Stories from Wednesday, June 4, 2014

KANSAS CITY -- The El Dorado Christian boys' and girls' track teams ended the 2014 track season with two first-place team trophies. Both teams brought home gold from the Inter-School Athletic and Academic Competition Track Finals, May 8 and 9. Many track records were broken and multiple medals were won in the meet...

Nevada Daily Mail SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Nevada Neptunes swim team opened the 2014 summer season in the Missouri State Aquatics Tri-State Invitational swim meet Saturday and Sunday, at the Hammons Student Center pool, on the campus of Missouri State University...

Nevada Daily Mail SEDALIA, Mo. -- A Nevada Griffons error in the bottom of the ninth inning opened the door for the Sedalia Bombers and head coach Jud Kindle's squad scored two runs to edge Nevada by a final score of 4-3, in a MINK League South Division game Monday night, on the Bombers' home field, at Liberty Park...

Glyndal David Roberts, 92, of Dardanelle, Ark., passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014, in his home. He was born July 18, 1921, in Dardanelle, the son of John and Macie Roberts. He married Violet Opa James of Dardanelle, Sept. 8, 1943. She preceded him in death Sept. 14, 2009, after 66 years of marriage...

Jerry Ray Heckman Sr., 70, resident of Pryor, Okla., died Monday, June 2, 2014, at St. John's Medical Center, in Tulsa, Okla. He was born on Jan. 1, 1944, in Fort Scott, Kan., the only child of George John Heckman and Mable Anna (Cowan) Heckman. He married Jeanie Ellene (Large) Heckman on Oct. 26, 1961, and she survives of the home...

Nevada Daily Mail Avatar Solutions, a leading provider of patient, CAHPS, employee and physician surveys, recently announced their 2013 award winning hospital partners. Highlighting its consistent dedication to providing a high-quality patient experience, Nevada Regional Medical Center was awarded the following honors:...

Nevada Daily Mail Michael "John" Fogle became a trustee on the Richards Board of Trustees by appointment at the board meeting Monday since the board has been short two members. "If all I have to do is show up for the meetings, I'll join," Fogle said...

Nevada Daily Mail Michael "John" Fogle became a trustee on the Richards Board of Trustees by appointment at the board meeting Monday since the board has been short two members. "If all I have to do is show up for the meetings, I'll join," Fogle said...

Nevada Daily Mail Spending nearly 35 years as a surgeon at Nevada Regional Medical Center, Bill Turner became an essential part of the hospital and established the hospital's wound clinic. Turner, 71, retired to Emeritus status, effective April 15. "I feel comfortable retiring, knowing who is here now," he said. "Joe Dodd and Sherwin Parungao do a bang up job in the operating room. I'd let them operate on me or my wife."...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council approved donating $500 from the city's tourism fund to the annual fireworks display during Tuesday night's meeting. "I just wished they would have come to us and asked for money like the Bushwhacker Days committee did, rather than saying we would not give them any money," councilmember Jayne Novak, said before voting with the rest of the council to approve the donation...

Last week when friends and relatives joined for a celebration of the life of Doradee Kelso, there were not many tears. Doradee didn't want tears. She wanted joy, so as the minister retold some of the family stories each member of the congregation that had come to honor her had individual memories of this tiny lady who brought laughter and love to the whole community...

A special "60 Minutes" segment last Sunday sent me scurrying to several storage locations in my home to rediscover a host of pictures, some captured during my lifetime, many others that predated me. Friends, my columns are edited as closely as possible to a thousand words. Trust me, the pictures we all possess from our past are worth so much more than that finite number...