11-09-12

Posted on Nov 9th, 2012 at 7:35 am

Happy Birthday Wishes to:

Janice Adams, Pat Hammond, Kathy Kolosick, Matthew McKeever, Terri Sampson, Amy Steffen, Lynn Steward, Kimberly Strand

Skywatch Weather:

Today, partial sunshine, patchy fog possible, high 56. Tonight, partly to mostly cloudy early, then clearing, low 43. Saturday, a blend of clouds & sun, chance showers or storms late, high 70.

Sports:

ESPN Radio now at 105.9 WJAG-FM & 780 WJAG-AM Mon-Fri at 5:00 PM & Sat & Sun at 4:00!

The Class “C-2” Two-time Defending State Champion Lutheran High Northeast volleyball team is moving on to the State Tournament semifinals. They claimed their opening round match yesterday with a 3-1 win over Freeman at Northwest High School in Grand Island. Scores of the match had the Lady Eagles winning 25-17, 25-21, 17-25, 25-19. Lutheran High Northeast was led by Morgan Sunderman’s 17 kills and four blocks. Teammate Jessica Masters had ten kills and eight digs. Megan Gebhardt had eight kills, three blocks, seven digs, and 23 set assists. Arianna Rathke added 14 digs and Mandi Uecker had 18 set assists and eleven digs. The Lady Eagles are now 29-5 on the season and have won ten of their last eleven matches. They will move on to play top seeded 30-1 North Platte St. Patrick’s in the semifinal round this morning at 9:00 AM at Grand Island Senior High.

The Norfolk Catholic volleyball team’s season has came to a close. They dropped their opening round match yesterday in five sets to Lincoln Christian at Grand Island Senior High. Scores of the match had the Lady Crusaders winning 25-22, 22-25, 25-19, 18-25, 15-6. The Lady Knights were led by Michaela Barry’s 16 kills, 26 digs, and 25 set assists. Teammate Amy Miller had 13 kills, three blocks, and 13 digs. Kristin Maguire recorded 26 digs & seven kills and Rachel Wieser added 24 set assists, six kills, and seven digs. Norfolk Catholic’s season concludes at 28-3

Local Schedule: Des Moines Area CC, Iowa at NECC (Hawks Classic WBB-6:00); Iowa Central CC at NECC (Hawks Classic MBB-8:00); North Texas at Creighton (MBB-7:05); Indiana at Nebraska (VB-7:00); Indiana St. At Creighton (VB-5:00).

Saturday Morning: Sportstalk on 106 KIX & 106KIX.com from 9:00-10:00 AM from Hy-Vee East. This Week: Nfk Cath’s Jeff Bellar & Gail Borgmann; LHNE’s Darin Suckstorf & Kathy Gebhardt; NECC’s Matt Svehla; & Humphrey High volleyball coach Gary Bender.

Area State Volleyball Teams State Tournament Scores: Columbus Scotus 3 Grand Island CC 2 (C-1); Hartington CC 3 Wood River 1 (C-2); Exeter/Milligan 3 Howells/Dodge 2; West Point Guardian Angels 3 Silver Lake 0; O’Neill St. Mary’s 3 Ansley/Litchfield 1 (D-1); Humphrey High 3 Mullen 0 (D-2).

NFL Scoreboard: Indianapolis 27 Jacksonville 10.

BCS Top 25 College Football: (10) Florida St. 28 Virginia Tech 22; Ball St. 34 (25) Toledo 27.

Kwifax:

The first 3 Musketeers bar sold for 5 cents.

News Briefs:

Republican U.S. Sen.-elect Deb Fischer says she and her husband, Bruce, plan to go apartment hunting in the Washington, D.C. area sometime next week. Fischer was elected Tuesday to replace Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, who opted not to seek a third term. , who will be sworn in as Nebraska's newest U.S. Senator in January, said her Washington digs will not be anything fancy. She said she'll probably settle for a one-bedroom apartment, much like she has had in Lincoln while serving in the Nebraska Legislature for the last eight years.

Nebraska already faces a nursing shortage, but a top dean at the University of Nebraska Medical Center says the need will grow even more under the federal health care law. Juliann Sebastian, dean of the university's College of Nursing, said Thursday that the increase in insured Nebraskans as a result of the law will prompt more to visit doctors' offices for preventative care. The law is intended to lower health care costs by insuring more people and encouraging them to seek early care to avoid major health problems. Sebastian says the health care law makes some federal money available for community health centers and school-health clinics, but the need for nurses will persist.

USDA is predicting grocery prices will increase up to four percent next year and no one is feeling the impact of higher food prices more than the Food Bank for the Heartland. Spokesman Brian Barks says higher grocery prices really impact them. Barks says they receive about half of their food from corporate donors, but they have started to reduce supplies as well. He says food bank supplies are down hundreds of thousands of pounds as they head into the busy holiday season. The Food Bank for the Heartland serves 77 food pantries in Nebraska and in 16 western Iowa.

The Better Business Bureau that serves Nebraska, South Dakota and southwest Iowa has announced a merger with The Kansas Plains Better Business Bureau that serves most of Kansas. The new combined territory will have nearly 10,000 accredited businesses. Jim Hegarty is president of the bureau based in Omaha says that the merger will let each bureau "build on each other's strengths, combine resources and initiate new programs to meet the needs of today's businesses and consumers." The bureaus expect the merger to be completed in the next few months.

Veterans Day is a time for all of use to remember the men and women who have served our country, and especially those who gave their lives. For the McIntosh family in Norfolk, that means remembering a young man named Claude Van Andel who was killed by a claymore mine during the Vietnam War. Jan McIntosh Einspahr remembers Van Andel as a typical high school student. Van Andel's death is linked to the design for the Vietnam Wall memorial. He was a friend of Jan Scruggs, who founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and raised $8-million to build the wall. J. Paul McIntosh will tell the Claude Van Andel story Monday morning at Lutheran High Northeast and again at noon to the Norfolk Kiwanis Club.