Stories from Saturday, January 19, 2013

Gary Dean Wimmer, 67, Fulton, Kan., passed away on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. He was born May 24, 1945, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Joseph and Dorothy Dawson Wimmer. He married Sheila Lynn Bradford on Aug. 4, 1970. To this union, four children were born...

Frankie Wayne Keeton, 79, of Harwood, Mo., died Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Appleton City Manor. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, Jan. 21, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City, Mo. Visitation will be held noon to 1 p.m., prior to the service, at the funeral home...

Hi neighbors. I've heard that spring turns a young man's heart to fancy, but for my son it seems late summer was the magic moment. He came in one evening, sat on the couch and said he no longer considered himself a single man. I was flabbergasted! "What? You got married during lunch today?" I asked...

Henry Ford once said "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." I have always been fond of Henry Ford because of his dedication to hard work and the example he left behind of what can happen when people work together. Henry Ford was successful because he knew that working together with those who shared his ideas would accomplish more than he could ever hope to achieve on his own...

Dear Editor: I have been receiving a lot of questions from people in the county about how I will respond to the executive orders that President Obama has signed and the laws that he is urging Congress to pass. I would like to take a moment to speak to the citizens of Vernon County and let them know where I stand. ...

Name of club: Nevada, Mo., Lions Club Meeting day, time and location: Noon each Tuesday at the Moore-Few Care Center Community Room Local club founded: Feb. 20, 1924, in Nevada Historical point of interest: Club is 88 years old Current membership: 45 members...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce announced Friday that following the resignation of executive director Gina Ensor earlier this week they are actively seeking a replacement. "I love my job and Nevada, but my family comes first. This is a difficult decision, though. I know it is the right thing for my family," said Ensor, who will travel on business with her husband and their two daughters...

The Nevada City Council recently changed the city code to allow wineries to produce wine and brandy inside the city limits. During Tuesday's 7 p.m. meeting in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St., the council will be considering a resolution approving a license to manufacture beer or wine under the Non-intoxicating Beer Act or the Liquor Control Act of 1935 for DeLaney Vineyard & Winery, 1200 S. Main St...

BRONAUGH -- Kennon Rogene Shaw's youthful ambition to teach mathematics was frustrated by a poor soybean crop, but many years later he achieved that goal in another field that proved the high point of his life. Born four blocks from the farm where he and his wife Jane live now and recently retired as the Vernon County southern commissioner, Shaw graduated from Bronaugh High School in 1954 and accepted his father's challenge to finance college with 40 acres of soybeans...

Brian Ast of Nevada, who owns Ast Heating & Air, said Friday that retired vocational education teacher Kennon Shaw had the cooperation of most of the juniors and seniors who studied at the Nevada Regional Technical Center from Sheldon, El Dorado Springs, Northeast Vernon County High School at Walker, Hume, Rich Hill, Butler, Bronaugh and Nevada...

Observed Monday with the closure of city and county offices, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day should be an occasion to consider how the civil rights leader's life changed America for the better, say two Nevadans who have extensively studied his life. Dr. ...