Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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After two tough losses to begin the season, the Banner County Wildcats walked away with their first win over the Potter-Dix Coyotes on Friday, Sept. 9. "The game was a good battle, both teams played. In the end, I thought we made enough plays to come out ahead," head coach Charles Jones said. "It was good for our team to be in a situation to win a game, it has been a long time and I thought our kids handled that well. We still need to work on things on defense to improve on that side of the ball...
Bouncing back from two tough weeks of opening play, the Potter-Dix football team put up a fight against neighboring Banner County in league play. Athletes have been working on pursuit and tackling fundamentals in practice this season, according to head coach Dale Frerichs. “Offensive execution was much better and defense had moments that looked good too,” Frerichs said. “Practice and having a game under our belts certainly helped. There is only one way to get experience and that is to play the games.” Potter, which has just 10 players on its ro...
Runners converged on Four Winds Golf Course on Friday, Sept. 9 for the Western Trails Conference cross country meet. Teams competing at the Kimball site were Banner County, Bayard, Bridgeport, Hemingford, Kimball, Minatare, Mitchell and Morrill as well as Wyoming teams, Cheyenne South, Pine Bluffs and Torrington. Junior High runners that topped the boys' division were Ashlyn Martin of Mitchell, who ran 3 kilometers in 9:46.00 followed by Daemon Avilez of Bayard in 10:08.00 and Mitchell's Caden...
The Lady Longhorn Volleyball team's struggle with consistency cost them two more wins when they traveled to Potter for the Sept. 8 triangular with Mitchell and Potter-Dix, in just two sets each. "Our opponents were conference teams so we knew they were going to be tough. For us right now our biggest challenge is becoming consistent in our play," head coach Jeri Ferguson said. In the first competition, against Mitchell, the Horns lost the first set 19-25 and followed with a disappointing 15-25...
Starting off with a bit of golf today, be sure and call the Pro Shop at the Four Winds before heading out as they have been sanding and plugging the greens and you might find limited holes in use. Four Winds Pro Chad Wise said there will be open golf this weekend for certain. -----------------------------Thanks to some back problems and other health issues I haven’t caught any Kimball High sports events yet but I think I am on the mend now and actually got down to Lincoln this past weekend for the Nebraska-Wyoming football game. I like to t...
The Kimball Ag Society will once again host a Demolition Derby, its largest fundraiser, at the Kimball Fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 24 beginning at 3 p.m., with a beer garden opening at 1 p.m. Last year there were 25 participants, 15 the year prior and in 2013 there were 50, according to event co-organizer Doug Lukassen. “They say that Demo Derbies are coming back,” Lukassen said. “I am expecting around 30 cars.” Preregistration is not required, but Lukassen added that it helps if drivers call in advance so organizers are prepared. “We wil...
9 will be the inaugural year for the Kimball Farmer’s Day Mud Volleyball tournament, on Sunday, Sept. 25 at the Kimball County Fairgrounds. This year is “experimental” according to event coordinator Regan Hinton, who hopes for at least twenty teams. Depending on the amount of interest, coordinators may include additional teams, however, just two courts will be made available for the tournament. Mud pits will be dug several inches into the fairgrounds arena. Currently, Hinton is in the process of finding volleyballs and figuring out how t...
Announcing the 2016 Miss Potter Days queen – Miss Trinity Langley. The Potter Beta Sigma Phi sorority named Trinity Miss Potter Days 2016, following a count of ballots from the community. Langley was crowned by her predecessor, Brooke Glass, on Thursday, Sept. 1 at the Potter American Legion post. She, along with attendants Audrey Juelfs and Sheighlyn Spaulding, represented there for the first time during the 2016 Potter Days festivities. These young women will be called on to represent P...
The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world, marijuana was sold in pharmacies and doctors prescribed heroin, women were not yet guaranteed the right to vote and the population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30 the year that Maxine James was born – 1916. This Saturday, Sept. 10, Maxine joins a select group of Kimball citizens, the centenarians, as she celebrates her 100th birthday. The public is invited to join Maxine's family in celebrating this incredible milestone at the Eagles from 2 t...
Cowboy isn't just your average calf. From the very beginning, he was destined for great things. "I was cow sitting for a friend of mine while he went on vacation," said Cowboy's owner Kurt Brower of Kimball, Neb. "During this time there was a calf that had been abandoned by his mother, who also was being picked on by other cattle in the herd. He was just born in January, so he needed to be bottle fed to survive, so I started spending quite a bit of time getting to know him." It didn't take long...
5 Kimball High School graduate Brent Bussinger has a lot to talk about since leaving Kimball just four years ago but he really doesn't have a lot of time to chit chat. "Medical school is already crazy, as they have a mountain of information piled onto us," Bussinger said. "We were always told that medical school is like drinking out of an open fire hydrant and I can honestly say that the analogy is not far off." Bussinger attended Chadron State College following high school graduation, as...
The community of Potter celebrated the 85th Annual Potter Days event last weekend - "It's All About the Bling" in the close knit and proud village. The event began on Friday with games, such as "hungry hippo" and the GlowRun, which doubled in attendance from previous years, according to event volunteer, Drew Enevoldsen. Friday evening ended with a large display of fireworks to add to the "bling" of the weekend's events, and the fireworks display was "off the hook," according to Enevoldsen. "We h...
First to score, the Longhorns battled hard throughout the Homecoming game on Friday, Sept. 2, to ultimately fall to the Gordon-Rushville Mustangs, 52-26. "The start of the game went well for us, and hopefully we can continue to build on that start," had coach Nick Kuxhausen said. "We need to work on continuing to play for four full quarters." Sophomore Izaac Reuter showed off his skill under center as the starting quarterback for the Longhorns. Reuter completed five of 10 pass attempts for a...
Banner County head coach Charles Jones will continue focusing on fundamentals in practice following the Wildcats 91-13 loss against the Arthur County Wolves. "We faced a very good Arthur team and we had trouble with their speed on both sides of the ball," Jones said. "We are getting to the right places for the most part we just have to finish plays." The young Banner County team will work on finishing plays during practices as well, according to Jones, and he is already seeing improvement...
The Wildcat Volleyball team opened their season at the Minatare Triangular on Thursday, Sept. 1 with the Minatare Indians and the Creek Valley Storm. The Wildcats suffered two close losses at the tournament, with a 2-0 loss first to their hosts followed by a 2-0 loss to Creek Valley. "I wouldn't say that the teams we've played so far have been especially tough, but it is also harder to tell as everyone has the first game jitters. The unpredictability at the beginning of a season always throws...
The One Person Scramble held at the Four Winds Golf Course this past Saturday, attracted 24 golfers who were divided into two flights. No surprise that Ty Garrett emerged the champion, winning the 1st flight with his handicap score of 57.6. Gene Golding finished runner up with 58.6 and Dustin Bowron 3rd with 59.4. Each golfer was allowed to play two balls, on each shot, from the tee box until the ball was holed thus giving each golfer a mulligan on every shot! Each golfer was also given 60% of their handicap. Don Trofholz won the 2nd flight...
The Kimball cross country runners started their season on Friday, Sept. 2 with a 5K run for high school athletes and a 3K for junior high runners. "For our first meet out we felt that all of our athletes ran really well. It is always good to get the first meet out of the way and it allows the runners to see where they are at and what we need to focus on more in practice," head coach Tiffany Johnson said. "The first meet also sets that bar for them in trying to improve their time each week. We...
Both Banner County cross country runners have set goals for their season and coach Kari Gifford said that both Josh Boston and Courtney Knisley met those goals for their first meet of the year. “Our runners did a great job on Friday at the Gering XC meet. The weather was nice, with a little cloud cover which kept it from getting too hot,” Gifford said. “Both Courtney and Josh met their goal for the meet, running faster than their times on this course last year. There are four junior high runners who were also pleased with their times, runni...
The fate of the Kimball Event Center and the Kimball Fitness Center was discussed during the last budget workshop on Aug. 25 along with the proposed budgets for each of the City of Kimball departments. According to expense worksheets provided by the City of Kimball, the Kimball Event Center totaled $28,012.02 in revenue from Oct. 1, 2015 through Jan. 15, 2016. Expenses for the department totaled $40,793.61 for a total deficit of $12,781.59 – in just over three months. The Fitness Center, however, brought in $7,087.53 and incurred just $...
Sometimes you just need a nudge. Kevin Moeser, who just celebrated one year as an EMT, would not be where he is today if he had not received that nudge from Clean Harbors co-workers Brad Reader and Kevin Sherman, who is also an EMT. In addition to celebrating his first anniversary, Moeser has completed the first two levels in his leadership academy training and will attend levels three and four in November. "In each level there are certain protocols you can do," he explained. "This will add...
In the final budget workshop prior to setting the 2016-17 budget, the Kimball City Council balanced five departments' budgets without planned shortfalls, leaving those departments with little wiggle room. Often a budget will appear to be made specifically to go into the negative, but, council members have explained in the past that if money is needed for something the expenditure must already be in the expense budget. The trash department worksheet shows a total revenue of $188,800 with no tax...
A new doctor specializing in pain management is coming to Kimball. Dr. Timo Quickert, MD, is an interventional radiologist and pain management specialist from Johnstown, Colo. Dr. Quickert will be seeing patients in the new Kimball Health Pain Clinic located at Kimball Health Services, which opened on Aug. 24. “Dr. Broomfield (medical director at Kimball Health Services) and I first started considering a non-narcotic pain clinic over a year ago,” Kimball Health Services CEO Ken Hunter said. “We knew the government was going to put out new t...
After searching high and low for months for “pink camo” seat covers, my mom had all but given up. She searched at all of the Big Box stores; she hunted at the name-brand outdoor store, she even had me search online at every outlet imaginable. In the (almost) end, it became clear that unless she wanted to spend $300+ for custom made seat covers, she was just not going to find what she wanted. Mom has never been one to give up easily (she is as stubborn as the day is long), and I could tell many stories of her determination (read stubborn). In...
Since the beginning of the 2012-13 school year, students at Kimball Jr. Sr. High School have had an alternative solution for graduation. VALTS, the Valley Alternative Learning Transitioning School, located at the Harms Center in Scottsbluff, is that alternative. “A traditional school setting is not always the best learning environment for all students and VALTS caters to those students. It helps students that might be at risk to drop out and/or not obtain graduation requirements and keeps them on track towards obtaining a high school d...
The Kimball Longhorns traveled to North Platte on Thursday, Aug. 25 for their season opener against the Centura Centurions of Cairo, in a non-conference game and brought home a hard fought 14-6 loss. Head coach Nick Kuxhausen said that among the few offensive positives was a long pass from Jaden Withrow to Kyle Spicer in the third quarter for the first touchdown of the game. The second note-worthy play was in the final quarter when the Horns made their last offensive drive of the game, which ended up being the most productive in terms of...