Stories from Saturday, June 18, 2016

Years ago, Outdoor editor of the Kansas City Star, Ray Heady, claimed there is nothing compared to catching bass than with a topwater lure. May through June is the best fishing of the year. When bass come roaring up out of the depths of water with their big mouths wide open and you see the big fish exploding through the center spray, it gets your adrenaline going like nothing else in fishing...

The Nevada Griffons annual Youth Baseball Camp is slated for Monday, June 20 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Lyons Stadium for ages 7-and-up. Campers will get the opportunity to work with Griffons players and coaches on baseball fundamentals and other areas of the game...

I have heard more comments in the past few days that people "don't need assault rifles" than I have heard in the last several years combined! I still find it puzzling that someone can kill that many people and everyone jumps straight to attacking guns...

Hi neighbors. Tomorrow is Father's Day! I hope everyone has plans to spend time with their father, grandfather or other father figure in their life. I cannot imagine having a childhood without a father, or of losing a father during childhood. Yet every day we hear of fathers who never participate in family life, are never around or have died while their children are young...

Nevada Daily Mail With the start of summer school on June 6, Christy Lockard, business teacher and FBLA advisor, implemented the next phase of a recycling program. The Sheldon FBLA and the city of Sheldon have been working together to promote recycling at the school and in the city of Sheldon for about 2 ½ years so far...

Nevada Daily Mail Later this year, KCP&L is publishing its first calendar on electrical safety and included among its pictures will be a drawing by 11-year-old Maci Yount, of Bronaugh. Open to children under age 12, the 16 winners of this coloring contest were selected by a public vote on KCP&L's Facebook page...

Bonnie was born Nov. 17, 1925, to Ruth and Wilbur Peabody in Nevada, Mo., and grew up on the family farm, where she began her love of animals and gardening. After high school, she attended nurses training at Washington University in St. Louis, a highlight in her life. She not only loved nursing, but made lifelong friends and went to reunions as long as she was able. She also met and married Dr. Bernard Gordon and moved to Baltimore, Md., where she had two children, Gerald and Jan...

Ronnie Lee Shadden, 40, Nevada, Mo., passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Fort Scott, Kan. Ronnie was born Dec. 26, 1975, in Butler, Mo., to Harry Henry and Corrine "Colleen" (Joles) Shadden. He was united in marriage to Christina Marie Terry on May 11, 2014, and she survives of the home...

Kizzi Pace and Josh Hostetter, of Nevada, Mo., and older siblings, Kyrin, Frank Christopher Trypp, Phelani, and Blaiz, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and baby sister, Kinzli Teresa Hostetter. Kinzli was born Friday, June 10, 2016, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 4 pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 18 and 3/14 inches...