Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
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Sam Glenn is a motivational speaker who has spoken at conferences and conventions for major companies and events all over the the nation. The Kimball Junior/Senior High School civics class has managed to set up an event with Glenn for the school and community. Jeri Ferguson, high school social studies instructor, has encouraged her civics class to do something that would benefit both the school and the community. The city council chambers were filled with high school seniors on Sept. 2. The...
Several Kimball Ambulance Service EMTs have strived to better the area's emergency care. Several of the EMTs have completed advanced EMT training, which is exactly what EMT Heather Gawith recently accomplished. "Basically, now that I am an advanced EMT, we can start IVs and give the patients fluids if we need to. We have the ability to administer certain pain killers depending on the circumstance, such as cardiac or trauma. We can also give the patient albuterol for respiratory emergencies. We c...
Kimball Public Schools have addressed the need for updates to the school buildings’ structures as well as some safety issues at the Sept. 8 board meeting. Kimball Public schools has been working with 360 Energy Engineers in order to address some much needed updates to both the elementary school as well as the high school. 360 Energy offers a preliminary engineering audit as well as a facilities master plan that allows the school to see its problem areas and then decide how to proceed. At the board meeting, 360 Energy Engineering r...
A huge win came for the Kimball High School football team this past Friday night as they ran over the hosting Mitchell Tigers 45-6 to run their record to 2-1. Up next for Kimball is Chase County, which comes to Keith Staehr Stadium this Friday night. The Longhorns struck early and often as they jumped to a 42-0 lead by halftime and then pretty much turned the game over to the backups the second half. The Horns kicked off to start the game and forced a punt as Mitchell went three and out. A good...
Mitchell High School captured the top spots in both the girls and boys divisions of the Kimball High Cross Country Invitational on Friday as the Mitchell boys won the team title with 15 points thanks in large part to the one-two individual finish of Edward Grents and Chase Watson with respective times of 18:11 and 18:15 over the hilly 5K course at the Four Winds Golf Course. All five of Mitchell's top runners finished in the top 10 medal group with Cody Mueller fourth in 19:00, Max Avila ninth...
It was another strong showing from Kimball High’s two senior golfers as both Jaycie Walker and Kallie Bush finished in the top 10 medal group at the Mitchell Invitational Girls Golf Tournament. The tournament was postponed one day until this past Friday due to bad weather conditions on Thursday. Walker shot 103 to finish seventh and Bush shot 108 to place ninth. Walker has now medaled in every tournament this season and keeps her string alive. In team scoring, Sidney won with 440, Bridgeport shot 442, Bayard 443, and Creek Valley 480. Alpine H...
The Kimball High Volleyball teams are corning off a very busy week and after a 3-0 start, are now 6-3 on the season. "We just finished a very tough week of competition" said coach Vicki Mitchell. "The varsity players had eight games from Tuesday through Saturday." The Kimball ladies had a strong start with wins over Bridgeport, 25-17 and 25-14, and over Garden County, 25-8 and 25-13, in the triangular at Bridgeport. On Thursday night in the season home opener with Mitchell and Potter Dix, the La...
The Kimball High School cross country team opened the 2014 season with perhaps its toughest competition of the entire season Sept. 5 at the Gering Invite. The Longhorns had to run with many of the large Class B Nebraska Schools along with some of the strong Wyoming schools, but it was a good opening test for coach Tiffany Johnson’s runners. In the boys team standings at Gering, Scottsbluff, the defending state champions, won with 14 points followed by Sidney with 35, Mitchell with 71, Gering with 80, Alliance with 80, Torrington with 121, B...