Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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A trip to downtown Kimball to run a few errands turned into a potential nightmare and a daring rescue for 92-year-old Helen Kuhlman of Kimball. On Friday, Jan. 22, Kuhlman left her Park Terrace apartment for some personal errands and decided first to stop at the Kwik Stop to get gas in her 1993 Buick LeSabre. But, according to Kuhlman, her vehicle came to a stop just short of the gas pumps, made a loud "pop" noise and started fire. She explained that a man then came to her vehicle and started...
The Kimball County Ambulance was called out on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 20, to assist a woman who had called 911 believing that she was suffering from a diabetic episode. Kati D. Groll of Shelby County, Iowa, made the call to the Kimball County Dispatch at 8:26 a.m. During the phone call to dispatch, the Sheriff’s department’s dispatcher noted that there was a man yelling at the woman in the background. Both the Kimball County Ambulance, along with the Dix First Responders were paged to assist. Although they were paged on two sep...
Last fall County Clerk Cathy Sibal received correspondence from True the Vote, a national non-profit advocacy group dedicated to finding and prosecuting voter fraud. “Dear Voter Registration Officer, I am writing to notify you that based on True the Vote’s research, your county is in apparent violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act,” the letter stated, “while the Office of United States Attorney General may enforce the list maintenance requirements of Section 8 of the NVRA to ensure that ineligible voters are not partici...
Following the financial and general report given by Kimball County Ambulance Director Carla Goranson the Kimball County Board of Commissioners amended their agenda and further considered a policy regarding extraordinary circumstances concerning salaries and expenses. Matt Turman, the attorney for the commissioners, stated that additional information needs reviewed to determine whether payment for parts of the claims are authorized under law. “We need to make a motion to amend the agenda to add, as an emergency item, the review of the e...
After teaching others' children for five years in the Kimball Public Schools, Becky Lowery made the decision to stay home and care for her own daughters, three-year-old Bri and Ele who is nine months old, while they are young. "Teaching is something I'm passionate about," she said, "and if I'm passionate about something I enthusiastically dive into learning more about it, the more I learn the more confident I become in it and creative ideas continuously pop into my brain, the more creative...
The Kimball Landfill has experienced more trouble from aging equipment according to a report given to the Kimball City Council by City Administrator Daniel Ortiz. Steve Pinkerton of Prestige Manufacturing began making repairs to the bailer that is housed inside the large shop. “It’s really showing its age,” Ortiz said. “It started operation out at the landfill in 1998 but we purchased it used.” Landfill supervisor Jim Schulte said the bailer dates back to between 1972 and 1975 and handles, on average, 3.5 to 4 million pounds of waste annually....
The community within our community – the Kimball Manor residents – enjoy the "Winter Olympics" held on Jan. 21 in the manor's dining room. Scores were kept and medals were given to the top three contenders in each category. Other prizes were also given out, along with baked treats and drinks. Activity director, Jessica Rocha stays busy daily providing the residents with fun events to keep them active and entertained. Rocha invites anyone in our community who wishes to volunteer during the fun ac...
David "Charlie" Person, 85, of Pine Bluffs, Wyo died January 23, 2016 at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. He was born November 13, 1930 in Kimball, to David and Doris (Moyer) Person. He lived almost his entire life on the family farm in Banner County along the Nebraska-Wyoming state line, where his Grandfather from Sweden had staked his claim at the turn of the century. He rode a horse to the Epworth School in his youth and graduated from Albin High School. He married the love of his life,...
Robert G. Barrett, 70, of Kimball died at the University of Colorado Medical Center on January 22, 2016 following a heart transplant on December 25, 2015. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Kimball with father Robert Karnish officiating. Private family inurnment will be held. Christian wake service will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.co...
In the past few weeks, attention has been brought to the Kimball stray dog issue. Statements regarding fees and animal care were published. Allow me to clarify the situation. First, let me say that an effort to identify all stray dogs begins as soon as they are brought to us. If they are wearing our rabies tag or a city dog tag, the identification is simple. If not, our employees know many customers’ dogs by sight. All impounded dogs are scanned for a microchip. We also have a database on all our clients’ dogs that we can search by breed, sex...
Hello All – I am delighted to announce that this year marks the 90th Kimball Farmer’s Day, which will take place on Saturday, September 24th. In addition to the main Farmers Day Events in September, the committee will host a Fun Night on Friday, April 29th to raise funds this year. If you are interested in learning more please contact any committee member or look for updates on our Facebook page, facebook.com/kimballfarmersday. While planning is just starting for this milestone occasion, we are seeking the communities input for this yea...
Once an active member of this community, the late Ron Scott, chose to gift his home to the Kimball Hospital Foundation, which has recently been re-gifted to Kimball Health Services. Scott, who passed away on March 10, 2015, spent many years of his life serving, not only did he serve his country, but served people in general. During his eighty-years of life, Scott was an active member of the Catholic Church where he was a member of a Catholic School Board and a Eucharistic Minister. He was a Cub...
Issues concerning Kimball County’s noxious weeds stem back to August, 2015, when Dave Hottell, County Highway and Weed Superintendent, reported to the Board of Commissioners that major changes were needed. Hottell brought in Chris Burkes of See Weed Management out of Cheyenne, Wyo., to give her opinion as well. According to Nebraska’s Noxious Weed Control Act each county is responsible for enforcement in their jurisdiction. Each county board shall employ one or more weed control superintendents. Each such superintendent shall, as a con...
The Kimball High School speech team has begun their competitive season with quite a bit of success, according to coach Jenn Dillinger. The team's success began with the first meet of the year, in Scottsbluff on Jan. 9, where they won the Class C/D championship. Individual awards at that event were given to Connor Moore, 6th place in humorous prose, Kiersten Anderson for 5th place in entertainment speaking and Paycen Harroun won 4th place in entertainment speaking. At the same invitational,...
Potter-Dix advanced to the championship game of the Minuteman Activities Conference Tournament for the second consecutive year with a 53-38 win over Bayard on Thursday at the Sidney Middle School Gym. The top-seeded Lady Coyotes, last year's champions, will now face third-seeded Creek Valley in the tournament title game at 8 p.m. Saturday in the SMS Gym. Against Bayard, Potter-Dix (11-1) took control early en route to the win. The Lady Coyotes outscored the Lady Tigers (4-11) 26-13 in the first...
Kimball High Lady Longhorns captured the championship of the 2016 South Platte Valley Athletic Conference Tournament Saturday evening at the North Platte Community College Gymnasium. The final score was 54-53! The score at half time was North Platte St Pats 28-14! The second half come-back will go down as one of the most memorable championships in the history of Kimball High basketball. As reported last week, Kimball opened up tournament play with a first round 63-21 win over Perkins County...
The Kimball High boys fell to a couple of strong opponents during SPVA Conference Tournament play this past week. In first round play they travelled to Bridgeport, the eventual champions, and lost 67-25, and in a first round losers bracket contest on Friday at North Platte the Horns lost to Hershey 68-31. The first quarter was Kimball’s best quarter at Bridgeport and they still trailed 16-8 to the tall and talented Bulldog team. By half time it was 37-15 and before it was over, the game was being played with a running clock as the margin r...
Congrats and a toast to the Kimball High girls and their coaches for winning the SPVA Conference Tournament this past week, and what a crazy and exciting championship game with the Lady Longhorns upsetting the number one seed North Platte St Pats Irish 54-53! Crazy because Kimball played poorly the first half in what coach Chauncey Pedersen said “It may have been our worst half of basketball this season” and Kimball was trailing 28-14 at half time. After getting the score doubled on them in first half play, they came out to go on a 13 poi...
Cross-county rivals Potter-Dix and Leyton matched up Monday night, Jan. 18, for the second time in four days. The Warriors took the first stanza Friday night by a 54-41 score. The second verse, however, played out a bit different. Edward Barnes' trey with 2:43 left turned out to be the deciding note as the homestanding Coyotes avenged their earlier loss to the Warriors, 49-45, Monday night in the first round of the Minuteman Activities Conference Tournament. The fourth-seeded Coyotes (5-6) move...
The Kimball High Wrestling Team had one of their best showings of the year at the two-day Tournament in Lingle this past weekend with four Longhorns ending up placing. Coach Wade Brashear said "This tournament turned out to be one of our best showings. We have shown quite a bit of improvement and I was happy with our results. After the first day, all but one of our wrestlers were still in the competition. Jake Jenkins at 120 injury defaulted out of the tournament. We finished with four placers,...
The Banner County girls were overcome by the Leyton Lady Warriors on Tuesday, Jan. 19, despite a close first quarter. "We showed improvement over our previous game against them before Christmas," Coach Brittany Cooper said. "Overall, we seemed to play hard and have fun." The Lady Wildcats were led by sophomore Emily Singleton, with 10 points, in their battle for the win, hitting two of four attempted two point field goals and landing two treys. MaKenna Dahlgrin added seven to the board, with...
The Dead Eye Shooters 4-H Club started their season off with a bang. Here are the results for the Panhandle Best 4-H Competitions held in Rushville on Sunday, January 17 and Sunday, January 24 in Mitchell. Rushville – BB Gun – 9-10 year olds Chris Foster scored 340 – 2nd place overall & 1st place prone BB Gun – 13-15 year olds Jared Barnes scored 302 Sporter Air Rifle – 8-10 year olds Chris Foster scored 172 – 3rd place overall Sproter Air Rifle – 13-14 year olds Jared Barnes scored 204 ...
Kimball's sixth grade girls basketball team traveled to Yoder, Wyo., on Saturday, Jan. 16, with split results. The sixth grade team 1 lost to both Gering and Southwest while team 2 also lost to Gering but won against Scottsbluff. Both teams them joined in a concerted effort against Scottsbluff and walked away with another win. There was also fourth and fifth grade girls basketball teams in action at Yoder....