Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Kimball's Light it up BLUE Autism Awareness Run/Walk is Saturday, April 2 at 10:00 a.m. in Gotte Park, organized and put together by some of the members of the Brent Klassen family. Klassen, son of Tim and Jean Klassen of Kimball, graduated from Kimball High School in 1997 now resides in Woodville, Ohio with his wife, Alexis and their sons Kolden and Aithan. Kolden, 8, and Aithan, 5 both have severe autism, neither of them can speak and doctors said the two would never walk. "We decided as a...
Residents in our community are asked to choose their natural gas provider during the selection period, which begins on Friday, April 15, 2016 and ends on Thursday, April 28, 2016 for the Nebraska Choice Gas program. The program began in 1998 when a group of Nebraska communities banded together to take advantage of an opportunity to compete as a supplier in the natural gas retail market. ACE, the Public Alliance for Community Energy, was created under the Nebraska Municipal Power Pool (NMPP) umbrella with the mission of supplying competitively...
"I was invited to go to London", exclaimed Kimball's newest author, "well, not me personally – but, my little bear book." Mannon's creation, "IF ONLY BEARS COULD TALK: Teddy Bear Tales from the Heart" was written to share her love of her hobby and to share the heart-warming memories of her journey in the art of creating these one of a kind, handmade bears. Born and raised in Kimball, Mannon, a lifelong Kimball resident graduated from Kimball High School in 1974. She and her husband, Steve, h...
“What can we as community members do to thank your community’s veterans?” This is the question asked by Kimball County Commissioner, Daria Anderson Faden. Learning more about military culture and becoming better prepared to serve the veterans in the community is an important first step. They put their life on the line for our freedom, let’s help them transition back into civilian status and thrive in this community with training, education and by allowing them to communicate their needs, personal, as well as family needs, Faden suggest...
Four Kimball High Students attended the annual Nebraska Cultural Unity conference at the University of Nebraska Kearney on Feb. 26 along with Spanish instructor, Pat Sulu. Multicultural Affairs at UNK has sponsored this conference for 15 years and students at Kimball High School have attended for the last four years. This year's attendees were George Melo, Myriah Tyan, Crystal Pile and Raylyn Soper joined nearly 400 students at the event held in the Younes conference center. While teaching her...
The Kimball High School FFA members spent their "day off" from school, Wed., Mar. 3 – working hard at a Career Development Event (CDE) held at the Kimball Banner County fairgrounds and at the high school. The Kimball chapter hosted more than 300 FFA members from 16 schools for six FFA State qualifying contests in which local members also competed. More than a dozen of the Kimball alumni chapter members and other local supporters of the event lent their time and energy in such things as l...
After arriving in Kimball in 2009, Sonny and Kathy Porter proved their commitment to community growth and development through their service to Kimball and their local business. They both admit that they love this small town. The Porters, parents of Zack and Natoria and proud grandparents to 14-month-old Braxton, were both born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyo. The family has previous ties to the Kimball community, as Kathy's grandmother, as well as other family members, homesteaded here. Kathy has ch...
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month according to Sara Hoover, C.F.O. and Accreditation Coordinator of the Nebraska Panhandle Public Health District located in Scottsbluff. The Nebraska Colon Cancer Screening Program and Panhandle Public Health District are working together to improve colon cancer screening rates in Nebraska by offering free fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits to Nebraska Panhandle residents. Colon cancer develops with few, if any symptoms at first. The following symptoms are ones you should look for; blood in the stool, a cha...
Kimball Cub Scout Pack #31 gathered together with leaders, family and friends to compete with their one of kind derby cars, at the Trinity United Methodist Church on Sunday, Feb. 28. Each scout is given a kit to put together, and design their racing cars at the beginning of February for the race that was held last weekend. The parents of these participants are encouraged to help with their cars. This has been a long-standing tradition in the Kimball area, along with most other cub scout...
Filing deadline for non-incumbent elected offices, was Monday, Mar. 1. Several persons filed to continue on the Kimball County School Board including Lynn Vogel requesting a two year term limit. Heather Norberg, Carrie Tabor and Clinton Cornils are running to serve a four year term. No one has filed to compete against the current board members. Two seats are available for the City Council board, and three are running for the positions. John Morrison and James Shields currently serve on the board. Kim Baliman is challenging to take one of those...
The Kimball area welcomes our newest law enforcement officer and his family to the community. Kimball Police Officer, Wacey Schmid, graduated from Garden County High School in Hay Springs, in 2011. Following high school graduation Schmid attended Chadron State College and studied business management. Schmid stated that he spent some time between college and the present time working on ranches in Hay Springs, Harrisburg, and in Wisconsin. "I did several jobs in ranching," he said, "I broke...
Each year Kimball FFA chapter members step up on a platform to earn big money for their local chapter by auctioning their labor. The Annual Kimball FFA Chapter Labor Auction and Alumni Silent Auction, a tradition in Kimball for decades, will be held this year on Friday, March 11 at the Kimball High School student center. The FFA student chapter members set up for the event, the chapter's main fundraiser, serve the meal and then will be auctioned off for eight hours of labor during the March...
Pay attention or pay the price. Passing stopped school buses is unlawful in every community, in every state, but it has always been an issue, according to Gregg Fossand, Transportation Director of Kimball High School. Already this year there have been four incidences – more than the total reported incidences in 2015. Nebraska state law states that "Upon meeting, from the front or rear, any school bus on which the yellow warning signal lights are flashing, the driver of a motor vehicle s...
Like her name, ten year old Potter-Dix Elementary fifth grade student, Sierra Starr, is somewhat of a "star" these days. In addition to being named Potter-Dix's February student of the month, on Feb. 14 Starr competed for, and won, a berth to a state wrestling competition in Scottsbluff on March 26. She is very passionate about wrestling; has been active in the sport for the past three years and has won several wrestling medals and trophies, competing in several tournaments in Nebraska and...
Kimball’s commissioners, acting as the Board of Equalization, voted to deny the Kimball Child Care Center tax “exempt” status during their Feb. 16 board meeting. The Kimball County Commissioners, along with Kimball County Treasurer, Sherry Winstrom, heard statements and asked questions of Lynne Klemke who presented for the Volunteers of America (VOA) of Western Nebraska, in regards to a request to acquire a tax exempt status. The county treasurer received a letter previously from the VOA, who operates the child care facility, which she read...
Dedication to the youth is what the FFA Alumni is all about. The members garner support from entire communities and uses that support to provide for the Kimball FFA Chapter. The Alumni remains very active in the community, alongside the students of the Kimball High FFA program and help with activities throughout the year, not just during the school season. The 2016 officers for the organization are; Byron Wilke, President; Dustin Wilke,Vice-President; Emily Heidemann, secretary; and Sandy Lukassen, treasurer. National FFA Week has already...
Her passion for FFA was a large part of her four years of high school, and that passion continues on for Krystal Wilke. Wilke, the daughter of Byron and Amber Wilke, graduated from Kimball High School in 2010. She met her finance, Brian Caudill, who works and lives in Casper, Wyo., while student teaching in Buffalo, Wyo. "We often joke that he had me at 'I was in FFA'. He was very active in his hometown's chapter in California, where he also received his State FFA Degree," she shared. While in h...
Byron Wilke was born and raised in Kimball and has a rich family history in the agricultural and livestock industry – in which Wilke is of the third generation – his own children, Dustin and Krystal, the fourth. After graduating Kimball High, Wilke attended Northeast Jr College in Sterling, Colo., on a livestock judging scholarship, and studied Production Agriculture. Currently, Wilke is involved in the local FFA Alumni Chapter and serves as the President. Wilke offered that like himself, his parents were very involved in the Kimball FFA Alu...
FFA is not exclusively for farmers and ranchers, according to Kimball High School agriculture instructor and FFA advisor, Sally Wheeler. Wheeler, who grew up with an agricultural background added that the FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. “I believe that the FFA offers more opportunities to students than any other organization,” Wheeler said, “Students who have different abilities and i...
The interest, involvement and passion shown for FFA, is a generational for Doug and Sandy Lukassen. The Lukassens have been married for 33 years now, and met at a State FFA Convention, as Sandy's good friend in high school and Doug's good friend in high school – were brother and sister (also involved in FFA)– and introduced the two. The couple were both involved in FFA during their four years in high school, as well as their fathers before them; Doug Elrod and Wayne Lukassen. Sandy exp...
The Kimball High School Speech team competed on Saturday, Feb. 13 at the high school, along with fourteen other schools. It was Kimball's first invitational. "Our kids were spectacular with setting up, cleaning up and being excellent hosts," coach Jenn Dillinger said, "I am so thankful for great coach friends who pitched in and for having the most delightfully fun assistant coach ever." There is a total of 17 students on Dillinger's Kimball speech team; they performed a total of twenty-seven dif...
The local emergency alert system will soon be replaced following an address to the Kimball County Commissioners from Sheriff Harry Gillway last week, regarding the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) program. The program, launched in 2006 in response to presidential executive order #13407, required the United States comprehensive system to “alert and warn the American people in situations of war, terrorist attack, natural disaster or other hazards to public safety and well-being.” This system that we now use locally is ref...
Henry Heeg, Sr., comes from a long line of community "doers" in Kimball, and he is no different. Heeg, his family and extended families host the annual Vince's Corner Golf Tournament, one of Kimball's most successful golf weekends. This will be their seventh year and they will host between 120 – 140 golfers for the event, 75 percent of whom travel to Kimball for the contest. The format of the two day, four person, golf scramble tournament is a blind draw for both Saturday and Sunday. The fun b...
Last Friday, Feb. 5, Kimball resident Jody Childress Hardin received a call that registered as Washington, D.C., on her caller I.D. The caller left a message on Hardin’s answering machine, requesting her to return a call to them. When the woman called the 202-499-1557 number, she stated that a person with a heavy foreign accent informed her that they were with the Internal Revenue Service, and that she was in arrears on her taxes in the amount of $2,015.00. Furthermore, she was advised that if she were to not pay these right away that they w...