Maryville Daily Forum
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
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LOCAL NEWS Transportation meetings scheduled to be held
The Missouri Department of Transportation and the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments will host a series of five public forums in late March and early April with regard to transportation needs in the area and legislative proposals aimed at bringing in more state revenue for roads and bridges. On Monday the Regional Council issued a release stating that MoDOT funding is expected to continue dropping over the next three years, effectively cutting the amount of transportation dollars available in Missouri from a current $685 million to $325 million in 2017. The Nodaway County forum will take place from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at the Regional Council office, located at 114 W. Third St. in Maryville. Other meetings include: 4-6 p.m. Monday, March 24, at the Mound City Nutrition Site in Holt County; 5-7 p.m. Tuesday March 25, at the Worth County Fairgrounds in Grant City; 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the Albany Community Center in Gentry County; and 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the Community Hospital (Fairfax) in Atchison.
‘Class Act’ candidate to speak at Student Union
Northwest Missouri State University’s Student Activities Council will host sixth-grade teacher and former congressional candidate Tierney Cahill, who will speak in the J.W. Jones Student Union Ballroom at 7 o’clock this evening. The lecture is free and open to the public. Cahill teaches at Sarah Winnemucca Elementary School in Reno, Nev. While teaching a civics lesson about how elections and the government work, her students did not believe her when she said a “normal” American could run for office. So Cahill ran for U.S. Congress in Nevada’s District 2. Despite a relative lack of campaign funds, she captured the Democratic nomination and went on to receive 34 percent of the vote in a general election bid against Republican Jim Gibbons. Cahill’s story is the subject of the in-production Hollywood movie, “Class Act,” in which Halle Berry is to star as Cahill. In addition, Cahill’s memoir, “Ms. Cahill for Congress,” was published in 2008 by Random House.
CAPITOL NEWS Lawmakers out for spring
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Capitol will be quieter this week as state lawmakers take a weeklong spring break. The House and Senate finished their work Thursday and won’t return to consider legislation until March 24. The one-week break is the traditional halfway point of the Legislature’s annual session, which ends this year on May 16. The Republican-led Legislature has already some measures to Gov. Jay Nixon. They include bills on utilities and legislation barring insurance companies from charging significantly more for oral chemotherapy pills. Nixon has already signed one bill into law this year. It allows people with disabilities or on active military duty who are seeking elective office to appoint a proxy to stand in line during candidate filing.
Bill makes it easier for prisoners to wed
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A measure making it easier for inmates to get married is moving through the Missouri Legislature. The legislation would create an inmate exception to a Missouri law that requires people seeking a marriage license to appear in person before the local recorder of deeds. Some recorders have gone into prisons in the past in order to get signatures on marriage licenses. But over the past year, three federal judges have ruled in separate cases that Missouri’s in-person license requirement is unconstitutional for prisoners wanting to get married. A bill that passed the Senate last week and is now pending in the House would allow inmates to apply for marriage licenses using an affidavit.
Proposal adds funds for infant screenings
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are putting more money into the budget to try to speed up the results of newborn blood screenings. A budget plan pending in the House would add about $150,000 for the state public health laboratory to conduct newborn screenings on Saturdays and have a courier service on Sundays. The money was inserted into the budget last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream, of Kirkwood. It’s supported by House member Sheila Solon, of Blue Springs. Solon cited research showing that Missouri ranks poorly in how quickly the newborn blood samples reach labs for testing. Missouri screens for 79 conditions.
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And the band played on
The South Nodaway R-IV band represented the school at this weekend’s Class 1, 2 and 3 Missouri State High School Activities Association state basketball championships. This is the second time in three years the Longhorn band has been selected to perform at the Final Four.
Seven faculty promoted at Northwest MARYVILLE, Mo. — Northwest Missouri State University has announced that it will promote seven faculty members next fall, three of whom will also receive tenure. The promotion and tenure applications were approved earlier this month by the school’s Board of Regents. Receiving promotion to the faculty rank of full professor will be: Patricia Drews, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences; William Richardson, Department of Fine and Performing Arts; Renee Rohs, Department of Natural Sciences; and Mary Shepherd, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Information Systems Receiving promotion to associate
professor will be: Jenny Rytting, Department of English and Modern Languages; Linda Sterling, Department of Behavioral Sciences; and Ryan Wessell, Department of Behavioral Sciences. Rytting, Sterling and Wessell were also awarded tenure, a job status generally defined as conditionally guaranteed permanent employment following a probationary period. All four of the full professorship designees already hold tenure. At Northwest, the rank of full professor requires proven accomplishment as both a teacher and scholar in addition to an earned doctorate or other terminal degree. Full professors must
also have at least five years of teaching experience at the rank of associate professor or above at a regionally accredited institution of higher learning. Associate professors must also compile a record embracing both classroom experience and scholarship. Other requirements include an earned a terminal degree and at least six years of teaching at the rank of assistant professor or above at a regionally accredited college or university. At Northwest, for both tenure and promotion, faculty members are evaluated in three categories: teaching and professional development, scholarship, and student support and university service.
‘Goldilocks’ on Rose Theater stage MARYVILLE, Mo. — The Nodaway Community Theater Company, a local young people’s dramatic arts group, will present “Goldilocks and the Three Pigs” at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, at the Rose Theater, located at 120 W. Third St. in Maryville. Seating is limited to 90 audience members each night. Tickets are on sale now at Maryville Hy-Vee.
Cost is $6 for adults and $5 for students in kindergarten though 12th grade. Based on two popular fairy tales, the play, written by Larry Damico, features child actors in the fifth through eighth grades. The plot has Goldilocks hiding at the home of the Chop brothers, Pork, Curly, and Fuzzy. Other characters include the three Squeal Sisters, two witches, a wolf, a
weasel, a skateboarder, Little Red Riding Hood and the Storyteller. Local young people cast in the play include Jayme Kemper (Goldilocks), Carter Martin (Pork Chop), Seth Nolte (Fuzzy Chop), Marcello Brownsberger (Curly Chop), Sarah Richardson (Storyteller), Whitney Grossoehme (Rose Hips Squeal), Megan Hoskey (Patti Squeal), Lauren Cullin (La-
verne Squeal), Colby Holtman (Wolf), Gabrielle Argo (Weasel), Kaitlynn Grasty (Witch Wanda), Becky Meyers (Witch Sandy), Lincoln Pope (Chad) and Emily Dew (Little Red Riding Hood/Wood Nymph). Nina Dewhirst directs. “Goldilocks and the Three Pigs is being produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service Inc. of Englewood, Colo.
‘Chocolate’ pills may boost heart health (AP) — It won’t be nearly as much fun as eating candy bars, but a big study is being launched to see if pills containing the nutrients in dark chocolate can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. The pills are so packed with nutrients that you’d have to eat a gazillion candy bars to get the amount being tested in this study, which will enroll 18,000 men and women nationwide. “People eat chocolate because they enjoy it,” not because they think it’s good for them, and the idea of the study is to see whether there are health benefits from chocolate’s ingredients minus the sugar and fat, said Dr. JoAnn
Manson, preventive medicine chief at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The study will be the first large test of cocoa flavanols, which in previous smaller studies improved blood pressure, cholesterol, the body’s use of insulin, artery health and other heartrelated factors. A second part of the study will test multivitamins to help prevent cancer. Earlier research suggested this benefit but involved just older, unusually healthy men. Researchers want to see if multivitamins lower cancer risk in a broader population.
The study will be sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and Mars Inc., maker of M&M’s and Snickers bars. The candy company has patented a way to extract flavanols from cocoa in high concentration and put them in capsules. Mars and some other companies sell cocoa extract capsules, but with less active ingredient than those that will be tested in the study; candy contains even less. “You’re not going to get these protective flavanols in most of the candy on the market. Cocoa flavanols are often destroyed by the processing,” said Manson.
Marinaro selected to Scholars 100 Continued from Page 1 excellence in various subject areas, including science, mathematics, English and foreign language. Students must also have compiled a consistent record of attendance, participation is extra-curricular activities and good school citizenship. “Rose deserves this
honor because she is hardworking, positive in her interaction with others, very productive in her extracurricular activities and leadership, and she is very smart,” said Missouri Academy Dean Cleo Samudzi. “Students who are selected to this program have taken a rigorous course of study and have maintained the highest academic stan-
dards,” said Jim King, executive director of the principals’ association. “The Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals wants to celebrate the achievement of these students and their schools.” A Missouri Academy student has been recognized by Missouri Scholars 100 every year since 2006. Students attend the acad-
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emy, on the Northwest campus, during what would be their junior and senior years of high school. During that time, they are enrolled in a curriculum consisting of college coursework taught by Northwest professors. Upon completion of the program, academy graduates receive both an associate of science degree and a high school diploma.