Stories from Thursday, September 13, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail Preparations are under way for the annual Oktoberfest celebration, a fund-raising tradition benefitting the United Way of Vernon County. The organization is now accepting outside booths for the event, scheduled for 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, on the grass lot located next to TeamBank in Nevada. Each booth space is $25...

First ever Tour of Missouri wheels its way through southwest Missouri. They descended on the Stockton area almost in a flash, speeding along rural highways on Stage 2 of the historic race, the inaugural Tour of Missouri bicycle race. "It's not just a race, it's a rolling parade, a traveling festival," says Brent Hugh. ...

'Tis the season for floods and fall storms, and soon winter storms will be the concern of the season. September is National Preparedness Month. Despite much information urging people across the nation to be prepared at any time for a serious disaster, the American Red Cross reports that a national survey revealed that only 7 percent of Americans have taken the recommended actions to prepare for disasters...

Arthur E. "Bill" Christie, age 88, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., passed away Sept. 10, 2007, at Cedar County Memorial Hospital, in El Dorado Springs. Mr. Christie had been an El Dorado Springs resident since 1973, and was retired from Colgate Palmolive...

Hurricane Katrina impacted a lot of lives two years ago including a 2003 Nevada High School graduate, Michael Ted Moore Jr., the son of Drs. Ted and Candace Moore. After high school, Michael decided to go to Tulane University in New Orleans, La., where he pursued a double major in history and philosophy. He was a varsity cross country runner and was academic all-conference the two years before Katrina...

The Cottey College Board of Trustees approved the addition of softball to the intercollegiate sports offered on the Nevada campus. The first step was hiring a head coach, and Cottey has hired Gregory Tietz as its first head softball coach. Tietz will assume his duties immediately and will begin actively recruiting players for the 2009 spring season...

Remember that old 1990s phrase, "Raise the Roof." It could be applied to the Nevada High School volleyball teams tonight, starting at 5. After starting the first two weeks of the season on the road, the Lady Tigers open the home portion of their schedule, when they entertain Neosho...

First-year Nevada High School head football coach Shannon Jolley couldn't have drawn up the big plays any better on the chalkboard in the Tigers' locker room. Nevada then went out and executed nearly to perfection on the field last Friday, just like the chalk talk in the days leading up to their 46-0 whacking of El Dorado Springs...

Sorry, I lied. I told Nevada Daily Mail managing editor Lynn Wade that I wasn't going to write my column about the Kansas City Chiefs this week. But after further consultation with myself, I couldn't curb my enthusiasm. There's a plethora of footnotes from the NFL Week 1 disaster, a 20-3 road loss to the Houston Texans, that still need to be addressed...