Stories from Friday, March 30, 2007

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail Have we become a society focused more on rights and privileges than responsibilities and obligations? This is exactly what Jeff Yalden, an international motivational speaker, is asking America. Yalden visited Bronaugh's students on Tuesday and left the entire audience in high spirits after his presentation...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Starting on July 1 the city will be charging for some of the groups using the Nevada-Vernon County Community Center. Wednesday night the Nevada Parks Board voted to set a minimum charge of $15 for Nevada and Vernon County residents and businesses for up two hours usage; each additional hour will cost $5. Non-Nevada or Vernon County residents and businesses will be charged a minimum of $20 for up to two hours and $7 for each additional hour...

Nevada Daily Mail Residents of Vernon County who are 60 years of age or older are being sought to file as a candidate for the Silver Haired Legislature. The Silver Haired Legislature is a formally elected body of citizens, 60 years of age and older, that promote legislative advocacy for older adults...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Head Start is now accepting applications for the 2007-'08 school year. Head Start is a preschool program provided by West Central Missouri Community Action Agency. The facility offers a half-day program that is free to families with limited income. ...

Nevada Daily Mail According to a University of Missouri agricultural publication titled, "First Aid for Pesticide Poisoning," most poisonings result from careless use, improper storage and ignorance. By law, everything a person needs to know to apply pesticides safely is on the pesticide label. It is actually unlawful to even use a pesticide improperly according to Ed Browning, natural resource engineering specialist, University of Missouri Extension...

Marthalin Elizabeth Steward, of Springfield, Mo., died at her home on March 26, 2007. Born Nov. 1, 1913, in Milo, Mo., to Frank and Jennie Lowe. Marthalin was the fourth of seven children. Her determined nature and unwavering sense of independence throughout her life could most certainly be attributed to the Depression era childhood spent on her family's farm near Nevada, Mo. ...

Treva Alberta McInroy, 92, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Thursday, March 29, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a recent illness. She was born on May 21, 1914, in Kearney, Neb., to William Detriech Laue and Julia Alice Moody Laue. She married Lester McInroy on March 5, 1936, in Elm Creek, Neb. He preceded her in death on April 14, 2003...

Mr. and Mrs. George McCartney, Nevada, and Matthew, George, Florence, Chloe and Abby are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Paul Glenn Howard McCartney. Paul was born at 8:13 a.m., March 28, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 19.75 inches...

Vote 'yes' on law enforcement tax Dear editor: I am writing in support of the proposed one half cent sales tax for Improved Law Enforcement. I believe there are some misconceptions as to what this proposed sales tax is about and what it is not about...

In my kindergarten class at Franklin School, we used to have a milk break after recess. The milk containers were the most marvelous little glass bottles. They were an exact miniature copy of the larger glass milk jars that every home used to have in their refrigerator...

Nevada Daily Mail CARTHAGE, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers had three errors in their first two games combined, and they started the season 2-0. Thursday the Tigers had four errors and it cost them, as Nevada lost to the Carthage Tigers, 5-3. Starting pitcher Cody Thompson lasted only 2/3 of an inning before leaving with an injury, and the Tigers had trouble offensively and defensively after that...

Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers got pretty good play from the top of their lineup, but the bottom part struggled as they lost both ends of a triangular with Carthage and Webb City Thursday. Nevada shot 168 as a team, but that wasn't good enough to topple their two Southwest Conference rivals...

Nevada's youth wrestlers competed at the state wrestling tournament in Columbia last weekend. There were seven local wrestlers who qualified for state. Slade Stiles won the 12-and-under, 60-pound class, going 3-0 at the state tourney. Sam Ellifrits took second in the 205-pound, 12-and-under division. ...