Stories from Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Dear Editor, I am a 50-year-old woman caught between a rock and a hard place! Let me tell you how the walls are closing in. In January of this year (2015), I began to have trouble with my eyes. It was like a lace curtain being lowered over them. Each day it was a little darker, it was subtle, not all at once. By the middle of February, I had given up on driving at all. The curtain had turned into a very dense fog. Sometimes I could not see anything at all...

Nevada Daily Mail For the seventh straight year, the Department of Health and Senior Services found the Nevada Medicalodges to have less than seven deficiencies. The 2015 survey found one deficiency, causing celebration for staff. "We had a bonus party and each staff member who met the criteria got a check," Susan Houser, administrator at the Medicalodges said. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Regional Medical Center Board of Directors met to discuss administrative reports including a large amount of money that could be taken from the hospital. Holly Bush, chief quality officer at NRMC told the board about a potential loss the hospital could take despite having good results with its strategic quality admission, concerning reduction of falls and injuries, immunizations, readmissions...

Nevada Daily Mail The vision of Julie Daniels-Polumbo to help children reach their dreams began at the Nevada Housing Authority in October 2006. Daniels-Polumbo, a Cottey College student, had met with Carol Branham, executive director of the Nevada Housing Authority about doing an internship with Branham's agency. ...

The Osage Prairie YMCA Tridents swim team participated in the Monett Marlins Invitational Nov. 14 at the Monett area YMCA. The event comprised of two sessions featuring 208 swimmers from seven YMCA teams. Over the course of 10 hours, swimmers competed in 130 total events...

The Nevada Lady Tigers varsity basketball team picked up its first win of the season, defeating McDonald County 38-35 in the first round of the Carl Junction Classic, Monday night. NHS JV boys The NHS junior varsity boys basketball team fell to Harrisonville 34-33 Monday night at the Harrisonville junior varsity tournament...

The Hume Lady Hornets are off to an excellent start after flattening Miami 48-23 in its basketball opener Nov. 24 at home. Hume blanked Miami 10-0 in the first quarter, before rolling out to a 27-4 halftime lead. The Lady Hornets kept the pedal to the metal in the second half, as they grabbed a 41-15 lead heading into the fourth quarter as they cruised to the 25-point victory...

Matt Thompson's heroics lifted the Nevada Tigers freshman basketball team to a 45-42 season-opening victory over Carthage Monday night at Wynn Gym. With the score tied at 42 apiece and less than 10 seconds remaining in regulation Thompson drilled a 3-pointer from the left wing to put the Tigers on top. A Carthage 3-point attempt at the buzzer was off the mark, as Nevada moved to 1-0...

Helen Catherine Sidmore, 87, of Pittsburg, Kan., passed from this life on Nov. 22, 2015, at Via Christi Hospital, in Pittsburg. She was born July 10, 1928, in Waterloo, Iowa, the daughter of Verne and Florence (Coughlin) DeLapp. She and her husband, Erwin, celebrated 60 years of married life just prior to his death...

Nelda Pike, 84, of Butler, Mo., passed away Nov. 25, 2015, at Crown Care Center, in Harrisonville, Mo., surrounded by her family. Nelda was born June 15, 1931, in Butler, daughter of Harvey and Cecilia (Steffen) Carroll. She was raised on a farm south of Butler, attended a rural elementary school and graduated from Butler High School. ...

Patricia Ann Periman, 82, formerly of Nevada, Mo., concluded her life's journey on Nov. 27, 2015, at her daughter's home in Crouse, N.C. She was born on June 9, 1933, in Haviland, Kan., to Frank Livingston Schooley and Dora Belle James Schooley. Patricia grew up on a farm in the Fairview community, south of Nevada. She worked as a Psychiatric Aide at the Nevada State Hospital, retiring after 29 years and later moved to the mountains of North Carolina...