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Council cuts red tape on loans of items
(Local News ~ 03/22/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The McCook City Council directed city staff to handle the loaning of eight sets of bleachers to the Red Willow County Fair Board, for a March 26 bull riding event, as an administrative item in the future. Due to a dispute reportedly between several entities and the previous city manager, city staff had previously been given direction that the loaning of the bleachers, which the city does regularly to assist the fair board with events such as the Red Willow County Fair, was to be handled as a formal action item that must be approved during a regularly scheduled city council meeting.. ...
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Community Hospital's old 'pods' coming down
(Local News ~ 03/22/11)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- The 37-year-old patient "pods" of Community Hospital in McCook will start coming down next week, all the asbestos removed and all their connections to the main hospital severed. Jim Ulrich, hospital president and CEO, told members of the hospital board of directors at their monthly meeting March 16 that the separation between the pods and the main hospital will be created this week, and that the complete "detachment" of the pods and the demolition of the pod walls will start Monday.. ...
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Owl rescue
(Local News ~ 03/22/11)
Lorie Prestes, director of the McCook, Nebraska, Humane Society animal shelter and licensed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to perform raptor rescues, plucks an injured young adult screech owl from a tree in Bob and Cathy Thayer's backyard Monday afternoon. ...
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Medications major cause of calls to Regional Poison Center
(Editorial ~ 03/22/11)
Medication is a modern miracle, but most of us don't really understand how drugs work -- or more importantly, how different types of drugs may work together. Darcey Hanson of the Red Willow County Health Department pointed out that medications account for more than half of the calls to the Nebraska Regional Poison Center in Omaha, and in 2010, the NRPC received more than 40,000 calls...
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John Butler Howlett
(Obituary ~ 03/22/11)
March 20, 1926-March 12, 2011 OTIS, Colorado -- John Butler Howlett was born in Otis, Colorado, on March 20, 1926. A devoted father of four and a loving, supportive husband, John Butler Howlett passed away March 12, 2011, in Yuma, Colorado. John married Reavis Lavina Smith Nov. ...
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Judith Lynn Green
(Obituary ~ 03/22/11)
Feb. 27, 1940-Jan. 26, 2011 DANBURY, Nebraska -- Judith Lynn Green, of Kansas City, Missouri and formerly of Danbury, died Jan. 26, 2011, in Independence, Missouri of natural causes. She was born Feb. 27, 1940, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Claude and Jayne Anderson...
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Oral L. May Kniep
(Obituary ~ 03/22/11)
June 12, 1916-March 21, 2011 BEAVER CITY, Nebraska -- Oral L. Kniep, 94, died Monday (March 21, 2011), at the Beaver City Manor. She was born June 12, 1916, at Beaver City, to Bert and Minnie (Wolfe) Shellenbarger. She was a life long resident of Furnas County, Nebraska and attended schools in Beaver City...
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Charlotte Ida Jeffres
(Obituary ~ 03/22/11)
May 26, 1936-March 19, 2011 ARAPAHOE, Nebraska -- Charlotte Ida Jeffres, 74, of Upland, Nebraska died Saturday (March 19, 2011), at Good Samaritan Hospital, in Kearney, Nebraska. She was born May 26, 1936 at Holbrook, Nebraska to Walter and Henrietta (Wendland) Warner. She attended Holbrook High School and graduated with the Class of 1954...
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Hotze birthday
(Birthdays ~ 03/22/11)
Helen Hotze of McCook will celebrate her 88th birthday at Live Care Center in Aurora, Colorado where she is recovering from a broken femur. Cards will reach her at: Helen Hotze, Room 216, Life Care Center of Aurora, 14101 East Evans Ave., Aurora, CO 80014...
- Company releases data showing reduction in contamination (Local News ~ 03/22/11)
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Another take on current events
(Column ~ 03/22/11)
During my conversation with the Muslim exchange student a fortnight ago I asked why the Muslim countries in the Mideast seemed to hate Israel. His response was that the Israelis deprived the Palestinians of their land and that they treated the Palestinian people so badly. ...
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