Stories from Friday, November 12, 2010

Veterans Day is special to all of the people at Dog's Nation, formerly known as Second Chance Barnyard. The no-kill rescue facility, which is located just south of El Dorado Springs, has recently placed their fourth "Battle Buddy" service dog with a disabled veteran...

The I.M.P.A.C.T. Nevada Tourism is getting closer to having a new location for their office and a new tourism coordinator. Dann Sutton, board chairman, told the board during a special meeting Wednesday that he felt the board's immediate goals should be to find a building for the office, hire a coordinator and then find a location for a tourism information kiosk close to the U.S. Highway 71 and U.S. Highway 54 interchange on Austin Boulevard...

President Harry S. Truman, as portrayed by Dave Hall, speaks to a full gymnasium at the Bronaugh High School during a Veterans Day program held Thursday, Nov. 11. Truman spoke of his beginnings, military service, political life and the hard decision he had to make when he decided to drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese islands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to bring World War II to a close and save untold thousands of American soldiers' lives. ...

Having fought in wars 40 years apart, Brent Beckman of Walker and Ray Spencer of El Dorado Springs know what they're talking about when it comes to serving their country. They did five tours of duty between them with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam and spent most of 2005 in Iraq with Company A of the Missouri Army National Guard's 735th Infantry Division, Beckman as a sergeant first class and Spencer as a staff sergeant...

Editor's Note: This is the fifth 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. Every Friday morning, my buddy, John McKinley, who was the play-by-play radio announcer along with Lyle Catron, and I would make the weekly trek to the KNEM studio to do a day-of-the-game coach's show. ...

Carsten Warner shoots for two of her six points during Thursday's seventh grade girls' basketball A team game against McDonald County Middle School in the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center gymnasium, in Nevada. Megan Payne led the offensive effort with 10 points in the 34-29 Nevada victory. ...