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Delton Dean Killman
(Obituary ~ 06/20/13)
Delton Dean Killman July 4, 1936 - June 17 2013 ALMENA, Kansas -- Delton Dean Killman, 80, died Monday (June 17, 2013), at Exempla Lutheran Hospice in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He was born July 4, 1936, to Emil and Eva Ryland Killman in Washing on County, Kansas. He attended Green Leaf High School in Green Leaf, Kansas...
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On the record
(Other Record ~ 06/20/13)
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...
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Looking for shade
(Local News ~ 06/20/13)
Longhorns and a herd of Angus cattle crowd into the shade of evergreens growing on a hillside south of Indianola, Nebraska. To reduce or prevent heat stress, livestock producers have to keep a close eye on their cattle in times of hot temperatures and high humidity...
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AMA's obesity stance reflects new realities
(Editorial ~ 06/20/13)
The move by the American Medical Association Tuesday to recognize obesity as a disease has touched off the usual debate over whether it's actually a disease or a character flaw. The same arguments have raged over a range of afflictions -- alcohol, illegal or prescription drug abuse, smoking. ...
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Secret summer experiment
(Column ~ 06/20/13)
We're trying something new this summer. My girls are given daily household responsibilities and then are paid at the end of the week for how much they completed. These are things that need done around the house that are not related to their rooms or personal items, but for the whole family. ...
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Not transparent
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/20/13)
Vladimir Lenin, the founder and architect of the Soviet communist state, said, "Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state." Lenin and the communists knew that once you control people's access to health care and medical treatment you control their lives...
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Leprosy
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/20/13)
While waiting in the doctor's office in Denver back in the 1960s, I saw a woman rushed into an examining room. I heard the nurse say to the person at the desk, "She has Hansen's disease." Later I looked up Hansen's disease in a medical encyclopedia. Hansen's disease is leprosy...
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Thanks, McCook
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/20/13)
On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff of the Nebraska Community Foundation, I would like to say thank you to the McCook Community Foundation Fund and other community members for your warm welcome at our quarterly board meeting on June 13 and 14...
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Water, tax issues dominate legislative session
(Local News ~ 06/20/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Nebraska legislators' recent adjournment from the 2013 session saw them passing an average number of bills, although it seemed like a heavier load than in recent years, according to Sen. Mark Christensen. Sen. Christensen said debate over the Governor's proposed tax code revisions was among the key issues during the session, one that included Sen. Christensen killing his own Work Ethic Camp bill and also falling short with his priority bill in support of surface irrigators...
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Night visitor
(Local News ~ 06/20/13)
This "stout-bodied Nessus sphinx moth" hangs from an umbrella plant in a McCook, Nebraska, home, having flown in through the open back door during a late Tuesday evening recently. According to moth identification expert Bill Oehlke, a Nessus sphinx (Amphion floridensis) "is sparsely distributed (probably more common than reported) throughout the eastern three-fourths of the United States and Canada from Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Maine south to southern Florida; and west to Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas.". ...
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Tiny dancers
(Local News ~ 06/20/13)
Budding artists bloom on the stage of Memorial Auditorium Saturday, part of Spotlight Studio's spring recital for dance students.
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Yummy yarrow
(Local News ~ 06/20/13)
This tiny baby grasshopper (less than a half inch in size) was enjoying lunch on a yarrow plant in Mary Pate's McCook garden. Pate used these settings: 1/60, 55mm, F/8.0, ISO 320. The McCook Daily Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. Readers can contribute to our daily weather page, subject to space and color availability, by emailing photos to editor2@ocsmccook.com or bringing them into the Gazette offices at West First and E Streets. ...
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