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Grilling with grains
(Weekend Menu ~ 05/22/15)
If your outdoor grilling menu calls for easy, gluten-free dishes to accompany your favorite flame-kissed foods, sorghum may be your secret to success. Sorghum, an ancient cereal grain, is a highly versatile ingredient that can be used in a wide range of preparations, such as leavened and unleavened breads, fermented and unfermented beverages, and a host of flour-based foods such as pizza dough, pastas and cereals. ...
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Dillan anniversary
(Anniversary ~ 05/22/15)
50th anniversary The family of Harlan (Pete) and Paulette Dillan of Lamar, Nebraska, is requesting a card shower in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary June 2. They both grew up in the Wilsonville, Nebraska, area, as well as parts of Northern Kansas. ...
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Hlavinka birthday
(Birthdays ~ 05/22/15)
90th birthday The family of Mary Hlavinka is requesting a card shower in honor of her 90th birthday June 5. In the picture above, she is shown with the 6 pound walleye she caught when she was 60 years old, on July 3, 1986, at Enders Reservoir. Her family includes children, David, Gerald and Lynda, seven grandchildren and eight great- grandchilden. Cards of congratulations will reach her at Marston Manor on Marston Lake, 4800 Old South Wadsworth Blvd., No. 119, Littleton, CO 80123...
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Brown anniverary
(Anniversary ~ 05/22/15)
25th anniversary The family of Ralph and Linda Brown of Maywood, Nebraska, is requesting a card shower in honor of the couple's 25th wedding anniversary on May 26. Their family includes children, Kendel and Courtney, Dillon and Corissa. Cards of congratulations will reach them at 74486 Ave 375, Maywood, NE 69038...
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Vontz birth
(Births ~ 05/22/15)
Ryker Lee Vontz Chris and Ashley Vontz of McCook announce the birth of their son, Ryker Lee Vontz, born April 16, 2015, at Community Hospital in McCook. He weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and measured 21 inches long. He has one brother, Boone, 18 months. Grandparents are Kevin and Kathy Spicka of Friend, Nebraska and Tom and Mary Vontz of McCook...
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Those that did not make it home from World War II
(Column ~ 05/22/15)
Susan Doak Southwest Nebraska Genealogy Society The flower arrangements are finished as of last night for the graves I decorate each year. Five of the fifteen are service men or women, two from World War II. There is something incredibly stirring about going up to the cemetery when the flags are waving over each service member's grave. ...
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Texas under martial law
(Column ~ 05/22/15)
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. There has been a paranoid fringe in this country for decades; crazies who believe the government is going to swoop down in black helicopters and confiscate everybody's guns, suspend Constitutional rights and place the country under martial law. Even though this unfounded fear has been around for a long time, it reached a crescendo shortly after we elected Barack Obama as President seven years ago and has not died down since...
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Vets deserve more than just our gratitude
(Local News ~ 05/22/15)
From the Civil War veterans from both sides buried in our cemeteries, to the U.S. Cavalry that once patrolled wagon train routes through our area, Memorial Auditorium built to honor veterans of World War I, the McCook Army Air Base boom during World War II to the Armed Forces Reserve Center on our airport, the military has always been an important factor in Southwest Nebraska...
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'Boyer Memorial' pays $35K over two days of competition
(Community Sports ~ 05/22/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- "Boyer Memorial" organizer Garrett Nokes of rural McCook, Nebraska, was thoroughly impressed with the talent of ropers at the roping he sponsors every year to honor his late uncle, Wayne Boyer. Nokes said, following the two-day roping May 16 and 17, that last year they started charging a $500 entry fee. He said with added money of about $7,000 "from our wonderful sponsors, we attract and get ropers to compete here to win big money."...
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Three new members for Review Committee
(Local News ~ 05/22/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- The Citizens Advisory Review Committee is adding three members in the coming weeks. Former Mayor Dennis Berry was appointed to fill a vacancy on the committee left by the departure of former-Mayor Flora Lundberg and it was announced Monday he had asked to be replaced...
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Board members blame erosion on NRDs' project
(Local News ~ 05/22/15)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Two directors of the Middle Republican Natural Resources District addressed recent erosion problems along the Medicine Creek during the monthly meeting of the directors of the Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement Project (NCORPE project) in McCook, Nebraska, Wednesday morning...
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Aces landing
(Local News ~ 05/22/15)
Two World War II fighter aces are helped from a private jet on their way back to California after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington on Wednesday. Dean S. "Diz" Laird, left, 94, is the only Navy ace to down both German and Japanese aircraft, sharing credit for two German planes while patrolling off Norway in 1943 and destroying four Japanese planes between 1944 and 1945. ...
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On the Record
(Other Record ~ 05/22/15)
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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