Stories from Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Colton Jones stands with the quilt he helped to design, by drawing the images on blocks that were pieced together by his mother. The quilt will be sent to the "Quilts of Valor" program, to be delivered to a wounded soldier.

Nevada Daily Mail Sunday, Aug. 6, is the date set for the 37th Annual McGennis Youth Center barbecue. First held in 1969, the event was presented as an old-fashioned, late summer country barbecue and to give people in the four-county area an opportunity to view the center. ...

Nevada Daily Mail A special meeting of the Nevada City Council was slated for 2 p.m., today, in the council chambers, located inside the city's public safety building at Ash and Austin. The lone item on the agenda was a measure to reorganize the structure of the city's staff, in response to budget issues that have recently come to the forefront of city operations that city documents are now referring to as a "budget crisis."...

Nevada Daily Mail The IMPACT Nevada Tourism Board will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in city council chambers, located inside the city's public safety building at Ash and Austin, The board plans to hear a report from Terry Ramsey, board member and coordinator of the Bushwhacker Museum, about Civil War Heritage Tourism in the region. ...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Waiting for Claire McCaskill, who is running for the Senate seat currently filled by Republican Jim Talent and who was running a few minutes late, local Democratic leader Tom Pyle asked Tim Wells, candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives seat currently held by Republican Barney Fisher, to speak to the assembled Vernon County Democrats...

Thomas Edward Woolverton, 61, Garden Grove, Calif., formerly of Nevada, Mo., passed away June 27, 2006. He was born July 3, 1944, to Edward and Fern Woolverton in Kansas City, Mo. Thomas was a 1962 graduate of Nevada High School. He attended the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Friends University in Wichita, Kan. He was employed at the Veterans Hospital in Long Beach, Calif., at the time of his death. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him...

100 years ago Child becomes mother's brother MARION, Ohio -- Mr. and Mrs. William Fasnaugh, of Richwood recently became the parents of their grandchild, Jessie Fenton, 10 months old, who in turn became a brother to his own mother. Shortly after the child's birth Thomas Fenton and his wife separated, Mrs. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail JOPLIN, Mo. -- The Nevada Griffons pounded out 15 hits and received six rugged innings from starter Lendsey Thomson as they topped the Joplin Slashers Monday, 10-3. The win gave Nevada three out of four against the Slashers over the weekend, and improved the Griffons' record to 8-2 when facing Joplin this season...