Stories from Friday, October 19, 2007

On Sept. 28, soybean rust was confirmed to be found in Lawrence and southwest Vernon counties, according to the University of Missouri Extension. Since this finding, Barton and Jasper counties have been included in the confirmed southwest Missouri SBR Counties list as well, followed by Holt and Buchanan counties in northwest Missouri...

Nevada and Vernon County are hosting a free clean-up day, 8 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Oct. 20, at the City-County Recycling Center at the corner of Colorado and Locust streets, Nevada, open to all Vernon County residents. Ron Clow, Nevada planning director, said that there will be one change from the spring clean-up day. ...

Northern Commissioner Kennon Shaw is at home convalescing after a fall from a ladder Monday, Oct. 8, left him with a bruised heart, cracked ribs and sore pride. Shaw was preparing a building for painting when the accident occurred. “I was up on the side of the building, up at the peak of the roof, scraping it before painting and the ladder was at a steep angle,” Shaw said. “I lost my balance and fell.”...

A public performance presented by Cottey College choirs is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m., in the Missouri Recital Hall. The Cottey Pops Choir and the Chamber Singers will perform under the direction of Theresa Forrester Spencer. A wide variety of music will be showcased. The performance is free...

sburn Financial Services Global held a reception Thursday, Oct. 4, to thank those who assisted in the opening of their Nevada Branch. Mike Osburn, president of OFSG, presented appreciation certificates to several individuals including his daughter Jennifer Braun the vice president of OFSG. Others included David Furry, special products representative; local pastor Ted Furry of the Countryside Assembly of God; and David Hedges of Hedges properties...

Mary and Joseph Carter, of Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Kaden Micheal Carter and daughter, Alexis Marie Carter. Kaden and Alexis were born on Oct. 10, 2007, at Mt. Carmel Medical Center, in Pittsburg, Kan. Kaden weighed 7 pounds and measured 20 inches; Alexis weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces, and measured 19 inches...

Melba Nore Wyckoff, age 84, of Nevada, passed away on Wednesday evening, Oct. 17, 2007, at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, Joplin, Mo. She was born Dec. 21, 1922, in Hume, Mo., to Walter Lee Hamblin and Elsie Mae Bozarth Hamblin. She was married to Keith V. Wyckoff and he preceded her in death in 1977...

NEVADA, Mo. �"Even the players agreed that Tuesday’s loss to Kansas City Kansas Community College was their worst performance of the season. The Cottey College Comets fell to the Lady Blue Devils in three games 22-30, 24-30, and 18-30. “There was a vote at the end of the match, and it was 100 percent agreed that last night was our worst match we have played so far this year,” said head coach Marla Kannady Foreman. ...

Fifty years ago this week, Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a noted humanitarian in her own right, spoke in Cape Girardeau. I was there. That night is among the top 10 events of my youth, along with getting my driver’s license on my 16th birthday without ever having driven a car...

I spent the better part of two days trying to decide what was the most important theme for this weeks article. In the end it was clear, that I needed to put away a couple of the least important items on my desk of ideas. My pallet of great thoughts is like the weather, neither summer nor fall. The closet is full because you still have warm weather clothing as well as attire you will need on colder days...