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 Honor Flight Network is a program that sends World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans to Washington, D.C., in order to see the memorial for the war in which they fought. One of Kimball's own, Arne Christensen, recently returned from his honor flight. The Korean War, often known as the Forgotten War, was fought from June 1950 to July 1953. The Korean War began when communist North Korea invaded South Korea. America went to the aid of South Korea. Though there were American soldiers a...
The Kimball City Council approved two requests for KENO funds and its annual budget at the Sept. 16 meeting. The city council approved a budget for the coming fiscal year. The only issue brought to the council’s attention was the amount promised to the Welcome Center. The county had previously pledged $500 monthly and the city pledged $1,000 monthly. After the figures were known, the county decided to up their contribution to $1,000 monthly, at the same time the city chose to lower its payment. The lack of communication caused for some f...
With a belief in small government, small banks and a big God, independent U.S. Senate candidate Todd Watson visited Kimball last week as one of several stops in the western part of the state. Watson, a Lincoln businessman, is one of four candidates vying to replace retiring senator Mike Johanns, a Republican. The other candidates are Republican Ben Sasse, Democrat Dave Domina and independent Jim Jenkins. Watson said the biggest difference in his candidacy is being against both big banks and big...
In the year since the opening of the High Point Welcome Center of Western Nebraska, the visitors committee has accomplished quite a bit. One of those accomplishments is that they recently won the 2014 Bruce Riley McDaniel Award for Bureau Innovation (budget of $350,000 or less). The Bruce Riley McDaniel Awards are given in memory of one of the founders of the Upper Midwest Conventions and Visitors Bureau Conference. These awards are given to tourism industry professionals that achieve and...
The unemployment rate for Kimball County showed a slight improvement from July to August in numbers released last Friday by the Nebraska Department of Labor. The numbers provided by the department showed a 3.1 percent unemployment rate for August, down from 3.5 percent in July. The August numbers showed there were 1,945 in the labor force last month with 1,884 employed and 61 unemployed. There were 1,954 in the July labor force with 1,886 employed and 68 unemployed. The numbers for Banner County showed an increase of 1.4 percent in...
James Arthur Stander, 82, lovingly known to his family and many friends as Jim, passed away while holding the hand of his wife on Sept. 20, 2014, at 4:44 p.m. in Reno, Nevada. Born on December 20, 1931 in Kimball, to Fred and Minnie Stander, Jim was raised on his family's wheat farm. He and his sister continued to manage farm land in Kimball and Ashland up until his passing. During Jim's adolescence, his family moved to Denver, Colo., where Jim remained for most of his life. Jim's great talent p...
Farmer's Day starts Friday, and with a wide range of activities for the whole family to enjoy, the community is encouraged to make the most of the next three days. A few of the big highlights of Farmer's Day includes the Grand Marshal of the parade, and the Homemaker and Farmer nominations. This year's Grand Marshals are Noia "Cork" B. Brown and Bernita Brown. Cork and Bernita have been married for 60 years. While Bernita moved to Kimball in 1945 from Dix, Cork came to Kimball in 1954 to work...
Chase County came to Kimball Friday night and took home a 38-6 victory in the football battle between the two Longhorn teams. Kimball scored first, but it was all Chase County from that point on. On a cloudy, but calm football night that was delayed 30 minutes due to lightning and some brief rain, Chase County sent the opening kickoff out of bounds allowing the local Horns to start on their 38 yard line. The Big Red picked up a pair of first downs but then stalled and had to punt. Chase County...
The Western Trails Conference Girls Golf Tournament will take place at Bridgeport today (Thursday) with a 9 a.m. start time. Kimball’s Jaycie Walker and Kalli Bush will be in the field vying for top ten medal finishes along with a spot in the Best in the West Tournament being held at the Gering course on Oct. 1. Jaycie Walker’s top ten medal streak came to an end this week when she finished 1 stroke out of l0th place at Ogallala on this past Monday. Coach Nora Robinson said, “It was a nasty day at Ogallala with wind and rain but it wasn...
Some exciting volleyball action for the Kimball High Lady Longhorns this past week as they ran their season record to 7 wins and 5 losses. At the Hemingford triangular they lost to the host school 18-25 and 24-26, but cam back strong to win over Gordon-Rushville 25-22, 22-25 and 25-18. Coach Vicki Mitchell said, "We lost a close one to Hemingford after beating them on Saturday. The problems we made were fixable mistakes. In one set, most of their points scored were from unforced errors. If we...
Ryan Muneio improved his season best time by over a full minute in running Kimball High's best time at the Alliance Cross Country Invite this past Saturday. Muneio ran 18:20 over the 5K course to earn the 8th place medal in the boys varsity division. Although Muneio was the lone medal winner for Kimball, there were some other highlights and improved times for the Longhorns. The Kimball girls finished fourth in the team standings with 64 points, led by Kailey Dickerson finishing 20th with a time...
Kimball area drag racers recently traveled to Bandimere Speedway in Denver to participate in the NHRA Division 5 Summit Racing E.T. Finals held Sept. 11-14. The annual event hosts 15 NHRA Division 5 tracks where the best bracket racers in the region compete in Super Pro, Pro, Sportsman, Pro Bike and High School for NHRA Divisional Championships and a chance to go to Pomona, Calif., for the NHRA World Championships. Racers compete the entire race season at their local tracks to earn points that...