Stories from Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Gilbert Eugene "Gene" Brewer, 85, Richards, Mo., passed away on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008, at Barone Alzheimer's Care Center in Nevada. He was born on Sept. 22, 1923, in Nevada, to James William Brewer and Linnie Jane Simmons Brewer. He married Alice Hays in 1949 in Bentonville, Ark., and she survives in Independence, Mo. In August 1972, he married Everta Jean Armstrong Patterson and she preceded him in death in November 1979...

Nov. 28 An accident occurred at 7:05 p.m., at Washington and Floral, involving a parked pickup owned by Clyde and Kathy Louvier, of Nevada, and a van that left the scene. No injuries were reported. There was a report of a vehicle theft in the 400 block of north Osage, made by Brett Meyer, of Blue Springs, Mo. He reported a 2004 Ford F-150 pickup stolen. The vehicle was later located in Nevada. The case is still under investigation...

Nov. 5 1:14 a.m., Nevada Regional Medical Center, aircraft standby. 9:20 a.m., 2015 N. West, fire drill. 10:34 a.m., Spring and Austin, motor vehicle accident. Nov. 6 9:04 a.m., 510 E. Walnut, line down. Nov. 7 1:09 a.m., 525 N. Lynn, medical. Nov. 8...

Nikki and Mark Edwards, of Oklahoma City, Okla., are proud to announce the birth of their son Sam. Sam was born on Dec. 2, 2008. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces. Maternal grandparents are Rita McClaskey, of Chickasha, Okla., and Gerald Jones, of Conroe, Texas...

Dec. 1 There were reports of fraud in the Schell City area, harassment in the Nevada area, a diseased animal in the Sheldon area, a 911 testing in the Bronaugh area, a cow out in the Nevada area, a noise complaint in the Nevada area, and a domestic dispute in the Hume area...

The Nevada Lady Tigers entered the Carl Junction Classic basketball tournament as the third seed and showed their right to be near the top with a dominant performance against the sixth-seeded host of the tournament, Carl Junction, Tuesday night. The Lady Bulldogs of Carl Junction came into the game with a far from deep roster as a result of the loss of several seniors from last year's team, combined with injuries and a few players simply choosing not to return. ...

The Nevada Middle School seventh grade girls' basketball A and B teams squared off against Joplin North Monday night with favorable results. In the B game, Nevada was able to shut down Joplin's offense almost completely and take control of the game. By the time all was said and done, Nevada found themselves on the winning end of a 33-8 final score...

The Nevada High School freshman boys' basketball team opened their season at home against Carthage Monday night. The game got off to a bit of a rough start for Nevada as they found themselves down by as many as 15 points in the first half. The Tigers slowly started to make a comeback, but were still down by 12 as the first half came to a close...

Two Lamar residents, 14-year-old Cierra D. Crawford and 34-year-old Heather D. Crawford, were hurt in a one-vehicle crash Tuesday, at 11:20 a.m. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 2004 Chevrolet, driven by Heather Crawford, traveled into the median. She then overcorrected, traveled back into the roadway, then left the roadway again and finally overturned, along U.S. 71 Highway, about one mile north of Sheldon...

The Nevada City Council voted 3-2, with Mayor Mike Hutchens and council member Jayne Novak voting no, and council members Tim Wells, Bill Gillette and Joyce Wilson voting yes, to pass on first reading the city's 2009 fiscal budget. The council is tentatively planning to hold a budget work session on Dec. 10, at a time to be announced...

Advent Calendars are said to have started in Germany in the mid-19th century. Many different methods of counting down the days until Christmas were used. Some people made chalk marks; others had cookies in boxes to be opened and eaten, one each night; and later, the traditional picture with doors to be opened became common. Upon opening the calendar, a child might find a piece of candy, small gift, picture, or a Bible verse...

"I guess, it's a pretty cool place." That quote is from a "beautiful, brilliant medical student," who Rik Reppe sat down and talked to on a beach after the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001 -- about what he thought America was. At the beginning of his show at Cottey College on Friday, Nov. 21, Rik asked the crowd "Where were you?"...

A subject that came under much discussion last week was the sudden resignation of the city manager and questioning who the city council was going to name as the interim city manager. There has been an element in Nevada that was against anything that Bill McGuire did. ...

Dear editor, Just last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest "food insecurity" figures and found that there were 36.2 million Americans that struggled against hunger in 2007. That's nearly one in eight Americans. In Missouri, the numbers are just as staggering. In the USDA report, almost 13 percent of Missourians struggled with food insecurity. The report's numbers do not include those that are facing tougher times in 2008...