Stories from Thursday, November 4, 2010

Tammy Holcomb told the Nevada Park Board during their meeting last week that the privately operated youth softball program did not have enough board members to operate the program another year and they would like to give it back to the city. "I tried to run it on my own. We just don't have enough parents to run this," Holcomb told the parks board, before they voted 6-0 to accept the program...

Volunteers for the Vernon County chapter of Habitat for Humanity prepare to land and fasten a prefabricated truss on the Habitat for Humanity house located at 505 South Chestnut Street. The workers began setting the trusses on the 12th Habitat for Humanity house to be built in Nevada on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 3. When the structure is finished, it will be the home of Renee Benedict and her three sons, Tyler, Jeremy and Corbin...

The TNA Tag Team Champions of the World, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin took time to have their picture taken with their friend and chiropractor Dr. Gary Huddleston. TNA did large shows in both Sedalia and Springfield, and Dr. Huddleston was the backstage doctor at both events...

By Eric Wade Girl scouts from around the area took a devastating hit recently. On Oct. 28, local scout leader Joelle Mason discovered that the unit at Nevada Mini Storage used by the girl scouts for more than 10 years had been burglarized. Mason said she was in the storage unit on Oct. ...

"Meet Me in Missouri," a program of Missouri music written by people from Missouri, will be held at the Fox Playhouse, 110 South Main in Nevada this Saturday, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, at 2 p.m. It will be a culmination of a year of preparation on the part of the Vernon County Historical Society and Marsha Martin, director, in cooperation with the Missouri Arts Council...

Goldie Mae Bales, 93, Lincoln, Mo., formerly of Moundville, Mo., passed away Monday, Nov.1, 2010, at the Lincoln Community Nursing Home, Lincoln, following a recent illness. She was born Nov. 9, 1916, in Nevada, Mo., to C.E. Bowen and Mary Jane Behrens Bowen. She was married Dec. 30, 1933, in Nevada, to Owen Floyd Bales and he preceded her in death June 18, 1994...

Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in a series by Shane Cavanah, who was the head coach of the 1975 Nevada Tigers football team that was recently inducted into the Nevada High School Wall of Fame. Game 4 Sept. 26, Carl Junction, Home With Duane Belcher still feeling the effects of his injured ankle which allowed him to play only sporadically, we continued to use Larry Hillier at fullback most of the time and Charles Routledge at wingback...

Dear Editor: If you haven't seen the Smithsonian traveling exhibition downtown at the Bushwhacker Museum, you have only a week more to do so because it's closing on Sunday, Nov. 7. We're talking Smithsonian here as in the national museum in Washington, D.C...

Dear Editor: The police report of Oct. 13, about an accident between another pickup and one being driven by me was in error. My pickup was parked. Thank you Lyman Bott