Stories from Tuesday, October 16, 2007

MAYWOOD and TRENTON -- Hitchcock County, Southwest, Wallace and Cambridge move into the final round of the Republican Plains Activities Conference Tournament after finishing the first and quarterfinal rounds on Monday at Maywood and Trenton. Cambridge defeated Bertrand 25-23, 25-14, 25-23, allowing the Trojans to move onto the next round...

The McCook High School sophomore football team shut out the Chase County-Imperial junior varsity 49-0 Monday night at Weiland Field. McCook's Andy Smith, who ran for a 56-yard touchdown in the McCook varsity team's 41-7 win over Cozad Friday night, scored three TDs for the Bison sophomore...

HOLDREGE -- The McCook Bison eighth grade football team lost their second straight game on Tuesday night at the hands of the Holdrege Dusters. In the first half the Dusters scored quickly to give them an early 7-0 lead, thanks to some missed tackles by the Bison defense...

April 15, 1916-Sept. 28, 2007 Martha Walz Zimbelman Gilbraith was born April 15, 1916, to Fred Walz and Eva Schmierer/Knorr and went to her heavenly home on Sept. 28, 2007, at the age of 91. She was baptized in May 1916, and confirmed on June 21, 1931, at Salem Lutheran Church northwest of St. ...

Oct. 18, 1919 - Oct. 9, 2007 CORTEZ, Colo. -- Lois (Henze) Lusk, 87, died Tuesday (Oct.9, 2007). She was born Oct. 18, 1919, in Palisade, to Elmer and Bessie Henze. She grew up during the Great Depression on a farm outside of Palisade. Upon graduating from high school in 1936, she moved to Denver, Colo., to attend the Bonnie School of Beauty Culture and received her beautician's license...

May 17, 1931 - Oct. 17, 2007 JULESBERG, Colo. --Ida "Lorene" Johnson Frick, 76, of Julesburg died Oct. 13, 2007, in Julesburg, Colo. Funeral services will be Wednesday Oct. 17, 2007, at the United Methodist Church in Julesburg, at 10 a.m., with interment following at Hillside Cemetery in Julesburg. Visitation is today until 6 p.m., at Austin-Tennant Funeral Home in Julesburg...

McCook City Council members apparently are happy with the job Kurt Fritsch is doing, as they increased his salary to $82,836 at Monday night's regular meeting. After the council evaluated his job performance in a 45-minute closed session, they reconvened in open session and approved an ordinance, suspending the three-reading rule, that will set his salary. The salary takes effect Nov. 1...

Two life-long Nebraskans have made the largest charitable gift to date to the McCook Community Foundation. Lemoine and Geri Anderson, who owned and operated Anderson Motors Inc. in McCook for 42 years, worked with the Nebraska Community Foun-dation to develop an innovative plan to provide for a gift of $346,431 to the McCook Community Foundation's en-dowment...

Technology used today with keno computers makes it virtually impossible to cheat at the games and employees who work at keno outlets should be allowed to play the game, said the owner of McCook Keno LLC. The McCook City Council narrowly agreed, and by a three-to-two vote, directed staff to bring back an amended city code to reflect the change...

An amended ordinance that would curtail fireworks in city was approved unanimously on second reading by the McCook City Council, but added an exception for revelers on New Year's Eve. Council members approved the ordinance Monday night at its regular meeting, that will prohibit fireworks except from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. ...

A tragic accident more than a year ago involving alcohol and driving continues to devastate two families, with one man dead and another now behind bars. Kyle Serocki, 25, was sentenced Monday to the Nebraska Department of Corrections by District Court Judge David Urbom, in the Oct. 7, 2006, motor vehicle death of Nicholas Mead, 24, of Cambridge...

Unless you've just emerged from a cave, you've probably already heard the news: North Platte native Steve Pederson is out as athletic director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Even if you were trapped underground for a few days, it shouldn't have been a surprise, following the Cornhuskers' disastrous homecoming loss to Oklahoma State, 45-14, with members of the 1997 championship team and coaching staff looking on in horror...

This is a follow-up article concerning the "Safety Pin Challenge" Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. If you missed the article, it concerns us helping the McCook High School marching band secure much-needed and well-deserved new uniforms. Businesses, alums and parents, please, it's time to step up to the plate and donate. A fund has been established at McCook National Bank...

LINCOLN -- In a new development in leadership changes in the athletic department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chancellor Harvey Perlman announced today that Tom Osborne has agreed to serve as director of intercollegiate athletics on an interim basis...