Stories from Saturday, October 18, 2014

Elizabeth Annete York, 53, of Nevada, Mo., passed from this life on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, in Nevada. She was born Jan. 6, 1961, in Kansas City, the daughter of Irvin Alfred and Ina Vernetta (Hill) Cochran. On Dec. 23, 1983, she was united in marriage to Michael Allen York. He preceded her in death in 1998...

Viola Irene Swickhamer, 99, Nevada, Mo., died on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at the Barone Care Center, in Nevada. She was born on Jan. 25, 1915, in Rich Hill, Mo., to Albert Franklin and Cora Virginia (Lee) Swickhamer. Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, at Independence Cemetery, Hume. Friends may call from now and until 9 a.m., Tuesday, at Ferry Funeral Home, in Nevada...

Gary and Carolyn (Owen) Fowler were united in marriage by the Rev. Pliny Elliott at the Irwin Presbyterian Church, on Nov. 1, 1964. Their daughter, Christy, will accompany them to Dryersville, Iowa, where they will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary...

Hunting seasons are popping up like spring mushrooms. The prospects of a good fall hunting season in Missouri has optimism running high. The firearm fall turkey season opened Oct. 1. Hunters reported seeing lots of young birds. The latest totals show most of the top counties are in the Ozarks. After a good breeding season, turkey numbers are very good. Results of the annual brood survey show that for the third time in the last four years, the ratio of polts-to-hen was 1.7 percent Statewide...

Nevada Daily Mail Senior Night was a rough one for the Nevada Tigers volleyball team, as they fell to the O'Hara Celtics 25-21, 25-19. Nevada (21-10, 6-5) next travels to Clinton for the Class 3 District 11 tournament, where they are a three-seed. The Tigers will face No. 6 seed Clinton at 7:30 p.m., Monday...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Future Business Leaders of America held its first Tackle Cancer event at the Logan Football Field, as the Nevada Tigers took on the Warrensburg Tigers. Tackle Cancer had a light blue theme, and represented prostate cancer. ...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will consider adopting a resolution during its meeting Monday night at 7 p.m., in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St., to issue up to $50,070,000 in Chapter 100 industrial development revenue bonds to help 3M upgrade equipment in its Nevada plant...

Nevada Daily Mail Candidates from different political parties running for the same office, often differ in their viewpoints on almost everything. On occasion, they share the same view. That occurred during Thursday's Rotary meeting at the Nevada Country Club, when both candidates for the 126th District House of Representative seat vacated when incumbent Randy Pike died in September, agreed that they would vote no on Amendment No. 3 that will appear on the Nov. 4 ballot...

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." -Vincent Van Gogh. We recently began investigating a difficult case that was going to require a lot of manpower and resourses. When I placed a call requesting the Southwest Missouri Major Case Squad be activated, I was more than surprised at the response I received! There were more than a dozen investigators from five other law enforcement agencies at the Sheriff's Office within an hour ready to help...

Hi neighbors. October begins the decision making time for most people with insurance on what they want for 2015 coverage. Medicare users have from the first of the month until Dec. 7, to notify the good folks at the Medicare offices of their choices. Not actually choices for Medicare itself as that stays constant; but for the other insurances in the private sector that cover what Medicare does not...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers eighth-grade A football team concluded their 2014 campaign with a 32-6 loss to the Carthage Tigers, Thursday evening at Logan Field. Nevada finished the season 1-5. Carthage jumped on the board when quarterback Zeke Sappington rolled out to his left and found a wide open Reed Ledford in the left corner of the end zone. The two-point run from Colton Winder put Carthage up 8-0 with 5:22 remaining in the first quarter...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tigers closed out their regular season Friday night with a rough 14-13 road loss to the previously winless Clinton Cardinals. "Very disappointing," Nevada head coach Erik Yoakam said in his post game radio interview. The Cardinals went ahead with 27 seconds remaining in the game, when backup quarterback Jacob Goucher connected with Chaz Bailey in the middle of the end zone, on fourth-and-goal from the 9-yard line...