Stories from Thursday, March 9, 2006

The candidates who are eligible for office in an election scheduled for Tuesday, April 4, will conduct brief self-introductions and outline their campaign focus at the monthly membership luncheon of the Ne-vada/Vernon County Chamber of Commerce. Open to all candidates for Nevada's city council and R-5 school board the meeting , the event will be held on Friday, March 10, at the Nevada Country Club, beginning at noon...

Editor's note: this is the second in a series of "Letters from London," chronicling an educational tour of the London area by second-year students from Cottey College. --- Hello Mum! Tuesday looks like a typical London day: cloudy, cool, breezy, and threats of rain. Those beautiful clear days we had on Sunday and Monday were out of character. Still, off we went, stiff upper lip and all, brollies (umbrellas) at the ready...

March is a month of many events, and among the many is Women's History Month. This event calls attention to the role of women in building communities. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation calling on the American public to remember the contributions of women. By 1987, 14 governors had declared March as Women's History Month and that same year, Congress and the President followed by declaring March as National Women's History Month...

The Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 3770 is preparing to hold a fund-raiser for Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. An annual event the fund-raiser features activities that have become traditional with the event, the turkey shoot and golf cart races, as well as new events -- a magic show, for instance...

Jennifer Eaton, certified athletic trainer, keeps busy during school games. She's not there just to watch the game however, she's there in case an athlete needs her help. It's just one of the duties of her job at Nevada Region Medical Center's Show-Me Acceleration. While the long hours take a toll, Eaton says working with the athletes makes it worthwhile...

Matthew and Debra Nix, Fort Smith, Ark., and Mikayla, Jenna and Jonathan are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Macy Lynn Nix. Macy was born at 3:53 p.m., March 6, 2006, at Beginnings Birth and Women's Health Center, Fort Smith. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces...

When you live in the country every door is the back door. No matter how attractive you try to keep the entrances to the house, there is always the need for something to be piled, stacked, placed or maybe just thrown outside the door. In our home we have the wood for the wood burning stove we use in real cold weather outside the door that leads to the deck. Of course that is logical because it is the door closest to the stove in the View Room...

Donald L. Gilmore serves notice up front: His roots are just about as Darnyankee as they come, and numbers of his forebears "wore Union blue." While his family's been in Missouri for over a century, he's "at opposite poles from the stereotypical Southerner." "This book, therefore," he points out, "is not a personal vendetta meant to settle the score for some real or imagined wrong inflicted by Northerners." This caveat is needed to account for Gilmore's persuasive brief for the Missouri cause in the Border Wars and the Civil War.. ...

A tile factory considering locating in Nevada Nevada has a chance to secure a large tile manufacturing plant, which would be of great benefit to the city, and would employ a large force of men. M.J. Fulton, president of the Portland Tile Company of Portland, Ind., was here yesterday investigating with the view of locating the big plant in or near this city...

The Barry Bonds saga just got interesting ... to me anyway. Supposedly there's a tell-all book written recently by a couple of San Francisco reporters who, after a couple years of research and digging, spill the beans on the Bonds-Balco-steroids issue...

Nevada sophomore Cole Bond (shown wrestling against Carthage this season) was named to the All-Southwest Conference first team, released recently. Bond represents the 152-pound weight class, after losing only two regular season matches all season. Bond was the only Tiger wrestler named to the first team, but there were eight other Nevada wrestlers honored by the conference. ...