Stories from Monday, January 4, 2016

Donald W. 'Bud' Day Oct. 15, 1936 - Dec. 31, 2015 NORFOLK, Neb. -- Donald W. "Bud" Day, 79, of Norfolk, died Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, at Faith Regional Hospital in Norfolk. He was born Oct. 15, 1936, in Ewing, Nebraska, to Royvan and Grace (Thoendel) Day. He graduated from Wheeler County High School in 1953 and later from Safety Patrol School. He married Lila Woeppel on Feb. 22, 1958, at United Methodist Church in Ewing...

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...

McCOOK, Neb. -- A pair of unrelated claims for damages have been filed against the City of McCook after a Christmas decoration was blown from a light post and an arrested man was unable to find his eyeglasses. The McCook City Council will receive and file both claims tonight during a regularly scheduled meeting, 6:30 p.m., at city offices...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The Heritage Hills Golf Course is seeking just shy of $7000 in Red Willow County lodging taxes to help fund cart path improvements at the McCook course. The Red Willow County Visitors Committee will consider the improvement fund application during its regularly scheduled meeting at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at the Keystone Business Center...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Local dentist Dr. Chris Nix has accepted a position as clinical instructor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry. Dr. Nix started Southwest Nebraska Dental Center in 1981 with an office in McCook and in 2003 added a second office in Imperial. He recently retired from private practice and Dr. Kaitlin Haag now owns the practice...

McCOOK, Neb. -- "Little things mean a lot." That old saying, made famous by a song popular in the 1930s and 1940s, comes alive again in the good works of Lewis Parks, a retired truck driver from McCook who has made and given away 300 to 400 pocket crosses during the past three years...

IMPERIAL, Neb. -- Beeping carbon monoxide detectors forced an Imperial, Nebraska, family from their home early Christmas morning. The Imperial Republican reports that a heating/air conditioning technician determined that a back draft in the fireplace chimney set off the detectors in the home of Logan and Brianna Pribbeno, who left the house with their 7-month-old daughter and Brianna's parents after the alarms went off in the wee morning hours of Christmas day...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Nebraska and Colorado Extension Educators plan a series of meetings in nine locations across western Nebraska and eastern Colorado -- four in Southwest Nebraska -- to focus on the changing beef industry. Last year was not as good as 2014, according to the Extension Educators. ...

McCook, Nebraska--This year's Women's Winter Retreat, "A Patchwork Life" Jan. 29-30, will feature a Nebraska historical Christian author, Stephanie Grace Whitson, as well as quilts, encouraging messages, and a variety of workshops for women of all ages and from all walks of life...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- The Cambridge, Nebraska, community plans a benefit Tuesday for a Cambridge family who lost their home in a fire on New Year's Day. Proceeds from the soup supper will go to Chance and Alisha Hiatt, their daughters Alexis and Asa, and a baby due in April...

PALISADE, Neb. -- A couple with roots in McCook has opened a grocery/general store in downtown Palisade. The Wauneta Breeze newspaper reports that Brock and Stephanie Malcolm are the proprietors of "Sodtown Sundries," located in the former grocery store owned and operated by Allen Baxter. The Malcolms are originally from McCook, and lived in Wyoming and Missouri before getting homesick and relocating to Palisade...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Eating healthy for your mind is the focus of a free, three-day nutrition and diet seminar at the McCook Seventh Day Adventist Church, corner of West Seventh and C. Raqel Caja of Spain, a bilingual nutritionist and dietician with a master's degree, will present the seminar in McCook from Friday, Jan. 15 through Sunday, Jan. 17. Caja lives in Spain and Beatrice, Nebraska, where her husband is a pastor...

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne, we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne. Some of us might prefer to ignore Robert Burns' advice if 2015 held memories they'd prefer to "be forgot," but aging another year can bring more worries that we can't remember the things we want to...

Like all communities in Nebraska and throughout the U.S., McCook did its part in helping the United States win World War II, in providing its young men and women for service in the Armed Forces, in tightening its collective belt in conserving scarce commodities, and buying its share (and more) of war bonds...

Richard A. Voss Feb. 23, 1941 - Jan. 1, 2016 STRATTON, Neb. -- Richard A. Voss, age 74, of Stratton, passed away Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, at Community Hospital in McCook. Richard was born to Andrew K. Voss and Freda Husmann on Feb. 23, 1941, in Ellsworth, Minnesota. He grew up on a farm in Lyons County, Iowa...

Donald Lee Miller Sept. 19, 1934 - Jan. 2, 2016 McCOOK, Neb.-- Donald Lee Miller of McCook, age 81, passed away at Hillcrest Nursing home on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016. He was born on Sept. 19, 1934, at Terril, Iowa, to Benjamin and Frances (Butterfield) Miller and was the seventh of nine children. ...

Calvin Eugene Campbell Feb. 18, 1955 - Jan. 1, 2016 MAYWOOD, Neb. -- Calvin Eugene Campbell, age 60, passed away Jan. 1, 2016, at his home in Maywood. Calvin was born Feb. 18, 1955, in McCook, Nebraska, to Eugene Campbell and Muriel Janet (Koetter) Campbell. He lived in the Maywood -- Curtis area all his life and worked for the United States Postal Service at the time of his death...

Bonnie Bee Monzon March 31, 1929 - Jan. 2, 2016 McCOOK, Neb. -- I was born to Richard Clinton Fitzpatrick and Vesta Elizabeth (Russell) Fitzpatrick in the upstairs bedroom of my grandparents' home in Aurora, Nebraska, on March 31, 1929. It was Easter Sunday. I began school in York, attended elementary school in Woodbine, Iowa, and junior high in Fremont. During my junior year, we moved to McCook, where I graduated in 1947...