Stories from Friday, June 20, 2008

Bernice Loree Walker, 99, of El Dorado Springs, died Thursday, June 19, 2008, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, June 24, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada. Interment will follow in El Dorado Springs Cemetery...

Education is a lot like the construction of a building. If you want it to be good, it has to be built upon a "good foundation." Graduating students from the Nevada R-5 School District, are blessed to have such a foundation. This foundation's purpose is to provide after high school support for the education of our local graduates. Nothing is more important, than that of financial assistance...

It may be summer vacation for many students and teachers, but for, Truman Elementary teacher Myra Bond the weeks of June 3-6 and June 9-12 provided an opportunity to be involved in scoring the Missouri Assessment Program tests, better known as the MAP test. Mrs. Bond participated in scoring 4th Grade Mathematics at the Sikeston site...

There are a lot of Texans in town this week -- mostly teenagers, all from the Arbor Long United Methodist Church, in Fort Worth. The Texans have split up into small work groups and have a list of chores they are doing for Vernon County residents. While they're here, the group is staying at the United Methodist Church, on College Street, in Nevada...

The Nevada Soroptimist International Club has donated a laptop to an Iraqi women's group to help them further women's rights in Iraq. They were approached by Sam Foursha of Nevada, who is serving in Iraq as the Provincial Program Manager for the United States Department of State in the Regional U.S. Embassy Office of Alhillah...

Larry G. Fritts, 50, of Nevada, was arrested on five counts of statutory rape. According to a report by the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, it is alleged that Fritts on numerous occasions had sexual intercourse with a juvenile victim and traded money and other gifts for sex in a series of incidents that took place during a two-year span...