Kimball County High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Kimball, NE)

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Hazardous Waste Dump Planned Kimball has been chosen for the site of the $30 million Waste Tech Services. Inc. The site will be located south of Kimball and will cover 640 acres of land. The plant will not handle any kinds of nuclear waste, but will dispose of hazardous waste. Construction of the hazardous waste treatment plant is expected to begin as soon as necessary permits and other details are obtained. Waste Tech Services, Inc. is responsible for getting these permits, designing and constructing the plant, and operating it for a group of investors, Thermal Inc. The actual construction of the plant is expected to take about 11 months and testing and trial burns will take another eight months. It is expected that full-scale operation will begin by the spring of 1990. Once the plant is fully operational, about 40 workers are expected to be hired. Capital Thursday, February 11, was pro claimed as the day that Kimball would be recognized as “Ca pital for a Day.” Under this pro gram, communities all around the state are given the opportunity to host the governor and other ad ministration mem bers for a day. This also gives residents the chance to bring concerns and special problems of theirs to the governor’s attention.

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Homecoming ROYALTY: Scott Hillius. Sheila Elrod. Angie Lippold. Craig Lock-horn, Lori Buddeckc, Shane Hargreaves PROM ROYALTY: Lori Kile. Shelia Elrod, Pennic Maginnis, Scott Hillius, Brad Brower. Sam Pattison TWIRP ROYALTY: Tyc Wynne, Lori Buddecke

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eluded a meeting with members of Pathfinders Irrigation of the Scottsbluff area and a meeting Mary Lynch grade school. Later on that afternoon, she attended an information exchange meeting with local officials which was held at the Holiday Restaurant. Moving right along, after the information Day For a Throughout the day, Governor Kay Orr followed a very busy schedule. She started the day off by Governor Kay Orr Visits Kimball exhange a visit to the Dix middle school followed with agricultural re presentatives. Winding up her tight schedule, a soup supper was held at the Kimball County High School to honor her at the supper. Governor Orr proclaimed Kimball capital for a day and presented a “Celebrate Nebraska ’88” ' meeting she also met with representatives from Waste-Tech Services, Inc. Other events of the day in- by another visit to the West NE Observer Snow Causes Much Distress For many Kimball County residents, it was a long, cold, and snowy winter. The first storm struck the • area just two days before Christmas day which made it really tough for many people to carry on with their holiday plans. Shortly after being struck by that storm, another arrived just a few days later. This storm turned out to be the first blizzard of the 87-88 winter. It was reported that 16 1 2 inches of snow fell. All roads and highways going out of Kimball were closed for at least a couple of hours. Not even a month later, the snow were to fall again around the region. Two feet of blowing and drifting snow was dumped over the Kimball area which caused many of the local businesses to shut their doors. Kimball County civil defense director, Dan Jensen, claimed that this was the first storm that he had to get permission from county and city officials to close everything down. After the snow had finally melted, much to everyone’s surprise, Kimball was hit by another winter storm. For the second time this winter, life in the town of Kimball was brought to a standstill. This time, total snowfall was only about a foot, but ferocious winds up to 60 mph drifted the snow. Throughout the winter storms, it was reported that Kimball has totaled 60.8 inches of snow this season compared to an average total of 27.8 inches. 17