Stories from Friday, June 30, 2006

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Regional Medical Center is preparing for the implementation of the Tobacco Free Campus program Sept. 1. Reminder cards will be given to all patients on admission reminding them of the deadline. Training also is scheduled for employees and volunteers concerning how to let visitors, vendors and patients know about the change to a tobacco free campus, inside and out...

Nevada Daily Mail In August, Nevada voters will be given the opportunity to decide on whether or not to extend the city's 1/2-cent transportation sales tax for another five years. The problem with holding the election in August is that it is a primary election for many candidates for state and local offices, and that may make it more difficult to get the voters' attention, Ben Menden-hall, infrastructure committee chairman, said during Thursday night's meeting...

Nevada Daily Mail The Independence Day holiday means different things to different people. Some reflect on the historic significance of that small group of founding fathers sweltering in the July heat in a Philadelphia hall, reaching the decision to part company with the mother country; while others look at the holiday as a time to gather with family and enjoy good food and good company...

Special to the Daily Mail Carpenter bees are a concern among area homeowners because of their destructive habit of boring nests into wood structures (especially softwoods like pine, fir, red wood and cedar). If left unattended, the carpenter bee can be very destructive to a wood structure by creating a "gallery" of holes. The galleries created within the wood can significantly weaken structures...

Milo Dee Sutcliffe, 70, Joplin, Mo., passed away Wednesday, June 28, 2006, at his home in Joplin following an illness of several months. He was born Jan. 6, 1936, in Hiattville, Kan., to Milo H. Sutcliffe and Willa Mabel Soward Sutcliffe. He and Sharon M. Boyd were married on April 18, 1976, in Nevada, Mo., and she survives of the home in Joplin...

Just when you thought things were getting as bad as they could get, along came somebody who reaffirmed our faith in humanity. This past week, one of the worlds richest men, Warren Buffett, announced plans to give away to charity (in particular the Bill Gates Foundation), the second largest personal charitable donation in history. ...

100 years ago Says he was held up Clyde Sinclair, who spent Sunday here, and returned to Nevada early Tuesday morning, was held up and robbed on his arrival to that city. Clyde left here on the night train. The 11 o'clock train that left Rich Hill for Nevada, however was two hours late, and he did not arrive at the latter town until about 2 o'clock in the morning. ...

100 years ago Says he was held up Clyde Sinclair, who spent Sunday here, and returned to Nevada early Tuesday morning, was held up and robbed on his arrival to that city. Clyde left here on the night train. The 11 o'clock train that left Rich Hill for Nevada, however was two hours late, and he did not arrive at the latter town until about 2 o'clock in the morning. ...

Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN, Mo. -- A wild pitch scored Peter Tountas from third in the top of the ninth inning to break a 2-2 tie and the Nevada Griffons won their second straight one-run game after losing eight of their first nine this season. Nevada topped the Joplin Slashers 3-2 Thursday, forging a modest two-game winning streak going into the NBC qualifying tournament this weekend at Champion Diamonds...