Stories from Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ruth L. Cooley, 94, of Joplin, Mo., died on Feb. 8, 2011, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada, Mo., following an illness. She was born on Dec. 5, 1916, in Joplin, Mo., the daughter of the late C. O. Ferguson and Ethel Brown Ferguson. She will be taken for cremation with graveside services at a later date...

Sam Tucker, 67, of Schell City, Mo., died on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, at North Kansas City Hospital. Services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home in Schell City. Burial will be in Green Lawn Cemetery, Schell City. Friends may call at 1 p.m., Friday, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City...

January 25 Deena M. Bledsoe, Nevada, expired license plate, no proof of insurance. Luisa M. Dilly, Nevada, speeding 44/30. Bo L. Jenkins, Aurora, Mo., speeding 41/30. Lena L. Kleeman, Sheldon, speeding 43/30. Britteny S. Lukenbill, Nevada, speeding 41/30...

Despite the objections of some of the residents who live near the old Franklin School building, the Nevada Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend that the city council change the zoning on a portion of the property at 300 S. Spring St. from R-1, single family, to R-3, apartment district at the request of property owner Gary Lunkenheimer...

Red, pink, love, hearts, Teddy bears, roses, and chocolate. What do these things all have in common? Valentine's Day! For one local charity, Valentine's Day is the marker for one of their local fundraisers. Council on Families in Crisis will once again host their annual Valentine's Day Chocolate Sale. According to Martha Sander, Executive Director, this will be the 13th year for the sale...

Nevadans turned out in unimpressive numbers Tuesday to advance City Council incumbents Brian Leonard and Sherry Steward to the April 5 general election along with challengers Jeff Bloom and Randy Boultinghouse. Apparently discouraged by a forbidding day of temperatures peaking at 13 degrees and snow that sputtered and then showered, only 254, or 6.1 percent, of the city's 4,165 registered voters took part. Voters were to vote for up to four...

Missouri Welding Institute's 2011 welding competition continued over the weekend with its second division, for vocational-technical school students. Last week's segment, won by South Tech student Robert Patzius of St. Louis, Mo., was for high school students. The second portion, according to MWI Director Brian Hollands, was to be a more advanced skills test...

The Missouri Nut Growers Association returned to Nevada on Feb., 4-5 to conduct their 2011 Annual Meeting and Nut Show at the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. Though the meeting and nut show didn't officially begin until Saturday, Feb. 4, many members were on hand Friday to register nut samples and participate in the weighing, cracking and shelling of several "cultivars" of black walnuts, hickory nuts and pecans...