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Cold War-era
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500
NORTH KOREA’S KIM
SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
JEAN H. LEE AND
RAFAEL WOBER
SANDY CREEK GIRLS BASKETBALL COACH
The Associated Press
REACHES CAREER MILESTONE
PYONGYANG, North
Korea — Even as the world
changed around him, North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il
remained
firmly in control, ruling
absolutely at
home and
keeping the
rest of the
world on edge
through a
Kim
nuclear
weapons program.
Inheriting power from his
father in 1994, he led his
nation through a devastating
famine while frustrating the
U.S. and other global powers
with an on-again, off-again
approach to talks on giving up
nuclear arms in return for energy and other assistance. Kim
was one of the last remnants of
a Cold War-era that ended years
earlier in most other countries.
His death was announced
Monday by state television two
days after he died. North
Korea’s news agency reported
AMY ROH/Tribune
Above: Sandy Creek players huddle with head coach Russ Ninemire following his 500th career win Saturday in
Doniphan. Top right: Ninemire celebrates during the game against Fillmore Central Saturday in Doniphan.
Program, not wins, matters to Ninemire
VINCE KUPPIG
[email protected]
F
AIRFIELD — To Russ
Ninemire, 500 is nothing
more than a number.
On Saturday, with a 57-44
Sandy Creek victory over
Fillmore Central, Ninemire joined an
elite group by picking up his 500th
career victory as a coach.
Only six other girls basketball coaches have reached the milestone in
Nebraska. The 58-year-old Ninemire is
the only one of those still coaching.
“We’ve played a lot of games,”
Ninemire says. “I’ve had the opportunity to coach a lot of different girls.
The win, the number doesn’t mean a
lot to me. I don’t go by wins and that.
I just go by opportunities to get to
play. We’ve won a few, we’ve lost a
few. I’m more happy about the building of the program over the 35 years
I’ve been here.”
Ninemire is the Sandy Creek program.
When he arrived
some 34 years ago at
The win, the Class C school
the num- located just outside
ber does- Fairfield — a place
n’t mean a the Ralston High
lot to me. School graduate had
I don’t go never heard of — girls
was in its
by wins basketball
second year as a high
and that. I school sport in
just go by Nebraska. He came to
opportuni- interview to be the
ties to get football coach, and
to play. he was asked to be
the girls basketball
coach. “I wasn’t sure
of that back then,” he
- Russ
says.
Ninemire Since then,
“
”
AMY ROH/
EPA rules threaten
older power plants
HU SPENDING
MILLIONS TO REACH
COMPLIANCE
Staff and wire
More than 32 mostly coalfired power plants in a dozen
states will be forced to shut
down and an additional 36
might have to close because of
new federal air pollution regulations, according to an
Associated Press survey.
Together, those plants —
some of the oldest and dirtiest
in the country — produce
enough electricity for more
than 22 million households,
the AP survey found.
While Hastings Utilities’
power plants won’t have to
close, HU is spending signifi-
cant amounts to bring one of
its plant into compliance with
Environmental Protection
Agency regulations.
HU included $5 million in
the 2012 budget and $2.5 million in the 2013 budget to
retrofit the Whelan Energy
Center Unit 1 power plant so
that it complies with the EPA’s
Cross State Air Pollution Rule.
The money will be used to
install low nitrous oxide burners to reduce nitrous oxide
emissions next year.
HU Manager Marv Schultes
said that will result in about a 5
percent increase in total costs
to ratepayers this year, and
rates likely will continue to
increase because of the EPA
rules.
Please see EPA/page A3
Goodfellows finishes strong
Tribune
Volunteer
Bill Ries
moves
boxes as
they are
loaded into
a vehicle
for delivery
by Goodfellows
Saturday at
the Adams
County
Fairgrounds.
BETSY HERRMAN
[email protected]
The Hastings community has
donated $16,614 to the
Goodfellows program so far
this year, much of it in a surge
last week.
The program wrapped up
Saturday, when boxes of food
and toys were delivered to families in need, but donations will
continue to be accepted
through this week. Tribune
Marketing Director Ryan
Murken, who coordinates
Goodfellows, said he hadn’t set
a specific fundraising goal this
year.
Cloudy
with a 30
percent
chance
of snow
tonight
and
Tuesday.
PLANE LANDS ON STREET
Art by Chandler Meredith,
10, Juniata Elementary
“But you always seem to
measure yourself against recent
history and where you were at
the last year. We’re going to be
right at where we were at last
year or even surpassing that,
and last year was one of the
best years we’ve ever had,”
Murken said.
Tribune owner and former
publisher Don Seaton said it
wasn’t that donations came in
late, but that the deliveries
went out early this year.
Goodfellows usually delivers
toys and food the Saturday
before Christmas. Since
Christmas is on a Sunday this
year, program organizers decided not to deliver on Christmas
Eve since many volunteers and
recipients could be busy or out
of town that day.
“So Goodfellows week this
year was two weeks away from
Christmas Day almost,”
Murken said. “I don’t think it
was really on a lot of people’s
radar screens yet. So just
because of the schedule it
seems like it did really pick up
in the last week.”
The program served about
200 families this year.
Please see
GOODFELLOWS/page A3
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Ninemire has seen the sport go
through a number of changes.
Since then, he’s seen the education
system adapt to changes in society.
Since then, he’s seen hundreds of
girls come and go.
Since then, coaching girls basketball
has become a love and a passion of the
star football and baseball player from
Midland College.
Five hundred wins and 245 losses
later, Ninemire has remained the
steady force at Sandy Creek.
“He’s the thing that all girls can
relate to,” says Sandy Creek assistant
coach Jeremy Borer, who has been
with Ninemire for the last nine years.
“I don’t think he’s changed very much
as a coach since he first started. The
girls who play right now can tell the
same type of stories that girls in the
1980s had.”
Please see 500/page A6
that he had died at 8:30 a.m.
Saturday after having a heart
attack on a train, adding that
he had been treated for cardiac
and cerebrovascular diseases for
a long time. He was 69, according to official records, but some
reports indicate he was 70.
Kim, who reputedly had a
taste for cigars, cognac and
gourmet cuisine, is believed to
have suffered a stroke in 2008
but he had appeared relatively
vigorous in photos and video
from recent trips to China and
Russia and in numerous trips
around the country documented by state media.
His longtime pursuit of
nuclear weapons and his military’s repeated threats to South
Korea and the U.S. stoked worries that fighting might break out
again on the Korean peninsula
or that North Korea might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorist movements. The
Korean War ended more than 50
years ago in a cease-fire, and the
two sides remain technically in a
state of war.
Kim Jong Il, who took power
after the death of his father,
unveiled his third son as his successor in September 2010, putting the twenty-something Kim
Jong Un in high-ranking posts.
Please see KIM/page A3
LONGMONT, Colo. — The pilot
of a single-engine plane managed to
safely land on a major street in the
northern Colorado city of Longmont
after having engine problems.
John Pritchard of Lafayette land-
ed the Piper Cherokee Archer II on
Hover Street near a shopping mall
Sunday evening. He avoided hitting
streetlights and trees along the road.
The landing caused no accidents.
Longmont airport manager Tim
Barth and police told the
Longmont Times-Call that
Inside
Pritchard and his teenage daughter
were flying back to Boulder from
Plattsmouth, Neb., when the plane
developed engine trouble. They said
Pritchard got permission to land at
Longmont’s airport instead but
then realized he couldn’t make it.
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VOL. 107, NO. 67 ©2011,
THE SEATON PUBLISHING CO., INC. HASTINGS, NEBRASKA
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Yesterday and Today
Obituaries
LAVON R. ROSE
Hastings resident LaVon R.
Rose, 88, died Sunday, Dec. 18,
2011, at Good Samaritan Society-Hastings
Village
(Perkins
Pavilion).
Services are
1:30 p.m.
Wednesday at
Calvary
Lutheran
Rose
Church in
Rosemont with Pastor Ronald
Kuehner officiating. Burial will
be at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in Blue Hill. Visitation is
7-9 p.m. Tuesday with family
present at Livingston-ButlerVolland Funeral Home in
Hastings, and one hour prior
to services Wednesday at the
church.
Memorials may be given to
Meals on Wheels.
Condolences may be sent to
www.lbvfh.com
***
LaVon was born Feb. 18,
1923, in Webster County,
Neb., to Carl and Helena (Meyer) Cornelius. She graduated
from Blue Hill High School.
She married Menno Rose on
April 21, 1946, and he preceded her in death on April 2,
1997. She was a homemaker
and a member of Calvary Lutheran Church. LaVon was a
4-H leader and taught Sunday
school.
LaVon R. Rose was preceded
in death by her parents; husband, Menno Rose; son,
Dwayne; grandson, Adam
Hemberger; great-granddaughter, Mary Terese Heikes; brothers, Henry, Clarence, Ernest;
and sister, Margaret Arends.
Survivors are children and
spouses, Marilyn and Russ
Heikes of Berryville, Va., Rodney and June Rose of Blue Hill,
Neb., Diane and Roger Hemberger of Hastings, Neb., Linda
and Ron Hemberger of Hastings, Neb., Ken and Mary Rose
of Hastings, Neb.; grandchildren and spouses, Brian and
Jackie Heikes of Orchard Park,
N.Y., Lori Heikes of Lawrence,
Kan., Jared and Kaitlyn Hemberger of Roseland, Neb.,
Travis Hemberger of Hastings,
Neb., Jessica and Jeff Getzfred
of Omaha, Neb., Sara and Josh
Tomayer of Boise, Idaho,
Amanda and Danny Perry of
Hastings, Neb., Rachel Hemberger of Hastings, Neb., Jennifer Rose of Hastings, Neb., Rebecca Rose of Hastings, Neb.;
11 great-grandchildren; sistersin-law, Evelyn Rose of Blue
Hill, Neb., Elsie Rose of Loveland, Colo., Druella Hohnstein
of Hastings, Neb.; many nieces
and nephews.
VIOLET BOETTCHER
Blue Hill resident Violet
Boettcher, 89, died Saturday,
Dec. 17, 2011, at Blue Hill Care
Center in Blue Hill.
Services are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church in Blue Hill with Pastor Dan Cosson officiating.
Burial will be at Blue Hill Cem-
etery in Blue Hill. Visitation is
1-8 p.m. Tuesday at MertenButler Mortuary in Blue Hill,
and one hour prior to the
service Wednesday at the
church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials
may be given to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Blue Hill.
ROSALIE D. DEWITT
Former Roseland area resident Rosalie Dolores Catherine
Anne DeWitt, 87, of Hastings
died Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, at
Good Samaritan Society-Hastings Village (Perkins Pavilion).
Rosary will be 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday at St. Michael’s
Catholic Church in Hastings
with Father Michael Houlihan
officiating. Mass of Christian
Burial will follow the rosary.
Burial will be at Roseland Cemetery in Roseland. Visitation is
one hour prior to services
Wednesday at the church.
the Rosalie D. DeWitt Funeral
Fund, c/o Livingston-ButlerVolland Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 1225 N. Elm
Ave., Hastings, NE 68901.
JACK D. KEHN
Hastings resident Jack D.
Kehn, 79, died Sunday, Dec.
18, 2011, at Good Samaritan
Society-Hastings Village (Perkins Pavilion).
Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Livingston-Butler-Volland Funeral Home chapel in
Hastings with Pastor Dale Phillips officiating. Burial will be
held at a later date. There will
be no visitation; book signing
will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, and one hour prior to
services Wednesday at the
funeral home.
Start Over Rover Animal Rescue.
Condolences may be sent to
www.lbvfh.com
BERTHA ‘BERT’ SCHULTZ
Superior resident Bertha
“Bert” Schultz, 86, died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, at Superior.
Services are pending with
Megrue-Price Funeral Home in
Superior.
Calendar
HASTINGS
u Bingo, 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
Eagles Club, 107 N. Denver Ave.
u Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
5:15, and 8 p.m., 521 S. St. Joseph
Ave.; and 7 p.m. (Women’s group),
907 S. Kansas Ave. Tuesday.
u Circle of Strength
Widow/Widower Support Group, 7
p.m. Tuesday, Blue Moon Coffee
Co., 635 W. Second St.
u Crystal Meth Anonymous, 7:45-9
p.m. Tuesday, 521 S. St. Joseph Ave.
u Hastings Teen MOPS, 4:30-6:30
p.m. Tuesday, 918 W. Fourth St.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Santa Paws
ERIC S. SWIST, Conroe Courier/AP
Rupert, a 7-month-old dachshund, licks the face of volunteer Patrick Ashton, dressed as Santa Claus, during a fundraising event for the Montgomery County Animal Shelter at a Petsmart location on Sunday in Shenandoah, Texas. Pet owners brought their animals for a chance to pose for a photograph with Santa Claus with half the proceeds of photo sales
going to support the shelter.
Today is Monday, Dec. 19, the 353rd
day of 2011. There are 12 days left in the
year.
MEMORY LANE
TRIBLAND
Thirty years ago: A fire inside a home at
1822 W. 10th St. caused extensive smoke
and water damage.
Twenty years ago: Doniphan students
Rachel Johnson, 17, and Shannon Bridger,
18, joined 29 other Nebraska youth at the
70th annual 4-H Club Congress in
Chicago.
Ten years ago: Lochland Country Club
filed a $1.4 million civil lawsuit against the
subcontractor and contractor working on
the clubhouse, which burned in June
2000.
One year ago: The Class of 1989
installed a flashy digital signboard at
Hastings High School to replace its old letter board sign.
HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY
On Dec. 19, 1843, “A Christmas Carol,”
by Charles Dickens, was first published in
England.
TODAY IN NEBRASKA
In 1896, Sgt. Leodegan Schnyder, a Swiss
immigrant who was in the U.S. Army for
53 years, died on his farm near Tobias.
ON THIS DATE
In 1777, Gen. George Washington led
his army of about 11,000 men to Valley
Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.
In 1813, British forces captured Fort
Niagara during the War of 1812.
In 1910, the artificial fiber rayon was
first commercially produced by the
American Viscose Co. of Marcus Hook, Pa.
In 1946, war broke out in Indochina as
troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.
In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
was named commander of the military
forces of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
In 1961, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph
P. Kennedy Sr., 73, suffered a debilitating
stroke while in Palm Beach, Fla.
In 1971, “A Clockwork Orange,” Stanley
Kubrick’s controversial movie adaptation
of the Anthony Burgess novel, had its
world premiere in the U.S.
In 1984, a fire at the Wilberg Mine near
Orangeville, Utah, killed 27 people. Britain
and China signed an accord returning
Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July
1, 1997.
In 1986, Lawrence E. Walsh was
appointed independent counsel to investigate the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton was
impeached by the Republican-controlled
House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was later acquitted by the Senate).
Ten years ago: Argentina’s president,
Fernando de la Rua, decreed a state of siege
as his country’s economic crisis triggered
violence. The fires that had burned
beneath the ruins of the World Trade
Center in New York City for the previous
three months were declared extinguished
except for a few scattered hot spots.
Five years ago: A Libyan court convicted
five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian
doctor of deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV and sentenced them to
death. (The six later had their death sentences commuted, and were transferred to
Bulgaria, where they were pardoned and
set free.)
One year ago: The body of an American
tourist, Kristine Luken, 44, was found near
a road outside Jerusalem. (A Palestinian
man was later sentenced by an Israeli court
to life in prison for stabbing Luken.)
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko
won re-election. Philadelphia’s DeSean
Jackson returned a punt 65 yards for a
touchdown as time expired in the Eagles’
38-31 comeback win at the New York
Giants; it’s the only game-winning puntreturn touchdown as time expired in NFL
history.
TODAY IN SPORTS
In 1980, Brigham Young University’s
Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies
KAREL JANICEK
PRAGUE — The end of
Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian
regime was called the Velvet
Revolution because of how
smooth the transition seemed:
Communism dead in a matter of
weeks, without a shot fired. But
for Vaclav Havel, it was a
moment he helped pay for with
decades of suffering and struggle.
The dissident playwright
spent years in jail but never
lost his defiance, or his eloquence, and the government’s
attempts to crush his will
ended up expanding his influence. He became a source of
inspiration to Czechs, and to
all of Eastern Europe. He went
from prisoner to president in
1989, the year the Berlin Wall
fell and communism crumbled
across the region.
Havel died Sunday morning
at his weekend home in the
northern Czech Republic. The
75-year-old former chain-smoker had a history of chronic res-
piratory problems dating back
to his time in prison.
Shy and bookish, with a
wispy mustache and unkempt
hair, Havel helped draw the
world’s attention to the anger
and frustration spilling over
behind the Iron Curtain. While
he was president, the Czech
Republic split from Slovakia,
but it also made dramatic gains
in economic might.
“His peaceful resistance shook
the foundations of an empire,
exposed the emptiness of a
repressive ideology, and proved
that moral leadership is more
powerful than any weapon,”
said President Barack Obama.
“He also embodied the aspirations of half a continent that
had been cut off by the Iron
Curtain, and helped unleash
tides of history that led to a
united and democratic Europe.”
Mourners laid flowers and lit
candles at Havel’s villa in
Prague. A black flag of mourning flew over Prague Castle, the
presidential seat, and Havel
was also remembered at a monument to the revolution in the
capital’s downtown. “Mr.
President, thank you for
democracy,” one note read.
Lech Walesa, former Polish
president and the Nobel Peace
Prize-winning founder of the
country’s anti-communist
movement, called Havel “a
great fighter for the freedom of
nations and for democracy.”
“Amid the turbulence of modern Europe, his voice was the
most consistent and compelling
— endlessly searching for the
best in himself and in each of
us,” said former U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine K. Albright,
who is of Czech origin.
Havel was his country’s first
democratically elected president, leading it through the
early challenges of democracy
and its peaceful 1993 breakup
into the Czech Republic and
Slovakia, though his image suffered as his people discovered
the difficulties of transforming
their society.
football team, down 20 points with three
minutes to play, staged an amazing comeback to defeat Southern Methodist
University in the Holiday Bowl, 46-45.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens is
91. Composer-lyricist Robert Sherman
(“Mary Poppins”) is 86. Actress Cicely
Tyson is 78. Rhythm-and-blues singermusician Maurice White (Earth, Wind
and Fire) is 70. South Korean President
Lee Myung-bak is 70. Actress Elaine Joyce
is 68. Actor Tim Reid is 67. Paleontologist
Richard E. Leakey is 67. Rock singer Alvin
Lee (Ten Years After) is 67. Musician John
McEuen is 66. Singer Janie Fricke is 64.
Jazz musician Lenny White is 62. Actor
Mike Lookinland is 51. Actress Jennifer
Beals is 48. Actor Scott Cohen is 47. Actor
Robert MacNaughton is 45. Magician
Criss Angel is 44. Rock musician Klaus
Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe) is 44. Rock musician Kevin Shepard is 43. Actress Kristy
Swanson is 42. Model Tyson Beckford is
41. Actress Amy Locane is 40. Actress
Rosa Blasi is 39. Actress Alyssa Milano is
39. Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is 31. Actress
Marla Sokoloff is 31. Rapper Lady
Sovereign is 26.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“He that jokes confesses.”
Italian proverb
FACT OF THE DAY
The first American president to be
impeached by the House of
Representatives was Andrew Johnson in
1868.
NUMBER OF THE DAY
12 — astronauts in the Apollo program
who actually set foot on the moon’s surface.
LUNAR LANDING
Between last quarter moon (Dec. 17) and
new moon (Dec. 24).
Sources: The Associated Press, Newspaper
Enterprise Assn. and World Almanac Education
Group
Tribland
Christine Quist of Doniphan
graduated from Central
Community College-Grand
Island Dec. 1 with an associate
of arts degree.
Jaclyn McClanahan of
Hastings graduated from
University of Nebraska Medical
Center’s College of Nursing
Dec. 16. She earned a bachelor
of science in nursing and graduates with distinction.
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.
Alyssa Hayse of Geneva
graduated from Wayne State
College December 16 with a
degree in music/vocal and
instrumental K-12 education.
She graduated summa cum
laude.
Rachel Rischling and Ashley
Kassik, both of Milligan,
recently earned bachelor of science degrees in nursing from
the BryanLGH College of
Health Sciences.
Eagles bingo Christmas party
Tuesday, 7:00; $400 pig, bonanza 57 numbers. Free lunch.
-Adv.
Lotteries
WINNING NUMBERS
Sunday
Kansas Pick 3.............................0-3-2
2by2................Red 15-25, White 12-22
Saturday
Powerball ..........13-28-49-51-59-PB-33
Power play 4 jackpot $91 million
Nebraska Pick 5............7-25-26-30-34
Jackpot: $82,000
2by2..................Red 5-19, White 14-18
Kansas Pick 3.............................0-8-9
Nebraska Pick 3.........................2-6-6
MyDaY......................................9-3-19
Super Kansas Cash ........7-9-12-14-19
Super Cashball 15
Hot Lotto.......................5-16-19-21-33
Hot Ball 18
Rebecca Hinz of Ruskin
recently graduated from the
BryanLGH College of Health
Sciences with a bachelor of science degree in nursing.
Idea! HK Sports Bar and Grill
gift card. Call 402-462-8888
and we can mail it to you. Adv.
Area funerals
Tuesday
uPatricia “Pat” Snyder, 77 of
Yorba Linda, Calif., 2 p.m. at Nora
Cemetery in Nora.
Wednesday
uViolet Boettcher, 89, of Blue
Hill, 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church in Blue Hill.
uRosalie DeWitt, 87, of Hastings,
10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic
Church in Hastings.
uJack Kehn, 79, of Hastings, 2
p.m. at Livingston-Butler-Volland
Funeral Home chapel in Hastings.
uLaVon Rose, 88, of Hastings,
1:30 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran
Church in Rosemont.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
A3
EPA: Rules
threaten
older plants
Continued from page A1
The new nitrous oxide emissions equipment won’t address
the plant’s sulfur oxide emissions, and Director of
Engineering Keith Leonhardt
has said it could take $35 to
$39 million to fully comply
with the Cross State Air
Pollution rule and other rules
being proposed by the EPA.
The fallout will be most
acute for the towns where
power plant smokestacks long
have cast a shadow. Tax revenues and jobs will be lost, and
investments in new power
plants and pollution controls
probably will raise electric bills.
The AP survey, based on
interviews with 55 power plant
operators and on the EPA’s own
prediction of power plant
retirements, rebuts claims by
critics of the regulations and
some electric power producers.
They have predicted the EPA
rules will kill coal as a power
source and force blackouts, basing their argument on estimates
from energy analysts, congressional offices, government regulators, unions and interest
groups. Many of those studies
inflate the number of plants
retiring by counting those shutting down for reasons other
than the two EPA rules.
The AP surveyed electricitygenerating companies about
what they plan to do and the
effects on power supply and
jobs. It was the first survey of
its kind.
The estimate also was based
in part on EPA computer models that predict which fossilfuel generating units are likely
to be retired early to comply
with the rules, and which were
likely to be retired anyway.
The agency has estimated
that 14.7 gigawatts, enough
power for more than 11 million households, will be retired
from the power grid in the
2014-15 period when the two
new rules take effect.
The first rule curbs air pollution in states downwind from
dirty power plants. The second,
expected to be announced
Monday, would set the first
standards for mercury and
other toxic pollutants from
power plant smokestacks.
Combined, the rules could
do away with more than 8 percent of the coal-fired generation
nationwide, the AP found. The
average age of the plants that
could be sacrificed is 51 years.
These plants have been
allowed to run for decades
without modern pollution controls because it was thought
that they were on the verge of
being shuttered by the utilities
that own them. But that didn’t
happen.
Goodfellows:
Program
finishes strong
“It’s been a great year and we
had great support from all parts
of the community,” Seaton
said.
“It went great,” Murken said.
“It was really pretty smooth.
Once again we had tremendous support from the volunteers, both on Friday loading
the boxes and on Saturday
with the driving. There were a
lot of familiar faces and a lot of
people we hadn’t seen before,
so we’re getting people
involved and people who are
taking the time to do it.”
Murken said he hopes to
grow the program through the
number of families served, the
amount of money donated and
the number of people volunteering.
“I think we were able to do
that this year. We had a lot of
people that I hadn’t seen out
there before who helped us
out, and that was fantastic,” he
said. “If you count all the people who were out there from
the Tribune, I’m sure we’ve had
more people than we’ve had
since I’ve been here. We definitely grew it this year from
where we were at last year. We
had a really good turnout from
the employees and their families and a nice turnout on
Saturday, too.”
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PLASTIC BAG BAN
SEATTLE — Seattle officials are expected to vote to
ban plastic bags.
The vote by the city council is expected at a meeting
Monday. The ordinance
would banish single-use, carryout bags in groceries and
other retail stores.
Paper bags would cost a
nickel — to encourage the use
of reusable bags.
The seattlepi.com reports
seven of nine council members are sponsoring the bill.
The city’s residents use 292
million plastic bags a year.
The ban is expected to reduce
pollution, free up landfill
space and improve the environment.
WINTER WEATHER
Kyodo News/AP
North Korean women cry after learning about the death of their leader Kim Jong Il on Monday in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Kim: A Cold War-era leader dies
On Monday, the North
Korean news agency dubbed the
son a “great successor” as the
country rallied around him.
Few firm facts are available
when it comes to North Korea,
and not much is clear about
Kim Jong Il, the man known as
the “Dear Leader.”
North Korean legend has it
that Kim was born on Mount
Paektu, one of Korea’s most
cherished sites, in 1942, a birth
heralded in the heavens by a
pair of rainbows and a brilliant
new star. Soviet records, however, indicate he was born in
Siberia in 1941.
His father, Kim Il Sung, is
still revered as the founder of
North Korea. The elder Kim
fought for independence from
Korea’s colonial ruler, Japan,
from a base in Russia for years.
He returned to Korea in 1945,
emerging as a communist
leader and becoming North
Korea’s first leader in 1948.
He meshed Stalinist ideology
with a cult of personality that
encompassed him and his son.
Their portraits hang in every
building in North Korea, and
every dutiful North Korean
wears a Kim Il Sung lapel pin.
Kim Jong Il, a graduate of
Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung
University, was 33 when his
father anointed him his eventual successor.
Even before he took over,
there were signs the younger
Kim would maintain — and
perhaps exceed — his father’s
hard-line stance.
South Korea has accused Kim
of masterminding a 1983
bombing that killed 17 South
Korean officials visiting Burma,
now known as Myanmar. In
1987, the bombing of a Korean
Air flight killed all 115 people
on board; a North Korean
agent who confessed to planting the device said Kim had
ordered the downing of the
plane.
When Kim came to power in
1994, he had been groomed for
20 years to become leader. He
eventually took the posts of
chairman of the National
Defense Commission, commander of the Korean People’s
Army and head of the ruling
Worker’s Party. His father
remained as North Korea’s
“eternal president.”
He continued his father’s
policy of “military first,” devoting much of the country’s
scarce resources to its troops —
even as his people suffered
from a prolonged famine —
and built the world’s fifthlargest military.
Kim also sought to build up
the country’s nuclear arms arsenal, leading to North Korea’s
first nuclear test, an underground blast conducted in
October 2006. Another test
came in 2009, prompting U.N.
sanctions.
Alarmed, regional leaders
negotiated a disarmament-foraid pact that the North signed
in 2007 and began implementing later that year. The process
has since stalled, though diplomats are working to restart
negotiations.
Following the famine, the
number of North Koreans fleeing the country rose dramatically, with many telling tales of
hunger, political persecution
and rights abuses. North Korea
is estimated to hold 150,000 to
200,000 people in political prisons; the government denies
operating any such camps.
Kim often blamed the U.S.
for his country’s troubles and
his regime routinely derides
Washington-allied South Korea
as a puppet of the Western
superpower.
Former U.S. President George
W. Bush described Kim as a
tyrant. “Look, Kim Jong Il is a
dangerous person. He’s a man
who starves his people. He’s
got huge concentration camps.
And ... there is concern about
his capacity to deliver a nuclear
weapon,” Bush said in 2005.
Defectors from North Korea
describe Kim as an eloquent
and tireless orator, primarily to
the military units that form the
base of his support.
He also made numerous trips
to factories and other sites to
offer what North Korea calls
“field guidance.” As recently as
last week, the North’s news
agency reported on trips to a
supermarket and a music and
dance center.
“In order to run the center in
an effective way, he said, it is
important above all to collect a
lot of art pieces including
Korean music and world
famous music,” the Korean
Central News Agency story
read in part.
The world’s best glimpse of
the man came in 2000, when a
liberal South Korean government’s conciliatory “sunshine”
policy toward the North culmi-
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nated in the first-ever summit
between the two Koreas. A second summit was held in 2007
with then South Korean
President Roh Moo-hyun.
Standing 5-foot-3, Kim wore
platform shoes and sported a
permed bouffant. His trademark attire of jumpsuits and
sunglasses was mocked in the
American film “Team America:
World Police,” a movie populated by puppets that was
released in 2004.
Kim was said to have wide
interests, including professional
basketball, cars and foreign
films. He reportedly produced
several films, mostly historical
epics with an ideological tinge.
A South Korean film director
claims Kim had him and his
movie star wife kidnapped in
the late 1970s, spiriting them
to North Korea to make movies
for a decade before they managed to escape during a trip to
Austria.
Kim rarely traveled abroad
and then only by train because
of an alleged fear of flying,
once heading all the way by
luxury rail car to Moscow,
indulging in his taste for fine
food along the way.
One account of Kim’s lavish
lifestyle came from Konstantin
Pulikovsky, a former Russian
presidential envoy who wrote
the book “The Orient Express”
about Kim’s train trip through
Russia in July and August 2001.
Pulikovsky, who accompanied
the North Korean leader, said
Kim’s 16-car private train was
stocked with crates of French
wine. Live lobsters were delivered in advance to stations.
A Japanese cook later
claimed he was Kim’s personal
sushi chef for a decade, writing
that Kim had a wine cellar
stocked with 10,000 bottles,
and that, besides sushi, Kim ate
shark’s fin soup — a rare delicacy — weekly.
“His banquets often started
at midnight and lasted until
morning. The longest lasted for
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four days,” the chef, who goes
by the pseudonym Kenji
Fujimoto, was quoted as saying.
Kim is believed to have
curbed his indulgent ways in
recent years and looked slimmer in more recent video
footage aired by North Korea’s
state-run broadcaster.
Disputing accounts that Kim
was “peculiar,” former U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright characterized Kim as
intelligent and well-informed,
saying the two had wide-ranging discussions during her visits to Pyongyang when Bill
Clinton was U.S. president. “I
found him very much on top
of his brief,” she said.
Kim’s marital status wasn’t
clear but he is believed to have
married once and had at least
three other companions. He
had at least three sons with
two women, as well as a
daughter by a third.
His eldest son, Kim Jong
Nam, who is about 40, is
believed to have fallen out of
favor with his father after he
was caught trying to enter
Japan on a fake passport in
2001 saying he wanted to visit
Disney’s Tokyo resort.
His other sons include likely
successor Kim Jong Un and the
heir-apparent’s older brother,
Kim Jong Chol. Their mother
reportedly died several years
ago.
WICHITA, Kan. — A
powerful snowstorm is threatening holiday travel across
the southwest and Great
Plains.
Blizzard warnings were
either in effect or scheduled
to begin Monday as the storm
barreled toward parts of New
Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas.
In southern Colorado, blizzard conditions were expected
to drop between 8 and 16
inches of snow and threaten
the closure of Interstate 25
from New Mexico into the
state.
Heavy snowfall was predicted from southwestern Kansas,
south into the Oklahoma
panhandle, south toward
Amarillo, Texas, and west into
the New Mexico plains. Wet,
heavy snow was already creating tricky driving conditions
near Santa Fe, N.M.
In Kansas, winds up to 45
mph were expected to create
whiteout conditions that
could threaten holiday
motorists.
SPERM DONOR
FREMONT, Calif. —
Federal officials have issued a
warning to a California man
who has been donating cups
of his sperm to women who
want kids.
Trent Arsenault tells the
San Francisco Chronicle he’s
been donating sperm for five
years to women he meets on
the Internet.
He says he got three
women pregnant last month,
a record for the 36-year-old
Fremont father of 14 — and
counting.
Arsenault says he considered donating through sperm
banks, which offer money
and donor anonymity. But he
decided to give it away in
sterile cups so he could meet
the future parents.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration has now told
Arsenault he’s facing a
$100,000 fine or up to a year
in prison for ignoring federal
regulations requiring blood
tests to screen for communicable diseases.
Opinion
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First Amendment
“
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
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Scottsbluff Star-Herald
At a time when society ought to be getting
tougher about the need to educate young
Americans, some Nebraska school officials and
politicians seem eager to take a few steps backward.
The Omaha Public Schools board is looking at a
proposal to disregard academic achievement in classifying high school students. Until now, OPS has
required a student to accumulate 12 credits to be a
sophomore, 24 credits to be a junior and 36 credits
to be a senior. Students would still need a minimum of 49 credits to graduate, but all a student
would have to do to call himself a sophomore, junior or senior is hang around for another year.
Defenders of the plan argue that the change
would have little effect on student achievement.
Students who fall behind their classmates would
have to take remedial courses or get other help to
catch up. A school board member who favors the
change said some high school boys feel embarrassed
at school because they are old enough to be seniors
but are classified as freshmen or sophomores.
The idea for the change originated with high
school counselors, who were concerned that a
shrinking senior class would harm students’ class
rank. Promote the slackers and stoners, the logic
goes, and instead of a student ranking in the middle of a class of 200, she could claim to be in the
upper half of a class of 250. Classifying all thirdyear high schoolers as juniors also helps to avoid
confusion over who has been tested under mandatory statewide testing rules, school officials claim.
Those are some pretty lame arguments.
Meanwhile, some parents are bellyaching about
an effort by Gov. Dave Heineman and others to
attack rampant truancy in Nebraska. Other critics
say new rules make work for the court system and
force schools to make up for bad parenting.
The law calls for legal intervention after 20 days of
truancy, regardless of the excuse. The rules are working. During the 2009-10 school year, before the new
law, nearly 22,000 public school students missed
more than 20 days of school. That was 7.8 percent
of the students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
Last year, after the law had gone into effect, the
number dropped to about 18,000, or 6.3 percent.
In some cases, parents are complaining that their
children have legitimate medical reasons for skipping school. But you can’t learn if you’re not attending classes. And when students don’t learn, schools
— and the other students — suffer. Federal policy
punishes schools that don’t achieve competency
standards for subjects such as reading and math. If
lawmakers allow themselves to be pressured into
excusing weeks of absences, parents should have to
demonstrate that students are keeping up with their
classwork and making sufficient academic progress.
The new law was intended to identify children
at risk of failing school, dropping out and becoming a burden on society. Any costs to the courts
for making kids go to school are outweighed by
generational welfare dependence and the high
social cost of having a workforce that’s too ignorant to do the complex jobs required in a competitive global economy.
As for the social promotion proposal, why bother? Students who aren’t cutting it academically
should be embarrassed. School officials have no
business devaluing the hard work of students who
earn their credits and make good grades. They
should be honoring good students, not making
excuses for the rest.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Finding real meaning in Christmas again
T
here’s that old saying, “Christmas is
for kids.” When I was little, I totally agreed with that statement. I
mean, what’s better for a child than
Christmas presents with toys
inside? I remember the adults were never
having as much fun as me and my siblings
and cousins.
(Unless you count the year Santa actually
came to our house while we were celebrating
Christmas Eve. I have the incriminating picture of my grandma, drink in hand, laughing
hysterically while sitting on Santa’s lap — she
was clearly having a better time than us kids.
But I digress.)
As I became a teenager and then a college
student, I thought “Christmas is for kids” was
something a Scrooge said.
After all, I was now an adult (as a college
student), and I still loved Christmas and
looked forward to it more than anything.
But then, I actually became an adult in the
“real world.”
And Christmas became a headache.
A day of unending travel, because in the
real world, you don’t get a Christmas break. A
day of watching certain greedy people look
terribly unhappy when they
opened their gifts — even if
they received everything on
their list. A day of endless
eating and the sugar crash
afterward. A day that sent
me back to work completely
drained and tired. A day that
left me scratching my head
Deann
and asking why — what’s
Stumpe
the point?
I would ruminate on these
things every year. I hated the rat race.
I had become a Scrooge. (It pains me to
write it.) I had completely lost sight of all the
wonderful things about Christmas.
But this year, I get it again, thanks to a little
tiny baby reminding me of another little tiny
baby.
My 3-month-old daughter has completely
changed my perspective.
She barely understands what her own
hands can do, but she reacts to the Christmas
tree lights, loves Christmas music and is
enthralled by the bright paper on packages.
Gazing at her each night, I can picture this
and many more Christmases full of her
smiles, going to church in our Sunday best to
sing carols, celebrating with family. I can’t
wait to see her grow each year in her faith
and maturity, to see her gain an understanding of the reason for Christmas and that giving IS better than receiving.
She’s already given me a wonderful gift this
year. She showed me how to slow down
again and remember what Christmas is really
about.
It’s about family, and having the opportunity — however fleeting — to see those you
love. It’s about giving to others as God did for
us. It’s about holding your loved ones close
and letting them know how important they
are in our lives.
My mom keeps saying that Christmas will
be so much more fun this year. Apparently,
her granddaughter has reminded her, too.
Deep down, Christmas has real meaning for
all of us. We just have to find it again.
Maybe Christmas is for kids. Or maybe it’s
the children and their joy that remind us
what Christmas is really about.
Deann Stumpe is the Hastings Tribune’s special
sections editor. Contact her at [email protected]
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ave you noticed that almost every
new daytime TV show wants to
be a version of “The View”? You
can almost hear the pitch sessions
down at Television Central — “It’s
totally different: It’s ‘The View’ with doctors.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with interior decorators.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with politicians.”
“It’s ‘The View’ meets ‘SportsCenter.’”
“It’s ‘The View,’ but on the Home Shopping
Network.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with comedians.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with celebrity chefs.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with pawn shop owners.”
“It’s ‘The View’ for hoarders.”
“It’s ‘The View’ hosted by the Kardashians.”
“It’s ‘The View’ meets ‘Dancing with the
Stars.’”
“It’s ‘The View’ with people who’ve been
kicked off ‘Survivor.’”
“It’s ‘The View’ with people talking about
‘The View’ that they watched this morning.”
“It’s ‘The View’ with interesting women
talking about the topics of the day.” Oh, no,
wait, that IS “The View.”
Now, I like “The View” as much as the next
person. As much as the next person who
watches daytime TV out of the corner of his eye
while doing household chores — chores like
dusting the TV, fluffing the sofa in front of the
TV, oiling the recliner in front of the TV and
washing my, I mean ‘his,’ collection of
Snuggies. Is “The View” really that good? Or
could it be that I watch
because I’ve already seen all
the half-hour-long infomercials they run that time of day
on most of the other channels? If there’s a slicer/dicer,
miracle cleaner, closet organizer, under-the-bed storage
bag, juicer, food dryer, egg
Jim
cooker, herb chopper, grill,
Mullen
boiler, printer ink cartridge
refiller, push-up tool, pull-up
bar, exercise ball, bell, belt or video I don’t have,
it’s only because the item must not be up to my
high shopping-by-phone standards. And sometimes I can’t meet the “call within the next 10
minutes” deadline because I’m on the phone
buying something else.
Do I tune into “The View” because I know I
can watch it every day and rarely, if ever, hear
the words “glue gun,” “quinoa” or “the
reveal"? Somehow I can’t picture Joy Behar
scrapbooking or Barbara Walters worrying
about the best way to grill hamburgers in her
backyard. She has important things to worry
about, like who is the most fascinating person
of the year. This year Steve Jobs won, beating
out the Kardashians. Tough choice. Like picking between Charlie Sheen and Gandhi, it’s
kind of a toss-up.
No, I watch so I can enjoy the pleasure of a
coffee klatch without having to let anyone
into my not-so-spotless kitchen. It turns out
that the big problem with all those miracle
cleaners I buy that promise to remove all my
most disgusting grease and grime is that they
don’t come with a cleaning person.
Apparently I am supposed to do all the
spraying and scrubbing myself. Now where
would I find the time to watch all those miracle cleaner infomercials and order them if I
did my own cleaning? So, I can see “The
View,” but they can’t see me.
Besides, “The View” has much better friends
than I do. Because of the “The View” I don’t
have to invite my deadbeat neighbors into my
kitchen, neighbors who would probably want
me to make them some kind of fancy flavored
coffee, like hazelnut or vanilla or something
and serve them freshly baked coffee cake. But I
don’t do modern coffee. I only know how to
make coffee-flavored coffee. In a coffee pot
I’ve been meaning to clean.
I don’t have to comb my hair to watch “The
View;” I don’t have to get out of my bathrobe.
I don’t have to clean up after anyone when
the show’s over. But now that every show
wants to be “The View” I have to ask, how
many coffee klatches can one person watch in
a day? My limit would be about five, maybe
six. I need some time to refill my ink cartridges, juice my eggs and organize my closet.
Jim Mullen’s latest book “Now in Paperback!”
is now in paperback. You can reach him at
[email protected].
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Tribland five-day forecast
Art by Chandler Meredith, 10, Juniata Elementary
WINDY TODAY
High: 32
Low: 18
Wind: North 20-30 with
gusts as high as 40 mph.
CLOUDY TUESDAY
High: 29
Low: 16
Wind: North 5-15
A 20 percent chance of
snow.
SUNNY WEDNESDAY
High: 40
Low: 23
Wind: North 5-10
CLOUDY THURSDAY
High: 31
Low: 17
A 20 percent chance of
snow.
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Term limits raise questions of experience
GRANT SCHULTE
LINCOLN — Term limits will
force more than one-third of the
Legislature’s committee heads,
including the leaders of the main
budget panels, to quit after this year,
leading some to note a big drawback to a system they still support.
Of the 14 standing committees,
five will lose their chairmen or
chairwomen, including the leaders
of the budget-focused and highly
complex Appropriations and
Revenue committees. This also will
be the last year for Speaker of the
Legislature Mike Flood, who helped
forge unlikely compromises on the
Keystone XL pipeline and other
issues.
The departing committee chairs
said they support term limits, but
several described a struggle to learn
all the public policy nuances that
accumulate with years of experience.
“You have an incredibly steep
learning curve,” said Sen. Abbie
Cornett, who has chaired the
Revenue Committee for four years.
“I’m not saying we don’t have capable people, and I’m not saying we
should get rid of term limits. But
maybe Nebraska should think about
extending them another term.”
Standing committees examine
bills, hold hearings, and edit legislation before they advance to the
full Legislature for debate. The
Legislature has other kinds of committees that handle procedural
matters and investigate specific
problems, but they work less often
with legislation.
Unlike other states with term
limits, Nebraska lawmakers can’t
run for office in another legislative
chamber. Since 1937 it has been
the nation’s only one-chamber
Legislature, a move intended to
make the body more efficient,
transparent and responsive to citizen concerns.
Nebraska voters enacted term
limits in 2000, and they went into
effect in 2006. It was the fourth
time the issue appeared on the ballot, but past efforts were struck
down in court. Advocates for term
limits said they prevent lawmakers
from becoming career politicians
and guarantee a steady supply of
fresh faces with new ideas.
The law bars senators from serving more than two consecutive
four-year terms, but they can
return after sitting out one term.
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SUNNY FRIDAY
High: 31
Low: 17
Today’s weather records
High: 66 in 1941
Low: -15 in 1989
Local weather
u From 7 a.m. Dec. 16
to 7 a.m. Dec. 19
High Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
High in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Overnight low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Overnight low in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
High Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
High in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Overnight low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Overnight low in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
High Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
High in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Overnight low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Overnight low in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Precipitation last 72 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00
December precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
December 2010 precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .09
Year to date precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27.01
Jan. to Dec. ’10 precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26.71
Snowfall last 24 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0
December snowfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8
December 2010 snowfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Season to date snowfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.8
Season to date snowfall 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0
State
INMATE DIES AT COUNTY JAIL
OMAHA — An investigation has begun into
the death of a 27-year-old inmate at the
Douglas County jail in Omaha.
A county news release says Michelle Leuze
was taken to an Omaha hospital early Monday
morning and pronounced dead there around
3:35 a.m.
Leuze was taken into custody on Sunday. She
faced three charges: driving while her license
was suspended, possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of failure to appear.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says no
other information is being released.
Nebraska law requires a grand jury investigation when someone dies in police custody or
while being arrested.
HUNTERS RESCUED OUT
OF LAKE MCCONAUGHY
OGALLALA — Two hunters were rescued
out of the nearly freezing waters of Lake
McConaughy after their boat capsized.
Ogallala radio station KOGA reports that
three hunters were in a boat that capsized
Saturday east of Makochmni, on the south
shore of Lake Mac. The call came in around
6:30 a.m.
Keystone-Lemoyne Fire Chief Ralph Moul
says two hunters swam to shore and borrowed a
jet ski to rescue the third hunter, but one ended
up back in the water when the jet ski sunk. The
water at the time was about 40 degrees.
One of the two rescued hunters was transported to the Ogallala Community Hospital for
treatment of severe hypothermia. The other
hunter was treated in an ambulance.
GIRL DIES AFTER FALLING
FROM PICKUP
THEDFORD — A 3-year-old girl has died
after falling from a pickup and being run over
near Thedford.
A report from the Nebraska State Patrol, cited
by KOLN-TV, says Brenna Clark, of Cambridge,
wasn’t wearing a seat belt when she fell from a
passenger window just before noon Saturday.
She was struck by the same vehicle she had
fallen from.
No charges have been filed.
MISSING DRIVER FOUND DEAD
FULLERTON— The death of a driver who
wandered from his vehicle may have been
caused by hypothermia.
NTV reports the Nance County sheriff’s
office is investigating the death. The name of
the man, who was found Saturday morning by
a local farmer, has not been released.
The man was driving from Silver Creek to
Genoa when he went missing Friday night. A
friend called authorities when the man didn’t
show up to meet him. Rescuers searched for
the man for several hours but stopped because
of low visibility and a vast search area.
Authorities say the driver wandered away
from his truck on a minimum-maintenance
road and is believed to have died overnight of
hypothermia.
No lawmakers are moving to repeal
term limits but even staunch advocates note a cost that comes with
the system.
Cornett, of Bellevue, said she is
still digesting the ins-and-outs of
state tax policy in her final year in
office: The retired Omaha police
officer reads farmland valuation
reports in bed, spends her summers
in policy conferences and hearings,
and crams sales tax law into her
hour-long drives to Lincoln.
Sen. Lavon Heidemann, who was
chosen to head the Appropriations
Committee in 2007 during his
third year in office, said he relied
heavily on legislative and fiscaloffice staff. Still, he said he struggled in his earlier years and rarely
left the Capitol before 10 p.m.
Please see EXPERIENCE/page A6
WILL VRASPIR/Tribune
Students, including Carissa Kopisch, driving car No. 2, practice driving on the course at the
Nebraska Safety Center in Kearney during a drivers education class Dec. 10
Learning the rules of the road
HHS HOSTS DRIVER’S
EDUCATION COURSE
WILL VRASPIR
[email protected]
L
ike many teenagers, 15year-old Carissa Kopisch
of Hastings prefers to
drive than to talk about
driving safety.
Despite that, she said she
enjoyed the drivers education
class put on this fall by the
Nebraska Safety Center at the
University of Nebraska at
Kearney.
“It’s fun and challenging,” said
Kopisch, a student at Hastings
High School. “I like the (driving)
range because you get to drive.”
For the first time since 2005,
HHS hosted a driver education
course from the Nebraska Safety
Center. The school provides
information about driver education courses held by the Nebraska
Safety Center and classroom
space for the group to meet on
Saturdays during the course. The
school also provides information
about similar classes held by the
Nebraska Safety Council, which is
hosted at Central Community
College-Hastings.
Marshall Barth, office manager
at the Nebraska Safety Center,
said they work with other schools
such as Adams Central High
School and Doniphan-Trumbull
to provide driving lessons. The
courses are outside the regular
curriculum of the school, funded
by the students or parents.
“We want to give them the
basic skills for them to be safe
drivers on the
road,” Barth
said.
There’s
Ann Madsen,
instructor for the some peoclass, said stuple who I
dents attend 20
know that
hours of class
I wonder
time and 10
how they
hours of driving
got their
during the
license
course of several
because
weeks, with
they are
classes split
kind of
between
crazy. I
Hastings and
Kearney. This
wish a lot
session’s course
more peobegan earlier this ple would
fall and wrapped do drivers
up Saturday.
ed so they
Madsen said
would be
the course only
safe. It
provides the
would
basics of driving
make me
and parents
have to continue feel safer.
to allow students
to practice.
“We are just a - Carissa
drop in the
Kopisch,
bucket in teachstudent
ing children to
drive,” she said.
“Driving is an ongoing learning
experience.”
Classroom instruction focuses
on understanding the risks associated with driving and individual
accountability. The dangers of
alcohol and drowsy driving are
also explained. Madsen said
“
”
maintaining control of one’s self
is crucial.
“The mental aspect is so important,” she said.
Driving time is divided
between driving at an 11-acre
range in Kearney, on-street driving and simulators. Students
practice two-point and threepoint turns, garage exercises
along with residential, business,
gravel and interstate driving.
Equipped with a street light,
stop signs and various lanes, the
range allows students to practice
their skills without complications
from outside traffic.
Madsen said the simulators put
students in certain scenarios that
would be rare to encounter.
Simulators will test students’ abilities to avoid deer and other
obstacles.
Kati Anderson, 16, said she was
frustrated by the simulators at
times because they didn’t work
quite the same as real-world driving.
“You have to flip a switch to
check the blind spot,” she said.
Before the class, Kopisch said
she hadn’t driven. Now, she feels
much more comfortable behind
the wheel.
She said she would like to see
more of her fellow students take
a driving education class.
“There’s some people who I
know that I wonder how they
got their license because they are
kinda crazy,” she said. “I wish a
lot more people would do drivers
ed so they would be safe. It
would make me feel safer.”
WASHINGTON — A
Nebraska meatpacker recalled
more than 40,000 pounds of
ground beef products distributed in 16 states after a test
confirmed the presence of E.
coli, the Agriculture
Department said Friday.
The products were shipped
to institutions and distributors
in Alabama, California, Florida,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi, New York, North
Carolina, Ohio, South
Carolina, Tennessee, West
Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. of
Dakota City, Neb., recalled 10pound chubs of chuck fine
ground beef 80/20, packed in
cases containing eight chubs.
USDA’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service said in a statement that the problem was discovered through routine monitoring that confirmed a positive
result for E. coli. No reports of
illness have been received.
E. coli is a bacterium that
can cause bloody diarrhea,
dehydration and, in the most
severe cases, kidney failure. The
very young, the elderly and
those with weak immune systems are the most susceptible.
FSIS advises all consumers to
safely prepare raw meat products, including fresh and frozen,
and only consume ground beef
that has been cooked to a temperature of 160 degrees.
The USDA referred consumer
questions to the company at
866-328-3156.
Supervisors
to appoint
new Vets
Service
Officer
BETSY HERRMAN
[email protected]
The new Adams County
Veterans Service Officer will be
appointed and sworn in Tuesday.
The Adams County Board of
Supervisors
will appoint
Chris Long to
replace Joe
Ballweg, who
has served as
VSO for 27
years and will
retire in early
January.
Long
Long, a 36year-old Hastings native, said
he served seven years active
duty in the U.S. Army with
deployments in Kuwait and
Macedonia and two deployments to Bosnia.
He has worked for the
Nebraska Department of
Corrections in Hastings and
Flow Serve, and said he was
interested in the VSO job
because he likes helping others.
“To be able to help veterans
is just a bonus on top of that,”
he said. “I know a younger
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Local
DRUG CHARGES
The case of a 24-year-old
Hastings woman accused of
distributing amphetamines
was sent to the district court
Monday.
Adams County Judge
Michael Offner bound over the
case against Aubrey L. Pierce,
whose last known address was
1211 W. Fifth St., after she
waived her preliminary hearing.
In exchange for her waiver,
prosecutors will consider
Pierce for drug court.
Pierce faces charges of distribution of amphetamine, distribution of hydrocodone and
distribution of alprazolam.
Pierce will next appear in
Adams County District Court
for an arraignment on the
charges.
According to the charge,
Pierce distributed or possessed
with intent to distribute
hydrocodone and alprazolam
on Jan. 28, and amphetamine
on Feb. 24.
Distribution of a controlled
substance (amphetamine) is a
Class 2 felony punishable by
up to 50 years in prison.
substance (hydrocodone) is a
Class 3 felony punishable by
up to 20 years imprisonment
and a $25,000 fine.
substance (alprazolam) is a
Class 3A felony punishable by
up to five years imprisonment
and a $10,000 fine.
HOLIDAY LIGHTS
Hastings residents can view
each of the houses entered in
the Hastings Parks and
Recreation Department’s
Holiday Lights Contest this year.
The contest winners were
Dan and Rochelle Atchity at
607 E. Sixth St.
Other houses in the competition are at 826 N. Briggs
Ave.; 6105 W. Assumption
Road; 910 N. Hastings Ave.;
1202 Madden Road; 6035 E.
Assumption Road.
VEHICLE CHASE
A 42-year-old man was
arrested in Clay County after
he fled Hastings police early
this morning.
Hastings police attempted to
stop Michael Muhle about
4:02 a.m. at Second Street and
East Side Boulevard. Instead of
stopping, the vehicle left the
area and led police on a chase.
After the vehicle reached
Clay County, the driver was
apprehended. He was arrested
for driving under the influence, flight to avoid arrest
and reckless driving.
Charges have not been filed.
State
DOG, HELICOPTER
USED TO FIND MAN
STANTON — Authorities
say a dog and a Nebraska
State Patrol helicopter have
been used to help find an
armed man in a rural, wooded area in northeast Nebraska.
Norfolk radio station KNEN
reports that deputies were sent
to a residence Sunday evening.
Stanton County Sheriff Mike
Unger says a man had left the
residence carrying a gun, and
there was concern the man
might harm himself.
The man was found about
2 1/2 hours later in northeast
Stanton County and taken to
Faith Regional Health Services
in Norfolk for evaluation. His
name was not released.
No injuries to the searchers
or the man were reported.
DRUNK, PASSED
OUT AT SENTENCING
MADISON — A Norfolk
man convicted a third time for
drunk driving could be in even
more trouble after showing up
drunk at his sentencing.
The Norfolk Daily News
reports that 46-year-old
Daniel Harris was passed out
when he was wheeled into a
Madison County District
courtroom on Friday after
being found in the courthouse parking lot.
A sheriff’s deputy was able
to administer a blood alcohol
test before Harris passed out.
It showed Harris’ blood alcohol content at more than four
times the legal driving limit.
Authorities say Harris had not
driven to the courthouse.
The judge ordered Harris
taken to a local hospital. His
sentencing has been rescheduled for Monday.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
500: Sandy Creek coach reaches milestone
If it weren’t for Borer,
Ninemire would have had no
idea he hit 500 wins this weekend. Ninemire doesn’t keep
track of his individual coaching
records — Borer and another
coach went through the yearbooks to tally Ninemire’s career
wins and losses.
Borer told the longtime coach
he was two wins away from the
milestone last week.
When Sandy Creek defeated
Fillmore Central on Saturday,
the girls presented him with a
ball that had the words “500
wins” on it. Ninemire kissed his
wife and teared up after receiving the ball.
“He deserves to be recognized
for this,” Borer says. “He doesn’t
take a lot of pride in this kind of
stuff. When we told him we’re
doing this, he said, ‘Why are
you celebrating this? Cause all it
means is I’ve been here forever.’
But a lot of people could coach
and not come close to 500. It’s
just an accomplishment, and
he’s done it all at Sandy Creek.”
BUILDING YEARS
Ninemire’s first win came a
little more than 34 years ago, in
his very first game as Sandy
Creek’s head coach.
Wins were hard to come by
early in his coaching career.
By 1990, he had just 78 victories.
Then, something changed.
Ninemire scrapped what he
had been coaching and went to
a man-to-man defense that the
Cougars became known for in
the 1990s and are still known
for today.
“Back in about ’89 or ’90,”
Ninemire says, “we had a bunch
of girls who just simply wanted
to quit losing.”
And quit losing they did.
After never winning more
than 12 games in a season in
Ninemire’s first 13 years at
Sandy Creek, the Cougars went
23-2 and made it to the state
tournament for the first time in
school history.
In Lincoln, Sandy Creek won
more — three times on the way
to its first state title.
It was a sign of things to come.
By 2001, in a 12-year span,
Ninemire’s Cougars had won
eight state titles and made it to at
least the semifinals of the state
tournament all 12 years.
The Cougars won 262 games
during those years, an average
of 22 wins per season.
By the end of the 2001 season, Sandy Creek had won six
straight state titles. During that
time, Sandy Creek rang off a
state-record 95 straight wins.
According to Ninemire, that
number could have been even
more.
“How it started was actually
me being stubborn. There was a
teaching timeout at Gibbon,”
he recalls of a game during the
1996-97 season Sandy Creek
lost — the last game Sandy
Creek lost until the 2000-01 season. “We didn’t play very well. I
benched my whole starting five.
I put them back in at the end of
the game, but they had caught
up and went ahead, and we lost
eventually. Ever since that time,
they knew the teaching lesson
and what it meant — that nothing is greater than the team.
“The streak got going and
that group there just wasn’t
going to lose.”
During that streak, Ninemire
remembers the Sandy Creek
group losing a game in a summer camp to a Omaha North
team that had just won the
Class A state title.
At the next camp, Sandy
Creek beat that Omaha North
group.
“We didn’t forget that lesson
and we beat that team,”
Ninemire says.
NO TIMEOUTS
Those lessons are what
Ninemire tries to teach his players each day at practice.
At a recent practice, Ninemire
AMY ROH/Tribune
Sandy Creek players gather around head coach Russ Ninemire as they celebrate his 500th
career win as a head coach Saturday in Doniphan.
didn’t look the part of a 58-yearold in teaching those lessons.
At one point, he jumped in
the middle of the action and
played the role of a defender.
Later, he took the ball and
showed one of his players how
to make a pass.
“You’ve got to keep playing,”
he barked out. “You can’t take
timeouts.”
Ninemire wasn’t taking a
timeout; he doesn’t take timeouts during practice.
Later, after repeating a drill
several times in search of perfection: “That’s a 100 percent better effort there. Now, add a little
bit more.”
Carrie Hofstetter, a 2000
Sandy Creek graduate who
never lost during her high
school career as the Cougars
went 27-0 three straight seasons, remembers hearing those
words like it was yesterday.
“He brings more energy to
practice every single day than
any one of his players,”
Hofstetter says. “He’s able to be
a great motivator. He’s able to
get players to play hard and he’s
able to get players to perform at
levels they didn’t think they
were capable. He’s able to maximize their abilities and get out
of them more than he probably
should be able to.”
Hofstetter and her teammates
would run through a brick wall
for Ninemire.
So would Keri Shaw, a 2011
graduate of Sandy Creek.
“He really pushed you to do
your best,” Shaw says. “He’s just
really a great motivator.”
Shaw, who has two older sisters who played under Ninemire
more than 10 years ago during
Sandy Creek’s string of six
straight state titles and who has
a younger sister still playing for
Ninemire, says the coach has
changed little.
How Ninemire is able to get
his girls to run through a brick
wall for him is really pretty simple, he says.
“It starts with letting them
know that you love them and
you care about them,” Ninemire
says. “But then I challenge
them. I might kick them in the
butt and the next time I’m patting them on the back. The
biggest key is just to be honest
with them. Sometimes it’s good,
sometimes it’s bad. But it’s a
point where they have to understand that I’m not going to lie to
them. If they’ve got a strength,
they know it. If they have a
weakness, I’m going to tell them
about it and we’re going to correct and try to work on it.”
Says Hofstetter: “He had a way
of letting you know he really
cares about you as a person.”
No one gets special treatment.
Everyone is expected to give
their best.
Now a coach, Hofstetter finds
herself saying things her former
coach would say or using the
same motivation techniques.
“The energy he brought to
practices set a standard in my
preparation for practice and
what I’m bringing to our team
as a coach,” says Hofstetter, an
assistant coach for the Fort Hays
State women’s basketball team.
“He really set the standard that
if you want your players to play
hard and you want your players
to be successful, you need to
bring that same energy and
intensity you expect from
them.”
Practices are what Ninemire
coaches for — not wins or losses.
“I could really care less about
the games,” he says. “I have
more fun coming to the practice than I do games. It probably
sounds weird, but this is my
classroom. This is where I like to
be at. I’m preparing them for
life, to make good decisions.”
FAMILY MATTERS
After winning the state title in
2001, Sandy Creek experienced
some down years — at least in
terms of wins.
The Cougars made it to the
state tournament just once over
the next nine years, losing in
the first round. Sandy Creek
experienced a losing season for
the first time since 1989.
“But it wasn’t because we didn’t have the effort. We didn’t
have the kids. They probably
played as well ability-wise as the
other kids,” Ninemire says. “It
was only tough for me because I
felt bad for the kids.”
But then in 2010, a year after
Sandy Creek was 12-12 and
three years after the Cougars
went 9-13, success found Sandy
Creek again.
The Cougars capped a threeloss season by hoisting the Class
C-2 trophy at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center, just as Ninemire’s
Cougars had 10 years ago.
Last year, moving up to Class
C-1, Ninemire and Sandy Creek
nearly did it again. But the
Cougars lost in the semifinals,
one of just two losses all season,
on the way to finishing third.
Ninemire admits this year’s
team has a new identity from
the last two years, but the coach
believes it has the potential to
reach the same type of heights
of his teams that won the state
title two years ago and was third
last season.
“This team can be as good as
they want to be,” Ninemire
says. “It just depends on what
they want to set their minds
to.”
Over the years, Ninemire has
had chances to jump up the
coaching ladder. Class A schools
and college teams have called.
“But what kept me here was
family,” Ninemire says. “I just
couldn’t think of a better spot
to raise my own children at the
time. So we always turned it
down.
“Fairfield is a great town to
live in. Sandy Creek is a great
community. It has a lot to offer
that maybe a bigger school can’t
give. You’re not a number,
you’re a person. That’s what’s
kept me here, the closer relationship with the kids.”
He has gotten to coach his
children — daughter Taryn on
the basketball court and son
Dustin on the football field. He
calls all his players his family,
though — “an extension of my
life.”
He really has experienced it
all, he says.
Eleven years ago, after coaching Sandy Creek to its staterecord sixth straight state title,
Ninemire was asked how much
longer he saw himself coaching.
Then, he wasn’t sure.
Today, he has a similar answer.
“I guess I’ll know when it’s
time,” he says. “When it’s time,
it’s time. I don’t have a particular time. I could go anytime I
want to go now. As long as I’ve
still got the burning desire to
coach, I’ll stay in it for a while.”
Ninemire admits that desire
has wavered at times over the
last decade.
“But right now I don’t think
I’m ready to go yet,” he says.
“I’m still enjoying my time.
This past fall, I had a great time.
I was really proud of my football team. And right now with
the basketball team, we’re having fun.
“I’m not in any hurry. But if I
pull the plug this year, it’s
because it’s my choice and I
decide to go.”
Experience:
Term limits
pushing
senators out
“It was a huge learning curve
for me,” said Heidemann, of Elk
Creek. “To be on Appropriations
is one thing. To be the chair,
you have to learn a lot about
every agency. It’s broadened my
horizons, without a doubt.”
Heidemann, a Republican in
the officially nonpartisan
Legislature, said he became
more moderate as he learned
the intricacies of the state
budget. He said the experience
he gained over time made him
more attentive to colleagues on
the nine-member panel, which
includes three Democrats.
“I’m a very, very conservative
person,” he said. “I’m still very
conservative. But I think it moved
me more toward the center.”
State Sen. Rich Pahls, who
has been chairman of the
Banking, Commerce and
Insurance Committee for six
years, said he relied heavily on
staff and attorneys who specialize in issues before his committee.
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Vets: Supervisors to appoint new officer
group of guys will be coming in,
but I’ll also continue to keep
serving the older guys. I’ll just
go in there and do all I can to
help every veteran that comes
in. This is just an honor for me
to serve the veterans of Adams
County and anything I can do
for them, I’ll be glad to do it.”
Long and his wife, Virginia,
have two children, ages 14 and 9.
The supervisors also will recognize Ballweg for his service
Tuesday.
The board meets 9:30 a.m. at
the Adams County
Courthouse, 500 W. Fourth St.
In other business Tuesday, the
board will:
u Approve appointments to the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
extension board.
u Consider a request to close the
UNL extension office Dec. 27-28.
u Re-appoint Dave Niemoth to
the Adams County Planning
Commission.
u Consider revisions to the county employee handbook.
u Consider an addendum to a
contract with Sequoia Consulting
Services.
u Have an executive session to
discuss personnel.
u Set salaries for the public defender and county board members.
u Release securities from Five
Points Bank.
Cimarron Plaza
Agri/Business
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
A7
Last Ford Ranger
rolls off assembly
line in United States
ST. PAUL PLANT SET
TO CLOSE; UPDATED
VERSION OF MODEL
TO BE BUILT OVERSEAS
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Chelsie Wilson (left) and Elizabeth Israel-Hartmann, owners of Avani Day Spa and Yoga, pose in their studio at 601
W. Second St.
Working for wellness
AVANI OFFERS ‘COMPLETE
SPA EXPERIENCE’
JOHN HUTHMACHER
[email protected]
H
ealth and beauty go handin-hand at Avani Day Spa
& Yoga Studio.
Located at 601 W. Second
St., the new studio owned
and operated by Elizabeth IsraelHartmann of Hastings and Chelsie
Wilson of Grand Island offers full spa
care and yoga classes in a 3,300-squarefoot space.
Israel-Hartmann said the new spa
is a larger, more expansive take on
her former business, Therapeutic
Kneads, which she operated locally
the last four years. The idea of combining the soothing effects of yoga
and massage just seemed like a natural fit, she said.
“Our emphasis is on self-care and
self-awareness,” she said. “We want
you to be mentally and physically
aware of where you need to be healthwise.”
Included on staff are four licensed
massage therapists, two certified yoga
instructors and a licensed esthetician.
Services include facial care, body treatments, pedicures, manicures, nail art,
waxing and more.
First-timers are made to feel right at
home in the spa’s comfortable surroundings, Israel-Hartmann said.
“We provide a very safe environment,” she said. “For people who are
nervous about getting a massage for
the first time, we have a very knowledgeable staff that can help. Our spa is
very customer-service oriented.”
The spa also offers a complete line of
skin care products by Servello that
includes facial cleaners, moisturizers,
lotions, soaps, nature-based aroma
therapy skin essentials and oils.
Gift certificates are available for all
services offered at the spa. Clients
young and old alike will reap benefits
from the soothing touch of massage,
Israel-Hartmann said.
“We are targeting anybody who is
looking to be healthful,” she said.
“We have both men and women
clients: Children as young as 5, and
adults as old as 94. Our emphasis is
on wellness.
“We’re trying to bring in the understanding here that massage is not just a
luxury, it is a necessity. It can very
often be of medical benefit. Massage is
beneficial for many health reasons. So
is yoga. We’re bringing in the mind
and body connection.”
Active persons looking to improve
their flexibility will find the Thai
Massage and yoga classes particularly
beneficial, she said.
“The Thai Massage emphasizes
stretching and flexibility,” IsraelHartmann said. “It is a good fit for athletes.”
Spa hours are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday through Thursday; 9:30-6
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States get say on benefits under health care law
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ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
WASHINGTON — The
Obama administration on
Friday rolled out a benefits
framework for millions of people who will get private insurance through the health care
overhaul, but states will decide
the specifics.
The new law calls for the
federal government to set a
basic benefits package for private insurance. But that’s tricky
territory for the administration
as it tries to avoid the “big
brother” label on health care.
Obama will be defending his
signature domestic law on two
fronts next year — before the
Supreme Court and the voters.
Friday’s proposal from
Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
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allows states to retain some
leeway. Private insurance traditionally has been regulated at
the state level, and many state
officials don’t like having to
answer to Washington.
The basic benefits package
could eventually affect 90 million people, HHS said. That
includes those who would
gain private insurance thanks
to the health care law, as well
as many more currently
enrolled in small employer
and individual plans.
The new proposal would let
states pick a benefits package
from several federally approved
options. Those range from benefits offered to federal and state
employees to the most popular
small business plans in the state
and to a large health maintenance organization, or HMO.
“The proposal we’re putting
forward today reflects our
commitment to giving states
the flexibility they need,”
Sebelius said. It’s a prickly relationship, with 26 states asking
the Supreme Court to toss out
the law.
If a state doesn’t want to
pick benefits, the default will
be the package available
through the largest small business plan in that state.
Initial state reaction was
positive. “Quite frankly, this
was a very smart approach for
HHS,” said Kansas Insurance
Commissioner Sandy Praeger.
“It builds on existing state
law.” Praeger, a Republican,
chairs the health care committee of the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners.
Starting in 2014, millions of
people now uninsured will be
able to buy private coverage in
new state markets; taxpayer
subsidies would help with premiums.
Insurers wanting to participate in the new state health
insurance exchanges will have
to offer at least the federally
approved “essential benefits
package.”
Business groups and consumer advocates are watching
closely because they expect
the federal government’s decisions to set new national standards for health insurance. At
issue is the right balance
between affordable coverage
and comprehensive benefits.
Under the law, the benefits
package must include such fundamentals as inpatient and outpatient care, emergency services, maternity and childhood
care, prescription drugs, preventive screenings and labs.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The
last Ranger small pickup truck
rolled off the line Friday morning, closing out an 86-year history of turning out Fords at the
assembly plant along the
Mississippi River and putting
about 800 people out of work.
A crowd of employees took
photos and applauded as the
last Ranger, a white sport
model bound for the Orkin
Pest Control fleet, was driven
off the production line.
“I could not understand why
they were cheering for the last
vehicle,” said Mike Montie, 58,
who worked at the plant for 28
years. “You cheer for the first
one, not the last one. I was
like, what the hell? I didn’t
want it to end, you know?”
Darlene Aspley, 62, who said
she did the final quality-control test on the engine and
transmission of the last Ranger,
recently started looking for a
new job. “I’m kind of scared,”
she said.
Dallas Theis, who worked at
the plant for 53 years, drove
the last Ranger off the line.
Afterward, he was in the plant’s
lobby posing for photos with
other employees while wearing
a T-shirt that said, “I built the
last Ford Ranger in America.”
“I’m really going to miss the
people,” said Theis, who plans
to retire. “I’ve learned to get
along with young guys, old
guys, radicals. There were people I didn’t like, but I’m going
to miss them too.”
Sales of the Ranger small
pickup peaked in the mid1990s and have fallen ever
since, hurt by neglect as Ford
Motor Co. focused its attention
on its line of more profitable
large pickups. The Ranger slowly lost its edge in fuel economy
and price over Ford’s full-sized
pickups, even as the Ranger’s
styling grew stale.
The St. Paul plant has produced more than 6 million cars
and trucks since 1925. Ford
plans to sell a new version of
the Ranger outside the U.S., but
the trucks will be built in
Thailand, South Africa and
South America.
The company plans to begin
decommissioning the plant
soon by moving out any equipment that can be used in other
Ford facilities and stepping up
environmental testing on the
nearly 125-acre site.
Demolition is expected to start
in a few months. Pollution
cleanup is expected to go into
2014.
Marcey Evans, a spokeswoman for Ford, said about
two-thirds of the employees
will have an opportunity to
transfer to another Ford location, most likely assembly
plants in Chicago or Louisville,
Ky., which are adding thousands of jobs.
Ford announced in 2006 that
it planned to close the St. Paul
plant and offered the 1,800
employees who worked there
at the time several kinds of
buyouts, but as the company
repeatedly pushed back the closure date it brought back hundreds of workers.
Many who came back
returned in job classifications
that don’t qualify for an automatic transfer to another plant,
including most who took a
$100,000 lump sum. “When
an employee took a buyout it
was expected they were leaving
Ford Motor Co.,” Evans said.
That includes workers like
Greg Audette, who’s now looking for work after 20 years at the
Ford plant. “We’ve known about
it for the last five years now,” he
said as walked out of the plant
for the last time Friday. “It’s just
too bad it had to happen.”
Employees hired since 2006
have known their jobs were
temporary, but some said that
didn’t make it easier. Travis
Smith, 25, said he was told that
when he was hired his job
would last five months. “Now,
4 1/2 years later and it’s my last
day on the job,” Smith said,
showing a photo of himself
standing by the last Ranger.
“It’s like a second family,”
Smith said. “You spend more
time with these people than
you do at home.”
Pedro Ballesteros, 42, said it
took him eight months to land
his job at the Ford plant. Six
months later it was over. With
two children in college and
one in high school, he said he
was worried about how long it
would take to get his next job.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Captured by you!
Dakota Jones (back row, far right), son of Mark and Dawn Jones of Hastings, is
pictured with his teammates on the Cloud County (Kan.) Community College soccer
team after they won the title game in the 2011 NJCAA division 1 men’s soccer
championship Nov. 20.
Delegates to the American Legion 2011 Cornhusker Girls and Boys State. From left: John Paul
Berg, son of Stephen and Diana Berg; Lauren Bartunek, daughter of Roger and Liz Bartunek,
sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary Unit 11; Luke Fanning, son of Joe nd Dana Fanning;
Jamie Williams, daughter of Ron and Jan Williams, sponsored by the Catholic Daughters; and
Joe Wahlmeier, son of Pat and Debbie Wahlmeier, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. Not
pictured is Tim Skoch, son of Michael and Ginny Skoch. Berg, Fanning and Skoch were sponsored by the American Legion Unit 11.
Wilcox-Hildreth won first place at the Fort Kearney Conference one-act competition
on Nov. 22. The team presented their interpretation of “The Mystery of Mouldy
South Central Nebraska Childrens’ Chorale performed at the Music Educators’ Conference in Lincoln Nov. 17.
Manor” by Ted Westgate. Karen Paitz was named overall best actress while Matt
Harms received the overall best actor award. Shaylee Fouts, Clay Blank, Stuart
Fritz, Mikayla Gitchel and Jessica Harms all received outstanding performance
awards. Front row: Will Price, Shelby Fouts, McKenzie Aspegren, Katelyn Ziebarth,
Shaina Fouts, Rachel Arehart, Gitchel, Kaizelle Damit-og and Aaron Stonerook.
Second row: Lexi Jenkins, Kylie Sturgis, Clark Bunger, Blank, Rachel Cedar, Mette
Hinrichs and Jessica Harms. Third row: Shaylee Fouts, Paitz, Stuart Fritz and Matt
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Bryce (left) and Zachary Ewing, sons of Mike and
Robynn Ewing of Fremont, received varsity letters in recognition of their outstanding academic
and athletic achievement in football. They were
both awarded the Heartland Athletic Conference
Academic All Conference Award for football.
Grandparents are John and Mary Ewing and Rick
and Phyllis Waltemath, all of Hastings.
Chanea Aflague, 10-year-old
daughter of Shane Aflague of
Hastings, makes a perfect shot
on her first deer during the
2011 firearm season.
Hastings BPO Does No. 112 members (from left) Andrea Towler,
president; Jan Schawang, secretary; Lois Hahne, musician (second from right); and Pat DuBois, chaplain (right) pose for a
photo with Supreme President Connie Jo Goochey (center) during the Nebraska Central District meeting Oct. 21-22 in
Ainsworth.
Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
AMY ROH/
B1
Broncos fall in top-25 battle
Tribune
Hastings
College’s
Sophia
McDermott
dribbles
against
Northwestern’s
Val Kleinjan
Saturday at
Lynn Farrell
Arena.
LATE RED RAIDER RUN
DOOMS LADY BRONCOS
ERIK BUDERUS
[email protected]
Through the first 10 games
of the season, the Hastings
College women’s basketball
team had shown an ability to
be the aggressor in the final
minutes of close basketball
games — showing the
improvement from a year ago
when the team struggled down
the stretch in tight ballgames.
But Saturday, the Broncos
reverted back as the team struggled down the stretch.
Northwestern used a 12-1
run midway through the second half to rally from a 52-47
deficit to post an 80-68 win
over the Broncos Lynn Farrell
Arena.
The defending national
champion Red Raiders, ranked
No. 20 in the latest NAIA
Division II top 25 poll, took a
59-53 lead with 6:36 left in the
game after Hastings had led by
five points.
The No. 8 Broncos stayed
within striking distance, as
Alicia Statler scored on back-toback possessions to trim HC’s
deficit to 59-57 with 5:46 left
to play.
Then, Brittney Wong scored
a layup and hit the free throw
after she was fouled on the
play to pull Hastings within 6360 with 3:38 left to play.
Statler scored on an offensive
rebound with 2:46 left in the
game to get the Broncos within
65-62.
But the Red Raiders pulled
away down the stretch.
Val Kleinjan was fouled on a
3-point shot and the Red
Raider senior hit all three free
throws. Then, Hastings turned
it over on the next offensive
possession. Northwestern took
advantage, as Kendra De Jong
hit a short jump shot to put
the Red Raiders ahead 70-62
with two minutes left in the
game.
Statler scored for the Broncos
before Kami Kuhlmann hit a
pair of free throws for the Red
Raiders. Then, the Broncos
turned the ball over and the
Red Raiders capitalized with
Kleinjan hitting a 3-point shot
to extend the lead to 75-64
with just more a minute left in
the game.
Northwestern hit 10-of-14
free throws in the second half,
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HC volleyball
gets new coach
FLATWATER FRACAS
ERIK BUDERUS
[email protected]
Hastings College officials believe they’ve
found the answer, the right person for the job,
to provide some stability and leadership for the
Bronco volleyball program.
Former Bellevue University
assistant head coach Matt
Buttermore was introduced
this morning as the new
Bronco volleyball coach.
Buttmore becomes the sixth
coach in five years for the
Bronco program.
“I couldn’t be more excited.
Buttermore
Hastings, to me, has always
seemed like a great place to
coach volleyball at, from my time at Concordia
and even my time at Bellevue,” Buttermore
said. “I really didn’t think about (the coaching
turnover) before coming here. I don’t know
how that would really affect me other than
having a team that really needs some stability.
And I’m more than happy to provide that for
them.”
The 29-year-old Buttermore will officially
begin work Jan. 3 in Hastings.
Please see COACH/page B3
AMY ROH/Tribune
Hastings High’s Stephen Gnagy wrestles Thayer Central’s Adam Hellbusch in the 126-pound weight class Saturday during the
Flatwater Fracas at the Heartland Events Center in Grand Island.
Tribland teams grapple at 30-team tourney
MIKE ZIMMERMAN
[email protected]
G
RAND ISLAND
— Both the Adams
Central and Hastings
High wrestling teams
went 3-4 in their
duals at the Flatwater Fracas over
the weekend.
However, each school took a
different route to get to that
record. The Patriots dropped all
three duals Saturday en route to
finishing 12th at the 30-team
tournament, while the Tigers won
each of theirs to finish 25th.
Adams Central head coach Dan
Lonowski credited the tough day
to the strong competition the
Patriots faced.
“It was a barnburner today,”
said Lonowski, whose team fell to
Central City 55-9, to Lincoln
Southwest 51-24 and to Grand
Island Northwest 48-28. “Central
City is ranked second in Class B
and Lincoln Southwest is in the
top six in Class A. We’ve got to
learn to battle off our backs and
fight through a few things.
AMY ROH/Tribune
AMY ROH/Tribune
Doniphan-Trumbull’s Heath
Maurer wrestles Omaha Gross
Catholic’s Nick Targy in the
138-pound weight class
Saturday during the Flatwater
Fracas in Grand Island.
Hastings College’s Dylan Flynn shoots
against Northwestern’s Zack Leeper
Saturday at Lynn Farrell Arena.
“We’re proud of the effort.”
The Patriots started off the first
day of the tournament with dual
wins over Norfolk, Omaha Gross
and High Plains before losing their
final dual on Friday to Manhattan
(Kan.). Lonowski said his team’s
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AMY ROH/Tribune
Adams Central’s Logan Klein (right) wrestles Central City’s
Logan Paup in the 220-pound weight class Saturday during the
Flatwater Fracas in Grand Island.
Patriots beat Tebow’s Broncos to win AFC East again, Packers fall
Tom Brady and the New England
Patriots are kings of the AFC East —
as usual.
With a 41-23 victory over Tim
Tebow and the Denver Broncos on
Sunday, the Patriots wrapped up
their ninth division crown in the 11
seasons Brady has been the starting
quarterback.
It’s a familiar spot for Bill
Belichick’s bunch, and one the
Patriots don’t take for granted.
“Never gets old,” defensive lineman Vince Wilfork said. “You work
so hard the whole year to get to just
one step. That’s just one of them. To
come out division champs, that’s
awesome.”
Baltimore and Pittsburgh also
secure playoff berths before they
even took the field because of losses
by others in the AFC. But the
Ravens (10-4) later lost to the San
Diego Chargers, meaning the
Steelers (10-3) could take control of
the AFC North with a win Monday
night at San Francisco.
The Patriots (11-3) are in prime
position to gain a first-round playoff
bye or home-field advantage in the
AFC, especially after South division
winner Houston (10-4) lost to
Carolina.
Four of the six playoff spots are
set in the AFC, and the New York
Jets (8-6) hold a tiebreaker edge over
the Cincinnati Bengals (8-6) for the
final wild-card spot — but there are
plenty of teams still in the hunt. In
the West, Tebow’s Broncos (8-6) lead
the way, but everyone else —
Oakland (7-7), San Diego (7-7) and
Kansas City (6-8) — is still alive.
In the NFC, Green Bay (13-1)
finally lost — falling 19-14 to the
Chiefs — but need one more victory
to clinch home-field advantage
throughout the conference playoffs.
“I personally always viewed the
undefeated season as, really, just
gravy,” Packers coach Mike
McCarthy said. “The goal was to get
home-field advantage and win the
Super Bowl. That’s what we discussed.”
The 49ers (10-3) already have
won the West and are battling New
Orleans (11-3), which leads the
South, for the other first-round bye.
The Saints have a two-game division
lead over Atlanta and play the
Falcons in New Orleans on Dec. 26.
The NFC East is still a bit muddled as Dallas (8-6) grabbed back the
lead when it beat Tampa Bay on
Saturday night and the Giants lost
to Washington on Sunday.
Northwestern too
much for Hastings
GENE RAY
[email protected]
Fouls became too big a problem for the
Hastings College men’s basketball squad to
overcome Saturday, as the Broncos fell 87-79 to
NAIA Division II No. 14 Northwestern at Lynn
Farrell Arena.
The loss dropped HC’s record to 7-8 overall
and 2-5 in the Great Plains Athletic
Conference. Northwestern improved to 10-3
overall and 5-2 in the GPAC.
The Broncos got whistled for 30 personal
fouls, and the Red Raiders took advantage by
24 points at the free-throw stripe.
Three Broncos fouled out, including one of
the GPAC’s leading scorers in Tobin Reinwald,
who sat the bench most of the second half
with foul trouble.
“Tobin has got to play 30 minutes or we’re
not just a very effective team,” Bronco coach
Lance Creech said. “He got into early foul trouble and we were just forced to sit him.”
Reinwald entered Saturday’s contest averaging 18.1 points per game. But he closed with
just 10 points because he had to sit the bench
most of the second half with foul trouble.
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Scoreboard
B2
Basketball
NCAA Men’s Results
Sunday’s Results
EAST
Army 61, Texas-Pan American 59
Boston College 75, Bryant 55
Penn St. 72, Mount St. Mary’s 43
Princeton 71, Northeastern 62
Seton Hall 80, Mercer 77, OT
St. Bonaventure 76, Loyola (Md.) 66
UConn 77, Holy Cross 40
Yale 68, Rhode Island 65
SOUTH
Florida St. 77, Loyola Marymount 61
IPFW 82, UT-Martin 76
Wake Forest 67, Gardner-Webb 59
Wofford 63, Jacksonville 57
MIDWEST
Canisius 90, South Dakota 80, OT
Illinois St. 68, Norfolk St. 36
Iowa St. 59, Cent. Michigan 52
Missouri 94, William & Mary 56
Northwestern 87, E. Illinois 72
Oral Roberts 64, Xavier 42
SOUTHWEST
North Texas 69, Jackson St. 55
Prairie View 88, Dallas Christian 55
Texas Tech 87, Grambling St. 59
FAR WEST
Hawaii 65, NC A&T 57
Oregon St. 101, Portland St. 68
Pepperdine 59, Montana St. 36
S. Dakota St. 92, Washington 73
Sacramento St. 75, North Dakota 64
Virginia 67, Oregon 54
Washington St. 66, W. Oregon 42
Prep Boys Results
Saturday’s Games
Adams Central 59, Gibbon 38
Alma 61, Red Cloud 23
Archbishop Bergan 57, Guardian Angels 42
Arlington 61, Tekamah-Herman 52
Arthur County 40, Sioux County 26
Beatrice 72, Omaha Roncalli 42
Bennington 52, Ashland-Greenwood 37
Bloomfield 85, Lynch 35
Boone Central 48, West Holt 46
Brady 61, Loomis 56
Clarkson 51, College View Academy 40
Cody-Kilgore 60, Colome, S.D. 56
Columbus Lakeview 74, David City 62
Columbus Scotus 59, Battle Creek 36
Concordia 67, Fort Calhoun 55
Crawford 51, Minatare 49
Creek Valley 49, Banner County 43
Cross County 48, Hampton 35
Douglas County West 62, Omaha Christian
Academy 52
Dundy County-Stratton 70, Perkins County 69
Elkhorn 41, Ralston 33
Elkhorn Valley 66, Newman Grove 57
Elm Creek 59, Eustis-Farnam 31
Elmwood-Murdock 42, East Butler 18
Fremont 46, Lincoln High 44, OT
Garden County 34, Hyannis 23
Giltner 59, Cedar Valley 39
Gordon/Rushville 64, Mullen 57
Grand Island 65, Lincoln East 47
Grand Island Northwest 74, Lexington 25
Hayes Center 62, Wauneta-Palisade 42
Heartland Lutheran 69, Harvard 49
Hemingford 67, Leyton 65, OT
Hershey 48, Ogallala 32
Howells 48, Dodge 34
Humphrey 80, Winside 42
Humphrey St. Francis 58, Fullerton 32
Kimball 88, Bayard 39
Lincoln Lutheran 56, Aquinas 51
Lincoln North Star 73, Lincoln Southwest 68
Lutheran High Northeast 60, Ainsworth 51
McCook 64, Holdrege 46
Medicine Valley 55, Hitchcock County 40
Millard North 45, Omaha North 44
Millard West 69, Bellevue East 42
Minden 76, Central City 40
Mitchell 68, Morrill 28
Nebraska City 53, Syracuse 41
Nebraska City Lourdes 58, Weeping Water 29
Nebraska Lutheran 59, Rocky Mountain Lutheran,
Colo. 24
Norfolk 71, Lincoln Northeast 49
Norris 53, Seward 37
North Platte 46, Columbus 38
Omaha Benson 42, Omaha Westside 41
Omaha Central 83, Omaha Burke 47
Omaha Creighton Prep 49, Omaha Northwest 46,
OT
Omaha Skutt Catholic 55, Hastings St. Cecilia 42
Omaha South 54, Papillion-LaVista South 46
Ord 56, Centura 40
Overton 70, Anselmo-Merna 48
Papillion-LaVista 65, Omaha Bryan 46
Paxton 82, South Platte 17
Pierce 72, Madison 33
Plattsmouth 55, Falls City 50
Pleasanton 68, Wilcox-Hildreth 41
Raymond Central 65, Malcolm 42
Republic County, Kan. 74, Superior 40
Sandhills/Thedford 59, CWC 51
Schuyler 41, North Bend Central 23
Shelton 60, Lawrence-Nelson 34
South Central, S.D. 49, Stuart 46
Southern 43, Humboldt/Table Rock-Steinauer 27
Southern Valley 65, Cozad 36
St. Paul 49, Broken Bow 47
Stanton 59, Pender 32
Sutton 57, Wood River 23
Tri County 62, Thayer Central 55
Twin Loup 52, Litchfield 51
Wakefield 54, Hartington 46
Walthill 51, Freeman Academy, S.D. 44
Wausa 62, Niobrara/Verdigre 41
Wayne 63, O’Neill 53
West Boyd 47, Elgin Public/Pope John 40
York 41, Hastings 31
Doniphan-Trumbull Tournament
Consolation
Sandy Creek 61, Fillmore Central 37
Championship
Doniphan-Trumbull 42, Wilber-Clatonia 40
Omaha Gross Tournament
Consolation
Platteview 50, Blair 46 Championship
Boys Town 64, Omaha Gross Catholic 57
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller (SEM) Tournament
Consolation
Kearney JV 65, Arcadia 30
Championship
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller 61, Elwood 50
Prep Girls Results
Saturday’s Games
Adams Central 47, Gibbon 34
Alma 40, Red Cloud 19
Aquinas 42, Lincoln Lutheran 36
Ashland-Greenwood 52, Bennington 46
Banner County 33, Creek Valley 22
Beatrice 68, Omaha Roncalli 29
Bellevue East 74, Millard West 40
Bloomfield 41, Lynch 28
Boone Central 67, West Holt 41
Brady 57, Loomis 20
Cedar Valley 50, Giltner 40
Centura 55, Ord 22
Cody-Kilgore 39, Colome, S.D. 37
College View Academy 43, Clarkson 38
Columbus 56, North Platte 44
Columbus Lakeview 51, David City 29
Columbus Scotus 59, Battle Creek 13
Concordia 51, Fort Calhoun 35
Cross County 61, Hampton 54
Douglas County West 45, Omaha Christian
Academy 32
Elba/North Loup Scotia 57, Ansley 50
Elgin Public/Pope John 44, West Boyd 35
Elkhorn Valley 43, Newman Grove 28
Elmwood-Murdock 67, East Butler 38
Eustis-Farnam 36, Elm Creek 27
Fremont 71, Lincoln High 27
Fullerton 37, Humphrey St. Francis 29
Grand Island Northwest 52, Lexington 37
Guardian Angels 61, Archbishop Bergan 24
Harvard 53, Heartland Lutheran 41
Hemingford 22, Leyton 21
Hershey 50, Ogallala 30
Hitchcock County 53, Medicine Valley 20
Holdrege 56, McCook 44
Howells 60, Dodge 39
Humphrey 59, Winside 10
Hyannis 52, Garden County 46
Kimball 47, Bayard 19
Lincoln East 48, Grand Island 40
Lincoln Northeast 49, Norfolk 32
Lutheran High Northeast 62, Ainsworth 32
Millard North 56, Omaha North 32
Minden 74, Central City 15
Morrill 44, Mitchell 34
Mullen 44, Gordon/Rushville 38
Nebraska Lutheran 34, Rocky Mountain Lutheran,
Colo. 28
Niobrara/Verdigre 51, Wausa 29
Norfolk Catholic 50, Twin River 35
North Central 35, Clearwater/Orchard 28
O’Neill 46, Wayne 43
Omaha Central 70, Omaha Burke 27
Omaha Marian 61, Omaha Northwest 51
Omaha Skutt Catholic 67, Schuyler 34
Omaha Westside 46, Omaha Benson 45, OT
Overton 44, Anselmo-Merna 30
Papillion-LaVista 67, Omaha Bryan 21
Papillion-LaVista South 46, Omaha South 31
Paxton 60, South Platte 34
Pender 70, Stanton 16
Pierce 68, Madison 19
Plattsmouth 51, Falls City 49
Pleasanton 49, Wilcox-Hildreth 43
Republic County, Kan. 51, Superior 35
Sandhills/Thedford 46, CWC 41
Seward 55, Norris 33
Sioux County 39, Arthur County 20
Southern 41, Humboldt/Table Rock-Steinauer 28
Southern Valley 55, Cozad 48
Southwest 48, Chase County 40
St. Paul 35, Broken Bow 30
Syracuse 57, Nebraska City 19
Tri County 46, Thayer Central 30
Twin Loup 52, Litchfield 41
Wakefield 42, Hartington 33
Wauneta-Palisade 46, Hayes Center 34
Weeping Water 59, Nebraska City Lourdes 31
Wood River 45, Sutton 34
York 58, Hastings 38
Doniphan-Trumbull (Holiday)
Consolation
Doniphan-Trumbull 57, Wilber-Clatonia 47
Championship
Sandy Creek 57, Fillmore Central 44
Platteview Tournament
Consolation
Omaha Duchesne Academy 68, Ralston 32
Championship
Omaha Gross Catholic 46, Platteview 34
SEM Tournament
Consolation
Kearney JV 41, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller 32
Championship
Arcadia 49, Elwood 48
Football
NFL Standings
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF
y-New England 11 3 0 .786 437
N.Y. Jets
8 6 0 .571 346
Miami
5 9 0 .357 286
Buffalo
5 9 0 .357 311
South
W L T Pct PF
y-Houston
10 4 0 .714 343
Tennessee
7 7 0 .500 279
Jacksonville
4 10 0 .286 207
Indianapolis
1 13 0 .071 211
North
W L T Pct PF
x-Pittsburgh
10 3 0 .769 282
x-Baltimore
10 4 0 .714 334
Cincinnati
8 6 0 .571 305
PA
297
315
269
371
PA
236
278
293
395
PA
198
236
283
Cleveland
4 10 0 .286 195
West
W L T Pct PF
Denver
8 6 0 .571 292
Oakland
7 7 0 .500 317
San Diego
7 7 0 .500 358
Kansas City
6 8 0 .429 192
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF
Dallas
8 6 0 .571 348
N.Y. Giants
7 7 0 .500 334
Philadelphia
6 8 0 .429 342
Washington
5 9 0 .357 252
South
W L T Pct PF
x-New Orleans 11 3 0 .786 457
Atlanta
9 5 0 .643 341
Carolina
5 9 0 .357 341
Tampa Bay
4 10 0 .286 247
North
W L T Pct PF
y-Green Bay
13 1 0 .929 480
Detroit
9 5 0 .643 395
Chicago
7 7 0 .500 315
Minnesota
2 12 0 .143 294
West
W L T Pct PF
y-San Francisco 10 3 0 .769 307
Seattle
7 7 0 .500 284
Arizona
7 7 0 .500 273
St. Louis
2 12 0 .143 166
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
Thursday’s Game
Atlanta 41, Jacksonville 14
Saturday’s Game
Dallas 31, Tampa Bay 15
Sunday’s Games
New Orleans 42, Minnesota 20
Seattle 38, Chicago 14
Cincinnati 20, St. Louis 13
Carolina 28, Houston 13
Kansas City 19, Green Bay 14
Indianapolis 27, Tennessee 13
Miami 30, Buffalo 23
Washington 23, N.Y. Giants 10
Detroit 28, Oakland 27
New England 41, Denver 23
Arizona 20, Cleveland 17, OT
Philadelphia 45, N.Y. Jets 19
San Diego 34, Baltimore 14
Monday’s Game
Pittsburgh at San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 22
Houston at Indianapolis, 7:20 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 24
Oakland at Kansas City, Noon
Jacksonville at Tennessee, Noon
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, Noon
Denver at Buffalo, Noon
Tampa Bay at Carolina, Noon
Minnesota at Washington, Noon
Cleveland at Baltimore, Noon
Miami at New England, Noon
N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, Noon
Arizona at Cincinnati, Noon
San Diego at Detroit, 3:05 p.m.
San Francisco at Seattle, 3:15 p.m.
Philadelphia at Dallas, 3:15 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 25
Chicago at Green Bay, 7:20 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 26
Atlanta at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
274
NCAA Division II Playoffs
PA
343
382
313
319
Championship
Saturday, Dec. 17
At Braly Municipal Stadium
Florence, Ala.
Pittsburg State (Kan.) 35, Wayne State (Mich.) 21
NCAA Division III Playoffs
PA
296
372
311
300
PA
306
281
368
401
PA
297
332
293
406
PA
182
273
305
346
Championship
Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl
Friday, Dec. 16
At Salem Stadium
Salem, Va.
Wisconsin-Whitewater 13, Mount Union 10
Championship
Saturday, Dec. 17
At Barron Stadium
Rome, Ga.
St. Xavier (Ill.) 24, Carroll (Mont.) 20
NCAA Bowl Schedule
Saturday, Dec. 17
New Mexico Bowl
At Albuquerque
Temple 37, Wyoming 15
Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
At Boise, Idaho
Ohio 24, Utah State 23
New Orleans Bowl
Louisiana-Lafayette 32, San Diego State 30
Tuesday, Dec. 20
Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl
At St. Petersburg, Fla.
Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, Dec. 21
Poinsettia Bowl
At San Diego
TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Dec. 22
MAACO Bowl
At Las Vegas
Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 7 p.m.
(ESPN)
Saturday, Dec. 24
Hawaii Bowl
At Honolulu
Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (11-2), 7 p.m.
(ESPN)
Saturday’s Results
Men’s Basketball
Briar Cliff University 88, Dordt College 83
Midland University 66, Morningside College 59
Doane College 82, Dakota Wesleyan University 69
Northwestern College 87, Hastings College 79
Nebraska Wesleyan University 69, Mount Marty
College 43
Women’s Basketball
Northwestern College 80, Hastings College 68
Mount Marty College 81, Nebraska Wesleyan
University 69
Morningside College 77, Midland University 52
Dakota Wesleyan University 116, Arizona
Christian 60
Sunday’s Results
Semifinals
Friday, Dec. 16
Sam Houston State 31, Montana 28
Saturday, Dec. 17
North Dakota State 35, Georgia Southern 7
Championship
Friday, Jan. 7
At Pizza Hut Park
Frisco, Texas
Sam Houston State (14-0) vs. North Dakota State
(13-1), 1 p.m.
Women’s Basketball
Briar Cliff University 109, Dickinson State
University 75
Wrestling
Grand View University 48, Concordia University 3
Campbellsville University 24, Concordia
University 22
Embry-Riddle (AZ) 33, Concordia University 15
William Penn University 24, Concordia University 18
Luther College 32, Morningside College 22
Morningside College 22, Waynesburg College 17
Delaware Valley College 29, Morningside College
19
Storm win third straight game
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The TriCity Storm ended the first-half of
the USHL season on a high note by
beating the Sioux City Musketeers 31 to reach a season-high three-game
winning streak. The Storm victory
also moves them into seventh place
in the Western Conference and four
points back of fourth place in the
log-jammed conference.
Tri-City (9-16-0, 18 points) scored
just 3:28 into the first period on a
unassisted goal by Tim Bonner,
which was his first of two goals.
The Storm added another goal
3:54 into the second period on
Kenny Brooks’ eighth goal of the
season, as Nick Lappin and Trevor
Moore earned the assists on the
eventual game-winning goal.
Sioux City (11-14-0, 22 points,
fourth in Western Conference)
finally solved Storm goalie Pheonix
Copley with two-minutes left in
regulation, as Maxim Gaudreault
scored his sixth goal of the season
with an extra-attacker on the ice.
Bonner would seal the game with
an empty-net goal with 50 seconds left
in regulation to cap the scoring. It was
Bonner’s seventh goal of the season.
Copley (7-10-0) made 28 saves on
29 shots in his third consecutive
win for the Storm, including 11
saves in the third period.
Tri-City went 0-for-6 on the
power play but was a perfect 5-for-5
on the penalty kill.
The Storm will be off for the next
10 days and will return home to
play the Des Moines Buccaneers at
the Viaero Event Center on Dec. 28.
Women: Broncos drop top-25 battle
Continued from page B1
while Hastings was just 5-of-6 from
the foul line in the final 20 minutes
of play.
“We weren’t talking well enough
on defense and we made some
mental mistakes,” HC coach Jeff
Dittman said. “We didn’t do a very
good job of defending the 3 and we
gave up way too many free throws.
We didn’t do a good job of executing on offense.”
The Broncos trailed early in the
game, as Northwestern jumped out
to a 14-4 lead just seven minutes
into the contest.
But Hastings rallied, using a 17-7
run to tie the game 21-all. Kayli
Rageth helped spur the run with six
points during the burst. Sophia
McDermott also hit a 3-pointer.
The teams exchanged baskets,
with neither team gaining more
than a two-point advantage the rest
of the first half.
After the game was tied 32-all at
halftime, Hastings took a 40-37 lead
on a 3-pointer by Brittney Wong.
Then, Tanasia Uhrig hit a trey as
Hastings re-took a 43-41 lead with
14:51 left in the second half.
Hastings fell behind 45-43 but
answered with a 9-2 run to open its
largest lead of the game at 52-47.
Cami Bruckman converted a traditional three-point play and added
another field goal during the burst
for the Broncos.
But Northwestern answered with
its 12-1 run to take the lead — one
the Red Raiders would not relinquish.
“We lost at home, that’s the bad
part of it. If you want to compete
for a conference title, you have to
take care of things on your home
court,” Dittman said. “We’ve lost a
couple games to a couple of pretty
good teams, but we don’t have any
reason to be shaken right now. If we
are, that just means we’re not mentally tough enough.”
Statler led Hastings with 23
points, eight rebounds and four
assists. Wong finished with 13
points. Bruckman chipped in nine
points as Hastings suffered its second straight defeat and fell to 9-3
on the season, 4-3 in the GPAC.
Northwestern, which improved to
8-4 overall and 5-2 in the GPAC,
was led by Kuhlmann’s 24 points.
De Jong tallied 20 points and
Kleinjan posted 15 points.
Hastings returns to action today
at 6 p.m. against No. 12 Kansas
Wesleyan at Lynn Farrell Arena.
Hastings College (68)
Cami Bruckman 2-6 5-5 9, Brittany Wong 5-11 1-1 13, Tanasia
Uhrig 2-8 2-2 7, Melissa Thompson 0-3 0-0 0, Alicia Statler 9-11 5-6
23, Sophia McDermott 2-6 0-0 6, Frankie Petersen 0-0 2-2 2, Kayli
Rageth 2-4 1-2 6, Courtney Spawn 1-6 0-2 2, Josey Schomp 0-0 00 0, Laurel Zwiener 0-2 0-0 0, Sierra Williamson 0-0 0-0 0, Total 2357 16-20 68.
Northwestern (80)
Alli Dunkelberger 0-0 0-0 0, Kami Kuhlmann 8-20 7-8 24, Val
Kleinjan 4-8 3-3 15, Kendra De Jong 9-17 2-7 20, Mel Babcock 3-3
3-3 9, Karen Hutson 1-2 0-0 2, Mackenzie Small 1-3 0-0 2,
Samantha Kleinsasser 4-6 0-0 8, Mallory Cunard 0-0 0-0 0, Total 3059 15-21 80.
Halftime score — HC 32, NW 32. 3-point field goals — HC 6-18
(Bruckman 0-1, Wong 2-4, Uhrig 1-4, McDermott 2-3, Rageth 1-2,
Spawn 0-4), NW 5-12 (Kuhlmann 1-4, Kleinjan 4-8). Rebounds
— HC 34 (Statler 8), NW 33 (De Jong 9). Assists — HC 14
(McDermott 5), NW 20 (De Jong, Small 5). Turnovers — HC 21,
NW 15. Total fouls — HC 19, NW 15. Fouled out — none.
Technicals — none.
Men: Northwestern too much for Hastings
Reinwald got two fouls early, and
his third came just three minutes
into the second half.
“It put us in a tough position, no
doubt,” Creech said. “When your
most consistent scorer is on the
bench, it’s tough to execute a game
plan because you don’t set your
game plan for your seventh, eighth
or ninth man. You set it for your
starters.”
Bronco starter Brett Wells and
sixth-man Charles Ferguson both
fouled out late, creating more freethrow chances for the Red Raiders.
In contrast, Northwestern had 17
fouls, with Hastings College going
13-for-21 at the stripe.
“(Northwestern) had just too
many possessions and we fouled too
much,” Creech said. “Out of the 87
points, (almost) a third of them
were from the foul line. That was
probably our Achilles heel. Not only
were we getting ourselves into foul
trouble, but we were allowing them
to score when the clock’s not run-
ning”
Creech said part of the Broncos’
foul troubles came from
Northwestern’s rebounding that got
the Broncos back on their heels in
the early going.
Northwestern leads the conference in team rebounding margin at
plus-12.5 per game.
“It felt like (Northwestern) did a
much better job attacking the glass
than we could at keeping them off.
I think that was part of our foul
problems,” Creech said.
The Broncos played evenly with
the Red Raiders in the early minutes
and forged a five-point lead five
minutes into the game on a
Reinwald 3-point basket. And
Reinwald canned another trey two
minutes later that let HC maintain
its five-point edge.
But Northwestern reeled off an 80 flurry to go on top until Alex
Thayer nailed a long bomb to give
HC its final lead, 24-23, with 8:15
left in the first half. Then the Red
Raiders unleashed 10 unanswered
points while the Broncos suffered a
three-minute drought.
The Red Raiders upped their
advantage to 14 points twice late in
the first half, only to let the Broncos
get to within striking distance in the
first half’s last two minutes.
Hastings ran off an 8-1 run that
cut the margin to 44-37 at the
break. Ferguson’s trey with 20 seconds left capped the rally.
In the second half, HC stayed
close and shrank an eight-point
Northwestern lead down to onepoint midway in the half on Dane
Bacon’s layup.
But Bronco fouls began taking
their toll from that point forward,
with Northwestern making 16 of its
19 second-half free throws in the
game’s final 10 minutes.
Jake Marvin led the HC offense
with 15 points, while Bacon contributed 12 points.
Northwestern point guard Jon
Kramer led the Red Raiders with a
game-high 19 points. Kramer had
been averaging only eight points
MONDAY
College men’s basketball: Hastings College at University of Nebraska Omaha...........7 p.m.
College women’s basketball: Kansas Wesleyan University at Hastings College ........6 p.m.
Prep boys basketball: St. Cecilia at Bishop Neumann ..................................................7 p.m.
Prep girls basketball: St. Cecilia at Bishop Neumann..............................................5:30 p.m.
Prep girls basketball: Kearney Catholic at Adams Central.......................................6:30 p.m.
Area Schedules
Prep boys basketball
Deshler at Freeman
Silver Lake at Gibbon
Prep girls basketball
Blue Hill at Grand Island Central Catholic
Deshler at Freeman
Minden at Boone Central
Silver Lake at Gibbon
NAIA Playoffs
GPAC
NCAA FCS Playoffs
Tribland
per game going into Saturday.
Three other Northwestern starters
also reached double figures.
Turnovers favored Northwestern,
with the Red Raiders committing
eight compared to 20 for HC.
Northwestern entered the game
with conference’s worst turnover
margin, averaging almost six more
per game than their opponents.
“Statistically (Northwestern) turns
it over 20 times a game. We just
weren’t able to get the tempo of the
game in our favor to where they
would turn the basketball over,”
Creech said.
Northwestern (87)
Jon Kramer 6-14 6-9 19, Ben Miller 5-10 6-8 18, Zack Leeper 2-7
4-6 9, Daniel Van Kalsbeek 5-10 6-7 16, Stu Goslinga 7-12 0-3 14,
Ryan Stock 3-7 2-2 9, Karic Wiertzema 0-1 0-0 0, Josh
VanderPlaats 1-1 0-0 2. Totals: 29-62 24-35 87.
Hastings College (79)
Nate Olson 1-1 0-0 2, Brett Wells 2-6 4-5 8, Brady Lollman 3-9 22 9, Tobin Reinwald 4-5 0-2 10, Jake Marvin 5-9 4-4 15, Alex
Thayer 1-2 0-2 3, Charles Ferguson 3-3 1-2 9, Dane Bacon 5-12, 1-2
12, Dylan Flinn 5-8 1-2 11. Totals: 29-55 13-21 79.
Halftime score — NW 44, HC 37. Three-point scoring — NW 514 (Kramer 1-4, Miller 2-5, Leeper 1-2, Ryan 1-2, Wiertzema 0-1),
HC 8-15 (Wells 0-1, Lollman 1-3, Reinwald 2-2, Marvin 1-2, Thayer
1-1, Ferguson 2-2, Bacon 1-4). Rebounds — NW 34 (Miller 11), HC
33 (Wells 9). Turnovers — NW 8, HC 14. Assists — NW 13
(Kramer 3, Wiertzema 3), HC 12 (Thayer 4). Total fouls — NW 17,
HC 30. Fouled out — HC (Wells, Reinwald, Ferguson). Technicals
— none.
TUESDAY
Area Schedules
Prep boys basketball
Exeter-Milligan at Nebraska Lutheran
York at Fillmore Central
Giltner at Franklin
Lawrence-Nelson at McCool Junction
Tri County at Superior
Wilber-Clatonia at Thayer Central
Prep girls basketball
Exeter-Milligan at Nebraska Lutheran
York at Fillmore Central
Giltner at Franklin
Lawrence-Nelson at McCool Junction
Tri County at Superior
Prep wrestling
Thayer Central at Sutton Dual
Tournament
HTmedia broadcasts
Monday’s livestreaming
PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
6 p.m.
Blue Hill at Grand Island Central Catholic
6:30 p.m.
Kearney Catholic at Adams Central
Thurdsday’s livestreaming
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
7:30 p.m.
Beatrice at Hastings High
5:45 p.m.
Waverly at Hastings High
TV/Radio broadcasts
Monday’s television
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
5:30 p.m.
BTN — Howard at Indiana
7:30 p.m.
BTN — UMKC at Michigan State
9 p.m.
FSN — Southern Miss. at Arizona St.
NFL FOOTBALL
7:30 p.m.
ESPN — Pittsburgh at San Francisco
NHL HOCKEY
7 p.m.
VERSUS — Anaheim at Dallas
Monday’s radio
7 p.m.
KHAS 1230 — Hastings College at
University of Nebraska-Omaha
NFL FOOTBALL
7:30 p.m.
KXPN 1460, KICS 1550 — Pittsburgh at
San Francisco
Tuesday’s television
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
8 p.m.
ESPN — Beef ’O’Brady’s Bowl, FIU vs.
Marshall, at St. Petersburg, Fla.
5:30 p.m.
BTN — IUPUI-Ft. Wayne at Purdue
6 p.m.
ESPN2 — Samford at Kentucky
7:30 p.m.
BTN — Lamar at Ohio State
8 p.m.
ESPN2 — Butler at Gonzaga
NHL HOCKEY
6:30 p.m.
VERSUS — Chicago at Pittsburgh
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
9 p.m.
FSN — Tennessee at Stanford
Tuesday’s radio
7 p.m.
KHAS 1230, KLIQ 94.5 — Central
Michigan at Nebraska
PREP BOYS BASKETBALL
7:45 p.m.
KRFS 103.9 — Tri County at Superior
6 p.m.
KRFS 103.9 — Tri County at Superior
State
NO. 25 NEBRASKA WOMEN WIN BIG
LINCOLN — Nebraska already led Vermont
by 13 points at halftime, but coach Connie Yori
still got after her Cornhuskers, telling them to
move the ball and get some easy baskets.
The 25th-ranked Cornhuskers responded with
a 23-1 run to open the second half on the way
to blowing out the Catamounts 94-41 Sunday.
“The second half we played a lot better,” said
Kaitlyn Burke, one of five Huskers who finished
in double figures. “We moved the ball and ourselves.
“We were pretty stagnant in the first half.
Getting the ball moving really helped us in the
second half.”
Jordan Hooper, who scored 21 points and had
a career-high 14 rebounds, and Emily Cady, who
finished with 18 points, combined for 14 of the
points in the run.
“Everyone was really excited once we started
getting on a roll,” Cady said. “We got more energized. ... I think we’ve still got some stuff in us.”
Nebraska (10-1) took control of the game with
a 22-5 first half spurt capped by a Lindsay Moore
basket that made the score 35-15 with 5:13
remaining.
Vermont (6-4) cut the Cornhuskers’ lead to 3724. Then Yori went to work.
“I told them just to move the ball, be a cutting
team and move side to side,” she said. “We did
that and got a lot of easy baskets...The second
half, we played better than what we’ve played
here recently.”
NU MEN BEAT ALCORN STATE 60-46
LINCOLN — On a night when coach Doc
Sadler called his team “timid” on offense,
Nebraska turned to its defense in the second
half.
That, plus Toney McCray’s 20 points, helped
the Cornhuskers put away Alcorn State 60-46 on
Saturday.
“With less than 10 minutes to go, it could’ve
gone either way, but you’ve got to give our guys
credit in the second half for playing hard,”
Sadler said. “I thought Toney McCray played
about as hard as you can play. I was very pleased
with his effort.”
Four of McCray’s points came in Nebraska’s
game-clinching 13-0 run in the second half.
Caleb Walker’s alley-oop dunk with 8:03 left
started it, and Walker capped it with another
basket that put the Cornhuskers (7-3) up 53-39
with 4:32 left. Alcorn State (1-8) scored four
straight, but a Bo Spencer 3-pointer and a
McCray dunk stemmed the comeback.
Nation
OHIO WINS BOWL GAME
BOISE, Idaho — Utah State is no stranger to
tense, down-to-the-wire finishes, and the Aggies
found a way to win each time in their final five
regular-season games.
That streak of narrow wins ended Saturday
when Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton scored
on a 1-yard run with 13 seconds remaining to
give the Bobcats a 24-23 victory in the Famous
Idaho Potato Bowl.
The loss was a heartbreaker for the Aggies,
who were making their first bowl appearance
since 1997 and seeking their first postseason win
since 1993.
Behind a rushing attack that accounted for
345 yards, the Aggies had led the whole game —
at least until Tettleton and the Bobcats offense
rallied in the final 2 minutes to spoil Utah State’s
best season in 14 years.
Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B3
Coach: HC tabs Buttermore
He comes to the Broncos with an
impressive resume, working the past
three seasons as an assistant at
Bellevue and the three years prior to
that as an assistant coach at Concordia
University in Seward.
He was recognized during the 2010
season as one of 30 volleyball coaches
around the nation to earn the
American Volleyball Coaches
Association Thirty Under 30 award.
The award was created to honor upand-coming coaching talent at all levels of the sport.
Buttermore helped lead Bellevue to
the NAIA national tournament for the
fifth straight season this last year, as
the Bruins tallied a 29-7 overall record
and the No. 25 ranking in the nation.
The Bruins were also Midlands
Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament champions and finished runnerup in the conference during the regular season.
“I’m big on leadership, competing
hard every day, we want to have good
competition every day in practice. And
there’s some certain volleyball specific
styles that I’m interested in, but more
importantly you have to tailor your
style to the talent you have,”
Buttermore said. “At (Bellevue and
Concordia), the coaches I worked
with, the coaches were more concerned about how their athletes were
going to graduate and live a good life
than they were about the banners they
were going to have on the wall. That’s
something very important to me.”
Buttermore, a native of Lincoln, is a
graduate of the University of Findlay
(Ohio) and was a four-year letterwinner and academic all-conference performer as a middle blocker for the
NCAA Division I men’s volleyball
team. He holds the school records for
blocks in a single match and a season.
His wife, former University of
Nebraska standout Laura Pilakowski, is
currently working with the Husker volleyball program as the strength and
conditioning coach. She will finish her
position with the Huskers in February.
Pilakowski was a two-time All-
American for the Huskers and a member of the 2000 undefeated national
championship team.
Buttermore takes over a Bronco program that has struggled with stability
at the head coaching position.
Former players and assistants Lyndi
Rouzee and Abbie Welliver were the
co-head coaches this past season after
stepping into the role following the
abrupt resignation of former coach
Lori Willadsen in late July — just a
couple weeks before the start of the
season. HC athletic director Ian
Roberts said Monday that neither
Rouzee nor Welliver submitted an
application for the open head coaching position.
“This is an extremely important hire
for us with the turnover we’ve had
recently in our volleyball program,”
Roberts said. “We felt it was really
important for us to get the right person for the job and I think we’ve done
that.
“I’d like to thank Lyndi and Abbie.
They stepped in for us at a time when
we were really behind the 8-ball. And
they did a great job for us. I don’t
think I’ll ever be able to thank them
for the job they did.”
The Broncos finished the 2011 season 18-15 overall, 9-7 in the GPAC.
Hastings fell to Bellevue in the only
meeting between the two teams last
year, in four sets Sept. 2 at the Bruin
Labor Day Invitational.
The Broncos lose just one senior,
Tracia Norblade, from last year’s team.
Norblade will work as a graduate assistant coach for the team next year, and
Buttermore said is wife will work with
the team in regards to strength and
conditioning. Other than that, he is
yet to completely round out his staff at
this point.
“We’re going to get going right away
with recruiting and other things. We’re
a little bit behind the game now, so
we’ll have to play some catch up, but
the good thing is that almost everybody is back for next year,”
Buttermore said. “We have a full squad
back and a good squad back. We are
very excited for this.”
AMY ROH/Tribune
Doniphan-Trumbull’s Mike Krueger wrestles Omaha Gross Catholic’s Andrew McElmeel in the 132-pound
weight class Saturday during the Flatwater Fracas at the Heartland Events Center in Grand Island.
Fracas: Tribland teams compete at tourney
inexperience was a factor.
“We’ve got seven sophomores in
our lineup and a freshman at 195
pounds,” he said. “We’ve got some
experience mixed with a lot of youth.”
Logan Klein starred for Adams
Central. The 220-pounder finished 6-1
for the Patriots. Christian Barry, Jack
Barry and Derek Lonowski each went
5-2.
“It was a tough bracket,” Lonowski
said. “Finishing 12th out of 30 teams,
we’re happy with that.”
For Hastings, Saturday was also a
complete turnaround from Friday’s
results.
The Tigers started off the tournament dropping their duals to
Monarch (Colo.), Grand Island,
Papillion-La Vista South and
Cheyenne East (Wyo.) to go 0-4.
Hastings was close in their duals
against Monarch and Papillion-La
Vista South, losing 36-32 and 39-36.
“We were disappointed with
(Friday). We felt we should have won
two of those duals,” HHS coach Brian
Laux said. “It comes down to those
bonus points, but I was pleased with
how we wrestled.”
The Tigers were able to bounce back
on Saturday with decisive wins over
Thayer Central, Grand Island Central
Catholic and Doniphan-Trumbull to
finish in 25th place.
“With going 0-4 the first day, sometimes kids may have negative
thoughts,” Laux said. “We knew that
it would be very important to get off
on the right foot (Saturday) and we
did that. It kind of just continued
throughout the day.
“I thought the kids bounced back
real well.”
At 285 pounds, Chris Williamson
went 7-0 with five pins to lead the
Tigers. Williamson pinned GICC’s
Dillon Spies in 14 seconds in his second match on Saturday.
“I was a little nervous going into
the tournament, but going 7-0, I
expected to do that,” Williamson said.
“I’m wrestling smart and hard. I’m
doing my thing.”
Williamson was happy with how
his team bounced back in the tournament.
“It was good to go 3-0,” he said. “I
was really hoping we would’ve won
more duals (Friday). But stuff happens, and we came out and were
ready to wrestle today.”
The Tigers had strong performances
from Matt Geiger, Nolan Laux and
Stephen Gnagy, who each finished 5-2.
Other Tribland teams that competed in the Flatwater Fracas were Thayer
Central and Doniphan-Trumbull.
The Cardinals finished 26th after
losing to Hastings, and went 1-6.
Individually, Heath Maurer (138) went
6-1 to lead the Cardinals. Mike
Krueger (132) and Max Lorence
(195/220) each went 5-2.
Thayer Central defeated Omaha
Gross Catholic 28-21 in the 29thplace match. It was the Titans’ only
dual victory of the tournament.
Trevor Hartley (182/195) went 7-0 to
lead Thayer Central.
Tribland roundups
BOYS BASKETBALL
Adams Central 59,
Gibbon 38
GIBBON — The Adams Central
boys basketball team defeated
Gibbon 59-38 Saturday.
Brady Barrett led AC with 15
points. Teammates Adam Hunt and
Christian Hodson added 12 points
each for the win.
Adams Central (5-1) . . . . . . . . . . .14 14 18 13 — 59
Gibbon (0-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 7 11 15 — 38
Adams Central (59)
Jake Fowler 2, Brady Barrett 15, Blake Overmiller 7, Adam
Hunt 12, Lathan Schmidt 3, Matt Brown 6, Levi Cermak 2,
Christian Hodson 12
Gibbon (38)
Ryan Mills 5, Rylee Reinertson 19, Cesar Awarado 2, Luke
Schuster 9, Dakota Kenton 1, Ryan Neajahr 2
York 41,
Hastings High 31
YORK — Hastings High fell to York
41-31 Saturday.
Tyler Ripperger led the Tigers with
seven points. Brady Menke recorded
six points, and Ty Anderson had four
points.
HHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 3 4 13 — 31
Omaha Skutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 19 9 3 — 41
Hastings High (31)
Will Reimer 3, Patrick Opperman 2, Septer Duang 2,
Brogen Shea 1, Mark Godin 3, Sam Johnson 3, Brady Menke
6, Tyler Ripperger 7, Ty Anderson 4
York (41)
Henry Ott 3, Jared Suddarth 5, Nate Jacobe 6, Ryan Dolan
5, Ty Danielson 4, Michael Powell 5, Chad Hulse 6, Jonas
Christensen 7
Omaha Skutt 55,
St. Cecilia 42
OMAHA — St. Cecilia fell to Omaha
Skutt 55-42 Saturday.
Matt Kissinger led the Bluehawks
with 17 points. Ceasar Teano finished
with nine points. Tim Skoch had
eight points.
St. Cecilia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 7 17 5 — 42
Omaha Skutt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 15 11 18 — 55
St. Cecilia (42)
Mike Hannon 3, Kevin Ryan 1, Matt Kissinger 17, Tim
Skoch 8, Ceasar Teano 9, Phil Hamburger 4
Ord (45)
Drvol 5, Wilhelm 7, Wrtz 7, Maass 4, Harms 1, Thomas
14, Buddah 9, Schwestchenau 8
Doniphan-Trumbull 42,
Wilber-Clatonia 40
DONIPHAN — Doniphan-Trumbull
won its pre-holiday tournament,
defeating Wilber-Clatonia 42-40.
Creighton Buhr led the Cardinals
with 17 points, while Taylor Williams
finished with 12 points. Grady Koch
added six points.
Doniphan-Trumbull . . . . . . . . . . . .10 11 11 10 — 42
Wilber-Clatonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 11 7 10 — 40
Doniphan-Trumbull (42)
Cam Sinner 2, Creighton Buhr 17, Grady Koch 6, Taylor
Williams 12, Jared Lienemann 2, Garrett Bunde 3
Wilber-Clatonia (40)
Michael Pflanz 10, Carter Zlab 2, Tanner Zlab 14, Drew
Tenopir 3, Chris Richtark 2, Neil Eneigh 7, Lucas Bowers 2
Shelton 60,
Lawrence-Nelson 34
NELSON — The Lawrence-Nelson
boys basketball team fell to Shelton
60-34 Saturday.
Jordan Cox led L-N with 12 points.
Shelton (5-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 18 18 12 — 60
Lawrence-Nelson (2-3) . . . . . . . . . .2 10 8 14 — 34
Shelton (60)
Mueller 8, Glenn 17, Stopkotte 3, Raasch 13, Hawks 2,
Schutt 3, Cabraues 1, Lyons 3, Ellis 10
Lawrence-Nelson (34)
Jordan Cox 12, Cole Epley 2, Daniel Schroer 4, Stephen
Kinninau 3, Emet Fanning 6, TJ Kahman 4, Austin Mazour 3
Hearltand Luthern 69,
Harvard 49
GRAND ISLAND — The Harvard
boys basketball team fell to
Hearltand Lutheran 69-49 Saturday.
Austin Pelotte led Harvard with 27
points. Teammate Gage Marshall
added 14 points in the loss.
W-H with 12 points each. Emilee
Pool tallied seven points.
Pleasanton (1-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 13 16 14 — 49
Wilcox-Hildreth (0-5) . . . . . . . . .10 10 7 16 — 43
Pleasanton (49)
Datiel 11, Paitz 2, Ahrens 5, Zimmer 2, Stubbs 3, Tolles
9, Wick 4, Stevert 8, Zwiener 5
Wilcox-Hildreth (43)
Emilee Pool 7, Caitlin Hinrichs 4, Shaylee Fouts 3,
Rachel Arehart 3, Karen Paitz 12, Jessica Harms 12,
Shelby Aspegren 1, Preslee Kring 1
Harvard (2-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 22 6 12 — 49
Heartland Lutheran (3-1) . . . . . . .26 17 15 11 — 69
Hearland Lutheran (69)
Sam Simonson 20, Logan Splattstoesser 11, Isac
Splattstoesser 10, Michael Hollman 9, Garrett Suchanek 8,
AJ Bader 6, Simonson 3, Zack Blase 2
Harvard (49)
Austin Pelotte 27, Gage Marshall 14, Colton Ives 4, Alan
Brand 2, Sal Ledesma 1, Riley Gallagher 1
Tri County 46,
Thayer Central 30
HEBRON — The Thayer Central
girls basketball team fell to Tri
County 46-30 Saturday.
No other information was available.
Pleasanton 68,
Wilcox-Hildreth 41
WILCOX — The Wilcox-Hildreth
boys basketball team fell to
Pleasanton 68-41 Saturday.
Clint Gardels led W-H with 19
points.
Pleasanton (2-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 13 15 17 — 68
Wilcox-Hildreth (0-5) . . . . . . . . . . .13 7 10 11 — 41
Pleasanton (68)
Pritchard 8, Janitscheck 24, Zwiener 4, Hand 2, Weber 15,
Darby 6, Axmann 2, Kohlscheen 7
Wilcox-Hildreth (41)
Clint Gardels 19, Clay Blank 7, Michael Nelson 6, Blaine
Groothuis 5, Ben Harms 2, Dalton Perry 2
Tri County 62,
Thayer Central 55
HEBRON — The Thayer Central
boys basketball team fell to Tri
County 62-55 Saturday.
No other information was available.
Tri County (3-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 12 11 19 — 62
Thayer Central (3-3) . . . . . . . . . . . .9 12 16 18 — 55
Tri County (6-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 10 13 15 — 46
Thayer Central (0-7) . . . . . . . . . . . .7 3 8 12 — 30
Wood River 45,
Sutton 34
AMY ROH/Tribune
Sandy Creek’s Montana Hinrichs and Fillmore Central’s
Maggie Malone chase down a loose ball during their game
Saturday in Doniphan.
Dakota Erpelding 8, Dylan Mayfield 2, Matt Rennau 1, Tyler
Abbott 2, Trey Roth 2
Sutton (57)
Ried Wiebe 12, Mitch Carlson 2, Austan Rath 7, Brody
Yost 8, Lance Spongberg 12, Cole Wiseman 4, Sam Griess
10, Reed Stone 2
Sandy Creek 61,
Fillmore Central 37
Belleville-Republic Co. (KS) 74,
Superior 40
DONIPHAN — The Sandy Creek
Fillmore Central 61-37 Saturday.
Mitch Hinrichs led Sandy Creek
with 20 points. Andrew Kuta had 14
points. Teammate Jared Taylor added
10 points for the win.
For Fillmore Central, Danny Loseke
led with 11 points.
SUPERIOR — The Superior boys
basketball team fell to BellevilleRepublic County (KS) 74-40 Saturday.
Ty Betka led Superior with 14
points.
Sandy Creek (4-2) . . . . . . . . . . . .16 19 16 10 — 61
Fillmore Central (0-5) . . . . . . . . . . .10 11 6 10 — 37
Sandy Creek (61)
Brady Shipley 3, Scott Hild 3, Mitch Hinrichs 20, Andrew
Kuta 14, Jared Taylor 10, Anthony Graesser 6, Brett Peshek 5
Fillmore Central (37)
Dillon Graham 2, Danny Loseke 11, Kyle Karcher 4, Danny
Wythers 3, Lance Donovan 3, Nick Hayes 6, Kinser Gergen 4,
Lance Eichelberger 2, Colin Monteforte 2
Minden 76,
Central City 40
CENTRAL CITY — The Minden
Central City 76-40 Saturday.
Carson Blum led Minden with 18
points. Teammate Derek Kissinger
added 15 points. Thomas Sinsel had
Minden (5-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 14 20 16 — 76
Central City (2-3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 5 14 10 — 40
Minden (76)
Carson Blum 18, Thomas Sinsel 12, Ryan Chramonsta 8,
Jonas Lovin 5, RJ Watson 6, Christian Schwenka 8, Derek
Kissinger 15, Mitchell Muller 2, Cole Gibbins 2
Central City (40)
Colclasure 11, Reeves 8, Schnitzler 6, Schullen 4, Thomas
3, Herbig 2, Wagner 3, Wilson 3
Sutton 57,
Wood River 23
SUTTON — The Sutton boys basketball team defeated Wood River
57-23 Saturday.
Lance Spongberg and Ried Wiebe
led Sutton with 12 points. Teammate
Sam Griess added 10 points for the
win.
Wood River (1-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 3 8 8 — 23
Sutton (5-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 11 14 16 — 57
Wood River (23)
Quinn Burghardt 2, Abie Rojas 4, Matt Woitalewicz 2,
Belleville-Republic Co (KS) (2-1) 20 23 16 15 — 74
Superior (1-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 12 5 13 — 40
Superior (40)
Jacob Hawley 2, Wes Clyde 7, Junior Reed 2, Ty Betka
14, Taylor Robb 8, Levi Schultz 2, Brandon Simonsen 5
Alma 61,
Red Cloud 23
ALMA — The Red Cloud boys basketball team fell to Alma 61-23
Saturday.
Blake Brumbaugh led Red Cloud
with 6 points.
Red Cloud (0-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 4 2 12 — 23
Alma (3-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 20 8 17 — 61
Alma (61)
Bantam 12, Christensen 8, Soderholm 2, Wolfe 13,
Molzahn 4, Hays 5, Ring 6, Dietz 3, Jannsen 4, Christensen 2,
Rebman 2
Red Cloud (23)
Derek Jackson 2, Jared Sibley 5, Dakota Delka 3, Skylar
Brumbaugh 3, Dillon Burgess 2, Miles McDole 2, Blake
Brumbaugh 6
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Adams Central 47,
Gibbon 34
GIBBON — The Adams Central
girls basketball team defeated
Gibbon 47-34 Saturday.
Kailey Rader led AC with 14 points.
Teammate Cheyenne Gottsch added
Adams Central (1-4) . . . . . . . . . . .14 14 15 4 — 47
Gibbon (1-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 16 8 6 — 34
Adams Central (47)
Anna Queen 4, Brittani Wiseman 2, Emily Bonifas 2,
Cheyenne Gottsch 12, Sydney Bernasek 4, Kailey Rader 14,
Alexis Grimmett 4, Jorji Johnson 2, Sydney Niemeyer 3
Gibbon (34)
M. Milks 2, E. Van Matre 4, T. Godberson 11, M. Stall 6, H.
Cudaback 2, N. Treadway 2, K. Baker 4, M. Walker 3
York 58,
Hastings High 38
YORK — The Hastings High girls
basketball team fell to York 58-38
Saturday.
Zoe Mays led Hastings with 16
points.
Hastings (0-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 12 6 6 — 38
York (3-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 17 16 12 — 58
York (58)
Hannah Riley 13, Megan Fletcher 18, Taylor Peterson 9,
Erin Malleck 8, Aleah Rosenau 6, Katlyn Horras 4
Hastings (38)
Mel Gnagy 2, Alex Schmidt 3, Marika Van Brocklin 5, Zoe
Mays 16, Mattie Stokes 8, Briton Thomas 2, Mattie
Eddleman 2
Wilber-Clatonia 57,
Doniphan-Trumbull 47
DONIPHAN — Doniphan-Trumbull
defeated Wilber-Clatonia 42-40 in
the consolation match of the
Doniphan-Trumbull pre-holiday tournament.
Mollie Kohmetscher led DoniphanTrumbull with 15 points. Jordyn
Bummund and Kaylee Glover had
12 points each. Katie Pfeiffer finished with 10 points.
Doniphan-Trumbull . . . . . . . . . .17 19 10 11 — 57
Wilber-Clatonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 11 16 8 — 47
Doniphan-Trumbull (57)
Katie Pfeiffer 10, Jordyn Brummund 12, Elyssa
Kohmetscher 8, Mollie Kohmetscher 15, Kaylee Glover 12
Wilber-Clatonia (47)
Bailey Cerveny 2, Bridget Murkle 12, Megan Homolka
10, Lacey Homolka 14, Cartney Kranter 9
Harvard 53,
Heartland Lutheran 41
GRAND ISLAND — The Harvard
Heartland Lutheran 53-41 Saturday.
Alison Engle led the Cardinals
with 32 points. Teammate Michelle
Hachtel added 11 points for the
win.
Harvard (2-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 19 11 16 — 53
Heartland Lutheran (1-4) . . . . . . . .9 6 9 17 — 41
Harvard (53)
Alison Engle 32, Katie Bell 2, Shelby Smith 1, Michelle
Hachtel 11, Brenda Segura 1, Jennifer Callahan 6
Heartland Lutheran (41)
Steph Chandler 8, Courntey Hiegel 6, Katy Kowalski 4,
RaeLysa Schmitt 7, Lauren Staehr 16
Pleasanton 49,
Wilcox-Hildreth 43
WILCOX — The Wilcox-Hildreth
girls basketball team fell to
Pleasanton 49-43 Saturday.
Karen Paitz and Jessica Harms led
SUTTON — The Sutton girls basketball team fell to Wood River 4534 Saturday.
Maria Van Kirk led Sutton with 17
points.
Wood River (3-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 9 10 13 — 45
Sutton (1-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 5 6 17 — 34
Wood River (45)
Bahe 7, Burghardt 5, Hermann 2, Fischer 10, Helse 7,
Kimminan 2, Basard 12
Sutton (34)
Maria Van Kirk 17, Delaney Lemkau 4, Maryah Calkins
4, Stephanie Osterhaus 3, Savannah Schurman 2, Lakyn
Mau 5
Shelton 57,
Lawrence-Nelson 30
NELSON — The LawrenceNelson girls basketball team fell to
Shelton 57-30 Sautrday.
Kelsey Biltoft led L-N with 17
points.
Shelton (6-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 19 15 5 — 57
Lawrence-Nelson (2-3) . . . . . . . . .4 6 8 12 — 30
Shelton (57)
Tracy Meyer 14, Tina Wrage 7, Maggie Urbanek 9,
Emma Urbanek 15, Jessica Koenig 2, Lindsey Hahn 10
Lawrence-Nelson (30)
Kenzee Kucera 4, Ashley Buescher 2, Kasandra Fanning
5, Maekayla Ward 2, Kelsey Biltoft 17
Minden 74,
Central City 15
CENTRAL CITY — The Minden
Central City 74-15 Saturday.
Brooke Kissinger led Minden with
15 points. Jamie Kissinger added
13 points, while teammates Hallie
Bauer and Bailey Petersen added
Minden (6-0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 25 24 14 — 74
Central City (1-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 2 10 — 15
Minden (74)
Carly Sitoirus 6, Brooke Kissinger 15, Hallie Bauer 10,
Elizabeth Grams 6, Emily Nelson 4, Jamie Kissinger 13,
Alaina Boudreau 2, Carlie Bauer 8, Bailey Petersen 10
Central City (15)
Mubmuch 4, Fousk 7, Catlett 2, Turty 2
Alma 40,
Red Cloud 19
ALMA — The Red Cloud girls basketball team loss to Alma 40-19
Saturday.
Bailey Lewis led the Warriors with
7 points.
Red Cloud (0-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0 6 3 10 — 19
Alma (4-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 5 18 7 — 40
Alma (40)
Brugh 2, Heft 11, Losey 10, Davis 4, Albin 4, Tripe 9
Red Cloud (19)
Bailey Lewis 7, Brealynn Lockhart 3, Regan Fisher 1,
Taylor Goos 2, Dolly McDole 1, Emily McCleary 4, Cinthia
Lukes 1
WRESTLING
Fran Jorgesen Invite
CAMBRIDGE — Fillmore Central
finished third with 227 points in the
Fran Jorgensen invite on Saturday.
Franklin was sixth with 194 points,
Superior finshed 11th with 127
points, and Wilcox-Hildreth had 124
points for 12th. Harvard finished
13th with 109 points.
Team Results
1, Oberlin 350; 2, Loomis/Bertrand 229; 3, Fillmore
Central 227; 4, Elwood 215; 5, Cambridge 195; 6, Franklin
194; 7, Overton 180; 8, Eustis/Farnam 175; 9, Elm Creek
141; 10, Ansley/Arcadia 127; 11, Superior 127; 12, WilcoxHildreth 124; 13, Harvard 109; 14, Hitchcock Co/WaunetaPalisade 101;15, Alma 99; 16, Axtell 95; 17, Hastings JV
79;
Championship Results
106 — 1, Mitchell Palmer, Loomis-Bertrand; 2, Bo
Slingsby, Ansley/Arcadia; 3, Davis Jacobsen, Fil
113 — 1, Lukas Cox, Alma; 2, Aaron Hueftle, EustisFarnam; 3, Teak Edwards, Loomis-Bertrand
120 — 1,Nick Johnson, Wilcox-Hildreth; 2, Lance
Luehm, Ansley/Arcadia; 3, Gabe Anderson, Oberlin
126 — 1, Dayton Dreher, Oberlin; 2, Walter Flint,
Elwood; 3, Kalen Farr, Cambridge
132 — 1, Anthony Rodriguez, Cambridge; 2, Kc Defillips
Overton; 3, Erik Lienemann Alma
138 — 1, Derek Stabenow, Elm Creek; 2, Dillon
Schnuerle, Franklin; 3, Mike Erickson, H/W-P
145 — 1, Kade Brown, Oberlin; 2, Hunter Schnuerle,
Frankling; 3, Shane Keasoning, Harvard
152 — 1, Mitchell Kubert, Elwood; 2, Lance Taylor
Axtell; 3, Matt Glading, Oberlin
160 — 1, Luke Delong, Fillmore Central; 2, Ethan
Haussermann, Franklin; 3, Dustin Langenberg
170 — 1, Trey Colburn, Overton; 2, Rex Diederich,
Oberlin; 3, Zeb Wehnes, Harvard
182 — 1, Trevor Adams, Fillmore Central; 2, Vade
Jensen, Wilcox-Hildreth; 3, Tyler Dahlgren,
Loomis/Bertrand
195 — 1, Dalton meier, Elm Creek; 2, Levi Smith,
Superior; 3, Keagan Haarberg, H/W-P
220 — 1, Channing Fortin, Oberlin; 2, Brandon Jerred,
Overton; 3, Shane Robbins, Eustis-Farnam
285 — 1, Mike Shoff, Cambridge; Kalse Schmidt,
Franklin; 3, Zach Ekeler, Fillmore Central
Dorchester Invite
DORCHESTER — The Sutton
wrestling team won the Dorchester
Invite with 166.5 points Saturday.
South Central placed third with 131
oints. Shelton-Kenesaw placed
fourth with 117 points. Red Cloud/
Blue Hill placed sixth with 85
points. Adams Central JV with 10th
with 50 points.
Team Results
1, Sutton 166.5; 2, East Bulter 131.5; 3, South Central
131; 4, Shelton-Kenesaw 117; 5, Meridian 102.5; 6, Red
Cloud/Blue Hill 85; 7, Humbloldt Table Rock 74; 8,
Dorchester 63; 9, McCool Junction 52; 10, Adams Central
JV 50; 11, Weeping Water 47; 12, Junior Varsity 42; 13,
Tri County 11
Championship Results
106 — 1, Tyler Bailey, Sutton; 2, Levi Vogler, Red Cloud/
Blue Hill; 3, Devon Spatz, East Butler; 4, Jacob White,
HTRS
113 — 1, Tyler Blevins, Weeping Water; 2, Adam
Carlson, Sutton; 3, Trevor DeVries, South Central; 4, Lupe
Dimas, Meridian
120 — 1, Toby Nordmeyer, East Butler; 2, Jordan
Jensen, Dorchester; 3, Alvaro Montanez, SheltonKenesaw; 4, Dawson Messenger, South Central
126 — 1, Drew Ratkovec, East Butler; 2, Brandon
Schwisow, Dorchester; 3, Cole Schelkopf, Sutton; 4,
Tanner Hoins, Adams Central
132 — Cody Brouillete, McCool Junction; 2, Erik
Rostvet, Adams Central; 3, Alex DeLarm, Sutton; 4, Dylan
Smith, Weeping Water
138 — 1, Robert Hoy, South Central; 2, Alec Lisec,
Dorchester; 3, Cody Florian, East Butler; Kaleb Shafer,
Junior Varsity
145 — 1, Derek Bailey, Sutton; 2, Tanner Rupprecht,
Red Cloud/Blue Hill; 3, Bryan Palmer, Shelton-Kenesaw; 4,
Travis Starkey, Tri County
152 — 1, Riley Noel, Meridian; 2, Chris Gillming,
Shelton-Kenesaw; 3, Taylor Hancock, South Central; 4,
Brandon Stilwagon, Dorchester
160 — 1, Jake Nuss, Sutton; 2, Eli VanBoening; 3,
Brandon Jackson, Meridian; 4, Nate Wiers, HTRS
170 — 1, Michael Cox, Sutton; 2, Garret Sharp, Red
Cloud/ Blue Hill; 3, Evan Sisel, East Butler; 4, Chaz
Janssen, Adams Central
182 — 1, Brant Stewart, Meridian; 2, Michael Duffy,
Shelton-Kenesaw; 3, Logan Searle, South Central; 4, Jake
Birt, McCool Junction
195 — 1, Cogan Thompson, Shelton-Kenesaw; 2, Lucas
Snethen, HTRS; 3, Clayton Schmitt, East Butler; 4, Dakota
Voight, Meridian
220 — 1, TJ Standerford, HtRS; 2, Zach Oliver, SheltonKenesaw; 3, Chase Ehlers, south Central; Bryce Schweer,
Meridian
285 — 1, Robby Kelly Sutton; 2, Dalton Dumler, South
Central; 3, Kirby Hobbs, McCool Junction; 4, Casey Beck,
South Central
Arts & Entertainment
B4
Shelton’s brother
inspires Lambert’s
new single
CAITLIN R. KING
N
ASHVILLE, Tenn. —
Miranda Lambert is
paying tribute to husband Blake Shelton’s
late brother with her
new single, “Over You.” Richie
Shelton died in a car accident in
1990. The newlyweds wrote the
song together about a year ago, and
Lambert recorded it for her latest
album “Four the Record.” It is the
second single released from the
album.
The song idea started on a tour
bus as they were flipping through
TV channels. Shelton’s “Backstory”
happened to be re-airing on GAC,
and it was at the part where his dad
was talking about his brother’s fatal
crash. His father said: “You don’t
ever get over something like that.
You just get used to it.”
The couple turned the TV off and
started talking.
“Miranda never had a chance to
meet my brother,” Shelton said
recently. “I was just a teenager when
that happened. So I was telling her
about him, what he was like, and
we just ended up like we do sometimes, writing a song.”
Richie was only 24 when he died.
Shelton was 14 at the time. This was
the first time Shelton, now 35, really opened up to Lambert about the
tragedy.
“We both actually cried while
writing the song,” said Lambert, 28.
“That’s the only time I’ve ever gotten that emotional writing a song,
and him, too. So, I think the initial
emotion came out right that day,
and I think you hear it in the lyrics.”
Some of the lines are pulled
directly from Shelton’s experience.
Lambert sings, “Your favorite
records make me feel better, cause
you sing along with every song. I
know you didn’t mean to give them
to me.”
“That’s one of the things I got
when my brother was killed. The
family gave me all his albums and
things like that,” Shelton said. “I
just listened to them over and over
again to feel like he was there.”
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
EVAN AGOSTINI/
AP
In this Nov. 9 file
photo, married
country singers
Blake Shelton and
Miranda Lambert
arrive at the 45th
annual CMA
Awards in
Nashville, Tenn.
Lambert is paying
tribute to Blake
Shelton’s late
brother with her
new single, “Over
You.”
Shelton said Richie loved
all kinds of music, from
Hank Williams Jr. to MC
Hammer. He still has his
brother’s “No Fences”
album by Garth Brooks
and says Richie’s favorite
song at the time was
“Friends In Low Places.”
The songwriting
process helped Lambert
and Shelton grow as a
couple. Lambert calls it
the most real song she’s
ever had.
“It was really a great
moment between us. It
was like we moved to a
deeper level, not just in
our relationship, but
also, we respect each
other as artists, and
being able to write
something that personal with each other was
really cool,” she said.
Back in October,
Shelton sparked a
rumor that Lambert was
pregnant when he
found out “Over You”
might be a single. He
tweeted: “Just received
news that is so cool it
supersedes any award, hit
song, platinum album,
sold-out tour or TV
show!! What a year. What
a year!”
He says he is probably more
proud of creating that song than of
anything he’s accomplished in his
career.
“That to me, that’s what I’m supposed to do as a country artist, a
country songwriter, is take a real-life
situation that is emotional and
make it into music,” he said.
“There’s no way I could have performed that song every night. So
I’m honored Miranda put it on
her record.”
Shelton and Lambert are the
reigning Country Music
Association male and female
vocalists of the year. Shelton
was recently nominated for
three Grammy awards.
Theron reveals monstrously funny side in ‘Young Adult’
JAKE COYLE
NEW YORK — Jason
Reitman was under the same
impression many are of
Charlize Theron. He knew she
was a fiercely talented actress,
prone to burying her stunning
beauty behind gritty, intense
performances like her Academy
Award-winning one as a murderous prostitute in 2003’s
“Monster.”
Then she told him a dirty
joke.
Theron approached Reitman
at last year’s Oscars to tell him
how much she liked his then
recent film “Up in the Air” and
that she’d love to work with
him.
“I got a tap on the shoulder
and I turn around and it’s all 6foot-6 of Charlize Theron,”
recalls Reitman, intentionally
exaggerating Theron’s height
by 8 inches. “I was really
understandably intimidated.”
But when Theron, already a
few drinks into the night,
revealed a more depraved sense
of humor than her image
would suggest, Reitman realized they had more in common than he expected: “I was
like, ‘Oh! I like you.”’ (Theron,
for her part, doesn’t recall the
joke, but, with a glimmer in
her eye, acknowledged, “That
sounds about correct.”)
The meeting was both fortuitous, in that it directly led to
Theron staring in Reitman’s
new film “Young Adult,” and
an early hint to the tone of
their collaboration. In “Young
Adult” (which was penned by
Diablo Cody of “Juno”),
Theron plays Mavis Gary, a
teen fiction ghost writer who
returns to her hometown in
rural Minnesota to lure her
now-married former boyfriend.
CARLO ALLEGRI/AP
In this Dec. 9 photo, actress Charlize Theron poses for a portrait while promoting her film “Young Adult” in New York.
Theron’s role as teen fiction writer Mavis Gray afforded her
the opportunity to reveal her comedic side.
As a woman whose nostalgia
has swelled to demented proportions, Theron is bitingly
caustic and hilariously candid.
The performance not only
reveals Theron’s comedic side,
but shows more of her true
nature than her previous work.
Not that Theron is anything
like Mavis’ more deplorable
aspects, but she shares Mavis’
sharp elbows and sharper wit.
“Most people who know me
who have seen the film are not
that shocked,” Theron said in a
recent interview during which
she was self-deprecating,
unguardedly foul-mouthed and
thoughtful. “The film is way
more my personality and closer
to anything that I’ve done.”
It’s also Theron’s first film in
nearly three years. In between,
she prepared to star in an
ambitious “Mad Max” sequel,
“Fury Road,” which was repeat-
edly delayed and still hasn’t
been shot. She worked on
developing projects with her
production company, including a drama series for HBO
with David Fincher. She also
split with the Irish actor Stuart
Townsend after nearly a decade
together.
“I’ll be very honest: I wasn’t
missing it,” Theron says of acting. “It’s hard to miss something when nothing was kind
of sparking that instrument to
get excited about.”
That period, though, appears
to be over. Following “Young
Adult” — which is earning
Theron her best reviews since
“Monster” — she’ll be seen in
Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”
and the fantasy “Snow White
& the Huntsman,” which also
stars Kristen Stewart.
Theron, 36, grew up on a
farm outside Johannesburg,
South Africa. While she was a
teenager, her mother shot and
killed Theron’s alcoholic and
abusive father. When she was
16, she became a model in
Milan. She later moved to New
York to train as a ballet dancer,
but a knee injury pushed her
out of dance and toward acting.
After a number of small roles
as girlfriend types in films such
as “The Devil’s Advocate” and
“The Cider House Rules,” her
performance in “Monster”
changed her trajectory considerably. When she won best
actress at the Oscars, Nelson
Mandela hailed her for putting
South Africa “on the map.”
Since then, Theron, who
lives in Los Angeles, received a
second Oscar nomination for
her performance as a miner in
“North Country.” Though the
science fiction “Aeon Flux”
bombed, Theron drew acclaim
again for a supporting role in
the somber anti-war film “In
the Valley of Elah” and for the
atypical superhero film
“Hancock.”
But all the while, there were
hints in her filmography of
comedic leanings. In 2005, she
had a memorable arc on
“Arrested Development” as the
love interest of Jason Bateman’s
character. Her character was
mentally disabled, but the joke
was on those around her, who
didn’t notice because of her
British accent.
The opportunity arose when
“Monster” director Patty
Jenkins directed an episode of
the series, and Theron asked
her to relay to creator Mitch
Hurwitz her pleading to be on
the show. She calls the experience a “great, great learning
experience” in how comedy
needn’t be played for comedy,
but rather portrayed realistically.
Theron also appeared on an
early episode of Zach
Galifianakis’ faux-interview
Web series “Between Two
Ferns,” as revered of a comedy
calling-card as there is. On it,
Theron flirted with Galifianakis
before pulling the rug out from
him, cackling at the idea of her
being attracted to a “fat garden
gnome.”
“The bizarre thing is that I’ve
always had kind of a sick, twisted sense of humor,” says
Theron. “But my work, for
some reason, has always veered
to the dramatic stuff. I think
that’s because I’ve never really
been that driven by genre, but
I find that I want to play people that feel real. I do think in
comedy it’s harder to find noncaricatures. I always said that I
would love to do something
like that kind of comedy that
the Coen brothers do, that
more character study stuff. And
that stuff is hard to come by,
and I feel like my career was
setting itself up to be another
thing.”
The comedian-actor Patton
Oswalt, who plays an old high
school acquaintance of Mavis’
who turns into a drinking
buddy in “Young Adult,” said
at the Gotham Awards that
Theron “has the kind of humor
that someone who looks like
me has.”
The two found an unlikely
chemistry in “Young Adult”
right from the start. Before ever
meeting, they did a table read
in Reitman’s dining room and
immediately connected.
“I realized I was going to be
working with a really great
actor,” says Oswalt. “It made
me work even harder so that I
could be on her playing field.
She is so instinctual and
already ready to go every shot.”
Whether it’s “Monster” or
“Hancock” or “Young Adult,”
Theron typically commits fully
to a character. Asked how she
manages that, she doesn’t miss
a beat: “Alcohol.”
But thinking a little more
about it, she says that ballet
instilled in her a relish for performance. Though she
acknowledges she’s not a
trained actor, she says she
learned from other actors as
her career unfolded.
“It was amazing to watch Al
Pacino at 3 in the morning and
suck ... and then be brilliant,”
says Theron, recalling “The
Devil’s Advocate.” “It was one
of the greatest teachings that I
could have been given. He
taught me that in order to be
great, you have to be willing to
fall on your face. You don’t get
to that place unless you go
balls out.”
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at one time or
another have had
a prepared deal
ruined because
someone, usually a defender,
made an
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Perhaps he
led a strange
card, or he
shifted to the
wrong suit,
or he failed
to make a
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After that
happens once or twice, teachers tend to preface deals with
“defenders, please don’t” do
something. What would a
professor request in this deal,
and how should South make
six no-trump anyway, given
West’s lead of the diamond
10?
When South showed 18, 19
or a poor 20 points, North,
knowing their combined
count was at least 33, jumped
to slam.
Declarer starts with 10 top
tricks: four spades, two hearts,
three diamonds and one club.
There will be a temptation,
especially among those students who have recently
learned the technique, to take
an early heart finesse.
However, that leads to failure
here.
Other pupils might cash all
of their spade and diamond
winners first, which is also
fatal.
The better players will plan
to take three club finesses,
hoping East has at least one
of the two missing honors (a
76 percent chance). They will
take the first trick with
dummy’s diamond jack and
play a club to their jack.
West wins and perseveres
with diamonds, but South
wins on the board, plays a
club to his 10, returns to the
board with a spade, and takes
a third club finesse to amass
12 tricks: four spades, two
hearts, three diamonds and
three clubs.
Teacher will ask West not to
lead or to discard a heart or a
club, and East not to discard a
club.
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Association.
Clooney vs. Gosling: Who should win?
CHRISTY LEMIRE
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. —
George Clooney vs. Ryan Gosling
... it really is a matter of personal
preference, isn’t it? And maybe
it’s a generational thing, too.
Both actors are sexy and gorgeous, of course, but both also
have chosen difficult film roles
that intentionally play down
their looks. Both ooze moviestar charisma but both have
displayed versatility, as well.
And both will be competing
in the category of best actor in
a drama at the Golden Globe
Awards on Jan. 15; nominations were announced
Thursday morning. Clooney is
up for “The Descendants,” in
which he plays a father struggling to raise his two daughters
while his wife is in a coma;
Gosling is up for “The Ides of
March,” in which he plays a
cunning campaign strategist for
a democratic presidential hopeful ... played by Clooney.
(Gosling also received a nomination for best actor in a comedy for playing a ladies man in
“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”)
Perhaps a little tale of the
tape can help us determine an
early winner:
AGE: Clooney just turned 50
this year; Gosling is 31.
HEIGHT: Clooney is 5-foot10; Gosling is 6-foot-1.
HOMETOWN: Clooney was
born in Lexington, Ky.; Gosling
grew up in Cornwall, Ontario,
Canada.
MOST IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE: For Clooney, it’s
so hard to choose, simply
because he’s been around
longer and made more movies.
Maybe “Syriana” (see below)
because it was so demanding
both physically and emotionally. But man, is he great in
“Michael Clayton.” As for
Gosling, he had to dig deep for
“The Believer” (2001), in which
he played a Jewish man who
becomes an anti-Semitic skinhead. It was an early indication
of his vast talent. But man, is
MATT SAYLES/AP
In this Sept. 27 file photo, director, writer and cast member George Clooney (right) and cast member Ryan Gosling pose
together at the premiere of “The Ides of March” in Beverly Hills, Calif.
he great in “Blue Valentine.”
MOST OUT-THERE PERFORMANCE: Clooney showed
his goofy side as a smooth-talking escaped convict in the
Coen brothers’ 2000 comedy
“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Gosling fell in love with a lifesized doll named Bianca in
2007’s “Lars and the Real Girl.”
BRUSHES WITH OSCAR:
Clooney packed on the
pounds, grew a shaggy beard
and became virtually unrecognizable to play a CIA operative
in 2005’s “Syriana,” which
earned him the Academy
Award for best supporting
actor. That same year, he also
was nominated for directing
and co-writing the TV news
drama “Good Night, and Good
Luck.” Since then, he’s earned
two other best-actor nominations: for “Michael Clayton”
(2007) and “Up in the Air”
(2009). Gosling was a surprise
nominee for 2006’s “Half
Nelson” — not because he was
undeserving, far from it, but
because it was such a small, little-known film. He played a
middle-school teacher with a
drug problem.
EMBARRASSING BEGINNINGS: Clooney rocked the mullet in the mid-’80s on the sitcom
“The Facts of Life,” where he
played a handyman named
George. Gosling was a member
of “The Mickey Mouse Club” in
the early 1990s, around the same
time as Justin Timberlake, Britney
Spears and Christina Aguilera.
LOS ANGELES — Sophie
Clarke slayed the competition on “Survivor: South
Pacific.”
The brainy 22-year-old medical student from Willsboro,
N.Y., overcame 39-year-old
“Survivor” veteran Benjamin
(”Crazy, Stupid, Love”), Carey
Mulligan (“Drive”); an anatomically correct sex doll (”Lars
and the Real Girl”).
OFF-SCREEN ROMANCES:
Clooney is divorced from
actress Talia Balsam and has
dated model Lisa Snowdon,
former reality show contestant
and cocktail waitress Sarah
Larson and actress Elisabetta
Canalis. He is now dating former WWE star Stacy Keibler.
Gosling previously dated his
“Notebook” co-star McAdams
and has been linked most
recently to Eva Mendes.
THE WINNER: A tie. While
Clooney will probably win on
Golden Globe night, Gosling is
so hot these days he seems
unstoppable.
NewsMakers
BLUES SINGER
JACKSON HOUSE
TERMINALLY ILL
CONTENTS SELL
FOR NEARLY $1M
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — “At
Last” and “Tell Mama” blues
singer Etta James, whose health
has been fading in recent years,
is now terminally ill, and her
live-in doctor is asking for
prayers.
Dr. Elaine James, who isn’t
related to the 73-year-old entertainer, tells the Riverside PressEnterprise that the singer’s
chronic leukemia was declared
incurable two weeks ago.
The doctor has cared for Etta
James at the singer’s Riverside,
Calif., area home since March
2010.
Elaine James says she’s
spreading word of the singer’s
ailments so people will pray for
her. She says fans know Etta
James has been sick “but not
how sick.”
Court records in the singer’s
probate case show she also suffers from dementia and kidney
failure.
Elaine James made her comments outside a Riverside conservatorship hearing over the
singer’s $1 million estate. The
singer’s son, Donto James,
wants a conservator rather than
the singer’s husband, Artis Mills.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. —
The contents of the home
where Michael Jackson lived
with his three children just
before his death have sold for
nearly $1 million at auction.
Darren Julien, president of
Julien’s Auctions, was unable to
provide a more specific figure
as he continued to tally the
totals Saturday after the daylong auction, which brought in
nearly triple the company’s
pre-auction estimate of
$200,000 to $400,000.
Among the highlights: A
kitchen chalkboard where
Jackson’s children wrote “I love
daddy,” which sold for $5,000,
and an armoire upon which
Jackson wrote a message to
himself on the mirror that
fetched $25,750.
The headboard from the bed
where Jackson died at age 50
was removed from the auction
at the family’s request, but the
rug that was beneath the bed
sold for $15,360. The estimate
had been $400 to $600.
Julien’s Auctions re-created
the mansion inside its Beverly
Hills showroom and invited
Soul singers
EVAN AGOSTINI/AP
From left: Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson and Mary J. Blige perform onstage at the
“VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul” on Sunday in New York.
fans to fill the space where the
bed would have been with a
tribute to the late King of Pop.
Med student Clarke wins ’Survivor: South Pacific’
DERRIK J. LANG
“SEXIEST MAN ALIVE” STATUS: Clooney has the rare distinction of winning the annual
honor from People magazine
twice: in 1997 and 2006.
Gosling hasn’t won — yet —
but this year’s winner, Bradley
Cooper, has conceded that
Gosling deserved the title more
than he did.
ON-SCREEN ROMANCES:
Clooney: Michelle Pfeiffer
(“One Fine Day”); Jennifer
Lopez (”Out of Sight”); Julia
Roberts (“Ocean’s Eleven” and
“Ocean’s Twelve”); Catherine
Zeta-Jones (”Intolerable
Cruelty”); Vera Farmiga (“Up in
the Air”). Gosling: Rachel
McAdams (”The Notebook”);
Michelle Williams (“Blue
Valentine”) Emma Stone
“Coach” Wade of Susanville,
Calif., and 26-year-old high
school baseball coach Albert
Destrade of Plantation, Fla., to
win the CBS reality competition’s $1 million grand prize
Sunday. Clarke earned six votes
from the nine-person jury of
former players.
“I think I had my finger on
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Clarke secured her place
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alliance from the outset and
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“I knew the only one that
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The Family Circus
By Bil Keane
TUESDAY, DEC. 20
I
Boyfriend’s mom isn’t ready to
give up Christmas tradition
D
EAR ABBY: My
boyfriend and I have
been living together for
nine months. We have decided
to host
Christmas
dinner at our
house and
invited 20
people — 10
from each of
our families.
His mother,
unfortunately,
is having a
Dear Abby
hard time
accepting that her 27-year-old
son is growing up.
She says she feels “awkward”
and that their family has had
its traditions for many years.
(My boyfriend has spent every
Christmas Eve and Christmas
night at his parents’ house
since birth.)
I come from a family that is
adaptable to change. Any suggestions for dealing with this
potential future mother-in-law?
— FREE SPIRIT IN PHOENIX
DEAR FREE SPIRIT: First of
all, don’t plan on your
boyfriend’s parents attending
your Christmas dinner, and
don’t take it personally if they
don’t. She may be unwilling to
change their Christmas tradition.
If and when a wedding date
is set, or your boyfriend makes
clear to her that your arrangement will be permanent, the
three of you can then come to
an agreement to alternate these
holidays so you and your parents are able to also host these
gatherings. This is how new
families establish their own traditions and in-laws aren’t made
to feel that one side is favored.
*
*
*
DEAR ABBY: I have been
with my fiance for two years.
Lately he’s been having trouble
controlling his anger. His outbursts are becoming more frequent, and he feels like they’re
justified. He says if I didn’t
“nag” him so much there
wouldn’t be any arguments.
I love him and want to
spend the rest of my life with
him, but I’m becoming frightened by the level he allows his
anger to reach. Can you help a
man like this deal with his
anger? — NEEDS HELP IN
NORTH CAROLINA
DEAR NEEDS HELP: No, and
neither can you, as much as
you might wish to. Only he
can do that, and it would take
willingness on his part and
counseling. Blaming you for
his outbursts indicates he’s not
ready to do that. The smartest
thing you can do is leave
before he escalates to hurting
you physically. Without professional help, the behavior you
have described will only get
worse.
*
*
*
DEAR ABBY: I have an elderly neighbor I have been friends
with for many years. Over the
past several years she has had
numerous medical problems. I
have done everything I can to
be her friend. I do things
around the house, bring her
meals, whatever I can. She has
no family and only one other
friend besides me.
She is depressed and stays in
bed most of the day, which
contributes to her aches and
pains. I keep telling her she
needs to get up and walk or her
pain will get worse. It has
reached the point where she’s
so nasty about everything that
I don’t even want to talk to
her.
I understand that she’s
scared and feels beaten up. I try
to talk about things that are
noncontroversial — happy
things. It doesn’t work. She
turns everything into an argument. I don’t know what to do.
I hate to ignore her, but it’s
really taking a toll on me. Am I
a fair-weather friend? — TRYING TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR IN MASSACHUSETTS
DEAR GOOD NEIGHBOR:
No, you are a caring friend.
Your elderly neighbor is ill, and
she may be becoming demented. Because she is no longer
able to care for herself or her
home, contact the nearest hospital or senior center and ask to
speak with a social worker on
staff. The woman you describe
may need more help than you
can give her, from people with
the training to do it.
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.
n the next year, refrain
from limiting your
hopes and expectations.
If you’re prepared to work
hard and do what needs to
be done, your resolve and
commitment will be
enough to make it happen.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) — Just because
you’re at a boisterous
event doesn’t mean you
can’t command the type of
attention that you’d like to
receive. You’ll find that
whispering will have more
impact than shouting.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) — If there is someone you know who could
use a little help, you
should yield to your charitable inclinations and
pitch in. Your good deed
will produce a huge and
unexpected harvest.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) — Trust your instincts
regarding the outcome of
events, because they’re
likely to be more accurate
than your common sense.
This time, things could be
as good as you hope.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) — Speak up if you
have something to say
when a self-appointed person is fouling up the
works. You’re the one
who’ll know how to handle it without making that
individual look bad.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) — Discovering that
others are talking about
you is no cause for alarm,
because what they are saying would actually flatter
you. Don’t jump to conclusions and be forced to
make an apology later.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) — Don’t hesitate to let
it be known that you must
study any proposal
brought to you, especially
if a contract is involved.
Take all the time you need
to read in between the
lines.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) — There are some very
strong indications that
someone new could enter
your life, if not today, than
very soon. It’ll be a person
you’ll like very much and
be thrilled to know.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) — Getting involved in
something creative in
which you’ll be using your
hands as well as your
mind will bring you much
gratification. Don’t hesitate to take on something
new and different.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —
Don’t be bashful about
complimenting someone
whom you’ve just met in
front of others, and do let
this person know how
much you enjoy his or her
company. She or he will be
flattered.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) — Put your artistic talents to work during your
spare time and beautify
your surroundings instead
of sitting around on the
couch. The results will
make you feel great.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
— Don’t turn down any
invitation that gives you a
chance to mix and meet
with new, fun people. The
more contacts you make,
the more chances you’ll
have of meeting a truly
nice friend.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) — Although they may
come in increments, you’ll
have excellent chances for
producing long-range benefits for yourself and others, starting now. Don’t
botch things up.
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By Art and Chip Sansom
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Frugal Living — Reuse egg cartons
BY SARA NOEL
United Media
Egg cartons are sturdy containers.
If you’re used to throwing them
away, save one or two and put them
to use in your home, use them for
gifts or donate them.
Here’s how:
Gift: Money can be placed in an
empty egg carton (you can reuse plastic Easter eggs, too). You can use an
egg carton to wrap other gifts, such as
soft headbands or hair ties. One reader, Denise from Illinois, shares: “Give
a year of socks to kids!
January: White socks for starting
the year fresh
February: Valentine’s or red socks
March: St. Patty’s or green socks
April: Easter or spring pastel socks
May: Flowered socks
June: Any summery color
July: Red, white & blue or starred
socks
August: Low cuff crew socks
(ankle)
September: Find socks with buses,
apples or rulers/pencils or sew a
school-themed button to the cuffs
October: Halloween socks
November: Thanksgiving socks or
plain brown socks
December: Holiday socks
Roll up each pair tightly and stuff
into a section of the empty egg carton “gift box” to make a perfect
dozen. Buy the socks on clearance
after each holiday and then give the
gift the following year.”
Fire starters: With some dryer lint,
leftover candle wax and an egg carton, you can make fire starters. B.C.
from North Carolina shares: “I have a
paper egg carton where I keep dryer
lint balls and a couple of cotton plugs
from over-the-counter medication
bottles. I melt wax and pour it over
the lint or cotton. These make great
fire starters for home or when camping.” You can add candle fragrances
found at craft stores, too.
Craft paints: Use an egg carton to
hold a palette of paint colors for kids.
Organizer: Use egg cartons to
organize small items such as golf
balls, jewelry, craft supplies, baby
socks, seeds, rubber bands, small
pushpins or paper clips, nuts and
bolts, screws, etc. Use them to hold
small game pieces and toys such as
dice, Legos or Barbie accessories, too.
To make a homemade mancala
game, visit: www.sinasohn.com/
crafts/mancala.htm. Or add an egg
carton to the laundry room to hold
loose change found in pockets.
Zits
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Nation/World
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B7
Speaker:
House
won’t OK
2-month
payroll
tax cut
ALAN FRAM
BULLIT MARQUEZ/AP
Cristio Tingson talks on his cell phone as workers use a backhoe to search for victims of his buried house Sunday at Iligan city in southern
Philippines. Tropical storm Washi blew away Sunday after devastating the southern Philippines with flash floods that killed hundreds of
people as they slept and turned two coastal cities into a muddy wasteland filled with overturned cars and uprooted trees. Rescuers dug up
11 bodies but not Tingson’s wife and three children.
With morgues full, flood victims buried
BULLIT MARQUEZ
ILIGAN, Philippines — With
funeral parlors overwhelmed,
authorities in a flood-stricken
southern Philippine city on
Monday organized the first mass
burial of some of nearly 700 people who were swept to their deaths
in one of worst calamities to strike
the region in decades.
For the first time in a day, the
staggering death toll from Friday
night’s disaster, spawned by a tropical storm, remained little changed
but the number of missing varied
widely. Official figures put the
missing at 82, while the Philippine
Red Cross estimated 800.
The disparity underscores the
difficulty in accounting for people
who could be buried in the mud
and debris littering much of the
area or could be alive but lost in
crowded evacuation centers or
elsewhere.
“We lost count of how many are
missing,” said Benito Ramos, head
of the government’s Office of Civil
Defense.
In Iligan, a coastal industrial hub
BULLIT MARQUEZ/AP
Residents retrieve their household items from their house that landed on a concrete fence of a mansion Monday in Iligan city, southern
Philippines.
of 330,000 people, Mayor
Lawrence Cruz said the city’s half a
dozen parlors were full to capacity
and no longer accepting bodies.
The first burial of 50 or so
unclaimed bodies was to take place
later Monday in individual tombs
at the city cemetery, he said.
“For public health purposes,
we’re doing this. The bodies are
decomposing and there is no place
where we can place them, not in
an enclosed building, not in a
gymnasium,” Cruz told The
NYC police: Suspect says
woman set afire over debt
CRISTIAN SALAZAR
NEW YORK — As Deloris Gillespie went up
the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, carrying groceries, a man was waiting. His
face was one her neighbors later recognized, and
she surely must have, too.
Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and
a dust mask, which was perched atop his head.
The sprayer was full of flammable liquid.
When the elevator opened Saturday afternoon, the man sprayed the 73-year-old woman
“sort of methodically” over her head and parts
of her body as her bags of groceries draped off
her arms, New York Police Department
spokesman Paul Browne said. She crouched
down to try to protect herself, he said.
Then, Browne said, the attacker pulled out a
barbecue-style lighter and used it to ignite a rag
in a bottle. He waited a few seconds as Gillespie
huddled on the floor. Then he backed out of the
elevator and tossed the flaming bottle in.
Neighbors in the Prospect Heights building
had no idea a woman was being burned alive
when they quickly reported a fire.
Overnight, a 47-year-old man smelling of
gasoline went into a police station and implicated himself in Gillespie’s death, Browne said. The
suspect, Jerome Isaac, told police he set her on
fire because she owed him $2,000 for some work
he had done for her, Browne said.
Isaac, of Brooklyn, was arrested Sunday on
murder and arson charges. The Brooklyn district
attorney’s office had no information on whether
he had an attorney.
When Jaime Holguin, who lives on the same
floor as Gillespie, saw surveillance pictures of the
attacker he said, “Oh, my God!”
Holguin, the manager of news development for
The Associated Press, said the man in the surveil-
ROBERT MECEA/AP
Jerome Isaac is led out of the 77th Precinct
in the Brooklyn borough of New York Sunday
following his arrest in the death of a woman
set afire in an elevator.
lance pictures looked like a man who had lived
with Gillespie for about six months last year and
appeared to have been helping her out. He was certain Isaac was the man who worked for Gillespie
after seeing post-arrest pictures of the suspect.
Gillespie’s arrangement with Isaac appeared to
have ended by early 2011, but months later
Holguin started seeing the man nearby on the
street, looking “a lot more disheveled” and pushing a cart full of aluminum cans.
Associated Press.
He said many of the Iligan dead
— 279 by official count — “are just
piled and laid outside the morgues,”
which ran out of formaldehyde for
embalming and coffins.
“We’re using plastic bags, whatever is available,” Cruz said.
In nearby Cagayan de Oro city, the
situation was more chaotic and people were resisting mass burials, instead
demanding that bodies be interned
until relatives can claim them.
About 340 died in Cagayan de
Oro, most of them women and
children and many of whom lived
along river banks. Flood waters
came gushing after 12 hours of
pounding rain, catching most of
them in their sleep.
Residents told local officials that
plans for a mass burial was “unChristian,” said Cagayan de Oro
city administrator Griscelda Joson.
Mayor Vicente Emano called a
meeting later Monday to discuss
the problem. Funeral parlors have
asked authorities to do something
about the unclaimed bodies
because of the stench and complaints from neighbors, she said.
WASHINGTON — The House intends to vote
down a two-month extension of the payroll tax
cut that cleared the Senate late last week,
Speaker John Boehner said Monday, and request
immediate negotiations on a full-year renewal
that can provide “certainty for people who are
trying to create jobs.”
“I don’t believe the differences between the
House and Senate are that great,” Boehner said
at a news conference, although he provided no
estimate on how long it might take to produce a
compromise.
Without action by Congress, both the payroll
tax cut and a program for long-term unemployment benefits will expire on Jan. 1.
Boehner spoke after a chaotic weekend in which
Senate leaders first failed to agree on a full-year
bill, then coalesced around the two-month-extension that passed overwhelmingly, only to spark a
revolt among GOP conservatives in the House.
There was no immediate reaction from either
the White House or leaders in the Senate, which
adjourned for the year shortly after approving its
version of the bill.
The revolt of the rank and file placed Boehner
and Republicans in a difficult position, just as it
appeared they had outmaneuvered President
Barack Obama by assuring that the legislation
would require him to make a swift decision on
construction of a proposed oil pipeline. He had
announced he would put off the issue until after
the presidential election in 2012 rather than
decide the fate of a project that divided normal
Democratic allies, environmentalists opposed
and several labor unions in favor.
In a television interview shortly before
Boehner’s news conference, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer accused
Boehner of reversing his position on the twomonth measure because of a “tea party revolt,
and warned that failure to pass legislation could
result in higher taxes on 160 million workers.
But Boehner said that was not the case. “I
raised concerns about the two-month process
from the moment I heard about it,” he said.
He called on members of the Senate to “put
their vacations on hold” and return to forge a
compromise.
Obama has said repeatedly Congress should not
quit for the year until the tax cut has been extended.
Public Notices
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE
The following described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on January 20, 2012, at
10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Adams County
Courthouse, 500 West 4th Street, Hastings, Nebraska
68901:
LOT ONE (1) KRUEGER SUBDIVISION, ADAMS
COUNTY, NEBRASKA, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDED AS INSTRUMENT NO. 941998, SUBJECT TO COUNTY
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY OR THE NORTH SIDE
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 mort-
gages 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: Erika Knapstein, Trustee, NSBA# 24088
Kozeny & McCubbin, LC
12400 Olive Boulevard, Suite 555
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
(314) 991-0255
Published in the Hastings Tribune
K&M Filename: SHAELAHM
THIS FIRM IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM YOU WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.
December 12, 19, 26, 2011, January 2, 9, 2012
School Board Proceedings
Culligan of Hastings
58.60
Diamond Lake Book Company
63.80
Education Service Unit #9
23,802.39
Follett Educational Services
144.00
Glenwood Telephone
294.95
Hobart Service
196.00
J W Pepper
135.00
Jim Troshynski
94.14
Kal Halbmaier
172.71
Kenesaw Market
16.29
Kenesaw Motor Company
295.15
Kenesaw Public School
160,161.67
290.37
Kevin Willems
34.51
Krull Agency, Inc.
25.00
Matheson-Linweld
305.00
Menards - Hastings
102.11
Mierau and Company, P.C.
2,350.00
Nebraska Council of School Administrators
200.00
Nebraska Truck Center, Inc.
1,934.05
Nebraska.Gov
50.00
OCE Imagistics
361.27
Pavelka Truck and Trailer Repair
4,505.79
Pearson Education
89.64
Randy Simmons
7.50
Randyʼs Sprinkler System
250.00
Robby Thompson
200.00
School Health Corporation
161.64
SourceGas
2,970.59
Southern Power District
3,042.62
Stuhr Museum
66.50
The Hastings Tribune
43.84
Travis Dassinger
39.19
Uncle Nealʼs Country Convenience Store
2,668.79
UPS
46.99
Verizon Wireless
99.72
Village of Kenesaw
607.48
Windstream
912.00
Zimmerman Printers
306.00
TOTAL
208,170.17
December 19, 2011
The Kenesaw Public School Board of Education met
in regular session on December 8, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
Action was taken on the following:
-Approved the minutes of the November 15,
2011, regular meeting as presented.
-Approved the Treasurerʼs Report.
-Approved the December, 2011, Claims in the
amount of $208,170.17.
-Approved the Report and Annual Financial report for the 2010-2011 school budget year conducted by Mierau and Company, P.C. from York,
Nebraska.
-Approved the annual termite warranty agreement for $462.00 with Presto X.
-Approved the annual $100.00 donation to Kenesaw Fire Department.
-Approved the Master Board Calendar for the
2012/2013 School Year. Move annual review of
School Insurance from December to October.
-Offer Jim Troshynski, Superintendent, an additional one-year contract through 2013-2014
School Year.
-Offer Robby Thompson, Principal, a contract
through 2012-2013 School Year.
-Approve the addition of Golf to the list of extracurricular activities. Motion Failed.
-Approve the DIAL-4 assessment procedure for
determining if a child is capable of carrying on
the work of Kindergarten.
The next meeting is set for January 9, 2012, at 7:00
p.m.
ACT
$
168.75
American Time & Signal Company
268.46
Big G ACE 11368
110.26
Bill Nabower
125.00
Business World Products
74.46
Classroom Direct
35.88
Cooperative Producers, Inc.
29.00
Craig Schnitzler
54.27
B8
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Classified Ads
Card of Thanks
20
Automobiles
Thank you, City of Hastings, for all your support.
Christian Motorcycle
Association
4
Speech, Language, and
Learning Place has moved
back into Hastings at 223
E. 14th St., Ste. #260.
402-460-6002. Chris or
Karol, licensed speech
language pathologists.
Automobiles
Deveny Motors
1013 S. Burlington
402-462-2719
2010 IMPALA LT: Silver,
Special price........ $13,900
2010 Impala LT: Gray
Special price ........$14,900
2011 Impala LT: Blue
Special price........ $15,900
THE CAR LOT
East Highway 6
Brambleʼs Auto Sales
Check our new website
bramblesauto.com
53
402-463-3104•N. Hwy 281
www.greatplainsdodge.com
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Business
Opportunities
AUTO SALES
2001 OLDS Alero: 2-door,
V-6, full power, sunroof.
Real nice car. $3,450.
1995 PONTIAC Grand
Prix: 2-door, V-6, full power. $2,450.
402-463-2636
GREAT BUSINESS Opportunity. Old Rayʼs Pizza,
202 W. 2nd location, now
for rent. 1,290 sq. ft. Call
Diane, 402-469-4777.
Hoskins
Auto Sales
GOT SKILLS??
Apply today at
Associated Staffing!
We have a variety of jobs
waiting to be filled.
Including:
Aluminum Welders
CNC/Lathe Operator
Turret Operator
Mold Press Operator
Trimmer
Line Cook
Material Handler
Insurance Sales Rep
HR Manager
We Buy, Sell and Consign
Highway 6/Hastings Ave.
Hastings, 402-463-1466
For complete listing go to
www.hoskinsautosales.com
NORTHSIDE AUTO
We Buy Vehicles
16th/St. Joe 402-463-8008
northsideautoinc.net
PAUL SPADY
MOTORS
www.spadyautos.com
See our selection of
FUEL ECONOMY cars at
jacksonscarcorner.com
2-wheel Drive
Pickups
50
ASSOCIATED STAFFING
CHECK US OUT!
1023 W. 2nd St.,
Hastings, NE
EEOC
Background Checks and
Drug Testing
May Be Required
NOW HIRING
ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL
402-462-4400
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See our truck selection at
jacksonscarcorner.com
24
Sport Utility
2006 TAHOE: 71,000
miles. Front/rear heater
and air, 3rd row seat, new
tires. Original owner. Excellent condition. 402-9029029.
25
Vans
ARE YOUR nuts showing?
We have 100s of used
wheel covers and trim
rings. McMurray Motors,
402-462-6879
30
Heavy
Equipment
2010
SMITHCO
side
dump trailer: 25,000 miles.
402-460-7569.
Sudoku
Employment
Agencies
Professional
CHERRY CORNER Estates, Red Cloud, NE, is
seeking an administrator
for its 14-bed assisted living facility. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in budget / finance /
marketing. The successful
candidate will be required
to live within a 10 mile radius of Red Cloud. Prior
experience in administration of an assisted living
facility is preferred, but
training will be provided to
the right candidate. We offer a competitive salary
and benefits. Send letter of
resume to: Cherry Corner
Estates Chairman, 40 N.
Cherry St., Red Cloud, NE
68970. EOE No agencies
please.
List your ad. 402-462-2131.
Health Care
BETHANY HOME
Minden, NE
will be accepting applications for the following
positions:
Health Care
10 p.m.-6 a.m. MA or NA
(full time)
6 a.m.-2 p.m. MA or NA
(full time)
Assisted Living
2 p.m.-10 p.m. MA
(full time)
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Truck
2007 Palomino Thoroughbred F829RL 5th wheel.
Sold this one new. Nice
floor plan. $15,900
Hajnyʼs
ʻ08 Pontiac G6 SE: Blue,
75,xxx miles, nice. Books
$12,775.......Cash $10,775
ʻ07 Malibu LS: Beige, 4door, 46,xxx miles. Books
$11,575.......Cash $10,375
220 West South Street
402-461-3161
Happy Holiday Days!
2007 GMC: 3/4-ton, extended cab, 4x4......$9,500
2006 FORD F-250: Super
cab, 4x4..................$8,750
36 Travel Trailers &
Motor Homes
1990
VIKING:
camper. $1,825
Announcements
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
We offer a great starting
wage, $0.45 an hour p.m.
shift differential
$0.80 an hour night shift
differential and a $1.00 an
hour weekend differential.
Bethany Home
515 W. First
Minden, NE
or contact Rhonda or
Cassie for Health Care
Nursing or Julie for
Assisted Living
Phone 308-832-1594
EOE
ROSE BROOK Care Center in Edgar, NE, is accepting applications for RN,
LPN, and CNA to work
within our fun and friendly
environment. Call George
Geier at 402-224-5015 or
email
resume
to
[email protected]
56
Restaurant
GARDEN CAFE hiring
part-time cook, dishwasher, wait staff, and bakery.
2201 Osborne Dr. East.
57
Technical &
Trade
CONSTRUCTION: Taking
applications. Experienced
in commercial construction
and remodeling to include
all phases of interior work.
Wages negotiable based
upon experience. Valid
driverʼs license with good
record. Employment eligibility confirmed by E-verify.
Apply at Rosch Commercial Builders Inc., 322 W.
South Street, Hastings,
NE. Monday thru Thursday
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FULL-TIME WELDERS
needed. Minden Machine
is a fast growing equipment manufacturer. Drug
testing required. Apply at
1302 K Road, Minden, NE.
AT YOUR SERVICE Ads
can help you advertise
your business without a
large investment. 16
words or less, everyday
for one full month is only
$49.00.
57
Technical &
Trade
LOCALLY OWNED mechanic shop is looking to
add an additional mechanic to their team. Must be
ASE Certified, enjoy working on all makes and models and like working in a
family environment. This
position is Monday-Friday,
7:30-5:30 and Saturday, 8noon. Wage is negotiable
with experience. Please
apply in person or send resume
to
aspegren
[email protected]
Aspegren Repair, 307
South French, Sutton.
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Trucking
TRUCK DRIVERS: Competitive wages, short or
long haul, paid vacations,
sick leave, health insurance, 401k, quarterly bonus. Will train if qualified.
GEORGE BROS. INC.,
Sutton, NE 68979. 1-800228-4008.
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If interested:
M ail or pick up application at: H R
D epartm ent, 727 E ast F irst S treet,
M ind en N E ,6895 9
E m ail: info@ kchs.org
C all 308.832.3400, ext 2630, for
application and /or m ore inform ation
A pplications can be found online at
http://w w w .kchs.org und er C areers.
ROGER’S INC.
3415 State St., Grand Island
• Home & Business Sales, Service & Support
• Free Pickup and Delivery • Award Winning Service
www.corcomputers.com.................308-381-0561
1035 S. Burlington Hastings............402-463-1345
DEA ELECTRONICS
www.hastingstribune.com
908 W. 2nd St. Hastings..................402-462-2131
Contractors
ABC SEAMLESS SIDING, WINDOWS &
GUTTERS
Hastings, www.abcseamless.com. . .402-463-7580
Counselors-Human Relations
GENERAL COUNSELING LLC
Cyndee Fintel, LIMHP, Jessica Hunt, MS, PLMHP
www.generalcounseling.com...........402-463-6811
Health Foods
NATURAL FOOD PRODUCTS
707 W. State Street, Grand Island
www.naturalfoodproducts.net..........308-382-0869
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In-Home
Assisted Living
EXPERIENCED RN offering private 24-hour inhome nursing care. Competitive rates. References
available. 402-469-0256.
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96
Part Time
BIG BROTHERS Big Sisters is looking for a parttime Customer Relations
Specialist. Prefer applicants to have BA or related experience in customer
service, administrative duties and graphic design.
Please send resume to
312 N. Lincoln Ave Hastings, NE 68901 by December 28th.
Hastings Tribune has
openings for carrier in
Hastings Call Circulation.
402-461-1221 or 1-800742-6397.
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Pets
BEAUTIFUL
BLONDE
yellow lab pups. 8 female,
$200/each,
4
male
$150/each. Ready Jan. 2.
Call Ed, 402-621-0151.
GRIFFY, SHIH TZU, Yorkie puppies. All registered.
Ready now. 402-469-0784
77
Appliances
Your WHIRLPOOL and
TOSHIBA Dealer
ROGERʼS, INC.
1035 S. Burlington
402-463-1345
89 Lawn & Garden
PREOWNED
Grasshopper Mowers:
Hi-Line Motors, Kenesaw
402-752-3498
www.hilinemotors.com
Want To Buy
NEWER washers, dryers,
stoves and refrigerators.
Working or not. 462-6330.
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
1-, 2- and 4-BEDROOM
units for rent. Call Gateway Realty, 402-463-4563;
gatewayrealestate.com/hastings
1-BEDROOM,
UPSTAIRS, and 2-bedroom.
No pets/smoking. 714 N.
Williams. 402-984-2745.
1-BEDROOM: In Juniata.
Central air. $310 plus electric. References. No pets.
Alton Jackson. 984-0881.
1-BEDROOMS: Off-street
parking. No pets/smoking.
Available now. 462-0594.
2-BEDROOM and Efficiency: East side. No pets.
402-469-7046, 469-5596.
2-BEDROOM for lease.
Appliances, parking. No
smoking/pets. $475/month
plus deposit. References.
402-902-9379.
2-BEDROOM: Appliances,
laundry hookups, parking.
No pets. $485. EMBASSY
SQUARE, 402-462-4032.
CHATEAU
IMPERIAL
Townhomes/Apartments
Call 402-463-4111
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Pets & Animal Control
HEARTLAND PET CONNECTION
1807 W. J Hastings
www.petfinder.com............402-462-PETS (7387)
Pizza
LITTLE CAESAR’S
Carry Out and Delivery
314 N. Burlington Ave. Hastings. . . . . .402-462-5220
PAPA RAY’S PIZZA
2604 W. 2nd Street, Hastings..........402-463-1626
Upholstery
THE COVER UP UPHOLSTERY
204 N. Clay, Box 387, Harvard.........402-772-4031
To Purchase Advertising On This Page Contact 462-2131
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
Equal
Housing
Opportunity
All real estate advertising
in the Fair Housing Act
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to
make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the
age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians;
pregnant women and people securing custody of
children under 18.
This newspaper will not
knowingly accept any advertising for real estate
which is in violation of the
law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this
newspaper are available
on an equal opportunity
basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD tollfree at 1 (800) 669-9777.
The toll-free telephone
number for the hearing impaired is 1 (800) 9279275.
Needed: Good Tenants
for Good Apartments
We offer you rental and
utility assistance. Large,
clean 2- and 3-bedroom
units, off-street parking
and basement for storage,
local management and
maintenance. Sorry, no
pets. See us at 945 W. H
to pick up application.
2- and 3-BEDROOM
...FIRST MONTH FREE at
Regency Apts., Hastings.
Large apartments with
controlled entry, complete
kitchens, ample parking,
on-site laundry and you
pay ONLY electricity! Locally managed. Pet friendly (some restrictions). Call
today for a tour!
402-462-5205
www.perryreid.com/
regencyheights
EHO
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108 Office Space
NICE, SMALL office with
bathroom. 645 S. Burlington. $325 plus electric. Alton Jackson 402-463-0688
OFFICE SPACE for rent
next to old Rayʼs Pizza,
1,386 sq. ft. 402-469-4777
OFFICE SPACE
Single office, double office,
up to 4 office suites available. Very nice. Conference
and meeting room available. 402-461-4100.
Landmark Center
109
Business
Property
25ʼx30ʼ heated shop, bath,
14ʼx14ʼ overhead door. Also 16ʼx26ʼ shop. 4620594, 402-541-2480.
WORK SHOP for lease.
25ʼ x 40ʼ. 10ʼ door, heat,
110/220.
$275/month.
402-902-9379
111
Storage/
Warehouse
RV, BOAT, car storage.
$1/foot. Call 402-469-4777
to reserve space.
113 Lots For Rent
Hastings Campground:
Open all year. RV spaces
for rent. 402-462-5621
KINGSWOOD PLAZA
Looking for home atmosphere? RV sites available.
Weekly and monthly rates.
Contact 402-463-1958.
116
Houses
For Sale
2-BEDROOM: Attached
garage. Joyce Schlachter,
Broker, 402-462-5794.
3-BEDROOM, 2-bath, attached garage, appliances
included, hot tub, updated
bathrooms.
$117,500.
402-469-7388.
COMPLETELY REMODELED: 2-bedroom, 2-bath
with additional 3rd nonconforming bedroom in finished basement. Located
at 844 S. St. Joseph.
Beautiful must see interior!
$87,500. 402-984-6929.
Duplexes
For Rent
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-BEDROOM:
Rent to own. Air, garage.
$400-$850. 402-469-6635.
104
Houses
For Rent
2-BEDROOM: 2710 W.
7th, Hastings. $550 plus
deposit. References and
credit check required. 402469-3539.
2-BEDROOM: 614 Saunders. Appliances. $550
plus deposit. Off-street
parking. 308-293-2666.
CLEAN 3-Bedroom: Carport. No pets. Lease, references. $695. 705-4773
LARGE 3-BEDROOM and
2-bedroom: Wood floors.
Good area. Water, sewer
paid. 402-469-7262.
108 Office Space
AFFORDABLE, professional large office; reception
area. 402-469-6635.
AVAILABLE NOW: Office
suite at Depot Plaza, store
front. Reasonable rates.
Call Diane, 402-469-4777.
119
Residential
Lots
LOTS, MODEL Homes: 4
Subdivisions. Agent/owner, 402-461-1785.
123
Storage/
Warehouse
WAREHOUSE
BUILDING: 26,429 sq. ft. Reduced to $28,000. Coldwell Banker Town & Country Realty. 402-463-4591.
130 Auction Sales
PARR AUCTION
Dave Parr, associate,
Gateway Realty. 756-6135
RANDY RUHTER, Auctioneer and Broker, 2837
W. Hwy. 6, Hastings, NE,
402-463-8565.
Don’t wait to apply! Positions
will be filled immediately!
CNC Operator/Turret Operator - 2nd shift
Welders - 2nd shift
Assembly - 1st shift
Swing Shift Molder (5 p.m.-10 p.m.)
Production - all shifts
irrigation. 402-817-4279.
DISC ROLLING
Sell, install, and roll disc
blades. Jess Putnam Jr.,
Gibbon, NE. 866-297-5130
or 308-325-4608.
Apply online at www.asinc.net or at
213 S. Burlington Ave., Hastings
To place ad for the
Farmer's Corner call
402-462-2131
At Your
Service
Home Appliances & Electronics
COMPUTERS ON THE RUN
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.
SECURITY OFFICER
needed in Hastings
$8.00/HOUR
Part-time Weekends
12-hour Shifts
Clear Criminal
Background
Pre-Employment Drug
Screening
Call Christina
402-705-3439
ABM Security
EOE/M/F/D/V
PAC2 HAS 1 full-time position and 2 part-time staff
positions open. Apply at
711 N. Colorado.
SERVICE TECHNICIAN
Werner Construction is
looking for a service technician at our Hastings, NE
shop. The primary role is
to diagnose and repair the
wide variety of equipment
in our fleet. Prior experience in troubleshooting
and repair is required.
Must meet DOT requirements, have an acceptable
driving record and provide
your own tools. Werner
Construction offers competitive wages, excellent
benefits and an exciting
workplace. Applications
are available at our office
or by calling 402-4634545. Werner Construction
129 E 2nd St. Hastings NE
68901
Werner Construction is
an equal opportunity employer.
YELLOW
PAGES
Computer Repair
Part Time
Hastings Tribune is looking for drivers to deliver
the Hastings Tribune on
rural routes. Call Circulation. 402-461-1221 or 1800-742-6397.
General
Kearney County Health Services
currently has these exceptional
healthcare opportunities
PLACE YOUR Classiﬁed ad
available:
today. Call 402-462-2131,
Tribune for fast results.
L ong T erm C are
C N A and or M A full or part tim e.
F lexible sched uling . C om petitive w ag es.
Farmer's
E nvironm entalS ervices
Corner
H ousekeeper- F ull or P art T im e.
M ond ay-F rid ay; E very O ther S aturd ay;
P ossible occasional evening hours.
D ietary S ervices
F ood S ervices W orker -4 p.m .- 8 p.m . –
every other w eekend
137 Hay/Seeds
H um an R esources M anager
SMALL
SQUARE grass
F ull T im e- M ond ay-F rid ay; provid es
hay bales, horse quality.
oversig ht, m anag em ent and strateg y to Approximately 250 bales.
H R operation s in clud in g em ployee 402-460-8252, Nelson.
relation s, com pen sation , ben efits, 138 Irrigation
recru itm en t
an d
p erfo rm an ce LOTS of trade-ins coming
m anag em ent. M ust be know led g eable in in. Call Plains Irrigation for
used pivot list. 800-584fed eral,state and local leg al requirem ents a9334
or 308-382-9240.
in em ployee com pensation. 3-4 years 141 Services
H um an R esources or B S in H um an BACKHOE, TRENCHING,
R esources preferred .
waterlines, electric lines,
61
2ND STREET Slammer is
taking applications for
part-time wait staff, 2 to 4
nights per week. Apply
2315 W. 2nd.
Cleaning Services
SANDRAʼS
CLEANING
SERVICES: Residential,
commercial. Insured. References. Thorough, reliable. 402-519-6279
Clock Repair
VILLAGE TIME. Clocks
and watches cleaned, repaired. Authorized service
center. Will pick up and
deliver. 308-832-0671.
Electrical
Firewood
FIREWOOD:
Quality
mixed hardwoods. Seasoned. Delivery available.
402-746-2886.
Handyman
HANDYMAN:
Roofing,
concrete, painting, home
repairs, snow removal.
Fully insured. 10 years experience.
Reasonable.
462-2660, 460-6756.
Home Improvement
DALEʼS ELECTRIC LLC
Licensed and Insured
Commercial, Residential
No job too small. 402-4690620
BOWED
BASEMENT
walls, water leaks in your
basement? For speedy repair, fair prices, call Jim
Meyer Construction, 402469-0600.
LYD ELECTRIC: Customer friendly pricing while
providing service second
to none. No job too small.
402-462-0844.
HAVE LIVESTOCK, farm
equipment, or farm land
for sale? Call 402-4622131 to advertise your
specialty; ask for Joyce.
Home Improvement
Up to 16 Words
for 1 month
$
ONLY
49.00
includes online
Call
402-462-2131
for details
Painting
Call C&C HOME IMPROVEMENT for roofing,
siding, gutters, remodeling, insulation and drywall.
402-519-6608 or 402-4602607.
BENNY
DiBIASE.
38
years experience, bonded,
insured, interior, exterior
work. Furniture refinished.
Local references. 402-7053493
CHUCKʼS BUILDING AND
REPAIR. Chuck Wiseman.
No job too small. 402-7512443; cell, 402-984-2544.
[email protected]
NEW IMAGE REMODELING. Warranted work.
Home, commercial, tile
flooring, kitchen, bath, additions, garages, siding,
windows, doors, decks,
fencing. Insured, references. 402-705-8369.
Junk Removal
JUNK HUNK. Junk removal service - garage, shed,
attic, basement, yard. “Call
the Hunk to haul your
Junk!” Scott, 402-4634818.
DYCUS
PAINTING.
Prompt, courteous, professional service since 1980.
Insured. Call for estimate.
402-463-7726, or mddy
[email protected]
HONEY DOʼS PAINTING.
Interior, exterior. 25 years
experience. Free estimates. Tim Yurk, 402-7050601 or 402-463-7054.
TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED
The place to look for help
wanted ads. Open 8:00 to
7:00 Mon.-Fri. and 8:00 to
12:00 Sat. Call and place
your ad, 402-462-2131.

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