Stories from Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Nevada Daily Mail IOLA, Kan. -- The Cottey College basketball team edged border rival Fort Scott Community College 68-64 on Saturday at the Allen County Classic in Iola, Kan. The victory gave the Comets a split for the weekend, as the hosts topped the Comets on Friday at the Classic...

Billy M. Gash, 75, Moundville, Mo., passed away Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada, following a brief illness. He was born June 10, 1936, in Woodward, Okla., to Oliver Mate Gash and Bertha Marie Hundorf Gash. He was married Oct. 23, 1959, in Miami, Okla., to Minnie Jo Crum and she survives of the home...

Finis Gleason Wood, 99, of rural Nevada, died Nov. 12, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center, following a brief illness. He was born at Sloan, Iowa, on Oct. 30, 1912, to Thomas Wood and Mary Isabell (Rinker) Wood. On June 22, 1941, he was married to LaMerna Attebery in Kansas City, Mo., who preceded him in death in March 2006...

Calvin Paul Schmidt, 62, Sheldon, Mo., died on Nov. 12, 2011, at his home in Sheldon, following an illness. A private committal will be held in Kansas at a later date. Local arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, 301 S. Washington, Nevada...

Kenneth Charles Cerny, 64, of Schell City, Mo., died on Monday, Nov. 14, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada, Mo. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, Nov. 18, at the Lewis-Hoagland Funeral Home, Schell City. Interment will follow at Green Lawn Cemetery, Schell City...

Dustin and Jessica Terry of Nevada, Mo., are proud to announce the birth of their son, Aiden Delane Terry. Aiden was born at 1:02 p.m., Nov. 9, 2011, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. He weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and measured 20 and 1/2 inches. Maternal grandparents are James and Tina Keightley of Walker, Mo. Maternal great-grandparents are Kaye and Daurell Reasoner of Harwood, Mo., and Oleta Keightley of Harwood, Mo...

The Nevada City Council will be considering several new items during their regular meeting tonight at 7 in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash St. Among the items under consideration is a public hearing and the first reading of a special ordinance to change the zoning at 1415 N. Osage from M-1, light industrial, to M-2, heavy industrial, so a company can manufacture blades for wind turbines...

The Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center is hosting a Black Friday Fun Day for kids ages 4-15, offering parents a chance to take advantage of Black Friday sales without bringing the kids into the shopping mayhem. While parents are out snagging those deals, kids will be having fun doing arts and crafts, playing games, shooting hoops and more...

A host of area firefighters from various departments responded to a fire alarm at the Prairie Pride Biodeisel facility near Deerfield at about 7:50 p.m., Monday. Details were sketchy Monday night, but an incident on the second floor of the facility had apparently sparked the alarm. ...

Hypnotist Dr. Jim Wand, one of the top hypnotic performers on the college circuit, will perform at Cottey College at 8 p.m. in the auditorium, inside the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts today. Wand has worked with Jay Leno, Chris Rock, Carrot Top, Heidi Klum, Larry the Cable Guy, and Rascal Flatts. He also has numerous appearances on Comedy Central. His "Hypnosis Gone Wild" style and content will leave viewers "rolling in the aisles," a press release said...

Terry Carlson recently unearthed an enormous turnip that weighs 5 pounds. It takes three hands to span its girth, and Carlson says he didn't do anything special to grow it.

Graduates of the Nevada Police Department's second Citizens' Police Academy stand for a photograph after graduation ceremonies were conducted in the City Council chambers of the Public Safety Building at 120 S. Ash St. in Nevada on Thursday. Through the program, citizens learn about aspects of the everyday lives of police officers on duty, and about many of the societal and legal issues that impact police work. ...

On Friday morning, Nov. 11, the Nevada High School gymnasium was packed with talking veterans, chattering students and restless teachers, administrators and community members, but when the first somber note of a symbolic 11 bells rang out, the crowd fell into solemn silence as the 2011 Veterans Day Assembly began...

Be prepared for giant man-eating plants from outer space to take over Nevada High School as the production of "Little Shop of Horrors" opens Nov. 17. The show, produced by the NHS Fine Arts Department, involves nearly 40 high school students, both on the stage and behind the scenes...