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MCC Faculty Association Officers for 2013-14
(Community News ~ 11/27/13)
McCook Community College has elected Faculty Association Officers for the 2013/2014 academic year. Mike Hendricks (seated) will serve as president; (standing, from left) Susi Curl, Vice President; Loretta Hauxwell, secretary, and Tyler Esch treasurer. ...
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Teaching a tradition for this family
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
Lorri Sughroue McCook Gazette McCOOK, Nebraska -- For the Ramsay family of McCook, teaching must be in their blood. Eric Ramsay is the latest, now student teaching science at McCook Junior High. He joins his sister, Lauren, who teaches elementary school in Shelton, Nebraska, along with both parents: Bill at McCook High School and Colleen, at Southwest Grade School in Indianola, Nebraska. There is also a grandfather on his dad's side, a grandmother on his mom's side, and an aunt as well...
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Victor Wayne Brown
(Obituary ~ 11/27/13)
Victor Wayne Brown June 3, 1961 - Nov. 25, 2013 GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska -- Victor Wayne Brown, age 52, formerly of Trenton, Nebraska, died at the Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings, Nebraska, on Nov. 25, 2013. He was born in McCook, Nebraska on June 3, 1961, to Charles and Verna (Hovey) Brown. He attended grade school in Trenton and later graduated from McCook High School in 1979...
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Jack Dean Bahl
(Obituary ~ 11/27/13)
Jack Dean Bahl NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska --Jack Dean Bahl, 75, of North Platte, died Nov. 21, 2013, at Gothenburg, Nebraska. Memorials services are 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, at Carpenter Memorial Chapel in North Platte. Cremation was chosen. Online condolences may be shared at www.carpentermemorial.com...
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On the record
(Other Record ~ 11/27/13)
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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Blume honored as Community Hospital's '2013 Caring Kind'
(Community News ~ 11/27/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska--Doris Blume, Community Hospital Patient Financial Counselor, was honored in October as Community Hospital's 2013 Caring Kind recipient during the Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) annual convention in La Vista. During the convention, Blume was a guest at the Caring Kind luncheon along with other recipients from across the state...
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Concentration
(Community News ~ 11/27/13)
Isaac Hegwood of Victory Christian Academy keeps his eye on the hoops, during practice at the YMCA.The homeschool basketball teams of junior and high school boys, as well as high school girls, hit the courts Tuesday for some practice. The teams include kids from the McCook and Culbertson area, as well as students from Victory Christian Academy. The first game is Dec. 7 in Lincoln, Nebraska...
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Reverse transfer provides credit where credit is due
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- In an effort to increase college completion rates and promote student persistence, Mid-Plains Community College is now offering a "Reverse Transfer" program that allows students to transfer credits accumulated at a four-year university back to MPCC, where they will count towards the two-year degree program requirements...
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Newly elected director attends November hospital board meeting
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
McCook, Nebraska--Newly elected Community Hospital board member, Todd Thieszen, was welcomed at the Nov. 20 hospital board meeting as a guest. His first meeting as an official board member is on Dec. 18. Also reelected to the board for their second, three-year terms were Connie Olsen and Mark Eiler. New officers for the Community Hospital board of directors will be elected at the December meeting...
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Hillcrest Nursing Home auditor: Monitoring cash flow critical
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Hillcrest Nursing Home Board of Trustees were told to keep an eye on cash flow and operations for the upcoming year, citing more than $3 million in long-term debt. Doug Kucera, CPA, of Schroeder and Schreiner PC accounting firm in Grand Island, told the board Tuesday at its regular meeting that "receivables are in bad shape" and that it's critical that it is monitored monthly...
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Demolition derby team on road to Amarillo for 'Turkey Bash'
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- You know that excited feeling you get when you drive your demo car to the derby. You've pounded and banged and wrenched ... your car's just right. Then that big red car pulls in. That big ... bad ... red ... car ... That's a Steinbeck-mobile. Oh, no ........
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Nursing home hikes room rates
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Hillcrest Board of Trustees voted unanimously to raise rates at Hillcrest Nursing home, citing the need to raise revenue and with current rates lower than other facilities. The $6 rate increase on rooms will begin Jan. 1 and include the elimination of charging for wheelchairs and the inclusion of charging for incontinence supplies. Personal care items such as combs, toothbrushes and other non-nursing supplies will be supplied by the facility...
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Waste and fraud robs taxpayers, state's most needy
(Editorial ~ 11/27/13)
Apply to be a legal guardian for a disabled person in Nebraska, and you'll have to sit through a long training session with one message: It's not your money, it's theirs. A Scottsbluff woman is in jail because she apparently didn't get the message. Judith Widener operated a Gering business called "Safe Haven," which acted as guardian for more than 600 Nebraskans, including four in Red Willow County and many others in Southwest Nebraska...
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Dunces, dunces
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/27/13)
There was great ballyhoo and shouts of joy as Pat Quinn, governor of Illinois, (last evening), signed the "marriage equivalent act" for his state, and for future Lesbian and Homosexual voters, and as the governor held the signed document in the air as a sign of conquest for all the Lesbians and Homo-sexuals, the "dunces" below began kissing each other on the mouth in order to make their point that this was a "sexual union," not a "civil union." Meanwhile the King of dunces continued to wave in the air his white signed document from his throne above, urging on the sexual abnormality of the dunces below, as the camera zoomed in on each "mouthed kiss.". ...
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Shopping for the astronomer on your list
(Local News ~ 11/27/13)
Well, it's close enough to Thanksgiving, I think we can safely start talking about Christmas. If you have a young astronomer, or even an old astronomer, on your Christmas list, the question arises, just what should you get them as a Christmas gift? Let's start with the young astronomer. ...
- Jurascals (Weekend Menu ~ 11/27/13)
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Dan Boon
(Obituary ~ 11/27/13)
BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Dan Boon, 51, died Sunday (Nov. 24, 2013), at the Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman. Survivors include his fiancé, Monica Peterson and children, Michael and Rebekah of Benkelman; son, Jeremy Boon of Sidney, Nebraska, daughter, Tasha Boon of Omaha, Nebraska; brother, Ralph and wife, Shary Boon of Max, Nebraska; sisters, Patricia and husband, Blaine Garrelts of Brady, Nebraska, Peggy Hodges of North Platte, Nebraska, Agnes and husband, Mac McFarlane of Berthoud, Colorado, Denise Hinton of Thorton, Colorado, and Susan Boon of Winsor, Colorado, and brother, Samuel and wife, Melanie Boon of Fairmont, Nebraska.. ...
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Valentine L. 'Val' Beneda
(Obituary ~ 11/27/13)
OBERLIN, Kansas -- Valentine L. "Val" Beneda, 90, died Wednesday (Nov. 27, 2013), at Decatur Health Systems in Oberlin. He was born July 8, 1923, in Kanona, Kansas, to Jerry Beneda and Bessie Janousek. He grew up in the Kanona area. He served in the Army Air Force in WWII...
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