Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, January 12, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Morning blaze consumes most of Gurdon home

A house fire began at approximately 8 a.m. Friday at 202 Tate Street, Gurdon, in what appears to have been a back bathroom. Darlty Bunn, 82, resident of the house, was watching firemen fight the blaze and said he was not at home when the fire started. Nob...

City health insurance to increase

The City of Gurdon will cut back from paying 50 percent of the cost of family insurance for volunteer firemen to 40 percent in the 2005 "because of substantial increases in the cost of family insurance for city employees." Tambra Childres, city recorder ...

High School to host blood drive

Gurdon High School will sponsor a blood drive from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, Jan. 12, at the high school student center. T-shirts and refreshments will be given to all donors while supplies last. Those wishing to donate should bring their bloo...

Mayor plans pavaing, playground equipment and a walking trail

Gurdon Mayor Clayton Franklin realizes revenues are projected as tight" for the upcoming year, as sales tax collections were down a little in 2004, but he is planning to finish the street paving project, install at least one new piece of playground equip...

Capps retires, passes torch to grandson to carry on tradition

Austin's Variety Store, on Main Street, will continue to be a household phrase in Gurdon for years to come, but the torch has been officially passed on from grandfather to grandson as of Jan. 1. Austin Capps, 91, officially retired, although he will conti...

Benjamin VanCamp

Benjamin Franklin VanCamp, 92, of Gurdon, died on Saturday, January 1, 2005. He was a welding supervisor for Chicago Bridge and Iron, and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Gurdon. Survivors include: his wife, Florence VanCamp, of Gurdon; his son...

Joan Egger

Joan Egger, 60, of Gurdon, died on Monday, Jan. 3, 2005. Joan was a seamstress for Prescott Manufacturing and of the Baptist faith. She is survived by: her husband, Dickey, of Gurdon, and her daughter, Johna Richard, of Gurdon; her mother, Frankie Crabtre...

Vera Cannon

Vera Mae Cannon, of Covington, Louisiana died at the age of 90 on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, at Lakeview Regional Memorial Center of congestive heart failure. She was the wife of the late Paul F. Cannon Sr. She is the beloved mother of: Thomas Lee Cannon of...