Stories from Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Nevada Daily Mail James McKenzie, from the vernon County Ambulance District and Ross Lawrence, associate wealth manager at Hoffman Financial Resources and an advocate for the United Way, were the guest speakers at the October Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce Luncheon held at the Nevada Eagles Friday. The meeting was catered by Jenny's California Cafe...

Nevada Daily Mail For the first time the Vernon County Sheriff's Office will provide a six-month internship for people in the community interested in gaining law enforcement environment experience. "This is a way to help people to get their foot in the door," Sheriff Jason Mosher said...

Nevada Daily Mail As Healthy Nevada's community challenge to sign up 1,000 Vernon County residents in the Governor's 100 Missouri Miles Challenge nears the half-way mark, the organization announced it will donate Pulse Tempo playground equipment to Walton Park should the county accomplish the challenge by Nov. 15...

Editor's note: This is the first of a multi-part series covering "High Impact Philanthropy, a 360-Degree View of Planned and Major Gift Fundraising," a day-long training session at Cottey College in Nevada. Nevada Daily Mail Attendance was "good" and the day "well worth the time," said organizers and those in attendance at Cottey College for the "High Impact Philanthropy" seminar that began at 10 a.m. and finished up for the afternoon session after 4, and that was followed by an evening session...

Nevada Daily Mail JJ Curtis met with the Nevada City Council Tuesday night relative to a request for the city to annex his new building site into the city to get on city sewers.

The Nevada Middle School's seventh- and eighth-grade volleyball teams began play in the Tri-County Tournament Monday, with mixed results. Head coach Marsha Hooper's seventh graders entered the tournament as the second seed and showed why they were ranked so high, defeating Joplin South in two sets, by the final scores of 25-18 and 25-13, in the first round of the tournament at McDonald County. ...

The Nevada Tigers swim team got back into action Tuesday with a noticeably thinner than usual roster. Due to injuries, head coach Ryan Watts was forced to go to the Webb City meet with just his freshmen. Those freshmen performed better than even Watts could have expected, however, giving him plenty of reason to leave the meet happy...

The Bronaugh Lady Wildcats volleyball team won a pair of matches at Arma, Kan., Monday night. Bronaugh defeated Chetopa in three sets, 25-18, 25-11 and 25-13, and Northeast-Arma in two, by the final scores of 25-23 and 25-12. Cydnee Piper led the Lady Wildcats with 14 kills, while Lora Shaw was credited a team-high five blocks...

The Nevada Tigers freshman football team made its return to Logan Field Monday evening and quickly found itself in a shootout against the Tigers of Fort Scott High School. By the time all was said and done, head coach Josh Smith's Tigers came out on top by a final score of 38-30...

The Nevada Lady Tigers volleyball team took to the road again Tuesday night, taking on the Lady Trojans of Girard High School in a varsity/JV doubleheader. Things went very well for head coach Ashley Thoreson's varsity squad on the night as the Lady Tigers won their best-of-five match by the final scores of 25-19, 25-12 and 25-14. ...

By Eric Wade Daily Mail Sports Editor The Nevada Lady Tigers volleyball team is set to celebrate a very special night Thursday. The fourth annual Dig for a Cure Night at Nevada High School is set to go on when the Lady Tigers return to Wynn Gymnasium to take on the McDonald County Lady Mustangs...