Stories from Monday, May 10, 2004

COLUMBUS -- The McCook High School boys golf team captured the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference championship Friday. McCook, champions in 2000, posted a 304 team score, beating runnerup Norfolk by five strokes. The tournament was played at the Elks Country Club in Columbus...

McCook boys 3rd, girls 5th at GNAC HASTINGS -- The place to be Friday was the pole vault pit at the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference meet at Hastings. Seniors Trent Lyons and Sunee Haney set McCook High School records in the pole vault and claimed gold medals...

LA JUNTA, Colo. -- The McCook Community College softball team finished 2-2 and in fourth place at the Region IX Tournament in LaJunta, Colo. MCC opened with a 3-1 win over Western Nebraska. Jen Giles tossed an eight-hitter. Maegan Peterson went 2-for-4 and knocked in a run. Ellie Miller was 2-for2 and scored twice for the Indians...

NORFOLK -- The McCook High School girls tennis team placed sixth at the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference meet Friday at Norfolk. Both singles players and both doubles teams posted 3-4 records. Jennifer Chmiel and Angela Abercrombie played Nos. 1 and 2 singles for the Bison...

ALMA -- The Cambridge boys track team finished in second place at the Dale Harsin Twilight meet Friday, behind Wilcox Hildreth. Cambridge earned 97 points at the nine-team invite. Southwest finished in sixth place with 47 points, while Southern Valley was ninth with 7 points...

Rob Putz, pastor at Cornerstone Fellowship and McCook High School graduate, recalled his own baccalaureate experience 30 years ago during his keynote address at the Sunday evening service in the McCook High School gymnasium. "Our senior class was on track to set the highest number of kegs consumed during graduation week," he told the graduates. ...

Staff at the McCook Post Office gather around the food items donated by McCook and Culbertson postal patrons for the annual nation-wide "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive sponsored by U.S. Postal Service letter carriers. Postmaster Lyn Bargen said the food collected Saturday weighed 3,156 pounds; letter carriers expect more as late donations are weighed. ...

Red Willow County commissioners will open bids for 2004 armor-coating projects on June 14. Commissioners and road supervisor Gary Dicenta discuss seven projects and two alternate projects during the commissioners' weekly meeting Monday morning. The projects will be: East 11th North, 2.5 miles; Bartley North, 5.5 miles; McCook South detour, 2.5 miles; Common Scents road, 1 mile; River Road southeast of McCook, 1.75 miles; Danbury South, 1/2 mile; and District 8, 3.1 miles...

Dec. 31, 1910-May 7, 2004 NELSON -- Sydney E. Schoeni, 93, of Nelson, died Friday (May 7, 2004) in Nelson. She was born Dec. 31, 1910, to Art and Alice (Reynolds) Chase in Holdrege. She graduated from Elwood High School in 1929. She moved to Lincoln to attend the University of Nebraska to earn a bachelor of science degree in biology and English...

Many of the best and brightest hail from our region.

In April 2004, after viewing the ruins at Machu Picchu, we were going to have a chance to visit the Nova Company factory, in Lima, Peru. This is a very large company (by Peruvian standards). The company makes a line of bakery equipment, which is sold throughout South America, and is making an entry into European and American markets...

Shortly before retiring from my professorship, I told my spouse I wanted to do two things in retirement: participate in a meaningful volunteer activity and, due to my love of literature, work at the local bookshop she and I had been patronizing for nearly a decade...

Bessie Downey is celebrating her 95th birthday May 13, with a card shower. Cards of congratulations will reach her at Parkside Manor Apt. 23, 209 Nelson Street, Cambridge, NE 69022.

Jamie Harris and Danny Stitt of Kearney announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Gary and Karla Harris of McCook and Dick and Marilyn Stitt of McCook. Grandmother of the bride-to-be is Jane Hester of McCook. The bride-to-be is a 2000 graduate of McCook High School and plans to receive her bachelor of science degree in sociology from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in the fall. ...

Kelly Jean Bose and Chad Isaac Hamilton announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Lee and Carol Bose of Orleans and Tim and Janice Hamilton of Albion. Grandparents of the couple are Gerald and Mary Chamberlain of Hermann, the late LJ and Violet Bose, Roger and Dorothy Johnson of Holdrege and Larry and Marjorie Hamilton of Beatrice. ...

Beth Jones and Matt Grummert announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Bobby and Rita Jones of Benkelman and Mark and Linda Grummert of Jansen. The bride-to-be is a 1998 graduate of Dundy County High School in Benkelman. ...

CULBERTSON -- Tammy Hoyt of Culbertson and Ramsey Harders of Clearwater were united in marriage March 20, 2004, at the Stone Church of rural Culbertson with the Rev. Greg Lawhorn, of Christ is King Church in Norfolk, officiating. Parents of the couple are Ron and Alana Hoyt of Culbertson and David and Garnet Harders of Ceresco. Grandparents are Carroll and Antonette Turner of Bladen and Howard Manstedt of Wahoo...

The family of Eva (Coburn) Dunn is hosting a card shower in honor of her 80th birthday June 10. She was born in rural Indianola. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 301 23rd Street, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.

The children of Billy and Mercy Bunnell are hosting an open house in honor of the couple's 40th anniversary May 23, 12:30-3:30 p.m., at the Trenton Community Development Center, 402 East First Street, Trenton.

The family of Bob and Vonnie Tiller is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 50th anniversary May 16. The couple married in 1954 at the United Methodist Church in McCook. Their children are Don and Patty Tiller of Fort Collins, Colo., Jim and Theresa Tiller of Curtis, Kathy and Milan Hanson of Fort Collins and John and Lori Bartels of Omaha. They have 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at 1605 West Second, McCook, NE 69001...