Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Since the beginning of April, the Kimball County Sheriff's Office dispatch has received more than 20 reports of prowlers, suspicious vehicles or suspicious people. Calls concerning incidents inside city limits were referred to the Kimball Police Department. Six reporting parties called regarding suspicious people and vehicles, while theft was reported nine times and several callers followed up with additional concerns and information. According to the call log, guns were stolen from vehicles in three reports. Other missing items include mail,...
Christina Grubbs was crowned queen and Roby Fonseca was crowned king at the Banner County High School prom held Saturday at the Gering Civic Center. Juewl Simonton and Dalton Jordan were named attendants. Pictured, from left, are: Simonton, Grubbs, Fonseca and Jordan....
Despite the unanimous recommendation of the city’s planning commission on March 16, the Kimball City Council voted to zone a tract of land at 4351 E. Highway 30 for heavy industry at its meeting last week. The council zoned the property heavy industrial, with council member James Shields as the lone dissenting vote. The land was originally purchased by Don Gregory and the late Bruce Evertson, located east of Kimball along Highway 30 and north of what was once Castronics. It is now owned by Evertson companies and Gregory. “To make it per...
"If everyone is doing a little we can all do a lot," said Kimball High School teacher Pat Sulu. Sulu has been encouraging students in her Spanish class to become involved in the community and make changes, and she has partnered with local organizations and other classes as well. "The first days of school in August, students saw videos of eight local business people explaining what was needed to work in their businesses and how all these skills are learned at Kimball High School," Sulu said....
The Kimball City Council was presented with an updated policy regarding the Kimball Police Department canine program at its regularly scheduled meeting held April 7. Police Captain Andy Bremer presented the updated policy to the council in Chief Darren Huff’s absence. According to City Administrator Daniel Ortiz, Huff stated late last week that the department would be retrofitting a vehicle currently in its fleet as opposed to purchasing one for the canine program. “We can’t get into too much detail just because of the nature of it being an op...
The Kimball Board of Education voted unanimously to hire a third kindergarten teacher for the upcoming school year during its regularly scheduled meeting Monday night. After hearing from five educators on staff currently, the board agreed that the rising number of youngsters in class warranted the extra staff. In addition to a larger kindergarten class, educators stated that pupils in kindergarten through second grade have higher needs and demand more attention in general. “I’ll be honest with you, earlier on, when it was brought to me I sai...
Terrell Wiekhorst passed peacefully Saturday, April 4, 2015, at Sidney Regional Medical Center Extended Care. He was surrounded by his family. At his request cremation has taken place. A memorial service was held at Prairie West Church in Potter on Friday, April 10, at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor Betsy Galloway-Carew officiating. Inurnment followed in the Potter Cemetery. Terrell was born to Violet and Ray Wiekhorst November 15, 1932 in Kimball. He grew up on the family farm north of Potter. He...
James Eric Vogler, 56, of Littleton, Colorado, died at Kimball Health Services on Sunday, April 5, 2015. Cremation has been held and memorial services will be held at a later date. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view the obituary and leave condolences for the family. Memorials may be given to the family for use in river conservation. The services for Eric have been entrusted to the Cantrell Funeral Home. James Eric Vogler was born in Kimball on April 23, 1958, the son of Jim and Jan Vog...
Shayla Nagel, daughter of Bob and Corrie Nagel of Kimball, and Brandon Havlat, son of Jeff and Kathy Havlat of Pleasant Dale, were married on Oct. 11, 2014. Their wedding ceremony was held in Pleasant Dale and was followed with a reception with family and friends. Shayla graduated with a BSN degree in Nursing at University of Nebraska at Kearney. She is employed with Crete Medical Hospital. Brandon is employed with Burlington Northern Railroad as an electrician in Lincoln. After a trip to...
The Kimball community blood drive will be held from 2-5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 20, at the Kimball Event Center. The regional blood bank reports that it needs 500 people a week to donate blood to serve the 47 area hospitals in this region. Did you know that one out of every three people will need blood during their lives but only one in 20 people regularly give blood? Blood can only be stored on hospital shelves for 42 days and every three seconds someone needs a blood transfusion. Blood is always needed and you never know when it could be...
Kim Baliman, right, manager of American Bullet in Kimball, explains the process of making 9 mm bullets to Congressman Adrian Smith on Thursday, April 9, in Kimball. Smith and his aide toured the local business along with Kimball Mayor Keith Prunty and Kimball City Administrator Daniel Ortiz and their guests....
Both the Kimball and Banner County FFA had strong showings at the state competition held last week in Lincoln. The Kimball livestock evaluation team won a purple ribbon by finishing fourth overall among all teams at state. Members of the team were Monica Wasielewski, Tyler Shaw, Rowdy Keller and Kailey Dickerson. Wasielewski finished third individually in the event as well, and also received a purple ribbon. Shaw and Keller received blue ribbons, while Dickerson won a red ribbon. Jessica...
The first-ever week celebrating Nebraska Transit Week in Kimball County was a success, said shuttle coordinator Erika Loy. The shuttle hosted various activities throughout the week to promote the transit system. More than 50 children participated in a coloring contest. The winners were Akeila Thomas, 2, Emma Novtony, 7, and Hannah Schildhauer, 9. Eight of the 15 free tickets were found around town Monday, which was scavenger hunt day. Those who won the 10-punch tickets from the drawing were Marg...
Winners in the Observer's Easter coloring contest have been announced. Two winners were picked in each category. In the age 2-5 bracket, MacKenzie Miller, 3, and Jameson Withrow, 4, were chosen as the winners. In the age 6-8 bracket, Lydia Mars, 7, and Braxton Miller, 7, were chosen as the winners. In the age 9-10 bracket, Charlotte Hargreaves, 10, and Alexis Schaeffer, 10, were chosen as the winners. Each of the winners received a "goodie basket" full of prizes. Four of the winners have picked...
A special ceremony was held recently on the Norfolk campus of Northeast Community College to welcome the newest members into its international honor society. Students were installed into Northeast's Phi Theta Kappa, (PTK), Tau Chi chapter during the spring 2015 induction ceremony held March 22 in the Lifelong Learning Center. To be eligible for PTK, students must have earned at least 12 credit hours and achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.5 or above out of a 4.0 system. Hannah J. Walker...
Jordan Greenwood got his 2015 High School Golf Season off to a fantastic start as he took top honors at the Bayard Tournament shooting a 38-37=75 to take medalist honors by 7 strokes over John Opela of Mullen, who was runnerup with his round of 82. Coach Chad Wise had nothing but praise for his talented young sophomore, but said, "Actually, Jordan had a few problems with his putting and could have shot even lower." As a freshman last year, Greenwood opened his high school golf at the Bayard...
Kimball won the overall team championship at the Tri-State Track and Field Invite this past Friday in Chappell, thanks to a first place by the Kimball girls team and a runnerup finish by the Kimball boys team. In the final results sheets no team scores were included, or the listings of how teams finished in order. It was a delightful day for track and field at Chappell and the athletes responded, especially the Kimball athletes, with many personal bests for the season, and many Kimball athletes...
Potter-Dix had some strong showings against mostly larger schools Saturday at the E. Lee Todd Invitational held at Grant. The Lady Coyotes finished sixth and the Coyotes took seventh in the nine-team field. Ogallala won both the boys and girls events. "I was pleased with the way the girls and boys competed against the larger schools," Potter-Dix coach Bob Hilpert said. "We had a few ineligibles that hurt us, and Regyn Hicks sprained her ankle Friday night at practice and she was only able to...
A short-handed Banner County squad competed in the Chappell track meet held last Friday. Banner was without many of its team due to the state FFA conference, which was held last Wednesday through Friday in Lincoln. Courtney Knisley led the Lady Wildcats with a second place finish in the 3200 meter run. She finished the race in 14:44. Knisley also took eighth place in the 800 meter run with a time of 3:05.30. Abby Russell led the team in the throws with a throw of 30-0 in the shot put and 86-10...
The Kimball Junior High boys track team had a strong showing in their opening track competition at the Bayard Invite, finishing second in the 14 school event. Sidney won the boys division with 108.5 points with Kimball runnerup with 91 and third place Bayard a distant third with 43. Several standouts for Kimball on the day with Brady Kilgore sweeping the hurdle events winning the 110 meter hurdles in 16.84 and taking the 200 hurdles in 28.18. Kilgore also ran 6th in the 100 meter dash in 12.45. He was a four event placer as he was 5th in the...
Banner County High School held its prom last Saturday at the Gering Civic Center. Christina Grubbs was crowned prom queen, while Roby Fonseca was crowned prom king. Attendants were Juewl Simonton and Dalton Jordan. This year's theme was "Twilight Woods."...