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Clarke to testify for Work Ethic Camp
(Local News ~ 02/28/03)
LINCOLN -- Despite proposing that the Work Ethic Camp in McCook be closed, the director of the Nebraska Department of Corrections plans to speak in favor of the facility. "The state's prisons are at 132 percent of capacity and we are short-handed for staff members," Harold Clarke, director of the prison system, told the Gazette today. "Program cuts were the only way we could see to meet the budget modification request," he said...
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Check zoning regs
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
Dear Editor: Many property owners request a building permit that I am not able to issue. When the zoning ordinance was adopted in 1981 and revised in 1993, many residential properties were zoned for business and industrial uses. Residential use is not a permitted use or a special exception use in either of these zones...
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Need to take care of ourselves
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
Dear Editor: I was pleased to read my thoughts put into print (Gloria Masoner's Glory Daze Column, Where will we get the food?,) about all the money our government gives to the other countries, while our states and schools are struggling to educate the next generations, and take care of ourselves...
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Cry for peace
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
Dear Editor: As you watched the news last night, you saw our helicopters unloading troops in Iraq's western desert. Our troops are setting up intelligence gathering equipment and searching for hidden weapons of mass destruction. The war has begun. Now turn in your Bible to Jeremiah chapter 50 and read verses 22-46. ...
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Clarifications
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
Dear Editor: After a story written on page three of Wednesday's edition of the McCook Daily Gazette and a later correction in Thursday's edition, I felt that some clarifications needed to be made. I was unaware of the story written and was never contacted to correct any information. ...
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A loud, strong community voice is needed in Lincoln
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
After years of discussion, the Nebraska Legislature finally came up with an innovative approach to the rehabilitation of young, non-violent criminal offenders. Called the "Work Ethic Camp," the facility opened on the northwest edge of McCook in April of 2001. ...
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Habitat ready to overcome funding, other obstacles
(Local News ~ 02/28/03)
The Southwest Nebraska Habitat for Humanity affiliate has made strides in pulling together the myriad details of constructing a Habitat for Humanity home. However, some obstacles remain. "We discovered, both at the Heritage Days booth and at the 2x4 sale at Wal-Mart, that many people in the community don't know what Habitat does," said board member Willard Roedel. ...
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School OKs new study of buildings
(Local News ~ 02/28/03)
The McCook Public Schools board of education agreed during a special meeting Thursday to spend $10,000 for a study of the district's three elementary buildings. This action, however, does not change the board's previous decisions to declare West Ward salvage and move sixth graders to the junior high and ninth graders to the high school...
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Smallpox plan depends on plentiful suppply of volunteers
(Local News ~ 02/28/03)
The smallpox vaccine is pre-positioned, ready to be delivered where it is needed most in the event a case of the disease is detected. Security and medical staff are ready to go. What is still needed in Red Willow County's emergency response is non-medical volunteers -- many of them...
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Clarence H. Heyen
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
GOODLAND, Kan. -- Clarence H. Heyen, 91, died Tuesday (Feb. 25, 2003) at the Good Samaritan Center in Goodland, Kan. He was born Aug. 20, 19911, to Fritz and Minnie (Somfleth) Heyen in Bedford, Kan. He grew up in the Oakley, Kan., and Stafford, Kan., area and attended school in Stafford...
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Lena Jean Vlasin
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
WAUNETA -- Lena Jean Vlasin, 80, died Sunday (Feb. 23, 2003) at the home of her daughter in Wauneta. She was born Nov. 5, 1922, in Imperial, to Henry J. and Dessie Gay (Smith) Felt. She attended school in Champion and was one of the first students to be enrolled in the Alpha Rural High School in Champion...
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John J. Pettera
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
LUDELL -- John J. Pettera, 81, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 2003) at his home in Ludell. He was born Oct. 22, 1921, in Herndon, to Amelia (Vap) and Joseph Pettera. As a boy, he attended country school, St. Mary's School and graduated from Herndon High School. He served in the U.S. Army from 1942-43, and was honorably discharged...
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Ann M. Deaver
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
CAMBRIDGE -- Ann M. Deaver, 41, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 2003) at Bryan LGH East Medical Center in Lincoln. She was born Nov. 7, 1961, in Grand Island, to Gail and Norma (Heesch) Wert. She graduated from Aurora High School in 1979. She attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln on a three-year program majoring in Life Sciences, transferring to the University of Nebraska Medical College in Omaha to finish a two-year program, receiving a degree in Medical Technology...
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LaVerne Louise Tirrill
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
LaVerne Louise Tirrill, 78, died Thursday (February 27, 2003) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born Oct. 25, 1924, at McCook to Darrell F. and Lila F. (Huet) Lytle. She graduated from McCook High School in 1943. On March 2, 1946, she married Lester M. Tirrill at McCook. To this union three children were born. She was employed with the Agricultural Soil Conservation Services Office for 23 years...
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Cleo Mae (Macy) Childers
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
Cleo Mae (Macy) Childers, 81, died Wednesday (Feb. 26, 2003) at Community Hospital of McCook after a lengthy battle with emphysema. Cleo was born April 24, 1921, on a farm in Nebraska near Cedar Bluffs, Kan., to Ezra Carl and Bessie Bell (Austin) Macy...
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Life can be puzzling
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
For those who haven't noticed, the weather outside has been frightful...frightfully cold. This means sending children outside to play consists of 32-minutes of bundling up in clothes only to see them return six minutes later, complaining that they're cold already. ...
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Gazette plans All-Area basketball, wrestling teams
(Column ~ 02/28/03)
I would like to bring something to the attention of McCook Daily Gazette area wrestling and basketball coaches. The Gazette sports department plans to publish its Gazetteland All-Area Boys and Girls Basketball Teams about two weeks after all of our teams are finished competing in state tournament play...
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Edna Lois Pierce
(Obituary ~ 02/28/03)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Edna Lois Pierce, 81, died Tuesday (Feb. 25, 2003) in Albuquerque, N.M. She was born Jan. 25, 1922, at Stratton, to Gustaf and Hazel (Wollam) Miller and grew up on her family's farm south of Stratton. On July 19, 1942, she married Dwight E. ...
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