Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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The Kimball County Ambulance Service and Kimball Health Services now have additional equipment to better help save lives. The ambulance service received two LUCAS chest compression systems, while KHS received one. The devices provide automatic chest compressions during CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitations). "We want to be ready to assist to the very best of our abilities and this equipment will give us another tool in our belt to better their chances of survival," said Kimball County Ambulance...
Kimball Superintendent Marshall Lewis said the community forum held last week was "idea generating." The forum held last Wednesday night invited members of the community to discuss the school's future as a means to broaden community involvement in the state of education in Nebraska initiative. The forum discussed a broader set of issues including the relationship between the community educational system and the future. The meeting was led by Cindy Wofford, a leadership specialist, and Marcia...
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, senior students at Kimball High were offered the chance to apply for their choice colleges in the computer lab with Kimball High School counselor Chauncey Petersen. The event is part of a statewide Apply2College Campaign sponsored by the Education Quest Foundation. The program, with the assistance of school faculty, helps students and families who may be unfamiliar with the college application process take the first step towards pursuing higher education after graduation....
The Kimball County Commissioners received an update on the county ambulance service at Tuesday’s meeting. According to Carla Goranson, ambulance director, the ambulance crew received a total of 49 service calls in the month of September, ranging from falls to seizures. The total amount of charges to patients for the month of September was $23,055.25. The total to date for this year was $302,055.25. Goranson also discussed the recent changes to their billing requirements. Recently there a change to the requirements, which was formally ICD-9 b...
St. Joseph’s Respect Life Walk with be held this Sunday, beginning at 11a.m. at the Catholic Church. All walks of faith are invited to attend. According to event chairperson Kim Baliman, the walk is to bring awareness that all life should be respected and that every life matters, whether it be the elderly, special needs, the young or the unborn. The walk will start at the church, go to the City Park, around the park four times, and back to the church. At the walk’s conclusion, there will be fellowship, along with food. Those who can not wal...
Just as she is an invaluable "jewel" of the Kimball community, lifetime resident Karen Robinson has worked with jewels most of her 80 years of life. Karen is the third generation of her family to work and operate Larsen's Jewelry Store. She began working for her parents part-time while still in high school in 1951. She graduated from Kimball High School in 1953, attended college, and married James Robinson. In 1958, Karen and Jim took over Larsen's Jewelry Store for Karen's parents and became...
Given that she has worked in her present location of LorRon's Department Store for just over 50 years, Lorna Evelyn said that she has obviously has really enjoyed the retail business in Kimball. In 1965, Lorna along with her late husband, Ron Evelyn, began working in their store which at that time was known as Hartung's Department Store. When the Evelyns purchased the store, they changed the name of the business to LorRon's Department Store. Lorna said that she and Ron worked really well...
Former Kimballite, Rochael Soper recently published “Out of Hell and Into Healing”, a book written from personal experience of the struggles that often accompany growing up with an alcoholic parent--and painfully witnessing the abuse of others in the family. She began writing the book in 2003 as a way of trying to heal from her past. “Is there anything more frightening to a child, than seeing a parent suffer humiliation and violence at the hands of another parent?” she asks in one passage...