Stories from Tuesday, April 13, 2004

A commissioner admits that the school and water situation will complicate the prospects for a new jail.

By Connie Jo Discoe Regional Editor CEDAR BLUFFS -- A former grade school teacher said her fifth graders would have really enjoyed listening to Ralph Moody's stories. And adults enjoy Moody's books because of the history lessons available in them. The retired teacher, Mary Henzel of Oberlin, said she enjoyed Moody's stories, "because they gave me a history of this area I wouldn't have had."...

Red Willow County commissioners signed a five-year contract Monday morning with a McCook accountant, after the auditor gave the county a very good score on its 2003 financial statements. CPA Donald D. Wilson of McCook told commissioners there were no overdrawn budgets, "which is good." He did, however, point out a concern he has, with tax sale certificates not foreclosed upon in a timely manner...

Long and slender, the McCook Community College campus covers a four square block area, stretching from the Ralph G. Brooks Residence Hall between L and M on East First Street to the Wrightstone and Walsh-Brady buildings on East Fifth Street. But what about the future? Where does McCook Community College go from here?...

**Dear Editor, Among his many talents, Pres. G.W. is an intellectual. His lexical-functional grammar and syntax is unparalleled in western thought. In fact, George Bush has invented a new language. The vocabulary is immense: freedom, democracy, evil madmen, bring them to justice, etc. and etcetera...

**Dear Editor, Who had the authority to commit a five-year exemption to annexation from the village of Stratton? It wasn't the village board! Did the county and other entities who receive taxes exempt them? How can the board selectively annex property on both sides of the property in question and not include it? I feel if the person or persons who made that commitment should pay the taxes which the village is losing by not being in the corporate limits! I do not feel the board should honor that commitment if it wasn't a board decision.. ...

**Dear Editor, This letter is sent with thanks to the volunteers and supporters of the American Cancer Society's 2004 Daffodil Days. The Red Willow County volunteers who worked on advance sales, promotion and coordination of the event continually prove their commitment in the fight against this disease...

Where will we turn when we need to know? When it comes to McCook history, the answer is, "I don't know." In case you missed it, last weekend's "On Main Street" was the last one. Linda Hein and her mother are moving to Lincoln to join Linda's husband, Rick, who has opened a new automotive service business in Lincoln...

"Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue." -- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia" By Deborah E. Popper...

Written and recited by Julie Wyatt Smith In memory of Margaret Wyatt Born May 22, 1931, died April 3, 2004 MOM She was a Mom and so much more You knew you were always welcome at her door I'm sure she touched your life in some special way That is why you are all here today...

June 2, 1908-April 12, 2004 OBERLIN -- Hattie E. Olson, 95, died Monday (April 12, 2004) at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin. She was born June 2, 1908, to Walther and Eleanora Louise (Stoeckel) Schmidt in Rawlins County. She was raised on a farm west of Achilles, Kan., in Rawlins County. She attended Rawlins County District 37 school and graduated from Atwood High School in 1927. She also took a normal training course...

Dec. 28, 1905-April 9, 2004 TRENTON -- Daisy M. Trask, 98, died Friday (April 9, 2004) at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. She was born Dec. 28, 1905, to Friedrich W. and Pauline Anna (Pauglusch) Eller in Redwood County, Minn. On Sept. 22, 1922, she married Fred Okins in Redwood County. ...

June 7, 1932-April 8, 2004 DENVER, Colo. -- Jerome Irvin "Jerry" Lattimer, 71, of Imperial, died Thursday (April 8, 2004) at Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital in Denver. He was born June 7, 1932, to Rollie and Vina Lattimer in Imperial. He grew up in Imperial and attended school there...