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Prep softball: AC knocks off Holdrege. — Page B1
Gamble or not?
Business owners hold mixed views
on legality of bar game.
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Heineman
on record
against XL
pipeline
GOVERNOR CITES CONCERNS ABOUT
RISKS TO AQUIFER, SANDHILLS
IN LETTER TO OBAMA, CLINTON
JOHN HUTHMACHER
johnh@hastingstribune.com
BRENT McCOWN/Tribune
St. Michael’s Elementary students pet and look at goats in a petting zoo at the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island Tuesday during
Nebraska’s Largest Classroom.
‘Epic’ trip to the fair
GOATS, KANGAROOS, PIRATES
HIGHLIGHT SCHOOLS’ VISIT TO
NEBRASKA’S LARGEST CLASSROOM
BETSY HERRMAN
bherrman@hastingstribune.com
G
RAND ISLAND — Fifth-graders
from St. Michael’s Elementary
School in Hastings crowded
around a goat pen at the petting
zoo at the Nebraska State Fair
St. Michael’s Elementary fifth-graders (from left) Luke Rodriguez, Kate Landgren,
Krystin Aschoff and Gracie Daly pet and look at goats at a petting zoo at Nebraska’s
Largest Classroom at the State Fair in Grand Island Tuesday.
Please see FAIR/page A6
Panel: Widespread
waste and fraud
in war spending
RICHARD LARDNER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As much as $60 billion in
U.S. tax dollars has been lost to waste and fraud
in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade
due to lax oversight of contractors, poor planning and corruption, according to an independent panel.
In its final report to Congress, to be publicly
released Wednesday, the Commission on
Wartime Contracting said the waste could grow
as U.S. support for reconstruction projects and
programs wanes, leaving Iraq and Afghanistan to
bear the long-term costs of sustaining the
schools, medical clinics, barracks, roads and
power plants already built with American
money.
Government agencies should overhaul the
way they award and manage contracts in war
zones so they don’t repeat the mistakes made in
Iraq and Afghanistan, the commission said.
Among the report’s 15 recommendations are the
creation of an inspector general to monitor contracting and the appointment of a senior government official to improve planning and coordination.
Please see WAR/page A6
Rodeo marks 20 years of buckin’ and ropin’
BRENT
McCOWN/
Tribune
Kelly Wood
competes
in tie down
roping during the
Oregon
Trail Rodeo
at the
Adams
County
Fairgrounds
in this
Sept. 5,
2010, file
photo.
WILL VRASPIR
wvraspir@hastingstribune.com
Twenty years ago, amid complaints of a lack of activities in
Hastings, a group of nine members of the Adams County
Agricultural Society Board put
their heads together to establish a new event.
“Everybody said there was
nothing to do in Hastings,”
said Darrel Stromer, who was
on that 1992 board. “The goal
was to have some activity over
the Labor Day weekend.”
What Stromer and the rest of
the board members came up
with was a rodeo.
This weekend, the Oregon
Trail Rodeo celebrates its 20th
year.
Clear
tonight.
Mostly
sunny
and hot
Thursday.
JACKPOT IMPOSTOR
Art by Danny Carpenter, 71/2,
Longfellow School
Stromer said he remembered
going to a rodeo as a child and
it seemed like a good activity.
After some investigating, the
committee discovered that an
Oregon Trail
Rodeo had
been held in
Hastings in
The Oregon
the early
Trail Rodeo
kicks off Friday 1960s.
at 7 p.m. and
It was diffiruns nightly at
cult to get
the same time
sponsors at
through Sunday
first, he said,
at the Adams
but the entire
County
Fairgrounds.
board worked
together and
enthusiastically garnered support from the business community. As more sponsors con-
Rodeo
tributed, the increased prize
money continued to entice better competitors to enter.
Along with sponsors, volunteers were needed to set up for
the event and operate it. Even
after 20 years, Stromer continues to serve on the committee
for the rodeo.
“If it wasn’t for the sponsors
and volunteers, it would never
have been a success,” Stromer
said. “I think it’s great that
we’ve had a successful 20 years
and it would be my hope to
have another 20 years.”
Stan McMahon, another
member of the original board,
said much of the work fell to
the board. At first, the fair
board did the rodeo because
there wasn’t a separate committee established to organize it.
“It was a lot of work,” he
said. “We got pretty good cooperation from people we asked
to help, but we were all green
at it.”
Over the years, the rodeo
continued to grow. McMahon
said the committee originally
rented all the bucking chutes
and livestock panels from a
rodeo company in South
Dakota until they could afford
to purchase them for permanent installation at the Adams
County Fairgrounds.
Sandy Himmelberg, Adams
County Fairgrounds manager,
said the groundwork laid by
Please see RODEO/page A6
Nation
Weather
Lo:
68
Hi:
95
Tuesday.
As the students reached out to pet the curious goats and coo over the kids, two males
began fighting. The goats stood on hind legs
with their heads lowered, pushing one
another as the students watched, shouting
and laughing.
“Seeing the goats fight was awesome, epic,”
said 11-year-old Josh Walz.
The class was one of six St. Michael’s
groups from grades two, three and five visiting the fair for Nebraska’s Largest Classroom,
a self-guided field trip that brought hundreds
of school students from around the state to
the fair Monday and Tuesday.
Citing environmental concerns, Gov. Dave
Heineman has sent a letter to President Barack
Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
asking them to deny a permit to TransCanada for
its proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.
In the letter dated today, Heineman asks
Obama and Clinton to deny the permit based
on its current proposed route through Nebraska,
which includes passing over the Ogallala Aquifer
and Nebraska Sandhills.
“I want to emphasize that I am not opposed
to pipelines,” Heineman wrote. “I am opposed
to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route
because it is directly over the Ogallala Aquifer.
Please see PIPELINE/page A6
CORRY, Pa. — State police in
northwestern Pennsylvania are
searching for a jackpot impostor.
Police say someone pretended to be
another man when he collected the
$750 daily jackpot at the Veterans of
Foreign Wars club in Corry last week.
Club officials discovered they
had been duped on Monday when
67-year-old Malcolm Johnson came
to the club to collect his winnings
from Friday’s drawing.
That’s when club officials told
Johnson that another man using his
Inside
name, address and Social Security
number had come to the club last
week and signed to collect the jackpot.
Police say the real Johnson has
gray hair, glasses and walks without
assistance. The impostor has dark
hair, no glasses and uses a cane.
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Yesterday and Today
Obituaries
ILERT SCHMIDT
Minden resident Ilert
Schmidt, 87, died Monday,
Aug. 29, 2011, at the Bethany
Home in
Minden.
Services are
10:30 a.m.
Thursday at
Bethany Lutheran Church
in Minden
with the Rev.
Donald Hun- Schmidt
zeker officiating. The Minden
American Legion, Heartwell
VFW, and the U.S. Army
National Guard will provide
military rites. Graveside services are 12:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, west of Macon.
Visitation is 4-7 p.m. today at
Layton-Craig Funeral Home in
Minden.
***
He was born on June 6,
1924, in Hildreth, Neb., to
Brunke and Marie (Braams)
Schmidt. He grew up in the
Hildreth area, and attended
Hildreth High School. He
then farmed in the Hildreth
area.
On Nov. 16, 1948, he married Janevieve Bach at the Zion
Lutheran parsonage, west of
Macon. The day after his marriage to Janevieve, he reported
for duty in the U.S. Army. He
served during the Korean War
and was discharged in 1953.
Ilert worked as a mechanic
in Franklin, then they moved
to Minden and he worked for
John Deere. He later worked
for Delux Manufacturing in
Kearney for 23 years. After
Ilert’s retirement, he began
working at the Pioneer Village
making brooms.
He was a member of the Bethany Lutheran Church in
Minden, and American Legion
Post #94 in Minden. Ilert enjoyed making wooden tulips
for his friends and family. He
also collected pocket watches.
Survivors include his wife,
Janevieve of Minden; son,
Delvin Schmidt and his wife
Julie of Minden; daughter, Jana
Klusman of Blue Hill; five
grandchildren, Brandon
Schmidt and his wife Tiffany,
Brian Schmidt and his wife
Ashley, Megan Schmidt, Ryan
Klusman, and Ashley Klusman;
two great-grandchildren, Alex
and Candace; two sisters, Lilly
Dyer of Hastings, and Viola
Ebke of Kearney; and two
brothers, LaVerne Schmidt of
Lincoln, and Leo Schmidt of
Kearney.
He was preceded in death by
two sons, Lonnie, and Laroy;
and brother, Virgil.
Longtime Detroit Lions
writer Kowalski dies
51-YEAR-OLD STARTED
CAREER WITH NFL
REPORTING IN 1978
DETROIT — Michigan
sports reporter Tom Kowalski,
who was a fixture on the
Detroit Lions beat for many
years, died Monday. He was
51.
Kowalski’s employer, Booth
Newspapers, reported he was
found unresponsive Monday
morning by his fiancée Diane
Wolan. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in
Oakland County’s Commerce
Township.
Kowalski started his Lions
reporting in 1978 at The
Oakland Press, and one of his
biggest stories was the 1982
Super Bowl in Pontiac, Mich.
He joined Booth in 1997 and
later became one of
MLive.com’s most-read
reporters.
He also co-hosted a statewide
sports talk show on WDFN-AM
in Detroit and regularly
appeared on Fox affiliate
WJBK-TV.
Co-worker Ansar Khan said
Kowalski knew the Lions
“inside and out” and “had an
incredible work ethic.”
During a meeting Monday
with reporters, Lions coach Jim
Schwartz was emotional and
had the TV cameras turned off
while he talked about
Kowalski. He said since
Kowalski always asked the first
question, he called for a
moment of silence in its place.
“Our thoughts and prayers
go out to his friends and family, and we consider ourselves
part of both of those,”
Schwartz said. “When it came
to Tom, the one thing he
always tried to do is get it right.
He knew football, and he
always tried to get it right. I
have a lot of respect for that.”
Lions President Tom Lewand
said Kowalski “was a true professional” and “consummate
beat writer.”
“Even in times of disagreement, we always had the
utmost respect for his professionalism,” he said.
Former Fremont mayor
‘Skip’ Edwards dies at 72
MAN CAST
TIE-BREAKING VOTE IN
IMMIGRATION BATTLE
FREMONT — Former
Fremont Mayor Donald “Skip”
Edwards has died at the age of
72.
The Moser Memorial Chapel
says Edwards died Tuesday at
an Omaha hospital.
Edwards had cited health
concerns when he stepped
down last November from the
post he’d held since 1988.
In 2008 Edwards broke the
City Council’s 4-4 tie vote on a
proposed ordinance barring the
hiring of illegal immigrants or
renting them any housing in
town. The ordinance would
have failed on a tie, but Edwards
voted against it anyway.
The ordinance was adopted
in 2010 after city voters
approved it. It is being challenged in court.
The Fremont Tribune reports
that Mayor Scott Getzschman
said Edwards “was truly the
epitome of leadership and had
a passion for Fremont. He’ll be
greatly missed.”
Father whose son fled
to avoid chemo dies
BOY EVENTUALLY
UNDERWENT
TREATMENT
SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — A
Minnesota man whose son
once fled the state to avoid
chemotherapy has died.
A private funeral is set for
Friday for Anthony Hauser.
Family friend Dan Zwakman
says Hauser died last Thursday
of cardiac arrest at a Minnesota
hospital. He was 56.
Hauser, of Sleepy Eye, told
reporters at his farm last year
that he had a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. He said
he was treating the disease
with dietary therapies.
In 2009, Hauser’s wife,
Colleen, fled to California with
their son, Daniel, after a judge
ordered the boy to undergo
chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s
lymphoma. Daniel and his
mother returned, and he
underwent conventional treatment. Zwakman says Daniel,
now 15, remains in remission.
Email and phone messages
for Colleen Hauser were not
immediately returned Tuesday.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 31, the 243rd
day of 2011. There are 122 days left in
the year.
Tomato bath
MEMORY LANE
TRIBLAND
Thirty years ago: Dorothy M. Hintz of
Belvidere published the book “Treasure in
the Deep Blue Sea,” a children’s book that
was being circulated in area libraries.
Twenty years ago: A routine sample taken
from Glenvil’s water supply violated standards set by the Nebraska Department of
Health, prompting more samples to be taken
and sent the department for further testing.
Ten years ago: Former Hastings Fire
Chief Eugene Dean died at age 75 in Chula
Vista, Calif.
One year ago: About 1,000 people
flocked to Chautauqua Park for the
Hastings Family YMCA’s 13th annual Duck
Race and Quacktastic Fun Day.
HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
On Aug. 31, 1886, at 9:51 p.m., an
earthquake with an estimated magnitude
of 7.3 devastated Charleston, S.C., killing
at least 60 people, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
TODAY IN NEBRASKA
In 1890, Gov. John M. Thayer dedicated
the Sugar Palace in Grand Island, a building made and decorated in large part with
sugar beets.
In 1949, KMTV in Omaha began regular
broadcasts, signing on just two days after
WOW became the state’s first TV station.
ON THIS DATE
In 1688, preacher and novelist John
Bunyan, author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress,”
died in London.
In 1888, Mary Ann Nichols, the apparent first victim of “Jack the Ripper,” was
found slain in London’s East End.
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed an act prohibiting the export of
U.S. arms to belligerents.
In 1941, the radio program “The Great
Gildersleeve,” a spinoff from “Fibber
McGee and Molly” starring Harold Peary,
debuted on NBC.
In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern Atlantic states; Connecticut, Rhode
Island and part of Massachusetts bore the
brunt of the storm, which resulted in nearly 70 deaths.
In 1969, boxer Rocky Marciano died in a
light airplane crash in Iowa, a day before
his 46th birthday.
In 1980, Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed
in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike.
In 1986, 82 people were killed when an
Aeromexico jetliner and a small private
plane collided over Cerritos, Calif. The
Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov
collided with a merchant vessel in the
Black Sea, causing both to sink; up to 448
people reportedly died.
In 1988, 14 people were killed when a
Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff
from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
ALBERTO SAIZ/AP
A reveler lays in tomato pulp during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight fiesta
in the village of Bunol, near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday. Bunol’s town hall
estimated more than 40,000 people, some from as far away as Japan and
Australia, took up arms Wednesday and pelted each other with 120 tons of
ripe tomatoes in the yearly food fight, now in its 66th year.
In 1991, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
declared their independence, raising to 10
the number of republics seeking to secede
from the Soviet Union.
Ten years ago: The Middle East dominated the opening of a world conference
against racism in Durban, South Africa, as
Yasser Arafat accused Israel of “racist practices” against the Palestinian people. Little
League star Danny Almonte’s perfect game
and his Bronx, N.Y., team’s records, including a third-place World Series finish, were
ruled invalid after officials in the
Dominican Republic, where Danny was
born, determined he was 14 years old, not
12.
Five years ago: Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium. President
George W. Bush, addressing an American
Legion convention in Salt Lake City, predicted victory in the war on terror, likening the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism with the fight against Nazis and
communists.
One year ago: President Barack Obama
ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq,
declaring no victory after seven years of
bloodshed and telling those divided over
the war in his country and around the
world: “It is time to turn the page.”
TODAY IN SPORTS
In 1990, Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr.,
playing for the Seattle Mariners, became
the first father-son duo to be in the same
major league baseball lineup.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Frank Robinson is
76. Actor Warren Berlinger is 74. Rock
musician Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and
the Crickets) is 72. Actor Jack Thompson is
71. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 66. Singer
Van Morrison is 66. Rock musician Rudolf
Schenker (The Scorpions) is 63. Actor
Richard Gere is 62. Olympic gold medal
track and field athlete Edwin Moses is 56.
Rock singer Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) is 54.
Rock musician Gina Schock (The Go-Go’s)
is 54. Singer Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco
Family) is 52. Rhythm-and-blues musician
Larry Waddell (Mint Condition) is 48.
Actor Jaime P. Gomez is 46. Baseball pitcher
Hideo Nomo is 43. Rock musician Jeff
Russo (Tonic) is 42. Singer-composer
Deborah Gibson is 41. Rock musician Greg
Richling (Wallflowers) is 41. Actor Zack
Ward is 41. Golfer Padraig Harrington is 40.
Actor Chris Tucker is 39. Actress Sara
Ramirez is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Tamara (Trina & Tamara) is 34.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“When you pray, rather let your heart be
without words than your words without
heart.”
— John Bunyan (1628-1688)
FACT OF THE DAY
The only patent ever issued to a U.S.
president was to Abraham Lincoln for
“Manner of Buoying Vessels” in 1849.
NUMBER OF THE DAY
1,093 — number of U.S. patents held by
Thomas Edison.
LUNAR LANDING
Between new moon (Aug. 28) and first
quarter moon (Sept. 4).
Sources: The Associated Press, Newspaper
Enterprise Assn. and World Almanac Education
Group
Arizona man describes shears impaling eye
AMANDA LEE MYERS
PHOENIX — Leroy
Luetscher could feel the pruning
shears jutting from his face as
he tried to determine just what
had happened to him after
trimming the plants in his backyard and then falling face-first.
At 86, Luetscher was covered
in blood and in more pain
than he’d ever felt in his life.
One of the shears’ handles had
gone into his right eye socket
and halfway into his head.
Coping with excruciating
pain that he believes kept him
conscious, Luetscher managed
to put his T-shirt over the
wound to stanch the bleeding
and beckon his longtime livein girlfriend, who called 911.
“I didn’t know if my eyeball
was still there or what,”
Luetscher, who lives in southern Arizona’s Green Valley, told
The Associated Press on
Tuesday. “The pain was so bad
that I guess I wasn’t afraid to
die.”
Luetscher, a Wisconsin
native, has made a remarkable
recovery since the July 30 accident. He still has slight swelling
in his eyelids and minor double vision, but is otherwise OK.
Doctors who removed the
shears and rebuilt a bone in
Luetscher’s eye socket say it
could have been much worse.
“He’s was very lucky that it
missed all vital structures and
we were basically able to put
him back together,” Dr. Lynn
Polonski said.
After Luetscher’s girlfriend,
Arpy Williams, called 911, an
ambulance rushed him to
University Medical Center in
Tucson, where a team of surgeons took scans of his brain
and came up with a plan to
treat him.
They learned the shears’ handle had gone 6 inches into
Luetscher’s head and was resting against the carotid artery in
his neck.
“It was a bit overwhelming,”
said Polonski, one of
Luetscher’s surgeons. “It was
wedged in there so tightly, you
could not move it. It was part
of his face.”
Polonski said the team made
incisions underneath his right
upper lip and his sinus wall,
allowing them to loosen the
handle of the pruning shears
with their fingers. “Once we
were able to loosen it up, it
went fairly easily,” he said.
Doctors rebuilt Luetscher’s
orbital floor with a titanium
plate and put him on antibiotics for 20 days to stave off an
infection that could have
proved fatal.
Polonski said so many things
could have gone much worse
for Luetscher. The shears could
have ruptured his eye ball, hit
his brain or severed his carotid
artery.
“You know, if it went a little
bit in a different direction, it
basically could have killed him
or he could have had a stroke,”
Polonski said.
Polonski said he’s never seen
anything like Luetscher’s injury
in his 13 years as a surgeon.
Tribland
Adams County Judge
Michael Burns Monday sentenced Holly G. Fielder, 27, of
702 S. Lincoln Ave. to seven
days in jail, $475 in fines and a
one-year driver’s license revocation for driving under the
influence of alcohol and no
operator’s license on June 17.
Fielder pleaded no contest July
6. DUI is a Class W misdemeanor punishable by up to 60
days in jail and a $500 fine. No
operator’s license is a Class 3
misdemeanor punishable by up
to three months in jail and a
$500 fine.
Trevor J. Schafer of 1325 N.
Colorado Ave. reported
Monday that his duck and
goose calls were taken from his
residence.
Eagles bingo Thursday 7:00;
$200 pig/57 number bonanza.
-Adv.
Adam S. Harig of 134 E. Fifth
St. reported Monday that his
digital music player and handheld video game were taken
from his residence.
Dozen roses, cash and carry,
$19.99. Bob Sass Flowers. -Adv.
For your convenience, the
Hastings Tribune has a driveup payment box in our north
parking lot. This may be used
for subscription and advertising payments. -Adv.
It was reported Monday that
a house owned by John D.
Story of Clay Center was damaged in the 1100 block of
North St. Joseph Avenue.
Honor your grandparents or
show off your grandkids in the
Tribune’s Grandparent’s Day
page to run September 10.
Deadline, September 6. Call
402-461-1234 for information.
-Adv.
Adams County Judge
Michael Burns Monday sentenced Jeremiah W. Lepird,
28, of Sidney to one day in
jail, one year of probation, a
$500 fine, one-year driver’s
license revocation, 120 hours
of community service, alcohol/drug education class, victim impact class for driving
under the influence of alcohol on May 28. Lepird pleaded guilty on July 7. DUI is a
Class W misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in
jail and a $500 fine.
Vehicles reportedly driven by
Donald R. Skalka of Deweese
and Erika Rosales-Soto of 1100
E. South St. No. 53 collided
Monday at 747 N. Burlington
Ave.
Back Alley Pizza Thursday,
402-460-5056 to pre-order. Adv.
Knights of Columbus bingo
at Tri-City Auction, Saturday,
7:00. Labor Day party; free
lunch. Something for all! Adv.
Area funerals
Thursday
u Janet Osterbuhr, 68, of
Minden, 2 p.m. at Minden
Cemetery in Minden.
u Freda Drake, 98, of Hastings, 2
p.m. at Simonson-Williams Funeral
Home in Red Cloud.
uDavid Aabel, 72, of Clatonia, 11
a.m. at St. Mark’s Episcopal ProCathedral Church in Hastings.
u Della Oltmans, 92, of North
Platte, 2 p.m. at Nelson Community
United Church of Christ in Nelson.
u Jared DeMuth, 19, of Hastings,
10:30 a.m. at Butler-Volland Funeral
Home in Hastings.
u Ilert Schmidt, 87, of Minden,
10:30 a.m. at Bethany Lutheran
Church in Minden.
Weather/Nation
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Flooding persists
as East Coast
reels from Irene
Nation
FATHER, SON DIE
ON SAME DAY
IRWIN, Pa. — A western
Pennsylvania family is
mourning the deaths of a
father and son who each died
of heart attacks a little more
than an hour apart.
Charles McCauley Jr. was
rushing to his father’s home
Saturday after learning of the
older man’s death when the
younger McCauley began suffering from chest pains. He
was pronounced dead at a
hospital.
The Pittsburgh TribuneReview reports father and son
died 1 hour and 7 minutes
apart.
Eighty-three-year-old Charles
McCauley Sr. had been watching the Pittsburgh Steelers preseason game on television at
his Irwin home when he suffered a heart attack.
His 54-year-old son was at
the game and was stricken
after being called by paramedics and walking out of
the game to his car.
Family friends called the
double tragedy difficult to
grasp.
JOHN CURRAN
SELF-DECAPITATION
YORKTOWN, Va. — A
Chicago man who quickly
accelerated in a sport utility
vehicle with a cable around
his neck decapitated himself
after a domestic dispute in
Yorktown, authorities said
Tuesday.
York-Poquoson Sheriff
Danny Diggs said a deputy
responding to a call of a
domestic disturbance Tuesday
was taking a statement from
the man’s ex-wife when
another deputy driving by
noticed an SUV pulling a utility trailer that was on fire.
Authorities say the man started the fire.
A firefighter noticed a cable
around the man’s neck that
was attached to a tree. When
deputies tried to get the man
to exit the SUV, he accelerated and was pulled from the
vehicle and decapitated, they
say. The SUV kept going for
about 150 yards.
CROSSBOW ATTACK
SAN DIEGO — San Diego
police say a 16-year-old boy
throwing rocks at a sport utility vehicle was struck by a
crossbow arrow fired by a passenger.
Police say the shirtless boy
and a friend were throwing
rocks at a black Toyota RAV4
in the Linda Vista neighborhood Monday afternoon
when a passenger fired a
crossbow out the window.
The boy was shot in the
right side and was taken to a
hospital. The San Diego
Union-Tribune says his injuries
are not life-threatening.
His name wasn’t released.
Nobody has been arrested.
DEAD PELICANS
MORRO BAY, Calif. —
State Fish and Game wardens
are trying to figure out why so
many brown pelicans are
showing up along California’s
Central Coast with huge puncture wounds in their chests.
The San Luis Obispo
Tribune reports that 15 birds
have died in recent days from
wounds that could have been
caused by a knife or other
sharp object.
Last Thursday three were
brought into the Pacific
Wildlife Care center in Morro
Bay and two had to be euthanized because the injuries
were so bad. The third is
being treated.
A3
TOBY TALBOT/AP
People gather alongside workers making repairs Tuesday on Route 4 in
Killington, Vt., washed out by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene on
Sunday.
Wildfires destroy
dozens of homes
in Texas, Oklahoma
POSSUM KINGDOM
LAKE, Texas — Wildfires
sweeping through parts of Texas
and Oklahoma have destroyed
dozens of homes and forced
hundreds of people to evacuate,
and although officials don’t yet
know what ignited the blazes, a
summer heat wave and drought
have left both states with the
perfect fuel: parched ground
and dry vegetation.
“We’re in severe drought
conditions, so just the tiniest
little spark can start a wildfire,”
Texas Forest Service spokeswoman April Saginor said.
The Texas Forest Service
warned that the weather could
also hamper efforts to contain
the fast-moving blaze in North
Texas that destroyed at least 20
homes in a lakeside community Tuesday. The fire also was
threatening about 125 other
homes in the Possum Kingdom
Lake area, about 75 miles west
of Fort Worth.
“It sounds like we’re still
going to have winds today,”
John Nichols, a spokesman for
the service, said before dawn
Wednesday. “The one positive
thing you can say is that we’ve
got the firefighting forces in
places.”
Massive blazes in roughly the
same area scorched hundreds
of thousands of acres and
destroyed 160 homes this
spring.
In Oklahoma City, Battalion
Chief Felton Morgan said blowing embers likely started the
fire that destroyed several
homes and a church in the
city’s northeast overnight. The
blaze was largely under control
by late Tuesday night, but fire
officials were waiting for the
sun to rise Wednesday to assess
the damage and determine
what needed to be done.
“We’ll get a helicopter in the
air after daylight to see what’s
going on and get a better look
at what happened yesterday,”
Morgan said. “There are a lot of
hot spots that keep kicking up
and we’re trying to make sure
they don’t expand and grow.”
Late Tuesday, bursts of flame
rose and thick black smoke
engulfed the area as oil-packed
cedar trees ignited, giving
gawkers a stunning view from
several blocks away.
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NEWFANE, Vt. — As emergency airlift operations brought ready-to-eat meals
and water to Vermont residents left isolated and desperate, states along the Eastern
Seaboard continued to be battered by the
after effects of Irene, the destructive hurricane turned tropical storm.
Dangerously damaged infrastructure,
2.5 million people without power and
thousands of water-logged homes and
businesses continued to overshadow the
lives of residents and officials from
North Carolina through New England,
where the storm has been blamed for at
least 44 deaths in 13 states.
Raging floodwaters continued to ravage
parts of northern New Jersey Wednesday
morning, even after the state’s rainswollen rivers crested and slowly receded.
The Passaic River crested Tuesday
night, causing extensive flooding along
its course and forcing a round of evacuations and rescues in Paterson, the state’s
third-largest city.
“Been in Paterson all my life, I’m 62
years old, and I’ve never seen anything
like this,” said resident Gloria Moses as
she gathered with others at the edge of
what used to be a network of streets,
now covered by a lake.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, after
touring Wayne, through which the
Passaic also flows, said Tuesday night he
saw “just extraordinary despair.”
He said inland flooding would probably continue another 48 hours and additional shelters were still being opened.
In Connecticut, the Connecticut River
at Hartford crested Tuesday evening at
24.8 feet, the highest level since 1987,
according to Nicole Belk, a hydrologist
with the National Weather Service, in
Taunton, Mass. But she said levees in
Hartford and East Hartford helped minimize flooding in riverside communities.
She said the river could still rise slightly farther south, in Middletown, where
some streets and neighborhoods were
already experiencing minor flooding.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy toured hard-hit
coastal areas — including a peninsula in
Fairfield that was lined with heavily
damaged homes on Long Island Sound.
Communities on the East Coast continued recovery efforts Tuesday, with people moving out of emergency shelters in
western Massachusetts, farmers in New
York’s battered Schoharie Valley assessing
crop losses and an insurance agent in
Pawtucket, R.I., fielding dozens of calls
from customers making damage claims.
“The majority of the claims are trees
down,” said Melanie Loiselle-Mongeon.
“Trees on houses, on fences, on decks,
on cars.”
In Vermont, officials focused on providing basic necessities to residents who
in many cases still have no power, no
telephone service and no way to get in
or out of their towns.
Tribland five-day forecast
Art by Danny Carpenter, 71/2, Longfellow School
RAINY SATURDAY
HOT TODAY
High: 83
Low: 58
Partly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms.
High: 95
Low: 68
Wind: Southeast 10-15
Clear tonight.
HOT THURSDAY
SUNNY SUNDAY
High: 95
Low: 68
Wind: South 10-20 with
gusts to around 30 mph
Partly cloudy at night.
High: 75
Low: 52
Clear Sunday night.
STORMY FRIDAY
Today’s weather records
High: 85
Low: 60
Partly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms.
High: 103 in 1984
Low: 44 in 1915
Local weather
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High in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Overnight low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Overnight low in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Precipitation last 24 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00
u From 7 a.m. Aug. 30
to 7 a.m. Aug. 31
August precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.90
August 2010 precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.86
Year to date precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23.67
Jan. to Aug. ’10 precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22.96
Opinion
A4
Did Gadhafi
lie about
daughter’s
death?
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
First Amendment
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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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If further evidence is needed that Moammar
Gadhafi is a loathsome individual, here’s more:
There’s growing and compelling evidence that he
lied about the death of Hana, his adopted baby
daughter, in a 1986 U.S. airstrike on his personal
compound, the same one just overrun by the
rebels.
The airstrike was in retaliation for the bombing
by Libyan operatives of a Berlin disco popular
with American servicemen, and indeed two U.S.
soldiers were killed in that attack.
Even after the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight
over Scotland that killed 270 people, Libyan propagandists suggested it was partially in revenge for
the death of Hana. From time to time, Gadhafi
exhibited a photo of a dead baby he claimed was
her.
(In another development that raised eyebrows,
the only person convicted in that bombing,
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was released from a
Scottish prison in 2009 on the humanitarian
grounds that he had only three months to live.
He returned to Tripoli and a hero’s welcome, and
is still alive, although now he apparently really is
dying.)
Gadhafi had no qualms about invoking Hana
when he wanted to appear a more sympathetic
figure. In 2006, the Libyan leader held the “Hana
Festival for Freedom and Peace” featuring bigname entertainment to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of her death.
However, records showed that a Hana Gadhafi
studied English at the British Council in Tripoli in
2007 and 2009. Hana may have enjoyed the secret
thrill of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in effectively
attending her own memorial service.
In Gadhafi’s compound the rebels found photos
of a young woman identified as Hana, including
one taken in 1999 with her stepsister, Aisha, who
just escaped to Algeria, having a baby along the
way.
It seems the adult Hana was a newly graduated
surgeon at the Tripoli Medical Center, where the
director said she became increasingly tense and
nervous as the rebels approached and fled the hospital last Friday. She has not been seen since and
was not with the family contingent that fled to
Algeria.
The Associated Press reports that many Libyans
never believed she was dead and that it was “common knowledge” that she had not been killed in
the air raid.
Gadhafi’s cynicism in exploiting the fictitious
death of his child is breathtaking, but perhaps
that’s what it takes to be a truly ruthless dictator.
Mohammed Ammar, who told AP that his
cousin attended medical school with Hana, said,
“It is not surprising he would lie about his child’s
death. He was capable of killing a whole population, why not his own child?”
Let’s hope the rebels capture him soon before he
can escape to enjoy the hospitality of another likeminded despot.
Power of books turns ‘no’ into ‘yes’
S
ometimes when you least expect it,
life opens a door you never dreamed
you’d enter. It’s enough to make you
want to wake up each morning just to
see what will happen next.
Anything is possible as long as you keep
waking up.
Some months ago, a reader of my column
(a man I’ve not met but hope to do so) sent
me a story from The Charlotte (N.C.)
Observer by columnist Kay McSpadden, about
an unusual book club that meets each week at
the main branch of the Charlotte
Mecklenburg Library.
Book clubs are not often called “unusual.”
But Turning Pages is exceptional for two reasons: First, most of its members are homeless.
Some are housed. Others are in “transition.”
Second, and just as rare, is a very pregnant
woman in a purple dress and high heels — a
self-described community volunteer who read
two years ago about a similar program in
Boston, and saw no reason why it couldn’t
happen in Charlotte.
Candace Curlin Vance is the kind of friend
you want on your side in a fight — fearless
and tireless. And, as the folks at Turning Pages
have learned, you can count on her to have
your back.
Also, she talks faster than most normal people can think, which is handy for getting publishers to donate books.
The same reader who sent me that story
suggested to Candace that
Turning Pages ought to read
“Birdbaths and Paper
Cranes,” a collection of
columns I published 10 years
ago that includes stories set
in my home state of North
Carolina.
Candace wrote at once to
Sharon
ask how she might obtain 25
copies.
Randall
I replied that the book is
out of print and, unfortunately, I didn’t have 25 copies. She thanked
me anyhow, and that was that.
The next day I found two big boxes of books
I didn’t know I had. When I told Candace, she
laughed. As a woman of faith and persistence,
she has often seen “no” turn into “yes.”
And that’s how I ended up flying to
Charlotte last week to meet the members of
Turning Pages, who had just finished reading,
of all things, my book.
We sat around a big table — different races,
genders, backgrounds and walks of life —
talking, laughing, eating biscuits from
Bojangles’, drinking sweet iced tea. It was very
Southern. I never felt more at home.
They asked excellent questions, offered
insightful observations and convinced me
they’d actually read the book.
One woman, now housed after years of living on the streets, presented me with a gift, a
blue-and-white-spattered painting.
“It’s called ‘Falling Water,’ ” she said, smiling. “I signed my name on the back so it will
be worth something someday.”
Little did she know how much it was
already worth to me.
Afterward, when we’d eaten all the biscuits,
shaken all the hands and gone our separate
ways, I asked Candace about the future of
Turning Pages.
“It’s my baby,” she said. “I really want to
see it continue.”
But with another “baby” on the way (her
first child is due in October), she hopes someone will step up to fill her high heels.
So do I.
Reading is the great equalizer. A book never
asks who we are or what we do or where we
sleep at night. It asks only that we read and
try to understand.
When we come together with open hearts
and open minds to discuss what we’ve read,
we discover that we are more alike than we
are different.
We create community, a sense of belonging,
a sense of home.
We turn the hopeless “no” into the “yes” of
possibility.
Anything is possible, as long as we keep
reading. Just ask the readers of Turning Pages.
Sharon Randall is an award-winning columnist.
Her e-mail is randallbay@earthlink.net.
Disaster week message should be clear
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ur Never-stop News networks got
themselves all atwitter over
whether Rep. Michele Bachman
was really joking — or evangelically evoking — when she told a
Florida audience Sunday that the week that
began with an earthquake and ended with a
hurricane was God’s way of messaging
Washington.
“I don’t know how much God has to do to
get the attention of the politicians,” the
Minnesota Republican said, lapsing into a delivery that, in any other context, would be unmistakable as standup shtick. “We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you
going to start listening to me here?” (By now
her audience was laughing along, loudly.)
“Listen to the American people because the
American people are roaring right now. They
know government is on a morbid obesity diet
and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
So the real question was not whether
Bachman was joking. It is whether she really
got the right Divine message in this Disaster
Week. Not only along the over-covered
Washington-Wall Street corridor but in suburban and rural areas, where we just saw citizens in tears, staring at the shattered infrastructure of their once-uncomplicated lives.
We have seen homes, stores, highways and
bridges that were washed away.
So, what is our real takeaway message of
the week? We must put this devastation into
the context of one more news factoid. The
entire field of Republican presidential contest
was also swept aside this
week, as two new polls
showed Texas Gov. Rick
Perry was suddenly the
instant frontrunner — just
days after announcing his
candidacy. Of course, it is
way too early for this to be
definitive of anything, half a
year away.
Martin
But Perry was swept so far
Schram
ahead of the pack — he now
leads former frontrunner Mitt
Romney by at least 12 percentage points in
CNN and Gallup polls — that attention must
be paid.
And maybe a new message must be heard.
Because this was a week in which all of the
talk about cutting spending — cutting infrastructure spending — was forgotten.
Republican and Democratic governors, senators, representatives and state legislators in
states worked with the Obama White House
and its FEMA (Federal Emergency
Management Agency) officials to bring emergency help to disaster-struck communities.
People are stranded; towns are cut off. Wiped
out roads and bridges must be rebuilt.
Yet in this year of multiple natural disasters
— tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods
— FEMA faces its own budget disaster. In a
year when Republicans have demanded budget cuts, FEMA is just weeks away from running out of money. Just hours before Tropical
Storm Irene hit New England, GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, R-Tex., said in New
Hampshire that states don’t need the federal
government’s help.
Perry has famously sounded a similar antiWashington, pro-state independence line —
sometimes. Whooping up a Tea Party rally in
Texas, he sparked calls of “Secede!” And when
asked about it later he told reporters:
“There’s a lot of different scenarios. We’ve
got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come
out of that.”
But last May, Perry asked FEMA for massive
aid to fight wildfires in all but two of Texas’
254 counties. When FEMA rejected his sweeping request on the grounds that the agency
was already funding efforts to combat the 26
largest fires, Perry was furious. So too, while
Perry brags about his state’s record of job-creation, the largest segment of it came from public sector jobs, not from within the private sector, and Texas benefited from substantial federal stimulus money his administration accepted.
So the ultimate message of this week of disasters may well be aimed not at Washington
politicos but America’s voters.
It is time we voters demand our candidates
stop lying, deceiving and conning citizens.
We need to tell the pols: Stop telling us what
we want to hear. Start telling us what we need
to know. And have the leadership courage to
compromise, now and then.
Martin Schram writes political analysis for
Scripps Howard News Service.
Region/State
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
State
BABY DEATH
CHADRON — Nebraska
authorities say no signs of
trauma were found during an
autopsy on a 4-month-old
baby from South Dakota who
died in Chadron.
Deputy Dawes County
Attorney Joe Stecker told
Chadron radio station KQSK
that toxicology and other
tests are scheduled in the
coming weeks.
Stecker identified the baby
as Dontae Broken Rope, of
Pine Ridge, S.D. Stecker says
the boy was being care for by
a relative in Chadron.
Police say the boy was
found not breathing early
Saturday. He was taken to a
hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A5
State asks high court to deem games illegal
MARGERY A. BECK
OMAHA — The Nebraska
Attorney General’s office is taking its case against a barroom
jackpot video game to the state
Supreme Court, seeking to
have the machines declared
illegal gambling devices.
The attorney general’s office
is appealing a Lancaster
County District Court decision
that declared while two of the
ways the Bank Shot game can
be played are illegal, the video
game is legal when played
under a third mode.
The game is a complex variation of tic-tac-toe, with the
nine places on the video
“board” containing billiard
balls of various numbers and
colors. The object is to get
three like pool balls — either
by number or color — in a row.
Different numbers and colors
are awarded different values
and, therefore, different payouts. For example, getting three
No. 5 pool balls in a row would
pay out more than getting
three No. 7 balls in a row.
The legal fight over the game
began shortly after the video
game developed by American
Amusements Co.’s John Fox —
following consultation with
the Nebraska State Patrol on its
legality — was distributed in
2008. Some state officials began
questioning the legality of the
machines, and in 2010, the
Nebraska State Patrol confiscated one of the games from a
McCook bar and threatened to
prosecute the bar owner for
operating a gambling device.
American Amusements and
the game’s distributor, Greater
American Distributing Co.,
then sued and sought a
restraining order against
Attorney General Jon Bruning,
the State Patrol and other agencies to keep them from taking
more video games.
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Owners differ on bar game
WILL VRASPIR
wvraspir@hastingstribune.com
Local business owners have
mixed views on the Bank Shot
game, which the Nebraska
Attorney General’s office is asking the state Supreme Court to
declare illegal.
Bob Thomas, manager of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Club in Hastings, said two of
the machines have been in
the club for about two years.
He said some customers
would be disappointed if the
DETOX DEATH
LINCOLN — An autopsy
has been scheduled on the
body of a 29-year-old patient
who died at a Lincoln detox
center.
Police say Miles Gearhart
had volunteered for his treatment at Cornhusker Place.
Police spokeswoman Katie
Flood says a staff member
found Gearhart unresponsive
in a room at the center
around 4:40 p.m. on Monday.
Staff performed CPR until
Lincoln paramedics arrived.
Gearhart was pronounced
dead around 5:20 p.m.
The Lincoln Journal Star
reports that Gearhart entered
the alcohol and drug treatment facility on his own
accord and entered civil protective custody at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday.
Flood says Gearhart could
have left on Monday afternoon but decided to stay for
treatment.
DEALERS ARRESTED
NORTH PLATTE —
Authorities say a dozen people have been arrested for
their connections to a fourcounty drug ring that’s been
operating in south-central
Nebraska.
The six-month undercover
investigation began in
February and included officers
from seven law enforcement
agencies from Dawson,
Frontier, Lincoln and Red
Willow counties.
The arrests were made
Monday and Tuesday.
Nebraska State Patrol Sgt.
Eric Rice says officers had
bought controlled substances
from one or more of the people who were arrested.
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through Sept. 3 at the Hastings
Museum, 1330 N. Burlington Ave.
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u Downtown Concert Series presents Symphony String Quartet, 6:30
p.m. Thursday, Central Park. The
event is free and open to the public. Bring blankets or lawn chairs.
For more information, call 402461-2370.
u Hastings College faculty music
recital, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Fuhr
Hall of Music on the Hastings
College campus. For more information, call 402-461-7448 or visit
www.hastings.edu/music.
u Bingo at the Eagles Club, 7
p.m. Thursday, 107 N. Denver Ave.
u Al-Anon, noon Thursday, The
Kensington, 233 N. Hastings Ave.
u Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
5:15, 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. Thursday.
u Red Cross Bloodmobile, noon to
5:15 p.m. Thursday, First
Congregational United Church of
Christ. Make appointment at 1800-GIVE-LIFE.
u Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30
p.m. Thursday, 422 N. Burlington
Ave., rear entrance.
u SOS-Survivors of Suicide, 7
p.m. Thursday, South Burlington
Plaza conference room, 835 S.
Burlington Ave. For those who
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Thursday, United Methodist
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game was ruled illegal.
“There are people who
come just for that,” he said.
Though skillful players can
win money, Thomas said the
game is just like gambling
because people can lose
money playing the game.
“If they are willing to take
the gamble, I think it should
be up to them,” he said.
Butch Hogan, co-owner of
Pastime Lanes, said the game
requires players to physically
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Judge:
Kansas
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Planned
Parenthood
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Trumbull residents who volunteered at the North Platte canteen during World War II gathered at the Trumbull
Community Center to reminisce recently.
Delivering joy to soldiers
VOLUNTEERS RECALL
WORKING IN 1940S CANTEEN
SHAY BURK
sburk@hastingstribune.com
T
RUMBULL — Rose (Kline)
Kehn still has fond memories
of traveling along bumpy
roads to take food to
American servicemen.
“I remember climbing up on top of
them wooden boxes so that we could sit
and ride,” the lifelong Trumbull resident
said. “Everything was boxes around us,
so we sat there like this for hours.”
Kehn was a young teenager when she
and a group of fellow students and parents loaded up milk cans, egg boxes and
wooden crates with pies, cakes, boiled
eggs and homemade buns to take to the
North Platte Canteen in 1943.
The canteen was a free restaurant at
the North Platte train depot that served
servicemen and women who traveled
through Nebraska on the railroad during
World War II. From Dec. 25, 1941, to
April 1, 1946, the canteen served more
than 6 million service members with
food donated by people from Nebraska,
Wyoming and Kansas.
Residents of the tiny community of
Trumbull and the surrounding area
made three separate trips to North Platte
at the time.
Sitting around a table at the old
Trumbull school earlier this month, a
few lifelong residents who volunteered
at the canteen as young teens swapped
stories and shared memories about the
trip.
“I remember Jerry and I taking
Bernard Kline’s pickup down there,”
Gene Arnold, 82, said of he and his
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Trumbull residents who volunteered at the North Platte canteen during World
War II shared newspaper clippings as they gathered at the Trumbull
Community Center to reminisce recently.
brother. “He had it loaded for us.”
Bernard Kline, owner of Kline Oil Co.,
organized the first trip to North Platte
after hearing about it through his business.
“Every household made a list of what
they could bring and were then asked to
dig deeper,” said Kehn, 81. “People too
old to donate were asked to give money
to buy coffee, apples.”
Kehn has given speeches to clubs and
organizations over the years talking
about the canteen and Trumbull’s
involvement.
“Trumbull was the farthest away of
any city or town that went,” she said.
“We went the farthest.”
Before making the five-hour trip to
North Platte, Trumbull residents fried
chickens, baked pies and angel food
cakes, boiled dozens of eggs, ground up
whole hams and made mayonnaise to
take.
The canteen, which was open from 5
a.m. to 1 a.m. daily, served as many as
5,000 soldiers each day. The meals
included sandwiches, desserts, fruits,
vegetables, coffee, milk and water.
“I peeled a lot of eggs off and on,”
Roger Rhodes, 81, said of his work at the
canteen. “Sometimes I’d just rustle up
stuff, keep coffee cups coming.”
Washing dishes and bringing them
out for the next round of soldiers was a
busy job, Kehn pointed out, as there
were no paper plates or Styrofoam cups
back then.
“I was there twice,” said LaRue Rader,
81. “I remember mostly washing dishes.
Please see SOLDIERS/page A8
School board members face recall in Hitchcock Co.
TRENTON — Three members of a southwest Nebraska
school board face a recall election, at least in part for their
actions in backing a successful
bond issue.
The petition circulators
needed signatures from at least
175 registered voters in the
district to force the vote.
Hitchcock County Clerk
Margaret Pollman said her
office has validated the signatures and has sent notices to
Board of Education members
Mike Baker, Larry Ferguson
and Gary Matson, as well as
district Superintendent Mike
Apple.
The school board must
schedule the election within
30 to 45 days of receiving notification, the McCook Daily
Gazette reported. Pollman said
the earliest the election could
be held is Nov. 8.
The petitions filed by the
principal circulator, Shane
Rippen, focused criticism heavily on the bond measure that
passed by a 15-vote margin in
May.
The $7.4 million in bond
revenue will be used for a new
building in Culbertson, where
the elementary school is situated, a new classroom wing at
the high school in Trenton
and other work.
District voters rejected a $9.8
million bond issue last
November.
The petitions accused Baker
of having conflicts of interest
because some of his family
members work for the district.
He’s also accused of leading
district residents astray during
the bond campaign and distributing misinformation
about the school bond
options.
In Baker’s response, he said
he’s always acted objectively
about district issues and told
the truth about the bond issue.
The petitions accuse
Ferguson of “focusing his energy on pleasing the faculty, staff
and administration” at one
school instead of doing what is
best for the whole district.
Ferguson said he’s listed
carefully to taxpayers, “regardless of whether they live in
Trenton or Culbertson.”
“Now, a minority of unhappy citizens is trying to undermine the decisions our communities made together,”
Ferguson said in his response.
Matson faces a recall election “because he has refused
to listen to all the taxpayers
of the district,” the petition
statement said. “He led the
community of Culbertson
astray when telling the
patrons that he supported one
school.”
Matson said he listened to
taxpayers and attended most
of the bond issue community
meetings held in Culbertson
and Trenton. He said the bond
plan was based on input from
the community.
WICHITA, Kan. — A federal judge ordered Kansas to
immediately resume funding a
Planned Parenthood chapter
on the same quarterly schedule
that existed before a new state
law stripped it of all federal
funding for non-abortion services.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas
Marten on Tuesday rejected the
state’s request that it pay
Planned Parenthood of Kansas
and Mid-Missouri monthly and
only for services provided.
The judge also declined to
order Planned Parenthood to
post a bond in the event the
state prevailed in the lawsuit.
Planned Parenthood has
sued to block a provision of the
state budget preventing the
organization from receiving
any of the state’s share of federal family planning dollars.
Marten wrote in his ruling
that the intent of the court’s
earlier order was to restore and
maintain the prior status quo
between the parties, a relationship that was based on quarterly installment payments of the
federal money. He said the
monthly reimbursement schedule the state wants would have
the effect of undermining the
clinic’s ability to maintain its
current level of services.
Planned Parenthood said last
week that it would stop providing services at its clinic in Hays
on Friday unless it was told it
would soon receive the money.
Friday would also have been
last day the organization
offered a sliding fee scale for
low-income patients at its
Wichita clinic.
“The court finds no injury to
the defendants in maintaining
the prior payment schedule, as
they will be providing funding
in a manner consistent with
prior practice between the parties, and to an organization
which has consistently provided satisfactory family planning
services,” Marten wrote in his
ruling.
Even if the court’s Aug. 1
temporary injunction is later
overturned or modified, the
residents of Hays and Wichita
will be best assured of continued family planning services by
maintaining the status quo, the
judge said.
Planned Parenthood has
argued that if it lost the
$330,000 a year in Title X
funding it would be forced to
close its clinic in the western
Kansas city of Hays. It contended its 5,700 patients who go to
its Wichita and Hays clinics
would face higher costs, longer
wait or travel times for
appointments and have less
access to services.
No federal money goes to
abortions. At issue in the lawsuit are Title X funds to help
low-income individuals with
reproductive health care services such as birth control, cancer
screenings and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
The clinic had argued that
Marten’s initial injunction
required the state to maintain
“the status quo” which would
mean quarterly payments
Please see JUDGE/page A8
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
A6
Irene delays opening of schools across East
DENISE LAVOIE
WHITMAN, Mass. —
Parents may be ready to send
their kids back to school, but
some schools aren’t ready to
take them back.
Power failures, flooding, road
closures and other problems left
by Irene have led some superintendents in New England and
elsewhere in the East to delay
the start of school.
Parents have had to scramble
to find child care for kids who
were supposed to be in school
but now will be hanging
around the house longer than
expected.
“I hired baby sitters for the
summer, but they’re done
now,” said Tara Coleran, of
Whitman, Mass., who has been
busy searching for someone to
watch her three boys this week
because their first day of
school, originally scheduled for
Wednesday, has been delayed
until Tuesday, the day after
Labor Day.
Coleran, a bookkeeper for a
nonprofit, said she expects to
miss up to three days of work
because she can’t find a
babysitter.
“I know people in the area
who I could ask, but everybody
has no power, so it’s difficult,”
she said.
The school year is also
expected to start late in other
districts including some in
Connecticut, Delaware,
Maryland, Rhode Island and
Vermont.
An extra day or week of summer vacation may be fun for
kids, but the calendar reshuffling has caused problems for
school administrators who
must now reset schedules so
students can make up the
missed days either during the
school year or at the end.
School officials in the
Massachusetts communities of
Whitman, Hanson,
Marlborough, East Bridgewater
and Springfield were among
those who decided to put off
the start of school for one to
three days because schools,
homes or both were still without power Tuesday. School officials also said they were not
comfortable opening and allowing children to walk to schools
while utility crews are still
removing downed power lines.
“In a nutshell, it’s just the
lack of power and making sure
we keep everybody safe and
have everything ready for students when they come back,”
said Marlborough
Superintendent Anthony Pope,
who decided to push back the
start date for the city’s 4,700
students from Wednesday until
next Tuesday.
“I have three kids of my own
and I know how it is getting
kids ready for the beginning of
the school year, so we want to
make sure that parents have
that opportunity to get their
children off to a good start,” he
said.
The school year has been
postponed in some districts in
Vermont, a landlocked state
that was perhaps the hardest
hit by Irene, then a tropical
storm, with many roads washed
out and entire communities cut
off from the outside world.
At least five Vermont schools
were closed until further notice
and about 120 delayed opening
for the school year because of
roads or buildings ravaged by
flooding.
Pipeline: Heineman
letter cites concerns
Continued from page A1
“The aquifer provides water
to farmers and ranchers of
Nebraska to raise livestock and
grow crops. ... Maintaining and
protecting Nebraska’s water
supply is very important to me
and the residents of Nebraska.”
In an Oct. 12, 2010, letter to
Clinton, Heineman asked her
to exercise prudence in selecting the proposed pipeline
route. He had remained silent
on the issue since, calling it a
“federal, regulatory issue.”
Jane Kleeb of BoldNebraska,
an organization that has
opposed the pipeline, said
Heineman’s letter surprised her.
Kleeb, who has lobbied hard to
defeat the pipeline, was among
Nebraskans who participated in
a nationwide protest against it
in Washington earlier this
month.
“If I were sitting, I’d be
falling out of my chair,” Kleeb
said in a telephone interview
this morning. “It’s very good
news that Gov. Heineman has
now sided with the majority of
Nebraskans and that he is siding with farmers and ranchers
rather than a foreign oil company.”
Heineman was headed to the
Nebraska State Fair this morning and was unavailable for
comment at deadline, so what
steps he might take beyond the
letter is unclear. Heineman previously stated he believes the
authority for deciding the final
pipeline route rests with the
state department. A
Congressional Research Service
memorandum dated Sept. 20,
2010, refutes this position.
“The federal government
does not have siting authority
for oil pipelines, even interstate
pipelines,” the memo said. “In
the absence of federal government siting authority, state
laws establish the primary siting authority for oil pipelines.
“In Nebraska, there do not
appear to be any permitting
requirements that apply specifically to the construction and
operation of oil pipelines.”
Kleeb said she believes opposition expressed during antipipeline rallies across the state
and nation likely played a role
in influencing Heineman’s
decision to finally go on the
record against it because of the
risk it poses to the aquifer.
“I think every action, from
farmers and ranchers standing
up at events to Nebraska citizens risking arrest in front of
the White House, absolutely
had an impact on Gov.
Heineman changing his
mind,” she said. “Now he has
to act on his word.
“He is the only one who can
change the route. Clinton and
Obama can deny the pipeline,
but only he can put law in
place to change the route. This
is an amazing statement by the
governor. Now let’s see if he
acts on his word.”
Jeff Rauh, Keystone project
representative, was not immediately available for comment
this morning.
Rodeo: 20 years
of ropin’ and ridin’
the original board helped create a stable Labor Day event for
the community.
“Every year
Every year
we’ve gotten
just a little bit we’ve gotten just a
bigger and a
little bit
little bit
stronger,” she bigger and
said. “We’ve
a little bit
got a solid
stronger.
foundation.”
Himmelberg
said the com- Fairmittee contingrounds
ues to make
improvements manager
to lure higherSandy
level competiHimmeltors to the
rodeo, such as
berg
holding slack
to give cowboys an additional
chance to improve their time.
This year, slack runs will be at
2:30 p.m.
“It allows the cowboys more
“
”
flexibility to make it to more
rodeos,” Himmelberg said.
She said the rodeo also draws
a lot of people to Hastings,
helping the local economy.
“I just think it brings a lot of
people into the community,”
Himmelberg said. “I think
everyone in the community
benefits from this event.”
During the three nights of
rodeo action, contestants will
be participating in seven different events for a chance at winning thousands of dollars in
prize money.
The seven events for this
Professional Rodeo Cowboy
Association event include bareback riding, barrel racing, bull
riding, saddle bronc riding,
team roping and tie down roping. Because it is a PRCA event,
riders also can qualify for
National Finals Rodeo.
For more information, call
402-462-3247 or visit the fairgrounds website at www.adams
countyfairgrounds.com.
Minden Elementary fourth-graders (from left) Sawyer Koch, Creed Ehlers, Nicholas Pearson, Kaitlyn Koch and Jaden Donley
rock from side to side on the boat while Mike Mennard of Lincoln sings and plays guitar while dressed as a pirate Tuesday at
the Nebraska State Fair in Grand Island as part of the World’s Largest Classroom.
Fair: Goats, pirates highlight of field trip
With their teachers, students
could explore the exhibits and
entertainment on the grounds,
including the petting zoo and
other exhibits about animals
and agriculture.
“The baby goats were so
cute, and the ones that were
fighting, it was like, kind of
weird,” said Gracie Daly, 10. “It
was kind of scary. They would
stand up and shove their heads
together.”
Nathaniel Weidt, 10, had a
different opinion of the fighting goats.
“The goats that were fighting
were really cool,” he said.
St. Michael’s fifth-grade
teacher Maria Kavan and her
class also visited a wheat exhibit, the corn grower’s exhibit
and milked a cow Tuesday.
“They all thought that was
pretty cool,” Kavan said of the
cow.
“I really liked the ginormous
cow we milked,” said Krystin
Aschoff, 10. “It was fun. I like
cows.”
Kavan said the State Fair
organized a scavenger hunt to
encourage students to visit
exhibits.
“We’re kind of working on
that,” she said in the middle of
their of 31/2-hour field trip.
“There’s answers with each of
the exhibits for the ones that
are participating. Some of the
kids are really into it.”
Several of Kavan’s students
said their favorite part of the
field trip was seeing kangaroos
at the Aussie Kingdom attraction, which included several
animals from Australia.
“I liked the dingo at the kangaroo thing,” said Ben Koch,
11. “It’s like an Australian wolf,
but it kind of looked like it was
just a dog.”
St. Michael’s Elementary fifth-graders Benjamin Koch and
Madelyn Redding sing a pirate song at the Nebraska State
Fair in Grand Island Tuesday.
Koch said he’s looking forward to coming back to the fair
with his parents and eating red
velvet funnel cake.
While the animal exhibits
and petting zoo appeared to be
the most popular with her students, Kavan said they also
enjoyed the wheat exhibit.
“The wheat one was really
interesting because it showed
how much a bushel could
make,” she said. “They had like
64 loaves of bread from one
bushel of wheat and all the
pizza crust from one bushel.
They thought that was pretty
interesting.”
Said 11-year-old Jake Esch:
“We learned how to make wheat
flour, so that was kind of cool.”
The students also participat-
ed in a show with children’s
musician Mike Mennard, who
uses songs to teach Nebraska
history and performed as a
singing pirate.
“I liked the pirate thing,
learning how to do the pirate
dances and songs,” 10-year-old
Madelyn Redding said. “We
went up on the stage and
danced the pirate hokeypokey.”
Kavan said the classroom at
the fair is a good chance for
students to get out of the classroom.
“It kind of gives them a little
taste of Nebraska and a good
experience,” she said. “I’m not
sure all these kids would be
coming up otherwise, even
though it’s so close. I wish we
could get a little bit more into
a few of the things, but when
it’s such a quick trip, we at least
give them a little bit.”
Joann Paulsen, a fourthgrade teacher at Minden
Elementary, also brought students to the fair Tuesday morning. She said they visited the
Stuhr Museum’s 1890s Living
History Railroad Town, where
they played games, made rope
and shelled corn.
“This exposes the students to
all aspects of learning,” Paulsen
said. “Learning doesn’t just
have to be in a classroom. It
can be anywhere, and this
atmosphere that the State Fair
has provided has really been
great for a lot of kids, especially
those who probably wouldn’t
get here otherwise.”
According to the State Fair’s
website, about 3,000 students
in kindergarten through sixthgrade representing more than
80 public, private and home
schools have attended the
Largest Classroom event in the
past.
War: Panel finds widespread waste, fraud in spending
The Associated Press obtained
a copy of the commission’s 240page report in advance of its
public release. The commission
was established by Congress in
2008 and ceases operating at
the end of September.
Overall, the commission said
spending on contracts and
grants to support U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is
expected to exceed $206 billion
by the end of the 2011 budget
year. Based on its investigation,
the commission said contracting waste in Afghanistan
ranged from 10 percent to 20
percent of the $206 billion
total. Fraud during the same
period ran between 5 percent
and 9 percent of the total, the
report said.
Styled after the Truman
Committee, which examined
World War II spending six
decades ago, the commission
was vested with broad authority
to examine military support contracts, reconstruction projects
and private security companies.
But the law creating the commission also dictated that it would
cease operating at the end of
September 2011, even as the U.S.
operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan continue to be
heavily supported by contractors.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.,
who co-sponsored legislation
to establish the commission,
said in a statement emailed
Tuesday that “it is disgusting to
think that nearly a third of the
billions and billions we spent
on contracting was wasted or
used for fraud.”
The commission cited
numerous examples of waste,
including a $360 million U.S.financed agricultural develop-
ment program in Afghanistan.
The effort began as a $60 million project in 2009 to distribute vouchers for wheat seed
and fertilizer in drought-stricken areas of northern
Afghanistan. The program
expanded into the south and
east. Soon the U.S. was spending a $1 million a day on the
program, creating an environment ripe for waste and abuse,
the commission said.
“Paying villagers for what
they used to do voluntarily
destroyed local initiatives and
diverted project goods into
Pakistan for resale,” the commission said.
The Afghan insurgency’s second largest funding source after
the illegal drug trade is the diversion of money from U.S.-backed
construction projects and transportation contracts, according to
the commission. But the report
does not say how much money
has been funneled to the insurgency. The money typically is
lost when insurgents and warlords threaten Afghan subcontractors with violence unless
they pay for protection, according to the report.
The Associated Press reported
earlier this month that U.S.
military authorities in Kabul
believe $360 million in U.S. tax
dollars has ended up in the
hands of people the Americanled coalition has spent nearly a
decade battling: the Taliban,
criminals and power brokers
with ties to both. The military
said only a small percentage of
the $360 million has been garnered by the Taliban and insurgent groups. Most of the
money was lost to profiteering,
bribery and extortion by criminals and power brokers.
Region
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
A7
Webster County Fair 4-H results
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
araun@hastingstribune.com
BLADEN — The following
4-H’ers won champion and
reserve champion honors and
gold and silver medals in competition at the Webster County
Fair here in July:
COMMUNICATIONS
& EXPRESSIVE ARTS
FAVORITE FOOD REVUE
Junior
u Champion: Kacie Herbek
Senior
u Champion: Gabriella Herbek
SPEECH CONTEST
Senior
u Champion: Joshua Berns
ICE CREAM ROLL
u Champion: Christa Alber, Sara
Alber, Erin Kiknley, Paul Alber, Daniel
Kinley, Dakota Lovett, Grace
Niemeyer
u Reserve: Shelisa Boutin,
Danielle Wademan, Anthony
Niemeyer, Jami Kirchner, Kyra
Meyer
u Reserve: Christa Alber
u Reserve: Sarah Henkel
Solo or duet instrumental
u Champion: Erica Allen, Laura
Henkel
u Reserve: Morgan Allen
CONSUMER &
FAMILY SCIENCE
SEWING FOR FUN
Pillows
u Champion: Brooke Simonton
CLOTHING LEVEL 1
Simple top
u Champion: Sarah Henkel
Simple skirt
u Reserve: Caroline Thallman
DECORATE YOUR DUDS
Textile clothing accessory
u Champion: Jamie Bonifas
Purchased garment with original design — senior
u Champion: Jordyn Atwater
CLOTHING LEVEL 2
Dress or
nightshirt/loungewear
u Champion: Emma Rutt
GENERAL CLOTHING
Recycled garment
Make One Buy One
u Champion: Christa Alber
Sewn and worn garment
u Champion: Caroline Thallman
SHOPPING IN STYLE
Purchased garment
FASHION SHOW
Clothing Level 2
u Reserve: Montana Lovett
Sewing For You
u Reserve: Garrett Sharp
Nightwear or loungewear
Commercial breeding heifer —
March/April
u Champion: Emma Rutt
Purchased embellished garment — junior
u Champion: Jamie Bonifas
Garment constructed from
original designed fabric —
senior
Rate of gain
Make One/Buy One
u Champion: Makayla Dinkler
SHOPPING IN STYLE
FASHION SHOW
Model purchased outfit
BEEF
HERDSMANSHIP
u Gold medal: Four Corners
u Silver medal: Little Blue
Livestock
MARKET BEEF
SHOWMANSHIP
Senior
u Champion: James Danehey
u Reserve: Dylan Rose
Intermediate
Angus steers
Crossbred steers
u Champion: Brody Wulf
u Reserve: Trevor Alber
u Champion: Trevor Alber
u Reserve: Dylan Rose
u Champion: Four Corners 4-H
Club
Rate of gains — steers
u Champion: Mitchell Woeste
u Reserve: Megan Woeste
Rate of gain — heifers
u Champion: Lance Johnson
u Reserve: Austin Johnson
Bred and fed market steers
u Champion: Erin Plambeck
u Reserve: Katlyn Simonton
Angus yearlings March/April
u Champion: Cheyann Lovett
COMMERCIAL
BARREL RACING
u Champion: Kristen Watson
u Champion: Mackenzie Kral
u Reserve: Amanda Brader
OBEDIENCE
Beginning novice Division B
HALTER
u Champion: Lexi Jeffery
u Reserve: Justin Mousel
Aged mares
u Champion: Avery Edgar
u Reserve: Mackenzie Kral
SHOWMANSHIP
Novice
u Champion: Amelia Petska
u Reserve: Sydnie Lowery
Aged geldings
u Champion: Bo Edgar
u Reserve: Madison Kosse
Senior
u Champion: Justin Mousel
u Reserve: Kelsey Parker
Graduate novice
u Champion: Toriah Post
POULTRY
Intermediate
AGILITY
SHOWMANSHIP
u Reserve: Carly Bostock
Beginning
u Reserve: Lexi Jeffery
Senior
u Champion: Tyler Strobl
u Reserve: Erin Kinley
Junior
u Champion: Julia Shipman
u Reserve: Wesley Vance
Beginning
Senior
u Champion: Ethan Sharp
BREEDING SHEEP
u Champion: Erin Kinley
u Reserve: Amelia Petska
u Reserve: Mariah Parker
HORSE
Ewe lambs
Advanced
Intermediate
BREEDING FEMALE
u Reserve: Abbagail Lora
u Champion: Chyanna Sharp
u Reserve: Sydnie Lowery
u Champion: Wesley Vance
u Reserve: Jocelyn Shipman
u Reserve: Tyler Strobl
Intermediate
Junior
RATE OF GAIN
Bred and fed market lambs
SHOWMANSHIP
u Champion: Kelsey Parker
u Champion: Katie Ferris
u Reserve: Cheyann Lovett
DOG
Senior
BEST-DRESSED MEAT
GOAT CONTEST
Bought and fed market lambs
ADULT
u Champion: Timothy Herbek
u Reserve: Kacie Herbek
u Reserve: Avery Edgar
Pen of three market lambs
ANGUS BREEDING BEEF
WESTERN RIDING
Junior
MARKET SHEEP
u Reserve: Timothy Herbek
Intermediate
u Champion: Dakota Lovett
u Champion: Abbagail Lora
u Reserve: Trenton Karr
KITTEN
u Champion: Amanda Brader
Senior
Junior
CATS
Senior
SHOWMANSHIP
u Champion: Cheyann Lovett
u Reserve: Katie Ferris
u Reserve: Timothy Herbek
u Champion: Carly Bostock
u Reserve: Tessa Fielder
u Reserve: Chyanna Sharp
Senior
4-H club pen of five market
beef
HORSEMANSHIP
Pen of three market meat
goats
SHOWMANSHIP
Market heifers
Senior doe
Intermediate
u Reserve: Dakota Lovett
HERDSMANSHIP
Junior doe
WESTERN
Market meat goats
u Gold medal: Little Blue
Livestock
u Silver medal: Midway Webster
u Reserve: Brody Lewis
u Reserve: Amanda Brader
MEAT GOATS
SHEEP
Senior buck
Senior
MEAT GOAT
u Champion: Austin Rose
Hereford steers
u Champion: Taylor Riemersma
u Reserve: Taylor Riermersma
u Champion: Colton Bland
u Reserve: Sara Alber
Junior beef herd
Junior buck
Intermediate
Breeding gilt
JUNIOR BEEF HERD
MARKET BEEF
MARKET RABBIT
BREEDING SWINE
u Reserve: James Danehey
u Champion: Kacey Allen
u Reserve: Taylor Bonifas
u Champion: Aubry Sweley
u Reserve: Kristen Watson
Junior
u Reserve: Sarah Rutt
Stocker/feeder male calves
Junior
Junior
REINING
Pen of three market swine
u Champion: Taylor Lemke
u Reserve: Trent Kohmetscher
u Champion: Kortney Allen
u Reserve: Katlyn Simonton
u Champion: Taylor Riemersma
u Reserve: Brittany Lewis
u Champion: Mackenzie Kral
u Reserve: Kelsey Parker
u Reserve: Emma Rutt
Stocker/feeder female calves
Senior
Senior
Barrows
STOCKER/FEEDER
CALVES
SHOWMANSHIP
u Reserve: Sarah Rutt
u Champion: Lexie Wagner,
Makayla Dinkler
u Reserve: Trenton Schmidt
RABBITS
Intermediate
MARKET SWINE
Bucket calf
u Reserve: Sara Alber
u Reserve: Jocelyn Shipman
u Champion: Madison Kosse
u Reserve: Emma Rutt
BUCKET CALF
Broiler contest
Junior
Gilts
u Champion: Jordyn Atwater,
Jordyn Atwater
u Reserve: Levi Plambeck, Levi
Plambeck
u Champion: Erin Kinley
u Reserve: Tyler Strobl
TRAIL
Junior
Cow-calf
u Champion: Timothy Herbek
Drake duck
u Champion: Amanda Reiber
u Reserve: Colton Bland
COW CALF
u Reserve: Lucas Watson
Trio — bantam breed
Senior
SHOWMANSHIP
u Reserve: Lexie Wagner
u Champion: Scott Wademan
Pullet — bantam breed
u Champion: Carly Bostock
u Reserve: Amelia Petska
Senior
SECOND-YEAR BUCKET
CALF BREEDING BEEF
Cockerel — Bantam breed
Intermediate
u Gold medal: Blue Hill FFA
u Silver medal: Warrior 4-H’ers
Other breeds yearlings
March/April
u Reserve: Zachary Eakin
WESTERN PLEASURE
HERDSMANSHIP
u Champion: James Danehey
u Reserve: James Danehey
Recycled garment
u Champion: Julia Shipman
u Reserve: Bo Edgar
u Reserve: Madison Kosse
SWINE
Hereford yearlings May/June
Trio (cockerel & two pullets) —
standard breed
Junior
u Champion: Katie Ferris
u Reserve: Satie Engelhardt
ALL OTHER BREEDS
u Champion: Rachel Rutt
u Champion: Chyanna Sharp
u Reserve: Trevor Alber
Hereford yearlings
January/February
POULTRY
Junior
RATE OF GAIN CONTEST
HEREFORD
BREEDING BEEF
u Champion: Toriah Post
u Reserve: Eric Wademan
PLEASURE —
WALK & TROT
Junior breeders flock
u Reserve: Sarah Henkel
Recycled garment, surface
embellishment — senior
JUNIOR BREEDERS
FLOCK
Commercial breeding heifer
Simple skirt
MUSIC CONTEST
Solo or duet song
BREEDING BEEF
Simple top
Intermediate
u Champion: Kaycie Strobl
Junior
Fire school attendees
Hastings Tribune
About 1,625 people from
Nebraska and several other
states attended the 74th annual
Nebraska State Fire School May
20-22 in Grand Island.
The event was offered by the
Nebraska State Volunteer
Firefighters Association in
cooperation with the State Fire
Marshals Training Division,
Heartland Events
Center/Fonner Park and
Central Community CollegeGrand Island.
Participants were able to take
classes on agricultural emergency and extrication principles, basic pump operations,
emergency vehicle operations,
fire investigation, foam opera-
tions, forcible entry techniques,
initial company operations,
introduction to firefighting,
rope rescue techniques, rural
water supply and practical
hydraulics, railroad hazardous
materials, terrorism awareness,
thermal imaging cameras, vehicle extrication, wildland fires,
21st century leadership and
other topics. Mobile live burn
simulators also were held.
The following Tribland area
firefighters completed at least
nine hours out of the 12 hours
of classroom training offered at
the school:
u Carleton: Melany Winans
u Clay Center: Justin Griffiths,
Jacob Hankins
u Deshler: Bryan Bower, Roger
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING
AND BUDGET SUMMARY
Rick Meyer, Clerk/Secretary
Breakdown of Property Tax:
Personal and Real Property Tax
Required for Bonds
Personal and Real Property Tax
Required for All Other Purposes
$
4,295.95
$
81,422.65
$
$
$
31,165.09
856.55
32,021.64
$
$
13,974.00
222.41
$
13,974.00
$
-0-
Kirschner, Jeremy Rainforth
u Hastings: Christopher Bolton,
Mark Manchester, Joseph Pittz,
Steve Stewart
u Hebron: Michael Crosgrove,
Shane Day, Jerry Johnson, Justin
Johnson, William Linton Jr., Jerrod
Wiedel
u Holstein: Dale Ehrman, Lenny
Trausch
u Juniata: Charles Wagner
u Kenesaw: Brent Schirmer,
Brent Schleeman
u Minden: Thomas Brown, Craig
Lupkes, Shawn Lupkes, Jesse
Reicks, Riley Space, Corey Vahl
u Prosser: Neal Sahling
u Shickley: Dennis Deepe, Don
Swartzendruber
u Superior: Mike Fenimore,
Kendall Fleming, Nathan Johnson,
Brian A. Lueking, Timothy Morris,
Scott Nondorf, Ken Rempe, Travis
Rothchild, Dove Weber
u Trumbull: Chris Roth, Shawn
Wright
u Wilcox: Neil Gruhn, Mark Twohig
ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING AND BUDGET SUMMARY
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in compliance with the provisions of State Statute Sections 13-501 to 13-513,
that the governing body will meet on the 6th day of September, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock, a.m. at Courthouse Board
Room, Hastings, NE for the purpose of hearing support, opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations of
taxpayers relating to the following proposed budget. The budget detail is available at the office of the Clerk
during regular business hours.
/s/Chrisella Lewis, County Clerk
Actual
Disbursements
FUNDS
Glenvil Rural Fire District
IN
Adams County, Nebraska
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in compliance with
the provisions of State Statute Sections 13-501 to 13513, that the governing body will meet on the 5th day
of September 2011, at 7:00 o’clock, p.m., at Glenvil
Fire Station for the purpose of hearing support,
opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations of
taxpayers relating to the following proposed budget.
The budget detail is available at the office of the
Clerk during regular business hours.
2009-2010 Actual Disbursements & Transfers
2010-2011 Actual/Estimated
Disbursements & Transfers
2011-2012 Proposed Budget of Disbursements &
Transfers
2011-2012 Necessary Cash Reserve
2011-2012 Total Resources Available
Total 2011-2012 Personal & Real
Property Tax Requirement
Unused Budget Authority Created for Next Year
Finke, Scott Finke, Michael Holtzen,
Raymond Wright III
u Doniphan: Karen Gangwish
u Exeter: Jacob Miller, John
Mueller
u Franklin: Barry Rubendall,
Garret Rubendall
u Giltner: Nick Wilson
u Glenvil: Dave Hinrichs, Shawn
General
Actual
Disbursements
Proposed
Budget
of Disbursements
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
(1)
(2)
(3)
13,102,933
14,689,015
12,237,386
Total
Available
Resources
Before
Property
Taxes
(5)
Necessary
Cash
Reserve
(4)
500,000
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for Bonds
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
(6)
0
7,308,875
7,880,140
Library
142,290
145,136
212,136
0
54,397
157,739
Visitors Pro.
100,362
139,263
154,678
0
154,808
0
Visitors Imp.
0
0
16,000
0
16,000
0
89,601
84,036
99,000
0
99,000
0
Vets Relief
3,100
2,674
3,500
0
3,500
0
Inheritance
853,661
384,420
2,606,064
0
2,606,064
0
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for
ALL Other
Purposes
Highway Bond
0
0
114,232
0
114,232
0
8,037,879
Cap Projects
0
0
3,056,494
0
3,056,494
0
253,096
608,793
903,207
0
903,207
0
99,819
96,427
200,550
0
200,550
0
13,779,315
14,563,682
22,054,876
500,000
14,517,127
Health
Escrow
E911
TOTALS
Unused Budget Authority created for next year
8,037,879
1,726,412
NOTICE OF SPECIAL HEARING TO SET FINAL TAX REQUEST
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in compliance with the provisions of State Statute Section 77-1601.02, that the governing body will
meet on the 6th day of September, 2011 at 10:00 o’clock, a.m., at Courthouse Board Room for the purpose of hearing support,
opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations of taxpayers relating to setting the final tax request at a different amount than the
prior year tax request.
2010-2011 Property Tax Request
2010 Tax Rate
Property Tax Rate
(2010-2011 Request/2011 Valuation)
7,482,503
.3407
.3173
2011-2012 Proposed Property Tax Request
Proposed 2011 Tax Rate
GENERAL
FUND
LIBRARY
FUND
7,880,140
.3341
157,739
.0123
Region/State
A8
RECOGNIZED
Hastings College recently
was recognized for the community service efforts of its
students.
The college was ranked
40th for community service
among 249 liberal arts colleges across the country by
Washington Monthly magazine.
The magazine’s annual college guide said the ranking is
based on the combined measure of students participating
in community service and
service hours performed relative to the size of the school.
From academic years 200304 to 2010-11, HC students
served about 166,000 hours
of community service. In the
last year alone, students
served 25,000 hours in the
community, with one-third of
those directly connected to
classes at HC.
The college also was recognized for the fourth year in a
row in 2010 by being named
to the President’s Higher
Education Community
Service Honor Roll.
Region
DEANS LIST
The following students
from Nebraska Wesleyan
University were named to the
dean’s list for spring 2011.
Students must achieve a minimum 3.75 grade point average on a 4.0 scale for 12 or
more hours to qualify.
u Clay Center: Bijan
Koohmaraie
u Doniphan: Maury Lorence
u Exeter: Allee Kuska
u Franklin: Russell Walton
u Geneva: Kelsey Lightwine,
Nicole Rosenquist
u Grafton: Bobbi Lovegrove
u Hardy: Brittanie Simonsen
u Hastings: Jessica Gregg,
Morgan Johnson, Neil Wolford
u Hebron: Courtney Yoachim
u Nelson: Jaycee Jacobitz
u Superior: Spencer Trapp
u Sutton: Hailey Schmer,
Courtney Spongberg
u Upland: Spencer Choquette
WHITE COATS
The University of Nebraska
Medical Center recently had
White Coat ceremonies in
Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney,
Scottsbluff and Norfolk to recognize 603 new students in
pharmacy, nursing, medicine,
dentistry and allied health.
Tribland area students in
the following colleges were
honored.
College of Dentistry
u Edgar: Derek Hoffman
College of Pharmacy
u Lawrence: Kayla Hoelting
College of Medicine
u Franklin: Deborah Welton
u Hastings: Macaela Cottam,
James Disney, Jennifer Mahoney
u Juniata: Lisa Tipton-Wylie
School of Allied Health
Professions
u Bruning: Whitney Holtzen
u Blue Hill: Randi Pohlmeier
u Hastings: Brett Herbek,
Ashley Rethorst
u Lawrence: Jacob Karmazin
State
LOAN SCAM
LINCOLN — The Better
Business Bureau is warning
consumers about loan scammers who appear to be trading on the name of a
Lincoln credit union.
The bureau says the
advance-fee loan scam is
falsely claiming an address
and name similar to the
established and reputable
Liberty First Credit Union.
A consumer from Georgia
recently called the bureau
to file a complaint about
the scam company, which
goes by Liberty First FG. The
scam company reportedly
asked the consumer to wire
$651 for insurance related
to a $3,000 loan. After the
consumer paid the $651, a
Liberty First FG representative then said an additional
$341 was needed to get the
loan.
Bureau officials say they
have never accredited
Liberty First FG, and its
website originates in
Canada.
A Bank Shot machine sits in what was formerly known as
The Hideaway in this Aug 6, 2009, file photo.
He said the game was hurting keno and pickle card sales.
Because money from keno and
pickle cards benefit the city
and charities, Nevrivy said he
decided to eliminate the game
that mostly generated money
for its owners.
He also said he doesn’t
believe the Bank Shot game
will remain legal.
While the owners of the
Bank Shot games made the
game require skill, Nevrivy
compared them to the level of
skill required for video poker
machines, which aren’t legal in
Nebraska.
“I was just afraid (the Bank
Shot games) were illegal,” he
said. “I didn’t want to take a
chance of having an illegal
game in my business.”
The game is currently operating in seven Hastings businesses.
Illegal: State taking argument over games to high court
The maker and distributor of
the machines argued that Bank
Shot is a game of skill, while
Nebraska officials argued that
it is one of chance.
In a ruling last year, District
Court Judge Steven Burns
noted that Nebraska law bans
jackpot games where the outcome predominantly is determined by the element of
chance. He found that, played
in “spin” mode, the game is
one primarily of skill, but in
“slow” and “fast” modes, it
was a game of chance. Jackpot
payouts can be as high as
$12,000.
Following the lower court
ruling, Greater America
Distributing said it would
reprogram the game to comply
with the ruling and thereby
make it legal to play in
Nebraska.
In its appeal, the Nebraska
Attorney General’s office wants
Soldiers: Volunteers
recall work in canteen
I can remember the eggs too,
but I think I remember the dishes more.”
When a train would pull up
to the station, the Trumbull residents remember the soldiers
rushing off the train and into
the depot with a look of surprise
and joy on their faces.
“I remember that room would
fill up so fast,” Rader said.
“And then boom, they’d be
gone again,” Jerry Arnold, 82,
added.
By the time the soldiers got
off at North Platte, some had
been on the train for days traveling from either the east or west
coast, surviving on dried tack
and stale water.
“The joy on their faces and
the way they ate,” Kehn remembered. “Some had pockets filled
with eggs when they left.”
Some of the trains carried
injured soldiers who were
unable to get off.
A few volunteers were able to
climb aboard the trains to give
them food, while most of the
young volunteers walked along
the boardwalks with baskets of
goodies that they would pass
through the train windows.
“I can remember going up and
down the railroad track with
some girl,” Gene Arnold said.
“We went down the track with a
basket of apples and oranges.”
For the soldiers who did make
it into the depot, a few lucky
ones would be presented with
birthday cake. If it wasn’t their
birthday, Gene Arnold said they
were told to take them anyway.
Kehn remembered giving away
at least 10 cakes with every group
who came through the station.
At the time, the young men
knew WWII would be over before
they were old enough to enlist.
But three of the four would later
serve in the Korean War.
Gene Arnold served on the
front lines of battle with the
Marines while LaRue Rader was
an Army radio man with a unit
in North Korea. Rhodes served
stateside as an Army typist at
Fort Riley, Kan., after taking two
years of typing as a student in
Trumbull.
“I feel guilty in one way
because a third of my basic company got killed and another
third was wounded badly,” he
said. “I probably wouldn’t have
come back in one piece.”
Thinking back, Arnold said he
may have looked up to the soldiers he served while at the canteen.
“If I did look at the soldiers at
the canteen, I was admiring
them. That was thrilling,” he
said of their going off to war.
Rhodes said he often reflects
on his ability to help others
through the canteen and the
kindness he was able to show
those soldiers who were going
off to war.
“For how many of those guys,
was (this) the last act of kindness
they ever saw?” he asked.
Judge: Kansas ordered to
fund Planned Parenthood
beginning in July at the start of
the state’s fiscal year.
Planned Parenthood
President and CEO Peter
Brownlie said he was pleased
and cautiously optimistic that
his group would hear from the
state by Wednesday a definitive
date when KDHE would
resume its funding, as it has
been ordered for a month now.
“I can’t imagine that the
state would continue to defy a
federal court order,” Brownlie
said. “I am hopeful that it will
do the right thing and resume
the funding.”
The lawsuit challenges the
constitutionality of a new state
law which requires Kansas to
allocate federal family planning
dollars first to public health
departments and hospitals,
leaving no money for Planned
Parenthood or similar groups.
all modes of the game to
deemed illegal, arguing state
law bans games if there is any
element of chance in its outcome. It is asking the state’s
high court to permanently
prohibit the video game from
being developed, constructed
or distributed in Nebraska and
to direct that the nearly 500
games located around the state
be removed.
Thomas Locher, an Omaha
attorney for Greater American
Distributing, counters in his
brief that the state’s interpretation of the element of chance
in state law is absurdly narrow.
If state law “requires only
that a game involve an element of chance, then every
game at the State Fair in which
a player throws a dart at a balloon, a bean bag at a bowling
pin, or shoots water into a
clown’s mouth is an illegal
gambling device because
chance — such as a gust of
wind, a distracting but, a faulty
dart, a wet bean bag — is
involved in each of these
games,” Locher wrote.
“Likewise, every arcade that
has skeeball machine or WalMart store that has a crane
machine would be in possession of an illegal gambling
device because each involves
an element of chance.”
The Nebraska Supreme
Court is set to hear arguments
in the case on Sept. 7.
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As the football season gets
under way, the Hastings Area
Chamber of Commerce has
two upcoming programs
intended to give fans the tools
to be healthy on game day.
The chamber is launching its
Hastings Huskers Tailgate Club.
“My idea was to promote
being healthy on game days
because people ingest so many
calories, me included,” program
creator Amanda McKenzie said.
Participants will meet at the
chamber offices, 301 S.
Burlington Ave., at 8 a.m. on
Sept. 10, 17, 24 and Oct. 1.
There they will walk or jog
along a 2- to 3-mile course.
Participants will then return to
the chamber to stretch and eat a
healthy breakfast that McKenzie
said will include fruit, granola
bars and bottled water.
“Hopefully by eating healthy
in the morning, it makes people conscious about what they
eat the rest of the day,” she
said.
McKenzie is the chamber
retail development coordinator,
but wellness is her passion. She
graduated with an exercise science degree in 2006 from
Hastings College.
There is a $15 registration fee
for the Hastings Huskers
Tailgate Club. The registration
fee pays for the food and a red
T-shirt.
The program is scheduled to
last four weeks, but McKenzie
said if there is enough interest,
the tailgating club could be
extended.
Even though it is the
Hastings Huskers Tailgate Club,
McKenzie said it’s not necessary
to be a Husker fan to participate.
“Oh yeah, definitely,” she
said. “Their shirt would just say
Hastings Husker on it.”
The chamber will also play
host to a Lunch and Learn program at noon Sept. 14. The program will focus on healthy eating on game days.
“Well, my thought was, obviously football is a huge thing in
this state,” she said. “People get
together at their homes, in bars
and at tailgates and watch the
games. That’s another good
time to make healthy choices.
Instead of going for nachos,
you could make healthier
choices.”
The deadline to register for
the Lunch and Learn is Sept. 8.
The deadline to register for the
Hastings Huskers Tailgate Club
is Thursday.
To register, or for more information, call McKenzie at 402461-8400.
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Melanie Menning
u Minden: Zachary Woodward
TONY HERRMAN
therrman@hastingstribune.com
touch the screen at a specific
time to create matches, so players can improve. Seeing players
improve and investigating the
game further, he became convinced it could be considered a
legal game. At first glance, he
said it seemed like a gambling
machine because money was
being won and lost.
“The better you get at it, the
better your chances of winning
are,” he said. “It’s all timed skill
to try to win. It’s not like a slot
machine. It took me a while to
understand that.”
Hogan was hesitant to bring
the game into his business with
the legal battle ongoing. Even
after the case had been decided
in the lower court, he waited
and only installed a machine
about a month ago.
Since the game generates tax
revenue for the state, he said
he is unsure why the state has
filed to appeal the original ruling.
If the machines are ruled illegal by the higher court, which
is set to hear the case Sept. 7,
Hogan said he and other business owners wouldn’t hesitate
to remove the devices.
Other area businesses have
already removed the games.
Mike Nevrivy, owner of HK
Sports Bar-Grill, formerly
Hastings Keno, chose to
remove the games for a couple
reasons.
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Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B1
Huskers’ Pelini ‘hungrier’ for conference title
ERIC OLSON
LINCOLN — Nebraska is
going into its first season in the
Big Ten with a championshipor-bust mentality.
It’s more desperation than
bravado driving the 10thranked Cornhuskers, who
haven’t won a conference title
since 1999 despite frequent
statements from coach Bo
Pelini that Nebraska is defined
by championships.
So would anything less than
a Rose Bowl trip be acceptable?
“I don’t ever look at it being
a success if you don’t win a
championship,” Pelini said.
“That’s our goal from the
beginning. Is that to say you
can have a good year and not
win a conference championship? That depends on who
you talk to. In this program,
we’re about winning championships. If we don’t, and if you
talk to the guys in the locker
room, they wouldn’t feel it’s a
success.”
Pelini
came close
In this pro- in the last
gram, we’re two Big 12
about win- champining cham- onship
games, lospionships. If ing 13-12
we don’t, to Texas in
and if you 2009 and
talk to the 23-20 to
guys in the Oklahoma
locker
in 2010.
“It makes
room, they
you
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grier,”
he
feel it’s a
said.
success.”
The 43year-old
is
- NU coach Pelini
entering
Bo Pelini his fourth
season as a
head coach, all at Nebraska,
after successful stints as a
defensive coordinator at
Nebraska, Oklahoma and LSU.
His name has been mentioned
in a number of coaching
searches, including Miami last
“
”
year, and he’s a regular on lists
of the game’s rising stars.
“No matter where he’s been,
he’s had one of the top five
defenses in the nation every
year,” receiver Tim Marlowe
said. “I don’t think Bo needs a
championship to certify himself up there with the great
coaches in college football, but
it definitely wouldn’t hurt. He’s
really ready to win that championship, and we’re ready to
give it to him.”
The Huskers open the season
Saturday against Chattanooga,
an FCS team. They continue
tuning up for Big Ten play
against Fresno State and
Washington at home and then
travel to Wyoming before starting the conference schedule
Oct. 1 at No. 11 Wisconsin.
The undisputed key to
Nebraska’s season is sophomore
quarterback Taylor Martinez,
who is coming back from ankle
and toe injuries during the second half of last season.
Martinez was the Big 12
TONY
GUTIERREZ/
offensive newcomer of the year
after rushing for 965 yards and
12 touchdowns and completing 59 percent of his passes for
1,631 yards and 10 TDs. He
received Heisman Trophy mention before injuries limited him
in November and December.
“If he goes down, you’re not
going to be as good, especially
right off the bat,” Pelini said.
“We have a very talented
young man backing him up
right now. Is he as prepared as
Taylor? No. You have to be
ready for contingencies.”
Ideally, redshirt freshman
Brion Carnes would get eased
into second-half playing time
in non-conference games.
Martinez continues to play
coy about his health. Asked
Monday whether he’s 100 percent, Martinez said, “You’ll see
on Sept. 3.”
Martinez said the team has
higher goals than winning the
Big Ten and the Rose Bowl trip
that comes with it.
Please see NU/page B2
AP
Nebraska
head
coach Bo
Pelini
looks on
during
the Big
12 championship
game
Dec. 4,
2010,
against
Oklahoma
in
Arlington,
Texas.
New Big Ten
set to open
2011 season
AC knocks
off Holdrege
COLIN FLY
PATRIOTS HIT TWO HOME RUNS IN 11-3
ROUT OVER 2010 STATE QUALIFIER
The bigger Big Ten is ready to go.
After talking about the move for more
than a year, the biggest addition — No.
10 Nebraska — will begin its season
Saturday and all 12 conference members
are in action this week in a league that
will have two divisions and a title game
for the first time.
“It seems like it was a long time ago
that we were invited in and accepted the
invitation to join the Big Ten and I think
everybody’s been excited about it,”
Cornhuskers coach Bo Pelini said
Tuesday. “It’s now a sense of, ‘Wow, it’s
finally here.”’
Three schools hired
new coaches — Brady
Hoke at Michigan, Jerry
Texas A&M
Kill at Minnesota, Kevin
Wilson at Indiana — but says it’s leaving
Big 12.
the biggest offseason
— Page B2
news came from Ohio
State. A scandal centered
on a tattoo-parlor owner giving cash and
discounts for memorabilia to several
players eventually cost coach Jim Tressel
his job in May after 10 years at the helm.
Longtime linebackers coach Luke
Fickell is now leading one of the Big
Ten’s most dominant programs.
“People ask me, ‘Are you nervous?’ No,
it’s an excitement,” Fickell said. “All of
our guys are extremely excited, not about
what’s happened in the past, but to truly
be able to move forward here and start
the season.”
While the 18th-ranked Buckeyes dealt
with a tumultuous offseason, No. 11
Wisconsin dealt with a crushing loss to
TCU in the Rose Bowl. The season kicks
off when the Badgers host UNLV on
Thursday night.
“I really don’t get nervous. I think
nervous is when you’re not sure of what
you’re going to do,” Wisconsin coach
Bret Bielema said. “I’m pretty confident
in what our guys have been trained to
do.”
While conference play doesn’t begin for
a month, it’s time to brush up on the
Legends and Leaders divisions since the
Please see BIG TEN/page B2
NICK BLASNITZ
T
nblasnitz@hastingstribune.com
he Adams Central softball team defeated
Holdrege 11-3 in six innings Tuesday night at
the Smith Softball Complex.
The Patriots (5-2) exploded offensively with
14 hits, including two home runs. AC head
coach Denise Schuck said she wasn’t surprised with the
run production.
“We’re solid. The top of our lineup is very solid and the
bottom of our lineup is finding ways to get on base,”
Schuck said. “So it’s all-around coming together right now
and it’s working fantastic. That’s the thing, the kids feed
off of those first four or five hitters, and they build off that
and it keeps going and keeps going and escalating.”
The Patriots were seen celebrating in the dugout after
the game — not just because of the win, but because it
was pitcher Josi Bumgardner’s birthday.
And what a birthday it was.
Bumgardner was dialed in against the Dusters’ hitters.
She allowed seven hits and struck out eight, including a
span where she struck out seven of nine batters she
faced.
Bumgardner also scored the first run of the game with
a solo home run in the first inning. She scored three
runs for the Patriots and reached base three times.
Please see SOFTBALL/page B3
Inside
AMY ROH/Tribune
Above: Adams Central’s Teal Anderson runs to first
base against Holdrege Tuesday at the Smith Softball
Complex. Right: Adams Central’s Josie Bumgardner
pitches against Holdrege.
Jacupke returns under center for GPAC-favorite Morningside
BOB RASMUS/
Courtesy
Morningside
quarterback
Jordan
Jacupke, a
graduate of
St. Cecilia,
throws the
ball during
a game last
season.
Jacupke,
now a sophomore, is
set to start
in the
Mustangs’
season
opener
Thursday.
STC GRAD EXCITED
FOR SEASON
ERIK BUDERUS
ebuderus@hastingstribune.com
Jordan Jacupke could have
been disgruntled last fall following Morningside head football coach Steve Ryan’s decision
to start Indiana State transfer
Chris Stutzriem at quarterback,
instead of him.
The St. Cecilia product, who
was coming off his redshirt season, had taken the majority of
snaps during the previous
spring season and entered last
fall as the favorite to win the
starting position.
But that didn’t happen.
And while Jacupke may have
been a little disappointed, he
didn’t let that stop him or discourage him.
Instead, Jacupke kept plugging away, learning the offense,
learning the position, working
hard in practice and he took
care of every opportunity he
had on the field. By mid-season,
Ryan had turned to Jacupke to
lead one of the nation’s best
football teams — handing the
starting quarterback reigns over
to Jacupke for the last five
games of the season, including
the team’s two playoff games.
This year, Jacupke returns as a
redshirt sophomore to lead the
NAIA No. 5-ranked Mustangs as
they strive to capture their first
Great Plains Athletic
Conference championship since
2005. And they are the favorites
in the league with the departure
of perennial power Sioux Falls,
which is now an NCAA
Division II institution.
Jacupke averaged more than
230 yards of total offense per
game last year as the Mustangs
advanced to the second round
of the NAIA national playoffs.
He tallied 1,171 yards passing
and 15 touchdowns while also
rushing for 216 yards and three
scores. He returns as the team’s
leading rusher and leading
passer this year.
Please see JACUPKE/page B3
Scoreboard
B2
Baseball
Florida
AL Standings
East Division
W L Pct
GB
Boston
82 52 .612
—
New York
81 52 .609
1/2
Tampa Bay
73 61 .545
9
Toronto
67 68 .496 15 1/2
Baltimore
54 79 .406 27 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Detroit
74 61 .548
—
Chicago
68 65 .511
5
Cleveland
67 65 .508 5 1/2
Minnesota
56 79 .415
18
Kansas City
56 80 .412 18 1/2
West Division
W L Pct
GB
Texas
77 59 .566
—
Los Angeles
73 62 .541 3 1/2
Oakland
60 75 .444 16 1/2
Seattle
57 77 .425
19
Tuesday’s Games
Detroit 2, Kansas City 1, 10 innings
Cleveland 6, Oakland 2
Baltimore 6, Toronto 5, 10 innings
N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2
Texas 2, Tampa Bay 0
Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 6
L.A. Angels 13, Seattle 6
Wednesday’s Games
Kansas City (F.Paulino 2-6) at Detroit (Porcello 128), 12:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Diamond 0-2) at Chicago White Sox
(Peavy 6-6), 1:10 p.m.
Oakland (Harden 4-2) at Cleveland (Jimenez 2-1),
6:05 p.m.
Toronto (H.Alvarez 0-2) at Baltimore (Jo-.Reyes 710), 6:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-4) at Boston (Beckett
11-5), 6:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Shields 12-10) at Texas (Ogando 126), 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Haren 13-7) at Seattle (F.Hernandez
12-11), 9:10 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Oakland (G.Gonzalez 11-11) at Cleveland
(Carmona 6-12), 11:05 p.m.
Toronto (L.Perez 3-2) at Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 32), 11:35 p.m.
Kansas City (Duffy 3-8) at Detroit (Ja.Turner 0-1),
12:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (A.J.Burnett 9-11) at Boston (Lester
14-6), 6:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Niemann 9-5) at Texas (C.Wilson 136), 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 10-9) at Seattle (Furbush
3-6), 9:10 p.m.
NL Standings
Philadelphia
Atlanta
New York
Washington
East Division
W L Pct
85 46 .649
79 55 .590
64 69 .481
63 70 .474
GB
—
7 1/2
22
23
60 74 .448 26 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Milwaukee
81 55 .596
—
St. Louis
71 64 .526 9 1/2
Cincinnati
67 68 .496 13 1/2
Pittsburgh
62 73 .459 18 1/2
Chicago
59 77 .434
22
Houston
46 90 .338
35
West Division
W L Pct
GB
Arizona
77 59 .566
—
San Francisco
71 65 .522
6
Los Angeles
64 70 .478
12
Colorado
64 72 .471
13
San Diego
60 76 .441
17
Tuesday’s Games
Florida 6, N.Y. Mets 0
Philadelphia 9, Cincinnati 0
Washington 9, Atlanta 2
Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2
St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 1
Arizona 9, Colorado 4
L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 5
Chicago Cubs 5, San Francisco 2
Wednesday’s Games
San Diego (LeBlanc 2-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 813), 2:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (R.Lopez 4-5) at San Francisco
(Bumgarner 8-12), 2:45 p.m.
Florida (Volstad 5-11) at N.Y. Mets (Capuano 1011), 6:10 p.m.
Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 14-7) at Cincinnati (Willis 03), 6:10 p.m.
Washington (Lannan 8-10) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 812), 6:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Ja.McDonald 8-6) at Houston (Happ
4-15), 7:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Westbrook 10-7) at Milwaukee (Wolf
11-8), 7:10 p.m.
Colorado (Rogers 6-3) at Arizona (Collmenter 8-8),
8:40 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Philadelphia (Worley 9-1) at Cincinnati (Leake 118), 11:35 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Eveland 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Lincoln
1-0), 3:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Dickson 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo
15-8), 2:10 p.m.
Florida (Hensley 2-5) at N.Y. Mets (Batista 3-2),
6:10 p.m.
Washington (Wang 2-2) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 138), 6:10 p.m.
Football
NFL Preseason
Monday’s Game
N.Y. Jets 17, N.Y. Giants 3
Thursday, Sep. 1
Detroit at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.
Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Baltimore at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Washington, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 p.m.
Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Kansas City at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Tennessee at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh at Carolina, 8 p.m.
Denver at Arizona, 10 p.m.
San Francisco at San Diego, 10 p.m.
Friday, Sep. 2
Oakland at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
Nebraska Schedule
Note: All games are on Saturdays, except Nov.
25 game against Iowa is on Friday
Sept. 3 vs. Tennessee Chattanooga, 2:30 p.m.
(TV: BTN)
Sept. 10 vs. Fresno State, 6 p.m. (TV: BTN)
Sept. 17 vs. Washington, 2:30 p.m. (TV: ABC)
Sept. 24 at Wyoming, 6:30 p.m. (TV: VERSUS)
Oct. 1 at Wisconsin, 7 p.m. (TV:
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2)
Oct. 8 vs. Ohio State, 7 p.m. (TV:
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2)
Oct. 22 at Minnesota. 2:30 p.m. (TV: ABC)
Oct. 29 vs. Michigan State, TBA
Nov. 5 vs. Northwestern, TBA
Nov. 12 at Penn State, TBA
Nov. 19 at Michigan, TBA
Nov. 25 vs. Iowa, 11 a.m. (TV: ABC)
Hastings College Schedule
Sept. 10 vs. Dordt, 1 p.m.
Sept. 17 at Concordia, 7 p.m.
Sept. 24 vs. Briar Cliff, 2 p.m.
Oct. 1 at Dakota Wesleyan, 1 p.m.
Oct. 8 vs. Dakota State, 1 p.m.
Oct. 15 vs. Midland, 1 p.m.
Oct. 22 at Morningside, 1 p.m.
Oct. 29 vs. Doane, 1 p.m.
Nov. 5 at Northwestern, 1 p.m.
Nov. 12 at Nebraska Wesleyan, 1 p.m.
NCAA FBS Schedule
All times EDT
Thursday, Sept. 1
EAST
Villanova at Temple, 7 p.m.
NC Central at Rutgers, 7:30 p.m.
Fordham at UConn, 7:30 p.m.
UMass at Holy Cross, 8 p.m.
Wake Forest at Syracuse, 8 p.m.
SOUTH
Murray St. at Louisville, 6 p.m.
North Texas at FIU, 7 p.m.
UT-Martin at Jacksonville St., 7 p.m.
Kentucky Christian at Morehead St., 7 p.m.
Delta St. at Northwestern St., 7 p.m.
W. Carolina at Georgia Tech, 7:30 p.m.
Evangel at Nicholls St., 7:30 p.m.
West Alabama at South Alabama, 7:30 p.m.
Mississippi St. at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Kentucky vs. W. Kentucky at Nashville, Tenn.,
9:15 p.m.
MIDWEST
SC State at Cent. Michigan, 7 p.m.
New Hampshire at Toledo, 7 p.m.
Illinois St. at E. Illinois, 7:30 p.m.
Drake at North Dakota, 8 p.m.
UNLV at Wisconsin, 8 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
W. Illinois at Sam Houston St., 7 p.m.
McMurry at Stephen F. Austin, 7 p.m.
Henderson St. at Cent. Arkansas, 8 p.m.
FAR WEST
Montana St. at Utah, 8 p.m.
Bowling Green at Idaho, 9 p.m.
UC Davis at Arizona St., 10 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 2
SOUTH
Clark Atlanta at Georgia St., 7:30 p.m.
MIDWEST
Youngstown St. at Michigan St., 7:30 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
TCU at Baylor, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 3
EAST
Northwestern at Boston College, Noon
S. Connecticut at CCSU, Noon
Indiana St. at Penn St., Noon
Dayton at Robert Morris, Noon
Lehigh at Monmouth (NJ), 1 p.m.
St. Francis (Pa.) at Wagner, 1 p.m.
Delaware at Navy, 3:30 p.m.
Bryant at Maine, 5 p.m.
Duquesne at Bucknell, 6 p.m.
Albany (NY) at Colgate, 6 p.m.
Davidson at Georgetown, 6 p.m.
Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.
Marist at Sacred Heart, 7 p.m.
Morgan St. at Towson, 7 p.m.
SOUTH
Utah St. at Auburn, Noon
Kent St. at Alabama, 12:20 p.m.
Appalachian St. at Virginia Tech, 12:30 p.m.
Wofford at Presbyterian, 1:30 p.m.
Delaware St. at VMI, 1:30 p.m.
Northeastern st. at UTSA, 2 p.m.
Concordia-Selma at Jackson St., 2:30 p.m.
Troy at Clemson, 3:30 p.m.
Louisiana-Monroe at Florida St., 3:30 p.m.
James Madison at North Carolina, 3:30 p.m.
SE Louisiana at Tulane, 3:30 p.m.
Va. Lynchburg at NC A&T, 4 p.m.
BYU at Mississippi, 4:45 p.m.
Albany St. (Ga.) vs. Savannah St. at Macon, Ga.,
5 p.m.
Furman at Coastal Carolina, 6 p.m.
Fort Valley St. at Florida A&M, 6 p.m.
Brevard at Gardner-Webb, 6 p.m.
Alabama St. at MVSU, 6 p.m.
Liberty at NC State, 6 p.m.
Virginia St. at Norfolk St., 6 p.m.
Campbell at Old Dominion, 6 p.m.
Montana at Tennessee, 6 p.m.
Jacksonville at The Citadel, 6 p.m.
William & Mary at Virginia, 6 p.m.
Richmond at Duke, 7 p.m.
South Carolina vs. East Carolina at Charlotte,
N.C., 7 p.m.
FAU at Florida, 7 p.m.
Alcorn St. vs. Grambling St. at Shreveport, La., 7
p.m.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Georgia Southern at Samford, 7 p.m.
Southern U. at Tennessee St., 7 p.m.
Charleston Southern at UCF, 7 p.m.
Elon at Vanderbilt, 7:30 p.m.
Boise St. vs. Georgia at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Louisiana Tech at Southern Miss., 10 p.m.
MIDWEST
Tennessee Tech at Iowa, Noon
Miami (Ohio) at Missouri, Noon
Akron at Ohio St., Noon
Middle Tennessee at Purdue, Noon
Albion at Butler, 1 p.m.
Arkansas St. at Illinois, 3:30 p.m.
W. Michigan at Michigan, 3:30 p.m.
Chattanooga at Nebraska, 3:30 p.m.
South Florida at Notre Dame, 3:30 p.m.
Alabama A&M vs. Hampton at Chicago, 5 p.m.
Indiana vs. Ball St. at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.
Austin Peay at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.
Howard at E. Michigan, 7 p.m.
N. Iowa at Iowa St., 7 p.m.
McNeese St. at Kansas, 7 p.m.
E. Kentucky at Kansas St., 7 p.m.
Lafayette at N. Dakota St., 7 p.m.
Army at N. Illinois, 7 p.m.
S. Illinois at SE Missouri, 7 p.m.
S. Utah at S. Dakota St., 8 p.m.
Franklin at Valparaiso, 8 p.m.
SOUTHWEST
UCLA at Houston, 3:30 p.m.
Langston vs. Ark.-Pine Bluff at Little Rock, Ark., 6
p.m.
Missouri St. at Arkansas, 7 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at Oklahoma St., 7 p.m.
Rice at Texas, 7 p.m.
Texas St. at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.
Texas College at Lamar, 8 p.m.
Tulsa at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
LSU vs. Oregon at Arlington, Texas, 8 p.m.
Stony Brook at UTEP, 9 p.m.
FAR WEST
South Dakota at Air Force, 2 p.m.
Minnesota at Southern Cal, 3:30 p.m.
Lindenwood at N. Colorado, 3:35 p.m.
Sacramento St. at Oregon St., 4 p.m.
S. Oregon at Portland St., 4:05 p.m.
San Jose St. at Stanford, 5 p.m.
Idaho St. at Washington St., 5 p.m.
Colorado St. at New Mexico, 6 p.m.
Fresno St. vs. California at San Francisco, 7
p.m.
E. Washington at Washington, 7 p.m.
Ohio at New Mexico St., 8 p.m.
San Diego at Azusa Pacific, 9 p.m.
Weber St. at Wyoming, 9 p.m.
N. Arizona at Arizona, 10 p.m.
Cal Poly at San Diego St., 10 p.m.
Colorado at Hawaii, 10:15 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 4
EAST
Marshall at West Virginia, 3:30 p.m.
SOUTH
Bethune-Cookman vs. Prairie View at Orlando,
Fla., Noon
SOUTHWEST
SMU at Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 5
SOUTH
Miami at Maryland, 8 p.m.
Texas A&M notifies Big 12 that it is leaving
KRISTIE RIEKEN
HOUSTON — Texas A&M dealt
a blow to the Big 12 Conference on
Wednesday, saying it plans to leave
by July 2012 if it is accepted by the
SEC or another league.
The move, which had been
expected, may set off another
round of conference realignment in
college sports. The Aggies have
made it clear they want to join the
12-member Southeastern
Conference and the Big 12 has
been clear that it will move swiftly
to find at least one replacement for
the Aggies.
University President R. Bowen
Loftin notified the Big 12 in a letter and said departing the league
“is in the best interest of Texas
A&M.” He said he hopes the move
can be amicable and presumably
hopes to negotiate a reasonable
exit fee.
Texas A&M had been in the Big
12 since its founding in 1996.
But the school said it will submit
an application to join another,
unspecified conference. If it is
accepted, Texas A&M will leave the
Big 12, effective June 30, 2012.
“We are seeking to generate
greater visibility nationwide for
Texas A&M and our championshipcaliber student-athletes, as well as
secure the necessary and stable
financial resources to support our
athletic and academic programs,”
Loftin said in a statement. “This is a
100-year decision that we have
addressed carefully and methodically. Texas A&M is an extraordinary
institution, and we look forward to
what the future may hold for
Aggies worldwide.”
The move by Texas A&M leaves
questions about the future of the
Big 12, which is down to 10 teams
after Nebraska (Big Ten) and
Colorado (Pac-12) left the league in
July after a wild round of realignment that also affected teams in
the Mountain West, Big East and
WAC.
Missouri Chancellor Brady
Deaton, who serves as the chairman of the Big 12 board of directors, said Tuesday that the group
has formed a committee to look at
possible replacements.
Loftin sent a letter to the Big 12
last week formally telling Big 12
Commissioner Dan Beebe they
were exploring all options and
asked the conference to outline the
process if they decide to leave. On
Monday, the university said it had
received a letter from Beebe outlining the withdrawal procedure.
The SEC said earlier this month it
was happy with its current mem-
School’s statement on its departure
The statement from Texas A&M
University President R. Bowen
Loftin after the school officially
notified the Big 12 Conference it
will end its membership effective
June 30, 2012, if it is accepted by
another league:
“After much thought and consideration, and pursuant to the
action of the (Texas A&M
University System) Board of
Regents authorizing me to take
action related to Texas A&M
University’s athletic conference
alignment, I have determined it is
in the best interest of Texas A&M
to make application to join another athletic conference. We appreciate the Big 12’s willingness to
engage in a dialogue to end our
relationship through a mutually
agreeable settlement. We, too,
desire that this process be as amicable and prompt as possible and
result in a resolution of all outstanding issues, including mutual
waivers by Texas A&M and the
conference on behalf of all the
remaining members. As I have
indicated throughout this process,
we are seeking to generate greater
visibility nationwide for Texas
A&M and our championship-caliber student-athletes, as well as
secure the necessary and stable
financial resources to support our
athletic and academic programs,”
Loftin said. “This is a 100-year decision that we have addressed carefully and methodically. Texas A&M
is an extraordinary institution, and
we look forward to what the future
may hold for Aggies worldwide.”
bership but left the door open to
expansion, and the Aggies certainly
wouldn’t have made this move if
they didn’t believe they could eventually join the conference.
The Big 12, including Texas
A&M, agreed to a 13-year television
deal with Fox Sports in April worth
more than $1 billion. There is a
chance the contract could be void-
ed by the Aggies leaving the conference, which could lead to legal
issues for Texas A&M and its new
league.
The Aggies will also likely face an
exit fee for leaving the Big 12,
although it’s unclear how much
that could be. Nebraska paid $9.25
million and Colorado paid $6.9
million.
Big Ten: Conference features new team, new coaches
Continued from page B1
conference decided not to follow
geographical boundaries while
attempting to retain as many
regional rivalries as possible.
The Legends features Iowa,
Michigan, No. 17 Michigan State,
Minnesota, Nebraska and
Northwestern. The Leaders will be
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn
State, Purdue and Wisconsin.
The top team from each will
meet in the first Big Ten title game
on Dec. 3 at Lucas Oil Stadium in
Indianapolis.
“We still have eight conference
games,” Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz
said. “We still play eight, the whole
idea now is to advance to the ninth
game, which will be very, very
competitive for everybody. It just
makes things a little bit more interesting probably for everyone. And,
if you’re fortunate enough to get to
Indianapolis, that’s a great thing to
be able to deal with. It’d be the first
time I’d be involved in an experience like that.”
For now, the Big Ten coaches are
busy preparing for FCS opponents
including Tennessee Tech,
Youngstown State and Indiana State
this week. The most interesting
game may be when Kill’s Gophers
travel to No. 25 Southern
California.
“Would we like to open up with
USC every year? No,” Kill said,
laughing. “I’d like to open up right
here at home, but it is what it is
and I’m sure it’s going to be a great
opportunity for us.”
With all the changes, there is a
prominent sign of stability: Joe
Paterno is back, and not even a
blindside hit in camp to Penn
State’s 84-year-old leader that hurt
his hip and shoulder could keep
him away. Paterno is entering his
46th season with a record of 401135-3.
The style of play is also likely to
remain steady, especially in nonconference games.
The Badgers will using their
beefy offensive line to run the ball
with Montee Ball and James White
to take the pressure off transfer
quarterback Russell Wilson.
Quarterback Kirk Cousins will be
expected to lead the Spartans’
offensive attack and Ohio State
will still have a stout defense now
led by linemen John Simon, Nate
Williams and linebacker Andrew
Sweat.
Even the new coaches bring their
systems in from previous stops, giving the coaches a chance to watch
either other closely before conference play begins.
“There is some history with all
these football teams but it’s important to recognize as we move into
the season, into Big Ten games,
what’s the most recent history,”
Michigan State coach Mike
Dantonio said. “Regardless of what
these new teams have or (who is)
new to the Big Ten, they have an
established system in place.”
That includes winning. With the
Cornhuskers, the conference boasts
four of the six programs with the
most wins in college football history.
“Everybody’s looking forward to
coming and competing in a
tremendous conference. You’re
competing against a lot of great
football teams and great universities,” Pelini said. “We’ll be ready
come Big Ten play. It’s a bit of a historic season. It’s going to be a fun
season for us.”
Tribland roundups
Hastings High softball
YORK — The Hastings High softball
team improved to 3-4 on the season with
an 8-7 win over York Tuesday. The Tigers
rallied for the win by scoring three runs in
the top of the sixth inning, then holding
York scoreless over the final two innings.
Kelsey Christensen was 2-for-3 at the
plate for Hastings High with three runs
scored and three RBIs. Alex Schmidt
was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and
one RBI. Emily Zysset was 2-for-5 with
one run scored. Shalene Gerritsen also
had a hit, Laykin McCoy had an RBI and
Seana Lewis scored a run in the win.
Taylor Musgrave pitched four innings,
allowing just one earned run while striking out three batters for the Tigers.
a 9-hole triangular Tuesday, playing the
back nine holes at Southern Hills. The
Patriots finished with a team score of
196 — led by Mattie Yurk who led all
golfers with a 38. St. Paul and Wood
River also competed in the triangular,
although Wood River did not have
enough golfers to qualify a team score.
Team Results
1, Adams Central 196; 2, Adams
Central JV 236; 3, St. Paul 264
Adams Central Results
Mattie Yurk 38, Bailey Hoins 50,
McKenna Reed 51, Courtney Barbee 57,
Breanna Jacobitz 62, Katie Ruth 67,
Kristin Beck 56, Lacie Johnson 55, Alexis
Allerheiligen 63, Chandler Yurk 68, Mari
Sayer 62, Alyssa Spartz 81
Adams Central girls golf
Minden girls golf
The Adams Central girls golf team won
BROKEN BOW — The Minden girls golf
team finished second at the Broken Bow
triangular, tallying a team score of 222.
Holdrege won with a 216. Minden’s
Elizabeth Gram finished with a 49 to tie
with Holdrege’s Schyler Edgren for the
low-round of the day.
Team Results
1, Holdrege 216; 2, Minden 222; 3,
Holdrege JV 251; 4, Broken Bow 279.
Minden Results
Elizabeth Gram 49, Allie Geist 55,
Ashton Bolt 57, Jessica Rehtus, Amy
Nielson 66, Meriah Koch 73, Taylor
Schmidt 72
Exeter-Milligan girls golf
GRAND ISLAND — The Exeter-Milligan
girls golf team finished second Tuesday
at the Heartland Lutheran triangular.
Exeter-Milligan finished with a team
score of 257 while Heartland won with a
228. Exeter-Milligan’s Becca Vossler had
the third lowest round of the day, finishing with a 57 at Indianhead Golf Course.
Heartland’s Jen Yoder finished with a 49
to lead all competitors.
Team Results
1, Heartland 228; 2, Exeter-Milligan
257; 3, Heartland Lutheran 265
Exeter-Milligan Results
Becca Vossler 57, Coleen Colson 64,
Liz Murphy 67, Brittni Kotas 72, Tori
Bossaller 69, Jordyn Brandt 76
Rock Hills volleyball
MANKATO, Kan. — The Rock Hills volleyball team opened the season by finishing 1-2 overall at the Rock Hills quadrangular. Rock Hills defeated Northern Valley
25-20, 25-21 but fell to Lakeside 21-25,
25-18, 25-18 and Thunder Ridge 25-13,
25-13.
Tribland
THURSDAY
Prep girls volleyball: Gibbon, Ravenna at Adams Central Triangular ............................7 p.m.
Prep girls volleyball: McCook at Hastings High.............................................................7 p.m.
Prep girls volleyball: St. Cecilia, Lincoln Christian at GICC triangular......................7:30 p.m.
Prep cross country: Adams Central at Gibbon Invitational ......................................5:30 p.m.
Prep cross country: Hastings High at Cozad Invitational...............................................5 p.m.
Prep cross country: St. Cecilia at Superior Invitational............................................4:15 p.m.
Prep boys tennis: Adams Central at Kearney Catholic ..................................................4 p.m.
Prep boys tennis: Hastings High at McCook..................................................................4 p.m.
Prep girls golf: Adams Central, St. Cecilia, Minden, Superior, D-T at GICC Invite.........9 a.m.
Prep softball: Minden, Cozad at Adams Central Triangular ......................................4:30 p.m.
Prep softball: Grand Island Northwest at Hastings High ...............................................5 p.m.
Area Schedules
McCool Junction, Nebraska Lutheran at
Prep volleyball
Sutton Triangular
Blue Hill, Doniphan-Trumbull at Wood
Thayer Central at Tri County
River Triangular
Elwood, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller at
Bruning-Davenport/Shickley, Hampton
Wilcox-Hildreth Triangular
at Exeter-Milligan Triangular
Prep cross country
Deshler at Freeman Invitational
Doniphan-Trumbull, Kenesaw, WilcoxDavid City at Fillmore Central
Hildreth at Gibbon Invitational
Franklin, Red Cloud at Harvard
Franklin, South Central, Rock Hills,
Invitational
Fillmore Central, South Central, Blue Hill,
Giltner at High Plains
Deshler, Thayer Central at Superior
Lawrence-Nelson at Superior
Invitational
Lexington at Minden
Minden at Cozad Invitational
Sandy Creek, Heartland at WilberPrep softball
Clatonia Triangular
Blue Hill, Cross County at High Plains
Meridian at Silver Lake
Centennial at Fillmore Central/ExeterPhillipsburg, Hill City at Smith Center
Milligan
Triangular
TV/Radio broadcasts
Wednesday’s television
Thursday’s television
Masters, first round, at Crans sur Sierre,
Switzerland
3 p.m.
TGC — Nationwide Tour, Mylan Classic,
first round, at Canonsburg, Pa.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
7 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y.
Yankees at Boston or Washington at
Atlanta
TENNIS
1 p.m.
ESPN2 — U.S. Open, second round, at
New York
7 p.m.
ESPN2 — U.S. Open, second round, at
New York
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
8 p.m.
ESPN — UNLV at Wisconsin
FSN — Mississippi St. Memphis
GOLF
9 a.m.
TGC — European PGA Tour, European
Noon
KLIQ 94.5 — Kansas City at Cleveland
6 p.m.
KICS 1550 — Los Angeles Angels at
Texas
1 p.m.
WGN — Minnesota at Chicago White
Sox
6 p.m.
ESPN — N.Y. Yankees at Boston
TENNIS
Noon
ESPN2 — U.S. Open, men’s first and
women’s second round, at New York
6 p.m.
ESPN2 — U.S. Open, men’s first and
women’s second round, at New York
Thursday’s radio
Local
HOLE-IN-ONE
Shelly Hartford hit a hole-in-one Tuesday at
Southern Hills Golf Course on hole No. 12, a
126-yard par 3. Hartford used a 6-iron. It was
witnessed by Paula Englund, Becky Sullivan and
Sherri Hollister.
State
BIGHORN PERMIT LOTTERY
MCCOOK — A 28-year-old Waverly man has
won the lottery for a Nebraska bighorn sheep
permit.
Tyson Ritz is a deer hunter who has won the
right to hunt and kill a bighorn during the season that runs Nov. 29-Dec. 22.
The lottery drawing took place Tuesday at the
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission meeting
in McCook. The nearly 1,800 applicants paid
$25 to enter the lottery. The money is used for
the state’s bighorn sheep management program.
Nation
SANCTIONS AGAINST MIAMI PLAYERS
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Quarterback Jacory
Harris and 11 other Miami players who accepted
extra benefits from former booster Nevin
Shapiro will be allowed by the NCAA to play
again, the first sanctions in a scandal that continues to overshadow the Hurricanes.
Of those, eight will miss at least one game,
and all 12 must pay restitution.
The harshest penalties handed down Tuesday
were reserved for those who took gifts from
Shapiro while being recruited. Defensive lineman Olivier Vernon will sit out six games, while
Ray Ray Armstrong — considered among the
nation’s top safeties — and tight end Dyron Dye
will miss four games apiece. Among the players
sanctioned, only Vernon will miss more than
one Atlantic Coast Conference game.
Ritz likely will be hunting his bighorn on public land at Fort Robinson State Park in northwest
Nebraska.
NU: Coach hungry
for conference title
“We’re not really striving for a Big Ten championship. We’re striving for the national championship,” he said. “Going for the national championship, everything else will fall into place.”
Pelini is confident his team will play championship-caliber defense. The Huskers have AllAmerica candidates in lineman Jared Crick, linebacker Lavonte David and cornerback Alfonzo
Dennard.
The question is whether the offense can avoid
melting down the way it did the past two seasons. Pelini fired offensive coordinator Shawn
Watson and promoted running backs coach Tim
Beck to play-caller. Marlowe, a distant relative of
Pelini’s, said he can tell that the near misses the
last two years have worn on the coach.
“The frustration is obvious,” Marlowe said.
“There’s frustration for all of us, players and
coaches alike. We’re sick of it. We haven’t had a
conference title here since ‘99. It’s 2011, and it’s
our time.”
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B3
Nadal, Serena
advance at Open
EDDIE PELLS
NEW YORK — Time will tell if
Rafael Nadal’s struggles in the first
round were simply a case of openingnight jitters or something more serious.
Either way, his first match as defending U.S. Open champion had plenty of
rough edges.
The second-seeded Nadal found himself in a tougher-than-expected tussle
Tuesday night, needing 11 minutes
short of three hours to finish off 98thranked Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan,
6-3, 7-6 (1), 7-5.
“It’s normal to start the tournament
like this with some nerves,” Nadal said.
“And what happened today, he didn’t
help because he played very fast all the
time.”
Far less dramatic was Serena Williams’
return to Flushing Meadows. She defeated Bojana Jovanovski 6-1, 6-1 in a nomuss, no-fuss appearance at Arthur Ashe
Stadium — her first singles match there
since her profanity-laced outburst at a
line judge after a foot-fault call in the
2009 semifinals.
“I feel fine,” she said when asked how
she felt walking onto the court. “Even
last time I played here, I went out with a
bang. I came in with a bang tonight. So
it’s all good.”
Even though she’s seeded 28th and
coming into the tournament after a season full of injuries, Williams is looking
more and more like a favorite every day.
Before she took the court Tuesday,
reigning French Open champion Li Na
of China fell in her first-round match.
That, combined with Wimbledon
champion Petra Kvitova’s ouster on
Monday and Aussie champion Kim
Clijsters’ withdrawal with a stomach
injury, makes this the first U.S. Open
since 1971 that none of the year’s major
champions reached the second round.
Does that make Williams a favorite?
“I don’t think that,” she said. “I’m just
here to play. Everyone’s been playing all
year. I’ve played, like, five tournaments
this year. I don’t think that’s usually a
favorite going into another Grand Slam.”
While the women’s draw is as open as
ever, many believe Nadal has only two
main challengers. There’s top-seeded
Novak Djokovic, who is 5-0 against
Nadal this year and was leading 6-0, 5-1
over Conor Niland on Tuesday when
Niland retired with food poisoning. And
there’s third-seeded Roger Federer, a fivetime champion here, who won his first
match easily Monday.
Nadal hardly breezed through his. He
said he was happy to get through such a
tough test, that no player wants to be in
top form at the beginning. Still, the stats
were hard to ignore.
He had to fight off seven set points in
the second and needed to rally from
two breaks down in the third.
He lost his serve six times. This for a
player who lost serve a total of five
times in his run to the championship in
2010. But Nadal said it’s his groundstrokes, not his serve, that will determine his fate over the next two weeks.
“The people forget a lot of things, but
last year my first match was really bad,”
he said of his 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-3 win
over Teymuraz Gabashvili. “That’s the
truth, even if I didn’t lose my serve. I
played bad against a similar opponent
as today. He played very fast.”
Indeed, Golubev went for everything
and forced the action with Nadal.
Golubev finished with 41 winners and
59 unforced errors compared to 18 and
16 for Nadal.
He moved Nadal around, kept him
hitting from well behind the baseline
and had more than his share of chances
to capture momentum, a set, maybe
even the match.
“If you don’t think about the points,
it was not bad performance,” he said. “I
mean, you have to win the points when
you have to win. For example, like second set or third set when you serve for
the set.”
But he didn’t, and Nadal moved on
for a second-round match against
Frenchman Nicolas Mahut — he of the
famous 70-68 fifth set against John Isner
at Wimbledon last year.
Isner, 21st-seeded Andy Roddick,
fourth-seeded Andy Murray and 2009
champion Juan Martin del Potro are
among those who play first-round
matches Wednesday, while Venus
Williams and third-seeded Maria
Sharapova will play their second rounds
in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Other winners on the women’s side
Tuesday included No. 4 Victoria
Azarenka, No. 10 Andrea Petkovic, No.
11 Jelena Jankovic and three young
Americans: Sloane Stephens, Coco
Vandeweghe and Vania King.
Two seeded men lost: No. 16 Mikhail
Youzhny was beaten by Ernests Gulbis of
Latvia 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, and No. 32 Ivan
Dodig was eliminated 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-0, 26, 6-2 by Nikolay Davydenko of Russia.
AMY ROH/Tribune
Adams Central players celebrate Jorji Johnson’s two-run home run against Holdrege Tuesday at Smith Softball
Complex.
Softball: Patriots cruise to win
The Dusters answered Bumgardner’s
home run with a run in the second
inning, tying the game 1-all. After that
point, it was all Adams Central. In the
third inning, the Patriots’ first five hitters reached base safely before
Holdrege recorded an out. The inning
was highlighted by a Jorji Johnson
two-run home run. Three batters later,
Brianna Schuck hit a double that
scored two runs to increase the lead to
6-1.
Holdrege started a comeback in the
top of the sixth inning, when the
Patriots were leading 7-1. The Dusters
scored two runs to make it 7-3 but had
its rally come to a halt when Johnson
back-picked the runner at first base.
The bottom of the sixth inning was
similar to the third inning. Adams
Central scored four runs in the inning,
taking advantage of three walks and a
hit by pitch. The game ended via the
eight-run rule when Teal Anderson,
who had three hits and scored twice,
hit a rocket that went off the shortstop
and scored Syd Bernasek.
Holdrege (3-2) qualified for state last
year with a record of 19-8, so the
Patriots knew this was a big game
against their district foe.
“This is a quality win. I mean,
Holdrege has been a thorn in our side
AMY ROH/Tribune
Adams Central shortstop Brianna Schuck tags out Holdrege’s Allison
Matousek at second base Tuesday at the Smith Softball Complex.
for quite some time and it’s really
nice,” Schuck said. “We don’t have a
lot of Class B games that we play, so
these Class B games are big wins for us.
“We have to have those quality
games. Just like this weekend (at the
Lexington tournament), it slipped by
us and we should have had that win
against Gothenburg. They know that,
they know that one was there. I think
it made them a little bit hungrier coming into today’s game, knowing that
what they did this last weekend in
Lexington.”
Jacupke: St. Cecilia grad returns under center for Morningside
“My expectations were pretty
high last year. I had a good
spring and was looking for a
starting position, coming off my
redshirt year,” Jacupke said.
“They brought in a transfer,
Chris, to kind of mix things up
and add some competition.
Then they decided to go with
him, so I just tried to take it all
in and learn as much as I
could.”
Jacupke knows that a lot of
attention will fall on
Morningside this year — with
the departure of Sioux Falls — as
a major hole is now left open at
the top of the conference as well
as the national title hunt.
But that’s not all the pressure
that Jacupke is handling this season.
The quarterback position has
been filled with incredible talents at Morningside in the past
decade, including All-Americans
Craig Fobbe and Ian Gilworth
and the solid and steady Tim
Richard.
While it’s important for
Jacupke to honor that tradition,
he says he’s not focused on trying to match the honors and
accomplishments of those players. He’s focused on leading the
Mustangs this season — and
maintaining his position as the
team’s starter, as Ryan has
brought in another transfer,
Carter Ridenour from Western
Illinois, to compete at the quarterback position.
“There’s some big shoes to fill
— whoever is the quarterback at
Morningside,” said Jacupke, who
switched from a psychology
major this year to majoring in
communications with a minor
in psychology “We’ve had some
great ones here. They were all
incredible passers, great leaders
and made great decisions. They
were great at what they did.
Those are some big expectations
to live up to. We’re trying not to
pay any attention to the preseason hype or the ratings. That
doesn’t have any bearing on
anything. There’s a lot of great
teams in the GPAC and we have
to worry about that first. We’re
going to take things one game at
a time.”
Jacupke says he learned much
last year, at first on the sidelines
as the team’s No. 2 quarterback
and then as a starter both in the
regular season and the playoffs.
Jacupke saw playing time in 10
games last year, earning more
playing time for the team’s
matchup against Dordt in the
sixth game of the season.
Jacupke then played the entire
second half in Morningside’s
loss to Sioux Falls and was
named the starter the next week
against Concordia.
“That Dordt game, the way I
saw it, it was a chance for me to
show them what I could do,”
Jacupke said. “I really hadn’t
played much or had a lot of
game experience since high
school. The Sioux Falls game,
that was interesting. But I didn’t
feel like I had anything to lose.
It was actually a lot of fun playing against a team like that.
“Then, the next night, Sunday
night, coach told me that I was
going to start the next week. I
was happy — probably more
nervous than anything. I was
going from a little playing time
to getting thrown into the mix
and now it was my job. It was
an honor that the team needed
me.”
His progression continued, as
he led Morningside to a win in
the opening round of the playoffs against Dickinson State
before the Mustangs fell in the
second round to Mid-America
Nazarene.
“We really tried to simplify
things for the playoffs. The
coaches put a lot of emphasis on
that — it was one game at a
time. Win or go home. It was a
whole new mindset,” Jacupke
said. “That Dickinson State
game, it was like 15 degrees out,
it was so cold, I don’t think I
had ever played in a game that
cold before. But, I felt really prepared for it and we had a good
game. The next week against
Mid-America, that was tough.
They had a really great defense.”
Said Ryan: “Jordan, last year,
going into the season competed
exceptionally well for the starting position. In some ways, he
didn’t win it because he was
injured going into the first
game. That really hurt him and
the other guy was in there and
did well. Jordan has good athleticism, makes good decisions
with the ball, makes quick decisions and had an opportunity to
play in several big games last
year at the end of the year and
played very well. That confidence, we’re seeing that carry
over through the off season and
we’re excited about the kind of
year he’s going to have.”
He also started last year’s
game against Hastings College
in Sioux City, Iowa, and it was a
chance for him to go head-tohead against some of his friends
and a few guys he had played
against while quarterbacking St.
Cecilia.
“That game is a lot of fun
since I played against some of
those guys in high school and
was teammates with some too.
And it’s always fun to play
against the home town team,”
said Jacupke, who graduated
from St. Cecilia in 2009 and was
the All-Tribland 11-man quarterback during his senior season. “I
don’t know how to really
describe what it feels like, it’s just
a lot of fun to see some familiar
faces.”
It wasn’t a difficult decision,
Jacupke says, to choose
Morningside when he was looking at different colleges during
his senior year of high school.
“I sent out about five game
films to (Morningside) at the
end of January and they had
expressed some interest. I got a
call from them and they wanted
me to come up for a visit,”
Jacupke recalled. “When I went
there, it just felt right. I loved
the coaches and the atmosphere. I had another visit scheduled with (the University of
Nebraska-Omaha), but I canceled that because I knew that I
wanted to go to Morningside.”
The Mustangs finished last
year 9-1 in the regular season,
10-2 overall and have a record of
68-16 since 2004. The team has
made seven straight postseason
playoff appearances and
advanced to at least the quarterfinal round in each of the past
six years.
Jacupke says the team is hungry this year and looking to be a
national title contender, but the
Mustangs understand they must
first contend with difficult GPAC
schedule.
“We aren’t doing anything
dramatically different. We’re taking it one day at a time, one
game at a time. We aren’t going
to take anyone lightly,” Jacupke
said. “And for me, I know that
nothing is guaranteed. Just
because I’m the starter at the
beginning of the season doesn’t
mean I’ll be the starter at the
end. I’m still learning some new
things, we have a new offensive
coordinator and I worked a lot
with him this summer. I know I
have to be smart and try not to
do too much. It’s not about me,
it’s about the team.”
Ryan also likes the develop-
ment and growth that he’s seen
in Jacupke.
“The playoffs last year, I think
it had a significant impact on
Jordan,” the coach said. “He
came in about midway in the
Sioux Falls game, played against
Sioux Falls, Hastings, Concordia,
Dakota Wesleyan and then in
the playoffs against Dickinson
State and Mid-America
Nazarene. Those are all good
defensive football teams. It wasn’t just that he played games, he
had a chance to play against
some really good defenses, so I
think he’s prepared for the season. With confidence, comes
leadership. His confidence has
grown and also his presence,
being around, being a part of
the team, maturing — basic
decisions in every day life, he’s
really grown. You see a man.
That’s the big difference. He’s
become a man already. Our guys
believe in Jordan.”
Morningside opens the season
Thursday at Valley City, N.D.,
against Valley City State. The
Vikings were 4-6 last year as a
member of the Dakota Athletic
Conference but are competing
as an independent this year.
“Thursday is going to be very
exciting. It’s been a long camp
and I know we are all looking
forward to going out there and
playing against someone else
now,” Jacupke said. “We’re ready
to get the season started.”
Jacupke and the Mustangs will
host Hastings College Oct. 22.
Punchless Kansas City Royals lose 2-1 to Tigers in 10 innings
NOAH TRISTER
DETROIT — Jeff Francoeur was as
perplexed as anyone after the Kansas
City Royals struggled to hit the ball out
of the infield against Doug Fister.
One night after an 18-hit game, the
Royals made 18 straight outs before finally breaking up Fister’s perfect game in the
seventh inning. Kansas City went on to
lose 2-1 to the Detroit Tigers on Ramon
Santiago’s solo homer in the 10th.
“I ran past Tom Hallion, the umpire
at first, after we went 18 up, 18 down,”
Francoeur said. “He said, ’Baseball’s a
funny sport, isn’t it?”’
Kansas City beat Detroit 9-5 on
Monday night.
Santiago, who entered Tuesday’s
game in the eighth as a pinch-runner,
lifted Aaron Crow’s pitch over the rightfield wall for only his fourth homer of
the year. Joaquin Benoit (4-3) pitched
two innings for the Tigers, matching his
longest outing of the season.
Crow (3-4) struck out Wilson Betemit
with the bases loaded to end the ninth,
but he got only one out in the 10th
before allowing Santiago’s surprising
homer.
“I knew I hit it hard, but I was running as fast as I could because I wasn’t
sure where it was going to end up,”
Santiago said. “Once I saw it go out, I
wanted to enjoy it, because you don’t
get to do that very often.”
Fister ended up allowing a run and
four hits over 7 2-3 innings. He struck
out six.
“I felt like every time I sat down, I
was right back up, the way he was
throwing,” Kansas City starter Jeff
Francis said.
Alex Gordon ended Fister’s perfect
game bid with a leadoff double in the
seventh, and Billy Butler eventually
drove him in with a sacrifice fly to give
the Royals a 1-0 lead.
The Tigers tied it in the eighth on
Magglio Ordonez’s two-out RBI single
off reliever Greg Holland.
“Fister was fantastic and their guy
was outstanding,” Detroit manager Jim
Leyland said. “That’s the art of pitching
— the way those guys pitched. Fister
changed speeds and used both sides of
the plate. Francis would throw a
changeup, and then he would throw a
slower changeup, and then he would
throw an 86-mph fastball.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
By Leigh Rubin
The Family Circus
By Bil Keane
THURSDAY, SEPT. 1
E
Swimmer who ‘loses’ trunks
must learn to cool his jets
D
EAR ABBY: After a
messy divorce, I moved
with my 17-year-old
daughter “Allie” to Florida. I’m
thrilled that
she has adjusted so quickly
to the lifestyle
here, which
revolves
around the
beach and
backyard
swimming
pools. Allie
Dear Abby
now has a
boyfriend, “Shane,” who is 19
and in college. I like him, and
it appears he likes me too —
maybe a little too much.
Shane lives with his parents
down the street, and he’s often
at our house when he and Allie
aren’t in school. Because I work
at home and my office is adjacent to the pool, I can’t seem
to escape him. When Allie is
doing her homework or talking
on the phone, Shane swims
alone and does a fair amount
of “preening.” I have the feeling he does it to gain my attention. The other day, after jumping in the pool, he surfaced
without his swim trunks and
said the pool jets had ripped
them off him. Then he got out
of the pool and put them back
on in front of me. When I told
him I found the situation
embarrassing, he shrugged and
smiled, leaving me feeling awkward.
Being from the Midwest, I’m
used to people behaving and
dressing more modestly. Here,
it seems like anything goes,
and the skimpier the clothing,
the better. Am I a prude, or
should I listen to my instincts
that something is not right?
And what do I say to Shane
that will allow me to keep my
dignity? — TAKEN ABACK IN
TAMPA
DEAR TAKEN ABACK: The
pool jets did not rip the trunks
off your daughter’s boyfriend.
It appears she is involved with
an exhibitionist. If it happens
again, tell him you find what
he’s doing to be disrespectful
and offensive, and if he wants
to parade his shortcomings at
his own home that’s his privilege, but at yours his pants
should stay on at all times —
or you’ll tell his mother. Shame
on Shane.
*
*
*
DEAR ABBY: I have been
through a lot and have never
given up. Lately, however, I am
having second thoughts.
Everyone in my family is an
addict or a recovering one. I
left my ex-husband because of
his drinking. My son has been
in rehab and relapsed many
times. I have gone through
every last financial and emotional option with him.
At this point, I’m feeling like
all hope is gone. I’m writing to
you because I am trying to find
some thread of life to help me
understand why bad things
keep happening to me. How do
I squeeze out one last drop of
hope when my cup of faith is
empty? I want to find a purpose to all the pain. — STRUGGLING FOR ANSWERS, PARK
CITY, UTAH
DEAR STRUGGLING:
Volumes have been written by
authors and philosophers trying to explain why bad things
happen to good people. In
your case, it appears you were
born into a family with a
genetic predisposition to addiction. Because the behavior of
people with substance abuse
problems was familiar to you,
you married another one.
While I appreciate your
desire to help your son, for
your own mental health, please
accept that the battle to free
himself from addiction is his
and his alone. You can’t conquer it for him, much as you
might hope to.
If you haven’t already done
so, attend some meetings of
support groups for families and
friends of people who have
addictions. There you will find
others who are helping one
another through the same
issues you are encountering.
Such groups are listed in your
phone directory and on the
Internet. Believe me, you are
not alone in your search.
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.
xcellent influences will
be working on your
behalf in the year
ahead, trying to improve
your material position in
life. You must chip in and
help things along, however. The more you do, the
more your needs will be
met.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) — The funds that will
enable you to get something that you’ve wanted
for a long time but always
felt was too expensive are
apt to finally become available. With the extra cash in
your pocket, you can go for
it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
— Whether or not you
realize it, your influence
over your peer group is
stronger than you think.
Others will be easily
swayed by the example you
set, and they’ll want to
emulate your behavior.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — Keep a matter that is
of a sensitive, secretive
nature between yourself
and closely involved parties. For best results in
resolving the matter, you
need to maintain its exclusivity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) — When a close
friend tells you something
in confidence, he or she
might leave it to your discretion as to whether or
not another pal should be
let in on the secret. Choose
wisely.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — A material
desire could end up functioning as a powerful motivator for you. If you really
want something badly
enough, you will be capable of figuring out how to
acquire it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — It’s more important
for you to take a longrange view of things where
your self-interests are concerned, instead of worrying
about how to get what you
want right now. Give yourself time.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — You’re very blessed,
because someone who
loves you is aware of your
present wants, and will
knock themselves out trying to figure out ways to
acquire them for you.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — Help with a critical
yet perplexing decision is
on its way. Listen carefully
to the new alternatives
being presented — one of
them holds the key to your
dilemma.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — Perform to the very
best of your abilities without thinking about what’s
in it for you. If you do a
good job, the accolades will
manifest.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — You’ve heard it a
thousand times: relax and
just be yourself when dealing with others, be they
bigwigs or small fry.
Whatever charisma you
possess cannot be forced,
so play it cool, Jack.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — As soon as you get
everyone in accord regarding a family matter, put the
wheels in motion and
you’ll get good results. Sit
on things and you’ll waste
another toothsome opportunity.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
Don’t base an important
decision solely on its material aspects. It’ll be important to put credence in
other factors, such as principles and ethics, as well.
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By Brian Crane
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By Dave Graue and Jack Bender
By Art and Chip Sansom
By Jim Davis
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Frugal Living — Prepare for winter ahead of time
BY SARA NOEL
United Media
It’s time to think about winterproofing your home. Many supplies
are cheaper in the off months. You’ll
save more money if you implement
changes before the cold strikes
because many changes work well to
keep homes cool in warmer months,
too. A few examples include blocking
drafts, adding insulation, installing a
programmable thermostat, servicing
your furnace and buying wood if you
own a fireplace. Here are a few more
ideas to prepare for winter: www.frugalvillage.com/2010/10/27/preparefor-winter. The first reader tip suggests
another way to stay warm.
Stay warm this winter: Polar fleece
sheets will easily allow you to turn off
the heat in your house at night. And
you can find them at Costco,
Walmart and Cabela’s. I like the
Cabela’s ones as they are thicker, better quality polar fleece, but they are
more expensive. I’m one of those
people who is always cold; I tend to
wear socks to bed and now I don’t
have to.
They’re just really huge pieces of
polar fleece sewn into sheets. Anyone
could easily make their own with a
little elastic and a serger or sewing
machine. But I think you’d have to
order the special extra-wide (usually
60 inches) polar fleece online because
I’ve never seen it in a store. — Vail,
Washington
Cookbook rave: After this book,
I’m ready to donate, sell and toss
most of my other cookbooks! The
cookbook is called “More-With-Less”
by Doris Janzen Longacre, originally
printed in 1961. It is a fabulous basic
cookbook. I was going to buy it sight
unseen, but took it out from the
library instead and brought it with
me on a camping trip. The premise of
the book is to make good, nutritious
food without a ton of ingredients. So
really, it was perfect for the RV. I tried
several recipes while we were out
there, and not one failed me. My
picky eaters ate it all. Even the soups
were a hit, and my family isn’t a
homemade-soup family. I made basic
baking mix while out there too. I
made pancakes, muffins, banana
bread and a type of cobbler with it.
Nothing was left uneaten. So after
returning from camping, I decided to
order it.
Above all the recipes there are reader comments that give suggestions to
tweak the recipes. The recipes we’ve
tried have been a hit; they remind
me of my grandmothers and how
they prepared things. — Noelle,
Canada
Zits
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Arts & Entertainment
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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Bachmann memoir coming in November
HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK — Michele Bachmann
has a book deal.
Sentinel, a conservative imprint
of Penguin Group (USA),
announced Monday that the
Republican presidential candidate’s memoir will arrive in
November and already has been
completed. The book, reports of
which first circulated in June, is
currently untitled.
Sentinel declined comment
on whether Bachmann had
assistance on the book. Former
Wall Street Journal columnist
John Fund said reports that he
worked on it were wrong. He
said that he had no involvement with the book.
As a member of the House
of Representatives, Bachmann
is not permitted to receive an
advance against royalties.
According to Sentinel,
Bachmann will “share previously untold stories” about
her private life, “including
her roles as a tax attorney, a wife, a mother
of five and a foster
mother of 23.”
Virtually all of the
Republicans candidates have published
books, a standard for
modern presidential
campaigns.
“People are the
most important ingredient in life,”
Bachmann said in a
statement issued
Monday through
Sentinel. “I love people, and I care deeply
that our nation’s economy turns around so
they can realize their
American dream. This
book will help to share
my enthusiasm for an
energized, pro-growth
economy, and the life
experiences that inform
RICK WILSON/
AP
In this Aug. 26 file
photo, presidential
candidate U.S. Rep.
Michele Bachmann, RMinn., speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at Angie’s
Subs in Jacksonville
Beach, Fla.
my optimism for the American people
and for American greatness.”
Bachmann formally entered the race
to seek the GOP nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012
in June. By August, she was celebrating
a win in the closely watched Iowa
Republican straw poll, a test of
strength in the leadoff caucus state. But
Texas Gov. Rick
Perry’s decision to
join the field has
This book weakened
will help Bachmann’s standing
to share in the polls. She trails
my enthu- Perry and former
siasm for Massachusetts Gov.
an ener- Mitt Romney, with
gized, pro- Texas Rep. Ron Paul
growth also in the race.
Doug Sachtleben, a
economy, Bachmann
and the spokesman, said the
life experi- book rollout shouldn’t
ences that detract from her caminform my paign.
optimism
“Throughout Iowa,
New Hampshire,
for the
American South Carolina, and
Florida, the congresspeople
and for woman has kept a full
American schedule of meeting
talking with
greatness. and
thousands of people,
and she will continue
with that full campaign schedule all
Michele through the days up
to and beyond the
Bachrelease of her memmann oir,” Sachtleben said.
Bachmann’s climb
comes barely five years after her arrival
in Washington. The outspoken congresswoman tapped into anger about
taxes and government spending that
gave rise to the tea party and paired it
with a social conservative following
she honed in Minnesota.
She also has a history of controversial
remarks, most recently when she said
that Hurricane Irene and last week’s
earthquake near Washington were signs
that God was unhappy about government spending. Bachmann later
explained that she was joking.
“
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NewsMakers
BIEBER COLLISION
New ‘Dancing’ cast
LOS ANGELES — Justin
Bieber and his Ferrari are both
fine after a fender-bender in
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Officer
Gregory Baek says the 17-yearold singer was involved in “a
very minor collision” Tuesday
afternoon in LA’s Studio City.
The officer said no one was
injured or cited and no police
report was taken. There was no
visible damage to Bieber’s car
or the Honda Civic involved in
the crash.
TWITTER RECORD
ADAM TAYLOR, ABC/AP
The celebrity cast for the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars” poses for a portrait in Los Angeles. Back row
(from left): NBA player Ron Artest, actor David Arquette, actor and Iraq War veteran J.R. Martinez, TV personality Rob
Kardashian, activist Chaz Bono; seated (from left): TV personalities Ricki Lake, Kristin Cavallari, singer Chynna Phillips,
TV host Nancy Grace, soccer player Hope Solo and Italian personality Elisabetta Canalis. The series will premiere on
Sept. 19 on ABC.
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HASTINGS
314 N. Burlington Ave.
(next to Applause Video)
462-5220
NEW YORK — Beyonce’s
pregnant performance at the
MTV Video Music Awards
sparked a Twitter record.
When Beyonce performed at
9:35 p.m. Sunday night, there
were 8,868 tweets per second.
Twitter said that rate was a
record for the service.
At the VMAs, Beyonce revealed
a baby bump, cupping her growing belly for photographers as she
arrived and rubbing her tummy
when she performed. The 29year-old singer is married to Jay-Z.
First idea
fails, but
not 2nd
I
f you have second
thoughts about something, often the first
idea was right and the
second wrong — especially with quiz-show questions. At the
bridge table,
though, it is
nice to have
two possible
lines of play
to get home,
especially if
you are in a
grand slam.
Phillip
How should
Alder
South play in
seven hearts
after West leads the trump
nine and East follows suit?
North’s jump to three
hearts was game-forcing with
exactly three-card support. (A
two-heart rebid would have
been game-invitational.)
South, with a very strong
hand, used Blackwood and
jumped to seven hearts.
(South might first have dabbled his toe in the slam water
by continuing with three
spades over three hearts.
Here, North would have been
very happy to control-bid
four clubs to say that he had
the club ace and a slam-suitable hand.)
Declarer had 12 winners:
three spades, five hearts, three
diamonds and one club. His
first thought was to establish
dummy’s fifth club. That
needed hearts 3-2 and clubs
4-3. (Diamonds 3-3 was less
likely.) So, South won with
his heart ace and played a
trump to dummy’s 10. East’s
spade discard was a blow.
What did declarer do next?
South’s second plan worked
fine. He cashed dummy’s
three pointed-suit winners
and took his two spade tricks,
discarding dummy’s last diamond. Then he ruffed the
diamond six on the board,
cashed the club ace, ruffed a
club in his hand, drew West’s
remaining trumps, and
claimed.
North
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Phillip Alder is a columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise
Association.
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Security on rise nationwide for 9/11 anniversary
EILEEN SULLIVAN
WASHINGTON — The federal government is escalating
security around the country in
preparation for the 10th
anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and conducting confidential briefings with state
and local law enforcement
organizations. But officials say
there is no specific indication
that a terror plot against the
U.S. is under way.
Americans can expect more
security at airports, mass transit
stations, U.S. borders, government buildings and major athletic events over the next
month, said an intelligence
official who spoke anonymously to discuss sensitive security
matters.
The FBI and Homeland
Security Department have been
briefing state and local law
enforcement agencies on
potential terror threats to the
U.S. and ways to increase security in their communities. The
briefings are routine, and security has been enhanced for
other major events in the past
decade. But the significance of
the 10-year anniversary of the
worst terror attacks on U.S. soil
is not lost on security officials,
who fear that someone with
terrorist sympathies might see
9/11 as an opportunity to
make a statement.
“It’s been a long buildup as
we approach the anniversary of
9/11,” said Sean Duggan, assistant chief at the Scottsdale,
Ariz., Police Department.
Duggan said his department
gets daily updates from the FBI
and Homeland Security
Department. But over the past
two months, the focus has
been on the 10th anniversary
of the terror hijackings.
“We know this is a significant date,” Duggan said.
“Other than taking physical
precautions, we have not been
briefed on any specific threat
other than the obvious —
knowing what this date means
in our history.”
Events are planned around
the country to commemorate
the nearly 3,000 people killed
in the 2001 attacks.
“While there is currently no
specific or credible threat,
appropriate and prudent security measures are ready to detect
and prevent plots against the
United States should they
emerge,” Homeland Security
Department spokesman Matt
Chandler said.
President Barack Obama said
earlier this month that the
threat of a plot by a lone terrorist is particularly troublesome.
“The risk that we’re especially concerned over right now is
the lone-wolf terrorist, somebody with a single weapon
being able to carry out widescale massacres of the sort that
we saw in Norway recently,”
Obama said.
In July, 69 people at a youth
camp in Norway were shot to
death. Authorities said a white
supremacist carried out the
attack with the purpose of saving Norway and the rest of
Europe from Muslims and multiculturalism.
“You know, when you’ve got
one person who is deranged or
driven by a hateful ideology,
they can do a lot of damage,
and it’s a lot harder to trace
those lone-wolf operators,”
Obama said.
Some of the first information
gleaned from Osama bin
Laden’s compound after he was
killed in May indicated that, as
recently as February 2010, alQaida considered plans to attack
the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. But
counterterrorism officials said
they believe the planning never
got beyond the initial phase
and had no recent intelligence
pointing to an active plot.
Public Notices
School Board Proceedings
Hastings Public Schools
August 15, 2011
Action was taken to:
-approve minutes of the previous meetings.
-approve first reading of Policy and Rule 406.08,
Policy 403.06 and Rule 607.05.
-approve Feedback and Empowerment Handbook.
-approve out-of-state band trip.
-approve contracts with Hastings Public Schools
Foundation, YMCA and Medicaid Consortium.
-approve creation of Middle School Assistant
Principal position and elimination of Dean of Students position.
-under Consent Agenda, approve administrative
staff appointment; certificated staff releases, appointments and transfers; extra-standard releases; appointments, and changes; classified staff
releases, appointments and changes.
Payroll - $2,275,169.03, Vendors - $770,467.27
Total Warrants - $3,0456,636.30
GENERAL FUND
A.R.M. Properties, LLC
$
325.00
AAHPERD Convention Registration
275.00
Ablenet, Inc.
199.00
Ace Educational Supplies
267.49
Acme Printing
118.00
Adelson, Beth
340.45
Allenʼs
58.85
Amazon.com Credit Department 30
2,100.05
American Fence Company
7,520.00
American Speech-Language Hearing
Association
230.00
Amsan Nogg Chemical
175.67
Anderson, Ladd
5,110.71
Apple Computer
10,682.50
AQS Environmental, Inc.
7,453.75
AS Central Services OCIO Interagency
231.58
Association for Supervision & Curriculum
Development
89.00
Autism Asperger Publishing Company
30.95
Auto Glass Experts
140.00
Bailey, Robin
151.66
Banks School Supply
152.00
Baudville, Inc.
69.20
Behrends, Denise
134.44
Bernieʼs Center
363.50
Bertʼs Pharmacy
698.03
Beyond Play
59.80
Big G Commercial Hardware Division
25.75
Big G Commercial Hardware Division
1,065.61
Blaine Ray Workshops
865.00
Bockstadter, Jacie
24.82
Borley Moving & Storage
160.00
Brainpop
895.00
Brown, Andrea
888.66
Bumgardner, Diane
264.14
Business World Products
60.91
Careyʼs Pest Control
642.00
Caseyʼs General Stores, Inc.
25.57
Cash-Wa Distributing
35,175.61
Central Community College
99.00
Central Valley Rentals
60.00
64.00
198.00
Certified Laboratories
1,034.35
Chick, Pat
55.00
Childcraft Education Corporation
153.96
City of Hastings
690.00
Classroom Direct
136.68
Computer Hardware
4,383.00
Computer Hardware Clock Tower Plaza
877.00
Conditioned Air Mechanical
6,760.34
Conditioned Air Mechanical
13,550.21
Consbruck, Annie
57.89
Consolidated Concrete
1,028.81
Consumers Service Company
46.20
Copycat Printing
473.96
Cornhusker Press
654.12
Creative Teacher
955.02
Ceative Teaching Press
43.21
Credit Bureau of Hastings
45.00
Creech, Kimberly
29.33
Culligan Water Conditioner
75.10
Culligan Water Conditioner
80.50
Cummins Central Power, LLC
203.48
Discount Two-Way Radio
1,791.00
Don Johnston, Inc.
5,470.80
Dultmeier Sales
177.66
Dumas, Chad
39.99
Dutton-Lainson
545.49
Dutton-Lainson
797.85
Dutton-Lainson
3,207.25
Eakes Office Plus
405.84
Earl May Garden Center
12.00
Early Childhood Training Center
240.00
Echo Electric Supply
476.30
Echo Electric Supply
1,350.62
ECL Publications
153.70
Educational Service Unit No. 9
903.00
Educational Innovations
442.70
Edwards, Kayla
210.25
Egan Supply Company
15,511.88
Eileenʼs Colossal Cookies
31.50
Endicott Clay Products Company
2,553.00
Engberg, Scott
544.13
Engel, Katie
41.98
Essink Brothers Drywall, Inc.
4,450.00
Etc. Publications
155.00
Express Truck Center
1,422.80
FleetPride
1,112.70
Flohrs, Roger
7.50
Follett Library Services
892.81
Friend, Ellie
1,580.25
Friend, Ellie
1,580.25
Gallopade Publishing Group
73.92
Garlock Glass Service
79.14
Gatto, Mattie
31.33
General ASP
1,800.00
German, Shelly
170.00
Gopher Sports
1,320.08
Graceʼs Locksmith Service
278.85
Graham Tire
756.25
Grand Island Physical Therapy
2,893.90
Greater Nebraska Superintendents
250.00
Griffin, Joan
319.86
Hamilton, Katherine
42.84
Hampton Brown
5,187.02
Hastings Education Association
607.00
Hastings Middle School
104.10
Hastings Tribune
813.71
Hastings Utilities
32,835.94
Hawes, Nancy
172.87
Hearing & Communication Technology
41.85
Herman, Art
28.60
Highland Products
1,318.21
Highsmith Company, Inc.
245.30
Hillyard
319.15
Hinrichs, Jolene
130.30
Hinrichs, Jolene
171.04
Hometown Leasing
13,757.67
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2,314.24
Howardʼs Glass
8,280.00
Hucke, Brad
120.00
IBM Corporation
366.25
Ideal Electric Company
9,325.00
Ingram
182.78
Innovative Laboratory Systems, Inc.
239.00
Jacksonʼs Car Corner
9,999.00
Jacobiʼs
77.93
Jacobiʼs
3,614.37
Jacobiʼs
60,506.87
Johnson Cash-Way Lumber
8.99
Kmart
93.98
Kid Sounds, LLC
19,522.15
Kimle, Michelle
10.98
Kinley, Jill
74.46
Kleier, Pat
106.70
Kramer, Sandra
1,580.25
Kramer, Sandra
1,580.25
Kully Pipe & Steel Company
44.47
77.10
187.79
Lakeshore Curriculum Materials
255.30
Learning Forward
22.50
Lightspeed Technologies
3,400.14
Lindblad, Susan
35.94
Lingui Systems
405.40
Long, Cindy
39.65
M&S Builders
600.00
MacGill & Company
108.94
MacMillan McGraw-Hill
1,468.40
Mar Company Products, Inc.
13.75
Mary Lanning HealthCare
1,776.00
Masterʼs Transportation, Inc.
1,185.25
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc.
8.06
Matkins, Kendra
105.57
Mayer Johnson
214.97
Menards
10.94
Menards
61.02
Menards
70.72
Messerer, Jenny
204.00
Meyer, Patty
28.78
Michael Todd & Company
147.03
Mid-Nebraska Lubricants
6,724.57
Mid-States Automation & Control, Inc.
1,526.20
Midwest Turf & Irrigation
77.25
Moscati Health Center
100.00
Moss, Donna
226.70
Nanfito, Miranda
25.00
NAPA Auto Parts
3,030.22
NASB Alicap
335,242.00
National School Products
37.48
Nebraska Speech-Language-Hearing
85.00
Nebraska Council of School Administrators 9,869.00
Nebraska Central Equipment
2,308.70
Nebraska Iowa Industrial Fastener
951.05
NETA Membership
25.00
OʼKeefe Elevator Company
576.49
One Source the Background Check Company 425.00
OʼNeill, Colleen
51.39
Oregon Trail Equipment, LLC
9.00
Pauley, W.G. Lumber Company
2.69
121.58
788.64
Payroll Maxx
150.00
Phi Delta Kappa
90.00
Physical Therapy & Sport Rehab
150.00
Playtime Equipment & School Supply
23.49
Prairie Books & Gifts
275.15
Preferred Mail Service
4,000.00
Pro-Ed
1,117.60
Psychological Corporation
8,269.70
Really Good Stuff
1,037.31
Riese, Kathy
71.33
Roberts Dairy Company
863.31
Rochester 100, Inc.
262.50
Russʼs Market
7.16
Russʼs Market
247.08
Safety-Kleen
276.78
Samʼs Club Direct
95.80
Scholastic News Department
243.39
School Mate
4,370.00
School Specialty
669.07
Schultz, Amber
13.96
Schwenk, Morrie
30.00
Sherwin-Williams Company
77.42
Sherwin-Williams Company
1,567.79
Showcase Hastings Dutton-Lainson
3,654.48
Smittyʼs Electric Company
500.00
South Central Bobcat, Inc.
100.00
Speech Bin
212.45
Super Duper Company
826.89
Success by Design
651.84
Tamco Capital Corporation
1,583.00
Tamco Capital-IL
2,443.00
Teacher Direct
56.07
Teachers Discovery
99.20
Three Point Tire
51.00
Total Recognition
208.00
Treasure Bay
409.18
Uline
80.57
U.S. Bank
6,692.12
Valentinoʼs
159.82
Van Diest Supply Company
115.00
Verizon Wireless
876.06
Virco Manufacturing Company
4,839.50
Weekly Reader
330.40
Western Psy Services
556.05
Windstream
1,558.61
Woodwardʼs Disposal Service
2,392.50
ACTIVITY FUND
CGSMusic
793.75
Fruhauf Uniform Company
645.71
GTM Sportswear
810.00
Hastings Senior High School Activity Fund
1,934.00
Kmart
21.39
Kranjc, Chris
590.00
Liberty Cleaners
45.76
Neff Company
766.75
NSAA
1,390.00
Pizza Hut - Columbus
204.75
Shelburne Advertizing, Inc.
769.75
U.S. Bank
582.79
Vaughanʼs Printers, Inc.
249.12
Jeff Schneider, Secretary of the Board
Hastings Public Schools
August 31, 2011
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Notice
In the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska.
Estate of ROGENE A.
RAINFORTH, Deceased.
Estate No. PR11-110.
Notice is hereby given
that on August 25, 2011, in
the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska,
the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal
Probate of the Will of said
Decedent and that Charles
Rainforth, whose address
is 1903 West 5th Street,
Hastings,
Nebraska
68901, was informally appointed by the Registrar as
Personal Representative
of this estate.
Creditors of this estate
must file their claims with
this Court on or before November 1, 2011, or be forever barred.
Tom Hawes
County Court Clerk
Magistrate
Julie Gawrych, #22757
Seiler & Parker, P.C.
P.O. Box 1288
Hastings, Nebraska
68902-1288
Attorney for Applicant
August 31, September 7,
14, 2011
Notice
In the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska.
Estate of MARLIN C.
SUCK, Deceased. Estate
No. PR11-101.
Notice is hereby given
that on August 11, 2011, in
the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska,
the Registrar issued a written statement of Informal
Probate of the Will of said
Decedent and that Beverly
J. Johnson, whose address is 4310 West 12th
Street, Hastings, Nebraska
68901, was informally appointed by the Registrar as
Personal Representative
of this estate.
Creditors of this estate
must file their claims with
this Court on or before October 18, 2011, or be forever barred.
Tom Hawes
County Court Clerk
Magistrate
Les Seiler, #13759
Seiler & Parker, P.C.
P.O. Box 1288
Hastings, Nebraska
68902-1288
Attorney for Applicant
August 17, 24, 31, 2011
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION
OF
ALL STAR ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS, L.L.C.
A Nebraska Limited Liability Company
Notice is hereby given that All Star Entertainment
Productions, L.L.C., a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of
Nebraska, with its registered office at 1225 North Adams
Central Avenue, Juniata, Nebraska 68955. The registered agent at such address is Robert R. Osman.
The general nature of the business to be transacted
by the limited liability company is to engage in and do
any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business for
which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, other than the
business of being a financial institution.
The affairs of the limited liability company shall be
conducted by its Members until such time as their successor or successors are selected pursuant to the Operating Agreement. The private property of the Members
shall not be subject to the payment of limited liability
company debts to any extent whatsoever.
This limited liability company came into existence on
the 15th day of August, 2011, and has perpetual existence.
DATED this 17th day of August, 2011.
ROBERT R. OSMAN, Member
TRENT J. EYE, Member
BRAD MONCRIEF, L.L.C.
1239 North Burlington Avenue, Suite 200
Hastings, Nebraska 68901
(402) 462-5353
August 24, 31, September 7, 2011
Notice Budget Hearing
The Governing Board of
Blaine Township would
like to announce a Township meeting to be held
Thursday, September 8,
2011, at 7:00 p.m. at
School District 15.
August 31, 2011
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has organized a corporation under the laws of the State of Nebraska. The name of the corporation is Bart Hultine Altruism Fund. The registered office of the corporation is
101 South Hastings Avenue, Hastings, Nebraska 68901.
The specific purposes of the organization are to assist
individuals with limited financial and/or socio-economic
resources in advancing themselves vocationally, personally and/or spiritually and to support other non-profit,
governmental agencies and/or divisions of local/state or
federal public service entities in assisting individuals with
limited financial and/or financial and/or socio-economic
resources in advancing themselves vocationally, personally and/or spiritually, resources, to receive, invest and
disseminate funds from the organization for the purposes identified, to transact any and all lawful business, incidental to and in order to carry out the above purposes,
for which nonprofit corporations may be incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska, but only to the extent that such business may be conducted by organizations exempt from federal income tax under Section 501
(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding provisions of any future United States Internal Revenue Law.
Said corporation commenced on July 28, 2011, and
shall have perpetual existence.
The affairs of the corporation shall be managed and
controlled by a Board of Directors, the number of directors to be provided in the By-Laws, and the officers shall
be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, Secretary
and Treasurer and such other officers as shall be designated in the By-Laws.
INCORPORATORS:
Marc Hultine
Michelle Hultine
David Stein
101 South Hastings Avenue
Hastings, Nebraska 68901
(402) 463-6987
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MIDLAND AREA AGENCY ON AGING
Governing Board Meeting
August 4, 2011
The regular monthly meeting of the Midland Area
Agency on Aging Governing Board was called to order
at 9:34 a.m. Members present were: Dan Purdy, Roger
Wiegert, Eldon Orthmann, Dan Corman, Jerome Konen,
Mike Anderson, Pam Lancaster, Clarence Trumble and
Ron York. No public participation. York moved to approve the Minutes of the May 5, 2011 meeting, seconded by Konen. Motion carried. A motion to approve April
2011 Financial Reports was made by Wiegert, seconded
by Purdy. Motion carried. Nutrition and Program reports
were approved on a motion by Konen, seconded by Corman. Motion carried. A motion to approve the CHOICES
report was made by Trumble, seconded by Orthmann.
Motion carried. The Directorʼs was approved on a motion
by Orthmann, seconded by Trumble. A motion to close
the safety deposit box was made by Trumble, seconded
by Konen. Motion carried. A motion to approve the Ombudsman report was made by York, seconded by Konen. Motion carried. A motion was made by Konen, to
approve contract renewals, seconded by Orthmann. Motion carried. A motion to approve the Four Year Plan
was made by Orthmann, seconded by Purdy. Motion
carried. A motion to approve General Policy #63 was
made by Trumble, seconded by Orthmann. Motion carried. A motion to approve the disposal of equipment was
made by Anderson, seconded by York. Motion carried.
Meeting adjourned by common consent at 10:46 a.m.
August 31, 2011
NOTICE OF TRUSTEEʼS SALE
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
You are hereby notified that pursuant to a power of
sale contained in the deed of trust in the original principal amount of $64,000.00 executed by Seth A. Littrel,
Trustor, which was filed for record on October 2, 2006,
as Instrument No. 20064425 in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Adams County, Nebraska, the property described below will be sold by the undersigned at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash or certified or
cashierʼs check, in the main lobby of the Adams County
Courthouse, 500 West 4th Street, in the City of Hastings,
Adams County, Nebraska, at 10:00 a.m. on September
20, 2011:
LOT TWENTY-TWO (22), IN BLOCK THREE
(3), THOMPSONʼS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF
HASTINGS, ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA,
ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT
THEREOF.
The highest bidder is required to deliver cash or certified
funds to the undersigned by the close of business on the
day of sale, except this requirement is waived when the
highest bidder is the beneficiary. The purchaser is responsible for all fees or taxes, including the documentary stamp tax. This sale is made without any warranties
as to title or condition of the property.
Eric H. Lindquist
Successor Trustee
Eric H. Lindquist, P.C., L.L.O.
Attorney at Law
8712 West Dodge Road, Suite 260
Omaha, Nebraska 68114
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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Obama looking to spur private-sector hiring
JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON — Limited in his
ability to create jobs through direct
spending, President Barack Obama is
considering measures to encourage the
private sector to free up its cash reserves
and hire more workers to ease the
nation’s unemployment crush.
As Obama prepares to unveil a new
jobs agenda next week, his aides are
reviewing options that would provide
tax incentives to employers who expand
their payrolls. That approach is a more
indirect effort to spur the economy and
relies less on government intervention
and massive public works projects.
Among the proposals circulating in
the White House is a $33 billion tax
credit that Obama first proposed early
last year but that Congress whittled
into a smaller one-year package.
Under one version of the plan,
employers would receive a tax credit of
up to $5,000, subtracted from their
share of federal payroll taxes, for every
net new hire. White House officials
caution that the overall jobs plan is still
subject to change.
The tax credit, however, is a relatively
untested idea. Congress passed a version in March 2010, known as the HIRE
Act, which provided $13 billion in tax
credits to qualified employers who
hired new workers. But there is no government data to track its success.
“The HIRE Act was very small,” said
Mark Zandi, chief economist at
Moody’s Analytics and an occasional
adviser to Democrats and Republicans.
“It really didn’t add to payrolls.”
“It would have to be bigger,” he
added. “Something more along the
lines that the Obama administration
proposed in 2010.”
While promising a major jobs package, Obama is hamstrung by budget
cuts and a tight debt ceiling that he
had a hand in negotiating.
As a result, economists predict that
while the president’s initiatives could
eliminate some drag on the economy
and maintain the status quo, they won’t
be enough to propel it to new heights.
Still, Obama today predicted his plan
could push the economy to grow 1 percent to 1.5 percent faster.
“That could mean half a million to a
million additional jobs,” he said
Tuesday in an interview with radio talk
show host Tom Joyner.
Obama’s jobs package is designed to
supplement other proposals already in
the pipeline, including free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and
Panama and the renewal of a highway
construction bill.
Today, Obama will call on Congress to
pass federal highway legislation before
the current law expires Sept. 30. Seeking
to blunt congressional partisanship,
Obama will be joined by the leaders of
two occasionally warring factions —
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and
David Chavern, chief operating officer of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Markets
Wednesday’s noon
local markets
Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.53
Soybeans . . . . . . . . . .13.90
Milo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.09
Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.17
Stocks of local interest
The following stocks of local interest were
traded today:
Last
Chg.
109,889 +1,174
Berkshire Hathaway A
73.20
+.94
Berkshire Hathaway B
24.51
-.04
ConAgra
43.32
+.57
Eaton Corp.
33.50
+.58
Ingersoll Rand
1.81
-.03
Level 3
90.54
-.24
McDonald’s
64.49
+.49
PepsiCo
+.43
Tricon Global Restaurants 54.45
92.69
-.06
Union Pacific
25.97
+.57
Wells Fargo
Williams Cos.
27.11
+.21
Wal-Mart
53.24
+.42
TRIBUNE
CLASSIFIEDS WORK!
Bank selling half its stake in Chinese firm
NEW YORK — Bank of
America Corp. is selling half of
its stake in China Construction
Bank Corp., aiming to shore up
its capital base.
The nation’s largest bank by
assets is selling roughly 13.1 billion shares in the Chinese bank
for $8.3 billion to a group of
investors it did not name. The
sale should generate an after-tax
gain of $3.3 billion, and should
close by the end of September.
Bank of America still will
own about 5 percent of
China Construction Bank
after the sale.
Open 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Saturday
Classified Ads
402-462-2131
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Card of Thanks
I want to thank everyone
for the cards, telephone
calls, and prayers while I
was recuperating from elbow surgery in Huston,
Texas.
Annette Yetman
I would like to send a special thank you to my family
and friends for their prayers, cards, phone calls,
messages and visits while
I was ill. Your caring
thoughtfulness was very
much appreciated.
I would also like to express
sincere thanks to Dr. Miller
and to all the staff at Mary
Lanning Memorial Hospital, the Rural Metro Ambulance crew, and the doctors and staff at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical
Center, for the excellent
medical care!
God bless you all!
Kathy Wagoner-Wiese
Kenesaw, NE
Many thanks to all who attended our open house or
sent cards for our 60th Anniversary.
Special thanks to our children, Cindy and Chip, for
their work and skills in organizing it. All was fun and
so much appreciated.
Bob & Lu Findley
Thank you to all my friends
and family for the cards
and gifts and making my
80th birthday so wonderful.
Beverly Ehly
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Announcements
PENDING
SCHOOL
Board approval, Hastings
Public Schools is looking
to adopt the following textbook for implementation
for the 2011-2012 school
year:
* ”Psychology in Everyday
Life” by Worth Publishers
(grades 10, 11, 12)
Board of Education policies dictate that samples
of pending textbook adoptions be placed on display
so that interested patrons
may inspect the materials
recommended for purchase.
Copies of the materials being considered will be on
display August 26, 2011 at
the Administration Office
located at 1924 West A
Street, in the reception
area. The display will remain open during regular
office hours (7:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.) until Monday,
September 19, 2011.
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Happy Ads
The children of
BARB HAVEL
request a card shower to
help celebrate her
60th Birthday
September 1st
Cards may be sent to:
5321 Van Dorn
Lincoln, NE 68506
The family of
ELOISE McDONALD
would like to honor her
with a card shower for her
90th birthday,
September 1.
Please send
best wishes to:
P.O. Box 546
Harvard, NE 68944
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Automobiles
Automobiles
1997 BUICK Park Avenue: 1 owner, 115,000
miles. Very nice. Must see
to appreciate. $3,500. 402756-7194.
Make a Wise
Decision:
READ THE
NEWSPAPER
EVERY DAY
Whoʼs at the head of the
class? Students who read
the newspaper! The newspaper is a great way to
learn about whatʼs happening around the world
and what it means to you.
Reading the newspaper
daily can be as engaging
as a television show and
as informative as a history
book. Call 402-462-2131
to subscribe.
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Automobiles
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Boats &
Equipment
Deveny Motors
1013 S. Burlington
402-462-2719
2005 MONTANA SV6:
68,000 miles, leather, dual
air/heat, DVD, XM Radio,
quad seating, 7-passenger, power sliding doors.
$12,500/best offer. 402463-6118.
2009 COBALT: 2-door,
2,000 miles, 36 mpg.
$9,200. cobaltconnection.net
Special of the Week
ʻ08 Impala LS: 3500 V6,
Brown, 50,xxx miles. Nice!
$14,675.......Cash $12,975
Need New Tires?? Call
Joel for Best Prices!!
Call Bob, ASE Certified,
for your Mechanical Needs
220 West South Street
402-461-3161
33,000 miles, 36 mpg.
$8,900 cobaltconnection.net
WE PAY cash for junk vehicles. Free pick up. 402460-0000.
1,000 miles, 36 mpg.
$10,800 cobaltconnection.net
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Brambleʼs Auto Sales
Check our new website
bramblesauto.com
2-wheel Drive
Pickups
FOR SALE: 2 1988 Ford
F-150s. Good condition.
$1,000/$1,300. Must see
to appreciate. 463-0566
1989 BAYLINER Capri:
$3,825 or best offer. Call
Brad, 402-460-0659. See
it at Dykemanʼs Camper.
38 Motorcycles &
ATVs
HONDA 50 Express Runs
good $300. Moped, new
50 miles. $650. 463-4167
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See our truck selection at
jacksonscarcorner.com
Great Plains Chrysler Dodge
402-463-3104•N. Hwy 281
www.greatplainsdodge.com
Hajnyʼs
AUTO SALES
2005 CHEVY Cavalier: 2door, LS, 4-cylinder, automatic, full power. $3,950.
402-463-2636
Hoskins
Auto Sales
We Buy, Sell and Consign
Highway 6/Hastings Ave.
Hastings, 402-463-1466
For complete listing go to
www.hoskinsautosales.com
NORTHSIDE AUTO
We Buy Vehicles
16th/St. Joe 402-463-8008
northsideautoinc.net
PAUL SPADY
MOTORS
www.spadyautos.com
See our selection of
FUEL ECONOMY cars at
jacksonscarcorner.com
4-wheel Drive
Pickups
2006 SILVERADO: Extended cab, Z71, 64,000
miles.
THE CAR LOT
East Highway 6
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Sport Utility
1996 CHEVY Tahoe: 4x4.
$3,200. 402-984-3396.
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Trucks
NEED EXTRA money?
Bring in that old honey, we
buy cars running or not.
McMurray Motors, 402462-6879.
36 Travel Trailers &
Motor Homes
YEAR END SALE
Ends August 31
1994 DUTCHMAN 20ʼ 5th
Wheel. Get this one ready
for hunting. $3,995
1991 COLLINS 27ʼ 5th
Wheel. $2,995
1999 EXCEL E28RGO 5th
Wheel. Luxury at an affordable price. $16,995
See our Excel display at
the Nebraska State Fair.
HASTINGS MOTOR SALES
DYKEMAN’S CAMPER PLACE
Burlington and Highway 6
Call 402-463-1338
www.dykemanscamper.com
Business
Opportunities
AVON IMMEDIATE openings. Unlimited earnings.
Flexible hours. 463-3417
GREAT BUSINESS Opportunity. Old Rayʼs Pizza,
202 W. 2nd location, now
for rent. 1,290 sq. ft. Call
Diane, 402-469-4777.
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We accept cash, check or money order VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER or
AMERICAN EXPRESS.
Fax: 402-462-2156
2003 FORD F-350: 4x4,
diesel utility truck....$6,000
2003 GMC: 1/2 ton, quad
cab, 4x4..................$4,600
Garage Sales
Northeast
1011 N. ST. JOSEPH: Friday only, 3-7. Furniture
sale. Entertainment center,
recliner, dressers, kitchen
table, etc.
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We reserve the right to reject, edit or reclassify any advertisement accepted by us for publication.
Professional
THE BRIDGE, Inc. is
seeking applicants for a
part-time clinical therapist.
Experienced LMHP and
LADC licensure is preferred. Salary contingent
upon experience and licensure. Please send resume to P.O. Box 2031,
Hastings, NE 68902.
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Health Care
BLUE HILL Care Center
is looking for:
Full-time Day Shift CNAs.
Please contact
Sheila Huskey,
Administrator.
Fax resume to
402-756-2104 or email to
shuskey@5sqc.com
Full Time: RN or LPN –
2:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Full Time: CNA –
2:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Part Time: CNA-all shifts
Weekends only:
RN/LPN/CNA-all shifts
These positions offer a
competitive wage
and exceptional
benefit package.
HIRING BONUS FOR
RN or LPN
Applications are available
on line at www.good-sam.com
E/O/E
Drug Free Workplace
GRANDVIEW
MANOR
has an open position for a
full-time and part-time RN
and has an open position
for CMA/CNA. Come and
apply at Grandview Manor,
148 Broad Street, Campbell, NE 68932, or call
402-756-8701.
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MED-AIDE for every other
weekend and on call.
Gary, 402-902-9694
ROSE BROOK Care Center in Edgar, NE, is accepting applications for RN,
LPN, and CNA for night
shifts to work within our
fun and friendly environment. Call George Geier at
402-224-5015 or email resume to cgeier@desere
thealth.com
WANTED: FUN, HAPPY
PEOPLE
Med Aide part time every
other weekend. Inquire
within at The Kensington,
233 N. Hastings Ave. No
calls please.
We are currently accepting
applications for:
RN or LPN Charge Nurse
Competitive wages and
benefits; 8-hour shifts;
supportive work environment; sign-on bonus; fulltime hours on evening
shift available. Applications are on line at
www.good-sam.com
If
you need additional information, please call Jackie
at 308-583-2214.
E/O/E
Drug Free Workplace
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Health Care
BETHANY HOME
Minden, NE
We are currently seeking
motivated individuals to
join us in providing exceptional resident care. We
have the following positions available:
Nursing Health Care
Full-time 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
MA/NA
Dietary
Full-time 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Evening Cook
We offer a great pay scale,
and a great work
atmosphere.
Please inquire at:
Bethany Home
515 W First
Minden, NE
Or contact
Nursing: Rhonda or Cassie
Dietary: Diana
Phone #308-832-1594
EOE
NURSES: CRAIG HOMECARE is looking for compassionate nurses to provide private duty nursing
care in the Hastings area.
We have a variety of positions available to fit all
needs. Please apply online
www.craighomecare.com
or call 877-382-1884
for more information.
PHYSICAL THERAPIST
Assistant. Full-time Rehab
Coordinator position at recently remodeled Grand
Island SNF. Excellent
rates, rich benefits, annual
bonuses up to $6,000.
PRN hours available too!
Call Diana at SYNERTX
1-888-796-3789.
www.synertx.com
Looking For A
“New” Place To
Live?
There are some prime
rental possibilities in our
rental classifications 100113. Want to place your
rental ad there? Call our
Classified Department at
402-462-2131.
Health Care
Technical &
Trade
FULL-TIME WELDERS
and Assemblers: Minden
Machine is a fast growing
equipment manufacturer.
Drug testing required. Apply at 1302 K Road, Minden, NE.
TWO HAIR sylists needed.
Booth rental. 402-9847872
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Ag Related
PART-TIME or full-time
farm help: Campbell area.
402-469-4078.
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Trucking
AUTO TRANSPORTER
looking for OTR driver,
hauling cars to auction and
dealers. Service area is
mid-west region. Home
weekends. Class A CDL
required and good driving
record. If interested or for
more details, please call
Tri-City Auto Transport
402-462-9802
BERNARD
PAVELKA
Trucking has an opening
for an OTR driver. Must
have verifiable experience
over the road, good work
history and be able to pass
employment background
check. We offer stable
miles with home time,
competitve pay plan, plus
bonus, health plan, retirement plan, vacation and
holiday pay. Call Dwight at
402-462-4650 or 800-2744120 for more information.
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General
CHS Agri Service Center
Seasonal
Elevator Laborers
Blue Hill and Bladen
locations
Duties include: Unloading
grain, loading trucks, shuttle train load out, and general work around the facility. Qualifications: High
school diploma or GED,
valid driverʼs license, pass
company drug test.
Save up to 30%!
Seasonal/Part-time
Scale Operator
Roseland and Loomis
Locations
Duties include: Weighing
trucks, sample and grade
grain, data entry, writing
checks, writing contracts,
general
office
duties,
greeting customers with a
positive attitude. Qualifications: Understanding of
markets, ability to work extended hours, high school
diploma or GED, valid driverʼs license, pass company drug test.
Please contact Cegie Ludeke for more information,
308-995-8626, or go online to CHSAgri.com to
print an application. Send
applications Attn: Cegie
Ludeke, 310 Logan St.,
Holdrege, NE 68949
BY PREPAYING YOUR
CLASSIFIED ADS.
402-462-2131
CALL 402-462-2131 to list
your ad in classified.
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Ag Related
FARM HELP needed.
Looking for someone with
experience with horses to
feed, do general upkeep
and chores. Call Brian at
402-469-5673.
TRUCK DRIVERS needed for local silage harvest
starting mid to late August.
No CDL required. Need
experience with diesel 10speed. R Lazy K, Glenvil,
NE. Call between 7 a.m.
and 6 p.m. 402-771-2394.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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$2,400 PER MONTH
Guaranteed
Safety Analyst Trainee
No Experience
Necessary
Call 402-834-0511
Monday-Friday,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. ONLY
for Interview Appointment
DAYCARE HELP: 3 employees for toddlers. 223 E
14th, Ste.10. 462-5102.
FULL-TIME 1st shift help
needed at Ampride South.
Benefits available, experience helpful, but not required. Apply in person at
Ampride South, 1410 West
J St., Hastings. No phone
calls please.
GOTTSCH CATTLE Co. is
looking for motivated, dependable and disciplined
team players to work with
our company near Red
Cloud. Currently hiring fulltime loader operators to
maneuver and maintain
our modern equipment.
For more details call Scott,
402-984-6223 or 402-7462222.
GUITAR TEACHERS. Music studio for rent. Reasonable rates. Set your own
hours. Available September 1. Call for details, 402834-0651
HASTINGS POST OFFICE accepting applications for RCA (rural carrier
associate). $19.45/hour.
Closing date: 9/7/11. Apply
on line at www.usps.com/employment
Head Start Child and
Family Development
Program, Inc.
Parent Liaison
Part-time Parent Liaison
needed for the Hastings
area. This person is responsible for translating
documents for several programs, translating for families at appointments and
completing home visits.
This individual must have
some knowledge of the resources available in our
area. Part-time position,
year round, $13.14/hour,
paid time off, 401K, and
training opportunities are
available. This person
must be fluently bi-lingual in English and
Spanish.
For more information, a
job description, or an application please call 402462-4187 ext 107 or 1800-782-7850 or stop by
123 Marian Rd. Hastings
or www.hshn.org to pick
up an application.
Applications will only be
accepted until 9-9-11.
EOE
METAL-TECH Partners is
currently looking for fulltime employees for our
Powder Coat Paint line
and general labor. Powder
Coat Paint/hanging experience preferred, but will
train the right people.
These positions are located in Geneva, NE. Benefits include a Monday-Friday workweek with available overtime, competitive
pay, Health and Dental Insurance, paid holidays,
paid vacation and more.
Submit applications in
Bruning at 525 Piggott
Street; in Geneva at 2103
R Street; or online at
www.mtpartners.com
ROUTE SALES
Route Delivery Sales position now available.
Successful Candidate:
•Must have a good driving
record
•Stable work history
•Ability to obtain a Commercial Driverʼs License
(CDL)
We will train and assist
you in obtaining your
CDL and the selling of
soft drinks while on the
job
•Must have attention to
detail and the ability to
lift repeatedly moderate
to heavy materials.
Compensation will include
base pay and commission
and monthly incentives.
Benefit package includes
vacation pay, holiday pay,
health insurance, profit
sharing and 401K. Apply in
person. No telephone calls
please.
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of
Hastings, Inc.
3800 Osborne Drive East
Hastings, NE 68901
WARDCRAFT HOMES is
looking for an Electrician
Helper. Full-time position
with competitive wages, insurance, holiday pay, vacation and retirement program available. Apply in
person
at
Wardcraft
Homes in Minden, NE.
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
General
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Child Care
LICENSED
DAYCARE
openings 6 weeks-5 years.
402-463-8127 or 984-8685
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
is looking for drivers to deliver the Hastings Tribune
on rural routes. Call Circulation. 402-461-1221 or 1800-742-6397.
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Part Time
ACTION CAB: Drivers
needed. 25 or older. 402831-8294
Floor Care Technician
Part Time –
8:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Responsibilities include
but not limited to: stripping
and waxing of floors, carpet care, window washing,
operating sweepers,
scrubbers, buffers,
extractors, etc. Previous
work experience with floor
machines desired.
Applications are on line at
www.good-sam.com
If you need additional
information, call Roger at
402-460-3258.
E/O/E
Drug Free Workplace
GOOD SAMARITAN Society-Hastings Village is currently accepting applications for:
Maintenance Assistant
Part time, 20 hours/week
Performs
preventative
maintenance on facility
and equipment. Maintains
lawn and exterior plantings, outside furniture,
lighting, flags and signs.
Keeps sidewalks and parking lots well marked, free
of debris, snow and ice.
One to two years previous
work experience in maintenance preferred. Applications are available on line
at www.good-sam.com. If
you need additional information, please call Tony at
402-463-3181.
E/O/E
Drug Free Workplace
HASTINGS
LITERACY
Program
AmeriCorps
members
needed.
Day/evening available. 1215 hours/week assisting
ESL/GED students. 402463-7323 for application.
The Childrenʼs Ark Day
Care and Preschool
4-5-year-old Openings
•Rates are charged by
the hour
•Discounted rates for 2
or more children
•Social Service payments accepted.
•Preschool and intergenerational activities
Call Stacy Kerr, 402-4603214, to register. Located
at 705 East D.
64
In-Home
Assisted Living
HOME CARE: 30+ years
experience,
registered
nurse with current Nebraska license. Full-time, 24
hours. References available. Competitive fees. Call
402-469-0256.
70
Pets
AKC COCKER Spaniel
puppies: Home raised.
402-756-8039.
CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES: 8
weeks. $200. 1 male/2 females.
402-519-6039
77
62
Child Care
CHILD CARE PROVIDER
has openings. Licensed
and references. 469-3087
Cutting Back?
Look for the latest coupon
values in the Hastings
Tribune and save money
without skimping on the
important stuff. Youʼll find
big values on everyday
essentials, from haircuts
to hardware, groceries to
eyeglasses, detergent to
dry cleaning and so much
more! Call 402-462-2131
to subscribe.
IMMEDIATE TECHNICIAN OPENING
- Paid Training Programs
-Top Wage Pay According To Skill Level
-Excellent Working Conditions
Apply in person
1-BEDROOM:
Clean,
unique. No smoking/pets.
460-6922 cicadadwellings.com
2-BEDROOM: Appliances,
laundry hookups, parking.
No pets. $485. EMBASSY
SQUARE, 402-462-4032.
CHATEAU
IMPERIAL
Townhomes/Apartments
Call 402-463-4111
BRENTWOOD
MANOR
2-BEDROOM: 2-bath, attached garage. No pets/
smoking. Also, furnished
corporate unit on monthto-month basis. 463-0843.
LARGE, CLEAN 1-bedroom: Appliances, central
air. 402-519-1010
2- and 3-BEDROOM now
available at Regency
Apartments,
Hastings.
Large apartment with controlled entry, complete
kitchen, ample parking,
on-site laundry and YOU
PAY ONLY ELECTRICITY! Locally managed. Call
today for a tour! 402-4625205. www.perryreid.com/
regencyheights EHO
101
Appliances
Furnished
Apartments
GE PROFILE True Temp:
glass cook top, oven/convection, black stainless.
$425/offer. 402-469-3620.
Your WHIRLPOOL and
TOSHIBA Dealer
ROGERʼS, INC.
1035 S. Burlington
402-463-1345
$149.95/WEEK
RAINBOW MOTEL
463-2989; 402-926-6252
Breakfast, internet, HBO.
Maid. Clean. Coin laundry.
No credit/deposit. Near
McDonaldʼs, 1000 W. “J”.
83
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-BEDROOM:
Rent to own. Air, garage.
$400-$850. 402-469-6635.
Hobbies &
Collectibles
102
Duplexes
For Rent
APPROXIMATELY 600
collectorʼs plates all purchased from the Bradford
Exchange in finished sets
of three or more and all in
original packaging. Many
sets are Norman Rockwellʼs. They come boxed
with certificate of authenticity. What a superb way
to start or add to your collection! Questions, call
402-762-3524 or contact
agent for seller at BAIRD
& GRIESS, ATTORNEYS,
P.O. Box 121, Clay Center, NE 68933.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
FOR YOU
2- and 3-bedroom town
houses will have opening
soon. We offer rent/utility
assistance. Clean, large,
spacious units with appliances, 1 1/2 baths, washer/dryer hookups, basement for storage, off-street
parking. Sorry, no pets.
945 West H St. 402-4635953.
96
104
Want To Buy
NEWER washers, dryers,
stoves and refrigerators.
Working or not. 462-6330.
Hastings Tribune has
openings for carriers in
HEBRON. Call Circulation.
402-461-1221 or 1-800742-6397.
Head Start Child and
Family Development
Program, Inc.
Bus Monitor
Part-time Bus Monitor
needed for the Adams
County Early Learning
Center. $8.30/hour, Monday-Thursday. Responsible for riding on the bus
with the children and ensuring their safe and timely
arrival.
For more information, call
402-462-4187, ext. 107, or
1-800-782-7850,
visit
www.hshn.org or stop by
123 Marian Rd., Hastings,
to pick up an application.
Applications will only be
accepted until 9-8-11.
EOE
ON-CALL
ADVOCATE
The Spouse Abuse Sexual
Assault Crisis Center has
an opening for a part-time
advocate to work with victims of domestic and sexual violence during nonbusiness hours. Advocate
will be on call one weeknight per week and 1-2
weekends per month. Primary responsibilities are
answering crisis line, sheltering victims and transportation. Must have at
least two years recovery
from personal experience
in domestic violence/sexual violence related issues.
Applications
may
be
picked up at 220 S. Burlington, Suite 4. 402-4635810. Closing date: 9/6/11.
WANTED: FUN PEOPLE
Front Desk/Resident Services every other Friday
and Saturday. Must enjoy
seniors. No phone calls
please. Apply within. The
Kensington, 233 N. Hastings Ave.
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
Equal
Housing
Opportunity
All real estate advertising
in the Fair Housing Act
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to
make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the
age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians;
pregnant women and people securing custody of
children under 18.
This newspaper will not
knowingly accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the
law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this
newspaper are available
on an equal opportunity
basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD tollfree at 1 (800) 669-9777.
The toll-free telephone
number for the hearing impaired is 1 (800) 9279275.
LOOKING FOR a job?
Check classified every day.
108 Office Space
AFFORDABLE, professional large office; reception
area. 402-469-6635.
AVAILABLE SOON Office
suite at Depot Plaza, store
front. Reasonable rates.
Call Diane, 402-469-4777.
NICE, SMALL office with
bathroom. 645 S. Burlington $325 plus electric. Alton Jackson 402-463-0688
OFFICE SPACE for rent
next to old Rayʼs Pizza,
1,386 sq. ft. 402-469-4777
OFFICE SPACE
Single office, double office,
up to 4 office suites available. Very nice. Conference
and meeting room available. 402-461-4100.
Landmark Center
109
Business
Property
25ʼx30ʼ WORKSHOPS for
rent: Electricity, water,
bathroom. Free month rent
with lease. Call 469-4777.
25ʼx30ʼ, 40ʼx50ʼ heated
shops, bath, 12ʼx14ʼ overhead doors. Also 16ʼx26ʼ
shop. 402-541-2480.
111
2-BEDROOM: No smoking/pets. Garage. 402-4638485.
3-BEDROOM: 1 1/2-bath.
$700 plus deposit. 402463-4797 or 402-784-6281
BEAUTIFUL 2-STORY 5bedroom, single family
home in Westbrook Division. Rent or rent-to-own.
$1,650/mo. 1-year lease,
$1,550/mo. 2-year lease.
No pets/smoking. Ready in
September. 402-332-4465.
CLEAN
2-BEDROOM:
Appliances, washer/dryer
hookups. 402-463-3589
FARMHOUSE FOR rent
northwest of Red Cloud.
402-469-4078.
LARGE, SINGLE family,
3+ bedrooms, 2 baths, garage. No smoking, no pets.
401 N. Briggs. $950/
month. 402-984-6167 or
402-984-5029.
VERY NICE 2-bedroom,
1-bath, new carpet, appliances, furnished, garage,
full basement 1745 W. 4th.
$550/month 402-460-9522
VERY NICE 2+-bedroom,
2-car garage. No smoking/
pets. Must have references. 970-590-1611.
SELLING YOUR Car,
truck, boat or van? Ask
about our Statewide and
Worldwide
advertising
Network. Then call 402462-2131 and talk to one
of our sales people. We
can help sell your item
fast. Open 8:00 to 7:00
Monday through Friday
and 8:00 to 12:00 noon
Saturday.
Tribune Classified
Sudoku
402-462-2131
Houses
For Sale
116
120 Commercial
Lots
ACREAGE for Sale, 3
miles from Hastings and
Adams Central, 4 bedrooms, 3 bath, 1846 sq. ft.,
New
furnace/air/water
heater, main floor utilities,
appliances stay, full finished basement, 1675 N. Osage Ave., $253,500 402984-4049.
View
at
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=kowI5PPytEo
141
Services
HAVE AN abandoned well
on your property? Call
J2 WELL, 402-817-4279.
To place ad for the
Farmer's Corner call
402-462-2131
118 Mobile Homes
For Sale
WILL PAY Cash for used
or abandoned mobile
homes. 573-216-3994
Residential
Lots
Storage/
Warehouse
WAREHOUSE
BUILDING: 26,429 sq. ft. Reduced to $53,500. Coldwell Banker Town & Country Realty. 402-463-4591.
130 Auction Sales
PARR AUCTION
Dave Parr, associate,
Gateway Realty. 756-6135
RANDY RUHTER, Auctioneer and Broker, 2837
W. Hwy. 6, Hastings, NE,
402-463-8565.
LARGE LOTS in Juniata.
New development. Adams
Central School District.
New homes going up
soon. 402-751-2241.
PREPAY YOUR classified
ads and save 30%.
At Your
Up to 16 Words
for 1 month
Service
AUTO GLASS
AUTO GLASS EXPERTS.
25 years combined experience in glass replacement.
Jeff Fitzke, Brent Vorderstrasse. 405 West J
Street. 402-463-0025.
Cleaning Services
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL Cleaning. Call Sandra, 402-519-6279.
List your ad. 402-462-2131.
Clock Repair
VILLAGE TIME. Clocks
and watches cleaned/repaired. Authorized service
center. Will pick up and
deliver. 308-832-0671.
Gutters
HYLDEN
CONSTRUCTION. Gutters, siding, trim,
windows,
doors.
Call
Steve at 402-462-5439.
HANDYMAN:
Roofing,
concrete, painting, home
repairs, lawn care. Fully insured. 10 years experience. Reasonable. 4622660, 460-6756.
Home Improvement
CHUCKʼS BUILDING AND
REPAIR. Chuck Wiseman.
No job too small. 402-7512443; cell, 402-984-2544.
LOOSE OR cracked mortar joints? Tuck-pointing
and small brick repair.
Seal the house before winter. 785-626-4395
$
ONLY
49.00
includes online
Call
402-462-2131
for details
Home Improvement
NEW IMAGE REMODELING. Warranted work.
Home/commercial, kitchen/bath, additions/garages, siding, windows, doors,
decks/fencing. Handyman
services also. Insured/references. 402-705-8369.
Lawn/Garden Care
11 YEARS experience.
NEEMOW LAWN CARE.
Where Qualityʼs Expected.
Commercial/residential
mowing, trimming. Insured. Ken Neemeyer, 402463-5720.
AARON and TRINITYʼs
FAMILY LANDSCAPING.
Specialty: bush/tree trimming. Bush, tree, yard
waste, snow removal. 402705-1861
AERATING, POWER raking, mowing, hedging,
edging, trimming, much
more. Commercial, residential. 9 years experience. Omar, 402-4608305.
LANDSCAPE THERAPY,
L.L.C. Landscaping, mowing, trimming, fertilizing.
Free estimates. Reliable
and insured. Gift certificates available. 402-4600923.
TRI-CITIES
TURF
&
LAWN
MAINTENANCE
Complete Lawn Care
Maintainence. Call today
for fall aerating, seeding,
fertilization. 308-470-1513.
www.tricitiesturf.com
Painting
ADAMS COUNTY PAINTING - 38 years experience,
bonded and insured, interior/exterior work. Furniture
refinished. Local references. 402-705-3493
www.pilotf104c@hotmail.com
DYCUS
PAINTING.
Prompt, courteous, professional service since 1980.
Insured. Call for estimate.
402-463-7726, or mddy
cus@inebraska.com
HONEY DOʼS PAINTING.
Interior, exterior. 25 years
experience. Free estimates. Tim Yurk, 402-7050601 or 402-463-7054.
PREPAY YOUR classified
ads and save 30%.
Personal Services
SUMMERʼS SERVICES.
Organizing,
cleaning,
property
maintenance,
bookkeeping, budget services, car detailing, errands.
Excellent
references.
Summer, 402-289-0384.
Stump Removal
STUMP AND Brush Removal: Clean up those
ugly stumps and bushes.
Free estimates. 402-4634769 or 402-460-0518.
Transportation
LOCAL COMPANY now
offering bus service for
Hastings School students.
Inquiries: 402-984-6347;
email:
brittom1900@yahoo.com
YELLOW
PAGES
Computer Repair
COMPUTERS ON THE RUN
3415 State St., Grand Island
• Home & Business Sales, Service & Support
• Free Pickup and Delivery • Award Winning Service
www.corcomputers.com.................308-381-0561
DEA ELECTRONICS
House Calls/ Free pickup and delivery 9 a.m.-9 p.m. daily
402-984-8001 or toll free 1-800-383-8141
Visa & Mastercard accepted.
Contractors
ABC SEAMLESS SIDING, WINDOWS &
GUTTERS
Your house is too important
to trust just anyone.
TRUST A PRO.
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Steel & Vinyl
Replacement Doors
Sunrooms
Soffit & Fascia
Replacement Windows
Lifetime Warranty
Maintenance Free
Financing Available
Trustworthy Service
Quality Workmanship
HASTINGS
402-463-7580
STATEWIDE
1-800-825-3360
FREE ESTIMATES!
Hastings, www.abcseamless.com. . .402-463-7580
Counselors-Human Relations
Newspapers
GENERAL COUNSELING LLC
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Cyndee Fintel, LIMHP, Jessica Hunt, MS, PLMHP
www.generalcounseling.com...........402-463-6811
www.hastingstribune.com
908 W. 2nd St. Hastings..................402-462-2131
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING
Reg Rhoads
208 S. Burlington Hastings..............402-461-4917
ADOPT A PET
These and other
pets
are ready for
adoption.
Heartland Pet
Connection,
KISSES
BUFFY
American Staffordshire 1807 West J,
(The Mouse Slayer)
Terrier, Medium Adult
Domestic
Short Hair,
462-PETS
Female, Micro
Medium Young Female,
petfinder.com
Chipped, Shots.
Micro Chipped, Shots,
House Trained.
THE“YOU GET MORE”
SUPERSTORE
See us for a complete line
of pet supply needs.
1115 West 2nd Street
Equipment Rental
SOUTH CENTRAL BOBCAT
1010 West J Hastings......................402-462-5332
Home Appliances & Electronics
ROGER’S INC.
1035 S. Burlington Hastings............402-463-1345
Lawn Sprinkler Systems
RANDY’S SPRINKLER SYSTEMS
Free Estimates • Residential • Commercial • Design Service
Serving the area for over 20 years........308-384-4036
2800 Osborne Drive East, Hastings, NE
2-UNITS: APARTMENTS
1-Bedroom each. $55,000
Motivated seller. 469-7823
2904 LAKEVIEW COVE
Wednesday, August 31
1-6 p.m.
$189,900
119
Handyman
2005 CASE IH 2208 Corn
head. Good condition.
Shedded. 402-621-0205.
Investment
Property
123
Houses
For Sale
Machinery
122
OPEN HOUSE
RV LOTS for Rent: 402462-5621.
139
GOOD TRAFFIC corner
for this commercial lot at
201 S. Lincoln. Call Gateway Realty - 463-4561.
2-BEDROOM: Main floor
utilities. Joyce Schlachter,
Broker, 402-462-5794.
KINGSWOOD PLAZA
Looking for home atmosphere? RV sites available.
Weekly and monthly rates.
Contact 402-463-1958.
Farmer's
Corner
Residential
Lots
122 EAST PARK Clean 23-bedroom. Garage, basement, new siding and roofing, garden area 463-8800
Under $50,000.
113 Lots For Rent
1017 N. HASTINGS AVE.:
Grand old home with wonderful front porch. Beautiful woodwork, hardwood
floors. New heating/air in
2011. All new windows.
Family room off updated
kitchen with stainless steel
appliances. Main floor
laundry. Formal dining
room. Large master bed/
bath. Newer roof/siding.
Underground sprinklers. 6
bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths.
3,583 sq. ft. $298,500.
402-469-3499.
119
LOTS, MODEL Homes: 4
Subdivisions. Agent/owner, 402-461-1785.
54ʼx90ʼ MORTON Building
for rent north of Hastings.
402-469-3420.
116
Houses
For Sale
1017 N. HASTINGS AVE.
Open House, Wed., 7-8
(See ad in this section)
Storage/
Warehouse
103 Town Houses
For Rent
Houses
For Rent
116
Pets & Animal Control
HEARTLAND PET CONNECTION
1807 W. J Hastings
www.petfinder.com............402-462-PETS (7387)
Pizza
LITTLE CAESAR’S
Carry Out and Delivery
314 N. Burlington Ave. Hastings. . . . . .402-462-5220
PAPA RAY’S PIZZA
2604 W. 2nd Street Hastings...........402-463-1626
Upholstery
THE COVER UP UPHOLSTERY
204 N. Clay, Box 387, Harvard.........402-772-4031
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COUPON EXPIRES 9-6-11
Cash or Check Only
Coupon not good on home delivery
One coupon per visit.
PAPA RAY ’S PIZZA
463-1626 • 2604 West 2nd St.
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