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explain water
quality issues
ERICA BLAKLEY
eblakley@hastingstribune.com
AMY ROH/Tribune
A feasibility study was done in October on Building 7 (shown above) at the Hastings Regional Center to possibly reestablish mental health treatment at the regional center in the future.
Findings coming soon
PROPOSAL TO OPEN
BEDS AT HRC
INCLUDES TEARING
DOWN HCC BUILDING
TONY HERRMAN
therrman@hastingstribune.com
The public
will know in
less than two
weeks about
the feasibility of reestablishing
mental
health treatment at the
Seiler
Hastings
Regional Center for inmates
of the Nebraska Correctional
System.
State Sen. Les Seiler of
Hastings said Tuesday afternoon during a workshop for
Adams County department
heads that the Nebraska
Department of Health and
Human Services will release
Dec. 15 the findings of a
$200,000 feasibility study
looking into the rehabilita-
tion of Building 7 at the
regional center. Engineers and
Architects visited the site in
October.
If the building receives a
favorable report, Seiler said,
the plan would be to establish
a program in which inmates
would spend about six
months at HRC getting mental health treatment, including
for alcohol and drug abuse.
Since there is no health
treatment plan at the
moment, Seiler said, this
would be an improvement.
“These people are given a
handful of pills, kicked out
and it doesn’t take them long
to commit a crime and
they’re back in,” he told the
county employees. “Each
time they’re convicted, it just
spirals up.”
The mental health program
would be similar to one based
at the regional center that
was discontinued about 10
years ago.
Of the state’s more than
5,000 inmates, 31 percent
have mental health issues
with no treatment, Seiler said.
Building 7 could house more
than 200 patients.
He said records show a 90percent success rate for those
who are treated.
Under the plan, most of the
buildings on the south side of
the regional center campus
would be demolished, Seiler
said. That includes the former
Hastings Correctional Center
building, which Seiler said
was stripped of everything
once it closed in 2005.
If it is decided not to rehabilitate the regional center building, Seiler said Lincoln and
Omaha might be considered
for the treatment program.
However, he said that
because the state already
owns the regional center
property, Hastings has a leg
up on other cities competing
for the program.
While Seiler didn’t mention
a specific number, he said the
program has “huge employment projections.” Mary
Lanning Healthcare has volunteered to contract psychiatrists,
psychologists, nurses and other
medical staff, he said.
“Think of the laundry, the
upkeep, the maintenance, the
food,” he said. “All of those
people are employees who
have to be
rehired to
serve out
there. Think
Think of
of what that what that
will do for
will do for
job creation
job crein Adams
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in
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Among
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jobs that
could be created by re- Sen.
establishing
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Les
health proSeiler
gram in
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would be University of
Nebraska Medical Center psychiatry students receiving
training. Seiler said those
medical students currently
receive their training in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Please see HRC/page A3
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KENESAW — Little Blue
Natural Resources District officials are considering establishing a Level 2 Water Quality
Subarea between Kenesaw and
Prosser to control groundwater
contamination by nitrates.
Daryl Andersen and Mike
Onnen, both of the LBNRD,
conducted an informational
meeting Tuesday evening in
Kenesaw to get input, suggestions and feedback from area
farmers regarding the proposal
of a Level 2 subarea.
“Our whole district is a Level 1
subarea,” said Andersn, who is
the NRD’s water quality specialist.
“So to move to a higher level, you
have to meet certain criteria.”
In a Level 2 subarea, farmers
are required to file annual
reports on their farmland and
farming practices, which include
soil samples when adding nitrogen fertilizer and irrigation information. They also are required
to comply with district-approved
laboratory fertilizer recommendations, set up a demonstration
field for the demonstration and
implementation of Best
Management Practices, and participate in operator training
every four years.
The High Plains Aquifer in
the Adams County area provides about 100-200 feet of saturated thickness.
“We’ve got a great resource
in the water supply in
Nebraska. It’s by far the greatest
amount of water in the entire
High Plains Aquifer that is
found in our state,” said
Onnen, manager of the
LBNRD.
Please see NRD/page A3
County making efforts to
improve communications
RADIO FREQUENCY
STRENGTH TOO WEAK
IN KENESAW AREA
TONY HERRMAN
therrman@hastingstribune.com
It looks likely that Adams
County will add a radio
repeater to a grain elevator
and improve radio communications for the Kenesaw
Volunteer Fire Department
that have been nonexistent at
times.
Chip Volcek, director of
Adams County Emergency
Management, said he talked
to Bob Fifield, CEO of
Cooperative Producers Inc.,
about placing a radio repeater
on the headhouse at the top
of CPI’s 180-foot Hayland
grain elevator near Prosser.
Volcek said Fifield was in
favor of the arrangement but
needed to talk to CPI’s legal
and safety representatives
before giving approval.
Volcek volunteered two
weeks ago to submit environmental and historic preservation screening forms to the
Homeland Security
Department for several potential locations for a radio
repeater tower as well as talk
to owners of those potential
sites.
Kim Ehly, Kenesaw fire
chief, shared concerns during
the board’s Nov. 3 meeting
about his department’s radio
communications. He said at
certain locations, Kenesaw
firefighters have no radio
communication.
County officials worked
with Brad Stark, owner and
operator of Platte Valley
Communications, who surveyed the area in question to
pinpoint weak spots.
Please see KENESAW/page A3
Another case made for Medicaid expansion
GRANT SCHULTE
The Associated Press
LINCOLN — A lack of
health insurance is driving
many of Nebraska’s personal
bankruptcies and shifting more
costs onto hospitals and businesses, advocates who want
Nebraska to expand Medicaid
told lawmakers Tuesday.
Supporters are once again
preparing to introduce a
Medicaid expansion bill that
would extend coverage to an
estimated 54,000 Nebraska residents whose incomes are too
high to qualify for Medicaid
but too low to receive subsidies
available under the federal
health care law.
Tuesday’s legislative committee examined the impact of
Nebraska’s decision not to
expand Medicaid.
An advocacy group,
Nebraska Appleseed, presented
the legislative committee
Tuesday with an analysis of
bankruptcy filings from three
counties in 2013. It found that
more than one-fourth of the
bankruptcy filers in Dawson,
Otoe and Red Willow counties
reported major medical expenses that accounted for at least 20
percent of their debt.
“A lack of health insurance is
a clear theme running throughout, and the majority of the
debt is held by local businesses
within Nebraska’s borders,” said
staff attorney James Goddard,
who noted the report only
identified medical debts that
were “clearly labeled” in court
filings, so the actual numbers
are likely much higher.
Sen. Al Davis of Hyannis,
who initiated a separate study
of the impact, said the lack of
coverage has contributed to
bankruptcies, which become a
drag on the local economy
because he says banks, car dealerships and small-town grocers
suffer.
“Medical bankruptcy causes
hardship all across a community,
but it is often the only choice for
many of Nebraska’s uninsured
who are unfortunate enough to
become sick,” said Davis, who
represents parts of western and
north-central Nebraska.
Goddard said Otoe County
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WRONG KIDNEY
Art by Katelyn Varah, 10,
Doniphan-Trumbull School
Republican Gov. Dave
Heineman has said the state’s
obligations would pull money
away from other priorities,
such as education. Gov.-elect
Pete Ricketts also opposes
Medicaid expansion.
Lincoln resident Amanda
Gershon told lawmakers that
she was forced into bankruptcy
a decade ago, at age 22,
because she couldn’t afford the
$60,000 in medical bills to treat
an irreversible autoimmune
disorder.
Her hair is falling out and
she has lost 20 percent of her
body weight in the last three
months for reasons no one can
explain. She has visited the
hospital three times this year
Nation
Weather
Southeast
winds at
5 to 10
mph.
Partly
cloudy
Thursday
in eastern Nebraska was chosen
because it includes both urban
and rural residents. Red Willow
County in southwest Nebraska
relies more heavily on agriculture, while Dawson County has
a large population of slaughterhouse workers who often lack
insurance.
Supporters have twice
attempted to pass an expansion measure in the Legislature,
but both times — in 2013 and
in 2014— it was defeated in a
filibuster.
Lawmakers who opposed the
measure last session argued
that the federal funding won’t
be sustainable over the long
term, and Nebraska’s share of
the expenses could grow.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A
California surgeon has been disciplined for removing a prisoner’s healthy kidney and leaving
the diseased one intact.
The state medical board
placed Dr. Charles Coonan Streit
on probation for three years.
The board said Streit, a urologist who has had his license for
41 years, relied on memory to
decide which kidney to remove
because he didn’t have access to
the patient’s medical records.
— twice because her heart wasn’t beating correctly — and
may have to seek bankruptcy
protection once again.
“I can’t keep doing this. I
can’t,” she said through tears.
“In the few years of my life
that I had insurance, I had
excellent credit. I had a home,
I had vehicles, I had food on
my table, I had no worries. ...
But left with no insurance, I’m
back to that starting point
again.”
If lawmakers fail to act this
year, Sen. Jeremy Nordquist
says supporters could take the
issue straight to voters, as they
did with the successful measure
to increase Nebraska’s minimum wage.
Inside
The 2012 operation at
Fullerton’s St. Jude Medical
Center involved a 59-year-old
federal inmate. The inmate
underwent a second procedure
to have the cancerous kidney
removed.
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Yesterday and Today
Obituaries
DONALD E. GOODRICH
Hastings resident Dr. Donald
E. Goodrich, long-time educator and community leader
passed away
Saturday,
October 25,
2014, in
Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Memorial
Services are 11
a.m. Saturday
at First Presbyterian Church in
Hastings with Reverend Duane
Queen and Reverend Charles
M. Webster officiating. Private
family burial will be at
Parkview Cemetery in Hastings.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Friday
with family present at the
funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to
the Dr. Donald E. Goodrich
Memorial Fund or donor’s
choice. Private condolences
may be sent to the family at
www.lbvfh.com. Livingston
Butler Volland Funeral Home &
Cremation Center is serving
the family.
Donald was born July 20,
1928 in Fairmont, Nebraska to
Homer and Mary (Dick)
Goodrich. He graduated from
McCool Junction High School
in 1945 and received his
Bachelor’s Degree from Doane
College in 1950. Donald taught
English and music at Newcastle
Public Schools in 1950-1951.
He served with the U.S. Army
from 1951-1953. Donald married Nancy Crossman on
October 31, 1951. Their family
included three children.
Donald attended the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
and received his Master’s
(1955) and doctoral degrees
(1965). He served as a vocal
music teacher and the music
coordinator at Hastings Public
Schools from 1955-1973.
Donald was Associate Professor
of Teacher Education at
Hastings College from 1973
until he retired in 1991.
He was a member of Phi Mu
Alpha Sinfonia, Nebraska
School Masters Club, Hastings
Parent-Teacher Association,
President of Hastings Civic
Symphony Board of Directors,
National Education
Association, Nebraska State
Education Association,
National Choral Directors
Association, American Choral
Directors Association, Nebraska
Music Educators Association,
American Association of
University Professors. At
Hastings College, he was a
member of Faculty Senate,
Collegiate Council, Co-Sponsor
Student Education Association,
and Hastings College Area
Educators Joint Council.
Donald was a barbershop
enthusiast and church musician. He directed choirs at First
Congregational and First
United Methodist churches. He
was a member of First
Presbyterian Church and was
its choir director from 19681983. He was a longtime member and director of the Hastings
Chorus of the Plains. Don sang
with the barbershop quartet
The Four Dads in the mid1960s and again for twenty
years starting in 1992. He was a
member of the Hastings Area
Retired Teachers Association
and Hastings Kiwanis where he
enthusiastically led the club’s
weekly singing. Donald was
inducted into the Nebraska
Music Educators Hall of Fame
in 1994 and Music Educator,
Emeriti, Hastings Symphony
Orchestra in 2010.
Donald was preceded in
death by his parents; his wife,
Nancy Crossman Goodrich
(1995); his son, Paul Campbell
Goodrich (1968); his siblings
Homer Eugene Goodrich
(1990) and Evalyn Goodrich
Foster (2002).
Survivors include his daughter, Susan Marie Goodrich of
Lincoln, NE; son, Kurt Eugene
Goodrich (Amy Fuchs) of
Hastings, NE; granddaughters,
Maurianna Goodrich
Shelbourn of Salt Lake City, UT,
Abigaella Goodrich Shelbourn
of Lincoln NE, and Kailey
Emerald Goodrich of Hastings,
NE; three siblings: Robert Dick
Goodrich (Berdeen) of
Pecatonica, IL, Anna Marie
Goodrich Hall (Roland) of
McCool Junction, NE, and
Carolyn Goodrich Roper
(Delvin) of Grand Island, NE;
Shirley Johnston, April Kaul,
Shea and Colton Fuchs. Also
left to celebrate the memory of
his life are cherished friends, an
extended loving family, devoted students, colleagues, and
musicians.
RUTH G. (WEHRLY) WHITTEN
Superior, NE - Ruth Grace
(Wehrly) Whitten, 87, daughter
of Charles and Mable (Ryker)
Wehrly, was
born January
23, 1927
north of
Guide Rock in
Webster
County, NE.
She departed
this life
Saturday, November 29, 2014
at Brodstone Memorial
Hospital, Superior, NE.
She was preceded in death
by an infant sister, parents, son
Dennis on December 18, 1996
and husband Leonard on
September 26, 2000.
Ruth is survived by her two
daughters, Darlene Hayes and
husband Sam, Linda Thagard
all of Superior, NE; a daughterin-law, Patty Whitten of Blue
Hill, NE; a son, Lonnie Whitten
and wife Debra of Smith
Center, KS; 11 grandchildren,
22 great-grandchildren, nieces,
nephews, other relatives and a
host of friends.
Funeral services are 11 a.m.
Thursday at the First United
Methodist Church in Guide
Rock, NE, with Dr. Jeff Collins
of the Superior Church of
Christ officiating. Visitation is
8:30 a.m. until service time
Thursday at the church. Burial
will be in the Guide Rock
Cemetery, Guide Rock, NE.
Memorials may be given to the
Ruth G. Whitten Memorial
fund in care of All Faiths
Funeral Chapel, 113 S.
Madison St., Smith Center, KS
66967. For on-line condolences
please visit www.allfaithsfuneralchapel.com
ROBERT ZEIGLER
Superior resident Robert
Zeigler, 75, died Wednesday,
Dec. 3, 2013, in Crete.
Services are pending with
Megrue-Price Funeral Home in
Superior. Burial is at Evergreen
Cemetery in Superior.
Calendar
THURSDAY
Hastings
u Hastings College Theater
Department presents “Goldilocks on
Trial,” 7:30 p.m., Hastings College
Theater on the HC campus. For
more information or tickets, call
402-461-7380 or email
tickets@hastings.edu.
u Toddler Time for ages 3 and
under, 10:30 a.m., Hastings Public
Library, 517 W. Fourth St. For more
information, call 402-461-2346.
u Family Story Time, 6:30 p.m.,
Hastings Public Library, 517 W.
Fourth St. For more information,
call 402-461-2346.
u Bingo, 7 p.m., Eagles Club, 107
N. Denver Ave.
u Al-Anon, noon, The
Kensington, 233 N. Hastings Ave.
u Alcoholics Anonymous, 9 a.m.,
noon, 5:15, 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., 521
S. St. Joseph Ave.; 7 p.m.
(women’s group), 907 S. Kansas
Ave.; and 8 p.m., Faith Lutheran
Church, 837 Chestnut Ave.
u GriefShare, 10 a.m., 4Good
Samaritan Village Community
Center and 7 p.m., First St. Paul’s
Youth and Family Center, Fourth St.
and Lexington Ave. For more information, visit www.griefshare.org.
u Red Cross Bloodmobile, noon to
5:15 p.m., First Congregational
United Church of Christ. Make
appointment at 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.
u Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30
p.m., 422 N. Burlington Ave., rear
entrance.
u Sex and Love Addicts
Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., 521 S. St.
Joseph Ave.
Juniata
u Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.,
United Methodist Church basement, 610 N. Adams Ave.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
Monkeying around
LUIS HIDALGO/AP
Elba Munoz touches the hand of a monkey at a rescue and rehabilitation center in Santiago, Chile on, Nov. 22, 2014.
Munoz was working as a midwife when she took in her first monkey in 1994. Then she took in another and another,
and now her shelter for illegally smuggled primates in Chile has 160 inhabitants.
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 3, the 337th
day of 2014. There are 28 days left in
the year.
MEMORY LANE
Bhopal, India.
TODAY IN NEBRASKA
1873 — The city of Kearney incorporated.
TRIBLAND
ON THIS DATE
Sixty years ago: Under the baton of
Matthew Shoemaker, the 61-piece Civic
Symphony Orchestra played to a nearly
full house at the City Auditorium.
Fifty years ago: Mabel Dixon was honored for her 60 years of dental practice
when she attended the American Dental
Association convention in San Francisco.
Forty years ago: Tiny Tim, who had
attained fame in the mid-1960s, appeared
at The Garden restaurant in Hastings. He
and his troupe gave two performances,
including his songs, “Tiptoe Through the
Tulips,” and “I’ve Got to Be Me.”
Thirty years ago: Hastings businessman
Edwin Loutzenheiser Jr. was converting
the former Midwest Distributors building
at Juniata into a manufacturing plant
housing three businesses.
Twenty years ago: The Hastings Area
Habitat for Humanity completed its first
house and turned the keys over to Jeff
and Carrie Heeren at 601 S. Boston Ave.
Ten years ago: A crew of anthropologists from Kansas State University spent
10 days in the muddy bed of Lovewell
Reservoir in Jewell County, Kan., completing a search for evidence of an Early
American house site use by native people
several hundred years ago.
One year ago: Central Community
College was planning an $8.2 million renovation project at the Hastings campus,
with renovations to the Campus Center
and Hall Building.
In 1810, British forces captured
Mauritius from the French, who had
renamed the island nation off southeast
Africa “Ile de France.”
In 1818, Illinois was admitted as the
21st state.
In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected
president of the United States by the
Electoral College.
In 1833, Oberlin College in Ohio — the
first truly coeducational school of higher
learning in the United States — began
holding classes.
In 1925, George Gershwin’s Concerto
in F had its world premiere at New York’s
Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin at the
piano.
In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play
“A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on
Broadway.
In 1960, the Lerner and Loewe musical
“Camelot” opened on Broadway.
In 1964, police arrested some 800 students at the University of California at
Berkeley, a day after the students stormed
the administration building and staged a
massive sit-in.
In 1967, surgeons in Cape Town, South
Africa led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant
on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days
with the new heart. The 20th Century
Limited, the famed luxury train, completed its final run from New York to
Chicago.
In 1979, 11 people were killed in a
crush of fans at Cincinnati’s Riverfront
Coliseum, where the British rock group
The Who was performing.
In 1991, radicals in Lebanon released
American hostage Alann Steen, who’d
HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
On Dec. 3, 1984, thousands of people
died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate
gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in
been held captive nearly five years.
In 1994, AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser,
who along with her two children were
infected with HIV because of a blood
transfusion, died in Santa Monica,
California, at age 47.
Ten years ago: It was announced that
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
was staying on the job. Health and
Human Services Secretary Tommy
Thompson resigned, warning as he left of
a possible terror attack on the nation’s
food supply. The Ukraine Supreme Court
ordered a rerun of the head-to-head presidential contest, setting off rejoicing by
supporters of Western-leaning Viktor
Yushchenko, who ended up the winner.
Five years ago: President Barack Obama
hosted a White House-sponsored jobs
forum, where he said he’d heard many
“exciting ideas” and proposals and
expressed hope some could be put into
action quickly. Pope Benedict XVI and
visiting Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev agreed to upgrade VaticanKremlin ties to full diplomatic relations.
Comcast and GE announced joint venture plans, with Comcast owning a 51
percent controlling stake in NBC
Universal. British actor Richard Todd died
in Little Humby, Lincolnshire, England, at
age 90.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The well of Providence is deep. It’s the
buckets we bring to it that are small.”
— Mary Webb, Scottish religious
leader (c.1881-1927)
FACT OF THE DAY
The successful 2007-2008 Mars mission
was given the name "Phoenix" because it
"rose from the ashes" of two unsuccessful
earlier missions to Mars: the lost 1999
Mars Polar Lander and the canceled 2001
Mars Surveyor Lander.
Sources: The Associated Press, Newspaper
Enterprise Assn. and World Almanac Education
Group
Tribland
Vehicles reportedly driven by
Frank Georgiana of 1002 W.
Seventh St. and Shandra L.
Farmer of 831 N. Lexington
Ave. collided Nov. 22 at
Seventh Street near Burlington
Avenue.
Don’t miss The Kensington’s
annual Christmas Market
Thursday, December 4, 4:00 to
8:00. Over 30 vendors including The Pie Lady, DoTerra
Essential Oils, Origami Owl
Custom Lockets, Biscuits and
Bones Bakery Dog Treats and
many, many more. 233 North
Hastings Avenue. -Adv.
A vehicle reportedly driven
by Roxane R. Wademan of Blue
Hill struck a pole Nov. 25
owned by Mary Lanning
Healthcare, 715 N. St. Joseph
Ave., at the hospital.
Eagles bingo, Thursday 7:00;
bonanza 58-numbers, progressive jackpot, pig. All welcome. Adv.
A hit-and-run driver reportedly struck a parked vehicle
Nov. 25 owned by Melissa E.
Webster of 1118 N. Webster
Ave. at an unknown location.
Adams County Judge
Timothy Hoeft on Monday
sentenced Justin L. Stapleman,
21, of Taylor to six months of
probation, a $500 fine, 60-day
driver’s license revocation,
defensive driving class and victim impact class for driving
under the influence of alcohol
on Aug. 3. Stapleman pleaded
no contest Oct. 17. DUI is a
Class W misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail
and a $500 fine.
Hastings Symphony
Christmas Concert Sunday,
December 7, Masonic Center;
note special start time 4:00
p.m. Tickets call 402-469-9396
or at concert; adults $20, senior
citizens $18, students free. Adv.
Lotteries
Corrections
WINNING NUMBERS
Tuesday
Kansas Pick 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-3-4
Nebraska Pick 3 . . . . . . . . . . . .6-7-0
MyDaY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-10-40
Nebraska Pick 5 . . . . .19-26-28-30-35
Jackpot: $166,000
MegaMillions . . .13-18-22-49-62-Y-11
Megaplier: 5
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If you see an error in the
Hastings Tribune’s news coverage, we want to know. Call the
newsroom at 402-461-1257
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, or email tribune@hastingstribune.com. Or
write to Newsroom, P.O. Box
788, Hastings, NE 68902.
Adams County Judge
Timothy Hoeft on Monday
sentenced Jordan J. McIntyre,
29, of 910 E. Fourth St. to six
months of probation, a $500
fine, 60-day driver’s license revocation, defensive driving class
and alcohol/drug education
class for refusing a blood test
on May 15. McIntyre pleaded
no contest Oct. 3, and prosecutors dropped charges of driving
under the influence of alcohol,
refusing a breath test and
speeding. Refusing a blood test
is a Class W misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail
and a $500 fine.
We buy cars. Jackson’s Car
Corner, Inc. 463-0688. -Adv.
For your convenience, the
Hastings Tribune has a drive-up
payment box in our north
parking lot. This may be used
for subscription and advertising
payments. -Adv.
Area funerals
Thursday
u Gerald G. “Jerry” Grote, 86, of
Shickley, 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s
Catholic Church in Shickley.
u Ruth G. (Wehrly) Whitten, 87,
of Superior, 11 a.m. at First United
Methodist Church in Guide Rock.
Friday
u Junior F. “Papa” Glasson, 86,
formerly of Nelson, 1 p.m. at
Nelson Cemetery in Nelson.
Adams County Judge
Timothy Hoeft on Monday
sentenced Alex A. Clark, 25, of
York to six months of probation, a $500 fine, 60-day driver’s license revocation, defensive driving class and victim
impact class for driving under
the influence of alcohol on
July 20. Clark pleaded no contest Oct. 17, and prosecutors
reduced the blood alcohol content on the charge. DUI is a
Class W misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail
and a $500 fine.
“Goldilocks on Trial” annual
theatre show for youth
December 4, 5, 6, at 7:30;
December 6 at 2:00 p.m.,
Hastings College Scott Studio
Theatre. Box Office 402-4617380. -Adv.
Public notices
See today’s notices on Page A7
u Notice of incorporation,
Jonathon Reiber Memorial Soccer
Festival, Inc.
u Notice of trustee's sale, William
Consbruck
u Notice of organization, JTJ
Developers, LLC
u Notice of settlement, Lorene
Smith
u Notice of incorporation, 801
Building Condominium Association,
Inc.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
A3
Teammates, coaches gather
for Ohio St. athlete’s funeral
RUSTY MILLER
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio —
Teammates and coaches of the
walk-on Ohio State football
player who disappeared and
was found dead four days later
joined the mourners at his
funeral today.
Teammates of Kosta
Karageorge quietly filed into
Annunciation Greek Orthodox
Cathedral in Columbus.
Among the first people to step
off one of the team busses was
defensive line coach Larry
Johnson, Karageorge’s position
coach.
Police said Karageorge, 22,
was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot
wound to the head on Sunday.
He had been missing since
Nov. 26.
Fellow football players have
described Karageorge as a hardworking and enthusiastic athlete who often stayed for extra
practice. He also was a college
wrestler.
Athletes from other sports
also planned to attend, said
Ohio State spokesman Jerry
Emig. Football teammates are
expected to wear a helmet
sticker with Karageorge’s No.
53 during Saturday’s Big Ten
championship game against
Wisconsin in Indianapolis.
Dr. Anahi Ortiz, the Franklin
County coroner, had not ruled
on the manner of his death.
Karageorge’s mother told
police he had had several con-
cussions. The coroner said a
special examination will be
done of Karageorge’s brain to
look for any traumatic injury.
Karageorge was a Buckeyes
wrestler for three years, and
joined the football team as a
walk-on at defensive tackle this
season. The senior hadn’t
played any games and was
known as a “scout team” member, meaning he took the role
of an opposing team member
during the regular starters’
weekday practices.
His body was found by a
woman searching trash bins
near her neighborhood for
scrap metal to sell.
Karageorge’s family plans a
private burial in Athens
County.
Soup cook-off planned
to mark Cather’s birthday
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
araun@hastingstribune.com
RED CLOUD —
Soupmakers and soup connoisseurs will gather here Sunday
to ladle up a birthday celebration for Willa Cather.
The Willa Cather Foundation
will observe the author’s 141st
birthday by sponsoring the
inaugural December Night
Soup Showdown from 5:30-8
p.m. at the Red Cloud Opera
House.
The event is open to the
public for a free-will donation
and will occur after the closing
of both the Auld Public Library
Tour of Homes and the
Webster County Museum’s
Festival of Trees.
Each contestant will provide
a large roaster of soup. A “Best
of the Showdown” will be
determined through monetary
votes by the attendees. The
winner or winners will receive
a 2015 Opera House season
ticket package as well as a traveling trophy.
Cather was born Dec. 7,
1873, in Virginia. She moved
to rural Webster County with
her family when she was a
young girl. The family later
moved into Red Cloud.
Cather graduated from Red
Cloud High School in 1890
and delivered her commencement address from the stage of
the Opera House, which today
serves as headquarters for the
foundation that perpetuates
her memory.
After graduating from the
University of Nebraska in
Lincoln, Cather went on to a
distinguished career as a
writer. Several of her novels
and short stories are set in
and around communities
resembling Red Cloud.
For more information on
Sunday’s event, call the foundation office at 402-746-2641
or visit www.willacather.org.
NRD: Officials explain
water quality issues
Continued from page A1
“Even though we have plenty of resource, we need to take
care of it.”
He said that well logs or profiles that have been made in
Nebraska provide critical information about what could be
happening to groundwater.
“The well logs tell us a lot
about the profiles in a particular well,” Onnen said.
The logs show topsoil makeup, texture and composition,
water and pumping levels, and
saturated thickness.
“As we look at these logs, we
know that there are not two
well logs that are identical in
any place,” Onnen said. “They
all have characteristics of their
own.”
A well log that Onnen presented Tuesday was south of
Hayland.
That log showed that there is
only one foot of topsoil before
it gets to a mixture of sand and
gravel.
“You can see that at a site
like this, anything that happens on the surface, it can
impact the water quality,”
Onnen said. “All of these sites
in that area have great potential for groundwater contami-
nation because of the high
concentrations of sands and
gravels.”
A hearing is scheduled for
sometime in January 2015 to
determine if establishing a
Level 2 subarea is the right way
to go.
“We want to know if the
NRD is doing too much or not
enough to protect the groundwater for future generations,”
Anderson said. “We need to be
thinking 25-30 years down the
road.”
A training event 1 p.m.
Tuesday in Davenport will
focus on soil health.
Kenesaw: County making efforts
to improve radio communications
Continued from page A1
Stark presented maps during
the board’s meeting two weeks
ago that depict radio frequency
strength in the area surrounding the county-owned radio
tower near Good Samaritan
Village in Hastings.
The day after Ehly made his
plea for help, Volcek shared the
problem during a meeting with
fellow members of the South
Central Planning Exercise and
Training Region.
Volcek said emergency managers in the 15-county region
designated almost $9,500 in
Homeland Security grant funds
to help pay for a radio repeater.
Stark provided the county
board with an estimate of
$14,625 for the radio repeater
and accompanying equipment.
Volcek said he received a favorable response from Kenesaw officials about also providing funds
to help pay for the radio repeater.
Even though the majority of
the cost for that radio repeater
would be paid for with the
Homeland Security funds, time
is of the essence for the county.
The EHP application process
takes about 40 days.
Adams County needs
approval from Homeland
Security as well as the
landowner, the supervisors
need to approve the project,
and the repeater needs to be
installed in time for Volcek to
submit the Platte Valley
Communications invoice to
South Central Planning
Exercise and Training Region
fiscal agent, Phelps County
Emergency Manager Patrick
Gerdes, to get that reimbursement of nearly $10,000.
In other business, board
members took the following
action:
u Honored county roads employees for their years of service:
Marlyn Bates, 31 years; Todd
Hinrichs, 28 years; Linda Parr, 25
years; Roger Wengler, 25 years;
Doug Schenk, 25 years; and Dean
Mosier, 26 years. Mosier’s certificate was awarded posthumously
and accepted by his widow, Alyce.
u Received a facsimile check
from the Hastings Area Retired
Teachers Association. The check
represented a savings to the community in the amount of $663,624
based on 29,429 hours of community service in 2014 by HARTA
members.
u Voted 7-0 to approve of vacation of the Wormuth Third
Subdivision with the approval of
the plat of Allen Acres near Blue
Hill for applicants Tim and Tricia
Allen.
u Unanimously voted to approve
creation of the 6.76-acre, two-lot
Hunt First Subdivision on Maxon
Avenue in the Naval Ammunition
Depot for applicant Willis Hunt. Lot
1 contains an existing building.
u Unanimously voted to approve
creation of the 4 acre Parr 4
Subdivision near Juniata for applicants Wayne and Monica Mousel.
Continued from page A1
“The training aspect, if we
could get it tied in to the university and producing doctors
out here that would be fabulous,” he said. “That’s my
vision for where we want to go.
I think the educational part of
it would be huge for Hastings.”
Seiler said he hasn’t received
any negative feedback for the
plan locally. Hastings, he said,
has a unique relationship with
the regional center.
“Everyone I talk to says, ‘Oh,
my Uncle worked out there. It’s
a great place,’ or ‘my dad
worked out there,’ ” he said. “It
seems like everyone in Hastings
was touched by that program. I
don’t see the backlash you’d
see in other communities
because it was here.”
Supervisor Dale Curtis mentioned “under the breath”
comments he’s heard with concerns about patients staying in
Hastings once treatment is
complete.
Seiler said as he understands
the program, Hastings would
not be a discharge point. The
patients would return to
Lincoln.
However, there is a possibility some patients could remain
in Hastings and Seiler said that
wouldn’t be all bad, either. He
said patient rehabilitation has
worked for the federal program
with Western Alternative
Corrections.
Local businesses like Western
Alternative Corrections patients
as employees because they
show up on time, are drug-free
and are eager to be trained.
He didn’t cite specifics, but
Seiler said treatment in
Hastings would drastically
lower correctional system costs,
which now average about
$39,000 per inmate.
“You could almost go to
Harvard for that,” he said.
Obama unveils plan to help
young American Indians
HRC: Study findings coming
BLAKE NICHOLSON
The Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. —
President Barack Obama
announced an initiative
Wednesday aimed at improving conditions and opportunities for American Indian youth,
more than a third of whom
live in poverty.
Obama’s Generation
Indigenous initiative calls for
programs focused on better
preparing young American
Indians for college and careers,
and developing leadership
skills through the Department
of Education and the Aspen
Institute’s Center for Native
American Youth. Members of
the president’s staff also plan to
visit reservations next year.
The White House did not
provide a cost estimate for the
initiative, but a spokeswoman
said the administration plans
to fund it with existing money
and the help of nonprofit and
philanthropic organizations.
The announcement, made as
part of the White House Tribal
Nations Conference that
Obama is hosting on
Wednesday, comes five months
after the president and his wife
visited the impoverished
Standing Rock Indian
Reservation in the Dakotas.
The 3,600-square-mile reser-
vation is home to about 8,500
people, many of whom live in
run-down homes, and where
the unemployment rate runs as
high as 20 percent. The suicide
rate for American Indians aged
15 to 24 is more than twice the
national rate.
Cecilia Munoz, director of
the White House Domestic
Policy Council, said the president and first lady “were
deeply moved” after listening
to children’s stories about challenges they faced on the reservation, such as depression and
alcohol abuse. Vice President
Joe Biden said in a morning
appearance before the conference that for Obama, helping
Indian youth is “something
that he came back from his
June visit fired up about doing
something about.”
Wednesday’s conference
involves leaders from 566 federally recognized tribal nations,
along with 36 White House
Youth Ambassadors chosen
from around the country
through an essay contest.
“People who grow up in a
poverty culture sometimes
need guidance, need values,
need a little bit of structure,”
said Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney and Native American
rights activist from Standing
Rock who is attending the con-
ference.
“Through some of the things
the administration is doing, it
looks like they’re trying to do
that,” he said. “Youth — they
just need the right tools, and
maybe they can empower
themselves.”
The White House also
released a report Wednesday
acknowledging failures in federal policy and highlighting
the need for more tribal help in
the areas of economic development, health and education.
Slightly more than two-thirds
of Native youth graduate from
high school, according to the
2014 Native Youth Report.
One of the report’s recommendations is to strengthen
tribal control of the education
system on reservations.
Officials are working to overhaul the Bureau of Indian
Education, which is responsible
for educating 48,000 Indian
students in 23 states, Interior
Secretary Sally Jewell said.
Jewell estimated it would
cost more than $1 billion to fix
schools with crumbling infrastructures. Officials are pursuing money through Congress,
existing government programs
and philanthropic organizations.
“We have to get creative,”
Jewell said.
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Nebraskans
renewing
licenses
online
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
First Amendment
“
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
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Kearney Hub
More and more Nebraskans are renewing their
driver’s licenses online. In fact, 80 percent are opting to do digitally what used to require a trip to
the county courthouse to accomplish. According
to a recent report to the Nebraska State Records
Board by Rhonda Lahm, director of the Nebraska
Department of Motor Vehicles, driver’s license
renewals are just one of a number of popular
online services that allow Nebraskans to save time
and avoid hassles when licensing their vehicles or
obtaining operator permits.
Since online license plate renewals became available in 2008, the DMV has launched 18 new services. Of those, 13 are free, while fees from the five
others generate enough revenue to cover costs for
the rest. The services allow Nebraskans to conduct
business without expensive and time-consuming
trips to courthouses or the State Capitol. Some
services make so much sense they’ve garnered
national recognition.
One award winner is a recent addition to the
DMV’s online services, the Handicap Permitting
System. It allows Nebraskans to acquire handicap
parking permits online instead of having to appear
in person in their courthouses.
Online services employ modern technology. An
example is the Ignition Interlock Program, which
recently received several enhancements so applicants
can use the completely electronic process, which
taps into courts, insurance companies, interlock
providers and the DMV while issuing the permits.
Nebraskans are adopting new online services at
a rapid rate. Consider this anecdote.
According to Lahm, the DMV recently launched
a service in which motorists can upload photos or
pdfs of their proof of insurance in order to renew
vehicle registrations. That sometimes is necessary
because not every insurance carrier participates in
the DMV’s electronic database. In mid-October,
the new photo/pdf service was launched as a pilot
program at 6:30 a.m. By 6:37 a.m. that same day,
the first applicant had taken advantage of the new
service.
Soon, the DMV expects to launch a free “live
chat” service to reduce the reliance on telephone
calls to the DMV’s Financial Responsibility Division.
The department also is working on a project that
will allow Nebraskans to change the address of their
driver’s license online by uploading documents
rather than making a trip to an examining station.
Nebraskans pay a small fee and credit card
charges for some online services, but few people
appear deterred by the small added expense. State
government delivers a total of 280 services online,
and Nebraskans, by the thousands, are using them
to take care of corporate matters, reserve a campsite or tend to scores of other matters, including
renewing their driver’s licenses.
U.S. House
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Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-6435
www.house.gov
A feast of memorable Thanksgiving moments
L
ife is made of moments. Some are better than others. But they all fit together in the end. On the last day of a
two-week, whirlwind, 1,500-mile road
trip in sunny California, it rained.
I love rain. I took it as a parting gift. And I
hated to leave, so it matched my mood.
My husband and I had driven from our
home in Las Vegas to begin our vacation with
two days in Sonoma, visiting his older son,
daughter-in-law and granddaughter,
Charlotte.
Next came two days in San Francisco. We
had lunch with his younger son; took BART
to Oakland to see the Warriors beat the Jazz;
and celebrated the christening of his niece’s
sweet newborn, the latest addition to our rapidly growing clan.
Finally, we drove down the coast to Pacific
Grove to spend a week by Monterey Bay listening to the surf, watching waves crash on
rocks and hosting Thanksgiving dinner for 21
people, our kids, grandkids, family and
friends.
It was a lot to pack into a couple of weeks.
But we are nothing if not good packers.
When you live far away from people you
love, and don’t get to see them as often as
you wish, you try to make the most of every
moment together.
Even the moments you might rather forget.
On our last day of the trip, we said our
goodbyes and took one last quick ride along
the beach before getting on the road for
home. Three hours into a
nine-hour drive, my husband asked the question that
I usually ask him first.
“So,” he said, “what was
your favorite moment?”
“Not fair,” I said. “You
first.”
He listed several, then
Sharon
chose the one I knew he’d
Randall
choose.
“I really loved playing
music with the grandkids.”
I smiled, picturing him sitting by a window,
with his bass in his arms, the ocean at his
back and a couple of curly-headed 3-year-olds
bouncing on every note.
My oldest caught it on video with his cell
phone and sent it to us later in an email he
titled “School of Papa Mark.”
“I loved it, too,” I said.
“What about you?” he asked.
Where to start? How to pick? A thousand
memories flashed through my mind in no
special order, far too many to name.
Charlotte’s tutu. Henry’s kisses. Randy’s gift
(a candle holder he made just for me.) Baby
Wiley’s sweet smile as he said, “Nana.” My
daughter-in-law’s beautiful belly with another
grandbabe on the way.
Cable cars in the City. Ice skaters at Union
Square. The breathtaking view of the Golden
Gate Bridge. Getting to hold our newly christened nephew.
Sitting on the couch between my basketball-
crazy boys, watching a game on TV in which
Andrew Bogut passed behind his back to Steph
Curry, who gave it back to Bogut for a slam.
Letting my son-in-law do the turkey and
the mashed potatoes.
Watching my daughter make a dozen other
dishes and hearing her joke (I think) when I
offered advice: “Mom, I’ve got this. Don’t get
in my business.”
My favorite moment is usually a conversation. I love to talk almost as much as I love to
listen. This trip was a wealth of conversations
with all sorts of interesting people, young and
old, family and friends, plus a few passing
strangers.
But my favorite moment this time is a
three-way tie: First, before guests arrived, I sat
alone at the beach remembering loved ones,
present and past, those who’d be with me at
dinner and those who would not.
Two, I joined hands in a circle of 21 people
and gave thanks for another year to be
together.
Finally, at dinner, I sat for a while watching
the faces of all those people and listening to
their voices, a fine mingling, old and new, of
laughter and love.
I wish you could’ve been there. Maybe
you’d have done dishes and managed somehow to get people to go to bed before 2 a.m.
Who knows? It might’ve been my favorite
moment of all.
Sharon Randall is an award-winning columnist.
Her email is randallbay@earthlink.net.
Obama edict raises questions about benefits
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hen the Affordable Care Act
was being written and debated, President Obama took
care to emphasize that no
illegal immigrants would be
eligible for its benefits. Obama and the
Democrats who passed the bill were sensitive
to public concerns that those who entered the
United States illegally should not receive assistance intended for those here legally.
Indeed, an Obama promise along those
lines played a role in one of the most notorious incidents of the president’s time in office.
“There are also those who claim that our
reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants,” Obama said in a Sept. 9, 2009,
healthcare address to a joint session of
Congress. “This, too, is false. The reforms I’m
proposing would not apply to those who are
here illegally.”
At that moment, Republican Rep. Joe
Wilson yelled out, “You lie!” leaving the president and lawmakers stunned.
Wilson’s action was inexcusable, but the suspicions behind it were entirely understandable.
Republicans have always suspected the administration wanted to extend not only Obamacare
but a whole range of federal benefits to illegal
immigrants. And now, the president’s unilateral
executive action on immigration seems to be
confirming some of those fears.
On November 11, Health and Human
Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell participated in an online chat with a group of
Latino bloggers. Burwell was asked a two-part
question. Would the young immigrants
known as Dreamers be eligible for Obamacare
subsidies, and can so-called mixed families —
for example, a family with illegal parents and
legal children — receive benefits?
Dreamers are not eligible, Burwell said. But
she left no doubt that she —
along with officials at the
highest levels of the Obama
administration — wants that
to change.
“I think that everyone
probably knows that this
administration feels incredibly strongly about the fact
Byron
we need to fix that,” Burwell
York
explained. “We need to
reform the system and make
the changes that we need that will lead to
benefits in everything from healthcare to economics to so many things — a very important step that we need to take as a nation.”
Burwell went on to tell the bloggers that families with illegal members are welcome to
receive benefits. “Mixed families should come,
they should seek and try, go on the site, they’ll
find out they can get financial assistance,”
Burwell said. “They may be eligible for different
programs for their children or themselves.”
Finally, Burwell stressed that no one in the
government will ask applicants if they are
here legally or not. “Everyone should come
on, and folks should not be scared,” Burwell
said. “No questions will be asked, and it is not
about an immigration issue.”
Coming from the cabinet officer in charge
of administering the Affordable Care Act,
Burwell’s words left some Republicans convinced that it’s only a matter of time before
the White House breaks Obama’s promise.
“It’s reasonable to assume that the administration would have no compunction about
issuing some sort of regulatory guidance to
HHS to make (immigrants affected by
Obama’s action) eligible for subsidies,” says
one well-connected GOP Hill aide. “The
administration has sufficiently re-interpreted
Obamacare and re-interpreted the immigra-
tion laws that it would not be at all surprising
if they follow through on what Burwell said.”
Republican concerns have been intensified
by Obama’s slippery language about other
federal benefits. In announcing executive
action, for example, the president said to
those affected that if, among other requirements, “you’re willing to pay your fair share
of taxes,” then “you can come out of the
shadows and get right with the law.”
The phrase “pay your fair share of taxes”
suggests to most ears that Obama meant immigrants involved would pay their fair share of
taxes. But in fact Obama’s action will make
many immigrants eligible to be paid by the
government, and not the other way around;
many will now be eligible for the Earned
Income Tax Credit and the Additional Child
Tax Credit, which could mean they receive
thousands of taxpayer dollars each year.
In addition, Obama’s use of the phrase “get
right with the law” is itself a bit misleading; a
reasonable listener might assume that Obama
was conferring legal status on those involved.
But the Justice Department issued an opinion
that his programs “would not ‘legalize’ any
aliens who are unlawfully present in the
United States.” So the illegal immigrants
involved are still illegal immigrants, which
leads to the question: If Obama is making
millions of still-illegal immigrants newly eligible for certain federal benefits, why would
anyone believe he will stop there?
It’s not clear exactly how far-reaching the
effects of Obama’s immigration edict will be.
But there’s no doubt it has increased the
already high level of mistrust between the
president and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Byron York is chief political correspondent for
The Washington Examiner.
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Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
Tribland five-day forecast
Art by Katelyn Varah, 10, Doniphan-Trumbull School
SUNNY TODAY
High: 40
Low: 22
Wind: SE 5-10 mph
Partly cloudy overnight.
PARTLY CLOUDY
THURSDAY
High: 45
Low: 24
Wind: S 10 mph
SUNNY FRIDAY
High: 48
Low: 23
Calm most of day.
SUNNY SATURDAY
High: 43
Dry.
Low: 28
PARTLY CLOUDY
SUNDAY
High: 48
Dry.
Low: 27
Still at odds over cleanup
MINING COMPANY URGES
LOOK AT RAIL LINE
POLLUTION, AS WELL
JOSH FUNK
The Associated Press
OMAHA — A lead and copper
mining company is appealing to
federal regulators in its dispute
with Union Pacific over lead pollution along railroad lines, wanting
to make sure the $1.8 billion it
paid for cleanups is effective.
The Tucson, Arizona-based
Asarco said Monday it filed a petition with the Surface
Transportation Board seeking to
reevaluate a 2001 decision that
allowed Union Pacific to abandon
certain rail lines in southeast
Missouri.
Asarco and Union Pacific are
engaged in lawsuits related to lead
contamination concerns in south-
east Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska;
and Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene River
Basin.
Asarco lawyer Gregory Evans said
the lawsuits are progressing slowly,
so he filed the petition with the
federal Surface Transportation
Board in the hopes of learning
more information about the abandoned rail lines. He says the railroad used rock from lead mines in
ballast for its rail lines and that
some ore fell out of trains. Tests
Asarco paid for show high lead levels in places near the tracks, Evans
said.
“We want Union Pacific to
accept responsibility for the environmental impact of its abandonment procedures,” Evans said.
Evans said Asarco is concerned
that the lead along rail lines could
threaten the cleanups the mining
company already paid for. If regulators agree the rail lines are pollut-
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
State
HOUSE
FIRE
BEATRICE — A man has escaped from a
fire that heavily damaged a house in southeast Nebraska.
The fire was reported about 2:30 a.m.
Tuesday in Beatrice. Fire Chief Brian Daake
said that firefighters suspect the blaze began
on the east side of the house.
Daake says a state investigator found that
the fire began in the chimney pipe of a wood
pellet stove. The investigator determined
that there was a blockage in the chimney
pipe.
No injuries have been reported to the man
who escaped. His name hasn’t been released.
POT
involved are in remote areas so
they don’t represent a significant
threat to human life.
It’s not clear whether Asarco will
be able to eventually collect from
Union Pacific, but if it prevails in
the lawsuits, the totals could be significant.
Asarco paid $482 million for the
cleanup in the Coeur d’Alene River
Basin, which was one of the
nation’s largest Superfund sites. In
southeast Missouri, Asarco paid
$79.5 million toward the cleanup
of three sites: Big River Mine
Tailings/St. Joe Minerals Corp.,
Federal Mine Tailings and Madison
County Mines.
And in Omaha, Asarco paid more
than $200 million to help clean up
lead contamination found on nearly 6,000 Omaha properties. Union
Pacific agreed in 2012 to pay $25
million in a settlement with the
EPA to help deal with risks associated with lead paint in Omaha.
REBECCA S. GRATZ, Omaha World-Herald/AP
Michael Kratville is seen during a victory party Nov. 2,
2010, for Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry at the Omaha
Firefighters Hall in Omaha, Neb. Kratville appeared in
court Monday to plead guilty to wire fraud, but U.S.
District Judge Joseph Bataillon sent him home, saying
he didn’t admit he violated the law.
OMAHA — A federal judge ordered a
man back to court for failing to say the
right words when pleading guilty to an
Omaha-area Ponzi scheme.
Michael Kratville pleaded guilty
Monday to wire fraud, but didn’t do so
to U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon’s
liking.
So Bataillon sent him home, saying
Kratville didn’t admit he violated the
law. He told Kratville to come back
Thursday.
Kratville is one of three people indicted for operating a Ponzi scheme that
swindled 100 people out of $4 million.
Kratville repeatedly failed to admit to
a crime in a fashion that satisfied
Bataillon.
When Bataillon asked if Kratville knew
statements made on one investment
company’s website were false, Kratville
said, “I failed to correct them.”
Prosecutors say Kratville, Jon
Arrington and Michael Welke operated
two companies — Elite Management
Holdings Corp. and MJM Enterprises—
guaranteeing large returns and low risk
to investors when the companies actually were hiding their losses.
Authorities said they used more than
$700,000 to pay themselves and use
toward golf club memberships, travel and
dining.
Bataillon later asked whether Kratville
was aware a wire transfer containing
fraudulent proceeds had been executed.
The transfer was the basis of the single
wire fraud count against Kratville. He
replied that he assumed it had been executed.
“It has to be either you knew or you
didn’t know that you were aiding and
abetting a crime, not that you assumed,”
Bataillon said.
The federal Commodities Future
Trading Commission ordered the closed
investment companies in February to pay
about $10 million in fines and restitution.
All three men were indicted last year.
Arrington and Welke have each pleaded
guilty to one count of wire fraud.
Kratville’s lawyer, Clarence Mock, said
the issue at Monday’s hearing was a misunderstanding and that his client did his
best to meet the requirements of a guilty
plea.
“I think my client and the judge were
just talking past each other,” Mock said.
“We will get it cleared up.”
SEIZED
OMAHA — A man has been arrested and
130 pounds of marijuana has been seized
along Interstate 80 in Omaha.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a
deputy on Monday evening stopped an eastbound sport utility vehicle for a traffic violation.
The deputy became suspicious of a large
item under a blanket in the rear compartment, because the driver said he had only
one travel bag with him. The Sheriff’s Office
says the deputy deployed his drug dog,
which alerted the deputy to the smell of illegal narcotics in the SUV.
Deputies eventually found three duffel
bags in the back containing 110 packages of
pot. The driver was arrested on suspicion of
marijuana possession for sale.
TEEN
DIES
OMAHA — A 16-year-old girl has died
after fainting on a school bus in Omaha.
Omaha police say they responded to a
radio call Tuesday morning on Interstate-480
at Dodge Street about a student who had
fainted on a school bus.
Emergency personnel found Graciela
Cabrera unconscious and not breathing.
Officials performed CPR on her while she
was transported to the CHI Health Creighton
University Medical Center.
Graciela was pronounced dead at the hospital. Additional information has not been
released.
STOLEN
ing, Union Pacific could be ordered
to pay for additional cleanup on
top of what Asarco already paid.
Union Pacific officials have
fought Asarco’s previous pollution
allegations, and spokesman Aaron
Hunt said the railroad is still analyzing the petition and will defend
itself vigorously against Asarco’s
“spurious claims.”
Asarco, now owned by Grupo
Mexico, ran lead smelters, metal
refineries and numerous mines. It
has been trying to get other companies to contribute to environmental cleanups it agreed to pay
for ever since emerging from bankruptcy in 2009.
Previously, Evans had asked the
Environmental Protection Agency
to look at whether Union Pacific
lines were contributing to lead contamination. EPA officials said last
year that they’re interested in the
subject, but that it wasn’t a high
priority because the rail lines
Judge gives defendant
chance to get it right
High: 72 in 1959
Low: -12 in 1919
Local weather
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PACKAGES
BELLEVUE — A Bellevue man has been
accused of stealing mail packages worth
about $23,000.
Bellevue police say 24-year-old David S.
Horvath faces charges of felony theft by
unlawful taking and possession of stolen
property. Court records do not list an attorney.
Authorities were investigating Horvath in
connection to stolen property in La Vista
when they matched his vehicle to a suspect
vehicle in another theft. They observed several opened mail packages inside his car.
A search warrant was obtained and authorities found mail packages with addresses
from Bellevue, Bennington, Ralston, La Vista
and Omaha. The stolen items were valued at
about $23,000.
Authorities say they’re looking for a
woman in connection to the thefts.
The Associated Press
Signs reflect new
school tobacco rule
The Associated Press
NORTH PLATTE — New signs showing up at North Platte public schools
reflect the school board barring look-alike
products in addition to cigarettes and
other smoking and tobacco items.
The new signs were provided by
Community Connections Tobacco Free
Lincoln County Coalition.
In March the district approved a policy prohibiting on any district property
tobacco products, e-cigarettes, tobacco
product look-alikes and products
intended to replicate tobacco products.
Examples of look-alikes include candy
cigarettes and jerky or bubble gum
that’s packaged to look like chewing
tobacco.
Coalition coordinator George Haws
said there are good reasons to bar
tobacco look-alikes.
“Tobacco look-alike products glamorize tobacco use and can be appealing to
youth,” Haws said in a news release.
“And when e-cigarettes are used in public, the similarity with conventional
cigarettes can normalize smoking
behavior.”
The coalition is a collaborative effort
that focuses on keeping youths from
using tobacco, reducing their access to
tobacco products and increasing awareness about the dangers of secondhand
smoke and vapor.
The effort is funded by the Nebraska
Department of Health and Human
Services’ Tobacco Free Nebraska program.
Archdiocese plans $2 million
marketing drive for schools
The Associated Press
OMAHA — The Omaha Archdiocese
unveiled a $2 million plan on Tuesday
to market Catholic schools in 23 counties.
The campaign, “Awaken Greatness,”
will focus on what officials believe is
the difference a Catholic education can
make in students’ lives.
“I’ve had some folks say it’s the bestkept secret in town,” archdiocese
schools superintendent Patrick Slattery
said. “It’s an excellent product. It
shouldn’t be a secret.”
Archdiocese officials say test scores at
the parochial schools consistently are
higher than state and national averages
and high school graduation rates are
above 98 percent.
And officials say more than 96 percent of archdiocese high school gradu-
ates eventually pursue more educational opportunities.
Enrollment across the archdiocese’s
17 high schools and 53 grade schools
is just over 18,900 this year, down
slightly from 19,100 last year.
The campaign is aimed at helping
the archdiocese connect with families
who aren’t using its schools.
Pastors this year reported more
than 53,000 school-age Catholic children in the archdiocese. The archdiocese estimates that schools in the
Omaha metropolitan area alone
could fill 800 more seats without hiring additional staffers, Slattery said.
The campaign will use online,
print and broadcast ads, Slattery said,
and there will be a new brand ambassador program for all 70 schools.
ACLU files motion seeking
recognition of gay marriages
The Associated Press
LINCOLN — A civil liberties
group is asking a judge to order
Nebraska to recognize same-sex
marriages while the group’s
legal challenge to the state’s
gay marriage ban is pending.
The American Civil Liberties
Union of Nebraska filed a
motion Tuesday for a preliminary injunction requiring the
state to recognize the marriages
of same-sex couples and allow
same-sex couples to marry
while the lawsuits proceeds.
The motion cites the ACLU’s
likelihood of prevailing in the
case. Same-sex couples can
marry in at least 32 other states.
The ACLU is representing
seven same-sex couples who sued
last month to have their marriages recognized in Nebraska.
The state doesn’t recognize
same-sex marriages, civil
unions or even legalized
domestic partnerships under a
2000 constitutional amendment overwhelmingly
approved by voters.
State officials are fighting the
lawsuit.
Jail tests body cameras
The Associated Press
GRAND ISLAND — Hall
County authorities are testing
the use of body cameras on corrections officers in the local jail.
Corrections Director Fred Ruiz
told county supervisors Tuesday
one camera arrived last week
and another is expected soon.
Ruiz says the cameras will
record images and sounds from
interactions between officers
and inmates. Many areas in the
jail have cameras but few
record audio. He says the officers have been using the camera on their belts.
The county sheriff and the
Grand Island police chief said
after the meeting that both
departments have considered
purchasing cameras but
haven’t because of the cost.
Ruiz estimates it would cost
about $100,000 to equip every
corrections officer with a camera. It’s unclear when officials
will consider a larger order.
Police: Boy shot by pellet gun
The Associated Press
KEARNEY — Authorities
say a 6-year-old Kearney boy
was shot and injured by a pellet gun.
The Kearney Police
Department says the boy was
taken by private vehicle
Monday night to a local hospital with an injury to his right
arm. He was released Tuesday.
Authorities say the boy was
shot with a pellet gun at a
home. A Kearney man was
arrested on suspicion of child
abuse and using a weapon to
commit a felony. Additional
information about the man or
the circumstances surrounding
the shooting has not been
released.
The boy was placed under
the custody of the state
Department of Health and
Human Services, which placed
him with a family member.
Nation/State
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
Deal made
in attempted
murder case
Editor’s note: A story in
Tuesday’s Hastings Tribune
incorrectly reported that Marty
Deckert, 30, of Hastings pleaded
no contest to attempted second
degree murder. This story lists
the amended charges.
WILL VRASPIR
wvraspir@hastingstribune.com
A 30-year-old Hastings man
took a plea deal Monday to
avoid an attempted murder
charge for allegedly trying to
kill a Hastings police detective.
Marty Deckert, whose last
known address was 901
Franklin Ave. No. 102, pleaded no contest Monday in
Adams County District Court
to attempted second-degree
assault, operating a vehicle to
avoid arrest and first-degree
criminal trespass.
In exchange for his plea,
prosecutors dismissed charges
of attempted murder, criminal
mischief, resisting arrest using
a deadly weapon, escape and
negligent child abuse.
Adams County Judge Terri
Harder ordered a pre-sentencing investigation and scheduled Deckert’s sentencing for
Feb. 20, 2015, at 10:30 a.m.
Sgt. Paul Weber testified
Aug. 28 during a preliminary
hearing that he arrested
Deckert on July 25 because he
had an active warrant in
another case. After allowing
Deckert to hug his child
good-bye, Weber said Deckert
tried to drive away but Weber
got inside the vehicle to try to
stop him.
During the incident,
Deckert asked Weber if he was
ready to die and turned the
vehicle toward a telephone
pole, according to Weber’s
testimony.
Weber was able to put the
vehicle into park but the
momentum carried the vehicle into the pole, snapping it
off. Weber was treated and
released at Mary Lanning
Healthcare.
After the collision, Deckert
escaped but was later apprehended after he broke into a
residence in the 800 block of
South Pine Avenue where he
tried to hide.
Nation
SEARCH HALTED
CUT BANK, Mont. —
Authorities in northern
Montana have suspended the
search for a Canadian man
and a Japanese woman who
went missing during a fishing
trip because the lake has
frozen over and heavy snowfall has made it difficult to
access the area.
Three people were believed
to have fallen into Mission
Lake on Nov. 22. Divers
recovered the body of 63year-old Kazuhiko
Hayashizaki (kah-zoo-HEE’koh hay-YAH’-shee-zah-kee)
of Canada three days later.
Fifty-six-year-old Danny
Heland and 75-year-old Fuki
Nishibayashi are still missing.
Glacier County deputies
were only able to get within a
mile of the lake recently. The
agency will monitor the area
when road and weather conditions allow.
Sgt. Judd Milender said in a
statement Tuesday that the
sheriff’s office is committed to
recovering the missing
anglers when it is safe.
SNOWY FOOTPRINTS
LEAD TO ARREST
ROCHESTER, N.H. —
Police say they had no trouble trailing a New Hampshire
robbery suspect who left fresh
footprints in the snow while
making his getaway.
Rochester police say they
followed the man’s footprints
into the woods near a gas station early Wednesday after
the clerk reported being
robbed and assaulted.
Police said the man, identified as 22-year-old Zachary
Robinson, had items from the
store in his possession.
Robinson was to be
arraigned Wednesday. It wasn’t immediately known if he
had a lawyer.
The store clerk was treated
for minor injuries.
The Associated Press
AMY ROH/Tribune
Dodge Weishaar, portraying Merwin the Wolf; Gregory
Matter, as the judge and Jeff Burke as the bailiff rehearse a
scene for Hastings College’s production of “Goldilocks on
Trial” Tuesday at Scott Studio Theatre.
Goldilocks in court
HASTINGS COLLEGE
THEATRE STUDENTS
PUT ON COMEDY
PRODUCTION
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
tribune@hastingstribune.com
Storybook character
Goldilocks finds herself in the
soup after being charged with
breaking and entering in the
play, “Goldilocks on Trial,” presented by Alpha Psi Omega students at Hastings College.
Performances are at 7:30
p.m. Thursday through
Saturday — with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. Saturday —
at Scott Studio Theatre, 806. N.
Turner Ave.
Written by Ed Monk, the
short play comedy production
is the second of the 2014-15
season for the Alpha Psi Omega
cast.
Cast members hailing from
Hastings are: Stephanie
Liebsack, Grace Rempp and
Nathaniel Sass.
Headliners include Emma
Atuire of Denver as Goldilocks;
Rebecca Holcomb, Parker,
Colo., mama bear; Jeff Burke,
Colorado Springs, Colo., bailiff;
Doug Johnson, Clay Center,
Clorox; Corbin Henk,
Doniphan, papa bear; and Nya
Sanford, Aurora, Colorado,
baby bear.
Appropriate for all ages, the
production chronicles the civil
trial of Goldilocks following
her alleged breaking and entering at the home of the three
bears.
Will she be found guilty, or
will the truth come out?
Her fate lies in the hands of
Judge Wallabee (portrayed by
Greg Matter of Papillion) after
hearing testimony from some
very silly jurors, Goldie herself,
three bickering bears, and surprise witness Merwin, aka the
AMY ROH/Tribune
The Bear family argues about their porridge during a rehearsal of Hastings Colleges production of “Goldilocks on Trial” Tuesday at Scott Studio Theatre. From left is Papa Bear, played
by Corbin Henk, Mama Bear played by Rebecca Holcomb and Baby Bear played by Nya
Sanford.
big bad wolf (portrayed by
Dodge Weishaar, Bison, South
Dakota).
For tickets, call 402-461-7380
or by email at tickets@hastings.edu.
35 ’resilient cities’ named in contest
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Thirty-five
cities from Accra, Ghana, to
Wellington, New Zealand, are
being recognized by the New
York-based Rockefeller
Foundation for their ideas on
physical, social and economic
resilience.
The foundation announced
the latest winners of its 100
Resilient Cities contest in con-
junction with a summit
Wednesday in Singapore. The
foundation has committed
$100 million to the effort, with
the idea that the 100 eventual
winners will become models
for other cities.
Chosen from nearly 350
applications spanning over 90
countries, this year’s winners
are as far north as Montreal and
as far south as Sydney. The
United States is most represented, with six cities in the continental U.S. and one in Puerto
Rico, but there also are multiple
selections in China and India.
The foundation will finance
a “chief resilience officer” position for each city to address
challenges that could range
from increasing threats of
flooding to growing strains on
health systems.
Names of 35 hospitals for Ebola care released
MIKE STOBBE
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Health officials have designated 35 hospitals across the country as Ebola
treatment centers.
The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services
released the list of hospitals on
Tuesday. Most are clustered in
metropolitan areas like New York
City, San Francisco, Minneapolis
and Washington D.C.
For more than a month,
health officials have been talking to — and evaluating —hospitals that could serve as referral
treatment centers for new Ebola
cases that might occur. A team
from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention assessed
more than 50 hospitals in 15
states and Washington, federal
officials said.
The 35 hospitals are deemed
to have the staff, equipment
and training to safely and effectively care for Ebola, the government said.
More hospitals will be added
over the next several weeks to
provide wider geographic coverage, officials said.
West Africa is currently suffering the worst Ebola outbreak in
history, with more than 17,100
illnesses and at least 6,000
deaths so far. Four cases have
been diagnosed in the U.S.
The designated hospitals are:
u Kaiser Oakland Medical Center,
Oakland, California.
u Kaiser South Sacramento
Medical Center, Sacramento,
California.
u University of California Davis
Medical Center, Sacramento,
California.
u University of California San
Francisco Medical Center, San
Francisco.
u Emory University Hospital, Atlanta.
u Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
Hospital of Chicago.
u Northwestern Memorial
Hospital, Chicago.
u Rush University Medical Center,
Chicago.
u University of Chicago Medical
Center, Chicago.
u Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
u University of Maryland Medical
Center, Baltimore.
u National Institutes of Health
Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
u Allina Health’s Unity Hospital,
Fridley, Minnesota.
u Children’s Hospitals and Clinics
of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota.
u Mayo Clinic Hospital, Rochester,
Minnesota.
u University of Minnesota Medical
Center, Minneapolis.
u Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
u Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
u North Shore System LIJ/Glen
Cove Hospital, Glen Cove, New York.
u Montefiore Medical Center, New
York.
u New York-Presbyterian/Allen
Hospital, New York.
u Bellevue Hospital Center, New York.
u The Mount Sinai Hospital, New
York.
u Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
u Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
u University of Texas Medical
Branch at Galveston, Texas.
u Methodist Richardson Medical
Center, Richardson, Texas.
u University of Virginia Medical
Center, Charlottesville, Virginia.
u Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia.
u Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
u Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisc.
u University of Wisconsin Hospital,
Madison, Wisconsin.
u MedStar Washington Hospital
Center, Washington, D.C.
u Children’s National Medical
Center, Washington, D.C.
u George Washington University
Hospital, Washington, D.C.
2014
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
Soil health, market
strategies, weather
on UBBNRD agenda
Railway links
Central Asia,
Persian Gulf
ALEXANDER VERSHININ
The Associated Press
AK-YAYLA, Turkmenistan — A railway linking
landlocked Central Asia with
the Persian Gulf was officially
inaugurated today in a ceremony at a remote train station on
the border of Iran and
Turkmenistan.
The the presidents of Iran,
Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan
attended the official opening of
the line in the Turkmen frontier village of Ak-Yayla.
Children handed white gloves
to the leaders, together bolted a
final golden-colored segment
of track into place.
The 928-kilometer (577-mile)
route, which runs from western
Kazakhstan to the northern
Iranian city of Gorgan, will
substantially speed the movement of cargo between a longisolated region and markets in
the Middle East and Asia.
The railway fits into a broader
multinational effort to build a
network of transportation links
to ease the movement of freight
in Western Europe, Russia,
South Asia and the Far East.
A video presentation illustrated the point by explaining
that travel time between the
ports of Lianyungang in China
and Bandar Abbas in Iran will
be shortened to 13 days from
the current 22 days by using
speedier overland routes.
The rail route inaugurated
today will initially have a
capacity to carry up to 5 million tons of cargo annually, but
that figure is projected to
increase to 12 million tons. It is
also planned that the line
could eventually be opened to
passengers.
Markets
Wednesday’s 11 a.m.
local markets
Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3.42
Soybeans . . . . . . . . . . .9.27
Milo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.01
Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.05
Stocks of local interest
The following stocks of local interest were
traded today:
Last
Chg.
Berkshire Hathaway A
224,570
-430
Berkshire Hathaway B
149.74
-.13
ConAgra
36.79
-.03
Eaton Corp.
70.07
+1.57
Ingersoll Rand
63.65
+.59
Level 3
48.94
+.07
McDonald’s
95.26
+.15
PepsiCo
98.49
-1.25
Tricon Global Restaurants 77.41
-.95
Union Pacific
120.70
+1.73
Wells Fargo
54.29
+.07
Williams Cos.
51.14
+.44
Wal-Mart
84.89
-1.03
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ANNUAL FIELD DAY SET
FOR DEC. 10; RSVPS
NEEDED FRIDAY
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
araun@hastingstribune.com
RICHARD VOGEL/AP
In this Feb. 14 file photo, morning traffic makes its way toward downtown Los Angeles
along the Hollywood Freeway past an electronic sign warning of severe drought.
California falls short
AMID EPIC DROUGHT, STATE FAILS
TO REACH CONSERVATION GOALS
ELLEN KNICKMEYER
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The three-year
drought gripping California has shrunk reservoirs, rivers, creeks and snowpack while leaving residents drawing heavily on underground aquifers to water everything from
lawns to crops.
Farmers account for about 80 percent of
water used in the state, but Gov. Jerry Brown
has asked California households to save water
as well. Here’s a look at how it’s going and
what the problems are.
Q: How are California residents
doing when it comes to meeting the
state’s goal for reducing water use?
A: Not as well as hoped. Gov. Jerry Brown
in January declared a drought emergency, and
asked Californians to cut residential water use
by 20 percent. The latest figures released
Tuesday by the state show that Californians
managed to reduce their daily water use by
only 6.7 percent in October compared to the
same period last year. The closest the state’s
38 million people have come to meeting the
20 percent goal was in August, when water
use was down 11.6 percent year-on-year. Still,
the state Water Resources Control Board said
Tuesday that Californians have saved 90 billion gallons since June — enough water for
1.2 million people for a year.
Q: Why are Californians falling so
short?
A: Water board officials said they’re trying
to figure out if the usage was caused by a lack
of awareness about the drought; not enough
enforcement of conservation guidelines; this
year’s hotter weather; or something else.
Board members threw out ideas Tuesday ranging from asking the state Transportation
Department to post stronger messages about
the drought on flashing highway advisory
signs, to looking at whether more penalties
should be imposed on big water users.
Water board officials say some of the key
problem areas are affluent communities in
Southern California, where rainfall is always
short but residents love their green lawns, golf
courses and swimming pools. Californians in
the south coast region managed to cut water
consumption by only 1.4 percent in October,
the weakest showing in the state.
Q: It’s raining in California now, so
why still worry about saving water?
A: California officials say the state would
need 150 percent of its normal annual rainfall
to recover from drought. As of this autumn,
the state had marked its driest three years on
record, the federal government’s National
Climactic Data Center said. Storms so far this
rainy season have brought parts of the state
closer to normal rainfall for this point in the
year. But the most important reservoirs contain just 39 percent to 60 percent of normal
water levels. The snowpack in the Sierra
Nevada, one of the most critical sources for
state water year-round, is also lagging. Before
the Tuesday storms, the southern Sierra had
gotten just 47 percent of its normal rain and
snow so far, and the northern Sierra 79 percent.
Q: How hard is the drought hitting
California?
A: Poorer, rural communities in the agricultural Central Valley are feeling some of the
sharpest impacts. Hundreds of wells have
gone dry as water tables recede, leaving families to rely on trucked-in water or even water
collected for them by Girl Scouts. Some farmers say they’ve had to spend thousands of
dollars more to dig deeper well or buy water,
and some have seen almond and pistachio
trees or other orchards shrivel. The drought
has been hard on wildlife as well. State and
federal officials last month, for example, said
low water in creeks meant one kind of coho
salmon in Northern California was apparently
unable to breed at all this year. The officials
had to move all year-old cohos in that creek
to a hatchery to try to save the species.
Soil health considerations,
marketing strategies and what
to expect from Mother Nature
will be among topics explored
Dec. 10 at the 11th annual
CROP-TIP Field Day in York.
The event is sponsored by
the Upper Big Blue Natural
Resources District in partnership with Cornerstone Bank.
The day runs 9:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. at the new Holthus
Convention Center, which is
on U.S. Highway 81 north of
the Interstate 80 York interchange. Lunch is included.
Admission is free, but reservations are required.
Jay Fuhrer, district conservationist with the Natural
Resources Conservation Service
in Bismarck, N.D., will speak
on improving soil health to
increase crop yield and cut the
cost of inputs.
Fuhrer also is scheduled the
speak Dec. 9 at the Little Blue
NRD certification training session in Davenport.
Bob Utterback, an economist
for Farm Journal and Utterback
Marketing Services Inc. of New
Richmond, Ind., will discuss
marketing strategies in the
commodities market and his
outlook for 2015.
Al Dutcher, state climatologist with the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, will provide
his insights on Nebraska’s
weather forecast and what may
lie ahead in 2015.
Dan Leininger, water conservationist with the district, will
present results on the 2014
CROP-TIP crop experiment
project, including harvest data
and irrigation scheduling information.
The CROP-TIP experiments
are run on a field just south of
York. They began in 2004
through an arrangement
between Cornerstone Bank,
which controls the property,
and the UBBNRD.
Rod DeBuhr, the district’s
water department manager,
will present information on
groundwater quality in the
district.
The Upper Big Blue NRD
includes all of York County and
virtually all of Hamilton
County, plus parts of Adams,
Clay, Fillmore, Saline, Seward,
Butler and Polk counties.
Headquarters are in York.
To attend, call DeeDee in the
NRD office by Friday at 402362-6601. For more information
visit www.upperbigblue.org.
Avian flu hits two Canadian farms
The Associated Press
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Two
poultry farms where an outbreak of avian influenza was
discovered in southwestern
British Columbia are under
quarantine and thousands of
their turkeys and chickens
that did not die from the illness will be euthanized,
provincial and Canadian officials said Tuesday.
There are no reports of the
disease being transmitted to
humans.
Tests to determine the precise strain of the virus were
conducted Sunday after bird
deaths were reported at a
turkey farm in Abbotsford and
a chicken farm in Chilliwack.
The farms are about 5 miles
apart in the Fraser Valley east
of Vancouver.
Public Notices
Notice
In the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska
Estate of LORENE E.
SMITH, Deceased. No.
PR14-47
Notice is hereby given
that an Accounting,
Schedule of Distribution,
and Petition for complete
settlement, probate of will
and determination of heirs
have been filed and are
set for hearing in the
County Court of Adams
County, Nebraska, located at Hastings, Nebraska, on the 27th day of
January, 2015, at or after
9:00 a.m.
Bernita Antons,
Petitioner
Michael E. Sullivan
#14103
Sullivan Shoemaker,
P.C., L.L.O.
Burlington Center,
Suite 305
747 North Burliington
Avenue
P.O. Box 309
Hastings, Nebraska
68902-0309
402-462-0300
November 26, December
3, 10, 2014
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sportsmanship and healthy activities for young people,
awareness of the dangers of driving while impaired and
to provide scholarships for qualified student-athletes.
The Corporation may also engage in any other lawful
activity for which corporations may be organized under
the Nebraska Nonprofit Corporation Act.
4. The corporation's existence commenced on the filing and recording of the Articles of Incorporation with the
Secretary of State, and it shall be perpetual.
5. The corporation shall have members who meet the
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formed a corporation under the Nebraska Nonprofit Cor- Corporation.
6. The address of the registered office is 614 West
poration Act.
1. The name of the corporation is 801 Building Con- 10th Street, Hastings, Nebraska 68901, and the registered agent of the corporation is Richard C. Witt.
dominium Association, Inc.
Richard C. Witt
2. The address of the initial registered office is 301
614 West 10th Street
South Burlington, Hastings, Nebraska 68901.
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ized is maintain the common elements within the 801
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December 3, 10, 17, 2014
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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has
formed a limited liability company under the Nebraska
Uniform Limited Liability Company Act.
1. The name of the limited liability company is:
JTJ DEVELOPERS, L.L.C.
2. The address of the registered office of the corporation is P.O. Box 315, 906 West 2nd Street, Suite 206,
Hastings, Nebraska 68901. The registered agent is
Joshua A. Johnson.
3. The general nature of the business to be transacted shall be to transact any and all lawful business for
which limited liability companies may be organized under Nebraska Revised Statutes Sections 21-101 et seq.
and any enlargement of such powers conferred by subsequent legislative acts, including but not limited to the
acquisition, ownership, development, management and
leasing of real estate, and to carry on all other business
incident thereto or connected therewith.
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2014, and have a perpetual duration.
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its members.
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Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
Pearl Harbor survivors gather
Brains missing
from Texas U
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — The
University of Texas at Austin
is missing about 100 brains —
about half of the specimens
the university had in a collection of brains preserved in
jars of formaldehyde.
One of the missing brains is
believed to have belonged to
clock tower sniper Charles
Whitman.
“We think somebody may
have taken the brains, but we
don’t know at all for sure,”
psychology Professor Tim
Schallert, co-curator of the
collection, said.
His co-curator, psychology
Professor Lawrence Cormack,
said, “It’s entirely possible
word got around among
undergraduates and people
started swiping them for living
rooms or Halloween pranks.”
The Austin State Hospital
had transferred the brains to
the university about 28 years
ago under a “temporary possession” agreement. Schallert
said his psychology lab had
room for only 100 brains, so
the rest were moved to the
basement of the university’s
Animal Resources Center.
“They are no longer in the
basement,” Cormack said.
The university said in a
statement that it will investigate “the circumstances surrounding this collection since
it came here nearly 30 years
ago” and that it’s “committed
to treating the brain specimens with respect.” It says
the remaining brain specimens on campus are used “as
a teaching tool and carefully
curated by faculty.”
The university’s agreement
with the hospital required the
school to remove any data
that might identify the person
from whom the brain came.
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER/AP
USS Arizona survivor Donald Stratton, 92, of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, speaks at a news conference in Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii on Tuesday. Four of the remaining nine USS
Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this
year's anniversary won't be their last reunion.
THIS GATHERING
WON’T BE THE LAST,
MEN SAY
JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
The Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii
— Four of the remaining nine
USS Arizona survivors of the
Pearl Harbor attack are vowing
this year’s anniversary won’t be
their last reunion.
The men in their 90s gathered for a news conference
Tuesday in a building overlooking the memorial that sits on
top of the Arizona, a battleship
that sank in the Dec. 7, 1941
attack. Even though it’s the
last official survivor gathering
of the USS Arizona Reunion
Association, the men said they
still plan to get together, even
if not in Hawaii.
“I don’t think this is going to
be our last. ... We’ve still got
time to go,” said Louis Conter,
93, of Grass Valley, California.
“We’ll be back out here no
matter whether the rest of the
crowd can make it or not.”
Donald Stratton, 92, of
Colorado Springs, Colorado,
was one of the few survivors of
a gun director in the forward
part of the ship. More than 65
percent of his body was
burned. Stratton was hospitalized for more than year and
then was medically discharged
from the Navy. He then reenlisted a year later.
“The good Lord saved just a
few of us,” he said.
Sunday marks the 73rd
anniversary of the Japanese
attack that killed about 2,400
sailors, Marines and soldiers.
During a private event Sunday,
AUDREY McAVOY/AP
USS Arizona survivors (from left) John Anderson, Don Stratton, Louis Conter and Lauren
Bruner arrive Tuesday in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Sunday marks the 73rd anniversary of the
Japanese attack that killed roughly 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers.
the four men will toast their
shipmates, drinking from replicas of champagne glasses from
the Arizona. They will share a
bottle of sparkling wine that
was a gift to the survivors association from President Gerald
Ford’s visit to Spain in 1975.
The men arrived at the Pearl
Harbor visitor center on
Tuesday to military salutes,
music from the U.S. Navy
Pacific Fleet Band and photos
from tourists. At the news conference, they reminisced about
memories of the attack.
“I learned something about
faith,” said John Anderson, 97,
of Roswell, New Mexico, recall-
ing that he had just gone to
church services and was heading to breakfast when someone
said they saw the planes coming. He became teary-eyed as
he discussed his twin brother
dying in the attack.
“It’s always like yesterday when
we’re out here,” Conter said.
The survivors on Tuesday
also watched a live-feed of a
dive along the Arizona’s
sunken hull, which still holds
the bodies of more than 900 of
about 1,177 men who died on
the battleship.
Ashes of 38 survivors are
interred there.
National Park Service
Historian Daniel Martinez,
moderating Tuesday’s discussion, seemed overcome with
emotion when he announced
that Arizona survivor Lauren
Bruner, 94, of La Mirada,
California, last year signed
paperwork for his intentions to
be interred there. Conter plans
to do the same, he said.
“It seems like after a while
nobody pays attention to them
anymore, after about five
years,” Bruner said of his decision not to be buried in a
cemetery. “I hope a lot of people will still be ... coming over
to the Arizona and we’ll be
glad to see them.”
NBC’s Snyderman returns
with apology over quarantine
DAVID BAUDER
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — NBC News
medical reporter Nancy
Snyderman apologized on the
“Today” show Wednesday for
violating her quarantine for
Ebola exposure, saying she
failed to appreciate how frightened Americans were of the
disease.
It was Snyderman’s first onair appearance in a month and
a half, and she followed her
talk with Matt Lauer by reporting a story on women and
depression.
NBC had kept her off the air
following an angry public reaction to her broken promise:
After saying she’d stay in her
New Jersey home until the
danger for symptoms of the
disease had passed, she was
spotted in a car getting takeout
food.
“I’m very sorry for not only
scaring my community and the
country, but adding to the confusion of terms that came as
fast and furious as the news
about Ebola,” said Synderman,
a surgeon.
She has has worked for NBC
News since 2006 after a long
stint at ABC.
Snyderman had been reporting on the Ebola outbreak in
Liberia in October and worked
briefly with cameraman
Ashoka Mukpo, who came
down with the deadly virus.
Mukpo came back to the
United States for treatment and
has since recovered, and no
one else from NBC was infected.
Snyderman said she and fellow crew members were taking
their temperatures several times
a day to check to see if they
were developing symptoms.
But within 72 hours of agreeing to a 21-day quarantine,
Snyderman left her home,
compelling New Jersey authorities to then make her quarantine mandatory.
“We knew the risks in our
heads,” Snyderman, “but we
didn’t really appreciate and
frankly were not sensitive to
how absolutely frightened
Americans were.”
She said “good people make
mistakes and I stepped outside
the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public
expected of me, and for that
I’m sorry.”
Snyderman said she would
be willing to go back to Africa
tomorrow to cover Ebola.
Left unsaid was whether
NBC would take her off the
story given the furor over her
violation.
There was genuine doubt
among NBC executives about
whether Snyderman would be
allowed to return at all.
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B1
Carriker surprised, not shocked with firing
JOHN HUTHMACHER
johnh@hastingstribune.com
H
ere is what former Husker
and current NFL free
agent Adam Carriker, who
lives in Colorado, had to
say this week about the
Nebraska football team:
On the firing of Bo Pelini
“It was a little bit surprising, but it
wasn’t a shock. When you look at the
reactions of the players and former
players who played for him on Twitter
and Facebook, many of them are saying it was a mistake. Their reasons
range from that he was their fatherfigure to his nine-win seasons recorded year after year, things of that
nature. Now I understand the fatherfigure deal. In fact, the guy who made
my childhood dream come true,
Frank Solich, was fired. The issue I
have with what they are saying is that
while nine wins is absolutely nothing
to sneeze at, they never address the
embarrassing losses, or the mistakes
that just kept happening over and
over again. All they care about is the
nine-win seasons. They don’t speak of
the absence of championships and
that most of those wins came against
unranked teams. Bo teams had seven
wins in seven years against ranked
teams. To put that in perspective, the
1994 team beat five ranked teams in a
single season. The Huskers haven’t
beaten a ranked team on he road
since 1997. Apparently, the lack of
championships and embarrassing losses don’t bother Bo supporters. They
talk about how much he has taught
them, and I understand that. As a
coach, he’s a mentor, a father figure.
He’s taking 18 years old boys, bringing
Adam’s
Take
Adam
Carriker, a
Hastings
native who played
for Nebraska from
2003-2006, shares his
analysis each week of
the Huskers and their
opponents.
them up and making them young
men. There’s much more to being a
football coach than football. But
when you’re a head football coach,
what has to be most important first
and foremost is the football program.
I love Bo. I played for him, and he’s a
good coach. The issue is, Nebraska has
a great football history and I don’t
think his coaching measured up to
that in the moment. Moms and dads
and psychiatrists also help kids grow,
but you wouldn’t want them as your
football coach. To me, I took more
exception to what the players and former players weren’t saying than what
they did say.”
On changing expectations
“This is the second time we’ve fired
a coach who was 9-3 on the season.
Frank Solich was the other. When
Solich was fired, you didn’t see players
getting on Facebook or MySpace —
there was no Twitter then — and saying they thought it was a mistake. The
reason? Nebraska has higher standards, a higher expectation of competitive excellence on the field. In the
late 1990s and early 2000s, we were
still good, but then the trend began
going downhill a bit. You could see it.
If the athletic director and upper management thought Frank Solich wasn’t
the man to bring us back to where we
were before, we didn’t have an issue
with it. Some of us may not have
totally agreed with the decision, but
we didn’t vocalize it. We understood
that it came down to what happened
on the field. Back then, nine wins was
the bare minimum. If you didn’t get
nine wins it was a bad season. Now if
you get nine wins, it’s something to
talk about. If you look at what Frank
Solich did and compare it to Pelini,
there’s no comparison. In 1999, he
won the conference championship
and lost just one game. We finished
No. 2 in the nation, won the BCS and
Please see CARRIKER/page B2
JOE SONGER/AP
UAB head football coach Bill Clark leaves the meeting
with UAB president Ray Watts as players and coaches hug
behind him in the doorway Tuesday in Birmingham, Ala.
UAB is shutting down the football program after one of the
Blazers’ stronger seasons. The university announced the
decision Tuesday minutes after President Ray Watts met
with the Blazers players and coaches, while several hundred UAB students and fans gathered outside for the third
straight day in efforts to support the program.
UAB football team
left seeking other
opportunities
JOHN ZENOR
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
Brandon Prince transferred to
UAB to help his ailing father,
a single parent, while still
doing what he loves most:
Playing football.
The redshirt freshman tight
end sat out the Blazers’ surprisingly strong season after
transferring from Austin Peay,
only to see his hometown
program get shut down on
Tuesday.
“It’s like SMU,” Prince said.
“We got the death penalty
without any NCAA violations.”
Now Prince and his teammates are left looking for new
football homes and scholarships. They are eligible to play
immediately if they transfer.
UAB became the first major
college program since Pacific
in 1995 to shut down football. The university said keeping football would cost an
additional $49 million over
the next five years, including
$22 million in facilities and
upgrades.
“As we look at the evolving
landscape of NCAA football,
we see expenses only continuing to increase,” UAB
President Ray Watts said.
“When considering a model
that best protects the financial
future and prominence of the
Athletic Department, football
is simply not sustainable.”
Several hundred UAB students and fans gathered on
campus for the third straight
day to support the program
that won six games to
become eligible for a bowl
game for the first time in a
decade. Their efforts were
futile, leaving coaches and
staff looking for jobs.
UAB, which had a consulting firm conduct a study that
included athletics over the
past year, said in a news
Please see UAB/page B2
ASHLEY LANDIS/AP
TCU’s Trevone Boykin (2) holds off Texas’ Paul Boyette Jr. (93) during the second half of a game Thursday in Austin,
Texas.
TCU jumps Florida State
RALPH D. RUSSO
T
The Associtated Press
he top four in the College
Football Playoff rankings
going into the final weekend
of the regular season is as follows: Alabama, Oregon, TCU
and Florida State.
The question is: Short of a loss by one
of those teams, is there anything a team
on the outside can do to get in on
Sunday when the final rankings are
announced and the field for the first
playoff is set?
“We’re at the point, we’re waiting for
results now,” selection committee chairman and Arkansas athletic director Jeff
Long said Tuesday night. “We’re waiting
for teams to complete their body of
work. Again, we don’t project out.
We’ve all seen games that have different
outcomes than we expect.
“We focus on what has been accomplished to this point, and with that
regard, the top four teams to this point
are ranked where the committee
believes they should be.”
TCU (10-1) moved up to No. 3,
becoming the latest team with a loss to
jump past undefeated Florida State, and
further distancing itself from Big 12
rival Baylor (10-1). The Bears, who beat
TCU 61-58 in Waco, Texas, in October,
are sixth and Ohio State sits in between
them and the Horned Frogs at fifth.
TCU finishes its regular season at
home Saturday against Iowa State,
which is winless in the Big 12. Baylor
hosts Kansas State, which is ninth in
the latest rankings.
Baylor is currently working with a
public relations firm to provide “additional support in telling the Bears’ story
over the last few weeks of the football
season,” said Nick Joos, executive athletic director for external affairs.
The PR firm is sending notes and statistics about Baylor to media members,
not committee members.
The Bears and Horned Frogs will end
the season having played 10 common
opponents. The biggest difference is
TCU played Minnesota and Baylor
played Buffalo. That combined with
Baylor’s loss to West Virginia (7-5) is
working in the Horned Frogs’ favor
and keeping the head-to-head
matchup from being the deciding factor.
Please see NCAA/page B3
Ellis, Mavericks outlast Chicago in double overtime
JOHN JACKSON
The Associated Press
REX ARBOGAST/AP
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki wags his finger toward referee
Eric Lewis during the second half of a game against the Chicago Bulls
Tuesday in Chicago. Dallas won 132-129 in double overtime.
CHICAGO — Normally, taking 35
shots to score 38 points is not a production level that any NBA coach
would embrace.
But no one in the Dallas Mavericks’
locker room had a problem with
Monta Ellis’ line in the boxscore
Tuesday night.
“His shooting numbers were a little
unusual, but every time we needed a
big shot or a big play, he made it,”
Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said.
Ellis hit three free throws with 1.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie it,
then made his only 3-point shot of the
game for a go-ahead basket in the second overtime that lifted the Mavericks
past the Chicago Bulls 132-129.
Ellis finished with 38 points, including his trio of free throws to make it
108-all. He was fouled by the Bulls’
Kirk Hinrich soon after crossing halfcourt, and kept the Mavs in the game.
“I saw out of the corner of my eye
that he was about to do it, so I went
into shooting mode,” Ellis said. “He
ended up grabbing me and they called
a foul.”
Because the Mavericks had no timeouts at the end of regulation, the Bulls
wanted to foul intentionally — just
not in that spot.
“That was my fault,” Bulls coach
Tom Thibodeau said. “I wasn’t real
clear on where we wanted the foul.
With them having no timeouts, we
wanted to foul in the backcourt. It
gets real tricky when he’s taking it to a
scoring area and the guy’s facing you.”
Ellis, though, still had to make the
free throws.
“One of the hardest things in basketball is to stand up there and make
three consecutive free throws with basically the game on the line and little or
no time left,” Carlisle said. “He stayed
in his routine and just trusted it.”
Chicago’s Derrick Rose banked in a
3-pointer at the overtime buzzer to
force double OT.
Ellis’ 3 put the Mavericks up 130129, and Chandler Parsons added two
foul shots. Rose missed a 3-point try
as time expired.
Dirk Nowitzki added 22 despite
shooting just 8 for 22 as Dallas won
its fourth in row.
Pau Gasol led the Bulls with 29
points and 14 rebounds. Jimmy Butler
had 23 points, Mike Dunleavy 20 and
Rose 18.
The Bulls had won two in a row.
They dropped to 2-4 at the United
Center in their first home game since
Nov. 15 following a seven-game road
trip.
“Of course, we want to win at
home, but we’re going to get things
clicking,” Rose said. “We’re not holding our heads down. It’s just a learning experience.”
Ellis, who was 16 of 35 from the
field and 5 for 5 from the free-throw
line, was asked if it was fun to hoist
that many shots.
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Scoreboard
B2
Basketball
National Basketball
Association
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct
GB
Toronto
14 4 .778
—
Brooklyn
7 9 .438
6
Boston
4 11 .267 8 1/2
New York
4 15 .211 10 1/2
Philadelphia
0 17 .000 13 1/2
Southeast Division
W L Pct
GB
Washington
11 5 .688
—
Atlanta
10 6 .625
1
Miami
9 8 .529 2 1/2
Orlando
7 13 .350
6
Charlotte
4 14 .222
8
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Chicago
11 7 .611
—
Cleveland
9 7 .563
1
Milwaukee
10 9 .526 1 1/2
Indiana
7 11 .389
4
Detroit
3 15 .167
8
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct
GB
Memphis
15 2 .882
—
Houston
13 4 .765
2
San Antonio
13 4 .765
2
Dallas
14 5 .737
2
New Orleans
8 8 .500 6 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct
GB
Portland
14 4 .778
—
Denver
9 9 .500
5
Oklahoma City
5 13 .278
9
Utah
5 13 .278
9
Minnesota
4 12 .250
9
Pacific Division
W L Pct
GB
Golden State
15 2 .882
—
L.A. Clippers
12 5 .706
3
Phoenix
11 8 .579
5
Sacramento
9 9 .500 6 1/2
L.A. Lakers
5 13 .278 10 1/2
Tuesday’s Games
Cleveland 111, Milwaukee 108
Atlanta 109, Boston 105
L.A. Lakers 106, Detroit 96
Brooklyn 98, New York 93
New Orleans 112, Oklahoma City 104
Dallas 132, Chicago 129,2OT
Phoenix 116, Indiana 99
Portland 105, Denver 103
Toronto 117, Sacramento 109
Golden State 98, Orlando 97
Wednesday’s Games
L.A. Lakers at Washington, 6 p.m.
Chicago at Charlotte, 6 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami, 6:30 p.m.
Detroit at Boston, 6:30 p.m.
San Antonio at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.
Memphis at Houston, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.
Philadelphia at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Utah, 8 p.m.
Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Cleveland at New York, 7 p.m.
Indiana at Portland, 9 p.m.
New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.
NCAA Men’s Results
Tuesday’s scores
EAST
Duquesne 81, Howard 63
Hofstra 88, Norfolk St. 74
Loyola (Md.) 64, Columbia 62
Maine 82, Wagner 81, OT
Seton Hall 78, Mount St. Mary’s 55
St. John’s 70, Niagara 57
Youngstown St. 89, Robert Morris 81
SOUTH
Alabama 82, South Florida 71
Belmont 63, Middle Tennessee 59
Coastal Carolina 66, SC State 52
Coll. of Charleston 59, The Citadel 55
FIU 59, Kennesaw St. 38
Georgia 86, Chattanooga 55
Hampton 62, Tennessee St. 54
James Madison 63, Campbell 61
LSU 82, UMass 60
Louisiana Tech 99, Northwestern St. 88
Louisville 64, Ohio St. 55
Md.-Eastern Shore 65, UMBC 52
Mercer 62, St. Andrews 33
Miami 70, Illinois 61
Minnesota 84, Wake Forest 69
NC Central 101, Johnson & Wales (NC) 38
South Alabama 71, Spring Hill 54
Stephen F. Austin 64, Memphis 52
Troy 72, Alcorn St. 51
UCF 61, Georgia Southern 59
MIDWEST
Akron 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 60
Bradley 84, Cent. Michigan 73
Cincinnati 78, Stony Brook 52
DePaul 78, N. Illinois 67
Evansville 86, Wright St. 78
Grand Canyon 66, Ill.-Chicago 61
Indiana 81, Pittsburgh 69
Iowa St. 96, Lamar 59
Kansas St. 84, Nebraska-Omaha 66
Michigan 68, Syracuse 65
Missouri 65, SE Missouri 61
Purdue 66, NC State 61
Saint Louis 80, Rockhurst 48
VCU 66, Illinois St. 62
SOUTHWEST
Texas 63, Texas-Arlington 53
FAR WEST
Arizona 91, Gardner-Webb 65
BYU 91, Utah St. 81
Gonzaga 76, SE Louisiana 57
Hawaii 75, Delaware St. 60
Idaho St. 86, Montana-Western 66
South Dakota 68, CS Northridge 65
UC Riverside 59, CS Bakersfield 58
Wyoming 68, Denver 42
NCAA Women’s Results
Tuesday’s scores
EAST
Bridgewater (Va.) 78, Mary Baldwin 37
CCNY 66, Yeshiva 56
Haverford 57, Washington (Md.) 54
Hofstra 65, Albany (NY) 55
Lafayette 60, Penn 57
NYU 58, Brooklyn 42
Navy 55, Towson 51
Rider 59, LIU Brooklyn 56
St. Bonaventure 65, Colgate 49
St. John Fisher 63, William Smith 47
Ursinus 66, Franklin & Marshall 51
SOUTH
Alabama 74, SC-Upstate 65
Auburn 79, Marquette 53
Belmont 80, Lipscomb 60
Cent. Arkansas 62, Alcorn St. 36
E. Mennonite 81, Randolph-Macon 76
Georgia 49, Coppin St. 29
Kentucky Christian 83, Alice Lloyd 81
Lenoir-Rhyne 77, North Georgia 65
Limestone 96, Lees-McRae 46
Memphis 65, Austin Peay 60
Mississippi St. 109, N. Dakota St. 58
Presbyterian 55, Gardner-Webb 50
St. Augustine’s 78, Chowan 76
UCF 60, North Florida 56
VCU 59, UNC Wilmington 53
Winthrop 61, Campbell 59
MIDWEST
Buena Vista 80, Martin Luther 57
Central 75, Crown (Minn.) 49
Detroit 81, IPFW 74, OT
E. Michigan 71, Cleveland St. 68
Milwaukee 72, UMKC 60
North Dakota 88, Dickinson St. 40
SOUTHWEST
Angelo St. 65, McMurry 48
Oklahoma St. 90, Ark.-Pine Bluff 45
UTEP 84, E. New Mexico 49
UTSA 63, Texas-Arlington 55
FAR WEST
Cal Poly 79, Santa Clara 73
Pacific 64, Nevada 53
S. Utah 76, Utah Valley 72
UCLA 66, Cincinnati 58
Football
National Football League
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
New England 9 3 0 .750 378 253
Miami
7 5 0 .583 301 232
Buffalo
7 5 0 .583 264 217
N.Y. Jets
2 10 0 .167 190 319
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Indianapolis
8 4 0 .667 382 283
Houston
6 6 0 .500 287 247
Tennessee
2 10 0 .167 213 338
Jacksonville
2 10 0 .167 186 329
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Cincinnati
8 3 1 .708 260 247
Baltimore
7 5 0 .583 328 242
Pittsburgh
7 5 0 .583 320 298
Cleveland
7 5 0 .583 252 245
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Denver
9 3 0 .750 361 276
San Diego
8 4 0 .667 279 249
Kansas City
7 5 0 .583 277 224
Oakland
1 11 0 .083 176 337
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Philadelphia
9 3 0 .750 375 285
Dallas
8 4 0 .667 302 273
N.Y. Giants
3 9 0 .250 257 319
Washington
3 9 0 .250 244 322
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Atlanta
5 7 0 .417 291 299
New Orleans
Carolina
Tampa Bay
5 7 0 .417 323
3 8 1 .292 228
2 10 0 .167 220
North
W L T Pct PF
Green Bay
9 3 0 .750 380
Detroit
8 4 0 .667 231
Chicago
5 7 0 .417 253
Minnesota
5 7 0 .417 233
West
W L T Pct PF
Arizona
9 3 0 .750 258
Seattle
8 4 0 .667 298
San Francisco 7 5 0 .583 231
St. Louis
5 7 0 .417 261
Thursday, Dec. 4
Dallas at Chicago, 7:25 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 7
N.Y. Giants at Tennessee, 12 p.m.
Carolina at New Orleans, 12 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Minnesota, 12 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 12 p.m.
St. Louis at Washington, 12 p.m.
Baltimore at Miami, 12 p.m.
Indianapolis at Cleveland, 12 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Detroit, 12 p.m.
Houston at Jacksonville, 12 p.m.
Buffalo at Denver, 3:05 p.m.
Kansas City at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.
San Francisco at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.
Seattle at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m.
New England at San Diego, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 8
Atlanta at Green Bay, 7:30 p.m.
318
331
314
PA
267
207
337
257
PA
224
221
244
285
NCAA Schedule
All Times EST
(Subject to change)
Thursday, Dec. 4
SOUTH
UCF (8-3) at East Carolina (8-3), 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 5
MIDWEST
Mid-American Championship, N. Illinois (10-2)
vs. Bowling Green (7-5), at Detroit, 6 p.m.
FAR WEST
Pac-12 championship, Arizona (10-2) vs. Oregon
(11-1), at Santa Clara, Calif., 8 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 6
EAST
SMU (0-11) at UConn (2-9), 11 a.m.
SOUTH
SEC Championship, Alabama (11-1) vs. Missouri
(10-2), at Atlanta, 3 p.m.
Temple (5-6) at Tulane (3-8), 6:30 p.m.
ACC Championship, Florida St. (12-0) vs. Georgia
Tech (10-2), at Charlotte, N.C., 7 p.m.
MIDWEST
Houston (7-4) at Cincinnati (8-3), 11 a.m.
Conference USA Championship, Louisiana Tech
(8-4) at Marshall (11-1), 11 a.m.
Big Ten Championship, Wisconsin (10-2) vs.
Ohio St. (11-1), at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
Iowa St. (2-9) at TCU (10-1), 11 a.m.
Oklahoma St. (5-6) at Oklahoma (8-3), 2:30 p.m.
SWAC Championship, Alcorn St. (9-3) vs.
Southern U. (9-3), at Houston, 3 p.m.
Kansas St. (9-2) at Baylor (10-1), 6:45 p.m.
FAR WEST
Mountain West championship, Fresno St. (6-6) at
Boise St. (10-2), 9 p.m.
FCS Playoffs
Second Round
Fordham (11-2) at New Hampshire (10-1), 12
p.m.
Indiana St. (8-5) at Chattanooga (9-3), 12 p.m.
Richmond (9-4) at Coastal Carolina (11-1), 12
p.m.
Northern Iowa (9-4) at Illinois St. (10-1), 1 p.m.
Sam Houston St. (9-4) at Jacksonville St. (10-1),
1 p.m.
South Dakota St. (9-4) at North Dakota St. (11-1),
2:30 p.m.
Montana (9-4) at Eastern Washington (10-2),
3:30 p.m.
Liberty (9-4) at Villanova (10-2), 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 13
EAST
Army (4-7) vs. Navy (6-5) at Baltimore, 3 p.m.
FCS Playoffs
Friday, Dec. 12 or Saturday, Dec. 13
Quarterfinals
Fordham-New Hampshire winner vs. Indiana St.Chattanooga winner, TBA
Northern Iowa-Illinois St. winner vs. MontanaEastern Washington winner, TBA
Sam Houston St.-Jacksonville St. winner vs.
Liberty-Villanova winner, TBA
Richmond-Coastal Carolina winner vs. South
Dakota St.-North Dakota St. winner, TBA
College Football Playoff
Rankings
Dec. 2, 2014
1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. TCU
4. Florida St.
5. Ohio St.
Record
11-1
11-1
10-1
12-0
11-1
6. Baylor
7. Arizona
8. Michigan St.
9. Kansas St.
10. Mississippi St.
11. Georgia Tech
12. Mississippi
13. Wisconsin
14. Georgia
15. UCLA
16. Missouri
17. Arizona St.
18. Clemson
19. Auburn
20. Oklahoma
21. Louisville
22. Boise St.
23. Utah
24. LSU
25. Southern Cal
10-1
10-2
10-2
9-2
10-2
10-2
9-3
10-2
9-3
9-3
10-2
9-3
9-3
8-4
8-3
9-3
10-2
8-4
8-4
8-4
Hockey
National Hockey League
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Tampa Bay
26 17 6 3 37 92 69
Montreal
26 17 7 2 36 69 66
Detroit
25 14 6 5 33 77 65
Toronto
24 13 8 3 29 81 72
Boston
26 14 11 1 29 63 63
Florida
23 10 7 6 26 50 58
Ottawa
24 10 9 5 25 63 66
Buffalo
25 9 14 2 20 45 77
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Pittsburgh
24 17 5 2 36 82 55
N.Y. Islanders 25 18 7 0 36 80 67
N.Y. Rangers
24 11 9 4 26 71 70
Washington
24 10 10 4 24 68 69
New Jersey
25 9 12 4 22 58 72
Carolina
24 8 13 3 19 56 69
Philadelphia
24 8 13 3 19 62 76
Columbus
24 7 15 2 16 54 84
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Nashville
24 16 6 2 34 65 48
St. Louis
24 16 6 2 34 66 51
Chicago
24 15 8 1 31 74 48
Winnipeg
25 12 9 4 28 52 56
Minnesota
23 13 9 1 27 65 55
Dallas
25 9 11 5 23 73 89
Colorado
25 9 11 5 23 67 79
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Vancouver
25 17 7 1 35 79 69
Anaheim
26 15 6 5 35 71 68
Calgary
26 16 8 2 34 83 66
Los Angeles
25 13 7 5 31 67 57
San Jose
26 12 10 4 28 70 71
Arizona
26 10 13 3 23 64 81
Edmonton
25 6 15 4 16 56 87
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime
loss.
Tuesday’s Games
Buffalo 2, Tampa Bay 1, SO
N.Y. Islanders 3, Ottawa 2, OT
Pittsburgh 1, New Jersey 0
Vancouver 4, Washington 3
Carolina 2, Nashville 1
Toronto 5, Dallas 3
Florida 4, Detroit 3
Calgary 5, Arizona 2
San Jose 2, Philadelphia 1
Los Angeles 2, Boston 0
Wednesday’s Games
Montreal at Minnesota, 6 p.m.
St. Louis at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
Philadelphia at Anaheim, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Washington at Carolina,6 p.m.
New Jersey at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 6:30 p.m.
Dallas at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.
Columbus at Florida, 6:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Nashville, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Calgary, 8 p.m.
Los Angeles at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Boston at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.
Transactions
Baseball
American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Did not tender a 2015 contract to INF Juan Francisco.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Did not tender 2015
contracts to RHP Scott Carroll and LHP Scott
Snodgress.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Did not tender a 2015
contract to LHP Francisley Bueno.
LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Did not tender a 2015
contract to INF Gordon Beckham, RHP Yoslan
Herrera and LHP Wade LeBlanc.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with
RHP Esmil Rogers on a one-year contract. Did not
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
tender 2015 contracts to RHP Jose Campos, OF
Slade Heathcott and LHP David Huff.
OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Named Garvin Alston
minor league pitching coordinator; Greg Sparks
minor league hitting coordinator; Juan Navarrette
minor league defensive, base running and bunting
coordinator; Craig Lefferts minor league rehab pitching coordinator; Aaron Nieckula minor league field
coordinator and manager of Vermont (NY-Penn);
Don Schulze pitching coach and Webster Garrison
hitting coach for Nashville (PCL); Ryan Christenson
manager John Wasdin pitching coach and Eric
Martins hitting coach for Midland (Texas); Rick
Magnante manager and Rick Rodriguez pitching
coach for Stockton (Cal); Fran Riordan manager and
Steve Connelly pitching coach for Beloit (MWL);
Carlos Chavez pitching coach at Vermont; and Ariel
Prieto pitching coach for the A’s (Arizona). Agreed
to terms with RHP Fernando Rodriguez and 1B Ike
Davis to one-year contracts. Did not tender 2015
contracts to 1B Kyle Blanks and OF Andrew Brown.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with
3B Kyle Seager on a seven-year contract. Did not
tender a 2015 contract to INF Carlos Rivero.
TEXAS RANGERS — Did not tender 2015 contracts to LHP Michael Kirkman, RHP Alexi Ogando
and INF Adam Rosales.
TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Did not tender 2015
contracts to OF Andy Dirks, OF-1B John Mayberry
Jr. and 1B Justin Smoak.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Did not tender 2015 contracts to RHP Kris Medlen, RHP Brandon Beachy
and RHP Gus Schlosser.
CHICAGO CUBS — Did not tender 2015 contracts to C John Baker and LHP Wesley Wright.
CINCINNATI REDS — Acquired RHP Matt Magill
from the Los Angeles Dodgers for OF Chris Heisey.
Did not tender 2015 contracts to RHP Logan
Ondrusek and RHP Curtis Partch.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Did not tender a 2015
contract to LHP Kraig Sitton.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms
with INF Darwin Barney on a one-year contract.
MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Announced a fouryear player development contract extension with
Wisconsin (MWL) through the 2020 season.
NEW YORK METS— Did not tender a 2015 contract to OF Eric Young Jr.
PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Did not tender 2015
contracts to RHP Chaz Roe and INF Gaby Sanchez.
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Named Chris Correa
director of scouting. Agreed to terms with RHP
Matt Belisle on a one-year contract. Did not tender
a 2015 contract to INF Daniel Descalso.
SAN DIEGO PADRES — Did not tender a 2015
contract to INF Everth Carbera.
Basketball
National Basketball Association
NBA — Fined Denver G Arron Afflalo $15,000 for
making excessive contact above the shoulders with
Utah G Alec Burks during a Dec. 1 game.
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Recalled C Clint Capela
from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
Football
National Football League
BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Eric Thomas to
the practice squad.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived CB Antoine
Cason and LB Jason Williams. Signed CB
Carrington Byndom and LB Horace Miller from the
practice squad.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed OT Eric
Winston. Waived OT Jamon Meredith. Waived LB
J.K. Schaffer from the reserve/injured list.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed TE Richard
Gordon. Waived TE Phillip Supernaw.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed OL Geoff
Schwartz, OL Adam Snyder, DE Mathias Kiwanuka,
DE Robert Ayers and LB Terrell Manning on injured
reserve. Added G Eric Herman, DT Dominique
Hamilton and LB James Davidson from the practice
squad. Signed RB Chris Ogbonnaya.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed OT Terren Jones
from Baltimore’s practice squad. Placed WR Justin
Hunter on injured reserve.
Hockey
National Hockey League
NHL — Fined the Los Angeles Kings $100,000
for violating the terms of Slava Voynov’s suspension.
ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned C Rickard
Rakell and D Jesse Blacker to Norfolk (AHL).
BUFFALO SABRES — Activated D Josh Gorges
off the injured reserve list. Placed F Cody
McCormick on injured reserve. Recalled F Tim
Schaller from Rochester (AHL).
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled G Scott
Darling from the Rockford (AHL).
ST. LOUIS BLUES — Signed G Martin Brodeur to
a one-year contract.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed D Anthony
DeAngelo to a three-year contract.
WINNIPEG JETS — Recalled D Ben Chiarot from
St. John’s (AHL). Placed D Toby Enstrom on injured
reserve, retroactive to Nov. 23.
Thunder lose in Durant’s debut
BRETT MARTEL
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Kevin
Durant didn’t look rusty when he
drove past Anthony Davis for a
two-handed dunk, or when he
fired off any of his three 3-pointers.
The 27 points scored by the
reigning NBA MVP in his comeback from a foot injury just wasn’t enough for Oklahoma City to
overcome Tyreke Evans’ relentless
drives to the hoop or Davis’ allaround dominance.
Evans scored 15 of his 30 points
in the fourth quarter, Davis had
25 points, 10 rebounds and four
blocks, and the New Orleans
Pelicans snapped a three-game
skid with a 112-104 victory over
the Thunder on Tuesday night.
“I was confident in myself. I
knew my wind wasn’t where I
wanted it to be, obviously, but I
felt good out there,” said Durant,
who missed the Thunder’s first 17
games with a fractured right foot.
Thunder coach Scott Brooks
said before the game he’d limit
Durant to 30 minutes for his first
few games back, and that was
how much he played in New
Orleans.
“I just got to keep putting
together good days and I’ll keep
getting back to where I want to
be,” Durant added. “To get back
to midseason form like I want to
be is going to take some time. No
excuses for me. I’m out there, I
got to play hard as I can no matter what and I got to go out there
and be the best leader and player
I can be.”
The Pelicans had three players
with double-doubles. Jrue Holiday
had 23 points and 10 assists while
Ryan Anderson had 23 points and
11 rebounds.
“We did a great job of being
disciplined on our game plan,
knowing what guys were going to
do and we just stayed with it for
four quarters,” Davis said.
“We’ve got to defend, rebound
and run. That’s what we do.
That’s going to get our offense
going,” Davis added. “When we’re
moving the ball, sharing the ball,
cutting hard and playing for each
other, it makes the game a lot easier.”
Russell Westbrook, in his second game back from a hand
injury for the Thunder, scored 21.
But he was not nearly as efficient
as his previous game, when he
scored 32 points in about 24 minutes in a win over New York.
Oklahoma City trailed by as
many as 19 early in the third
quarter. But with a lineup of
reserves, the Thunder closed the
quarter on a 10-3 run during
which Jeremy Lamb and Reggie
Jackson each hit a pair of
jumpers.
Jackson, who finished with 17
points, kept scoring early in the
fourth — including a driving
scoop as he was fouled and a
roundhouse dunk — and the
Thunder got as close as 87-82 on
Perkins’ layup with 10:24 left. But
when Perkins complained that he
was fouled while scoring, he was
assessed a technical, which
marked the beginning of a 13-3
Pelicans run.
Evans scored the last eight
points of the spurt, all on driving
layups, hitting one after he
ducked under Westbrook’s
attempted block on a fast-break,
caught a foot in the head and
spun the ball in off the glass. He
wound up scoring 15 straight
Pelicans points.
“I was just in a zone where I
felt like I could get to the basket,
to the rim and nobody was going
to stop me, so I just kept attacking,” Evans said.
UAB: Football program shut down
Continued from page B1
release that it subsidizes $20 million
of the athletic department’s operating budget of some $30 million
annually, and said both those numbers rank fifth in Conference USA.
Despite the numbers outlined by
UAB, Watts insisted at an afternoon
news conference that the decision
“is not about financial woes. This is
about planning for excellence in the
future in everything we do.”
Players cried and hugged after
leaving the meeting.
An emotional coach Bill Clark,
who just completed his first season
with a 6-6 record, briefly addressed
supporters, saying players, families
and coaches were all hurting.
“This is one of the most difficult
days that I have had to endure in
my personal as well as my coaching
career,” Clark said in a statement. “I
am absolutely heartbroken for my
players and my assistant coaches.”
He has two years left on a contract worth $500,000 annually.
Watts wouldn’t give the specific cost
of shutting down football. UAB’s
deal for the opener with Tennessee
alone called for either school to pay
$925,000 to get out of the game.
Eliminating football jeopardizes
UAB’s membership in Conference
USA and associated programs
including the school’s marching
band, though the school said it
hopes to remain in the league and
Division I. Members of the band
and cheerleaders joined in protests
on campus.
Conference USA’s current bylaws
require members to sponsor football. Commissioner Britton
Banowsky said the league’s board of
directors will decide UAB’s status.
“We don’t fully understand the
decision, nor agree with it, but do
respect it and the authority of the
UAB administration to make it,”
Banowsky said
UAB is also the cutting bowling
and rifle programs, which school
officials said had cost a combined
$400,000-$600,000 annually to
operate.
Athletic director Brian Mackin
will now serve as special assistant to
the president for athletics. Senior
Associate Athletic Director Shannon
Ealy will take over on an interim
basis.
Zac Woodfin, the team’s strength
coach and a former player, said a
decision to eliminate the program
would hurt not only the 125 players
and 50 coaches and support staff
but also other sports that could see
scholarship reductions, band members and fans.
“The trickle effect is going to be
huge in a negative way,” said
Woodfin.
Players and staffers were left trying to figure out their next move,
which they hope includes playing
in a bowl game.
“I love to play ball, and you kind
of pull the plug from playing ball,”
Prince said. “It’s like, What’s next?
“So many things are running
through your mind. Are they going
to reverse it? Are we going to go to a
bowl game? Do we clean out our
lockers? I hope we get a bowl bid
and we’re able to play one more
game as a UAB Blazer.”
Tribland
THURSDAY
Prep boys basketball: Seward at Hastings High .......................................................7:30 p.m.
Prep boys basketball: St. Cecilia at Columbus Scotus...................................................7 p.m.
Prep girls basketball: Seward at Hastings High .............................................................6 p.m.
Prep girls basketball: St. Cecilia at Columbus Scotus ..............................................5:30 p.m.
Prep wrestling: Adams Central at Central City ..........................................................6:30 p.m.
Area Schedule
Prep boys basketball
Exeter-Milligan at Deshler
Kenesaw at Blue Hill
Giltner at Harvard
Exeter-Milligan at Deshler
Fillmore Central at Milford
Giltner at Harvard
Minden at Southern Valley
Fillmore Central at Milford
Elwood at Wilcox-Hildreth
Minden at Southern Valley
Belleville-Republic County (Kan.) at
Elwood at Wilcox-Hildreth
Thayer Central
Belleville-Republic County (Kan.) at
Sutton at Superior
Prep wrestling
Thayer Central
Prep girls basketball
Harvard at Doniphan-Trumbull
Kenesaw at Blue Hill
TV/Radio broadcasts
Wednesday’s television
GOLF
2 a.m.
TGC — European PGA Tour, Nedbank
Challenge, first round, at Sun City, South
Africa
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
6:15 p.m.
ESPN2 — Michigan St. at Notre Dame
ESPNU — Virginia Tech at Penn St.
6:30 p.m.
ESPN — Iowa at North Carolina
7 p.m.
FSN — North Texas at Oklahoma St.
8:15 p.m.
ESPN2 — Virginia at Maryland
ESPNU — Georgia Tech at
Northwestern
8:30 p.m.
ESPN — Duke at Wisconsin
10:15 p.m.
ESPN2 — Wichita St. at Utah
NHL
7 p.m.
NBCSN — St. Louis at Chicago
SOCCER
1:40 p.m.
NBCSN — Premier League, Tottenham
at Chelsea
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
7 p.m.
FS1 — Seton Hall at Creighton
Wednesday’s radio
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
6:30 p.m.
KHAS 1230 — Duke at Nebraska
Thursday’s television
BOXING
9 p.m.
FS1 — Junior featherweights, Manuel
Avila (16-0-0) vs. Jose Luis Araiza (34-91); junior middleweights, Alan Sanchez
(14-3-1) vs. Ed Paredes (35-4-1), at Del
Mar, Calif.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
6:30 p.m.
ESPN — UCF at East Carolina
GOLF
1 p.m.
TGC — PGA Tour, Hero World
Challenge, first round, at Windermere, Fla.
2 a.m.
TGC — European PGA Tour, Nedbank
Challenge, second round, at Sun City,
South Africa
MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
6 p.m.
ESPN2 — LSU at West Virginia
ESPNU — Baylor at Vanderbilt
8 p.m.
ESPN2 — Arkansas at Iowa St.
ESPNU — TCU at Mississippi
10 p.m.
ESPNU — San Diego at San Diego St.
NBA BASKETBALL
7 p.m.
TNT — Cleveland at New York
9:30 p.m.
TNT — New Orleans at Golden State
NFL FOOTBALL
7:25 p.m.
NFL — Dallas at Chicago
Thursday’s radio
NFL FOOTBALL
7 p.m.
KICS 1550 — Dallas at Chicago
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
7:30 p.m.
KHAS 1230 — Seward at Hastings
High
8 p.m.
KLIQ 94.5 — Kenesaw at Blue Hill
PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
5:45 p.m.
KHAS 1230 — Seward at Hastings
High
6 p.m.
KLIQ 94.5 — Kenesaw at Blue Hill
Region
UNK RECRUIT
University of Nebraska-Kearney head wrestling
coach Marc Bauer announced in a press release
that Fillmore Central’s Jarrod Hinrichs will wrestle for the Lopers next season. Hinrichs was 49-2
as a junior last season, wrestling in the 285pound weight class. He finished the year with 41
pins and a third-place medal from the state tournament. Hinrichs has a career record of 114-17.
Nation
COLORADO STATE’S MCELWAIN
BEING TARGETED BY FLORIDA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida has targeted
Colorado State’s Jim McElwain to fill its coaching vacancy.
Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley spent several hours at McElwain’s home Tuesday and was
expected to spend the night in Fort Collins, Colo.
A person familiar with the coaching search
said Foley was planning to offer the job to the
former Alabama offensive coordinator. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because Florida has not publicly announced details of the coaching search.
The Associated Press
Carriker: Former
Husker not surprised
Continued from page B1
throttled No. 5 Tennessee in the Fiesta Bowl. In
2000, Nebraska was 11-2 and battered
Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl. In 2001, we
finished in the Top 10 at 11-2 and played in the
Rose Bowl for the National Championship. Then
things started to trend downward. In 2002,
Nebraska went 7-7 for its first non-winning season in 40 years. The following year, we were 9-3
and Solich was fired. Most of the things Solich
achieved seem almost unachievable now. Bo
never achieved most of them. There was just a
different level of expectation then. The football
commentators on national television who say
this is the ‘new norm’ don’t care about Nebraska
football. All they care about is having something
to say. Unfortunately, this ‘new norm’ has
become acceptable. I wish it hadn’t.”
On possible replacements
“Some names I thought of to replace Pelini
were Scott Frost, Craig Bohl and Jerry Kill. In
my Facebook fan page post
www.facebook.com/OfficialAdamCarriker, I
cover some of the pluses and minuses of each
candidate. One name that popped into my head
a few days after I made that list was ex-Ohio
State coach Jim Tressel. He won five national
championships, played for three national championships at Ohio State, won the Rose Bowl,
Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and has a winning
record in BCS games. Ohio State was consistently a top team under his leadership. The only
reason he doesn’t still have that job was that he
was fired for his involvement in a scandal that
involved using ineligible players. He was fired
and justifiably so. He definitely did something
wrong. But I’m big on second chances.
Throughout his career, he has always conducted
himself with class and professionalism. Once he
has done his time (the NCAA restrictions on his
coaching, which include not being allowed to
coach the first five games of the season or any
championship or bowl game, run through
2017), I think it would be phenomenal if he
came to Lincoln, Nebraska. As long as he can
prove to whoever is interviewing him that he is
sorry and will never make those same mistakes
again, he would be my No. 1 choice by far.”
Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
B3
Michigan joins Florida, Nebraska in coach search
RALPH D. RUSSO
The Associated Press
First Florida, then Nebraska and now
Michigan.
Three tradition-rich programs that
have combined for six AP national
championships in the last 20 years are
in the market for new football coaches.
Those kinds of marquee openings
can leave athletic directors around the
country a little uneasy. Even if your
coach isn’t headed for the Gators,
Cornhuskers or Wolverines, maybe he
could be on the list of the job that
opens up when those three are filled.
Last season Texas and Southern
California had coaching changes and
the ripple effect resulted in a total of
seven new coaches being hired,
including Charlie Strong at Texas and
Steve Sarkisian at USC.
Expect a similar wake after the
Gators, Cornhuskers and Wolverines
are done making waves.
Michigan made its move on
Tuesday, firing Hoke after four seasons
of diminishing returns.
Interim athletic director Jim
Hackett’s announcement ended weeks
of speculation over Hoke’s future.
“This was not an easy decision,”
Hackett said. “He’s really earned the
respect of all, as being a values-centered coach. We need more men like
him in sport today.”
Kansas State athletic director John
Currie, who can sit comfortably these
days knowing his 75-year-old football
coach, future Hall of Famer Bill Snyder,
won’t be leaving for another job, said
he expects many of his counterparts
around the country to be breaking out
their most-wanted lists and bracing for
a possible poaching.
While speculation always leads to
the biggest and most-notable names
being tossed around as potential candidates for these high-profile jobs —
Jim Harbaugh to Michigan, Bob Stoops
to Florida — searches usually go in less
obvious directions.
“The home run hire that everybody
knows well, that’s really hard,” Currie
said. “If you ask the average fan and
even an average member of the board
of trustees at a major university: Name
five coaches not in our league? They
couldn’t do it.
“So you end up with the same
names.”
As Michigan was starting its search,
Florida was moving quickly to fill the
vacancy left when Will Muschamp
was let go.
Athletic director Jeremy Foley was in
Fort Collins, Colorado, Tuesday meeting with Colorado State coach Jim
McElwain.
The former Alabama offensive coordinator might not be a name that
jumps off the page to many football
fans the way Oklahoma’s Stoops or
even Mississippi’s Hugh Freeze might,
but McElwain has done a remarkable
job turning around Colorado State in
just three years and has a wealth of
experience — including a year in the
NFL and four years working for Nick
Saban.
McElwain, a Montana native, was
mentioned as a possible replacement
for Bo Pelini at Nebraska. Pelini won
66 games in seven years with the
Cornhuskers, but was stuck in a rut of
being good but not good enough to
satisfy high expectations.
It’s not just wins and losses that can
cause a coaching change.
“Having someone who fits your
institution is really, really critical,”
Currie said. “If they are leaving a good
situation, they have to be real careful.
Some jobs are going to have a shorter
fuse than others because of the nature
and the expectations.”
Hoke’s record fell well short of
Michigan’s standards. He went 31-20
with the Wolverines, and the team
declined steadily after an 11-2 mark
in his first season. Hired after the
tumultuous tenure of Rich Rodriguez,
Hoke was supposed to help Michigan
regain its place among college football’s elite, and his familiarity with
the program’s culture and tradition
helped make the initial transition a
successful one.
JAY LaPRETE/AP
Michigan head coach Brady Hoke
shouts to his team as they play
against Ohio State in the third
quarter of a game Saturday in
Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State beat
Michigan 42-28.
NCAA: TCU jumps Florida St. in playoff rankings
Continued from page B1
“As we pointed out before,
TCU has five wins over teams
with winning records or .500
records and above, and Baylor
has three, if you include Texas
at 6-6,” Long said. “I can’t say
it’s one thing. It’s a number of
things we look at, and we
believe TCU is better and
deserving of that No. 3 rank
over Baylor.”
Further complicating matters,
the Horned Frogs and Bears
would be co-champions of the
Big 12 if both win out. The conference has said it will not desig-
nate a champion via a tiebreaker.
The committee’s selection
protocol requires conference
championships be taken into
the consideration when judging teams with similar resumes.
“Well, first we will not determine a champion for the Big
12,” Long said. “We’ve discussed to this point, and then
we will wait for the results, and
then we will evaluate those
teams, and that’s when the
conference championship
comes into effect.
“We have not had the discussions about what if there’s
a co-champion.”
The Seminoles are fourth,
still in good shape to reach the
playoff if it can win Saturday’s
Atlantic Coast Conference
championship game against
No. 11 Georgia Tech.
Alabama and Oregon are
Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, for
the third straight week. The
Crimson Tide plays 16thranked Missouri in the
Southeastern Conference
championship game, and
Oregon faces Arizona in the
Pac-12 title game.
The Wildcats’ five-spot jump
to seventh sets up a possible
play-in game in Santa Clara,
California, on Friday night.
The Wildcats already have
beaten Oregon in Eugene and
could make another big jump
by doing so again.
Long said the committee did
not factor into this week’s
rankings the injury to Ohio
State quarterback J.T. Barrett,
but will after the Buckeyes face
Wisconsin, ranked 13th, in the
Big Ten title game on Saturday.
“Certainly committee members are very interested to
watch Ohio State’s perform-
ance with the backup quarterback, and again, the results on
the field will dictate to us how
we feel about Ohio State, how
they perform in the game, and
then how, if we have to project
forward, how they will compete,” he said.
Boise State is the highest
ranked — and only ranked —
team from outside the Big Five
conferences, which puts the
Broncos (10-2) in position to
receive a bid to one of the four
New Year’s Day bowls.
PROJECTING THE PLAYOFF AND NEW YEAR’S
BOWLS (assuming all favored
teams win this weekend. Note:
Wisconsin is favored to beat
Ohio State).
u Sugar Bowl semifinal —
No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Florida
State.
u Rose Bowl semifinal — No.
2 Oregon vs. No. 3 TCU.
u Orange Bowl — Georgia
Tech vs. Michigan State.
u Peach Bowl — Mississippi
State vs. Ohio State.
u Cotton Bowl — Baylor vs.
Wisconsin.
u Fiesta Bowl — Boise State
vs. Arizona.
NBA: Mavericks outlast Chicago 132-129 in double overtime
Continued from page B1
“If you come out with the win,
yes,” he said.
TIP-INS
Mavericks: One of the reasons for
the fast start has been the play of
Tyson Chandler, who was reacquired
during the offseason from the New
York Knicks. Chandler was averaging
11.3 points and 11.3 rebounds.
“He brings a lot of energy to the
team,” Carlisle said. “He’s a better
player than he was the last time he
was here, because he’s refined some of
his skills, he’s more knowledgeable,
because he’s been with another franchise and played in a lot of big games
the last three years.”
Bulls: Doug McDermont missed his
first game of the season with a sore
right knee. The rookie said the knee
swelled up during the plane ride back
to Chicago on Sunday following the
conclusion of the seven-game road
trip. “If I feel better tomorrow, I’ll
play. It’s nothing serious at all.” ... Taj
Gibson missed his fifth straight game
with a sprained left ankle. Although
he is listed as day-to-day, he’s unlikely
to play Wednesday at Charlotte
Comics
B4
Crossword
Astrograph
Rubes
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
By Leigh Rubin
The Family Circus
By Bil Keane
THURSDAY, DEC. 4
S
Photo gallery of perfection
makes woman feel insecure
D
EAR ABBY: I was
divorced three years ago
and have had a
boyfriend, “Roger,” for a year
and a half. He
is seven years
younger, and
he’s intrigued
with women
on the
Internet.
He saves
tons of photos
of these girls
Dear Abby
on his cellphone. These
ladies are “perfect.” They have
big breasts and curvaceous
behinds, etc. I have had two
kids. I’m not overweight and I
exercise and keep myself in
shape, but I have a “Mom
body.”
Roger has told me he loves
my body and everything about
me. But the feeling I get is that
he wishes I looked like those
girls.
I have asked Roger not to
save these photos because it
makes me insecure. If he’s
going to look, fine. But saving
them is another thing. He
promised me he wouldn’t, but
some of them are still there. So
he not only makes me feel like
a fatty, but he lies to me, too.
He has more pictures of other
girls than he does of me.
Now I no longer feel comfortable undressing in front of
him. I leave my clothes half-on
and turn out the lights when
we have sex. He has made me
unable to stand myself. What
do I do? — CAN’T COMPARE
IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR CAN’T COMPARE: The
first thing to do would be to
stop looking at your
boyfriend’s cellphone. Then ask
yourself whether he has been
seeing other women or just collecting pictures. If it’s the former, you have something to
worry about. If it’s the latter,
it’s no reflection on you, and
he has voyeuristic tendencies
(men are visual).
Stop making comparisons.
He says he loves your body.
Unless you have a solid reason
to think differently, believe
him.
You are overdue for a frank
talk with Roger, and when you
do, tell him everything you
have written to me. Your problem may go deeper than his
photo gallery and your lowered
self-image. If you can’t trust
what he tells you, the foundation of your relationship isn’t
solid.
*
*
*
DEAR ABBY: I’m carrying a
heavy burden concerning my
14-year-old grandson. He told
me in strictest confidence that
he had sex with a 14-year-old
girl. I have been his male support system, mentor, adviser,
disciplinarian and friend for 12
years because his father is
rarely in the picture.
He swore me to secrecy,
which I want to respect, but
I’m torn about telling my
daughter. She has a right to
know that her son is sexually
active and needs closer supervision. We discussed condoms
(they used them), accidental
pregnancy, possible criminal
charges and responsibility, but I
think he is more proud than
alert to the possible consequences.
If I share this with my
daughter, I break a long-held
trust. When I urged him to tell
his mother, he refused. What
do I do? This is tearing me up.
— KANSAS GRANDPA
DEAR GRANDPA: Without
betraying the confidence, start
talking to your daughter about
how, at 14, her son is fast
becoming a man with all that
it entails, including raging hormones. Then suggest she have
some frank talks with the boy
and keep a closer eye on him,
unless she wants to become a
grandma before he’s out of
high school.
Pauline Phillips, a.k.a. Abigail
Van Buren, and Jeanne Phillips
are columnists for Universal
Press Syndicate©. Write Dear
Abby at P.O. Box 69440, Los
Angeles, CA 90069.
etting realistic goals and
prioritizing your steps
will help you reach your
set destination. Be prepared
to act quickly to avoid missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime offer. Procrastinating
will be your downfall. Listen
to your head, not your heart,
where partnerships are concerned.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) — Education is an
ongoing search for knowledge. You will outmaneuver
the competition if you continue to hone your skills and
expertise. Don’t overexert
yourself while exercising or
doing physical or laborious
chores.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19) — Whether decorating
your home for upcoming festivities or renovating to better suit your needs, comfort
and convenience should be
scheduled. Get everyone you
live with to chip in and help.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — Overemotional or irrational outbursts will cause
others to alienate you.
Prevent hurt feelings or
angry confrontations by
thinking matters through
before you act or speak. Limit
your consumption and your
spending.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20)
— Turn something you enjoy
into a moneymaking venture. Extracurricular activities
will help round out your
social life and lead to a more
diverse and interesting
lifestyle.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
— Don’t expect everyone to
agree with you. Work diligently to get everything in
place before you share your
plans. The more prepared
you are, the less opposition
you will face.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
— Financial and personal disappointments are likely if
you don’t keep your emotions in check. Consider the
motives of anyone who is
soliciting a donation, making
questionable demands or asking for assistance.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
— Your stress level is on the
rise. Altering your surroundings or a moving to a new
location will change the
dynamics of your current
problem or situation. Devote
time to something you enjoy
doing.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
— Others may not agree with
your plans, but you have the
expertise and intelligence to
make your dreams come to
life. Let everyone know that
you intend to move forward.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
Take a step back before you
make an irreversible decision.
Observe what’s going on
around you and determine
the extent of the situation
and the consequences that lie
ahead should you make a
move.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
— An unfortunate misunderstanding between you and
someone close to you is
apparent. Choose your words
carefully and be aware of the
pressures that both you and
those around you are facing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) —
Love is on the rise. Your creativity level is high, allowing
you to come up with solutions to any challenge you
face. A short trip will provide
inspiration.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — With your abundance
of energy you will breeze
through your tasks. Taking
on additional duties will
boost your reputation, but be
sure to leave some time for
more enjoyable pastimes.
United Media
DEAR DOCTOR K: I have to have
a root canal. What will happen during this procedure?
DEAR READER: Every tooth has
roots that anchor it to the jawbone.
Inside the body of the tooth and
inside its roots is a hollow central
chamber, or canal. And inside that
hollow chamber is an inner pulp containing a network of nerves, blood
vessels and tissues. The pulp helps
nourish your tooth. The nerves in the
pulp are the reason that injury or
damage near the pulp causes pain.
Pulp damage can cause a range of
symptoms, including tooth sensitivity, pain, swelling or tenderness of the
gums. Pulp damage can also cause
cracked or discolored teeth, nerve
death and infection.
Among the common causes of
pulp damage are tooth decay and
advanced gum disease, which can
produce infection in and around the
teeth. A bacterial infection in the
pulp usually kills the nerves, and the
infection can spread to the gum and
mouth tissues and beyond.
Root canal therapy removes damaged or diseased pulp and seals off
the inner chamber that normally
contains it. This prevents the infection from spreading.
The process usually takes two to
three office visits. During the first
visit, the endodontist (a dentist who
specializes in problems with dental
pulp and nerves) will inject a local
anesthetic. He or she will drill a hole
in your tooth and remove the
decayed or diseased pulp.
The endodontist will clean the root
canal, removing bacteria, tooth fragments and tissue. An antiseptic will
be injected into the pulp chamber to
kill remaining bacteria.
The root canal and pulp chamber
will be dried, then filled with a permanent filling material. This material
replaces the pulp. (I’ve put an illustration of how a root canal procedure is
done on my website,
AskDoctorK.com.)
Grizzwells
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Frank and Ernest
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Pickles
By Brian Crane
Alley Oop
The Born Loser
By Dave Graue and Jack Bender
By Art and Chip Sansom
©2014 by NEA, Inc.
Ask Doctor — Root canal surgery doesn’t deserve reputation
BY ANTHONY L.
KOMAROFF, M.D.
Baby Blues
After the root canal treatment is
complete, your dentist will place an
amalgam (a filling) or composite
restoration, a crown, or both on your
tooth. This will protect and strengthen your tooth and help maintain its
structure. Premolars and molars in
particular should be crowned after
root canal therapy to prevent the
tooth from breaking.
The best way to keep pulp damage
at bay is to brush your teeth and floss
twice a day. And don’t forget regular
visits to your dentist for more thorough cleanings.
I’ve had several root canals. Before
my first one, I was very apprehensive.
So many people (including plenty
who’ve never had it) talk about root
canal surgery as if it’s terribly painful.
They say things like, “Seeing the Red
Sox end up at the bottom of the division hurt me less than a root canal!”
In my experience, a root canal
doesn’t hurt any more than other
dental procedures. But seeing the Red
Sox go from first to worst in one year,
on the other hand — that really hurt.
Garfield
Zits
By Jim Davis
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Arts & Entertainment
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
The suit
combination
that works
H
enry Ward
Beecher, a clergyman and social
reformer who
died in 1887,
said, “Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change
takes place in the contents.
New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of
every sort.”
We see suit
combinations at the
bridge table
every day.
Most we
have met
before, but
even then a
Phillip
few are misplayed with a
Alder
fair frequency.
In today’s
deal, South is in three notrump. After West leads the
heart queen and East plays
the king, what should declarer do?
South has eight top tricks:
one spade, one heart, three
diamonds and three clubs.
The ninth trick might come
from hearts if they are splitting 3-2. So South should
duck the first trick. Here, East
will shift, presumably to a
diamond. Declarer wins and
cashes his heart ace to get the
bad news.
So he needs two spade
tricks. In isolation, what is
the best play?
One should play first to the
nine (hoping West has the
jack and 10), then, if the nine
loses to the 10 or jack, lead to
the queen (hoping West has
the king). This is exactly a 63
percent chance, but does not
work here.
Instead, there is a much
better play. South should cash
a second high diamond and a
couple of rounds of clubs.
When everyone follows,
declarer should take his third
club and third diamond.
Then he plays a spade to
dummy's nine (or covers
West's 10 with dummy's
queen). East wins and cashes
a winner or two, but then
must lead away from the
spade king (or jack) into
dummy's ace-queen (or acenine).
Watch out for this endplay
position with A-Q-10 or A-Q9 opposite low cards.
North
´AQ9
™8542
©763
®AK2
West
East
´ 10 7 2
´KJ84
™ Q J 10 3
™K
©J94
© 10 8 5 2
®653
® 10 9 7 4
South
´653
™A976
©AKQ
®QJ8
Dealer: South
Vulnerable: Both
South West North East
1NT
Pass 3NT
All Pass
Opening lead: ™ Q
Phillip Alder is a columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise
Association.
‘Peter Pan’ is live and aloft
FRAZIER MOORE
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The boy who refused
to grow up: It sounds like men today in
this youth-obsessed culture. But nearly a
century before his name found its way
into pop psychology, Peter Pan was
born as the high-flying hero of a play
by Scottish writer James M. Barrie.
Many adaptations later, 1954’s
Broadway musical version of “Peter
Pan” came to TV in a live NBC telecast
in 1955, then was re-staged a year later
with Mary Martin yet again in the title
role.
Now NBC is recapturing its youth for
a revival of “Peter Pan,” broadcast live
Thursday (7 p.m. CST) and starring
Allison Williams (”Girls”) as Peter, the
cocky young champion of Neverland,
and Christopher Walken as the deliciously evil pirate, Captain Hook. The
cast also includes Christian Borle, Kelli
O’Hara and Minnie Driver as the narrator.
Officially titled “Peter Pan Live!” this
three-hour event is a follow-up to last
year’s live “The Sound of Music,” which
drew an astonishing 18.6 million viewers.
Why “Peter Pan” this go-around?
“It’s a classic, a really great musical,
that has its DNA in live television,” said
Neil Meron, who with his partner, Craig
Zadan, are back as executive producers.
“To follow ‘The Sound of Music’ and
create some sort of beachhead for a holiday tradition, you look for titles that
can fit into that little box,” he said,
pointing to a nearby TV, “and ‘Peter
Pan’ fits very snugly.”
More than snug, “Peter Pan” will be
bursting wide open with more subtext
to the characters and narrative than its
Broadway forebear, Meron said. Its glorious score (including “I Won’t Grow
Up,” ‘’I’m Flying” and “Never Never
Land”) is supplemented with additional
tunes by the team of Jule Styne, Betty
Comden and Adolph Green, including
a song dropped from the original “Peter
Pan” before it reached Broadway.
“It’s much bigger and much more
challenging than ‘The Sound of Music’
last year,” said Zadan. “A lot more musical numbers, a lot more dancing, plus
the sword fights and flying. And a live
dog.” With no do-overs allowed.
But maybe the biggest difference
between this year and last: Everyone
knew and cherished the 1964 Julie
Andrews-starring film of “The Sound of
Music,” which made tampering with it
a dicey proposition.
“We had a gigantic shadow over us
last year,” said Meron. “This year, the
shadow isn’t as big.” Then he added
with a smile, “Peter Pan DOES find his
shadow in the show.”
That’s a fact. Early in the action, we
see Wendy with a needle and thread
reattach Peter’s shadow, which he had
left behind on a previous visit to the
Darling children’s nursery. Then he
teaches Wendy and her two little brothers how to fly. Then off they fly to
Neverland!
“It’s a beautiful story about finding
the child in you and trying to hold
onto that while you grow up,” said its
stage director, Rob Ashford.
This “Peter Pan” is housed on a huge
Long Island soundstage that last year
was transformed into pre-World War II
Austria.
“‘The Sound of Music’ was more
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NEW YORK — A new
book from J.K. Rowling will
offer no magic — only words
of wisdom.
Publisher Little, Brown and
Company announced
Tuesday that Rowling’s 2008
Harvard University commencement speech will be
released in April as the book
“Very Good Lives.”
Proceeds will be donated to
Lumos, a charity for disadvantaged children that
Rowling founded, and to a
financial aid program at
Harvard.
In her speech, the “Harry
Potter” author spoke of her
early struggles as a writer and
the importance of failure as a
“stripping away of the
inessential.”
VIRGINIA SHERWOOD, NBC/AP
This Nov. 8 image shows (from left) Jake Lucas as John Darling, Taylor Louderman as Wendy Darling, Allison
Williams as Peter Pan, and John Allyn as Michael Darling from the musical version, “Peter Pan Live!” airing Thursday.
straightforward: One room, then another room, then another,” said live TV
director Glenn Weiss. “We’re trying to
immerse the viewer into this show.
Cameras will be inside the scenes. There
may even be a camera capturing a flying point of view.”
While Peter gets to fly, Captain Hook
will have ample chance to demonstrate
he’s light on his feet.
Tap dancing in boots? “I asked them
to make my clothing as light as possible,” said Christopher Walken, “‘cause
there’s a lot of stuff to wear: a wig and a
hat and swords and muskets!”
A show business veteran at 71,
Walken isn’t typically thought of as a
song-and-dance man, despite his memorable hoofing in “Pennies From
Heaven.” But however much identified
with serious drama (his breakout, Oscarwinning role was in the chilling 1978
film “The Deer Hunter”), he is anything
but dismissive of musicals — neither as
an actor nor as an audience member.
“Musicals are my favorite!” he
declared. “If somebody says, ‘I’m taking
you to the theater,’ I say, ‘OK. Just make
sure it’s a musical.’ I have deep respect
for musicals — and for this one in particular.”
“‘Peter Pan’ just appeals to something
in a kid’s imagination,” said Allison
Williams — “a boy flies through your
window and everything’s different forever.
“And if you revisit ‘Peter Pan’ periodically as you grow up, it means different
things every time you see it. The hardest I’ve ever cried in public was when I
saw Cathy Rigby in it the summer
before my senior year of high school. I
had spent so many years wishing I was
16 so I could drive and 18 so I could
vote, but now here I was, telling myself,
‘I grew up! I didn’t mean to do that!”’
She laughed at the memory, now able
to apply to it the added wisdom of her
26 years.
Allison Williams to
soar as Peter Pan
FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK — “Losing your shadow: What is THAT about?” muses
Allison Williams. “As a kid you just
accept it. But as an adult, I’ve spent a
lot of time thinking about what it
means.”
Williams, at 26 best-known for the
HBO series “Girls,” feels her life since
childhood has pointed toward
Thursday at 7 p.m. when she (and her
shadow) will headline NBC’s “Peter
Pan Live!”
As a toddler, she was already listening to the Broadway recording of
“Peter Pan,” and she viewed the 1960
NBC telecast starring Mary Martin
countless times.
She even played Peter Pan with her
grandparents.
“It was the only way they could get
me into the bathtub,” she recalls. “My
grandmother would be Wendy, and
she would take a toothpick and dental
floss and pretend to sew my shadow
on while I was splashing around. My
father was Captain Hook. That was
our game.”
Soon after last November’s triumphant live telecast of “The Sound
of Music,” NBC declared “Peter Pan”
as this year’s musical.
“From the second they announced
it, I was emailing my agents constantly. I was sending them tapes of me
singing ‘Never Never Land.”’
Then she learned that Christopher
Walken had been signed as the villainous pirate Captain Hook.
“I thought, ‘What a cool choice!’ And
my desperation level went through the
roof. Then finally the call came this
summer: ‘Would you like to do “Peter
Pan”?”’
Here was a dream role that called for
Williams to sing, dance, fight, master
a British accent and, most challenging
of all, fly.
“At first, to face a specific direction
was hard. To land without looking
down was hard. To maintain your
body in a position where people don’t
see the harness was hard. “
Then you want to put your own
personality into the flying style, to
come up with tricks and positions that
are original.”
And working all this out, “you can’t
be up there too long at a time,” she
adds, “or you’ll get sore. But it’s soooo
great. It’s wickedly fun!”
It’s as if she were born to be aloft in
this role, and clearly she deems it a
sacred trust, one about to come true,
live, for an audience of millions.
“I will take very, very good care of
Peter,” she vows. “I promise. I promise.”
“If only I could have told myself
then, ‘Don’t worry. You’ll play “Peter
Pan” in a few years, and you’ll un-grow-
up.”’
Thursday night, every viewer can join
her.
The Associated Press
Cosby resigns from Temple
University trustees board
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PHILADELPHIA — Bill
Cosby, the popular face of
Temple University in advertisements, fundraising campaigns
and commencement speeches,
has resigned from the board of
trustees following renewed
accusations that he drugged
and sexually assaulted more
than a dozen women over
many years.
Cosby, 77, resigned Monday
from the seat he had held since
1982.
“I have always been proud of
my association with Temple
University. I have always wanted
to do what would be in the best
interests of the university and its
students,” Cosby said in a statement issued by the school.
The sparse statement made
no mention of claims from
female acquaintances who say
they were drugged and molested by the entertainer, best
known as an easygoing TV dad.
Instead, the board issued a oneline statement that thanked
Cosby “for his service.”
At Temple, an online petition urging the university to
cut ties with Cosby had garnered more than 1,000 signatures.
The accusations, although
unproven, “got to the point
where the reputation of the
institution started to get
dragged down with (them),”
said Raymond Smeriglio, president of the student body.
Several other colleges also
have severed their ties with
Cosby in recent weeks. The
Berklee College of Music will
no longer award a scholarship
in Cosby’s name, and the
University of MassachusettsAmherst had him step down as
honorary co-chairman of its
fundraising campaign.
“I do wish and hope that
Temple would say something,”
said senior Grace Holleran, the
opinion editor of Temple News,
as the staff worked to remake
its lead story on Cosby before
the weekly Monday night
deadline.
“Temple would really drive
home that it cares about vic-
tims of sexual assault if it
stopped inviting him to talk on
campus,” she said.
Cosby almost never attended
Temple board meetings over
the years, but he was the university’s public face. He also frequently turned out to support
the school’s basketball teams,
an interest that connected him
with the lone woman who
filed suit against him.
Andrea Constand, who
worked for the women’s basketball team, said she had
socialized with Cosby and then
sought him out for career
advice. She said he drugged
and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in
early 2004.
Temple board chairman
Patrick O’Connor, a
Philadelphia lawyer, defended
Cosby in the 2005 suit. Nearly
a dozen women came forward
to support Constand before the
case was settled for undisclosed
terms. New accusers stepped
forward this fall, after a comedian called out Cosby as a
rapist in his act.
FBI looking into hack of
Sony Pictures’ computers
BRANDON BAILEY
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The
FBI has confirmed it is investigating a recent hacking attack
at Sony Pictures Entertainment,
which caused major internal
computer problems at the film
studio last week.
Sony’s corporate email and
other internal systems were
knocked offline, according to
reports by Variety and other
trade publications. Sony workers reportedly saw a message
appear on their computer
screens that said “Hacked by
(hash)GOP,” which may be the
initials of a group calling itself
Guardians of Peace. Copies of
some unreleased Sony films
such as “Still Alice,” “Annie,”
“Mr. Turner,” and “To Write
Love on Her Arms” are now
being distributed on unauthorized file-sharing websites, as
well as the still-in-theaters
“Fury,” although a direct connection to the hacking hasn’t
been confirmed.
Culver City, California-based
Sony Pictures said in a statement Monday that it is continuing “to work through issues
related to what was clearly a
cyber attack last week. The
company has restored a number of important services to
ensure ongoing business continuity and is working closely
with law enforcement officials
to investigate the matter.”
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Girl describes
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students who were scared, confused and hurt.
“Everyone just started crying,
so I went over there hugging
Lexi, my friend,” she said. “Her
nose was bleeding and her lip,
and oh my gosh, everyone was
just crying. So I went and
hugged everyone.”
Although Joy ended up with
a black eye, her mother said
she knows it could have been
much worse.
“I’m relieved, I’m so relieved.
I couldn’t imagine her not with
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Joline, said. “Take care of what
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Three seriously injured people were taken to the
University of Tennessee
Medical Center and were in
stable condition on Tuesday,
Rausch said. Medical Center
spokesman Jim Ragonese said a
total of seven people were
treated there, and three of
them were discharged by
Tuesday evening.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A
student aboard one of two
Tennessee school buses
involved in a deadly crash says
it was a terrifying experience.
Chilhowee Intermediate
School fifth grader Joy
Reinmann said the crash threw
students out of their seats “and
everyone was on the floor and
screaming and crying ... I
thought I was going to die.”
The crash Tuesday afternoon
in Knoxville killed two students and an adult and injured
27 others. Police said a preliminary investigation indicated
one bus made a sharp left turn,
crossed over a concrete median
and hit the second bus, which
was traveling in the opposite
direction. The second bus
flipped onto its side and slid.
The children killed were in
third grade or below, Knoxville
Police Chief David Rausch said.
The adult who died was an aide.
Reinmann said she tried to
offer some comfort to other
MICHAEL PATRICK, Knoxville News Sentinel/AP
Authorities work the scene of an accident involving two school buses in Knoxville, Tenn., Tuesday.
East Tennessee Children’s
Hospital spokeswoman Erica
Estep said another 20 children
were treated there for injuries
that were not life-threatening.
Rausch said 18 of the 20 had
been on a bus going home
from Sunnyview Primary
School, which serves kinder-
garten through second grade.
He described their injuries as
“bumps and scrapes.” They
were taken to the hospital on a
city bus “to be checked out,”
he said.
The other bus involved in
the crash was from Chilhowee
Intermediate School, which
serves third through fifth
grade. Rausch said some children from that bus were taken
by their families to the children’s hospital.
Knox County Schools
Superintendent Dr. Jim
McIntyre fought back tears at a
news conference. “This is an
unspeakable tragedy,” he said.
“This is what we work every
day to try to prevent.”
Class was not being held at
the two schools Wednesday,
but counselors were being
made available part of the day
for students or families if needed, McIntyre said.
California coyote-killing contests face state ban
SCOTT SMITH
Camilla Fox, executive director
of Project Coyote, which petitioned the state to end coyote
hunts for prizes.
The hunts are a cruel throwback to the days before dogand cock-fighting were banned,
said Fox. “We should also ban
wildlife-killing contests for the
same reasons,” she said. “It’s
immoral, reprehensible and
something that should be part
of our history books.”
California cattle ranchers lost
more than $4 million in 2010
to predators, and coyotes
accounted for the largest number of attacks, according to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
most recent figures.
That reality — and the culture of ranchland life in the
West — has spurred coyote
prize hunts to spread across
California over the years.
Hunter and cattleman Buck
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FRESNO, Calif. —
Organized coyote hunts that
award prizes to the top marksman have sparked a culture
clash in California between
wildlife advocates who value
the animals as an essential part
of the landscape and people
who view coyotes as wily
varmints to be hunted down to
protect livestock.
The derbies award shooters
who bag the tallest pile of coyote carcasses with up to $500
or prizes such as belt buckles,
camouflage hunting gear and
rifles. On Wednesday, the
California Fish and Game
Commission will consider banning prize hunts for coyotes as
well as foxes and bobcats,
which also are legal to kill year
round in unlimited numbers.
The ban would be the first in
the nation, according to
Parks said he and his neighbors
in rural Northern California
won’t turn a blind eye to coyotes killing livestock and
wildlife. He said people
opposed to coyote hunting
don’t witness the damage they
do firsthand.
Parks is also president of the
Pit River Rod and Gun Club,
which has drawn protests for
its hunt based in the Modoc
County’s town of Adin. Parks
said the club will abide by the
commission’s vote and stop
awarding the top hunter at its
derby in February, if necessary.
That won’t end coyote hunting, he said.
“We’re not focused on that
one weekend hunt,” Parks said.
“We’re focused on trying to
encourage folks to get out and
help manage these predators
by hunting them.”
Coyote hunting happens in
most states across the country
with no bag limit, but Noah
Greenwald of the Center for
Biological Diversity said prize
hunts are most common in the
western states. In Idaho, environmentalists blocked a wolf
and coyote derby from happening next month on vast
wilderness areas controlled by
the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management. Organizers say
they’ll hold the contest elsewhere.
California is in the process of
estimating the state’s coyote
population, but Scott Gardner,
a senior environmental scientist with the California
Department of Fish and
Wildlife, said the species is not
threatened or endangered, and
may even be on the rise. The
highly adaptable wolflike animals frequent not only ranchlands and forests but also sub-
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with a big heart who takes
pride in a job well done,
we want to meet you.
Applications can be found
on our website at
www.providencehastings.com
Completed applications
can be mailed to
MJ Senior Housing
P.O. Box 1223
Fremont, NE 68026
or emailed to
The South Central
Nebraska Unified
School District
S.C.A.L.E. program at
Clay Center is accepting
applications for a
paraprofessional.
Please visit
southcentralunified.org
for an application or call
402-726-2151.
Mail resume and
application to:
Jodi Hitesman
Sandy Creek Public
School, 30671 Hwy 14,
Fairfield, NE 68938.
E.O.E.
DESHLER PUBLIC
Schools is seeking a 7-12
Physical Science teacher
for the 2015-2016 school
year. A valid Nebraska
Teaching Certificate required. Natural Science
endorsement preferred.
Please send a letter of
application, resume, transcripts, and credentials to
Jack Waite, Principal,
Deshler Public School,
Box 547, Deshler, NE
68340. Position is open
until filled. EOE.
MEDICATION AIDE
needed for part time
evening/night shift at
Hastings Homestead Assisted. New hire pay rate.
Living.
Apply online at
www.midwesthealth.com/careers
or call Tammy at 402461-3841 for more
details.
COOK
Providence Place Memory
Care is looking for a dedicated person who enjoys
cooking for others. As one
of the most important
times of our residents day,
this person must take
pride in making high quality food, with high quality
taste, and high quality
presentation. Taking time
to visit with our residents
to really get to know them
will be imperative.
Applications can be found
on our website at
www.providencehastings.com
Completed applications
can be mailed to
MJ Senior Housing
P.O. Box 1223
Fremont, NE 68026
or emailed to
mlb@mjseniorhousing.com
RESTAURANT
HEALTH
CARE
PHYSICAL THERAPIST
IN-151258755-TLH-BU
This position is PT and is
located in the Extended
Care Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation Service
in Grand Island. As a licensed Physical Therapist
the following are requirements. Perform physical
therapy evaluations and
develop an appropriate
plan of care. Deliver evidence based physical therapy treatment. Dispense
appropriate assisted
devices and braces while
meeting Prosthetic Service requirements for education. We offer an outstanding benefits package
that includes vacation, sick
leave, paid holidays, retirement, tax deferred savings plan, health and life
insurance.
Please apply at:
www.vacareers.va.gov
or call Human Resources
at 402-995-4947
HACIENDA
LOS CAPORALES
now accepting applications for servers. Stop in to
get an application. 817 E.
South St. 402-462-4062
TRUCKING
WANTED: 48 State flatbed company needing
qualified CDL drivers for
late model equipment.
Tarp pay. Stop pay. Vacation and bonuses.
Good home time.
Caudy Trucking
402-768-6134
BERNARD PAVELKA
TRUCKING INC.
has an opening for an
OTR driver. Must have experience, clean driving record and meet all DOT
qualifications. Late model
equipment and regular
routes to get you home.
Contact Dwight at 402462-4650 or 800-274-4120
for more information.
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Hastings,NE 68901
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Hastings Police D epartm ent
Captain Adam S tory
317 S.Burlington Ave.
Hastings,NE 68901
astory@ hastingspolice.org
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APARTMENTS
TOWNHOUSES LOT
DRIVERS NEEDED: Must
be 25 or older. All shifts.
308-390-6972. Action Cab
IN HOME licensed daycare has opening for 12
months and up. 785-8190760
1 AND 2 BEDROOM:
$300-$475. Clean, no
pets/smoking. 402-9842251 leave message.
NICE 2-BEDROOM: Appliances, laundry hook-up,
off-street parking, $475.
No smoking/pets. Deposit.
References. 402-902-9379
3 BEDROOM, 1.5 bath.
January 1. Basement, garage. Credit/references.
$750. 402-460-9626
GENERAL
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS
has position open for part
time evening front desk
agent. Must be customer
service orientated and
able to work weekends.
Apply at Holiday Inn Express, Cimarron Plaza.
COURT APPOINTED
Special Advocate for
Children (CASA) of South
Central Nebraska is
seeking a part-time rural
Outreach Coordinator.
Duties include: volunteer
management, travel to
surrounding communities,
case management, fundraising, etc. Qualifications: Preferred Associate Degree with twoyears experience or
Bachelor Degree in related field. Deadline for
resume submission is
December 5, 2014.
If interested send cover
letter and resume to:
CASA of South Central
Nebraska
Attn: RuAnn Root
2727 W. Second Street,
Suite 410
Hastings, NE 68901
EOE Equal Opportunity
Employer
CLEANING: Residential/
Commercial cleaner.
Background checks. Call
Sandra 402-519-6279
Energized Electric, LLC.
is looking for Full Time
Journeyman, offering a
competitive wage. Must
have drivers License.
Please contact
402-879-8262
ROYAL HAS multiple
openings for production
workers on 2nd and 3rd
shifts. No prior experience required; training is
available for all jobs.
Royal is also in search of
a self-motivated, organized individual to control
tooling and inventory.
Hours will be Monday-Friday, 12-8 p.m.
All positions at Royal include a great benefits
package and employee
ownership. Royal offers a
10% differential for 2nd
and 3rd shifts.
Download an application
online or visit us at:
FOR SALE
Mosaic in Axtell and
Holdrege is hiring Direct
Support Associates. We
offer flexible full and parttime schedules, good
wages, and a free benefit option for employees.
Visit our website at
www.mosaiccareers.org
to learn how you can love
the work you do!
HASTINGS CAREGIVERS needed. Assist
seniors with housekeeping and errands. Days,
evenings or weekends,
you choose schedule.
$8.50 plus holiday bonus.
Shift differential available
Caretech 800-991-7006
MACHINE OPERATOR
Full time, hours are 7:00
a.m.-3:30 p.m. MondayFriday. High School Diploma/GED required. Must
have production machine
experience, prefer
shears, brakes, weed-omatic experience. Will operate machines in the
production process of
heaters, other duties as
assigned. Will need to be
able to operate a forklift
to move materials. Wage
based on experience, full
benefits.
Call 402-463-9821 extension 222 for details on
where and how to apply.
LOSS PREVENTION
OFFICER
Allen's has a part-time
position open for Loss
Prevention officer. Excellent starting salary and
working conditions with
state-of-the-art electronic
equipment. Valuable merchandise discount. Apply
office
1115 W. 2nd St.
Hastings
EXPERIENCED JANITORIAL position. Day
hours, heavy lifting may be
required. Some outside
work
required.
Criminal/background
check required. Hours can
be flexible. Pick up applications at 945 West H.
CHILD CARE
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Your WHIRLPOOL and
TOSHIBA Dealer
ROGER'S INC.
1035 S. Burlington
402-463-1345
FOR RENT
APARTMENTS
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APPLY TODAY
Begin Fall in your new
apartment. 2 and 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath,
w a s h e r / d r y e r
hookups/basements for
storage, large eat in kitchen/appliances furnished,
central air and heat/off
street parking/lawn care
provided, onsite management/maintenance. See us
for application at 945 W. H
St Hastings Ne. Or call us
at 402-463-5953. Affordable housing/utilities. Sorry no pets.
2 BEDROOM ($520) and
3 bedroom ($575) available now at Regency
Heights. Great apartments with lots of space
for the money. Controlled
entry, eating bar in kitchen, on-site laundry,
central air, ample parking.
$300 deposit/12 month
lease. Call today for a tour!
402-469-0830. www.perryreid.com/regencyheights.
EHO
PART-TIME
Royal Engineered
Composites
1046 E. 9th Street
Minden, NE 68959
PINNACLE BANK in Roseland is now hiring a
part time teller/new accounts representative.
Responsibilities include
developing customer relationships, receive and
pay money, maintain accurate record keeping of
deposits and withdrawals,
negotiable instruments,
other bank transactions,
opening new accounts
and other duties as assigned. Prior cash handling and customer contact experience is a plus.
Please apply on line at
www.pinnbank.com and
click on the career link.
EOE
APPLIANCES
Good Samaritan
Society
Children’s Ark Daycare &
Preschool is accepting
employment applications
for a full time Child Care
Assistant. Previous experience in a licensed
daycare preferred. All
qualified applicants will
receive consideration
without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or
protected veteran status.
Applications are available on line at
www.good-sam.com
If you need additional
information, please call
Stacy Kerr at
402-460-3214.
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based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin,
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any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”
Familial status includes
children under the age of
18 living with parents or
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hereby informed that all
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newspaper are available
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NICE CLEAN 1 bedroom
with appliances, central
air, security. 402-519-1010
1 BEDROOM: most utilities paid, off street parking,
some appliances, no
smoking/pets, $385/$385.
402-469-0994
Recently renovated one
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bedroom deluxe units
available in the Garden
Apartments. Utilities included in rent, snow removal and close parking
available. Call Tiffany at
402-463-3381 or 402-9845234 to schedule your personal tour today!
2 BEDROOM: Main level,
washer/dryer hook-up, off
street parking. $550/550.
402-463-0458
SPACIOUS 3 BEDROOM:
1222 N. Baltimore, includes storage garage, no
pets/smoking, references
required. $595. 402-9840881
FOR RENT
DUPLEXES
NICE 2 BEDROOM: Appliances. References. Agent.
402-461-6482
FOR RENT
TOWNHOUSES
2 AND 3 BEDROOM
TOWN HOUSES
Apply now and start fall off
in a new home. We offer
onsite management/maintenance, rental/utility assistance, appliances furnished, washer/dryer
hookups. Off street parking/basements, Pick up
your application at 945 W.
H Hastings NE. Or call us
at 402-463-5953
Sorry no pets.
FOR SALE
HOUSES
HOUSES
1 BEDROOM: 226 E. 2nd
$475/month + deposit. No
smoking/pets, all appliances, newly remodeled.
402-469-5481 Available
now
3-BEDROOM: $1,500/
month. Agent/owner. 402461-1785.
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-BEDROOM:
Rent to own. Air, garage.
$400-$850. 402-469-6635.
3 BEDROOM: In country.
No smoking. No pets.
Credit background checks
and references required.
Available December 1.
$800 402-463-8060
Patrick Markle
Town & Country
Realty
of Hastings, Inc.
402-984-2412
FOR RENT
OFFICE SPACE
Have a small business?
New office space.
$225-$350.
Burlington Village.
402-462-4032
OFFICE SPACE
Single office, double office,
up to 4 office suites available. Very nice. Conference and meeting room
available. 402-461-4100
LANDMARK CENTER
APPROXIMATELY 1,650
sq ft of retail space, 718
East
side
Blvd,
$795/month, licensee
owned, 402-984-2198
OFFICES FOR rent: Various sizes, excellent location. 422 N. Hastings Ave.
402-462-4215 or 402-4611770
FOR RENT
BUS. PROPERTY
OFFICE OR Beauty shop
for rent. Downtown location. Call 402-469-4777
FOR SALE
FACTORY BUILT
KINGSWOOD PLAZA
New homes. Financing
available 402-463-1958
FOR SALE
MOBILE HOMES
2005: 3-BEDROOM. Will
finance. Bonnavilla Plaza
Call Diane 402-469-4777
FOR SALE
INVESTMENT
TOWNHOUSE: For sale;
2-3 bedroom, 2 car garage. Lochland $199,900$239,900 Agent owned.
402-461-1785
SALES
AUCTION
FOR RENT
STORAGE
MOTOR HOME and boat
storage. Call Diane 402469-4777
4 COVERED storage
spots for RV's, boats, cars
out by CCC. 16' entry
door, 24 hour access $150
month/vehicle. 862-2420465
Attract attention to your
garage sale. Place your
ad by 5:00 p.m., Wednesday to have your garage
sale included on our
garage sale map.
RANDY RUHTER, Auctioneer and Broker, 2837
W. Hwy. 6, Hastings, NE,
402-463-8565.
Korky Lightner Auction
Every Thursday Night
5:30 p.m.
219 S. Woodland Ave.
402-469-0703
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WANT TO RENT
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WANTED: Irrigated farm
land to rent in Adams or
Clay County. Competitive
cash rent or shares.
Modern Equipment.
Call today, 402-218-4444
TH U R SDA Y, DEC EM B ER 4TH • 4:00 P.M .
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single story hom e w ith back yard,toolshed,and 2 car
detached garage.
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Housing Choice
Voucher Specialist
The Hastings Housing Authority
(HHA) in Hastings, NE is seeking to
fill the position of Housing Choice
Voucher (HCV) Specialist. This
person is responsible for the day to
day operations of the HCV Program
including all activities associated
with building and maintaining the
477 authorized voucher program.
The successful applicant for this full
time position will be employed by
the Hall County Housing Authority
(HCHA). Application deadline is
December 10, 2014. HCHA offers an
excellent benefit package as well.
Applications are available at 220
North Hastings Ave., Hastings, NE
68901 or call 402-463-1061 to be
mailed an application. EOE
CHATEAU
IMPERIAL
FOR RENT
KINGSWOOD PLAZA
RV lots available.
Call 402-463-1958
20' 3 point Hiniker flail
stock shredder. $2,750.
402-469-6771
You...
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• Permanent
• Temporary
FOR RENT
NOW HIRING OTR
drivers. Hopper bottoms,
home weekends. $3,000
hiring bonus. Call Sean
308-455-7833
mlb@mjseniorhousing.com
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Providence Place Memory
Care is looking for a confident RN or LPN to lead
our team as the Program
Director. You will have the
opportunity to impact lives
every day by planning and
overseeing the entire
Memory Care Program
from administration, nursing, and marketing to
activities and direct care.
This isn't your typical "Director" office job as the majority of your time will be
spent working directly with
residents and staff. If you
are energized by leading a
team and have the compassion and patience to
work with people, we want
to meet you.
Please email your resume
to MaryLynne Bolden:
mlb@mjseniorhousing.com
EDUCATIONAL
FOR RENT
AUTO GLASS
AUTO GLASS EXPERTS.
25 years combined experience in glass replcement.
Jeff Fitzke, Brent Vorderstrasse. 405 West J
Street. 402-463-0025
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repairs, snow removal. age, basement, attic, yard.
SANDRA'S CLEANING
SERVICES. Residential,
commercial. Insured. References. Thorough, reliable. 402-519-6279
CLOCK REPAIR
VILLAGE TIME. Clocks
and watches cleaned, repaired. Authorized service
center. Will pick up and
deliver. 308-832-0671
CONSTRUCTION
LOPEZ FAMILY Construction, siding, windows,
doors, roofing, trim trees.
10 years experience. Low
prices. 402-705-4320,
402-902-9255
Fully insured. 15 years experience. Reasonable.
462-2660, 460-6756
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Build the kitchen and bath
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Free estimates; courteous
service. Call Scott at 402705-6263
PAINTING
HONEY DO'S PAINTING.
Interior, exterior. 30 years
experience. Free estimates. Reasonable rates.
Tim Yurk, 402-705-0601.
PERSONAL SERVICES
HOME HEALTH AID.
Light housekeeping, cooking, run errands, honest,
dependable. Years of experience. Call Patty 402469-4287
List your ad. 402-462-2131.
Senior Focus
B8
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014
How to stay
fit in the 60s
and beyond
STEVE BRANDT
Minneapolis Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — Dr.
Jamie Peters counsels his
patients on fitness for the
aging, and Denis Nagan is the
model patient.
Nagan, 69, has been active
in sports or fitness since grade
school. Peters is a sports medicine specialist caring for aging
athletes and other older
adults wanting to preserve or
improve their fitness.
Peters advises older people
to stay active, with at least
three days a week of moderate
activity, intensifying the effort
if possible to the point of not
being able to carry on a conversation. He advocates crosstraining to spread the stress of
exercise among different muscles. It’s particularly important to exercise the core muscles, he said, because a strong
core will diminish the kind of
awkward gait people adopt
when compensating for joint
pain. But when cross-training
isn’t possible, Peters advocates
walking — it’s better than not
walking.
Nagan has found his own
path, on the brink of qualifying as a septuagenarian, to
most of what Peters prescribes. Fitness has been an
integral part of his life since
he joined a swim club as a
kid. But in his late 60s, he
found himself adapting his
regimen to meet changing
physical and mental health
needs.
He has biked throughout
his life — for transportation,
for fitness and to compete,
culminating in the 1,200-kilometer Paris-Brest-Paris ultramarathon bike tour. He was a
runner for the same reasons,
to the point of logging 50kilometer training runs with
former Olympians. But these
days he’s more likely to move
at a pace that fits his age and
lifestyle, something that
many older adults can emulate.
“I walk for utility and I
walk for aimlessness,” the
northeast Minneapolis resident said. A trip to pick up an
item at Home Depot? That’s a
two-and-a-half-mile walk. A
walk downtown to the library,
or to catch the Blue Line to
the V.A. hospital, is 7 or 8
miles round trip.
“It’s been very beneficial
both mentally and physically,” Nagan said.
Walking lacks the cardio
intensity of biking and running. Sometimes he’ll jog up
a hill, just to push his heart
rate and get some of the car-
Su nd a y
diovascular benefits Peters
prescribes.
“My legs are strong and I
can hike all day,” said Nagan.
“I just can’t go as fast as I
used to, and I don’t know
that that’s important. There’s
no reason to go fast other
than you did at one time go
fast.”
For a greater challenge,
Nagan tackles the physically
demanding ups and downs of
the Superior Hiking Trail, a
trail edging Lake Superior in
northeastern Minnesota. “If
I’m in the city, I call it a walk.
When I’m in the country, I
call it a hike.”
Unlike many walkers,
Nagan eschews headphones.
That leaves his mind free to
operate on two tracks. “I’m
very aware of what’s going on
around me. I’m always aware
of who’s around, what’s
around, what’s going on. I’m
always tuned into the immediacy of the moment.” That
includes the temperature, the
breeze, the surface he’s walking on. “It’s always different
even if you’re going the same
route.”
Meanwhile, his mind is
working subconsciously. “All
of a sudden I might have a
solution to a problem ... The
subconscious part of your
mind is back there grinding
away.”
That mindfulness is a carryover from Nagan’s meditation
and yoga practices, something
Peters also prescribes for
building core strength and
balance.
Why is yoga better than,
say, pushups and situps? Yoga
can be modified by a capable
instructor to avoid positions
that might impose undue
stress on the body.
Lifelong athletes inevitably
will find themselves making
adjustments, with performance beginning to diminish
after 40 or 45 years old. Peters
recommends age-group competitions as a healthy adjustment for people driven to
maintain high levels of fitness.
“I think the healthy attitude is you set expectations
that you can achieve,” he
said.
Nagan finds other benefits
from a less punishing exercise
regimen. “The biggest is
you’re not beat up all the
time.” When he ran hard,
“You’re always sore — there’s
always something that’s sort
of semi-broken. It feels good
to not have to be worried
about how fast you’re doing
something.”
M o nd a y
JOSHUA McKERROW, Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service
Irv Koch, 91, poses for a portrait at his basement bar on Nov. 11 in Pasadena, Md. Koch has owned this public bar in his basement for more than 50 years.
At 91, Irv still keeps beer on ice
ZOE READ
The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — If someone wants to
grab a drink at Club Sunset Knoll for the
first time, they better find someone who
knows Irv.
For 51 years, the little establishment
tucked into the basement of a secluded
suburban Pasadena house has been almost
impossible to find without help.
When guests arrive, they knock on the
front door and ask a cheerful old man to
meet them at the bottom of his basement
steps. Wait a bit, and he will open the
heavy door and pour beer, wine and liquor
from behind his exclusive bar.
At 91, Irv Koch runs his small business
by himself. It may be the only licensed bar
of its kind in Maryland.
His customers, a mix of middle-age singles and couples, say they come to Irv's bar
for its unusual atmosphere and the man
who serves them.
"People say, 'Why don't you retire?' I am
retired," Koch said. "People say, 'Why don't
you go on vacation?' I am on vacation."
Inside, bras and underwear of all shapes
and sizes hang from the ceiling, and knickknacks spanning 50 years are piled on
shelves behind the bar.
Customers hang out at tables covered
with plaid plastic table cloths, play music
from the jukebox or play pool as a colored
disco ball takes drinkers back to their basement party in middle school.
"I tell people, 'Don't judge it when you
walk through the door,'" said Kathy
Smallwood of Severna Park, Md., a regular
for three years. "Sometimes when the new
ones come and you see their faces ...
they're stunned."
The bar looks about the same as when
Koch bought it and the house in 1963,
after he and his brother Harry Koch, both
plumbers at the time, spotted it while on a
job. Harry was in charge of the maintenance and Irv served guests at the bar.
"When I bought it, it was on the waterfront. We built the pier. It was something I
always dreamed of and at the time we
were able to buy it, so we did," Koch said.
Tu es d a y
JOSHUA McKERROW, Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service
Irv Koch, 91, has owned and run this basement bar in Pasadena, Md. for more than
50 years. His may be the only bar of its kind licensed in Maryland.
Irv's is zoned as a commercial building.
Koch's club license from the Anne Arundel
County Board of License Commissioners
allows consumption on premises by members and guests.
Sara Arthur, attorney for the Anne
Arundel County Liquor Board, said she doesn't know of any other licensed bars below a
private residence in the county or the state.
And because it predates county zoning,
fire safety, health and other regulations, they
don't apply, as they would to any new bar.
"You can't do it these days. No one could
come in now and do the same thing,"
Arthur said.
There used to be several basement bars,
Koch said, but most of them died out
when bigger businesses came into the area.
He said he has stuck around because he's
OK with not earning a lot of money.
"I can get by on a small amount of
money, I don't need a lot of money," Koch
said. "Just to live here, pay the bills, have a
couple dollars to spend and I'm satisfied."
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unpredictable, he said, but weekends are
the busiest. Customers are mostly regulars,
because the bar is still mostly unknown.
"Everybody walks through the door and
says, 'Oh my God, I've lived in Pasadena all
these years and didn't know it exists,' " said
Nicole Thompson of Pasadena, a customer
for 20 years.
Several regulars say they enjoy the bar
because it is homey. The hanging of bras
from the ceiling started after one customer
decided to hang hers, thinking other
women would follow _ and they did.
Regulars say they don't leave the bras themselves and the ones who do rarely return.
"They get a kick out of signing them, so
someone comes along and sees they were
here," Koch said.
Owning and operating the bar has given
Koch the opportunity to meet people, and
make more friends than he could imagine.
"I meet a lot of nice people," he said.
"Everyone calls me Irv and most of them
look out for me. The big guys say, 'If anyone bothers you let me know.'"
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