Stories from Thursday, September 12, 2002

The Wrightstone Gallery on the McCook Campus of the Mid-Plains Community College Area will host the American Watercolor Society's traveling exhibition Saturday through Sept. 29. This will be the only Nebraska showing of the AWS's annual international exhibition...

Curtis -- Members of the Middle Republican Natural Resources District adopted the FY2002-03 budget at their regular September meeting on Tuesday evening in McCook. The budget includes a property tax asking of $449,228 with the levy rate set at .032236. Natural Resources Districts have the authority to set a levy rate up to a .045 maximum...

North Platte -- A North Platte company was awarded a bid for remodeling work on McMillen Hall in McCook, and the Mid-Plains Area board of governors approved a budget that is a 13.3 percent increase over last year. Following budget hearings, the board held a special meeting where it approved their 2002-2003 budget, set the property tax levy for the 18-county service area, and accepted bids for remodeling projects North Platte as well as McCook...

Residents of Southwest Nebraska will have a rare opportunity Saturday. For the first time in history, a Governor's Debate will take place in McCook, providing area residents a close-up look at one of the more diverse fields of candidates in years. In the one-hour debate -- between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Central Daylight Time -- the public will be able to hear the candidates expound on the issues at the McCook Memorial Auditorium...

Dear Editor, I wanted to make a correction in the article by Linda Hein in the Main Street article of the Saturday -- Sunday edition of the Gazette: in regard to the infirmary and nurses who worked there as Industrial Nurses during the Army Airbase construction...

It's the same thing every day. I put every effort into getting ready for that moment. I make it to 9 o'clock -- I know I'm getting there. Ten o'clock rolls around and by then I've reached the point where I know -- absolutely positively, without an inkling of a doubt -- I'm ready to go to bed...

OXFORD -- Dorothy Marie Scharvin, 78, died Tuesday (Sept. 10, 2002) at her home in Oxford. She was born Sept. 17, 1923, in Merrick County to William Walter and Anna Matilda (Otto) Blauhorn. The family made their home in rural Merrick County. She received her elementary education in country schools and graduated from Archery High School with the class of 1942. After high school she worked in the Aerospace Industry in California during the war years...

CAMBRIDGE -- Helen M. (Currie) McCarville died Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2002) at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was 68 years old. Helen was born on Feb. 13, 1934, on a farm near Wayne, Kan., to Joseph Milek and Amelia Edna (Klaumann) Proft. Amelia died May 26, 1946. Joseph then married Sarah (Washburn) Milner in 1951...