Stories from Wednesday, December 20, 2006

By Jennifer Johnson Nevada Daily Mail Bronaugh students had the opportunity to witness a rare occurrence in their school gymnasium Friday Dec15. With the smell of burned rubber in the air and the sould of students applauding, teachers and parents lined up in a row to become human obstacles over which Brad Bennett would fly on his motorcycle -- part of his performance in a special assembly. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday night, councilman Dick Meyers announced that he is resigning from the Nevada City Council, effective Dec. 31, for personal and professional reasons. "Every vote I made I tried to keep the citizens interest in mind," Meyers said...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Parks and Recreation Board is going to be busy during 2007, prioritizing and planning how to best use the money generated by the city's 1/2-cent sales tax that voters renewed in 2005. Harlan Moore told the city council Tuesday night that he wants to wait until there is money in the bank to cover the costs of projects before the city starts work on them...

Nevada Daily Mail Budget projections for the next three years are the lone item on the open portion of work session agenda for the Bronaugh R-7 Board of Education, which plans to meet at 6 p.m, Wednesday, Dec. 27, in the English room at the school, 527 E. Sixth St., Bronaugh...

Nevada Daily Mail Due to the continuing drought, many more ponds have dried up and producers are running out of water for their livestock. Vernon County has been approved for an extended Emergency Livestock Water program to assist with the construction of wells or waterlines for livestock water. The sign-up period is Dec. 21, 2006-Jan 10, 2007. Cost shares of 50 percent are available for eligible components...

Evelyn Lafferty, 87, Nevada, Mo., died Dec. 18, 2006. She was born Dec. 14, 1919, in Butler, Mo. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Dec. 21, at Evergreen Memorial Chapel, Nevada, with Bill Platt officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services. Burial will be in Newton Burial Park, Nevada...

Recently, I heard a song on the radio and every time they said Christmas, it was beeped out, like it was a bad word. They said that they could not use the word (beep). They would say merry (beep). It was humorous and still it was somewhat sad. Unfortunately, there is too much truth in it. There are places in our nation where they cannot use the word Christmas...

100 years ago Sells two smelters William Lanyon, who owns the Lanyon smelters in the this city, has sold a controlling interest in his smelters at Caney and Deering t to the American Lead Zinc and Smelting company of Boston. This is the company which owns about 300 acres of the best of nine fields in and about Joplin. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail CLINTON, Mo. -- Holding the Clinton Cardinals to only two free throws in the third quarter allowed Nevada to break a halftime tie as the Tigers took a 45-41 decision Tuesday. Deadlocked 23-23 after one half of play, the Tigers didn't allow a Clinton field goal until the fourth period as they opened up a 32-25 advantage...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tiger basketball team is the top seed in the 12th Annual Lady Tiger Invitational to be held in Carthage Jan. 2-6. Nevada will play fourth-seeded Nixa and fifth-seeded Carl Junction in round-robin play of the six team field...

Nevada Daily Mail With the Nevada Youth Wrestling Club now back in action, the NYWC had 14 members visit Diamond for a tournament Saturday. Eight of the wrestlers came home with medals. Colby Smith won his weight class in his age group. Caleb Longobardi took second in his weight class, Jacob Johnson also was second, Lucas Denman took second, Regar Hardin was third, C.J. Otter was fourth, Clayton Harreld was fourth and True Beisly was fourth...