Stories from Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Robert Sandoval, 50, Nevada, passed away at his residence Saturday, March 27, 2010, following a lengthy illness. He was born Nov. 25, 1959, in Los Angeles, Calif., to Alfred Valdez and Carmen Castillo Valdez. He was married Oct. 26, 1984, in Nevada, to Pam Novak and she survives of the home...

Daryl Duane Reichard, 44, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday March 23, 2010, at his home in Stockton, Calif. He had fought a year and a half battle with a rare cancer. A memorial services was held on Monday, March 29, at 11 a.m., at Stockton Covenant Church, Stockton, Calif., and a service will be held on Sunday, April 4, at 3 p.m., at Community Christian Church, Fort Scott, Kan...

Elmer Osbourn, 83, of Schell City, died Monday, March 29, 2010, at his home. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 31, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, in Schell City. Visitation will be from 2-3 p.m., prior to funeral services. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Taberville. Friends may call after 9 a.m., on Wednesday, at the funeral home in Schell City...

Kevin Dean Beard, age 52, a resident of Fort Scott,, died Monday, March 29, 2010, at the Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott. Funeral services will be held at 11:30 p.m., Thursday, April 1, at the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow in the U.S. National Cemetery where military honors will be provided by the Olson Frary Burkhart Post No. 1165 Veterans of Foreign Wars...

The number of Missouri women, infants and children receiving nutrition information and food assistance through the WIC program has grown nearly 13 percent since 2008, state health officials said. More than 152,000 women, infants and children in Missouri currently receive WIC checks to buy basics such as cereal, milk and produce each month. That number is up from an average of 135,000 in 2008...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced today that Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site in Lamar saw a 94 percent increase in visitors in 2009. The announcement follows an earlier announcement by Gov. Jay Nixon that Missouri's system of state parks saw an overall increase in visitors of 6 percent last year...

The Vernon County Soil and Water Conservation District conducted its annual dinner and awards presentation Friday, in the home economics building at the Vernon County fairgrounds. Attendees were treated to a chicken dinner, catered by Chicken Mary's, Pittsburg. Winners of the annual conservation poster contest were presented awards. All conservation poster entries also were on display around the meeting room...

Dear Editor, The Northeast Vernon County R-I will be asking the community to approve a $3.5 million project which will fund the construction of a centralized building to educate students from preschool through grade 12. The patrons are being asked to fund a little under $2.5 million through a bond while the district will foot the remaining million dollars. ...

Dear editor, I am a concerned citizen of the NEVC R-1 School District. It seems that we, as citizens and taxpayers, are once again being asked to come up with funds through taxation to improve our school system. That is the blunt and the blind statement of what we are being asked to do...