Stories from Sunday, November 9, 2003

At age 97, my aunt Vera has lived in the Otterbein Retirement Village outside Cincinnati, Ohio, for 20 years now, but I can still remember helping her move from the big, old, two- story house in Cherry Grove, in which she had lived since she was a small child, into the much smaller apartment at Otterbein. ...

100 Years Ago -- November 7, 1903 ITEMS -- The Southwest Missouri Teachers Association will hold its 25th Annual session at Joplin on November 26, 27 and 28th. Professor W.E. Veerkamp, principal of the Nevada High School and Miss Anna Gill formerly of this city are on the program. A number of teachers will attend...

The only thing that prevented me from falling into a deep depression over the first eight weeks of the current football season was the Kansas City Chiefs and their incredible 8-0 record. You see, I don't do well mentally when the Nevada Tigers have problems on the football field. And I'm no Johnny-come-lately supporter of the Tigers. I have felt their pain and enjoyed their success since I first started following their fortunes in 1956. Yeah, 1956!...

Good hunting weather over the weekend in much of the state helped young deer hunters take more than 9,000 deer in the statewide Youth Hunt. The two-day total was 9,054 which was 1,474 more than last year. Leading counties were Pike with 210 deer checked and Osage with 197. There were no hunting related accidents again this season...

It's that time of year again. The leaves are falling, people are breaking out their winter clothes and the first Christmas commercials grace television sets. But for fans of the Missouri pecan, fall is the highlight of the whole calendar year -- it's pecan harvest season...

Mike Hoskins and the other members of the Nevada Parks and Recreation Maintenance department spent Wednesday evening hanging the city's Christmas decorations on the Square -- just in time for a special holiday open house event on Friday, in which many local businesses stayed open late to give customers a preview of the holiday season. Dozens of customers attended open house activities Friday night...

Hi neighbors. For those who waited for the cold weather to settle in before they would begin drinking coffee -- start perking! It has gotten below freezing and I'm officially ready for spring. Last week I got an email from a scientist friend of mine including an article about the Saturday night lunar eclipse. The article went into great detail describing the events and telling in what order they could be observed...

Nevada police officers joined a large group of people looking to corral a cow that escaped the Nevada Livestock Auction Friday afternoon. Numerous sightings were reported with several of the witnesses standing and gazing into the direction the animal had traveled, bemused at the sight...