Stories from Friday, June 4, 2010

On May 6, at 2:03 a.m., the Nevada Fire Department received a page for a structure fire at 535 N. Washington St. The first crew, consisting of Lt. Noah Weber, Engineer Taylor McKlintic and Fire Engineer Brandon Leer, arrived at the fire in 2 minutes 11 seconds...

Dewayne Henry Friedli, of Harwood, was born on Aug. 16, 1928, in Hope, Kan., to Henry Jacob Friedli and Ella Mays Springs Friedli. He went to be with his Lord Savior on May 29, 2010, after a lengthy illness. He was united in marriage with Alice Louis Schlup on April 12, 1952, in Kansas City, Mo. He was an active charter member of Faith Baptist Church, of Walker, where he was a deacon, trustee, treasurer, Sunday school teacher and superintendent...

Laura Holler, 91, of Lee's Summit, Mo., passed away Thursday, June 3, 2010, at St. Luke's East Hospital. Memorial visitation will be 3-5 p.m., Sunday, June 6, at Carson-Speaks Chapel, 1501 W. Lexington Ave., Independence, MO 64052. Laura was born Dec. ...

Somewhere close to 15 years ago, some friends and I experienced an adventure, that became our secret legend. Kept quiet, because for the most part, the story was not one that we wanted everyone to hear. Perhaps now enough time has passed for it to come to light...

Friends refer to him as Dangerous Doug, but he poses no threat to anyone, except perhaps his own ego. Doug Harper is a local music promoter who also writes and performs his own music as well as performing occasionally with the Marci Mitchell band. He also hosts a radio show on KESM in El Dorado Springs...

Nevada residents may be seeing some familiar faces in different city jobs in a couple of weeks. City Manager JD Kehrman is requesting that the city council consider a couple of measures at a special council meeting at 4:30 this afternoon to allow a couple of current city employees to exchange jobs...

The Century 6 Cinema is getting remodeled, but the work may not be apparent until the lights go down and the new projector starts; all of the work is being done in the projection booth. When the projectionist starts showing the movie, there is nothing moving -- this new projection system is 100 percent digital...

The Nevada Red Sox AAA baseball squad suffered yet another loss Wednesday night -- this time at the hands of the Aurora Hound Dawgs. Both teams put up a strong offensive performance and the Hound Dawgs ultimately needed eight innings instead of the scheduled seven to pull out a one-run victory by a final score of 11-10. Red Sox starting pitcher Ross Means suffered his first lost of the season as he gave up six runs in four innings of work...

The Frank E. Peters Municipal Golf Course in Nevada is scheduled to host a senior men's golf tournament on Thursday, June 10. The tournament will be played in a two-man scramble format and will be divided into two divisions -- seniors and super seniors. The seniors division is open to all men ages 50-64 and the super seniors division is for men age 65 and up...