Stories from Sunday, August 7, 2005

It was a long trip from war-torn Cyprus to Kansas City for a skinny 17-year-old boy to make with little more than the clothes on his back and a passport in his hand. However, when Mehmet Turzioglu arrived in Kansas City on Sept. 20, 1975, Lou and Lois Crow were there to greet him with a smile and a sign with his photograph to get his year as a foreign exchange student at Nevada High School off to a bright, if somewhat late, start...

A crowd of hundreds turned out for Friday's events at the Hume Fair, highlighted by several games, activities and a birthday party marking Hume's 125th anniversary. Attendees shared a special cake, looked back on memories and events of Hume's history and took part in a special ceremony. ...

The Star Kids Theatre will produce Bible Boogie Revue Saturday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. All children in the community, ages kindergarten through middle school are invited to participate in the musical production. Part auditions will be held on Sunday, Aug. 7, at 6 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 500 N. Olive. Rehearsals will be each evening, Aug. 8 through Aug. 12, from 6 to 8 p.m., culminating in the performance on Saturday...

The Bronaugh R-7 school board will conduct a tax levy hearing at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 11, in the English room at the school, 527 E. Sixth Street, to include discussion and vote. The hearing, which is open to the public, will precede the board's regular meeting...

A Schell City resident was killed Wednesday night in a one-vehicle crash in Northeast Vernon County. According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Andries Wolmarans, 23, the accident occurred at about 9 p.m.. on State Route M, two miles North of Schell City when the 1996 Jeep Wolmarans was driving ran off the road and overturned, ejecting the driver. Womarans was pronounced dead at the scene by Vernon County Coroner David Ferry...

John Charles Perkins, 67, Carthage, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Services were held at Antioch Cemetery on Aug. 6, at 3 p.m., with Mark Vancil officiating. Interment was in Antioch Cemetery in Nevada. Arrangements are by Ferry Funeral Home.

Doris Elizabeth Foland, 75, Kansas City, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Services were held at Ferry Funeral home on Aug. 6, at 2 p.m., with John Nichols officiating. Musical selections were "My Heart Will Go On" and "Memories." Pallbearers were John Foland, Kyle Foland, Mike Foland, Larry Weatherly, David Schorpp and Dan Lahar. Interment was in Newton Burial Park in Nevada. Arrangements were by Ferry Funeral Home...

Austin Forkner, Richards, competed in the 2005 Grand National Championship Motocross Race in Ponca City, Okla., July 24-30. Forkner, 6, placed seventh in the 50 cc Stock Class and 10th in the 50 cc Modified Class. Forkner raced in the 4- to 6-year-old age group. ...

As we were discussing the hot weather this summer and the fact we have seen more rabbits this year than in a long time, we were looking over my pond and noticed dimpling rises almost in the weeds bordering the shoreline. It was a sign the bluegill were feeding so we grabbed our ultralight gear and started fishing...

As the calendar continues its inexorable march toward another football season, something will be missing this fall for the first time since 1922 and will remain ever thus. Hank Stram is gone. Sure, it has been a long time since Hall of Famer Stram prowled the sideline at Municipal Stadium and finally Arrowhead as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. But those of us who thrilled to the victories of the late 1960s and into 1970, will recall those days as forever the highlight of our fandom...

Somewhere during the last 30 years or so, time got away from me. While I was growing up in Larchmont, N.Y., I had a friend, Neddy Bellamy, living in the house next to mine. He had a little brother, Mikey -- young enough to invite teasing and abusing, as younger siblings are wont to do. And Neddy, if I recall correctly, obliged him royally...

Hi neighbors. I am really excited this week because my cousin and her husband and sons are coming to visit from Ohio. Karen is the youngest of a family of five girls, daughters of my mother's sister. They have lived in Ohio all their lives. The last time Karen and her family came to visit was two years ago. Things have changed since then for both of us...