Stories from Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Community Hospital is a medium-sized hospital in a medium-sized town in the middle of America. So what kind of an MRI can you expect from a place like that? The answer may surprise you. Now, thanks to the installation of a new high-field GE 1.5 Tesla MRI Scanner, patients can receive an MRI scan at Community Hospital that is as good as, and in many cases better than, the MRI scans you can get anywhere else...

Dear Editor, I have been studying the plans and now understand what you were trying to say. North Ward, all kindergarten and first grade. East Ward all second and third grades. West Ward, all fourth grade. West Ward fourth upstairs SPED downstairs. I believe the taxpayers with children should change their attitudes, and they must realize that sometimes change is a hard pill to swallow. ...

Dear Editor, The claim that Iran has 33 submarines, each carrying 200 nuclear-tipped missiles is not only vastly overstated, but also incorrect in the claim that they carry nuclear weapons. Iran has purchased only three Kilo-class diesel submarines from Russia. ...

Readers who remember the tragic story about Buddy should know that Thursday is the owner's sentencing. This should be a reminder to pay attention to what's going on around us, especially in regard to children and animals.

Paul Schneider needs to write his own personal newsletters to people who care about what he writes. Please stop your Gazette soapbox ramblings which are out of line with 99 percent of what all Christian religions of the world.

I think you have quite enough excellent weekly columnists. Paul Schneiders letters are long enough, you don't need him to write another column. EDITOR'S NOTE: Frequent Open Forum contributor Paul Schneider asked for reader input concerning his writing a weekly column about biblical prophecy...

If Paul Schneider makes a statement, I would hope he would do a lot more research. If you put something in the paper, you need to be factual. I hope he does this instead of me having to do more research and finding out that he's wrong.

Frequent readers will recall my love of the written word, and how that love came to me at a relatively early age. Nothing printed was off limits as far as I was concerned, the laundry box, the back of the morning box of cereal, even the nutrition information on the milk carton...

CURTIS -- Lena Maudie Fruit, 93, died Monday (Feb. 25, 2002) at Camellia Care Home in Aurora, Colo. She was born April 18, 1908, to Alvin Curtis and Jessie Viola Keyes Cowman at Maywood. She attended Maywood Schools. On Dec. 2, 1927, she married Charlie A. Fruit at North Platte. They moved to Curtis in 1961 where she was a cook at the Aggie Inn and later worked at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis before retiring in 1978...