2A Thursday, April 17, 2014
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OPINION
UST ASK DAVE...
JUST A THOUGHT
From the desk of the Editor
BY LISA TALTON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Just There To In Here
BY DAVID EALES EDITOR appeal@parismo.net
Future... I know I always say that our youth are our future but there have been a few times in the past two weeks that I saw the light again and can say for a fact - our future is good. First, I was at the Rotary Club Top 5 Banquet. While there I heard a fantastic presentation from speaker Erin Gruber extolling the youth to work hard but remember their successes. The Top 5 students, Danielle Bounds, Bryce Ensor, Danielle Wheelan, Brooklee Hunt and Kenzie Dye are fine examples of our future and it looks good as witnessed by these hard working, driven students. Second, I was a judge at Achievement Day for the Monroe County 4-H students. All I can say is - wow. I judged the younger students. They had to come in and introduce themselves and then answer questions off the cuff. I was so impressed with these youth that could handle tough questions and give their answers after just seconds
DAVID EALES
of thought. Besides the achievement of our youth it was good to see volunteers ramrodding the day’s events such as Mendy Blades, Mary Ellen Crain, Mary and Darrin DeOrnellis and many others giving of their time to help our youth. Last but not least, I attended Miss Paris and Miss Madison. The enthusiasm of these contestants and the numerous volunteers that made these events possible is amazing. It is good to see that there is a symbiotic relationship happening. We have lots of youth participating and we have tons of volunteers helping to make it possible. Have a great week!
MY TURN
When I was little it was there but I didn’t know the full capacity of it and didn’t realize how much I would need it in my life. My thoughts and feelings about it were really not my own but more what I saw through the eyes and words of my mom and dad, teachers and others around me. I didn’t know it would be the one thing that would remain constant in my life. I didn’t know that it would be the one thing that would always be there for me regardless of what I did, didn’t do, what I had, or didn’t have, or who I was or who I wasn’t. As I went into my teenage years it was still there but I pushed it away and didn’t think I needed it. I was trying to figure out who I was and what life was all about. I thought I had most of the answers and didn’t need anyone or anything else except maybe my friends. In those times it was there still and would have been able to give me the answers I was looking for if I would have just decided to receive
it. It was there in those times when I was hurt, let down, and felt alone. It was there ready and wanting to soothe me and make things better. It never left my side no matter how much I tried to do things on my own. If I would have fully accepted it in my life I could have discovered who I truly was instead of thinking I was who the world, others and even my experiences told me I was. Next I was off to college and it was nowhere in sight-at least not in my sight because I had buried it deep down and didn’t think I had a need for it. But even if I wasn’t looking for it, it was still there. It was waiting for me-longing for mewanting me to accept it and have it be part of every minute of every day of my life.
In Medicaid, 70 percent of adults on Medicaid benefits are women. For food stamps, 63 percent are women. For SSI, 67 percent are women and on welfare, 85 percent of adults are women. For housing vouchers, 82 percent are also women. We have a tendency to make war on many fronts that have nothing to do with conflicts with other countries. And this perceived war on women is not like a concerted “war” by government to eliminate drugs or poverty and not really war at all. But for a large number of women, it can hardly be overlooked that many of the cuts proposed by Republican leaders do impact women in greater numbers and frequency than they do male Americans. To call it a war is pure politics, but the anticipated damage to women is not.
RJF
Dear Editor, By now most everyone has read or heard about the Grain Belt Express, the extremely high voltage transmission line proposal from Clean Line Energy Partners of Houston, Texas. They claim it is to transport electricity generated from wind in western Kansas to Indiana where it would connect with the grid that powers the Northeast states. Clean Line Energy is a private for-profit company that has never built anything and wants to be a utility company in Missouri and ten other states and build over 3000 miles of direct current (DC) lines in four separate proposals. The scale of the projects is unprecedented and so is the opposition to them. If granted Public Utility status in these states, they would have the power of eminent domain which they would use to acquire around 50,000 acres of easements. They would acquire over 5000 acres of easements in Missouri alone and impact nearly 1000 landowners. Clean Line Energy is claiming they would improve the grid and drop off lots of much needed “cheap, clean” electricity to Missouri. However, interestingly, not one of our existing utilities has publicly expressed support for the proposal. Clean Line also has no contracts to sell any electricity in Missouri or anywhere else, not even in the Northeast where most of the electricity is to be sent. They are only promising to drop a negligible amount of electricity in Missouri in order to satisfy the Public Service Commission’s requirement that Public Utilities provide a public use and benefit. The PubContinued to page 12
All yesteryears are reprinted in the exact text of the original issue 90 Years May 2, 1924 Hilton Jacobs, son of Bob Jacobs, west of Paris, distinguished himself in a recent dual track meet between the Kirksville State Teachers College and Missouri Wesleyan, by winning first place. Frank Tanzey, south of Paris, brought to the Appeal office a violin more than a hundred years old. The instrument came to him from a relative in West Virginia. Miss Marie Capps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Capps of Paris, has been elected to teach the Wafer Ash school near Santa Fe at $75 per month. She is attending Paris High School this year, taking post graduate work. Mrs. Helen Seibert will open her resident studio to the public, Saturday, She sent a drawing with plans for furnishing and equipping it to the Eastman Co. for suggestions and received a letter in replay saying that there were no suggestions to be offered as it was a model in every aspect. The high school band paraded downtown and blew a bit Wednesday afternoon before leaving to enter the state high school band contest at Columbia. The local band is the smallest entered and comes from the smallest school. 75 Years April 27, 1939 Five Paris high school girls, under direction of Miss Lillian Baker, director of physical education, won first place at Central College, Fayette on a short play. In the play were Misses Emily Curtright, Wanda Reed, Barbara Dashner, Bobby Jo
Acuff and Gloria Hunter. Miss Jane Curtright is now employed in the office of Jas. Riley, abstractor. The Junior-Senior classes of Holliday High School enjoyed their annual banquet with the Juniors as hosts at the Alamo, near Moberly, last Friday evening. Virginia Hawkins, Junior president, delivered the address of welcome to which Mary Frances Curtright, Senior president responded. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mitchell the latter part of March. Mrs. Mitchell is the former Miss Toots Kelly. The Northeast Missouri Press Association, of which E.L. Sparks of Hannibal is president and R. Irvin Colborn of Paris is secretary, will hold its annual convention at the Pine Springs Tavern, just north of Paris. Monroe County women have gone into glove making according to Geneva I. Hewitt, county home demonstration agent, Saturday morning the fiftieth pair of gloves since the first of January was cut out and started. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sebastian have leased the apartment formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jake Taylor to Engineer and Mrs. Robinson. The former is working with the state highway department. Eddie Agnew reversed an old order Tuesday, but with the same bad results. Instead of falling down the basement steps, Eddie fell up them. 50 Years April 23, 1964 One of the last orchards established in
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to saturate all of me. The day I realized it was what I had been searching for my whole life. The day I realized it was the very thing I needed to fill that void that I had tried to fill with a relationship, a thing, a job etc. Everything changed the day I allowed it to define me. The day I decided to let it heal me and make me whole. The day I decided to let it show me my purpose. The day I decided to let it forgive me of all my past mistakes. The day I allowed it to free me from my guilt of never believing that I was good enough. The day I allowed it to do what it had longed for years to do. It was the day I allowed the true, awesome, neverending, unconditional, all-encompassing LOVE of God my Father to have ALL of me. It was the day I surrendered all of me for ALL of Him. He had always been there for me but now instead of having Him up there somewhere He was now in here (MY HEART!). All we need to do is accept His great and awesome love.
MONROE COUNTY HISTORY
A War on Women - Really? The latest charge by Democrats as we approach the next national election cycle is that Republicans are waging a “War on Women”. Some of this charge has appeared to have stuck or at least stung. House majority leader Eric Cantor has called on Democrats to “put politics aside” and work together on issues facing women. In the Senate, Republican leader McConnell has told Democrats there to drop the “show votes”. Democrats have responded by pushing equal pay for women legislation and forcing Republicans to record votes against that issue. Unfortunately for Republicans who are already behind with unmarried women, many of the economic reforms being offered in the Ryan Budget Proposal and by other Republicans do benefit women in great numbers.
LISA TALTON
Yes I knew it existed and I believed in it but I didn’t allow it to saturate and change my life in the way it was created to. I was done with college and started thinking a little deeper about life and my purpose. I started to think about my desires and goals and what I wanted to accomplish. I thought about what type of job I wanted, where I wanted to live, if I wanted to get married and so on. Yes, it was still there and I had accepted it as long as it could work around my schedule, my dreams and my plans. I knew I needed it in my life but I had not fully given myself to it rather expected it to give itself to me only. Things seemed okay for awhile but as time went on I realized I was not happy and definitely did not feel fulfilled. Hurts, memories and experiences from my past were affecting my present. I didn’t seem to know how to get back on track and because I had for so long allowed people and circumstances to define me, I decided I must be a failure. Then everything changed the day I realized I needed it in my life. The day I realized that is was there but I needed to fully accept it and allow it
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Monroe County for commercial purposes was scheduled to be bulldozed out of existence. It was that of several acres on the former Otis Ragsdale place north of the railroad trestle, now owned by Dave Noonan. At the State Future Farmers of America Convention held in Columbia Bob Baker, son of Mrs. Fern Baker of Perry, and Dale Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jones of near Paris, each received the State Farmer Degree. Hugh Engle, Jr. started work last week as an assistant in the Paris Savings Bank. Engle is a former circuit clerk and recorder of Monroe County, and will continue to live on his farm southwest of Paris. Miss Mary Sue Levings will go to Columbia on Saturday to enter the state music contest with an oboe solo. She will be accompanied by Miss Michele Wheelan. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon (Bob) Painter of Paris announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Miss Nelda Elaine Painter, to Thomas Edwin Byrum Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Byrum of Moberly. Miss Patty Clem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Clem, has recently been initiated into two honorary fraternities at the University of Missouri where she is a sophomore. Pvt. Jimmie D. Kirtlink, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrill R. Kirtlink, Paris completed an eight week lineman course at the Army Southeastern Signal School at Fort Gordon, Ga.
A farm house belonging to Neil Parker, near Granville, was destroyed by fire Friday night. Neighbors discovered the blaze between 2-3 a.m. in the morning. 30 Years April 26, 1984 Ricky Spratley, a senior at Paris High School, signed an athletic scholarship with Southwest Baptist University at Bolivar confirming to play football for the college next fall. Jerry Crigler and Margaret Workman were united in marriage on Saturday, April 21 at the Paris Presbyterian Church. Rev. Robert Reinhold performed the double ring ceremony. Mrs. JoAnne Buie, sponsor of the Future Homemakers of America, announces a buffet style show for FHA members and invited guests. The theme is “Puttin On the Ritz”. Postmaster Sally Campbell presented Charles T. Robinson with a lapel pin, in recognition of Robinson’s 25 years with the postal service. Beverly Wandry, Assistant Vice President and Cashier of Madison Bank, Madison, is serving as chairman of the 1984 National Association of Bank Women State Conference that will be held in Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dye of rural Paris are the parents of a new daughter born at Audrain Medical Center. Mayor Bryan Shrader and members of the Paris City Council invite the public to attend an open house at the new sewer treatment plant and water plant.
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