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GATHERING: On Holden Street, Piper Whipkins, 3, talks with Marcy Whipkins and Shawn Kelly.

CHUGGING into Old Drum Coffeehouse and Bakery, Matthew Meehan, 8, checks out the menu.

THE BELLE of the Halloween bash, Joely Kate Lillard, 3, looks for her mother Thursday.

A BIG PUPPY puts an arm around Jayden Pennington, 2. Brandon Hickerson plays fire dog for the Johnson County Fire Protection District, which gave out free hot dogs.

LOOKING for ghosts, Ghostbuster Jonathan Larimore, 13, finds the ghost of Duke in front of him and brother Nathan, 9, behind.

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Warrensburg – Main Street Executive Director Julie Tur-nipseed said Thursday that the 16th Annual Trick-Or-Treat downtown could have drawn 3,000 people.

“The weather was wonderful, the people came out and we were very pleased,” she said.

With people coming and going, and with the event spread from the Johnson County Fire Dis-trict station by the library south along Holden Street to City Hall, and also west along Pine Street, getting a more exact crowd count proved elusive, she said.

Spreading out the people made the event more relaxed for par-ticipants, who did not have to crowd the sidewalks.

“We wanted people to enjoy

the whole downtown, the whole event –The Great Pumpkin Race, the Ghoulish Treat Walk, the Needle in a Haystack, and the concession stands ... and the bounce house,” Turnipseed said.

“A lot of candy was given away ... and the University of Central Missouri Dance Club did such a great job – that was a new addition and the people really enjoyed it.”

The exact number is not known, but what is certain, Turnipseed said, is coopera-tion made the event successful. Thinking about the 17th Annual Trick-or-Treat is in progress.

“We’re going to keep expanding this event, and making it a great event for the community,” Tur-nipseed said.

Community event draws hundreds downtown

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UNIVERSITY of Central Missouri President Chuck Ambrose addresses the Missouri Joint Committee on Education.


Warrensburg – The Missouri Joint Committee on Education works to develop a funding for-mula for higher education when meeting Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, committee Chairman David Pearce said.

Pearce said Thursday testi-mony by Missouri Higher Edu-cation Commissioner David Russell helped give the com-mittee direction.

“What they proposed was that only new money that comes to higher education would be used for performance-based funding,” Pearce said.

In other words, universities and colleges would not compete for the base amount of money available, but what the state can add to the base.

Council on Public Higher Education Director Brian Long varied from Russell’s suggestion by stating more money should be devoted to higher education, but just half of that new money

should go to performance-based goals.

Pearce said his committee is tasked with developing a for-mula, but whether and how the state will have to fund a formula is another issue.

“That’s something that will go through the appropriations process,” Pearce said.

Russell addressed the com-mittee Oct. 23 at the University of Central Missouri.

“Policy makers increasingly are demanding that performance

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COMMUNITY

Gai, Rich engagedKari Jean Gai and Matthew James Rich plan to

marry Nov. 10 in Liberty, Mo.Kari is the daughter of Jim and Marsha Gai of War-

rensburg.Matthew is the son of Jim and Debbie Rich of Kan-

sas City, Mo.Matthew owns a Farmers Insurance Agency office in

Kansas City, Mo.Kari is a middle school science teacher with the Park

Hill School District.The couple plan to live in Kansas City.

Matthew Rich and Kari Gai

Mudds celebrate 50thWilliam E. and Virginia J. Mudd, Centerview, cele-

brated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 12 at Sacred Heart Parish, Warrensburg, with a reception.

The former Virginia Stewart and William Mudd married Oct. 13, 1962 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Warrensburg.

William retired from IBM and is retired from farm-ing and a tire business.

Virginia volunteers at Western Missouri Medical Center.

They have four children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

William and Virginia Mudd

Warrensburg – Univer-sity of Central Missouri senior art and design stu-dents will present their senior exhibitions from Nov. 8-16 and Nov. 29-Dec. 7, in the UCM Gallery of Art and Design, 217 E. Clark St.

Illustration and design students in the Depart-ment of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Main and Outer galleries Nov. 8-16. Students studying studio art and art education will exhibit their work Nov. 29-Dec. 7.

Public receptions will be from noon to 2 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Dec. 1, in the Art Center Gallery,

Design students exhibiting are Zia Luerhman, Sarah Dixon, Mandy Norman, Jessica Brockman, Courtney Lacy and Grace Manus. Mason Goth will exhibit his work in illustration, and Marissa Houston and Marisa Vaughn will exhibit their work in interior design.

Art education students exhibiting their work are Katherine Amos, Leslie Byrd and Jerica Hunt. Corey Stewart, Cody Bryant and Troy Fort will exhibit their work in sculpture, and Tara Jewell will exhibit in painting.

Exhibits feature the best work from students’ college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisers.

Student exhibits open

Sowing SeedsSARAH DIXON


COMMUNITY

Gai, Rich engagedKari Jean Gai and Matthew James Rich plan to

marry Nov. 10 in Liberty, Mo.Kari is the daughter of Jim and Marsha Gai of War-

rensburg.Matthew is the son of Jim and Debbie Rich of Kan-

sas City, Mo.Matthew owns a Farmers Insurance Agency office in

Kansas City, Mo.Kari is a middle school science teacher with the Park

Hill School District.The couple plan to live in Kansas City.

Matthew Rich and Kari Gai

Mudds celebrate 50thWilliam E. and Virginia J. Mudd, Centerview, cele-

brated their 50th wedding anniversary Oct. 12 at Sacred Heart Parish, Warrensburg, with a reception.

The former Virginia Stewart and William Mudd married Oct. 13, 1962 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Warrensburg.

William retired from IBM and is retired from farm-ing and a tire business.

Virginia volunteers at Western Missouri Medical Center.

They have four children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

William and Virginia Mudd

Warrensburg – Univer-sity of Central Missouri senior art and design stu-dents will present their senior exhibitions from Nov. 8-16 and Nov. 29-Dec. 7, in the UCM Gallery of Art and Design, 217 E. Clark St.

Illustration and design students in the Depart-ment of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Main and Outer galleries Nov. 8-16. Students studying studio art and art education will exhibit their work Nov. 29-Dec. 7.

Public receptions will be from noon to 2 p.m. Sat-urday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Dec. 1, in the Art Center Gallery,

Design students exhibiting are Zia Luerhman, Sarah Dixon, Mandy Norman, Jessica Brockman, Courtney Lacy and Grace Manus. Mason Goth will exhibit his work in illustration, and Marissa Houston and Marisa Vaughn will exhibit their work in interior design.

Art education students exhibiting their work are Katherine Amos, Leslie Byrd and Jerica Hunt. Corey Stewart, Cody Bryant and Troy Fort will exhibit their work in sculpture, and Tara Jewell will exhibit in painting.

Exhibits feature the best work from students’ college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisers.

Student exhibits open

Sowing SeedsSARAH DIXON

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DEAR AMY: Many years ago, I remember hearing that if you love someone, you should let the person know (because you never know when something can happen and you’ll never see the person again).

I’m wondering -- are there exceptions to this? Let me describe the fol-lowing scenario. I’d like to hear what you think.

A married man who has a good marriage to Lady A meets Lady B. Lady B is married, but the man doesn’t know what kind of marriage Lady B has. He has never met Lady B’s husband. The man falls in love with Lady B but has never told her that. The man wants to make sure

his feelings for Lady B are real, and after know-ing her for more than two

years he realizes his feel-ings are genuine.

Should the man tell Lady B how he feels about her?

– Wondering

DEAR WONDERING: In your letter, the man – let’s call him you – doesn’t know “what kind of mar-riage ‘Lady B’ has.” In this particular situation you should not view marriage as an institution that lends itself to variety.

Even though we all know that no two mar-riages are alike, for the purposes of this discus-sion you should look upon marriage – your own, for instance – as an impor-tant, fragile and delicate institution that needs

to be appreciated and protected. A gentleman respects and protects not only his own marriage, but the marriages of people he cares about.

Meaning: Don’t mess with someone else’s mar-riage. Honor your own.

However, I know well how hot burneth this flame. You sound deter-mined to declare your love.

Keep in mind, your feel-ings may well be unrequit-ed. Expressing them may cause embarrassment for both of you. Prepare your-self for that. But, most important, if you want to declare your love for Lady B, you’d better deal with your feelings about Lady A first.

Ladies man wants lesson on love disclosureAMY DICKINSON

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• Community Clothes Closet is open from 9 a.m. to noon at 251-C SE Highway 13. Free clothing is available for all ages. Donations are accepted during business hours.

• The 37th Annual Christmas Arts and Crafts Show is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the War-rensburg Community Center,

445 E. Gay St.

• American Legion Riders will meet at 9 a.m. at the Post Home.

• The Sons of the American Legion meet at 10 a.m. at the Post Home.

• Al-Anon meets at noon at the Trails Regional Library, 432 N. Holden St.

• The West Central Genealogical Society Library is open from 1 to 4 p.m. in the lower level of the Church of Christ, 722 S. Maguire St.

• Lean on Me Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7 p.m. at the Episcopal Church, 136 E. Gay St.

• The “K-Town” Knob Noster High School Jazz Band is hosting a Big Band Swing Dance with free swing dance lessons from 7 to 10 p.m. KNHS Gymnatorium. Cost is $5 donation to the Music Boosters. Dress is business casual or nicer and light snacks and drinks will be provided.

• Luehrman, Shaffer and Check per-form at 7 p.m. at the Old Courthouse, 302 N. Main St.

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• Warrensburg Senior Center is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and offers many activi-ties including playing cards and visiting with friends. The salad bar opens at 10:30 a.m. and lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Johnson County Community Health Services will hold a Children’s Immunization Clinic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Johnson County Community Health Services, 723 PCA Road.

• Johnson County His-torical Society hosts an Open Acoustic Jam sessions from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Culp Building behind the historical society, 302 N. Main St. Museum exhibits will also be open for viewing.

OAK GROVE residents Ken, left, and Linda Rhodelander deliver lap quilts and walker bags to canteen volunteers Bud Love and Cindy Bruch for the veterans at the Missouri Veterans Home – Warrensburg. Veterans will be able to pick up their quilts and bags at the canteen.

QUILTS FOR VETERANS

Warrensburg – The Big Brothers Big Sisters Big Bro Muddy Challenge begins at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, five miles west of Warrensburg.

There is a one mile course for adults, three-quarters of a mile for youth ages 8 to 17 and fami-lies. Age brackets are 8-12, 13-17, 18 and older and families.

Cost is $25 per participant.The first race begins at 8 a.m. and start times

vary with age brackets. Obstacle course features 11 obstacles including hay bales, a mud pit, tunnels, stairs and a low crawl event.

Waiver forms are available at www.bbbsjohnson-county.com.

For information call (660) 429-1991.

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WITH A SMILE, 7-year-old Isabella Barrientos watches the ghouls and cowboys pass.

THE PETER PAN FAMILY, from left, consists of Jed, Lily, Linsey and Reese Adams. The 16th An-nual Trick or Treat event attracts hundreds of families to downtown Warrensburg on Wednesday.

BOY IN A BOX: With a slot marked “candy here,” Simon Pease, 8, waits to cross the street with his sister, Sadie Pease, 5.

AT THE END of trick-or-treat festivities, a member of the Incendio fire performing team, Sean Shepherd, twirls fire on the county building lawn.

A TENDER MOMENT, dressed as a desert Predator, Tony Ackerman caresses tenderly the throat of vampire Anna Natale.IN HER WEDDING GOWN, zombie bride Adi Reich stands out from a crowd of thousands strolling North Holden and Pine streets.

A LUCKY MAN: The branch upon which the posse hung him broke, giving Dustin McBride time to pass another Halloween.

WITH DANCERS from the University of Central Missouri, front and center, zombie Katie Pogge-meier, Odessa, dances to the music of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” during trick-or-treat activities

on Wednesday in downtown Warrensburg. The festivities, including candy from merchants, includes zombie dances, fire spinners and games for children.



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ELLA CHRISTENSEN grins in clown attire.ARE-ANA GRANT says she’s a silly monster.

AT THE END of trick-or-treat festivities, a member of the Incendio fire performing team, Sean Shepherd, twirls fire on the county building lawn.

A TENDER MOMENT, dressed as a desert Predator, Tony Ackerman caresses tenderly the throat of vampire Anna Natale.

BUSTED: Sheriff Chuck Heiss nabs a surprised escapee, Damen Crawford, 11, Warrensburg.

WITH DANCERS from the University of Central Missouri, front and center, zombie Katie Pogge-meier, Odessa, dances to the music of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” during trick-or-treat activities

on Wednesday in downtown Warrensburg. The festivities, including candy from merchants, includes zombie dances, fire spinners and games for children.

GRAYSON MARTIN, 1, finds his mother.ABRIELLE HERRERA, 2, hurries up the sidewalk.

WITH BOW in hand, Lexie Moore, 3, is Katniss.CANDY fills Emmalyn Rehn’s left cheek.


A SPECTACULAR COSTUME, reminiscent of Salvador Dali’s “Birth of the New Man,” makes high school teacher and University of Central Missouri teacher Rachel Neumann stand out.

TO CONCLUDE the afternoon festivities, Bryn Medley, a Uni-versity of Central Missouri stu-dent, sits with others near the Old Drum statue while waiting for the fire performers to start.

ONE TOUGH HOMBRE, the Warrensburg Kid, Jack Moore, 1, stops off at the “blood bank,” UMB, where he makes a withdrawal of candy.

DRESSED as a hot dog, this schnauzer, Shorty, observes a Halloween world while walked by Nathan Wiltrout, 7, Warrensburg.

A CHEER in her holiday costume comes with Elizabeth Antley, 3, Warrensburg, leaping.

LEADING THE PACK up South Holden Street, the Lorax, Brady Carter, 4, carries a treat bag.

Warrensburg – The congregation of First Church of the Nazarene, 603 E. Hale Lake Road, will install Rev. Rob-ert Denham as pastor during a wor-

ship service at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 4.

Denham graduated from Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho

and pastored churches in California and Nevada.

Denham said his passion is for people to find their gifts and use them for the

kingdom of God. The installation service is open to

the community.For details, call (660) 747-8949.

RELIGIONCoffeehouse offers ministryAMANDA LUBINSKIStar-Journal Staff Writer

Warrensburg – To help make “everything one does become a ministry,” First United Methodist Church turned the former Wesley Foundation build-ing, 305 S. Holden St., into a coffeehouse.

“About a year ago when we were deciding what to do with the space. We prayed about and really thought hard about what we could do to offer a place where ministry can hap-pen,” Associate Pastor Mike Cassidy said.

The result is the ROCK at FUMC.

“We wanted a place where people from dif-ferent faith backgrounds could just hang out. We wanted a place where the word of God sounded dif-ferent, looked different and tasted different,” he said. “Here we don’t own the ministries but just provide a place for them to occur. It provides the younger com-munity a place to meet oth-ers.”

The ROCK, which will hold a grand opening Nov. 6, is open 7-11 p.m. Tues-days, Wednesday and Thursdays. It offers free trade coffees, teas, soda (non-free trade), Wi-Fi in-

ternet service and home-made soups and bread from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays.

“Our coffee comes from a group called Equal Ex-change which partners with farmers in areas like South America and Africa so you can see where your beverages and foods are coming from. You can see that it is reaching out and helping to support a fam-ily that needs it,” Cassidy said. “We are also work-ing with a refugee group based in Kansas City to supply vegetables for our soups and breads.”

“A coffeehouse, Cassidy

said, sets the Methodists apart from other campus ministries in the area.

“Before it was all of the campus ministries here on the row doing a lot of the same things and we were getting overlap so we wanted to change that. We do have space where small groups can meet

and meditate and do have worship here on Monday nights but we wanted to offer more than that,” he said.

The ROCK will also help showcase local artis-tic talent.

“We are gearing up with our entertainment space where we can host musi-

cal acts and have spoken word contents and poetry slams,” Cassidy said. “We also are almost finished to where we are going to have three panels where artists can come in and hang their art.”

For more information about the ROCK, call Cassidy at (660) 747-8158.

AMANDA LUBINSKI/Star-JournalTHE ROCK, a free coffeehouse offered to the community by First United Methodist Church, will hold a grand opening at 7 p.m. Nov. 6.

Warrensburg’s First Church of the Nazarene welcomes new pastor



Unitarians meetThe Unitarian Uni-

versalist Fellowship of Warrensburg will meet at 11 a.m. Nov. 4 in the Jack Moore Communi-ty Room, 100 S. Holden St., Warrensburg.

Baptists feed needyShiloh Missionary

Baptist Church, 202 N. Main St., Warrens-burg, offers free meals to those in need from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every Mon-day and Tuesday.

Pizza Hut helps HaitiPizza Hut, 914 N.

Simpson Drive, War-rensburg, will hold a fundraiser for Handi-work for Haiti, a local relief effort aimed at helping build and sus-tain a well in Haiti, from 5-8 p.m. Nov. 6.

To participate, men-tion “Handiwork for Haiti” when ordering food for dine-in, carry-out or delivery.

Twenty percent of each sale will be con-tributed to the cause.

Parish hosts dinnerSt. Mary’s Catholic

Church, 401 W. Broad-way, Higginsville, will hold its annual fall dinner 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11.

Meal prices are $10 per adult, $5 for chil-dren ages 6-12 and free for children under 6.

Carry-outs will be delivered to shut-ins.

For details, call (660) 584-3038.

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PETERED OUT PONY: While taking a break from the fun, proud mother Angela Koyles, Warrensburg, shows off her prize pony, son Jacob, 2 months.

TROOPER FUN: Stormtrooper Jake Riddle, 7, climbs his way out of an inflatable obstacle course Wednesday at Northside Christian Church’s, 500 N. Ridgeview Drive, Warrensburg, annual Family Fun Fest.

FISHING FOR CANDY, city resident Mason Danielson, 4, lowers a makeshift fishing rod into a bucket. For his effort, he gets four pieces of candy.

F A M I L Y F U N F E S T


Continued from Page 1follow funding,” Russell told the bipartisan group of Senate and House mem-bers, including Rep. Den-ny Hoskins, Sen.-elect Jason Holsman and Sen. Scott Rupp.

Russell said elected officials want perfor-mance results to follow state funds. To that end, education groups want lawmakers to increase funding for higher edu-cation, with half of the increase earmarked to reward good results.

“Performance funding will only involve new funding above the base appropriation,” Russell suggested.

Institutions would compete for performance funds, but not head to head, he said.

“We’re not comparing neighbor to neighbor,” Russell said, but instead would have institutions seek to better their own performance.

For example, the com-munity college comple-tion rate takes typically three years, but perfor-mance pay could reward programs that speed graduation rates, he said. A four-year insti-tution, such as UCM, where the focus is on professional and applied technology disciplines, might be incentivized to improve graduation rates in those fields, Russell said.

Because different public schools have a different focus, incentives would

vary to match school offerings, he said.

“There would be a direct line between mis-sion and accomplish-ment,” he said.

From the Council on Public Higher Education, Long said his group likes the idea of extra funds for schools based on out-comes.

“We strongly support performance funding,” he said.

Missouri House Educa-tion Committee Chairman Mike Thompson said, “I think we all agree on the performance issue.”

Educators talked about higher education funding increasing by 6 percent, with half being perfor-mance based.

The increase may be tough to get, Thompson said.

UCM President Charles Ambrose said state higher education institu-tions would need to show how students achieve, with an emphasis on making education acces-sible, complete, afford-able and beneficial when

students enter the job market.

“A degree does equal a job,” he said, and touted a 90 percent job placement rate for students.

UCM has marked accom-plishments at the same time state funding has declined, Ambrose said. He displayed a graphic for committee members that showed state appropria-tions for UCM education amounted to 65 percent in 2000, fell to 49 percent in 2008 and will be 40 per-cent in 2013, leaving the burden of higher cost on families.

From Missouri Western State University, President Robert Vart-abedian said his insti-tution is different from others, being an “open enrollment” school with little state help.

“Missouri Western State University has the unfortunate distinction of receiving less state appropriations per full-time-equivalent student than any other public, four-year university in the state,” Vartabedian

said. “I know that there are members of this com-mittee who do not support a per-student funding method, and I’m not asking you to conclude that is the best solution. I don’t necessarily see this as the funding formula. But I think it should at least be a part of it.”

Vartabedian asked the committee to consider the different missions of each school when determining how to fund each.

“There is something

inherently wrong with the current core funding structure for Missouri higher education,” he said. “Please don’t disre-gard that. Please don’t use the current core appro-priation model as a base for whatever new funding formula you develop.”

Pearce said Thursday that each state institu-tion has a different mis-sion, and developing accomplishment-based funding around each mission is a challenge

for the committee.“That’s the tough part,

because we have institu-tions which have different missions, which have dif-ferent kinds of (student) selectivity when it comes to what kind of enroll-ment they have, and then some are research-based, so it’s going to be tough to come up with perfor-mance goals,” Pearce said, “because in many cases you can’t com-pare them against each other.”

Education group hears funding plan for higher edTrends marked by the University of Central Missouri, President

Charles Ambrose told the Missouri Joint Committee on Education, include UCM having:

• The largest enrollment in school history, 11,878;

• The largest incoming freshman class since 1992, 2,793;

• A 31 percent increase in military and veteran students over the past three years;

• A student acceptance standard of 21 on the ACT and a 2.0 gpa; and

• Transfer and reverse-transfer agreements.

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DURING THE HEARING at the University of Central Missouri, Higher Education Commissioner Da-vid Russell sips coffee after giving testimony while Deputy Commissioner Paul Wagner prepares to talk.

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A RETIRED member of the military, Russell Westerhold, a resident at the Missouri Veterans Home - Warrensburg, holds a salute during the Veterans Day observance Sunday at the home, 1300 Veterans Road. The ceremony includes recognition for all veterans, with special emphasis given this year to Viet-nam War veterans.

AMBULANCE DISTRICT

SUE STERLINGStar-Journal Staff Writer

Warrensburg – The Johnson County Ambulance District’s proposed budget projects spending $3,766,395.

Chief Shane Lockard presented a budget draft to the board. He said anticipated income is $3,607,300, requiring use of $159,000 from cap-ital reserves.

Lockard said he budgeted a 5 per-cent drop in Medicare revenues in case sequestration occurs Jan. 1.

“I’ve put it in the budget as if it’s gone,” Lockard said, adding if Con-gress avoids the “fiscal cliff,” then the district will receive more income.

User fee revenue is budgeted at $1,970,000, up about $200,000 from the 2012 budget, due to an increase set to take effect in 2013. Tax revenue is set to remain static at $1.6 million.

Lockard said he has not budgeted to buy ambulances next year, but anticipates the district taking mid-year bids to buy ambulances in 2014.

The budget anticipates higher costs for fuel and ambulance main-tenance, repairs and supplies; ambu-lance expense trends show expenses up from $234,361 in 2009 to $3,558,445 projected in 2013; and district oper-ating costs rose from $2,579,325 in 2009 to $3,558,445 projected in 2013.

“Income and operating expenses have met each other,” Lockard said.

Some costs are up, he said, “because we’re bigger.”

Negotiations are under way with Blue Cross/Blue Shield on medical insurance premiums for next year, he said. A projected 8.9 percent increase rose to 19 percent, which is “unac-ceptable,” he said.

The increase is budgeted, Lockard said, but if negotiations fail, the dis-trict may seek other bids.

Capital purchases are budgeted at $206,000 for the year, including the $145,000 for the new Knob Noster building.

Other capital expenses include $20,000 for moving two radio repeaters to provide better commu-nications, $6,000 for a mass casualty incident trailer, $35,000 to buy com-puter equipment and $35,000 to buy a generator and electrical panel for the headquarters building.

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TERESA SHANE/Star-JournalDURING a fundraiser, Connie and Brian Ridge take a break.

TERESA SHANEStar-Journal Staff Writer

Warrensburg – Connie Ridge, 45, does not recall the night of Aug. 28. Or was it Aug. 29?

Husband, Brian Ridge, 44, remem-bers everything: Connie going to bed to sleep off a headache, but getting up and grabbing her head due to intense pain.

“Around 8:30 or 9, she began having a seizure and she wouldn’t respond to us,” Brian said.

Paramedics responded, treating Con-nie’s stroke-like symptoms and taking her to St. Luke’s East, Lee’s Summit, which moved her to St. Luke’s on the Plaza.

There, doctors told Brian that Connie suffered a ruptured anterior cerebral aneurysm – a broken blood vessel in the

front of her brain.“They gave me no false hope,” Brian

said. “They said she would have weeks, months of recovery.”

Doctors said Connie’s motor skills and personality could change.

“I was worried she wouldn’t like me anymore,” Brian said. “The only thing I’ve noticed is her voice is quieter.”

Two months after the aneurysm, Connie said she gets tired more quickly, but her short-term memory is returning, and she is cleared to get back to work.

Brian said the ambulance driver saved time by taking Connie immediately to a trauma center.

“I wish I knew who he was,” Brian said. “Lots of things happened just right. The doctors are amazed at her recovery.”

Quick response criticalapproach to aneurysm

RECOGNIZING VETERANSVFW, Legion,guests honorVietnam vetsJACK ‘MILES’ VENTIMIGLIAStar-Journal Editor

Warrensburg – All veterans – with special recognition this year for those who served during the Vietnam War – received recognition at a joint Vet-erans Day observance by the Amer-ican Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

During the ceremony Sunday at the Legion Hall, 733 E. Young St., VFW Commander Bryan Lee said the fact that many men and women who fought for freedom are homeless is tragic.

“One in four of American homeless are veterans ... nine out of 10 were honorably discharged and nearly half served in the Vietnam War, ” Lee told a crowd of about 100.

From Whiteman Air Force Base, the commander of the 509th Medical Group, Col. Theresa Rodriguez, gave the keynote address. She dis-cussed difficulties many who served in Vietnam faced, with some chal-lenge by the enemy and some from protestors at home in the United States. Some protestors called returning troops “baby killers” or shrugged them off as “crazy Vietnam vets,” Rodriguez said.

“I would like to believe that today this is not how most Americans feel about those who served in Vietnam,” she said. “I hope that our Vietnam veterans feel loved and know that we appreciate their service and sac-rifices.”

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington is one way the nation has shown appreciation for the more than 58,000 Americans who lost their lives in the war, with the names of the dead inscribed on the wall, Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez related the story Col. Janet Southby, retired, told her about being assigned in 1963 to a medical unit in Vietnam. Southby, then 22, did not feel two years of pediatric nursing qualified her to deal with trauma troops in the field suffered, but she realized the men needed her.

One of the men Southby treated asked about her being in Vietnam.

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FOX Monday Eagles fly to Final Four

14th Annual Small MallWhite Elephant & Bake Sale

Saturday, Nov. 17th • 9:00am - 1:00pmWestern Missouri Medical Center • Front Entrance Lobby

A special place for children ages 4-12 to

Christmas ShopFree Gift Wrapping & Tagging

PLUS a Personal Shopper to Assist!Children Should Bring:

• A list of family members to shop for

• Ages of Siblings (if needed)

• Money for shopping

Parents:• All Gifts priced $10 or less

• Most $5 and less

• Adults may shop the Bake Sale and

White Elephant Sales

403 Burkarth Road • Warrensburg, Missouri 64093-3101 • (660) 747-2500

Sponsored by theWestern Missouri Medical Center Auxiliary

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TU E S D A Y• Sunrise Optimist Club of Warrensburg meets for breakfast at 6:30 a.m., at the Sheltered Workshop Cafe.

• GED classes are held at 1034 S. Maguire, Suite B, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For infor-mation call (660) 429-0063.

• Community Clothes Closet is open 9 a.m. to noon at 251-C SE Highway 13. Free clothing available for all ages. Donations accepted during business hours.

• Good Morning Al-Anon meets at 9 a.m. at 300 2nd St. For information call (660) 441-7609.

• The Grief Support Group will meet at 10:30 a.m. at Western Missouri Medical Center, 403 Burkarth Road.

• Tuesday Noon Rotary meets at the American Legion Hall, 733 E. Young St.

• Different Strokes for Different Folks Support Group for Traumatic Brain Injury/Stroke Survivors and their families meets from 5 to 6 p.m. at Western Missouri Medical Center in Classroom 2 (West lobby). For more information contact Shannon Wilkin-son at ( 660) 747-2500, ext. 2165.

• Craft night will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Trails Regional Library, 432 N. Holden St. Registration is required. Call (660) 747-9177.

• Kiwanis Club meets at 6 p.m. at the Sheltered Workshop Cafe.

• Potluck and cards will be played at 6 p.m. at the Senior Center at the Community Center. The group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month.

• Veterans Supporting Veterans Bingo begins at 6:40 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. Doors open at 5 p.m.

• The Warrensburg Stamp Club meets at 7 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church, 141 E. Gay St.

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YEATER HAUNTED HOUSE: University of Central Missouri Yeater Residence Hall students lead visi-tors Oct. 25-27 through the hall’s old sorority wing and third floor during the annual Haunted House.

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WE D N E S D A Y• GED classes are held at the Missouri Career Center, 1034 S. Maguire, Suite B, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For information call (660) 429-0063.

• There will be a WIC Satel-lite Clinic from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Holden Community Action Center. Services provided without regard to race, color, national origin, disability or age at no charge.

• The Trails Regional Library, 432 N. Holden St., will hold Preschool Story Time at 10 a.m.

• Warrensburg senior citizens will play Canasta at 12:30 p.m. in the Warrensburg Community Center.

• V.F.W. Post 4195, Post home on D Hwy. in Knob Noster, donates half the proceeds from a Double Bingo pregame to the Veterans Home in Warrensburg. Doors open at 5 p.m. First game starts at 6:50 p.m.

• Warrensburg Self Help Group will meet at 6 p.m. in Western Mis-souri Medical Center Room 2. For information contact Karen Cairer at (660) 827-1112.

• The Matthews-Crawford American Legion Post 131 Board of Trustees meet at 5:45 p.m. with a regular meeting at 7 p.m. at the Post Home.

• William A. Carleton V.F.W. 2513 Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. at 618 Lakeview Drive.

Holiday lighting ceremonies beginKansas City, Mo. – The

2012 City Lights holiday lighting ceremony begins at 6 p.m. at Barney Allis Plaza, 12th and Wyan-dotte streets.

The holiday lighting display encompasses Barney Allis Plaza and nearby buildings including the Downtown Marriott Hotel, which fea-tures computer-generated

holiday images across its 22-story facade.

Santa Claus leads the parade to Barney Allis Plaza for the City Lights ceremony. Following the festivities, Santa will lead the parade to Cosentino’s Downtown Market for children’s activities.

The Legends Tree Lighting Ceremony is from 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 17 at

Legends Outlets Kansas City, 1843 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan.

The show features thousands of twinkling lights dance in tune with holiday music during the Legendary Light Show.

The tree lighting is at 7 p.m. and the U.S. Marines will kick off its Toys for Tots program at the event.

WARRENSBURG ELKS Club host the annual Special Needs Halloween Dance on Oct. 26 for more than 400 guests.

HALLOWEEN DANCE

Warrensburg – The South Todd/Yeater Hall Council hosted the sev-enth annual Yeater Haunted Tours Oct. 25-27, raising 800 canned goods to fight hunger in Warrensburg.

South Todd and Yeater Hall residents and volun-teers treat students, fac-ulty, staff and commu-nity members to scares in Yeater Hall’s old sorority wing and sto-ries of Yeater’s history and supposed hauntings on the third floor. Resi-dents decorated the old

sorority wing on Yeater’s ground floor to look like a haunted dolls’ house. Visitors toured Yeater’s third f loor, which has been closed since 2001. Many of the building’s residents believe it to be haunted by the ghosts of Laura Yeater, the building’s founder, and George W. Diemer Jr., the son of former UCM President George W. Diemer Sr.

More than 700 students and community mem-bers raised 800 non-per-ishable food items and

more than $1,400. All food items are

donated to food centers, while the monetary pro-ceeds support the hall council and its other upcoming philanthro-pies.

“The Yeater Haunted Tours were such a success,” said Erin Bridgeman , South Todd /Yeater Hal l Council president. “We have even had a lot of people ask if we will do more tours in the future in addition to the tradi-tional October tours.”

Yeater Haunted Tours collects food

2012 Johnson County Christmas Angel Tree, Inc.

Apply in person Thursday, Nov. 1st – Saturday, Nov. 17th only!

11a.m. to 5p.m. - Monday–Friday11a.m to 3p.m. – Saturday

at 609 E. Young, Suites 8, 9 & 10 ~ Warrensburg(Santa Fe Trails Shopping Center)

To apply you must provide:Photo ID, proof of current residence (utility bill, rental

agreement etc. within 30 days), list of ages, sizes, needs and wants of each child (14 and under), for which you have

current, PRIMARY legal custody.

Distribution of gifts will be completed bySaturday, December 15th at 3:00 p.m.

Angels for adoption will be placed on trees at:Wal-Mart; Central Missouri Community Credit Union;Equity Bank - Formerly First Community Bank (both);

First Central Bank (South); Sacred Heart Catholic Church; Swisher’s; Dr. Hechler’s Ear, Nose & Throat;

Heartland Farm & Lawn, Centerview;and Galle’s Smokehouse Grill, Holden.

Wrapped gifts should be returned no later than Friday, December 7th.Please wrap new items only.

Used items can be donated to other organizations such as:Clothes Closet, Salvation Army and/or Survival House.

THANK YOU!I would like to thank everyone who voted for me

for Johnson County Western Commissioner.Special thanks go to those who also

helped with my campaign.

Lloyd Sisk

Paid for by Sisk for Commissioner, Robyn Sisk, Treasurer

107 W. PineWarrensburg, MO 64093

660-747-3162heroeswarrensburg.com

Regular Specials

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• Good Morning Al-Anon meets at 7 a.m. at 300 2nd St. For information call (660) 441-7609.


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TH U R S D A Y• Early Bird Rotary meets at 6:45 a.m. in Heroes banquet room. Prospective members are welcome to attend.

• Johnson County Community Health Services will hold a blood pressure clinic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Johnson County Community Health

Services, 723 PCA Road. Services provided without regard to race, color, national origin, disability or age at no charge.

• GED classes are held at 1034 S. Maguire, Suite B, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For information call (660) 429-0063.

• Johnson County Community Health Services will hold a blood pres-sure clinic from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Chilhowee Methodist Church, 101 N. Pennsylvania Ave. For details call (660) 747-2012. Services provided without regard to race, color, national origin or disability.

• Weight Watchers meets at 9 a.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. at Northside Christian Church, 500 N. Ridgeview Drive. Weigh-in is 30 minutes prior to meeting time.

• Community Clothes Closet is open 9 a.m. to noon at 251-C SE Highway 13. Free clothing is available for all ages. Donations are accepted during business hours.

• The Warrensburg Lions Club meets at noon at the Warrensburg Community Center, 445 E. Gay St.

• Domestic Violence Support Group For Adults meets at 5 p.m., 137 E. Culton St.

• Johnson County Democrats will meet at 5:30 p.m. at Heroes Restaurant, 107 W. Pine St.

• The American Legion Riders meet at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Post Home followed by the Sons of the American Legion at 7:30 p.m.

• Al-Anon Gift of Hope will be held at 6:30 p.m. in room 213 (use east entrance of church) at the First United Methodist Church, 141 E. Gay St. Meetings are held each Thursday except holidays.

• Alcoholics Anonymous Second Chance Group will meet at 6:30 p.m., at the First United Methodist Church, 141 E. Gay St., in room 232.

• Support Group for Meth Addicts meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 607 N. Maguire. For details call Lisa Ridgeway at (660) 864-9324.

• Optimist Club of Warrensburg meets at 7 p.m. at the Sheltered Workshop Cafe, 607 Ridgeview Drive.

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DEAR AMY: My teen-age daughter is on a com-petitive sports team that practices three times per week. She is in a carpool with three other players to save time and money. The other three girls are very good friends. The team’s star player is their social leader too.

The girls are rather rude, especially their ringleader, “the diva.” Diva is very annoying to me because her attitude is ugly and toxic, although my daughter seems able to “blow it off.” The girls do not say one word to my daughter when we are in the car. They talk or text among themselves. They pass around food or can-dy without offering any-thing to my daughter.

If I try to engage in a benign conversation, they respond with disrespect-ful one-word responses (when the diva is not in the car, the other girls will include my daughter somewhat).

I was 15 minutes late picking them up recently, and she set such a hostile tone in the car that no one spoke. I’ve tried to approach this topic a cou-ple of times gently with “diva’s” parents, but her mother laughed it off.

It would be very incon-venient for me to lose this carpool, and this doesn’t seem to bother my daugh-ter. However, it bothers me terribly. I can see the queen bee/bullying be-havior and know how de-structive it can be. What should I do?

– Annoyed Mom

DEAR ANNOYED: The only surefi re way to prevent this dynamic from happening in your car would be to accept the

inconvenience of driving your daughter solo.

Ask your daughter what it is like on the basketball court or when she rides in their cars. If she says she can handle it, let her, but make sure she knows you are in her corner.

You could try to mix it up by having “the diva” sit up front in the car with you, but if you don’t want to micromanage this dynamic, engage your daughter and ignore the nonsense, unless it is di-rected toward you or your kid (or they are trashing someone else).

If so, you can say, “La-dies, I expect you to be decent and polite in my car. If you have a prob-lem with this, let me know.” Moronic teenage twittiness doesn’t count, but truly toxic rudeness shouldn’t be sanctioned with silence.

Send questions via e-mail to [email protected] or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chica-go, IL 60611.

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Annual holiday concert Dec. 2

Warrensburg – The Warrensburg Community Chorus will perform its 40th annual holiday con-cert, Christmas Is In the Air, at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 at the Warrensburg Community of Christ Church, 700 S. Mitchell St.

Cathi Truesdale directs the concert, accompanied by Jim Duncan. Guests musi-cians will also perform during the concert.

Song selections include Carol of the Bells, The Little Drummer Boy, O Holy Night, Hallelujah Chorus, and White Christmas. The concert is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted to defray costs for the chorus.

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Columbia – Univer-sity of Missouri Exten-sion regional special-ists deliver a nationally recognized stress-relief program to help people meet challenges to live a healthier life.

Taking Care of You: Body, Mind & Spirit at extension.missouri.edu/TakingCare is an eight-session workshop co-de-signed by Molly Vetter-Smith, assistant exten-sion professor and state health education spe-cialist with MU’s School of Medicine.

“When people’s lives get really busy and really stressed, or something traumatic happens, it can affect both physical and mental health,” says Vetter-Smith. “This pro-gram is there to help all

aspects of your health and to help get you through whatever challenge you have going on in your life at that time.”

Offered in weekly, one-hour sessions, the course covers the mind-body wellness connection, pro-viding practical strate-gies to help people manage stress. When people are able to manage stress in healthy ways, they are better able to take care of themselves and maintain their overall health.

“When life gets out of balance, we become very stressed and we don’t always make the health-iest of choices,” says pro-gram co-designer and instructor Vera Massey, MU Extension regional nutrition and health edu-cation specialist. “This

program helps people better manage the stress and challenges in their lives.”

Follow-up research indicates that program participants signifi-cantly lowered their stress levels and made lifestyle improvements immediately following the sessions and even three months later, says Massey. Evaluations show they regularly use stress-management skills taught in the pro-gram, make healthier food choices and live more physically active lives.

“One of things that sticks out to me – that I remember word-for-word from the Taking Care of You class – is, ‘Don’t spend an extraordinary

amount of time on ordi-nary things,’” recalls one of the program’s students, Beth McClure, a public relations professional from the St. Louis area. She also appreciated the limited class size.

“I approached the class because I was looking for help in finding balance in my life and just really improving as a person in both my career and in my personal life. This class seems to bring it all together for people.”

Vetter-Smith, the pro-gram leader, is exploring avenues for expanding the program regionally and nationally.

For details or to reg-ister for Taking Care of You classes, go to exten-sion.missouri.edu/Tak-ingCare.

Extension office offers stress-relief program

The Warrensburg Schools Foundation Board

gratefully acknowledges the attendees, donors, and sponsors who made its Fifth Annual Fundraiser an overwhelming success. The funds raised will benefit the Classroom Impact Grants and dual credit scholarship fund. We appreciate all those who contributed and the continuing support shown for the efforts of the Foundation to promote excellence in education for students and teachers in Warrensburg schools.

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Warrensburg – The Veterans Day ceremony Sunday at the Missouri Veterans Home in Warrensburg, included con-cern for veterans offered by the keynote speaker, George Scarborough.

Before the crowd of 150 guests, many of them retired veterans, Scarborough said veterans deserve honor for their service.

“Generations of our veter-ans ... have put country before self,” he said, and speeches and memorials are insufficient to accord them the degree of honor they are due.

Scarborough focused on Vietnam vet-erans and the cruelty they faced when returning home to protestors who spat on them and accused them falsely of crimes.

“How do you think it felt to come home?” he asked, and received applause when he told those veterans, “Welcome home.”

Scarborough said a new gen-eration is fighting for Ameri-ca.

“Our war fighters of today are second to none and we sa-lute them,” he said.

Scarborough said Americans should celebrate the legacy of veterans.

“Our sense of gratitude for our veterans can never sleep,” he said.

Because of the few who fought, the many have benefit-ed, and the many should never forget the sacrifices of the few, Scarborough said.

“Let us always draw our strength and inspiration from what they have done,” he told the crowd.

Having retired from the Air Force after a 20-year career that included postings to England, Vietnam, Germany and Italy, Scarborough is a member of American Legion Post 21 in Independence and Vet-erans of Foreign Wars Post 6603, Blue Springs.

VETERANS DAY

RECOGNITION: At the American Legion Hall on Sunday, Air Force Col. Theresa Rodriguez pres-ents a pin recognizing service in Vietnam to a retired soldier, Lawrence Mudd. He is one of several veterans to receive the pin at the ceremony.

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Continued from Page 1“‘If you were my brother, father, hus-

band or son,’” Rodriguez repeated South-by’s story, ‘“I would want to know that qualified, compassionate and skilled American nurses were caring for you to the very best of their ability.’”

Rodriguez then turned attention to the fact that American troops have been pulled out of Iraq.

“Since our withdrawal, there has been very little public discussion about the war in Iraq, despite the fact that it claimed more than 5,000 American lives,” she said. “Tens of thousands of service members suffered life-altering injuries. Thousands more families are

struggling with the loss of a loved one, or dealing with a life forever changed by their wounds. It was a monumental conflict.”

But the war is barely mentioned now, Rodriguez said, and urged the sacrifices of Iraq’s veterans are not forgotten.

“We owe them a debt for their service and the most basic way to repay that debt is simply to remember that they served – to remember that they fought a war, even as time attempts to wash its memory away,” she said.

At the end of the talk, more than a dozen Vietnam veterans came forward. Rodriguez provided each with a pin and the crowd applauded each veteran.

Vietnam veterans receive recognition


RETIRED ARMED SERVICES members, including Vilas Bielefeldt, right, fire a three-volley salute in recognition of veterans on Veterans Day on Sunday at the Missouri Veterans Home - Warrensburg.


Warrensburg – American Legion National Commander James Koutz said his mission for the next year is bringing awareness to homeless, jobless veterans.

Koutz, who became the national commander Aug. 30 in Indianapolis during the 94th national convention, is a Vietnam War veteran, serving in the Army from 1969 to 1971. American Legion Post 131 hosted Koutz on Nov. 5 on a visit to Warrensburg and Whiteman Air Force Base.

Koutz also visited Missouri Veterans Home - Warrensburg.

He appeared Oct. 3 before Congress to present the American Legion’s pri-orities, including clearing the Veteran Administration’s claims backlog, and helping service members with licensing and credentialing when they return to the civilian workforce.

“If Congress doesn’t pass a budget, the VA and Department of Defense could lose $50- to $54 billion,” he said.

Contractors will lay off employees, and that will trickle down to affect man-ufacturers who supply parts for contrac-tors, he said.

“We can’t stand for that,” he said. “I think it will be the worse round of unemployment since 2008.”

Koutz seeks to make others aware of

homeless veterans.“More than half of the homeless vet-

erans are from the Vietnam War, and many of the veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan had homes when they left,” he said, “but when they get back, they

can’t find a job and lost their homes.”

Koutz said many homeless veterans are women with chil-dren, and they do not seek care at the VA hospitals.

“I’m hoping to get a wom-en’s veterans coordinator in every state who works under the umbrella of the American Legion,” he said.

Koutz seeks to raise $500,000 for Operation Comfort War-

riors, which takes care of service mem-bers rehabilitating from wounds in Iraq or Afghanistan.

“Although their medical needs are taken of, they need personal care items,” Koutz said. “We give them iPods, buy loose sweatsuits for amputees, gym equipment, books, magazines, and take them on outings.”

Some of the wounded are in the hos-pitals for several years, including VA hospitals, and on military installations.

“The program started four or five years ago and in just three months, we’ve raised $162,000,” Koutz said. “I have no doubt we will raise the $500,000. All of the money goes for com-fort care.”

National commander visits county


AIR FORCE Col. Theresa Rodriguez addresses members of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and their guests, at a joint Veterans Day observance Sunday at the American Legion Hall, 733 E. Young St. The event focuses on the service of Vietnam veterans. Past observances have recognized the service of World War II and Korean War veterans.

Event honors area veterans

James E. KoutzNATIONAL COMMANDER

George Scarborough

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Warrensburg – With Survival Adult Abuse Center cupboards almost bare, children’s coordi-nator Melissa Looper said she is thrilled a pickup truck filled with canned goods backed into the driveway.

“We are running low on food in general,” Looper said while waiting for University of Central Mis-souri’s Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members.

Fraternity member Darius Schneiders said campus Greeks unite during Halloween and Watermelon Bust events to collect food for the needy.

“This is the most we’ve ever collected – 3,320 cans,” he said. “We col-

lected three pickup loads that we split between the Food Center and Survival Adult Abuse Center. Most of the bulk foods like the cases of vegetables went to the Food Center.”

On Wednesday, frater-nity members delivered more than 1,500 cans of food – soups, tomato sauce, mushrooms, fruit – that Looper will use to create menus and com-plete meals.

“This is such a huge blessing,” she said.

Looper said the center is also low on household care and cleaning items, including laundry soap, personal razors, body wash and shampoo.

“If 10 people gave us one bag of razors, they would last us two weeks,” she said.

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UNLOADING: University of Central Missouri Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members Josh Hulen, left, and Andrew Walker help unload more than 1,500 cans of food for Survival Adult Abuse Center.

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ROTARY CELEBRATES 75th ANNIVERSARY


THE FORMER Rotary International president, Ray Klinginsmith, delivers an inspirational mes-sage Thursday during the Warrensburg Rotary Club’s 75th Anniversary celebration at the Univer-sity of Central Missouri’s Elliott Union. The night includes recognition of the club and by the club for people dedicated to the Rotary’s motto, “Service above self.” Look for coverage of the event in Monday’s Daily Star-Journal.

AMANDA LUBINSKIStar-Journal Staff Writer

Knob Noster – The school board agreed to prepay for diesel fuel if significant savings result.

Assistant Superintendent Kristee Lorenz said a potential savings of 40 cents per gallon may be available at different times throughout the year through Scooter’s 66 on U.S. 50.

“He said he hears of deals from time to time depending on where the fuel is coming from and asked if we would be interested in seeing some of those

savings,” she said.The district would need to provide

Scooter’s with a down payment.“He just wants a commitment from

us saying if he goes ahead with the deal and purchases the added fuel needed for the discount we would be willing to kick in the ($10,000) extra,” Superintendent Jaret Tomlinson said, adding, “That’s about 2,500 gallons of fuel. It is what we spend on fuel each month anyway. It would just be paying for fuel a month in advance,” he said.

BOARD SEEKS SAVINGS, 3

District agrees to purchasefuel in bulk to save money

KNOB NOSTER SCHOOL DISTRICT

WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY


Holden – A group planning an activi-ties expo in Holden on Feb. 9 will send letters to organizations and individuals to determine if sufficient interest exists to hold the event.

The event will be for residents of the Holden, Chilhowee and Kingsville ar-eas, the respective school districts, and people who participate in programs and activities in those communities.

At a meeting Wednesday at the Hold-en Middle School, the group decided to title the event “Fun for All Fair” and to include health and fitness, sports and other recreational activities on the list of invited vendors.

The free event will feature youth and adult sports groups. Participants will have an opportunity to get information on the organizations and possibly regis-ter for a team, and for other recreational

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Regional park effort continues


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Lockards celebrate 50thEugene and Sharon

Lockard, Warrensburg, celebrate their 50th wed-ding anniversary on Nov. 30.

Their children are host-ing an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 at the White Rose Pavil-ion, 107 Ming St.

The former Sharon Welch and Eugene Lockard married Nov. 30,

1962 at the First Baptist Church in Warrensburg.

Eugene retired from Stahl Specialty Company.

Sharon retired from Warrensburg School Dis-trict.

They have 2 children, 1 grandchild and 1 great-grandchild.

Sharon and Eugene Lockard

Pharmacy &Your Health

(660) 747-9171509 Burkarth Road Warrensburg

Marlyne - Pharmacist

Red Cross Pharmacy, Inc. is not affiliated with the American Red Cross.

Pertussis: Attack of“Whooping Cough” Pertussis is a coughing illness caused by a bacteria called Bordatella pertussis. It is most often seen in young children, although teens and adults may also develop this condition. The first phase of the infec-tion includes one to two weeks of a mild cough, low grade fever, and watery eyes. The second phase is characterized by more frequent bursts of up to ten violent coughs, the last cough ending in a “whooping” sound as a result of the individ-ual breathing in to catch their breath. A person may feel tired after the coughing episodes, and may also experience fa-tigue due to coughing attacks interrupting sleep. Coughing episodes can also interfere with eating, leading to possible weight loss. Hacking up mu-cous and vomiting may also be present. If untreated, pertussis can progress to pneumonia, an inflammation of the lungs and a more serious condition.

Pertussis vaccines (Infanrix, Daptacel, Tripedia, Pediarix, Pentacel, Boostrix, Adacel), are combination vaccines that also provide protection against oth-er contagious diseases. Some of these vaccines can be given as early as 2 months of age. If a person does become infected with pertussis, it may be treated with the antibiotic erythromy-cin (Ery-Tab). Erythromycin is also prescribed if a person has been exposed to pertussis, but is not immunized. Available at 110 E. Market, Warrensburg

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MO N D A Y• Warrensburg Senior Center is open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and offers many activi-ties such as card playing and visiting with friends. The salad bar begins at 10:30 a.m. and lunch is served 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Johnson County Community Health Services will hold a Children’s Immunization Clinic from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Johnson County Community Health Services, 723 PCA Road. Ser-vices provided without regard to race, color, national origin, disability or age. Fees assessed based on immuniza-tion needs. If the child is on Medicaid, Medicaid will be billed.

• NARFE will meet at noon at the American Legion, 733 E. Young St.

Warrensburg – The Warrensburg School District preschools, Par-ents as Teachers and the University of Cen-tral Missouri Speech and Hearing Clinic, are hosting a free Literacy Night with Clifford the Dog from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28 at Reese School, 301 W. Market St.

Children ages birth to age 5 will be able to par-ticipate in free literacy

activities including watching a puppet show, learning a sing-along song, act out nursery rhymes, and listen to the story, “Dear Zoo.”

Children can also make their own books and free books will be distributed to participants.

Refreshments will be served.

For information call Parents as Teachers at (660) 747-7424.

Literacy Night Nov. 28• GED classes are held at the Missouri Career Center, 1034 S. Maguire, Suite B, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For information call (660) 429-0063.

• The Grief Support Group will meet at 10:30 a.m. at Western Missouri Medical Center, 403 Burkarth Road.

• AARP meets at 6 p.m. at the American Legion Post Home. City Manager Paula Hertwig Hopkins will present a program on the “State of the City.”

• Boy Scout Troop 31 meets at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Post home.

• Warrensburg Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 7 p.m., at the First Chris-tian Church. For more information call John Doussard at 429-3253.


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TU E S D A Y• Sunrise Optimist Club of Warrensburg meets for breakfast at 6:30 a.m., at the Sheltered Workshop Cafe.

• GED classes are held at 1034 S. Maguire, Suite B, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For infor-

mation call (660) 429-0063.

• Community Clothes Closet is open 9 a.m. to noon at 251-C SE Highway 13.

• Al-Anon will meet at 9 a.m. at 300 N. Second St. For more information call (660) 441-7609.

• Johnson County Community Health Services will offer a free Food Safety Training Class for Food Handlers from 10 a.m. until noon at 723 PCA Road. The class covers the basics of Safe Food Handling, Dangers of Foodborne Illness and Personal Hygiene. This course is recommended for all food service facility employees including wait staff, bartenders, cooks, deli workers and dishwashers. To register, call Tammy at (660) 747-6121, ext. 258.

• Tuesday Noon Rotary meets at the American Legion Hall.

• Kiwanis Club meets at 6 p.m. at the Sheltered Workshop Cafe.

Warlen, Schildknecht to wedKristina Warlen and Ryan Schildknecht, Warrens-

burg, plan to wed Nov. 24 at Grover Park Baptist Church.Kristina is the daughter of Tim and Marceia War-

len of Chilhowee.Ryan is the son Doug and Rita Schildknecht.Ryan graduated in 2008 from the Central Missouri Po-

lice Academy at the University of Central Missouri and works at the Holden Police Department.

Kristina graduated from UCM in 2010 and works for Johnson County Christian Academy.

The couple plan to live in Warrensburg.

Kristina Warlen and Ryan Schildknecht

Sager, Wielert to wedRandi Sager, McLean, Va., and Corey James

Wielert, Warrensburg, plan to marry March 16 at Quantico, Va.

Randi is the daughter of Ronald and Rhonda Sager of Strasburg, Va.

Corey is the son of James and Teresa Wielert of Warrensburg.

Corey is a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and serves a judge advocate. He is a 2004 graduate of War-rensburg High School, 2008 graduate of Missouri State and a 2011 graduate of the University of Kansas City School of Law.

Randi is 2010 graduate of James Madison University and works as a senior product consultant at Cvent Inc. in McLean, Va.

The couple plan to live in Quantico.

Corey Wielert and Randi Sager

• The Elks Lodge, 822 E. Young St., serves breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. Cost is $6 for biscuits and gravy, eggs, sausage, and bacon.

• Community Clothes Closet is open 9 a.m. to noon at 251-C S.E. Highway 13. Free clothing available for all ages.

• The West Central Genealogical Society Library is open from 1 to 4 p.m. in the lower level of the Church of Christ, 722 S. Maguire St.

• The 4th annual Festival of Soups is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Warrensburg Community Center, 445 E. Gay St. County Commis-sioner Destry Hough will auction desserts and other items. Tickets are $15, or $10 for students and low-income individuals, and chil-dren 12 or younger are free. Tickets can be purchased at the door and at Central Band and Piano, 110 E. Market, Warrensburg.


• University of Central Missouri Department of Theatre and Dance presents Blue Window at 7:30 p.m. in Highlander Theatre. Ticket prices are $12 for the general public, $10 for UCM faculty, staff, and senior citi-zens, and $7 for students. Call (660) 543-8811 to reserve tickets.


Warrensburg – The Johnson County Economic Development Corp. is one of two state pilot projects in the Mis-souri Extension Community Economic and Entrepreneurial Development program, Execu-tive Director Tracy Brantner said.

The program helps regional groups develop strategies for economic development that focus on the regional assets and talents.

Brantner told the EDC board the program – a partnership with the University of Missouri Extension and the Purdue Center for Regional Development – will provide training and expertise for Strategic Doing.

“Strategic Doing is a process that enables civic leaders to form collabora-tions quickly, guide them toward mea-surable outcomes and make adjustments along the way,” based on information Brantner provided.

Workshops guide participants through conversations and exercises that define opportunities, at least one outcome, at least one project, a complete action plan and a plan to meet again.

“I’d like to see a focus on the enhanced enterprise zones and get at least one under way,” Brantner said.

Enhanced enterprise zones are spec-ified geographic areas designated by local governments and certified by the Department of Economic Development. Zone designation is based on demo-graphic criteria, the potential to create sustainable jobs in a targeted industry and a demonstrated impact on local industry cluster development.

The program offers state tax credits, accompanied by local property tax abatement, to new or expanded busi-nesses or replacement businesses that create at least two new jobs and $100,000

in new investment.Brantner said one of the coun-

ty’s two qualifying enterprise zones runs from Montserrat west. The second is on the east side of the county, including Knob Noster and Whiteman Air Force Base.

“I’d like to begin a county-wide conversation about enhanced enterprise zones,” she said, including what they are, what they mean and what

other places have done.The project will begin after Jan. 1,

Brantner said, and will involve forming a plan “on what we need to do, who will do it and when it needs to be done by.”

A team will be assembled to work on the project, she said, which does not fit under any of the current four task forces. She said the team could choose a different project.

She said she suggests a four- or five-person team consisting of board volun-teers and task force members.

“It will be up to them to reach out to others,” she said.

Board member Dee Hudson said the program “provides a platform, stan-dards, and saves a lot of research time.”

She said the sponsors “want to take it out to the state” following the pilot programs.

Brantner said the process “shines a spotlight on getting a project done. ... It’s a communication process.”

Board President John Roberts said, “We have nothing to lose and we may gain something.”

EDC included in pilot program


DEAR AMY:I had a huge fight with my best friend

of 10 years. She called me phony, among other hurtful things. She says she doesn’t care to have a friend like me because I don’t reach out to her enough and that I make no effort to make plans with her. I agree we haven’t seen each other often enough. But Amy, she doesn’t ask me to make plans either, which is why I am so thrown off by this.

This is the third time we’ve had this argument and have stopped talking for weeks each time. I feel horrible because she accuses me of not being there for her without giving me any hint that she needs me. She now says she is done with me. She has hurt me, and I don’t know if I should contact her. Should I forgive her and try to repair this friendship, or let it die?

– Sad Friend

DEAR SAD:I shared your question with Julie

Klam, author of “Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can’t Live Without” (2012, Riverhead).

Klam responded, “I think you owe it to yourself and your best friend of 10

years to have a conversa-tion. If that’s too difficult, you should write a letter. She is accusing you of neglecting her and you are naturally feeling defensive.

“If for a moment you can drop your defensive-ness and describe how you imagine she feels, you might be able to work things out rather than abandon each other.

“If she’s open to it, make a monthly plan that you can both stick to, so there is always a date on the books. As adults, our lives are so packed with family, work, life obliga-tions that our friendships can tend to fall by the wayside, but you both need to make the effort together or it isn’t going to work. If she isn’t responsive, at least you’ll know you’ve tried.”

DEAR AMY:A colleague of mine in her early 60s,

“Carol,” is on friendly terms with a co-worker in his 30s, “Stefan.” Carol’s

16-year-old daughter frequently sends text messages and talks on the phone with Stefan, often during work hours. Carol thinks it’s cute. Other than blurring boundaries, I don’t under-stand why this bothers me. It seems I should just be able to ignore it and let it go. What are your thoughts?

– Wondering

DEAR WONDERING:I agree with you that a

teenager in frequent inde-pendent contact with her mother’s colleague who is twice her age is boundary blurring and a little creepy. Before you ignore

this and let it go, you should express your concern and say to “Carol,” “I can’t help but think this contact isn’t a good idea. I realize she isn’t my daughter, but are you certain this is OK? Are you sure you’re comfortable with this?”

This is not your business, strictly speaking, but one way for parents to

gain perspective on their own children is to be aware of the views of people who care about them and their kids. I also wonder about the man on the other end of this contact.

DEAR AMY:I felt for “Grouchy,” the older gen-

tleman who had neighbors with kids who constantly hit baseballs into his yard. We had the same issue with the neighbor kids hitting balls into our backyard and constantly retrieving them.

I told the family in a friendly tone that it is unsettling to look up and see people in the yard, and that I would prefer that the kids not go in the yard but that I would throw the balls back myself from time to time.

They knew they needed more balls to allow for overthrows, and I noticed they also changed the direction of their batting. It worked out with no hard feel-ings.

– Been There

DEAR BEEN THERE:Several other readers suggested a

version of your solution, to collect the overthrown balls and return them when it is convenient.

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Continued from Page 1At a potential savings of 40 cents per

gallon, and a use rate of 2,500 gallons per month, the district under the plan could use $1,000 less in diesel fuel per month.

Tomlinson said the gas retailer can track how much fuel district buses use.

“So if we did prepay they would know how much is ours and what has been used,” he said, adding, “We would only do it when we know a deal is available otherwise the regular contracted price would be paid.

“We are also not committed to doing it so if we do it once and then don’t want to we are not obligated to do so.”

Board President Jesse Sahlfeld said he likes the idea.

“For winter sports we use the buses more anyway so it’s a good idea,” he said Wednesday.

Board member Michael Fisk also approved of the plan.

“We would be getting more fuel for the same costs,” he said.

Board seeks savings on diesel fuel

Knob Noster – School board filing opens at 8 a.m. Dec. 11, remains open through Dec. 19, and reopens Jan. 2-15 at the district office, 401 E. Wimer St.

Three-year seats held by Michael Fisk and Patty Sellers are up.

A candidate must be at least 24 years old, a U.S. citizen, a taxpaying resident of the district and have lived in Missouri for at least one year.

Call the district office at (660) 563-3186 for details.

Board sets filing dates

Continued from Page 1activities, such as 4-H and scouting.

Group members will contact orga-nizations to obtain donations to give away at the expo.

The group, which hopes to form a regional recreation district in west-ern Johnson County, will have a booth where information on their plan will be available, along with a suggestion box to gather ideas for activities, facili-ties and programs that people want in their communities.

The event is an effort to boost interest in the proposed district, which would provide additional funding for facilities and activities through a sales tax.

The event also will provide residents, particularly new ones, with a venue to fi nd out about available activities.

The next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, at Holden City Hall, 101 W. 3rd St.

The group will decide at that meeting if they have suffi cient interest for the event.

Tracy Brantner, executive direc-tor, Johnson County Economic Devel-opment Corp., assists the group with planning efforts.

“We can’t do it without the organi-zations,” she said. “I hope we have the energy for it. Let’s give it a shot and see how it goes.”

Fun for All Fair in planning stage

Tracy BrantnerJCEDC DIRECTOR


Warrensburg – Residents will notice an increase – an average of about $8 per month – on their latest sewer bills, City Collector Carl Larkerbrink said Thursday.

“We sent a flyer out with last month’s bills that told people to expect a rate increase,” he said, but some people may not have read the insert and will be calling the city.

The City Council has been concerned about billing since Missouri American Water Co. stopped allowing the city to put sewer and water bills together. The change resulted in the city being forced to do separate billing – using PPI of Tulsa. Billing complaints from some customers followed the transition.

“The first couple of months we were probably getting 50 calls a month. That has slacked off to maybe 15 calls a month,” Larkerbrink said.

Original calls resulted from inaccu-

rate data provided by Missouri Amer-ican Water to PPI, Larkerbrink said.

“We contacted Missouri American Water, they gave us the correct data and so the second month we had most of those fixed,” he said.

With the new rate increase going into effect, Larkerbrink said, city staff expects to take more calls.

City Manager Paula Hertwig Hop-kins said during Tuesday’s City Council meeting that sewer rates remain a concern. Hopkins said staff met with HDR Engineering regarding the billing structure, and a study may reveal some people should pay more or less than they now pay.

HDR’s job will be to review and rec-ommend new rates, with a report due by Monday, Nov. 26.

Councilman Charlie Rutt said at the meeting that people are not going to be happy if they have to pay more.

The city must make sure users cover the cost of the service, Hopkins said.

Sewer bills up average of $8


Warrensburg – A letter of commit-ment will be issued to show the city is serious about providing matching funds to extend a trail along Highway DD from Warrensburg to Knob Noster State Park.

The city’s match to build Phase I – from Warrensburg to Hickory Hills sub-division – would be nearly $21,000. The amount is based on other partners in the project paying the same amount. The other partners are the University of Central Missouri, Whiteman Air Force Base and the Johnson County Commis-sion.

The total cost of the project is $556,400. The total amount of the local match is $115,280. Based on money the trail part-ners already have spent, the remaining amount of the local match is $83,280 split four ways, City Manager Paula Hertwig Hopkins said following Tues-day’s City Council meeting at the Munic-ipal Center, 200 S. Holden St.

City officials spoke optimistically during the meeting about the odds of receiving matching funds for the trails project from the Missouri Department of Transportation.

“We have a very attractive applica-tion,” Hopkins said.

If the application wins approval, then the city needs to produce the matching funds. The council has money available to cover the match, she said.

“You do have money in reserve, in the general fund,” Hopkins told the council.

Councilman Charlie Rutt said the trail deserves support.

“It’s appropriate to spend, it’s appro-priate to take out of reserves,” Rutt said, adding, “If all the players come in (with their share of matching funds), I think it’s an appropriate thing to do.”

Mayor Don Butterfield said the trail would benefit people represented by everyone who agreed to become part-ners in the project.

“It would be an investment in the whole area,” Butterfield said.

Trail plan takes another step


Warrensburg – The University of Central Missouri Board of Governors may accept, or reject, a revision to the university’s tobacco policy at 8:30 a.m. Friday in Elliott Union.

The Tobacco Policy Committee sub-mitted recommendations to the board in September that make the campus tobacco-free beginning January 2014.

“The best recommendation is the

one we have,” the director of Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention, Amy Kiger, said Thursday.

If the board approves the policy revi-sion, then communication, education and training will begin immediately.

There would be no designated smoking areas under the new policy and use of all tobacco and smoking products would be prohibited in all university-owned, leased or controlled buildings, grounds and residences.

UCM leaders consider smoking policy

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WHO’S A WINNER: Auctioneer James Bell holds up a double chocolate bundt cake while looking for a bidder during the live auction Thursday to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County at the Warrensburg Elks Lodge.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS


Columbia – As-they-happened, black-and-white realities from Johnson County’s pre-Civil War days exist within the pages of Warrensburg’s first newspapers.

The pages – some foxing, with jagged tears and delicate to the point of crum-bling – contain snippets of humor, of reason and of brutality.

These first rough drafts of history are preserved, a part of Warrensburg’s past, at the State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia.

The collection of eight issues from three newspapers that served the city from 1855 to 1860 – The Weekly Union, The Western Missourian and The War-rensburg News – are typical for the state’s “slave and hemp belt” region.

William E. Foley – author of several Missouri history books, former gen-eral editor of the Missouri Biography Series, and University of Central Mis-souri professor emeritus – said this area tied together hemp and slaves.

“It was a very labor-intensive crop because the process of transforming it into rope was nasty. They had to wet it and beat it. It was an arduous thing to make it into a usable form,” Foley said Thursday. “It wasn’t a very pleasant job that most people would want to do so a lot of that was done by slave labor.”

Hemp growers could not see an alternative to slaves and did not want slavery, the foundation for the hemp economy, to end.

“You’d have had to have found other people who were willing to do that work for a price that one could afford to pay,” Foley said.

Newspapers that served the area reflected what residents thought, but not entirely, as a review of each news-paper demonstrates...

THE WARRENSBURG NEWSJ.B. Stoops and David Chinn pro-

duced the oldest of the three publica-tions, the Warrensburg News, which started in 1855. The News is notable for reflecting the times in humor, adver-tising and news, foreign and domestic.

“It would be typical,” State Historical Society of Missouri Executive Director Gary R. Kremer said. “Missouri news-papers were kind of like a combina-tion of Facebook and logging onto the Internet for MSNBC or FOX. ... It was a major form of communication with the outside world.”

Without access to the Internet or even telephones, much of the news about the world and nation came to Missouri newspapers by way of other newspa-pers, Kremer said.

“It came pretty much by water,” he said, with newspapers brought up from the port at New Orleans and being dropped at various landings in Mis-souri, from St. Louis to Liberty to St. Joseph.

The oldest known issue of The War-rensburg News, May 17, 1855, used little jokes and sayings – as other papers of the period did – to fill space at the bottom of news columns. In one case, the paper asks: “Why is a school master like a chair maker? Because he canes bottoms.”

Caning a chair involves using a rattan weave to create a seat upon which to sit. The other meaning for

caning a bottom meant striking a child with a stick as a form of discipline.

Most states have banned spank-ings in the 157 years since that joke appeared in The News, but not this state, a Missouri School Boards Asso-ciation attorney, Susan Goldammer, said. But there are directions on how to spank in Missouri, she said.

“We don’t use canes because those result in actual physical marks on chil-dren,” Goldammer said.

A June 21, 1855, advertisement in The News urges readers to take the opportunity to receive a daguerreotype engraving – an early photograph that involved an iodine-sensitized, silvered

plate developed using mercury vapor. People remained stone-stiff for several seconds during the image-making pro-cess.

Getting a photograph taken in that period took patience, Foley said.

“You had to sit for a long time and not move,” he said.

Foley said subjects in early photo-graphs displayed dour faces.

“Everybody is so somber and grim looking, and part of it was because you had to sit there for so long,” he said.

In the May 17, 1855, edition, an estate sale ad offers people for sale – “two women and seven children.” Slave sales occurred regularly in the region. In some cases, slaves would be sold on courthouse steps, as occurred in Clay County, 60 miles northwest of War-rensburg, in a town named, ironically, Liberty.

The Clay County Commission in 2000 allowed erection of a Freedom Fountain on the courthouse lawn. The fountain dedication attended by Gov. Bob Holden included Lulu Johnson Felder, 102. Felder lived during the seg-regation period and would have been denied the right to drink from the same fountain used by whites. She took the first drink from the unity fountain. Holden and community leaders fol-lowed.

Stoops and Chinn showed courage by daring to reprint an article that brought grief to a Missouri newspaper – The Parkville Industrial Luminary. The Luminary article, printed in Platte County, just across the Missouri River from Kansas, stated, “There is virtu-ally no law in Kansas, no security for life and property.” The story goes on to describe Kansas Territorial Gov. Andrew Reeder as facing the threat of having his throat “cut from ear to ear” if he did not certify immediately the results of a bogus election. The elec-tion involved hundreds of Missourians crossing into the territory and voting illegally March 30, 1855, to make Kansas a slave state. Because the Luminary published that story, a pro-slavery crowd threw the Parkville Industrial Luminary press into the Missouri River.

At Alton, Ill., just across the Mis-sissippi River from St. Louis, Elijah Lovejoy also took an anti-slavery stand in his newspaper, Nov. 7, 1837. For speaking out, a St. Louis mob destroyed Lovejoy’s press and shot him five times, killing him.

Knowing what Missourians who could not tolerate opposing views might do, Stoops and Chinn still reprinted the Luminary article. Doing so came with risk, Platte County Historical Society Executive Betty Soper said.

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Newspapers reveal city history


LIFESTYLES

Prior to the Civil War,at least three

newspapers servedthis community.

This is their story,and the story

of early Warrensburg...

HISTORIAN, author of several books, and a professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Missouri, William Foley, says newspapers are a valuable tool for historical researchers.


Soper said Missourians believed they needed slaves for the hemp crop and Park’s views threatened the local economy.

“When that article came out a group of men from Platte City went to Parkville ... and took the press and threw it into the Missouri River,” Soper said. “You have to admire a man that knew he was standing waist-deep in the middle of controversy and continued to print something like that.”

To then find editors at another Mis-souri paper, in slave territory, willing to reprint the abolitionist article is sur-prising, she said.

“Gutsy men – very gutsy men. This was not a state to be antagonizing about that,” Soper said. “Those were very, very hard times.”

Foley wondered how well The War-rensburg News would have fared after republishing the Luminary’s article.

“That’s fascinating, that someone here, at that time, would have chosen to reprint that – that’s kind of surprising,” he said. “That’s probably why it didn’t last too long.”

A year after the article appeared, another newspaper began publishing in Warrensburg.

THE WESTERN MISSOURIANThe Missouri State Historical Society

safeguards four copies of The Western Missourian, with dates scattered between Aug. 29, 1856, and July 27, 1860. Typical for the period, the issues include notice of a lawsuit involving property, including “a negro woman, Fanny, and her children, Dorcas and James.”

Racial healing took time, with part of the process after the Civil War starting in Warrensburg with a teacher at what is now the second-oldest, surviving Freedmen school in Missouri.

“There was a woman who came to Warrensburg ... Carry Reed Briggs. She was sent by the American Mis-sionary Association to teach classes for former slaves, right at the end of the war. ... She was a teacher at the Howard

School and her husband had been a Union officer,” Foley said. “She wrote letters to the American Missionary Association and ... she said Warrens-burg is, ‘Oh, so, secesh.’”

Education provided a source of early healing and continued through the years, with public schools and what is now the University of Central Missouri desegregating.

“Morris Col-lins was the first person of color to be hired as a teacher in the Warrensburg schools and then he became president of the school board, so we have come a long, long way,” Foley said. “He was elected and is a highly regarded person in the community – he’s still on the school board.”

The Western Missourian gave notice of an ordinance covering another aspect of city life. Gambling had taken hold in Warrensburg, where the Temperance Union met every Tuesday at the Methodist Church. The council decided gaming tables should be destroyed and a fine of $100 levied against offenders.

The final issue of the Western Mis-sourian found in the society’s collec-tion contains an ad showing that slaves longed to cross the border into Kansas and freedom. The ad identifies two escapees, George and Wallace, an ironic similarity to the name George Wallace, the Alabama governor who in the 1960s tried to prevent integra-tion. The ad states George and Wallace escaped July 1, 1860, just before Inde-pendence Day. To get to Kansas, where the ad speculated they headed, the men would have had to pass through about 60 miles of pro-slavery territory. If caught, they faced punishment.

“It would depend on the owner. There would probably be some lashes. ... The ultimate threat was to sell them ‘down the river’ – send them down to New

Orleans,” Foley said. “Slavery was hor-rible and horrendous, but it wasn’t as harsh (here) as down where they had those large plantation gangs and over-seers. To be sold down the river – it removed you from any ties with family, and that was forever. Beyond that was the threat that you would be sent to

one of those places where, if slavery could be any worse, it was.”

Getting away safely to Kansas from Johnson County for a run-away slave would have been difficult, Foley said.

Whether George and Wallace found freedom is lost to history.

THE WEEKLY UNIONThe final postbellum newspaper

published in Warrensburg, The Weekly Union, by C.A. and C.H. Middleton, contains tidbits from city life in 1860, with ads for the Mansion Hotel on Main Street, the Bolton House on the south-west corner of the public square and City Hotel at Main and Market streets; and the Wolfort and Hamburger clothing store “opposite the Court House.” The paper mentions organiza-tions, including DeMolay, Odd Fellows and Masons. There also is notice that the Johnson County Fair would take place for four days, starting Sept. 25.

The pro-Union newspaper did not have kind words for the competition, taking to task The Western Missourian and publisher Marsh Foster. In the May 16, 1860, issue, The Union gives this account of a political rally:

“Candidates were as numerous as whortleberries on the hills of North Carolina, and each of course, and as usual, deeply anxious to offer himself a sacrifice for his country’s good. The meeting was called to order, if order it can be called, where chaos reigns, by our good friend Dr. Calhoun, erst an

old line Whig, but now (we grieve to say) the fervency of whose zeal is lost in the dark and troubled pool of Loco-focoism. ... Mr. Eads was invited to air his vocabulary, which accordingly he proceeded to do, in a speech of consid-erable length and noise; and if he didn’t tear a passion into tatters, then it was because he couldn’t, that’s all. ...

“But let us give praise where praise is due. The party is much indebted to our neighbor of The Missourian, for the skill he displayed in engineering the thing safely through; and we couldn’t help sympathizing in the remarks of a Kentucky friend who stood near us, when he said, ‘What a glorious captain he would make for a corn shucking.”

A WINDOW ON HISTORYOld newspapers – such as The

Weekly Union, The Western Missou-rian and The Warrensburg News – hold historical value, Foley said.

“You get a sense of viewpoints that were prevalent at the time – it gives you a glimpse. Newspapers are a huge source of information ... from the latest news stories, but also just looking at the advertising and the things they fea-tured. ... It’s amazing what you can find that you weren’t even anticipating.”

Kremer said newspapers are an essential historical resource.

“The newspapers from the ante-bellum period, and indeed from the entire 19th century, are windows into the past. There are few windows that you can look through and get a clear image of what was going on in a com-munity in the 19th century, and the newspapers are absolutely essential to that,” Kremer said. “Newspapers are one of the first sources I use in an effort to understand community, and state and regional history, because you can’t go back and talk to the people who lived there. The next best thing you can do is get a sense of what they were thinking, what they were reading, their view of the world, and there is in my judgment no source better to do that with than the newspapers.”

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AT 400 W. CULTON ST., on Warrensburg’s west side, Howard School stands – but for how long is anyone’s guess. The school represents one of

the steps taken to bring blacks into the general society after the Civil War. Today, the school is in disrepair and open to the ravages of the elements.

LOST HIS PRESS: As an abolitionist newspaper publisher in pro-slavery Missouri, George Park, for whom the city of Parkville and Park College are named, found his press dumped into the Mis-souri River.

© 2012 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.


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Church provides food to needyPleasant Valley Baptist Church, 816 S.W. 401st

Road, Chilhowee, will conduct a Harvesters food dis-tribution to families in need at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 16.

For directions or more information, call (660) 656-3608.

Christmas Store referral deadline nearThe Christmas Store, a community church-based

effort aimed at feeding Johnson County’s needy dur-ing the holidays, seeks donations of food and money.

Donations can be dropped off at First Christian Church, 101 E. Gay St., Warrensburg.

To refer a family from Warrensburg, Chilhowee, Centerview or Leeton, call Catholic Charities at (660) 747-2241 by Nov. 30.

To refer a Holden or Kingsville family, call First United Methodist Church at (816) 732-4718 by Nov. 15.

To refer a Knob Noster family, call First Christian Church at (660) 563-2817 between Nov. 19 and Dec. 6.

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Santa comes to Knob NosterKnob Noster – The Fire

Department will sponsor the annual Santa Claus is Coming to Town event starting at 5 p.m. Dec. 15.

Department personnel will help Santa deliver gifts to the city’s chil-

dren. Parents wanting a gift delivered can pick up forms at City Hall, 218 N. State St.

Forms and gifts must be left at City Hall by 5 p.m. Dec. 13.

Call (660) 563-2595 for details.

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Three Warrensburg churches offer Thanksgiving mealAMANDA LUBINSKIStar-Journal Staff Writer

Warrensburg – Three churches will offer holiday meals Thanksgiving week.

Grover Park Baptist Church, 409 N. Mitchell St., will offer a meal at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20.

“It isn’t on Thanksgiving

but we will have a meal in the family life center,” church sec-retary Tammy Shirley said Thursday.

For details on the meal, call Shirley at (660) 747-9176.

Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 212 N. Main St., will also host a dinner Tuesday. The meal is from 6-7:30 p.m.

The meal, scheduled during the regular weekly meal times, will include all of the Thanks-giving trimmings.

For details, call the church office at (660) 747-5685.

God’s Kitchen at The Church of Christ, 722 S. Maguire St., will offer a meal at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 21.

The meal is free but reserva-tions are required by Nov. 18.

Event volunteer Mary Olassaid the meal will kick off a free monthly meal.

“It’s kind of a new thing we are doing. We want to have a free meal on the third Wednesday of each month. Not all of them will be like the Thanksgiving

meal, of course, but this will get it started,” she said.

Although the church is not asking Olas said volunteers and food donations are welcome.

“We certainly wouldn’t turn away anyone wanting to help,” she said.

To reserve a spot, call the church office at (660) 747-5519.

Top bishop: We won’t give in on birth control rule Baltimore (AP) — A

top American bishop said Tuesday the Roman Catholic church will not comply with the Obama administration require-ment that most employers provide health insurance covering birth control.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, presi-dent of the U.S. Confer-ence of Catholic Bishops, said church leaders are open to working toward a resolution with federal of-fi cials, but will meanwhile press ahead with chal-lenges to the mandate in legislatures and in court.

“The only thing we’re certainly not prepared to do is give in. We’re not vi-olating our consciences,” Dolan told reporters at a national bishops’ meet-ing. “I would say no door is closed except for the door to capitulation.”

The bishops have been fi ghting the regulation since it was announced by President Barack Obama early this year. Houses of worship are exempt, but religiously affi liated hos-pitals, charities and col-leges are not.

Obama promised to change the requirement so that insurance compa-nies, not faith-affi liated employers, would pay for the coverage. But details

have not been worked out. And not only the bishops, but Catholic hospitals and some other religious lead-ers generally supportive of Obama’s health care overhaul have said the compromise proposed so far appears to be unwork-able.

Dozens of Catholic dio-ceses and charities have sued over the mandate, along with colleges, in-cluding the University of Notre Dame. The bishops have made the issue the centerpiece of a national campaign on preserving religious freedom, which they consider under as-sault on several fronts from an increasingly sec-ular broader culture. The

Department of Health and Human Services adopted the rule as a preventive service meant to protect women’s health by allow-ing them to space their pregnancies.

It’s unclear what, if any, infl uence the bishops have with the administration.

Many bishops spoke out sharply against Obama during the election. The bishops said they were protesting policies, not the candidate himself. Obama won the overall Catholic vote, 50 percent to 48 percent, according to exit polls, but Catholics split on ethnic lines. White Catholics supported Mitt Romney, 59 percent to 40 percent. Latino Catholics

went for Obama, 75 per-cent to 21 percent.

A White House spokes-man did not immediately comment.

The Rev. Thomas Re-ese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theo-logical Center at George-town University, said the administration should compromise. Although liberal-leaning Catholics disagree with the bish-ops on gay marriage and other issues, these same Catholics would oppose anything that threatened the church’s social ser-vice work with the poor, war refugees and other disadvantaged people.

“This is a situation where being a gracious victor is not only the right thing to do, it makes good political sense,” Reese said.

Dolan, archbishop of New York, would not say whether bishops would disobey the mandate if the lawsuits fail or church leaders can’t resolve their disagreements with Health and Human Ser-vices.

“It’s still not doomsday yet,” he said.

Separately, the bishops voted to shelve a state-ment on the economy that they’d been working on for months.

Rev. Thomas ReeseGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY FELLOW

Cardinal Timothy DolanNEW YORK ARCHBISHOP

Vatican pushes against gays;Mo. group asks for equal rights

Vatican City (AP) — The Vatican is digging in after gay marriage initiatives scored big wins this week in the U.S. and Europe, vowing to never stop insist-ing that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

In a front-page article in Saturday’s Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the Holy See sought to frame itself as the lone voice of courage in opposing initiatives to give same-sex couples le-gal recognition. In a separate Vatican Radio edito-rial, the pope’s spokesman asked sarcastically why gay marriage proponents don’t now push for legal recognition for polygamous couples as well.

Catholic teaching holds that homosexuals should be respected and treated with dignity but that ho-mosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” The Vatican also opposes same-sex marriage, insisting on the sanctity of marriage between a man and woman as the foundation for society.

The Vatican’s anti-gay marriage media blitz came after three U.S. states approved same-sex marriage by popular vote in the election that returned Ba-rack Obama to the U.S. presidency, Spain upheld its gay marriage law, and France pushed ahead with legislation that could see gay marriage legal-ized early next year.

“One might say the church, at least on this front, has been defeated,” L’Osservatore Romano report-ed. “But that’s not the case.”

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombar-di, for his part, said gays can have their rights pro-tected by means other than through legal marital recognition. He stressed that children should have a right to say they have a father and a mother.

A group in Missouri is also pushing to further gay rights by ending discrimination against gays and les-bians.

Missourians for Equality may soon start circulat-ing petitions for a ballot measure aimed at making it illegal to discriminate against gays and lesbians in the state.

Aaron Malin, director of Missourians for Equal-ity, said the goal is to get the issue before voters in 2014. The effort must still pass several administra-tive hurdles with the Missouri Secretary of State’s offi ce before supporters can begin collecting signa-tures.

Democratic state lawmakers have proposed simi-lar legislation for more than a decade. Those bills have never made it to a fl oor vote. Malin says the Legislature is far more conservative than Missouri-ans in general and that the group contends the best chance for passage is through a vote of the people.

Discrimination in housing and employment is il-legal in Missouri based on race, religion, national origin, gender, age and disability. Legal experts say that while it also is illegal to discriminate against transgender people in Missouri, the law doesn’t prohibit discrimination based on sexual orienta-tion.

Rodney E. GwinRodney Ellis Gwin, 47,

of Warrensburg, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 at the family farm.

Rodney was born Oct. 24, 1965 in Springfield, Mo., son of Samuel E. and Carolyne E. (Bridgforth) Gwin. He moved with his family to Warrensburg as a young child and gradu-ated from Warrensburg High School in 1984. Fol-lowing graduation, he went to work for Howard Concrete, now known as LaFarge Concrete. He was united in marriage to Sarah E. Stephens on Nov. 13, 1999 in Eureka Springs, Ark. He enjoyed

fishing and wildlife pho-tography.

Survivors include his wife, Sarah and children, Rachel and Samuel of the home; mother, Carolyne Gwin of Warrensburg; sister, Audrey Weber of Kansas City, Mo.; two brothers, Steven Gwin and wife of Warrensburg, and Wally Gwin of For-sythe, Mo.; father and mother-in-law, Ross and Jeanece Stephens of War-rensburg; sister-in-law, Heather Craig and hus-band, Troy of Clinton, Mo.; niece, Amanda Craig; two nephews, Robert Webber and Cameron Craig and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his father, Samuel.

Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Warrens-burg with Elders Donald Gill and Charles Brantner of Church of Christ, T. L. officiating.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Williams Funeral Chapel in War-rensburg.

Online condolences may be left at www.wil-liamsfuneralchapel.net.

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