Stories from Friday, June 8, 2007

The McCook Rebels 12 and under girls fastpitch softball team split a doubleheader with the North Platte Junior Belles Thursday night at Jaycee Park. The Rebels won the first game 7-6 and lost the second game 6-0. In the first game, McCook's Jenna Smith was the winning pitcher for the Rebels. She struck out two and walked four...

EDINBURG, Texas -- McCook native Chris Brown has found a new challenge as the pitching coach for the Edinburg (Texas) Coyotes of the independent United League. Brown, a 1994 graduate of McCook High School and a member of the McCook American Legion baseball team that won the 1993 state title, became the Coyotes' pitching coach two weeks ago when head coach Vince Moore, a teammate of Browns in the pro ranks, asked him to take the job...

The 16th Annual Sertoma All-Star Volleyball Classic gets underway at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 16 when 25 of the area's recently graduated volleyball stars meet at McCook High School. Jennifer Baker of Hitchcock County and Bill Wilson of Dundy County will coach the West Team, with Rachelle Chamberlain of Eustis-Farnam and Les Reinke of Maxwell taking the reins of the East Team...

Nov. 18, 1914 - June 6, 2007 IMPERIAL -- John Teply, Jr. of Champion, died Wednesday (June 6, 2007) at Chase County Community Hospital.  He was 92 years old. John was born on Nov. 18, 1914, on the family farm north of Wauneta to John and Martha (Neverve) Teply.  He attended the rural Elmer School north of Wauneta...

Aug. 21, 1921 - June 7, 2007 WAUNETA -- Bruce Edwin Kitt was born Aug. 21, 1921, to Ray and Hilda Seward Kitt in a sod house southwest of Wauneta. He grew up in the Wauneta area, attending Wauneta schools. On Oct. 21, 1938, he suffered severe spinal injury during a high school football game in Sutherland but recovered enough to graduate from Wauneta High School in 1940 and to continue to help his dad farm. Despite the cause of his injury, he remained an avid football fan...

April 4, 1944 - June 7, 2007 ARAPAHOE?-- Arola "June" Breinig, 63, died Thursday (June 7, 2007) at her home in Arapahoe after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was born on April 4, 1944, in Hastings to Curtis and Nellie (Hasemeyer) Heath. She attended school in Holdrege and graduated from Holdrege High School in 1962...

The Wells Family of North Carolina performs in the Stratton gymnasium Thursday night, with MNB's first Hot Summer Nights concert of the season moved indoors because of high winds. The bluegrass band also will headline this year's 11th annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival along with storyteller Bill Harley. ...

When the McCook Public Power District first proposed building a new communications tower, the city wasn't exactly enthusiastic. In fact, because the proposed tower was too high and too close to McCook Regional Airport, the city denied MPPD's request to build it. There was a chance, some day, that the Federal Aviation Administration might deny airport funding because it might endanger aircraft using the new instrument landing system in marginal weather...

Some 34 years ago, pesticide was dirt cheap but as most things it has become monster priced. I grow many vines and other crops, for canning, drying and freezing for the winter food supply. I have found that not even in a drought do bugs eat on wild gourds. They have their own pesticide and grow along many a country road...

May 3, 1977-June 6, 2007 ATWOOD -- Benjamin Michael Brogan, 30, died Wednesday (June 6, 2007) at Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. He was born May 3, 1977, to Gary Brogan and Laura (Stevens) Brogan at Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. He was baptized July 18, 1986, and confirmed April 12, 1992, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Colby, Kan. He graduated from Cheylin High School in 1996...

Jan. 2, 1923 - June 6, 2007   CAMBRIDGE -- Cora J. Teter, 84, died Wednesday (June 6, 2007) at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was preceded in death by her husband, Delbert; one daughter, Joy Teter; her parents; one sister, Eleanor Dack; and two brothers, Stanley and James Reid Daffer...

Jan. 30, 1923-June 7, 2007 CAMBRIDGE -- Richard Vaughn Minnick, 84, died Thursday (June 7, 2007) in Cambridge.  He was born Jan. 30, 1923, in Cambridge, to Richard D. and Alice (Capp) Minnick. He married Darlene Lyons on Dec 21.1947. He owned and was a part of Minnick Hardware in Cambridge for more than 40 years. He served on the Cambridge City Council, the Cambridge Museum Board, the Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce...