Stories from Tuesday, August 31, 2004

SIDNEY -- The Chase County-Imperial Longhorns scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to defeat the Sidney Red Raiders 14-6 at Sidney Friday night. There were a handful of season-opening high school football games played in the state of Nebraska last Friday...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Several Southwest Nebraska area athletes recently competed for the Nebraska All-Star squad in the King Kamehameha Volleyball Classic held in Honolulu, Hawaii on the island of Oahu. The tournament was sponsored by Elite Sports International...

Feb. 19, 1946-Aug. 30, 2004 HOLDREGE -- David R. Sayer Jr., 58, of Cambridge, died Monday (Aug. 30, 2004) at Phelps County Health Center in Holdrege. He was born Feb. 19, 1946, to David and Elizabeth Ann (Hayes) Sayer in Cambridge. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1964...

Red Willow County's program will become part of Keep Nebraska Beautiful's effort to create a statewide household hazardous waste collection system. County commissioners, agreed Monday to participate in a pilot program that will use Red Willow County's collection facility in McCook and a new one in Omaha as the main processing centers and select other communities across the state as satellite mass collection sites...

Red Willow County sheriff's officers will start enforcing city ordinances in Indianola and Bartley, if arrangements between the two communities and the county are approved at city council meetings Tuesday. Mike Harris, a member of Indianola's board, and Jim Morris, a member of Bartley's board, told county commissioners Monday they need help enforcing their city ordinances...

Engineers for the new water treatment facility in McCook have already started drawing up preliminary plans and there won't be any slowing down until the project is done in March 2006. The McCook City Council approved a contract with W Design and Jacobson Helgoth Engineering firms to build the city's treatment plant during a special meeting Monday night...

We've always known that this area has been helped by the community colleges in McCook and North Platte, but it has been difficult to put a value on their contributions to the economy. Now -- through economic research -- the community college area is attempting to show just how valuable the two-year educational program is. ...

**Dear Editor, Contrary to what "Writer Ray" has stated in his Open Forum letter I would like to offer a different opinion. I have enjoyed reading the letters from Mr. Anderson and Mr. Yost. I am thankful they both have used one of the freedoms we enjoy in this great country, our freedom of speech...

**Dear Editor, I was born and raised in McCook, and over the years, I have always looked back upon the town with pride and fond memories. However, recently, I was visiting McCook and went to Riverview Cemetery to place flowers upon my parents' graves. I was very much dismayed and saddened by the condition of that cemetery...

**Dear Editor, I'd like to address Robert A. Yost's letter of 8-26 A.D. 2004 to correct a few of his misconceptions. Robert, your comparison to me and a Muslim shows me at least one thing, you may not have access to a dictionary. According to Funk and Wagnalls, a fanatic (root word "fan") is: "One who is moved by excessive enthusiasm or zeal," which I am. Every time one of my prayers is answered, or I spend time in the Word, my faith increases and with more faith comes more zeal...

**Dear Editor, As I drive the county roads checking for washouts, plugged culverts and gravel that needs to be hauled, I have noticed some things that need some recognition. I would like to thank the landowners who have taken it upon themselves to mow their respective properties ditches, not only where they live but land that they rent, which may be miles away...

Deryk Huxoll of Cambridge giggles after discovering the tractor painted on his check, at a face-painting booth during Cambridge's "Old-Fashioned Saturday Night," Saturday. The evening's activities mimicked a typical Saturday evening in the 1940's and 1950's, when rural residents came into town to do their trading and mingled with the town residents in the stores, at the movies and during window shopping...