Stories from Tuesday, January 8, 2002

Here's a bill for $6,000. Did that get your attention? If you're a water customer for the city of McCook, it should. You can expect at least that much to be added to your water bill, spread out over the next 20 years, to deal with the city's water problem...

Dear Editor, I'm so glad to see the story about Miss Rodeo Nebraska. It's not very often that a town like McCook has the privilege of being the home of Miss Rodeo Nebraska. Your town will benefit from the publicity and the community will enjoy hearing about her travels...

Dear Editor, I would like to have known more about Lori and I am sure other readers would too. This article is very superficial and really says nothing about Lori or where she comes from. If Lori had been Miss Nebraska you would have told something more about her. ...

Not long ago, I posed this question to a group of high school students: "What's your favorite pastime when you're bored in class?" "I count the dots on the ceiling," said one. "If I'm wearing sandals, I observe my feet," said another. "I become one with the floor," reported a third...

Alvena F. Ecker HERNDON -- Alvena F. Ecker, 93, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2002) at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. She was born April 10, 1908, on a farm north of Herndon to Otto and Emma Ida (Wudtke) Schwarz. She was raised on the farm and attended the Richland School at rural Herndon...

Theodore F. 'Ted' Wendland ARAPAHOE -- Theodore F. 'Ted' Wendland, 88, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2002) at Phelps Memorial Hospital at Holdrege. He was born June 11, 1913, in the Immanuel Community in Gosper County to Julius and Auguste (Schievelbein) Wendland. He grew up in Gosper County where he attended Immanuel Lutheran School. He worked on farms in Gosper and Hitchcock counties...

Marjorie Maurie 'Mick' Zander Marjorie Maurie "Mick" Zander, 84, passed peacefully into her eternal life with Jesus on Nov. 20, 2001, after 9 years of living with various mutations of breast cancer. She was born July 6, 1917, at the family home in Arapahoe, Neb., to Ralph and Vesper Hill. ...

John Eugene Ruda ATWOOD -- John Eugene Ruda, 90, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2002) at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. He was born June 21, 1911, on the family homestead in the Driftwood Township near Atwood to Frank and Stephana (Horinek) Ruda. He attended the North Divide country school and a school in Brainard. He graduated from Atwood High School in 1929 and then attended Coyne Electronic School in Chicago, Ill...

Dorene L. Berger TRENTON -- Dorene L. Berger, 82, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2002) at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. She was born Oct. 1, 1919, at Valley, to Frederick William and Caroline (Luschen) Cohrs. in 1928 the family moved to Trenton where she grew up. She graduated from Trenton High School in 1937...