Looking Back
What Was Going On 14 Years Ago
SPC Kristen Dinkel, who was serving a tour of duty in Iraq as a ground ambulance medic for the Army Reserves, never told her parents, Vicki and Allen Dinkel of Plainville, a lot about what goes on over there because she didn’t want her parents to worry. But when Kristen went above and beyond all odds to save a life, it was noticed and acknowledged by CW3 John Christian Frobenius, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot for the Combat Medical Evacuation on the Army base where Kristen was serving. Word of Kristen’s actions were sent back to her family through an email from Frobenius to Kristen’s older brother, Matt, describing how Kristen had applied three tourniquets while enroute to the hospital in the back of a moving Army ambulance. He said the patient would have certainly bled out if it weren’t for the work Matt’s sister had performed. Frobenius wanted Kristen’s family to know the kind of work she was doing and that they should be very proud of her.
The Stockton Tigers recorded their second win in as many days with a 51-39 victory over the Osborne Bulldogs. The action took place in WaKeeney in the boys’ feather bracket game of the Mid-Continent League Basketball Tournament. The win advanced Stockton to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. On the girls’ side, even though the Lady Tigers scored 54 points and had less than 20 turnovers against Trego, it was not enough as the Lady Eagles exploded for 71 points to earn the right to advance to the quarterfinals of the MCL Tournament against number one-seeded Osborne.
The Fifth-Grade Boys MAYB Basketball Team displayed first-place medals they received in the Great Bend MAYB Tournament. Players and coaches were: Cayden Conyac, Kolt Newell, Brent Gehring, Erik Scott, Tyler Williams, Christian Hamel, Taten Pulec, Justin Wiltfong, Casey Deutscher, and Kale Kuhlmann. Coaching the team were Phil Conyac, Scott Hamel, Doug Wiltfong and Jeff Scott.
Two Tiger wrestlers, Nathan Palmer and Tad Miller, captured first place in their respective weight classes at the Russell Invitational Wrestling Tournament.
Just over a week into the New Year, Rooks County Health Center helped two new parents welcome their first child. On January 10, Miranda Jarmin and Randy Hilgers got their biggest sujrprise of the New Year: a baby girl. Leigha Marie Hilgers was the first baby born at RCH in 2008.
Showing at the Nova Theatre was National Treasure: Book of Secrets, starring Nicholas Cage as treasure hunter Ben Gates.
Looking Back 14 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1994 — Anita Milla from Cuzco, Peru was spending two months here in the Erle and Shirlee Muir home as a Lions Club exchange student. New World Visions was again the subject of articles, letters and the editorial.
56 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1952 — Abe Schneider crawled out of his car without even a scratch when trying to avoid some rock that had fallen out of a truck near a stretch of road about eight miles west of town on Highway 24. When Abe was trying to miss the fallen rock, his tire blew, causing his car to go out of control. It jumped a ravine, then plowed into a bank and turned over on its side. Abe was sort of “shook up.” From The Feminine Slant by the Office Cat: “The most superfluous headline of the week: ‘Congress expects to accomplish little this session.’”
What Stocktonites Were Doing 98 Years Ago, Spotlighting the Year... 1910 — The commissioners have had several lively sessions in trying to decide whether to open up a road across Whit McConnell’s and James Moorehouse’s places. The purpose of the change in the road is to avoid crossing the river at that point. All the parties interested and several attorneys were and argued for their respective interests. (From High School Notes: The classes in English are having trouble lately finding material for their essays and orations. It is hard to get up a contest in debate or essay with the small library we have. The City Library is open to high school pupils, but only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. When we get the new Carnegie Library we will be able to spend the evening there and will not care very much whether we have a library at the school or not. The high school pupils will welcome the new Carnegie Library!
