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Rodeo, region has worthy new representative
(Column ~ 01/07/02)
Most of the people at Lori Bortner's coronation celebration as Miss Rodeo Nebraska 2002 already knew what Miss Bortner brought to her new job. For those of us who didn't, Saturday night's event was a refreshing, enlightening experience. The sport of rodeo, and Southwest Nebraska, couldn't have a better ambassador...
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Cecil F. Stacey
(Obituary ~ 01/07/02)
Cecil F. Stacey SELDEN -- Cecil F. Stacey, 79, died Friday (Jan. 4, 2002) at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colo. He was born on Sept. 2, 1922, in Mingo, Kan., to Tom and Anna (Reel) Stacey. He was raised in Mingo and Jennings and then moved to Selden in 1931. He attended school at Selden...
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Francis Brown Johnson
(Obituary ~ 01/07/02)
Francis Brown Johnson COLUMBUS -- Francis Brown Johnson, 88, died Saturday (Jan. 5, 2002) at the Genoa Community Hospital Long Term Care Center. He was born Nov. 15, 1913, in Decatur County, Kan., to Adolph and Lizzie (Brown) Johnson. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1930...
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Bessie Knight Wade
(Obituary ~ 01/07/02)
Bessie Knight Wade CAMBRIDGE -- Bessie Knight Wade, 83, died Saturday (Jan. 5, 2002) at the Sutherland Care Center in Sutherland. She was born July 17, 1919, at Danbury, to Johnnie and Susie (Seaman) Thomas. She grew up in the Danbury and Lebanon communities and graduated from Lebanon High School in 1935...
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Roland P. 'Bus' Johnson
(Obituary ~ 01/07/02)
Roland P. 'Bus' Johnson ARAPAHOE -- Roland P. "Bus" Johnson, 91, died Saturday (Jan. 5, 2002) at his home in Arapahoe. He was born Jan. 22, 1910, at Arapahoe to John A. and Alice (Story) Johnson. He grew up on the family farm southwest of Arapahoe and attended country school in District No. 55. After school he moved to Longmont, Colo...
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Learning to bloom where you are planted.
(Column ~ 01/07/02)
"Bloom where you are planted". This is an old proverb that some people take as their motto. When that happens, wonderful things can take place for the individual, his employer and his community. Such was the case for Jay Wade. In 1926 the farmers around Plainview where I grew up, faced a dilemma. ...
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A letter from New York
(Column ~ 01/07/02)
Dear Editor, I wanted to write a letter to the people of McCook to let them know that a descendant of some of their own, living in New York in what used to be the shadow of the World Trade Center, was alive. So I logged on to the Web site of the McCook Daily Gazette and I read an editorial urging us, as we return to "normalcy," not to forget...
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Dairy doing well now
(Column ~ 01/07/02)
Dear Editor, We became acquainted with Neal, Chris and Clinton Sjoquist while they were living in McCook while they attempted to establish a dairy farm between Culbertson and Trenton in Hitchcock County. For those who knew them and wondered what happened to them, I would like to share the following from a Christmas letter we recently received from them...
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Child abuse worse
(Column ~ 01/07/02)
I think it is terrible when people abuse animals. I think when it's known who is guilty of animal abuse, they should be made to pay a fine -- which should go to the animal shelter -- and spend some time in jail. What is so much worse is the abuse of children. ...
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Audra E. Steinmetz
(Obituary ~ 01/07/02)
Audra E. Steinmetz OBERLIN -- Audra E. Steinmetz, 89, died Sunday (Jan. 6, 2002) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born July 12, 1912, in Sherman Township, Decatur County, to Thomas J. and Betsey Jane (Plumb) Dimmitt. She was raised on a farm in Sherman Township and attended Sherman School. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1931...
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