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Pool committee seeks answers to basic questions
(Column ~ 01/29/02)
What is a swimming pool worth? It's a difficult question, and answers may be hard to define, let alone agree upon. But that's what a committee of 19 volunteers is setting out to do. In a way, the committee may have an easier task than another committee, set up to help the city of McCook find a solution to its drinking water problem. Fewer people have volunteered for that group, and the difficulty of the task, no doubt, is a factor...
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Thankful for true friendship
(Column ~ 01/29/02)
If there's anything better in life than friendship, I don't know what it is. Not the kind of friendship that waves hello on the street and entertains casual conversations about the weather, or how the kids are doing. Not the kind that qualifies as mere acquaintance, no matter how pleasant or amiable it might be. ...
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Jan F. MacBee
(Obituary ~ 01/29/02)
Jan. F. McBee NORTH PLATTE -- Jan. F. McBee, 58, died Sunday (Jan. 27, 2002) at Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte. She was born on Jan. 6, 1944, in Trenton to DeWayne and Lola (Hutchinson) Dodge. She grew up in Trenton and graduated from Trenton High School in 1962...
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Jessie M. Wilson-Hecht
(Obituary ~ 01/29/02)
Jessie M. Wilson-Hecht CURTIS -- Jessie May Wilson-Hecht, 99, died Sunday (Jan. 27, 2002) at the Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis. She was born Mar. 9, 1902, near Stromsburg to Allison Tecumseh and Emma (Burke) Wilson. The family lived in Arcadia, where she attended school through the 11th grade. ...
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Doris E. (Newman) Chatfield
(Obituary ~ 01/29/02)
Doris E. (Newman) Chatfield OMAHA -- Doris E. (Newman) Chatfield, 87, died Friday (Jan. 25, 2002) in Winnebago, Wis. She was born Jan. 11, 1915, to Jefferson J. and Beulah H. (Reed) Newman on the last homestead in Perkins County. She graduated from Palisade High School in 1932. She graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1944 and was a member of the UNL Marching Band. She taught school in Omaha, Grant, Palisade, and Ogden, Utah...
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