Stories from Monday, March 30, 2015

80th birthday The family of Joe Matson of Trenton, Nebraska, is requesting a card shower in honor of his 80th birthday on March 29. His family includes his wife, Thelma Matson; children, Angela and Doug Refenaught of Falcon, Colorado, Kirt and Shawna Matson of McCook, Nebraska, Chuck and Denise Matson of Keystone, South Dakota, and Gary and Susie Matson of Trenton, Nebraska; 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach him at P.O. Box 515, Trenton, Ne 69044...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A current IRS scam was first reported last October, but people are still receiving calls as the tax deadline approaches, according to the McCook Police Department. It's still a scam, but the deadline can make it more confusing and alarmings, according to MPD Senior Sgt. Kevin Darling...

Visitors check out the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce's Home & Leisure Show Friday afternoon. About 1,000 people visited 47 vendors for this year's show. Vendor awards went to: Best Decorated -- Painting Plus, McCook; Most Informative -- Thrasher Basements, LaVista, Nebraska, and Best Overall -- Keystone Floral, McCook. Nancy Corey of McCook and Marie Heapy of Curtis were winners of drawings for two $250 gift certificates to be used at any of the 2014 home show vendors...

When it's nice outside on a Saturday in the spring on the Golden Plains, many people go to farm auctions. While the adults were bidding on farm implements and equipment at the Bob Eisenach sale between McCook and Culbertson, Nebraska, neighborhood kids played in the sunshine and dirt. "Building roads" in the driveway were (front) Aaron Spencer, and back, from left, Derick Spencer, Ethan Spencer, Ryan Unger and Tucker Gillespie...

IMPERIAL, Neb. -- The Sand Creek Massacre in Kiowa County, Colorado, in 1864 is the subject of a summer movie called "Soul of Silas," whose cast includes a 1967 graduate of Chase County High School in Imperial, Nebraska. According to the Imperial Republican newspaper, Jim Kimberling of Evergreen, Colorado, a former Imperial resident, plays the part of the Army officer who ordered the attack on an encampment of about 700 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians...

Today's National Doctor's Day, and if you see yours, wish him or her a happy holiday. More than likely, he or she will be on the job, not giving National Doctor's Day a second thought in the course of caring for patients with everything from minor maladies to life-threatening conditions...

Note: Marking the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal, we are taking a look back at Theodore Roosevelt, the man, his times, and his part in making the Panama Canal a reality. Theodore Roosevelt had come to North Dakota determined to spend the rest of his life in seclusion, at least as far as the East and its politics were concerned. ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Ryan Purdy, president of Mid-Plains Community College, received notice that Elizabeth Benjamin is resigning from the Mid-Plains Board of Governors effective immediately. No reason was given for the resignation. In her message to the rest of the MPCC Board, she said, "Louie, Ted, Mike, Garry, Kent and Ernie -- it was my honor to serve with you these last 10 years. And to Ben, Jo, Cindy and Karen, I hope that you enjoy your tenure on the Board as I did."...

Marjorie Jean Yohe McCOOK, Neb. -- Marjorie Jean Yohe died Saturday (March 28, 2015), at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. Services are pending with Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel in McCook.