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Nebraska souvenirs
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Dear Editor, My name is Breanne Hopp and I am a fifth grade student at West Ridge Elementary in Harlan, Iowa. Our class is studying geography and history of the United States. We would appreciate it if you sent us a postcard, souvenir or any other information about your state. I appreciate your time...
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New charges burden those who have least
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Have those of you who live in McCook taken time to read the letter from public works director Marty Conroy concerning changes in the city's utility policy? Even though there's a lot to digest, it's worth your time to wade through the five-page narrative, plus an accompanying safe water brochure...
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Public Health Month
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Dear Editor, Gov. Mike Johanns has signed a proclamation declaring April as Public Health Month. Public Health ... what is it? It's the parents of a small child who will never know the fear their ancestors faced in the last century when epidemics with names like whooping cough, polio, diphtheria and scarlet fever endangered their children's lives. ...
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Ready for a new body
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Dear Editor, The last three weeks have been spent battling the flu, first myself and then my wife caught it too. As we grow older and these bodies of ours wear out, you begin to look forward to and long for Heaven. When this life is over for the believer in Christ Jesus, the Bible says, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, which is far better." We will receive brand new, glorified bodies, which will never know sickness, pain or death...
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Buddy vs. abortion
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Dear Editor, There have been many articles in the paper recently about "Buddy" and the cruel treatment he received. I agree that it is not right to treat animals this way, but yet millions of innocent unborn babies have been treated even worse. They have been torn from their mother's wombs and killed in a must cruel and inhumane way through abortion...
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Spring cleaning takes a miracle
(Column ~ 03/27/02)
Finally. Regardless of evidence outside my window to the contrary, spring has sprung, the icy-grip of winter winds are once more a thing of the past, windows are flung open and light illuminates the corners long held in winter's gloomy cast. Okay, a gal can dream, can't she?...
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Hildegard Fichtner
(Obituary ~ 03/27/02)
CAMBRIDGE -- Hildegard Fichtner, 94, died Tuesday (March 26, 2002) at the Cambridge Manor. She was born July 1, 1907, to Gottlied and Olga (Peters) Fichtner south of Bartley. She attended school at District 69 south of Indianola. She farmed south of Bartley with her brother Lloyd. She retired from farming in 1994 and moved to the Parkside Manor in Cambridge. In August 2000 she moved to the Cambridge Manor...
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Jeffery Anderson
(Obituary ~ 03/27/02)
INDIANOLA -- Jeffery Anderson, 24, died Monday (March 25, 2002) at a Kearney hospital from injuries sustained in an accident west of McCook. He was born Jan. 15, 1978, to Neil and Jeana (Cornelius) Anderson in Perkins County. The family moved to Bertrand when he was young. ...
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Lydia Anna Marie (Bartels) Troester
(Obituary ~ 03/27/02)
KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Lydia Anna Marie (Bartels) Troester, 86, passed away peacefully on Friday (March 22, 2002) at Hope Adult Family Home in Kirkland, Wash. She was born Sept. 26, 1915, to William and Agnus Bartels, at Campbell in the family farm home. She was baptized and confirmed, and on June 1, 1933, was united in marriage to Walter Martin Troester at Trinity Lutheran Church...
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