Stories from Thursday, November 9, 2006

By Colette Lefebvre-Davis Nevada Daily Mail The annual Women's Symposium featured a multitude of excitement on Saturday, Nov. 4. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. and lasting well into the evening, the event promised to be an interesting and educational experience for all who attended and were involved...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail The annual YMCA Holiday Festival has a grand mix of items and entertainment to offer patrons, friends, neighbors -- anyone who needs a Christmas or fall item, a gift, or just to have a good time on Friday night. The event is Friday, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m., in the gymnasium...

Nevada Daily Mail Nominations are being accepted for the January election of the Vernon County University of Missouri Extension Council members, according to Council Chairman Bill Hedges. Council members are elected or appointed to two-year terms and may not serve more than two consecutive terms. Nominees must be at least 18 and must reside in the district from which they are selected...

The nuns are back in town and as funny as ever. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Community Council on the Performing Arts will present Dan Goggin's "Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue" at the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. Main Street. The musical comedy is directed by Milly Hall and features...

By Charles C. Nash Special to the Daily Mail Before the original "Nunsense" opened, some 18 years ago, at the now-defunct Red Door Playhouse, there was some trepidation about how the musical, which pokes fun at several fictional Catholic nuns, would be received by ordinary church-going Nevadans. ...

The new pavement on Highway 54 west of Nevada has a new gimmick for that road. When I am driving to town and look over to see what the Sloans are doing, if my car follows my gaze a bit, I get a wake-up call from a rattle beneath my tires. Many highways have this feature, but it was new to this section of 54. When you think you know every bump, crack or blemish on a familiar road it can be surprising when something new is added...

Justifiable retaliation Editor, Herald Tribune: I must gently "bushwhack" my confrere Arnold Schofield for an error of omission in the Nov. 5, installment of his admirable "Battlefield Dispatches" series. "Quantrill's philosophy and practice," he wrote, "was to 'take no prisoners.'"...

100 years ago Thurman made a great race Judge B.G. Thurman is exceedingly jubilant over his election as circuit judge of this judicial district. His friends here were afraid Dade and Cedar counties would go so strongly against him that it would make his election doubtful, while the Republicans felt sure these two counties would defeat Thurman. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- To have the shanks as a golfer or a kicker in football is never a good thing. To have the Shanks as a two-year basketball school in Nevada, that's a whole other story. Sophomore Kerri Shanks scored all 13 of her points in the second half, including three key 3-pointers, as the Comets overcame a sloppy second half to beat the St. Mary Spires' junior varsity squad Wednesday, 69-58...

With this being the first week since the Nevada High School football season ended, and the third year of the John Skeans era is complete, it's as good a time as any to revisit the state of the Tiger program. When looking at a high school football program (or any high school athletics program, for that matter) it is important to look past simple wins and losses. That's because high school athletics can be so much more than winning or losing a game...