Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Editor's note: Kimball Health Services has completed a feasibility study for a new hospital. But this article is about the early days of old Kimball County Hospital as reported in the Western Nebraska Observer from August to November 1950. On Aug. 21, 1950, the "modern, new" Kimball County Hospital opened for business with beds and furnishing borrowed from St. Mary's Hospital in Scottsbluff, according to the Aug. 24 edition of the Western Nebraska Observer. Almost immediately, patients began...
Rick Craig has a soft spot in his heart for Harrisburg and Banner County. Craig was raised in Harrisburg and would have graduated from BCHS in 1994 if he hadn't moved his senior year to the eastern part of the state, but Banner County still holds a special spot, and he knows many of the area people. "I love that town," he said. Now living in Seward, Craig and his partners, Bob and Dez Viger, are owners and operators of Lite Em Up Custom Burning, Inc., which they started in 2012 with just one...
The area snowstorm postponed the regular school board meeting for Potter-Dix Schools from Monday until Friday, March 19. The agenda was full with regular items, but under new business/discussion items, the matter of a four-day school week created the most discussion of any item. The school board conducted a work retreat session and the four-day school week came up in that session. At the meeting, Superintendent Adam Patrick relayed information that he had collected from some schools that adopted the four-day school week: Wynot, Randolph, and...
Kimball County recorded one new COVID-19 case this past week. This statistic is part of a wider trend as the pandemic’s grip on the region appears to be easing. All Panhandle counties were in the single digits for new COVID-19 cases except for Scotts Bluff County, which reported 40 new cases. In vaccine news, 28% of Panhandle adults have been vaccinated. “People will likely be surprised how quickly they are being scheduled to get their COVID vaccine now. Communities are moving to persons aged 30 and older if they are not already at that poi...
Kimball Volunteer Fire Chief Andrew Bohac addressed the City Council on March 16 in regard to a mutual aid agreement. According to Bohac, this agreement encompasses everything from Big Springs to the Wyoming line. Mutual aid has always been done, but according to Bohac, now they are just "putting it on paper." One phrase sums up the agreement: "We pledge our assistance to each other in the use of fire apparatus, firefighters, medical or rescue emergency or natural disaster – whatever may be i...
Locally, Mark and Bryce Halstead from the EH Ranch, LLC approached Karen Hewitt of Karen's Kitchen in Kimball to promote "Meat on the Menu Day." They said that they wanted to purchase the first 20 prime ribs on Saturday at her restaurant to "support the beef industry and her business." Karen said the customers appreciated it, and it "went great." She said that she cooked four prime ribs and only had four end pieces left. Karen did mention that another beef employer purchased 40 meals for their...
Good morning and Happy Spring! She arrived in spite of all of our snow, hallelujah! You know last week I knew we were missing school on Monday. However, I didn’t know the same was going to be happening on Tuesday and Wednesday. School on Thursday and Friday was a good thing. This week we didn’t have school on Monday because Banner County hosted the MAC quiz bowl and we have a regular school day on Friday, March 26th, but a 1 o’clock dismissal. For the rest of the day, there will be a Jr. High quiz bowl. Saturday, March 27th there will be high s...
Gabriel Teeple, Banner County School's spelling bee champion for three years, competes virtually March 12 in the state spelling bee from a room in the Harrisburg school. The seventh-grader, son of Caroline and Jake Teeple, was focused and represented Banner well in the event, known as the Midwest Spelling Bee. The winner, eighth-grader Hannah Fernandes of Bellevue, will compete July 8 at The Scripps National Spelling Bee in Orlando, Fla....
Robert M. Hill, 75, of Kimball, died in Englewood, Colorado on Sunday, February 21, 2021. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 27, 2021, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Kimball with Father Mike McDermott officiating. Inurnment will be held in the Kimball Cemetery following the funeral Mass. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m. to sign the register book and leave condolences for the family. Friends m...
Twelve members of the Dead Eyes 4-H Club participated in the Nebraska 4-H State BB Gun & Air Rifle Competition this past weekend in Fremont, Nebraska. In the BB Gun competition, the Dead Eyes Team I placed 3rd overall and earned the opportunity to participate in the Daisy National BB Gun Match in Rogers, Arkansas in July of this year. Members of the team were Julia Winstrom, Anna Coleman, Nolan Cook, Sophie Coleman and Karsyn Chesley. Individually, several members of the group also stood out as...
The Kimball track team is preparing for the Kimball Track Invite on Saturday, March 27, after competing in the Chadron Indoor. Results for Kimball athletes at the March 20 Chadron Indoor include: • Raven Johnson won the pole vault. • Maddie Merryfield placed ninth in the 60-meter hurdles. • Chantel Malson ran ninth in the 60-meter dash, and Conner Cluff ran the 400 meters. • Tianna Stierwalk performed well in the high jump, and Isaak Rhode participated in the shot put. Golf & Junior High Track In other spring sports, the first competi...
The Minuteman Activities Conference named its All-Conference selections in basketball for the 2020-21 season, with several area student-athletes recognized for their superior performances during the season. Potter-Dix was well-represented. For boys basketball, Potter-Dix sophomore Luke Kasten and Potter-Dix junior Thomas Muldoon were named to the first team. So was junior KJ Bush of Leyton, Creek Valley senior Just Ningen and Potter-Dix senior Javon Coyle were named to the second team. Creek Valley senior Oakley Hodges and Leyton sophomore...