Stories from Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Three Bison shoot scores in the 70s SCOTTSBLUFF -- Led by three players with scores in the 70s, the McCook High School boys golf team captured the Nebraska Class B-4 district championship Tuesday at Scottsbluff Country Club. The Bison qualified for the Nebraska Class B state tournament at Lincoln's Highlands Golf Course May 23-24 (Tuesday and Wednesday)...

CAMBRIDGE -- Cambridge's golf team earned their chance for the State championship. The Trojans hosted the C2-4 District tournament Tuesday and finished second. Amherst won the tournament and Alma's team took third. Waid Vontz took the top spot in the individual standings. Vontz shot a 71 for the day...

The top assistant golf pro at Meridian Golf Club in Denver has been selected as the new golf professional at Heritage Hills Golf Course in McCook. Tim Schwartz, a life-long resident of the Denver area, will officially begin his golfing duties in McCook the second week in June...

The McCook Bison Football Team will be hosting the annual Championship Football Camp from 10: 30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 5-8 at the high school practice field. The camp for grades 2-8 (fall of 2006) will feature many of the players that helped McCook to four straight State Football Championship games...

The 2006 McCook Wrestling Camp will be on June 19-22 in the McCook High School Wrestling Room. Camp is open to anybody going into grades 7-12. Time is from 10 a.m. to noon. Cost for this camp is $25 and includes a camp T-shirt. Camp forms can be found at the McCook High School and Junior High offices...

Heritage Hills Golf Course in McCook will be the site for the ESPN Golf Challenge at 8 a.m. Sunday. The ESPN Challenge and demonstration day is presented by Callaway. A Callaway representative will be on hand. The format is two-man best ball and players must have a handicap of no more than 24...

McCook letter carriers, above, stand behind the 2,300 pounds of food collected during the National Association of Letter Carriers' annual food drive on Saturday. The food will be delivered to the McCook Pantry, said food drive coordinator and retired letter carrier Aaron Johnson. ...

The chairman of the Red Willow County-City of McCook jail study committee wants to "nail down" the owner of the former West Ward Elementary block and find out if the building is actually available so the process can stay on track for the election in November to ask voters to approve a new joint public safety center and jail...

Driving in Denver is a challenge. It always has been. What we once considered to be rush hour traffic is now just ordinary traffic, it's gotten so congested, but since that is the place I learned to drive, I settle in fairly easily on the rare trip home, but with each passing mile, the tension builds. How the daily commuters stand the strain is beyond me...

Will Regent David Hergert be removed from office? It's up to five of the seven justices of the Nebraska Supreme Court. That's how many it will take to find the Mitchell agribusinessman guilty. Will they do so? Let's review the charges. Nearly four months after taking office, Hergert admitted he broke the state campaign finance law, and agreed to pay a $33,512 settlement with the Accountability and Disclosure Commission...

The McCook Area Chamber of Commerce's May mixer is set for 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Heritage Hills Golf Course. The mixer is co-hosted by the Nebraska Public Power District.

July 9, 1922 - May 15, 2006 ATWOOD -- Edna Mildred Schaffert, 83,of Atwood, originally of Bartley, died Monday (May 15, 2006), at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. She was born on July 9, 1922, in Red Willow County, near Bartley, to John Frederick and Annie Augusta (Weiss) Fritz. She graduated from Cambridge High School in 1942...

Feb. 16, 1948 - May 14, 2006 STRATTON -- John W. "Bill" Brennan, 58, died Sunday (May 14, 2006), at Community Hospital in McCook. He was born Feb. 16, 1948, at Fort Dodge, Iowa, to John E. and Anna Mae (Randall) Brennan and moved with his family to Stratton at an early age. He was a member of the graduating class of Stratton High School in 1966 and went on to receive his Associates Degree from McCook Junior College...

April 17, 1916 - May 16, 2006 CAMBRIDGE -- Alice Gertrude (Ray) Witte, 90, died Tuesday (May 16, 2006) at Cambridge Manor in Cambridge. She was born April 17, 1916, in Furnas County, northwest of Wilsonville, to William and Nellie (Pearson) Ray. She attended Huntley and Wilsonville Schools, graduating from Wilsonville in 1933. She taught school for 12 years in Furnas County and Red Willow school districts...