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May 27, 2009
HARTINGTON — So long smoke, hello clean air.
A statewide smoking ban takes effect June 1.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and local health departments will be working with businesses to help them comply with Nebraska’s new smoke-free law.
Every indoor workplace and public place in Cedar County as well as across the state must be smoke-free by June 1. The act was designed to protect the public health and welfare of people.
Lonnie Sackschewsky, who owns Lonnie’s Bar and Grill in Coleridge and Donavon Kleinschmit, who owns Delmonicos #20 Saloon & Steak House in Fordyce, do not like the new law.
“I don’t think the ban is fair,” said Sackschewsky.
People can currently smoke at most food establishments in the county, but June 1 that will change.
May 27, 2009
HARTINGTON — A gift has enhanced the love between two sisters.
Susan McQuay’s gift to her sister didn’t come wrapped in tissue paper with a big bow.
McQuay gave her sister, Kathy Miller one of her kidneys.
Miller, who just turned 45, had a successful kidney transplant March 18 at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha.
The (Promes) sisters are former graduates of Hartington Public School. McQuay lives in Magnet while Miller now lives at Malcolm.
“I am so grateful to her – she gave me a gift of life,” said Miller. “I admire her so much. We were close before – but we are closer now.”
Miller said it was nice to have her sister at her side as she went through the surgery.
The two sisters spent a lot of time together while they were each recovering.
“There were no problems after surgery,” McQuay said. “While we were in the hospital we went back and forth to each others’ rooms - we had fun being together.”
McQuay and her sister still keep in close contact since getting out of the hospital.
“We talk all the time. Kathy called me every single day for a while, to make sure I was okay,” said McQuay.
Miller and McQuay were both released from the hospital after only four days.
The match between the two sisters was so close Miller may eventually be on only one anti-rejection drug. Miller was taking 33 pills a day after the surgery.
“I go in for lab work twice a week. The dosage I was on right after surgery has been changed – they keep checking to see what will work,” said Miller.
McQuay said her husband, Greg, and their three children, ages 14, 13 and five, were supportive of her choice to give up one of her kidneys for her sister.
