Stories from Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Movie Review - Enchanted Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, and Susan Sarandon. Rated PG with a running time of 1 hour and 47 minutes. Enchanted is the story of an animated princess who is dreaming of true love's kiss. An evil queen has been plotting to keep the princess from ever becoming queen but the prince soon shows up and they plan on marriage. ...

Aug. 5, 1948-Nov. 20, 2007 Daniel Patrick O'Neil died Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was 59 years old. Daniel was born at St. Catherine's Hospital on Aug. 5, 1948, in McCook to William P. and Catherine M. (Boehm) O'Neil. ...

Dec. 20, 1929-Nov. 19, 2007 ATWOOD -- Lorna Elaine Holle Holste, 77, died Monday (Nov. 19, 2007), at the Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. She was born Dec. 20, 1929, on the family farm near Ludell, to Rennig H. and Frieda E. Rippe Holle. She attended elementary school at Immanuel Lutheran in Ludell, graduated from Atwood Community High School in 1947, and received her degree from Kansas State Teachers College Emporium in May 1951...

McCook High School senior pitchers Kirstie Hiatt and Marissa Wallace will play softball at the four-year level. Both signed letters of intent Tuesday in a ceremony at the McCook High School gymnasium. Hiatt signed with the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where she will be a teammate of Bison alum Michelle Gaunt...

The McCook Junior High School seventh grade girls basketball team split two games at home Tuesday against Gothenburg. The Bison A team defeated the Swedes 20-11 and the B team lost 19-13. Rachel Bradley led the Bison A team with 12 points. Jackie Carfield scored 4, Taylor Hansen 2 and Moriah Salyer 2. Makayla Franzen led the Swedes with 7...

DODGE CITY, Kan. -- The McCook Community College men's basketball team lost to Dodge City (Kan.) Community College 91-56 Tuesday night at the Dodge City Civic Center. The Indians dropped a 76-66 decision to nationally-ranked Iowa Western at True Haull Gymnasium. The Reivers No. 13 in the latest NJCAA Division I poll with a 6-0 record...

As endearing as some of the behaviors may seem to outsiders, the symptoms of "frontal lobe dysfunction" often bring caregivers to tears. Frontal lobe dysfunction, or executive dysfunction syndrome -- EDS -- or "vulnerable brain," or "Pick's disease" causes changes in personality and behavior and erases inhibitions. ...

SHAWNEE, Kan. -- Coincidentally, it's a small world. Maureen Stephan of Shawnee, Kan., realized just how small when her ties to McCook came full-circle. Maureen said that her parents, Gerald and Patricia "Patsy" (McBrian) McIlmoyle grew up in McCook, and Maureen herself grew up hearing wonderful stories of their childhoods in McCook...

Thanksgiving is arguably the nation's oldest holiday, extending back to 1621 when the religious separatist Pilgrims held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. It actually wasn't an official national holiday until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving...

Nebraska voters were mistreated during the 2006 United States Senatorial campaign. Letters to the editor published in newspapers across the state expressed widespread disappointment at the low level of debate and unrelenting personal attacks that permeated the race...

The Hormel Family Foundation has announce that its second annual business plan competition will take place on June 6, 2008, at the Hormel Business & Technology Center on the McCook Community College campus. "The success of last year's competition, our very first ever, set the stage for what we believe will become a wave of interesting and innovative business development in the greater McCook region," said project initiator and Hormel Family Foundation board member Ben Hormel Harris...

Sometimes, it's just too little, too late. Or at least it appears to be. A former neighbor's son was diagnosed with cancer just days before Thanksgiving 2006. Apparently, his body was so riddled with the disease that there was little that medical science could do to arrest it and forestall his eventual death. He died just days after Christmas. He was 45. From a purely human perspective, relying solely on medicine, I feared whatever they tried would be too little, too late. Sadly, I was right...