Stories from Friday, May 24, 2002

Kenton Lambert of McCook shows off the flag his aunt, Tech Sergeant Tami S. Lambert, had dedicated in his name while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. The certificate which accompanies the flag reads in part "Let it be known that this American Flag was aboard an American C-130 aircraft as it was providing support for Operation Enduring Freedom. ...

Snow flakes in May! It happened ... it really happened ... today in the Golden Plains of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas. We should have known it was coming. The whole week has been filled with surprises. Here are some of the highlights: No Peer Pressure...

PALISADE -- Brock and Stephanie Malcolm of Palisade announce the birth of a daughter, Matilda Iree, born Tuesday (May 21, 2002). She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces. Grandparents include Debbie Dack of Culbertson, Richard Blake, Rick Malcolm and Kathy Gerver all of McCook...

IMPERIAL -- Nick and Michelle Schilke of Imperial, announce the birth of their daughter, Jozie Christine Schilke, on Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at Community Hospital in McCook. She weighed 5 pounds and 15.2 ounces. Grandparents are Donnie and Chris Schilke of Imperial, Dave and Kris Jardine of Haigler and Lucky Tiegs of Cottage Grove, Minn. ...

Organizations throughout Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas schedule Memorial Day services Monday. American Legion Post No. 9 of Curtis plans Memorial Day services Monday at three locations in Frontier County: Curtis Cemetery, 9 a.m. Stockville Cemetery, 10 a.m...

BARTLEY -- A Bartley man has been hospitalized at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney after an oil field accident Tuesday afternoon. John Wayman was taken by ambulance to Cambridge Hospital after he was impaled by a 25-foot steel rod which came loose from an oil rig pulling unit in a field about 10 miles south of Bartley...

A $1,500 grant from the Nebraska Humanities Council is helping the Buffalo Commons Storytelling Committee present the festival May 31 and June 1 in McCook. This year's theme is "The Way the West Was Fun," featuring music, dance, storytelling and workshops...

DANBURY -- One patron advocated the most change possible; another wanted nothing changed. Both spoke their minds during a two-hour Twin Valley/Republican Valley school meeting Thursday evening in Danbury. Each of the two boards of education appointed 12-member citizens' committees last summer, and charged them with investigating the futures of the schools...

Dear Editor: September 11th has changed us all, and the American Flag flies proudly all across the country. This Memorial Day, especially, we must remember that the flags we bought and adored eight months ago, we now have a solemn responsibility to respect and care for. They are the living symbols of our great nation...

Civic pride is not a mere abstraction. And here in McCook we have something truly to be proud of: the design project northwest of the corner of West 8th and C street. This is an incontestable tour de force, a magnus opus, in short, a sheer masterpiece of architecture...

Nearly every sports fan has watched ABC's "Wide World of Sports." Remember the catch-phrase "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." OK -- everyone MY AGE remembers it. Hey, they still show it on ESPN Classic. How many have watched MTV's "Daria," featuring the make-believe news program "It's a Sick Sad World."...

Ten items or less - With the primary election recently completed and the general election a mere five months away, it is time to reconsider our voting practices. According to predictions and then actual turnout, only 20 percent of the public voted in the primary. How are voting officials so easily able to predict what we voters and non-voters are going to do?...

OBERLIN -- Wanda V. Frickey, 84, died Thursday (May 23, 2002) at her home in Oberlin. She was born Oct. 29, 1917, to Wilbur and Jenne (Whartman) Chandler at Jennings. She graduated from Jennings High School. On. Aug. 20, 1947, she married Wendell Frickey in Norton. The couple farmed in the Lyle Community near Wilsonville before moving to Oberlin in 1970. She was a homemaker...

RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif. -- James Anthony Farrell, 75, died Jan. 27, 2002, at the Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. He was born July 21, 1926, to Frank and Genevieve Farrell. He grew up on a farm near Lebanon where he attended grade school before later moving to Palisade. He graduated from Palisade High School in 1945. He then attended Regis College in Denver, Colo. and Fordham University in New York...