Stories from Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Mike and Mary Ann (Ross) Somers of Watertown, Minn., announce the birth of a daughter, Kenadie Lynn, on Friday, Oct. 19, 2001. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces. She has one sister, Kelsie, age two years. Grandparents are Jim and Bette Somers of McCook, and Robert and Earlene Ross of Auburn...

The farm store on the northwest edge of McCook has served the people of this area for more than 34 years. First known as Wheeler's -- and later Country General and Quality -- the store has succeeded by stocking a full range of farm supplies at competitive prices...

Dear Editor, I was at a conference for parents at the McCook High School last Saturday. One of the guest speakers made a comment that "this is the first high school I have been in that had no graffiti on the walls or no trash on the floor, and no writing on the walls in the bathroom."...

Terminal generation? I'd like to comment on the notion Christ is coming soon, and the statement that "all agree that of any generation since Christ, we have the most reason to believe that we are the terminal generation." "Soon" to me is hours, days and weeks. Once you start talking years, I no longer think of something as soon...

I like to read cookbooks. I don't make most of the recipes, but it's fun to see how a seven-layer, chocolate and raspberry torte might be concocted, if I ever decide to make one. I've never made a cheese soufflé, or rolled a pie crust, or prepared a standing-rib roast. But I've read all about those dishes. I've followed the instructions, step-by-step, and imagined myself pulling a perfectly enormous soufflé from the oven, or a brilliantly browned pie crust, or a succulent roast...