Stories from Monday, February 20, 2006

Wauneta-Palisade wrestler wins Class D state title at 130 pounds OOMAHA -- Wauneta-Palisade High School's Jesse West capped a dream season with a state championship at Class D 130 pounds. West decisioned previously unbeaten Chris Marsh of Sutton 9-8 Saturday afternoon at the Qwest Center in Omaha...

The McCook High School varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams were winners over Cozad Saturday at the MHS gymnasium. The Bison varsity played its final regular-season game before competing in the Nebraska Class B-5 District Tournament at Lexington Feb. 27-28...

OMAHA -- Ruth Bernice (Anderson) Dunn, 93, died Friday (Feb. 17, 2006), at Brookestone Village in Omaha. She was born Dec. 14, 1912 on the family farm southwet of Stamford to Bernard August and Hulda Marie (Hultberg) Anderson. She was baptized in her youth in the Swedish Mission Church southwest of Stamford. She attended Wide Awake Rural School District No. 43 in Harlan County through the eighth grade...

BENKELMAN -- Diane M. Youman, 59, died Friday (Feb. 17, 2006) at Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. The memorial service will be Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Forch Funeral Chapel in Benkelman with the Rev. Robert Sander officiating. Services will conclude at the chapel. There is no visitation...

Wauneta-Palisade's Jesse West celebrates after defeating Sutton's Chris Marsh for the Class D, 130-pound title at the state wrestling championships held at the Qwest Center in Omaha. See more state wrestling action on page 9 today. (Michelle Bishop/McCook Daily Gazette)...

For many years, between 1923 and 1956 (except during World War II), the largest and most spectacular of the summer celebrations in Southwest Nebraska, boasting crowds of up to 10,000 visitors, was Trenton's Massacre Canyon Pow-Wow. The celebration began in 1923, the 50th Anniversary of the Last Buffalo Hunt of the Pawnee Indians in 1873. ...

For the second week in a row, many of us are finding ourselves planted in front of the television set, watching the unfolding of dramatic events of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. It's heartening and exciting to see young athletes -- and many of them not so young -- putting their hard-won skills and determination to the ultimate test...

The poor senators don't make more than $5.75 per hour. The poor things, the shame of it all, and they don't have any health insurance either? Oh, the horrors of it all (wringing hands in anguish). How about all of the single parents out there who are working two or more part-time jobs just to try to eke out a single fulltime paycheck?...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Phyllis Marie Wineinger, 61, died Friday (Feb. 17, 2006) in St. Joseph, Mo. Services will be Tuesday, 2 p.m., at the Carpenter Breland Chapel. Burial will be at Palisade. Carpenter Breland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

The family of LaMoine Keene is requesting a card shower in honor of his 85th birthday. He was born Feb. 22, 1921. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 111 West G, McCook, NE 69001.