Stories from Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Magician Teresa T. -- Teresa Towe of Lebanon, Mo. -- entertained elementary students from Truman, Benton, Bryan and St. Mary's schools Tuesday as part of Red Ribbon Week. Teresa is billed as the Lucille Ball of Magic because of her zany antics on stage. ...

The Council on Families in Crisis just wants to conduct business as usual at a local thrift shop benefiting the organization. That's why Martha Sanders, executive director of Moss House, a local shelter for victims of domestic violence and a representative of the Council on Families in Crises petitioned the Nevada city council for a $50,000 grant from the Ella Maxwell estate to purchase the building Loretta's Attic is located in from the Nevada Parks and Recreation Department. ...

The Nevada Tourism Advisory Board will soon have a new name --but the change has strings attached. Tuesday night the Nevada City Council voted 3-0, with Tim Moore abstaining and Marie Wessley excused, to give preliminary approval to changing the name of the tourism board to I.M.P.A.C.T. ...

Two games. Two ties. Obviously, the Nevada Middle School eighth-grade "A" football team and its Webb City counterpart are pretty evenly matched. Tough hits and big-play stops, on both sides of the ball, were the main ingredients of a scoreless duel between the Tigers and the Cardinals at Logan Field on Tuesday. ...

It was only a piece of a board, perhaps about 15 inches long, but I wish I still had it. This little piece of board had much more sentimental value that I realized. Last week, there was much enthusiasm over the good victory that Missouri had over Nebraska at the football game the previous Saturday. ...

100 Years Ago -- October 22, 1903 County Road and Bridge Commissioner Clack returned Wednesday from Metz where he has just completed the building of two hundred feet of trestlework on the new road through Osage Bottoms near Metz. The new road is one mile and a fourth of a mile in length and is a splendid road. ...