Stories from Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Feb. 6, 1910 - June 2, 2009 BEAVER CITY -- Blanch Leota Feusner, 99, died Tuesday (June 2, 2009) at Beaver City Manor. She was born Feb. 6, 1910, at Beaver City to Justin and Maud (Elder) Foss. She graduated from Beaver City High School in 1927. Following her graduation she taught school for two years in Furnas County Rural School...

Nov. 8, 1914 - April 22, 2009 SPOKANE, Wash. -- Earl D. "Del" Henton, 94, died April 22, 2009, at Park Place/Claire Bridge in Spokane, Wash. He was born Nov. 8, 1914, in Danbury to Burr and Vaire Henton. He graduated from Danbury High School in 1932. After graduation, he worked on a farm with his uncle Hugh and aunt Lucille Godown in Spokane...

June 22, 1930 - May 31, 2009 LINCOLN -- Bette L. Liesemeyer, 78, Lincoln, passed away Sunday May 31, 2009, in Lincoln. Born in Unadilla on June 22, 1930, to Famous and Carrie Rodger, she was a 1947 graduate of Syracuse High School. She married Wayne W. Liesemeyer, on April 15, 1957. She was a mother to five children. The family lived in Lincoln, Scottsbluff and McCook...

Jan. 30, 1916 - May 28, 2009 NORTH PLATTE -- Mabel W. (Lefdal) Wood Baker, 93 of North Platte passed away May 28, 2009, at Linden Court. She was born in Howard, S. D. on Jan. 30, 1916, to William Samuel Andreas and Matilda Elsie (Roti) Lefdal. She was baptized in 1916 in the Belleview Lutheran Church. ...

Small rural airports are a vital tool in economic development, but when the going gets tough, it's hard to keep the passengers going. Such is the case now, when the slowing economy may cause many Nebraska airports to fall below the threshold required to qualify for $1 million in federal assistance through the Airport Improvement Program in 2009...

They call it an intervention. When someone engages in an activity that is detrimental to themselves, to those who love them, or is dangerous or addictive, oftentimes a plan is formed. Friends, family members, clergy and counselors sit down and rehearse how they will communicate to their afflicted loved one their deep concern, their hurts and their hopes, all with the intent to lovingly provide a different path for that loved one, who, if they continue on the path before them, will surely die...

Our son was injured during a baseball game against McCook's Legion Juniors team on May 31, 2009, at Duncan Field in Hastings. We send our sincere appreciation and gratitude to the team, their coaches and fans for the very respectful way they treated the situation...

The University of Nebraska system has a $1.8 billion budget but pays many multiples of that in benefits, regents told a group of McCook leaders Tuesday evening. For example a study determined that for every $1 in tax money spent for the university's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the state receives $15 in benefits, Regent Bob Phares of North Platte said...

The McCook Economic Development Corp. purchased the Keystone Hotel Tuesday for $150,000. According to Rex Nelson, MEDC executive director, the building was purchased from Keystone Hotel LLC. Dale Stewart is listed as one of the owners and originally purchased the building in 2000 for an amount between $104,ooo and 105,000, according to the Red Willow County Clerk's office...

ARAPAHOE -- The Subway sandwich shop in Arapahoe is a study in human nature and a lesson in community support. The sandwich artists at the Subway and Goodrich Ice Cream Shop at the highway intersection in Arapahoe have noticed, since the shop opened in the summer of 2002 and expanded this spring, that men very seldom vary in their selection of sandwich fixings. ...

PALISADE -- The annual Palisade Pioneer Days carries the theme "Festival of Friends" and will kick of Friday, June 12 when "Hee Haw" returns, 7 p.m., at the school gym. Saturday events include a 3/5K walk or run with registration at 6:45 a.m., and a starting time of 7:30 a.m. ...

ST. FRANCIS -- The 27th annual "Stearman Fly-In" is scheduled Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, at the Cheyenne County Airport in St. Francis. The free event features Stearman aircraft, World War II-era open-cockpit, fabric-covered biplanes powered by radial engines...

LINCOLN -- Twenty-nine members from five generations of a Nebraska family were recognized in May at the "All-University Celebration and Salute to Alumni Achievement" hosted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Descendants of Dr. Frederick William Karrer were honored at the celebration for attending or graduating from UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center since 1904, when Dr. Karrer was a member of the medical center's first graduating class...

Across the country, many major-college athletic departments keep their NCAA troubles secret behind a thick veil of black ink or Wite-Out. Alabama.Cincinnati. Florida. Florida State. Ohio State. Oklahoma. Oregon State. Utah. They all censor information in the name of student privacy, invoking a 35-year-old federal law whose author says it has been twisted and misused by the universities...