardwick, age 70, passed away at his home in Benkelman on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Eldon was born in Benkelman in July 14, 1943, to Frances Leon and Norma Eilene (Crook) Hardwick. He graduated from Park High School in 1961...