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HOME OF BISON

SPORTS FOR

40 YEARS!

McCook Humane Society

100 South Street

345-2372

Hours: M-F: 2-5

Sat: 12-4

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29, 2018

WALK-IN HOURS

7 AM - 5 PM

MONDAY - FRIDAY

8 AM-10 AM

SATURDAY

NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY

1401 EAST H STREET 344-4110

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High

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MONTHLY BOARD MEETING Following their traditional month off in July, Community Hospital board members met recently for their monthly board meeting. At the meeting board members ratified a new board member to the Community Hospi-tal Health Foundation board and passed a resolution to approve financ-ing for the upcoming building project. The board ratified the appoint-ment of Neil Gohl to the Community Hospital Health Foundation board of directors. Gohl will fill the remaining term of Bill Burton who resigned to move to eastern Nebraska. A resolution passed allowing the officers to enter into the construction loan of $15 million to partially finance the upcoming building project. This financing will be used after the Hospital has spent the $3 million of owner funds committed to this project. The construction loan from Thayer County Bank will be financed by a compi-lation of correspondent banks in Nebraska, including MNB Bank in McCook, Thayer County Bank, First State Bank, Bankers Bank of the West, Core Bank, Frontier Bank, Sioux Falls SD and Plattsmouth State Bank. The post-construction lending documents will be completed once a contract with construction contractor, Sampson Construction, is complete. This will include lending through Thayer County Bank and USDA Rural Development direct lending. Community Hospital’s building project in-cludes expanding the Medical Specialists Center and Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and updating the hospital kitchen along with some smaller projects. Sampson Construction hopes to mobilize on site in September to begin preliminary work.

LAWSUIT TO BLOCK BALLET INITIATIVE Today, the lawsuit to block the ballot initiative to expand Medicaid filed in Lancaster County District Court by Senator Lydia Brasch and former Senator Mark Christensen has been dismissed with prejudice and their motion for judgment denied. Meg Mandy, Campaign Manager for In-sure the Good Life, issued the following statement in response: “This is a great day for democracy and for Nebraskans. We are pleased to hear from the Court that Nebraska voters will have the opportunity to decide to lower property taxes and expand Medicaid to the 90,000 Nebras-kans who work at jobs that don’t come with health insurance. “More than 135,000 Nebraskans from every county signed the petition to put this to a vote of the people, which shows this isn’t a partisan issue. Every Ne-braskan should have access to healthcare, like heart medication or can-cer treatment, when they are sick.” If passed, the measure would cover more than 90,000 hard-working Nebraskans. These are individuals working at jobs that come without health care coverage and earn less than $17,000 a year.

PROPERTY TAX RELIEF INITIATIVE The group Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom is submitting a billion-dollar property tax relief petition to Nebraska’s Secretary of State. The group’s president, Doug Kagan, says they seek property tax relief in the form of rebates and want a constitutional amendment on the 2020 bal-lot. “It would give every property owner on every piece of their real property in the state of Nebraska a 35% refundable income tax rebate on whatever income tax they pay the state,” Kagan says. “It would be a tax credit on their property taxes.” Under the plan, if the rebate was larger than what a person paid in, they’d get a refund check from the state. Kagan says the property tax burden is worsening and costing Nebraska residents.

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McCook Humane Society

100 South Street, 345-2372

Hours: M-F: 2-5, Sat: 12-4

QUOTE OF THE DAY

America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are com-mon to all people: nations,

cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt

out of them. John McCain

SPORTS Cozad edged McCook 9-6 in girls fast pitch softball at the Jaycee

Sports Complex last night. Both teams had leads in the game,

McCook tying the game at five with a run in the bottom of the

seventh, forcing extra innings. The Haymakers would score four

runs in the top of the eighth, then holding the Lady Bison to just

a run. MHS will travel to Holdrege on Thursday, then host their

own tournament at the Jaycee Sports Complex on Saturday.

The McCook Community College Lady Indian volleyball team

swept three games on the road Tuesday picking up a straight

set-win over Eastern Wyoming 25-19, 25-14, 25-17. Freshman

Faith Simpson (Wauneta-Palisade) had 13 kills to lead the Indian

hitters. Sophomore Ryan Maddera, (Greeley, Colo.) had 11 kills

and Sophomore Ty Johnson, (Conroe, Texas) had eight kills. “Ty

Johnson played an outstanding third set,” MCC Coach Hayley

Kobza said. “She had seven kills alone in that set – along with

two solo blocks.” Hannah Emerson (Greeley, Colo.) and Hayley

Jacobsen (Littleton, Colo.) each had three kills. “The girls played

good, we still have a few things we need to tighten up on and

then I think we will be good to go,” Kobza said. On Saturday the

3-2 Lady Indians are in Arkansas City, Kan. for a noon game

with Cowley College and a 2 p.m. game against Johnson County.

Next week the “road warriors” will play their eighth and ninth

straight away games to start the season -- with a Tuesday game

at Beatrice against Southeast Community College and Wednes-

day at Columbus against Central Community College. The first

game in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center is set for

Sept. 7 at 6:30 p.m. against Cloud County Community College.

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