Stories from Thursday, September 29, 2011

David John Sowers Feb. 4, 1955 - Sept. 27, 2011 ST. FRANCIS, Kansas --David John Bowers, 56, died Tuesday (Sept. 27, 2011), at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. He was born Feb. 4, 1955, in Oakley, Kansas. He was a farmer/rancher. He was preceded in death by his sister, Audrey Marene Sowers...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Community Hospital in McCook received a clean bill of health from accounting firm Seim Johnson as part of its fiscal year 2011 Audited Financial Report. The report was presented to the Community Hospital Association board of directors during its Sept. 21 meeting...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that the State Bank of Bartley, Nebraska, and an additional Nebraska community bank received a total of $2.6 million as part of the final wave of funding provided through the Small Business Lending Fund...

McCook, Nebraska, artist Norma Stevens hangs the first art work for "7 Points of View," the first-ever art showing for McCook's newest art club, "Golden Plains Artists. "The exhibit opens Saturday, Oct. 1, and will hang through Friday, Oct. 21, at the Wrightstone Fine Arts Building on the McCook Community College campus. ...

Wednesday's annual See You at the Pole student-led prayer event at McCook High School draws 19 people, praying for students, staff, the military, national leadership and the lost. The round robin prayer included thanksgiving for a beautiful morning and for the freedom to gather in prayer. The theme for SYATP 2011 is "Converge" taken from Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them."...

There are only three months to go until 2012, the presidential election year, the year we exercise our most important right, according to a sample U.S. citizenship test. While immigration is shaping up to be one of the big issues in the election -- it has derailed the campaign of leading Republican Rick Perry -- we're often impressed with those who jump through all the hoops necessary to become a citizen...

We come now to the last two characters in our celestial story, Cassiopeia the Queen and Cepheus, the King. Both are found in the early evening autumnal sky in the north about an hour after sunset. Cassiopeia is the very familiar "W" shape and is easily recognized, Cepheus on the other hand will take some looking...

Everyone has a "gut feeling" or I guess I'm assuming most people do. Pretty much we are born with an intuition about some circumstances or our subconscious tries to speak to us sometimes. As moms, we are pretty in tune with our kids and most times can sense if some situations may not be the best idea at the time...