Stories from Thursday, May 17, 2012

Nevada High School football coach Wes Beachler and his staff are holding a football camp for elementary-age players this week at Logan Field. Beachler said 78 boys signed up for the camp. Above, Jayden Ast takes a handoff from Will Johnson on Wednesday evening during the camp. Look for more on the camp, including a group photo, in tomorrow's Nevada Daily Mail...

The Nevada Public Library will kick off the summer reading program, themed "Dream Big --Read!" with STARLAB, a traveling planetarium that allows astronomy to be presented in a school or library environment by one of the Springfield Science Museum's astronomy staff...

Three state highways in Vernon, Cedar and St. Clair counties will be sealed with a mixture of rock and oil during the weeks of May 21 and May 28, the Missouri Department of Transportation said. Highway 82, a section of Vernon County Highway C and Vernon/Cedar County Highway EE will be sealed with a mixture of rock and oil...

The American Red Cross Bloodmobile was in Nevada this past week and a total of 82 units of blood was collected. The following persons received their gallon pins: 14 gallons, Rick Miller; nine gallons, Rex Byergo; six gallons, Ellen Charniga; four gallons, Denny Wallace, Norman Noel and Ashley Banes; three gallons, Phoebe Harper and Jodi Jackson...

The third Nevada Young Authors' Conference was held at Truman Elementary on Saturday, May 5. At the conference, approximately 175 students had the opportunity to meet and hear an author and illustrator discuss their crafts. The guest speakers were author Michael Shoulders from Clarksville, Tenn., with his popular book, "T is for Titanic;" and Illustrator Laura Huliska-Beith from Kansas City, Mo., for her Children's Choice Award winning book, "The Recess Queen."...

More than two dozen members of the Nevada Special Olympics team are training for the state games to be held in Columbia, Mo., May 29-June 1. Coach Karen Smotherman said that each member of the team qualified in at least one event and some of the athletes qualified in more...

Nevada Mayor Brian Leonard presents a proclamation to members of the Nevada High School DECA, designating May 15 as DECA Recognition Day in Nevada, during the Nevada City Council's regular meeting on Tuesday. The proclamation is in recognition of the nine NHS DECA students who qualified to attend DECA's 2012 International Career Development Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

Nevada Mayor Brian Leonard presents a proclamation to representatives of the Nevada Police Department recognizing May 13-19 as National Police Week in Nevada. Pictures from left: Officer Rick DeBruin, Sgt. Steve Bastow, Officer Amber Williamson, Mayor Brian Leonard and Capt. Casey Crain...

Nevada firefighters and an employee of Kenny Singer Construction Company of Aurora, Mo., visually evaluate a gas line that was ruptured as workers were trenching a sewer line on the north side of the Pilot Travel Center parking lot at 2424 E. Austin Boulevard in Nevada on Wednesday. ...

Nevada High School football coach Wes Beachler and his staff held a football camp for elementary school players this week at Logan Field. Coach Beachler said 78 boys participated. The campers posed for a group photo on Wednesday after receiving their camps shirts...

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