Stories from Sunday, March 6, 2005

Nevada Herald On Tuesday, March 8, Nevada voters will go to the polls to narrow the field of candidates running for city council. The Herald contacted each, asking the same set of questions of each candidate. Following are their answers, with candidates listed in alphabetical order, edited only for style...

Nevada Herald Green Forest Engineered Products, LLC, has selected Missouri Enterprise Business Assistance Center to help the company find new sources of raw materials and to identify potential new markets for the company's wood/plastic composites, said Dave Browning, company vice president...

***Two local men are there to see Steve Fossett's plane land at the end of his trip around the world By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail After 67 hours and 23,000 miles, Steve Fossett's GlobalFlyer touched down at the Salina, Kan., airport Thursday, marking the end of an historic and record-setting circumnavigation of the Earth. Among the thousands of spectators who made the journey to the small Kansas city were two Nevada residents, Dr. Ron Jones and Don Wood...

A rainbow spanning the eastern sky was visible in northern Vernon County Thursday evening as heavy clouds moved through southwestern Missouri. A faint second rainbow accompanied the primary band.

Virginia I. August passed away Feb. 26, 2005, at Moore-Few Nursing Home following a brief illness. She was born Aug. 26, 1927. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and her husband, Alfred August. Survivors include one daughter, Sonja Catalano; two grandchildren, Jason and Gina; and four great-grandchildren, all of the state of California. She will also be greatly missed by many good friends of the Nevada area...

Dean Stark Butterfield, age 91, of Nevada died on Friday, March 4, 2005, at Christian Health Care in Nevada following a lengthy illness. He was born on Oct. 14, 1913, in Moundville, to Walter and Effie Mae Stark Butterfield. He was married to Ruth Riek and she preceded him in death in 1992...

Mary Ferne Fox, 88, Nevada, died March 2, 2005. Services were held at Ferry Funeral Home on March 5, at 10 a.m., with John Nichols officiating. Musical selections were "One Day at a Time," "In the Garden" and "Amazing Grace." Organist was Willa Lee. Pallbearers were Jerry Heathman, Loren Heathman, Bob Heathman, Gary Almquist, Doug Beeman, Bob Eador and John Eador. Interment was in Moore Cemetery. Arrangements are by Ferry Funeral Home...

***Children living in poverty Editor: The Paris based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently released a report that showed the United States of America has the Western World's second highest child poverty rate. This report, based on a United Nations study, showed that 27.1 percent of American children live below the poverty level...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald Like many teams have found out this season, it is hard to stop Bronaugh Wildcat senior Tyler Judd. You can put two or three players on him, or as Drexel did down the stretch in the district championship game Friday night, put four players on him and it still might not slow Judd down...

By Joe Warren Nevada Herald The Cinderella season came to an end for the Sheldon Lady Panthers Friday as they lost to the Drexel Lady Bobcats 45-18 in the Class 1, District 12 championship game in Hume. The sixth-seeded Lady Panthers had upset third-seeded Hume in the first round of the district tournament Monday, then beat Montrose, the second seed, on Wednesday to make their first district championship appearance since before the Clinton Administration...

The countdown has ended, the unofficial fishing season in Missouri has started with the opening of the trout season in the four state trout parks. Of course the signs of spring have been showing up across the state recently including the return of the turkey vultures, peepers sounding off, daffodils blooming, walleye-white bass and crappie running to their spawning areas, turtles sunning on logs in lakes and streams, waterfowl heading north and several species of birds starting to build nests, but the opening of the trout parks means spring isn't too far away.. ...

One of the late Johnny Carson's great gag routines began, "Boy, it was cold today..." The audience and Ed McMahon would reply. "How cold was it?" It was so cold on January 31, 1967 in Green Bay, Wisc., that members of the Dallas Cowboys had to fight their way out of the Holiday Inn motel rooms because the wind, at -29, had frozen the doors to the jams, and that was no joke...

Special to the Herald Dale and Annette Pettibon, Nevada, and Danny and Shorty Cooper, Richards, and Michel Schaub, Fort Scott, Kan., Larry and Sis Schaub, Olathe, Kan., announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Lanette Lynn Cooper and Troy Josef Schaub...

Special to the Herald Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy R. Gransbury and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Troupe are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their children, Janette Sue Gransbury, to Chandler Eugene Troupe, on March 19, 2005. Bride-elect Gransbury graduated from Bronaugh High School in 1997 and is employed by Wilkinson Health Services in Nevada...

Special to the Herald Larry and Barbara Buckles were married on March 13, 1965. A 40th anniversary reception will be held in their honor on Sunday, March 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Walker Christian Church fellowship hall in Walker, Mo. The occasion will be hosted by their children, Kim, Tim, Aaron and Ethan Dade of Nevada, and Kerry, Dan, Damon and Dirk Jennings of Nevada...

Nevada Herald Michaela Anne Quinley-Davison and Christian Andrew Nuckels exchanged wedding vows on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004, in the Southmont Baptist Church in Denton, Texas, where the couple are members. Dr. Larry Reynolds, pastor of Southmont, whose message to the couple and guests on the significance and importance of family in Biblical times and in contemporary society as the foundation for marriage, solemnized the vows of the ceremony.

Special to the Herald The children of Harry and Jennie Foreman, in honor of their parents, will host a 40th wedding anniversary celebration at 6:30 p.m. on March 19 at the Walker Christian Church fellowship hall. Friends and relatives are welcome. Your presence is the only gift the family requests. Cards and memories would be appreciated.

Hi neighbors. It won't be long before we can take our coffee out on the porch in the morning -- well, at least in the middle of the afternoon. Have you seen the robins hopping around? Crocus are popping up, and it soon will be the delightful month of April. April is a good month because spring is well established and the tornado season has not quite started...