Stories from Thursday, January 13, 2005

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail For the 100 or so seniors who receive fresh, nutritious meals delivered to their door every day, the Vernon County Senior Center's home meal delivery program is a Godsend. Every weekday, around lunchtime, volunteers and paid drivers alike make the rounds across Vernon County to bring a hot meal and a smile to homebound seniors in the area...

By Marc Powers Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Sikeston lawyer King Sidwell will take command of the Missouri National Guard after Gov. Matt Blunt on Wednesday appointed him adjutant general of the states military forces. Sidwell, 54, logged 30 years of service in the Guard before retiring in August as a colonel. His last command was over the Engineer Brigade, 35th Infantry Division based in Cape Girardeau...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Wednesday night's Nevada R-5 School District Board of Education meeting reflected the board's continued concern with shortfalls in the district's revenue, Superintendent Ted Davis presented the board with a tentative budget for the 2005 -'06 school year and told the board that even if the state decides to take action quickly it would take quite some time for the changes to positively affect the district's finances...

Nevada Daily Mail Officials found a .22-caliber pistol in a student's vehicle Wednesday at the Nevada High School. The matter was referred to the school resource officer, the principal and Superintendent Ted Davis for action. Davis said the district has taken preliminary action and that since bringing a weapon onto school property is a felony, charges would most likely be filed against the student, whose name has not been released...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail There's a need to complete all of the projects originally proposed, even though it will take nine years to pay for them -- that's the message the Nevada Parks Board aimed at the city council during a special parks board meeting Wednesday evening...

William and Andrea Davis, rural Appleton City, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Cameron James Davis. Cameron was born at 9:13 a.m., on Jan. 7, 2005, at the Bates County Memorial Hospital in Butler. He weighed 7 pounds, 2.5 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches. ...

Are you a blue jay, or are you a sparrow? The birds at our bird feeder are greedily eating everything I can put out for them. But they don't all seem to get a fair share of the goodies. A pair of beautiful blue jays always gets the first (and last if they so choose) choice at the four different feeders we have placed right outside our east windows. ...

This columnist tries to avoid the quotidian and the personal. "The present writer" (as, he stuffily calls himself) reckons enough others, plumb up to the K.C. Star's C.W. Gusewelle, are interminably beavering away keeping those two interminable topics covered...

100 years ago: A hard snow crust stalls transportation The snow-crust is somewhat of a new article in this section but it is here now and as a result few people are driving over the country. J.B. Wardin who has been a resident of the county for many years says the snow has never been covered by as thick a crust as it now is...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Youth Wrestling Club was busy last weekend as they traveled to Joplin Saturday and Ray-Pec (Raymore-Peculiar) Sunday for a pair of tournaments. Saturday there were 19 Nevada wrestlers attending the Joplin event, with 10 of them earning medals...

Nevada Daily Mail The Calvary Eagles lost to the Faith Falcons at the Nevada YMCA Friday, 67-43. Kenny Rood led the Eagles with 13 points and Tyler Borders added 12 points and seven rebounds in the loss. Scott Borders had a good game despite only scoring four points. Borders had nine assists, six steals and five rebounds for the Calvary cause...

Nevada Daily Mail The Hume Lady Hornets were handed their third loss of the season Wednesday as they fell to Hermitage at the Lakeland Tournament, 53-34. Hermitage used a 16-1 advantage in the third period to blow open a close game and never let the Lady Hornets back into it...

Nevada Daily Mail There will be a youth free-throw contest Saturday at Nevada Middle School for boys and girls age 10-14. The contest will begin at 10 a.m. The winners of the contest will move on to the district competition with a chance to go to the state level on the line...

By Ronald Blum Associated Press NEW YORK -- Baseball players and owners have reached an agreement on a tougher steroid-testing program that will include a penalty for first-time offenders, The Associated Press has learned. A first positive test would result in a suspension of up to 10 days and the penalties would increase to a one-year suspension for a fourth positive test, a high-ranking team official said on condition of anonymity...