Stories from Wednesday, May 26, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Regional Medical Center's Behavioral Health Unit is set to expand -- again. Originally constructed with 10 beds the unit was expanded to 12 shortly thereafter. Now NRMC CEO Judith Feuquay asked the board to approve adding four more beds...

Special to the Daily Mail Plans for summer school are underway at the various grade levels in the Nevada R-5 School District. The summer school program is scheduled to begin Tuesday, June 1, and will end Wednesday, June 30. Sessions will be held from 7:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., Monday through Thursday. There with be no class on Fridays...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Flag Lady is gearing up for a busy week getting Nevada and Vernon County cemeteries ready for Memorial Day weekend. Between now and Memorial Day Judy Knowles, volunteers from area 4-H clubs and local Vietnam veterans will put small American flags on several thousand veterans' graves in the county as well as about one-half of the light poles on Austin Boulevard...

Recently, I received a special letter from our oldest granddaughter, Heather Ernsbarger, Conway, Ark. She enclosed a copy of the article that she had written for her school paper. I was not aware that she had been writing for the paper. Two other times I have used in my column stories she had written in grade school. ...

Neva Claudia Ames Post, 86, Bronaugh, died Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, following an illness of three months. The second daughter of John and Claudia (Neete) Ames, she was born August 26, 1917, at Green City, Mo. At the age of two years she moved with her parents and sister, Hazel, to a farm home east of Bronaugh. ...

Emmett W. Vaughn, 84, died March 8, 2004. He was born in Schell City on Feb. 20, 1920. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 448 A.F. and A.M. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II and the Korean War. Before receiving his bachelor of arts and masters of arts degrees at the University of Northern Colorado he worked at the Denver Dry and did construction work in Morocco for several years...

Nevada Daily Mail Ten Nevada High School athletes will head for Jefferson City Thursday for the Missouri State Class 3 state championships that will held May 28-29 at Lincoln University. The lone female Nevada representative will be Veronica Mosier, who won the triple jump Saturday at the Class 3 Section 3 meet in Ozark. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Griffons looking for host families Most of the 2004 Griffons players will arrive in Nevada on June 1 to get in a couple of days practice before their first game on June 3. That is the good news. The bad news is that the Griffons still need to find places for eleven players to stay for the summer...