Stories from Monday, March 20, 2017

(Note: McCook’s, Jerda Thompson Gary Vickers, Ed.D has recently published an important new book, “Creating Visions, Meeting Challenges”, a historical view of the Republican Valley Conservation Association. In Jerda’s history, she recognizes men who worked to tame the waterways in our part of the country and change the landscape from “The Great American Desert” (which Major Stephen Long called the area), with its recurring devastating floods, to the prosperous agricultural, recreation area that we know. ...

Barbara Jean Kappers April 12, 1930 - March 17, 2017 OBERLIN, Kan. — Barbara Jean Kappers, 86, died Friday (March 17, 2017), at the Good Samaritan Society in Oberlin. She was born April 12, 1930, in Rexford, Kan., to Charles and Clairice (McAfoos) Corbin. She attended Rexford High School. She married Glen King in January 1953. After his death, she married John Kappers November of 1982...

Elden M. Anderson June 22, 1928 - March 19, 2017 OBERLIN, Kan.— Elden M. Anderson, 88, died Saturday (March 19, 2017), at Decatur Health Systems. He was born June 22, 1928, in rural Decatur county to Carl A. and Olga (Olson) Anderson. He grew up on a farm in western Decatur County. He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1946 and from Kansas State University in 1950. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War...

Darrel Dean Lamb July 9, 1930 - March 18, 2017 COLBY, Kan. — Darrel Dean Lamb, 86, of Colby, died Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Prairie Senior Living Complex, in Colby. He was born July 9, 1930, in Downs, Kan., to C.O. and Ethel (Naumann) Lamb. Darrel grew up near Beaver City, Neb., where he graduated from high school in 1948. ...

Naida Odessia Ginther Dec. 11, 1926 - March 16, 2017 ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Naida Odessia Ginther was born on Dec. 11, 1926, in Ludell, Kan., to Ralph and Julia (Raber) Arendt and passed away March 16, 2017, in Englewood. She attended grade school in Ludell and graduated from Atwood Community High School with the class of 1944. On June 6, 1946, she was united in marriage to Harlan Ginther at the First Christian Church in Atwood. To this union were born Jane, Barbara and Mark...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow Western Rural firefighters responded to a mutual aid call from the Keystone-Lemoyne fire district Sunday about 4:30 p.m., to help fight wildfires burning at Lake McConaughy since Saturday. RWW was among 25 fire departments that responded to Keystone-Lemoyne Fire Chief Ralph Moul’s request for personnel and equipment...

PALISADE, Neb. — Palisade residents can raise chickens in their yards — if their neighbors approve. On March 8, Palisade’s village board approved a new ordinance allowing chickens within the city limits; second and third readings of the ordinance are planned at board meetings in April and May...

Many of us have already forgotten about the auto industry’s struggles in 2009, but you may feel the effects when it’s time to trade cars. Brands like Plymouth, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Saturn disappeared in the turmoil, and some 700,000 used cars were destroyed through the government’s Cash for Clunkers program...

McCook, Neb. -- Red Willow County Sheriff and Emergency Manager Alan Kotschwar hopes to bring back an emergency notification system that was in place several years ago. The "CodeRed" system was implemented in the fall of 2010, thanks to a three-year stimulus grant from the federal government, but was discontinued when the cost would have become reliant on county budgeting...