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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

SUNDAY SEPT. 9 @

2:25 PM VS

SEATTLE

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 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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TIME IS RUNNING OUT Time is running out to buy tickets for the 2018 Mid-Plains Community College raffle car. The drawing for the 1932 Ford Roadster will be at 3 p.m. Saturday during the 24th annual Colonel Cody’s Cruise Show and Shine in downtown North Platte. The public can buy tickets during a kick-off barbecue from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the D and N Event Center in North Platte then again from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the actual show and shine. Tickets are also available until Thursday in the welcome centers at MPCC’s campuses in McCook, North Platte, Broken Bow, Im-perial, Ogallala and Valentine. The Roadster was built by students in MPCC’s Classic Car Restoration, Automotive Technology and Auto Body Technology programs and is the result of a partnership with Lincoln-based Speedway Motors. “The partnership with Speedway has been a wonderful experience,” said Bryan Herrick, MPCC’s first-year Automo-tive Technology instructor. “We built the car from scratch using mainly Speedway parts. Ninety-five percent of the project came straight from the Speedway catalog. The remaining five percent involved our con-struction of the interior.”

LODGING TAX COLLECTION A bump in Nebraska tourism in the last fiscal year resulted in the larg-est lodging tax collection in the state’s history; over $5.6 million. State Tourism Director John Ricks says the high numbers are likely due to many different factors, the most obvious of which would be last year’s total eclipse of the sun. Ricks says that while the impact of the eclipse on tourism was substantial, the event had another, arguably more signifi-cant function; giving thousands of out-of-towners a chance to experi-ence Nebraska as a vacation destination. He explains that of the tour-ists who visited Nebraska for the eclipse, three-quarters of those where what he calls “non visitors”; someone who doesn’t think of Nebraska as a vacation getaway and don’t frequent the state. “They’ve maybe been to the state, they’ve been through the state (or) they’ve visited somebody here,” says Ricks, “but its really not on their radar as a vaca-tion destination.” It’s Ricks hope that these “non-visitors” will come back and continue to spend money in the state. “We did the research.” He says. “Forty percent of them told us that they’d be back in one or two years and another 45% said they’d be back in 3 to 5.”

GAS PRICES SHOULD START TO FALL As the weather gradually gets cooler, gasoline prices are also cooling off, and industry analysts say prices should start to fall in Nebraska and nationwide, likely within days. Rose White, at AAA Nebraska, says the passage of Labor Day means an end to the summer driving season and a drop in demand. “The national gasoline price is likely to average $2.70 a gallon this fall,” White says. “That’s down from the current price of $2.84 a gallon and more than a quarter cheaper than this year’s record high of $2.97, set in May.” The average price for gaso-line in Nebraska is now $2.70 a gallon, that’s 16 cents higher than a year ago. White anticipates pump prices will spiral downward soon as the switch from summer to winter-grade fuels begins. “In September, gasoline demand typically drops as refineries switch to cheaper-to-produce winter fuel blends, putting downward pressure on prices at the pump,” White says. “In addition, we’re seeing the end of the summer travel season which causes a downturn in demand.”

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McCook Humane Society

100 South Street, 345-2372

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

INTERESTING FACT

At the Gettysburg reun-ion in 1913, two men purchased a hatchet,

walked to the site where their regiments had

fought, and buried it.

SPORTS The McCook boys were second and Lady Bison third at the

Lexington Cross Country Invite yesterday. Lexington swept the

team titles. Riley Mai led the Bison boys with a third-place

finish. Elsi Rodewald led the Lady Bison with a third-place

medal. The Bison teams will run at the Broken Bow Invite on

Saturday. The Lady Bison volleyball team dropped a three-set

match to Ogallala last night at the high school gym. MHS will

host Holdrege on Thursday night. The Lady Bison softball team

fell 8-3 at Kearney Catholic. The MHS girls will travel to Lex-

ington on Thursday. The girls golf dual between McCook and

North Platte scheduled for yesterday at Heritage Hills was

cancelled.

The McCook Community College Lady Indian volleyball team

got back on the winning track Tuesday night sweeping South-

east Community College 25-15, 25-13, 25-14. Freshman Faith

Simpson (Wauneta-Palisade) had eight kills and six aces.

Freshman Mallory Brown (Colorado Springs) had six kills and

three aces. Sophomore Ty Johnson, (Conroe, Texas) had six kill

and a solo block. Sophomore Hannah Emerson (Greeley, Colo.)

had five kills and three solo blocks. Sophomore Hayley

Jacobsen (Littleton, Colo.) had six kills and two solo blocks.

Sophomore Ashley Carson (Ord) had 26 set assists for MCC.

Southeast Community College falls to 1-8 on the season. The

Lady Indians improve to 4-4 on the year. On Wednesday MCC

finishes up the nine-game stretch on the road to start the

season. The Lady Indians are at Columbus against Central

Community College.

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