Stories from Thursday, November 12, 2009

Missouri horticulturists remember Veterans Day, Nov. 11, as the date of two massive freeze events that damaged trees and shrubs across the Midwest. "Many of us begin to worry at this time of year, wondering if we have done all that we can to encourage our landscape plants to develop dormancy with its associated cold tolerance," said Chris Starbuck, University of Missouri Extension horticulturist...

Law enforcement officials are seeking three men in connection with a home invasion reported on Monday that left a Vernon County man with a gunshot wound to his hand. According to a statement from the Vernon County Sheriff's Office, three men entered the residence of Chuck and Linda Scammell, Monday, about 5 miles from U.S. ...

"It's a great opportunity to be here," Mark Britner, the new plant manager of the American Standard, formerly Crane Plumbing, plant, told the Nevada City Council Tuesday night. Britner told the council that American Standard, Crane and Eljer have merged into one company and during the process they have closed 13 plants around the country...

In commemoration of Veteran's Day and bringing attention to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, The Springs Art Gallery, 105, E. 54 Highway, El Dorado Springs will host "I am Vietnam" an exhibit of works created through art therapy, by Jon York. Since serving with the United States Marine Corps from 1969 to 1970, York has created paintings, photographs and poetry to help him live with a severe case of PTSD from intense daily combat during 18 months spent in Vietnam...

No hearing date has been set by the judge, David C. Dally, assigned by court officials to hear the Garrett Mason case after 28th Circuit Court Presiding Judge James Bickel approved a defense request for a new judge in the case. There is also a motion for a change of venue, but Dally has not ruled on that motion; so any scheduled hearings would still be held in Vernon County until a change of venue is approved...

Martha Matilda Perkey, 97, Nevada, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. She was born March 4, 1912, in Spruce, Mo., to William Thurman Perkey and Lena May Fillpot Perkey. Martha was born, raised, and spent virtually her entire life in this area. She worked for a number of years at Bendix in Kansas City and the cheese plant in El Dorado Springs, Mo. She was an avid gardener and bird watcher...

Dolores Jean "Dee" Foland, 77, Kansas City, Mo., formerly of Nevada, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at her home in Kansas City following an illness of several months. She was born Jan. 3, 1932, in Murphysboro, Ill., to Charles Edward Cherry and Myrtle B. Quinn Cherry. She married Hal E. Foland on June 15, 1951, in Nevada, and he survives of the home...

Ronnie Dean Engle, 46, Liberal, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, in Barton County, Mo., as a result of a traffic accident. He was born Jan. 27, 1963, in Nevada, to Lonnie Loren Engle and Joan Doris Rackley Engle. Ronnie was born and raised and spent most of his life in this area. ...

Donald Hart Lamore celebrates his ninetieth birthday. Born in Washington DC on October 15 1918 to Addie Allen Turnball, Canadian of Scottish and Irish origin and to Burton Hart Lamore, founder of the Federal Society of Translators to the League of Nations who was fluent in seven languages and translator of seventeen. ...