Stories from Wednesday, September 10, 2014

William R. "Bill" Woods, of Independence, Mo., born March 29, 1933, in Nevada, Mo., passed away Sept. 6, 2014, at Kansas City Hospice House, in Kansas City, Mo. Bill graduated from Nevada High School at the age of 16, joined the army in 1950 and spent his "18th birthday in a foxhole in Korea." He survived the experience, became a member of American Legion post 21, and on May 30, 1957, married Alice "Lou" Rouse...

Nevada Daily Mail Extension Council member Pat Miller announced that a new 4-H educator, Amanda Davis, will join Vernon County Extension office Oct. 1 at the Missouri University Extension Council meeting Monday. "She is a Nevada High School graduate," member Leslie Carroll-Bartlett said. "I'm quite happy that it'll be a local gal coming back. She was U.S. Army Intelligence and has been on Extension in Kansas for several years."...

Nevada Daily Mail The 2014 Schell City Fall Festival quilt/afghan show featured two afghans, seven small quilts and 14 larger quilts. This year's Mayor's Choice award, picked by Schell City Mayor Tom Haddix, went to Morgan Haddix, Schell City, for a quilt made by her great-grandmother, the late Dorothy Haddix. The quilt was left in Dorothy's quilting frame when she died in 2003. Morgan finished the hand quilting and binding this past year...

Nevada Daily Mail The 2014 Schell City Fall Festival quilt/afghan show featured two afghans, seven small quilts and 14 larger quilts. This year's Mayor's Choice award, picked by Schell City Mayor Tom Haddix, went to Morgan Haddix, Schell City, for a quilt made by her great-grandmother, the late Dorothy Haddix. The quilt was left in Dorothy's quilting frame when she died in 2003. Morgan finished the hand quilting and binding this past year...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Planning Commission voted unanimously during Tuesday's meeting to send a positive recommendation to the Nevada City Council to accept the city's 2014 five-year capital improvement plan. The five-year plan gives a broad outline of the projects the city plans to tackle over the next five-years. Some are already in progress, others are in the planning stage and others are still in the idea phase...

Nevada Daily Mail Hume won its first two games of the young volleyball season in convincing fashion, with a straight set 25-21 and 25-20 victory over Pleasanton and a 25-15, 25-19 decision over visiting Ballard. In the Pleasanton game, Hope Yarick served for nine points, with Emily Ward netting seven, Megan Sutcliff seven, Brhett Mumma six, and Hannah Swickhamer five. Sutcliffe recorded six aces, Ward four, and Mumma and Yarick three...

Nevada Daily Mail In a home match Tuesday afternoon, the Nevada girls' tennis team was stymied by Kansas City O'Hara, losing 7-2. Nevada head coach, Samantha Short, said during the match she felt Nevada was playing well, but making small mistakes. "The(O'Hara) girls' are just capitalizing on them," she said. "It's nothing major and it's nothing that we can't fix. We've come a long ways in the last three of four games that we've played...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada High School girls' golf team placed fourth at the 10-team Carl Junction tournament Tuesday, with an overall team score of 405. Carthage High School won the tournament, firing a 352. Joplin High School finished in second place with a team total of 372. And the host team Carl Junction, finished in third, shooting a 396...

Nevada Daily Mail Nevada Tigers senior volleyball player Rilie Good, powered her team to a thrilling two-set victory over the Fort Scott Tigers Tuesday night in Wynn Gym at Nevada High School. The 26-24, 25-21 triumph over Fort Scott was Nevada's second win of the night, having earlier bested Anderson County in two sets, 25-12 and 25-16...

Nevada High School girls' tennis players, Emma Cheaney (left) and Jaiden Cherry, proudly display their third place medals earned at the Warrensburg Doubles Tournament last Friday. The duo won the third place game over Knob Noster, 8-8 (7-3).