Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Celebrating the seventh year of the Potter CarBowl, organizer Drew Enevoldsen estimated that last weekend's event attracted 1,500 to 2,000 people. The 144 entries entered in the car show, 37 craft show tents, eight BBQ teams and 18 duckpin bowling teams were among the participants and activities. According to the BBQ organizers, around 200 people were expected – and that goal was reached in the first 30 minutes. Although there was plenty of food, it was estimated that more than 300 people t...
What activity promotes good mental health, coordination, cross-body motion, listening skills, being present in the moment, logging 3.2 miles an evening, and all the while smiling and have a great time? Cross Fit, jogging, swimming, Nordic Track, Bowflex ... how about square dancing? Kimball square dancer Jim Young provides a perfect explanation of the activity. "Square dancing is a bit of a misnomer," he said. "You don't really dance. You walk or march to the music and execute moves given to...
At the July 20 Kimball City Council meeting, Christy Warner will be sworn in as the newest council member. The council at that point will be seating an entire board after months of discourse. The decision to appoint Warner to the position did not occur without a few bumps in the road. The special meeting to either appoint a council member or approve a special election to fill the vacancy was held on Tuesday, June 22. After Mayor Keith Prunty did the obligatory items, he nominated Rose Ellen Williams for the open position. Her letter submitted...
The following question was submitted for the “Ask the Observer” feature. Can our community service officer (CSO) do anything about yards not mowed and covered with weeds that damage a neighbor’s yards? Can the officer also do anything about the alleys that are not mowed and doing the same? This response comes from Kimball Police Chief Andy Bremer: “Yes, the CSO can write abatements to clean up yards. She was extremely busy doing just that. Amazing how many folks need help mowing their yards.” The former CSO, Katie Potterf, has left the commu...
Yard of the Week this time goes to Bob and Dawn Hinton. Presenting the award to Dawn, center, are Morgan Baker, left, and Heather Entingh....
The Kimball School Board approved two projects for the high school during its most recent regular meeting June 15. First, an LED lighting project and renovation project on the junior high/senior high walls were approved and will begin shortly. Mohr Ranch and Construction received the bid to remove 5780 square feet of carpet in the hallways and texture drywall, prime, and paint the walls for a total of $18,500. In addition, Strauch Electric received the bid to remove old lighting fixtures and install new LED lighting in various classrooms. Two...
Week three for the Women’s Golf Association brought Payton Wise to the league as a substitute, and she shot the low gross of 41 on the front nine. Wise, the Kimball Longhors golf star, will be aiming to return to State with her teammates when the fall season gets under way in a couple of months.The upcoming senior has medaled at State each of her first three seasons. Nora Robinson and Donna Linn tied for low net, with each recording a 30. Shellon Anderson’s putting was on the mark as she only needed her putter 13 times. Three hole-outs occ...
Update: On Tuesday, June 22 Kimball City Council met in special session and Christy Warner was nominated and approved to fill the vacant seat on the council. See the details in the July 1 edition of Observer. A short but eventful Kimball City Council meeting June 15 ended in a stalemate with no immediate solution for seating an entire four-member council board. But a temporary solution was reached to fill the position of city administrator when Mayor Keith Prunty appointed William Hinton as interim administrator and the council approved it...
The Beard family trio of Dan, wife Dana and daughter Allison figured it was time to head west on a 1,500 mile genealogy road trip. Their destination was Kimball, Nebraska. Dan Beard described the adventure. "We have visited Indiana twice on genealogy road trips, and after a COVID break for a year, now we are on our first trip back," he said. "We stopped in Iowa to visit my grandmother's family, then to Kimball to see my grandfather's family, then to Minnesota to visit my mother's family." Dan...
Greg Robinson's team not only won the Father's Day tournament at Four Winds Golf Course, but according to Greg, it is the "best weekend of the year when I get to play with the boys." The Championship Flight of the annual Father's Day Golf Tournament at Four Winds Golf Course was a tight finish as local teams dominated the top three spots. The Robinsons shot a 63/59 for a 122, followed by Greenwood with a 60/63 total of 123, and Kelly Garrett's team with a 63/61 to come in third at 124....
Nora Robinson grabbed all the lows during Week 1 of the Kimball Women’s Golf Association League play. She had low gross with a 46, low net with a 30, and even had low putts with only 16 total. Shellon Anderson also had just 16 putts, which tied her with Nora. Sally Plover scored a birdie on the sixth hole. Week 2 Pattie Klinginsmith shot an outstanding 41 for low gross in Week 2 of women’s golf. A hole out on No. 18 for a birdie helped Pattie’s score. Katie Heeg and Laura Noah both tied with a 35 for low net. Katie Heeg also won low putts...
Most afternoons, Gretchen Spitz will be at her new salon on West Highway 30. Her clients are every age, size, color and breed – of dogs, as well as some cats. But her clientele doesn't stop there; she has "clipped bird nails, bathed ferrets, and rabbits." Gretchen said, "I like animals; they don't talk back." Although occasionally, they do bite back. Gretchen has been bitten, and her assistant, Koye Knicely, has had a bite taken out of her, but that hasn't deterred either one of them from p...
The Kimball City Council was scheduled to meet this week on Tuesday evening. Several significant items appeared on the agenda, including under Current Business this item: “Approve and Authorize Special Election to fill Council vacancy on such date as required or allowed per statute.” At issue was whether the three sitting members of the Kimball City Council should decide to fill the fourth seat by a special election. Filling some vacancies without elections has not gone smoothly for the city this past year. At the time that this article was...
The Kimball County Commissioners dealt with a variety of topics Tuesday in their regular bi-monthly meeting. The county Road Department will begin working again on their 1/6 Year project located 14 miles south of Kimball and 2 miles west. Seven culverts will be installed in the two-mile area and the site will be graveled. Randy Bymer of the road department reported that the blacktop south of Dix was patched last week when the weather was scorching, and the GPS units are installed and working on...
The inaugural season of the Kimball Longhorn Trap team is in the books. The team participated in the state trap shoot on Sunday, with each individual member shooting 100 clay pigeons. Results for the state tournament will be announced after all the teams throughout the state have completed their shooting. The state meet is open from June 11-20. When the season started, 15 Longhorns began – and 15 Longhorns completed the trap season. All seven high school athletes lettered. According to B...
Cowboys from Mitchell, Bridgeport, Torrington, Hyannis and Akron, Colo., converged on Kimball for the Ranch Rodeo on Saturday, June 12. The evening started with bronc riding: Winners were Ty Fenster in first, Justin Quint second, and three individuals tied for third – Wes Aragon, Jesse Callahan and Lance Mullen. Casey Sterkel received top horse honors in the ranch rodeo segment, and Luke Kosorok was selected as the top hand. JDS Livestock from Mitchell had the fastest times for trailer l...
The Plains Historical Museum in the Fraternal Hall will be open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Friday this summer from 2-4 p.m. Individuals have stepped up to volunteer to open the museum. One of the unique items in the museum is the Hinner organ and bench given to the museum by Fred and Helen Rasgorshek. According to the information on the organ, for $100, Fred purchased the church, which included pews, organ, and chairs from Bonham Mortuary in 1911. The organ was purchased for Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church. The Plains Historical Museum is p...
The Kimball area will begin to see a little activity associated with the missile project. Starting in the Pawnee Grasslands and then moving north, sub-contractors will begin the surveying process for the environmental impact statement, project officials told the Observer. To have “no surprises,” Joseph Coslett and Terry Higgins from the 90th Missile Wing at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne said they were in Kimball on Monday to keep people informed. Landowners in the areas affected have already received letters, but the 90th Missile Wing wan...
After a long hard winter of below-freezing temperatures, cold lonely nights and heavy snow, everyone looks forward to springtime. Springtime in western Nebraska is a time of spraying fields, planting crops, repairing fences, and branding calves. Livestock branding is an age-old custom to identify the owner of the animals dating back at least 4,700 years. Proof exists that the Egyptians branded. It can be seen in a tomb painting "depicting a cattle roundup and branding from 2700 BC," according...
Members of the AmeriCorps team are continuing their volunteer work in Kimball. After weeks of working at the Plains Historical Museum, they are now at the Community Trail, according to Jean Gilbert. Gilbert said that they are staining the picnic shelter near the center of the trail, and a picnic table will be constructed for the shelter. Then the AmeriCorps team will build a shade shelter for the bench on the west end of the dam. The picnic shelter, picnic table and shade shelter were all...
Local events are beginning to occur again after COVID-19 cancellations of last year. Kimball's 12th annual Ranch Rodeo will be held this Saturday, June 12, with 20 bronc riders and seven ranch rodeo teams set to participate. The event will be held at the Kimball-Banner County Fairgrounds, complete with a beer garden and food. Kimball's Ranch Rodeo is a WSRRA sanctioned event, which includes team tying, trailer loading, branding and doctoring and wild cow milking. Events start at 5:30...
On a beautiful May morning at the Kimball Cemetery, people gathered to observe Memorial Day. The ceremony began with Amy Birkhofer singing the Star-Spangled Banner. Speaker Thomas Tudor held the crowd's attention with his memories of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery from 1969-70. Drafted into the Army in 1968, Tudor was selected to go to the 3rd Infanty at Arlington, VA, where he eventually was chosen to "walk the mat." He mentioned three special memories of his...
The study continues into whether to upgrade Kimball Public Schools facilities. On May 24, the Kimball School Board met with Jacob Sertich from Wilkins Architecture, Design and Planning to discuss an architect’s role in designing/planning a facility renovation or addition. According to schools Superintendent Trevor Anderson in an email to the Observer, “At this time, there are no plans in terms of designs for the buildings. We are presently working to identify costs associated with a renovation of the facilities and/or addition to our exi...
For Kim Sharples, receiving the 2021 Nebraska Library Association Outstanding Volunteer Award came as a surprise. "I was very surprised and honored to receive this award," said the volunteer at Kimball Public Library. "I have always loved to help others when and where I can. I appreciate what others have done for me over the years, and I like to give back to the community." Sharples volunteers in many aspects of the library – from Little Readers Storytime to being president of the Friends of t...
Once again, Oliver Reservoir had an abundance of campers for the Memorial Day weekend. On May 27, the South Platte Natural Resource District reported that "All campsites are full at Oliver Reservoir for the Memorial Day Weekend." Oliver Reservoir information stated that boaters and fishermen need to use caution in the east and west shallow areas as the depth map may not show the actual depth. While Sunday was cool and rainy, Monday was a perfect day to spend with family and friends at Oliver...