Stories from Tuesday, March 27, 2007

LINCOLN -- One month after placing third at the Nebraska High School Diving Championships, McCook High School junior Matt Hall returned to the Bob Devaney Sports Center to compete at the USA Diving Spring Regionals.  Hall placed 10th in the one meter 16-18 year olds event. Divers from Arizona and Minnesota as well as the states surrounding Nebraska came to compete on one and three meter events...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Rawlins County-Atwood's Matt Migchelbrink and St. Francis' Jordan Gienger competed at the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association Senior Wrestling Classic at Topeka last Friday. The tournament took place at the Topeka Expocentre. At 125 pounds, Migchelbrink won a 7-3 decision over Kansas City Schlagle's Marcus Walker. Schlagle is a Kansas Class 5A school...

Red Willow County's K-9 officer was a serious deputy and beloved pet during his 10-year career as the "long paw of the law" with the sheriff's department. "Stryker" died Friday, March 23, after a tumor on his back was diagnosed as cancerous by a McCook veterinarian. ...

The family of Darlene Korf is hosting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday. She was born March 28, 1922. Cards of congratulations will reach her at 311 Elizabeth Lane, McCook, NE 69001.

From preparing a solution in pharmacy to starting an intravenous line in nursing, to draping a patient for surgery, nearly 100 area students explored the possibility of health careers at the second annual Career Discovery Days on Wednesday and Thursday at Community Hospital...

It's been a beautiful few days in the Golden Plains, with highs in the 70s and even some rain, although McCook remains about three-quarters of an inch below normal in moisture for the year. Tulips and daffodils are blooming, lawns are greening up -- what could go wrong?...

Spring weather is a great time to stock up on seed planting soil. Yes it is easy to go buy a $10 bag of soil starts, but it is a lot more fun, with permission, to hit the pastures looking for fresh mole mounds of finely sifted soil. Over the last five years, if my memory doesn't fail me, this mole soil matches that store bought dirt...

With regard to the death penalty, there seems to be some confusion with regard to whether the Biblical Commandment states "Thou shalt not murder" or "thou shalt not kill" (Kevin Dunn, Capital Punishment, 2/23/07.) There is no doubt that the Commandment is thou shalt not murder. ...

In regard to Kevin Dunn's letter to Open Forum last week in favor of abolishing the death penalty. We are told in scripture that "No verse is of private interpretation." In other words you can't build a doctrine out of just one or two verses of scripture. It must agree with the teaching of all the rest of scripture...

Have you noticed the days getting longer? Daylight Savings Time has something to do with it, jumping the clocks ahead an hour does put sunset later, however, I mean the actual hours of sunlight. Remember, back in December when it was very dark at about 4:30? Now sunset is after 7, that is 6 in real time...