Stories from Wednesday, September 28, 2005

CURTIS -- The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA) in Curtis hosted its largest ever Junior/Senior High School Rodeo on Sunday. The University of Nebraska offered $6,000 in scholarships to cowboys and cowgirls from Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas...

McCook evens record at 7-7 COZAD -- The McCook High School volleyball team swept Cozad and Cambridge Tuesday night at the Cozad Triangular and evened its record at 7-7. The Bison defeated Cozad 25-12, 25-17 and Cambridge 25-15, 25-12. Cambridge defeated Cozad 25-22, 25-10...

HERSHEY -- The McCook High School boys tennis team claimed a sweep Tuesday at Hershey and the junior varsity won 5-of-6 matches. "What a great performance by our underclassmen sweeping all nine matches and improving our duel record to 9-1," said McCook tennis coach Matt Wiemers...

Bison JV spikers defeat Cozad, Cambridge COZAD -- The McCook High School junior varsity volleyball team defeated Cozad and Cambridge Tuesday night at Cozad. In the first match, McCook defeated Cozad 25-21, 25-16. McCook's leading server: Joanna Bryant 18-for-20, 6 aces...

March 15, 1909--Sept. 25, 2005 BENKELMAN -- Esther M. Cogdill, 96, died Sunday (Sept. 25, 2005) at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. She was born March 15, 1909, to Henry and Anna (Wreda) Theiler in Kensington, Kan. She married Ottis Cogdill on June 5, 1927. The couple made their home on a farm near Menlo, Kan. She was a homemaker...

Dec. 16, 1928--Sept. 26, 2005 LaVerda 'Verdie' Arlene Karp, 76, died Monday (Sept. 26, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born Dec. 16, 1928, to Sumner C. and Fern E. (Salade) Payne in McCook. She graduated from Red Willow High School in 1948...

The changing landscape of science and education was in evidence this week when 24 area high school students and their science teachers participated in a biotechnology and biology workshop led by a nationally-recognized expert and sponsored by McCook Community College's Biology Department...

Twenty five years ago, an idea was born in McCook which has since helped thousands of people in Southwest Nebraska and parts of Northwest Kansas. That idea -- the McCook Pantry -- was developed by the Red Willow County Ministerial Association as a means of responding efficiently to the food needs of families during times of crisis...

Sunday is the annual Life Chain in McCook. Supported by the local Right to Life organization, participants, including yours truly, will line B Street, 2:30-3:30 p.m., for an hour of silent prayer and protest against the crime of abortion. I do believe it to be a crime. A crime against humanity. A crime against society. A crime perpetrated against both a mother and her unborn child, committed in the apt name of "Choice." And, it is a crime against God, the author and giver of life...

ARAPAHOE -- An 18-year-old Arapahoe High School senior died in a one-vehicle rollover accident west of Arapahoe late Tuesday night. A Nebraska State Patrol accident report indicates that Leslie S. "Sam" Cookson was eastbound on Highway 6&34 two miles west of Arapahoe at 11:21 p.m., when he swerved to avoid a pheasant and lost control. The vehicle rolled. Cookson was not wearing a seat belt...