Stories from Thursday, January 31, 2013

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Regional Medical Center directors welcomed Dr. Brad Copeland of Moundville, a veterinarian who practices in Nevada, to the board to succeed Julie McKinley, a financial strength committee member who had completed a three-year term and cited a busy schedule in declining to continue her service. McKinley was awarded a plaque in appreciation of her service...

A Canadian company's 600-mile crude oil pipeline from Flanagan, Ill., to Cushing, Okla., will boom Vernon County late this year and into 2014, county commissioners learned Wednesday. Chamber of Commerce Director Gina Ensor said a representative of Enbridge Energy of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, had just visited her Nevada office to say hundreds of workers on the $2.8 billion project will need housing, food, clothing, dry cleaning, healthcare, fuel and other things...

The steady rainstorm that began sloshing Vernon County and Southwest Missouri early Tuesday and continued until after midnight Wednesday will not break the drought that had tormented the region for months on end, but it replenished livestock watering ponds and gave the rapidly maturing winter wheat crop a boost, agricultural officials said Wednesday...

Barth Frank Hinkle, 88, Nevada, died on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2012, in Nevada. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Nevada. Those who wish to honor Barth's memory may contribute to All Saints' Episcopal Church or the Alano Club of Nevada in care of Ferry Funeral Home, 301 S. Washington, Nevada...

J.C. Davis, 81, of Lee's Summit, Mo., died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at Research Medical Center. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 1, at Langsford Funeral Home. Visitation will be today, from 5-7 p.m., at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Grace United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Lee's Summit Cemetery...

Wilma D. Braun, 70, Deerfield, Mo., passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a lengthy illness. She was born Oct. 22, 1942, in Biggers, Ark., to Jesse Lloyd Whitaker and Geraldine Pendergrass Whitaker. She married Leonard Braun on July 18, 1963, in Leoti, Kan., and he survives of the home...