Stories from Friday, June 2, 2006

The McCook National Bank Seniors broke out the bats Thursday night at home, swept Sidney and evened their summer record to 4-4. The MNB Seniors won the first game 11-1 in six innings and won the second game in a slugfest 9-7. McCook rapped out 13 hits in the opener and eight in the nightcap at Jaycees Sports Complex...

Heritage Hills Golf Course Men's Golf League Results/Team Standing Division I Individual Low Gross Brandon Crick 33 Ray Chmiel 34 Tyler Lawson 34 Jason Loop 35 Division II Individual Low Gross Phil Harr 39 Jim Stewart 40 Pat Burns 40 Kelvin Miller 41...

SCOTTSBLUFF -- The 22nd annual West Nebraska All-Star volleyball and football games will be played Saturday at Scottsbluff. The volleyball game will be played at Cougar Palace on the Campus of Western Nebraska Community College with a game time of 2 p.m. MDT. The football game begins at 7 p.m. MDT at Bearcat Stadium...

LEXINGTON -- The Rebels 14 and under Black competed in the Lexington tournament over Memorial Weekend. The girls finished third out of 11 teams. Their record was five wins, one loss and two ties. The Rebels tied with DMilaco of Kearney on Saturday 4-4. Amanda Einspahr and Caitlyn Wudtke singled with a RBI for the Rebels...

The McCook Bison football team will be hosting the annual Championship Football Camp for boys and girls in grades 2-8 (fall of 2006) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday at the Bison practice field. The camp will feature many of the players that helped McCook to four straight state football championship games...

April 29, 1923-May 31, 2006 ARAPAHOE -- Derryl Raymond Long, 83, formerly of Holbrook, died Wednesday (May 31, 2006) at Tri-Valley Hospital in Cambridge. He was born April 29, 1923, at Maxwell, to Ora Michael and Frankie Ethel (Baker) Long. He grew up in the rural Cambridge area and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1941...

Feb. 23, 1920 - June 1, 2006 HERNDON?-- John Wilbur Grafel, 86, died Wednesday (May 31, 2006) at Decatur County Hospital. He was born Feb. 23, 1920, in Pueblo, Colo., to John and Elizabeth (Goltl) Grafel. He was raised on a farm in Richardson Township near Herndon. He graduated from Herndon School in 1937...

July 20, 1963-June 1, 2006 Kellie Denise Mullen, 42, died Thursday, (June 1, 2006) at Community Hospital of McCook after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born July 20, 1963, in McCook, to Robert Paul and Marilyn Louise (Brown) Malleck. She graduated from McCook High School in 1982 and McCook Community College in 1984...

Sept. 17, 1907 - May 31, 2006 MAYWOOD?-- Eva D. Schmitz, 98, lifelong Maywood area resident, died Wednesday (May 31,2006), at Great Plains Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 15, 1907 at Maywood, to Earl and Amy (Piper) Stone. She graduated from Kearney State College and taught rural schools in the Maywood area. ...

Aug. 15, 1938 -- May 23, 2006 CODY, Wyo. -- Roger Miller, age 67, passed away on May 23, 2006, in Cody, Wyo., while vacationing with his wife, Pat. Roger was born Aug. 15, 1938, in North Platte, to Merle and Ann Miller. At age 10, he drove the family tractor and worked by his Dad's side on the farm in Wallace. ...

Oct. 3, 1930 - May 31, 2006 KEARNEY?-- Doris E. Welch, 75, died Wednesday (May 31, 2006) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. She was born Oc. 3, 1930, in McCook, to George and Rose (Hill) Hein. She graduated from Culbertson High School in 1947, and attended the University of Nebraska for one year. She married Robert Kenneth Frick on Dec. 29, 1948, and helped with the family farm until his death on July 18, 1959...

Oct. 17, 1930 - June 1, 2006 HOLDREGE -- Edward "Duane" Stump, 75, Oxford, died Thursday, June 1, 2006, at Christian Homes in Holdrege. He was born Oct. 17, 1930, three miles southwest of Atlanta, Neb., in Phelps County, at a farm known as the Frost Farm, the ninth of 10 children of Edward S. and Jessie L. (Finton) Stump...

Sept. 17, 1907 - May 31, 2006 MAYWOOD?-- Eva D. Schmitz, 98, lifelong Maywood area resident, died Wednesday (May 31,2006), at Great Plains Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 15, 1907 at Maywood, to Earl and Amy (Piper) Stone. She graduated from Kearney State College and taught rural schools in the Maywood area. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Southwest Nebraska and Cambridge hospitality will be evident to BRAN -- Bicycle Ride across Nebraska -- bicyclists even before they reach the city limits of Cambridge Tuesday. Two churches plan "snack stops" on the Cambridge lake road, the route cyclists will take after leaving Maywood about 5 a.m...

A McCook man who traded in a paycheck for changing diapers has been named Nebraska's Head Start Father of the year. "I wasn't expecting an award for being a parent," Carlos Hernandez said, stay-at-home dad to daughters Olivia, 5, Analise, 3, and son Julian, one month. "I didn't know they gave these things out!" Surprised by the honor, Hernandez insisted he had done nothing extraordinary...

The Golden Plains are blessed with many talented physicians, but recruiting doctors to rural America is always a challenge. A new study by the University of Nebraska Medical Center seems to indicate that when it comes to recruiting, we'll have the best success close to home...

WaterClaim responds Dear Editor, In response to an NET radio report on surface water trends (available at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/nprn/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=922814) : Ann Bleed says that the (WaterClaim) map doesn't give a full picture. In reality, the map includes all publicly available data. It is as full a picture as can be provided given the information that the public has access to...

If you have children, there are many rites of passage you must pass through as they grow. It begins with walking and talking and in the blink of an eye, your toddler is getting his driver's license. Somewhere in between those two stages, many parents encounter another inevitable step in the growing-up process: Coaching their small child plus a dozen other children of the same age and attention span...