Stories from Friday, September 20, 2002

Take a walk through your neighborhood and make note of the soft lights emanating from behind draperies, or shining through an open window, framing a square of summer green or winter white with its glow. The vision of that light has sustained the executive board members and committee chairmen for Southwest Nebraska Habitat for Humanity for the past eighteen months...

Dear Editor, This is for all the people who walk their dogs in the park, across neighbors' yards, on the sidewalk ... All would be fine if the people walking their dogs would carry baggies to clean up after their animals. One thing for sure, the dogs can't pick it up themselves...

Success breeds success. Outstanding companies and teams have been showing the truth of that statement for years, and now there's a program in McCook which is accomplishing the same thing for economic development ... not only now ... but, potentially, for years and years to come...

Ruppert/Egle Auction Company will continue the service provided for many years across Southwest Nebraska by Egle Auction Service. Andy and Peggy Ruppert of rural Culbertson purchased the auction company from Don and Iola Egle in January, and assumed possession after the Egles moved to Arkansas in April...

A McCook man was sentenced in Red Willow County District Court for the distribution of methamphetamine. Brian L. Jacob, 35, was sentenced Sept. 13 to 30 months probation and a $500 fine for distribution of a controlled substance, a Class III felony...

NORFOLK NAVAL STATION, VA -- Television shows like JAG bring a dramatic flair to law and justice in the military. Understanding the intricacies of the legal system is equally important to the men and women serving in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, in which every command is required to have a collateral duty legal representative. One such representative is Navy Ens. Christopher Forch...

ARAPAHOE -- The Queen of England will be walking all over a new product made in Arapahoe, and its manufacturers are proud of it. Jack Bellamy of Arapahoe, the new owner of the XL Boards manufacturing plant relocated to Arapahoe, received a special request for a wider, lower running board for the GMC Yukon the Queen will ride in when she tours Canada in October...

The Prairie Statesmen will sponsor an area wide men's chorus show, Saturday, Sept. 28, during the McCook Heritage Days Festival. The Prairie Statesmen and around 25 men from area towns, including Cambridge, Trenton, Wauneta, Norton, Kan., and many others, will perform patriotic songs at the Fox Theater, at 7 p.m...

McCook United Way will be sponsoring the second Annual Heritage Days 1-mile fun run and 5K race on Saturday, Sept. 28. Pre-registration forms are available at the YMCA, McCook Daily Gazette, Amfirst Bank, Sports Shoppe, McCook National Bank, Brown Shoe Fit, Wells Fargo, The Body Connection, First Central Bank, or the KIXC/KBRL/K-Rock Studios...

A farmer applies fertilizer to a field near the Massacre Canyon Monument east of Trenton as the sun clears the horizon this morning. Soil moisture remains far below normal levels, despite recent downpours in certain areas.

Fall is nearly here, which means the leaves will start changing colors, the nights will get a little colder and nothing will be scheduled on any Saturday with a Nebraska football game. Thanks to Nebraska's last blowout, oops, I mean game; there should be a loosening of the ritual...

A theme has emeged a few weeks into the National Football League and college football seasons. It's become quite clear that neither the Nebraska Cornhuskers nor the Kansas City Chiefs can play defense. The Cornhuskers famous "Blackshirts" were lit up by Penn State 40-7 Saturday night...

SCHUYLER -- Harrison Everett "Shorty" Walters, 94, died Thursday (Sept. 19, 2002) at the Ambassador Care Center in Lincoln. He was born July 4, 1908, in Danbury to Marion and Eunice (Townley) Walters. After graduating from Lebanon High School and attending the University of Nebraska, he joined the U.S. Army and served in England during World War II...