Stories from Wednesday, November 17, 2004

The Nevada High School will present "Pippin," Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., in the high school auditorium. Pippin is a magical coming of age story of a young man who returns from college and decides that he is an extraordinary person who cannot lead an ordinary life and how he pursues his goals. ...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail Smile big Nevada, you are about to have your photograph taken. Tuesday night the Nevada City Council gave preliminary approval to an agreement to pay Sanborn, Inc. $27,800 to take high-resolution black and white aerial photographs of Nevada and some of the surrounding area during early December if the weather permits...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail It's been a long, hard-to-endure wait -- but it seems to finally be over. Owners of the Century 6 theater plan to reopen for business Friday, Nov. 19. A September fire forced the temporary closing of the business, much to the dismay of the local movie-going crowd...

Yards all over Nevada are sprouting piles of leaves as homeowners get ready for the fall clean-up. This long pile of leaves on Country Club Drive is just one of many city crews will be picking up. The city of Nevada will be picking up leaves starting Nov. 29. Twigs, bags or limbs will not be accepted. Please have the leaves raked behind the curb and not in the street. Leaf pickup will begin in the southwest quarter then moving on to the northwest, northeast and southeast...

USDA official assures commissioners, "the check's in the mail." By Ben Holman Nevada Daily Mail Two years after completion of the remodeling of the attic of the Vernon County Courthouse, the Vernon County Commission, Tuesday, accepted a $30,000 grant from the USDA to help pay for the project...

David and Lisa (Price) Hayes are proud to announce the birth of twins, Ami Jillian and Indiana Jackson Hayes. They were born on Oct. 12, 2004, at 5:18 p.m., in Overland Park, Kan. Ami weighed 5 pounds, 9 ounces. Indiana weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces. Grandparents are Ron and Sandie Price of Nevada, and Walter and Theresa Hayes of Freeman, Mo. Great-grandparents are Claude and Midge Barnes and Della Price, of Nevada...

November is Diabetes Awareness Month One out of three babies born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes during their lifetime. This is a large portion. Diabetes is something that is undesirable to have. It is not fun. Perhaps there will be a cured developed, or something will be done to prevent the disease...

Clarifying history Dear editor: With all respect to Ben Holman I must point out a small error in his Nov. 12 piece on Nov. 11. It was not a "treaty" that went into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, but merely an "armistice," that is a ceasefire, maintaining the status quo...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Cottey Comets played perhaps their best 20 minutes of the season against Allen County Community College at the Hinkhouse Center Tuesday. Unfortunately for the Comets, basketball games are 40 minutes long. The Comets jumped out to a 31-27 halftime advantage against the NJCAA Division I school, only to see it vanish in the second half as the Allen County full-court trapping defense kept Cottey at bay...

Since taking the responsibility of compiling the "Way it Was" section that truism has come to have new meaning. Societal problems that I believed to be fairly recent innovations have been around for quite a while...