Stories from Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Wanted: The best older worker of Missouri. Missouri's annual Older Worker of the Year contest is seeking nominations for the honor. Nominees must be age 60 or older, employed at least 20 hours per week and must display "dependability and new skills on the job," said a press release from the Department of Health and Senior Services...

Monday afternoon's heavy downpour was likely a welcome sight to area producers. The storm, which formed over southwestern Vernon County, spread over the city of Nevada and parts of the county in a short amount of time. At 3:13 p.m., the National Weather Service had issued a severe thunderstorm warning, and rain was so heavy that a flash flood warning was issued. ...

SHELDON -- Ed Gustafson's humility and quiet willingness to help his town and fellow citizens have won many admirers. A native of the Chicago suburb of Steger, he went to work as a theater usher and factory worker after finishing the eighth grade. Gustafson joined the Army and spent 1949 as a truckdriver in no-man's land during the Korean War, where bullets punching holes in his doors and windshield somehow always missed him...

Velma Mildred Phillips, 83, Nevada, passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2011, at her home in Nevada. She was born March 26, 1928, in Nevada, to Harry McClure Jenkins and Laura Belle Young Jenkins. She married William D. "Bert" Phillips on Oct. 27, 1946, in Arizona. He preceded her in death on Jan. 4, 1994...

Theodore Forrest "Ted" Dilly, 64, Deerfield, Mo., passed away on Monday July 25, 2011, at Mercy Health Center, Fort Scott, Kan., following a brave battle with cancer. He was born Oct. 29, 1946, in Rock Rapids, Iowa, to Forrest Randall Dilly and Kathryn Jean Meyer Dilly. He married Barbara Nadine Wolfe on March 1, 1968, at the Clayton Christian Church, Eve, Mo., and she survives of the home...

Eathan and Rachael Jarvis of Walker, Mo., are proud to announce to the birth of their daughter, Allison Elisabeth Jarvis. Allison was born at 10:02 a.m., Friday, July 22, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and measured 20.25 inches...

July 6 Huleigh Wilson, Nevada, reported a petty theft from a motor vehicle in the 2100 block of East Austin Boulevard. Item stolen was a 2004 Ford front bumper. 11:31 a.m.: An accident occurred at U.S. 71 Highway and Highland Street involving a car driven by Fredrick W. Njoroge, Oronogo, Mo., and an unknown vehicle. Minor injuries. Accident is still under investigation...

"That Officer Henley, he's young, but he didn't hesitate at all to go in that window and get her," Sharon Ashby said, after having watched Nevada police officers David Henley and Richard Burdick rescue a terrified 8-year-old girl hiding in a bedroom from a fire at Elmwood Estates, Saturday...