Stories from Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ann Denny, 79, died Sept. 17, 2013. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, at Konantz Warden Chapel, Lamar. Service will follow at 2 p.m. with burial in Morehead Cemetery.

A total of 76 units of blood were collected during the two-day visit of the American Red Cross Bloodmobile in Nevada. An additional 77 units of blood were collected during the one-day visit of the bloodmobile to the Nevada 3M plant. Receiving their gallon pins were Katie Sanderson for 11 gallons, Cynthia Varner for six, Richard Patton and Michael Koca for five, Terri Vallafane and Vonda Jackson for four, James Tumm for three, James Clark for two and Stephen Gray Jr. for one...

Mary K. Kerbs received a Journey Grant from William Jewell College. Kerbs embarked on a journey to Katherine, Oxford, England, this past summer, to attend the English Literature Summer School at Exeter College. Kerbs was an English and Applied Critical Thought and Inquiry major during the spring semester at the college located in Liberty, Mo...

Nevada Daily Mail Gary Johnston thought everybody could play the fiddle. Growing up in Lamar, Johnston's musical family, which included seven siblings who could all play an instrument, provided the music for house parties. He said he couldn't remember how old he was when he started playing the fiddle...

Nevada Daily Mail The new performing arts center and multi-purpose buildings at the Nevada High School are nearing completion, Aaron Hight, Crossland's construction manager, told the Nevada R-5 School Board during its Sept. 11 meeting. "The interior is nearly complete," Hight said of the performing arts center...

Nevada Daily Mail Bronaugh kindergarten through fifth grade students learned about nutrition, exercise and the body in the University of Missouri Extension's traveling Food Power Adventure exhibit Tuesday. "It's a really good way to reinforce good health," Paula Gray of MU Extension said...

The United States may be facing the most important question it has faced in a decade. Shall we risk becoming involved in another war? There is at least some good news. Both the Republican and Democratic parties seem to face the question more squarely now. They may be doing so for different reasons but may finally agree on an honest answer...

The Schell City Fall Festival concluded this past Saturday evening with a near-record amount of money being raised for the community and conducted the drawing for a 1999 Ford Expedition, the proceeds of which benefit the Schell City Rural Volunteer Fire Department...