Stories from Wednesday, October 18, 2006

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Nevada residents have complained for years that their water and sewer rates are too high. Well, according to a water and sewer rate study recently conducted by Carl Brown, the rates are not high enough to cover the operating cost of the system...

A new support group, Good Things Can Still Happen, is forming for caregivers whose children have been abused. Group sessions will be provided for adult, adolescents and children, at the same time, for the convenience of the family. Presenters are: adult sessions, Tricia Bridgewater; adolescent session, Sarah Torontow; and children's sessions, Amy Koopman...

A weekly pie auction, conducted on the steps of the Vernon County Courthouse, benefits the Children's Center. The event kicked off yesterday, with the pie selling in short order. One pie will be auctioned each Tuesday, Oct. 24 and 31, and Nov. 7, at 1 p.m...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail The children represented by dozens of pairs of shoes hanging from a tree on the courthouse lawn have walked in territory no child should ever have to cross. The shoes represent the 284 reports of child abuse in Vernon County in 2006 alone...

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail Citizens of Nevada turned out on Tuesday afternoon at the United Methodist church, to donate their marrow to the National Bone Marrow donor program. Donors were welcomed at the door by greeters who held a card that denoted the requirements that a donor needed to meet in order to continue the process. ...

Nevada Daily Mail Emerging from the haze of the Great Depression's Dust Bowl a group of sportsmen joined together to help preserve wetland habitat. For more than six decades, Ducks Unlimited has been helping to preserve wildfowl and the habitat necessary for it to prosper...

Nevada Daily Mail BluRoc Band, comprised of local Nevada talent, is making a name in the tri-county area. After a bit of a sabbatical in 2005, the group started playing together again in February and recently landed the Friday night street dance performance at the Black Walnut Festival in Stockton. Specializing in classic rock, BluRoc showcases singers Dani Fine, Scott Theis and Russ Baker. Theis also plays guitar...

Frances Marie McClellan, 83, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, following an illness of a few weeks. She was born April 11, 1923, in Franklin County, Mo., to Frank Bourbon and Annie Mulligan Bourbon...

LeWanna Mae Cartwright, 84, Nevada, Mo., passed away Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center, Nevada, following a brief illness. She was born Oct. 13,1922, in Nevada, to Richard W. Locke and Ruby Gladys McWilliams Locke. She married Clifford L. "Pete" Cartwright Sr. on Aug. 28, 1940, in Nevada. He preceded her in death on Jan. 20, 2003...

Josephine Ochsner Jarvis passed away Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, at the Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada, Mo., at the age of 79. She was born Feb. 24, 1927, in Rich Hill, Mo., the daughter of Joseph and Ruth (Morris) Ochsner. Josephine was loved and will be missed by everyone...

Anne Carolyn (Bryant) Dawson passed away Oct. 9, 2006, in Nevada, Mo., after a brief battle with cancer, at the age of 73. She was born Oct. 13, 1932, in Kansas City, Mo., she was born to E. Lennos Bryant and the late Nadine (Brown) Bryant. She graduated from Madison High School in 1950 and Central College in 1955, BME. ...

Red Ribbon Week Dear Editor: Each fall during Red Ribbon Week, communities unite to educate children about the harmful effects of drugs and to show them the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle. Attention-getting activities and memorable lessons fill the week...

Local dentist Dr. Tom Bunton, discussed diabetes and diseases at the group diabetic education program held Monday at the Vernon County Senior Center. He emphasized the importance of dental hygiene to the group of eight in attendance. He confessed that as a general dentist he was not paying nearly enough attention to diabetes. This has been the case for most dentists. He found he was not being aggressive enough or watching carefully enough...

100 years ago Where rest many pioneer citizens One of the most beautiful burial grounds in this county is the Balltown Cemetery, and which is also on of the oldest and one that receives respectful attention from one year to another. This beautiful resting place of the departed is of historical interest in this county for here are buried many of the pioneers of Vernon County man and women who settled upon the Osage River and there hewed logs that composed the log cabins that dotted the riverside in an earlier day. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- In front of home fans for the last time this season, the Nevada Lady Tigers clinched sole possession of the Southwest Conference championship Tuesday by knocking off Neosho in a sweep, 25-22, 25-17. Playing with a large and loud student section behind them, and a small contingent of Webb City players also in attendance, the Lady Tigers (7-1 in the conference) took care of business by topping the Lady Wildcats (2-5)...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Cottey Comets were looking for revenge when the Ozark Christian College Ambassadors visited the Hinkhouse Center in volleyball Tuesday. Ozark had beaten Cottey in Joplin on Sept. 11, a match that head coach Marla Kannady felt wasn't anywhere near what the Comets could do...