Stories from Friday, May 21, 2004

Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail Fifteen Nevada High School athletes will head for Ozark Saturday for the Missouri Class 3 Sectional track meet. To quaify for the sectional meet athletes must be in the top four finishers in their event. Pictured from left, front row: Mark Reed, Veronica Mosier, Mason Benn, Steve Branstetter, Thomas Pitts, Jon Emery. Back row: Nathan Gragg, Harrisson Gage, Mikel Gragg, Ryan Watts, Eric Atkinson, Ben Wilson, Jim Fay, Curtiss Davis...

Ralph pokorny/Daily Mail The Nevada Youth Wrestling Club recently held an awards banquet to recognize the accomplishments of the 30 wrestlers who finished the season. Some of the club's wrestlers will be taking part in a four-day camp at Reed Spring over Memorial Day weekend as well as participating in a wrestling camp this summer at Nevada High School. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Nevada City Council members went back to school Thursday afternoon. Not in a classroom or the city council chambers but at the Walton Park Family Aquatics Center. The council chambers were being used by another organization that had booked the room before the council decided to hold a work session to learn about the newest proposed agreement with Cypress Groves Apartments to turn the Ozark Building and its associated four acres of property, which is part of the former Nevada State Hospital, into a 56-unit senior apartment complex.. ...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Is the Vernon County Ambulance Service a 24-hour a day service or not? That's the question two members of the community asked the ambulance board at its regular meeting Thursday night. Linda Dorsey and Bob Hacker questioned the board about the service provided by the district. Both questioned the board about transfers between hospitals and why there aren't always ambulances available to take someone to another hospital...

Brian Johnson/Daily Mail Thursday morning the Nevada Senior Center held its ribbon cutting outside the Neal Center, where it is located. The Neal Center is named after former Nevada City Manager Wayne Neal, who first proposed the idea. The $850,000 facility was partially paid for with $500,000 from the city's one-half cent sales tax. ...

Hazel Marie Pokorny, 92, Nevada, died Thursday, May 20, 2004, at the Barone Alzheimer's Care Center in Nevada. She was born June 6, 1911, in Nevada, to Willis Earl Wilcox and Anna Updergraft Wilcox. She was married in Nevada, to Justin Merle Pokorny who preceded her in death. ...