Iowa town could be left under water

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Iowa town could
be left under water
GRANT SCHULTE
The Associated Press
HAMBURG, Iowa — The
swollen Missouri River is
threatening to inundate a small
southwest Iowa town where
officials are piling massive
sandbags on a faltering levee to
contain floodwaters that could
leave the community under
several feet of water.
If efforts to protect the town
— including building a secondary barrier — fail, part of
Hamburg could be under as
much as 8 feet of water for a
month or more, Fire Chief Dan
Sturm said. Flooding along the
river this summer, expected to
break decades-old records, will
test the system of levees, dams
and flood walls like never
before.
“We’re working against the
clock,” Sturm said as many residents packed up their homes
and headed out of town.
“There’s a chance we can save
ourselves from the worst of it.
We just need some time. But if
water gets in here, it’s going to
be here for a while.”
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A tractor trailer rolls through Hamburg, Iowa, as residents evacuate the south end of town
Monday. The Missouri River is expected to rise to near historic levels for southwest Iowa.
FACES OF TRIBLAND: Joe Kindig
The last
in line
CHARIS UBBEN
[email protected]
A new Veterans Resource Center at Central
Community College is serving 200 veterans and
active military personnel — and seeking to
recruit more — thanks to a federal grant.
CCC is one of 15 schools
nationwide (Missouri State
University is the only other
central U.S. school) to be
named a Center of Excellence
for Veteran Student Success,
through a grant from the U.S.
Karr
Department of Education’s
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education. CCC was awarded $393,993 in 2010,
to be used over a three-year period.
CCC’s goal is to increase enrollment of veteran/active military students from 175 to at least
834 by 2013. Currently, the college has 200,
including more than 60 on the Hastings campus, and 30 new have just enrolled.
The college’s other goal is to increase the veteran persistence rate (a measure of whether students return from the fall semester to the spring
semester each year) from 47 percent to 80 percent.
Travis Karr, a veteran and CCC alumnus,
began in January as veterans student coordinator. Karr served as a sergeant with the U.S.
Marine Corps from 1999-2003. He is a 2006 grad
of the CCC-Grand Island business program, and
earned his bachelor’s degree from Bellevue
University.
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JOHN HUTHMACHER
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Documentarian
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WILL VRASPIR
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A filmmaking company is looking for personal
stories from people around Hastings regarding
the Naval Ammunition Depot and the atmosphere in the community during World War II.
“We’re really looking at the flavor of America
during that period of time,” said John Allen, a
filmmaker in Maryland. “It was a different time,
obviously. People will compare it with today or
wars abroad since. They all express that it was a
different sense of patriotism and coming together then.”
The film is being created for the National
Parks Service to commemorate a new park being
created in Richmond, Calif., named the Rosie
the Riveter/World War II Home Front National
Park. Allen’s filmmaking company, Signature
Communications, was awarded the contract for
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St. Cecilia’s Joe Kindig competes in the 3,200-meter relay during the Superior Invitational in this
April 19 file photo.
or more than half a century, the Kindig name
has graced the student
annals at St. Cecilia High
School.
Known in local circles for its
accomplishments in athletics, the
Kindig clan has laid a solid foundation on which each successive
family member has aspired to follow. That legacy comes to an end
this year with the graduation of
Joe Kindig, 18.
The son of alum Steve (class of
1972) and Becky Kindig, Joe is the
youngest of five Kindig siblings to
graduate from
St. Cecilia. As
a four-year
member of St.
Cecilia’s twotime state
champion
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who competed against his
relatives in years past.
“Most people, if they’re into
track, know my aunts Nancy
Kindig (Malone, 1977), Barbara
Kindig (Rotter, 1982), and Colleen
Kindig (Lecher, 1974),” he said.
“Those three all excelled in track.
Anywhere we go, I go up to the
starting line and when they hear
the name Kindig, at least one of
those names comes up and it’s a
‘hats-off-to-the-family’ moment.”
Other family alums of St.
Cecilia are Joe’s uncle, Tom
(1975), cousins Brett (2004) and
Jason (2006), and siblings Sarah
(Miller, 1996), Russ (1999) and
Emily (2004).
“It’s a wonderful feeling to
know that St. Cecilia and my
family has always had that connection,” Joe said. “The teachers
are tied to my family, too.
“It’s a cool experience to go
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REALLY HIGH RENT
Art by Claire Van Langingham,
9, Wilcox-Hildreth School
NEW YORK — Real estate experts
in New York City say the market for
five-figure rentals is strong.
Some well-heeled Manhattan residents are still skittish about buying
real estate. They’d prefer to pay
hefty rent.
In fact, Rado Varchola, a senior
vice president at Citi Habitats, says
it can be easier to market highpriced rentals than those in the
lower brackets.
Among other things, he’s offering
a 2,700-square-foot, four-bedroom
Inside
apartment on East 77th Street.
The monthly rent? A mere $18,000.
That’s cheap when compared to
the city’s most expensive rental — a
mansion on East 80th Street, near
Central Park.
It’s listed for $210,000 a month.
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Yesterday and Today
Obituaries
CARL W. JOHNSON JR.
Former Clay Center resident
Carl William Johnson Jr., 85, of
Edgar, died Saturday, June 4,
2011, at Rose
Brook Care
Center in
Edgar.
Rosary is 7
p.m. today at
McLaughlin
Funeral
Chapel in
Johnson
Clay Center.
Mass of Christian Burial is 11
a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church in Harvard
with Father James Benton officiating. Visitation is 1-7 p.m.
today at McLaughlin Funeral
Chapel in Clay Center. Burial
will be at Clay Center Cemetery in Clay Center with military honors by American
Legion Post #87, Mills Schroeder, Clay Center.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be directed
to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
or to the Clay Center Senior
Center.
***
Carl was born Feb. 24,
1926, at Concordia, Kan., to
Carl William Sr. and Edith
Estelle (Olson) Johnson. He
received his education in
Concordia and graduated from
Concordia High School in
1944. He enlisted in the United
States Army Air Corps., Jan. 20,
1944, and served until he was
honorably discharged June 30,
1946. He furthered his education at El Dorado Junior
College and later at Kansas
State University. He was
employed with Wentz Con-
struction in Concordia, Kan.
On Oct. 1, 1950, he married
Mary Therese Johnston in
Concordia, Kan., and to this
union five children were born.
Carl began employment with
the Meat Animal Research
Center near Clay Center, Neb.,
in 1971, and in 1972, the entire family made Clay Center
their home. He retired from
the Meat Animal Research
Center in 1991. After retiring,
Carl was instrumental in the
founding of the Clay Center
Senior Center. He had resided
at Rose Brook Care Center for
the last two years.
He was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Harvard, Neb., American Legion
Post #87, Mills Schroeder, and
the Clay Center Lions Club.
He enjoyed woodworking, gardening, and took great pride
in the Clay Center Senior
Center.
He is survived by his wife,
Mary Therese Johnson of Clay
Center, Neb.; sons, Thomas R.
(Jeanne) Johnson of Concordia, Kan.; David W. Johnson of
Clay Center, Neb.; Steven R.
(Brenda) Johnson of Clay Center, Neb.; daughters, Susan C.
Layton of Orchard Park, N.Y.,
Cynthia R. (Eddie) Splichal of
Munden, Kan.; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren;
sisters, Mabel Ostrom of Concordia, Kan., Pearl (Gene) Ganstrom of Concordia, Kan.;
brother Earl (Goldie) Johnson
of Junction City, Kan.
He was preceded in death
by his parents; and one brother, Paul Johnson.
DARREL W. BURMOOD
Hastings resident Darrel W.
Burmood, 77, died Saturday,
June 4, 2011, at Good Samaritan SocietyHastings
Village
(Perkins
Pavilion).
Services are
10:30 a.m.
Thursday at
Peace LutherBurmood
an Church
in Hastings with the Rev. Marcus J. Mackay officiating. Burial with military rites will be at
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Cemetery in Hastings. Visitation is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday with family present 68 p.m. at Livingston-ButlerVolland Funeral Home in Hastings, and one hour prior to
services Thursday at the
church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be given to the family; a
memorial will be established at
a later date.
Condolences may be sent to
www.lbvfh.com
***
Darrel was born March 12,
1934, in Hastings, Neb., to Alvin and Gladys (Smith)
Burmood. He attended Hastings
Public Schools and served in
the U.S. Army from 1954-1956.
He worked for the Department
of Roads for two years and
then worked at Johnson Cashway Lumber, Hastings, Neb.,
for 39 years. Darrel married
June Meyer of Juniata, Neb., in
1958 at Peace Lutheran
Church in Hastings and they
celebrated 52 years of marriage
before June’s death on Aug. 21,
2010. Darrel was a member at
Peace Lutheran Church in
Hastings, where he served as
an usher and trustee. He was
an avid bowler, hunter, fisherman and carpenter.
Darrel was preceded in death
by his parents; wife, June; and
grandson, Alexander Wayne
Burmood.
Survivors include children
and spouse, Bradley Burmood
of Hastings, Neb. (who moved
home to be Darrel’s caretaker),
Susan and Jeff Franklin of Clay
Center, Neb.; grandchildren,
Jade Franklin, Jordin Franklin;
brother, Gilbert "Gib" Burmood
of Hastings, Neb.; sister-in-law
and spouse, Karen and Richard
Gillaspie of Lincoln, Neb.;
niece and spouse, Brenda
Elliott and Jeff Schmidt of
Lincoln, Neb.; great-niece,
Olivia Schmidt; great-nephew,
Anthony Schmidt; "son",
Michael Bigley of Hastings,
Neb.; nine cousins.
DORIS NEWSOME
Hastings resident Doris
Newsome, 92, died Saturday,
June 4, 2011, at The Kensington in Hastings.
Private services will be held,
and there will be no visitation.
Livingston-Butler-Volland Funeral Home & Cremation Center in Hastings is in charge of
arrangements.
Memorials may be given to
Mary Lanning Memorial
HealthCare Hospice.
www.lbvfh.com
***
Doris was born Sept. 29,
1918, in Langdon, Kan., to
Glen and Iona (Sanderson) Bailey. She married Paul Newsome
on March 28, 1942, in Belton,
Mo.; he preceded her in death
on Feb. 4, 1999. She was a
homemaker and attended
Grace United Methodist
Church.
Doris was preceded in death
by her parents; husband, Paul
Newsome; one grandchild; and
sister, Dorothy.
Survivors include sons and
spouse, Carl and Suzanne
Newsome of Emerson, Iowa,
Gary Newsome of Hastings,
Neb.; three grandchildren; and
three great-grandchildren.
LARRY L. JUERGENS
Superior resident Larry L.
Juergens, 79, died Saturday,
June 4, 2011, at Superior.
Graveside services with military rites are 10 a.m. Thursday
at Evergreen Cemetery in Superior with the Rev. Dr. Jocelyn
Tupper officiating. Book sign-
ing is until 4 p.m. today and 9
a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at
Megrue-Price Funeral Home in
Superior.
Memorials may be given in
care of the family.
www.pricefuneralhomes.com
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
HOWARD D. HANWAY
Former area resident
Howard D. Hanway, 81,
of Loveland, Colo., died
Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Loveland.
Cremation has been conducted and Memorial Services
will be held by the immediate
family at a later date.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Pathways Hospice
of Larimer County, 305 Carpenter Rd., Ft. Collins, CO 80525.
***
Howard was born on Feb. 24,
1930, in Bridgeport, Neb., to
Robert and Beryl Hanway.
He graduated from Broadwater Nebraska High School. He
served in the United States Air
Force, and was discharged as a
Staff Sergeant. He married Marlene L. Bigelow on March 4,
1956. The family has lived in
Sidney, Neb., Scottsbluff, Neb.,
Phillipsburg, Kan., Agra, Kan.,
and Hastings, Neb., while he
worked in the National Gas Industry. He retired in 1992 from
Kansas Nebraska Gas Co. (now
Kinder Morgan), and the family moved to Loveland, Colo.,
in May of 1992.
Howard was a life member
of the Hastings Elk Lodge 159
in Hastings, Neb.; a member of
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States in Odessa,
Texas; a former member of
Golden K; and a former volunteer for Volunteers of America.
He was also a morning coffee
drinker at the 29th St. McDonalds and will miss those coffee buddies.
Howard is survived by his
wife of 55 years, Marlene L.
Hanway; one son, Howard D.
Hanway Jr. of El Cajon, Calif.;
two daughters, Kathy and Stacy of Loveland, Colo.; one
grandson, Sevin M. Reynolds;
and one granddaughter,
Lynon M. Hanway of Loveland, Colo. These two grandchildren were his greatest
pride and joy. He is also survived by four sisters, Retha
Holliday, Beverly Vaudrey of
Nampa, Idaho, Darlene
Coomes of Provo, Utah, and
Carolyn Collins (Ben) of Eagle,
Idaho; three brothers, Jack
(Yvonne), Anson (Carol) of
Nampa, Idaho, William
(Laura) of Loveland, Colo.;
and numerous nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; brothers, Robert,
Raymond, Ralph and Daryl;
and sister, Patricia.
DAVID L. ENNINGA
Former Hastings resident David Lee Enninga, 63, of Arvada,
Colo., died Saturday, June 4,
2011, in Arvada.
Rosary is 7 p.m. Wednesday.
A memorial Mass is 10 a.m.
Thursday; both at the Shrine of
St. Anne Catholic Parish in Arvada, Colo.
In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the American
Cancer Society Rocky Mountain Division, 2255 S. Oneida,
Denver, CO 80224 www.can
cer.org
***
David was born on Sept. 15,
1947, in Hastings, Neb., to parents Albert and Clara (Koepke)
Enninga. He worked for Holland and Hart LLP Law Firm of
Denver in Accounting. He was
a member of the Lake Arbor
Optimist Club for many years.
He is survived by his wife,
Carol of Arvada; daughters,
Amy Enninga of Fairfax, Va.,
and Sara Enninga of Arvada,
Colo.; brother, Eldon (Wyona)
Enninga of Kenesaw, Neb.; sister, Diana (Mike) Hayek of Lincoln, Neb.; and granddog, Jake.
LYNDA ‘CINDY’ B. FRINGER
Sutton resident Lynda
“Cindy” B. Fringer, 71, died
Wednesday, June 1, 2011,
at Hamilton Manor in
Aurora.
Memorial services are 2 p.m.
Saturday at the Clay Center
Christian Church in Clay Center with Pastor Anthony Godtel
officiating. Burial will be at a
later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be directed
to the donor’s choice.
Former LA Black
Panther leader dies
TOM ODULA
NAIROBI, Kenya —
Former Black Panther Party
leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt,
whose murder conviction was
overturned after he spent 27
years in prison for a crime he
maintained he did not commit,
died early Friday from a medical ailment, an associate said.
He was 63.
Pratt died just after midnight at his home in Imbaseni
village, 15 miles from Arusha,
Tanzania, where he had lived
for at least half a decade, a
friend of Pratt’s in Arusha, former Black Panther Pete
O’Neal, said. O’Neal said he
suspects Pratt died of a heart
attack or stroke. Pratt was
taken to the hospital with
high blood pressure.
Pratt was convicted in 1972
of being one of two men who
robbed and fatally shot schoolteacher Caroline Olsen on a
Santa Monica tennis court in
December 1968. No one else
was arrested.
Pratt claimed he was in
Oakland for Black Panther
Party meetings the day of the
murder, and that FBI agents
and police hid and possibly
destroyed wiretap evidence
that would prove it.
The Black Panther Party was
an African-American revolutionary leftist organization,
active in the United States from
1966 until 1982. It achieved
notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and in U.S. politics of the
1960s and 70s.
Lawyer Stuart Hanlon, who
helped Pratt win his freedom,
said Pratt refused to carry any
resentment about his treatment
by the legal system.
“He had no anger, he had no
bitterness, he had no desire for
revenge. He wanted to resume
his life and have children,”
Hanlon told The Associated Press
from San Francisco on Thursday.
“He would never look back.”
Pratt lived a peaceful life in
Tanzania that he loved, O’Neal
said. Pratt returned from a visit
to the U.S. about 10 days ago
and remarked that he appreciated the pace of his life in Africa.
“He’s my hero. He was and
will continue to be,” O’Neal
said. “Geronimo was a symbol
of steadfast resistance against
all that is considered wrong
and improper. His whole life
was dedicated to standing in
opposition to oppression and
exploitation. ... He gave all that
he had and his life, I believe,
struggling, trying to help people lift themselves up.”
Pratt worked with the United
African Alliance Community
Center in Arusha for the last
nine years that he lived in the
Tanzanian community, which
sits near the base of Mount
Kilimanjaro. The organization,
which O’Neal founded 20 years
ago, works to empower youth.
Pratt’s lawyers, who included
high-profile defense attorney
Johnnie Cochran, blamed his
arrest on a politically charged
campaign by J. Edgar Hoover’s
FBI against the Black Panthers
and other perceived enemies of
the U.S. government.
Pratt’s belated reversal of fortune came with the disclosure
that a key prosecution witness
hid the fact he was an ex-felon
and a police informant.
Today is Tuesday, June 7,
the 158th day of 2011. There
are 207 days left in the year.
MEMORY LANE
TRIBLAND
On June 7, 1776, Richard
Henry Lee of Virginia proposed
to the Continental Congress a
resolution stating “That these
United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and
independent States, that they
are absolved from all allegiance
to the British Crown, and that
all political connection
between them and the State of
Great Britain is, and ought to
be, totally dissolved.”
HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
In 1929, the sovereign state
of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran
Treaty were exchanged in
Rome.
In 1939, King George VI and
his wife, Queen Elizabeth,
arrived at Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
from Canada on the first visit
to the United States by a reigning British monarch.
In 1948, the Communists
completed their takeover of
Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Edvard Benes.
In 1981, Israeli military
planes destroyed a nuclear
power plant in Iraq, a facility
the Israelis charged could have
been used to make nuclear
weapons.
In 1998, in a crime that
shocked the nation, James Byrd
Jr., a 49-year-old black man,
was hooked by a chain to a
pickup truck and dragged to
his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two
white men were later sentenced to death for the crime; a
third received life with the possibility of parole.)
Ten years ago: Oklahoma
City bomber Timothy McVeigh
abandoned all appeals after a
three-judge panel of the 10th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
rejected his request to delay his
impending execution. A federal
judge refused to stop plans for
a World War II Memorial on
the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and his
Labour Party swept to a second
term, winning re-election by a
crushing margin.
Five years ago: Abu Musab alZarqawi, the founder of alQaida in Iraq, was killed by a
U.S. airstrike on his safe house.
The U.S. Senate rejected a con-
stitutional amendment to ban
gay marriage.
One year ago: U.S. defense
officials announced that Army
Spc. Bradley Manning had
been detained in Baghdad in
connection with a video posted
on WikiLeaks showing Apache
helicopters gunning down
unarmed men in Iraq. White
House correspondent Helen
Thomas, 89, abruptly retired
after calling for Israelis to get
“out of Palestine” in an online
video. An Indian court convicted seven former employees of
Union Carbide’s India subsidiary of “death by negligence” for their roles in the
1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
ON THIS DATE
Thirty years ago: Alan
Cooper, administrator at
Perkins Pavilion since July
1980, resigned.
Twenty years ago: Nelson
Public School Superintendent
Oscar Mussman was stepping
down after 10 years in Nelson
and 42 years as an educator.
Ten years ago: Jeremy Jensen,
17, of Doniphan died after
being severely injured in a twovehicle accident at a rural intersection in Hall County.
One year ago: Twenty-nine
children participated in the
fifth annual youth fishing
derby at Lake Hastings.
TODAY IN SPORTS
In 1978, the Washington
Bullets (now Wizards) won the
franchise’s first and only NBA
championship title.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“That would be a good thing
for them to cut on my tombstone: ‘Wherever she went,
including here, it was against
her better judgment.’ ”
— Dorothy Parker,
American writer (born 1893,
died this date in 1967)
FACT OF THE DAY
About 60 people reside in the
Midway Islands; most of them
are staff of U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service or their contractors.
NUMBER OF THE DAY
832 — estimated population
of Vatican City in 2011.
LUNAR LANDING
Between new moon (June 1)
and first quarter moon (June
8).
Sources: The Associated Press,
Newspaper Enterprise Assn. and
World Almanac Education Group
Tribland
Vehicles reportedly driven by
Katherine Theisen of 414 S.
Lexington Ave. and Wauneta
Nitzel of 401 E. University Ave.
collided Friday in a parking lot
on the 100 block of North
Hastings Avenue.
Allen’s Senior Day, Thursday,
June 9. Get your coupons instore Thursday. Free coffee,
cookies 9:00 to noon. Register
to win $25 gift certificate. Adv.
First Presbyterian Church
Worship in the Park featuring
music by the Hastings College
Alumni Choir and Jazz Band
Sunday, June 12, 2011, at
10:30 a.m., Chautauqua Pavilion, 5th and Laird. -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.
Hastings Tribune Classified
ads and much more now on
our website Free! www.hastingstribune.com -Adv.
A vehicle reportedly driven
by Roger S. Parks of 3211 N.
Village Dr. struck a vehicle
Saturday owned by Hersh
Digging of Kenesaw parked in
the 1500 block of Westwood
Terrace.
Homestead Exemption deadline for filing is June 30, 2011.
Forms are available at Adams
County Assessor’s Office, 500
West 4th, Hastings, 461-7114. Adv.
Hastings College Alumni Jazz
Band Saturday, June 11, 7:00
p.m., Downtown Greenscape
Park. Admission is free. -Adv.
Timothy A. Sweeney of 107
S. Pine Ave. reported a hit and
run Sunday at 1009 W. M St.
Let us sell your car. No lot
fees. Jackson’s Car Corner, Inc.
-Adv.
New and used air conditioners. Cheap! 402-469-5481. -Adv
Vacation Bible School, June
13 to 17, 9:00 to noon, First
Presbyterian Church; ages 3 to
Middle School. 402-462-5147 Adv.
VFW, Wednesday, broasted
chicken dinner or full menu. Adv.
A vehicle reportedly driven
by Brian M. McGuire of 422 N.
St. Joseph Ave. No. 206 struck
the fascia Friday at the night
deposit lane of Five Points
Bank at 2815 Osborne Dr. West
resulting in $1,500 damage.
Hastings Gospel Sing, All
Saints Chapel, Good Samaritan
Village, June 17, 1:30 p.m.,
June 18, 10:00 a.m. -Adv.
Area funerals
Wednesday
u John Greening, 83, of
Bloomington, 2 p.m. at Hutchins
Funeral Home chapel in Franklin.
u Carl Johnson Jr., 85, of Clay
Center, 11 a.m. at St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church in Harvard.
Thursday
u Brandon Keever, 30, of Nowata,
Okla., 10 a.m. at the City
Auditorium in Hastings.
u Darrel Burmood, 77, of Hastings,
10:30 a.m. at Peace Lutheran
Church in Hastings.
u Larry Juergens, 79, of Superior,
10 a.m. at Evergreen Cemetery in
Superior.
Weather/Nation
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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Ariz. wildfire sends smoke into other states
SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
AND BOB CHRISTIE
JAE C. HONG/AP
Robert Joseph, 64, rides his ATV as smoke plumes from the Wallow fire fill the sky in Luna, N.M., Monday.
Nation
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DEPUTY SHOT
Art by Claire Van Langingham, 9, Wilcox-Hildreth Public Schools
KNOXBORO, N.Y. — A
24-year-old sheriff’s deputy
has died after being shot during a gun battle at the end of
a six-hour standoff at a house
in central New York.
Oneida County Sheriff
Robert Maciol says Tuesday
that Deputy Kurt Wyman was
shot once with a shotgun by
40-year-old Christian
Patterson as officers tried to
take him into custody around
2 a.m.
Wyman died after being
rushed to a Utica hospital.
Maciol says three other offices
returned fire and hit
Patterson several times. He is
in critical condition at the
same hospital and will be
charged with aggravated murder.
Deputies were called to
Patterson’s home around 8
p.m. Monday after his live-in
girlfriend called 911 and
reported he was threatening
to kill her and himself.
Maciol says the officers
rushed Patterson six hours
later when he indicated he
was going to harm himself.
PROTEST LETTER
RALEIGH, N.C. — A
North Carolina lawmaker
doesn’t think it was right for
his daughter and her thirdgrade class to write to him
and other elected officials
protesting possible cuts in
state education spending.
Republican state Rep. Mike
Stone says his daughter asked
in her note to “please raise
the budget, dad” and help
keep two teacher assistants
employed.
Republican lawmakers and
Democratic Gov. Beverly
Perdue are at odds over the
budget that is on her desk to
either sign or veto. Some in
education say the proposed
spending plan could eliminate 9,300 positions in the
public schools. Republicans
have said those numbers are
exaggerated.
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High: 96
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Clear and cooler tonight.
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SUNNY SATURDAY
High: 83
Low: 56
Wind: Northeast 15-25
with gusts to around 30
mph
High: 78
Low: 62
A 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms
Saturday night.
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percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms.
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Yemen claims 30 militants killed
AHMED AL-HAJ
SANAA, Yemen —
Government forces have killed
30 Islamic militants in
Yemen’s troubled southern
province of Abyan, the
defense ministry said Tuesday,
in what appears to be an escalation of a military campaign
to retake areas captured by
extremists.
Elsewhere in the south,
clashes erupted between rebellious tribesmen and army
troops near the presidential
palace in Yemen’s secondlargest city, Taiz. It was not
immediately known whether
there were casualties from the
fighting, but a shell fired by a
tank near the palace landed in
a nearby residential area,
killing four people, including
three children.
The violence underscores
fears of increasing instability
in the Arab world’s most
impoverished country days
after President Ali Abdullah
Saleh left for neighboring
Saudi Arabia to seek treatment
for wounds he suffered Friday
in a rocket attack on his compound in Sanaa, the Yemeni
capital.
Warplanes bombed areas
around the Abyan town of
Zinjibar, which was seized by
Islamic militants late last
month, overnight, according to
witnesses and military officials.
Fighting also occurred on
the ground when dozens of
militants attacked an army
position in Abyan, prompting
a gunfight that left nine soldiers and six of the attackers
dead, according to the military officials, who spoke on
condition of anonymity
because they weren’t authorized to release the information. The army had regained
control of the post after hours
of fighting.
Also in Abyan, the officials
said artillery shelling by government troops killed four
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suspected militants in Jaar,
another area that has fallen
under Islamic militant control, on Tuesday. They had no
more details.
A brief defense ministry
statement said 30 Islamic militants were killed Monday
night and Tuesday, but did
not provide a breakdown or
give more details about the
fighting.
An attack on the presidential palace in Taiz on Sunday
was blamed on a group
recently set up to avenge the
killing of anti-regime protesters at the hands of security
forces. It was not immediately
clear whether the same group
was behind Tuesday’s attack.
In a separate incident, Saudi
Arabia said its border guards
killed a Yemeni gunman who
opened fire while trying to
cross into Yemen in a jeep at a
crossing near Najran, 60 miles
inland from the Red Sea, early
Tuesday.
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SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. —
Smoke from a large wildfire
burning in the scenic mountain towns of eastern Arizona
stretched into nearby states,
creating hazy conditions in
Iowa and prompting officials to
issue health advisories Tuesday
for the southern half of
Colorado.
The 365-square-mile blaze
has been burning in ponderosa
forests for more than a week,
destroying five buildings since
it started May 29. It marched
north Monday, aided by wind
gusts of more than 60 mph.
The weather settled down
overnight, but the crews and
their commanders know what’s
in store.
“The bad news is it’s supposed to pick back up all the
way through Thursday,” Joe
Reinarz, commander of the
team battling the fire, told an
auditorium packed with residents of the mountain vacation towns late Monday.
“We’ve got about three or
four days ahead of us right
now that are going to try all of
us,” he said before urging them
to prepare for evacuations.
The fire has forced people to
leave their homes in Alpine,
Nutrioso and Greer, a picturesque town where most of the
200 full-time residents had
already fled by the time
deputies started going door-todoor. Authorities also ordered
to leave anyone left in the
nearby area known as Sunrise.
“It’s heartbreaking,” said
Allan Johnson, owner of
Greer’s 101-year-old Molly
Butler Lodge, the oldest in the
state. He was pessimistic about
the chances of saving the lodge
and the hundreds of vacation
homes in the area.
“We’re numb. Our entire
family and our friends are just
numb,” he said.
Residents of Eagar, Ariz., are
also bracing for a possible evacuation.
“If given the word, then I’m
gonna go,” said Gerald
McCardle, a resident of Eagar,
in an interview with Associated
Press Radio.
As the sun went down
Monday, a huge pall of black
smoke loomed over the twin
towns of Eagar and
Springerville, home to about
7,000 people.
Rare daytime NATO
airstrikes hit Tripoli
DIAA HADID
TRIPOLI, Libya — Low-flying NATO military craft
unleashed a ferocious series of
nearly 30 daytime airstrikes on
Tripoli, rattling the Libyan capital Tuesday and sending
plumes of smoke billowing
above leader Moammar
Gadhafi’s compound.
Reporters counted at least 27
strikes by mid-afternoon, and
Libyan television said several
structures in the Gadhafi compound were badly damaged.
Daylight NATO raids have been
rare and signal an intensification of the alliance bid to drive
Gadhafi from power.
There were no immediate
reports about casualties.
NATO officials have warned
for days that they were increasing the scope and intensity of
their two-month campaign to
oust Gadhafi after more than
40 years in power. The alliance
is assisting a four-month old
rebel insurgency that has seized
swaths of eastern Libya and
pockets in the regime’s stronghold in the west.
Ambulances, sirens blaring,
could be heard racing through
the city during the daylong raids
that shook the ground and sent
thundering sound waves across
the capital. Some of the strikes
were believed to have targeted a
military barracks near Gadhafi’s
sprawling central Tripoli compound, said spokesman Moussa
Ibrahim. Others hit the compound itself, Libyan television
reported. Pro-Gadhafi loyalists in
the capital fired weapons into
the air but after the NATO
strikes had ended.
“Instead of talking to us,
they are bombing us. They are
going mad. They are losing
their heads,” said Ibrahim.
The spokesman said the daylight strikes were particularly
terrifying because families were
separated during the day.
Libyan school children are taking final exams at the end of
the school year.
“Tens of thousands of children are in Tripoli. You can
imagine the shock and horror
of the children. You can imagine the horror of parents who
can’t check on their children
who are far away,” Ibrahim
said.
The strikes began at around
11:30am local time and continued through the day. Some
landed in clusters of two and
three booming explosions.
Ibarahim said the barracks
likely hit Tuesday have been
repeated targets of NATO.
Libyan television later reported
other strikes hit the sprawling
compound itself. It gave few
details. The compound hosts
homes, guest houses, large
grassy knolls and a camp
ground where pro-Gadhafi loyalists sleep. The television said
nearby homes were also damaged, along with some infrastructure.
NATO strikes before dawn
Monday targeted a building of
the state-run Libyan television
station, he said, reporting that
16 people were injured. The
building was only partially
destroyed and Libyan television is still broadcasting.
As NATO intensifies air
attacks on Tripoli, there
appears to be renewed diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful
end to the civil war.
A U.N. envoy was expected
in the country Tuesday.
Opinion
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Afghan
strategy
rethought —
again
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President Barack Obama and his national-security team held their regular monthly meeting on
Afghanistan Monday and reportedly on the table
was a proposal for an accelerated drawdown of
U.S. forces.
When the president committed 30,000 more
troops to Afghanistan in December 2009, he
promised “significant” withdrawals, reportedly
with an initial drawdown in the 3,000-to-5,000
range, beginning next month.
But some of his advisers believe the dynamics of
the war have changed, at least from the U.S.
standpoint. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is
dead, after a nearly 10-year hunt. Then it was
credibly reported that, last Friday, a U.S. drone
killed Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of alQaida’s military operations in Pakistan and said to
be among bin Laden’s possible successors. In any
event, al-Qaida in Afghanistan has been erased as
a significant presence.
In some ways, this debate harks back to administration deliberations before the surge when Vice
President Joe Biden argued against a major U.S.
military presence in favor of highly mobile special-operations forces, drones and trainers for the
Afghan army.
The military’s preference is for a gradual, conditions-based withdrawal with a significant combat
presence through next year. Over the weekend,
Robert Gates, making his final visit to Afghanistan
as defense secretary, said, “I would try to maximize my combat capability as long as this process
goes on — that’s a no-brainer.”
The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan until their
ouster in 2001, are still fighting and, in fact, have
begun a serious summer offensive. But there’s evidence of serious war weariness among the Taliban
commanders, and some believe if this offensive
earns them nothing but heavy casualties, they will
be ready for peace talks this fall.
That may not be a misplaced hope. Unlike alQaida, the Taliban are not united by an overarching messianic religious ideology, but by complex
tribal grievances, a desire to regain power and the
perks that go with it, and simple hostility toward a
foreign presence in their country.
The great variable in Afghanistan is how soon
and how capably the Afghan army and police can
take over their country’s security.
In the United States, there are other compelling
factors at work. Almost three quarters of
Americans think the war is not worth fighting,
that our work there is done. Increasingly, Congress
feels that way, too.
Republicans have been the strongest supporters
of the war. But even there the newly cost-conscious GOP lawmakers are beginning to wonder: If
we really want to cut spending, the $100 billion a
month we’re spending on Afghanistan may be a
good place to start.
Obama is said to be preparing to share the
results of these deliberations with an address to
the nation next month. This summer may mark
the moment when, at whatever speed and in
whatever increments it comes, the end of our
longest war is in sight.
The crazy little things we do for love
R
uby is sitting with her dad on the
sofa watching people do dangerous
things on mountain bikes.
It’s a little activity they started lately. Brian pulls up a list of extreme
bicycling videos on the computer and Ruby
picks out which one she wants to watch. “I
want that one,” she says, pointing to one of
the videos with her chubby 2-year-old fingers.
Then they watch as some crazy person —
probably some kid between the ages of 17
and 25 — straps a video camera to a helmet
and goes careening down the narrow streets
of Taxco, Mexico, or through the leafy jungles
of Cuzco, Peru, or up the rocky caverns of
Moab, Utah. Sometimes the video is set to a
rock song with a driving beat, and Ruby bobs
her head to the rhythm, entranced by the
rocks or trees or people flying by at warp
speed.
If I am sitting close by, Brian will turn the
laptop my direction so I can be part of their
pseudo adrenaline rush.
“Does that look fun, Baby?” Brian asks me.
“Does that make you want to go there?”
Looking down at a belly that blocks the
view of my feet a little more each day, I have
to admit that mountain biking sounds about
as appealing right now as peeling potatoes.
But Brian is not talking to the Amy of 2011.
He is talking to the Amy of 1996, the Amy
who rappelled off the sides of mountains and
biked down steep terrain.
The brave Amy of yesteryear was function-
ing in extreme show-off
mode for one reason and
one reason only: to impress
a boy. That boy was, of
course, Brian.
When we struck up a
friendship in college, I knew
he was the coolest thing I’d
ever laid eyes on. For one
Amy
thing, I’d never met a 19Palser
year-old who owned a
Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
And he had a big old Ford Bronco that he
liked to take off-roading. He played guitar and
listened to cool music. And he had the face,
hair and clothes to go with it.
Quite honestly, I fell in love the first time I
saw him.
When we started to spend some time
together, I had the sudden urge to impress
him with my courage. Maybe it was because
he had all kinds of girls after him, and I knew
I had to stand out to get his attention. So
somewhere in the back of my brain, without
realizing it, I began Operation Fear Factor.
One of the first things Brian invited me to
do was go bike riding. We rode around the
college campus and through the cemetery. It
was lovely and serene. But on our next bike
ride, I decided to ramp it up, so to speak. As
we came to the top of the city’s highest overpass, I suggested we ride down the steep,
weed-covered side instead of using the walking path.
“Come on!” I yelled, leading the way down
the steep decline. I remember it was very
bumpy and very vertical, and I knew if I used
my brakes I might go head over handlebars.
So I held on tight and kept going, knowing it
was too late to turn back.
Brian told me years later that he thought I
was crazy for taking us down that hill.
As the months passed and our friendship
grew, I didn’t stop showing off. On a trip to
the mountains with a group of friends, I convinced him to go rappelling, and we hung off
the side of a cliff together with all our faith in
the slim ropes that held us. He didn’t especially like it. Any chance I had to stare fear in the
face, I took it, knowing Brian was looking on
— hopefully with admiration.
It must have worked, because not long after
he asked me to marry him. This month we
will celebrate 13 years of marriage.
Age and family and responsibility have
taken the edge off my adventurous side, but
it’s still there somewhere. Maybe someday
soon, when I am no longer with child and
want to jar my body on a mountain bike, I
will take Brian to Moab and try to impress
him all over again. But for now I will join
Ruby at the computer and watch other people
be brave.
These are the crazy, wonderful things we do
for love.
Amy Palser is a columnist for the Hastings
Tribune. Email her at [email protected]
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r. Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer, Mayer
Morganroth, told the Detroit Free
Press that, at the end, Dr. Death
suffered a pulmonary thrombosis
when a blood clot lodged in his
heart. Morganroth says, “It was peaceful, he
didn’t feel a thing.”
How fitting. It appears that Kevorkian
lucked into the quiet death that all of us
covet, but which will be denied to most.
What’s death like? Death really is the last
great frontier, the boundary beyond which
lies the terra incognita of oblivion or a mansion in Heaven. Or maybe something else.
Really, no one knows.
But Kevorkian was less concerned with
what lies beyond than with how we get there,
and he devoted his life’s energies into easing
the passage. We all desire the quiet transition
that he appears to have achieved. But in Dr.
Sherwin Nuland’s book “How We Die,” he
testifies from his observations of the deaths of
hundreds of patients that the point of death
rarely resembles the tranquil departure depicted in the movies. Death, he says, is often —
maybe usually — a prolonged, miserable
experience that comes at the end of days,
weeks, or months of dehumanizing suffering.
Kevorkian imagined that things could be
different. He was no theoretical advocate of
assisted suicide; he helped some 130 terminal
patients avoid the suffering inherent in their
diseases and achieve some of the dignity that
comes with controlling the circumstances of
one’s own death. As a result,
he spent eight years in
prison.
He may not have helped
his cause with his outlandish, disheveled, publicity-thirsty persona. In one of
his many court appearances,
Kevorkian showed up in
John
knee britches, a powdered
Crisp
wig, and a colonial era tricornered hat, his effort to
dramatize his opinion that our attitudes
toward assisted suicide are provincial and
backward. The image reminds me of the lives
of two colonial characters, Jonathan Edwards
and Benjamin Franklin.
For the Puritan theologian Edwards the
human journey for most people was about
suffering, both before death and afterwards in
hellfire. On the other hand, his contemporary, Franklin, knew how to enjoy life despite
his praise for frugality, self-denial, and hard
work. He easily left behind the hardcore
Puritanism of the world he was born into and
structured his long life around a deep appreciation for its pleasures and rewards.
In his later years, however, Franklin suffered
terribly from gout and kidney stones, maladies
that laid him up for weeks at a time.
Nevertheless, he approached death with equanimity. During his last 10 days, his lungs failed
him and, without modern treatments and
painkillers, he suffered terribly before he died.
Many of us have never gotten over
Jonathan Edwards’ beliefs in the connections
among death, suffering, and submission to
the terrible will of God. But I’d like to think
that Franklin, with his appreciation for good
living, tolerance, and commonsense pragmatism, would have understood precisely what
Kevorkian was working toward.
It takes a lot to get through to us these
days, and perhaps a quiet reasoned effort by
Jack Kevorkian to transform our attitudes
toward assisted suicide would have been thoroughly ineffective. Kevorkian faced a hard
battle in one of the world’s most religious
countries, where many of us suffer from the
notion that God’s will must be played out to
the very end, even if it requires a painful, miserable passage into the great beyond.
We imagine that any life is better than no
life, and even Christians who believe that the
afterlife is an eternity of bliss are reluctant to
let go of the present. Kevorkian was skeptical
of such a tenacious hold onto life at all costs.
Death always wins in the end, but he was
committed to human beings’ right to take
some control of the way they leave this
world.
So long, Jack. And thanks for moving our
thinking a long way in the right direction.
Professor John Crisp of Corpus Christi, Texas,
writes about global politics and international
energy issues. E-mail [email protected]
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BIG BIDS
OMAHA — Two bidders
have already driven up the
price of a private lunch with
billionaire Warren Buffett to
over $1.5 million, and the
online charity auction runs
all week.
Typically, the bidding doesn’t reach astronomical prices
until closer to the Friday
evening end of the auction.
That the bids jumped from
the opening $25,000 to $1.51
million may bode well for
the Glide Foundation.
Glide uses the proceeds to
help provide social services to
the poor and homeless in San
Francisco.
Last year’s $2.6 million
winning bid set a record for
the most expensive charity
item eBay ever sold.
The winners usually dine
with Buffett for several hours
at New York’s Smith and
Wollensky steak house. The
only topic off limits is what
Buffett is planning to invest
in next.
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Expert: Floodwaters can be dangerous
LINCOLN — Nebraska residents scrambling to protect their
homes and belongings from
flooding should also take steps
to protect their health around
floodwaters, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln expert said.
Floodwaters may contain
fecal matter from sewage systems, agricultural and industrial waste and septic tanks, said
Shirley Niemeyer, a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension
housing and environment specialist.
She warned that residents
should wear rubber gloves, protective clothing and a tight-fitting, filtered face mask when
working around mold and contaminated flooded areas.
People with medical problems
such as a suppressed immune
system or breathing problems,
young children and the elderly
should not be involved in
cleaning up from floods.
Hard, nonporous surfaces,
such as glass, steel, most ceramic, metal and hard plastic, can
usually be cleaned with water
and detergent and disinfected,
Niemeyer said. But porous
household materials are nearly
impossible to clean after flooding, she said.
Flood soaked carpets and carpet pads, linoleum, fabric covered furniture, mattresses, drywall or wall board, wet insulation and ceiling tiles should all
be discarded. For heirloom rugs
and furniture, Niemeyer recommended contacting a professional cleaner.
Appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, stoves, dishwashers, hot water heaters, washing
machines and dryers contain
insulation that may harbor
mold spores without visible
evidence and should be discarded or inspected by a qualified professional appliance
repair person, Niemeyer said.
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MAN DRAGGED
LINCOLN — Police say a
man who was lying in the
middle of a street in downtown Lincoln when he was
hit and dragged by a van has
died.
Authorities say David
Coulter, of Lincoln, died
Sunday, more than three
weeks after he was hit.
Officer Katie Flood told the
Lincoln Journal Star that
police were never able to
interview him.
Flood says Coulter was
lying in the street about
10:30 p.m. on May 19 when
he was hit. The driver told
police he realized he was
dragging something and
stopped. He found Coulter
pinned under the van and
called for help.
Flood says Coulter’s bloodalcohol content was more
than three times the limit for
drunken driving.
No tickets have been
issued. The Lancaster
County attorney’s office is
investigating.
ATV CRASH
HOLDREGE —
Authorities say a 57-year-old
Holdrege man was fatally
injured in an accident while
driving his all-terrain vehicle.
The Kearney Hub is reporting that Kenneth Olson was
driving on O Road about a
mile north of Holdrege a little before 6:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Nebraska State Patrol
says Olson lost control of the
ATV and it rolled as he was
trying to turn onto another
road.
Other crash details aren’t
available yet.
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u Preschool story hour for ages 36, 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. Wednesday
at the Hastings Public Library, 517
W. Fourth St. For more information, call 402-461-2346.
u Imagination Playground, 3:30
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Public Library, 517 W. Fourth St.
For more information, call 402461-2346.
u Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
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u Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30
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Mold problems often continue to appear five to six weeks
after a flood has occurred, she
said, but steps can be taken to
combat mold growth, such as
removing damaged wallboard
at least 2 feet or more above
the water line. The wall cavity
should be left open for several
weeks to months to allow the
components to dry thoroughly,
Niemeyer said. A moisture
meter can be used to determine
when the materials are dry.
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Barricades blocking traffic were set up on Showboat Boulevard, south of Highway 74, in May. The road is now open
again, but work will continue on the shoulders.
Showboat back open after road work
MOTORISTS WILL BE SLOWED
BY A HIGHWAY 74 PROJECT
NEAR HOLSTEIN
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After weeks of construction and
delays, Showboat Boulevard in the
southern part of Adams County will now
be open to traffic.
Werner Construction started milling
and resurfacing of the road from
Nebraska Highway 74 to the county line
in late April.
The problem, crews discovered, was
that the structure of the road’s base was
crumbling. They realized that further
work would be needed to stabilize the
road and it was closed to all traffic.
Adams County Roads Superintendent
Dawn Miller said Monday that resurfacing has been completed and that the
road is now open to traffic.
However, VanKirk Brothers of Sutton
will be working later this week to build
up the new shoulders for the roadway,
meaning that the posted speed limit will
be left at 45 miles per hour until that
work is completed.
Roseland Avenue, which was resurfaced between Highway 74 and
Roseland, is also once again completely
open to traffic now that resurfacing is
completed.
Miller said the shoulders will need to
be constructed and signs indicating the
sharp drop off will be placed along the
road until that work is completed.
Paving on Holstein Avenue south of
Highway 74 will be starting this week
and Miller said all this work will be done
under traffic.
That means there will be a pilot car
leading traffic through the construction
zone at all times. This project is scheduled to have a working time of 25 days.
For more information about road projects in Adams County, contact the
Adams County Roads Department at
402-461-7173.
Auditions for Red Cloud play coming up
‘BURNING BARN’ WRITTEN
BY AREA NATIVE ANDREWS
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
[email protected]
RED CLOUD — Auditions for the
upcoming production of a play set in
rural Nebraska are planned for June 1314 at the Red Cloud Opera House here.
“Burning Barn,” a play with roles for
three women and four men, will be performed July 22-24 at the Opera House.
The playwright, Superior native A.P.
Andrews, will direct the production himself.
Auditions will run from 7-9 p.m. both
days, and rehearsals will begin June 15.
Rehearsals are planned for 7-9:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday, depending on
the availability of the cast. Actors will
not be called to every rehearsal.
Andrews will be looking for one
woman and one man in their 50s, one
man in his 30s, two women in their 20s
and two men ages 17-25. Those auditioning should come prepared to read
from the script, which will be provided
at the audition. No advance preparation
is necessary.
In addition, a stage manager will be
needed two weeks prior to the performances, and will be needed at almost
every rehearsal thereafter.
“Burning Barn” is a drama centering
on a family that has lost its home to a
fire and is in danger of falling apart over
a number of festering problems.
The production will run two hours in
length, with one intermission provided.
Showtime is 7:30 p.m. all three days.
The play being performed in Red
Cloud is the second in a series of 10 by
Andrews that he calls “The Nebraska
Cycle.” All deal with life in modern-day
rural Nebraska.
The first play in the Cycle, called
“Abby in the Summer,” will be performed Friday through Sunday at the
Hastings Comunity Theatre. Chistine
Cottam will direct. For tickets, call 402463-1500.
The third play in the Cycle, “The Girl
with the Red Balloon,” is scheduled for
performance Aug. 25-28 by the Superior
Community Theater at the Elks Lodge
there. For tickets, call 402-879-5497.
All three plays are considered suitable
for audiences age 13 and older.
Please see AUDITIONS/page A8
An extracurricular program that
encourages students to sharpen
skills they will use in the workforce has achieved a solid footing
in its first year at Adams Central
High School.
“Very few industries now, can
you go into and just be a worker.
You have to have skills of some
kind,” said Tim Schirmer, who
leads the new AC SkillsUSA chapter with Zeb Noyd, both industrial
technology teachers.
AC’s SkillsUSA chapter had
about 40 students this first year.
Noyd drew interest in the program during spring 2010 by taking students to watch the state
contest in Columbus, and leading
an officer election for the 20102011 school year.
Elected officers met monthly
this school year, then help to lead
a monthly meeting for the entire
chapter. Chapter members work
in committees to accomplish
activities within the Career Skills
Education Program, which
Schirmer said the chapter will
complete every year. This program
includes professional development, a community service project, ways and means (fundraising),
championships (competition),
employment, public relations and
social activities.
Students can attend three conferences throughout the year and
one contest, which was hosted by
Central Community CollegeHastings in April. Twenty AC
SkillsUSA members were among
about 1,500 participants there,
where college faculty and industry
representatives acted as judges.
“The contest is probably one of
the biggest parts of Skills, because
that’s where they actually compete. Skills USA encompasses over
80 competitions and they range
from woodworking to welding to
cosmetology to baking,” Schirmer
said. “It just gives the kids an
opportunity to show off their
skills that they learned in our programs here at school.”
Eighteen of AC’s 20 competing
students received a medal for placing among the top six students in
their event at state, and four will
move on to the SkillsUSA
Championships in Kansas City,
June 20-24. To attend nationals,
Please see AC/page A8
Milligan ready to celebrate June Jubilee this weekend
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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MILLIGAN — Three days of
music, a grand parade, food,
games and activities for all ages
will make this weekend a big
time here.
The 24th annual June Jubilee
celebration kicks off Friday
evening and continues straight
through the weekend. The
event is sponsored by the
Milligan Community Club.
The revelry gets under way
Friday when the outdoor
Centennial Garden opens at 6
p.m., featuring plenty of shade
for the weekend ahead. The
coed softball tournament will
begin at the same time.
Friday is Karaoke Night at
June Jubilee, featuring the disc
jockey services of Music
Maniac. Admission will be
charged for entry to Centennial
Garden.
On Saturday, the softball
tournament resumes and a
sand volleyball tournament
begins at 9 a.m. At 11, weighin begins for the antique tractor pull to follow. Little Red
Sled rules will apply. Also at 11,
a chainsaw artist will begin
work in Centennial Garden.
Road rally line-up begins at
11:30 a.m. on Milligan’s main
street. The rally begins at noon
as Centennial Garden opens
for the day.
The Dave Salmons Trio will
perform 3 p.m. in the Garden,
and pork ribs will be judged at
4. The meat will be cooking in
the Garden throughout the
day. Serving of the ribs and
pork loin will begin at 5 p.m.
At 8:30 p.m., the Omaha
rock-’n’-roll band Taxi Driver
will perform in the Garden.
Garden admission is free up
to 7 p.m. Saturday. Those staying after 7:30 will need a ticket.
Tickets are available at a discount until 7.
Sunday is Family Day at June
Jubilee and will begin in family
style with church services. At
8:30 a.m., the Leo Lonnie
Orchestra will lead the music
for a Polka Mass at St.
Wenceslaus Catholic Church.
Breakfast at the Catholic church
will be served from 9-11 a.m.
Services at the United
Methodist Church begin 9:15
a.m. The softball tournament
also resumes at 9:15.
At 10:30 a.m., the chainsaw
artist will be back at work in
the Garden, and the Methodist
“Country Store” food sale will
begin there. The Garden officially opens at noon.
Admission is free all day.
Line-up for the grand parade
begins 11 a.m. on the east side
of town. The parade begins at
1:30 p.m. with the theme
“Bring on the Big Ten.”
The kids’ pedal pull begins
2:30 p.m. in the Garden. Laser
Tag and a Car Race game also
will begin then. The Monkey
Jump and inflatables will be in
the Garden and on main street.
Lawn mower races are planned
for 3:30.
The Milligan Czech Brass
Band will provide old-time
concert music in the Garden
starting at 3:30 p.m. The Blue
River Czechs will be playing
polkas and waltzes from 4:30
until the end of the festival.
The Sons of the American
Legion will be serving a beef
supper in the Garden beginning at 4:30 p.m. The chainsaw
artist’s creations will go up for
auction at 7:30.
All-day tickets for inflatables
are on sale at local business
establishments. They will be
available at a discount if purchased by 5 p.m. Friday.
Food stands throughout the
weekend will be run by high
school students to help raise
money for camp attendance.
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Kindig: Family’s long
line of enrollments
at St. Cecilia ends
Continued from page A1
through and know that St.
Cecilia has been our home. At
the same time, I still get a little
teary-eyed thinking about it and
knowing that I’m the last one.”
Though keenly aware of the
family’s recent history at the
school, Joe said he only recently learned of just how far back
the Kindig line can be traced at
St. Cecilia.
“My dad and I were talking
about how I was the last one to
graduate and he figured out it
has been at least 51 or 52 years
that a Kindig has been in
there,” he said. “It’s always
been something to look up to,
something to fulfill and keep
going.”
He credits his grandmother,
Bonita “Bub” (Beiriger) Kindig
(1948), for keeping the family
connected to the school
through the years.
“She’s really inspired all of us
to continue at St. Cecilia’s,” he
said. “I know there have been a
lot of struggles in the family,
and some wanted to transfer
over to a different school. But
through her grace, she’s really
helped us to stay in touch with
St. Cecilia.”
As Joe examines the family
tree, he holds out hope that
another wave of Kindigs will
again grace the St. Cecilia campus.
“My oldest sister, Sarah, has
a sixth one on the way, but she
lives in San Antonio, Texas,” he
said. “So that kind of ruins the
streak. But my other brother in
town, Russ, has a son, Cooper,
who is 3. So hopefully we’ll see
another Kindig back in the St.
Cecilia enrollment.
“It’s kind of a sad thing, but
at the same time I feel honored
to be the last one going out.
My dad has always said that
God always has a plan. So if
this is part of His plan, then
life is still going to go on.”
Resource: New center
at CCC serves veterans
Karr notes that his experience allows him to understand
what veterans and active military students face as they
attend CCC.
He remembers that when he
was a student, he got help with
his GI Bill questions, but not
much support beyond that.
And he didn’t seek support, he
said, because he thought other
students or faculty wouldn’t
understand the challenges of a
student veteran.
For instance, Karr described
how loud noises can affect veterans’ learning.
“When you’re in a classroom, a loud noise means
something different to me as a
veteran than it does to other
students,” he said. “To other
students it might be a disruption. To me, it changes my
whole personality. Now, I’m
alert and I’m ready to go.”
“Especially with PTSD (Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder),”
added Todd Kermmoade, member of the Army National
Guard’s 1195th Transportation
Co., Recruit Sustainment
Program instructor at North
Platte and a second-year automotive student at CCCHastings.
When veterans enter a classroom, they first visually “clear
out the room” to make sure
everything is safe, Karr said.
Because of their survival training, this is done before veterans
can concentrate on a test they
are about to take. When they
hear a loud noise, they have to
repeat the process.
“One time I was in a classroom and a loud noise hit, and
I told everybody to get their
gas mask on. That was embarrassing for me, because everybody was looking at me like I
was a freak,” Karr said. “I was
trying to protect them. I was so
embarrassed, I didn’t want to
go back to school anymore.
And that’s all it takes.”
Certain smells can trigger
memories for vets that disrupt
their learning, as well. Military
stereotypes can alienate them
from staff or other students.
The free-thinking mode of college life can be a big switch for
veterans, who are used to following orders. And just understanding how the two GI Bills
and other assistance programs
will pay for their education
often is a challenge, Karr said.
Tuesday, Kermmoade visited
the VRC to get help finding
out whether he still can apply
for tuition assistance. Karr
helped him contact the captain
in charge to get an answer that
day.
“If he was at a different
school that didn’t have the
support factor, he would have
to do all the legwork and try to
figure that out himself, and
maybe even wait for a drill
date, which is a month down
the road, before he can actually
talk to someone about it,” Karr
said.
Usually, Kermmoade said, he
works with campus veterans
certifying official Sherri
Portenier when he has tuition
questions. Portenier processes
GI Bills, tracks that veterans are
attending class and reports data
to the Veterans Affairs office.
Michele Lutz, vocational
assessment director at the
Columbus campus and an Air
Force veteran, is sometimes
called on to counsel veterans as
well.
Karr has an office within the
VRC at all three CCC campuses
in Hastings, Grand Island and
Columbus.
The VRC hosts monthly
workshops open to all veterans,
including those who are not
CCC students. Topics include
things like veteran entrepreneurship, services available
through Veterans Affairs and
how to register for summer
classes using the GI Bills.
It will host two upcoming
workshops: Operation:
Reintegration military mental
health workshop June 17 at
CCC-Grand Island; and
“Responding to the Brain
Injury and Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder Needs of
Veterans Returning from
Operation Enduring
Freedom/Operation Iraqi
Freedom,” Sept. 8 on the CCCGrand Island campus.
On Veterans Day, the
Hastings VRC will host its first
open house. An open house
planned for March 8 was canceled by a snowstorm.
As part of the grant, CCC’s
VRC will act as a model for
other colleges wanting to offer
similar services.
“They’re going to look and
analyze what I do, what programs I implement, and they’re
going to look at my growth as
far as enrollment: Persistence,
so, I keep students in school,
and then my graduation rates,”
Karr said.
Karr also is in regular contact
with the 14 other schools that
received the grant.
The grant is non-renewable,
but the goal is to keep the VRC
running after the three years
are complete, Karr said.
For more information about
these events or the VRC, visit
the VRC page at
www.cccneb.edu by clicking
“Admissions,” then the VRC
link on the left of the page.
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A thank you message is spray painted on a large levee protecting residences along the Missouri River in South Sioux City
Monday.
Iowa: Town could be left under water
The earthen levee that
guards an area of farmland and
small towns between Omaha,
Neb., and Kansas City has been
partially breached in at least
two places south of the IowaMissouri border. And emergency management officials
expect new breaches in the
coming days as the river rises.
That means Hamburg could
be only the first of many communities to get hit.
The last time the Missouri
River crested at levels predicted
for this summer was in 1952,
before most of the major dams
along the river were built. And
the flooding is expected to last
into mid-August.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers will be releasing
more water than it ever has
from the dams by mid-June,
meaning there likely will be
other levee problems like the
ones near Hamburg, said Kevin
Grode with the corps’ water
management office.
“With these high flows,
there’s the possibility of more
levee breaches,” Grode said.
Officials also predict the
water will get high enough to
flow over at least 11 levees in
the area near Hamburg in the
corners of southeast Nebraska,
southwest Iowa and northwest
Missouri.
The Army Corps began
building a secondary flood wall
JESSICA STEWART, St. Joseph News-Press/AP
Streets are blocked off near the Missouri River in Brownville
Monday. Officials said Monday they are concerned about a
section of the levee on the river’s western banks, near
Brownville, and crews are trying to determine the extent of
possible damage there.
to protect low-lying areas of
of levee would cause floodwaHamburg because it expects the ter to flow northward over the
northernmost breach of the
flat terrain and threaten the
floodwall, which is 5 miles
town’s low-lying southern
southwest of town, to fully give neighborhoods.
way at some point.
About half of Hamburg’s
That breach constituted a 10- roughly 1,100 residents were
to 15-foot-wide section of the
ordered Sunday to leave their
levee collapsing in on itself on
homes within 24 hours, and
Sunday, said Kim Thomas, the
that process was expected to be
head of the corps’ emergency
completed by Monday
management office in Omaha,
evening, said John Benson, a
Neb. The corps evacuated its
spokesman for Iowa’s departpersonnel from the area, and
ment of Homeland Security
the Iowa National Guard used
and Emergency Management.
a helicopter to drop 22 half-ton
Just across the state line in
sandbags on the weakened sec- Missouri, several residents of
tion, stabilizing it temporarily.
Atchison County were also
Although Hamburg is uprivordered to leave.
er, a full breach of that section
In a worst-case scenario,
corps projections show that the
volume of water released
upstream during a levee break
could leave 8 feet to 10 feet of
standing water in the southern
part of Hamburg. The area
includes manufacturing and
agricultural businesses. Water
could reach the fire station and
City Hall, but it likely wouldn’t
reach the northern part of
town where most residents live.
Sturm said such a scenario
“would be a calamity” for the
town and officials are trying to
contain as much water as possible.
“We’re going to hope for the
best and see what happens,”
Sturm said. “I don’t want to
admit defeat until I see that
water coming into town.”
Large sections of town sat
empty Monday as crews scrambled to erect the western levee
against the Missouri River.
Local officials patrolled a levee
along the Nishna River to the
east, fearful that another few
inches of rain would cause it to
break and inundate the town.
Several residents voiced
anger at the corps for not starting the water release sooner to
spread it out over time.
“Talk about dropping the
ball,” said Terry Rutledge, who
owns a car dealership and strip
club in town. “They should
have started making a move on
this a long time ago, and they
didn’t. They’ve really blown
it.”
NAD: Documentarian seeks personal stories
producing the documentary.
Allen said the project will
examine the effect the war
effort had on communities of
various sizes across the country.
“We are doing one video, out
of several, that focuses on what
was the whole national scene
and what was going on in different communities,” he said.
“We’re trying to reach into different parts of the country to get
a cross-section of how people in
different places responded differently to the war effort, but also
what they had in common.”
Along with Richmond, Allen
said he has talked with people in
larger cities like Detroit, where
car factories were converted to
build tanks and jeeps during the
war. Smaller communities, such
as Hastings and North Platte in
Nebraska, also saw transformations during the war.
“Hastings is unique, in our
point of view, because it was a
small area in its own right and
yet did attract a lot of people to
that area from different parts of
the country,” he said.
But the ensuing population
BRENT McCOWN/Tribune
Hundreds of bunkers dot the former Naval Ammunition Depot grounds.
boom also caused disruptions
in the form of farmers losing
their land and overcrowding in
the schools.
Allen said the goal is to get
firsthand accounts of the
atmosphere in the area at the
time and the impact that was
made by the depot.
“There are a lot of different
stories that we are looking for
and hoping to find people who
have some memories,” he said.
After the documentary is finished, Allen said it will be
shown at the new national
park as well as educational
material for schools.
As a small company,
Signature Communications
gravitates toward projects that
connect people with their history and serve an educational
purpose.
“The goal is to make a piece
of history come alive by
involving people who were
there who were part of it,”
Allen said.
Allen said he intends to visit
Nebraska in the second half of
June to collect video interviews
with area residents, possibly
during the week of June 20.
The company is interested in
finding people with memories
from the time period, including
farmers who may have been
displaced, employees of the
NAD, and teachers or students
who were in school at the time.
“We’re looking for human
stories,” Allen said.
Anyone with a compatible
story can contact Allen via
phone at 410-535-3477 or
through email at
[email protected].
A sense of community is what
retirement is all about...
OPEN HOUSE
June 12th • 1-3 p.m.
Pick up information at the
Community Center
All faiths or beliefs are welcome,
age 55 and older.
Region/State
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Local
FINE-FREE FRIDAYS
The Hastings Public
Library will be taking back
overdue books, magazines
and other items without
charging a late fee on Fridays
this summer.
Fine-free Fridays, which
were first held last summer,
allow people to return overdue books and other items
without paying the overdue
fees.
“The goal is to encourage
people to return overdue
items so they can use their
accounts to check out new
items they may be missing
out on,” said director Amy
Greenland. “We want everyone to be able to participate
in our summer reading activities.”
The Fine-free Fridays will
run through August.
Moderation waning in Kansas under gov.
JOHN HANNA
TOPEKA, Kan. — For
decades in Kansas, a delicate
political balance kept the state
on a moderate path even as
other states in the region
turned to the right.
Conservatives could cut taxes
in flush times. But Democrats
and centrist Republicans still
freed up money for highways
and schools, and a loose coalition worked out compromises.
Those days, it seems, have
passed.
And the change has come
more swiftly than in other
places that were part of last fall’s
conservative electoral wave that
put new Republican governors
or stronger Republican legislatures in charge in half of the
nation’s statehouses.
In a mere five months, new
Republican Gov. Sam
Brownback and likeminded lawmakers have recast the social
and fiscal landscape of Kansas
and made the state a laboratory
for conservative ideas.
Kansas will soon become one
of the most difficult places in
the country for a woman to
obtain an abortion. Its public
schools will have much leaner
budgets. Its government workers will have smaller pensions or
pay more to keep what they
have. Several state agencies have
been closed or merged. The
state will look for ways to spend
less on health care for the poor
in the Medicaid program. And
Kansas will be first state to eliminate funding for the arts.
The legislative session that
ended this month will have
PAULINE PICNIC
Central Community College has
announced the names of full-time students who have earned spots on its
president’s and dean’s honor lists for
the 2011 spring semester. Students on
the president’s honor list earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average, while students on the dean’s honor list earned a
3.5-3.99 GPA.
President’s honor list
u Blue Hill: Tammy Lowery
u Bruning: Melissa Bulin
u Deshler: Traci Larkins
u Doniphan: Christine Quist, Benjamin
Velde
u Edgar: Christopher Eickmann
u Franklin: Sharon Masoner
u Harvard: Tina Winchell
u Hastings: Alex Adelson, Heather Ashley,
Macaela Cottam, Jeremy Fitz, Rachel Gnagy,
Joseph Grigsby, Brandon Hansen, Elishia
Heilbrun, Derek Hoevet, Stephanie Holl,
Tiffany Isom, Shannon Jensen, Cody Kucera,
Ethan Larsen, Kenneth Lutkemeier, Christine
McVicker, Reggie Petersen, Wendy Propp,
Tate Scherbarth, Matthew Schwartz, Christine
Stech, Nnamdi Uche, Jonathan Uden, Noah
Whitaker, Eric Wicht and Joseph Zach
u Juniata: Jonathan Borgeling
u Kenesaw: Megan Adams
u Roseland: Alan Ellis
u Superior: Christopher Franssen
Dean’s honor list
u Bladen: Kayralyn Grigg
u Blue Hill: Desirae Kohmetscher
u Bruning: Kelsey Otto
u Campbell: Kimberly Crowell, Rudy
Rodriguez
u Clay Center: Jill Baxa, Ed Harms
u Doniphan: James Holtgrewe, Kyle
Olerich, Beau Toben
HONORARY
u Grafton: Bobbi Lovegrove
u Hastings: Morgan Elise
Johnson
u Hebron: Nicole Petersen
WSC DEAN’S LIST
The following students
have been named to the
Wayne State College Dean’s
List for the spring 2011
semester. Dean’s List members are full-time, undergraduate students who have
earned a grade point average
of 3.5 or above on a 4.0
scale.
u Ayr: Jennifer Gangwish
u Deshler: Andrew Brenn,
Brittney Firley
u Doniphan: Tausha Lee
u Geneva: Alyssa Hayse,
Whitney Peppard
u Gilead: Abigail Dougherty
u Giltner: Nathan Most
u Hastings: Trent Ahlers, Paige
Drohman, Kortney Hoover
u Hebron: Megan Reece,
Shelby Schultz
u Kenesaw: Brett Arehart
SCHOLARSHIPS
GIVEN
Doane College recently
announced 2011 high school
graduates offered Doane
scholarships in recognition of
superior academic performance. Recipients and their
scholarships include:
Presidential Scholar awards
u Giltner: Nikita Larson
u Guide Rock: Tyler Strobl
u Juniata: Catherine Renschler
Board of Trustees Scholar
awards
u Bruning: Zoey Messman
u Deshler: Brianna Pohlmann
u Hastings: Matthew
Overmiller
u Juniata: Leslie Pfeifer
u Minden: Jena Hansen
Van Hoy Scholar awards
u Fairfield: Katlin Lang
u Geneva: Meg Loontjer
u Hastings: Kelsie Scoggins
u Minden: Benjamin Petersen,
Lauren Taylor
Community Award
u Ayr: Ryan Bender
u Doniphan: Brittney Lund
u Geneva: Samuel Rickert,
Andrew Votipka
u Hastings: Ashtyn Cathcart,
Kiley Hug, Josie Martin
u Hildreth: Miranda Paitz
u Minden: Cassandra
Choquette, Alysha Watson
Voters’ anger over the recession
and government spending set the
stage. Democrats and other moderates found themselves overwhelmed. In Kansas, the number
of GOP lawmakers grew by 10
percent, making the Legislature
three-quarters Republican. Many
of the new members were strong
conservatives.
“I expected that the
Republicans would be more
focused on economic issues,”
said House Minority Leader
Paul Davis, a Lawrence
Democrat who was somewhat
shell-shocked by the breadth of
the agenda Brownback
rammed through. “I thought
that after the election in
November, they would see that
the mandate from the voters
was to try to get this economy
moving and try to create jobs.”
Brownback has gotten
almost everything he wanted
with little difficulty; his biggest
political problem may be meeting the more expansive expectations of some conservatives.
“I want more!” laughed
House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a
conservative Republican, as he
reviewed the session’s work.
In a series of lopsided votes,
the Legislature cut overall
spending and general aid to
public schools about 6 percent,
imposed new restrictions on
late-term abortions and regulations for clinics and doctors,
changed the pension system for
state workers, and passed a
voter ID law, which is on conservatives’ to-do list nationwide.
The measure includes a proofof-citizenship requirement for
Please see KANSAS/page A8
u Fairfield: Sean Bradley, Suzan Kluver,
James Lipovsky, Christopher Rains, Ian
Rothell
u Geneva: Serena Bohling
u Giltner: Jessica Cates, Sherry Detamore
u Hastings: Kendra Ahlers, Christopher
Andersen, Meagan Barnett, Carlos Beade,
Lorena Betancourt, Kelly Bramble-Maurer,
Marissa Brunick, Justine Cassidy, Taylor
Chamberlin, Nicole Delgado, David Dobesh,
Rosalie Dwyer, Rebecca Fischer, Ashlee
Fisher, James Flores, Andrew Gallington,
Abby Gentert, Alexis George, Nathan
Gerritsen, Whitney Hedges, Amber Hoffman,
Jennifer Huffman, Keye Jacobs, Paige
Johnson, Michelle Jones, Christopher
Kemnitz, Lucas Kliewer, Kirk Layton-Lakatos,
Megan Lueders, Jessica Maas, Haley Magee,
Rebecca McPherson, Clare Elizabeth Meyer,
Daniel Meyer, Brett Miller, Kimberly Miller,
Sue Paczkowski, Maxwell Reiber, Molly
Reiners, Terry Roughton, Heath Sadd, Dustin
Schmidt, Cherie Schnakenberg, Jessica
Sharp, Whitney Slack, Kimberly Stech, Joshua
Thom, Jamie Thurin, Bang Tran, Bentz
Wissing, Andrew Young, Amanda Zwiener,
Jeremiah Zwiener
u Holstein: Joanne Hohlfeld, Elise Lukow
u Juniata: Travis Bankson
u Kenesaw: Daniel Fischer, Sarah Uden
u Lawrence: Keith Faimon, Benjamin
Weldon
u Minden: Eric Johnson, Ginger Morris,
Bruce Shepherd
u Naponee: Joan Kahrs
u Nelson: Kate Brown
u Red Cloud: Arthur Oberlechner
u Roseland: Craig Shaw, Benjamin Trausch
u Shickley: Cole Schultz
u Superior: Brandon Blecha, Craig Guilkey,
Justine Hoins
u Sutton: Gary Griess, Troy Hofmann, Sue
Kennedy, Hannah Reed, Anna White
u Trumbull: Heather Goodwin
Hastings Middle School honor roll
WESLEYAN
The following Tribland students are among 21 Nebraska
Wesleyan University students
who have been inducted into
Psi Chi, a psychology honorary. Psi Chi members are
students majoring in psychology, biopsychology or
business-psychology, or
minoring in psychology who
maintain a minimum grade
point average of 3.0 and rank
in the upper 35 percent of
their class.
shoved Kansas away from the
socially moderate climate of
the Midwest, with Iowa and
Illinois, and toward the sharply
conservative Southwest of
Texas and Oklahoma.
“The ground was very fertile.
There hadn’t been a conservative
governor in maybe 50 years,”
Brownback said in an interview
with The Associated Press. “It’s a
center-right state. On top of it,
you’ve got a revulsion to what’s
taking place in Washington.”
Brownback, a conservative
Catholic and strong abortion
opponent who served 14 years
in the Senate, took office in
January and moved briskly
through a wish list of conservative priorities while new
Republican leaders in other
states were caught up in legislative fights with similar measures.
Central Community College student honors
Region
PAULINE — The annual
Pauline Picnic is scheduled
for Sunday here.
The community event gets
under way at the United
Methodist Church following
morning services. A potluck
dinner will be served at
noon.
Afternoon activities will
include horseshoe pitching
at 2 p.m., plus softball and
other games. Ice cream will
be served.
Those attending should
bring lawn chairs.
For more information,
contact Suzanne Trammell at
402-771-2514.
A7
The following Hastings
Middle School students have
qualified for the fourth quarter
honor roll:
All 4’s
u Sixth Grade: Nathan Abel,
James Arneson, Garrett Beard,
Peyton Brodrick, Baily Cantrell, Grace
Clawson, Phoebe Dunbar, Zoe
Emons, Murphy Glen, Cameron
Hastings, Sierra Holliday, Gretchen
Kelly, Chloe Larson, Graciella Lopez,
Brandon Maley, Derek Pavelka, Josh
Peterson, Bailey Richman, Kelsey
Ripperger, Roma Rodriguez, Kaitlyn
Sanchez, Savannah Santos, Elizabeth
Schans, Vinny Schmidt, Katie Sievers,
Cody Smith, Rishav Srivastava, Sara
Truong, Nathan Zimmerman
u Seventh Grade: Emily Block, Alli
Carlini, Makenzie Carson, Jordyn
Christy, Lynn Chung, Zoe Cook,
Ashley Craig, Katie Cumpston,
Kierstn Curtis, Annie Davis, Kayla
DeMoor, Katie Fast, Breeanna
Fluckey, Jake Hanna, Dacia Hartman,
Grayce Hueske, Ken Huynh, Morgan
Karloff, Alex Kleinjan, Nolan
Kohmetscher, Jenna Kranjc, Lindsey
LaBrie, Odeth Mendez, Sam Reimer,
Ben Remmers, Janessa Schroeder,
Nathan Stolzenburg, Hope
Thelander, Garrett VanBrocklin,
Jackie Vanmetre, Hoai Vu.
u Eighth Grade: Levi Acosta,
Kevin Christensen, Kevin Cruz,
Nicole Dillin, Zach Evans, Phillip
Fisbeck, Adam Florian, Jared Foote,
Jack Foreman, Liz Franssen, Jordan
Graviette, Adam Hartman, Travis
Hartwig, Brandon Hemberger,
Bethany Hollman, Sarah Johnson,
Cassi Karr, Jeff Keele, Brenton
Keese, Hannah Knapp, Garrett
Kothe, Canten Lacy, Nolan Laux,
Ryder Mays, Tyler Musgrave,
Marissa Najera, Neely Nuss, Rachel
Roberts, Sam Roth, Andrew Rutt,
Alex Schmidt, Miranda Scoggins,
Collin Spilinek, Diego Ventura,
Madeline Warrick, Devon Weinman
3.5 GPA or higher
u Sixth Grade: Cade Adler, Iris
Apodaca, Jackson Armstrong,
Skyler Ballou, Matt Bank, Armando
Bautista, Zane Bender, Michael
Bera, Ben Blunck, Abby Borgman,
Alexis Briones, Juan Bueno,
Brandon Camarillo, Anahi Chacon,
Caitlyn Chandler, Sammy
Christensen, Jake Clark, Hunter
Craft, Austin Craig, Jerry Cruz,
Savanah Davis, Savannah DeBoer,
Jewllyan Dettman, Morgan Dirks,
Brianna Ditsworth, Blake Douglas,
Ryan Douglas, Blayne Douglas,
Gabby Dubas, Diel Duman, Melissa
Espinoza, Zuriel Espinoza, Kaela
Evans, Hannah Fagiolo, Mikaila Fox,
Renea Frakes, Marcila Goben,
Alondra Gomez, Peter Goodin,
Bailey Gragg, Colton Hatch,
Donovan Hemphill, Noble
Henderson, Aaron Heras, Jasmine
Hernandez, Samantha Hernandez,
Claudia Hertado Gonzales, Justin
Hester, Taylor Hinrichs, Alexus
Hopkins, Josh Jarmer, Allyson
Johnson, Emmalee Johnson,
Courtney Junker, Andrew Kalvelage,
Kegan Kamper, Cydnee Karash,
Austin Kelley, Natalie Kleinjan,
McKenna Lamoree, Anthony Leffler,
Brianna Lehrling, Michael Lopez,
Noah Lyle, Anthony Market, Milli
May, Alexandria Melroy, Noelle
Melvin, Kira Middleton, Matt Moller,
Luis Morales, Aiden Morris, Alexis
Moss, Marcel Mullen, Summer
Mullins, Joe Murphy, Alex Navarete,
Jimmy Nguyen, Deangelo
Nicolarsen, Garrett Osman, Will
Parker, Courtney Peters, Nikita
Pettit, Austin Randall, Emma
Redinger, Brittan Reichert, Joselyn
Reyes, Johnathan Reyes, Steven
Richardson, Praise Rocha, Eric
Rohde, Kendra Rubek, Andrew
Sadd, Gabby Sadd, Kylie Schroeder,
Braden Schumm, Austin Seamann,
Jazmin Serrano, Cole Shardelow,
Trace Shurter, Zack Specht, Monica
Stein, Yadira Torres Alverez, David
Tut, Kristen Valle, Yvette Ventura,
Davis Wacker, Carrie Walker, Bodey
Whitten, Kelsey Wrightsman, Austin
Zeckser, Rhiannon Zimlich
u Seventh Grade: Raven Adler,
Emily Aldrich, Emily Amyot, Kristian
Andersen, Jacynda, Aulrich,
Danyell, Boutin, Dakota Boydston,
Dylan Brown, Hannah Campbell,
Jennifer Chavez, Macie Clawson,
Michael Collicott, Blake Craig,
Regan Crawford, Michael Curry,
Adolfo Diaz Vargas, Evan Dixon,
Bladen Dulitz, Same Fincher, Peyton
Ford, Maria Galvan, Zane Gardner,
Shailyn Glinsman, Skyler Good,
Annie Grealish, Kelsey Griess,
Damen Haines, Brenden Hall,
Maddie Hittner, Jack Hunt, Jamie
Johnson, Brittany Rutt, Alex
Kemnitz, Andrew Kemnitz, Sidney
Kenny, Libby Knapple, Matt Krontz,
Christine Land, Dylan Langston,
Paige Lehrling, Abby Loetterle,
Molly Loetterle, Nick Long, Nathan
Lueth, Heidi Manchame, Harley
Marino, Reganne Markle, Cole
Maurer, Bryant Menke, Dakota
Meyer, Lydia Meyer, Brady Michel,
Skyler Molina, Natashia Naslund,
Juan Navarrette, Olivia Nicholarsen,
Carlos Olivas, Sophia Pankratz,
Nathan Patterson, Ryan Pawloski,
Cesar Pedroza, Colby Pedroza,
Gustavo Perez, Clara Pinkus, Austin
Price, Brayan Rodela, Luz
Rodriguez, Dalten Sadd, Nick Sadd,
Adriana Salaz, Kyler Samples, Cody
Schlotzhauer, Toby Schneider,
Jordan Schwab, Alex Spady, Dallas
Strong, Tyler Summers, Chloe
Swoboda, Destiny Thompson, Erica
Thompson, Noah Thompson,
Garrett VanSkiver, Jhan Vizoso,
Skylar Wach, Sidney Waite, Amber
Wendt, Nicole Williamson, Jayden
Wilson, Wendy Zhao.
u Eighth Grade: Alex Adler, Sean
Alcorn, Treu Anderson, Natasha
Ashley, Addison Belau, Emily
Blunck, Carlos Carmona, Katie Coil,
Amber Einspahr, Lakeshia
Ellwanger, Alexus Fleharty, Jordan
Frink, Jacob Ganshert, Adrian
Garcia, Vincent Gray, Nick
Hamburger, Dariyan Harris, Brenda
Hernandez, Matt Karnes, Taylor
Kidwell Brandon Kile, Corey King,
Katie Kingsley, Sydnee Kristine,
Tyler Langholz, Tessie Larson, Julie
Leyva, Esthefany Lopez, Aubre
Marino, Tylan Matthias, Laura
McCarthy, Josh Menze, Zach
Merrill, Neli Morales, Jeromy
Naslund, Jenny Nguyen, Tonny
Nguyen, Trent Nissen, Albert
Pedroza, Philip Pedroza, Josie
Propp, Brittney Remmenga, Zach
Rickert, Maykala Ridgebear, Carlos
Roca, Mireya Rodriguez, Breanna
Roe, Alex Roughton, Regan
Samuelson, Kyle Santos, Lindsay
Sharp, Christin Smith, Devin Struss,
Faith Thelander, Javier Torres,
Keandre Turner, Christy Ventura
ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
NOTICE OF HEARING TO AMEND THE BUDGET FOR ADAMS COUNTY
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, in compliance with State Statute 13-511, that the Adams County Board will meet on the 14th day of June at
10:30 a.m. at the Courthouse for the purpose of hearing support, opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations of taxpayers relating to
amending the budget to amending the budget which was originally adopted on the 7th day of September, 2010. Due to unforeseen circumstances, actual expenditures for the current fiscal year will exceed budgeted expenditures unless the current fiscal year budget of expenditures
is revised. In view of the recent decision by the County Board to issue Highway Allocation Bonds in the amount of $4,200,000 to maintain and
improve the conditions of certain county roads, it is anticipated that $2,510,000 will be expended for these improvements and maintance in this
fiscal year. The originally adopted budget of expenditures cannot be reduced during the remainder of the current fiscal year to meet the need
for additional money as the issuance of Highway Allocation Bonds was not anticipated during the time the current budget was adopted. The
budget detail is available in the office of the Clerk during regular business hours.
/s/Chrisella Lewis, County Clerk
Summary of Proposed Budget
Actual
Disbursements
FUNDS
General
Actual
Disbursements
Proposed
Budget
of Disbursements
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
(1)
(2)
(3)
Total
Available
Resources
Before
Property
Taxes
(5)
Necessary
Cash
Reserve
(4)
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for Bonds
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
(6)
$0
12,310,997
13,493,434
13,845,589
1,000,000
7,515,576
7,330,013
0
0
2,510,000
0
4,150,650
0
Library
139,500
142,290
206,136
0
53,646
152,490
Health
870,686
89,601
100,000
0
109,810
0
Visitors
101,750
100,362
139,623
0
158,270
0
4,000
3,100
2,674
0
2,674
0
1,073,966
853,662
1,880,616
0
1,880,616
0
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for
ALL Other
Purposes
$7,482,583
CAP Project
Veterans Aid
Inheritance
Escrow
49,445
253,096
778,236
0
778,236
0
E911
110,245
98,815
157,700
0
157,770
0
Closed Funds
428,068
13,068
0
0
0
0
15,088,657
15,047,428
19,620,574
1,000,000
14,807,178
TOTALS
Unused Budget Authority created for next year
7,482,503
759,111
Summary of Originally Adopted Budget
Actual
Disbursements
FUNDS
Actual
Disbursements
Proposed
Budget
of Disbursements
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
(1)
(2)
(3)
Total
Available
Resources
Before
Property
Taxes
(5)
Necessary
Cash
Reserve
(4)
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for Bonds
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
(6)
$0
General
12,310,997
13,493,434
13,845,589
1,000,000
7,515,576
7,330,013
Library
139,500
142,290
206,136
0
53,646
152,490
Health
870,686
89,601
100,000
0
109,810
0
Visitors
101,750
100,362
139,623
0
158,270
0
4,000
3,100
2,674
0
2,674
0
1,073,966
853,662
1,808,616
0
1,808,616
0
49,445
253,096
778,236
0
778,236
0
Total Personal
and Real
Property Tax
Requirement
for
ALL Other
Purposes
E911
110,245
98,815
157,700
0
157,700
0
$7,482,503
Closed Funds
428,068
13,068
0
0
0
0
15,088,657
15,047,428
17,110,574
1,000,000
10,656,528
7,482,503
Veterans Aid
Inheritance
Escrow
TOTALS
Unused Budget Authority created for next year
759,111
Region/State
A8
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Towns fear closure of post offices
ALEXANDER, Kan. —
Residents in a tiny western
Kansas community are concerned that if the U.S. Postal
Service closes its post office
there it would lead to the
town’s demise.
The post office in Alexander,
a community of about 65 residents in southwest Rush
County, is among 11 being
considered for closure, a small
part of the U.S. Postal Service’s
attempt to cut costs. The post
office in Alexander is one of
only two remaining businesses.
“I think if we lose the post
office, this town probably will
die,” resident Rhoda Sherman
told The Hays Daily News.
USPS spokesman Brian
Sperry said no decision has
been made yet.
State
RAPPELLING FROM
OMAHA TOWER
OMAHA — Dozens of Boy
Scout supporters are expected
to go over the edge of downtown Omaha’s 30-story
Woodmen Tower this fall.
The supporters will rappel
down the side of the 478-foot
tall building on Sept. 24 for a
Boy Scouts of America fundraiser called Over the Edge.
Registration is open and
can be done online at
www.macbsa.org/OverTheEdge.
Participants must be at least
14 years old and weigh
between 110 and 300 pounds.
Registration costs $1,000
per person. The money goes
to support inner-city scouting
programs.
COUNTIES WARNED
FREMONT — Officials are
warning residents along the
Platte River in eastern
Nebraska’s Dodge and
Saunders counties that the
river is rising and it will rise
into some yards and buildings
and maybe even higher.
Higher water releases into
the North Platte River are
expected from Lake
McConaughy, upstream from
where it merges with the
South Platte to form the
Platte River.
Region 5/6 emergency
manager Bill Pook says the
state and the Army Corps of
Engineers are expecting lowland flooding all along the
Platte as it winds its way
toward its end at the Missouri
River, south of Omaha.
Pook says various agencies
are planning for what appears
to be the inevitable in the
two counties. But he told the
Fremont Tribune that “people
need to take personal responsibility now.”
Alexander is being considered for closure because of its
proximity to another post
office, in this case Bazine. The
postmaster’s position is open as
well, making it a convenient
time to consider closing the
post office, which conducts
nine or fewer daily transactions.
Alton Huddleston said it’s
almost a certainty the post
office will close, and he understands the need for the USPS to
save money.
“They’ve got to cut some
corners,” he said.
Alexander’s post office once
thrived, but business quickly
slowed after an antique shop
that did much of its business
through mail-order and moved
to the north-central Kansas
town of Wilson. Alexander also
had its own bank until 1987,
the fifth of five Rush County
banks that closed in about two
years.
Today, the bank building
serves as the senior citizens
center. A fourth of Alexander’s
residents are senior citizens —
65 years or older. Nine are at
least 75.
“The only thing we’ve got
left is the co-op,” said resident
Keith Schwindt.
If the Alexander Post Office
is closed, mail would be handled through the facility in
Bazine, with delivery to
Alexander.
Alton Huddleston said
Alexander might be living on
borrowed time, and that the
community might be able to
hang on for “another 25 years
probably.”
MIKE CORN/Tribune
The Alexander Post Office is pictured here on May 23 in Alexander, Kan. It is one of 11 post
offices being considered for closure.
Kansas: Moderation waning under new governor
people registering to vote for the first time.
Legislators also rewrote income tax
laws to help corporations that buy
equipment and temporarily suspended
income taxes for out-of-state people
who moved to Kansas counties with
declining populations.
“We’ve got some pretty meaty subjects
out there that are not only being looked
at, but we’re passing them,” O’Neal said.
The targets of the new action have
felt the ground shift beneath them.
“We got our new leadership and our
new administration, and it’s just totally
different,” said David Reber, a biology
and anatomy teacher at Lawrence Free
State High School, which is in a district
that will lose $3.1 million in general
aid. “Public education is not a priority.”
Next comes phase two. Brownback
expects to have a plan to overhaul the
state’s tax system — and cut income
taxes — by the end of the year.
Republicans also may change the state
pension system for new hires to a
401(k)-style plan.
Brownback and his allies believe in
stimulating Kansas’ growth by lowering
taxes rather than through investments
in government services. They see action
on the social issues as being in line with
most residents’ values.
Some conservatives say this day has
been a long time coming. “I think the government has shifted,” said Roger
Hammerschmidt, owner of a trailer and
auto parts business in Manhattan, who
said state spending had gotten out of hand.
“...He is putting us in the right direction.”
Brownback is a big change from previous governors. His immediate predecessors, Kathleen Sebelius and Mark
Parkinson, were moderate Democrats.
Past Republican governors wanted to
protect public schools and some social
services even if they had to raise revenue. The traditional Republicans
claimed the legacy of Bob Dole, Dwight
Eisenhower and Alf Landon.
Politically active evangelical
Christians had begun to assert their
influence in recent years, but even
when they took over the state school
board and rewrote testing standards to
undermine evolution’s centrality to science, GOP moderates and Democrats
eventually managed to undo their work.
Calvin Seadeek, the owner of Council
Grove firearms and hunting accessory
store, said he’s delighted by
Brownback’s changes, but surprised. “He
has probably gone a little further than I
expected,” he said.
AC: SkillsUSA finds strong footing in first year at high school
students had to earn first place
in their event at the Nebraska
SkillsUSA contest. Or, as in the
case of AC junior Blake
Barwick, they earned second
place and the first place winner
declined to go.
Barwick will compete in cabinet making, creating a cabinet
to meet specifications given to
him during the contest. 2011
graduate Kari McLeod and
freshmen Vicky Korth and Ali
Stark will compete in the community service team event.
These girls helped to plan,
organize and complete a coat
drive at AC for Crossroads
Center Rescue Mission. Their
participation in state and
national SkillsUSA contests
Auditions: Actors needed
The playwright, better known
to many in the area as Andrew
Leibel, is the founder of the
Superior Community Theater
and continues to serve as its
artistic director. He performed in
many productions in Superior,
Red Cloud and Hastings before
moving on to college in New
York, where he now is based.
Andrews holds a degree in
drama from New York
University’s Tisch School of the
Arts, where he studied at
Playwrights Horizons Theatre
School. He also has studied
with the Dramatic Writing
Program at NYU and in
London with the Writers Guild
of Great Britain.
He is a member of both Jesters
and Prophets and Boxed Wine
Theatre companies. In New
York, he also serves as a dramaturg for the Palissimo Dance
Company under the leadership
of choreographer Pavel Zustiak.
Tickets for “Burning Barn”
will be available through the
Red Cloud Opera House box
office, 402-746-2641.
The Red Cloud Opera House
also can arrange for passes individuals can buy to see all three
Andrews plays — the Hastings,
Red Cloud and Superior productions — for a discounted price.
includes reporting on this project.
“It really trains you to the
specific thing that you want to
do when you get older,” Korth
told the AC board of education
in May. “When I get older and
I want to apply to colleges or
jobs, they’ll see this on an
application or resume.”
Schirmer, who also started
SkillsUSA chapters at Axtell and
Doniphan-Trumbull high
schools, said he hopes to add
more students to the program
next year and see them compete in a broader range of
skills.
“Any kind of job skill you
can think of, Skills probably
has a competition for it,” he
said. ‘It’s very worthwhile for
the kids to do, because their
main focus is making sure that
the workforce that goes out has
skills.
“It’s a program that means a
lot to me, and I really hope it
takes off here, because it’s got a
lot of good things for the kids,”
Schirmer said.
Find more information at
skillsusanebraska.org.
Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B1
Royals select NU recruit in draft
STARLING TAKEN FIFTH
OVERALL BY KANSAS CITY
DOUG TUCKER
ORLIN WAGNER/AP
Gardner-Edgerton High School quarterback
Bubba Starling looks on during football practice in Gardner, Kan., in this Aug. 31, 2010,
file photo. Starling, a multisport star for suburban Gardner-Edgerton, was selected fifth
Monday in the baseball draft.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lonnie
Goldberg wasn’t sure he believed
Bubba Starling’s home runs could
actually travel 500 feet until he saw
for himself.
It was the second game of a doubleheader and the second home run
Kansas City’s director of scouting
saw the marvelously talented local
kid swat that day.
“That last one, he got into pretty
good,” said Goldberg. “That one
might have.”
A multisport star at suburban
Gardner, Kan., and one of the greatest high school athletes in the
state’s history, Starling was taken by
his home town Royals with the fifth
overall selection in the baseball
draft on Monday night.
The highest-drafted player in
Kansas City area history, the 6-5,
200-pound outfielder will wield serious leverage in contract negotiations.
He’s signed to play quarterback at
Nebraska, and the Cornhuskers
have promised he’ll also be allowed
to play baseball.
If he chooses baseball, he could
command a signing bonus in the
neighborhood of $6 million to $8
million.
“There’s a lot of options for the
future as far as possibly signing or
going up to Nebraska,” Starling said.
“I’ve still got a lot of stuff to figure
out. but I’m just trying to enjoy my
moment with my family and enjoy
tonight.”
He first caught the Royals’ attention when he was about 14 and
already performing eye-popping
feats in every sport he tried.
“I haven’t seen anybody do what
this kid can do on a football field or
a basketball court and then translate
it onto the diamond,” said
Goldberg. “We got the player we
wanted. He’s the most electric athlete in the draft, and he’s in our
backyard as well. There’s not much
not to like about this kid. He’s competitive. He’s a winner. We were real
fortunate he was there.”
The legend of Bubba Starling has
been growing since he was barely
old enough to pick up a bat. When
he was 8 years old playing in a
recreation league, parents complained to Jimbo Starling they were
worried that their kids might get
hurt because Bubba threw and hit
the ball so hard. So he was bumped
up two years and began competing
with 10-year-olds.
Playing for suburban GardnerEdgerton High School just southwest of Kansas City this spring,
Starling batted .481 and averaged
one home run every six at-bats. His
fastball has been clocked around 95
mph but he played only in center
field his senior season. Playing for
Team USA in the under-18 category
last summer, he batted .399 with
three home runs, 12 RBIs and 20
runs scored.
But his best sport may be football. His senior season, after rushing for 2,471 yards and 31 touchdowns, he was heavily recruited by
just about every major program in
the country before signing with
Nebraska.
General manager Dayton Moore
said he’s sure the Royals will get
their man.
“We feel very confident we’re
going to sign our players. Every
player we select, especially early
on,” said Moore. “Obviously, each
negotiation has its own set of circumstances and they’re a little
unique, especially in this case
because he’s a dual-sport athlete.
But we’re confident.”
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said in a
text message to The Associated Press
that he had no inkling about whether
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NATI HARNIK/AP
In this June 21, 2010, file photo, UCLA starting pitcher Gerrit
Cole delivers a pitch against TCU in the first inning of an
NCAA College World Series baseball game in Omaha. Cole
was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates with the No. 1 pick in
the baseball draft Monday.
Pirates nab UCLA’s Cole
DENNIS WASZAK JR.
SECAUCUS, N.J. — Another
year of losing put the
Pittsburgh Pirates in position to
draft Gerrit Cole.
They hope the fireballing
UCLA right-hander helps lead
them back to respectability.
“We felt he’d have the
biggest potential impact for us
of anybody on the board,” general manager Neal Huntington
said after taking Cole with the
first overall pick Monday night.
Cole, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound
junior, was just 6-8 with a 3.31
ERA for the Bruins, but has
what many consider to be the
best pure stuff in the draft. The
Pirates certainly agreed, choosing him first in a draft dominated early by outstanding
pitching prospects.
“Obviously, this year wasn’t
up to my standards, but I tried
to not think about it,” Cole
said. “I just control what I can
control and let the teams do
their evaluation.”
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Cal scores four runs in
ninth to eliminate Baylor
HOUSTON — Devon
Rodriguez finished off arguably
the biggest comeback of first
round of the 2011 NCAA baseball tournament.
Down to his last strike, one
that would have ended his
team’s season, Rodriguez singled in two runs with two outs
to cap a four-run rally in the
bottom of the ninth inning
and give California a 9-8 victory against Baylor at the
Houston Regional.
Monday’s walk-off win sends
Cal from the Pac-10 to the
NCAA super regionals.
After Baylor padded its lead
with a run in the top of the
ninth, Michael
Theofanopoulos drove in a run
with a ground out for Cal, and
Tony Renda cut it to 8-7 with
an RBI single.
After Marcus Semien stuck
out, Rodriguez drove a 1-2
pitch to right field, scoring
Renda and Austin Booker for
the win.
Rodriguez finished 3 for 4
with four RBIs.
“I say I believe it, because I
was in the dugout and I saw it
with my own eyes,” said Cal
head coach David Esquer. “I
told the guys that we could do
this, but when it actually happened, I don’t know that I
actually believed it.”
California advances to face
Dallas Baptist in the super
regionals. Which team will
host is yet to be decided.
“We have done this a couple
of other times this year, come
back in games we had no business being in,” said Rodriguez.
“I had a couple of other
chances like this in a couple of
other games, but I didn’t come
through.
“Going into that at-bat, I
told myself that there is no better time to come through.”
TEXAS 5, KENT STATE 0
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas
used six pitchers and smart
baserunning to win the NCAA
Austin Regional. The Longhorns
(47-16) will host Arizona State
in a three-game series in Austin
beginning Friday.
Texas got its offense going in
the bottom of the first when
Tant Shepherd led off with a
double and came around to
score on a throwing error to give
Texas a 1-0 lead. The Longhorns
added runs in the third, sixth,
seventh and eighth innings.
ELISE AMENDOLA/AP
Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand (63) celebrates with Boston Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference (21) after
scoring a goal in the second period against the Vancouver Canucks during Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals,
Monday in Boston.
Boston strikes back!
BRUINS HAMMER
CANUCKS 8-1
GREG BEACHAM
B
OSTON — With their first
victory of the Stanley Cup
finals already secure, the
Boston Bruins still scored on
their final three shots against
Roberto Luongo in Game 3.
Mark Recchi, Chris Kelly and Michael
Ryder all slipped pucks past the befuddled
Vancouver goalie, stoking a steady
crescendo of cheers from fans who clearly
thought the Bruins’ 8-1 victory Monday
night was worth the 21-year wait since
their team’s previous trip at the finals.
Perhaps those late exclamation
points will raise a few more question
marks in the Canucks’ minds before
the Bruins attempt to even the series in
Game 4 on Wednesday night.
Andrew Ference and David Krejci
each had a goal and an assist during
Boston’s four-goal second period, and
Tim Thomas made 40 saves in another
stellar performance as the Bruins
trimmed Vancouver’s series lead to 2-1.
“We started scoring, and the floodgates opened, and we just kept going,”
Thomas said. “I think that’s the right
approach. It reminded me of the
Montreal series where everybody was
putting in goals here. That’s what we’re
going to need the rest of the way out for
us to win the Stanley Cup. We’re going
to need contributions from everyone.”
The Bruins had no shortage of motivation even before right wing Nathan
Horton was wheeled off the ice on a
stretcher early in the first period,
knocked senseless by a late hit from
Vancouver defenseman Aaron Rome.
Horton will miss the rest of the Stanley
Cup finals with a severe concussion
after he absorbed the blindside hit the
Bruins said in a press release today.
Boston was eager to atone for two
one-goal losses in Vancouver in which
the Canucks controlled the third period. The Bruins dominated the final 40
minutes back home, battering Luongo
— who stopped 30 shots and declined
to come out of the game — while
sending the Canucks to one of the
most embarrassing losses in franchise
history.
Horton was talking and moving his
extremities, and the Bruins were cautiously optimistic he would emerge relatively healthy from the hospital today.
“It’s always tough when a guy goes
down,” said forward Brad Marchand,
who scored a short-handed goal in the
second. “We really wanted to get this
win tonight for him. It’s a very tough
situation, and everyone is worried
about him, but it definitely gave us
motivation to win.”
The NHL was scheduled to hold a
disciplinary hearing with Rome this
morning.
Scoreboard
B2
Baseball
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Houston
AL Standings
East Division
W L Pct
GB
New York
33 24 .579
—
Boston
33 26 .559
1
Tampa Bay
31 29 .517 3 1/2
Toronto
30 30 .500 4 1/2
Baltimore
27 31 .466 6 1/2
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Cleveland
33 25 .569
—
Detroit
32 27 .542 1 1/2
Chicago
29 33 .468
6
Kansas City
26 34 .433
8
Minnesota
22 37 .373 11 1/2
West Division
W L Pct
GB
Texas
34 27 .557
—
Seattle
31 29 .517 2 1/2
Los Angeles
30 32 .484 4 1/2
Oakland
27 34 .443
7
Monday’s Games
Minnesota 6, Cleveland 4
Baltimore 4, Oakland 2
Detroit 13, Texas 7
Chicago White Sox 3, Seattle 1
Kansas City 3, Toronto 2, 11 innings
Tampa Bay 5, L.A. Angels 1
Tuesday’s Games
Boston (Lester 7-2) at N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 4-4),
6:05 p.m.
Minnesota (Liriano 3-5) at Cleveland (C.Carrasco
4-3), 6:05 p.m.
Oakland (Undecided) at Baltimore (Jakubauskas
0-0), 6:05 p.m.
Detroit (Porcello 5-3) at Texas (M.Harrison 5-4),
7:05 p.m.
Seattle (F.Hernandez 6-4) at Chicago White Sox
(Humber 4-3), 7:10 p.m.
Toronto (Drabek 3-4) at Kansas City (Mazzaro 00), 7:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Cobb 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Haren 5-3),
9:05 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Minnesota (Pavano 3-5) at Cleveland (Masterson
5-4), 11:05 a.m.
Boston (Wakefield 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees
(A.J.Burnett 6-3), 6:05 p.m.
Oakland (Outman 1-0) at Baltimore (Britton 5-4),
6:05 p.m.
Detroit (Coke 1-5) at Texas (Ogando 6-0), 7:05
p.m.
Seattle (Vargas 4-3) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd
6-5), 7:10 p.m.
Toronto (Villanueva 3-0) at Kansas City (Duffy 01), 7:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Shields 5-4) at L.A. Angels (Weaver
7-4), 9:05 p.m.
NL Standings
Philadelphia
Florida
Atlanta
New York
Washington
St. Louis
Milwaukee
East Division
W L Pct
36 24 .600
31 27 .534
32 28 .533
28 31 .475
26 34 .433
Central Division
W L Pct
36 25 .590
34 26 .567
GB
—
4
4
7 1/2
10
GB
—
1 1/2
31 30 .508
5
28 30 .483 6 1/2
23 35 .397 11 1/2
23 37 .383 12 1/2
West Division
W L Pct
GB
San Francisco
34 26 .567
—
Arizona
33 27 .550
1
Colorado
28 31 .475 5 1/2
Los Angeles
28 33 .459 6 1/2
San Diego
27 34 .443 7 1/2
Monday’s Games
Philadelphia 3, L.A. Dodgers 1
Cincinnati 8, Chicago Cubs 2
Milwaukee 7, Florida 2
Colorado 3, San Diego 0
San Francisco 5, Washington 4, 13 innings
Tuesday’s Games
Arizona (D.Hudson 6-5) at Pittsburgh (Correia 84), 6:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (R.De La Rosa 1-0) at Philadelphia
(Oswalt 3-3), 6:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Hanson 6-4) at Florida (Hand 0-0), 6:10
p.m.
Chicago Cubs (D.Davis 0-4) at Cincinnati (Volquez
3-2), 6:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Westbrook 5-3) at Houston (Myers 24), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Capuano 3-6) at Milwaukee (Marcum
6-2), 7:10 p.m.
Colorado (Jimenez 1-5) at San Diego (Stauffer 14), 9:05 p.m.
Washington (Zimmermann 3-6) at San Francisco
(J.Sanchez 4-3), 9:15 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Chicago Cubs (Dempster 4-5) at Cincinnati
(Arroyo 4-5), 11:35 a.m.
Washington (Maya 0-1) at San Francisco (Cain 44), 2:45 p.m.
Colorado (Cook 0-0) at San Diego (Moseley 2-6),
5:35 p.m.
Arizona (Duke 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 2-7),
6:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 5-6) at Philadelphia (Hamels
7-2), 6:05 p.m.
Atlanta (D.Lowe 3-4) at Florida (Nolasco 4-1),
6:10 p.m.
St. Louis (J.Garcia 6-1) at Houston (Norris 3-4),
7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 3-4) at Milwaukee (Wolf 4-4),
7:10 p.m.
College Baseball Regionals
All Times EDT
Double Elimination
x-if necessary
At Davenport Field
Charlottesville, Va.
Friday, June 3
Virginia 6, Navy 0
St. John’s 2, East Carolina 0
Saturday, June 4
East Carolina 6, Navy 1, Navy eliminated
Virginia 10, St. John’s 2
Sunday, June 5
East Carolina 6, St. John’s 4, STJ eliminated
Virginia 13, East Carolina 1, Virginia advances
At Boshamer Stadium
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Friday, June 3
James Madison 11, Florida International 7
North Carolina 4, Maine 0
Saturday, June 4
Maine 4, Florida International 1, FIU eliminated
North Carolina 14, James Madison 0
Sunday, June 5
James Madison 5, Maine 2, Maine eliminated
North Carolina 9, James Madison 3, UNC
advances
At Doug Kingsmore Stadium
Clemson, S.C.
Friday, June 3
Coastal Carolina 13, Connecticut 1
Clemson 11, Sacred Heart 1
Saturday, June 4
Connecticut 13, Sacred Heart 3
Clemson 12, Coastal Carolina 7
Sunday, June 5
Connecticut 12, Coastal Carolina 6, CC eliminated
Connecticut 7, Clemson 6
Monday, June 6
Connecticut 14, Clemson 1, Connecticut
advances
At Carolina Stadium
Columbia, S.C.
Friday, June 3
Stetson 8, N.C. State 7
South Carolina 2, Georgia Southern 1
Saturday, June 4
N.C. State 5, Georgia Southern 2, GSU eliminated
South Carolina 11, Stetson 5
Sunday, June 5
Stetson 5, N.C. State 3, N.C. State eliminated
South Carolina 4, Stetson 1, 4 1/2 innings, susp.,
power failure
Monday, June 6
South Carolina 8, Stetson 2, SC advances
At Russ Chandler Stadium
Atlanta
Friday, June 3
Mississippi State 3, Southern Mississippi 0
Austin Peay 2, Georgia Tech 1
Saturday, June 4
Georgia Tech 6, Southern Mississippi 2, USM
eliminated
Mississippi State 8, Austin Peay 3
Sunday, June 5
Georgia Tech 12, Austin Peay 2, AP eliminated
Mississippi State 7, Georgia Tech 3, MSU
advances
At Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Gainesville, Fla.
Friday, June 3
Miami 7, Jacksonville 2
Florida 17, Manhattan 3
Saturday, June 4
Jacksonville 5, Manhattan 4, Manhattan eliminated
Florida 5, Miami 4
Sunday, June 5
Miami 6, Jacksonville 3, Jacksonville eliminated
Florida 11, Miami 4, Florida advances
At Dick Howser Stadium
Tallahassee, Fla.
Friday, June 3
Alabama 5, UCF 3
Florida State 6, Bethune-Cookman 5
Saturday, June 4
UCF 16, Bethune-Cookman 5, BCC eliminated
Florida State 9, Alabama 5
Sunday, June 5
Alabama 12, UCF 5, UCF eliminated
Florida State 8, Alabama 1, 5 1/2 innings, susp.,
rain
Monday, June 6
Florida State 11, Alabama 1, FSU advances
At Hawkins Field
Nashville, Tenn.
Friday, June 3
Troy 9, Oklahoma State 2
Vanderbilt 10, Belmont 0
Saturday, June 4
Belmont 3, Oklahoma State 2, OSU eliminated
Vanderbilt 10, Troy 2
Sunday, June 5
Belmont 5, Troy 2, Troy eliminated
Vanderbilt 6, Belmont 1, Vanderbilt advances
At Reckling Park
Houston
Friday, June 3
Baylor 6, California 4
Rice 14, Alcorn State 2
Saturday, June 4
California 10, Alcorn State 6, ASU eliminated
Baylor 3, Rice 2
Sunday, June 5
California 6, Rice 3, Rice eliminated
California 8, Baylor 0
Monday, June 6
California 9, Baylor 8, California advances
At Olsen Field
College Station, Texas
Friday, June 3
Seton Hall 4, Arizona 0
Texas A&M 11, Wright State 0
Saturday, June 4
Arizona 13, Wright State 0, Wright St. eliminated
Texas A&M 6, Seton Hall 3
Sunday, June 5
Arizona 6, Seton Hall 0, Seton Hall eliminated
Arizona 7, Texas A&M 4
Monday, June 6
Texas A&M (44-19) vs. Arizona (39-20), ppd., rain
Tuesday, June 7
Texas A&M (44-19) vs. Arizona (39-20), 1:35 p.m.
At UFCU Disch-Falk Field
Austin, Texas
Friday, June 3
Kent State 4, Texas State 2, 11 innings
Texas 5, Princeton 3
Saturday, June 4
Texas State 3, Princeton 1, Princeton eliminated
Kent State 7, Texas 5
Sunday, June 5
Texas 4, Texas State 3, Texas St. eliminated
Texas 9, Kent State 3
Monday, June 6
Texas 5, Kent State 0, Texas advances
At Lupton Baseball Stadium
Fort Worth, Texas
Friday, June 3
Dallas Baptist 3, Oklahoma 2, 10 innings
TCU 10, Oral Roberts 2
Saturday, June 4
Oral Roberts 7, Oklahoma 0, OU eliminated
Dallas Baptist 3, TCU 2
Sunday, June 5
Oral Roberts 8, TCU 4
Oral Roberts 7, Dallas Baptist 2
Monday, June 6
Dallas Baptist 11, Oral Roberts 9, Dallas Baptist
advances
At Packard Stadium
Tempe, Ariz.
Friday, June 3
Charlotte 3, Arkansas 2
Arizona State 4, New Mexico 2
Saturday, June 4
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Arkansas 3, New Mexico 0, UNM eliminated
Arizona State 16, Charlotte 1
Sunday, June 5
Arkansas 11, Charlotte 3, Charlotte eliminated
Arizona State 13, Arkansas 4, ASU advances
At Goss Stadium
Corvallis, Ore.
Friday, June 3
Creighton 2, Georgia 1
Oregon State 7, UALR 3
Saturday, June 4
Georgia 7, UALR 3, UALR eliminated
Oregon State 5, Creighton 1
Sunday, June 5
Georgia 5, Creighton 4, 11 innings, Creighton
eliminated
Oregon State 6, Georgia 4, OSU advances
At Goodwin Field
Fullerton, Calif.
Friday, June 3
Stanford 10, Kansas State 3
Cal State Fullerton 10, Illinois 4
Saturday, June 4
Illinois 5, Kansas State 3, KSU eliminated
Stanford 1, Cal State Fullerton 0
Sunday, June 5
Illinois 7, Cal State Fullerton 5, CSF eliminated
Stanford 14, Illinois 2, Stanford advances
At Jackie Robinson Stadium
Los Angeles
Friday, June 3
UC Irvine 12, Fresno State 6
San Francisco 3, UCLA 0
Saturday, June 4
UCLA 3, Fresno State 1, Fresno St. eliminated
UC Irvine 4, San Francisco 3
Sunday, June 5
UCLA 4, San Francisco 1, USF eliminated
UC Irvine 4, UCLA 3, UCI advances
Basketball
NBA Playoff Schedule
FINALS
(Best-of-7)
Miami 2, Dallas 1
Tuesday, May 31: Miami 92, Dallas 84
Thursday, June 2: Dallas 95, Miami 93
Sunday, June 5: Miami 88, Dallas 86
Tuesday, June 7: Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Thursday, June 9: Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.
x-Sunday, June 12: Dallas at Miami, 7 p.m.
x-Tuesday, June 14: Dallas at Miami, 8 p.m.
Hockey
NHL Playoff Schedule
STANLEY CUP CONFERENCE FINALS
Vancouver 2, Boston 1
Wednesday, June 1: Vancouver 1, Boston 0
Saturday, June 4: Vancouver 3, Boston 2 (OT)
Monday, June 6: Boston 8, Vancouver 1
Wednesday, June 8: Vancouver at Boston, 7 p.m.
x-Friday, June 10: Boston at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
x-Monday, June 13: Vancouver at Boston, 7 p.m.
x-Wednesday, June 15: Boston at Vancouver, 7
p.m.
NU: Royals select Husker QB recruit in draft
Continued from page B1
Starling would choose college football or professional baseball.
“Nope,” Pelini wrote. “Nothin I
can do about it!”
The reporting date for football practice at Nebraska is July 10. He’ll have
until Aug. 15 to sign with the Royals.
“I’m going to have to talk with
my family and stuff,” Starling said.
“When it comes closer, we’re going
to figure that stuff out. This is a
special time. Not many kids get
drafted in the first rouind and have
a chance to have this opportunity.”
Starling, in a conference call with
Kansas City media, said he would
have trouble picking which sport
was his best.
Starling, whose first name is Derek,
was given the name Bubba when he
weighed 10 pounds at birth.
“This player, without a doubt, is
one of the more special athletes
that plays our game,” said Moore.
“You don’t see athletes like this
playing baseball. His instincts combined with his athleticism is special. A lot of times you’ll see players
that are athletic but they lack
instincts. This guy’s athletic and he
has instincts as well.”
As four teams picked ahead of
them, all taking pitchers, Moore said
the Royals were getting nervous.
“We really sweated this out up
until about 10 minutes before we
made the selection because he was
in a lot of peoples’ mix. We weren’t
sure he was going to get to us.”
A look at Nebraska’s quarterback recruits
L
ast month I covered
Norfolk Catholic’s outstanding kicker Drew
Farlee and why I believe it
is important to get him on
campus in 2012. The state of
Nebraska has more very good players who could be on the cusp of getting that all-important formal offer
or at least a preferred walk-on offer
and this week I was going to cover
those players. It will have to wait, as
something more crucial is at hand.
I feel that it is important to now
look at who might replace the
transfer of Cody Green from
Nebraska.
If Bubba Starling signs a pro baseball contract, what will that do to
the QB picture? This could be a
double whammy at the position on
the field that makes the motor run
smoothly or not.
Let’s get started. It could be a
problem that needs to be solved
between now and the February
2012 signing day. I am talking
about the future, as there is little
that can be done for this fall
— short of moving a player or two
from another position to be a backup this fall.
One good factor and that is there
is time to find a suitable dual-threat
quarterback for the 2012 class. First,
I would like to address on whether
Starling will be on campus this fall.
Normally baseball players who
come out of high school and try to
make it in the major leagues just
never quite make it. The maturity is
not there and they just can not
adjust. The college playing does help
the prospect to develop in his skills
and just as important — mature.
I have looked at as many film
clips of Starling playing baseball as I
could find on the Internet and it is
obvious he has all of the elements
to be great. He has above average
speed, he is tall and strong to boot,
and he has an arm that is as good
as most playing major league baseball now.
As a pitcher his fastball runs
about 95 mph and if he ends up
pitching, he could end up adding
on a few miles per hour. I was surprised to see him throw a rainbow
curve in one shot, what looked like
a fairly effective changeup in
another shot, a better than average
curve or slider in yet another.
However, in my opinion, his foot
speed, arm strength and accuracy,
and being able to hit for a high
average with above average power,
makes him an attractive center
field candidate for one MLB team‘s
future.
In my opinion, he will be a center fielder in MLB. Out of high
school he would have to deal with
the better talent — even in a rookie
league for the first
few months or
Class A ball. No
one would just
throw him into
the majors without having him go
through the different classifications.
Duane
He might jump
through a few in a
Rossiter
year. No one wants
to rush him and
make it tougher to adjust right out
of high school.
The family is not tipping their
hand on whether he will play football and baseball at Nebraska or go
the MLB route right away. If he
does play QB at Nebraska, he would
take the Huskers to another level in
football — maybe this year and he
would be the star of the baseball
team. If he went the MLB route, he
would definitely miss the college
life and that is a life’s experience.
Will he and his family take the
risk of seeing him get hurt and ruin
his baseball career. In my humble
opinion, I can not see how he
would turn down a $5 million-plus
sure thing baseball contract. Sorry,
but I see no way he will play football this fall at NU. Would you? Be
honest now.
OK, I have spoiled your week, but
sophomore Taylor Martinez and
redshirt freshman Brion Carnes will
be there and let’s not overlook
incoming freshman Jamal Turner
(6-1, 175 4.51), who was rated with
four stars and ranked as the No. 7
dual-threat quarterback by
Rivals.com. If you have not seen
any game film on him, you have
been missing out on a good incoming talent — with or without
Starling. This kid had offers from
USC, Missouri, Oklahoma, among
others, so he could be a real good
one for the future — let’s hope not
too soon, however. He scored 105
touchdowns in three years in high
school — on the ground and
through the air. He is special.
Who is left on the board that the
Huskers might end up getting for
this 2012 class?
Two names jump right out. One,
Tommy Armstrong (6-2, 210,4.5) is
a dual-threat quarterback from
Cibolo (Texas) Steele and he helped
to take his team to the state championship. He threw for almost
1,200 yards and 13 touchdowns
with only one interception during
the season and playoffs. He also
rushed for 490 yards and eight
touchdowns last year.
He completed eight out of 13
passes for 135 yards and a touchdown during the title game against
Denton Guyer. On the ground during the title game, he totaled only
36 yards on 11 carries.
Armstrong is loaded now with
offers, but Nebraska is definitely
under his consideration.
“I really like (Nebraska) itself. I
like the offense, it’s similar to the
offense that we have,” Armstrong
said. “They do a lot of zone read
and play action. I feel comfortable
doing the thing we do at Steele, so
I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t have
a problem doing that either from
the simple fact it’s the same exact
thing we run. They probably have a
couple of different things, but it’s
pretty much similar to our offense.”
Nebraska has offered him with
one contingency — what Bubba
Starling does. “They said if he doesn’t come, they want me bad.“
In other words, he will undoubtedly get that formal offer. Then the
Husker coaching staff will have to
beat off offers from some other
heavyweights — Georgia Tech,
Kansas, Mississippi State, Southern
Miss, Texas Tech, among others. He
seems like a perfect fit. I have a
hunch they will get him.
The other name to jump out at
me is Steve Donatell (6-5, 195, 4.6)
from Highlands Ranch (Colo.)
Highlands Ranch. He does have
one offer and that is from Nebraska
and he and his family like the
thought of Nebraska.
“I’m really thankful for (the
Nebraska offer) and blessed that
they think that,“ Donatell said. “I
actually was in school, so one of
the coaches called my dad and my
dad later relayed the good news.
They just said that they liked that I
can pass and but that I’m also a
double-threat, where I can run also.
They liked that. That kind of fits
their style.”
Donatell’s father is Ed Donatell, the
San Francisco 49ers secondary coach
and he has spent decades in coaching
in the NFL and a few college teams in
the West. His brother, Tom Donatell,
is a defensive back for Iowa.
North Carolina State is close to
offering him, too. As a junior,
Donatell completed 76 of 122 passes for 923 yards and 12 touchdowns with only three interceptions. He also ran for 536 yards and
six more scores.
Thomas Militello (6-4, 180, 4.56)
would have to be considered as a
long shot at best as of now, but he
is fairly close to Nebraska and his
numbers were good for what was a
fair overall team. Militello is from
St. Louis (Mo.) Country Day and he
ended his junior year with more
than 2,000 passing yards while
throwing for 21 touchdowns and
nine interceptions. He was a second-team all-conference quarterback last season.
“I think I used to be strictly a
pro-style quarterback,” Militello
said. “I was 160 pounds (as a sophomore), so I couldn’t really run. But
I gained some weight over the last
year and learned the offense. I have
developed into more of a dualthreat quarterback. I was able to
pick up some yards scrambling, so
that’s something I’ve added to my
game. ... This season (junior year) I
can run it or extend the play by
scrambling. I’ve improved my overall arm strength, too. I can throw it
55 or 60 yards now instead of just
45 or 50 yards like last season.
Around midseason I started running more and that meant there
was one more guy for the defense
to cover. ... I run a 4.56 (second) 40yard dash time.”
Militello has visited Nebraska in
the past. Virginia and Boston
College appear to be getting close
to offering him with what would be
his first offers.
Another long shot could be
Damion Johnson from
Nacogdoches, Texas. He is 6-foot-1,
190 pounds and supposedly runs a
4.4-second 40-yard dash time. LSU,
Oklahoma, Nebraska, among others
are tied to his name, but I can not
find out anything else on him,
which probably means he is
beyond a long shot.
Actually, it is looking good for
getting either Armstrong and
Donatell — assuming Starling goes
the MLB route.
Duane Rossiter is a Nebraska football recruiting analyst. He can be
reached at 402-461-1270 or
[email protected]
Tribland
TUESDAY
Legion baseball: Grand Island at Johnson Imperial Homes.....................................5:30 p.m.
Legion baseball: Grand Island at Five Points Bank .......................................................8 p.m.
Legion baseball: Runza at Lexington .............................................................................6 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Legion baseball: Five Points Bank at North Platte (DH) ..........................................5:30 p.m.
Legion baseball: North Platte at Johnson Imperial Homes (DH).............................5:30 p.m.
Legion baseball: Runza at Central City (DH) ............................................................5:30 p.m.
TV/Radio broadcasts
Tuesday’s television
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
7 p.m.
ESPN2 — World Series championship
series, game 2, Arizona State vs. Florida,
at Oklahoma City
CYCLING
4 p.m.
VERSUS — Criterium du Dauphine,
stage 2, Voiron to Lyon, France (same-day
tape)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
6 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage, Boston at
N.Y. Yankees or L.A. Dodgers at
Philadelphia
7 p.m.
FSN — Toronto at Kansas City
NBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.
ABC — Playoffs, finals, game 4, Miami
at Dallas
Tuesday’s radio
7 p.m.
KLIQ 94.5 — Toronto at Kansas City
NBA BASKETBALL
8 p.m.
KXPN 1460, KICS 1550 — Playoffs,
finals, game 4, Miami at Dallas
Wednesday’s television
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
7 p.m.
ESPN2 — World Series championship
series, game 3, Arizona State vs. Florida,
at Oklahoma City (if necessary)
CYCLING
4 p.m.
VERSUS — Criterium du Dauphine,
stage 3, time trial, at Grenoble, France
(same-day tape)
11:30 a.m.
MLB — Regional coverage, Chicago
Cubs at Cincinnati or Minnesota at
Cleveland (11 a.m. start)
7 p.m.
FSN — Toronto at Kansas City
6 p.m.
ESPN — Boston at N.Y. Yankees
NHL HOCKEY
7 p.m.
VERSUS — Playoffs, finals, game 4,
Vancouver at Boston
Wednesday’s radio
7 p.m.
KLIQ 94.5 — Toronto at Kansas City
Parks & Rec. Softball
MONDAY’S RESULTS
Coed E
Shuck Drilling 15, Team Discount City 5
Lakeside Auto Body/Mid City Auto 11,
Goldenrod Cafe Super Sluggers 7
HSG/Reno?AAA Donkeys 17, Runza 16
S & J Detasseling 13, Got Gas 12
Love Signs/MRL Crane Service 20,
Second Street Slammer 2
Shades Classic Corner/Hastings Family
Chiro 16, Dilligas 11
Coed E-1
Fruit Loops/Bullseye 15, Team Extreme
11
Vontz Paving/Hastings Keno 23 Danehey
Farms/Wells Fargo/Levanders 17
Coed C/D
Papa Rays/Reno 18, Team Bronco 3
12-under
Juniata/AC 20, Channel Seeds 8
Raynor Garage Doors 19, Pepsi 17
Local
ADAMS COUNTY OPEN
Registration forms for the Five Points Bank
Adams County Open are now available at the
three city golf courses — Lochland Country
Club, Southern Hills Golf Course and Elks
Country Club — and at all Five Points Bank of
Hastings branch locations.
The Adams County Open is set for July 9-10,
with the tournament opening at Southern Hills
Golf Course on Saturday and moving to
Lochland Country Club on Sunday.
The Adams County Open is open to residents
of Adams County or members of Southern Hills,
Lochland or Elks. Participants should have an
established USGA handicap. Golfers without an
established handicap can still participate and
will be placed in the Championship flight.
The tournament will include a women’s division (gross and net). There also be a Senior
Men’s Flight for participants 65 years of age and
older.
NU TRACK AND FIELD HONOR ROLL
The Nebraska track and field team had 84 student-athletes earn Big 12 Commissioner’s honor
roll. The Husker women had 43 student-athletes
earn the honor, including 18 athletes who produced a 4.0 GPA during the spring — including
Adams Central graduate Jade Siegel (Hodson).
The Nebraska men added another 41 overall
honorees including four students with a 4.0
GPA.
TRI-CITY STORM HOCKEY
The Tri-City Storm hockey team of the USHL
as reached a deal with Platte River Radio (Classic
Hits KKPR 98.9, the Breeze KLIQ 94.5 and ESPN
Superstation 1460/1550) to become the Storm
radio network home for the 2011-2012 season.
All three stations will broadcast a select
amount of games to be determined after the
2011-2012 USHL schedule is finalized.
Skip Berry, the play-by-play voice of the Storm
for the past two seasons, will continue to provide the coverage for the Storm radio network.
Platte River Radio also owns KHAS 1230 in
Hastings.
MLB: Pirates take
UCLA’s Cole at No. 1
Continued from page B1
He’s the latest promising young arm that
Pittsburgh, which finished with baseball’s worst
record a year ago, has added in the past two
drafts.
The Pirates, who have 18 straight losing seasons, took a pair of high school right-handers
with their first two picks last year in Jameson
Taillon and Stetson Allie, giving them three
potential front-line starters.
“We’re working hard to never pick No. 1,” said
Huntington, whose team drafted first for the
fourth time in franchise history. “It’s a long
process. It’s not an easy thing to turn around a
major league team.”
But this is certainly a terrific start. Cole was a
first-round pick of the New York Yankees in
2008, but refused to listen to an offer and
instead attended UCLA — as he insisted to teams
he would. He has a fastball that’s consistently
clocked at 95 mph and was up around 100 at
times late this season.
Cole’s teammate on the UCLA staff, right-hander Trevor Bauer, wasn’t far behind, going third
overall to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The only
other time a pair of teammates went in the top
three picks was 1978, when Arizona State’s Bob
Horner was selected No. 1 by Atlanta and Hubie
Brooks went third to the New York Mets.
“I’m ecstatic,” said Bauer, who went 13-2 with a
Pac-10-record 203 strikeouts. “It’s awesome for
Gerrit and it’s awesome for me. It’s great for the
program and UCLA. Just an all-around great day.”
Arts & Entertainment
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B3
Couric makes move to ABC for talk show
DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK — Katie Couric
has worked in morning television, the evening news and
now — thanks
in part to
Oprah
Winfrey —
will try out a
daytime talk
show.
Winfrey’s
exit from the
Couric
market she
dominated for much of the last
two decades is providing
Couric with an opening. The
former “CBS Evening News”
anchor and “Today” show host
and ABC announced their
long-anticipated deal on
Monday, setting September
2012 for the premiere of
Couric’s new show.
“Oprah leaving made it seem
like it was feasible,” Couric
said. “because to go up against
Oprah would be pretty terrifying. I don’t think anybody
could really do that.”
Couric will have a part ownership stake in her new talk
show, which reunites her with
Jeff Zucker. The former NBC
Universal chief, who was in the
control room during many of
Couric’s years at the “Today”
show, will be executive producer of the talk show, which
doesn’t have a name yet. It will
be based in New York.
Giving the show a head start,
ABC also announced that eight
ABC-owned stations covering
nearly one-quarter of the
nation’s population — including stations in New York, Los
Angeles and Chicago — have
agreed to air it in the 3 p.m.
weekday time slot.
“I don’t think there’s anybody better to take us through
the news of the day, what’s in
the zeitgeist,” said Anne
Sweeney, president of the
Disney/ABC Television Group.
“Certainly Katie and Jeff have
shown us that they know how
to take hold of that.”
Couric will also have a role as
a utility player at ABC News.
She’ll conduct interviews, participate in special events coverage
and even appear on shows such
as “Good Morning America,”
“World News” and “Nightline.”
The Couric announcement
NewsMakers
came on the same day her successor at the “CBS Evening
News,” Scott Pelley, was to
make his debut as anchor.
Couric will enter a high-risk,
high-reward world in daytime
television. Only about one of
every 10 new syndicated shows
that come on the market succeed, said Bill Carroll, an expert
in the area for Katz Media. Jane
Pauley, one of Couric’s predecessors on the “Today” show,
was among those who tried
and failed.
Try and succeed, and the
riches are great. Syndicated talk
shows can tap into licensing
fees paid by stations that show
them, as well as a cut of advertising revenue.
“The rewards can be unbelievable — look at the empire Oprah
Winfrey created,” Carroll said.
A talk show in today’s market is generally news oriented,
celebrity focused such as
“Ellen” or informational such
as medical, relationship or
cooking shows. Winfrey’s show
was the only one to successfully blend all three in recent
years, and in the ratings she
towered over all competitors.
Hilton ‘like any
other woman’
in new show
‘Larry Crowne’ affair
TERRY MORROW
P
ASADENA, Calif. — Though she’s
had highly publicized drug-related lawenforcement encounters, Paris Hilton is
pretty sure no one is talking about
whether she has a drug problem.
“No one is saying that,” she insists during an
interview to promote “The World According to
Paris,” a new unscripted series that’s supposed
to be about her real life.
In recent years, Hilton has made as much a
name for herself for legal woes and brushes
with the law as for career accomplishments.
She had her driver’s license suspended after
being arrested and charged with driving under
the influence of alcohol. Later, she served jail
time. Last year, she was detained and released
after being caught in possession of cannabis at
the Figari airport in Corsica. A month later,
Hilton was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession in Las Vegas.
Those incidents made her the brunt of latenight jokes, but Hilton claims, “I don’t listen to
(the comedians).”
She does listen to her instincts about what
people want to see from her. “The World
According to Paris” (9 p.m. Wednesdays, Oxygen) lets
cameras in on her daily life.
Her entry into reality TV, “The Simple Life,” which aired
in 2003, paired her with best friend Nicole Richie as they
traveled across the country to live life with strangers in the
Midwest. She followed in 2008 with “Paris Hilton’s My New
BFF,” a MTV competition.
Hilton has a hand in many ventures outside of show
business, including fashion and perfumes. She can make a
small fortune by showing up at a club on opening night.
“I was the one who started reality television,” she says,
although MTV’s “The Real World” debuted a decade before
“The Simple Life,” and “Survivor” on CBS, the longest-running network reality show, started in 2000.
What Hilton did was to bring celebrities into reality TV,
a genre that, for the most part, had mainly featured nonactors who gained fame through their series.
“’The Simple Life’ is the first big reality show out
there,” she says. “I enjoyed doing that. I’m not an
actress. I’m a businesswoman.”
The catalyst for her new series was turning 30.
JOEL RYAN/AP
U.S. actor Tom Hanks picks up 5-month-old Tyler Sercombe as he arrives for the
world premiere of “Larry Crowne” at Westfield in west London Monday.
WEST POINTER WHO SUED DIVA
LABELLE LEAVES ACADEMY
DR. DRE SETTLES LAWSUIT
OVER ‘CHRONIC’ SALES
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The U.S. Military
Academy says a cadet who is suing R&B diva
Patti LaBelle over a scrape at a Houston airport
has left the academy at West Point.
A West Point spokeswoman says Richard
King left the academy Monday. Lt. Col. Sherri
Reed cited privacy laws that prevent her from
saying if his exit was related to the lawsuit or
the altercation.
The academy acknowledges it investigated
the March 11 incident. King says he was in
his hometown airport standing near LaBelle’s
luggage when three of her bodyguards
attacked him. In court papers, he says LaBelle
thought he was standing too close to her
bags.
Video shows King on the phone and a shoving match ensuing, with three people pushing
and punching King. His lawyer says he suffered
a concussion.
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Dre won’t be behind
the microphone at a federal courthouse after
all — the rapper settled a lawsuit over damages
from unauthorized online
sales of his album “The
Chronic” a day before trial.
Attorneys for the rap superstar, whose real name is Andre
Young, filed a notice of settlement in a Los Angeles federal
court late Monday afternoon.
He had been expected to testiYoung
fy during the weeklong trial,
which would have decided whether Young was
entitled to 100 percent of the profits from
online sales of the rap album, which also
helped launch the career of Snoop Dogg.
No details of the settlement, which is not yet
finalized, were filed with the court.
In April a judge ruled that WIDEawake
Death Row Records didn’t have the proper permission to sell Young’s music online or repackage it on new CD releases. The label purchased
the holdings of original Death Row Records,
which launched the careers of several rappers,
out of bankruptcy.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE TO SING
AT TONY AWARDS
NEW YORK — If you want to see Daniel
Radcliffe sing, tune in early to the Tony
Awards.
The “Harry Potter” star says
he’ll perform the song
“Brotherhood of Man” from
his Broadway show “How to
Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying” early in
Sunday’s telecast.
Says Radcliffe: “I think we’re
one of the first, if not the
Radcliffe
first.”
Radcliffe revealed the news Monday while
welcoming hundreds of New York City students as they made their Broadway debuts —
performing routines from musicals on the
Majestic Theatre stage.
Radcliffe was passed over for a Tony nomination, but says he’s pulling for co-stars John
Larroquette and Tammy Blanchard, who are up
for awards.
“If John won it would be just amazing,” he
says. “Only because I have a lot of scenes with
him.”
CHARGE DROPPED IN ACTRESS’
WHITE HOUSE PROTEST
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors have dismissed a charge against the actress who played
Pocahontas in the film “The New World” and
was arrested after chaining herself to the White
House fence.
Q’orianka Kilcher and her mother, Saskia
Kilcher, were arrested last June after the actress
chained herself to the White House fence and
her mother poured a black substance over her.
The 21-year-old, whose father is a Peruvian
Indian, was protesting the sale of land in Peru
to oil companies. Peru’s president, Alan Garcia,
was meeting that day with President Barack
Obama, and Saskia Kilcher said their goal was
to disrupt his visit.
The actress was charged with unlawful entry
and her mother was charged with destroying
property.
Prosecutors dropped the charges against both
women Monday after they completed community service.
OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD MESSAGE
TO GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
PHOENIX — Space shuttle Endeavour commander Mark Kelly delivered an out-of-thisworld message to a U2 concert after Bono dedicated the song “Beautiful Day” to Kelly’s wife,
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Bono told the crowd at Seattle’s Qwest Field
on Saturday night, “Imagine a man looking
down on us from 200 miles up. Looking down
at our beautiful crowded planet. What would
he say to us? What is on your mind
Commander Kelly?”
Kelly then appeared on a video board from
the International Space Station and quoted
lyrics from David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity.’ “Tell
my wife I love her very much,” he told the surprised crowd.
NASA says Kelly recorded the message during the recent 16-day mission to the space station. Endeavour returned to Earth on
Wednesday.
SUPREME COURT TURNS DOWN
SNIPES’ APPEAL
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has
turned away the latest attempt by actor Wesley
Snipes to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned.
The high court refused Monday to hear an
appeal from Snipes, convicted in 2008 on three
misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file
income tax returns.
Snipes started a three-year term in a federal
minimum security prison in December. He has
appeared in dozens of films, from “White Men
Can’t Jump” and “Demolition Man” in the
early 1990s to the blockbuster Blade trilogy.
Snipes wanted his trial held in New York
City, where he says he lived, but the government brought charges against him in Florida,
where Snipes held a driver’s license. The lower
courts refused to let him have an evidentiary
hearing on this issue.
Scripps Howard News Service
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said, “There are three
rules for writing a
novel. Unfortunately,
no one knows what
they are.”
In today’s deal West leads the
heart queen
against six
spades. What
are the three
reasonable
lines of play
and which is
best?
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guaranteeing at least four-card
support and game-going values. South’s three-club rebid
indicated a singleton (or void)
in that suit. After two controlbids (cue-bids), North bid what
he hoped his partner could
make.
You might win the first trick
on the board and call for the
spade queen. Then, when East
plays low smoothly, you
should put up the ace because
that is the percentage play.
However, with this layout you
go down when West shows out
and the subsequent diamond
finesse loses.
You could take your top
hearts and clubs (discarding a
diamond from your hand), ruff
the club eight in your hand,
cash the spade ace, and lead
another spade. But East will
win with his king and shift to a
diamond. The finesse loses and
again you go down one.
The correct — and almost
guaranteed — line is to win
with your heart king, take
dummy’s top clubs (pitching a
diamond), ruff the last club in
your hand, play a heart to
dummy’s ace, and run the
spade queen. When the finesse
wins, you are home. But note
that if West has the singleton
spade king, he will be endplayed. A diamond lead is away
from the king; and if he plays a
heart or club, you ruff on the
board and sluff your last low
diamond.
Phillip Alder is a columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
By Leigh Rubin
The Family Circus
By Bil Keane
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8
Y
Daughter’s clothing choices
should be largely her own
D
EAR ABBY: While I
understand “Loose and
Baggy in San
Francisco’s” (April 23) mother’s
wish to get
the most out
of her daughter’s clothing
budget, as one
whose career
has been
studying the
social psychology of appearance, I disDear Abby
agree with
your response. A girl’s early
teen years are crucial to her
development of self-image and
overall self-esteem. This is a
major reason for their obsession with their appearance.
Parents who want to assist
their daughters through the
quagmire of appearance-related
issues associated with these
years should work with their
daughters by being open to
their needs, yet not allow them
to exceed boundaries of decency, etc. A 13-year-old who
wants clothing that fits should
be accommodated. Otherwise,
she stands to become ashamed
of her appearance, inclined to
act out through her appearance
once she gains control over
what she wears, and be overly
obsessed with it well beyond
her teen years. — KAREN
KAIGLER-WALKER, PH.D. BURBANK, CALIF.
DEAR DR. KAIGLER-WALKER: Thank you for your opinion. Many readers also
empathized with “Loose and
Baggy.” Read on for their views
on the subject:
DEAR ABBY: I had the same
problems when I was 13. My
mom always made me buy
clothes that were too large, too
long, etc. But my grandmother
was a clever seamstress who
helped “nip and tuck” the
extra material away until I
needed it. She could also add
new cool-looking details to the
clothes. “Loose and Baggy”
may also have a relative with a
talent for clothing alterations,
or if not, she most likely has a
tailor or alteration shop nearby.
I’m 15 now and still have
many of the same clothes. It
has saved money in the long
run because we can just let the
stitches out instead of buying
new clothes. At 13, she still has
some room for growth. —
GRANDDAUGHTER OF A TOPLEVEL TAILOR
DEAR ABBY: I empathize
with “Loose and Baggy.” When
my mom and I would go shopping, it always ended in a big
fight with me in tears. I was
teased mercilessly by the other
children for dressing like a “40year-old” and never had the
cool things the other kids were
wearing even though my
clothes cost just as much.
I vowed never to do that
with my daughter, and by the
time she was 12 she was shopping for her own clothes. Our
only rule was that she had to
follow the three B’s — no butt,
no boobs and no belly. At 16
she has an amazing sense of
fashion and is often emulated.
“Loose and Baggy” should be
given some boundaries and
then allowed to buy what she
wants. — REFORMED FRUMP
IN TEXAS
DEAR ABBY: When my
daughter was younger, she had
specific style tastes that included expensive, trendy clothes. I
implemented a budget that
allowed her to have a set
amount of money on the first
day of the new season. The
money was given to her in
cash or, later, in her checking
account. She was responsible
for budgeting the amount for
her clothes during that season.
Because of this she has
learned how to manage money,
shop “high end” on sale and
roll over unused amounts to
the next season. She has
become a responsible teenager
who understands the value of
the dollar. She also trades outfits with her friends — or consigns them to resale stores.
“Loose and Baggy” sounds like
part of the “entitlement” generation and probably would
learn more if she was part of
the solution. — SMART
MOM/SMART DAUGHTER
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.
ou are likely to find
that your social life
will be far more active
in the year ahead than it
has been for some time.
An old friend might reenter your life and bring
with them a number of
new people who’ll prove
to be quite interesting.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — Just when things
look the darkest where
your career is concerned,
you may discover the key
to success. Be alert, however, because it could be
disguised or camouflaged.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — Don’t take lightly
an offer a friend makes to
you. It might be just the
ticket you need gain access
to people who could be of
tremendous help to you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
A situation you thought
was nothing but trouble
might be the very thing
that brings you success. If
you let it, it could yield
more extensive benefits
than you thought possible.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) — Conditions are
favorable for cementing
bonds with someone you
recently met who gave the
impression that they didn’t think much of you. She
or he is likely to be the
very one who initiates the
first move.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
— Chance is likely to play
a critical role in fulfilling a
material desire that you’ve
been nurturing for some
time, and that you didn’t
think you could achieve.
Be on your toes.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — It behooves you to
be extra nice, especially to
someone whom you think
has a few screws missing.
Something quite fortunate
could happen through this
person.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) — It’s possible for
you to experience cooperation in those very areas
where you recently
encountered resistance.
Don’t question it — just
ride the tide.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — Although you
don’t think you need others to accomplish your
aims, you’re likely to function far more effectively in
a group. When invited,
join in.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — For some strange
reason, you could let challenging developments
intimidate you unnecessarily. Fortunately, it won’t
take long for you to realize
you’re the master of
events.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — Don’t hesitate to
bring someone in on an
endeavor you haven’t been
able to totally develop on
your own, especially if you
believe this person has
knowledge you lack.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — An infusion of fresh
hope could turn around an
unpleasant financial matter that has caused you
some anxiety lately. It’s
likely to come about
through an unexpected
conduit.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — If you’re having
some difficulty attempting
to do something on your
own, don’t hesitate to ask
a co-worker or a friend to
lend you a hand. It’ll turn
out that each party will
bring luck to the other.
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Ask Mr. Know-It-All — Jumping for joy
BY GARY CLOTHIER
United Media
Q: In the early 1960s, a trampoline
facility opened in our town.
Although it seemed popular, the center did not stay in business very long.
I was mildly surprised to find out that
trampolining has since become an
Olympic sport. When did this happen? What is the history of trampolining? — M.V., Mesa, Ariz.
A: American gymnast George
Nissen invented the trampoline in
the 1930s. While attending a circus,
he noticed that trapeze artists used
the safety net to perform additional
tricks for the audience. He thought a
smaller version would be a useful
training tool for his tumbling routines. He and his coach, Larry
Griswold, built a prototype trampoline. In 1941, he and Griswold set up
the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline &
Tumbling Company in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. By 1964, an international federation was formed and a move began
to have the sport accepted into the
Olympics. It was finally recognized
for the 2000 Games held in Sydney,
Australia.
Q: I recently watched two movies,
“Eloise at Christmastime” and “Eloise
at the Plaza.” Who played the role of
Eloise? What can you tell me about
her? — V.W., York, Pa.
A: Both TV movies were released in
2003. Sofia Vassilieva played Eloise;
she was born in Minneapolis, Minn.,
on Oct. 22, 1992, to Russian parents
who emigrated from Siberia. She has
appeared in several TV movies; from
2005 to 2011, she played the role of
Ariel Dubois in 129 episodes of the
television series “Medium.”
According to IMDb, when Vassilieva
was 3, she started speaking French
and reading in Russian and English;
she now enjoys studying Spanish and
American Sign Language.
Q: I have many fond memories of
my grandparents and spending time
on their farm with my cousins. In
springtime, my grandfather used to
build a small fire and tell stories. He
said it was a tradition from his old
country, Germany. Do you know
anything about this tradition? —
K.L., Ames, Iowa
A: It sounds like Walpurgis Night
(Walpurgisnacht in German), which
is celebrated the night of April 30.
This is the night when witches are
said to hold a large celebration on the
Brocken (the highest mountain in
northern Germany) and await for the
arrival of spring. The event is named
after St. Walburga, an eighth-century
English nun who helped convert the
Germans to Christianity.
Zits
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Agri/Business
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Farmers test-cut wheat
in south central Kansas
ROXANA HEGEMAN
WICHITA, Kan. — The winter wheat harvest is expected to
begin within days in south-central Kansas as the industry grapples with mostly poor crops, but
lofty prices for whatever farmers
manage to salvage.
At the OK Co-op Grain Co.
elevator in Kiowa, growers
already have begun test cutting wheat on both sides of
the Kansas-Oklahoma border,
said assistant manager Dennis
Carroll.
Those early test samples are
still too high in moisture, but
the first Kansas fields should
be ready to harvest in the area
within a day or two, he said.
Carroll said the elevator
expects to get at least “maybe
half a crop — possibly, hopefully — than we normally get.”
But with cash prices at the
Kiowa elevator at $8.55 a bushel
on Thursday farmers the mood
among growers remains “pretty
good” despite the lower anticipated yields. At this same time
last year, wheat prices were hovering at around $3 a bushel.
“You can get by with a third
of the bushels,” Carroll said
wryly.
That is good for those farmers who will get high prices for
the grain they do harvest and
crop insurance payments for
the fields that they lost. But
this is going to be a rough winter wheat harvest for the custom harvesters that make their
living cutting the crop and the
grain elevators that make their
revenues by storing it.
“It is a bleak picture,” said Pam
Shmidl, operations manager for
U.S. Custom Harvesters, the trade
group for custom cutters.
Some custom harvesters
have lost thousands of acres
that they normally cut at a
time when fuel prices for their
machines at the start of harvest hit $4 a gallon before
falling some in recent days.
Meanwhile, their costs for
equipment payments, wages
for hired men and food
expenses continue as they
wind their way northward
across the nation’s breadbasket
following the ripening crops.
Winter wheat crops in Texas
and Oklahoma have been so
poor that many custom cutters
never bothered to haul their
machines down there, Shmidl
said. A lot of them are hoping
they will have something in
Kansas to cut.
“This year more than others,
there is just so much unknown
as the combines start rolling into
the fields,” said Aaron Harries,
marketing director for the industry trade group Kansas Wheat.
“We owe that to the fact that
the weather has been so variable in the last two weeks,” he
said. “We’ve had days of 100
degree temperatures and high
winds and we have had some
beneficial rains — and it has all
come in the critical stage for
the wheat when it is filling the
grain kernels in the heads.”
Kansas Agricultural Statistics
Service forecast last month that
this year’s Kansas winter wheat
crop would come in at 261.8
million bushels, a figure based
on crop conditions as of May 1.
If realized, the Kansas crop
would still be down 27 percent
from last year for the lowest production in the state since 1996.
An updated forecast will be
released Thursday.
B5
Geithner urges support
for banking reforms
MARTIN CRUTSINGER
WASHINGTON — Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner
on Monday urged top bankers
to accept tough new financial
regulations passed in response
to the 2008 financial crisis,
instead of pressuring Congress
to weaken them.
Speaking at a banking conference in Atlanta, Geithner
criticized banking executives
who are supporting
Republican efforts to block
resources needed to implement the law. The measure
was passed last year when
Democrats controlled both
chambers of Congress.
Geithner said the
strongest and best managed
firms have the most to lose
if the regulations are weakened. That’s because their
competitors, including foreign banks, would benefit
the most from loopholes
and hurt the entire financial system.
“We can’t allow loopholes,
gaps and poorly managed risk
to take hold and undermine
the fundamental strength of
our reforms,” Geithner told
the bankers attending a conference in Atlanta. A text of
his remarks was released in
Washington.
Geithner said that the top
U.S. financial institutions
“should be champions, not
opponents of getting strong
capable people to lead and
staff the oversight bodies.”
He called for establishing
global standards for trading
derivatives and warned that
countries should not engage
in a “race to the bottom” in
setting standards for financial
companies.
One of the advantages the
United States held following
the Great Depression of the
1930s, Geithner said, was in
setting high standards for
Wall Street and the banking
system. He said the administration was committed to following that approach this
time as well.
“We will do what we need
to do to make the United
States financial system
stronger,” Geithner said. “We
will do so carefully. And as we
do it, we will bring the world
with us.”
Markets
Tuesday’s noon
local markets
Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7.12
Soybeans . . . . . . . . . .13.54
Milo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.50
Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.05
Stocks of local interest
The following stocks of local interest were
traded today:
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113,377
+325
Berkshire Hathaway A
75.58
+.24
Berkshire Hathaway B
24.52
+.16
ConAgra
48.28
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Eaton Corp.
46.19
NC
Ingersoll Rand
2.18
-.02
Level 3
81.92
+1.22
McDonald’s
69.09
+.20
PepsiCo
+.65
Tricon Global Restaurants 54.53
100.83
+.70
Union Pacific
26.21
-.05
Wells Fargo
30.14
+.42
Williams Cos.
54.12
+.36
Wal-Mart
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Public Notices
In the County Court of Hitchcock County, Nebraska
IN THE MATTER OF THE
)
GUARDIANSHIP OF
) Case No. PR11-10
JACOB PAUL VIOX
) NOTICE
JOHN DAVID VIOX, JR.
)
Minor Children.
)
Notice is hereby given that Violet Borges has filed
with the above court a Petition to appoint Violet Borges
as Guardian of Jacob Paul Viox and John David Viox,
Jr., minor children, a copy of said Petition being attached
hereto. Said Petition will come on for hearing before the
above court on July 13, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. in the County
Court of Hitchcock County in Trenton, Nebraska.
Steffanie J. Garner Kotik #22438
2935 Pine Lake Road, Suite E
Lincoln, Nebraska 68516
(402) 423-0553
(402) 423-0354 FAX
Attorney for Petitioner
May 24, 31, June 7, 14, 2011
NOTICE OF SHERIFFʼS SALE
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to an Execution
issued by the County Court of Adams County, Nebraska,
in an action wherein Fairfield Non-Stock Cooperative
Fertilizer Association, a Nebraska cooperative Corporation is the Plaintiff and David Van Boening, is the Defendant. I have levied said Execution on the following
described property of said David Van Boening, to wit:
1974 Ford Red F700 Farm Truck
Vehicle No.: F70EVU66001
Title No.: 05024140018
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION
OF
MJ AND E SCHMIDT FAMILY FARM, L.L.C.
1. The name of the Company is MJ AND E
SCHMIDT FAMILY FARM, L.L.C.
2. The address of the designated office is 905 East
Sundown Road, Ayr, Nebraska 68925.
3. The general nature of the business is to transact
any and all other lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized under the law of the
State of Nebraska.
4. The Companyʼs existence commenced on the filing and recording of the Certificate of Organization with
the Secretary of State and shall be perpetual.
5. The affairs of the Company shall be conducted by
its members, Donna R. Schmidt, Gary W. Schmidt, Neal
S. Schmidt and Diane R. Bronson.
Adam D. Pavelka
Sullivan, Shoemaker, Witt & Burns, P.C., L.L.O.
747 North Burlington Avenue, Suite 305
P.O. Box 309
Hastings, Nebraska 68902-0309
(402) 462-0300
May 24, 31, June 7, 2011
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the filing of the Articles of Dissolution with the Secretary of State under the
laws of the State of Nebraska of HOAGLAND NAVY
FARM, LLC having the registered office at 13060 South
Marian Road, Ayr, Nebraska 68925.
The terms and conditions of such dissolution, effective May 13, 2011, are that after the payment of all
2008 Liberty Tan Traveling Gooseneck Stock Trailer
debts, obligations and liabilities of the Limited Liability
Vehicle No.: 4DYGS242081028063
Company, remaining property and assets of the Limited
Title No.: 08102140024
Liability Company shall be distributed pro rata among
I will offer said property for sale to the highest bidder the managers. The management of the Limited Liability
for cash at the North door of the Adams County Court- Companyʼs affairs during the period of dissolution and
house, in Hastings, Nebraska, on June 21, 2011, at the distribution of the Limited Liability Companyʼs assets is
hour of 10:00 a.m.
by Charles D. Hoagland, Member of the Limited Liability
GREGG MAGEE, SHERIFF Company.
ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
As of the date of this notice, assets of the Limited LiMay 26, 31, June 7, 14, 2011
ability Company are none and liabilities are none.
Dated: May 13, 2011.
MATTHEW D. BAACK, #23868
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE
Seiler & Parker, P.C., L.L.O.
The following described property will be sold at pub726 East Side Boulevard
lic auction to the highest bidder on July 18, 2011, at
10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Adams County
(402) 463-3125
Courthouse, 500 West 4th Street, Hastings, Nebraska
Attorneys at Law
68901:
May 24, 31, June 7, 2011
COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER
OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE 1/4) OF
SECTION FIVE (5), TOWNSHIP FIVE (5) NORTH,
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
RANGE NINE (9) WEST OF THE 6TH P.M.,
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THENCE WEST
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following-deALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SE 1/4 A DISscribed property will be sold by GREGORY L. GALLES,
TANCE OF 660.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH PARSuccessor Trustee, at public auction to the highest bidALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF SAID SE 1/4 A
der at the front door of the Adams County Courthouse,
DISTANCE OF 660.0 FEET; THENCE EAST PAR500 West Fourth Street, Hastings, Nebraska, on June
ALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SE 1/4
30, 2011, at 10:00 o'clock a.m.:
660.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF
LOT NINE (9), BLOCK TWO (2), THOMAS ADSAID SE 1/4; THENCE SOUTH ALONG SAID
DITION TO THE CITY OF HASTINGS, ADAMS
EAST LINE 660.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF COMCOUNTY, NEBRASKA, ACCORDING TO THE
MENCEMENT, SUBJECT TO ROAD ON THE
RECORDED PLAT THEREOF.
SOUTH AND EAST THEREOF AND A TRACT OF
The successful bidder shall submit payment of the
LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER
winning bid in full on the day and time of the sale, June
OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE 1/4 SE 1/4)
30, 2011 at the offices of Locher Pavelka Dostal Braddy
OF SECTION FIVE (5), TOWNSHIP FIVE (5)
& Hammes, except this requirement is waived when the
NORTH, RANGE NINE (9) WEST OF THE 6TH
highest bidder is the Beneficiary.
P.M., ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, BEING DEDATED this 3rd day of May, 2011.
SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE
GREGORY L. GALLES, Successor Trustee
NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST
By: Gregory L. Galles
QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE
For: LOCHER PAVELKA DOSTAL
1/4 SE 1/4) OF SAID SECTION FIVE (5), THIS BEBRADDY & HAMMES, LLC
ING THE TRUE PLACE OF BEGINNING; THENCE
200 The Omaha Club
S 89 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 02 SECONDS W
2002 Douglas Street
(ASSUMED BEARING) ALONG THE NORTH LINE
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE
Phone: (402) 898-7000
SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE 1/4 SE 1/4) 660.00
Fax:
(402) 898-7130
FEET; THENCE S 00 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 56
Gregory L. Galles, #21748
SECONDS E 663.20 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST
STATE OF NEBRASKA
)
CORNER OF A TRACT OF LAND AS DESCRIBED
) ss.
IN DEED RECORD NUMBER 792921; THENCE N
COUNTY OF DOUGLAS
)
89 DEGREES 59 MINUTES 09 SECONDS E
On this 3rd day of May, 2011, before me, a Notary
ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID TRACT
Public in and for said County and State, personally
660.25 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF
came Gregory L. Galles, to me known to be the identical
SAID TRACT, THENCE N 00 DEGREES 15 MIperson whose name is affixed to the foregoing instruNUTES 13 SECONDS W ALONG THE EAST LINE
ment and acknowledged the execution thereof to be a
OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE
voluntary act and deed.
SOUTHEAST QUARTER (SE 1/4 SE 1/4) 663.61
Witness my hand and notarial seal the day and year
FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, EXCEPT
last above written.
THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO ADAMS COUNTonia Campbell
TY FOR ROAD IN BOOK 65, PAGE 583, SUBJECT
NOTARY PUBLIC
TO ROAD ON THE EAST THEREOF
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STEPHANIE PERSHING, L.L.C.
1. The name of the Company is Stephanie Pershing,
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2. The address of the designated office is 1405 Arapahoe, Hastings, Nebraska 68901.
3. The general nature of the business is to transact
any and all other lawful business for which limited liability companies may be organized under the law of the
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747 North Burlington Avenue, Suite 305
P.O. Box 309
(402) 462-0300
May 24, 31, June 7, 2011
INVITATION FOR BIDS (SALE OF
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SOUTH HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (S1/2SW1/4) OF SECTION THIRTYTHREE (33), TOWNSHIP FOUR (4) NORTH,
RANGE NINE (9), WEBSTER COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
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or reject any, all or part of bids and (2) purchase price to
be paid in certified funds or cashierʼs check.
Bids can be submitted by mail or hand delivery to
Sellerʼs attorney, whose address is as follows:
Julie Gawrych
P.O. Box 1288
726 East Side Boulevard
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May 24, 28, 31, June 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 2011
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the filing of the Articles of Dissolution with the Secretary of State under the
laws of the State of Nebraska of HOAGLAND FARMS
EIGHTY, LLC having the registered office at 13060
South Marian Road, Ayr, Nebraska 68925.
The terms and conditions of such dissolution, effective May 13, 2011, are that after the payment of all
debts, obligations and liabilities of the Limited Liability
Company, remaining property and assets of the Limited
Liability Company shall be distributed pro rata among
the members. The management of the Limited Liability
Companyʼs affairs during the period of dissolution and
distribution of the Limited Liability Companyʼs assets is
by Charles D. Hoagland, Member of the Limited Liability
Company.
As of the date of this notice, assets of the Limited Liability Company are none and liabilities are none.
Dated: May 13, 2011.
MATTHEW D. BAACK, #23868
726 East Side Boulevard
(402) 463-3125
Attorneys at Law
May 24, 31, June 7, 2011
NOTICE OF TRUSTEEʼS SALE
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
You are hereby notified that the following-described
property will be sold by Paul J. LaPuzza, Successor
Trustee, at public auction to the highest bidder in the
main lobby of the Adams County Courthouse, 500 West
4th Street, Hastings, Nebraska on Monday, July 11,
2011, at 11:00 a.m.
Lot Two (2), Block Seven (7), Johnsonʼs Addition
to the City of Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska
The highest bidder will deposit with the Trustee, at the
time of the sale, a personal or cashierʼs check in the
amount of $5,000.00, with the full purchase price, in certified funds, to be received by the Trustee by 5:00 p.m.
on the day of the sale, except this requirement is waived
when the highest bidder is the beneficiary. (If the sale is
held after 1:00 p.m., the deposit requirement remains
the same, and the full purchase price, in certified funds,
shall be received by the Trustee by 5:00 p.m., the following business day). The purchaser shall be responsible
for all prior liens, all applicable fees, and all taxes, including the documentary stamp tax. This property is sold
“as is” and this sale is made without any warranties as to
title or condition of the property.
DATED this 26th day of May, 2011.
Paul J. LaPuzza,
Successor Trustee
LaPUZZA LAW, P.C., L.L.O.
275 North 115th Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68154
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Notice
In the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska
Estate of IDA M.
CLARK,
Deceased.
PR011-16
Notice is hereby given
that an Accounting and
Report of Administration
and a Petition for Complete Settlement After Informal Testate Proceedings and a Petition for Determination of Inheritance
Taxes have been filed and
are set for hearing in the
County Court of Adams
County, Nebraska on June
22, 2011, at 9:00 oʼclock
a.m.
Tom Hawes
Clerk of the County
Court
Richard C. Witt #16787
Sullivan, Shoemaker,
Witt & Burns, PC, LLO
747 North Burlington
Avenue, Suite 305
P.O. Box 309
Hastings, Nebraska
68902
Attorneys for Petitioner
May 31, June 7, 14, 2011
Notice of Trustee's Sale
TS No.: 10-0080423 TSG
No.: 10-6-330053A. The
following described property will be sold at public
auction to the highest bidder in the lobby of the
Adams County Courthouse, 500 West 4th
Street, Hastings, Nebraska, on the July 15, 2011,
between the hours of 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. (10:00
a.m.): LOT 2 IN M WILLIAMS SUBDIVISION OF
BLOCK 11, OF LEWIS
SUBDIVISION OF THE
NE 1/4 OF THE SE 1/4 OF
SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP
7 NORTH, RANGE 10
WEST OF THE 6TH P.M.
IN THE CITY OF HASTINGS, ADAMS COUNTY,
NEBRASKA, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED
PLAT THEREOF. All subject to any and all: (1) real
estate taxes, (2) special
assessments, (3) easements, covenants, restrictions, ordinances, and resolutions of record which affect the property, and (4)
unpaid water bills, (5) prior
mortgages and trust deed
of record and (6) ground
leases of record. The purchaser is responsible for
all fees or taxes. This sale
is made without any warranties as to title or condition of the property. By:
CODY WRIGHT, Assistant
Secretary, RECONTRUST
COMPANY, N.A., Trustee,
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Notice
In the County Court of
Adams County, Nebraska
Estate of JOSEPH A.
RALSTON,
Deceased.
PR011-33
Notice is hereby given
that an Accounting and
Report of Administration
and a Petition for Complete Settlement After Informal Testate Proceedings and a Petition for Determination of Inheritance
Taxes have been filed and
are set for hearing in the
County Court of Adams
County, Nebraska on June
22, 2011, at 9:00 oʼclock
a.m.
Tom Hawes
Clerk of the County
Court
D. Charles Shoemaker
#15296
Sullivan, Shoemaker,
Witt & Burns, PC, LLO
747 North Burlington
Avenue, Suite 305
P.O. Box 309
Hastings, Nebraska
68902
Attorneys for Petitioner
May 31, June 7, 14, 2011
Notice of Trustee's Sale
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: For default in the
payment of debt and performance of obligation described in and secured by
Deed of Trust executed by
John M. Sundling, a single
person, dated May 25,
2006 and recorded on
June 5, 2006 as Document
No. 20062521 in the office
of the Register of Deeds
for Adams County, NEBRASKA, the undersigned
Successor Trustee, at the
request of the legal holder
of the debt, who has elected to declare the entire
debt due and payable, will
on June 17, 2011, at 11:30
a.m. at the lobby of the
Adams County Courthouse, 500 West 4th
Street, in the City of Hastings, State of Nebraska
sell at public venue to the
highest bidder for cash,
the realty described in said
deed of trust, to wit: THE
EAST SIXTY-SIX (E 66)
FEET OF BLOCK SIXTEEN (16), EXCEPT THE
SOUTH TWO HUNDRED
(S 200) FEET THEREOF,
LOWMANʼS NORTH SIDE
ADDITION TO THE CITY
OF HASTINGS, ADAMS
COUNTY,
NEBRASKA,
ACCORDING TO THE
RECORDED
PLAT
THEREOF SUBJECT TO
EASEMENTS AND COVENANTS OF RECORD, IF
ANY. And more commonly
known as: 1319 West 14th
Street, Hastings, Nebraska
68901. All subject to any
and all: (1) real estate taxes, (2) special assessments, (3) easements,
covenants, restrictions, ordinances, and resolutions
of record which affect the
property, and (4) unpaid
water bills, (5) prior mortgages and trust deeds of
record and (6) ground
leases of record. The purchaser is responsible for
all fees or taxes. This sale
is made without any warranties as to title or condition of the property. By:
Michael E. Boyd, Trustee.
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L.C., 300 St. Peters Centre Boulevard, Suite 230
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CLOVIS, N.M. — A jailhouse fight over a personal
music player ended after a
New Mexico inmate had part
of his ear bitten off.
The Clovis News Journal
reports that two inmates were
fighting over an MP3 player
Friday night at a Curry County
jail. Undersheriff Wesley Waller
says the scuffle ended when
one of the inmates bit off a
portion of the other’s ear.
He says each inmate now faces
charges from the argument.
$13M EMBEZZLED
HOUSTON — A former
Houston oil services company
accountant and several members of her family have been
charged with first-degree
felony theft. Prosectors say
the woman stole more than
$13 million from her employer over 10 years.
Harris County prosecutors
say Nancy Moreno paid the
money to dummy accounts
from company funds while
working at Davis-Lynch Inc.
Prosecutor Wendy Baker says
she then funneled money
from those accounts to herself and several relatives.
Baker said Moreno had
been “a trusted employee”
who had taken years to build
that trust. She said the money
was paid to dummy vendors
with names similar to legitimate vendors.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Weiner faces
cool reception
from Democrats
ANDREW MIGA
photo being disclosed, the
Republican met with House
Speaker John Boehner and
resigned.
House Republicans have stated
there would be zero tolerance for
misbehavior by members in their
ranks. And even if Weiner did
nothing illegal, House ethics rules
state that members must comport
themselves in a manner befitting
their office, enough to trigger an
investigation into Weiner’s online
social life.
And House Democrats weren’t
exactly circling around him in support.
One of Weiner’s New York colleagues, Rep. Steve Israel, chairman
of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee, said it would
rest with the voters of Weiner’s district, which covers parts of Brooklyn
and Queens, to determine the
seven-term congressman’s fate.
“Congressman Anthony Weiner
engaged in a deep personal failure
and inappropriate behavior that
embarrassed himself, his family
and the House,” Israel said.
“Ultimately, Anthony and his constituents will make a judgment
about his future.”
WASHINGTON — Disgraced
Rep. Anthony Weiner faces a cool
reception from even some of his
closest allies in Congress as he clings
to a once-promising political career.
House Democratic leader Nancy
Pelosi and other members of the
Democratic leadership voiced their
disappointment in Weiner and
pointedly urged the House ethics
committee to launch an investigation to determine if the outspoken
New York Democrat broke House
rules. Their calls came shortly after
the married Weiner’s profuse public
apology for “inappropriate” online
exchanges with six women.
Pelosi pronounced herself
“deeply disappointed and saddened.”
The second-ranking House
Democrat, Maryland’s Steny Hoyer,
called for Weiner to make full disclosure.
The cool but so-far not fatal
reception from his House colleagues contrasted sharply with the
fate that befell fellow New York
Rep. Christopher Lee, who sent a
shirtless photo of himself to a
woman he met on Craigslist.
Within a matter of hours of the
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In Memory
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June 10, 1968
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Announcements
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Happy 16th
Birthday
Automobiles
June 7, 2008
Itʼs been 3 years since you
were taken from us. The
pain wonʼt go away. We
love you and miss you every day.
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and family
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Automobiles
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Hoskins
Auto Sales
We Buy, Sell and Consign
Highway 6/Hastings Ave.
Hastings, 402-463-1466
For complete listing go to
www.hoskinsautosales.com
Great Plains Chrysler Dodge
402-463-3104•N. Hwy 281
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Garage Sales
Out of Town
1785 S. ELM: 1/4 mile
South of 3-Point Tire.
Tuesday-Friday, 12-6. Lots
of 25¢ items.
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Automobiles
2004 PONTIAC Grand Am
V-6, locally owned..$4,500
2003 Chevy 1-ton crew
dually diesel 4x4...$10,500
Deveny Motors
1013 S. Burlington
402-462-2719
www.greatplainsdodge.com
Hajnyʼs
AUTO SALES
2004 PONTIAC Grand
Am: 4-door, SE, V-6, full
power, sunroof, real nice
car. $4,650.
2003 OLDS Alero: 4-door,
V-6, full power, nice car.
$4,450.
402-463-2636
HAVE LIVESTOCK, farm
equipment, or farm land for
sale? Call 461-1241 to advertise your specialty; ask
for Joyce.
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Computer Repair
Professional Counseling Associates
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
After Hours Mental Health Care for the entire family
• Individual, Couples, Family, Children & Teens
• Behavioral Problems, ADD, ADHD
• Anger Management
• Grief and Loss
• Relationship Issues - Couple & Family
• Stress Management & Growth Issues
Evening and weekend hours by appointment.
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402-461-4917
Counselors-Human Relations
GENERAL COUNSELING LLC
Cyndee Fintel, LIMHP, Jessica Hunt, MS, PLMHP
www.generalcounseling.com...........402-463-6811
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING
Reg Rhoads
208 S. Burlington Hastings..............402-461-4917
Reg Rhoads,
PLMHP
Burlington Village, Suite 106
208 S. Burlington • Hastings, NE 68901
Home Appliances & Electronics
ROGER’S INC.
1035 S. Burlington Hastings............402-463-1345
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908 W. 2nd St. Hastings..................402-462-2131
Pets & Animal Control
HEARTLAND PET CONNECTION
1807 W. J Hastings
www.petfinder.com............402-462-PETS (7387)
Better Service
Built This
Business
OPEN:
Mon.-Fri. 8:30-5:30
Thurs. ‘til 8:00
Sat. 8:30-5:00
Sun. 12-4
463-1345 or Toll Free 1-888-375-8252
1035 S. Burlington
Or Visit Us On The Internet: www.nationwidewest.com/rogers
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
Equipment Rental
SOUTH CENTRAL BOBCAT
1010 West J Hastings......................402-462-5332
Truck Equipment
& Accessories
RHINO LININGS OF HASTINGS AND
CUSTOM RIDES Brubaker Motor Sports, Inc.
301 W. 2nd St. Hastings...................402-462-8581
To Purchase Advertising On
This Page Contact 462-2131
Upholstery
THE COVER UP UPHOLSTERY
204 N. Clay, Box 387, Harvard.........402-772-4031
We accept cash, check or money order VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER or
AMERICAN EXPRESS.
Fax: 402-461-4657
Brambleʼs Auto Sales
Check our new website
bramblesauto.com
HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY
EMMIE HAJNY
June 7
Open 7:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
We reserve the right to reject, edit or reclassify any advertisement accepted by us for publication.
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
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1995 Sea-Doo Jet Ski and
1996 Kawasaki Jet Ski
with trailers. Lake ready.
$3000 takes both. 24ʼ pontoon boat, 115 hp Mariner
motor with trailer. $7,500.
402-469-6771
38 Motorcycles &
ATVs
2004 HARLEY Davidson
Custom 1200 Sportster,
Sharp! Fast! Many extras,
lots of chrome, 5900 miles.
$5,800. Call 402-886-2414
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2-wheel Drive
Pickups
1974 F-100: Short box,
automatic straight 6. $650.
402-519-1728, 460-6756.
Business
Opportunities
FURNISHED salon/apartment for licensed cosmotologist. 402-469-4695
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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Special of the Week
ʻ08 Town & Country Touring: Silver, 3.8, dual DVD,
27,xxx
miles.
Sharp
$24,875...... Cash $21,875
Need New Tires?? Call
Joel for Best Prices!!
Call Bob, ASE Certified,
for your Mechanical Needs
220 West South Street
402-461-3161
Boats &
Equipment
Professional
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT
Duties include Medicare
billing, accounts receivable, assisting with payroll,
routing phone calls, and
miscellaneous office duties. Experience with Medicare Billing is preferred,
but will train the right individual. For more information, please contact:
Bob or Carole at
Bethany Home
515 West 1st St.
Minden, NE 68959
308-832-1594
Fax: 308-832-0662
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Sell your unwanted item(s)
in the Hastings Tribune
Classifieds for quick results. Call 461-1241.
See our truck selection at
jacksonscarcorner.com
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Sport Utility
2006 JEEP Grand Cherokee: 47,000 miles, Anniversary Edition. Must see!
THE CAR LOT
East Highway 6
CRACK IN the back? We
have used and new tail
lights in stock. McMurray
Motors, 402-462-6879
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Fold-down &
Pickup Campers
PICKUP CAMPER for
sale. 402-461-9033 or
402-469-9774.
36 Travel Trailers &
Motor Homes
2002 CHEROKEE: 30ʼ 5th
wheel, 2 slide outs, air,
awning. Nice starter unit.
$11,500
2006 COACHMAN Spirit
of America 526RLS: 5th
wheel. Nice clean unit 1/2
ton towable. Living room
Slide out. $15,995.
2001 FOURWINDS 26BH
Travel Trailer: Bunks, air,
awning. Take this one fishing with the family. $7,500.
Sold
HASTINGS MOTOR SALES
DYKEMAN’S CAMPER PLACE
Burlington and Highway 6
Call 402-463-1338
www.dykemanscamper.com
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Health Care
Bethany Home
Minden, NE
Attention Skilled
Nursing Professionals
We are currently expanding our healthcare team.
We are seeking motivated
individuals to join us in
providing exceptional resident care. We are seeking
full- and part-time RNs
and LPNs on the evening
shift. We offer a new pay
scale and a great work atmosphere.
Please inquire at:
Bethany Home
515 W. First
Minden, NE
or contact
Rhonda or Cassie for
Health Care Nursing
Phone #308-832-1594
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Health Care
COME WORK for a growing Home Health. We are
accepting applications for:
RN Case Manager
Part Time/Full Time
Applications are available
on line at www.good-sam.com.
Please call Diane at 402460-3213 if you need additional information.
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Restaurant
FULL-TIME
KITCHEN
Manager, Hastings Keno.
Experience
required.
Week days and weekend
night hours. Salary commensurate with experience. Apply by calling office, 402-461-4798.
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Technical &
Trade
Experienced Framing
Carpenters
Tired of the sun beating
E/EO
down on you and working
Drug Free Workplace
in the mud, rain, wind and
PART-TIME med aide ev- snow? Work 40 hours a
ery other weekend, and on week in our climate control
call. Champion Homes. plant. Carpenter applicant
402-902-9694.
must have 2 years experiROSE BROOK Care Cen- ence with air nail guns,
ter in Edgar, NE, is accept- hand and power carpenter
ing applications for RN or tools. Competitive wages,
LPN for night shifts to insurance, holiday pay, vawork within our fun and cation pay and retirement
friendly environment. Call program. Apply in person
George Geier at 402-224- at Wardcraft Homes in
5015 or email resume to Minden, NE, [email protected] day 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ROSE BROOK Care Cen- HVAC EXPERIENCE reter in Edgar, NE, is accept- quired. Join our service
ing applications for Li- department for parts and
censed Dietary Manager technical support. Full time
to work within our fun and Monday through Friday.
friendly environment. Call Call 402-463-9821 ext 259
Jodi Ninemire at 402-22459
Trucking
5015 or email resume to
[email protected] CONSOLIDATED CONTHE HAVEN Home is hir- CRETE has driving posiing for the following positions available. Competitions: Assistant Director of tive wages with bonuses
Nursing, Business Office available. Benefits include
Manager and Floor Tech- 401k, medical, and dental
nician. Please apply in insurance and earned time
person at 100 Elm St., Ke- off. Class B CDL required.
Apply at 2000 N. Baltinesaw, NE.
more, Hastings, NE or
List your ad, call 461-1241! 3440 West Old Hwy 30,
Grand Island, NE. EOE
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Office/Clerical
Accounting/Data Entry
Under general direction of
Controller. Supports daily
accountability of company's two divisions (PepsiCola of Hastings, Boydʼs
Full Service Vending.)
Hours: 10 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Functions: Overall Company accounting support activity. Cash handling responsibility including bank
deposits. Accounts payable support. Vacation and
sick day support.
Education/Experience:
High School Diploma, Associates degree, with emphasis in accounting preferred.
Skills: Flexibility for ever
changing
environment.
Ability to plan and prioritize
job responsibility. Extensive use of computer programs used in accounting.
Oral communication skills.
Integrity with money required.
Knowledge: General accounting knowledge including bookkeeping skills.
Personal computer skills
including
spreadsheet
analysis.
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
of Hastings
3800 Osborne Drive East
Hastings, NE 68902
HAVE A Service to offer?
Do you lay carpet, cater
banquets, give music lessons? Call 461-1241 to advertise your specialty; ask
for Joyce.
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General
$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
FULL-TIME
POSITION
available at Rogerʼs Inc.
for person in delivery and
installation
department.
Applicant needs a valid
driverʼs license and should
be able to move major appliances. Please call to
schedule an interview,
463-1345.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
is looking for drivers to deliver the Hastings Tribune
on rural routes. Call Circulation. 402-461-1221 or 1800-742-6397.
HASTINGS WALMART
-Full-time night stocker 10 p.m.-6:30 a.m. includes
weekends, starting wage
$8.45/hour.
•health insurance
•stock
purchase/401k
•company discount
Apply onsite at hiring center or walmart.com/apply.
No phone calls please.
The Hastings Tribune
brings you the latest from
across town and around
the world and so much
more. Support your local
newspaper by renewing
your subscription today.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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General
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EARN UP to $10/hour detasseling. Ages 12+. For
application call 984-8674.
Highway Construction
Wanted: Truck Drivers (to
$11.25/hour), and Equipment
Operators
(to
$13.15/hour) for Highway
Construction Projects in
Central Nebraska. Call
Werner Construction at 1800-967-2295 or 402-4634545
for
application.
Equal Opportunity Employer
IMMEDIATE OPENINGS!
*$1,995/month to start
*Full-time positions
*Must be at least 18 and
ready to start now!
Call or go online
www.PlatteRiverTeam.com
402-741-2580
JOB HUNTERS
Need a new direction?
Distribution center needs
men/women to fill entry
level positions, created
due to company expansion
and promotions.
NO EXPERIENCE
NECESSARY!
Company paid vacations
Excellent opportunity
for advancement
Production based
promotions
$2,140/month base pay
CALL TODAY!
402-460-4787
List your ad, call 461-1241!
SINCE 1981, Just For Kix
has built a leading reputation in dance team instruction. For 30 years, weʼve
inspired and motivated
thousands
of
youth.
Through positive teaching
strategies and personal
passion for dance, our
Youth Dance Directors are
provided solid resources to
initiate and instruct a
dance program. Committed to Directorsʼ teaching
success, we offer services
on every level; structuring
classes, schedules, managing performances, marketing,
providing
dancer/parental service
support, helping locate facility space, providing
choreography. This allows
Directors to focus on their
talents as teachers. With
no up-front costs and excellent opportunity for income, we are ready to establish our growing organization in Hastings. All we
need is your dance background, devotion to dancer
success and passion to
join the over 200 Just For
Kix Directors already using
dance to teach confidence,
teamwork and pride. Visit
www.justforkix.com/employment
to start your performance
today or call us at 218829-7107.
TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED It
works to sell used items
every day. Call 461-1241.
General
LICENSED INSURANCE
Agent needed to open
agency in Hastings area.
Call Denise or Stacy at
308-381-0110 or
[email protected]
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Part Time
WANTED: FUN PEOPLE
Front Desk/Resident Services. Overnight 10 p.m. to
6 a.m. every other Friday
and Saturday. Must enjoy
seniors. No phone calls
please. Apply within. The
Kensington 233 N. Hastings Ave.
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Child Care
HOME DAYCARE has
openings - infant and toddler. 402-984-7245.
STAY-AT-HOME
MOM
has 3 openings, ages 1-5.
402-519-3349
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Building
Supplies
23 USED Trusses: 27ʼ
span. $350. 402-225-3084
or 402-621-0313.
89 Lawn & Garden
NEW MOSQUITO Eliminator. Quiet, no mess. See at
PrairieLakeSales.com or
Gerry at 402-469-4311.
NEW SNAPPER and
GRASSHOPPER
MOWERS
in stock for
immediate delivery.
Hi-Line Motors, Kenesaw
402-752-3498
www.hilinemotors.com
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100 Unfurnished
Apartments
104
2-BEDROOM:
2-bath.
Partial utilities paid. No
pets/smoking. $550/$550.
402-462-5259.
HERITAGE MANOR
We are currently 100%
full. If a move is in your future, pick up an application
at 945 West H.
2-BEDROOM: 707 E. 4th.
$575. No smoking/pets.
402-463-9748, 763-7956.
2-BEDROOM: Embassy
Square. Currently 100%
occupied. 402-462-4032
4+-BEDROOM:
2-bath,
semi-detached in Blue Hill.
Washer/dryer
hookups.
Excellent location and condition. Available now.
$450. 402-460-7991.
CHATEAU
IMPERIAL
Townhomes/Apartments
Call 402-463-4111
DOWNTOWN: Upstairs. 1bedroom. Nice, large.
$395/month. 984-9001.
Free Pets
2 AKC female German
Shepherds to give away.
Moving, need to find good
home. 6-11 years. 402705-1378.
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100 Unfurnished
Apartments
Want To Buy
NEWER washers, dryers,
stoves and refrigerators.
Working or not. 462-6330.
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
1-BEDROOM: 105 E.
14th. Clean. Most utilities.
$385. 402-460-9626.
1-BEDROOM: Appliances,
parking. No pets/smoking.
$275/lease. 402-463-2917.
2-BEDROOM:
1-bath
apartments in Hastingsʼ
finest apartment complex.
Garages available; kitchen
appliances included; laundry facilities on site; very
clean and well maintained
in a nice neighborhood.
Sorry, no smoking/pets.
$515/month.
Parklane Apartments
Check us out at:
www.parklanehastings.com
or call
402-461-4100
FESTIVAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Kool-Aid Days Festival in Hastings seeks energetic,
innovative event planner to lead this family friendly
event. This part-time salaried position requires a selfmotivated individual with experience in budgeting,
event planning, marketing and public speaking. Must
be physically able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. and
able to work in outdoor summer conditions. Kool-Aid
festival is held annually the second weekend of
August. Successful candidate will be adept at working
with a board of directors and a diverse population of
volunteers and vendors. Salaried position approximately 900 hours per year. Full job description can be
viewed at www.kool-aiddays.com. Send Resume to:
Kool-Aid Director Job Search
301 South Burlington
Hastings, NE 68901
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.
2- and 3-BEDROOM:
FIRST MONTH FREE (on
3 bedrooms only...limited
time) at Regency Apartments. Large, clean apartments with controlled entry, on-site laundry, complete kitchens, and ample
parking. You PAY ONLY
ELECTRICITY!
Locally
managed. 800-322-4781
www.perryreid.com/regen
cyheights
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SPACIOUS 2-BEDROOM
in Juniata: Appliances, air.
No pets. References.
$450. 402-984-0881
SPRING INTO 945 West
H and see Dawn for a
housing application. We
have 2- and 3-bedroom
openings coming soon!
Rental and utility assistance available. Nice clean
units. Sorry, no pets. 402463-5953.
101
Furnished
Apartments
1-BEDROOM: Low ceilings. Lease. No smoking/
pets. 402-463-5197
102
Duplexes
For Rent
NICE 1- and 2-bedroom:
Appliances, laundry, central air, parking. 984-7333.
103 Town Houses
For Rent
2-BEDROOM FURNISHED unit. $650. 402-4611785.
2-BEDROOM: 1.5 bath,
full basement. Single garage. $700. 402-469-4027.
3-BEDROOM: 2.5-bath,
garage, appliances. References. $750. 7/1 460-9626
104
Houses
For Rent
Houses
For Rent
FARMHOUSE: Southwest
of Hastings. 3-bedroom.
$500 month. No pets. 402984-3396.
108 Office Space
CROSIER PARK
Professional Center
Coming
available
for
lease. Currently David &
Associates. 4,500 sq. ft.
office suite: multi office, reception, kitchen, conference room; (1) 375 sq. ft.
2 office plus reception; (1)
485 sq. ft. office; (1) 600
sq. ft. multi office. For
more information and private showing, call 402463-6229, 402-460-7229.
OFFICE SPACE for rent
next to old Rayʼs Pizza,
1,386 sq. ft. 402-469-4777
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111
YEARLING ANGUS bulls:
Sires include G13 Structure, Krugerrand 490. Natural sires, QLC M. Focus,
4M Rito I12. Heavy muscled, hand fed with great
dispositions. Ash Creek
Ranch. Clint Bostock, 402771-2295, home; 402-4698223, cell.
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To place your want ad for the
Farmer's Corner call
461-1241
KRAMER SPRAYING
REAL EOFSTATE
GROUP
HASTINGS
OPEN HOUSES
Wednesday, June 8 • 5:30-6:30 p.m.
500 N. SHORE DR.
New construction, 3 BR, 3 BA,
2 plus garage, full basement &
sprinklers. $248,500
5716 HAYMEADOW RIDGE
Like new 5 BR, 4 BA home at
Freeland Creek. Fabulous
home with open floor plan.
$439,500
1117 WILLIAMS
3 BR, 2 BA brick home. Main
floor family room, finished
basement. $67,500
2102 INDIAN ACRES
REDUCED - $218,000
Spacious updated 3 BR ranch,
features your own Paradise
Island.
223 E. 14th, Suite 230 • Hastings, NE 68901
Multiple Listing Service
MLS
TM
402-461-4888
“Building Relationships…One Client At A Time.”
At Your
Service
PETERSON LOW-VOLT
SERVICES.
Networks,
computer repair, cameras
Smart Home Data Communications, home theatres. Call Jeremy, 402705-8828.
BY PREPAYING YOUR
CLASSIFIED ADS.
461-1241
402-469-2992
700 East Side Blvd.
Hastings, NE
463-4591
Electrical
Save up to 30%!
Custom Spraying
Late Model John Deere Sprayer
Your Chemicals Or Mine
Discounted Rates
TOWN & COUNTRY
REALTY OF HASTINGS, INC.
TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED It
works to sell used items
every day. Call 461-1241.
RANDY RUHTER, Auctioneer and Broker, 2837
W. Hwy. 6, Hastings, NE,
402-463-8565.
WANTED:
$229,900
PLAINSMAN
CONSTRUCTION. Concrete
driveways, parking lots,
patios, roofing and siding.
Call 402-751-2262.
IRRIGATION PIPE: Aluminum and plastic, 8”, 20”
gated. Good. Call for price
402-469-6771.
WILL FINANCE: 2008
14ʼx80ʼ 3-bedroom, 2-bath.
Call Diane, 402-469-4777.
Well cared for 4 bedroom
home on a large
corner lot.
Hosted by: Gretchen Esch
VILLAGE TIME. Clocks
and watches cleaned/repaired. Authorized service
center. Will pick up and
deliver. 308-832-0671.
Irrigation
940 TILDEN: 3-bedroom,
2-bath, lots of new.
$107,500. 515-865-0717.
1001 N. Kansas
Clock Repair
RITCHIE WATERS parts,
sales, installation. Authorized dealer. 402-817-4279.
2-BEDROOM: Main floor
utilities. Joyce Schlachter,
Broker, 402-462-5794.
FOR SALE
3-bedroom, 2-bath. Will do
rent-to-own with down
payment. Kingswood Plaza. 402-463-1958.
$119,900
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL Cleaning. Call Sandra, 402-831-1865.
Livestock
Items
118 Mobile Homes
For Sale
Well cared for home
on a large lot in a great
location,
Hosted by: Pat Markle
Construction
136
PARR AUCTION
Dave Parr, associate,
Gateway Realty. 756-6135
1003 Jefferson
Cleaning Services
Storage/
Warehouse
130 Auction Sales
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011
5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
WILL PROVIDE day/night
child care. Call 402-4613013.
120 Commercial
Lots
WAREHOUSE
BUILDING: 26,429 sq. ft. Reduced to $53,500. Coldwell Banker Town & Country Realty. 402-463-4591.
OPEN HOUSES
KRUEGER CONSTRUCTION. Roofing, siding,
trim, drywall, additions.
New and remodels, residential, agricultural. Free
estimates. 402-460-7112.
[email protected]
Livestock
1212 SHERIDAN DR.:
Hastings. Wonderful family
home for sale by owner,
Master suite with sitting
area and walk-in closet,
plus additional 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, sun
room. Exceptionally large
rooms. Many updates!
Must see to appreciate! To
schedule a viewing time,
call 402-463-5003.
2-BEDROOM
TOWN
HOUSE
and
unit.
$49,900. 402-461-1785.
Residential
Lots
LOTS, MODEL Homes: 4
Subdivisions. Agent/owner, 402-461-1785.
123
30ʼx45ʼ: With large overhead door and 10ʼx30ʼ loft
for storage. 402-469-2656.
Auto Glass
119
PRIME
COMMERCIAL
land on Burlington Avenue
is ready for you to build
your new office. Call Gateway Realty - 463-4561.
Storage/
Warehouse
Child Care
135
Houses
For Sale
25ʼx30ʼ WORKSHOPS for
rent: Electricity, water,
bathroom. Free month rent
with lease. Call 469-4777.
AUTO GLASS EXPERTS.
25 years combined experience in glass replacement.
Jeff Fitzke, Brent Vorderstrasse. 405 West J
Street. 402-463-0025.
At Allmand Bros. we value Excellence,
Integrity and Respect! We’re currently
looking for Assemblers, Machine
Operators, Painters, Shipping and
Material Handlers. Got what it takes?
Be a part of something that matters, our
team, the Allmand Team! Apply today in
person at 1502 W. 4th Ave., Holdrege, or
visit us at www.allmand.com
116
Houses
For Sale
BY OWNER: 700 S. Shore
Drive. 4-bedroom, 3.5 bath
home on Lake Hastings.
402-469-2294.
Business
Property
Please Send Resume to:
Attn: Director of Advertising
P.O. Box 788
Hastings, NE 68902
Sudoku
RV STORAGE near Hastings. 24/7 Easy in and out
access. 402-845-2352 or
cell 308-379-7183.
116
OFFICE SPACE
Single office, double office,
up to 4 office suites available. Very nice. Conference
and meeting room available. 402-461-4100.
Landmark Center
IMMEDIATE
OPENING!
This Account Executive position is responsible for
generating revenue by servicing an already established account list. Achieve revenue and customer
goals by developing and maintaining strong relationships with both current and prospective customers. Successful candidate must have excellent communication and customer service skills with basic
computer ability. Valid driver’s license and dependable transportation a must. Excellent benefit package, Hours are 8-5, Monday thru Friday. This is an
outstanding opportunity and career position, we are
willing to train the right person.
Storage/
Warehouse
NEWLY REMODELED 1bedroom. $375 plus deposit. No smoking/pets.
712-249-5429.
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-BEDROOM:
Rent to own. Air, garage.
$400-$850. 402-469-6635.
Join our Advertising Team.
Full-Time Account Executive
Position Available Now
111
Engraving
SWEETYʼS ENGRAVING.
Stone, glass, metal engraving. www.sweetysen
graving.com
Gutters
HYLDEN
CONSTRUCTION. Gutters, siding, trim,
windows,
doors.
Call
Steve at 402-462-5439.
Handyman
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.
PATʼS HOME REPAIR &
REMODELING. Kitchens,
bathrooms,
bedrooms,
floors, doors and more.
Drywall repair. Free estimates. 402-469-7875.
Junk Removal
JUNK HUNK. Junk removal service - garage, shed,
attic, basement, yard. “Call
the Hunk to haul your
Junk!” Scott, 402-4634818.
Lawn/Garden Care
11 YEARS experience.
NEEMOW LAWN CARE.
Where Qualityʼs Expected.
Commercial/residential
mowing, trimming. Insured. Ken Neemeyer, 402463-5720.
LOOKING FOR a job?
Check classified every day.
Lawn/Garden Care
2S LAWN CARE. Experienced, professional service. Mowing, edging, aerating, trimming. Free estimates.
402-834-0410,
402-984-2963.
AARONʼS FAMILY LANDSCAPING. For all your
landscaping needs. Bushes, tree trimming and removal, tilling. 402-9842911.
AERATING, POWER raking, mowing, hedging,
edging, trimming, much
more. Commercial, residential. 9 years experience. Omar, 402-4608305.
DOWNINGʼS
LAWN
SERVICE. Complete lawn
service. Mowing, fertilizing,
power raking, and aerating. Call Randy at 402705-7334.
LANDSCAPE THERAPY,
L.L.C. Landscaping, mowing, trimming, fertilizing.
Free estimates. Reliable
and insured. Gift certificates available. 402-4600923.
PHILʼS TILLING SERVICE. No job too large or
small. Free estimates. Call
402-831-7837. Ask for
Phil.
T&D MOWING. 10+ years
experience. Commercial/
residential. Mowing, landscaping, trimming, edging,
fertilizing. Insured. Call
402-463-0152
TONYʼS LAWN CARE.
“Here to Serve ALL of
Your Lawn Care Needs!”
Commercial Residential
402-519-0093.
Up to 16 Words
for 1 month
ONLY
49.00
$
includes online
Call
402-461-1241
for details
Painting
ARTISAN
PAINTING.
Scheduling all paint projects, residential, commercial, farm. Call Bill 402462-8756, 402-705-9127
BILL MORGAN PAINTING. Interior/exterior. 25
years experience. Free estimates. Local references.
402-469-2977.
HONEY DOʼS PAINTING.
Interior, exterior. 25 years
experience. Free estimates. Tim Yurk, 402-7050601 or 402-463-7054.
Pet Services
SHYANNEʼS PET CARE.
Walking, pet sitting, or
yard
cleanup.
Pet
CPR/first aid trained. Call
402-984-1616.
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 Middle School
students. Inquiries: 402984-6347;
email:
[email protected].
Tree Service
INSURED, AFFORDABLE
tree cutting and trimming
service. Call Danaʼs Tree
Service in Fairfield at 402430-9543.
HAVE A Building, garage
or shed to rent? Advertise
it in the Tribune Classified
ads.
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Food
B8
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
SUNSHINE MARY
Yield: 6 servings
Family Features
T
here’s nothing like a
juicy, ripe tomato to
wake up a recipe and put
a smile on your face. And
tomatoes’ versatility
means that you can enjoy them in
a wide range of dishes that make
friends and family smile, too.
“Florida tomatoes have been the
inspiration for many of my most
treasured recipes,” said Chef Justin
Timineri, Executive Chef and
Culinary Ambassador, Florida
Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services. “But honestly,
my side dish of choice — the simple
joy of fresh raw Florida tomatoes
seasoned with a sprinkle of sea salt.”
Chef Justin has created these
recipes that maximize that fresh-offthe-vine taste and minimize your
time in the kitchen.
For more Florida tomato recipes,
visit www.floridatomatoes.org.
ARUGULA AND MOZZARELLA SPIKED TOMATOES
WITH BASIL VINAIGRETTE
Yield: 4 servings
4 medium sized Florida tomatoes
1 lb. fresh mozzarella cheese
1 bunch fresh Florida arugula (or basil)
Vinaigrette:
1
/3 C. olive oil
2 T. apple cider vinegar
1 T. honey
2 T. chopped fresh basil
1 clove garlic, minced
Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
For vinaigrette: In medium sized bowl, whisk together olive oil, vinegar,
honey, basil and garlic until completely emulsified. Taste and adjust
seasoning with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper.
Rinse tomatoes under cold running water and pat dry with clean paper
towels. With a sharp serrated knife, cut each tomato into an even number
of wedges. Then make a horizontal cut near the tip of each wedge, being
careful not to cut all the way down. Set aside sliced tomatoes.
Cut mozzarella into slices that will fit into the slices made in the tomatoes. (Try to fit one piece of mozzarella into a tomato to see what size
you’ll need to cut the rest.) To assemble, insert a slice of mozzarella into
each tomato wedge. Arrange wedges on a plate and top with arugula or
basil leaves. Garnish with basil vinaigrette. Season with kosher salt and
fresh ground pepper to taste. Serve at room temperature.
6 large ripe Florida tomatoes, peeled, seeded
and diced
3 T. freshly squeezed lemon juice
3 T. freshly squeezed lime juice
2 T. Worcestershire sauce
4 cloves fresh garlic, minced
2 t. hot sauce, (or more if desired)
2 t. fresh horseradish (or prepared)
1 t. kosher salt
1 t. seafood boil seasoning (Cajun seasoning
will do)
2 t. celery salt
1 t. fresh ground pepper
Salt or sugar to taste, for glass rims
In a blender, combine all ingredients
except last until smooth. Taste and adjust
seasoning to preference. Pour Sunshine
Mary mix into a food storage container or
pitcher, cover and chill.
To assemble, combine 1 ounce of good
quality vodka to every 6 ounces of
Sunshine Mary mix. Pour salt on a napkin. Moisten the top of the glass and
rotate the rim in the salt. For a sweet
twist, try sugar instead of salt. Pour drink
from pitcher over ice and garnish with
celery sticks.
TOMATO AND CUCUMBER SALSA
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
2 large Florida tomatoes, diced
1 large Florida cucumber, seeded and diced
1
/2 C. red onion, chopped
1
/2 C. Florida bell pepper, chopped
1
/4 C. fresh parsley, chopped
1 T. red wine vinegar
1 t. Italian seasoning
1 lemon, juiced
Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
In medium sized mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Stir to combine. Taste
and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
BAKED FRESH TOMATO, HAM AND SWISS FILLED ROLLS
Yield: 4 servings
2 large (1 lb.) fresh Florida tomatoes
6 oz. sliced ham, cut in strips (about 11/2 cups)
6 oz. Swiss cheese, shredded (11/2 cups)
3 T. creamy mustard blend
1 T. prepared white horseradish
4 large hard round (Kaiser) rolls, cut in halves
Use tomatoes held at room temperature
until fully ripe. Core tomatoes; cut in
large chunks; set aside. Preheat oven to
400 degrees. In a medium bowl combine
ham, cheese, mustard blend and horseradish. Gently stir in tomatoes.
Remove the inside from the bottom
portion of each roll, leaving ½- to ¾inch thick shells. Place on a baking
sheet. Fill each shell with about 1 cup of
the tomato mixture; top with upper portion of roll. Bake until heated through
and cheese starts to melt, about 15 minutes.
BAKED TOMATOES WITH HERB TOPPING
Yield: 4 servings
4 medium firm, ripe, Florida tomatoes
½ C. Italian parsley, finely chopped
½ C. basil, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
2 T. olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Remove the tops of the tomatoes, and
scoop out seeds and pulp with a small
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In a small bowl combine the parsley,
basil, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste.
Stir well and spoon 2 tablespoons into
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