Stories from Friday, February 23, 2007

April 10, 1928 - Feb. 21, 2007 CAMBRIDGE -- George J. Howerter, 78, died Wednesday (Feb. 21, 2007) at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital.  He was born near Springfield, Ill., on April 10, 1928, to George and Lucy (Copeland) Howerter, Sr. The family moved to the Garden City, Kan., area where his family operated the first blacksmith shop in the county.  On May of 1946, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy serving till 1948.  He was a gunner in the Navy...

Oct. 2, 1918 - Feb. 20, 2007 Reverend Elvin J. Olson, 88, died Tuesday (Feb. 20, 2007) at the Hillcrest Nursing Home.  He was born in Ong on Oct. 2, 1918, to Axel Wilhelm and Agnes Jenning (Anderson) Olson.  He attended school in Ong and graduated from Ong High School in 1935.  He went to Hasting College graduating in 1942. He then went to New York City where he received his Masters of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1946...

Aug. 19, 1938 - Feb. 21, 2007 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Jacqueline Pyle, 68, died Wednesday (Feb. 21, 2007, at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction. She was born Aug. 19, 1938, in McCook, to Jack and Heidi Molsbee. She graduated from McCook High School in 1956 and Christian Women's College, Columbia, Mo. in 1958...

April 2, 1957 - Feb. 22, 2007 DANBURY -- Theresa "Bead Lady" Walters of Danbury died Thursday (Feb. 22, 2007) at her home.  She was 49. She was born April 2, 1957, to Thomas and Bertilla (Hickert) Conroy at McCook.  She attended grade school at St. Patrick's Catholic School and graduated from McCook High School in 1976. ...

Wauneta-Palisade will play Leyton in district finals The Wauneta-Palisade Broncos, ranked No. 1 in Nebraska Class D1, moved one step closer to a return trip to the state basketball tournament. However, Thursday night's 53-38 victory over Hitchcock County in the Class D1-11 sub-district championship game at the McCook High School gymnasium was anything but easy...

A video of "Lola," the deaf bulldog belonging to Julie Kotschwar and her children, Lucas, Elexa and Taylor, of McCook, will appear on the "Animal Planet" program "The Planet's Funniest Animals," at 6 p.m. CT today. Julie said the video shows Lola "headbutting" shadows and then doing somersaults...

By CONNIE?JO?DISCOE Regional Editor The new president of Community Hospital of McCook has no doubt that the priorities detailed in the hospital's new strategic plan are in the right order. Jim Ulrich, president and CEO since Gary Bieganski's retirement in late 2006, said after the February board meeting Wednesday, "The four main strategic pillars (of the strategic plan) are 'People, Quality, Finance and Market.' There is no mistake in the order of priorities in our plan."...

It's a law that sets Nebraska apart, but hasn't made any real difference -- yet. It's also one the minority political party likes, and has kept in place, thanks to then-Gov. Ben Nelson, who, by the way, is a member of that party. But Dave Heineman, a Republican, is in power now, and the officially nonpartisan Unicameral is mostly Republican, as well...

I have been humbled. My superiority has been thrown out the window. I don't have a clue what I'm doing on my computer, not that there was a lot to work with in the first place. I am now an official user of a PC. As a lifelong fan and customer of Apple, I avoided every other type of personal computer throughout the years. From my first keystrokes through college papers typed out at 3 in the morning, I relied upon an Apple computer the entire time...