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 high school show choir, New Dimension, has had a very eventful and action packed spring! On Tuesday, March 21, New Dimension, along with the high school jazz band and various solo performers traveled to Grant for the 2017 SPVA music competition. This year New Dimension was selected as the "Outstanding Show Choir" for the competition which gives them bragging rights as the conference champion show choir for the next year. New Dimension also traveled to Denver, Colo., on Sunday, March...
The Kimball County Commissioners approved a contract for a Deputy County Attorney at the March 21 Board of Commissioners meeting. The contract was given to the firm of Ellison, Kovarik & Turman, instead of just one attorney. It will be up to this firm to assist County Attorney Dave Wilson in prosecuting Kimball County cases. Terms of this contract, which is to begin on April 1, include an agreement to prosecute approximately 20 percent of all Kimball County misdemeanor criminal offenses, not including appellate work at a base salary of...
With the Kimball Event Center energy audit complete, the Kimball City Council heard a presentation by Bob Mead, Nebraska Municipal Power Pool, at the March 21 council meeting which highlighted several concerns. According to Mead, who was accompanied by City of Kimball Electric Department Director Bill Hinton on a facility walk-through, some errors were fixed immediately. “The ice machine and the cooler were being underused,” Mead said. Another issue that was previously corrected included a heating unit and cooling unit set up in such a way tha...
During the most recent Kimball Board of Education meeting the board updated the standards by which all school leaders are evaluated. Board members chose to evaluate administrators in the district by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC), a set of recently developed standards that, according to the ISLLC website, are meant to help strengthen preparation programs in school leadership. “This is the basis for future administrative evaluations,” Superintendent Marshall Lewis. “Recently we have felt the need to improve all of ou...
Services in Kimball are expanding for some of the community's "most vulnerable," according to Rose Bowcut – Executive Director Cheyenne County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate). CASA, a non-profit organization is branching out into Kimball County and with two Kimball County volunteers already on board, as well as several key cross-over components, Bowcut said the decision to extend these services locally was an easy one to make. "We are lucky. In Sidney we have the same judge, Judge R...
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. For several different reasons, people visit the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Depending on the time of the day, there is some good rock and roll music being sung in the stairwells of the hospital. It's sweet, clear, and...
Loyal R. Hornicek, age 88 of Chappell, NE went to rest with our heavenly father on March 23, 2017 at Miller Memorial Care Center in Chappell, NE. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, April 1st in the Lodgepole United Methodist Church with Rev. David Abbott officiating. Burial with Military Honors will be in the Chappell Cemetery at 1:30 P.M. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Friday from 1-7:00 P.M. Memorials have been established to the Miller Memorial Care Center...
Curtis E. Brown, 89, of Kimball, died at the Kimball County Manor on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, March 27, 2017 at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Carla Gunn officiating. Burial will be in the Kimball Cemetery. Military graveside honors will be given by Kimball VFW Post #2243. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until service time on the day of the funeral. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Curtis's Tribute Wall and l...
Leonard R Kellner, age 87, passed away on March 21, 2017 in Vernal, Utah. Leonard was born on January 4, 1930 in Crookston, Nebraska to Hilda and Fredrich Kellner. Leonard married Patsy Kellner on January 30, 1955 in Kimball, Nebraska. Leonard was very proud of serving his country in the Korean War with The United States Marine Corp. He enjoyed passing his time by taking his kids horseback riding and calf roping in his younger days. Took his grand kids fishing and played ball with them. He...
Once a man could travel hundreds, even thousands of miles, find a piece of land suitable (or not) to his needs, lay claim and call it his. Those days are long gone. But in the more recent past, a person (because by this time a woman could own land) could do what they deemed appropriate with their private property. Those days too, are long gone. There are few areas that go unregulated by various agencies in all levels of government, and that list grows smaller each day. Now, we have committees regulating how we use our personal property. In...
The Kimball High track team opened the outdoor season this past Saturday at their own Kimball Invitational and had seven wins on the day with four in the boy's division and three in the girl's division. Pine Bluffs was a double winner in the team standings, taking the girl's division with 164 points with Potter-Dix runner-up with 99, followed by Hemingford with 68, Kimball 63, Minatare 37 and Banner County 35. In the boy's division it was Pine Bluffs with 158, Hemingford 108, Kimball 95,...
Two new meet records were established Saturday at the Kimball Invitational Track and Field meet and Potter-Dix senior Alexus Rozelle put her name on both of them. The talented young lady who has signed to play volleyball at McCook Community College next fall, twirled the discus 123 feet to improve the previous record held by 11 feet as the old record of 112 feet was set by Laura Gross of Pine Bluffs in 2012. Jaden Ragsdale of Pine Bluffs saw her record in the shot put also go by the wayside as...
The Banner County High track team showed they have good potential in the distance events on the track along with the weight events in the girl's division, as this is where they scored most of their points in the Kimball Invitational on Saturday. The Banner County boys finished fifth in the team standings with 32 points and the girls wound up sixth with 35 points. MaKenna Dahlgrin returns as one of the better weight performers in Western Nebraska and had a good day Saturday finishing runner-up...
The outdoor track and field season got underway for our immediate area tracksters this past Saturday at the Kimball Invitational. Kimball Activities Director, Ken Smith, waved his magic Baton and gave athletes, fans and officials a wonderful day, weather-wise! The Kimball facilities are in outstanding condition and very attractive. If you haven’t been up to the school lately, you need to give it a look-see. A tip of the hat to Mr. Smith and everyone who helped with the meet on Saturday. A tip of the hat also to Alexus Rozelle of Potter-Dix f...