Stories from Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Nevada Daily Mail In a regular meeting slated for 6 o'clock tonight, the Nevada City Council plans to vote on an ordinance relating to giving local vendor preference to bids for city goods and services. Also on the agenda is approval of a contract with Robert J. Saunders Organization, for professional consulting fees for recruitment of a city treasurer...

Nevada Daily Mail Aquila, Inc. filed a request July 3 with the Missouri Public Service Commission for electrical rate increases in the company's Missouri Public Service and St. Joseph Light and Power regions. In a press release Aquila cited increasing prices in the natural gas and coal markets, increased customer usage and continued customer growth as reasons for the increase. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Rising demand and the rising cost of energy is receiving much local and national attention, and summertime demand is on the rise. To help consumers cope, the Missouri Public Service Commission has release some tips on conservation...

By Colette Lefebvre Nevada Daily Mail Summer riding usually has more than just rider and horse. Flying insects often want to come along for the ride. Fly spray for the rider, fly spray for the horse, roll on for the muzzle and ears, ear net or bonnet for the equine and typically a leafy stick for the rider to swish away pests that buzz around the horses head and neck. ...

Janice Hargrove Senkevech, Nevada, Mo., passed away Friday, June 30, 2006, at 11:05 p.m., at the home, in Nevada, following lengthy illness with leukemia. She was born May 11, 1941, in Nevada, to Marvin H. Hargrove and Sylva Lee Hargrove. She graduated Nevada High School in 1959...

Lena Irene Westbay, 80, Lamar, Mo., died Saturday, July 1, 2006, at Truman Healthcare Facility in Lamar. She was born Oct. 10, 1925, to Paul and Ethel (Smith) Loewe, in Milford, Mo., in Barton County. She married Harold Westbay on May 17, 1944, in Girard, Kan. He preceded her in death on Oct. 30, 1999...

Alta Faye Thompson, 95, was born on November 23, 1910, in Bronaugh, Mo., the day after a train ride from Oklahoma, where her parents had gone by covered wagon in 1904 to homestead near the Anadarko area. She was the daughter of Chauncey Lee and Nellie Pearl Feller Thompson. Alta's father died when she was 12 years old and her mother worked courageously to raise the seven children...

Eleanor "Ellie" Allison Moorhouse, 69, of Nevada, Mo., died Wednesday, June 28, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center following a six-month battle with cancer. She was born Dec. 14, 1936, in Logan, Utah, the daughter of Wilford Howard and Ardelle Simpson Kunz...

Cecil H. Barbour, age 94, Walker, Mo. passed away Saturday evening July 1, at Community Springs Nursing Home following a short illness. He was born in Schell City, Mo., February 28, 1912, to the late Hubbard Hayden Barbour and Mary Isabelle Jenkins Barbour...

David L. Rutledge, age 58, of Nevada, died as the result of a sudden illness on Monday, July 3, 2006, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo. He was born June 12, 1948, in Nevada, to Marvin Walker Rutledge and Lois Audry Garrett Rutledge. He was married April 23,1984, in Miami, Okla., to Melody G. Wilson, who survives of the home...

Recently we had the thrill of watching our oldest granddaughter, Heather, and her two friends via Webcam receiving special recognition at National History Day, held at University of Maryland, June 11-13. They won top honors in the group presentation in the Irish or Irish-American history category. As result they are being awarded a trip to Ireland. This was announced on the front page in the June 20 issue of the Nevada Daily Mail and had been announced on KNEM/KNMO...

100 years ago Hundreds attend fireworks display The fourth of July celebration on Wednesday was one of the most enjoyable ever held here and was largely attended. A great crowd of people were at Lake Park Springs. Col. Gore gave a splendid street car service which added greatly to the success of the celebration. Six cars were operated and there was not a break in the system...

"We're in. We've got a lot of work to do, but we're in," Nevada Griffons head coach John Hill III said after his team had won the NBC Southwest Missouri Tournament of Champions at Champion Diamonds Monday, completing four victories in three days and clinching a berth in the NBC World Series in August...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- Riding an offensive explosion and two dominating starts the Nevada Griffons won the NBC World Series qualifying tournament at Champion Diamonds over the Fourth of July weekend, going unbeaten in the double elimination event...