Stories from Wednesday, June 22, 2005

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday night the Nevada City Council took the first step to permit people living in the Rolling Meadows subdivision and future developments south of Nevada to hook up to the city's sanitary sewer system and still receive water from the rural water district...

By Rusty Murry Nevada Daily Mail Beginning July 1, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' AgNPS Salt Program will provide $745,000 worth of funding to be distributed over the next seven years to install projects in the Vernon County, Osage Plains Watershed that will decrease nonpoint source pollution, according to a June 13 press release...

There will be an open meeting at the Sheldon City Park Thursday, June 23, at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend as volunteers are needed to serve on the park board committee and will be elected that evening. A discussion will be held on the park beautification, also discussed will be a softball tournament to be held here this summer, and the possibility of a fall softball league being formed. Mayor Travis Denney said he is quite interested in getting area people to assist with the park...

Nevada Daily Mail During a meeting Tuesday night, the Nevada City Council gave its approval to service agreement with the Community Council on the Performing Arts for rental of the Fox Theatre for recreation programming or other uses, from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006 for a total cost of not more than $6,000...

This weekend a female version of the Odd Couple will be presented by the Community Council on the Performing Arts at the Fox Playhouse. The Neil Simon comedy, which features Kim Bessey and Shanna Johnson in the lead roles will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Pictured from left: Kay Schulman, Lisa Badgley, Amanda Meyers, Jennifer McNab, Shanna Johnson, Kim Bessey. Not pictured: Steve Reed and Charlie Johnson...

Students at Nevada Middle School got a chance Monday to get some hands-on experience in designing and building cardboard boats that they then tested -- by floating them in Walton Pool as two of the team members paddled them in a race. Winners of the speed race were Tyler Judah, Martin Sandoval and Derek Richards. ...

William Otho "Billy" West, 58, Springfield, died June 18, 2005, at his home after a long battle with cancer. He was born on March 8, 1947, in Rich Hill, the son of Bill and Nola "Susie" Miller West. He married Eva Mae Derry on May 27, 1967, in Rich Hill...

Beverly Selman Heath, 67, Lamar, died Sunday, June 19, 2005, at her home after a lengthy illness. She was born on May 2, 1938, in East Point, Ga., the daughter of Nina and Jack Selman. She is a 1956 graduate of W.A. Russell High School in East Point and a 1959 graduate of Crawford Long School of Nursing where she earned her RN degree. ...

Memorial Day Flowers should remain on graves Dear editor: We all know the importance of putting flowers on our loved ones' graves. We do this out of respect and because we love them. The question I have is this...Why should we have to cement our decorations down? This year we had a decoration stolen off of one of our family members grave. ...

Some how, some way in our "stuff" we have a milk stool, different from any milk stool I have ever seen. For those of you who may not be familiar with a milk stool -- that was the stool that a milker would sit on when milking a cow. I was always told that the milk stool was Len's...

**100 years ago: Product purported to prevent blood poisoning As an antiseptic, preventing the possibility of blood poisoning, as in barbed wire scratches or rusty nail, there is nothing that equals Dr. Classe's German Penetrating Liniment. Sold by A.M. Hurty, Druggist, South Side...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Friday's game between the Nevada Griffons and the Hays Larks was the first time Dave Jorn had made his way to Nevada since the end of the summer in 1985. The Griffons had just finished their inaugural season, and Jorn had just completed his first and only year as the skipper for the Jayhawk League newcomers...

Associated Press CHICAGO -- Jon Garland heard the once-familiar boos when he left the game Tuesday night. They weren't for him. Not this time. Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was heckled for pulling Garland with one out in the ninth inning, ending Garland's shot at his third complete game of the season...

Associated Press SAN ANTONIO -- The identity of the next NBA champion will not be known until Thursday -- not until Game 7 of a suddenly suspenseful series is over. Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton and the Detroit Pistons weren't ready to concede their title, and Tim Duncan's San Antonio Spurs weren't quite good enough to earn it Tuesday night...