Stories from Sunday, January 9, 2005

By Ben Holman Nevada Herald Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman says that inmates at the county jail are continually damaging windows in the cell area. He met with the county commissioners recently to discuss possible solutions to the problem. Several years ago, windows were installed in the hallways outside the cells to allow natural light into the cells. "They were installed several years ago but I don't know exactly why," said Peckman...

Nevada Herald To help reduce one of the highest teen smoking rates in the country, state Sen. Yvonne Wilson, of Kansas City, has introduced a bill, SB 152, to fund anti-tobacco efforts aimed at youth. The effort would be established and funded with approximately $7 million the state of Missouri is receiving annually from smaller tobacco companies that recently joined 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between tobacco manufacturers and 46 states...

Special to the Herald The Vernon County jurisdiction of the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program has been chosen to receive $8,206 to supplemental emergency food and shelter programs in Vernon County. According to a press release from the West Central Missouri Community Action Agency, the award is based upon your jurisdiction's average unemployment statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor for the most current 12 month period available and poverty statistics from the 2000 census...

Light snowfall, marked by heavy, wet flakes fell in the area Friday afternoon, leaving behind slight accumulation and partially covering roads with the slippery substance. Above, snow falls at the bank of the lake at Walton Park, Nevada.

Lavern and Diana Schultz, Rich Hill, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Colton Wade Schultz. Colton was born at 7:33 a.m., on Jan. 4, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces, and measured 22.25 inches. Paternal grandparents are Glenn and Charlotte Schultz, Rich Hill. ...

Susan "Susie" Smith, 98, Rich Hill, died Jan. 6, 2005, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. She is survived by one daughter, Lois Tourtillott, Rich Hill; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Monday, Jan. 10, at 11 a.m., at the Heuser Funeral Home with burial in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Rich Hill. The family will receive friends today, Jan. 9, from 4-5 p.m., at the funeral home...

It's that time of year and I've decided that I'd pass on a few of my resolutions. I don't call them New Year's resolutions because they are things I've thought about and decided as the year passed by and not ones I've thought up especially for the new year...

Hi neighbors. I did my annual stint as judge for the speech tournament again this year. That's always interesting. I admire the students who participate -- both our students who act as hosts and the students who are here to compete. They all seem so much more competent and well, "cool" about the whole thing than I remember my high school peers being. Of course my high school days were pretty long ago so my memory might not represent a true picture...

100 years ago: New sheriff kept busy Has learned that the Matrimonial Sea is not always calm, Our new sheriff, R.B. Moore, has been so busy that he has not had time to see how well he fits his office chair. From the very first day Sheriff Moore has been busy serving papers, and has found out among other things that the matrimonial sea is not always as calm as the sailors would like for it to be. ...

The Nevada High School athletics department recently was selected by the Missouri State High School Activities Association to be a Leadership School for the 2004-2005 school year. The distinction is given by the MSHSAA Board of Directors each year to the schools statewide that do the best job emphasizing sportsmanship, citizenship, leadership and respect with regards to the administration of their athletics programs. ...

Nevada Herald The Nevada Lady Tigers took on the Carthage Lady Tigers in the championship game of the Carthage Lady Tiger Invitational Saturday night. The game featured two conference and district foes, and the past three winners of the event. Nevada won the tournament last season after beating Carthage in the championship game. The previous year it was the same two schools in the title game, but Carthage got the win...

Nevada Herald The Nevada Tigers were in Warrensburg Saturday as they played their final game before beginning Southwest Conference action. The Tigers (5-3) playedtheir first game since Monday, after having Thursday's matchup against Pleasant Hill postponed because of bad weather...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald Despite spotting the McDonald County Mustangs 18 points in their dual meet Thursday, the Nevada Tiger wrestlers beat the defending Southwest Conference co-champs 48-30. Having to forfeit at 119-pounds, 125 and 130 because of injuries and lack of depth, the Tigers rebounded by winning nine matches, seven of them by pin...

Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri running back Damien Nash, who quit the team at the end of last season, will turn professional. Nash completed the paperwork to enter the 2005 National Football League draft, the university announced Friday...

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Peyton Manning was unstoppable on the field this season, and in the All-Pro voting, too. The record-setting Indianapolis Colts quarterback was a unanimous choice Thursday for The Associated Press 2004 NFL All-Pro Team. Manning received all 48 first-place votes from a nationwide panel of writers and broadcasts who cover pro football, the only player to sweep the voting this year...

Really, what took them so long? I can't recall the first time I more or less accused Barry Bonds of using steroids. All you have to do is take a look at the guy and it becomes apparent that his bulk doesn't look remotely natural. Yet, it was shushed up until Jason Giambi admitted to using the illegal drugs and opened what has become baseball's Pandora's box. He cracked the box before a grand jury and the whole ugly mess came oozing up like in the old movie, "The Blob."...

The 51st annual Kansas City Sportshow that opened at Bartle Hall Tuesday was the last one for the Perkins family. First, Phil and then son David have been involved with the show from the start along with founder, Nick Kahler, but this year Perkins has sold the popular "outdoors brought indoors" show to the National Marine Manufactures Association, thus an era has come to an end...