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Precision Aero looks to NRTC for custom instruction
(Local News ~ 10/17/04)
By Steve Moyer Nevada Herald Precision Aero and the Nevada Regional Technical Center are working together to put a program in place to help train potential workers at the plant. The timeline depends on the company getting some pending contracts but Precision Aero's Terry Taylor said he believed it would be around the first of the year before the program saw the first class...
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Missouri legislative races not as hot as 2002
(State News ~ 10/17/04)
By Marc Powers Nevada Herald JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Many eyes were on Missouri in the 2002 general elections as one or both state legislative chambers were viewed as having strong potential for a switch in partisan control. This year neither the Missouri Senate nor House of Representatives, both Republican led, is on the national watch list of chambers that could face a political shakeup after Nov. 2, according to an elections analyst monitoring statehouse races across the country...
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Local doctor takes part in medical mission to Haiti (Local News ~ 10/17/04)
By Ben Holman Nevada Herald This November, Dr. John Torontow will leave southwest Missouri and board a plane bound for Haiti. This will be the fourth time in two years that Torontow has traveled to Haiti as part of the Haitian Episcopal Learning Program, which works with the poor in the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere... -
Group supports the troops in living color (Local News ~ 10/17/04)
Members of the American Legion hope to see red. Lots of red, every Friday, as long as troops are in harm's way overseas. They're urging everyone to wear red on Fridays to support the troops. It's a vivid color American Legion information officer Ronnie Browne says will send a bold message of support. ... -
today's record
(Obituary ~ 10/17/04)
Deaths J.W. Johnson J.W. Johnson, 78, died Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, at Marion County Nursing Home in Yellville, Ark. He was born on Dec. 23, 1925, in Lead Hill, Ark., to William McKinley and Maud Ellen (Orr) Johnson. He married Joan (Warren) Johnson...
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River City Journal
(Column ~ 10/17/04)
No one has to think up this stuff Some of you are overheating from a burning question you keep asking me. And your question doesn't have anything to do with what I want for Christmas. No, the question I hear most often is this: Where do you get the ideas for your columns? This is such an easy one...
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The Third Cup
(Column ~ 10/17/04)
A Clovis Halloween Hi neighbors. A cup of hot coffee has felt pretty good in the hands as well as in the tummy this week. I hope you have all had your furnaces checked by a professional and got your roof gutters cleaned (by your son if possible.) I told Bill he had to clean the gutters and he reminded me we had no ladder...
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The Way It Was
(Column ~ 10/17/04)
100 years ago: Brakeman plead guilty to robbing wreck victims WARRENSBURG, Mo. -- L.L. Haynes and E. Zeigler, the brakemen who were arrested in Jefferson City, after the wreck at Warrensburg, charged with robbing the body of their fellow brakeman and passengers, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the circuit court last evening...
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Tigers upended by McDonald County, bad offense (High School Sports ~ 10/17/04)
By Joe Warren Nevada Herald When the Nevada Tigers and the McDonald County Mustangs squared off at Logan Field Friday, it was a game featuring two football teams headed in opposite directions in the standings. Nevada had lost three straight while McDonald County was coming off a big 36-point win... -
Outdoor Living
(Sports Column ~ 10/17/04)
Go ahead and scratch that case of hunter's itch Most people have heard of fishing fever, but there is also a condition that affects hunters, its called "hunter's itch." Every year when leaves start to color up, cool nights and footballs are flying in every community, the itch strikes...