Stories from Tuesday, November 22, 2005

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk . . . and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive. That's what Tommy Turkey and his unnamed friend are doing this year, staying alive. The two feathered friends are currently housed in a pen in Orscheln Farm and Home where the unnamed bird is the focus of a contest to name him...

By Afton Bugg Nevada Daily Mail On My Own held its annual Christmas Bazaar, Bake Sale and Craft Show at the community center in Nevada, all day Friday. The purpose of the event is to create awareness to the community about individuals participating in the On My Own program and to show their talent...

Nevada Daily Mail Radio Springs Park is closed for vehicular traffic as final preparation is taking place for the annual holiday light display. The drive through light display will open Thursday, Nov. 24, at 6 p.m., when Nevada Mayor Brian Leonard will preside over the 2006 lighting ceremony. The lighting ceremony is open to the public. The park will open each evening through Dec. 31, at dusk. Special events taking place at the park through the month of December will be announced later...

Nevada Daily Mail U.S. Senator Kit Bond recently announced that he secured more than $11 million in federal funds for critical transportation and revitalization projects in southwest Missouri, including $1.75 million for Nevada Airport runway improvements...

By Nancy Malcom Nevada Daily Mail All top placing winners of the "Tribute Vernon County" art contest sponsored and funded by Christina Davis, at All Around Entertainment and Gifts, and judged by members of The Vernon County Art Council were Nevada art students...

Billy Joe Isenhower, 79, Reeds Spring, Mo., died Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, at Skaggs Community Health Center, Branson, Mo. Graveside services were at 10 a.m., Monday, Nov. 21, at Lake Cemetery, Lamar. Funeral arrangements by Daniel Funeral Home, Lamar.

Eva Virginia Hogan, 84, Nevada, Mo., died Monday, Nov. 21, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, Nevada, following a lengthy illness. She was born Nov. 3, 1920, in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Herbert Barnhart Parrish and Blanch Pearl Williams Parrish. She married Frank A. Hogan on June 3, 1939, in Butler, Mo., and he survives of Nevada...

Olive Elsden Wright, 94., Nevada, Mo., died Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005, at Christian Health Care in Nevada. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., on Monday, Nov. 28, at the First Baptist Church, Nevada. Family information will be announced later by Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada...

Recently, a replacement for a high-ranking official was announced that could have far-reaching ramifications. I'm speaking, of course, about the introduction of the new James Bond -- actor Daniel Craig, who I'm afraid made a hash of things at his first press conference...

Thanksgiving is rated in every survey as the best family holiday of the year. Not even Christmas is so centered for families as the last Thursday in November each year. There are a lot of reasons why it is considered the best family day, but I know what my reason is, THE FOOD!!! Our celebration of this day of thanksgiving is based on that first feast shared by the Pilgrims and their Indian friends shortly after the successful colonization in 1620. ...

This is the third and final installment of a series about Lindsay Rice and a knee injury she suffered in January during a high school basketball game. Rice tore the anterior cruciate ligament in one of her knees and the series chronicled her dealings with the injury, from surgery, to rehabilitation and finally now, getting back on the court...

By Ronald Blum Associated Press NEW YORK -- When it comes to the Hall of Fame, Pete Rose will still be locked out. Rose won't appear on the baseball writers' ballot in his final year of eligibility because commissioner Bud Selig will not rule on Rose's application for reinstatement before the 2006 candidates are announced Nov. 29, according to Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer...

By Doug Tucker AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- Unfortunately for Kansas City, Larry Johnson's record-breaking rushing day against the sorriest team in the NFL counts for only one win. Now begins the toughest part of the schedule for the playoff-hopeful Chiefs (6-4). Their last six regular-season games are all against winning teams. Five of their upcoming opponents are either outright or co-leaders of their division and the sixth, San Diego, has already beaten them once...

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Cablevision Systems Corp. rejected a $700 million offer from an investment group last month to buy the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers professional sports teams, a Cablevision spokesman said Monday. Cablevision, the country's sixth-largest cable operator, confirmed the details of the offer made in a letter dated Oct. 18 by a group led by financier Russell D. Glass, a former executive at Icahn Associates, billionaire Carl Icahn's investment firm...