Stories from Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Nevada Daily Mail The annual holiday parade and Miss Merry Christmas pageant organizers have begun taking registrations for these holiday events, to be held on Saturday, Dec. 3. Forms are available at the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce office located at 201 East Cherry, on the second level of the TeamBank building...

Nevada firefighters extend the ladder to the east window of the Elmwood Estates unit at 1205 North Elm. The firefighters were dispatched after a caller reported an explosion and fire at the unit. The residents of the entire building were evacuated in the cold weather, 40 degrees with a much lower wind chill index...

By Ralph Pokorny Nevada Daily Mail The city of Nevada is preparing for its annual budget discussions, which will begin in the next few weeks. Nevada City Manager Craig Hubler told the city council Tuesday evening that when he prepares the annual budget he likes to start with how much money the city will have to spend before he looks at what the various departments would like to have...

Clayton Cavanaugh, 90, holds a copy of "Barbara Fritchie," a poem of a Civil War Union patriot who defiantly displayed the Union flag as Confederate soldiers marched through her town. Cavanaugh's mother used to recite the poem to groups around their Nickerson, Kan., home when he was a child. ...

Stanley Neil Wilson, 69, Sheldon, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 14, 2005, at his home in Sheldon following a lengthy illness. He was born Dec. 28, 1935, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Stanley Earl Wilson and Lohoma Lee Broswell Wilson. He married Mary Alice Karhoff on March 3, 1980, in Las Vegas, Nev., and she survives of the home...

Good sense compels most motorists to slow down in highway construction zones, or take special precautions when they see the flashing lights of emergency vehicles, or exercise caution when school buses are loading and unloading students. Unfortunately, there are too many motorists who don't exhibit good sense in these situations. As a result, state laws have been enacted to cover all these situations -- and more...

**Farewell to Lentz Dear Editor, I would like to share these few words with your readers.  As a Board member of the Fire Fighters Association of Missouri and a very close personal friend of Chief Lonnie Lentz, I was overwhelmed by the citizenship, and respect that the people of Nevada, and the city government showed towards Chief Lentz. Knowing Chief Lentz for over 25 years, I'm sure the big boy himself was looking down on us that Thursday, not realizing how much he really meant to all of us. ...

The Leonard Ernsbarger Community Service Award, sponsored by the Bank of America, was awarded to Katlyn Logan at 4-H Recognition Night held Saturday at the fairgrounds home economics building. This is not a new experience for this outstanding 4-H member, as she also received the award in 2001, as an 11-year-old...

**100 years ago Policeman held for murder JOPLIN -- A coroner's jury at Oronogo yesterday held Policeman John Vannoy responsible for the death of A.J. Powers, Vannoy is under arrest. Monday night Vannoy ordered a bystander to assist in taking Powers and a man named Sullivan to jail. Powers, according to the testimony given before the coroner's jury, insisted that he had done nothing to be arrested for where upon the officer stepped forward and dealt him a blow to the head with his club...

Nov. 5 50 cc, 4-6 years old 1. Tanner Craddock 65 cc, Beginner 1. Dusty Morgan 2. Thomas O'Sullivan 3. Tanner Craddock 4. Josh Robb 85 cc, Beginner 1. Craig Davenport 2. Cody Ensor 3. Caleb Lovan 4. Cory Ensor 5. Colby Chandler 125 cc, Beginner 1. Cory Ensor...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Could a Super Bowl be in the future for Kansas City? Not the team -- the town? The Kansas City Chiefs made a presentation to NFL owners on Tuesday that included plans for a rolling roof on their 33-year-old facility that would meet the league's demands for weather-protected stadiums in non-Sun Belt cities...

Nevada High School senior Curtiss Davis signs a letter-of-intent while flanked by his family and Nevada track and cross country coach Robert Watts. Davis will run cross country for Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar. SBU is an NCAA Division II school...