Stories from Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Late afternoon yesterday Ann and I were enjoying a late salad lunch at Applebee's in North Platte celebrating great news from a medical opinion. We had just entered the restaurant when it began to rain. The summer shower came fast and hard for a few minutes then sunshine burst forth again. Overheard was the waitress's comment, "That was a short little rain!"...

Fill up your tank or buy a gallon of milk, and you're on camera. Walk down the street, and chances are, you're on camera -- whether it's a security camera, Web cam or just a passerby with a camera in a cell phone. Walk down Norris Avenue, and you can be observed by anyone in the world with an Internet connection, via the Amazing McCook Cam (http://www.mccookalumni. com/camera.html)...

HILL CITY, Kan. -- The Rawlins County High School girls track team earned the team title in the Kansas class 2A regionals Saturday in Hill City. The Rawlins County girls and boys teams are the defending Kansas Class 2A state champions. The top four finishers in each event qualified for the Kansas State Track and Field Championship Friday and Saturday at Wichita...

LINCOLN -- McCook High School alum Brandon Crick will play his final two seasons of collegiate golf at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Crick, who played his first two seasons at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., will immediately be eligible to play next fall, according to his father Jeff...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The seventh-ranked Nebraska baseball team begins its postseason run this week, as it travels to the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City for the 2008 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship. The event begins Wednesday and runs until Sunday with the championship game being shown nationally on FSN...

2008 Class B BOYS Final Team Scores 1. Plattsmouth 58.000 2. Northwest 47.000 3. Norfolk Catholic 42.000 4. Scottsbluff 38.000 5. Crete 31.000 6. Ogallala 28.500 7T. Gothenburg 27.000 7T. Pierce 27.000 9. Gering 24.000 10. Boys Town 22.000 11. St. Paul 19.000...

Dec. 26, 1920 - May 3, 2008 WRAY, Colo. -- Dorothy Elsie (Weber) Ivins, 87, died May 3, 2008, at her home in Wray, Colo. She was born Dec. 26, 1920, on the family farm north of Culbertson to Henry H. and Anna Margaret (Bekel) Weber. On Aug. 21, 1945, she married Melvin Ivins in McCook. They moved to New Jersey, where her husband's worked in family business. They returned to Culbertson in 1948...

May 9, 1944 - May 17, 2008 KENNESAW -- Nellie J. Kness, 64, of McCook, died Saturday (May 17, 2008) at Haven Home in Kennesaw. She was born May 9, 1944, in Aurora, Ind., to Walter and Eva (Shoopman) Henry. She worked as homemaker. Survivors include her daughter, Kim Kness of McCook; sister, Patty Henry of Phillipsburg, Kan.; brothers, Dale Henry of Phillipsburg, Jessie Henry of Harrison, Ohio and Alvin Henry of Sealy, Texas; and several nieces and nephews...

A McCook man wants the city to pay his plumbing bill but the McCook City Council denied his claim. Dennis Irwin addressed the McCook City Council Monday night at its regular meeting Monday night and asked the city to pay his $50 plumbing bill, because he wasn't notified that the city water system caused the discoloration in his toilet April 28...

A study to compare salaries of city employees to those in other cities has been postponed, until the McCook City Council can find out how much extra it will cost to include a job description in the study. The council was asked at a regular meeting Monday night to approve a contract with Capital City Concepts LLC of Lincoln for the wage comparability study...

The first "Heartland Honor Flight" for World War II veterans was to take off today for a whirlwind tour of the nation's capital with a McCook man on board. Heartland Honor Flight, organized in Nebraska by Bill Williams of Omaha, is part of the Honor Flight network, a national non-profit organization that is taking as many World War II veterans as possible to visit the World War II memorial...

By CONNIE JO DISCOE Regional Editor Fire investigators have tracked the origin of a fire that destroyed a four-plex double-A-frame apartment complex in McCook Monday morning to the exterior deck of an upper apartment. The cause of the fire, however, is still under investigation...