Stories from Thursday, June 27, 2013

Marion W. McBrien Jan. 21, 1920 - June 25, 2013 BASEHOR, Kansas -- Marion W. McBrien, age 93, of Basehor, Kansas passed away on Tuesday June 25, 2013, at the Golden Living Center in Lansing, Kansas. Funeral Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, June 29, 2013, at the Alden-Harrington Funeral Home; burial to follow in the Glenwood Cemetery near Basehor. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening, also at the funeral home...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The West Central Medical Response System provided and presented mass casualty incident field-triage bags to Culbertson and Beaver Valley Fire and Rescue/Danbury EMS Units. The presentation was made during the West Central Medical Response System Steering Committee meeting in McCook, on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Overall, 40 triage bags will be provided to EMS ambulance units in the 16-county West Central Medical Response System region...

This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Hillcrest Nursing Home is moving forward in obtaining funds to purchase a bus. Hillcrest was approved by the locally-funded REWARDS grant committee, Colinda Nappa, Hillcrest administrator, told the board at the regular Board of Trustee meeting Tuesday. A grant writer from the committee will be writing an application for a grant from the Department of Education, to purchase a bus estimated to cost about$55,000...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- The sale of fireworks in celebration of Independence Day will begin Friday and be authorized within city limits through July 4. The discharge of fireworks is already legal in McCook, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., June 23 through July 3. Fireworks may be discharged until 11:59 p.m. on July 4 and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on July 5...

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Cambridge artist Sondra Jonson says a little piece of her stays with every sculpture she makes, including the recent one dedicated in Kentucky. Jonson's bronze, life-size sculpture of "Rachel Weeping for Her Children," was dedicated at the Kentucky Memorial for the Unborn on May 6 at the Frankfort Cemetery. ...

Five-year-olds Jensyn and Jaysek Weiss duck under and around the "umbrella" water fall on the new "splash pad" in the city park in Cambridge, Nebraska. The splash pad is near the ball fields in east Cambridge, about a block north of the swimming pool, and just east of three bronze baseball players by Cambridge sculptor Gary Ginther. ...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Mary Kircher, Broker/Owner of Welcome Home Realty LLC, McCook's newest real estate brokerage attended The Real Estate Educators Association's (REEA's) Instructor Development Workshop in Ames Iowa on the campus of Iowa State University on Friday June 21, 2013. ...

It's almost enough to make you want to go back to bed. The Fourth of July falls on a Thursday next week, an inconvenient day of the week if one wants to travel to see friends and relatives without taking time off from work. But judging from all the safety tips from various entities crossing our desk, we might be better off not leaving the house...

Birds love Hope Strong's front porch in Culbertson, Nebraska. She hangs a welcome sign for friends, as well as woven baskets for small birds. Finches build nests each year in the baskets, Hope said, but, this spring, a robin has made her nest in a floral-decorated vine wreath beside the front door, right under the "Welcome" sign. ...

I remember not so long ago when getting the perfect tan was pretty high up on my summer priority list. Now in my 40s, apparently it's dropped down several notches. Even though I tell myself every spring that I should go to the tanning bed to get a little base tan, just so I don't fry at my girls first softball tournament, or I mentally make plans to lay out in the back yard as soon as it's hot enough so I have an overall tan, but I never do either...

In response to the article in Wednesday's paper, there is a state-licensed auto salvage eight miles northeast of McCook in Red Willow County that has been there for 18 years. There are other places that will buy junk cars and trucks. When buying cars, you have to have licenses and permits...

I am excited to get the Farmers Market up and running again this year. The market will be located in the Sears parking lot at the Westview Plaza again this year. It was a very successful location last year. Harold Pierson will be sponsoring us. As in the past, there is no charge to bring your product to set up and sell to the public...

Mothers do evolutionists subtract - multiply x divide ÷ life - from uniting a female cell + male the development of embryos till birth - the gestation time from conception to delivery ... for mothers of every species varies ... is a scientific fact. No evolutionist can successfully challenge "as thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of knowest not the works of God, who maketh all," Eccl. 11:5...

The Fourth of July is rapidly approaching and now is the time to buy your fireworks. The cost is skyrocketing. By saving 1 percent of your paycheck each week, in one year you would have enough money to buy 100 M-80s made in the USA. Do not purchase fireworks made in communist China. They are cheap and unreliable. Last year, I used only American made and had zero-percent duds. Only one rocket went off sideways and killed my dog...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Summer is already a busy time of year for highways in the agriculture dependent Southwest Nebraska, with farm equipment bouncing from one crop to another, an influx of Independence Day travelers only adds to the danger and the Nebraska State Patrol urges residents to take caution accordingly...