Stories from Thursday, August 3, 2006

Alexis Holmes wins Nebraska Junior girls title SCOTTSBLUFF -- Brandon Crick of McCook continued his stellar play by shooting a 9-under par 63 extending his lead at the 2006 Nebraska Boys Amateur Championship to 15 strokes entering Thursday's final round of the Junior Amateur Championship...

Chris Wiemers, a 1992 graduate of McCook High School, will be featured Sunday in an hour-long special on CBS television. The program, "Road to the PGA Championship," will be aired at 1 p.m. Sunday, according to his mother, Delores Wiemers. In an e-mail to friends and family members, Delores said the special will also be aired on the Golf Channel three times...

DALLAS -- Nebraska is the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 title for the 10th consecutive season in a vote of the league head coaches, the conference office announced Wednesday. The Huskers received eight of the 11 possible first-place votes and 98 points overall, while coaches were not allowed to vote for their own teams...

LINCOLN -- The University of Nebraska volleyball team was honored Wednesday for its achievements in the classroom, receiving the Game PlanAVCA Team Academic Award for the 2005-06 season. The award, initiated by the AVCA in the 1992-93 academic year, recognizes college and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale during the previous school year. ...

KEARNEY -- The University of Nebraska-Kearney football team will begin its 2006 season Tuesday with the first day of practice. The complete practice schedule is listed below. All practices will be on Foster Field with the team moving to the old practice field (across the street from the Health & Sports Center) in case of extreme heat...

WAYNE -- The Wayne State volleyball team has been picked to finish third in the Northern Sun Conference behind Concordia-St. Paul and Southwest Minnesota State. Junior libero Laura Dolezal was voted by league coaches as the Wildcats' player to watch this season...

An opportunity for the public -- and the governor -- to see the newest technology in water treatment will be available at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the McCook water treatment plant. The public is invited to attend the ceremony Aug. 9 with Gov. Dave Heineman at 1:30 p.m. at the McCook water treatment plant, 1 1/2 miles south of McCook on U.S. Highway 83 and 3/4 of a mile west on Road 713. (turns will be marked.)...

The single greatest issue facing the country is its reliance on imported oil, and Nebraska holds one of the keys for the solution, believes Scott Kleeb, Democratic candidate for the 3rd Congressional District. As a country built on an infrastructure solely reliant on fossil fuels for energy, the United States is currently producing 3 percent of the world's oil, yet consuming 25 percent, Kleeb said. ...

LEOVILLE, Kan. -- MaryAnn Zodrow, 81, died Tuesday (Aug. 1, 2006) at Decatur Community Hospital. She was born March 26, 1925, south of Leoville, Kan., to Bernard "Ben" and Barbara (Geisinger) Kruse. She was raised in the Leoville Community and attended Green Valley School and graduated from Leoville High School in 1945...

All together now: Oink! Let's face it; we're all energy hogs. Even if we've purchased a hybrid car, have started walking or bicycling to work to save $3 gasoline, we've got a long way to go to claim we're being careful in using our energy resources...

My fellow Americans, the choice is perfectly clear. Do you want freedom and democracy, or terrorism? Do you want to own your land or let foreigners invade? Our American values have been compromised in the past. Let us hope and pray the evil-doers will have all been killed dead...