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LONG-TIME MCCOOK RESIDENT HONORED A long-time McCook resident will be honored at McCook Community Col-lege’s Commencement Friday which will features a faculty award, a stu-dent speaker, and degrees presented to the 2017 graduates. Ceremonies are set for 10 a.m. Friday at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. MCC Sophomore Grayce Jorgensen was selected as this year’s student speaker. Walter E. Sehnert is this year’s recipient of the McCook Commu-nity College President’s Award. The Dr. Gene A. Budig Outstanding Fac-ulty Award will be announced. Musical selections will be performed by the MCC Choir under the direction of Dr. Mirna Cabrera. Also this year 227 area high school seniors will be wearing a special Mid-Plains Community College accessory when they walk at their own commencement events. Every high school graduate who has successfully completed 12 or more credit hours through MPCC will receive a blue and gold honor cord as well as a personalized certificate. These students include 18 from McCook High School, 11 from Chase County, three from Southwest, two from Dundy County, one from Hayes Center and one from Medicine Val-ley. Walter E. Sehnert is a native of Plainview, he grew up in a family with a long lineage of German bakers. In 1957 he and wife Jean came to McCook where he opened his own Sehnert’s Bakery. “When we came here, my mother knew the importance of having a college in town and encouraged me and later my family to take advantage of the opportuni-ties college offered,” Sehnert said.

U.S. HOUSE HEALTH CARE BILL Congressman Don Bacon voted last week for the U.S. House heath care bill and is confident that it will fix many problems now associated with the Affordable Care Act. Congressman Bacon says, “I would set it as a rescue mission because the current health care system is going down right now if we don’t intervene. Unfortunately, those who are opposing what we did are offering no plans to fix ACA other than going to a nationalized or a single payer health care system which I definitely oppose.” Congressman Bacon says opponents seem to be scaring Americans with what the new bill contains. He says, “I heard on the floor the other day before I voted, a person from the other aisle says this bill is worse than AIDS. The scare mongering is terrible. This bill insures that pre-existing conditions are cov-ered – period.” There are also questions about waivers. Congressman Bacon says, “The waivers can only be used if they are going to maintain pre-existing conditions. You only get the waiver if you can show it will be more cost effective or lower rates but it still has to maintain those pre-existing conditions. I feel the other side is clearly overreaching and I think

the people will see through it.”

BETTER SERVE FAMILIES Nebraska hopes to better serve families coping with children suffering from mental illness, substance abuse, or other behavioral problems. The state Department of Health and Human Services has received a four-year, 12-Million dollar grant to create a program called “System of Care.” Divi-sion of Behavioral Health Director Sheri Dawson says some Nebraskans have complained state services are fragmented. “There are times where families, because we don’t talk about mental illness and substance abuse like we do other chronic diseases, don’t even know where to turn,” Dawson told reporters during a news conference called by Gov. Pete Ricketts. “And when they ask for resources, the person that they’re asking may not be able to really tell them even though they’re might be in a service in their community.”

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The McCook Community College baseball knew they needed at

least one win to have a chance to get into the post-season for the

second straight year and did just that; winning game one of the

double-header with Empire Conference Champions Western Ne-

braska 9-2. MCC would drop game two, 8-4, and finish the regular

season at 28-25 overall and 20-16 in Empire Conference play.

WNCC would clinch the Indians playoff ticket by defeating Lamar

on the final game of the regular season. McCook will enter the

conference tournament as the 4-seed and take on the 1-seed and

host Western Nebraska on Thursday. The Indians went 2-4 against

the Cougars during the regular season; 1-1 in Scottsbluff. This

marks the first back-to-back playoff appearances for MCC since

the post-season format changed in 2008.

Nathan Karns' pitching and a healthy dose of offense led the

Royals to a 7-3 win over the Rays on Monday night at Tropicana

Field. Karns, who spent two seasons with the Rays, allowed two

runs on six hits and two walks while matching a career-high 10

strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings en route to his second win of the sea-

son. "I followed [catcher Drew Butera] all game back there,"

Karns said. "I think I shook him off maybe one time. He had a

good feel for them and I just followed his glove around the whole

game."Kansas City scored three times in the third. Butera led off

the inning with his first home run of the season. The Royals fol-

lowed with four consecutive hits, including Lorenzo Cain's single

that got past Rays Gold Glove center fielder Kevin Kiermaier and

rolled to the wall allowing two runs to score to give the Royals a 3

-1 lead. Game two of the series is tonight. Pregame coverage on

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