Stories from Wednesday, March 14, 2007

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail Spring break is here and the YMCA is keeping kids busy with their annual spring break camp. Children ages 5-12 years old focus on honesty, respect, responsibility, caring and physical fitness exercises. The camp has gone on every year since the new YMCA building was built about six years ago, and they look to keep the program going for years to come...

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail What dollar amount puts the cap on saving lives? What dollar amount is one's survival truly worth? These are questions citizens are essentially asking themselves when considering Proposition Lifesaver, a half-cent sales tax proposed by the Vernon County Ambulance District, proponents say...

n Sunshine Week 2007 is March 11-17. Nevada Daily Mail Jefferson City, Mo.-- Public officials who hold meetings that are open to the public and ensure that public records are made available are crucial to the well-being of good government, Attorney General Jay Nixon said today. Central to this standard of openness in government, Nixon said, is Missouri's Open Meetings and Records Law, commonly known as the Sunshine Law. The week of March 11-17 marks Sunshine Week 2007 across the country...

Editor's note: Second-year Cottey students are in Paris, France, on an annual trip filled with required educational modules and with opportunities for soaking up the local culture as well. This is the last of a series of reports on the experience from Cottey College's public information director Steve Reed, one of the chaperones for the trip...

Nevada Daily Mail As a singer-songwriter raised in Virginia, now based out of Texas, Kurt South's eclectic style and crafty song writing have recently been gaining him much attention. Promoters say that listeners -- young, old, hippie and redneck, rockers and more -- all get what he is doing with his raw and honest sound. South's music travels from country to rock, to blues to folk and beyond...

100 years ago Telephone improvements to be made Theodore Gary, president and general manager of the Nevada Telephone company, and A.F. Adams local manager of the Joplin District Telephone Company, left on the early morning train for Joplin. These gentlemen spent yesterday looking over the property and inspecting the lines of the Nevada company, preparatory to making valued improvements and extending the lines...

This is a continuation of last week's column relating to the recent Chamber of Commerce 2006 Awards Banquet. Those in attendance were actively participating in the Casino and the silent auction. There was a pause in those activities when it came time to present the awards...