Stories from Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Shannon Gepford, the author of "Solomon Isaiah Spreewell: Throw-Up, Pigs & Kisses" will be at the Nevada Public Library at 1 p.m. on Wednesday July 16, to sign copies of his book. The book is about a fifth grade boy, nicknamed "Sis" who gets into all types of mis-adventures in rural Missouri. ...

Brotherhood brings them together, rain or shine, in the stifling heat of the day or the chill of the night. On Saturday, as they have in years past, veterans gathered for a watch fire at Marmaduke Park, and together they talked, they sang, they laughed, they cried and they remembered. ...

Pre-race preparations to ready Nevada Speedway for action after two inches of rainfall were successful and racing went off as scheduled Saturday night. Bronaugh's Denny Chrisenberry widened his runaway points lead with his seventh feature win in the Street stock division. ...

The dog days of July seem to be exacting a toll on the Nevada Griffons. The Griffons (25-15, 10-13), losers of three straight, were swept by the Jayhawk League cellar-dwelling Topeka Capitals, 19-9 and 6-2, at Lyons Stadium on Saturday. "We're going through a little bit of adversity right now, as a team," said Griffons coach Daryl Byrd, "but that's the game of baseball. ...

100 Years Ago -- July 15, 1903 Mayor Wight says that Cherry Street is going to be paved if there is any way to do it. The preliminary work will be gone over again and it is hoped that the mayor and the council will succeed in the work. The street grade and the electrical carline grade are so nearly the same that Mr. ...

They say that with age a person becomes wiser, that through the years they absorb an abundance of knowledge to be used later on in life. But I have to wonder to myself -- does that leaning process only begin at 20? I am 20 years old and will be 21 in a matter of months. ...