Stories from Tuesday, May 4, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail The wait is over and the Vernon County Senior Center is now serving meals at the new Neal Center. Before the meal, center coordinator Sandy Davis stood on the bandstand and jokingly set the ground rules: "No pushing and shoving. Boys wait your turn. And don't all run down trying to be first in line."...

By Brian Johnson Nevada Daily Mail For a combined six decades, two Truman Elementary School teachers connected with children, helped revitalize special student programs and inspired their colleagues. In other words, they made a difference. On Monday, teachers from across the Nevada R-5 School District came together to honor those teachers -- Carol Miller from Bryan Elementary and Dee Pierson from Truman Elementary. Both will retire at the end of the school year...

Mary E. Renfro, 81, Pleasant Hill, died May 30, 2004, at Lee's Summit Hospital in Lee's Summit. She was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in San Antonio, Texas, to Fred Newland and Myrtle B. Pattee Newland. On July 13, 1940, she married Hugh Renfro in Fort Scott, Kan...

Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The McDonald County Mustangs delivered an 18-6 drubbing to the Nevada Tigers Monday afternoon at Lyon Stadium virtually guaranteeing the Tigers a poor seeding for the district baseball tournament that starts May 17 in Carthage...