Stories from Saturday, August 3, 2013

Alice Ida Roeder, 103, passed away on Aug. 1, 2013, at Christian Health Care, Nevada. She was born on Nov. 28, 1909, in Mercier, Kan., to Conrad and Helena (Winterscheidt)Schuetz. She was educated by the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kan., at St. Peter's Elementary and High School in Mercier. Alice managed the family grocery business when needed and worked in the U.S. Post Office at Mercier...

Margaret L. Walker, 85, a homemaker, died Aug. 1, 2013, at Truman Healthcare, Lamar, Mo. Visitation will be 7-9 p.m., Monday, Aug. 5, at Konantz Warden Funeral Home. Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Barton City Cemetery, Liberal, Mo...

The parks board's dog park subcommittee will be discussing possible locations for a dog park during their meeting at 5:30 p.m., Monday in the Franklin P. Norman City/County Community Center. Subcommittee members were assigned to visit all the city parks and look for possible locations for a dog park...

Nevada Daily Mail A soda tab might seem small and insignificant but gather enough of them, and tabs can mean thousands of dollars for cancer patients in need. J.B. Lowry, 12, of Nevada, started collecting soda tabs in 2010 for the Ronald McDonald House charity...

Nevada Daily Mail The Nevada City Council will be holding a public hearing and setting the property tax rates for the city of Nevada and the Nevada Public Library during their meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the council chambers in the Public Safety Building, 120 S. Ash Street...

Nevada Daily Mail Going to college is supposed to change your world view and there's nothing more apt to do that than a trip to a foreign country. Teryn Greer discovered that after spending most of the summer in the central Kenyan village of Nyeri. Greer is 20 years old, a 2011 graduate of Nevada High School and a family studies and human services major at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan. ...

The number of car thefts in Vernon County keeps adding up each week. There is a wide range of items that have been stolen from vehicles, but there is one thing so far they all have in common: the doors were unlocked. We have all heard the old saying that "locks only keep honest people out," but in this case locking your doors could make all the difference...

Reading -- what a wonderful ability. To travel to a distant land, live history, experience the future, meet people and visit new places, and learn of today, both at home and abroad, it's all possible by just reading the printed word. Many of us are familiar with the RIF program -- reading is fundamental...