Stories from Thursday, March 22, 2007

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Hard work and practice, practice, practice paid off for a Northeast Vernon County student, Nona Salsbury, Wednesday, March 14, at Missouri Southern State University's Taylor Auditorium, home to the Joplin Globe's 30th annual spelling bee...

Nevada Daily Mail Tuesday night Nevada Mayor Jim Rayburn proclaimed Tuesday, March 27, to be International Cottey Day in Nevada. Cottey College is inviting everyone to attend a celebration of Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard's birthday on March 27, in the Cottey College Chapel, 1000 W. Austin Boulevard...

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail As made official by Nevada Mayor Jim Rayburn Tuesday night, the month of April is now officially Fair Housing Month in the city of Nevada. Although many local citizens are not aware of it, the Housing Authority of Nevada continues to be very busy in fulfilling its promotion of the general welfare of the area housing situation...

By Steve Moyer Nevada Daily Mail Big Band music comes to Nevada Sunday when 21 musicians from Tulsa perform at the First Baptist Church of Nevada, 301 E. Highland. The Tulsa Praise Orchestra was started in the summer of 1995 by trumpeter Bob Archer. The idea was to create a group of Christian musicians performing a Gospel/Big Band type of music...

By Crystal D. Hancock Nevada Daily Mail S.T.O.M.P. is a local program organized by the Nevada Housing Authority. It stands for Students That Open Minds to Possibilities, headed up by director Julie Daniels, a local Cottey College student. This is an after school program on Mondays and Wednesdays for kids kindergarten through sixth grade who live in Fairground Estates in Nevada...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Rotary Club is offering several $500 scholarships to Vernon County seniors. Students must attend college in the fall of 2007 to be eligible for an award. Applications for the scholarships may be obtained from Mary S. Ireland, 805 W. Sycamore, Nevada...

Michael and Jamei Harris, Hume, and Makinzi, Kennidi and Abigail are proud to announce the birth of their son and brother, Nathaniel Roy Dietrich Harris. Nathaniel was born at 4:28 p.m., March 8, 2007, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and measured 21 inches...

In some gatherings the group is happy to have any decisions made with only a voice vote. The person in charge can determine the intention of the group by the oral response and partially by the enthusiasm with which that response is given. I have been in groups where I was not in accord with the majority of the people concerned. ...

By Joe Warren Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada Tiger golfers begin the 2007 season today with a quadrangular in Carthage and it will be familiar territory for many of the players. Nevada was a young team in 2006, and they are still comparatively youthful as they boast only one senior on the current varsity roster...