Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Preparations are underway for the Kimball High School All-Class Reunion. The twice a decade event will be held July 3-5, and include a cruise night, individual class get togethers, fireworks and more. Kim Baliman, head of the committee organizing the event, said tentative plans include a cruise night and individual class meetings on Friday, a luncheon, all-school band and choir concerts, fireworks, a dance and more on Saturday, and lunch in the park and additional concerts on Sunday. “People need to start planning now,” she said. “If you’r...
The Kimball High School speech team placed first out of 15 teams at the Sutherland Invitational on Saturday. Individually, three Kimball students took first place. Kennedy Lewis took first place in extemporaneous speaking, Nicholas Thomas-Lewis finished first in poetry, and Leisha Casimiro took first place in informative speaking. Jessica Portillo and Nicholas Thomas-Lewis finished third in duet acting, while Connor Moore finished fourth in humorous prose, Jessica Portillo took fourth place in...
The Kimball City Council approved a conditional use permit for a cell tower belonging to Viaero Wireless at its Feb. 3 meeting. A public hearing was held before the council approved the request for a cell phone tower from Viaero Wireless. Viaero requested the tower after it identified a need for one in the area to increase its 4G capacity within the City of Kimball. Viaero will install a 60-foot tower on the property. The city council approved Mayor Keith Prunty’s appointment of Randy Gunn to fill Sarah Bouse’s unexpired term on the lib...
Josh and Jenna Enevoldsen are the proud parents of the first baby born this year with ties to Kimball and Banner counties. Kira Jean Enevoldsen was born at 3:53 p.m. on Jan. 8 at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. Also pictured is big sister Delayni. As the first baby of the year, the Enevoldsens will receive a variety of gifts from area businesses, including a T-shirt for Jenna from Monograms & More, a bottle of champagne or wine from Sportsman's Liquor, a $50 savings bond from Points West...
Cole Carey still is not sure who nominated him to be a youth delegate to the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment, but he is glad they did. Carey, a junior at Banner County High School, was one of 250 students selected nationwide to attend the summit June 28 through July 3 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. While there, Carey will get to participate and observe various fieldwork of experts, attend seminars and even check out the sights in nearby Washington, D.C. “It’s pretty cool to get selected,” Carey said. “It seems like a pret...
A young child breaks his arm, a family wrecks their car, an elderly woman slips and falls, all of these situations have one thing in common, they will be responded to by an emergency service. With an EMT training class currently being offered, those with the will to serve can develop the skills to lend a helping hand. Virgil Johnson has been certified as an EMT for six years, and will be renewing his certification at the upcoming EMT class. He originally took the training as a way to spend time with his daughter. “The EMT class was being o...
Lyle L. Shaw, 86, of Dix, died at the Kimball County Manor on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. Lyle LaVern Shaw was born in Sidney on March 2, 1928, the son of Lloyd and Hilma (Nelson) Shaw. He attended a one room school house in Kimball County and graduated from the Dix High School in 1942. He was drafted in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and served two years as a para-trooper in Kentucky. Lyle was married to Patricia Marie Kreuzburg in 1953. They adopted three children, Matt, Amyjo and Greg. Lyle...
Miriam Caroline (Leach) Brower, 108, of Arnold, went to be with her Lord Jesus on Feb. 4, 2015. Miriam was born Nov. 11, 1906, to John Robert Leach and Alice Marinda (Lawyer) Leach at Emmett, Idaho. Growing up, she lived with her parents and six brothers in Wyoming, Nebraska, and then South Dakota, where she graduated from high school. She then went to Dakota Wesleyan College in Mitchell, S.D., and after passing her teacher’s exam, began teaching school, until her marriage. In 1927, Miriam met Gerrit Richard Brower through two of her b...
Gertrude M. Siebenaler, 91, of Kimball, died at the Kimball County Manor on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015. Gertrude Mae Siebenaler was born in Kimball on Aug. 26, 1923, the daughter of Lucien and Mary (Rall) Siebenaler. She attended country school in Kimball County. She would move with her family during the winters to Texas and help take care of their orchards, and she continued her schooling there. She always helped her parents with the farm work and in later years was their caretaker. Gertrude continued to live on the family farm until moving to...
Two hundred and twenty-six students, including two from Kimball, officially became graduates of Chadron State College on Dec. 13, the college announced Jan. 29. Graduate commencement exercises began at 2 and undergraduate was at 4 p.m. Dr. Jamie Wada, associate professor and department chair of justice studies, was the featured speaker for graduate commencement in Memorial Hall. Later that afternoon, the winter 2014 graduating class walked across the stage and into history during the first commencement to take place in the Chicoine Center....
The Kimball Ministerial Association’s Lenten luncheons will begin on Feb. 25. The lunches started in 1992 and have been held during the Lenten season ever since. These lunches are provided by the various churches of the ministerial association every Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for five weeks during Lent. Following the lunch there is a short mediation presented by the hosting church’s pastor. The lunches are all held at the Presbyterian Church of Kimball, located at 600 W. 7th St. The purpose of these lunches is to provide a time of fai...
The birds of Kimball County will be highlighted during a six week series of Watchable Wildlife Tours sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and the Kimball Area Tourism Department. The series, titled “For the Birds,” will run from April 1 to May 15. All tours will depart from the High Point Welcome Center of Western Nebraska located at I-80, Exit 20. The tours are free, but reservations are required. Tourism Director Jo Caskey explained why reservations are required. “Our guides for these tours are providing equipment to help peopl...
Congratulations to Kimball High School's January Student of the Month, Rowdy Keller. Throughout Rowdy's high school career, he has participated in cross-country and wrestling. He has lettered all four years in both and also played in the band for two years. Rowdy received Academic All-State the past three years in wrestling and was all-conference for two of those years. Rowdy has been involved in math competitions all four years he has been in high school and was inducted into the National...
The Kimball school board approved bus repairs at its monthly meeting held Monday. The school bus in question is the large white one and sustained damage when it was run into the concrete base of a light pole. There is some damage to one of the front storage compartments, and as a result, paint damage as well. Due to the nature of the damage, the labor is going to be rather intense. Since it is a large bus, local body shops will not do the work. Body shops in the area referred the school district to Floyd’s Truck Center, Inc., in Sidney. F...
KWBA 2015 Teams 1. Hometown Hardware: 2451 (Bonnie Howard, Dorothy Griffith, Assunta Calise and Cristy Rowley) 2. Papa's Platz Farms: 2361 (Leta Liesch, Kim Kauffman, Katie Ryan and Patty Smith) 3. Prairie Painting: 2359 (Debbie Marsh, Shelly VanDeWater, Brenda Serano and Amy Wynne) 4. FHSC: 2349 (Susie Abramson, Dorothy Griffith, Vicki Poss, and Mary Kay Jenner) KWBA 2015 Doubles 1. Susie Abramson and Vicki Poss (1224) 2. Sue Leininger and Cristy Rowley (1192) 3. Sherri Parshall and Suzie...
KBA 2015 Teams 1. Luke Farms: 2679 (Ty Garrett, Darrell Snyder and Dave Lukassen and Kelly Garrett) 2. Z & S Construction: 2678 (Brent Morey, Marc Keane, Brian Pingsterhaus and Roger Anderson) 3. Vito's Loan Sharks: 2674 (Larry Walker, Les Reemts, Robert Gardner and Dwight Miller) KBA 2015 Doubles 1. Ty Garrett and Kelly Garrett (1372) 2. Marc Keane and Brian Pingsterhaus (1363) 3. Steve Kauffman and Scott Smith (1361) KBA 2015 Singles 1. Robert Gardner (799) 2. Scott Smith (748) 3. Tie: Marc...
Kimball High freshman, Clay Keller, won the 132 pound championship at the SPVA Conference Wrestling Tournament held at Grant this past week. With the win Keller ran his season win-loss record to 24-3, the mark he will take into this week's district tournament being held at Mitchell. Keller won all five of his matches at the conference tournament, four by fall and one by injury default. Keller pinned Brown of St. Pats in :32 seconds, pinned Conley of Bridgeport in 1:53, pinned Ash of Sutherland...
The number 4 seed Kimball girls had an easy first round win over number 5 seed Bridgeport winning 70-46 in a game played at Kimball, but then fell to number 1 seed Mitchell in semi final play 52-40 and lost to Gordon-Rushville 67-49 in the consolation game for third place honors. Hemingford, the number 2 seed, won over Mitchell in the title game 43-40. Coach Chauncey Pedersen had some sickness on his squad in the opening game with Arica McCloud a no-show and Jessica Hanks missing the morning...
The Kimball boys lost a heart breaker in first round play of the WTC Conference basketball tournament falling to Mitchell 43-40 in overtime. The Longhorns were the number 5 seed and had to travel to number 4 seed Mitchell for their Thursday night contest and it was a battle from start to finish. Kimball got out to a 10-4 lead after one quarter of play with Jon Withrow hitting a pair of treys and Michael Ferguson getting a pair of 2 point field goals. At half time Kimball was still on top 21-17...
Banner County sliced and diced its way to an early lead through its transition game, but a fourth quarter comeback by South Platte left the Lady Wildcats heartbroken in a 33-31 loss on Friday. Banner (2-14) led 29-19 with 6:38 left in the game when South Platte outscored the home team 14-2 for the comeback victory. The game was tied at 31-all with 3.3 seconds left when the Lady Blue Knights' Audrey Dickmander hit a pair of free throws that gave the visiting team the win. Banner got the ball with...
Banner County raced out to the early lead and went on to defeat South Platte, 66-52, on Friday night. Kadan Huber started things off with a trey less than a minute into the game, and Tyson Dahlgrin added a layup for a 5-0 lead with 6:12 left in the opening quarter. The Knights (1-13) closed the gap to 7-5 near the midway point of the quarter, but the Wildcats (4-11) pulled away. Banner outscored its visitor 13-4 to end the frame with a comfortable lead. Dahlgrin led the charge with five of the...
Garrett Grubbs picked up three wins to lead Banner County in the Southeast Duals in Cheyenne last Saturday. Grubbs, competing in the 145 weight class, opened with wins against Grant Snyder of Mitchell and Dylan Ernesti of Hemingford. He then dropped matches to Walker Johnson of Alliance and Taylor Chapin of Kemmerer, before closing the tournament with a forfeit win. In the 106 weight class, Brandon Blickensderfer dropped five matches on the day. 106 weight class David Miller (Mitchell) over Brandon Blickensderfer (Banner County) (Fall 4:00). Co...
What a week for the Kimball Junior High boys as both the 8th and 7th grade teams won championships at the Morrill Tournament. The 8th grade team is undefeated at 6-0 coming into this week’s play. At Morrill they won 39-33 over Bridgeport with Zane Anthony high with 11 points, Brady Kilgore and Izaac Reuter had 8 each, Colton Mielke and Corey Travis 6 each. Kimball then won over Bayard 37-24 with Anthony high again with 11 points including 2 treys. Kilgore had 7, Reuter 6, Mielke 6, Ethan Bemis 5, and Jaren Winstrom 2. The 7th grade started w...
Potter-Dix jumped out to the early lead and went on to defeat Garden County, 54-28, on Friday. The Lady Coyotes (14-3) took a 14-3 first quarter lead and went on for a 27-11 halftime lead against the Lady Eagles (3-11). Dawson Sharman led the team with 13 points, while Anna McLaughlin and Audrey Juelfs added 11 points each. Juelfs led the team with six rebounds, Alexus Rozelle had a team-high five steals, and Trinity Langley and Brooke Glass tied for the team lead with four assists. After...
Garden County grabbed the early lead and held off a fourth quarter Potter-Dix comeback as the Coyotes dropped a road contest last Friday, 51-46. The Eagles (6-8) took a 17-5 lead in the first quarter to pull ahead 26-17 at the break. They led 40-29 going into the fourth quarter, when the Coyotes outscored them 17-11. Cameron Purcell led Potter-Dix (5-12) with 20 points, while Kelsey Rozelle added eight. Trevor Harms led the team with 10 rebounds and three blocked shots. Score by quarter...