Stories from Friday, July 15, 2016

Roland Lorimer ATWOOD, Kan. -- Roland Lorimer, 82, died Thursday (July 14, 2016), at Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. Services are pending with Pauls Funeral Home in Oberlin.

Red Willow County 4-Hers competed at the State 4-H Horse Expo on Sunday and Monday. Reserve Champion team members included Kathlyn Hauxwell, from left, Andersen Gillespie, Stephen Hoffman and Allison Rippe. Fourth place team members were Tucker Gillespie, Elsianna Rodewald and Nathan Rippe...

Jane Carlisle, from left, McCook Beauty Academy instructor, presents Raquel Garcia-Luna of Rexford, Kan., with a $500 scholarship to attend McCook Beauty Academy. Raquel's parents are Manuel Garcia and Fermina Garcia. She plans to finish school at McCook Beauty Academy, then work as a cosmetologist in the area. The Evelyn Grubb scholarship annually awards a $500 scholarship to qualifying students...

80th birthday The family of Vincent Sis of Stratton, Neb., is requesting a card shower in honor of his 80th birthday on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. He was born in 1936 in Stratton. His family includes his wife, Melissa, of Stratton; children, Joel Sis of Stratton and the late Justin Sis; and two grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach him at P.O. Box 128, Stratton, NE 69043...

The family of Marvin and Ruthann (Lennemann) Klooz of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple's 60th wedding anniversary Thursday, July 21, 2016. They were married in 1956 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in McCook. Cards of congratulations will reach them at 39086 Drive 716, McCook, NE 69001...

75th birthday The family of Patricia Ann Brown of McCook is hosting a celebration in honor of her 75th birthday Sunday, July 17. She was born in Culbertson and lives in McCook with her husband, Roger Brown. Coffee and cake will be Sunday, July 17, from 2-4 p.m. at 37691 Road 710 in McCook. Card of congratulations will reach her at 37691 Road 710, McCook, NE 69001...

95th birthday The family of Leila Fries of Brookdale in McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of her 95th birthday Tuesday, July 19.  Cards of congratulations will reach her at P.O. Box 393, Culbertson, NE 69024.

These hot sticky days make me yearn for the cool white sheets right off the clothes line that I slept on through my childhood. Those sheets never died, never got thin, didn't bunch up on the bed and when they finally frayed at the edges, they became the base for my grandmother's quilts. ...

Clifford A. Spratlen, Jr. LOGAN, Kan. -- Clifford A. Spratlen, Jr., 94, died Wednesday (July 13, 2016), at the Logan Manor in Logan. He was born in Logan. He served in the Army Artillery Corps as a liaison pilot during World War II. After the war, he resided in McCook, Neb., where he was a career employee of the U.S. Post Office. He returned to Kansas in 1998, living in Norton,Kan...

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...

Last week I wrote about all the forks in the road we face in living our lives and all the choices we have to make when we get to those forks, not knowing ahead of time which will be good choices and which will be bad ones. Finding a life partner is another fork in the road because we have so many to choose from...

Internet wags were quick to call on authorities to ban trucks following Thursday's terrorism in France, but the truck attack shows just how difficult it is to fight an enemy that will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who disagrees with their religion and are only too happy to kill themselves in the process...

Centuries ago, a new and brash religion appeared, antithetical to the pagan religion of Greece and Rome that was dominant at the time. Over a period of decades, the pagan religion and pagan culture was overwhelmed by this new religion that came to be known as the new Judeo-Christian religion and culture which spread through Europe and eventually came to our own United States through the early settlers who arrived here and began the early organization of the "body-politic" which has been handed down to us. ...

We would like to thank Barb Ostrum for the Mobile Pantry truckload of food on Saturday, June 25 and all her special helpers who were so helpful and friendly and the Christian Church for the use of their facility. It was so well planned and organized as Barb always takes care of her people providing us with food, keeping us warm with clothes from the Coat Closet, finding us furniture to make our homes nice, toys for our children from the Toy Box...

McCOOK, Neb. -- Southwest Nebraska Rodeo Queen 2015 Jenna Langer of Superior and Junior Queen Rebel Sjeklocha of Hayes Center will relinquish their titles to new royalty named after horsemanship competition, a style show and a live auction Saturday in McCook...

McCOOK, Neb. -- City leaders will coordinate a public hearing Monday evening to receive progress updates on a pair of local improvement projects. The projects include an investment of more than $450,000 in downtown McCook and more than $220,000 to pave the roadway into the city's industrial park...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Rapidly gaining popularity since their first store's opening in February of 2014, the Painted Ladies of McCook, Neb., have outgrown their former space at 410 East B Street and are now moving to the spacious, 7,000 square foot store at 319 Norris Ave. This is the store which was formerly occupied by Top Office Products...

WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund 81 Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects in 32 states. Nebraska has two projects funded totaling $310,000 with one for distance learning and another for telemedicine. ...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The Nebraska Department of Roads plans two major highway improvement projects out of McCook starting this fall. NDOR District 7 engineer Kurt Vosburg said that the 10.9-mile McCook-Indianola project on Highway 6&34 involves resurfacing, a new bridge over Coon Creek (at the west edge of Indianola, at mile marker 97.61) and a new quintuple box culvert in place of the bridge over River Canyon at mile marker 92.05...

Hitchcock County 4-H'er Achelle Brenning of Culbertson wheels in the game cabinet she created by recycling an unused office storage cube from her mother's office. Achelle put magnets in the bottoms of the chess and checker pieces so they won't slide or get lost, and she brushed chalkboard paint on two sides of the box on which to play "Hangman" and "Tic-Tac-Toe." There's storage space inside for board games and puzzles, she said. ...

MNB Senior Coy Terry fields a loose ball just out of the reach of Nick Fuchuck Thursday night as McCook beat Minden 6-4, 10-2 in its last home games of the season at the Jaycees Complex. The Seniors start the B6 Area Tournament as the No. 1 seed Friday. Broken Bow hosts the tournament, which also involves Hershland, O'Neill, Holdrege and Gothenburg besides McCook. Fans can order a T-shirt at b6seniorbaseball.itemorder.com...

Avis Joy Morell May 27, 1930 - July 14, 2016 McCOOK, Neb. -- Avis Joy Morell died Thursday, July 14, 2016, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 86. She was born May 27, 1930, in Benkelman, Neb., the daughter of the late James and Arvilla (Pate) Anderson. ...

Jordyn Lee Leisy Scott and Mary Leisy of McCook announce the birth of their daughter, Jordyn Lee Leisy, born July 6, 2016. She weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces and measured 21 inches long. She has a brother, Hayden Leisy, 4, and sister, Baylor Leisy, 2. Grandparents are Darrel and Wilda Leisy and Rick and Nancy Hendricks, all of Atkinson, Neb. Great-grandparents are Rita Muhm of Alliance, Neb., Marilyn Hendricks of Atkinson and Gene and Della Schwindt of Salina, Kan...

Seven-year-old Jozee Sheffield tells the Judge Brandon Nuttleman of Amherst, "This is Comanche," during Clover Kids bucket calf/stocker-feeder showmanship competition Friday morning at the Frontier County Fair in Stockville. Meanwhile, Alianah DelCarlo of Wellfleet used dish soap on Rachel, who got into some grease before the goat show in Stockville. ...