Stories from Wednesday, September 15, 2004

By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Thanks to grant funds, Vernon County will soon be better equipped to handle emergency situations in the area. Just last week the commissioners received a letter from the Missouri Emergency Management Agency stating that the county's grant application had been approved. The grant money is a portion of federal homeland security grants allocated to Missouri...

Company turns skills of disabled workers into Quality Products. By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail It's the little company that could. Quality Products, Inc., 3100 Industrial Parkway, began production in 1989 with 21 production employees and a management staff of five. Over the years the company has grown to 80 production employees and a management staff of 10...

Nevada Daily Mail The American Red Cross reports that, during a two-day visit to Nevada last week, the organization's Bloodmobile collected 154 units of blood. Several people received gallon pins, including Charles Land, 15 gallons; Ernest Leon Smith, 14 gallons; Iva Reed, 13 gallons; Diane Martin, 12 gallons; Marlo Koehn, 10 gallons; Gary Smith, four gallons; Cheryl Gillette, Tim Bullard and Ashley Banes, three gallons; and Brandi Basham, Cathleen Denton, Marla Sage and Jeffrey Burrell, one gallon.. ...

A wreck at the corner of Ash and Austin Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. tied up traffic and sent at least three people to the hospital. Larry Stevenson, Fort Scott, was in the inner lane when the accident happened. "I was sitting in the middle lane waiting and the guy hit me in the right rear quarter panel then went into the other lane and hit the other two trucks," Stevenson said. ...

Josh Meisenheimer clocks his fast-ball at the Maranatha Christian Fellowship block party held Sunday, Sept. 12. About 500 people showed up to enjoy the free food and games. Various music groups, ranging from bluegrass to contemporary Christian rock, entertained visitors. ...

Obituaries William Donald Edmonds William Donald Edmonds, 81, Nevada, died Monday, Sept. 13, 2004, at Nevada Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. He was born Sept. 5, 1923, in Nevada, to Richard Howard Edmonds and Nellie Mabel Phelps Edmonds. He married Debbie Zellmer on Oct. 6, 1980, in Miami, Okla., and she survives of the home...

Spider Man It happened long ago, in a condo far, far away. We were on vacation at the beach. My wife was making hotcakes when I heard a sound that could mean only one of two things: 1) A nuclear power plant in a neighboring state was sending out a supersonic hyperblast to warn people of a disaster; or...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately recognized Dec. 7, 1941, as "a date which will live in infamy." The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was as sudden and shocking then as the sight of hijacked passenger planes rocketing into New York's World Trade Center's twin towers was to Americans three years ago...

100 years ago: Mexican war veterans hold their annual reunion Seven snow white headed men wended their way from their homes to the office of Judge J.M. Liddil this morning, and it was a notable gathering for these seven are all that remain of an association that at one time had a membership of 36...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail Suddenly the Nevada softball team is red hot. After starting the year losing five of their first six games, the Lady Tigers have won four straight and are now at .500 for the first time all season. Winning the softball tournament Saturday at Clinton helps, as Nevada beat Lone Jack, Clinton and Warsaw to clinch the championship...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Lady Tigers golf team placed first in a tournament at Republic on Monday. The Lady Tigers shot a combined 436, to win by four shots over Willard in the 18-hole tournament. Emily Benbrook shot 105 to lead the team, while Rachel Prewitt was one shot back at 106...

Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey College Comets have struggled lately, losing four matches in three days after getting swept in a tri-match at Longview Monday. The Comets fell to Pratt in the first match of the triangular, 30-23 and 30-24 in a best of three match...

Nevada Daily Mail Calvary Christian School jumped back into the win column Monday, beating the El Dorado Springs Lady Buffalos in their volleyball home opener 20-25, 25-16 and 25-7 at the Nevada YMCA. El Dorado Springs won the first game, but Calvary was able to come back strong to take the final two games going away...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada volleyball team faced some stiff competition at the Willard Tournament on Saturday, and the Lady Tigers only won one of their four matches. Nevada opened play with Diamond, a team they had beaten just two days earlier...

The Nevada Lady Tiger freshman volleyball team won the Webb City Tournament on Saturday. The Lady Tigers won all three pool-play matches, beating Aurora, McDonald County and Neosho. Only Aurora even came close to beating Nevada in pool play. In a tough semifinal match Nevada beat the hosting Cardinals, 25-13 and 25-22. ...