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The Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce recently announced McKailie Carnahan-Kuhns as the new President/CEO. Carnahan-Kuhns takes over for Hope Feeney. Feeney and her husband Eamonn have accepted education positions at Maxwell High School. Feeney's last day at the Chamber is scheduled for July 23. She is assisting Carnahan-Kuhns with the transition into her new role as Chamber president and CEO. “I think McKailie is doing a good job so far,” Feeney said Friday. “I'm really excited about the f...
Jerry L. Hall of Sidney, Nebraska, died Saturday June 19, 2021, at the age of 91 ½ (he kept track). Visitation will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. followed by a funeral service at 11:00 am., Saturday, June 26 at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home with Pastor Lisa Uhl officiating. Jerry will be laid to rest at 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 29 at Pikes Peak National Cemetery in Colorado Springs, CO. Jerry was born December 6, 1929, to Curtis and Hazel (Ruff) Hall of Lima, Ohio. He loved his country and co...
More than 30 years ago, Doug Birky was finishing his degree at Dallas Theological Seminary when he was contacted about a church in Sidney. He was contacted after the midwest district of the Evangelical Free Church received his resume. He calls the delivery of his resume “another story.” What is real, he says, is he and his wife Carolyn and their family, have been blessed to be part of the Sidney community since 1986. “We had never imagined we'd be here this many years,” Birky said recentl...
Cheyenne County had a unique visitor last week, Michael Wilson originally from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Unlike most tourists, he wasn't in the Sidney area to fill his car with gas or to get in some sight-seeing of historical landmarks. He is on a mission, a mission to traverse the Continental United States while running, to raise awareness for childhood cancer. Currently Wilson lives in southern Maine, not far from where he grew up. Surprisingly, he was not a cross-country or marathon runner...
John (Jay) Joseph Hickert passed away June 8, 2021 in Akron, CO. Jay was born December 3, 1926 on the family farm in New Almelo, KS. He was the second of eleven children by John W. and Mary L. Hickert. He was baptized at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in New Almelo where he attended grade school. He attended high school at St. John’s Military Academy in Hays, KS and Norton High School. Jay was born just prior to the Great Depression and as one of the oldest in the family started farming at a young...
December 29, 1932 - April 11, 2021 Wanda M. (Farmer) Kaduk, 88 of Westmont, IL, passed away peacefully on April ll, 2021, with loved ones at her side, at the home she had lived in for 60-plus years. Wanda was the daughter of Violet and Carl Farmer, born December 29, 1932, in Denver, Colo., the first child of six born to this union. She attended elementary schools in Colorado, until the family moved to Sioux Ordnance Depot, near Sidney, Nebr. in March 1944. She attended Brownson School for one...
A Celebration of Life in honor of Douglas Samuel Chappell will be held on Wednesday, June 23rd , 2021 (his birthday) at 11:00 AM at the First United Methodist Church in Scottsbluff. Pastors Craig Collins and Curt Holzworth will be officiating, and a luncheon will immediately follow the service. Doug passed away on March 11, 2020, and a formal service was postponed in an attempt to provide comfort and safety for all who wish to attend. We are in hopes that you will now join us at the church to...
Thomas “Tom” Lorton Kokjer, age 93, of Sidney, NE passed away Sunday, June 13, 2021 in Sidney. A Memorial Graveside service will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, July 24, 2021 at Greenwood Cemetery with inurnment to follow. Cremation has been held. A Celebration of Life for family and friends will immediately follow at Fanny’s Farmhouse, 1 1/2 miles east of Gurley, Nebraska on Road 46. A memorial is being established and can be sent in care of the family for a later designation. Friends may s...
In my high school days I was honored to receive invitations to speak at the many local and area civic organizations' meetings. This is part 2 of a speech I delivered to the Fairbanks Rotary Club just prior to Independence Day, 1965. Many of the things I said then still apply today, and all of it is important to recall at all times. This was a pretty gutsy thing for a teen to be saying to a roomful of adults. The real purpose, the real reason for Independence Day is to honor the 56 men who...
Allow me to introduce you to a new organization called, the Consumption Tax Institute, Inc. The Consumption Tax Institute, Inc. is a new 501-C4 organization, which is putting together a strategy to put an initiative for the consumption tax on the ballot for November 2022. At some point in the future they hope to announce the start of a new petition drive, but that announcement will have to wait for another day. The reason that I am introducing you to the Consumption Tax Institute, Inc. today has...
The Woke Generation has the idea the truth is long absent, or at least such is implied on the public platform. There is this idea that history doesn’t tell the whole story. They might be right, in part. I remember years ago reading a philosopher’s opinion that history is written by the conqueror, or winner, in any given contest. That part makes sense, or is at least understandable. Pick a country, or geographic region, where its current makeup came about because of conquest. There will be the...
If you don’t have a spouse or children, you might think you don’t need to do much estate planning. But if you have any assets, any familial connections, any interest in supporting charitable groups – not to mention a desire to control your own future – you do need to establish an estate plan. In evaluating your needs for this type of planning, let’s start with what might happen if you die intestate – that is, without a last will and testament. In this scenario, your assets will likely have to go through the probate process, which means they...
In our own time, maybe no one has seen the social aspects of God’s Kingdom on earth quite like Martin Luther King, Jr. He stood toe to toe with the house of evil. He insisted in a number of his speeches that the key to the future was a certain “maladjustment…” In 1961, Dr. King gave the commencement address at Lincoln University, in which he talked about “The American Dream,” and he said this, “There are certain things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon all people of good will to be maladju...
The Cheyenne County Fair Board recently announced that Chase Bryant will be providing the entertainment for the 2021 county fair. The concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, July 30. His music will include Top 10 Country Music song “Take It on Back.” The Cheyenne County Fair Board favored Bryant because of the timing. He is releasing his new album shortly before the fair. The board chose Bryant from three favored performers. An opening act is planned but the performer has not been named yet. Tic...
Here are some profiles of the trees and shrubs being planted in the City of Scottsbluff in the public parking lot at 17th Street and Second Avenue. These well-adapted plants would be good choices for anybody considering what to plant in their home landscape. Anybody is welcome to stop by the parking lot and see them. Sucker Punch Canada Red Chokecherry (Prunus x virginiana ‘P002’): Sucker Punch® Canada Red Chokecherry is a breakthrough selection of chokecherry as it doesn’t sucker. New leaves...
You and I, and all others who claim American citizenship, now have reason to celebrate a new Federal holiday, Juneteenth, our 12th legal public holiday. Last week, on Tuesday, June 15, the Senate unanimously passed legislation to make June 19, or Juneteenth, a national holiday. On Wednesday, June 16, the House passed it with only 14 “no” votes. On Thursday, June 17, President Joe Biden signed into law the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the White House’s East Room. In his remar...
Submitted by "The Well-Armed Woman," Sterling, CO chapter After a long winter and a rainy spring, it’s finally feeling like summer, which means it’s time to get out to the gun range. While many of you readers may have been to the range before, a lot of you haven’t or perhaps it’s been a while since you’ve gone. Today, I’ll walk you through what it’s like to go to the range. The first step to hitting the range is to pack. I like to use a small duffel bag as my range bag but there are many types of bags that work well. The essential things to pac...
God’s word, the Bible, is the source for all that is truth; what does it tell us about Homosexuality? Genesis !:27-28, God did not create homosexuality, men and women were meant to reproduce sexually (primary purpose for sex), 2 men cannot do this and neither can 2 women. Genesis 2:24, God’s design for marriage, one man and one woman becoming “one flesh”. Genesis 18:20-32, The sin of Sodom & Gomorrah was exceeding grave, the men were “wicked” and these cities were destroyed by God because of...
Sidney’s American Legion Post 17 Senior Baseball team traveled up to Alliance for weekend tournament play Friday and Saturday, and came up empty with three losses for the trip. On Friday, Sidney started the tournament by squaring off with Torrington, and after pitcher Sam Hashman retired the side in order to start the game, took a one run lead early when Austin Wolfe got on base with a single, then came around to score on a passed ball. Torrington was able to notch two runs the next inning o...
Sidney’s American Legion Post 17 Junior Baseball team hosted Fort Morgan on Wednesday, June 16, and the teams battled through the late afternoon heat to find themselves tied at 6-to-6 at the end of six innings. In the top of the seventh, Fort Morgan was able to scratch out a run, but Sidney’s Reid Fiscus battled hard on the mound, loading the bases then working out of the jam to keep Sidney in the game. Sidney was able to plate a run to keep the score deadlocked in the eight, when Fiscus ret...
“Realigned & Redefined” out of Silver Dollar in Sidney had a strong second place finish at the Western Nebraska APA 8-Ball World Qualifier held at Eagles Club in North Platte, earning a cash prize for their effort. The team won a spot to the Vegas Championship for their first place finish in the 2020 Western Nebraska APA 8-Ball World Qualifier and will finally travel to Las Vegas in October after the event was set back due to COVID-19 restrictions. Teams that advance to the Vegas events rec...
The Lodgepole Valley Youth Camp will be hosting an open house at 7 p.m. Monday, June 28 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Ice cream will be served. The camp is a 7 ½ acre parcel located adjacent to the softball fields at the east side of Legion Park at Toledo Street and Fort Sidney Road. The camp was established in 1970 and includes the “Monica McNish” lodge built in 1976 which can accommodate up to 125 people. The camp also has a chapel, storage shed, outdoor shelter and four cabins. Each cabin can accommodate 20 to 25 people. In 1985, the...
With digital transformation in the business world accelerating since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many companies are in danger of being left behind – possibly for good. The numbers can be disheartening. “Even after spending enormous amounts of effort and capital on digitalization, more than 90 percent of organizations fail or show poor results in adjusting to the rapidly changing business environment,” says Sri Manchala, the ForbesBooks author of Crossing the Digital Fault Line: 10 Rules of Highly Successful Leaders in Digitalization (www....
The gem about most small towns is you're only a visitor a time or two. Even if you don't live there, if you frequent the cafes and watering holes you soon become as if a minor character in "Friends," where everybody knows your name. That is an atmosphere Jody Aure hopes to continue at the Potter Sundry. The cafe and sweetshop long known for the decadent Tin Roof Sundae is expanding to include bakery items, longer hours to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, and souvenir items such as t-shirts...
