A graveside memorial service for Danny R. Pool will be held on Friday, the 20th day of October 2023, at 11:00 a.m.

MCCOOK - It wasn’t always pretty and they didn’t play perfect, but the Southwest volleyball team didn’t need it to be. After coming from a set down to knock off Cambridge in Monday’s semifinals, the East’s top-seeded Roughriders swept past West top-seed Wallace to claim the school’s first-ever Republican Plains Activities Conference Championship Tuesday night.

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The fall sports regular seasons are all completed, save for a Thursday football tilt for Southwest and a home volleyball game for Southern Valley. Eleven local athletes will take part in Friday’s State Cross Country Meet in Kearney, while eightman football’s playoff qualifiers will begin their postseasons Thursday.

Journaling with children can help them be successful in various avenues of their life including in school, at home, and in building relationships. Keeping a journal with your tweens or teens allows them a place to share their feelings and offers them a safe outlet to express themselves says Nebraska Extension 4-H Educator Rhonda Herrick based in Kearney/Franklin County.

Last week, Islamic terrorists from Hamas pushed into Israel in a surprise attack from land, sea, and air. The stories, images, and videos of the attacks depict a level of savagery that shocks the conscience. Hamas murdered civilians and soldiers alike. Over 1,300 Israelis and at least 27 Americans are dead. The Prime Minister’s office said Israeli Defense Forces found babies and toddlers Hamas had beheaded. The terrorists massacred hundreds of young people attending a music festival. They barbarically raped women and paraded them bleeding from the assaults through the streets. They kidnapped innocent civilians, including American citizens. Hamas continues to use children and civilians in Gaza as human shields. It’s sick and evil.

In the second of our two-part series, we highlight TeamMates+ mentor/mentee Joanna Hergenreder and Betty Books. They share their deep appreciation for the TeamMates program founded in 1991 by Tom and Nancy Osborne.

Aristotle is said to have referred to the female as a mutilated male, and this philosophy seems to have carried forward into much more modern times. In 1977, official FDA guidelines recommended that women of “childbearing potential” be excluded from early stage clinical trials.

Last week, tragedy struck in Israel. The Iranbacked terrorist group Hamas brutally attacked men, women, and children in a hateful act of war. The butchering of babies, the burning of human bodies, the kidnapping, rape, beating, and murder of Israelis is despicable and shocking to the core.

The Southwest Roughriders went down to the wire in Friday’s windy match up with Wallace and got a much needed win to secure a playoff berth. Southwest had to make a few adjustments to its offensive game plan in the face of 50 mph winds.