Stories from Friday, March 24, 2006

An attentive crowd filled the Fox Playhouse for a candidate forum Thursday night, hosted by the Nevada Chapter of Soroptimist International, in conjunction with the Nevada/Vernon County Area Chamber of Commerce and the Community Council on the Performing Arts...

Doug Cramer, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service office in Springfield, presented the annual storm spotter seminar to 85 people Thursday night at the 3M Clubhouse. Cramer said that although radar and satellites are good tools to spot tornadoes and other severe weather, they do have limitations. ...

On Saturday, March 18, the Missouri Bison Association conducted its seventh annual Spring Show and Sale, in Butler. On Friday, March 17, there was a mini-conference held as well as a show for Best in Class. The National Bison Association has provided some statistics and data on the Bison industry. ...

Representatives of Vernon County's rural fire departments need funds badly, in the aftermath of their collective response to more than 100 fires in January, February and March, so these annual fund-raising, and additional ones in the works for some of the departments, are more important than ever. Many departments have responded to more fires during this time than they usually face in an entire year...

On Wednesday, U.S. Congressman Ike Skelton, D- Mo., presents the Rich Hill Head Start director Kari Vincent a flag that had flown over the nation's Capitol. Also present for the ceremony were Marla Applegate, Tracy Bosch, Crystal Miller and Julie Moore, along with the center's students...

Logan Lee Blurton and Lucas Lee Blurton, twin infants, were born and passed away on Thursday, March 23, 2006, at Cox South Medical Center, Springfield, Mo. Survivors include their parents, Travis Blurton and Misty Lawson of the home in Nevada, Mo.; grandparents, Tony and Charlene Lawson, Lee's Summit, Mo., Yvonne and Frank Chrisenberry, Richards, Mo., Bob Blurton and Dana, Parker, Kan., Charley and Carrie Lawson, Milo, Mo; one sister, Abby Laufenburg, Lake Ozark, Mo.; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.. ...

LaMerna Avanell (Attebery) Wood, 88, of rural Nevada, died Thursday, March 23, 2006, at Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada following a lengthy illness. She was born near Akron, Colo., on April 22, 1917, to Robert Attebery and Elsie May VanMeter Attebery. On June 22, 1941, she was married to Finis Wood in Kansas City, Mo., and he survives...

Warren Kenneth Johnson was born March 31, 1929 in Chicago, Ill., to Helen Evelyn Johnson and Wilbur Ayers Johnson. He went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on March 22, 2006, at the age of 77. He is survived by his wife, Vera Johnson. Warren moved to Joplin in 2004 from Santa Clarita, Calif., after having spent more than 40 years there. ...

Dear editor: I have been very pleased to see the response of our citizens to the current situations happening within our city at the present time. It is however, bittersweet. I have been very concerned that we may be living in a community that has blinders on and just plain didn't care about what was happening in our city government. ...

In today's media drenched marketplace, there is a name for everything. Catch phrases become a part of the vernacular so embedded that they come to represent any thought or action in the news. One of the newest "appellations" (that's a 2 synonym for the word "name," I can play this game too), is "xenophobia." The dictionary definition for xenophobia is intense or irrational fear or dislike of people or races from other countries. ...

Cashier Casey admits agreement KANSAS CITY, Mo., -- The taking of depositions in a suit institution by the trustee in bankruptcy of Salmon & Salmon State Bank of Clinton, Mo., to recover notes amounting to $236,000 which the trustee alleges were illegally transferred to the Kansas City State bank of this city, ended abruptly yesterday when Thomas M. ...

The Nevada Tiger baseball team begins play Monday with a trip across the state line to take on Fort Scott, Kan. The new season brings a fresh start for a team that finished 6-16 a year ago. The Tigers appeared to be on the verge a year ago, losing a heartbreaker to Neosho, falling in games they led against McDonald County and Webb City; battling with a good Carthage club. Nevada played well for many stretches, but just couldn't come up with a key hit here, or a big defensive stop there...

As former officers Osburn and Kent have made publicly known, both were recently terminated from the police department. Prior to termination, both received notice of this possible action and were offered the opportunity to present a full response. Upon consideration of all of the facts and circumstances, it was determined that termination was warranted. ...