Stories from Thursday, November 4, 2004

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Twenty years ago, several people from the Community of Christ Church and a friend of the church looked at the situation in Nevada and a need to feed the people who did not have enough. Division of Aging caseworker Carol Trewhitt, who was on maternity leave at the time, agreed that there was a need to help people who fell between the cracks and helped get the food pantry started...

Editor's note: The last serious aircraft accident in Vernon County occurred in February 2004, when a small airplane crashed near the Four Rivers Conservation Area in Vernon County. Both people in that crash died on impact. Several recent aircraft incidents throughout the state have involved one or more survivors rescued from the scene...

Julie Eulinger, from the Missouri Department of Conservation's Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield, shares Freddie, an opossum, with school-aged children at the Nevada Public Library on Wednesday. Eulinger brought several animals to share with kids as part of the Discovering Nature with Lewis and Clark program, featuring wildlife the explorers might have encountered during their travels. ...

Deaths Delores May Harris Delores May Harris, 74, Kansas City, Mo., died Nov. 2, 2004, at her home. Delores was born April 9, 1930, in Metz, Mo., to Adrian and Nellie Madline (Robison) White. She is preceded in death by her father; and sister, Connie Jo. She is survived by her mother, Madline Hopkins; sons, Jeffrey Stapleton, Robert Stapleton; a brother, A.J. White; a sister, Mary Garver; and four grandchildren...

Turning a New Page There is something moving about turning the page over on a calendar. You usually get to look at a different picture. You can check out important dates that will come in this new month. And you can say goodbye to the month that has passed...

2005: Another birthday besides the 150th Nothing can make one feel one's years quite like finding oneself "a part of history," being rudely reminded that happenings which to oneself are but the doings of day-before-yesterday, not really different from those of yesterday itself, to others are "history."...

100 years ago: Not a sick day since taking Electric Bitters, ad says "I was taken severely sick with kidney trouble, I tried all sorts of medicines, none of which relieved me. One day I saw an ad of your Electric Bitters and determined to try that. After taking a few doses I felt relieved and soon thereafter was entirely cured and have not seen a sick day since...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail When 2003 Nevada High School graduates Kellan Foster and Ryan Renwick take the field each Saturday, it's not just to play football. They are stepping on the turf representing the best that NCAA Division II has to offer...

Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Defensive end Eric Hicks just happened to have his best day of the year at the same time the Kansas City offense had one of its greatest days of any year. So naturally he got scant attention following a 45-35 victory over Indianapolis last Sunday that justifiably brought lavish praise for an offense that's scored 101 points in its last two games...

Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS -- Missouri's basketball team avoided the NCAA's harshest penalty Wednesday -- a ban from postseason play. But it did receive one of the rarest punishments: A one-year ban from off-campus recruiting. After finding Missouri broke NCAA recruiting rules, the infractions committee placed the Tigers on probation for three years, took away one scholarship next year and two in 2006-07 and limited all basketball coaches to recruiting on campus until November 2005...