Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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A pair of Kimball school board members will resign next month. Theresa Keller and Jarrod Schnell are both moving out of the district and their resignations will be effective in August. The board will appoint replacements until the next general election, which will be held in November 2016. Schnell’s resignation goes into effect after the Aug. 10 regularly scheduled board meeting, while Keller’s resignation takes effect Aug. 17. They were both excused from Monday’s emergency board meeting. Information will be collected from interested parti...
A lawsuit filed against the Village of Bushnell will be heard in Kimball's District Court on Aug. 4 The plaintiff, Emerson F. Calvert, seeks a continuation of a temporary injunction until trial. According to the lawsuit, the village informed Calvert in March that it adopted the Nebraska Basic Code and had designated it as the Village Code of Ordinances as it pertains to nuisance properties and abatement procedures. In a letter from the Village of Bushnell, Calvert was informed that the village...
The Kimball Fire Department will soon see its location expand. Fire Chief Rick Wynne was given permission at the July 21 Kimball City Council meeting for the department to purchase a house adjacent to its location. The house will be razed and will be used for parking. The house, located at 204 Webster Street and owned by Tonia Schindler of Kimball, is vacant and is what Mayor Keith Prunty called "one of our blighted properties." "The fire department has kind of had issues with this property for...
Many 17-year-old seniors are contemplating how to spend the last year of high school. However, Potter-Dix High School senior Regyn Hicks is not. Hicks is teaching adults how to live a healthier, more active lifestyle through cross-fit. "I started doing cross-fit a few years ago," Hicks said. "I went to a real cross-fit gym last summer and I fell in love with it." Hicks decided she wanted to continue the cross-fit program for herself and traveled to Denver this past winter to become certified to...
On Sunday, Aug. 2, area residents will have an opportunity to hear an outstanding piano recital by Donica Enevoldsen. The recital will begin at 3 p.m. in the Harry McNees Auditorium at Kimball High School. Donica was one of only four students to be selected by the University of Nebraska Hixon Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts music faculty as a Nebraska Young Artist of the Year in Piano for 2014. She has been teaching six piano students since 2013. In 2011, she started dual enrollment at...
The Village of Bushnell will be the place to be Aug. 15. The Sisters Grimm, Bushnell’s bookstore and coffee shop is hosting Windblown Arts Festival, with live music, food, crafts and more. There is no cover charge. Live music will feature Martin Gilmore (2–2:50 p.m.), Ryan Head (3–3:50 p.m.), Ben Treffer (4–4:50 p.m.), Deb Carpenter-Nolting (5–5:50 p.m.) and Jake McIntosh (6–6:50 p.m.). The last hour is scheduled as an open mic for individuals or groups wishing to share a song or two. The music ranges from bluegrass to folk to country to...
William Benson of the financial services firm Edward Jones in Sidney recently won the firm’s Frank Finnegan Award for his exceptional achievement in building client relationships. “It’s truly an honor to receive recognition for building relationships with those clients we serve,” said Benson. “And it’s quite inspirational to receive an award named after a firm legend such as Frank Finnegan who was dedicated to individual investors and understood each investor’s unique financial goals.” Benson was one of 904 of the firm’s 14,000 financial...
This mysterious man rode east into Kimball last Wednesday. Art Lamely rode his horse, Big John, on Hwy. 30 east to Sidney. He is originally from Broken Bow and said he has been riding across the country since 2008....
The Kimball City Council approved three Main Street Design and Improvement grant requests at its regularly scheduled meeting July 21. The first of the three requests came from the Kimball State Bank for landscaping improvements at 205 S. Locust Street in Kimball. “I want to improve all sides of it, but we may wait for a little bit to do the big lot behind the dentist’s office,” said Josh Enevoldsen, representing the bank. “We are going to put up some trees that can kind of block out the neighbors a little bit.” Enevoldsen said that while he...
The 24th annual Kimball Hospital Foundation Golf Classic is set for Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Four Winds Golf Course in Kimball. The event is a four-person scramble tournament open to players of all abilities, and a truly fun 18-hole event. Lunch will be served beforehand, and all players receive a Foundation Golf Classic 25-pack golf cart cooler and a buffet supper at Wind Break Bar & Grill. This year’s fundraiser tournament offers a putting contest for cash prizes and a chance to win a new Chevrolet Spark for a hole-in-one on the par-3 t...
Eugene H. Snyder, 67 of Scottsbluff, formerly of Banner County, passed away on Sunday, July 26, 2015 at Heritage Estates in Gering after a courageous battle with lung cancer with his loving wife Rita and his family by his side. His funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, at the First United Methodist Church in Gering with Rev. Seth Leypoldt officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Scottsbluff with military honors provided by the Nebraska Army National Guard....
Keep Kimball Beautiful has given the Golden Broom Award to Arne Christensen, owner of the Kimball Bakery, for the new mural that was painted onto the south-facing bakery wall. Presenting the award are, from left, Larissa Binod, Director of Keep Kimball Beautiful, Sarah Bouse and Dawn Moeser, KKB board members, Christensen, and Rachael Merryfield, the artist who designed the mural....
Kimball recently received nearly $24,000 in grant money from the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality for the Keep Kimball Beautiful campaign. The NDEQ awarded more than $2,257,000 in grants through the Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Grant Fund. Money for that fund is generated by a fee on solid waste disposed of in landfills, an annual retail business sales fee, and a fee assessed on the sale of new tires for motor vehicles, according to a news release. The local organization plans to host an electronic recycling event with... Full story
It did not take students long to learn design skills and more at last week's Maker Space Camp at the Kimball Public Library. Students learned design work and more at the camp, and their designs were printed out on the library's new 3D printer. "I think it went pretty well," said Jamie Carpenter, cataloging and technical services librarian and camp director. "I wasn't prepared for how quickly they would move through everything. Overall, they did a great job designing and using TinkerCad, and...
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a leadership training program sponsored by Rotary International that promotes, encourages, and rewards outstanding young people who want to become better leaders. RYLA consists of an all-expense paid five-day conference that brings together a special group of young men and women from central and western Nebraska to share ideas about becoming better leaders. Action-packed activities, like problem solving games, challenge course, group discussions and teamb...
A mother of four is always busy, but becomes even busier at county fair time. That is certainly the case for Julie McGinnis, whose four boys will show their fair share of livestock next week at the annual Kimball Banner County Fair. Her four sons, Jordan (15), Connor (13), James (10) and Cameron (6), show a total of seven pigs, one steer and a lamb for a cousin. James, who is showing the lone steer, also has a broken arm. "Cameron is in Clover Kids, so he is doing the fashion revue and he showin...
All is fair in Kimball and Banner counties, as participants, contestants, vendors and entertainers prepare for the 97th Annual Kimball-Banner County Fair. The fun begins Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 9 a.m. with 4-H exhibits and competitions scheduled for the Kimball High School, the fairgrounds and the Kimball Event Center. The 4-H fashion revue is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday at the high school, a public fashion revue will begin at 7 p.m., and the archery competition will take place at the...
Cowboy wit, classical country and a billboard charted hit titled “You Can Leave.” All this and more for two nights of entertainment at the Kimball-Banner County Fair. The Flying W Wranglers will kick off the shows on Friday night at 7:30 p.m., at the Kimball Fairgrounds. For more than 63 years the Flying W Wranglers have been performing their mix of classic country, western swing and gospel, making them the second oldest Western music group in the world, according to the group’s website. The local fair crowd is sure to enjoy not only their...
The final event of the 2015 Panhandle Junior Golf Tour took place this past week at the Gering Golf Course and once again Kimball entries fared well. Nate Dvorak of Scottsbluff won the boys high school age tournament with a round of 71 with Kimball's Jordan Greenwood just two strokes back in the runner up spot with his 73. A career best outing for young Dillon Wise who will be a freshman at Kimball High this fall as he shot a 75 to tie for 3rd. Zane Anthony had a solid round of 80, Brendan...
Participants in the Kimball Junior Golf Program honed their skills this summer. The program, led by Wilma Gilliland, gives children the opportunity to learn the game and improve their play....