Stories from Friday, February 9, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Rotary Club will present an International Wine and Food Fest to be held at the Nevada Country Club on Saturday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. The event will be presented by Vintner Andrea Ebert of the Schloss Saarstein Vineyards in Germany. Proceeds will go to the Medical Supplies Network, a benevolence of Rotary International that supplies medical equipment to those in desperate need in underdeveloped nations...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Sitting behind a desk, Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman displays the latest catch by his department and the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team Drug Task Force, five pounds of marijuana. The musky odor fills the office as Peckman outlines the case...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Martha Higgins opened a letter with a $2,900 check in it. That's the good news. The bad news was that it was fake. Higgins got suspicious because the letter that came with the check explained that it was from something called the Los Progresso Lotto. Not only did Higgins not participate in this particular lottery, she had not participated in any lottery at all...

Nevada Daily Mail JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri Senate Bills 260 and 71, sponsored by Sens. Chris Koster, R- Harrisonville, and Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, received unanimous approval Wednesday from the Senate Seniors, Families and Public Health Committee. The bills expand the state's support of child-care subsidies for low-income parents...

Elizabeth Bernice Dobson, 78, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a sudden illness. She was born July 1, 1928, at home in Lexington, Mo., to John Herbert Rasa and Lorraine Elvina Buhlig Rasa. She married George E. Dobson on Jan. 10, 1948, in Lexington, Mo., and he survives of the home...

There is a special yellow bowl in my cabinet. It was handed down to me from my parents' shelves. This bowl has a lot of memories. I saw my mother use it to make a variety of foods. Cookie dough, bread mix, cakes, ice cream mix, and so many other wonderful delightful tasting edibles. The use I loved the best, was really not for cooking. Rather, in my youth, it was the container for our home's nightly family treat, popcorn...

100 years ago Walter Williams' lecture last night Hon. Walter Williams, the well known journalist and platform speaker delivered a fine lecture at the First M.E. Church last evening in this city, his subject being "Reading the Book." After introductory announcements by the Rev. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada boys and girls basketball teams have a rare task at hand today and tomorrow, facing the same team on back-to-back days. Nevada will host McDonald County in a boys-girls doubleheader tonight at Wynn Gymnasium, then because of two weather postponements, will visit McDonald County tomorrow in Anderson...