Stories from Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Nevada Daily Mail The annual Girl Scout Cookie Crunch-Off, rescheduled from Jan. 20 due to inclement weather, was held Friday, Jan. 26 at the City/County Community Center in Nevada, accompanied by a carnival featuring games and snacks. Teams continued the annual tradition of competing to see which team can finish off one of each type of cookie sold, in a relay-style race...

By Lynn A. Wade Nevada Daily Mail Farmers are glad to see the snow and ice covering the ground melt and will be even happier when forage grasses begin to grow again in the spring. Many are reporting difficulty finding hay and supplying feed to livestock that rely heavily on grasses and forage available in the field...

Nevada Daily Mail Neoma Foreman of Walker, Mo., was recently published in the national magazine, Home Cooking. Foreman is a freelance writer who has been submitting original articles to publishers for 25 years. Her weekly column, "Country Connections," appears in the Nevada Daily Mail each Thursday, in the Rural section, and takes a light look at life on the farm, sharing stories of rural life with the community...

Nevada Daily Mail The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that early filings show some individual taxpayers have requested large and apparently improper amounts for the special telephone tax refund. The IRS is investigating potential abuses in this area and will take prompt action against taxpayers who claim improper refund amounts and the return preparers who help them...

David and Corina Hallam, North Kansas City, Mo., and Isaiah and Elijah are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Gabriel John Hallam. Gabriel was born Jan. 21, 2007. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces. Paternal grandparents are John and Patty Hallam, Walker...

Lula M. Fast, age 89, of El Dorado Springs, Mo., passed away at the Community Springs Nursing Home, El Dorado Springs, on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007. Lula was born on May 24, 1917, in Montevallo, Mo., the daughter of Walter and Ella (Leedy) Steward. Lula was the seventh of eight children. ...

Mary Lou Holman, 67, Elsmore, Kan., passed away on Monday, Jan. 29, 2007. She was born July 30, 1939, in Galesburg, Kan., to James Oliver Morris and Josephine Catherine (Dawson) Morris. Mary grew up in the Walnut, Haper, and Stark, Kan., area. She graduated from Grant High School in Stark in 1957. ...

Services needed for disabled persons Dear Editor: On Jan. 14, 2007, a very special lady passed away at Christian Health Care. She was age 98 years, 11 months old, missing her goal of reaching age 100 by 13 months. She was my mother Verna Leona Falen Griggs, born Feb. 13, 1908, the eighth of ninth children, to a poor farm family at Bridgeport, Kan...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The title is back. That's all that matters for the Nevada High School girls basketball team as they dismantled the Carthage Lady Tigers in the championship game of the Nevada Lady Tiger Classic Saturday, 57-38...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Nevada Tigers grew up Saturday. With their best player in foul trouble for much of the game, and the upstart Carthage Tigers coming into the championship of the Nevada Classic playing their best basketball in years, Nevada's Tigers showed they are more than a one man show...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail NEVADA, Mo. -- The Cottey Comets finally found their stroke in a 71-57 win over St. Louis Community College-Florrisant Valley at the Hinkhouse Saturday. All 10 players scored in the first half, as Cottey had a season high 47 points before the break, dominating the depleted Norsewomen...