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January winners
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
Jason Lacey's entry No. 1425 (above), "Watch Your Step," took first place and $50 in January's People, Pets & Places Photography Contest. He lives in Aurora, Colo. Second place and $35 goes to entry No. 1419 (top right), "Tired Boys," by Anita Mumm of Seldon Kan. Third place at $15 went to entry No. 1439, "Howdy Partner," by Phyllis Beneda of Oberlin...
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B Street project worth the effort
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
During the first phase of the B Street improvement project, McCook received many compliments for the positive way business people dealt with construction activity. The merchants could have moaned and groaned about the hassle of traffic delays and alternate entrances; but, instead, they made the best of the situation, joining with the contractor and the highway department to make conditions as convenient as possible for customers...
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Wrong birds
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Sparrows have short, conical beaks! (Trio of "sparrows," photo in Friday's edition.) The profile looks like a European starling in winter dress.
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Continue effort
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Dear Editor, A lifetime of memories came quickly back to me when news broke on Feb. 1 about the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle. In 1947-50 at East Denver High School, in our science classes, we talked about the possibility of space travel. At the time, it seemed like something from a science fiction book or movie...
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Take cover
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Dear Editor, Do you remember the devastating tornadoes that ripped through Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas in 1990? They destroyed houses, tore up buildings, scattered farm machinery and mangled trees. I arrived home early one afternoon because our daughter, her husband and children had arrived for a visit from South Dakota. We were standing out in the front yard watching this wind whip a cloud in a long narrow strip back and forth, around and around...
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Habitat offers oppourtunity for good housing
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Steadfast and determined, a strong corps of volunteers is surging ahead with plans to build "Habitat for Humanity" homes in Southwest Nebraska. Sunday, another in a long list of "firsts" took place when organization members met with residents of the neighborhood in which the first Habitat home will be constructed...
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Report bibles
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Dear Editor, My fellow Christians: If you find a Bible in your church that is not authentic, report it to the authorities immediately! Only the King James version is true, because it was wrote by Saint Martin Luther, who was educated and had a printing press. Jesus Christ wrote the actual Bible. If you don't own a Bible, the communists will give you one free of charge. If not the capitalists will confiscate all your property. Please remember: President George Bush saves us from insanity...
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Why the change?
(Column ~ 02/10/03)
Dear Editor, Is there a reason the school board changed the time for the special meeting? Is it because they know that most people are still working and cannot make it at 5.30 p.m., or is politics at work? The school board had better start listening to the taxpayer. Is it time for a recall?...
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Summer ceremony unites couple
(Other Record ~ 02/10/03)
CAMBRIDGE -- Janet Harding and Marc Rasmussen were united in marriage Aug. 3, 2002, at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Cambridge with Rev. Art Phillips officiating. Parents of the couple are Don and Annie Harding of Cambridge and Mike and Peggy Rasmussen of Lincoln...
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State responds to terror alert
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
LINCOLN -- Gov. Mike Johanns and other state officials Friday afternoon outlined actions taken in response to President Bush's decision to change the national terror alert from yellow (elevated alert) to orange (high alert). The highest level of alert is red. Joining the governor at the announcement were Lt. Gov. Dave Heineman, State Patrol Lt. Col. Mike Behm, Dr. Richard Raymond, Gen. Roger Lempke, and Al Berndt, deputy director of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency...
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McCook on Johanns itinerary for state budget trip next week
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
Gov. Mike Johanns will visit McCook and eight other communities next Wednesday and Thursday to talk to Nebraskans about funding priorities in his plan to balance the state budget. Gov. Johanns' tentative schedule includes Bellevue, South Sioux City, Norfolk, Valentine, Chadron, Scottsbluff, Hastings, and Grand Island as well as McCook...
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School board to recognize teachers
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
The McCook Public Schools board of education will recognize two teachers during its regular board meeting Tuesday, at 5:30 p.m., in the junior high conference room. Board members will honor Carl Smock, the junior high science teacher who died Feb. 2, and Dean Reicks, senior high business teacher and head wrestling coach, who has been called to active duty with the Nebraska Army National Guard...
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More local troops answer call
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
NORTH PLATTE -- Maj. Gen. Roger Lempke assured family and friends that safety was the first mission of the soldiers of the 1074th Medium Transportation Co. of the Nebraska Army National Guard honored at a departure ceremony Sunday in North Platte. Lempke said the soldiers, "are in good hands, under solid leadership, with a clear understanding of their mission."...
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Businesses gear up for B Street work
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
"Beautify the B in 2003" has been chosen as the slogan for the next phase of the Chamber of Commerce's response to the B Street improvement project. Eighteen members of the chamber met Monday to discuss promotions that businesses will be participating in during the B Street construction, which is set to begin this spring...
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New neighbors
(Local News ~ 02/10/03)
Members of the Southwest Nebraska Habitat for Humanity (from left) Ernestine Smith, Elda Shields and Jeannette Reed, answer questions Sunday afternoon at Heritage Senior Center from residents of the neighborhood where Habitat has purchased a vacant lot for future construction of the first Habitat house in the area. ...
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Business survey points up location as key to success (Local News ~ 02/10/03)
LINCOLN -- "Location! Location! Location!" has been a mantra for successful businesses since long before Adam Smith. So it was no surprise when respondents to a Business in Nebraska survey of successful Nebraska business start-ups from 1996 to 1999 said it was the most-important factor leading to success, no matter the size of the business's community... -
Commission to focus on distance learning (Local News ~ 02/10/03)
LINCOLN -- The status and the future of distance learning for Nebraska students will become a focus for the Nebraska Public Service Commission in the next several weeks. The Commission opened an investigation Tuesday into distance learning following contact from school superintendents, principals, and students with concerns about the system currently in place to provide educational opportunities across the state... -
Lena F. Harris
(Obituary ~ 02/10/03)
Lena F. Harris, 85, died Friday (Feb. 7, 2003) at her home in McCook. She was born Jan. 29, 1918, at Marion, to Lewis and Agnes (Shewmaker) Hornkohl. She grew up at Marion where she graduated from Marion High School. On March 11, 1946, she married Lyle Kilpatrick. She spent her adult life in McCook where she was employed by F.W. Woolworth for 18 years before working in the McCook Public Schools cafeteria for eight years. She retired in 1997...
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Raymond Frakes
(Obituary ~ 02/10/03)
TRENTON -- Raymond W. Frakes, 90, died Saturday (Feb. 8, 2003) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was born July 5, 1912, in Hitchcock County, to William L. and Kittie P. (Thomas) Frakes. He grew up in Hitchcock County and graduated from Atwood High School in 1930...
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Opal Ellen McKillip
(Obituary ~ 02/10/03)
Opal Ellen McKillip, 95, died Sunday (February 9, 2003) at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born August 3, 1907, in rural McCook, to Ora Troy and Ethel Alice (Smith) Kelley. On Oct. 18, 1924, she married Nile V. McKillip at Oberlin. They farmed most of their married life. ...
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Get up, stay up, move up (Column ~ 02/10/03)
I was driving to Lincoln last Friday to spend the weekend with my boys in my new Mustang, taking it on a road trip for the first time since I bought it, and listening to some new CDs I had bought. I've always been into love ballads, as most of my readers know, as well as the good old Motown soul from the '60s '70s and '80s. So I bought three CDs: The Essential Billy Joel, The Essential Earth, Wind, and Fire and Barry White's latest... -
McCook residence receives unauthorized flyover (Column ~ 02/10/03)
Well, it didn't come from the McCook Army Air Force Base, because there weren't any planes based here yet ... but somebody flying a military plane sucked some shingles right off the Stokes house! It was a little before noon on March 28, 1943, when an unidentified military pilot decided to make a run down East 2nd Street. ... -
Fond memories of Monte Kiffen (Column ~ 02/10/03)
Recently, in the aftermath of the 2003 Super Bowl game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders, a brother and sister had a mini-reunion with an aunt and reminisced about a favorite cousin. Jerry Dorwart, of Fort Collins, a retired Air Force officer and Peg Peetz of Sidney met at the home of their aunt, Esther Elbert, in McCook... -
Lena F. Harris
(Obituary ~ 02/10/03)
Lena F. Harris, 85, died Friday (Feb. 7, 2003) at her home in McCook. She was born Jan. 29, 1918, at Marion, to Lewis and Agnes (Shoemake) Hornkohl. She grew up at Marion where she graduated from Marion High School. On March 11, 1946, she married Lyle Kilpatrick. She spent her adult life in McCook where she was employed by F.W. Woolworth for 18 years before working in the McCook Public Schools cafeteria for eight years. She retired in 1997...