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Kristina Louise Narjes age 72 died Saturday June 13, 2020 at her home in Rural Sidney. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, June 19, 2020 in the Trinity Lutheran Church South of Sidney with Reverend Neil Carlson officiating. Burial will be in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Kris's name to the Trinity Lutheran South Divide Church, Immanuel Lutheran School in Alliance or to the donor's choice. Friends may stop at the...
Humanity overall has a way of pushing the envelope. If a person is told to stop at 10 minutes, they will want to go for 12, or 15. Just look at the traffic code. The State posts a speed limit at 65 and people automatically expect to go 68, or more. I question how many of us completely leave that child stage of pushing your dad or mom until “Don’t do it” is lost in the whimpering tears of punishment, however you define the repercussions. Think of how many people look at the speed limit sign...
George Everett Hare died June 5, 2020 after a long battle with leukemia. Born on April 21, 1932 on a farm east of Peetz CO, George was the son of Daisy (Viola) Hare and the late George A. Hare. When his mother later married Mathias (Matt) Treinen, George became the youngest of a blended family that included 19 children. After moving to Sidney as a young man, George worked a variety odd jobs, including working as a steam engine servicer for the Union Pacific Railroad – and working part-time f...
Russel E. Stickley, 81, passed away peacefully at home, June 9, 2020 after a brief battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Tuesday, June 16, 2020 in the First United Methodist Church in Sidney, NE with Pastor Corey Jenkins officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Monday from 1-7:00 P.M. to sign Russel’s register book and leave condolences for the family. Memorials are being e...
Theodore “Ted” Panas, age 90, passed away Wednesday, June 10, 2020 in Bridgeport, NE. At the request of the family, a private Rosary and a Mass of Christian Burial will be held in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dalton with Father C.P. Varghese and Father Steven Deaver officiating. Burial will be in the Dalton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be given to the American Legion Post #301, Dalton Volunteer Fire Department or St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Dalton. You may view Ted’s B...
The annual report of the county's Wildlife Specialist got a little heated when the discussion turned to prairie dogs. Wildlife Specialist Matt Anderson was on the Cheyenne County Commissioners agenda Monday to present his annual report. In his report, Anderson addressed the concern of prairie dogs, noting a lawsuit in Colorado against the federal government. “Right now, Nebraska is the only state where the USDA is working on prairie dogs,” Anderson said. Commissioner Randy Miller said the age...
Charlotte Dorwart was recently selected as a member of the State Advisory Committee on Aging. She will be serving on the committee through 2024. The state is divided into Area Agencies on Aging with eight in Western Nebraska. Each board of county commissioners elects a representative for the local board. She stressed the need for services to the senior populations, especially in rural areas. "That is one of the problems," she said, "getting services." The challenge is keeping people in their...
The Sidney City Council reviewed two more business appeals, then granted approval in the June 9 council meeting. In the previous council meeting, the council approved $5,000 in LB840 funding for Brushed Salon. The decision came with the objection of City Attorney J. Leef who said the business does not fit within the parameters of LB840 as accepted by voters. In the June 9 meeting, she said the council set precedence and therefore had little choice but to approve the appeals. The appeals were...
Unrest, violence and hate spilling into the streets. Increasing disorder in urban areas. Talk of the need to throw out the old order and rebuild society from the ground up. This isn’t new. We’ve seen it before. And each time these things rise to overwhelming national prominence the outcome can be predicted. Tyranny and oppression. What we’re witnessing unfold in our media streams is the same play with different actors. It’s known as the “bottom up, top down, inside out” approach to overthrow a n...
As you know, the nation has been rocked by violent protests for the past three weeks due to the wrongful death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Last week some of these protestors even took over control of a six block section of Seattle, including a police precinct. Nebraska has not been immune to these kinds of violent protests. Rioters in Lincoln, for example, destroyed several buildings along the Lincoln Mall near the Capitol Building, including the Blue Cross/Blue Shield...
Among the residences on the north side of Sidney stands a church building, a building acquired by prayer and private support. A crew of workers from Mississippi recently spent a week at the church providing a much-needed facelift. Billy Matkins, group leader, said the group was connected with The Well, through Terry and Dana Pickins of their North American Missions Board. The Pickins call themselves fulltime missionaries. He left his electrical and plumbing business, and she walked away from...
Here in Nebraska, June is both Renewable Fuels Month and Dairy Month, so it’s a fitting time to talk about how we’re working to get Nebraska agriculture growing. 2020 has been another challenging year for our state’s largest industry. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted commodity prices and caused significant changes to the nation’s food supply chain. Through it all, our farmers, ranchers, and food processor workers have delivered the food our nation and the world need. Over the years,...
The Nebraska Wheat Board (NWB) would like to congratulate Marla Prusa for being selected as this year’s recipient of the Home Baking Association’s (HBA) Educator Award. Each year the HBA requests teachers, community leaders and youth leader organizations to submit their baking lessons, community service programs or adult/teen leader skill training lesson plans. The winner receives a cash prize of $1,000 and an all-expense paid trip for two to HBA’s Annual Meeting to present a summary of their award winning project. Marla was selected as this...
“Mother nature is at it again!” were the words of the Operations Manager at Wheat Belt PPD explaining the widespread outages throughout our service territory due to downed poles and lines. Saturday’s storm damaged 47 poles from Redington to Lewellen, and Monday’s storm damaged an additional 46 poles from Sidney to north of Lisco. Both storms covered a significant area of our service territory, resulting in widespread outages. Our on-call linemen were dispatched Friday night to repair outages...
