Stories from Thursday, June 16, 2011

Aug. 20, 1939-June 13, 2011 ARAPAHOE, Nebraska -- Roger H. Magnus, 71, died on Monday, June 13, 2011, at Bryan LGH West Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born Aug. 20, 1939, in Deshler, Nebraska to Louis and Emma (Atenhan) Magnus. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Deshler. He attended St. Peter's Lutheran School and graduated from Deshler High School with the class of 1957...

Oct. 29, 1911-June 11, 2011 HERNDON, Kansas -- Edith Lydia Kompus Pettera, 99, died Saturday (June 11, 2011) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin, Kansas. She was born Oct. 29, 1911, near Herndon, Kansas, to Joseph and Lena (Toth) Kompus. She attended grade school at Walsh School in Elk Township, Kansas, and graduated from high school in Herndon in 1930...

Aug. 24, 1944-June 13, 2011 BIRD CITY, Kansas -- Roy Walden Troutt Jr., 66, died Monday (June 13, 2011) at Colby Care Center in Colby, Kansas. He was born Aug. 24, 1944, in San Diego, California. He worked as an electrical engineer. Funeral services are Monday, 10:30 a.m. CDT, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bird City. Burial is in Bird City Cemetery with military honors by the U.S. Navy Honor Guard...

July 16, 1921-June 15, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Sylvia Dale Rucker, 89, passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. Sylvia was born on July 16, 1921, in Maywood, Nebraska, to Isaac Jonathon Delroy and Leila Dale (Barton) Hoschouer. She graduated from Maywood High School in 1939...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The state budget and the goal of fiscal responsibility were the dominate themes this legislative session, according to Sen. Mark Christensen, who spoke with members of the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce during his annual legislative breakfast at the Chief Restaurant, this morning. ...

OMAHA, Nebraska -- Culbertson is one of 10 nonprofit organizations that have been awarded a total of $100,000 in BlueHealth Advantage Wellness Grants from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska. The 2011 grant recipients include the Village of Culbertson, Two Rivers Walking Trail. Grant money will be used to resurface the trail and buy outdoor exercise equipment...

Did J. Sterling Morton get it all wrong? We won't go that far, but a recent report delivered to local Natural Resources Districts does seem to indicate that attempts to reinvent the prairie in the image of the father of Arbor Day's native, tree-covered Michigan are misguided...

If we lived in Australia or New Zealand we would have been able to enjoy a total lunar eclipse last night. We won't be able to see the Dec. 10 total lunar eclipse, either. The astronomy class had a great evening for viewing last week. After a couple of months of cloudy skies we finally had a clear evening, although there was some doubt. But, about a half-hour before the class started the skies cleared...

Area high school volleyball hopefuls had the opportunity to learn from a former United States Olympian at a summer camp held in early June at McCook High School. Charlene Johnson Whitted conducted the four-day camp, along with McCook High School head volleyball coach Krystal Weber...

Last summer, ABC tried out a fairly aggressive programming strategy, one that featured a sizable number of scripted series. Unfortunately for the network, most of them failed to generate any heat whatsoever. Their one moderate success was the Canadian-produced cop drama "Rookie Blue," which pulled in enough of an audience in the U.S. ...

So once you are a mom, your senses become quite perfected. You can hear your child's voice yell "Mommy" out of a crowd of a hundred little kids and you can hear your newborn's fussing before anyone else in the house. You can hear the fridge being raided or someone digging into the bag of chips in the kitchen, clear from the basement, and you can tell by the footsteps, who it is. ...

May 22, 1935-June 12, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Shirley Ann Linderholm, 76, born May 22, 1935, to Harold and Lucile Hilton in Cambridge, Nebraska, died Sunday, June 12, 2011, at home in Cambridge. Shirley attended Nebraska Wesleyan University where she met and married Robert Linderholm of York in 1956. Born to this union was one son, Karl...