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Superintendent warns of ‘doomsday scenario’
HPS LOOKS AT CUTS,
NEW REVENUE
IN RESPONSE
TO REDUCTION
IN STATE AID
CHARIS UBBEN
[email protected]
The time has come for
Hastings Public Schools to look
carefully at what money it may
receive for the 2011-2012
school year, and to decide how
it will operate at that level.
In the best-case scenario cur-
rently on the table,
Superintendent Craig Kautz
told the Hastings Board of
Education on Tuesday, the district will receive $1 million to
$4 million less funding next
year.
HPS receives 52 percent of its
revenue from the state aid formula and 32 percent from local
property taxes. The local $1.32
tax rate per $100 of property
valuation includes $1.13 for
the general fund (the maximum $1.05 for general fund,
plus 7.09 cents for the Early
Retirement Incentive Program),
the bond fund (14 cents for the
new middle school and 5 cents
for the upcoming renovation
of Hastings High).
The Legislature is considering
bills that would give either
$810 million or $845 million
to schools for the coming
school year.
“The best legislative bill we
have right now in the hopper
is still an 11.1 percent decrease
in state aid,” Kautz said.
A crucial question is whether
Education Jobs Funding from
the federal government, of
which Nebraska has received
$59 million (HPS expects its
share to be $713,217) will be
swallowed up by the state to
meet its aid obligation or will
be given to schools in addition
to state funds.
“If used to get to $810 million or $845 million, we are in
a doomsday scenario,” Kautz
said. “Obviously, if that money
is on top of the totals of these
other funds, we get closer to
having a manageable situation.”
Even if the state pays out
$845 million on top of the
Education Jobs funds, that
leaves a 4.9 percent decrease in
aid to schools.
Nebraska used federal stimulus dollars in its state aid calculation this year: The state itself
paid out $810 million, then
used federal stimulus dollars to
reach a total of $950 million.
Unfortunately, state aid
numbers for the 2011-2012
school year won’t be certified
until July 1, well past the May
15 deadline for teacher contracts. Property valuations,
which create the basis for local
property tax income, won’t be
known until Aug. 15.
Heineman
applauds
tax breaks
BRENT
McCOWN/
Tribune
Brent
Eigenberg
is the
school
resource
officer at
Hastings
High
School and
is the only
person
allowed to
carry a gun
in school.
The
Nebraska
Legislature
is considering allowing teachers, administrators
and security personnel to also
carry guns.
JOSH FUNK
The Associated Press
Showdown over guns in schools
LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS
SKEPTICAL OF 2 BILLS
CHARIS UBBEN
[email protected]
L
ocal school officials are skeptical of two bills being debated by the Nebraska
Legislature today that would
allow certain people to carry
guns in schools.
Legislative Bill 516, introduced by
Sen. Mark Christensen, would allow
security personnel, administrators
and teaching staff to carry concealed
handguns in educational institutions.
LB 618, introduced by Sen. Brad
Ashford, would allow peace officers
or other authorized law enforcement
officers to carry firearms in school or
at school events.
Both were to be discussed by the
Legislature’s Judiciary Committee
beginning at 1:30 p.m. today.
Currently, only law enforcement
officers are allowed to bring guns
onto a school campus. Hastings
Public Schools has a full-time
resource officer based at Hastings
High School, who is a member of the
Hastings Police Department and carries a gun.
HPS Superintendent Craig Kautz
told the Hastings Board of Education
Tuesday that it is tragic that people
are being violent in schools, but
there are problems that bring them
to the school that need to be
addressed. He doesn’t believe adding
guns to the school scenario is wise.
“I worry about arming more and
more people, and I also worry about
a principal or a teacher with a
sidearm strapped to them, and what
kind of learning environment that
would be,” he said.
Please see GUNS/page A7
Not so fast with the fast food
SHAY BURK
[email protected]
BRENT McCOWN/Tribune
A vehicle uses the drive-through at McDonald’s Feb. 4. While
fast food is convenient, it often tends to be high in calories,
fat, salt and cholesterol.
When people think about fast food, speed,
convenience and low cost all come to mind.
Deeper consideration may lead a person to
think about the health value, but most of the
time, it’s the convenience that draws people to
fast food.
In this fast-paced world, getting food in a
few minutes’ time that can be eaten in the car
between stops is appealing for many.
Sandy Stevens, the community health education coordinator with the South Heartland
District Health Department in Hastings, said
she agrees that the convenience of fast food is
even appealing to her.
“The problem with fast food is it’s not always
good for you,” she said. “It’s got lots of calories.
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WOMAN’S ARM SEVERED
Art by Rece Vaught, 10,
Giltner Public School
“
The problem
with fast food is
it’s not always
good for you.
It’s got lots of
calories. It’s got
lots of fat, lots
of salt and lots
of cholesterol.
”
- Sandy
Stevens
It’s got lots of fat, lots
of salt and lots of cholesterol.”
All of those factors
can lead a person to
have high blood pressure, heart disease,
become overweight and
even have problems
with liver function.
Stevens shared that
startling information
with a group of about
20 adults and children
during Family Fun
Please see FAST/
page A7
LINCOLN — Tax breaks
have succeeded in enticing
more companies to invest in
Nebraska since an incentive
program was overhauled five
years ago, Gov. Dave
Heineman said Tuesday.
Economic development officials joined Heineman at a
news conference to celebrate
the Nebraska Advantage program, which has received 251
applications since it began in
January 2006.
Last year was the busiest ever
for the program with 55 applications. Those companies
applied and promised to invest
$357 million and create 3,800
jobs in return for tax breaks.
“Without a program like
Nebraska Advantage, you can’t
compete,” Heineman said.
Heineman said the state
should avoid tax increases, if at
all possible, because they hurt
business. He singled out Illinois
as an example of that.
Last month, Illinois Gov. Pat
Quinn approved increasing
personal income tax from 3
percent to 5 percent and boosting the corporate tax rate from
4.8 percent to 7 percent.
Heineman said other states
have since been trying to
recruit businesses from Illinois.
“Every time you increase
taxes, it’s a job killer,” he said.
Officials with the Lincoln,
Omaha and state Chambers of
Commerce said interest in
Nebraska’s incentives has
increased significantly recently
as the economy has improved.
“We may not need to be
ahead of everyone on incentives, but we need to be competitive,” said Marc LeBaron,
CEO of Lincoln Industries,
which does metal plating and
finishing. He is a past chairman
of the state chamber.
Wendy Birdsall, president of
the Lincoln Chamber, said the
state’s incentive program has
been successful with small and
large companies.
State officials say 33 of the
applications came from financial or insurance companies, 34
came from renewable fuels or
medical firms and 60 came
from telecommunications or
business service firms.
More than half of the applications for tax breaks were for
projects in either Lincoln or
Omaha.
Nation
Weather
Partly
cloudy
tonight.
Becoming mostly sunny
Thursday.
Tuesday, Kautz presented the
board with strategies for
increasing revenue or decreasing expenditures, all based on
the principles of protecting the
classroom and direct classroom
support to the highest degree
possible, and of doing harm
only when forced to because
pre-emptive actions may be
necessary to protect HPS from
spending more than it will get
this year.
All are only possibilities,
Kautz stressed. Nothing has
been decided.
Please see DOOMSDAY/page A7
CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati
woman’s arm ripped off during a
vehicle-towing accident has been
reattached by surgery.
Family members tell The
Cincinnati Enquirer it’s unclear
how much function 36-year-old
Helen Foster will have in the arm
after the accident on Monday.
Friends were helping Foster tow her
old minivan to a junkyard when a
braided rope snapped, then recoiled
violently and severed her arm at
the elbow.
Inside
The relatives say the man towing
the van with his pickup truck
immediately ran for ice and towels
while another friend called for
help. Family members say their
quick action likely saved Foster’s
arm.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Obituaries
KATHERINE O. SWEET
Hastings resident Katherine
Olive Sweet, 104, died Sunday,
Feb. 13, 2011, at Good Samaritan SocietyHastings
Village
(Perkins
Pavilion).
Services are
1:30 p.m.
Friday
at All Saints
Sweet
Chapel, Good
Samaritan Society-Hastings Village with the Revs. Art Schakat
and Charles Johnson officiating. Burial will be at Glenvil
Cemetery in Glenvil. Visitation
is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday
with the family present 6-8
p.m. at Brand-Wilson Funeral
Home in Hastings and one
hour prior to services Friday at
the chapel.
Memorials may be given to
the family.
Condolences may be sent to
www.brandwilson.com
***
Katherine was born Jan. 26,
1907, to Charles and Zada
(Conway) Orr in Burt County,
Neb., on a farm southwest of
Decatur, Neb. As an infant, she
and her family moved to Ona-
wa, Iowa. She attended country school near Tieville, Iowa.
She married Clement Sweet on
Feb. 15, 1928. They celebrated
80 years of marriage in 2008.
Katherine and Clement lived
on a farm near Decatur, Neb.,
later moving into town. In
1954, they moved to Fremont,
Neb., then returned to Decatur
in 1958, where they lived until
moving to Hastings, Neb., to
the Good Samaritan Society in
1987. In 2004, she and her
husband moved to Perkins Pavilion, GSS. Clement passed
away in June 2008.
While living on the farm, Katherine was a homemaker, she
raised chickens, always planted
a large garden, and canned
many vegetables.
She is survived by two children, son, Philip Sweet and
wife Evelyn; and daughter,
Anita Willis, all of Hastings,
Neb.; six grandchildren; 15
great-grandchildren; one greatgreat-grandchild; and many
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; her husband,
Clement; two great-grandchildren; and three brothers,
Ralph, Charles and Riley.
JAN ZEIGLER
Superior resident Jan Zeigler,
66, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011,
at Lincoln.
Services are
2 p.m.
Thursday
at MegruePrice Funeral
Home
chapel in
Superior with
Pastor
Zeigler
Becky Saddler
officiating. Burial will be at
Evergreen Cemetery at Superior.
Visitation is until 8 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. until service time
Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to
Superior Volunteer Rescue
Squad.
www.pricefuneralhomes.com
***
Jan was born July 29, 1944,
at Smith Center, Kan., to
Wayne and Lucille (Grauerholz) Schoeni.
She was preceded in death by
her parents, Wayne and Lucille
Schoeni; and a stepdaughter,
Tricia Zeigler.
She is survived by her husband, Bob of Superior; son,
Brett Conaway of Smith Center, Kan.; daughters, Linley Voboril of Galva, Kan., and Leslie
Hoge and husband Heath of
Belleville, Kan.; stepchildren,
Juliene Snyder and husband
Scott of Lincoln, Neb., Jeanine
Kintigh and husband Roger of
Webber, Kan., Bryan Zeigler
and wife Stacy of Topeka, Kan.,
Tony Warren and wife Angie
of Hastings, Neb., Troy Warren
of Pueblo West, Colo., and Eric
Warren and wife Robin of
Hastings, Neb.; grandchildren,
Trevor Etie and son A.J. of Bedford, Texas, Cole and Haley
Conaway of Smith Center,
Kan., Ethan and Corbyn Voboril of Galva, Kan., Kole, Peyton, Riley Palmer, Kaitlyn and
Chase Hoge of Belleville, Kan.,
Ashley and Danelle Snyder of
Lincoln, Neb., Jason, Melissa,
Gavin, Zach and Holley Kintigh of Lincoln, Neb., Bryce
Kintigh of Wichita, Kan., Allison Kintigh of Manhattan,
Kan., Macy, Lily and Hollyn
Zeigler of Topeka, Kan.; sisters,
Carole Thompson and husband Eldon of Superior, Neb.,
Rita Kleinschmidt and husband Lloyd of Agra, Kan.,
Cheryl Gibbs and husband
Mark of Stilwell, Kan; and
brother Arden Schoeni of Arlington, Texas; nieces; nephews; other relatives; and a host
of friends.
KENNETH ‘KENN’ OLE JOHNSON
Wayne resident Kenneth
“Kenn” Ole Johnson, 88, died
Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, at Nebraska Veterans Home in Norfolk.
Services are 10:30 a.m.
Thursday at Grace Lutheran
Church in Wayne. Burial will
be at Pleasant Valley Cmetery
at Verdigre, Neb. Visitation
with family present is 5-8 p.m.
today at Hasemann Funeral
Home in Wayne.
Nebraska Veterans Home in
Norfolk.
BENNIE J. SINDT
Franklin resident Bennie Joe
Sindt, 84, died Wednesday,
Feb. 16, 2011, at Franklin
County Memorial Hospital in
Franklin.
Services are pending with
Hutchins Funeral Home in
Franklin.
HARRY D. CHRISMAN
Hastings resident Harry D.
Chrisman, 79, died Tuesday,
Feb. 15, 2011, at Mary Lanning
Memorial
HealthCare in
Hastings.
Services are
1:30 p.m.
Thursday at
Brand-Wilson
Funeral
Home chapel
Chrisman
in Hastings
with the Rev.
Joel Remmers officiating.
Private family burial will be at
Parkview Cemetery in
Hastings. Book signing is until
9 p.m. today with family present 6-7:30 p.m. at the funeral
home.
the family.
www.brandwilson.com
***
Harry was born Oct. 23,
1931, to Frank and Lela (Nine)
Chrisman in York County,
Neb. During his early years, he
helped on the family farm. In
1950, he went to work at the
Naval Ammunition Depot in
Hastings, Neb. He served in the
United States Army from Feb.
26, 1952, to Nov. 25, 1953,
during the Korean War
Conflict. After returning, he
resumed working for the Naval
Ammunition Depot until 1957;
he then started working at
Dutton Lainson at the
Cornhusker Press as a printer,
retiring in May of 1997.
He married Shirley Morris on
Nov. 12, 1954, in Hastings,
Neb.
He is survived by his wife,
Shirley of Hastings, Neb.; one
daughter, Angie Thomas and
husband Robert of Hastings,
Neb.; and one sister, Audrey
Gaver of McCook, Neb.; two
grandchildren, Summer Crosby
and fiancée Jason Kent, and
Tyson Crosby and wife Megan;
and one great-grandson, Hayden.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; and one sister,
Irene Dorffler.
HOWARD BIECK
Giltner resident Howard
Bieck, 88, died Tuesday, Feb.
15, 2011, at St. Francis Medical
Center in
Grand Island.
Funeral
services are
10:30 a.m.
Friday at
Harvard
United
Church of
Bieck
Christ. Pastor
Dave Johnson will officiate.
Burial will be at Harvard
Cemetery. Visitation is 4-8
p.m. with the family greeting
friends 5-7 p.m. Thursday at
Higby-McQuiston Mortuary in
Aurora.
www.higbymortuary.com
***
Raymond "Howard" Bieck,
the son of Floyd and Ruby
(Schueler) Bieck, was born on a
farm near Harvard, Neb., on
July 17, 1922. He attended
"Hart" rural school through the
8th grade and graduated from
Harvard High School in 1940.
Soon after graduating, Howard
enlisted in the U.S. Army Air
Corps Reserve during WW II,
serving in the states and later
in the reserves.
Howard was united in marriage to Doris Ann Spath on
Nov. 27, 1946, in Mankato,
Kan. This union was blessed
with three children, Neil, Earl
and Nancy Ann. Howard
farmed until his retirement.
He loved his farming and animals.
Howard was a member of the
Harvard Church of Christ since
his rural church united with
them. He served on the U.C.C.
Church Council. Howard was
baptized and confirmed at the
First Evangelical Church in rural Harvard. Howard was a past
Master Mason of the Mason’s
Lodge of Giltner, until he demitted out when they combined
with the Phillips Lodge. Howard served on the Giltner
School Board and Rural Fire
Department. He was a devoted
husband and loving father.
Howard especially doted on his
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and followed all their
activities.
He was preceded in death by
his parents; three brothers,
Clyde, Robert and Romaine;
and three infant brothers, Gordon, Gerald and Vernon.
Those left to cherish his
memory are his wife, Doris of
Giltner; three children, Neil
(Nancy) Bieck of Aurora, Earl
(Vickie) Bieck of Giltner and
Nancy (Dave) Burson of Giltner; seven grandchildren,
Travis (Stacy) Bieck of Giltner,
Alena (Chris) Haun of Scottsbluff, Jessica (Matt) Gorr of
Longmont, Colo., Courtney
(Frank) Kimmel of Greenwood,
Miss., Jennifer (Matt) Bebensee
of Kearney, Trent Burson and
Kassidi Burson, both of Giltner; eight great-grandchildren;
and two sisters, Donna Davis
of Hastings and Lois Plebanek
of Fullerton.
Joan Sutherland
honored in London
LONDON — The late opera
star Joan Sutherland, regarded
as one of the greatest opera
singers of the twentieth century, was honored Tuesday at a
special service at Westminster
Abbey.
The service of Thanksgiving
drew about 2,000 admirers of
the Australian-born soprano
who died in Switzerland four
months ago at the age of 83.
Prince Charles and former
Prime Minister John Major
were among those paying their
respects to Sutherland, known
as “La Stupenda” because of
the purity of her voice
John Tooley, general director
of the Royal Opera House for
many years, praised Sutherland
Mel Brooks
comedy co-star
dies at age 75
GRENADA HILLS, Calif.
— Kenneth Mars, a Mel Brooks
collaborator who played a
Hitler-worshipping playwright
in “The Producers” and an
earnest police inspector with a
malfunctioning artificial arm in
“Young Frankenstein,” has
died. He was 75.
In a statement Monday, Mars
family said the actor died
Saturday of pancreatic cancer
at his home in Grenada Hills.
In Brooks’ 1968 romp “The
Producers,” Mars co-starred as
Franz Liebkind, a Nazi enthusiast whose play, “Springtime for
Hitler,” is the basis for a
scheme by two conniving
showmen (Zero Mostel and
Gene Wilder) to bilk investors
by putting on a surefire
Broadway flop.
Brooks cast Mars again in
1974’s “Young Frankenstein” as
the constable poking around the
castle grounds on the trail of
mad scientist Wilder’s monster.
In both films, the Chicagoborn Mars demonstrated his
talent for vocal farce, lending
over-the-top German accents
to the characters.
Mars’ nearly 50-year career
included a long list of voice
credits, including “The Little
Mermaid,” “The Jetsons” and
the “The Land Before Time”
movies and TV series.
Among Mars’ other film
credits were Woody Allen’s
“Radio Days” and “Shadows
and Fog” and Peter
Bogdanovich’s “What’s Up,
Doc.”
for her lasting impact on audiences throughout the world.
Sutherland first appeared at
the Royal Opera House in 1952,
but her international stature
grew immeasurably after she
made her Italian debut in the
title role of Handel’s “Alcina” in
Venice in 1960.
“Joan was a superlative
singer, possessed of a ravishingly beautiful voice: Pure, large,
even throughout its wide
range, flexible, warm and
vibrant. She used it with consummate artistry to musical
and dramatic ends,” he said.
Despite her global fame,
Tooley said, Sutherland
remained a “supremely modest
human being.”
The service included music,
prayers and readings.
ANNIE M. JENSEN
Former Clay Center resident
Annie M. (Downs) Jensen, 81,
died Monday,
Feb. 14, 2011,
at
Sutton
Community
Home in
Sutton.
Services are
10:30 a.m.
Jensen
Friday
at Sutton Memorial Chapel
with the Rev. Del Klover officiating. Burial will be at Clay
Center Cemetery in Clay Center. Visitation is 1-8 p.m.
Thursday with family present
5:30-7:30 p.m. at the chapel.
the family.
***
Annie was born May 28,
1929, to Charles and Ida
(Alexander) Downs in Loyal
Valley, Texas. She lived all over
the state of Texas; her father
worked for the Department of
Roads and Bridges. She graduated at the age of 16 from Llano High School in Llano,
Texas. She attended two years
at East Texas State College in
Commerce, Texas. She married
Alfred Wesley Jensen on June
4, 1947, in Springtown, Texas.
They started their married life
on a farm near Edgar, Neb. In
1951, they moved to the family farm near Clay Center, Neb.
To this union, seven children
were born, four sons and three
daughters. In 1971, they
moved into Clay Center, Neb.
She moved to Lincoln, Neb., in
2000 to live with her daughter
Mary. She had also lived in
Wahoo, Neb., for several years
before moving to Sutton in
2010.
She was a member of Emmanuel United Methodist Church
in Clay Center, Neb. She belonged to the United Methodist Women’s Organization,
Mills-Schroder Post #87 American Legion Auxiliary of Clay
Center, Neb., Adams County
Petit Salon #486 of 8 and 40.
For over 20 years, she was the
American Red Cross Clay
County Blood Program Chairman until she started a daycare
in her home.
Annie is survived by her children, Mary Contreras of Wahoo, Neb., Lee and wife Vicki
Jensen of Central City, Neb.,
Leslie and wife Linda Jensen of
Central City, Neb., Sheila and
husband Mike Krause of Clay
Center, Neb., Dean and wife
Corinne Jensen of Glenvil,
Neb., Diana Kotschwar of Kearney, Neb., Neil and wife Kathy
Jensen of Blair, Neb.; 22 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; sister, Belle Burks of
Round Rock, Texas; sister-inlaw, Ruby Carlson of Hastings,
Neb.; sister-in-law and brotherin-law, Betty and Laverne
Duensing of Lincoln, Neb.;
and many nieces, nephews and
friends.
She was preceded in death
by her husband; parents;
brother, Charles Downs Jr.; sisters, Lila Gates and Katie McIntosh; brothers-in-law, Aubrey
Gates, Dale McIntosh, Perry
Burks, and Jim Carlson; and
one great-grandson, Aidan
Kotschwar.
PAUL D. CROZIER
Hastings resident Paul Dean
Crozier, 65, died Monday, Feb.
14, 2011, at BryanLGH West
in Lincoln as a result of a
head injury.
Services are 11 a.m.
Saturday at First Presbyterian
Church in Hastings with the
Rev. Dr. William G. NottageTacey officiating. Private family burial will be at Parkview
Cemetery in Hastings prior to
the service. Visitation is 6-8
p.m. Thursday and Friday at
Livingston-Butler-Volland
Funeral Home in Hastings.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the
Salvation Army of Hastings
and the Emergency Protective
Service Shelter in Hastings.
www.lbvfh.com
VERNON HARTMAN
Hastings resident Vernon Hartman, 72, died Wednesday, Feb.
16, 2011, at Mary Lanning Memorial HealthCare in Hastings.
Services are pending at Livingston-Butler-Volland
Funeral Home & Cremation
Center in Hastings.
LLOYD DANA
Fairfield resident Lloyd Dana,
78, died Tuesday, Feb. 15,
2011, at Mary Lanning Memorial HealthCare in Hastings.
Services are pending at Livingston-Butler-Volland Funeral
Home & Cremation Center in
Hastings.
Tribland
Adams County Judge Robert
Ide Tuesday sentenced
Elizabeth M. Ramos, 27, of
Grand Island to 90 days in jail,
one year of probation, a $600
fine, two-year drivers license
revocation, victim impact class
and attitudinal dynamics class
for a second offense of driving
under the influence of alcohol
on Sept. 24, 2010. Ramos
pleaded guilty on Dec. 27,
2010, and prosecutors dropped
charges of leaving the scene of
an accident and driving under
revocation. Second-offense
DUI, with a blood alcohol content more than .15, is a Class 1
misdemeanor punishable by up
to one year in jail and a $1,000
fine.
H&R Block closed Thursday
morning, 9:00 to noon, for funeral of Kurt Weseman. -Adv.
It was reported Monday that
the identity of David B. Brown
of 1531 W. Boyce St. was taken
and used at an unknown location.
2007 Chevy Silverado with
regular cab, 27,000 miles,
Bramble’s Auto Sales, 462-4849
-Adv.
Vehicles reportedly driven by
Chrisella C. Lewis of 723 S.
Denver Ave. and Kerri E. Beale
of Nelson collided Monday on
Second Street near Lincoln
Avenue.
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.
Tri-City Street Rods Auto
Show, Fonner Park, Saturday
and Sunday. 402-984-0881. Adv.
Adams County District Judge
Stephen Illingworth recently
granted a decree of dissolution
to the marriage of Christie
Good and Alan Good, and
Cynthia McGrath and Kenneth
McGrath.
Vern “Buzz” Hartman was
part of the Hastings Grain Inspection family for 50 years.
He was a conscientious employee, a loyal family man and
a credit to the success of our
company. We shall miss him. Adv.
Melissa J. Utecht of 200 S.
Cedar Ave. reported Monday
that her vehicle was damaged
at her residence.
Godfather’s now open at
Burlington Express Food Court.
-Adv.
It was reported Monday that
items were shoplifted from
Kmart, 3001 W. 12th St. No.
103. The value of items taken
was $90.
Other Page! Photos of interest...send to Hastings Tribune,
Other Page, P.O. Box 788,
Hastings 68902. Enclose selfaddressed, stamped envelope
for return of picture. E-mail
[email protected] -Adv.
Dr. Doug Hentzen, Hastings
Internal Medicine, taking new
patient appointments. 4632454. Referrals not necessary. Adv.
Due to the freeze which occurred in the growing regions,
Allen’s has a shortage of this
week’s Roma tomatoes special.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Adv.
Hey, sports fans! You’ll find
results of local and area games
first at hastingstribune.com Adv.
John Udesen of 602 E.
Second St. reported Tuesday
that his vehicle window was
damaged at his residence.
Robert D. Ramsey of 500 S.
Garfield Ave. reported Monday
that his front license plate was
taken from his vehicle at his
residence.
A vehicle reportedly driven
by Alan K. Owens of 24 Sara
Drive Monday struck a parked
vehicle owned by Pedro M.
Gabriel of Harvard at 701 W.
12th St.
DAV, Thursday, Pizza. 302
South Elm. All welcome. -Adv.
Area funerals
Thursday
t Harry Chrisman, 79, of Hastings,
1:30 p.m. at Brand-Wilson Funeral
Home chapel in Hastings.
t Joan Cook, 68, of Deweese,
10:30 a.m. at Our Lady of
Assumption Catholic Church in
Deweese.
t Elsie Mueller, 95, of Davenport, 1
p.m. at St. Peter Lutheran Church in
Deshler.
t Viola W. Post-Shubert, 77, of
Fairfield, 10:30 a.m. at Williams
Funeral Home chapel in Edgar.
t Kurt Weseman, 40, 10:30 a.m. at
Zion Lutheran Church in Hastings.
t Jan Zeigler, 66, of Superior, 2
p.m. at Megrue-Price Funeral Home
chapel in Superior.
Friday
t Howard Bieck, 88, of
Giltner, 10:30 a.m. at United
Church of Christ in Harvard.
t Annie Jensen, 81, of
Sutton, 10:30 a.m. at Sutton
Memorial Chapel in Sutton.
t Katherine Sweet, 104, of
Hastings, 1:30 p.m. at All
Saints Chapel, Good Samaritan
Society in Hastings.
Weather/World
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
A3
Pricey jet engine tests budget cutters’ resolve
ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON — The
Obama administration’s campaign against a costly alternative
engine for the Pentagon’s nextgeneration fighter jet faces a critical vote in the GOP-controlled
House, its fate to be decided by
more than 90 freshmen lawmakers who previously haven’t
had to choose sides between two
major defense companies.
The expected vote
Wednesday comes as the House
enters its second day of debate
on a $1.2 trillion spending bill
that would make deep cuts
while wrapping up the unfin-
ished business lawmakers
inherited after last year’s collapse of the budget process.
That includes $1.03 trillion for
agency operating budgets that
need annual approval by
Congress and $158 billion for
military operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The engine battle pits
Obama and Defense Secretary
Robert Gates — who say the
engine would waste almost $3
billion over the next few years
— against GOP leaders like
House Speaker John Boehner,
R-Ohio, whose state is a chief
beneficiary. The spending
measure includes $450 million
for the engine, which would be
built by the General Electric
Co. and Rolls-Royce in Ohio,
Indiana and other states.
On the other side are lawmakers from Connecticut,
where the main F-35 fighter
engine is built by Pratt &
Whitney, as well as members
from Florida, Texas and other
states.
The F-35 engine vote presents 87 GOP freshmen —
infused with fervor to cut
spending — with a dilemma:
Vote with the Obama administration to cut spending now or
side with supporters of the
alternative engine, who argue
that it would save money by
injecting competition into the
F-35 program, the costliest
weapons program in Defense
Department history.
“We have to step forward, we
have to cut back on areas, and
this is an area that the secretary
of defense said we need to cut
back on,” freshman Rep. Bob
Dold, R-Ill., said.
The engine battle divides
along regional rather than
party lines, in contrast to the
partisan warfare on the underlying bill, which sharply cuts
domestic programs and foreign
aid and earned a veto threat
from the White House budget
office and a warning from
President Barack Obama
against unwise cuts “that could
endanger the recovery.”
The House worked through
the night into early
Wednesday; debate on the bill
is expected to take all week. A
frosty reception awaits the bill
in the Democratic-controlled
Senate, which won’t take up its
version until next month. So
it’ll require passage of a separate short-term government
funding bill by March 4 to prevent a government shutdown
that neither side says it wants.
The GOP bill, separate from
the 2012 budget Obama
Tribland five-day forecast
Scottish
deerhound
America’s
top dog
Art by Rece Vaught, 10, Giltner Public School
PARTLY CLOUDY
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High: 65
Low: 38
Wind: South 10-20
SUNNY THURSDAY
High: 68
Low: 29
Wind: West 10-20
Partly cloudy Thursday
night.
PARTLY CLOUDY
FRIDAY
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High: 55
Low: 28
Partly cloudy at night.
CLOUDY SATURDAY
High: 55
Low: 32
Mostly cloudy with a 20
percent chance of rain and
snow Saturday night.
RAINY SUNDAY
High: 45
Low: 30
Mostly cloudy and colder
with a 20 percent chance of
rain.
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High: 69 in 1981
Low: -13 in 1979
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u From 7 a.m. Feb. 15
to 7 a.m. Feb. 16
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Hickory, a Scottish deerhound, competes in the ring for best in show in the 135th Westminster
Kennel Club Dog Show Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Hickory won the title.
Protests spread to Libya
CAIRO — Hundreds of
Libyans calling for the government’s ouster clashed with
security forces firing rubber
bullets and water cannons early
Wednesday in the country’s
second-largest city as Egyptinspired unrest spread to the
country long ruled by
Moammar Gadhafi.
The protest in Benghazi was
triggered by the arrest Tuesday
of a Libyan activist but quickly
took on an anti-government
tone, witnesses and activists
said. The protest was relatively
small in size, but it signaled
anti-government activists have
been emboldened by the recent
unveiled on Monday, covers
spending for the fiscal year that
ends Sept. 30.
The GOP legislation would
make sweeping cuts to domestic programs ranging from education and science to agriculture and the Peace Corps. It
slashes the Environmental
Protection Agency, a favorite
target of Republicans, by 29
percent from last year’s levels,
and would eliminate federal
funding for public broadcasting, the AmeriCorps national
service program, police hiring
grants and family planning
programs unpopular with conservatives.
wave of uprisings.
Activists using Facebook and
Twitter have called for nationwide demonstrations on
Thursday to call for Gadhafi’s
ouster, a constitution and comprehensive political and economic reforms.
Tuesday’s demonstration
began in front of the local
security headquarters after
Libyan troops raided the house
of rights advocate Fathi Tarbel
in Benghazi and took him
away, according to a
Switzerland-based activist Fathi
al-Warfali.
Tarbel was released after
meeting with a powerful
Libyan security official.
NEW YORK — Hickory just might like
the big-city life.
A Scottish deerhound that loves to chase
deer and rabbits on a 50-acre farm in Virginia
did more than fine at Madison Square
Garden this week, winning best in show at
the Westminster Kennel Club on Tuesday
night and the title of America’s top dog.
“She’s not used to lights, camera and
noise,” handler Angela Lloyd said.
Whatever, Hickory will get a couple of
Manhattan treats on Wednesday — steak at
famed Sardi’s restaurant and a trip to the top
of the Empire State Building.
The 5-year-old Hickory became the first of
her breed to capture the purple-and-gold ribbon and shiny silver bowl.
By dog world standards, it was an upset.
OK, maybe not quite as big as the Hickory
Huskers winning the Indiana high school
state basketball championship in the film
“Hoosiers,” but quite a surprise nonetheless.
“I think Hickory could feel my lead that I
was excited and went with it,” Lloyd said.
Judge Paolo Dondina of Italy thanked
every person and dog inside the arena, then
picked Hickory from a best-of-seven final
show ring that truly sounded international
— along with a Scottish deerhound, there
was a Pekingese, Portuguese water dog,
Chinese shar-pei, smooth fox terrier, bearded
collie and black cocker spaniel.
A couple of those pooches on the green
carpet ring with Hickory were among the
country’s top-rated show dogs. The 85-pound
Hickory wasn’t on that list, though she
wagged her long tail the most at the end after
beating out a total of nearly 2,600 entries.
Bahrain protesters put more pressure on rulers
HADEEL AL-SHALCHI
MANAMA, Bahrain — Protesters
demanding sweeping political reforms from
Bahrain’s rulers held their ground today in
an Egypt-style occupation of the capital’s
landmark square, staging a third day of
demonstrations that have brought unprecedented pressure in one of Washington’s
most strategic allies in the Gulf.
Security forces have pulled back sharply
— apparently on orders to ease tensions —
after clashes that left at least two people
dead and dozens injured. Police helicopters,
however, flew low over a major funeral procession for one of the victims in which
mourners called him a “martyr” and
pledged more protests in the island nation
— home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.
Thousands of people spent the night in
a makeshift tent camp in Manama’s Pearl
Square, which was swarmed by demonstrators a day earlier. One demonstrator
used a bullhorn to urge protesters to
remain until their demands are met, as
the Arab wave for change takes hold in
the Gulf.
The protests began Monday as a cry for
the country’s Sunni monarchy to loosen
its grip, including hand-picking most top
government posts, and open more opportunities for the country’s majority Shiites,
who have long complained of being
blocked from decision-making roles.
But the uprising’s demands have steadily reached further. Many protesters are
calling for the government to provide
more jobs and better housing and free all
political detainees. Increasingly, protesters
are also chanting slogans to wipe away
the entire ruling dynasty that has led
Bahrain for more than 200 years.
Opinion
A4
Obama
administration
discovers
Rosy Scenario
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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.
”
Scripps Howard News Service
President Barack Obama’s proposed 2012 federal
budget is being criticized, mainly by Republicans,
for being too cautious, especially on spending
cuts. But, absent any action on the big entitlements, like Social Security and Medicare, the
budget does lay out ambitious goals, a $1.1 trillion
reduction in the deficit over the decade and $1.6
trillion in new revenues.
However, for these good things to come to pass
depends on optimistic economic assumptions that
may be overly cheery. If these assumptions are
borne out, the country will indeed be in great
shape come 2015.
Unemployment will drop from its current level
of around 9 percent to 8.6 percent next year, 7.5
percent in 2013, 6.6 percent in 2014 and 5.9 percent, a level some economists consider close to
full employment, in 2015.
On economic growth, the Obama administration is more optimistic than most private forecasters. The president’s budget calls for the gross
domestic product to grow 5.2 percent in 2012 and
a robust 6.1 percent in each of the next two years
before easing back to a still-healthy 5.6 percent in
2015.
None of this growth will greatly affect inflation,
according to the president’s projections. The
Consumer Price Index, expected to end this year
up 1.3 percent, will rise in gentle increments to 2
percent in 2014 and 2015.
Growth will make it worthwhile to save again.
The administration predicts the interest rate on
91-day Treasury bills, currently flat-lining around
two-tenths of a percent, will be at 4 percent in
2015 and the 10-year Treasury note at 5 percent.
Of course, presidential budgets are quickly forgotten, and only the most obsessive numbers
wonks will remember in 2015 what the administration assumed in 2011.
Area Nebraska Senators
DISTRICT 32
Russ Karpisek, Wilber
Room 1015, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE
68509(402) 471-2711
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DISTRICT 33
Dennis Utter, Hastings
Room 1529, State Capitol, Lincoln, NE 68509
(402) 471-2712
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DISTRICT 34
Annette Dubas, Fullerton
(402) 471-2630
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Galen Hadley, Kearney
(402) 471-2726
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DISTRICT 38
Tom Carlson, Holdrege
(402) 471-2732
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A dark shadow that cannot linger long
W
riting a personal column is
an odd way to eke out a living. I know because I’ve
been doing it, or trying, at
least, for 20 years.
Anna Quindlen, who wrote a personal column before moving to op-ed pieces, described
it as “an emotional striptease.”
Sometimes it can feel a little naked. But I
like to believe, as personal as it may seem, I
am writing not just about my own life, but
life in general. I love hearing from readers
who say they share in that belief.
People often ask how I keep finding things
to write about.
It’s easy. If your job is to write about things
that happen in life, you just have to stay alive
and pay attention, and things will keep happening. I try to stay alive. I try to pay attention. And I wake up each day curious to see
what will happen next.
Sometimes they’re things I don’t want to
happen, but they happen sooner or later to
most of us, to some more than others.
We can’t always choose what we get, good
or bad. We can only choose what we do with
it.
That is the choice, isn’t it? What we do
with what we’re given is the difference
between being alive or just passing time.
Recently I took a day off from writing to
attend a memorial service for my father-inlaw, a man I fell in love with years before I
married his son.
To explain my absence,
some newspapers noted that
it was due to a death in the
family.
And once again, as in the
past when I lost someone I
loved -- my mother, my dad,
my first husband, friends
who died too young -- I
Sharon
began hearing from readers
Randall
around the country who
wrote to offer their condolences and prayers and love.
People are good. If you doubt it, try writing
a personal column and see for yourself. We
humans are incredibly human. As often as we
screw things up, we also have a great capacity
for caring.
My father-in-law, a self-described “newspaperman,” was raised by a single mother, who
scrubbed floors to buy cornmeal to make tortillas. As a boy, he delivered the newspaper for
which he would one day become publisher.
After high school, he joined the Navy,
fought in World War II, finished college and
married the girl of his dreams. His rise from
paperboy to publisher to corporate executive
is the kind of success story we all love to
point to with pride and say, “Only in
America.”
But that is not why he was loved. He was
loved because he loved. And because he had
an uncanny ability to make you believe in
yourself.
At his memorial service, I met dozens of
people who told me their stories of what he
meant to them and how he had somehow
made them feel important.
I, of course, told them mine. I met him 11
years ago. He’d just had heart surgery, and I
had just started dating his son. He sat up in
his hospital bed, took my hands in his and
said he’d been wanting to meet me for years.
“I read the first column you ever wrote,” he
said, “and I cut it out and sent it to (his son,
who hadn’t known me at the time) with a
note that said, ‘Read this woman, she’s a
keeper!’ “
Five years later, I married his son on the
condition that with every passing year, he
would grow to be a little more like his dad.
It’s not an easy promise to keep, but he’s trying.
My husband concluded the perfect eulogy
he delivered for his father with the last words
his dad said to us: “Be good to each other.”
Those are good words, don’t you think,
both to sum up one life and begin moving
forward with our own?
To those of you who sent your kind wishes,
please know we are grateful beyond all
singing of it.
Death casts a dark shadow that cannot
linger long in the lovely light of a life well
lived.
Sharon Randall is an award-winning columnist.
Her e-mail is [email protected].
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don’t personally know Dick Wadhams,
the Colorado Republican chairman
whose decision not to run for re-election
was based on having had enough of
“the nuts” in his party who “are
obsessed with seeing conspiracies around
every corner.” But as one who has been writing about politics for more than 50 years, the
first five of those in Denver, I can certainly
empathize with his views.
It has become increasingly difficult to make
much sense out of the maelstrom of modern
politics where rational thought is not only in
short supply, those who offer it are the object
of derision. Wadhams had the votes for another term according to press reports, but obviously was tired of those whom he said believed
that moderation was a blight on conservatism
and that all the GOP had to do was unite
behind the Right. That may not be exactly
how he put it, but that was the gist of it.
Wadhams took the step after a Tea-Party
candidate finished a poor last behind a
Democrat and an Independent, who had
been a centrist Republican, in last fall’s gubernatorial race, proving once again what my old
friend and political mentor the late Bob Lee
taught me about Colorado voters: They don’t
buy into a lot of off-the-wall stuff. Bob held
the GOP chair in the state during the early
‘60s and he was key to electing John Love to
the governorship, ousting one of the most
popular figures in the state’s history,
Democratic incumbent Steve McNichols in
1962.
While he worked for Barry
Goldwater in 1964, he had
no illusions about the conservative icon’s chances and
in 1968, while working for
Richard Nixon, he warned
me that Nixon’s choice of
Spiro Agnew might come
Dan K.
back to haunt him and that
Thomasson he feared Nixon was loafing
through the campaign. He,
of course, was right about both. Vice
President Hubert Humphrey nearly won
despite Vietnam. Bob’s work as a consultant
in New Jersey turning the state legislature into
a Republican bastion was legendary and he
did the same thing for the governorship of
Florida, electing a Republican candidate who
was trailing until Bob came on the scene and
told him to go fishing while he pulled the
campaign together.
Bob Lee was a conservative. There’s no
doubt about that. But he was a practical politician with a clear understanding that voters are
never too far left or right. They may stray once
in a while as they did in the last U.S. House
election, but generally they don’t get far out of
the main stream. That I think is the hurdle
members of the tea party faction face in their
insistence that any variation from their
mantra calls for instant repudiation.
While Bob and John Love weren’t always
cordial — in fact they were downright hostile
to one another at times — Bob was quick to
realize Love’s charismatic appeal to voters.
Love was, he told me once somewhat grudgingly, a good candidate. Knowing that difference is what made Bob and apparently
Wadhams the kind of professionals that
always have been the backbone of sound politics. These are the guys who realize that
demanding unforgiving ideological purity can
lead to electoral disaster.
It’s my belief that Bob Lee would be enormously proud of Wadhams and just the
opposite of those who forced Utah Sen. Bob
Bennett out of office in November’s midterms
and will now try to do the same to his fellow
Republican colleague Orrin Hatch who
recently was heckled at a Conservative
Political Action Conference for his earlier support of the Wall Street bailout. Hatch has sensible old-line conservative credentials, the
kind that allow for room to compromise on
key issues. Republican Mike Lee who ousted
Bennett won’t endorse him however even
though Hatch said he probably was wrong to
back the Street’s fiscal relief.
The shame here is that the Wadhams of
both parties are fading away when they are
most needed. Listening to the cacophony of
hate and stupidity aimed by radio talkers at
the lowest common denominator in the electorate while driving recently, I suddenly
remembered Bob’s last call to me. “It ain’t my
game anymore,” he said.
Dan K. Thomasson writes a column for Scripps
Howard News Service.
Region/State
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
State
K2 BANNED
LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers have approved a bill
to ban a class of chemicals
used to make a substance that
mimics the effects of marijuana — and is currently legal to
possess and sell in the state.
Lawmakers gave finalround approval to Omaha
Sen. Beau McCoy’s measure
(LB19) on Wednesday morning.
The bill targets a substance
often called “K2” or “spice”
— a mixture of herbs and
spices sprayed with a synthetic compound similar to the
psychoactive ingredient in
marijuana. Users smoke it in
roll-up cigarettes or pipes, just
like marijuana.
McCoy and law enforcement officials say some K2
users have had seizures, and
the drug has been blamed for
the death last year of a central
Iowa teenager.
Some states have already
banned the substance, including Kansas and Missouri.
A5
Bills would limit abortion coverage
JOSH FUNK
LINCOLN — Nebraska could
soon join five other states in
restricting private health insurance coverage of abortions if
lawmakers approve a measure
scrutinized at a hearing Tuesday.
That bill and another lessrestrictive one earned praise
from representatives of the
Nebraska Catholic Conference,
Nebraska Right to Life, Family
First and other groups. Only
the ACLU Nebraska expressed
opposition to the bills, which it
said might be unconstitutional.
Currently, five states prohibit
abortion coverage in basic policies and require the payment
of a separate additional premium if an individual wants the
coverage. The states are Idaho,
Kentucky, Missouri, North
Dakota and Oklahoma.
The bill put forward by Sen.
Beau McCoy ,of Omaha, (LB22)
would exclude abortion coverage from all private insurance
policies sold in Nebraska.
Abortion coverage would be
allowed only with an optional
rider paid for solely by the
insured. Those restrictions
would apply to all insurance,
not just policies sold through a
new health insurance exchange
being set up under the new
federal health care law.
“Nebraskans who morally
object to abortion should not
be forced to pay for the procedure,” McCoy said.
A bill submitted by Sen.
Annette Dubas, of Fullerton,
(LB132) would exclude abortion
coverage only from policies
obtained through the health
insurance exchanges that states
must set up to provide coverage
beginning in 2014.
Anti-abortion group
Nebraska Right to Life, the
state Catholic Conference and
the Nebraska chapter of the
Americans for Prosperity
endorsed McCoy’s measure as
the preferred option, but they
also supported Dubas’ bill.
Karen Bowling, associate
director of the Nebraska Family
Council, said people in the state
care deeply about the abortion
issue and most don’t want to
help pay for the procedure.
“(McCoy’s bill) would ensure
that no Nebraskan would
involuntarily fund abortion,”
Bowling said.
Garett
asks state
to stop
medication
MAN SHOT
BELGRADE — A
Minnesota man has been
fatally shot in what officials
say appears to be a case of
self-defense in rural Nance
County in central Nebraska.
Television station
KOLN/KGIN says Joseph
Cameron, of Stacy, Minn.,
died early Monday morning
near Belgrade.
The sheriff’s office says
Robert Dodds shot Cameron
after Cameron kicked in the
door of Dodd’s house and
threatened him with a knife.
The incident happened after
Cameron left a bar in
Belgrade with Dodds and a
woman to check on cattle
and then went to Dodd’s
home. Deputies say an altercation took place between the
men, and Dodd locked
Cameron and the woman out
of his house.
Officials say the investigation is ongoing, but it appears
to be a case of self-defense
and no arrests were made.
WILL VRASPIR
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CHECK FORGERY
LINCOLN — A 50-year-old
Lincoln man who altered a
$1,995 check that was mistakenly mailed to his address has
been given three months of
probation.
The Lincoln Journal Star
says John Chavez pleaded
guilty in December to forgery.
Chavez was sentenced on
Tuesday.
The check was sent by the
Norris High School Athletic
Boosters to Culver’s Frozen
Custard. But it was misaddressed to Chavez’s residence.
Prosecutors say Chavez
changed the name on the
check, then cashed it in
September.
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP
President Barack Obama presents the 2010 Medal of Freedom to Warren Buffett during a ceremony in the East
Room of the White House in in Washington Tuesday.
‘Who we are as a people’
BUFFETT, 14 OTHERS GIVEN
MEDAL OF FREEDOM
DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Calendar
HASTINGS
u Hastings Public Library Book
Club, “Memory of Running” by
Ron McLarty, 10 a.m. Thursday,
second floor of library, 517 W.
Fourth St.
u “Summer of Love” film series, 7
p.m. Thursday at Hastings Public
Library, 517 W. Fourth St. For
movie titles, call 402-461-2346.
u Al-Anon, noon Thursday, The
Kensington, 233 N. Hastings Ave.
u Alcoholics Anonymous, noon,
5:15, and 8 p.m., 521 S. St.
Joseph Ave.; 7 p.m. (Women’s
group), 907 S. Kansas Ave.; and 8
p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 837
Chestnut Ave. Thursday.
u Red Cross Bloodmobile, noon to
5:15 p.m. Thursday, First
Congregational United Church of
Christ. Make appointment at 1800-GIVE-LIFE.
u Narcotics Anonymous, 6:30
p.m. Thursday, 422 N. Burlington
Ave., rear entrance.
u GriefShare, 7 p.m. Thursday,
First St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Youth Center, 918 W. Fourth St.
For more information, call 402463-1329.
JUNIATA
u Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m.
Thursday, United Methodist
Church basement, 610 N. Adams
Ave.
Lotteries
But attorney Alan Peterson
said he believes the restrictions,
especially the ones on private
insurance in McCoy’s bill, would
make it too difficult for women
to get abortions in the state.
“The barriers that can be put
up to abortion by any state are
limited,” said Peterson, who
spoke on behalf of the ACLU.
But McCoy and the supporters of his proposal disputed
Peterson’s view that the bill
might be unconstitutional.
McCoy said he based his bill
on a Missouri law that has
been on the books since 1983.
W
ASHINGTON —
President Barack
Obama recognized
one former president
and 14 artists, athletes,
civil rights activists, humanitarians and
others Tuesday with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom for contributions to
society that he said speak to “who we
are as a people.”
This year’s recipients “reveal the best
of who we are and who we aspire to be,”
Obama said at a White House ceremony.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is
the nation’s highest civilian honor. It is
given in recognition of contributions to
U.S. national security, world peace, culture or other significant public or private endeavors. Tuesday’s medals were
the second set Obama has awarded.
Some of the loudest applause was
reserved for George H.W. Bush, the former Republican president who has
devoted nearly 70 of his 86 years to
public service, starting when he joined
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Warren Buffett after presenting
him with a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday during a ceremony
in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
the Navy on his 18th birthday. He
served as a congressman from Texas,
U.N. ambassador, Republican Party
chairman, U.S. envoy to China, director of central intelligence, two terms as
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A 33-year-old man found not
guilty of murder by reason of
insanity asked a district court
judge to allow him to stop taking medication for his bipolar
disorder Tuesday during an
annual review of his case.
Jayson Garett asked to discontinue his
medications
currently prescribed by
staff at the
Lincoln
Regional
Center.
But Dr.
Klaus
Garett
Hartmann,
one of the psychiatrists working with Garett at LRC, recommended that Garett continue
taking his medications, which
serve as mood stabilizers to
help moderate the manic highs
and depressions associated with
bipolar disorder.
Adams County District Judge
Terri Harder ordered that
Hartmann’s treatment plan be
continued, including the medication.
The case is reviewed by the
court once a year to determine
if Garett’s bipolar illness is still
dangerous and what his treatment plan should include.
Garett was committed to the
Lincoln Regional Center in
June 2006, after killing 45-yearold Daryl Peed on March 27,
2004.
Garett walked across town
naked, which he believed made
him invisible, and broke into
Peed’s home at 609 Lexington
Ave. Peed lived alone and was
asleep on his couch wearing
earplugs. Garett stabbed Peed
45 times — mostly with a 3.5inch serrated steak knife.
After killing Peed, Garett
went to sleep in Peed’s bed.
When he woke up a few hours
later, he reportedly put on
Peed’s clothes and left the
house, before being arrested by
police for a prior incident.
Peed’s body was found the
following day. Investigators
said the two men were
strangers.
Harder found Garett not
guilty by reason of insanity on
Jan. 20, 2006, based on reports
from two psychiatrists that
indicated Garett suffers from a
bipolar disorder and was in a
manic phase during the incident.
Had he been convicted on all
charges, he could have faced
up to life in prison and
$70,000 in fines.
Residents of mobile home park trying to avoid eviction
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DONIPHAN — When residents of the Doniphan Mobile
Home Park learned they could
be evicted from their homes
because of the level of disrepair
their neighborhood had fallen
into, they formed a neighborhood association.
Members of the Doniphan
Village Board voted 5-0 during
their regular meeting Monday
to give the Doniphan Mobile
Home Park a temporary operating license to fix problems
identified during a Dec. 20,
2010, inspection. The park’s
previous 12-month license had
expired at the end of the year.
The temporary license comes
up for renewal June 1. The village will inspect the park again
40-60 days before that deadline. If the violations are fixed,
yearlong licenses will begin to
run June 1 to June 1.
Will Martin, organizer of the
neighborhood association, said
the park has fallen into disrepair during the past 10 years.
“You drive through, especially on the south side, it’s in pretty sad-looking shape,” he said.
Before 2010, the Hall County
building inspector did all
inspections in Doniphan,
including those at the mobile
home park. When the county
inspector retired, the village
began performing its own
inspections.
Martin also said the Hall
County Sheriff’s Office has
been called several times to the
park for a variety of reasons.
Of the 41 trailers in the park,
36 are occupied, he said.
Association members have
come up with great ideas and
concerns, Martin said.
Although many of the trailers needed repairs, he said,
there are also homeowners
there who have done a good
job taking care of their homes.
Still, throughout the park,
trash was piling up and many
of the trailers were falling into
disrepair to the point of needing to be condemned and
removed.
The situation was exacerbated when former owner Stu
Schlatz sold the park in summer 2010 to Cedar Ridge,
Colo.-based mobilehomeparkstore.com and owner Dave
Reynolds.
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Region/State
A6
Local
BPW TO MEET
The Hastings Board of
Public Works will learn more
Thursday on a water contaminant made famous by the
movie “Erin Brockovich.”
Hexavalent chromium or
chromium-6 was a contaminant that the Pacific Gas &
Electric company had
allowed to spread causing
health problems for many
residents in that area of
California.
Just recently chromium-6
has again come into the
news as other places are now
bringing up the issue of
water contamination.
With those stories in the
news, the HU board requested a presentation on the
issue of hexavalent chromium.
The board meets 8 a.m.
Thursday at HU, 1228 N.
Denver Ave.
During Thursday’s meeting, the board will also:
u Consider approval of the
Mutual Claim Release and
Settlement Agreement with
Arrowhead Indemnity Co.
u Discuss credit card usage.
u Discuss the policy on conference attendance.
u Discuss the legislative
changes to the Court of Industrial
Relations and the procedure for
establishing positions of the
board.
u Hear an update on the startup activities at Whelan Energy
Center Unit Two.
State
CAUSE OF DEATH
LINCOLN — The
Lancaster County attorney
says a 48-year-old Lincoln
woman intentionally mixed
liquor and a painkiller to
commit suicide.
The body of Tanya Kroeger
was found Dec. 30 in her car
in a Lincoln high school
parking lot. Her family
reported her missing on Dec.
27.
County Attorney Joe Kelly,
who acts as the county coroner, said Wednesday that
“the manner of death was
suicide.” Kelly says alcohol
and the opiate painkiller
were among the substances
detected in Kroeger’s body.
BREAST-FEEDING
BILL
LINCOLN — A proposal
that would allow mothers to
breast-feed in public view has
gained first-round approval
in the Nebraska Legislature.
Lawmakers voted Tuesday
to advance the bill (LB197)
State Sen. Annette Dubas, of
Fullerton, introduced.
The proposal says simply
that a mother “may breastfeed her child in any public
or private location where the
mother is otherwise authorized to be.”
Similar measures have
been introduced in the state
since 2005, but had previously failed to advance from
committee.
SUICIDE BY CAR
CRASH
LINCOLN — Lincoln
police say a man who died
after he crashed his car into a
concrete bridge pillar committed suicide.
The Lincoln Journal Star
says Tuesday that police
reports indicate a handwritten note was found in a
backpack in the car. An accident report says the car was
likely moving fast, and no
skid marks led to the point
of impact.
Twenty-seven-year-old
Pedro Martinez, of Lincoln,
died in the accident on Feb.
7. Police say his car left the
road and hit the pillar under
an overpass about 4 a.m.
Railroad workers on a passing train saw the car on fire
and called police.
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Eviction: Mobile home park residents have to clean up
Continued from page A5
The village inspected the
mobile home park Dec. 20,
2010, and sent a letter to manager Jessica LaCost and to
mobilehomeparkstore.com
ownership giving a Jan. 9 deadline to correct the 18 violations
listed in the inspection. Martin
said management never
informed residents of that
deadline.
LaCost did not return a telephone message from the
Tribune seeking comment for
this story. Reynolds and MHPS
district manager Jim Burget
could not be reached.
Martin and other concerned
park residents attended the Jan.
17 Village Board meeting. That
was when they learned of the
violations and the fact that if
the violations were not
addressed then a permit would
not be issued and the park
would be shut down.
“If the park is shut down, we
have to move,” he said.
Board members said during
the Jan. 17 meeting they would
postpone voting on the permit
till the meeting Monday. In the
meantime, Martin and other
residents formed their community association, which met for
the first time Jan. 28.
During a cleanup day
Saturday, members of the association fixed as many of the 18
violations listed in the village’s
December letter as possible.
Most park residents were more
than willing to help each other
fix problem areas there, Martin
said.
Whether it was replacing a
door, windows or insulation,
someone involved with the
effort already had the parts
needed to make the repairs.
The village board has been
helpful throughout the process,
Martin said.
About the only violations
that association members have
yet to address by the June 1
deadline, Martin said, is to
paint a few sheds and make
repairs to a trailer that is in par-
ticularly bad shape.
Dan Treat, village board
member and former chairman,
said Tuesday afternoon that the
residents there have done a
good job addressing violations
and Village Board concerns.
“The idea was to see what
they fixed and they did a lot
of it,” he said. “They didn’t do
some of it. Obviously, painting is hard to do in January.”
Martin moved into the park
with his family in September
2009. His parents lived there
for about 20 years when he
was growing up.
“It’s a little bit different, us
as an association,” Martin
said. “We have very little legal
power to get anything done.
It was a great, great park at
one time, and it can still be
that way.”
The owner of the trailer in
particularly bad shape told
association members he didn’t
want to fix his trailer.
“He’s been a little bit lackadaisical, and we’ve been try-
ing to motivate him,” Martin
said.
Much of that trailer’s siding
is no longer present, exposing
insulation and wires.
“It’s in bad shape, and it
needs to be fixed or hauled
out of here,” Martin said.
Neighborhood association
members sent a letter to the
MHPS headquarters, Dave
Reynolds and LaCost informing them of the Dec. 21 letter
from the village and asking
for new management because
the park residents didn’t
believe LaCost had the tenants’ best interest at heart.
Martin said LaCost told village board members that she
did contact residents after the
Dec. 20 inspection to inform
them of the violations, but
the residents did not listen to
her.
However, Martin said he
was on the violations list
because of motorcycles that
were improperly stored on his
property and LaCost never
contacted him. He said he
checked with other residents
on the list who said LaCost
did not contact them, either.
Martin said the board may
have unanimously approved
the temporary permit, but
some members expressed disappointment with the park
management.
LaCost, along with Burget,
attended Monday’s Village
Board meeting.
Martin said Burget apologized to the board during the
meeting and to Martin personally in a conversation
before the meeting. MHPS
ownership, Martin said, didn’t
realize the situation in the
park had reached the level it
had.
“It came across he was
understanding and empathetic,” Martin said of Burget. “He
was under the impression that
we were crybaby tenets and
just wanted to cause trouble.
Then he realized we had legitimate concerns.”
Medal: Buffett, 14 others honored by President Obama
vice president and one term as the 41st
president.
“His life is a testament that public
service is a noble calling,” Obama said.
Bush’s wife, Barbara, and their children
listened from the front row. “His humility and his decency reflect the very best
of the American spirit. Those of you
who know him, this is a gentleman.”
Another robust round of applause
went to Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Lewis
was chairman of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
and helped organize the first sit-ins at
lunch counters that refused to serve
blacks. In 1965, he led a march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery,
Ala., and was nearly beaten to death
along with others in what became
known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Obama said Lewis “knew that change
could not wait for some other person or
some other time.” Lewis speaks often
and loudly in his booming voice on
issues of justice and equality, and is
known as the “conscience” of Congress.
He told reporters later that the award
was all the more special coming from
Obama, the nation’s first black president.
“If someone had told me that one
day I would be standing in the White
House and an African-American president would be presenting me the Medal
of Freedom I would say, ‘Are you crazy?
Are you out of your mind?’ ” Lewis said.
“It’s just an impossible dream.”
A particularly touching moment
occurred during the presentation for Dr.
Tom Little, an optometrist who was
murdered by the Taliban last August in
Afghanistan. His wife, Libby, accepted
and Obama rubbed her back as a White
House military aide read her husband’s
medal citation.
The other medal recipients are:
u John H. Adams, co-founder of Natural
Resources Defense Council
u Maya Angelou, an author and poet who
wrote and recited one of her works at former
President Bill Clinton’s inauguration.
u Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway. The famed
investor is known as the “Oracle of Omaha”
for a business savvy that has helped him
become one of the world’s richest men.
Buffett is also a philanthropist and a leader of
an effort challenging the country’s wealthiest
people to step up their charitable giving.
u Jasper Johns, an artist whose work has
dealt with themes of perception and identity.
He is considered a major influence on pop,
minimalist and conceptual art.
u Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and author who founded Citizenship
Counts, an organization that teaches students
to cherish being American citizens
u Yo-Yo Ma, a world renowned cellist and
16-time Grammy award winner who is known
for his interpretations of Bach and Beethoven.
He played at Obama’s inauguration and at
other White House events.
u Sylvia Mendez, a civil rights activist of
Mexican and Puerto Rican descent
u Angela Merkel, the first woman and first
East German to serve as chancellor of a unified Germany. She did not attend the ceremony, but Obama said she’d be paying him a
visit soon.
u Stan Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player
who spent 22 seasons with the St. Louis
Cardinals
u Bill Russell, the former captain of the
Boston Celtics and first black man to become
an NBA head coach.
u Jean Kennedy Smith, founder of VSA, a
non-profit organization that promotes the
artistic talents of people with disabilities
u John J. Sweeney, president emeritus of
the AFL-CIO
President Harry S. Truman established
the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
1945 to recognize civilians for their
efforts during World War II. President
John F. Kennedy reinstated the medal in
1963 to honor distinguished service.
Hastings High School honor roll
The following students
made the honor roll for the
first semester at Hastings High
School:
A honor roll (3.5 and above)
u Freshmen: Jorge Aguirre,
Dakota Anderson, Teresa Arneson,
Brooke Bailey, Kathleen Bartunek,
Crystal Bauer, Nita Bohling, Cadee
Brown, Angelica Carlini, Kiara
Carson, Diana Chavez, Zachary
Cook, Brittany Copley, April
Crandell, Brenna Crawford, Malek
Dalbik, Erika Diaz, Alyssa Dirks,
Darian Ellenwood, Chandler
Fielder, Cheyenne Fielder,
Madisson Fincher, Jared Fischer,
Demi Flores, Austin Glover, Wyatt
Godtel, Matthew Hajny, Allison
Halloran, Amelia Hancock,
Kimberly Hansen, Karen Huynh,
Tanner Johnson, Emily Karges,
Amber Kelly, Spencer Kennedy,
Ethan Kerr, Nicholas Knapp, Ian
Kramer, Matthew Krueger, Morgan
Krueger, Jenna Kulwicki, Sydney
Landell, Christian Lomax, Lacey
Lurz, Dennis Maar, Morgan
Malone, Kyle Manthei, Daniel
Marez, Thomas Masters, Nicole
Mazour, Kyler Meredith, Pablo
Morales, Blaine Myers, Brandon
Oatman, Elizabeth Opperman,
Morgan Parizek, Jacob Parker,
Kaitlyn Pawloski, Tessa
Pendergast, Hailey Peters, Joseph
Peterson, Leah Peterson, Zackariah
Peterson, Joseph Prickett,
Alaethea Remmers, Cole Ridgway,
Tristen Sadd, Abraham Sanchez,
Nathanael Sass, Aiden Schneider,
Shane Schultz, Nicholas Shaffer,
Matthew Starkey, Jacob Steiner,
Justine Steiner, Madison St. John,
Madison Stokes, Shelby Stone,
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Rachel Stroebel, Katia Tellez,
Rachel Thomsen, Aaron Tillemans,
Antonio Valle, Alexis VanBoening,
Marika VanBrocklin, Jessica Zach
u Sophomores: Katherine
Amyot, Bradly Anderson, Katharina
Anderson, Charles Babcock,
Jordan Bank, Maureen Boyd,
Shaylee Brown, Johnson Bui,
Nicholas Burling, Rebekah
Caubarrus, Cassandra Chandler,
Bailey Christy, Jason Cushman,
Mazen Dalbik, Tanner Davis,
Deidra DeBoer, Cassandra Dycus,
Mattie Eddleman, Sierra Edmisten,
Erick Espinoza, Tuesday Frasier,
John Funkey, Erika Garcia, Manuel
Garcia, Melody Gnagy, Ezekiel
Gollner, Mark Goodin, Elizabeth
Hartman, Samantha Hemberger,
Adam Heyen, Joshua Hinrichs,
Haley Hughes, Sarah Jarmer,
Brooke Jasch, Nathan Jensen,
Lindsey Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Anthony Julian, Caitlin
Kalvelage, Matthew Karloff, Emma
Keele, Grace Kelly, Jacinda King,
Kayla Kluver, Alex Kohout, Mariah
Kothe, Tori Krueger, Jayden
Langholz, James Lapka, Bethany
Lehrling, Blaise Lemke, Cody Luce,
Jessie Marcotte, Tyce Matthias,
Maddison McConnaughhay, Levi
McCoy, Elizabeth Montemayor,
Ashley Mulligan, Bryan
Nakashima-Pedroza, Felicia
Nelson, Cody Newlun, Robert
Pankratz, Tanner Peshek, Jenifer
Peterson, Krynn Pettit, Karen
Ramos, William Reimer, Meagan
Reiners, Grace Rempp, Tyler
Ripperger, Trevor Rosno, Daniel
Rousseau, Michael Sadd, Elizabeth
Schafer, Grahm Schneider, Jonah
Schulz, Christian Schwab, Sean
Selko, Helen Smith, Mason
Spilinek, Elaine Streff, Alisnaydis
Tomasen Vila, Landon Valle,
Ricardo Villegas-Martinez, Dustin
Warren, Scot Wescoat, Justice
Whitten, Taylor Williams, Ann
Wolf, Alyssa Ziemba
u Juniors: Lindsey Aflague,
Emily Anderson, Luis Apodaca,
Alejandra Avila, Lauren Bartunek,
Lauren Bliss, Brendan Bramman,
Heiden Burbach, Kelsey
Christensen, Dusty Consbruck,
Ryan DeBoer, Lucas Fanning,
Francis Ferrone, Marco Fielder,
Matthew Geiger, Tressa Gloystein,
Stephen Gnagy, Ryan Grealish,
Mallory Guinan, Austin Gydesen,
Trenton Halbmaier, Victoria
Halloran, Anne Halsted, Vickie
Hartman, Hailey Hemenway,
Robbyn Kathman, Olivia Koester,
Jaden Lacy, Casey Lammers,
Jessica Martinez Burgos, Zoe
Mays, Laykin McCoy, Brady
Menke, Abrielle Meredith, Katilyn
Michel, Breanna Neet, Ngoc
Nguyen, Patrick Opperman,
Hannah Panwitz, Amanda Patrick,
Breanna Pendergast, Jessey
Petersen, Kelli Poplau, Thomas
Portwood, Tyler Prescott, Riley
Roesener, Clayton Rosno, Emily
Shuck, Tyler Staggs, Haley Stroud,
Elizabeth Sullivan, Samantha
Uden, Nicholas Valle, Jessi
Vasquez, Julia Warrick, Kayd
Welke, Zachary Witt, Alyson
Wolfe, Emily Zysset
u Seniors: Claire Adelson,
Courtney Anderson, Elisabeth
Arneson, Brittany Ballou, Lilian
Barnes Garcia, Evan Beachly,
Michael Beahm, Matthew Brooks,
Kyle Brosnihan, Tayler Cartier,
Connor Chance-Ossowski,
Thomas Cooke, Taylor Craig,
Caralynn Crandell, Taylor Crawford,
Sean Davis, Mariah Deepe, Jaime
DeTour, Gregory Dwyer, Jaimie
Fast, Joseph Fox, Shayla Frakes,
Vicenzo Frandoloso, Joel Fritz,
Matthew Fry, Christopher
Ganshert, Emily Gartner, Dylan
Halbmaier, Shelbi Harris, Sheldon
Howard, Michael Hull, Alison
James, Brittany Johnson, Tessa
Johnson, Cami Karnes, Alexander
Keele, Marie Louise Keen,
Brandon Knehans, Matthew
Kramer, Abigail Kuntz, Jonathan
Lainson, Aarika Lomax, Megan
Lounsbury, Emanuel Maldonado,
Josie Martin, Julie McCarthy,
Marissa Mooney, Kyle Neugin,
Phuong Nguyen, Stephanie
Owens, Jourdan Parizek, Ashtin
Pawloski, Matthew Peirce, Joel
Philippi, Claire Phillips, Alexandra
Rodriguez, Brady Rutt, Megan
Rutt, Shawn Schiefelbein, Mikayla
Schultz, Bradie Schulz, McKenzie
Sealey, Dakota Soucie, Laura
Sunderman, Hannah Thomas,
Laura Tiepolt, Thien Truong,
Lawrence Walker, Kelsey Willnerd,
Jacob Winfrey, Halee Wright,
Alejandro Zeballos Rieger
B honor roll (3.0 to 3.499)
u Freshmen: Lindsay Brooks,
Gerardo Castillo, Wyatt Davis,
Matthew Griffith, Ciara Jones,
James Jones, Sheldon Kennedy,
Ryan Kern, Dana Kleinjan, Jacob
Konen, Nathan Mathes, Brendon
Menke, Bao Johnny Nguyen, Riley
Sadd, Brycen Shea, Hau Tran,
Ashtyn VanDolah, Jami Warner
u Sophomores: Dalton
Anderson, Gabriell Bohrer,
Cesshandra Davis, Samy De Leon
Llamas, Ethan Dixon, Dylan
Duncan, Eric Gawrych, Nicole
Hamik, Krista Hamm, Tania
Hernandez, Austin Heuertz, Casey
Holling, Taylor Huynh, Kayli
Johnson, Madison Jones, Paige
Kennedy, Kelsey Kimminau, Austin
Lamoree, Breanna Langenberg,
Patricia Leyva, Mitchell Long,
Fatima Lopez, Corey Luce,
Alejandra Madrigal, Craig Marble,
Carmen Morales, Taylor Musgrave,
Dylan Nuss, Paola Ramirez, Stetsen
Rempe, Brandon Roughton, Sierra
Salazar, Shane Samuelson, Michael
Shelton, Mariah Smith, Emily
Tippin, Maria Wallace, Brandy
Watson, Courtney Wright
u Juniors: Kaylene Andersen,
Zane Baldwin, Joee Beckman,
Janelle Burtis, Jaden Crooks, Valerie
Frazier, Lesley Gama, Georgina
Garcia, Alberto Gonzalez Varela,
Jennifer Greenleaf, Hayley Griess,
Dustin Hagan Koci, Alexis Lamb,
Danielle Lewis, Jasmine Lindstrom,
Gianna Long, Alexander Najera,
Sara Nimrod, Ramsey Oatman, Alex
Olson, Daniela Oros, Aracely
Peregrino, Kaitlynn Schmidt,
Miranda Seamann, Brogen Shea,
Briton Thomas, Adrian Torres,
Rayelyn Warner, Nathan Williams,
Samantha Woolen
u Seniors: Heriberto Bautista
Navarrete, Rebekah Bryan, DaniElle Caubarrus, Paige Dodson,
Jerimiah Duncan, Jose Figueroa,
Lyndsey Frank, James Hamik,
Alyssa Harig, Olivia Harms, Daniel
Hepler, Tanner Jones, Lindsey
Leininger, Diana Licon, Shaunice
Lyle, Amanda Marcotte, Nancy
Nguyen, Tyler O’Callaghan, Kelsey
Olson, Ashley Opbroek, Jeffrey
Richardson, Tara Sadd, Kelsie
Scoggins, Cristy Sheppard, Eric
Smith, Matthew Stanley, Charlotte
Stordal, Seth Walker
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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NURSING HOME
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CBS News’ Logan recovering after ’brutal’ attack
HOMICIDE
EBENSBURG, Pa. — A 78year-old dementia patient in a
nursing home killed a 70-yearold living on the same floor
by bashing his head with a
door, authorities said, but it’s
unclear whether he will be
charged with homicide.
Ray Dunmyer Jr. was
charged with aggravated
assault and transferred to
another facility.
Officials at the Cambria
Care Center in Ebensburg said
they don’t know why
Dunmyer attacked Thomas
Shaw on Saturday even after
staff tried to stop him, said
Mark Fox, a spokesman for
Grane Healthcare, which
owns the facility.
“Apparently, it all happened within a matter of
moments,” Fox told the
Altoona Mirror for today’s
editions. “One second, he’s in
the room visiting Mr. Shaw
and the next, staff is screaming for help.”
Two nurse’s aides discovered Shaw lying in a pool of
his own blood and saw
Dunmyer slamming a heavy
wooden door against Shaw’s
head, state police Trooper
Kenneth Durbin said. The
aides struggled to control
Dunmyer, who hit one of the
aides in the face and kicked
the other in the back before
they could subdue him,
Durbin said.
FROZEN KITTEN
The owner of a hairless kitten that died after being
shipped in the cargo hold of a
Delta flight says the airline is
only offering to refund her air
fare plus $50.
Snickers froze after flying to
Connecticut from Utah last
month. A door latch malfunctioned in 10-degree weather
and it took nearly an hour to
unload her.
Heather Lombardi says
Delta Air Lines initially told
her she would get $2,900 for
the cat and $290 for airfare,
plus reimbursement for vet
bills and even a freezer where
she’s keeping Snickers until
the ground thaws.
Lombardi said Tuesday that
Delta changed its offer to air fare
plus 50 cents a pound, although
there’s a $50 minimum.
Delta spokesman Anthony
L. Black describes the offer as a
standard cargo reimbursement
and says talks are ongoing.
JUST IN TIME
STALLINGS, N.C. — A
North Carolina couple has
claimed a $1 million lotto prize
just a day before it expired.
Raleigh Hill bought the
Mega Millions ticket last summer. The state lottery agency
said Hill and his wife claimed
the prize Tuesday at the
agency’s headquarters.
Hill said he only realized a
couple of weeks after the Aug.
20 drawing that his ticket
matched all five white balls.
He waited two or three more
weeks to tell his wife, until
she came home at the end of
a bad day.
Hill told the state lottery he
hesitated to come in because
of the attention. At one
point, he lost track of the
ticket before finding where
he’d hidden it in a shoe box.
After taxes, the couple
received $680,000. Hill is a
baggage handler and his wife,
Erin Hill, works for the federal
government.
FRAZIER MOORE
CBS News/AP
In this Feb. 11 photo released by CBS, “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the
reaction in Cairo’s Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News
says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault.
NEW YORK — CBS News correspondent Lara Logan
was recovering in a U.S. hospital Tuesday from a sexual
attack and beating she suffered while reporting on the
tumultuous events in Cairo.
Logan was in the city’s Tahrir Square on Friday after
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down when
she, her team and their security “were surrounded by a
dangerous element amidst the celebration,” CBS said in
a statement Tuesday.
The network described a mob of more than 200 people “whipped into a frenzy.”
Separated from her crew in the crush of the violent
pack, she suffered what CBS called “a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.” She was saved by a
group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers,
the network said. The Associated Press does not name
victims of a sexual assault unless the victim agrees to it.
She reconnected with the CBS team and returned to
the U.S. on Saturday.
The scene last Friday in Tahrir Square — ground zero
of 18 days of protests that brought down Mubarak —
was primarily one of celebration — people wept,
jumped for joy, cheered and hugged one another. Some
soldiers stationed at the square ran into the crowd, and
the protesters lifted them onto their shoulders. Other
troops stayed at their posts, watching in awe.
Doomsday: HPS looks at cuts, new revenue
u Increase the number of
participants eligible for the
Early Retirement Incentive
Program. The ERIP gives bonuses to experienced, highest-paid
teachers who agree to retire
early, then replaces them with
younger, lower-paid teachers.
This year, 12 teachers applied
and five were funded for early
retirement.
u Seek a levy override to surpass the $1.05 general fund
levy limitation.
u Use contingency: HPS currently has a $2 million reserve.
u Decrease line-item expenditures everywhere possible.
u Hire less-experienced staff to
replace staff leaving the district.
u Freeze salaries and benefits
where possible.
u Reduce salaries and benefits where possible.
u Strategically use furlough
days: Some states have begun
to require staff to take certain
days off during the year, reducing the number of days in their
contracts and therefore lowering their salary requirements.
u Further defer maintenance
on property: HPS has budgeted
$350,000 this year to perform
maintenance on its eight
school campuses and other
properties.
u Eliminate programs.
u Eliminate staff.
Kautz said he would normally be presenting an overall program plan during this time of
year, but has chosen to delay
that plan until more is known
about funding.
“I think if we tried to get
very specific right now, we
would probably cause more
scare, more panic than we
should,” he said.
Kautz will discuss this with
the board again Monday at the
regular monthly meeting at 7
p.m. in the City Building, 220
N. Hastings Ave.
Action items Monday will
include:
u Respond to Nebraska
Association of School Boards
regarding Commission of Industrial
Relations.
u Approve $6,897 annual dues
for Nebraska Association of School
Boards.
u Re-affirm policy manual.
u Approve “Breakthrough”
Continuous Improvement Model.
u Approve Buildings and Sites
projects list totaling $471,700,
including $133,000 carried over
from the previous year.
u Create full-time special education at Hastings Middle School for
the remainder of the 2010-2011
school year, and appoint Lacritia
Spanel to that position.
u Approve 2011-2012 and tentative 2012-2013 school calendar.
Fast: ‘Convenient’ food often high in calories, fat
Fitness night at the Children’s
Rehab Clinic Tuesday.
Stevens said as a health-conscious person, she still eats fast
food every once in a while.
She’s learned the rules to help
her steer clear of the dangerously unhealthy foods.
“If you can keep the calories
under 300 and the fat under 10
grams, that’s a healthy choice
for fast food,” she said. “That’s
about the best you can do.”
Stevens said there are a few
simple rules people should
keep in mind when going up
to the counter at the local fast
food restaurant.
The first rule is “You decide
what you want to eat.”
“If it’s in a big glossy picture,
you probably don’t want to eat
it,” Stevens said. “Those things
are almost always really high in
calories and fat.”
The most popular item on
fast food restaurant menus are
the french fries, which Stevens
said restaurants push because
they’re cheap and easy to
make.
“It’s a potato, oil and salt.
That’s it,” she said. “They can
sell you those super, super
cheap and they’re not going to
lose money on those. You
don’t see them super sizing the
hamburgers because it costs
them more.”
The next two rules go handin-hand, Stevens said. They are
“Keep it simple” and “Watch
those salads.”
While salads oftentimes
appear to be the healthiest
thing on a fast food menu,
Stevens said the dressings, the
cheese and the fried chicken
give them some of the highest
calorie contents on the menu.
Stevens said she still likes
Wendy’s salads. She leaves off
the cheese and uses her own
fat-free dressing in place of the
dressing the restaurant provides.
The last rule is simple,
“Know what you’re putting in
your mouth.”
“If you take in more calories
than you burn off, you’re going
to gain weight,” she said. “And if
you burn off more calories than
you take in, you’re going to lose
weight. It’s as simple as that.”
The problem is fast food
menu items like french fries
can impact your health.
Stevens said a person would
need to jog for 40 minutes to
burn off the calories in a medium order of french fries.
A 32-ounce Coke, Dr. Pepper,
Pepsi, Mountain Dew or any
other high sugar soda has the
sugar content equivalent to a
dozen Krispie Kream doughnuts.
Stevens said there are
healthy ways to eat fast. She
said it takes a little more time
to research the calorie and fat
counts in foods before going to
the restaurant.
“If you have to eat fast food,
there are some healthier ones
out there,” she said. “You just
have to know where to look.”
Kris Koch, who regularly
attends the Family Fun Fitness
events, said she always enjoys
learning something new and
Tuesday’s discussion was definitely an eye-opener.
“I really enjoyed it tonight,”
she said. “I’m wishing I hadn’t
eaten McDonald’s for dinner
before this.”
Family Fun Fitness programs
are held 6:30 p.m. the third
Tuesday of every month at the
Children’s Rehab Clinic, 835 S.
Burlington Suite 110, or the
Hastings Family YMCA. The
programs are free and open to
the public.
For more information, call
the Children’s Rehab Clinic at
402-463-2077.
Guns: Superintendents skeptical of allowing staff to be armed
Kautz said that when Larry
Thoren, chief of the Hastings
Police Department, addressed
the board about security measures, Thoren said people have a
tendency to go from “apathy
to hysteria.”
“In my opinion, arming our
teachers, our administrators, is
a form of hysteria,” Kautz said.
Kautz said he doubts it
would lower the number of
deaths in schools, but instead
would make those carrying a
gun the first targets.
Considerable training would be
required to prepare school staff
for carrying a gun in school,
and that would take considerable money. Plus, Kautz doesn’t
believe many teachers would
want to carry a gun.
Brent Eigenberg, the school resource officer at Hastings High
School, is the only person allowed to carry a gun in school.
Board president Jessica
Meeske said Tuesday that she
isn’t in favor of school staff car-
rying guns, but had spoken
with Sen. Christensen about
his bill.
“His concern is that there are
some school districts where
you’ve got some very rural
areas, where it could take the
police to get there more than
20-30 minutes, and by that
time, somebody could do a lot
of damage,” Meeske said.
At Adams Central,
Superintendent Shawn Scott
said he hopes the day never
comes when schools will need
to arm staff with guns just to
hold classes.
“Honestly, I don’t think that
there’s a need to have them in
a school right now,” he said.
“In my opinion, this is sort of a
knee-jerk reaction to what happened in Millard.”
The legislative bills in question were introduced after Jan.
5, when Millard South High
School student Robert Butler Jr.
opened fire at his school,
killing Assistant Principal Vicki
Kaspar and seriously injuring
Principal Curtis Case. Scott said
the bills are well-intentioned,
but unwise.
“Too many things can go
wrong to help something go
right,” Scott said.
Adams Central has no school
resource officer, he said, and it
hasn’t needed one. AC does
have an officer at most varsity
sporting events, and for other
situations it calls the Adams
County Sheriff.
“The Adams County Sheriff’s
Department works great with
us, and if we call, they come
right away,” Scott said. “We
appreciate everything they do
for us.”
Arts & Entertainment
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Sheen ready
to work again
LYNN ELBER
JASON DECROW/AP
In this Jan. 13 photo, cast members of the Broadway play “That Championship Season,” (from left) Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Brian
Cox (seated), Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric, pose for a portrait in New York.
The men in black
NOTH, SUTHERLAND,
PATRIC, COX, GAFFIGAN
LOSE EGOS
MARK KENNEDY
N
EW YORK —
With five very different actors teaming up for a play
on Broadway about
friendly rivalries, the discussion
around a restaurant table naturally turns ruthless: Exactly who
in the group is the weakest link?
Is it Chris Noth? Jason Patric?
Kiefer Sutherland? Brian Cox?
Or maybe Jim Gaffigan?
“Talk to us each separately,”
says Noth, laughing.
“I think we have to go on a
daily basis,” jokes Patric.
“I was going to say hourly,”
Sutherland muses.
“I would have said by the
minute,” Cox says — not to be
outdone.
Those actor egos have apparently been dialed way down as
the five prepare for the launch
of a revival of “That
Championship Season,” the
Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning
drama by Jason Miller that started previews Feb. 9.
“You don’t do something like
this, certainly coming from our
backgrounds, with the idea that
your ego is going to be nourished or exercised in some way,”
says Patric. “It’s the opposite: It’s
why you actually do it.”
The plot centers on a group of
former high school basketball
stars who reunite at their coach’s
Pennsylvania home 20 years
after they won the state championship. The festive mood soon
sours as the drinks kick in and
old animosities flare up.
“The play is so balanced,” says
Sutherland. “We’re the weakest
link.”
Over lunch at the venerable
theater-district hangout Sardi’s,
the five gobble up steak tartar,
cheddar burgers, Cobb salads
and beef stew — with a side portion of trash talk. They tease
Patric about his fluffy chest hair
and the Scottish-born Cox about
his homeland’s love of deepfried Mars bars, but it’s clear
these unlikely five have become
friends. There’s even talk of
them taking a field trip to
Scranton, Pa., to soak up the
play’s setting.
“The truth is, we hang out a
lot,” says Patric. “It’s not forced
— we do. It’s tough when you’re
doing eight hours a day, mind
and body, and we still go out
and have drinks afterward.”
Patric, star of “Sleepers” and
“Narc,” has a deep connection to
the piece: His father was the
playwright. “That Championship
Season” was only the second fulllength play Miller wrote and it
became his most successful. He
died in 2001.
The play made its Broadway
debut in 1972 starring Charles
Durning, Richard A. Dysart,
Walter McGinn, Michael
McGuire and Paul Sorvino. A
1982 film version starred Robert
Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Bruce
Dern, Stacy Keach and Sorvino.
Tony Award-winning director
Gregory Mosher, who helmed
the recent Broadway revival of
“A View From the Bridge,”
approached Patric with the idea
of reviving his father’s work. The
actor wasn’t sure he wanted to
be in it, but decided to help.
Mosher and Patric started by
looking for someone to play the
coach, the real anchor of the
story. Cox, a Royal Shakespeare
Company veteran, was at the
top of their list. “He’s amazing,”
says Patric.
Then came Sutherland, a
friend of Patric’s for decades ever
since they starred in “The Lost
Boys” in 1987. After eight years
of “24,” Sutherland was ready
for a change: “I wanted to get
back to something that was
going to be really challenging.”
Noth, Mr. Big in “Sex and the
City” and Detective Logan on
“Law & Order,” was the next target. He and Patric hike and run
together, and Patric was
impressed while catching Noth
star in “Farragut North” at the
Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
The last piece of this puzzle was
“My Boys” comedian Gaffigan,
the only one who had to audition for the role.
Each of the roles the younger
men play — a drunk, a womanizing businessman, a wussy
school teacher and an inept
mayor — are juicy parts that any
of the actors could play, but
Sutherland is happy where the
chips have fallen.
“If you spent the rest of your
life doing one production of this
every three years and played
every single role, it would be
fantastic,” he says. “But in the
balance of this cast, certainly I’ll
speak for myself, I’m exactly
where I should be.”
To prepare for the play, Cox
went to his first basketball game
— Syracuse versus St. John at
Madison Square Garden — and
kept his attention focused on
the coaches. The others are
asked what they did to get ready.
“I got drunk in Scranton,”
Sutherland offers, smiling.
LOS ANGELES — Charlie Sheen is off work
from “Two and a Half Men” but still making
jokes, including about when his top-rated sitcom
might resume production.
The CBS series went on hiatus
last month after Sheen was briefly
hospitalized following a 911 call
in which a neighbor said the
actor was intoxicated and in pain.
In an interview on “The Dan
Patrick Show,” which airs in
syndication on radio and on
Sheen
satellite TV provider DirecTV,
Sheen said he was prepared to get back on the
set but those in charge of the series weren’t.
“They said, ‘You get ready and we’ll get ready.’
And I got ready and went back and nobody’s
there,” he said. “I’m here and I’m ready. They’re
not. Bring it, you know?”
Sheen said he tends to “unravel pretty quickly,” so suggested producers should put him to
work now.
Asked about when shooting would resume, he
joked, “I believe August of 2014 at this pace. I don’t
know, it’s supposed to be like the 28th or the 29th.
That’s what it is! It’s the 29th in a non-leap year.”
A spokesman for Sheen said previously he
hoped to return to work by the end of February.
CBS and producer Warner Bros. Television
declined comment on when production might
resume on the Monday night sitcom that has
filmed only 16 of the season’s planned 24
episodes. The network and studio have expressed
concern for the actor’s well-being.
In the interview with former ESPN anchor
Patrick, Sheen acknowledged that he’s had
“some problems lately” and said staying away
from crack cocaine is good advice unless a person can “manage it socially.”
Asked if he could, Sheen replied, “Yeah, yeah,
but that kinda blew up in my face ... like an
exploding crack pipe.”
He said he is sober now.
Sheen’s publicist, Stan Rosenfield, initially
cited the actor’s history of hernia problems
when Sheen was hospitalized. He later said his
client went into rehab, but he did not say why.
Last week, a judge finalized Sheen’s divorce
from Brooke Mueller Sheen. The judgment followed several tumultuous months for the actor,
including a New York hospitalization that came
after he was taken by police from a room at a
luxury New York hotel that was left in shambles.
Sheen signed a new two-year contract at the
end of last season that makes him one of the
highest-paid actors on prime-time television.
Books
NEIMAN MEMOIR COMING
NEW YORK — As he nears his 90th birthday,
artist and illustrator LeRoy Neiman is ready to
put his story into words.
Neiman is known for his Salvador Dali mustache and his colorful paintings of Muhammad
Ali, Mickey Mantle and many other athletes.
He has spent the past decade working on a
memoir tentatively titled “Diary of a Passionate
Observer.” His agent, Steve Ross of the Abrams
Artists Agency, said Tuesday that Lyons Press will
release the book next year.
Neiman turns 90 in June. His friends and
acquaintances have included not only sports
stars, but Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and
Andy Warhol.
When 9 is the number
C.
S. Lewis wrote,
“Even in literature and art, no
man who bothers about originality will ever be original:
whereas if you simply try to tell
the truth
(without caring twopence
how often it
has been told
before), you
will, nine
times out of
10, become
original withPhillip
out ever having
Alder
noticed it.”
The winning
play in today’s deal is not original, and will not work nearly as
often as nine times out of 10.
But when you have nothing
else to guide you, following the
advice of the mathematicians
will hold you in good stead.
How should South try to
make three no-trump after
West leads the spade queen?
With nine points and no
five-card suit, North raised to
two no-trump to invite game.
South, with 16 points and a
five-card suit, had no hesitation in bidding game. (If you
use two no-trump as a transfer
response, you must invite game
by first responding two clubs,
then rebidding two no-trump,
which would not promise a
four-card major. There is one
other wrinkle here. If the bidding starts one no-trump - two
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clubs - two hearts, the responder rebids two spades with four
spades and game-invitational
values. To rebid two no-trump
denies a four-card major.)
South has six top tricks: two
spades, two hearts and two
clubs. Since it is unlikely that
declarer can establish a diamond trick, he should play for
five club winners. The odds
tables say that a 2-2 split is
slightly more likely than a successful second-round finesse
through West (a priori, it is
31.03 percent to 28.45 percent), so South should cash his
club king, then play a club to
dummy’s ace. Success!
Phillip Alder is a columnist for
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
NewsMakers
LADY GAGA GETS THE HBO
CONCERT TREATMENT
NEW YORK — Lady Gaga is bringing
her spectacle to HBO.
The network said Tuesday that it is taping two Lady Gaga shows in New York’s
Madison Square Garden later this month
for a concert special. The document of
Gaga’s “Monster Ball” tour will be televised on May 7, two weeks before the
singer is releasing a new disc.
The woman who choreographed most
of Lady Gaga’s videos, Lauriann Gibson,
will direct the concert special.
HBO says that Lady Gaga, who was carried into the Grammys Sunday in a giant
egg, will put on some brand new moves
for the special. Gaga’s latest album “The
Fame Monster” won three Grammys.
LOHAN ON LETTERMAN
NEW YORK — CBS says Lindsay Lohan
will present the Top Ten List on Thursday’s
“Late Show with David Letterman.”
The troubled actress will present the
Top Ten List live via satellite from Los
Angeles, CBS announced Tuesday. It
marks her fifth appearance on the New
York-based show, which she last visited in
May 2007.
Lohan’s problems have regularly put
her in the news, most recently thanks to
felony charges for the alleged theft of a
$2,500 necklace from a jewelry store.
Meanwhile, her travails have been a
source of humor for Letterman. Last week
he read the Top Ten Signs that “Lohan is
out of control.” They included: “Friends
worry that her shoplifting is getting in
the way of her drinking.”
NEIL BEGINS JAIL SENTENCE
LAS VEGAS — Motley Crue singer
Vince Neil has begun serving a 15-day jail
sentence for his drunken driving conviction in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police said the 50-year-old
rocker arrived at the Clark County
Detention Center about 10:15 a.m.
Tuesday. He was being housed separately
from other inmates.
Neil pleaded guilty in January to driving drunk last summer near the Las Vegas
Strip. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail
and 15 days on house arrest under a plea
deal that spared him a trial. He was also
fined $585.
Neil could have faced up to six months
in jail if convicted.
TAYLOR STILL HOSPITALIZED
LOS ANGELES — Heart trouble is
keeping Elizabeth Taylor hospitalized in
Los Angeles, but her publicist says the 78year-old actress is OK and has been visiting with family and friends.
Taylor spokeswoman Sally Morrison
said in a statement Tuesday that the twotime Oscar winner is comfortable at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and “there
has been steady improvement in her condition” since she was admitted last week.
Taylor is being treated for symptoms of
congestive heart failure, a condition she
disclosed in November 2004.
“Her medical team is gratified by her
progress to date, and it is hoped and
expected that this will continue over the
next few days. For now, she will remain
under their care in the hospital for continued monitoring,” Morrison said.
“Friends and fans around the world
should be reassured that Elizabeth Taylor
is in good hands and receiving the best
possible care from her skilled and dedicated doctors and nurses.”
Morrison described Taylor’s condition
as stable but offered no other details.
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Sports
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
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STATE WRESTLING PREVIEW
Injury doesn’t stop Hastings High’s Truong
TIGER SENIOR HAS HIGH
HOPES FOR STATE
VINCE KUPPIG
[email protected]
AMY ROH/Tribune
Hastings High’s Thien Truong wrestles McCook’s Shane Buck earlier this season.
Thien Truong thought his senior
season was finished.
It was the Hastings High
wrestler’s first match of the season
and his arm went numb.
“I just couldn’t even move it,”
Truong recalls. “I thought that was
it then. I thought it was over. It
was motionless, so I thought it was
done.”
But, after missing more than a
month of wrestling while regaining
feeling in his arm and eventually
getting his strength back from the
nerve-related injury, Truong now
feels 100 percent.
It’s just in time for the Class A
state tournament, which begins
Thursday at the
Qwest Center in
Omaha with firstround action at
9:30 a.m.
“I think this is
the best I’ve wrestled all year, with
the injuries and stuff,” Truong says.
“I just feel good. This is probably
the best time for me right now.”
Truong enters state as a district
runner-up after injury defaulting in
Saturday’s district championship
against top-ranked Billy Leetch of
Grand Island, not wrestling the
title match because of precautionary reasons.
While Truong has been
unranked all season, the Tigers’ district featured three of the top four
wrestlers at 152 pounds according
to the Nebraska Scholastic
Wrestling Coaches Association rat-
Class
A
On the Web
See hastingstribune.com throughout
the tourney for complete coverage,
including updated stories and results.
ings. Truong defeated third-ranked
Isaac Almquist of Kearney in the
semifinals of districts.
“It’s a great story in terms of perseverance and staying committed
to something you truly enjoy,”
HHS coach Brian Laux says. “From
where he started to where he’s at
now, I couldn’t be any prouder.”
Truong enters state with an 11-1
record, having won 11 straight
matches — an injury default does
not count against one’s record. The
lone loss came in his season-opening
match when he ended up getting
pinned after his arm went numb.
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Defensive change lifts Superior
ERIK BUDERUS
[email protected]
F
AIRFIELD — The Blue
Hill girls basketball team
tried to take Superior out
of its comfort level Tuesday
night during the semifinals
of the Class C-2, Subdistrict 4 tournament at Sandy Creek.
The Bobcats tried forcing the
pace to speed things up and the
team knocked down a handful of
big 3-pointers to pull the Wildcats
out of their usual zone defense and
into a man-to-man.
The defensive
switch, however,
worked more in
favor of the
Sutton cruises
Wildcats.
Superior used an past Cardinals.
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8-0 run to close
the first half after
switching out of its zone defense
and another 8-2 run to open the
third quarter to pull away from the
Bobcats and post a 52-37 victory.
The Bobcats managed just two
points in nearly a seven-minute
span against Superior’s man-to-man
defense while the Wildcats turned a
21-18 lead into a 37-20 advantage
with 4:55 left in the third quarter.
“We can play a man defense. We
like to play zone because it keeps
us a little more fresh and we can
press when we play our zone, so
we like the zone,” Superior coach
Nick Mumm said. “Blue Hill,
they’re a good team, they’ve got
some good guards, they’re well
coached, and physical inside. We
just didn’t play our best game.”
Blue Hill coach Tim Streff felt his
team was executing offensively —
even when the Wildcats went to
their man defense. The shots just
didn’t fall.
“I thought we executed offensively and got shots, we just didn’t
knock them down. Kaitlin (Kumke)
did a great job in the second quarter of bringing us back into the
game and making them have to
work. It was huge,” Streff said. “I
thought we were able to run on
many occasions, we just didn’t finish some shots. I thought we got
out in transition and had shots
there, we just missed a few.”
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Inside
Blue Hill’s Sara Alber (43) and Maci Coffey battle for a rebound with Superior’s Haley Gebers
(13) and Sarah Wood (right) during their Class C-2, Subdistrict 4 tournament semifinal game
Tuesday in Fairfield.
GI Central Catholic too much for Adams Central
VINCE KUPPIG
[email protected]
The Adams Central girls basketball team fell into a 15-2
hole and never could fully
recover, falling to Grand Island
Central Catholic 52-29 in the
semifinals of the Class C-1,
Subdistrict 6 tournament
Tuesday night at Hastings High.
Adams Central battled back
to get within four points late in
the first half, but the Crusaders
outscored Adams Central 25-8
in the second half.
“We just didn’t keep moving,
and they took away some of the
back cuts,” AC coach Tim
Marker said of the second half.
“We just didn’t create enough
on the offensive end to stay
with them.”
With the loss, Adams Central
ended the season 7-14.
The Class C-1 No. 9 Crusaders
improved to 15-8 and will play
St. Cecilia (17-4) in the subdistrict championship game
Thursday night at 7:30 at HHS.
Earlier this month, GICC
knocked off St. Cecilia 45-37.
“We should have confidence
playing them knowing that
we’ve played once and beat
them,” GICC coach Andy
Anspauch said of another meeting with the Hawkettes. “I don’t
know that we’re going to go in
thinking that just because beat
them once that it’s automatic.
But I don’t think we’ll be
scared. I don’t have anybody on
my team who is going to be
scared to play them. We’d play
them right now if they would
let us.”
On Tuesday night, Adams
Central didn’t get off to the
start it wanted — trailing 15-2
six minutes into the game.
But the Patriots got within 10
points after one quarter and
then got as close as 25-21 with
a minute left in the first half
following five straight points.
“These girls have done a great
job of doing that over the
course of the year,” Marker said.
“We’ve been down by that margin many times and have talked
about how that early lead can
be deceptive. We got back within 10 and they realized we were
back in the game and had a
chance.
“They’ve battled back from
that before. It’s just really difficult against a team like this.”
Adams Central had a chance
to get closer in the third quarter, as the Crusaders went more
than five minutes without a
point. But the Patriots were
held scoreless even longer, as
the score was stuck at 30-23.
Please see AC/page B4
AMY ROH/Tribune
St. Cecilia’s Libby Kissinger tries to steal
the ball from Central City’s Paige Benner
during their C1-6 Subdistrict semifinal game
Tuesday at Hastings High.
STC cruises past
Bison, gets rematch
VINCE KUPPIG
[email protected]
The St. Cecilia girls basketball team took care
of business Tuesday night.
Now, the Hawkettes get their rematch
against Grand Island Central Catholic.
Class C-1 No. 5 St. Cecilia used runs of 13-0
and 18-0 in the first half to jump out to a 5012 halftime lead and cruise to an 83-32 win
over Central City in the semifinals of the Class
C-1, Subdistrict 6 tournament Tuesday evening
at Hastings High.
Please see STC/page B3
Unbeaten Sandy
Creek stunned
COUGARS HAVE WILD-CARD
BERTH LOCKED UP
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
[email protected]
WILBER — Class C-1 No. 2 Sandy Creek
was dealt a major upset Tuesday night during
the semifinals of the C1-2 subdistrict tournament at Wilber-Clatonia as the Cougars fell to
Fairbury 53-44. It was the first loss of the season for the Cougars (21-1).
The Jeffs held a slim 22-20 lead at halftime
and held a two-point advantage entering the
fourth quarter when the team was able to pull
away down the stretch.
Please see SC/page B3
AMY ROH/
Tribune
Grand Island
Central
Catholic’s
Liz
McGowan
snatches up
a loose ball
before
Adams
Central’s
Emily
Bonifas during their
Class C-1,
Subdistrict 6
semifinal
game
Tuesday at
Hastings
High.
Scoreboard
B2
Basketball
NBA Standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
W L Pct
GB
Boston
39 14 .736
—
New York
27 26 .509
12
Philadelphia
26 29 .473
14
New Jersey
17 39 .304 23 1/2
Toronto
15 40 .273
25
Southeast Division
W L Pct
GB
Miami
40 15 .727
—
Atlanta
34 20 .630 5 1/2
Orlando
35 21 .625 5 1/2
Charlotte
24 32 .429 16 1/2
Washington
15 38 .283
24
Central Division
W L Pct
GB
Chicago
37 16 .698
—
Indiana
24 29 .453
13
Milwaukee
21 33 .389 16 1/2
Detroit
20 36 .357 18 1/2
Cleveland
9 46 .164
29
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Southwest Division
W L Pct
GB
San Antonio
46 9 .836
—
Dallas
38 16 .704 7 1/2
New Orleans
33 24 .579
14
Memphis
31 26 .544
16
Houston
26 30 .464 20 1/2
Northwest Division
W L Pct
GB
Oklahoma City
35 19 .648
—
Portland
31 24 .564 4 1/2
Denver
31 25 .554
5
Utah
31 25 .554
5
Minnesota
13 42 .236 22 1/2
Pacific Division
W L Pct
GB
L.A. Lakers
38 18 .679
—
Phoenix
27 26 .509 9 1/2
Golden State
25 29 .463
12
L.A. Clippers
20 35 .364 17 1/2
Sacramento
13 39 .250
23
Tuesday’s Games
Miami 110, Indiana 103
Chicago 106, Charlotte 94
Memphis 102, Philadelphia 91
Oklahoma City 126, Sacramento 96
Phoenix 102, Utah 101
Golden State 102, New Orleans 89
Wednesday’s Games
Washington at Orlando, 6 p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
Indiana St. at S. Illinois, 7:05 p.m.
Illinois St. at Creighton, 7:05 p.m.
Miami at Toronto, 6 p.m.
New Jersey at Boston, 6:30 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.
Indiana at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.
Atlanta at New York, 6:30 p.m.
L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 7 p.m.
Sacramento at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.
Philadelphia at Houston, 7:30 p.m.
Golden State at Utah, 8 p.m.
Denver at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
New Orleans at Portland, 9 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
San Antonio at Chicago, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.
Prep Boys Results
Bishop Neumann 66, Ashland-Greenwood 58
Boys Town 73, Plattsmouth 44
Elkhorn Mount Michael 80, Platteview 60
Fremont 52, Omaha Burke 34
Gretna 62, Omaha Skutt Catholic 40
Lincoln Pius X 63, Hastings 34
Lincoln Southwest 58, Omaha Northwest 45
Omaha Bryan 63, Papillion-LaVista South 46
Omaha Christian Academy 44, Concordia 39
Omaha Gross Catholic 65, Nebraska City 53
Ralston 63, Bennington 47
South Sioux City 61, Sioux City North, Iowa 55
Wahoo 69, North Bend Central 49
Men’s Big 12 Standings
Conference
All Games
W L PCT
W L PCT
Texas
10 0 1.000
22 3 .880
Kansas
9 2 .818
24 2 .923
Texas A&M
6 4 .600
19 5 .792
Missouri
6 5 .545
20 6 .769
Baylor
6 5 .545
17 8 .680
Kansas St.
5 6 .455
17 9 .654
Colorado
5 6 .455
16 10 .615
Nebraska
4 6 .400
16 8 .667
Oklahoma St. 4 6 .400
16 8 .667
Oklahoma
4 6 .400
12 12 .500
Texas Tech
3 8 .273
11 15 .423
Iowa St.
1 9 .100
14 11 .560
Monday’s Games
Kansas St. 84, Kansas 68
Tuesday’s Games
Missouri 92, Texas Tech 84
Baylor 64, Wayland Baptist 50
Wednesday’s Games
Iowa St. at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
Nebraska at Oklahoma, 8 p.m.
Oklahoma St. at Texas, 8 p.m.
Men’s MVC Standings
Conference
All Games
W L PCT
W L PCT
Wichita St.
13 3 .813
22 5 .815
Missouri St. 13 3 .813
21 6 .778
N. Iowa
10 6 .625
19 9 .679
Indiana St.
9 6 .600
14 12 .538
Creighton
8 7 .533
16 11 .593
Evansville
8 8 .500
14 12 .538
Drake
6 10 .375
11 16 .407
S. Illinois
5 10 .333
11 15 .423
Illinois St
3 12 .200
11 15 .423
Bradley
3 13 .188
9 18 .333
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
N. Iowa 80, Bradley 70
Missouri St. 60, Drake 51
Wichita St. 80, Evansville 74
Prep Girls Results
Gretna 53, Omaha Skutt Catholic 39
Lincoln North Star 51, Lincoln High 27
Lincoln Pius X 48, Lincoln East 36
Lincoln Southeast 69, Lincoln Northeast 60
Lincoln Southwest 69, Omaha Northwest 19
Maryville, Mo. 70, Nebraska City 21
Omaha Burke 52, Fremont 51
Omaha Central 80, Omaha South 28
Omaha Duchesne Academy 38, Omaha Gross
Catholic 33
Papillion-LaVista South 70, Omaha Bryan 26
C1-1 Subdistrict Tournament
Ashland-Greenwood 55, Syracuse 30
Falls City 50, Auburn 44, OT
Fairbury 53, Sandy Creek 44
Milford 50, Lincoln Lutheran 37
Concordia 69, Omaha Roncalli 15
Fort Calhoun 54, Platteview 41
Bishop Neumann 68, Arlington 24
Wahoo 77, Douglas County West 18
Columbus Scotus 37, Columbus Lakeview 15
Raymond Central 31, Centennial 26
Grand Island Central Catholic 52, Adams Central
29
Hastings St. Cecilia 83, Central City 32
Tekamah-Herman 41, Logan View 31
Wayne 52, Wisner-Pilger 33
Boone Central 58, Pierce 45
Norfolk Catholic 61, Battle Creek 43
Centura 57, Kearney Catholic 51
Minden 79, Gibbon 36
O'Neill 54, Ord 38
Valentine 65, Ainsworth 30
Hershey 53, Broken Bow 24
Southern Valley 45, Cozad 42
Chadron 43, Kimball 29
Gordon/Rushville 45, Mitchell 30
Freeman 43, Johnson-Brock 26
Johnson County Central 56, Nebraska City
Lourdes 48
Elmwood-Murdock 43, Weeping Water 30
Lincoln Christian 48, Palmyra 43
Friend 44, Southern 27
Thayer Central 54, Tri County 31
Superior 52, Blue Hill 37
Sutton 71, Doniphan-Trumbull 19
Omaha Brownell-Talbot 44, Archbishop Bergan 32
Yutan 49, Louisville 27
Aquinas 56, East Butler 32
Shelby 49, Twin River 39
Homer 74, Ponca 36
North Bend Central 61, Winnebago 28
Hartington Cedar Catholic 48, Laurel-Concord 32
Lutheran High Northeast 66, Wakefield 31
Crofton 67, Neligh-Oakdale 27
West Holt 55, Elgin/Pope John 47
Ravenna 70, Burwell 20
Shelton 51, Arapahoe 41
North Platte St. Patrick's 50, Perkins County 42
Southwest 65, Dundy County-Stratton 63
Hemingford 45, Bridgeport 35
Morrill 56, Bayard 34
D1-1 Subdistrict Tournament
Deshler 56, Bruning-Davenport/Shickley 45
Diller-Odell 59, Meridian 50
Exeter/Milligan 56, Harvard 18
Osceola 37, High Plains Community 23
Howells 62, Scribner-Snyder 21
West Point Central Catholic 66, Humphrey 43
Bancroft-Rosalie 61, Omaha Nation 44
Pender 79, Walthill 25
Emerson-Hubbard 37, Winside 27
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Randolph 54, Hartington 33
Bloomfield 58, Osmond 54
Newman Grove 38, Humphrey St. Francis 37
Cedar Valley 48, Nebraska Christian 21
Palmer 40, Loup City 39
CWC 52, Clearwater/Orchard 34
West Boyd 39, North Central 28
Alma 56, Axtell 50
Kenesaw 43, Franklin 39
Amherst 50, Overton 27
Elm Creek 44, Elwood 39
Sandhills/Thedford 56, Cambridge 43
Sutherland 46, Maxwell 33
Banner County 51, Garden County 31
Crawford 46, Creek Valley 19
Lawrence-Nelson 26, Red Cloud 19
Sterling 41, Falls City Sacred Heart 39, OT
Dorchester 44, Nebraska Lutheran 41
Mead 42, Parkview Christian 12
Clarkson 49, Dodge 35
Lindsay Holy Family 40, St. Edward 25
Giltner 56, Hampton 44
Spalding/Spalding Academy 46, Heartland
Lutheran 34
Elkhorn Valley 44, Newcastle 34
Wynot 72, Santee 33
Ewing 50, Lynch 41
St. Mary's 59, Stuart 46
Loomis 59, Pleasanton 36
Wilcox-Hildreth 49, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller 48
Ansley 59, Arcadia 39
North Loup Scotia 49, Sargent 40
Brady 60, Medicine Valley 25
Eustis-Farnam 39, Anselmo-Merna 23
Hitchcock County 45, Hayes Center 39
Wauneta-Palisade 52, Wallace 41
Cody-Kilgore 42, Hyannis 17
Mullen 61, South Platte 23
Hay Springs 39, Leyton 22
Sioux County 46, Potter-Dix 40
Coaches pick OU to win Big 12 baseball title
ERIC OLSON
OMAHA — Texas ran away with
the Big 12 regular-season title by
eight games last season, came within a win of going to the College
World Series and has a team long
on pitching and defense.
Yet it’s Oklahoma that wears the
favorite’s label this season, according to a vote of the coaches.
The Sooners are loaded with
seven returning everyday players, a
lineup that features plenty of pop
and an experienced pitching staff.
The conference runners-up won 50
games last season, including one in
Omaha at the CWS.
Oklahoma coach Sunny
Golloway said the Sooners better be
ready for everyone’s best shot. He
said it seems his program is getting
more attention than it did even in
1995, when the Sooners were
defending national champions.
“There are a lot of distractions,”
he said. “We need to get on the
field and not forget what it’s all
about.”
Golloway, whose team is ranked
no lower than No. 6 in national
polls, benefited from a number of
players turning down pro offers to
return to school. Among them is
Garrett Buechele, who led the
Sooners with a .359 average, 17
homers and 65 RBIs. He committed
only five errors at third base.
First baseman Cameron Seitzer,
like Buechele the son of a former
major-leaguer, is among four other
OU players to hit 10 or more
homers. The Sooners also have
proven pitching in Michael Rocha
(8-2), Bobby Shore (10-5), Jack
Mayfield (5-0) and closer Ryan Duke
(3-2, 12 saves).
Texas is picked second in the
league and, like Oklahoma, a consensus Top 10 team nationally.
Longhorns coach Augie Garrido
will take runs any way he can get
them after losing three players who
accounted for 34 of the team’s 81
homers.
Big 12 pitcher of the year Cole
Green (11-2) and Taylor Jungmann
(8-3) head the staff. Garrido’s biggest
concern is finding a replacement for
first-team All-America reliever
Chance Ruffin (1.11 ERA in 64
innings).
Garrido said he plans to run four
pitchers in and out from the seventh
to ninth innings.
“That’s how we’re approaching it
unless someone emerges like a
Ruffin,” Garrido said. “We don’t
have that exceptional attitude in
one of the relievers and exceptional
pitching skills in any one of our
relievers.”
Baylor returns solid experience
throughout the lineup. One of the
keys will be the development of Joey
Hainsfurther at catcher, where he
hasn’t played since high school.
Texas A&M, despite losing two of
its top three hitters, needs to
improve offensively to take pressure
off what figures to be a strong group
of pitchers. The Aggies were last in
the Big 12 in scoring.
Kansas State returns Big 12 player
of the year Nick Martini and five
other everyday players. But the
Wildcats have a big hole to fill at
shortstop, and they need to find
quality depth among the pitchers.
Oklahoma State brings back allconference second baseman Davis
Duren and four other everyday players who will be complemented by a
strong recruiting class. The Cowboys
hope Randy McCurry, who set the
school saves record in 2009, can
come back after missing last season
after having Tommy John surgery.
Texas Tech should have plenty of
offense, but pitching is a major
question after second-round draft
pick Chad Bettis (Colorado) and
fourth-rounder Bobby Doran
(Houston) signed pro contracts.
Nebraska, entering its last Big 12
season before heading to the Big
Ten, hopes to make the conference
tournament for the first time in
three years. The Cornhuskers’ pitching staff will get a big boost if freshman Logan Ehlers is activated.
The NCAA is looking into
whether rules covering contract
negotiations were violated after
Toronto drafted him in the eighth
round last year. Anderson pegs
Ehlers as a weekend starter when,
and if, he’s cleared.
Kansas brings back weekend
starters in T.J. Waiz, who has 20
career wins, and Tanner Poppe. Left
fielder Jimmy Waters tied for the Big
12 lead with 34 RBIs in conference
games.
Missouri coach Tim Jamieson said
he feels good about his team even
though newcomers will fill roles all
over the field.
“If we’re the 10th-best team in the
league,” he said, “it’s a pretty damn
good league.”
The coaches generally favor the
new regulations governing bats,
whose sweet spots have shrunk from
about 22 inches to about 5. The bats
are designed to mimic their wooden
counterparts, with reduced exit
speeds giving players more time to
react and protect themselves.
Coaches predict the toned-down
bats will lead to shorter games, with
fewer home runs and less scoring.
“I literally think we have our
game back,” Baylor coach Steve
Smith said. “A lot of players of this
generation don’t even know how to
play the game. The bat has been so
lively, you can make numerous mistakes running the bases and defensively and it can get covered up in a
hurry.
“The last 10-15 years, you sat in
the dugout hoping your pitcher
could miss the bat and you just
waited until you hit one up in the
wind and it went out.”
Tribland roundups
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Lawrence-Nelson 26,
Red Cloud 19
FAIRBURY — Lawrence-Nelson
defeated Red Cloud 26-19 in the D2-1
subdistrict semifinals.
Lawrence-Nelson was led by Kelsey
Biltoft with 13 points. Teammate Kristin
Drudik added five points while Natasha
Wehrman finished with four points.
Red Cloud was led by Taylor Neiman
with eight points. Katie McCleary
chipped in with four points.
The Warriors end the season 14-9 overall while the Raiders (21-1) advanced to
the subdistrict finals Thursday against
Sterling.
Red Cloud (14-9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 0 8 7 — 19
Lawrence-Nelson (21-1) . . . . . . . .2 10 8 6 — 26
Lawrence-Nelson (26)
Kelsey Biltoft 13, Kristin Drudik 5, Natasha Wehrman 4,
Kasandra Fanning 2, Marissa Kovanda 2
Red Cloud (19)
Taylor Neiman 8, Katie McCleary 4, Brittany Lewis 2, Hunter
Bailey 2, Taylor Goos 2, McKayla Kucera 1
Minden 79,
Gibbon 36
GRAND ISLAND — Minden defeated
Gibbon 79-36 in the C1-9 subdistrict
semifinals.
Jamie Kissinger led Minden with 26
points. Teammate Brooke Kissinger
added 19 points while Hallie Bauer finished with 15 points.
The win lifts Minden into the subdistrict finals Thursday against Centura.
Gibbon (10-10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 7 10 15 — 36
Minden (20-1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 19 16 21 — 79
Minden (79)
Jamie Kissinger 26, Brooke Kissinger 19, Hallie Bauer 15,
Mackenzie Miller 5, Bailey Petersen 5, Bailie Muller 4, Allison
Hollinger 3, Emily Nelson 2
Gibbon (36)
No other information available.
Giltner 56,
Hampton 44
CENTRAL CITY — Giltner defeated
Hampton 56-44 in the D2-4 subdistrict
semifinals.
The Hornets were led by Abbey
Preissler with 15 points. Teammates
Jordan Bieck and Shayne Vaught added
10 points each. Darby Hinrichs and Dani
Most finished with nine points each.
Giltner will play Spalding/Spalding
Academy in the subdistrict championship Thursday.
Hampton (5-15) . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 7 12 14 — 44
Giltner (6-14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 15 15 11 — 56
Giltner (56)
Abbey Preissler 15, Jordan Bieck 10, Shayne Vaught 10, Darby
Hinrichs 9, Dani Most 9, Randi Janzen 2, Kady Lockmon 1
Hampton (44)
T. Mason 10, K. Dahlke 7, D. Nolla 6, T. Vanhousen 5, K.Wochner
5, H. Baumsberger 5, H. Carlson 4, A. Nissen 2
Thayer Central 54,
Tri County 31
GENEVA — Thayer Central defeated
Tri County 54-31 in the semifinals of the
C2-3 subdistrict tournament.
Thayer Central was led by Cody Long
with 15 points. Michaela Marsh added
14 points while Bridgette Baden finished
with 11 points. Kinsey Tietjen chipped in
with eight points.
The Titans will play Friend Thursday in
the subdistrict finals.
Tri County (8-14) . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 6 9 12 — 31
Thayer Central (11-10) . . . . . . .15 11 12 16 — 54
Thayer Central (54)
Cody Long 15, Michaela Marsh 14, Bridgette Baden 11, Kinsey
Tietjen 8, Claire Timmerman 5, Claire Johnson 1
Tri County (31)
Knust 6, Holtmeier 5, Hicks 4, Knapp 4, Staroscik 4, Weise 2,
Meints 2, Bock 2
Kenesaw 43,
Franklin 39
MINDEN — Kenesaw defeated
Franklin 43-39 in the semifinals of the
D1-9 subdistrict tournament.
Kenesaw was led by Rebekah Uden
with 15 points. McKaleigh Nilson finished with nine points while Cheyenne
Bittfield added seven points.
The Flyers were led by Taylor Dreher
with 14 points. Teammate Kersha Kahrs
finished with 13 points.
The win lifts Kenesaw into the subdistrict finals Thursday against Alma.
Franklin ends its season 6-16 overall.
final quarter.
Michaela Hinrichs led the Falcons with
18 points while Olivia Adam had 15
points and Morgan Farley finished with
10 points.
The win lifts Wilcox-Hildreth (12-10)
into the district finals Thursday against
Loomis, a team the Falcons beat in the
Fort Kearny Conference tournament earlier this season.
Wilcox-Hildreth (12-10) . . . . . .13 10 13 13 — 49
SEM (12-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 4 10 21 — 48
Wilcox-Hildreth (49)
Michaela Hinrichs 18, Olivia Adam 15, Morgan Farley 10, Karen
Paitz 4, Jessica Harms 2.
Deshler 56,
Bruning-Davenport/Shickley 45
DeWITT — Deshler defeated BruningDavenport/Deshler 56-45 in the semifinals of the D1-1 subdistrict tournament
Tuesday.
BDS was led by Shelby Garland’s 18
points and Erika Schroeder who had 10
points in the loss.
BDS ends its season 16-8 overall while
Deshler (12-8) advances to the subdistrict final Thursday against Diller-Odell.
Deshler individual scoring information
was not available.
BDS (16-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 13 16 6 — 45
Deshler (12-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 10 15 18 — 56
BDS (45)
Shelby Garland 18, Kaitlyn Krupicka 3, Cynthia Mick 1, Caressa
Reinsch 8, Erika Schroeder 10, Kalli Schroeder 5
Deshler (56)
No more information available.
Exeter-Milligan 56,
Harvard 18,
Wilcox-Hildreth 49,
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller 48
UTICA — Exeter-Milligan advanced to
the finals of the Class D-1, subdistrict 2
tournament with a 56-18 win over
Harvard Tuesday at Centennial High
School.
Heather Pribyl led the Timberwolves
with 20 points and nine rebounds.
Megan Zwickl finished with 12 points.
Kristan Pelotte led Harvard with eight
points.
Exeter-Milligan (22-1) will play Osceola
in the subdistrict final Thursday while
Harvard ends its season 8-13 overall.
ELM CREEK — Wilcox-Hildreth edged
Sumner-Eddyville-Miller 49-48 in the
semifinals of the Class D-2, subdistrict 7
tournament Tuesday.
The Falcons had to hold off a late SEM
rally as they were outscored 21-13 in the
Exeter-Milligan (22-1) . . . . . . . .14 7 21 14 — 56
Harvard (8-13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 10 2 4 — 18
Exeter-Milligan (56)
Heather Pribyl 20, Megan Zwickl 12, Kelsey Moore 5, Taylor
Slezak 4, Jennifer Pribyl 4, Claire White 4, Jackie Luzum 3, Mariah
Bigelow 2, Logan Zeleny 2
Harvard (18)
Kristan Pelotte 8, Alison Engle 6, Michelle Hachtel 4
Franklin (6-16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 13 6 12 — 39
Kenesaw (9-10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 13 16 9 — 43
Kenesaw (43)
Rebekah Uden 15, Mckaleigh Nilson 9, Cheyenne Bittfield 7,
Taylor Bittfield 6, Kelli Mack 4, Megan Blackford 2
Franklin (39)
Taylor Dreher 14, Kersha Kahrs 13, Libby Johnson 5, Kelsey
Randall 5, Bailey McKay 2
Smith Center 62,
Rock Hills 31
SMITH CENTER, Kan. — Smith Center
defeated Rock Hills 62-31 Tuesday.
The Lady Red were led by Tangie
Hileman with 16 points. Whitney St.
Claire added 15 points while McKenzie
Benoit finished with 12 points.
Bethany Jeffery led the Grizzlies with
15 points. Teammates Regan Jeffery,
Blair McMillan and Darica Bohnert finished with four points each.
Rock Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 9 7 9 — 31
Smith Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 14 19 17 — 62
Smith Center (62)
Tangie Hileman 16, Whitney St. Claire 15, McKenzie Benoit 12,
Sydney Benoit 5, Hallie McCall 5, Sara Timmons 4, Lucy
VanderGiensen 4, Carley Ohmstede 1
Rock Hills (31)
Bethany Jeffery 15, Regan Jeffery 4, Darica Bohnert 4, Blair
McMillan 4, Haleigh Shadduck 2, Ashley Lawrence 2
BOYS BASKETBALL
Lincoln Pius 63,
Hastings 34
LINCOLN — The Hastings High boys
basketball team fell to Lincoln Pius 63-34
Tuesday.
Hastings was led by Kayd Welke with
10 points. Teammate Patrick Opperman
finished with nine points while Tyler
Ripperger added seven points.
Hastings (4-15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 6 10 4 — 34
Lincoln Pius (15-4) . . . . . . . . . .13 24 15 11 — 63
Lincoln Pius (63)
Erich Nickman 18, Alex Heines 16, Jared Kolbush 9, Matt
Powell 6, Trenton Royse 4, Alex Schleppenbach 3, Joey Werning 3,
Nate Schlautman 2, Malcom Lancaster 2
Hastings (34)
Kayd Welke 10, Patrick Opperman 9, Tyler Ripperger 7, Brady
Menke 4, Ty Anderson 2, Trenton Halbmaier 2
Smith Center 45,
Rock Hills 39
SMITH CENTER, Kan. — Smith Center
defeated Rock Hills 45-39 Tuesday.
Smith Center was led by Kale Terrill
with 16 points. Payton Buckmaster finished with seven points while Nathan
Cox and Grady Brooks finished with six
points each.
Rock Hills was led by Joe Zadina with
15 points. Teammate Travis Boyles finished with 13 points.
Rock Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 12 10 6 — 39
Smith Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 18 6 11 — 45
Smith Center (45)
Kale Terrill 16, Payton Buckmaster 7, Nathan Cox 6, Grady
Brooks 6, Alex Hobelmann 5, Trevor Overmiller 5
Rock Hills (39)
Joe Zadina 15, Travis Boyles 13, Chance Colson 2, Jarrett
Christie 2, Alex Smith 2, Cole Huncovsky 2, Wyatt Flinn 2, Zach
Duffy 1
Tribland
THURSDAY
Prep girls basketball: St. Cecilia vs. GICC at C1-6 subdistrict at HHS ...................7:30 p.m.
Prep wrestling: State tournament at Qwest Center in Omaha ...............................9:30 a.m.
Area Schedules
Prep boys basketball
Exeter-Milligan vs. Osceola at D1-2 subDoniphan-Trumbull at Loup City
district at Centennial
Kenesaw vs. Alma at D1-9 subdistrict at
Prep girls basketball
Minden
Minden vs. Centura at C1-9 subdistrict
Lawrence-Nelson vs. Sterling at D2-1
at Grand Island Northwest
subdistrict at Fairbury
Thayer Central vs. Friend at C2-3 subGiltner vs. Spalding/Spalding Academy
district at Fillmore Central
at D2-4 subdistrict at Central City
Sutton vs. Superior at C2-4 subdistrict
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district at Elm Creek
Deshler vs. Diller-Odell at D1-1 subdistrict at Tri County
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9:30 a.m.
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12:30 p.m.
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3:30 p.m.
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6 p.m.
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8 p.m.
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10 p.m.
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8 p.m.
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NHL HOCKEY
7 p.m.
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Wednesday’s radio
8 p.m.
KHAS 1230, KLIQ 94.5 — Nebraska at
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Thursday’s television
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9 a.m.
ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series,
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11 a.m.
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8 p.m.
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7 p.m.
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9:30 p.m.
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PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL
7 p.m.
KLIQ 94.5, KRFS 103.9 — Sutton vs.
Superior, C2-4 subdistrict championship at
Sandy Creek
7 p.m.
KKPR 98.9 — Minden vs. Centura, C1-9
subdistrict championship at Grand Island
Northwest
7:30 p.m.
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PREP WRESTLING
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reports from the high school state
wrestling tournament in Omaha.
Pelini confirms to AP
reorganization of staff
ERIC OLSON
LINCOLN — Nebraska coach Bo Pelini has
confirmed the reorganization of his coaching
staff, making Tim Beck his offensive coordinator
and announcing three new assistants.
Pelini told The Associated Press on Wednesday
that he has hired Indiana assistant Corey
Raymond to coach the secondary, Ohio assistant
Ross Els to coach linebackers and Massachusetts
prep school coach Rich Fisher to coach wide
receivers.
Pelini declined to say whether former offensive coordinator Shawn Watson and former
receivers coach Ted Gilmore resigned or were
fired. Pelini announced former secondary coach
Marvin Sanders’ resignation for personal reasons
in a statement two weeks ago.
Beck, who had been running backs coach, will
work with the quarterbacks as well as direct the
offense. Ron Brown, who had been coaching
tight ends, is now in charge of running backs.
Pelini said he has one more position to fill but
declined to name what the role would be.
“I determined who I’m going to hire, but it’s
not ready to be announced,” said Pelini, taking a
break during a golf vacation in Palm Springs,
Calif.
Pelini’s staff shuffle has been in the works for
weeks but the coach had not spoken publicly
about the changes. Pelini would not confirm
Raymond’s hiring until Wednesday, even though
Indiana coach Kevin Wilson announced Feb. 2
that Raymond would be going to Nebraska.
Several media outlets, citing unnamed sources,
had reported the hirings of Els and Fisher.
The university’s website on Tuesday listed
Raymond, Els and Fisher as faculty members, but
their names did not appear on the school’s athletic website. Pelini said the hiring paperwork wasn’t
wrapped up until Tuesday, and that’s why he had
not formally announced the new coaches.
The Huskers, who move from the Big 12 to
the Big Ten next season, finished 10-4 last season even though their offense failed to perform
in the Big 12 championship game against
Oklahoma and the Holiday Bowl against
Washington.
Watson and Gilmore were holdovers from the
staff of Bill Callahan, who coached the Huskers
from 2004-07.
Beck, an original member of Pelini’s staff, has
never called plays at the college level. He spent
three years at Kansas before coming to Nebraska.
He was the Jayhawks’ receivers coach and passgame coordinator in 2007, when the Todd
Reesing-led offense averaged 43 points and 480
yards a game.
Els, a Lincoln native, was Ohio’s linebackers
coach for six years and special-teams coordinator
for four. He replaces Mike Ekeler, who is now codefensive coordinator at Ohio.
Raymond coached cornerbacks at Utah State
for two years, then spent two months at Indiana
before jumping to Nebraska.
Fisher previously was head coach at The Rivers
School in Weston, Mass. He also worked as a
teaching golf professional. Brown coached
Nebraska’s receivers under Tom Osborne and
Frank Solich from 1987-2003 and returned to
the staff to coach tight ends in 2008. It will be
his first time working with running backs.
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE
B3
AMY ROH/Tribune
St. Cecilia’s Charise Farmer dribbles past Central City’s Chelsea Huston (left) and
Katelyn Janky during their C1-6 Subdistrict semifinal game Tuesday at Hastings
High.
STC: Hawkettes
take care of Bison
Doniphan-Trumbull’s Kirsten Sullivan (31) and Sarah Dinan battle for a rebound with Sutton’s Jessica
Osterhaus (44) and Maryah Calkins (22) during their C2-4 Subdistrict tournament semifinal game
Tuesday in Fairfield.
Fillies cruise past Cardinals,
get rematch with Superior
ERIK BUDERUS
[email protected]
FAIRFIELD — The Sutton girls
basketball team made sure not to
overlook Tuesday’s subdistrict
game against Doniphan-Trumbull
for Thursday’s highly anticipated
potential rematch with Superior.
The Fillies took care of business
Tuesday night, handing
Doniphan-Trumbull a 71-19
defeat in the semifinals of the
Class C-2, Subdistrict 4 tournament at Sandy Creek.
The win, coupled with
Superior’s win over Blue Hill, sets
up the rematch Thursday for the
subdistrict championship between
the two Southern Nebraska
Conference foes. That game will
tipoff at 7 p.m. at Sandy Creek.
Superior last handed Sutton a
defeat in the semifinals of the
SNC conference tournament a
couple weeks ago and the
Wildcats ended Sutton’s season a
year ago with a victory in the subdistrict tournament.
Sutton defeated the Wildcats in
the season opener this year.
“(D-T) ran some zones that
Superior will too, so it was nice to
get a look at that. But tonight we
just wanted to come out and control what we could control,”
Sutton coach Andy Gerlecz said.
“We have a lot of respect for
Superior and we’ll see how it goes
Thursday. We need to play well
and do some things a little bit better than we did in the conference.
They wanted the game more than
we did.”
Said Sutton senior post player
Claire Bergen: “During practice
we’ve been continuously working
and preparing for Thursday.
Tonight, we wanted to play like it
was Thursday. We treated their
post players like we have to play
on Thursday so we’ve just continuously been getting ready for
Thursday. With them ending our
season last year at subdistricts,
then with them beating us in conference, it’s a big rivalry game. It’s
a game we really want.”
But before the Fillies could even
think about the Wildcats, they
first had to handle business
Tuesday — which they did.
Sutton led from wire-to-wire,
jumping out to an 8-0 lead just
1:27 into the game and expanding
that to 23-2 by the end of the first
quarter.
The Cardinals (4-17), who were
coming off an upset victory
Monday night over Heartland in
the opening round of the tournament, were denied their upset bid
Tuesday as the Class C-2 No. 7
Fillies (19-2) dominated in every
facet of the game.
Sutton held a commanding 4325 advantage in rebounding and
forced the Cardinals into committing 25 turnovers in the contest.
Doniphan-Trumbull was limited
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With the win, St. Cecilia (17-4) will play
Grand Island Central Catholic (15-8) in the
subdistrict championship game Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. at HHS. Earlier this month,
GICC knocked off St. Cecilia 45-37.
“We’ve just got to bring a little more
energy,” STC coach Jahn Kile said of the
rematch with the Crusaders on Thursday.
“The first time we came out a little flat and
it seemed like we were running in sand. I
think we’ll be ready. But that’s one thing
we have to do, get ourselves ready.”
Against Central City, the Hawkettes shot
70 percent (39-of-56) from the field and
forced Central City (5-18) into committing
31 turnovers.
A maximum 12 players scored for the St.
Cecilia, including four in double figures.
Lexi Schmidt led the way with 16 points
on 8-of-9 shooting, while Charise Farmer
added 12 points. Tessa Chalupa and
Shanelle Farmer each finished with 10
points.
“It was a good game for us,” Kile said.
“We did some nice things. But as far as executing in the half-court, we still need to
work on that and get better.”
Central City actually scored first Tuesday.
But St. Cecilia responded with a 7-0 run.
After the Bison scored to get within 7-4,
the Hawkettes used a 13-0 run — with the
most of the points coming on layups in
transition — over the next three minutes
to take control of the game.
St. Cecilia then outscored Central City
30-4 in the second quarter, shooting 14-of18 from the field in the second period.
That included 18 unanswered points for
the Hawkettes in a span of less than four
minutes
“We thought our pressure would hurt
them, and it definitely did in the first half,”
Kile said. “It was nice to play a lot of girls.
We had everybody score, which I don’t
think I’ve ever had a coach before. So that’s
kind of nice.”
Central City was led by Chelsea Huston
with 16 points, while Megan Catlett added
10 points.
St. Cecilia (17-4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 30 17 16 — 83
Central City (5-18). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 4 12 — 32
St. Cecilia (83)
Abby Jackson 2-2 0-0 6, Libby Kissinger 1-3 0-0 2, Charise Farmer 5-6 0-0 12,
Lexi Schmidt 8-9 0-0 16, Tessa Chalupa 5-9 0-0 10, Shanelle Farmer 5-8 0-0 10,
Morgan Nikkila 2-5 0-0 4, Jamie Williams 3-4 1-2 7, Sarah Goedert 4-5 0-0 8,
Alyssa Schropp 1-2 0-0 2, Josie Jackson 1-1 0-0 2, Olivia Thomas 2-2 0-0 4,
Team 39-56 1-2 83.
Central City (32)
Paige Benner 1-2 0-0 2, Megan Catlett 4-7 2-3 10, Samantha Hanquist 0-4 4-4
4, Jamie Harlow 0-2 0-0 0, Chelsea Huston 6-8 4-4 16, Mackenzie Melcher 0-1 00 0, Jordanne Speer 0-1 0-0 0, Tiffany Reimers 0-3 0-0 0, Emily Muench 0-3 0-0
0, Katelyn Janky 0-1 0-0 0, Courtney Tvrdy 0-0 0-0 0, Mikaela Wilshuser 0-0 0-0
0, Team 11-32 10-11 32.
Three-point field goals — STC 4-9 (Jackson 2-2, Kissinger 0-1, C. Farmer 2-2,
S. Farmer 0-2, Williams 0-1, Schropp 0-1). Rebounds — STC 21 (Schmidt 5), CC
19 (Catlett 6). Turnovers — STC 11, CC 31. Total fouls — STC 7, CC 1. Fouled
out — none. Technicals — none.
NU men improved but
desperate for road win
ERIC OLSON
Sutton’s Jamie Van Kirk (12) shoots over Doniphan-Trumbull’s
Kenzie Kloke (23) during during their C2-4 Subdistrict tournament
semifinal game Tuesday in Fairfield.
to just 9-for-42 shooting in the
game (21 percent) while Sutton
connected on half of its field goal
attempts (30-for-60). The
Cardinals were also dealt a blow
when leading scorer Kirsten
Sullivan left the game late in the
second quarter with a hand injury
and did not return.
Bergen led a balanced Sutton
scoring attack with 17 points. She
also collected 10 rebounds. Jamie
Van Kirk and Jessica Osterhaus tallied 14 points each. Osterhaus also
finished with nine rebounds.
Gerlecz said his team will be
ready to play Thursday.
“We need to finish our shots.
Last time we played them, I think
we were 15-of-50-something. They
did a good job of defending us.
They’re a matchup nightmare for
people,” Gerlecz said of the
rematch. “Offensive execution
and transition will be a big key for
us I think.”
Freshman Kaylee Glover led
the Cardinals with 10 points and
four steals. No other Cardinal
tallied more than three points in
the game.
The Cardinals graduate just one
senior — Sarah Dinan — from this
year’s team.
“It was a good win for us
Monday, the kids came out and
played some really good defense
and that transitioned into our
offense so that helped out quite a
bit,” D-T coach Bob Samuelson
said. “We’re a young team, they
went through a learning experience this year. If we stick together,
we should have a pretty good
team next year. They played a lot
of rated teams and a lot of good
C-1 teams this year.”
Doniphan-Trumbull (4-17). . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 7 6 — 19
Sutton (19-2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 21 15 12 — 71
Doniphan-Trumbull (19)
Katie Pfeiffer 0-5 0-0 0, Kayla Hinrichs 0-2 0-0 0, Mollie
Kohmetscher 1-8 0-0 2, Kirsten Sullivan 1-5 0-0 2, Kaylee Glover
5-12 0-0 10, Jordyn Brummund 1-4 1-4 3, Sarah Dinan 0-1 0-0
0, Kenzie Kloke 1-5 0-0 2, Ashton Mazour 0-0 0-0 0, Emily Kier 00 0-0 0, Katie Kloke 0-0 0-0 0, Team 9-42 1-4 19.
Sutton (71)
Maria Van Kirk 3-6 2-2 8, Jamie Van Kirk 6-12 0-0 14,
Vanessa Van Kirk 1-2 2-2 4, Claire Bergen 7-10 3-6 17, Jessica
Osterhaus 6-9 2-2 14, Maryah Calkins 3-5 0-0 6, Ariel Lundstrom
1-6 0-0 2, Kelli Green 3-8 0-0 6, Lakyn Mau 0-1 0-0 0, Barbra
Baker 0-0 0-0 0, Megan Simonsen 0-1 0-0 0, Team 30-60 9-12
71.
Three-point field goals — SUT 2-14 (M. Van Kirk 0-3, J. Van
Kirk 2-6, Lundstrom 0-2, Green 0-1, Mau 0-1, Simonsen 0-1), DT
0-5 (Hinrichs 0-1, Kohmetscher 0-1, Sullivan 0-3). Rebounds
— SUT 43 (Bergen 10), DT 25 (Glover, Ken. Kloke 4). Turnovers
— SUT 15, DT 25. Total fouls — SUT 8, DT 9. Fouled out —
none. Technicals — none.
LINCOLN — While fans ponder
Nebraska’s postseason possibilities, coach
Doc Sadler is concentrating on the short
term. He just wants to win a road game.
The Huskers (16-8, 4-6) head into
Wednesday night’s visit to Oklahoma (1212, 4-6) with 13 straight Big 12 road losses.
“If we’re going to be a team that wants
to be considered a decent basketball
team,” Sadler said, “you have to win on
the road because that’s what separates the
good teams and the OK teams.”
Nebraska has been better than OK at
home, winning 15 of 16 at the Devaney
Sports Center. The only loss was 86-66 to
Kansas, this week’s No. 1 team.
The Huskers are No. 85 in this week’s
RPI, a ranking that would have to rise significantly for them to merit consideration
for their first NCAA bid in 13 years.
They probably need to win two, if not
all, of their three remaining road games —
at OU, Iowa State and Colorado. That
would be a major accomplishment for a
team whose last Big 12 road win was at
Baylor on March 7, 2009.
Last season, the Huskers lost six of eight
Big 12 road games by double digits. Three
of the five this season have been by four
points or less, including a 72-71 loss at
Texas Tech decided at the buzzer. They also
lost 63-60 at Kansas in a game they led by
10 points in the second half.
“We’ve proven we can play well at
home,” Sadler said. “I’m not saying we
haven’t played well on the road. I think
we have. Texas Tech, we had a chance to
win but we didn’t. We have to win to
maybe take another step.”
The next step is to play in the postseason again. Nebraska hasn’t made the
NCAA tournament since 1998 or the NIT
since 2009.
Even if the Huskers figure out how to
win on the road, they still have challenges
at home. Third-ranked Texas visits
Saturday before Kansas State and No. 20
Missouri come calling.
“I think it’s way too early to be talking
about us being in the NCAA tournament,”
Sadler said. “We have to win some games,
and we have to win some road games.
Hopefully at the end of the 16-game (Big
12) schedule, we’ll see where we play out.
If we’ve won enough ball games, we’ll be
rewarded for it.”
SC: Unbeaten Cougars stunned
by Fairbury at subdistrict tourney
The Jeffs (12-10) hit 8-of-10 free throws
in the fourth quarter to hold off any
potential Cougar comeback.
It is the second year in a row that the
Cougars suffered a defeat in the semifinals
of the subdistrict tournament. Last year,
Blue Hill defeated Sandy Creek, but the
Cougars rebounded and went on to capture the Class C-2 state championship.
The Cougars have unofficially locked up
one of the two wild card bids to the state
tournament this year as they currently
lead the Class C-1 points standings following Tuesday night’s games. However, nothing will become official until the conclusion of the district title games Feb. 25.
Mikaela Shaw led the Cougars Tuesday
with 20 points — but she was held score-
less in the fourth quarter as the Cougars
were outscored 15-8 in the final stanza.
Ashlee Harms was the only Sandy Creek
player to reach double digits in scoring as
she finished with 12 points.
Fresh off her 26-point performance in
Monday’s win over Fillmore Central,
Amanda Osborne scored 20 points to lead
the Jeffs Tuesday. Kalee Cromer added 18
points — 13 of which came in the second
half.
Fairbury hit 15-of-20 free throws in the
game while Sandy Creek was 3-for-5 from
the charity stripe.
Fairbury (12-10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10 16 15 — 53
Sandy Creek (21-1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 8 16 8 — 44
Sandy Creek (44)
Bailey Morris 4, Montana Hinrichs 2, Ashlee Harms 12, Keri Shaw 6, Mikaela
Shaw 20.
Fairbury (53)
Jensen Cromer 7, Margaret Ehle 2, Kalee Cromer 18, Amanda Osborne 20,
Paige Husa 6.
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B4
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011
HHS: Injury can’t stop Tiger senior wrestler
Looking at his draw for the state
tournament, Truong likes his chances
to make a run at state. The Nos. 1and 2-ranked wrestlers are both on
the other side of the bracket.
“I think it looks good,” Truong says.
“I think I’m in a good position to
hopefully make it to the finals. The
bigger challenge is on the other side
of the bracket. I have high hopes right
now.”
This will be the second straight year
Truong is at state, as he went 1-2 at
145 pounds in Class B last year.
He hopes that experience pays dividends.
“I think that helps a lot,” he says. “I
know what to expect now. I’ve been
there before, so I know what to do
and what I should be doing to get
ready.”
That Truong is a two-time state
qualifier is something Truong never
saw coming when he went out for
wrestling as a sophomore after never
competing in the sport before.
Laux tried to get Truong join the
wrestling team his freshman year, but
he wasn’t sold on the sport.
“I was just really bored as a freshman, so I figured I might as well try
something,” Truong says.
As a sophomore, Truong didn’t
experience much success at all.
“Back when I was a sophomore, I
would have been happy to be on varsity,” he says. “I didn’t even letter my
sophomore year. Everybody lettered.
“Back then, it was just like a leisure
sport. No one really expected anything out of me. I just did what I
could.”
But Truong kept with the sport,
State Schedule
At Qwest Center Omaha
Thursday, Feb. 17
1st Session
First round and quarterfinals (Class A, D), 9:30 a.m.
2nd Session
First round and quarterfinals (Class B, C), 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 18
3rd Session
First- and second-round consolations (Class A, D), 9:30 a.m.
4th Session
First- and second-round consolations (Class B, C), 9:30 a.m.
5th Session
Semifinals and third-round consolations (all classes), 5 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 19
6th Session
Consolation semifinals, third- and fifth-place matches (all classes),
9:30 a.m.
Finals (all classes), 2:30 p.m.
wrestling during that summer. That’s
when he started to win some matches
and he began to take the sport seriously.
Then, as a junior last year, he fin-
ished 24-16 while reaching the state
tournament.
This season began with high hopes.
But in his first match of the year, in
a dual against Seward back on Dec. 2,
2010, Truong suffered his bad stinger.
“I don’t remember exactly what
happened,” Truong says. “I just
remember a really sharp pain and I
couldn’t move it.”
It was a lingering nerve injury from
last year that also caused him problems in the fall during cross country
season, but it had never been this bad.
“It’s a nerve in my neck that runs
down my shoulder,” Truong says “It
just stings if I ever hit anything with it
or irritate it somehow.”
Truong returned for the Lincoln
Public Schools Classic on Jan. 15,
though he wrestled only half of those
matches after he reaggravated the
injury.
He also missed part of the season
with a concussion.
“This year with all the injuries made
me really nervous,” Truong says. “But
I knew that somehow I was going to
come back and make it state.”
THE REST OF CLASS A
Truong will be joined at state by
junior teammate Christian Williams,
who qualified at 285 pounds.
Williams will wrestle unbeaten
Brandon Yost of Millard West in the
first round.
“He’s had a nice season,” Laux said.
“He’s a kid who was below .500 last
season. He wrestled during the offseason and has improved his technique
in most areas.”
Tribland Class A state qualifiers
Hastings High — Thien Truong (152), Chris
Williamson (285)
Superior: Defensive change helps Wildcats post win
Superior jumped out to an early 174 lead in the game and led 19-6 after
the first quarter. The Wildcats
appeared ready to run away with the
game.
But Blue Hill had other ideas.
Kumke helped spark a 12-2 Blue
Hill run to open the second quarter,
which pulled the Bobcats to within
21-18 with 3:19 left in the first half.
All 12 of the points came on four 3pointers from Kumke.
“We were a little frustrated in the
second quarter when they were hitting those shots, we knew we had to
go to a man defense,” Superior junior
Haley Gebers said. “We had to stop
the shooter. If we could do that, we
knew we could win.”
The Wildcats switched to the manto-man defense and closed the first
half with the 8-0 run to take a 29-18
lead into the locker room at halftime.
The team then continued with the
momentum in the second half, jumping out to a 37-20 lead with 4:55 left
in the third quarter.
The Bobcats were never able to get
any closer than 15 points the rest of
the way.
Class C-2 No. 6 Superior improved
to 17-5 on the season with the win
Tuesday while Blue Hill ended its season 10-10 overall.
Sarah Wood led the Wildcats with
24 points, 11 rebounds and three
blocks while Gebers contributed 18
points and 10 rebounds. Montana
Hayes finished with four steals and
two blocks to go along with two
points and five rebounds.
“It all starts and ends with Wood
when you play against them. You’ve
got to control her. She is by far the
best post player I’ve seen in my 10
years of coaching girls,” Streff said.
“For us, we wanted to get out in transition. I thought we were a little faster
than them and could score before
they set their defense up. But they’re
a tough matchup for us and they do a
good job with the personnel they
have. We just missed too many
shots.”
The Bobcats were led by Kumke
who had 14 points and four steals.
Jordyn Atwater finished with eight
points. Maci Coffey led the Bobcats
with seven rebounds.
It marked the final game in the
careers of Blue Hill seniors Alissa
Overy, Emily Harrifeld and Sara Alber.
“We improved a lot from day one.
We struggled early in the year, not
wins and losses, but just in our execution of play. I thought we played really well tonight, so hopefully we can
carry that into next year,” Streff said.
“I’m pleased with 10 wins. The way it
looked early in the year, I wasn’t sure
if we could get there, but the girls,
they found a way to win a lot of close
games.”
Superior’s win sets up a highly
anticipated matchup Thursday for the
subdistrict championship between
two Southern Nebraska Conference
foes — Superior and Sutton. The two
teams have split their previous two
meetings this year with Sutton winning on opening night and Superior
knocking the Fillies out in the semifinals in the conference tournament a
couple weeks ago.
Thursday’s championship is set for
tipoff at 7 p.m.
“We still fought through everything, there were times we didn’t play
as good tonight, but I promise you,
we’ll be ready Thursday. The intensity
will be up because it’s Sutton, we’ve
played them twice, it’s the rub-match,
they know what’s on the line, we’ll be
here and be ready,” Mumm said.
“We’ve got to get some outside shots
and we’ve got to take care of the basketball. If we can take care of the ball
and get some points from some other
people... I know Montana struggled —
but she said she’ll have her best game
on Thursday — if we can get that
kind of attitude from everybody and
we can get somebody other than
Sarah to score, we’ll be fine.”
Said Gebers: “Our state tournament
started about two weeks ago. We have
to win every game to get through so
we’ve got to give everything our all in
order to try and make it to state.
Thursday is going to be really exciting. Everybody has been talking about
it all week. Sutton is going to be really hard, but we beat them once and
everyone is confident that we can do
that again.”
Blue Hill (10-10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 12 8 11 — 37
Superior (17-5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 10 12 11 — 52
Superior (52)
Sarah Wood 7-10 10-10 24, Haley Gebers 7-13 4-6 18, Heidi Wilt 210 0-0 6, Jett Mickelsen 0-2 2-4 2, Montana Hayes 1-9 0-2 2, Kayla
Klatt 0-1 0-0 0, Susannah Headrick 0-0 0-0 0, Holly Bower 0-1 0-0 0,
Korina Tinkham 0-0 0-0 0, Lyndsay Brown 0-0 0-2 0, Team 17-46 16-24
52.
Blue Hill (37)
Alissa Overy 0-2 0-0 0, Emily Harrifeld 2-8 0-0 4, Jordyn Atwater 2-9
4-4 8, Kaitklin Kumke 5-16 0-4 14, Sara Alber 1-7 0-0 2, Maci Coffey 13 0-0 2, Kelsey Karr 1-3 0-0 2, April Faimon 1-6 0-0 2, Lexie
Himmelberg 0-0 0-0 0, Cheyann Lovett 1-1 0-0 3, Katie Ferris 0-0 0-0 0,
Katie Schafer 0-1 0-0 0, Team 14-56 4-8 37.
Three-point field goals — SUP 2-8 (Gebers 0-1, Wilt 2-7), BH 5-11
(Kumke 4-10, Lovett 1-1). Rebounds — SUP 39 (Wood 11), BH 39
(Coffey 7). Turnovers — SUP 18, BH 18. Total fouls — SUP 10, BH 21.
Fouled out — none. Technicals — BH (bench).
BRENT McCOWN/Tribunex
Superior’s Sarah Wood (5) shoots over Blue Hill players during their
game Tuesday in Fairfield.
AC: Patriots can’t overcome slow start
“There were a couple times
where there were stretches
where they were having trouble getting the ball where they
wanted to and we had some
opportunities that we didn’t
finish,” Marker said “Those are
key stretches. We just couldn’t
put anything together at those
times when they were struggling.”
Adams Central managed just
eight second-half points on 3of-20 shooting, as the
Crusaders pulled away.
“I thought we started the
game really well,” Anspauch
said. “We had great energy. We
were communicating defensively. (Then) I think we got
comfortable. We didn’t do the
things for the second and third
quarters that we did early in
the first quarter to get that
lead.
“And coach Marker is a good
coach. He had a good game
plan from the standpoint of
being real physical. I just
thought he did a good job of
slowing the game down, even
though they weren’t stalling or
anything.”
Adams Central was led by
senior Janessa Bohlen with
eight points.
Liz McGowan led GICC with
22 points, including 13 of the
Crusaders’ 25 second-half
points.
GICC won despite hitting
just 10-of-29 free throws. The
Crusaders were 8-of-20 in the
first half, as Adams Central
committed 14 fouls in the first
two quarters.
The second half didn’t get
any better, with Central
Catholic making 2-of-9 at the
charity stripe.
“I think it goes back to why
we got such a good start early
— because we were focused
and we were active. Once we
missed a free throw or two, it
became contagious,” Anspauch
said. “Very rarely will I ever
talk about shooting kinds of
things to the kids during the
game, but one of the things I
talked about at halftime was
that we’ve got to have somebody step up and make a couple early so the rest of the
team sees that we can make
one.”
“It just shows you what a
brilliant coach I am. We went
2-for-9 in the second half,”
Anspauch added, with a laugh.
Tuesday night marked the
end of the career of five seniors
for the Patriots.
Marker credited those seniors with not allowing the
Patriots to fold once they got
down by 13 points early in the
game.
“Our seniors provide a lot of
great leadership,” the AC
coach said. “They’re the ones
who give our younger kids the
confidence that they can come
back from those deficits. Our
younger kids can learn from
that and understand that
they’re still in the game.”
GICC (15-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 14 9 16 — 52
Adams Central (7-14) . . . . . . . . 7 10 4 4 — 29
Grand Island Central Catholic (52)
Sarah Golka 0-2 0-0 0, Katie Brand 4-8 1-2 9, Maggie
Stump 2-5 1-4 6, Liz McGowan 8-15 4-10 22, Jamie
Partington 2-2 1-2 5, Erin Sorahan 1-1 3-4 6, Michaela
Ostdiek 0-2 0-2 0, Kelsie Scheel 1-1 0-2 2, McKennz Kime
1-1 0-3 2, Kerrigan Anspauch 0-2 0-0 0, Jessica Wiens 0-0
0-0 0, Team 19-39 10-29 52.
Adams Central (29)
Janessa Bohlen 3-13 1-2 8, Emily Bonifas 1-2 0-0 2,
Cheyenne Gottsch 3-8 0-0 6, Bailey Parr 0-1 1-2 1, Jessica
Lindblad 0-2 0-0 0, Brianna Schuck 0-4 2-2 2, Leslie Pfeifer
0-3 2-2 2, Sydney Niemeyer 1-2 0-0 2, Kailey Rader 0-1 22 2, Sydney Bernasek 2-3 0-0 4, Team 10-39 8-9 29.
Three-point field goals — GICC 4-9 (Brand 0-2, Stump
1-3, McGowan 2-3, Sorahan 1-1), AC 1-8 (Bohlen 1-3,
Gottsch 0-2, Schuck 0-2, Bernasek 0-1). Rebounds —
GICC 26 (Golka 6), AC 31 (Lindblad 5, Niemeyer 5).
Turnovers — GICC 15, AC 21. Total fouls — GICC 10, AC
21. Fouled out — AC (Gottsch). Technicals — none.
Pujols deadline
passes with no deal
TIM REYNOLDS
JUPITER, Fla. — The
deadline for Albert Pujols and
the St. Louis Cardinals to
reach a new contract agreement passed Wednesday with
no new deal, making it likely
the three-time MVP will test
the free-agent market after the
season.
“We are greatly disappointed at this outcome,” Cardinals
chairman William DeWitt Jr.
said at a news conference. “We
will revisit it again following
the 2011 season, at which
time we will again make every
effort to keep him as a
Cardinal.”
Pujols, a nine-time All-Star, is
the only player in major league
history to hit 30 or more home
runs each of his first 10 seasons — all with the Cardinals,
the franchise he has said in the
past he wants to remain with
for the rest of his career.
But the sides failed in recent
months to reach common
ground, raising the possibility
the three-time NL MVP may
be on the cusp of his final season in St. Louis.
AMY ROH/Tribune
Adams Central’s Janessa Bohlen shoots against Grand Island
Central Catholic’s Katie Brand during their Class C-1,
Subdistrict 6 semifinal game Tuesday at Hastings High.
“We felt very good about the
offer we made,” general manager John Mozeliak said.
Pujols will make $16 million
this season in his contract’s
final year, with $4 million of
the money deferred with no
interest.
Pujols said he doesn’t want
to negotiate during spring
training or the season. The
Cardinals say they are open to
talks.
“It’s not as if he’s a free agent
at this point,” Mozeliak said.
St. Louis said it made an
offer at the start of the year
and then discussed possible
modifications.
“They were lengthy and in
depth,” DeWitt said of the
talks.
The closest Pujols came to
an appearance at camp
Wednesday morning was a
sighting of his black pickup
with Missouri license plates in
the parking lot of the team’s
spring training complex.
Pujols was not with the
vehicle. The team expects him
to arrive Thursday, and teammates say they can’t wait to see
him.
Comics
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Crossword
Astrograph
Rubes
B5
By Leigh Rubin
The Family Circus
By Bil Keane
THURSDAY, FEB. 17
S
Aunt fears sexually active
niece is headed for trouble
D
EAR ABBY: This is difficult to write. My sister
reads her children’s text
messages after they’re asleep.
She bragged to
me about how
popular her
daughter
“Naomi” —
my 14-yearold niece — is
because she’s
giving oral sex
to the boys.
Dear Abby
My sister
claims Naomi
isn’t “having sex,” so she
thinks it’s OK! I am shocked by
her ignorance and terrified
knowing that Naomi is putting
herself at risk for STDs. My
husband says if I confront
Naomi it will drive her away,
but I can’t remain silent and
watch my niece ruin her life.
What’s the point of reading
your children’s text messages if
you’re unwilling to stand up
and be a parent? What can I
do? — TERRIFIED FOR MY
NIECE IN THE SOUTHWEST
DEAR TERRIFIED: Your sister’s parenting skills are
appalling. Her daughter isn’t
“popular”; she is promiscuous
— and her mother is allowing
it. Do your niece a favor and
talk to her, because oral sex IS
sex, and she is putting herself
at risk for a number of sexually
transmitted diseases.
The Sexuality Information
and Education Council has a
wealth of information
resources and tools for addressing this important subject. Its
website, www.familiesaretalking.org, helps with discussing
sexuality-related issues and provides information for young
people, parents and caregivers.
Other reliable resources
include Planned Parenthood’s
www.teenwire.com and the
American Social Health
Association website,
www.iwannaknow.org, which
is also a safe place for teens to
learn about sexual health.
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*
*
DEAR ABBY: I was raised a
Christian, but now that I am
older I am questioning my
faith. I consider myself an
agnostic, borderline atheist.
The problem is I am married
and a father. I want to raise my
children to be open-minded
and tolerant, but I don’t know
how I should go about it. How
do I answer the question, “Is
there a God?” when I myself
am not sure? Have you any
advice on the subject? —
AGNOSTIC DAD IN SOUTH
CAROLINA
DEAR AGNOSTIC DAD:
Many deeply spiritual people
are agnostic. The way to raise
open-minded, tolerant children
is to talk to them about your
values and model that behavior
for them. Parents convey their
values verbally and by demonstrating them. As to the question, “Is there a God?” you and
your wife should discuss that
question in advance so she can
have some input and you can
handle this together.
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DEAR ABBY: My daughter-inlaw is eight weeks pregnant.
The problem is, she carries the
gene for cystic fibrosis. One of
her siblings is a carrier and
another has multiple sclerosis. I
advised my son that it didn’t
seem to be a good idea to get
pregnant, but they both appear
unconcerned about the repercussions.
Should I mind my own business and hope for the best? Or
should I be worried about the
future health of their expected
child? — WORRIED GRAMMATO-BE
DEAR WORRIED: As a loving
grandparent, you will always
be concerned about your
grandchildren’s welfare. What
you should do is suggest that
your son and daughter-in-law
discuss their family medical
histories with her OB/GYN and
take their lead from the doctor.
(If they haven’t already.)
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.
ome important changes
you’ve been trying to
make for a long time
could actually come
through for you in the year
ahead. However, it might
take the help of others to
make it happen, so do
what you can to encourage
cooperation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
19) - Be especially cautious
when with someone who is
under a lot of stress. It
wouldn’t take much to
induce a breakdown from
him/her over a seemingly
inconsequential matter.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
20) - There is a strong possibility that co-workers will
currently be hard to please,
not because of anything
you’ll do or not do, but
because of what is going on
it their lives. Be tolerant.
ARIES (March 21-April
19) - Although there might
be a lot of peer pressure,
you don’t have to go along
with it. If you feel something isn’t right, go your
own way, just like the song
says.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20) - You should take
reports of an unkind word
from an associate with a
nodule of Mrs. Dash. Your
informant could be putting
a spin on something that
was not intended.
GEMINI (May 21-June
20) - A forceful personality
might try to dominate the
conversation by overriding
what everybody else is trying to say. Without starting
an argument, don’t put up
with it.
CANCER (June 21-July
22) - Your thinking cap
might be slipping a bit
when it comes to your
material affairs. Keep it
from totally falling off by
moving as slowly as possible, so that you don’t lose
it completely.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) The secret to quickly
becoming unpopular is to
be overly insistent about
getting your own way. The
people you’re with will
make a swift exit and leave
you standing alone.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22) - Those unfinished
projects or jobs you left
hanging are likely to rear
their unwelcome heads and
keep you from doing what
you really want to do. Let it
be a lesson about completing what you start.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)
- Don’t stand idly by
watching another fumble
for words to explain something about which you’re
an expert. Jump in and
help him/her out without
stealing the person’s thunder.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22) - The interests of others
might take precedence over
your own, but remember,
postponing what you want
to do won’t hurt, but being
selfishly demanding will.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 21) - Be on guard
about making sure that
you’re in control of your
mouth at all times.
Speaking without thinking
could cause you to unintentionally say things to
others that you shouldn’t.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) - Be gracious about
not getting your way at all
times, even if you think
you’re more entitled to it
than others. Let everybody
have a turn at being able to
call the shots.
Baby Blues
Grizzwells
Shoe
By Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott
By Bill Schorr
By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins
Frank and Ernest
By Bob Thaves
Pickles
By Brian Crane
Alley Oop
The Born Loser
By Dave Graue and Jack Bender
By Art and Chip Sansom
©2011 by NEA, Inc.
Garfield
By Jim Davis
Frugal Living — Clean and freshen your microwave
BY SARA NOEL
United Media
Microwaves get dirty and smelly.
It can be a pain to keep clean if you
don’t clean it immediately after
splatters or spills. To clean your
microwave with ease, simply add a
microwave-safe bowl, a couple of
tablespoons of lemon juice and 1
cup water (or 1/2 cup white distilled
vinegar and 1/2 cup water). Cook
on high for three to five minutes or
until steam condenses. Wipe down
with a cloth. The first reader shares
another hint.
Microwave cleaner and simmering potpourri: There are no measurements.
Mix according to your liking:
— crushed cinnamon
— orange peel (I use my dehydrator for leftover peels, or dry on a
cooling rack)
— cloves
— crushed bay leaves
— optional allspice berries
Add 2 tablespoons of mix to a
small pot filled with water, let simmer on stove. When finished flush
mix down garbage disposal for a
nice clean scent.
Add 1 tablespoon of mix to a
bowl of water, microwave on high
for about 3 minutes (keep an eye on
the water so it doesn’t boil over), let
sit for about 5 minutes, remove mix
and wipe down microwave with a
towel. The steam loosens all the
splatters and leaves a nice, fresh
smell. — Mel, Massachusetts
Stained plastic: I use a mixture of
about 1 part bleach to 3 parts water
and keep it in a spray bottle. It is
mild enough that it doesn’t make
everything taste or smell like bleach,
but it is great for stained plastic. It
gets out grape juice, tea/coffee,
tomato sauce and turmeric. —
Contrary housewife, Kansas
No-knead bread: I may very well
not bother trying other basic white
bread recipes for a bit because this
was so easy and turned out perfect.
6-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 packets instant yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 cups warm water
2 tablespoons shortening
butter
No kneading necessary on this
one, folks. Preheat oven 375 F. In
large mixer bowl, combine 3-1/2
cups flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Mix
well. Add warm water (125 F or so)
and shortening to flour mixture.
Blend at low speed until moistened.
Beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By
hand, gradually stir in remaining
flour to make a stiff batter. Cover
and allow to rise in a warm place
until double, about 30 minutes. Stir
down batter. Spread in greased 9inch-by-5-inch or 8-inch-by-4-inch
bread pans. Cover and allow to rise
until batter reaches tops of pans
(about 20 to 30 minutes). Bake at
375 F for about 35 to 40 minutes,
until golden brown. Remove from
the pans and brush with butter.
Allow to cool.
Zits
By Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
Agri/Business
B6
HASTINGS TRIBUNE
Iowa governor
gets criticism
for ‘double dip’
BRANSTAD GETTING
EXECUTIVE PAY WHILE
ALSO DRAWING $50K
STATE PENSION
RYAN J. FOLEY
TONY TALBOT/AP
Above: Eric Fitch holds a Magic Hat glass Jan. 26 in front of the digester building at the brewery in South
Burlington, Vt. Below: A methane generator at Magic Hat brewery (left) is powered by a grain digester (rear).
Recycling beer
BREWERY WASTE TURNED
INTO GAS, WHICH FUELS
THE OPERATION
JOHN CURRAN
S
OUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. —
Before he started “saving the
earth, one beer at a time,” all
inventor Eric Fitch knew about
home brewing was that it could
make quite a mess.
Once, he accidentally backed up the
plumbing in his apartment building by
dumping into his garbage disposal the
spent grain left over from his India
Pale Ale home brew. The oatmeal-looking gunk choked the pipes in his
Cambridge, Mass., building, flooding
the basement.
These days, he’s doing something
more constructive, fulfilling the dream
of beer lovers everywhere by recycling
the stuff: The MIT-trained mechanical
engineer has invented a patented device
that turns brewery waste into natural gas
that’s used to fuel the brewing process.
The anaerobic methane digester,
installed last year at Magic Hat Brewing
Co. in Vermont, extracts energy from
the spent hops, barley and yeast left
over from the brewing process — and
it processes the plant’s wastewater.
That saves the brewer on waste disposal and natural gas purchasing
The 42-foot tall structure, which cost
about $4 million to build, sits in the
back parking lot of Magic Hat’s brewery, where it came online last summer.
Fitch, 37, is CEO of PurposeEnergy,
Inc., of Waltham, Mass., a renewable
energy startup company whose lone
product is the biphase orbicular bioreactor, which is 50 feet in diameter, holds
490,000 gallons of slurry and produces
200 cubic feet of biogas per minute.
Brewers big and small have wrestled
with waste issues since the dawn of
beer-making. In recent years, they’ve
turned to recycling — both as a costsaver and for environmental reasons.
Anheuser-Busch, which makes
Budweiser, uses a bio-energy recovery
system in 10 of its 12 U.S. breweries to
convert wastewater into natural gas that’s
then used to fuel the brewing process.
New Belgium Brewing Co. in Fort
Collins, Colo., captures excess heat
from cooling wort and funnels it
beneath its loading dock so it doesn’t
ice up in wintertime. The wort, the liquid made with malt and hot water, is
fermented to make beer or ale.
Coors’ breweries sell ethanol from
their brewing process to refineries in
Colorado. Some European breweries
dry their spent grain and then burn it,
using the heat and energy in their
manufacturing process.
Most operations dispose of their
spent grain by selling it — or giving it
away — to farmers, for use as cattle or
animal feed.
But PurposeEnergy says its digester
is the first in the world to extract
energy from the spent grain and then
re-use it in the brewery, and all in one
place. At Magic Hat, the big brown
silo is located about 100 feet from the
main complex.
“Feeding it to cattle is pretty direct
recycling, especially if you get steak back
out of it,” said Julie Johnson, editor of
All About Beer magazine. ”Carting it off
as animal feed is pretty common. In this
case, by closing the loop at the brewery,
this is turning it into savings quite
directly for Magic Hat.”
After getting the idea in 2007, Fitch
pilot tested it in Florida, taking spent
grain from a Yuengling & Son brewery
in Tampa, Fla., trucking it to a farm
and putting it through a 400-gallon
methane digester. That helped refine
the design of the facility. Then he
scouted New England breweries that
might agree to a pilot project and got a
bite from Magic Hat, which had been
looking for ways to reduce its wastewater treatment bill.
“Over the years, we looked at ways
of reducing it, and the strain on South
Burlington’s system, and we came up
with ideas ranging from using women’s
pantyhose to filter solids while flushing
the brew kettle to having the spent
grains hauled off to a local farm to be
used for feed,” said Steve Hill, social networking manager for North American
Breweries, which owns Magic Hat.
“They (PurposeEnergy) laid out what
we could save . and how the digester
could benefit things from a ’green’
standpoint, and it was too good to pass
up,” Hill said in an e-mail.
Other than the plume of flame that
rose up off the top of the silo — triggering a few panicky calls by neighbors to
the fire department — it has succeeded.
“There’s a lot of money to be saved,
there’s a lot of strain to be taken off
local wastewater systems,” according to
Hill. ”The carbon footprint of a brewery is lessened a great deal when there’s
a power company in their backyard.”
Others are taking notice.
“It’s something that’s definitely
exciting for breweries to look at,” said
Mark Wilson, brew master at Abita
Brewing Co., in Abita Springs, La., who
is at work on a handbook outlining
environmentally friendly brewing
operations for the Master Brewers
Association of the Americas.
Fitch, whose company’s slogan is
“Saving the earth, one beer at a time,”
has helped develop iPhone applications that allow him to control pumps
and other operations within the
digester. He says it can save brewers up
to $2 per barrel in costs, a considerable
savings for even a medium-sized operation like Magic Hat, which produces
about 154,000 barrels of beer a year.
More consumers pay post-holiday bills on time
EILEEN AJ CONNELLY
NEW YORK — Credit card
users didn’t suffer a holiday
hangover this year.
The top six U.S. credit card
issuers posted the lowest rates of
default and late payments in two
years on Tuesday, a strong sign
that consumers had a handle on
paying their bills in January.
The improvements followed
a return to credit card use during the holiday season, after
consumers pocketed their plastic throughout the recession.
Card networks all reported
higher usage for the fourth
quarter after two years of
declines, and Federal Reserve
figures show balances moved
up slightly in December.
Citibank reported the biggest
improvement, with a default,
or charge-off, rate of 7.49 percent of balances on an annualized basis in January, down
from 8.34 percent in December. Payments that were 35
days or more late fell to 4.35
percent, from 4.44 percent.
Like rivals Bank of America,
Chase, American Express,
Discover and Capital One,
Citi’s numbers were the best
seen in two years or more.
The improvements in late
payments, or delinquency
rates, are a particularly positive sign.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa
Gov. Terry Branstad is collecting both a $130,000 salary as
governor and a state pension
worth more than $50,000 per
year for earlier service — a legal
practice, but one critics say is
hypocritical given the governor’s plans to slash public
spending and his calls for
shared sacrifice.
Branstad has been receiving
pension payments that reflect
his prior 26-year tenure as governor, lieutenant governor and
state lawmaker since he was
sworn in for a fifth term last
month following a 12-year hiatus from state service,
spokesman Tim Albrecht said
Tuesday. The Republican’s salary
will not reduce his retirement
benefits, unlike other retired
state workers under age 65 who
return to service, because of a
provision he signed into law as
governor in 1992 that exempts
retirees who return as elected
officials from pension cuts.
Albrecht said Branstad
“made a significant personal
sacrifice” by stepping down as
president of Des Moines
University to run for governor.
The university position paid
$357,000 in 2008, according to
the school’s most recent tax filing. Albrecht said Branstad did
not earn a salary in 2010 and
paid for his own health insurance as he campaigned across
the state.
As for his decision to keep
his pension, Albrecht said: “If
somebody earns that income,
they are entitled to it.”
Critics concede that point.
But a spokesman for the
Democratic Party of Iowa and
one top labor leader said
Branstad is disingenuous for
“double-dipping” as he moves
forward with plans to lay off
up to 1,500 employees, take
away wage increases negotiated
by his predecessor, and end
universal preschool.
“He’s asking for state
employees to give up pay raises
which are modest, at best, and
to pay more for their insurance. I guess, Governor
Branstad, where is your shared
sacrifice?” said Danny Homan,
president of the largest state
employees union. “If you are a
public servant, why are you
even taking a salary as governor? Why aren’t you living off
your already earned pension?”
“At a time when Branstad is
increasing the burden on Iowa
families through unprecedented
cuts to education, including
eliminating universal preschool,
receiving what amounts to two
paychecks from the state is
absolutely hypocritical,“ added
Sam Roecker, the Democratic
Party spokesman.
More than 7,000 public
workers were receiving both
pensions and salaries as of June
30, 2010, according to the Iowa
Public Employees’ Retirement
System. Retired workers who
return to public employment
and are under age 65 have
their monthly retirement earnings reduced by 50 cents for
every dollar they earn over
$30,000 under Iowa law.
But elected officials were
exempted from that reduction
under a provision included in
an overhaul of IPERS that was
passed with broad support in
the Legislature and signed into
law by Branstad in April 1992,
according to the Legislative
Services Agency.
Investor offers $7 billion
to take Family Dollar private
SARAH SKIDMORE
PORTLAND, Ore. —
Discount retailer Family Dollar
Stores Inc. on Tuesday received
a bid from activist investor
Nelson Peltz’s firm to take the
company private in a deal
worth up to $7 billion.
The Trian Fund is offering
$55 to $60 per share for Family
Dollar, according to a filing
with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
Shares of Family Dollar
soared 25 percent, or $11.19, to
$55.15 in extended trading
Tuesday after the filing was
made.
Trian owns large stakes in a
variety of major American businesses including upscale jeweler Tiffany’s & Co., food company H.J. Heinz Co. and fast-food
chain Wendy’s/Arby’s Group
Inc.
It is already Family Dollar’s
largest shareholder with about
8 percent of its shares. Paying
$60 each for the Family Dollar
shares it does not already own
would cost Trian about $6.99
billion.
Family Dollar, a discount
retailer based in Matthews,
N.C., confirmed late Tuesday
that it received the offer. It said
its board will review the proposal with its financial and
legal advisors, Morgan Stanley
and Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP.
The company has more than
6,800 stores in 44 states and is
one of the standout retailers in
the post-recession economy. It
benefited during the downturn
from shoppers heading to its
stores for bargains on everything from food to clothing.
Family Dollar’s net income
rose 23 percent to $358.1 million, or $2.62 per share, on revenue of $7.87 billion in its latest fiscal year.
Last summer, Peltz disclosed
that he was buying up shares
of Family Dollar, saying the
stock was undervalued. He said
he met with senior management to discuss the company’s
direction and attempts to boost
shareholder value
The Trian Fund bought up
more Family Dollar shares in
January.
Markets
Wednesday’s noon
local markets
Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.42
Soybeans . . . . . . . . . .12.95
Milo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.14
Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . .8.21
Stocks of local interest
The following stocks of local interest were
traded today:
Last
Chg.
127,081
-429
Berkshire Hathaway A
84.72
-.26
Berkshire Hathaway B
22.57
+.16
ConAgra
110.73
+.84
Eaton Corp.
Ingersoll Rand
47.00
-.36
Level 3
1.39
+.08
McDonald’s
76.03
-.12
PepsiCo
64.02
-.33
Tricon Global Restaurants 51.12
+.39
Union Pacific
97.62
-.37
Wells Fargo
32.83
-.85
Williams Cos.
27.79
+.76
Wal-Mart
54.76
-.19
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2005 PONTIAC Grand
Am: 4-door, V-6, locally
owned .....................$4,600
2005 CHEVY: 1-ton cargo
van, many extras ....$6,500
3
In Memory
Dennis Kelly
2/07/53-2/15/04
Automobiles
800-742-6397
Deveny Motors
1013 S. Burlington
402-462-2719
Hoskins
Auto Sales
The Broken Chain
We little knew that morning, that God was going to
call your name. In life we
loved you dearly, in death
we do the same. It broke
our hearts to lose you, you
did not go alone, for part of
us went with you the day
God called you home.
You left us peaceful memories. Your love is still our
guide, and though we cannot see you, you are always at our side. Our family chain is broken, and
nothing seems the same;
but as God calls us one by
one, the chain will link
again.
Love always,
Sheri, Angie, Justin
Camry, Bryce, George,
Kassie, Drake and Bella
9 Bundles Of Joy
Itʼs A Boy!
We Buy, Sell and Consign
Highway 6/Hastings Ave.
Hastings, NE 463-1466
For complete listing go to
www.hoskinsautosales.com
See our selection of
FUEL ECONOMY cars at
jacksonscarcorner.com
Special of the Week
ʻ08 Grand Caravan SXT:
V6, copper, 32,xxx miles.
$18,375. Cash......$16,475
Need New Tires?? Call
Joel for Best Prices!!
Call Bob, ASE Certified
for your Mechanical Needs
220 West South Street
402-461-3161
WE PAY cash for junk vehicles. Free pick up. 402460-0000.
YES! We will tow away unwanted vehicles. McMurray Motors, 462-6879.
22 2-wheel Drive
Pickups
Jaxon Ebner was born
May 7, 2010, to Megan
and Mitch Ebner of Holdrege, NE. Grandparents
are Arlen and Melanie
Gangwish, Herb and Marilyn Kirkover, Bruce and
Char Ebner, and Teresa
and John Gauthier. Greatgrandparents are Dennis
and Charlotte Burr, Juta
Kirkover, Treva Gangwish,
and Dorothy Pfeiffer.
12 Garage Sales
Northeast
MOVING SALE
1330 N. COLORADO
Hastings, NE
Thursday, 9-7
Friday, 9-6
Antiques, collectibles, furniture, household (Fenton,
Lenox, Snow Globes,
banks, bells), much more.
20
Automobiles
Brambleʼs Auto Sales
Check our new website
bramblesautosales.com
See our truck selection at
jacksonscarcorner.com
24
Sport Utility
JEEP
2007 LIBERTY: 34,000
miles. Special .......$14,900
2006 GRAND Cherokee:
Anniversary
Edition,
47,000 miles ........$16,900
2005 LIBERTY Limited:
31,000 miles .........$13,900
2004 GRAND Cherokee:
80,000, sunroof.....$10,995
THE CAR LOT
East Highway 6
36Travel Trailers &
Motor Homes
2011 RV EXPO SHOW
trades coming soon.
ʻ96 Excel 26.5ML
ʻ04 Hitchhiker 32-5WKTG
ʻ04 Excel 30SKW
ʻ08 Excel L33TKE
ʻ04 Challenger 29.5RL
These and more arriving
daily. Stay tuned for more
to come.
HASTINGS MOTOR SALES
DYKEMAN’S CAMPER PLACE
Burlington and Highway 6
Call 463-1338
www.dykemanscamper.com
36Travel Trailers &
Motor Homes
53
Health Care
60
TRANSPORTATION
EQUIPMENT CO.
RV sales and service.
Check us out!!
100 N. Laird, Hastings, NE
402-463-4402
WANTED: FUN HAPPY
PEOPLE Med Aide, parttime every other weekend
10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and possible various shifts. Inquire
within at The Kensington,
233 N. Hastings Ave. No
calls please.
38 Motorcycles &
ATVs
56
2009 POLARIS Ranger
500: Soft cab. Sale .$7,990
2008 YAMAHA Rhino
700: Roof, windshield.
Sale ........................$7,499
2007 POLARIS Sportsman 500X2: 600 miles.
Sale ........................$5,899
PAUL SPADY MOTORS
(402) 462-4105
45
Services
Offered
TOO BUSY, too old, too
tired? Will do your housecleaning from top to bottom. Call Classical Cleaning Cousins at 402-9841079. No job too big.
Restaurant
FOOD SERVICE
MANAGER
VVS Canteen is seeking a
Food Service Manager to
direct cafeteria operations
at the Swift Plant in Grand
Island. A minimum of 3-5
years of food service management preferred. NO
SUNDAYS OR HOLIDAYS.
Competitive
salary/benefit
package.
Must be self-driven, able
to lead, attentive to detail
and customer focused. Apply
on
line
at
vvscanteen.com
57
Technical &
Trade
GREAT BUSINESS Opportunity. Old Rayʼs Pizza,
202 W. 2nd location, now
for rent. 1,290 sq. ft. Call
Diane, 469-4777.
WANTED
FULL-TIME WELDER
MINDEN MACHINE is a
fast-growing equipment
manufacturer. Drug testing
is required. Apply at Minden Machine Shop, 1302 K
Road, Minden, NE.
53
60
48
Business
Opportunities
Health Care
EDGEWOOD VISTA, a
12-bed memory care facility in Hastings, Nebraska,
is currently seeking CMA.
Edgewood Vista is a progressive Assisted Living
company which has built a
strong reputation in providing home-like settings for
seniors with a full range of
care options. We provide
competitive wages, benefits and a friendly work environment. Please send
your resume and personal
contact information by fax
to 1-402-462-6828 or by
email to lindaw@edge
woodvista.com
Learn
more about Edgewood at
www.edgewoodvista.com.
EXPERIENCED HELP for
disabled woman in her
home. 463-3735.
HELP WANTED
Full-time/Part-time
RN
Full-Time/Part-time
LPN
Apply at:
Grandview Manor
148 Broad Street
Campbell, NE 68932
or call Stephanie,
402-756-8701
EEO
PART-TIME med aide every other weekend, 3-11
p.m. Champion Homes.
902-9694.
General
AVON: Earn money
Have fun, free web site
No Door to Door
Call 308-384-7198
BLASTER/PAINTER
needed. No experience
necessary. Hours, 8-4:30
Monday-Friday. Stop at
4530 E. Gunpowder Circle, Hastings, for application. 402-463-5771
NEBRASKA ALUMINUM
CASTINGS
has full-time openings
available. TRIMMER and
CNC OPERATOR. The
starting wage is $10.15
per hour. $0.80 per hour
night shift differential.
SCHEDULE/BENEFITS:
1st shift (10 hour days-6
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), and
2nd shift (Trimmer - 10
hour days-4:15 p.m. to
2:45 a.m.), (CNC Operator-10 hour days-4:30 p.m.
to 3 a.m.). Regularly
scheduled workdays are
Monday through Thursday.
Overtime scheduled on an
as-needed basis. Previous
manufacturing experience
preferred. High School diploma or GED is required.
Non-smoking environment.
Benefits include paid holidays, health, dental, life
and disability insurance,
company matched 401K.
Apply in person at Nebraska Aluminum Castings,
Inc., 4280 East Hadco
Road, Hastings, NE 68901
General
Entry Level Positions
$1,000 Hiring Bonus
Full-time/permanent
positions. Very flexible.
No experience needed.
*Customer Service
*Manager Trainees
*Assembly
Newly expanded company
Rapid Advancement
Call 402-460-4787
For Interview
Call Today —
Start Tomorrow
FULL-TIME ASSISTANT
MANAGER needed at
Ampride South. The right
applicant must be detail
oriented, organized, have
strong
communication
skills, computer experience and the ability to lift
40 lbs. Competitive wage
with benefits. Pick up application at Ampride South,
1410 West J St., Hastings.
No phone calls please.
Closing date: February 20.
NOW ACCEPTING
APPLICATIONS
Western Alternative
Corrections, Inc.
Facility Staff/Full Time
Supervise Federal Offenders in residential setting.
Must be 21, have good
employment record and
must pass background
check. Competitive wages
based on experience/education.
Send/Complete application
at 101 S. Hastings Ave.,
Hastings, NE 68901; or
visit web site at www.bris
tolrrc.com
Closing date: 2/18/2011
THE HAVEN Home of Kenesaw, NE is now accepting applications for the following positions:
•Certified
Medication
Aides
•LPN
•Dietary Assistant
Applications available at
The Haven Home, 100
West Elm, Kenesaw, NE.
61
RUN DAY
61
Part Time
77
WANTED: Housekeeper/
Driver. Must have valid
driverʼs license, Social Security card. Duties include
housecleaning, laundry,
driving, shopping. 6-10
hours/week. $9/hour. 402224-4685 to apply.
WE ARE looking for a
great cook with an excellent work history. Must be
reliable and enjoy cooking
for senior citizens! Applicants must be able to read
and follow a recipe prepared by our registered dietitian and pass background check. Part-time
position. Apply in person
at College View Assisted
Living, 1100 N. 6th Ave.,
Hastings.
62
Child Care
STAY-AT-HOME
MOM
has daycare openings.
Fun, clean, learning environment. Affordable weekly or daily rates. Call Terrena, 402-705-3697.
70
Pets
CHIHUAHUA PUPS: 3
male, ACA registered,
shots. Long hair. $125.
402-519-0334.
SHIH TZU, Yorkie puppies: Un/registered. 402469-0784.
77
Appliances
SALVAGE OUTLET: New
and reconditioned appliances $75 and up. 100%
guarantee. Open 7 days,
10-6. Top dollars paid for
working and non-working
appliances. Bring into
store, 1516 S. Locust.
308-398-1013.
Appliances
Your WHIRLPOOL and
TOSHIBA Dealer
ROGERʼS, INC.
1035 S. Burlington
463-1345
82
VENDORS WANTED
Tri-City Flea Market and
Antique Show, March 12,
Fonner Park Exhibit Hall
#1, Grand Island. Booth info, 402-525-6234.
89 Lawn & Garden
HONDA LAWN Mower:
Good Condition. $75. 402463-7133.
96
Want To Buy
NEWER washers, dryers,
stoves and refrigerators.
Working or not. 462-6330.
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
1-, 2- and 3-BEDROOM:
$300-$550. Partial utilities.
461-0442, 408-248-1464.
1-, 2-BEDROOM: Appliances. No smoking/pets.
$275-$375. 463-2917.
1-BEDROOM:
Clean,
unique. No smoking/pets.
460-6922 cicadadwellings.com
1-BEDROOM:
Upstairs
Stove/refrigerator furnished. $350/month. 460-8147
2-BEDROOM penthouse
apartment at Depot Plaza.
Mexican tile, fireplace,
new carpet. 469-4777.
2-BEDROOM: Upstairs.
All utilities paid. $400 deposit/rent. 463-0458.
Sell your unwanted item(s)
in the Hastings Tribune
Classifieds
for
quick
results. Call 461-1241.
2009 NISSA N FR O NTIER
Part Time
Hastings Tribune has
openings for carriers in
Superior. Call Circulation.
402-461-1221 or 1-800742-6397.
Hajnyʼs
AUTO SALES
2003 CAVALIER: 2-door,
4-cylinder,
5-speed,
66,000 miles, nice car.
$3,850.
2005 PONTIAC Sunfire: 2door, 4-cylinder, automatic, full power. Only $3,650.
463-2636
CALL 461-1241 to list your
ad in classified.
Flight Instruction
INSTRUCTION, FLIGHT
reviews, aircraft rental. Local airport. Troy Thomas,
402-759-1269.
Director of Nursing Services
Bethany Home is a progressive, well established,
multi-level facility including Assisted Living, and a
Skilled Nursing facility. We are seeking an RN, to fill
the position of DNS, who is flexible, has the ability to
adapt to changing tasks throughout the day,
knowledge of the state survey process and QA & A.
This position will be responsible for overseeing the
nursing department with the assistance of an ADNS.
Our priority is providing the best possible resident
care. We provide an excellent compensation package
and our management style is based upon full, open
communication. If you would like to explore a
Director of Nursing Services opportunity with
Bethany Home, please send or fax your resume in
confidence to:
Bethany Home, Attention: Bob Tank
515 West 1st Street, Minden, NE 68959
Fax: 308-832-0662
Gutters
HYLDEN
CONSTRUCTION. Gutters, siding, trim,
windows,
doors.
Call
Steve at 402-462-5439.
Looking For A
“New” Place To
Live?
There are some prime
rental possibilities in our
rental classifications 100113. Want to place your
rental ad there? Call our
Classified Department at
402-461-1241 or 1-800742-6397.
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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.
ad in classified.
2008 H O NDA A C C O R D
A uto,C D ,
35K M iles
SALE
SALE
$14,999
STK #:3094
2006 C H R Y SLER 300
2005 FO R D F-150 XLT
N avigation,
Leather,M oonroof,
O nly 29K M iles
C rew C ab,
V 8,
71K M iles
SALE
SALE
$16,785
STK #:5585A
$14,999
STK #:3163
Buick, Inc.
Caring For Our Customers...Where Others Promise - We Deliver
N. Hwy. 281 • Hastings, NE • 402-462-4105
www.spadyautos.com
Jeram ie
Benson
Sales Manager
At Your
AUTO GLASS EXPERTS.
25 years combined experience in glass replacement.
Jeff Fitzke, Brent Vorderstrasse. 405 West J
Street. 402-463-0025.
Equal
Housing
Opportunity
C rew C ab,
A uto,
37K M iles
$18,995
STK #:3168
MEDICAL RECORDS
SCANNER: We have an
opening for a part-time
scanner position in a team
oriented atmosphere. Position is Monday through
Friday, flexible day hours.
Medical record experience
desired. Please forward
resume to Tracy at Hastings Surgical Center, 5803
Osborne Drive West, Hastings, NE 68901 or Fax:
402-462-5469.
Auto Glass
www.greatplainsdodge.com
3-BEDROOM: 2-bath. 105
E. 14th. Clean. Most utilities. $550. 460-9626.
Antiques
Service
463-3104•N. Highway 281
100 Unfurnished
Apartments
PRE-OWNED PRICE CUTS
Sudoku
Great Plains Chrysler Dodge
DEADLINE
Thursday . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Wednesday
Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Thursday
Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a.m. Friday
If you find an error in your classified ad, please call us before the next day’s paper.
The Tribune cannot be responsible for more than one incorrect insertion. Claims
cannot be considered unless made within three days from the first date of publication. No allowances can be made when errors do not materially affect the value
of the advertisement.
Fax: 402-461-4657
Turning 80 turned out to
be fun. Thanks to all for
getting in touch.
John Hajny
DEADLINE
Monday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noon Friday
Tuesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Monday
Wednesday. . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. Tuesday
Handyman
Keyboard Lessons
HANDYMAN:
Roofing,
concrete, painting, home
repairs, snow removal.
Fully insured. 10 years experience.
Reasonable.
462-2660, 460-6756.
SCOTTIE FIX-IT. “Fixing
the little things that need
fixing”. Caring craftsmanship. Call Scott, 463-4818
Home Improvement
CHUCKʼS BUILDING AND
REPAIR. Chuck Wiseman.
No job too small. 402-7512443; cell, 402-984-2544.
Installations
TECHNOLOGY INSTALLATIONS: TV Mounting.
Complete Home Theater.
Surround Sound. Media
Sharing. 13 years experience. 816-504-7632.
[email protected]
Junk Removal
K en
A dam
G ettner Ellenw ood
Sales Professional
Up to 16 Words
for 1 month
ONLY
49.00
$
includes online
Call
402-461-1241
for details
Tax Preparation
KEYBOARD LESSONS:
Beginning in March for beginners. Please call Ms. Jo
at 402-519-3492.
Lawn/Garden Care
LANDSCAPE THERAPY,
L.L.C. Landscaping, lawn
service, fall cleanup, snow
removal. Free estimates.
402-460-0923.
Painting
DYCUS
PAINTING.
Prompt, courteous, professional service since 1980.
Insured. Call for estimate.
463-7726,
or
[email protected]
HONEY DOʼS PAINTING.
Interior, exterior. 25 years
experience. Free estimates. Tim Yurk, 402-7050601 or 463-7054.
Snow Removal
JUNK HUNK. Junk removal service - garage, shed,
attic, basement, yard. “Call
the Hunk to haul your
Junk!” Scott, 402-4634818.
Stephen
W eber
Sales Professional Sales Professional
8 YEARS Experience:
Complete lawn service
and snow removal. Power
raking, aerating, mowing
more. Omar, 402-4608305.
Insurance & Realty. ANDREA FREY, CPA. Tax
Preparation and Bookkeeping Services. 501 N.
Webster (Hwy 281), Red
Cloud, NE. 888-746-2242;
or by appointment, 2727
W. 2nd St., Ste. 420, Hastings, NE. For more information about what services the Gary Thompson
Agency has to offer, visit
www.gtai.biz
TAX RETURN Preparation. NORTHERN BOOKKEEPING. $7.00 per hour.
Located at the corner of
2nd Street and Lincoln
Avenue (800 West 2nd
St.). Telephone: 402-4696086.
Subscribe Today, call 461-1221
Windows
WINDOWS, SIDING, Custom wraps, doors: high
quality materials, insured,
references, EPA lead renovator. 402-705-0542.
Do You Want To Make More Money? Then Call Us!
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
$
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00
00
Classified Department
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100 Unfurnished
Apartments
102
2- to 3-BEDROOM: With
appliances, laundry hookups, parking. No pets.
$385-$485.
Embassy
Square, 402-462-4032.
1-BEDROOM DUPLEX:
$300 plus deposit. Kingswood Plaza. 463-1958.
2-BEDROOM:
1-bath,
kitchen appliances. $515/
month. Garage available.
No smoking/pets. 402461-4100.
CHATEAU
IMPERIAL
318 S. RHODE ISLAND: 4
bedrooms, 2.5 baths. 2
bedrooms in basement, 2
bedrooms on second floor.
Appliances, central air.
Off-street parking. $840/
month. Deposit/references
required. Call 463-4778,
984-3620, or 469-8002.
2-BEDROOM available at
California Pine Apts. Spacious duplex with abundant
space
featuring
washer/dryer
hookups,
central air, ceiling fans,
large kitchen, off-street
parking. Pet friendly (some
restrictions). Call today,
402-462-5205.
EHO
www.perryreid.com/califor
niapines
LUXURY 2-bedroom, 2bath. All appliances, washer/dryer, deck. No pets.
$635. Dan, 462-9003, 4633652
2- and 3-BEDROOM:
FIRST MONTH FREE (on
2 bedrooms only) at Regency Apartments. These
large apartments have
controlled entry, complete
kitchens, ample parking,
on-site laundry and are locally managed. And you
PAY ONLY ELECTRICITY! Pet friendly (some restrictions). Call for your
tour today! 800-322-4781.
www.perryreid.com/regen
cyheights
EHO
2-BEDROOM available at
South Pine Apts. Spacious
duplex with washer/dyer
hookups, central air, ceiling fans, complete kitchens, lawn care and snow
removal.
Pet
friendly
(some restrictions). Call today, 402-462-5205. EHO
www.perryreid.com/southpine
VERY NICE: 2-bedroom,
1-bath, washer/dryer hookups, dishwasher. Recently
updated. Off-street parking. $550/month. 104 E.
13th St. 984-1328.
Furnished
Apartments
$159.95/WEEK
RAINBOW MOTEL
463-2989; 402-926-6252
Breakfast, internet, HBO.
Maid. Clean. Coin laundry.
No credit/deposit. Near
McDonaldʼs, 1000 W. “J”.
1-BEDROOM: 1411 W.
5th. Rent $235 plus electric. $175 deposit. No pets.
461-3161 or 462-9819.
102
1-BEDROOM: 1222 N.
Lexington.
Appliances,
washer, dryer, off-street
parking. No smoking. New
paint and carpet. Available
now. 402-469-2041.
Duplexes
For Rent
Houses
For Sale
121
2313 BATEMAN: 2-bedroom, finished basement.
$94,000. 402-984-3396.
3-BEDROOM: 1.5-bath,
garage, appliances. References. $695. 460-9626.
LOOKING FOR great tenants to fill our 2- and 3bedroom town houses. If
you are looking for a nice,
clean, spacious place,
stop by 945 West H to pick
up an application for a future opening. No pets.
402-463-5953
711 LEISURE LANE: 4bedroom, 3-bath at Lake
Hastings. Open floor plan.
Main floor laundry. Fenced
back yard, office, underground sprinklers.
Reduced price $234,900.
Open house 2/12, 1:302:30 or call 402-984-9194.
104
AFTER 40 years of this
business being all our
lives, it is time to slow
down and put our bar and
grill, Dickʼs Place, and our
grocery store, Dickʼs Grocery, up for sale. Dickʼs
Place and Dickʼs Grocery
go together as a package
and are a major part of
Lawrence, NEʼs main
street. Serious inquiries
only. 402-756-7412.
123
Storage/
Warehouse
WAREHOUSE
BUILDING: 26,429 sq. ft. Reduced to $53,500. Coldwell Banker Town & Country Realty. 463-4591.
130 Auction Sales
RANDY RUHTER, Auctioneer and Broker, 2837
W. Hwy. 6, Hastings, NE,
402-463-8565.
PLACE YOUR Classified
ad today. Call 461-1241,
Tribune for fast, fast results.
Legals
2-3-BEDROOM: No smoking/pets.
References.
$400-$450. 463-3096.
3-BEDROOM: 1 1/2 story,
single garage. In Blue Hill.
$495 rent, deposit. 4601560, leave message.
320 E. 2nd: 1-bedroom.
$380/month, $380 deposit.
462-2660, 402-519-1728.
4-BEDROOM: 840 N.
Kansas, $725; 3-bedroom,
835 N. Minnesota, $800.
461-0442, 408-248-1464.
108 Office Space
LET US design and build a
new home for you or see
our existing homes and
duplexes in Hastingsʼ finest areas.
OFFICE SPACE for rent
next to old Rayʼs Pizza,
1,386 sq. ft. 469-4777
OFFICE SPACE
Single office, double office,
up to 4 office suites available. Very nice. Conference
and meeting room available. 461-4100.
Landmark Center
TOWNHOUSE:
2-bedroom, Joyce Schlachter,
Broker, 462-5794.
OFFICE SPACE: $150$250. 402-461-1785.
118 Mobile Homes
For Sale
Your Residential and
Commercial Builder
2727 West 2nd - 461-4100
DOUBLE WIDE: Remodeled, underground swimming pool. Bonnavilla Plaza. Will finance. 469-4777.
RARE OPPORTUNITY
CROSIER PARK
Professional Center
6,500 sq. ft. Office Suite
coming available for lease
Currently David & Assoc.
For information call 402463-6229, 402-460-7229,
or 402-660-4737.
109
Business
Property
Houses
For Rent
1-BEDROOM: Well-maintained. Nice area. With appliances. Available now.
463-3589.
Business
Property
25ʼx30ʼ WORKSHOPS for
rent: Electricity, water,
bathroom. Free month rent
with lease. Call 469-4777.
111
1-, 2-, 3-, 4-BEDROOM:
Rent to own. Air, garage.
$400-$850. 469-6635.
116
700 SHORESIDE COVE:
3+-bedrooms, 3 baths,
Hastings Lake, fully-finished walk-out basement.
Stainless steel appliances
included,
underground
sprinklers, attached double
garage, large deck, small
storage shed. On cul-desac $185,000. Call 4622999 or 984-0253
1-BEDROOM: Appliances,
private drive. No pets/
smoking. $340. 460-0869.
103 Town Houses
For Rent
Townhomes/Apartments
Call 402-463-4111
101
Duplexes
For Rent
Storage/
Warehouse
24ʼx28ʼ STORAGE unit
available for yearly lease,
$1,404. 463-6891.
Com pute r Re pa ir
DE A E L E CTRO N ICS
House Calls/Free pickup and delivery 9 a.m .-9 p.m .daily
402-984-8001 or tollfree 1-800-383-8141
Visa & M astercard accepted.
Con tra c tors
A BC S E A M L E S S S IDIN G , W IN DO W S &
G U TTE RS
Hastings,w w w .abcseam less.com ...402-463-7580
Coun s e lors -H um a n Re la tion s
G E N E RA L CO U N S E L IN G L L C
WILL FINANCE: 2008
16ʼx80ʼ 3-bedroom, 2-bath.
Call Diane at 469-4777.
119 Residential
Lots
FOR SALE: 26 lots in new
subdivision. 402-463-8565
or 402-751-2241.
LARGE Lot in Juniata.
Sewer/water to property
line. $12,000. 751-2241
LOTS, MODEL Homes: 4
Subdivisions. Agent/owner, 402-461-1785.
120 Commercial
Lots
GOOD TRAFFIC corner
for this commercial lot at
201 S. Lincoln. Call Gateway Realty - 463-4561.
Notice of Meeting
The Board of Education
of the Hastings Public
Schools, School District
No. 18, Adams County,
Nebraska, will hold a regular Board meeting on Monday, February 21, 2011, at
7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 220 North
Hastings Avenue, Hastings, Nebraska. A current
agenda for the meeting,
will be available for public
inspection at the Superintendent's Office, 1924
West A Street, Hastings,
Nebraska, during regular
business hours.
Jeff Schneider,
Secretary
Board of Education
February 16, 2011
Notice of Suit
TO: Lisa R. Heath, 841
Avenue B, Bayard, Nebraska 69334, you are
hereby notified that on
March 31, 2010, Ford Motor Credit Company, LLC
filed a suit against you in
the Adams County Court
at docket CI 10-565, the
object in prayer of which
was to secure a judgment
against you in the amount
of $2,253.57, together with
court costs, interest and
attorneyʼs fees as allowed
by law. Unless you file
your Answer with the
Adams County Court on or
before the 1st day of April,
2011, the Petition against
you will be considered as
true and judgment will be
entered against you accordingly.
By: Lee Law Offices
Dennis P. Lee (16296)
Kari Fisk Lee (24399)
Patrick M. Lee (24418)
P.O. Box 45947
Omaha, Nebraska 68145
Phone 402-334-8055
Fax 402-334-8072
[email protected]
February 9, 16, 23, March
2, 2011
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Notice of Organization
of
Ganatra Consulting, LLC
Notice is hereby given
that GANATRA CONSULTING, LLC, a Nebraska limited liability company, has been organized
under the laws of the State
of Nebraska. The registered agent and office is
Carl P. Bowman, Esq., c/o
Stinson Morrison Hecker
LLP, 1299 Farnam Street,
#1500, Omaha, Nebraska
68102. The general nature
of the business is to do
any lawful act concerning
any and all lawful business
for which a limited liability
company may be formed
and organized. The company commenced existence on January 25,
2011, and it shall have
perpetual existence. The
affairs of the company are
to be conducted by one or
more managers as prescribed by the Operating
Agreement.
February 16, 23, March 2,
2011
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION
of
MALESKER AGENCY, L.L.C.
A Nebraska Limited Liability Company
Notice is hereby given that Malesker Agency, L.L.C.,
a Nebraska Limited Liability Company, has been organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, with its
registered office at 645 South Burlington Avenue, Hastings, Nebraska 68901. The registered agent at such address is Codie D. Malesker.
The general nature of the business to be transacted
by the limited liability company is to engage in and do
any lawful act concerning any and all lawful business for
which a limited liability company may be organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska, other than the
business of being a financial institution.
The affairs of the limited liability company shall be
conducted by its Members until such time as their successor or successors are selected pursuant to the Operating Agreement. The private property of the Members
shall not be subject to the payment of limited liability
company debts to any extent whatsoever.
This limited liability company came into existence on
the 7th day of February, 2011, and has perpetual existence.
DATED this 9th day of February, 2011.
CODIE D. MALESKER, Member
BRAD MONCRIEF, L.L.C.
1239 North Burlington Avenue, Suite 200
Hastings, Nebraska 68901
(402) 462-5353
February 16, 23, March 2, 2011
ad in classified.
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Notice of Organization
Energy Pioneer Solutions Insulation and Construction, LLC, with registered office at 500 Energy
Plaza, 409 South 17th
Street, Omaha, Nebraska
68102-2663, gives notice
that it filed a Certificate of
Organization with the Secretary of State on January
25, 2011. The period of
duration of the company
shall be perpetual, and the
company may engage in
any business or commercial activity for which a limited liability company may
be organized. The management of the companyʼs
affairs are to be conducted
by the manager in accordance with the companyʼs
Operating Agreement.
February 2, 9, 16, 2011
NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO THE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
CHOCTAW CONSTRUCTION, INC.
TO BE KNOWN AS
MID-AMERICA PUMP & SUPPLY, INC.
Notice is hereby given that Choctaw Construction,
Inc. has filed an Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation under the Nebraska Business Corporation Act. The
Articles of Amendment, filed with the Secretary of State
on February 1, 2011, provide that the name of the corporation shall be changed to Mid-America Pump & Supply, Inc.
Thomas R. Bramble, President
Michael E. Sullivan, #14103
Sullivan, Shoemaker, Witt & Burns, P.C., L.L.O.
Burlington Center, Suite 305
747 North Burlington Avenue
(402) 462-0300
February 9, 16, 23, 2011
INVITATION TO BID
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE – HASTINGS, NEBRASKA
ADAMS BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES RETROFITS
Central Community College will be modifying the
HVAC system in the Adams Building at their Hastings
Campus to a geothermal heat pump system. Work will
include the installation of equipment purchased under a
separate contract and assigned to the awarded contractor. Sealed bids will be received until 2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2011, at the office of Central Community College, Attn: Alicia Haussler, Purchasing Manager, 3134 West Highway 34, P.O. Box 4903, Grand Island, Nebraska 68802-4903, at which hour, or as soon
as possible thereafter, the received bids will be publicly
opened and considered for the furnishing of labor, materials and equipment necessary for the proper construction of said project.
A Pre-Bid Conference will be held for potential Prime
Bidders on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at
the Adams Building on the Hastings Campus of Central
Community College. No tours will be scheduled before
or after the date of the Pre-Bid Conference.
BIDDING
All bids will be for a single Prime Contract to complete the work in accordance with the Drawings and
Specifications prepared by Farris Engineering, Inc.,
11239 Chicago Circle, Omaha, Nebraska and bids will
be received only upon the printed Proposal Forms furnished by the Engineer.
Bid Security is required to be submitted with the bid
proposal form. Make payable to Central Community College in the amount of 5% of the Lump Sum Bid Amount.
Bid Security shall be of: cashiers check, certified check,
or Bid Bond issued by a Surety licensed to conduct business in the State of Nebraska. Form of Bid Bond is AIA
Document A310.
DEPOSIT
Bid Documents are on file at the following locations:
•Farris Engineering, 11239 Chicago Circle, Omaha,
Nebraska 68154-2634
•Farris Engineering, 818 ʻPʼ Street, Suite 100, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508
•Central Community College, East Highway 6, Hastings, Nebraska 68901
•Central Community College, Purchasing Department., 3134 West Highway 34, Grand Island, Nebraska 68802
*Hastings Builders Bureau, 301 South Burlington,
•Grand Island Chamber of Commerce, 309 West
2nd Street, Grand Island, Nebraska 68801
•Omaha Builderʼs Exchange, 4255 South 94th
Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127-1223
•Lincoln Builders Bureau, 5910 South 58th, Suite C,
Lincoln, Nebraska 68516, Phone: (402) 421-8332
Prime Contractors may obtain bidding documents
from A& D Technical Supply Company, 4320 South 89th
Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68127, (800) 228-2753, upon
payment of $25 per set, which will be refunded in full if
documents are returned within fifteen (15) days of the
bid date. Payment is accepted in the form of check, payable to Farris Engineering, Inc. Bid documents are to be
returned to Farris Engineering Inc., 11239 Chicago Circle, Omaha, Nebraska.
All work is expected to commence by March 28,
2011 and to be substantially completed by July 25,
2011.
Should the Owner elect to interview the three lowest
bidders to ensure full understanding of the project requirements and scope of work, interviews will take place
on Thursday, March 3, 2011.
No bidder may withdraw their bid within 45 days after
Receipt of the Bid. The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive irregularities, to
evaluate the bids and to accept the bid which best
serves their interest.
Alicia Haussler, Purchasing Manager,
Central Community College
February 9, 11, 16, 2011
RH IN O L IN IN G S O F H A S TIN G S A N D
CU S TO M RIDE S BrubakerM otorS ports,Inc.
301 W .2nd S t.Hastings...................402-462-8581
U phols te ry
TH E CO V E R U P U P H O L S TE RY
204 N.Clay,Box 387,Harvard.........402-772-4031
ADOPT A PET
729 EastPark S t.,Hastings............402-462-2311
ortollfree........................................800-262-1071
1035 S.Burlington Hastings............402-463-1345
PARR AUCTION
Dave Parr, associate,
Gateway Realty. 756-6135
Truc k E quipm e n t
& A c c e s s orie s
BE M A N ’S S A L E S & S E RV ICE , IN C
RO G E R’S IN C.
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2604 W .2nd S treetHastings...........402-463-1626
1010 W estJ Hastings......................402-462-5332
H om e A pplia n c e s & E le c tron ic s
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Carry Outand D elivery
314 N.Burlington Ave.Hastings......402-462-5220
S O U TH CE N TRA L BO BCA T
H e a tin g, A ir Con d ition in g
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130 Auction Sales
P UP P IE S
S L A TE R & S P UD
La b ra d o rR etriever
M ix , La rge B a b y
M a les , Sho ts ,
M ic ro Chipped .
These and other
pets
are ready for
adoption.
Heartland Pet
Connection, CA TTY L a BE L L E
1807 W estJ, D o m es tic M ed iu m
Ha irM ix , M ed iu m
462-PETS
Yo u ng Fem a le, M ic ro
petfinder.com
Chipped , Sho ts ,
“YOU G ET M ORE”
SUPERSTO RE
Ho u s e Tra ined .
S ee us fora com plete line
ofpetsupply needs.
1115 W es t2 nd Street
To Pu rc ha s e Ad vertis ing O n This Pa ge Co nta c t4 6 2 -2 13 1
137 Hay/Seeds
141
BIG ROUND Bales of Hay
for sale. Grass, alfalfa mix.
402-984-4703
FOR SALE: Good quality
large round grass hay
bales. 402-461-9153.
HAVE AN abandoned well
on your property? Call
J2 WELL, 402-817-4279.
HORSE QUALITY small
square, wire tied, brome
and prairie hay bales. No
rain. 402-460-8252-Nelson
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Irrigation
IRRIGATION ENGINE
Repair, gas and diesel. —
Get Ready for spring Now!
Hi-Line Motors, Kenesaw
402-752-3498
www.hilinemotors.com
Services
List your ad, call 461-1241!
143
Land
For Rent
ESTABLISHED
VINEYARD for lease in Kearney County. 4 grape varieties. 308-830-0775, 402525-7866.
HAVE LIVESTOCK, farm
equipment, or farm land
for sale? Call 461-1241 to
advertise your specialty;
ask for Joyce.
To place your want ad for the
Farmer's Corner call
461-1241
Legals
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE`S SALE
The following described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on February 28, 2011, at
10:00 a.m. in the main lobby of the Adams County
Courthouse, 500 West 4th Street, Hastings, Nebraska
68901:
THE EAST HALF (E1/2) OF LOTS SIX (6) AND
SEVEN (7), AND THE EAST FIVE (5) FEET OF
THE WEST HALF (W1/2) OF SAID LOT SIX (6)
AND SEVEN (7) ALL IN BLOCK ONE (1),
OWEN`S SUBDIVISION OF LOT TEN (10) OF
HAIRE`S SUBDIVISION OF A PART OF THE
NE1/4 NW1/4 12-7N-10W, IN THE CITY OF
HASTINGS, ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA
All subject to any and all: (1) real estate taxes, (2)
special assessments, (3) easements, covenants, restrictions, ordinances, and resolutions of record which affect
the property, and (4) unpaid water bills, (5) prior mortgages and trust deed of record and (6) ground leases of
record. The purchaser is responsible for all fees or taxes. This sale is made without any warranties as to title or
condition of the property.
By: Erika Knapstein, Trustee, NSBA# 24088
Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C.
12400 Olive Boulevard., Suite 555
St. Louis, Missouri 63141
(314) 991-0255
Published in the Hastings Tribune
K&M Filename: NEWALNOR
THIS FIRM IS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM YOU WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.
January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 2011
REQUEST FOR BIDS
State of Nebraska - Real Property Sale
The State of Nebraska, Department of Administrative Services, State Building Division is requesting
sealed bids for the purpose of selling property located in
Adams County, Nebraska, which property borders to or
lies near the Prairie Loft Center for Outdoor and Agricultural Learning site, and which will be sold "AS IS" by
sealed bid.
Property Address: Part of the Northeast Quarter of
Section 16, and Part of the Northwest Quarter of Section
15, Township 7 North, Range 10 West, Adams County,
Nebraska, Parcel A north boundary lies along the DLD
Road and contains crop and pasture land and Parcel B
east boundary lies along Nebraska State Spur 1C and
contains pasture land.
Property Legal Description:
PARCEL "A"
A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST
QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 7 NORTH,
RANGE 10 WEST OF THE SIXTH P.M., ADAMS
COUNTY, NEBRASKA, BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: REFERRING TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER
OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 16;
THENCE S00°38'51"W (ASSUMED BEARING) ON THE
WEST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER, A DISTANCE OF 240.03 FEET TO THE SOUTH RIGHT OF
WAY LINE OF DLD ROAD, AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S86°13'10"E ON SAID SOUTH
RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 935.96 FEET
TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF RURAL RANCH
ACRES SUBDIVISION; THENCE S01°02'27"W ON THE
WEST LINE OF SAID RURAL RANCH ACRES SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 536.49 FEET; THENCE
S28°45'14"E, CONTINUING ON SAID WEST LINE, A
DISTANCE OF 654.80 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF SAID RURAL RANCH ACRES SUBDIVISION; THENCE N88°23'26"W, A DISTANCE OF
1252.51 FEET TO THE WEST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE N00°38'51"E ON SAID
WEST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 1137.07 FEET TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 26.02 ACRES,
MORE OR LESS.
PARCEL "B"
A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST
QUARTER OF SECTION 16 AND THE NORTHWEST
QUARTER OF SECTION 15, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 7
NORTH, RANGE 10 WEST OF THE SIXTH P.M.,
ADAMS COUNTY, NEBRASKA, BEING DESCRIBED
AS FOLLOWS: REFERRING TO THE NORTHWEST
CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 16; THENCE S00°38'51"W (ASSUMED BEARING) ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST
QUARTER, A DISTANCE OF 240.03 FEET TO THE
SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF DLD ROAD;
THENCE S86°13'10"E ON SAID SOUTH RIGHT OF
WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 935.96 FEET TO THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF RURAL RANCH ACRES
SUBDIVISION; THENCE CONTINUING S86°13'10"E
ON THE NORTH LINE OF SAID RURAL RANCH
ACRES SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 428.63 FEET
TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID RURAL
RANCH ACRES SUBDIVISION, AND THE POINT OF
BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING S86°13'10"E ON
SAID SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF
1270.07 FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE S00°32'35"W ON SAID
EAST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 17.79 FEET TO THE
WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF NEBRASKA STATE
SPUR 1C, AS DESCRIBED AND RECORDED IN DEED
BOOK 192, PAGE 155; THENCE S84°57'30"E ON SAID
WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 423.88
FEET; THENCE S12°26'49"W, CONTINUING ON SAID
FEET; THENCE S19°16'59"W, CONTINUING ON SAID
FEET; THENCE N88°12'08"W, A DISTANCE OF 153.00
FEET TO SAID EAST LINE; THENCE N88°23'33"W, A
DISTANCE OF 1310.85 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST
CORNER OF SAID RURAL RANCH ACRES SUBDIVISION; THENCE N01°52'43"E ON THE EAST LINE OF
SAID RURAL RANCH ACRES SUBDIVISION, A DISTANCE OF 380.13 FEET; THENCE N89°03'18"E, CONTINUING ON SAID EAST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 18.86
FEET; THENCE N01°45'11"E, CONTINUING ON SAID
EAST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 704.16 FEET TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING 38.40 ACRES,
MORE OR LESS.
Bids must be identified as "Parcels A & B, Hastings,
Nebraska" on the outside of the envelope. Mail bids to
the attention of: Paula Sedlacek, VBEL Coordinator,
AS/State Building Division, P.O. Box 98940, Lincoln, Nebraska 68509-8940, or deliver to 521 South 14th Street,
The Executive Building, Suite 500, Lincoln, Nebraska
68508-2707. All bids must be received in the office of
the State Building Division no later than 4:00 p.m.,
(CST), February 28, 2011, at which time they will be
publicly opened in the office of the State Building Division.
All questions relative to the sale of this property
should be directed to Paula Sedlacek, VBEL Coordinator, State Building Division, (402) 471-0450 or (402) 4713191 (Main Number).
The purchaser is responsible for all fees and taxes.
This property will be sold "AS IS" without any warranties
as to title or condition of the property.
The State of Nebraska reserves the rights to accept
or reject any or all proposals, wholly or in part, to waive
any technicality in any proposal and to make awards in a
manner deemed in the best interest of the State.
February 16, 19, 2011

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