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 Banner County Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting, Jan. 9, 2017, featured an Italian buffet. Pastor Alan Foutz of the Kimball Presbyterian Church delivered the Invocation and President Josh Enevoldsen led the assembled members of the business community in the Pledge of Allegiance. Over 55 members enjoyed the meal and networking social. At 6:45 PM the meeting was called to order. After opening remarks, President Enevoldsen turned the presentation to Jo Caskey, Chamber Director. The...
Traditionally, the Kimball school board uses the first meeting of each new year to reappoint officers, board committees, media and financial affiliates. This year was no different. At their Jan. 9 regular meeting, the Kimball Board of Education renewed the officers of the board, electing to keep everyone in the current positions. President of the board remains Lynn Vogel, board vice president is Clint Cornils, Heather Norberg is secretary and Carrie Tabor is treasurer. Each board member serves on various committees as well, assigned by the...
Naturopathy is her calling, but at one time Dr. Kim Matteo had chosen a much more traditional healing path, that of a surgeon. Matteo began researching natural healing with the birth of her second son, who had suffered a stroke in utero. Doctors told her to continue school and put him in a facility for the short amount of time he would have. "I chose to be his mom, instead. It was for the quest for my son's health, that I started the journey into natural healing, and it started with nutrition,"...
Charlie and Oliver were partners in the cattle business. Oliver had been at it for some time and knew the ‘ropes’ when it came to gathering wild Spanish cattle, building a herd and trailing them to market. Oliver was truly a man of vision and was a trail driver long before the heyday of the cowboy. As early as the late 1850’s, when Texas was still an unsteady fledgling, he was trailing herds east to Shreveport and New Orleans. It was Oliver who in 1858 was the first cowman to ever drive a herd of longhorns to the northern markets and usher...
Carrie "Jo Ann" Moench, 78, of Kimball, died at her home in Kimball on Monday, January 16, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 2017 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Kimball with Pastor Kenneth Mars officiating. Burial will be in the Kimball Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Friends may also visit www.cantrellfh.com to view JoAnn's Tribute Wall and leave condolences and stories for the family. Memorials may be given in memory of Jo Ann to St. John's...
Elton "Roy" Theorine, 65, of Kimball, died at his home on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Steven Pettit officiating. Burial will be in the Kimball Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1:00 p.m. until service time on Tuesday. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Roy's Tribute Wall and leave stories and condolences for the family. Memorials may be given in memory of Roy to the...
Frank Calise, 46, of Kimball, died at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 14, 2017 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com and view Frank's Tribute Wall and leave condolences for the family. Friends may also call at the funeral home on Friday from 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. to sign the register book and leave condolences for the family. Memorials have been estab...
An old man, going a lone highway came at the evening cold and gray, to a chasm, vast and deep and wide, through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; the sullen stream held no fears for him, but he turned when safe on the other side, and built a bridge to span the tide. “Old man,” said the fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting strength, building here. Your journey will end with the ending day, you never again must come this way. You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide, why build the bridge this event...
Edgar Allen Poe was born on this day, January 19, 1809 in Boston, MA. I don’t remember how old I was, whether I was in high school or college, but I do remember the first time I read, “The Raven.” I can equate the experience to being forced to attend what I expected to be a boring pot luck dinner, instead discovering that they were serving a devilishly dark chocolate truffle with raspberry sauce that no one else wanted, so I was happily allowed to devour it slowly, one bite at a time, savoring each delicious morsel at my leisure. Even now,...
My grandma used to watch us when my mom worked and we were too young for school. Our time together was short, usually just a few hours. Still, we often had lunch with her and then she would rest in her chair and watch her stories. I would get a big Children’s Bible out, a pencil and paper, and begin copying the symbols on each page, one after the other in long lines – just like I saw them in the book. I couldn’t read, and I didn’t know that those symbols were letters which, when strung together in certain patterns became words. I had no idea th...
The Veterans History Project of the Library of Congress collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. Thomas Potton, "Tom" grew up in a family of people with strong military backgrounds. He also loved to fly and had his private pilot's license by the time he was 17 yrs old. He lived in Alaska since 1982. His father was a commercial pilot and a...
The Kimball High Boys and the Potter-Dix Girls emerged winners in contests between the two schools this past week. The Potter-Dix girls won out 51-41 over Kimball with the Lady Coyotes out scoring the Lady Longhorns 14-7 in the final period to come out on top. The Potter-Dix boys are in a rebuilding year and Kimball had no problem winning out 64-14. The girls game was a game of two-halves as Kimball jumped out to a 13-4 early lead and was ahead 15-9 at the quarter break. Potter-Dix went on a...
Kimball senior Eric Escajeda was the Longhorn's only medal winner at the Chase County Invitational Wrestling Tournament held this past Saturday in Imperial. Escajeda brought home the third place medal wrestling at 285 winning 3 matches and losing twice. Kimball's big guy suffered losses by fall to Freeze of Bridgeport and Louder of Hershey and registered wins over Hodges of Hitchcock County 5-0, pinned Nicholson of Hershey in 4:40, and won by forfeit over Shoemaker of Sidney. Kimball finished...
The Kimball High boys went on the road this past weekend and picked up two more wins at Bridgeport and Gordon running their season record to 7-2. No problem at Bridgeport on Friday night with the Horns winning 69-46 but had to battle hard to win at Gordon Saturday night 58-53. Coach Nick Kuxhausen had lots of praise for the play of his team over the weekend stressing the defense. "Our defensive play as a team is what made our wins possible this past weekend," said Kuxhausen. "The transition...
It’s SPVA week for the Kimball High basketball team and Kimball fans lucked out in that they didn’t have to travel for first round play as both the Kimball girls and boys were first round hosts. There was a delay in the boy’s game which was supposed to have been played this past Monday night, but due to the ice storms east of us, their game with Chase County was moved back one day, to Tuesday, the same night the Kimball girls hosted Bridgeport. There you go, a double header at home. After the first round play, all the remaining contests will...
A win and a loss for the Kimball High girls the past weekend. The win came Friday night at Bridgeport with the Lady Horns coming out on top 45-40 and the loss came Saturday night at Gordon-Rushville 64-44. The Kimball girls are now 4-5 in the win-loss department. Kimball had to battle back in the second half to get the win at Bridgeport as they trailed 13-8 at the quarter break and were down 21-18 at half time. Kimball took their first lead in the contest early in the third period after Kate Reader scored on a move inside, Alexis Lulf hit one...
The Potter-Dix Coyotes faced a tough opening weekend following the holiday break. The Potter-Dix club began with an away game against the Bayard Tigers on Friday, Jan. 6 and came home with a 60-29 loss. The Coyotes faced a deeper Bayard bench which coach Ryan Mumm attempted to combat strategically. “With our lack of depth, fatigue can become an issue but we try to control the tempo of games to counteract our lack of depth,” he said. “ Scoring against the Tigers was led by Dylan Nielsen with 12. Nielsen landed one trey and shot 2/4 from the f...
Kimball’s boy’s junior varsity team pick dup wins at Bridgeport and Gordon-Rushville and are not 4-3 on the season after winning their last 3 times out. At Bridgeport Friday night they prevailed 61-49 with 10 players scoring. Beau Hanks scored 9 points, all in the 4th quarter, Kole Bush 10, Brady Kilgore and Corey Travis 8 each, Sam Cajero 6, Izaac Reuter 6, Brendan Walker 6, Zane Anthony 4, Grant Hickman 3, and Brayden Tyan 1. At Gordon, Kimball won 47-39 with Reuter and Travis both with 10 points, Anthony, Hanks, and Kilgore with 6 each, Bus...