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 Director of the Kimball-Banner County Chamber, Jo Caskey, is concerned about the future of Kimball, if it’s residents don’t take the issue of shopping locally seriously. “Shopping in Kimball, not only supports local businesses,” she explained, “it supports jobs for people who live here.” Caskey understands that most of the nation’s economy has been affected by the drop in oil prices and higher unemployment rates but, states that we, as citizens in Kimball, can make a difference in our local economy. “It is our local businesses that...
June is touted “Men’s Health Month” and is celebrated across our country with health fairs, screenings and other health education and outreach programs. Men’s Health Month heightens the awareness of preventable health problems and encourages early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. This month further gives health care providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury. In Kimball, Dr. James Broomfi...
Carolyn Carter and her husband, Steve, traveled through Kimball last Friday, June 17, during a two-month journey. Carolyn is attempting to become the first 'Woman Highwheel Rider' in the United States. The couple's journey started on Monday, May 30, in San Francisco, Calif., and they are hoping to reach Boston, Mass., by August 1. The Carters are a part of The Wheelmen, which is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to keeping alive the heritage of American cycling, promoting the...
A local church is soon to celebrate their established 100th anniversary, according to its pastor, Kenneth Mars whose wife was very instrumental in gathering information on the church history to share with our readers. St. John's Lutheran church, currently located on Locust Street in Kimball, first began in June of 1916 and was located on Main Street in a church building north of the railroad tracks. This first church building was erected in 1888, and used by the Methodists. "The records are a...
"As a father, I enjoy watching each of my children grow in their own unique ways, developing into the men and women God created them to be. What a privilege and joy to share that great adventure with my wife. Nothing is more joyous!" shared Pastor and father of seven, Kenneth Mars. Mars, the pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Kimball, met his wife Vickie, in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, and they married nineteen years ago on May 30, 1997. The couple had four children of their own,...
It is nearly time to celebrate our nation’s independence. For more than a couple of decades the Kimball Volunteer Fire Department has put on a spectacular fireworks display with donations collected from local businesses, as well as from private donors, and due largely to many hours of work done by the Kimball Banner County Chamber office rallying for those donations. This year there is a needed rush for donations for the annual fireworks display event. According to KBCCC Director, Jo Caskey, the ‘ball was dropped’ on securing the funds ahead...
June officially brings the start of summer and the beginning of mosquito season, according to Melissa Cervantes, Environmental Health Coordinator and Assistant Worksite Wellness Coordinator at the Panhandle Public Health District (PPHD). With the beginning of mosquito season, PPHD has once again begun West Nile Virus (WNV) surveillance activities to monitor the presence of the virus in the Panhandle through mosquito trapping and bird collection. Most people who contract the virus are infected through the bite of a mosquito that became infected...
Third party appraisals, protests and refunds dominated the conversation at the June 7 Kimball County Board of Equalization meeting. At a previous BOE meeting, Kimball County Assessor Sherry Winstrom had requested the Board’s consideration to seek a proposal from Standard Appraisal for an independent, county-wide, third party assessment, at a cost of slightly under $100,000 as her duties were to set new cost tables for the county. The cost would cover assessments of all residential, commercial and agricultural building sites and properties. “As...
The Gotte Park was the venue last Saturday, June 4, for the inaugural Kimball Mountain Plover Festival. "Gotte Park was a great location for the event this year. The weather was ideal for this year's event," said Alie Mayes of the Rocky Mountain Bird Conservancy. "We had a turn out of around 40 participants and partners included Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Riverside Discovery Center, and Agate Fossil Bed National Monument." Included on the schedule for the day were tours to view the Moun...
As area youth begin preparing for the 4-H fair, a dozen attended a 4-H Livestock and Companion Animal Care, Grooming and Showing Clinic at the Kimball-Banner County Fairgrounds on June 1. The clinic provided information and resources to help the 4-H youth in attendance be successful with their livestock projects. Some of the subjects covered included the basics of feeding, care, grooming, and the training of the 4-H members' animals for show day. Morning demonstrations included the care of...
Area residents began calling the Kimball County Sheriff's Office Monday afternoon, concerned that a tornado had touched down at or near the Four Winds Golf Course, according to Kimball County Sheriff Harry Gillway. Though the tornado was in northern Colorado, its size had many assuming it was much closer to Kimball. Gillway said that he knew before he left his home on Memorial Day, May 30, that it was going to be a stormy day near the Kimball area. Indeed, he said that the excitement began at...
Kelsey Herzberger, who works for the United States Post office here in Kimball, called 911 on Saturday, May 21, to report seeing a rattlesnake in the road on Crestwood Drive. The dispatcher on duty called an officer and the response was to advise the reporting party to handle the situation herself. According to the Kimball Police Department, taken from the law enforcement logs, there is no city ordinance for snakes. “If you find a snake, just run it over.” The trouble was that Herzberger was delivering mail on foot so she found a resident of...
Kimball's Aashlyn Rawlings, along with her brother and some friends, went on quite the adventure this past week. Rawlings met Shia LaBeouf the star of "Transformers", "Holes", and Disney's "Even Stevens". LaBeouf along with his art collaborators of more than two years, Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner were all in Kimball last Thursday as part of their latest piece of performance art. The trio is hitchhiking across the country and allowing the public to pick them up at coordinates the group po...
A matter of etiquette for all county employees came to light during last week’s Kimball County Board of Equalization Meeting, Tuesday, May 17, following a letter addressed to the Nebraska Department of Revenue. Kimball County Assessor Sherry Winstrom received a copy of the letter, written by Village of Bushnell Attorney Robert Brenner, which addressed the 2016 Property Assessment Reports and Opinions put forth by Winstrom’s office. “I am writing concerning the above reports provided to Kimball County to address a couple of errors, wheth...
A very strong and independent woman -- now, as she always has been, LaValla Simms-Reher stays strong by staying very involved with her passion, horses. Reher was born in Sterling, Colorado, to parents Roxie and Melvin Simms. She attended Kimball schools and graduated Kimball High School in 1979. Her love of horses began when her Grandpa Simms put her on the horses he owned as soon as Reher, as a little girl, was able to climb on the back of her father Melvin's, gray horse bareback. "I was...
New improvements at the Kimball Public Swimming Pool have manager, Carla Goranson excited to get the pool open again this summer, though forecasted weather may delay the opening. The City of Kimball has ordered a basketball hoop, additional tables, umbrellas and lounge chairs for the public to enjoy at the pool. Goranson, said that she is very excited to get the pool up and open again and added that she enjoys hearing the children laugh and enjoy themselves during their time spent at the public pool, although this year it may be postponed...
A simple traffic stop led to the arrest of a California man in Kimball on Tuesday, May 17. According to an affidavit obtained from the Kimball County Court, Nebraska State Patrol Trooper L. J. Kelley was patrolling east on I-80 when he observed a vehicle change lanes without using a turn signal. Kelley stopped the vehicle, driven by Peter E. Tasciotti of Cali., and requested to see the man’s driver’s license, vehicle registration and insurance. Upon examination of Tasciotti’s driver’s license the trooper discovered that it had expired in 2010...
Memorial Day weekend is upon us. This brings to mind, those brave men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice with giving their lives, as well as all of those who have sacraficed time, effort and talents to serving our country -- in the attempt to keep our nation safer for us all. Kimball Police Sergeant and Investigator, Dwain Murdoch, is one of those brave. Murdoch was raised on a 5,000 acre cattle ranch twenty miles west of Laramie, Wyo., until the age of 15 when he and his family...
A Mother’s Day accident northwest of Kimball sent two Kimball men to area hospitals. The accident, involving just one vehicle, occurred at approximately 9 p.m., according to Kimball County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Travis Terrill. The driver of the vehicle, Gabriel Howard, 25, and his brother, Benito Howard, 30, were traveling west on county road 48, when they hit a muddy patch of road and Howard lost control of the 1991 GMC Jimmy owned by his sister, Phoebe. The vehicle veered into the ditch and hit a transponder. The driver was transported by A...
How does it feel to live with a mental illness? Clinical terms are the words used by professionals to describe the symptoms of a disorder, but often times those words don’t do justice to what life with a mental illness feels like. As May is National Mental Health Month, mental health providers are focused on providing information about “Life with a mental illness,” the theme for 2016. It is known that two people with the same diagnosis can experience the same symptom and describe it in very different ways. For example one person might descr...
Laurie Janicek, Mary Lynch Elementary School Instructor, recently received an award created to recognize educators who have made a major impact over the years in the fields of economics and personal finance. Janicek was recognized in Lincoln while with her current fifth grade class at the Nebraska Stock Market awards banquet. This is the sixth year Janicek's class has competed in the contest and to date Kimball students have won a total of 21 trophies. "Each year I have such great memories,"...
The Honor Flight Network's mission is to transport America's Veterans to Washington, DC to visit those memorials dedicated to honor the service and sacrifices of themselves and their friends. Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. Transportation is provided for these heroes to Washington, D.C. to visit and reflect at their memorials. Top priority is given to the senior veterans – World War II survivors, along with t...
Director of the Kimball County Ambulance Service received an offer for an in depth assessment of Kimball’s local ambulance service by the State of Nebraska. To that end, she asked the Kimball County Board of Commissioners this past week to consider the assessment offered when she became the director. “I don’t know what type of questions they ask,” she said. “They will go through our training records; they will go through every aspect of our service to evaluate how well we are doing what we do.” Goranson further explained to the board that...
Kimball Health Services hosted their 14th Annual Health Fair at the KHS North Campus on Friday and Saturday this past week. According to Kimball Health Services Public Relations Spokeperson, Kerry Ferguson, a total of 314 people participated in the two-day event, receiving reduced-cost blood screenings, blood pressure monitoring and body mass index evaluations. "A big thank you to all who participated directly or indirectly with this past weekend's health fair," added KHS Community Health Nurse,...
Christy Warner is grateful to once again reside in Kimball, and many reasons led her and her family to return. Warner, a 1993 Kimball High School graduate, married another Kimballite after graduating, Jon Selves, who was enlisted in the United States Army when they were first married. The first sixteen years of their lives, according to Warner, was spent moving with the Army, beginning in the Schofield Barracks, Hawaii to Fort Campbell, Kentucky and on to Fort Lewis, Washington. The majority of...