Stories from Sunday, June 22, 2003

Are you in the market for a camel but needed it by this weekend? In that case, if you were anywhere but El Dorado Springs on Saturday, you are out of luck. The Heely Livestock Market of El Dorado Springs hosted an exotic animal auction June 21, and Ray Heely, co-owner, was very pleased with the turnout for this sale, both from sellers and buyers. ...

Nevada Middle School students made the swimming pool their classroom while participating in the summer "Teching it to the Limit" program. After building small scale aluminum foil boats designed to safely hold a golf ball above water students designed and built boats that carried two passengers using nothing but cardboard and duct tape. ...

HAYS, Kan. -- The Nevada Griffons hightailed it out of Hays on a downer. The Hays Larks completed a sweep of the three-game series with a 6-5 comeback, last inning win over the Griffons on Friday at Larks Park. The Griffons had fought back from an early 4-0 deficit to take the lead at 5-4 in the sixth inning in an attempt to salvage the finale against the league-leading Larks. ...

100 Years Ago -- June 22, 1903 Nevada was complimented Sunday by a visit of a large number of good people of Iola, Chanute and Parsons, Kansas. The visitors arrived at 11 o'clock on a special excursion train and when the train arrived at Nevada there were between seven and eight hundred people aboard. ...

It has become a media obsession to overstate matters of small importance. A recent example would be the national frenzy over Hillary Clinton's book. The salivating media made it so she wouldn't have to send out the usual number of promotional copies so the prose of her ghostwriters could be fawned over. ...

While going through a tackle box recently, I ran across some oldtime lures I hadn't used in years although they still catch fish. I guess there are so many new lures on the market that an angler has to try that the old reliable lures get put in the back of the box. ...

In elementary school we're all taught to revere the idea of the American "minute man," that brave young man with his musket in his hands, watching intently for the redcoats. This is the figure that sculptor Daniel Chester French immortalized in the statue on the battlefield of Concord, Massachusetts. ...

Hi neighbors. Things have settled down a bit since last weekend. But there is still plenty to do with our spare time. Including a little back fence chat and gossip, complete with coffee mugs firmly in hand. There was a special on the Discovery channel last week titled "Walking With Cavemen." Did any of you watch that? It always amazes me how they can reconstruct an entire body form working from half a leg or jaw bone. ...