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Patrons search for solutions
(Local News ~ 04/01/03)
CULBERTSON -- The future of another rural school district is up the air. This time, the Unified District of Hitchcock County, comprising Culbertson, Stratton and Trenton, must decide how to exist financially past this next school year. The Culbertson School Board, along with two members who also serve on the Hitchcock Unified School Board, hosted a town meeting Monday night to discuss specifically Culbertson's ideas on changes to the district...
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Bush Nobel Prize
(Column ~ 04/01/03)
Dear Editor, Very recently I have heard several persons say President Bush is goofy. Others have stated he is feeble-minded. How could anyone say this about a man who is rapidly bringing peace, freedom and democracy to the world? There are insane politicians in foreign countries, and George Bush is putting an end to these evil empires by destroying them. Clearly Bush should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
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Public Health event planned
(Column ~ 04/01/03)
Dear Editor, April has been declared Nebraska Public Health Month. Public Health … what is it? Public Health is the prevention of epidemics and the spread of disease through immunization programs. It's protection from environmental hazards, injury prevention, promotion of good health behaviors, disaster response and assurance of quality and accessible health services. ...
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Work Ethic Camp drive must continue
(Column ~ 04/01/03)
It's too early to relax, but supporters of the Work Ethic Camp apparently have achieved a preliminary victory in the battle to keep the McCook facility open. The Associated Press reported Monday that three members of the Legislature's Appropriations Committee expected funding for the Work Ethic Camp to be returned to the final budget plan...
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Norris Essay Contest winners to be announced
(Local News ~ 04/01/03)
Some 43 essays have been entered in the George W. Norris Foundation annual essay contest, according to Flora Lundberg of the foundation. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the George W. Norris Foundation, set for noon at D's Place in McCook on Saturday...
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Benefit lunch, fund-raiser set
(Local News ~ 04/01/03)
A benefit event for Dorene and Preston Hueftle will be Sunday at the Red Willow County Community Building. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a menu of baked potato with toppings, salad, dessert and a drink. There will also be items that will be raffled off...
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'It's OK to Ask4Help'
(Local News ~ 04/01/03)
Don't speak it. Don't think it. Don't see it. That way, maybe, just maybe, we can escape its reality from touching our lives. It is but a single word. Oh, but what a word. A powerful and heartbreaking word that names our deepest fear. A fear that does not need to be realized, if we will but dare to speak the word and, in speaking it, guard against it becoming a reality in our lives...
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Birds and watchers flock to Platte Valley
(Local News ~ 04/01/03)
GIBBON (AP) -- The morning sun illuminates the Platte River, revealing thousands of Sandhill cranes crowded on sandbars. The laugh-like calls of the tall, thin birds grow louder as more awaken. Some wade into the shallow water. Others dance, hopping with their long greyish-brown wings spread wide and their red-capped heads bobbing...
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Dolores Theobald Mohler
(Obituary ~ 04/01/03)
Dolores Theobald Mohler passed away peacefully at her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., the morning of Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at the age of 91. She had been living in Colorado Springs since the late spring of 2000. Dolores was born in Yuma, Colo., on Sept. ...
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John D. Shirley
(Obituary ~ 04/01/03)
OBERLIN -- John D. Shirley, 73, died Monday (March 31, 2003) at his home in Oberlin. He was born June 24, 1929, in Frontier County, to Walter Edward and Marie (Waggoner) Shirley. He was raised in McCook and attended McCook Schools. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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Mary Ann Christner
(Obituary ~ 04/01/03)
Mary Ann Christner, 69, died Thursday (March 27, 2003) at her home in McCook. She was born Jan. 26, 1935, at Oxford, to Cleatus Andrew and Annette (Swanson) Wasson. She graduated from Oxford High School and attended Hastings College. On Nov. 8, 1953, she married Kenneth D. Christner. To this union three children were born. She was employed for many years in public relations with the Denver Seminary...
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