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About half of 4th Street credits remain for sale
The stork has landed
By TONY BROWN News editor
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The first baby of the new year delivered at St. Francis Hospital & Health Services has arrived. Alayna Delene Sheffield was born at 10:09 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2. Alayna Delene weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces at birth. She is the daughter of Chelsey Braymen and Tyler Sheffield of Bedford, Iowa. Little Alayna will be welcomed home by twins Shaylee and Teegan Braymen, age 6.
It’s too late for local businesses — including family owned shops and farms — to take advantage of 2013 tax credits associated with a proposed new streetscape along West Fourth Street between the courthouse square and Northwest Missouri State University. But about $160,000 in Fourth Street credits remain for sale through Nodaway County Economic Development as part of a program than can help local enterprises both invest in Maryville’s future and shave dollars off their 2014 tax bills. A total of $330,000 in tax credits was made available last year by the Missouri Department of Economic Development in connec-
tion with the agency’s Neighborhood Assistance Program. City Manager Greg McDanel said Friday money raised through sale of the credits will be used to help pay for “ancillary” streetscape features along Fourth Street such as decorative lighting, landscaping, benches, public art and themed signage. Other major funding for the $1.4 million project, which is to include new sidewalks, fresh street pavement, a re-aligned intersection at Fourth and Dunn, and refurbished curbs and gutters, is coming from a grant awarded to the city by the Missouri Department of Transportation. Here’s an example of how investing in
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Neighborhood Assistance Program tax credits might work: A business making a $10,000 tax-deductible contribution to the Fourth Street corridor project would receive a $7,000 (70 percent) tax credit at the end of 2014. Qualified enterprises investing at that See CREDITS, Page 3
The man with magic hands
Photos by Tony Brown, Maryville Daily Forum
Above: Woodworker Jack Willhoyte holds a wooden toy fire truck while surrounded by other cars, trains and vehicles he has crafted in his basement workshop over more than two decades. Top left: This front-end loader is one of many models of heavy earth-moving and construction equipment woodworker Jack Willhoyte has crafted over the past two decades. Willhoyte has been working with wood since learning the carpenter’s trade from his father as a boy. Bottom left: The tiny bag of golf clubs is part of a larger model of a golf cart. Each club is individually carved and can be removed from the bag.
Woodworker makes toys into art By TONY BROWN News editor
Jack Willhoyte has done a lot of things in his life, most of them with his strong, skilled and steady hands. The son of a carpenter, the lifelong Maryville resident (he moved here with his parents when he was 3) learned woodworking from his father. Then, after graduating from Maryville High School and serving a stateside hitch in the Army at the tail end of World War II, he came back home and did, well, a little bit of everything. As it turned out, Willhoyte had a knack for working with metal as well as wood, and soon he was earning a living as what used to be called a millwright, an industrial specialty embracing the installation and maintenance of manufacturing equipment.
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He spent much of his career working for Lear Construction in St. Joseph before retiring more than 20 years ago from the now-defunct Energizer battery plant in Maryville. Since the late 1940s, Willhoyte has lived with his wife Phyllis — who goes by the nickname Sam — in a trim, comfortable house on North Buchanan. It looks small from the outside, but the open living room is deceptively spacious and conforms to a rigid, yet relaxed, geometry. Every corner is square. Willhoyte built it himself. Those wonderful hands again, hands that seem to have been created for the express purposed of wielding a tool. “I built it to sell,” he says of the house. “But my wife decided she liked it, so here we are.” Jack Willhoyte is 87 now, but still trim, straightSee WOODWORKER, Page 6
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Anita Shell 1935-2014 Anita Shell, 78, of Maryville, MO, passed from this life on Friday, January 3, 2014, in Maryville. Anita was born in Maryville, MO, on January 25, 1935. Her parents were Audra and Edith Viola (Baker) Williams. She had lived most all her life in the Maryville area. Anita was a graduate of the Horace Mann High School, and took classes at Northwest Missouri State Teacher College, both of Maryville, MO. On December 4, 1951, Anita was united in marriage at the Maryville First Christian Church, to Raymond Marshall Shell. Raymond passed away on March 13, 2002. She was also preceded in death by her parents. Anita was a member and attended the First Christian Church, Maryville, MO. A member of the Maryville Chapter of the D.A.R.; volunteered for the American Red Cross; and had spent time volunteering with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana. She
had worked at the family service station, doing the books for 56 years. Anita loved to play bridge; she loved traveling, and was a world traveler. She loved fishing in Canada; had sailed to Alaska, been to Europe, to China, spent many summers in the Ozarks, Hawaii, and recently been to New England. Left to mourn her passing are her children, Deborah Shell, Overland Park, KS, Sheila (Paul) Christiansen, Overland Park, KS, and Marshall (Cara) Shell, Maryville, MO; brother, Audra L. “Bud” and Bonnie Jean (Bowman) Williams, Iowa City, IA; 5 grandchildren, Carri Schwartz, St. Joseph, MO, Jonathan Ferguson, Kansas City, MO, Trevor Shell, Megan Shell, and Trenton Shell, all of Maryville, MO; 3 great grandchildren, Parker Day Schwartz, St. Joseph, MO, Matthew Schwartz, St. Joseph, MO, and Jacob Schwartz, St. Joseph, MO; nieces and nephews, Steve Williams, Kathy Haynes, Wayne Williams, John Williams, all of Iowa; and numerous great
nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 10:00 AM, Tuesday, January 7, 2014, at the First Christian Church, Maryville, MO, the minister will be Rev. Dale Stewart. The burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery, Maryville, MO. The family will receive friends from 5-7:00 PM, Monday, January 6, 2014, also at the Church. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to the First Christian Church, 201 W. 3rd, Maryville, MO, 64468. For online condolences and guest book, visit www. bramfuneralhome.com.
Beulah Sawyers-Koger 1911-2014 Beulah Sawyers-Koger, 102, Maryville, Missouri, was born in Nodaway County on April 6, 1911. She was the fourth child of her parents, Sarah BakerSawyers and Robert James Sawyers. Her brothers and sisters were Clyde Sawyers, Mary Hackett Sawyers, Gertrude Sawyers and Robert James Sawyers Jr. The family lived on a farm west of Maryville. Beulah attended country school and graduated from Maryville High School. She stayed with her Uncle John Sawyers while going to high school and college. She attended Northwest Missouri State Teacher’s College for two years. She earned a 60 year life teaching certificate. With her teaching certificate she was able to teach in rural country schools. She later went to Northwest Missouri State University and received a degree in elementary education. Beulah returned to teaching in 1948. She went to a town school and taught 1st through 3rd grades at Clearmont. She eventually moved on to Elmo, teaching second grade. During this time, a niece and nephew, Suzanne and Robert James Sawyers III, came to live. She married Verlin Koger in St. Joseph, Missouri
on September 7, 1940. They made their home on a farm near Pickering that originally belonged to Verlin’s grandfather. After two years, they moved to the farm east of Clearmont that would become their own home for 46 years. In 1942, their first daughter, Marylyn was born and in 1944 Judyth Ann was born. Beulah became a stay-athome mom for a few years. Being a housewife, mother and teacher was not enough for Beulah. She decided to return to college and earn her degree in education. She earned her Bachelor’s degree, graduating from Northwest Missouri State College in 1961. She continued to teach in the West Nodaway school system until 1975. Her teaching career spanned 34 years. Through her life she was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Maryville and then the United Methodist Church at Clearmont and then Maryville. She was in United Methodist Women when it was called Women’s Society of Christian Service. She taught Sunday school for many years and helped in the summer-time with Bible School. Beulah and Verlin enjoyed her retirement by traveling and playing pitch with friends and neighbors. She also pursued her hobbies of crocheting baby blankets and cross
stitching quilts. Of course she belonged to a bridge club or two. When Verlin passed away in 1988, she moved to an apartment in Maryville, Missouri. Her family increased to include five grandchildren Johnna, Jerri, Jamie Wilcox, Kevin Haynes and Heidi HaynesPieroni; three great-grandchildren Tessa Keeney and Jake and Grayson Pieroni; one daughter, Marylyn and husband John Wilcox of Tarkio, nephew Robert James Sawyers. Those who preceded her in death are her parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert James Sawyers, husband Verlin Koger, daughter Judyth Haynes, brothers Clyde and Robert Sawyers, sisters Mary Hackett and Gertrude Sawyers and niece Suzanne Sawyers. There will be no formal visitation, however friends may call at the funeralhome after 9:00 am Monday. Funeral Services will be 10:00 am Wednesday, January 8, 2014, at Price Funeral Home Chapel, Maryville, Missouri. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery, Clearmont, Missouri. Memorials may be made to Tarkio Resource Center, 405 South 11th Street, Tarkio, MO 64491and First United Methodist Church, 102 North Main Street, Maryville, Missouri 64468. www.pricefuneralhomemaryville.com
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Commission Minutes Clerk Beth Walker. The Commission conducted a public hearing for the Independence Township road bond to be placed on the April 8 election ballot. Other business included acceptance of November
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The Nodaway County Commission met Friday Dec. 27. Attending were Presiding Commissioner Robert Schieber, North District Commissioner Robert Westfall, South District Commissioner Robert Stiens and County
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road and bridge revenues from the state of Missouri. Receipts included vehicle sales tax ($23,889 — $4,115 higher than November 2013) and gasoline tax ($71,880 — $3,504 higher than November 2013).
Services for Alvin Dale Downing, 86, Maryville, Mo., were held January 3, 2014 at Price Funeral Home with Reverend Paul McKim officiating. He passed
away December 28, 2013 in Maryville, Mo. Congregation hymns of “Remember Me,” “Daddy’s Hands” and “Grandpa” were played.
Mr. Downing will be laid to rest at Oak Hill Cemetery in Maryville, Mo, at a later date.
Services for Robert Leo Protzman, 75, of Maryville, Mo., were held January 4, 2014 at St. Gregory Catholic Church with Fr. Martin DeMeulenacre, OSB; Fr. Reginald Sanders, OSB: and Fr. Joel Derks, OSB officiating. He passed away December 17, 2013 in Kansas City, Mo. Musical selections were “Just a Closer Walk With Thee,” “All The Ends
Of The Earth,” “Be Not Afraid,” “Your Are Near,” Ave Maria,” “Song of Farewell,” and “Amazing Grace.” Honorary Pallbearers were Nick Loghry, Wade Tobin, Alan Sullivan, Brad Sullivan, Christopher John Sullivan, Ryan Merrigan, Mike Zimmerman and Mark Zimmerman. Lector: Ryan Merrigan; Acolytes: Maddie Holtman, Rachael Tobin, Randy Tobin; Giftbearers:
Kayla Holtman, Patrick Baker and Avery Baker; Eucharist Ministers: Theresa Wray, Ed Nielson, Charlotte Stiens, Shirley Loughlin and Nancy Ozanne. Graveside Military Service conducted at the conclusion of Mass by Missouri Military Honors Program and Tri-C American Legion Post #464, Conception Jct. Mo.
Maryville Public Safety Incidents December 16 4:35 p.m. – 200 block East Fifth – Burglary ongoing investigation December 17 5:45 p.m. – 100 block West Cooper - Dog at large ongoing investigation December 23 10:02 p.m. – 400 block West Cooper – Vehicle fire December 25 11:02 p.m. – 1600 block South Main – Christopher M. Rhodes, 28, Maryville – Assault December 28 11:55 a.m. – 200 block Volunteer Avenue – Property damage ongoing investigation 4:27 p.m. – 400 block North Main – James R.
Schuler, 19, Maryville – Careless & imprudent driving 6:31 p.m. – 1200 block West Sixteenth – Burglary ongoing investigation December 30 11:25 a.m. – 1200 block South Laura – Brian J. Bennett, 36, Maryville – Dog at large January 1 1:06 a.m. – 1000 block South Walnut – Kiley R. Reynolds, 19, Maryville – Driving while intoxicated, minor in possession, open container of alcohol in a M.V., failure to maintain right half of roadway Accidents December 23 7:42 p.m. – 1600 block
South Main – Driver 1: Joseph A. Bollig, 50, Kansas City, Mo.; Driver 2: Cara K. Rector, 32, Frisco, Texas. December 28 6:35 p.m. – 1400 block South Main – Driver 1: Sherri L. Volner, 52, Maryville; Driver 2: Danae N. Halvin, 35, Bedford, Ia. January 1 3:40 p.m. – South Main & Carefree Drive – Driver 1: Ryan C. Schmeltz, 24, Maryville January 2 4:29 p.m. – 600 block West Second – Driver 1: Mary B. Thompson, 32, Maryville – Leaving the scene of an accident; Vehicle Owner 2: Peggy S. Arnold, Maryville
Community Events – MONDAY –
Widowed Persons Meeting, January 27, 11:30 a.m., Applebees Life Beyond Breast Cancer Support Group meets from 7 to 8 p.m. on the 2nd Monday of the month in the Hospitality Room at St. Francis Hospital Never Alone Narcotics Anonymous, Wesley Foundation, 549 W. 4th St., 6pm. Over Eaters Anonymous meets 5:30 p.m. weekly @ Franciscan Rm. of St. Francis Hospital SAFE: Stop Abuse for Everyone (men’s support), meets upon request noon1:30 p.m. & 5:15-6:45 p.m. weekly @ the Children & Family Center, 1220 E. 2nd St., Maryville; 562-2320 if you plan to attend Maryville Pride Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. on the 2nd & 4th Mondays at Hy-Vee. Manna Kitchen 5 pm-6 pm, St. Gregory’s Catholic Church 333 S. Davis St, a free community meal open to all. AA at Wesley Center at Noon AA at Methodist Church Room 203 at 6:00 p.m. Al-Anon at Methodist Church Room 205 at 6:00pm.
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Eagles Bingo, 7 p.m. weekly, Hwy 71 South, Maryville Nodaway County Senior Center Tai Chi 5 to 6pm.
Today’s Civic Women meets 6:30 p.m. every first Tuesday @ Maryville Public Library basement, 5629833, 582-4294 Living Free Narcotics Anonymous, Countryside Christian Church, 16th & Country Club Rd. 6pm. WINGS (women’s support-domestic violence & sexual assault), meets noon1:30 p.m. & 5:15-6:45 p.m. weekly @ the Children & Family Center, 1220 E. 2nd St., Maryville TOPS meets weekly 5:30 p.m. for weigh-ins, 6 p.m. meeting @ First Christian Church, Maryville Maryville Public Library Board of Trustees meets the second Tuesday @ noon in the conference room Alzheimer’s Support meets @ 6 p.m. third Tuesday @ Laura Street Baptist Church, Maryville
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Nodaway County Senior Center Dutch Luke & Friends, 11 am. Tai Chi 5 to 6pm. Dementia, Alzheimers support group 3rd Wednesday of each month. 6-7pm. Presbyterian Church, Maryville, MO. Jessica Loch, 816-261-2440. Tina Baker, Nodaway Nursing Home 660-562-2876. Never Alone Narcotics Anonymous, Wesley Foundation, 549 W. 4th St., 6pm. Community Meals First United Methodist, 5 p.m. - 6
p.m., 1st/Main. St. Francis Retirees will meet, the first Wednesday of every month at 9am at the Nodaway County Senior Center. Breast Cancer Support Group meets @ noon every second Wednesday @ First Christian Church, Rm 106, Maryville AA meeting at 6 p.m. weekly @ Davison Square. AL-Anon meeting at 6 p.m. weekly @ Davison Square. Eagles Closed
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Nodaway County Senior Center Hand and Foot 9 a.m. Living Free Narcotics Anonymous, Countryside Christian Church, 16th & Country Club Rd. 6pm. Nodaway County Federated Republican Women meet 11:30 a.m. 1st Thursday of the month at Carson’s, Maryville Maryville Business & Professional Women’s Organization meets 6 p.m. every 4th Thursday @ First Christian Church, Maryville, 660-582-4959 or 582-4898 Diabetic Support Group Location changed to South Hills Medical Building, in the Front Lobby. Shepherd’s Kitchen offers a free supper from 5 to 6 p.m. weekly @ the First Presbyterian Church, Maryville
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Virgil David Ivey
Whereabouts of local men still has yet to be Public Library provides discovered after 6 days adults incentive to read KEVIN BIRDSELL/DAILY FORUM
Maryville Public Director Stephanie Patterson displays a copy of Gone Girl, a thriller by Gillian Flynn that is expected to be one of the most popular books available from the library during this winter’s adult reading program.
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as missing on the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System (MULES) database, and that authorities in Kansas City and St. Joseph were notified. He said both men have had brushes with the law in the past, but that each was free to come and go as he pleased. He added that authorities have found no evidence so far that a crime has been committed or was being planned. Authorities described Clayton as a white man with brown hair and hazel eyes, standing 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 135 pounds. Ivey, who is also white, has brown hair and brown eyes, stands 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. Clayton’s wife, Christina Clayton, who lives in Albany, told the St. Joseph News-
Press that her husband, from whom she is separated, has gone missing before but never for this long. She further described her husband as having a number of tattoos, including an “816” on his neck, a tear drop under one eye and a “13½” under the other eye. Anyone with information on their whereabouts is encouraged to call Public Safety at (660) 562-3209. Residential Glass Replacement • Storefronts
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In towns and cities across the country, children’s summer reading programs are a staple for public libraries, including the one in Maryville. But now it’s winter, and library Director Stephanie Patterson figures its time for local adults to curl up with a good book. Maryville Public Library’s adult reading program got underway Jan. 2 and will continue through Mar. 8. You have to have a library card in order to participate, and Librarian Kim Offutt said signing up is as easy as stopping by the library at 509 N. Main St. “We just ask that they write down their name on a list that we have at the front desk. They’ll get a book mark and a list with the rules on it,” Offutt said Once enrolled, participants keep track of what they read then return books to the library in exchange for tickets. The tickets can be traded in for prizes or entered into a drawing for a gift basket. Prizes are being provided by such local merchants as My Favorite Muffin and McDonald’s. The drawing for the gift baskets will take place after the final day of the event. “(The children’s reading program) has become so popular in the summer that we wanted to have something similar,” Patterson said. “We’ve found that adults like to set reading goals, too, and January is a month when a lot of people are setting goals.” Reading goals vary considerably depending on individual circumstances, and Patterson said that’s fine. The object is to participate, not to win. “For a lot of adults, it’s difficult to get just one book in because they’re so busy,” Offutt said. “This is just a little incentive. It’s supposed to just be fun. Read a book, then come in and get a little prize.” The only real rule is that books turned in for tickets have to be classed as either adult or young adult fiction and non-fiction. The restriction is designed to keep
Maryville Public Safety reported Sunday that two local men reported missing late last week were still unaccounted for. Public Safety Director Keith Wood said Virgil David Ivey, 26, and Timothy Allen Clayton, 24, were last seen around midnight Tuesday. Wood said the two men had reportedly met in the parking lot of the United Methodist Church on Main Street where they are supposed to have departed for either St. Joseph of Kansas City. According to a Public Safety press release, the pair “had indicated that they would immediately return after meeting the subject at their destination.” Wood said the two men have officially been listed
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Phil doesn’t give a rip what they think Another violator of the liberal code of conduct recently raised his bushy head and sent shock waves through the ranks of those who must find something about which to be offended. An ethic cleansing took place before the public found its voice and asserted its power of reinstatement. The grand offender was Phil Robertson, star of the confusingly popular “reality” show Duck Dynasty on A&E. Phil plays the bewhiskered papa with an enviable degree of indifference. To say Phil and the boys are politically incorrect is as big an understatement as saying Barack Obama has a socialist agenda. The truth is obvious. Duck Dynasty represents all that stuffy, politically correct liberals despise: redneck sentiments, bayou whiskers, hunting skills, prayer, and economic success. Something had to be done and was. One gets the feeling pc advocates were panting for opportunity. We have seen this before in the form of Paula Deen, Missouri State Fair rodeo clowns, and a host of others. All dared say what had not been approved. To do so is to be disciplined via retribution. The score can be evened through humiliation, boycott, the dissolution of one’s income, and the ever-popular heartfelt apology. Lectures precede. The problem for those rendered aghast by a few words was Phil doesn’t give a rip what anyone thinks. He would rather shoot canvasbacks than listen to baloney about the narrowness of his mind. Give Phil baloney and he’ll make a sandwich. It goes well with a nice glass of iced tea and a hound dog. I ’spect you heard what Phil uttered that got him into swamp water, but in case you didn’t, here’s a sample taken from the GQ interview: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolators, the male prostitutes, the ho-
mosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers, they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.” All those attributes Phil identified are behavioral, and I suspect we would largely agree they are bad morally, socially, and historically.
Larry Anderson The one arguable exception is “homosexual offenders” who promptly denounced Robertson’s remarks and demanded something be done before his Old Testament attitude spread further among the hopelessly bigoted. A&E folded like a cheap tent. Phil was fired quicker than a cannon at Gettysburg only to be hired back by virtue of a volley of supportive public opinion. Was Phil wrong in his proclamation? It depends on what one believes. Phil didn’t say people can’t do what they want; he only said they wouldn’t inherit the kingdom of God. One has to assume there is such a place for his words to be meaningful. In America, one is supposed to be free to state his/her opinions. We don’t have to agree. If we don’t, we should debate, not retaliate. But that’s not the new America. Purging is the solution now.
I don’t personally object to the objections aimed at Phil. His words weren’t well-chosen nor do I accept that gay folks are somehow more sinful than the rest of us. I just don’t buy it. If we are to believe we are made in the image of God, then surely we must extend that principle to all people, not just those cherrypicked by the self-righteous. And who knows what that true image is? I am not defending Phil’s words; I am just defending his right to say them in the manner he chooses without unrelated retaliation from those who disagree. Phil was asked his opinion in an interview, and he gave it. The dismay that followed smacks of phoniness to me. Hyperbolic wounds aren’t as convincing as damage proven. Phil Robertson did not give his little sermon on Duck Dynasty, but it was the show that the p c crowd went after. When that happens, it becomes clear those objecting do not want merely to correct a mistaken belief, but to retaliate, to punish, to warn. I find that attitude to be no more tolerant than Phil’s. Such behavior is an affront to the First Amendment, and that gets my hackles up as quickly as any perceived attack on the misunderstood. One can’t advocate tolerance while proving to be intolerant. Political correctness and its aftermath is damaging to American freedoms. That is what should not be tolerated. I will continue to hope all gay people will work for the respect they should have; however, many methods used by activists should be reviewed and questioned. I will also continue to support Phil Robertson in his right to say what he believes in open forum when asked. Larry W. Anderson is a Maryvillian married to a SpoofCat.
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Good moments spent with family shine more than Christmas lights My family and I spent a couple of days in Branson As we sat in our homes and enjoyed time with famimmediately following Christmas, something none of us ily over the holidays, there’s a good chance that during had done before. The experience was a memorable one, many of our favorite moments, we weren’t spending any to be sure. extra money. If flashy presents made your Silver Dollar City alone boasted five holiday bright, then I will put you in my million lights on display as part of the prayers, because you certainly missed the holiday festivities. In case you’re cupoint of the season. rious, that amounted to a whole lot of And now, in this new year of 2014, many multi-colored Christmas cheer. of us are scurrying to improve ourselves— What a wonderful display! But I or at least to resolve to improve ourselves. found myself spending the evening tryThose resolutions likely will entail adding ing to make good memories for my kids, positive changes to our lives and/or elimiwho will likely end up having been too nating excess or negative behaviors. young during the trip to remember any If we were the people we ought to be, we of the fun anyway. could use everything that is most powerful That isn’t the point, though. I saw about the end-of-year holidays to direct us wonder in our older son’s eyes when the toward good personal growth. Christmas parade went by in the dark of We could use the lessons of the Christthe early evening. He enjoyed the excurmas season, which include those of both sion, and his father learned a good lesgiving with charity and receiving with Matt Pearl son in the process: love, to strengthen our understanding of A good moment spent with famhospitality and to remind us of how many ily shines more brightly than five million—or five tril- good and perfect gifts we have received—even when we lion—little Christmas lights. weren’t worthy of them. But I also realized something much more humbling: And the new year is a fresh start. We have the chance Our kids didn’t care if we spent a dime, and wouldn’t to conclude another year that is in the books, unchangehave asked for anything as elaborate as the lighting able and now in the past. In its place comes a year where spectacle we witnessed. Knowing that they were im- we may begin life anew, to practice the good will we portant enough for their mother and I to make special experienced during Christmas throughout the entire calplans for them—now that was worth the trip through endar year of 2014. the Ozarks. You see, there is good we have not yet accomplished, We might never do it again, or we might try to make and there are troubles we have the chance to leave beit back every few years. It really doesn’t matter to me hind us. May we as a people be led to greater light, truth, either way. There’s an irony present in a town that is peace and prosperity in the moments that await us this adept at emptying your wallet, all predicated on attrac- year.. tions designed to make you appreciate a simpler life and the simple pleasures folks enjoyed when “everyone” Matt Pearl is the owner and publisher of the Triwas poor. County News in King City.
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Donna Hansen was the winner of the Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce White Christmas promotion. She is pictured here with Matt Baker of Baker Chiropractic. Since two inches of snow did not fall in Maryville on Christmas day, Hansen won the consolation prize of a year’s worth of massages, valued at $1,320, from Baker Chiropractic. Hansen’s winning ticket was entered at Maryville Hy-Vee.
SEATTLE (AP) — The stakes were high and the vote was close as Boeing production workers agreed to concede some benefits in order to secure assembly of the new 777X airplane for the Puget Sound region. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Boeing hailed Friday’s vote, which proponents said solidifies the aerospace giant’s presence in the Seattle area. “Tonight, Washington state secured its future as the aerospace capital of the world,” Inslee declared. Under the terms of the eight-year contract extension, Boeing said the 777X and its composite wing will be built in the Puget Sound area by Boeing employees represented by the Machinists union. “Thanks to this vote by our employees, the future
of Boeing in the Puget Sound region has never looked brighter,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner said. “We’re proud to say that together, we’ll build the world’s next great airplane — the 777X and its new wing — right here. This will put our workforce on the cutting edge of composite technology, while sustaining thousands of local jobs for years to come.” Local officials of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers had urged their 30,000 members to oppose the deal, arguing that the proposal surrendered too much at a time of company profitability. They had opposed taking a vote at all but were overruled by national leaders in the Machinists union. The announcement that the contract had passed with a 51 percent yes vote
was somber. “Our members have spoken and having said that, this is the course we’ll take,” Jim Bearden, administrative assistant for Machinists District 751, said in announcing the results. “No member liked this vote or the position we were put in by the company, nor was it an easy vote for anyone to cast.” Opponents of the contract opposed the idea of freezing the Machinists’ pensions and moving workers to a defined-contribution savings plan. The issue fractured the union and drew unusual pleas from politicians who said the deal was necessary to support the area’s economic future. Boeing has been exploring the prospect of building the 777X elsewhere. “I think people that voted for it were scared,” Powers said.
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You can be a Supplement Savvy Shopper Supplements can help provide nutrients not consumed in ample amounts from food. One way to know if a supplement is safe is to check Consumer Reports for the product you are buying, or look for USP Verified on the label. The USP Dietary Supplement Verification Program is a voluntary testing and auditing program that helps dietary supplement manufacturers ensure they are making quality products for consumers. Always make sure to tell your healthcare provider about any supplements you are taking. There are several types of popular dietary supplements: Multiple Vitamin/Mineral Supplements – A multi-vitamin/ mineral supplement can help fill nutrient gaps in our diets. These should not provide more than 100% RDA (recommended daily amount) for most of the nutrients they contain. Omega-3s/Fish Oil – It is recommended to consume fatty fish such as salmon, tuna, mackerel, etc.
two to three times each week. If you don’t like fish or do not consume it regularly, an omega-3 or fish oil supplement can be very helpful. It is recommended to consume at least 500 mg of EPA + DHA from an Omega-3 or fish oil supplement. Individual Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs – There are many situations in which an individual vitamin, mineral or herbal supplement is needed. Below are the most popular individual supplements: Vitamin C – People who smoke, have inflammatory conditions or have wounds likely need more vitamin C than a healthy individual. Talk with your healthcare provider about your needs. Vitamin B-12 – There are many conditions that can reduce your ability to absorb B-12. If you are told your level is low, look for a sublingual B-12 to enhance absorption. A Hy-Vee pharmacist or dietitian can help you choose the one right for you. Vitamin D – If you are told to
take vitamin D supplements because your level is low, make sure to take them with food that contains a little fat to enhance absorption. Folate – Deficiency of folate or folic acid can cause birth defects. Women who may become pregnant should consume 400 mcg of folic acid from a supplement or fortified food in addition to consuming a healthy diet. Probiotics – Patients with inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases may benefit from a product containing saccharomyces boulardi. For general health, a product containing lactobacillus and bifidus are recommended in the dosage of 1 – 10 billion CFU. A probiotic can help with the side effects of taking an antibiotic. There is a wide variety of supplements on the market, and not all of them are necessary. It is important to remember that foods provide us with vitamins and minerals. Consuming a variety of foods and following the MyPlate model can help
ensure an adequate diet. For a list of food sources of each vitamin and mineral and for additional supplement questions, please contact your Hy-Vee Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. This information is not intended as medical advice. For individual medical advice, please contact a health care provider. Sources: Position of the American Dietetic Association: Nutrient Supplementation, 2009 FDA 101: Dietary Supplements, 2008 www.usp.org Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Approach, 2nd Edition, The Institute for Functional Medicine Etherton, Penny et al. “Fish Consumption, Fish Oil, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Cardiovascular Disease.” Circulation, 2002. National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. Weight Control. www.b12awareness.org
Deanna Bottorff Preventing Nueral Tube Defects, CDC, 2009. Simopoulos AP. The importance of the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 essential fatty acids. Biomed Pharmacother. 2002;56(8):365-379. Using Dietary Supplements in Practice: What you Need to Know. The Integrative RDN, Fall 2013. http://www.webmd.com/heart/ news/20090803/daily-omega-3srecommended-heart The information is not intended as medical advice. Please consult a medical professional for individual advice.
Selling social media clicks becomes big business MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore “click farms,” where workers tap, tap, tap the thumbs up button, view videos or retweet comments to inflate social media numbers. Since Facebook launched almost 10 years ago, users have sought to expand their social networks for financial gain, winning friends, bragging rights and professional clout. And social media companies cite the levels of engagement to tout their value. But an Associated Press examination has found a growing global marketplace for fake clicks, which tech companies struggle to police. Online records, industry studies and interviews show companies are capitalizing on the opportunity to make millions of dollars by duping social media. For as little as a half cent each
click, websites hawk everything from LinkedIn connections to make members appear more employable to Soundcloud plays to influence record label interest. “Anytime there’s a monetary value added to clicks, there’s going to be people going to the dark side,” said Mitul Gandhi, CEO of seoClarity, a Des Plaines, Ill., social media marketing firm that weeds out phony online engagements. Italian security researchers and bloggers Andrea Stroppa and Carla De Micheli estimated in 2013 that sales of fake Twitter followers have the potential to bring in $40 million to $360 million to date, and that fake Facebook activities bring in $200 million a year. As a result, many firms, whose values are based on credibility, have entire teams doggedly pursuing the buyers and brokers of fake clicks. But each time they crack down on one, another, more creative scheme emerges. When software engineers wrote computer programs, for example, to generate lucrative fake clicks,
tech giants fought back with software that screens out “bot-generated” clicks and began regularly sweeping user accounts. YouTube wiped out billions of music industry video views last December after auditors found some videos apparently had exaggerated numbers of views. Its parent-company, Google, is also constantly battling people who generate fake clicks on their ads. And Facebook, whose most recent quarterly report estimated as many as 14.1 million of its 1.18 billion active users are fraudulent accounts, does frequent purges. That’s particularly important for a company that was built on the principle that users are real people. Twitter’s Jim Prosser said there’s no upside. “In the end, their accounts are suspended, they’re out the money and they lose the followers,” he said. LinkedIn spokesman Doug Madey said buying connections “dilutes the member experience,” violates their user agreement and can also prompt account closures. Google and YouTube “take ac-
tion against bad actors that seek to game our systems,” said spokeswoman Andrea Faville. Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city of 7 million in South Asia, is an international hub for click farms. The CEO of Dhaka-based social media promotion firm Unique IT World said he has paid workers to manually click on clients’ social media pages, making it harder for Facebook, Google and others to catch them. “Those accounts are not fake, they were genuine,” Shaiful Islam said. A recent check on Facebook showed Dhaka was the most popular city for many, including soccer star Leo Messi, who has 51 million likes; Facebook’s own security page, which has 7.7 million likes; and Google’s Facebook page, which has 15.2 million likes. In 2013, the State Department, which has more than 400,000 likes and was recently most popular in Cairo, said it would stop buying Facebook fans after its inspector general criticized the agency for spending $630,000 to boost the numbers.
In one case, its fan tally rose from about 10,000 to more than 2.5 million. Sometimes there are plausible explanations for click increases. For example, Burger King’s most popular city was, for a few weeks this year, Karachi, Pakistan, after the chain opened several restaurants there. While the Federal Trade Commission and several state attorney generals have cracked down on fake endorsements or reviews, they have not weighed in on clicks. Meanwhile, hundreds of online businesses sell clicks and social media accounts from around the world. BuyPlusFollowers sells 250 Google+ shares for $12.95. InstagramEngine sells 1,000 followers for $12. AuthenticHits sells 1,000 SoundCloud plays for $9. It’s a lucrative business, said the president and CEO of WeSellLikes.com. “The illusion of a massive following is often just that,” he said. Karmini in Jakarta, Indonesia contributed to this story.
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Top left: Phyllis (Sam) and Jack Willhoyte pose in the living room of their Maryville home. Jack built the house not long after the couple married 62 years ago. Top right: Though he creates some of his replicas from published plans, Willhoyte bases many of his creations on personal observation. This model cement mixer was modeled on the kind of truck once used by Loch Sand & Construction. Above left: This miniature wooden crane includes a moving boom and working block-and-tackles. Right: Jack Willhoyte’s collection of vintage hand and power tools includes this decadesold jointer and table saw. Over the years, Willhoyte has created dozens of finely crafted wooden toys, mostly miniature versions of cars, trucks and heavy equipment such as cranes and bulldozers.
Woodworker creates own world with glue and saw blades Continued from Page 1 backed and bright eyed. He has also retained his passion for building things. And down in his basement workshop, half of which has been lovingly paneled with knotty pine to make a sort of den, Willhoyte has been doing exactly that for more than two decades. Only now, instead of houses or machines or assembly lines, he builds toys; wonderful wooden toys with tire-like wheels that roll, doors that open, and gears and pulleys that mesh and lift. There’s a wooden train with six feet worth of cars standing on a wooden track led by a steam engine with working rods and pistons, all movable, interconnected and crafted from dowel rods and pine scraps.
There are vintage Fords and Chevys, a fire truck, cranes, bulldozers, jeeps and 18-wheelers
other. The little knotty pine room is nothing less than magical, a glori-
‘The little knotty pine room is nothing less than magical’ — all sorts of wonderful replicas of the kinds of machines and vehicles that Willhoyte spent his life around. After all, this is a man who lived out his working years in a time when the United States was far more concerned with the business of making useful things than with moving piles of electronic money around from one computer to an-
ous place filled with the smell of finely sanded wood and wonderfully crafted miniature versions of everything from road-graders and tractors to roadsters to golf carts. After a while spent staring at the sheer bounty of Willhoyte’s craftsmanship, one begins to realize that his creations are not mere cleverness — a retired woodworker’s whimsical hobby — but genuine
art. The tipoff that Willhoyte is something more than just another guy with some wood scraps and a band saw is a little shelf up in one corner of the den. It’s lined with small, blocky wooden toys of the sort middle school students have been turning out in shop class for decades, though admittedly the skill level is matchless. “A lot of those came from plans,” Willhoyte said. “But then I decided I wanted to make some trucks. So I started going out to (Gray’s truck-stop north of Maryville) and just sketching them out.” And so, instead of building wooden toys from other people’s schematics, Willhoyte started assembling detailed replicas, using little more than saw blades and
glue, that reflected his own experience, and that were based on things he’d seen and heard and felt over a lifetime being around roaring motors and powerful machinery. His attention to detail is astounding. The ladders move up and down on the fire truck. Stringthin cables pass through a delicately carved block-and-tackle on a working crane. Tiny golf wooden clubs can be pulled one at a time from a wooden bag standing in the back of a wooden golf cart. Then there’s the cement mixer he crafted for somebody at Loch Sand & Construction. In the end, Willhoyte simply liked the way it came out too much to let it go. “Yes,” he said a little sheepishly. “I just kept it.”
Library provides incentive Dangerous weather combo Continued from Page 3 parents from accumulating tickets based on the children’s books they read to their kids. “We encourage parents to try to tackle an adult book,” Patterson said. “A lot of parents that come in regularly read kids books to their kids, but it’s beneficial for their children to see them reading an adult book. You’re modeling a behavior that reading is a lifelong worthwhile activity.” To encourage people to participate in the program, the library is hosting monthly promotional events. This month’s event on
Jan. 25 is a movie night sponsored by the Maryville Hy-Vee supermarket. The evening is to include food and child-care for youngsters up to 8 years old. Starting today, readers can vote on the movie they want to see by going to the library’s Facebook page. In February, Larry Anderson will speak about historical figures associated with the United States’ “Wild West” era. A display that night will feature the work of Western artist Frederic Remington. The final event, on Mar. 4, is titled “Getting Ready to Garden.” With spring right around the corner, members of the Maryville
Garden Club will field questions and offer gardening tips. This is the second year for the winter adult reading program. In 2013 more than 100 readers signed up. This year’s adult reading program sponsors include Hy-Vee, Curves, A&G Restaurant, Bearcat Lanes, Rebecca at Hair Clinque, Taco Johns, Beemer’s Muffler, Maryville Florist, Jock’s Nitch, Delbert’s Garage, Jass Salon, Posh Consignment, Brown’s Shoes, McDonald’s, Hair It Is, Sonic Drive-in, KFC, Harris Dental, My Favorite Muffin and Wilma Henggeler with Stampin’ Up.
Medicaid bill unlikely Continued from Page 12 expansion among his top priorities for the legislative session. “Let’s resolve to pass a bill that brings our tax dollars home to strengthen and reform Medicaid,” Nixon said last week. But Medicaid expansion didn’t even make the list of more than a dozen priorities that House Speaker
Tim Jones outlined in an interview last week. Jones, R-Eureka, called the federal health care law a “disaster.” “The governor’s really on the wrong side of history continuing to beat the dead horse of Obamacare and Medicaid expansion in our state,” Jones said. Jones and many other Republican lawmakers
have suggested that Missouri should first “reform” its Medicaid program before expanding eligibility. The House and Senate each created special committees last year to study potential Medicaid changes. The House committee hasn’t issued a report. The Senate committee specifically rejected a Democratic recommendation.
worrisome throughout state ST. LOUIS (AP) — Heavy snow combined with strong winds and bitter cold created a dangerous winter mix Sunday over much of Missouri, prompting everything from churches to tourist attractions and even the St. Louis region’s sole ski resort to shut down amid warnings that only those who absolutely need to venture out should do so. Snow that began in parts of the state Saturday night picked up intensity after dawn Sunday, and several inches of snow were on the ground by midafternoon — nearly a foot in some parts of the St. Louis area. Totals ranged from 10.5 inches in Rolla to 6 inches in Springfield to 3 to 4 inches in suburban Kansas City. St. Louis has received 12 inches or more of snow in a 24-hour period only 10 previous times since record-keeping began in the late 19th century. The Missouri Department of Transportation reported most major roadways were covered and clearing them was a challenge for two reasons: The wind was blowing cleared snow back onto the pavement, and it was so cold the salt used to melt ice and snow wasn’t very effective. MoDOT encouraged people to stay in unless absolutely necessary. The conditions were so bad they were a danger even to MoDOT workers driving the plows and trucks, spokeswoman Marie Elliott said. “If it gets to the point where it’s no longer safe, we will consider suspending operations,” she said. Sunday started with temperatures in the 20s and 30s dropped throughout the day, even as the wind picked up, reaching gusts
of 25 mph and more. National Weather Service meteorologist Butch Dye said that the pre-dawn hours of Monday, temperatures across much of Missouri will be below zero, perhaps as low as minus 10 with a wind chill of minus-25, maybe colder. “It’s just a dangerous cold,” Dye said. The weather changed swiftly. Saturday’s highs were in the 40s, and many people used that opportunity to prepare for the worst. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Cottleville, Mo., near St. Louis, had lines of cars waiting to get into 5 p.m. Mass. Good thing, too: The church, one of the largest in Missouri, was closed Sunday. Grocery stores sold out of the essentials before Sunday’s weather onslaught. “The problem is the bread is sold out. We’re out of milk. We sold out of chips, chicken wings, some meats,” Issa Arar of Salama Supermarket in St. Louis said. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported several weather-related accidents Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of fatal wrecks. Lambert Airport had more than 130 flight cancellations. Things were better at Kansas City International Airport, though there were a couple of dozen flights delayed or canceled, according to the airport’s website. Dye said the only good news was that brutal conditions should be short-lived. Snow was expected to end by Sunday evening, and while the cold will remain for a couple of days, it should give way to milder weather by mid-week, with much of the state seeing highs in the 30s by Wednesday.
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’Cats win 1st conference contest of the season By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff Writer
Float it in
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Northwest senior guard Ashleigh Nelson floats a shot over her Central Oklahoma defender. Nelson was one of five ’Cats to finish in double figures, scoring 11 points in the 78-72 win.
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It was a tale of two halves for the Northwest women on Saturday against Central Oklahoma in the team’s first game back from winter break. At the first media timeout, the ‘Cats held a one-point lead, 12-11, before stretching it to 29-18 with seven minutes to play in the first half. Then, the Mustangs went on a 10-0, getting right back into the game. “We got away from communicating offensively,” head coach Michael Smith said. “They were changing defenses it seemed like every time down the floor and trying to keep us off balance. We didn’t recognize it enough and we didn’t have the communication that we needed to. But the best thing is that we responded because it could have gotten really bad. That’s a testament to the experience of the players we currently have on the team.” The Lady Mustangs were able to grab the lead for a brief second before the ‘Cats got back out front and held a 37-34 halftime lead. Northwest did most of its scoring in the first half in the paint. Junior Annie Mathews and sophomore Tember Schechinger led the ‘Cats’ first-half scoring with eight points a piece, with most of their points coming in the paint. The defensive side was a different story in the post. The Lady Mustangs were able to grab seven offensive rebounds which led to six second chance points. “We knew that we had a size advantage against them coming in,” Smith said. “(Not
giving up offensive rebounds) was definitely an important figure we talked about at halftime.” After a first half dominated by post play, the key in the second half was the play of the Bearcats’ guards. The ‘Cats weren’t able to get a single three-pointer to fall in the first half, but got six to drop in the second half. Senior Monique Stevens hit three-of-four three-point jumpers she took in the second half and led Northwest with 15 points to go along with eight assists. The ‘Cats stayed in front the entire second half and were able to come away with the 78-72 victory. Schechinger chipped in with 14 points and Mathews recorded a double-double, with 11 points and 12 rebounds. Ariel Easton added 12 and Ashleigh Nelson scored 11 points as five Bearcats finished in double figures. “With the offense that we’re running now, it’s about who’s comfortable in what spot,” Smith said. “I think that showed overall today in the scoring column. We had so much balance from our scoring. I think that’s important. We’ve got to work together and that’s what I’ve been trying to preach to this group from Day 1. We have to work as a team if we are going to have success. I think we took the first step toward that today.” This victory is the ’Cats’ first conference victory, improving to 1-3 in MIAA play and 4-7 overall. The Cats were originally scheduled to play Northeastern State tonight at Bearcat Arena, but the game has been postponed to a date and time to be announced later. Northwest will be back in action at Nebraska-Kearney at 5:30 p.m. Thursday evening.
Strong ‘D’ not enough for Jays By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff Writer
Northeast Nodaway’s shots didn’t fall Friday night, and it cost the Bluejays in their 49-38 loss to Mercer. The Cardinals came out of the gate red hot, hitting seven of their first eight shots and out-scored the Bluejays 17-7 in the first quarter. After the Cardinals hit their first five shots, Bluejays’ head coach Chaim Jenkins took a timeout. “Pretty much defensively, we were getting them in good position,” Jenkins said. “They just had a really good shooting night.” The defense started to step up in the second quarter, but the Jays trailed 27-13 at the half. “There was not a whole lot of yelling
going on at halftime,” Jenkins said. “Offensively, we were having good looks and defensively we getting them where we wanted.” The big scoring first quarter was too much for the Bluejays to overcome. Even though they didn’t let the lead balloon any higher, the Jays lost 49-38. “We weren’t having our shots fall,” Jenkins said. “That’s not really indicative of a home game. Normally we are a little bit on fire here.” Junior Garet Jackson led the Bluejays in scoring with 15 points. Senior Joel Scroggie added 10 points. Jackson and Scroggie accounted for 19 of the Bluejays’ 25 secondhalf points. The Bluejays hit the road for their next game. They play at Union Star tonight with tip-off scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Jefferson ends break with pair of convincing wins The Jefferson boys and girls swept last Friday night’s double-header with Mercer. The Lady Eagles improved to 4-5 on the season with their 49-22 win while the
boys (8-1) claimed a 76-42 victory. Both teams are back in action at Stanberry on Tuesday night. The girls will take the court first at 6 p.m. while the boys will follow with a 7:30 p.m. tip-off.
Points in the paint
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Northeast Nodaway senior forward Joel Scroggie scored 10 points, including this floater for two as three Mercer defenders look on, in the Bluejays’ 49-38 loss last Friday night.
Athletes of the Week Garet Jackson
Jackson led Northeast Nodaway with 15 points in the Bluejays’ 49-38 loss to Mercer last Friday. He teamed with Joel Scroggie to score 19 of his team’s 26 second-half points.
DeShaun Cooper
Cooper scored 20 points on the strength of five three-pointers to go along with six rebounds and four assists to lead Northwest in its 81-77 loss to Central Oklahoma.
Annie Mathews
Mathews recorded a double-double, 12 rebounds and 11 points and was one of five Bearcats to score in double figures during their 78-72 win over Central Oklahoma.
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Strong first half not enough for Northwest By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff Writer
The Bearcats could not defend their spotless conference record last Saturday against Central Oklahoma, as the Mustangs came away with an 81-77 victory and gave Northwest its first conference loss (3-1). The Mustangs came out of the gates fast against the ‘Cats and held the lead throughout most of the first half. The Cats were unable to stop the three-point shot in the first half, as the Mustangs hit eight three-pointer in the first half, seven of which came before the under-10-minute timeout. The ‘Cats still trailed 3529 at the under five minute timeout, but then went on a run to grab a halftime lead, 45-40. Senior guard DeShaun Cooper led that charge to get the Bearcats the lead. He hit three 3s in the final five minutes of the half, including one which beat the halftime buzzer. The Mustangs tied it up at 52 with just under 15 minutes to play before grabbing a lead they would not relinquish as part of a 28-10 run. “We didn’t come out ready to start (the second half),” head coach Ben McCollum said. “We were for-
tunate to finish the first half up five. We didn’t come out ready, even to start the game. From the very opening tip, we just didn’t come out with the sense of urgency that you need to win in this conference.” Though the ‘Cats were able to keep it close, they were never able to get within more than four points. “We never really competed that hard or as hard as they did,” McCollum said. Cooper led the Bearcats in scoring with 20 points, 15 of which came from behind the three-point arc, as well as six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Senior Bryston Williams scored 18 points and hit four 3s in the contest to go along with four rebounds, two assists and two steals. Down low, senior Dillon Starzl scored 15 points and hauled in six rebounds. Free throws and rebounding were problems for the Bearcats. Northwest shot 11of-22 from the charity stripe and were out-rebounded 3524, including 10 Mustang offensive rebounds that led to 15 second-chance points. “They totally out played us in every aspect of the game, throughout the whole game,” McCollum said. “We were fortunate to hit a couple shots, and all of the sudden you get yourself the
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lead, it’s a little fool’s gold.” The ‘Cats fall to 8-5 overall and will not be back on
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From the Sidelines
Here comes the hoops With the college football season finish- Haith’s squad, who finished their inaugural ing up tonight with the Florida State/Au- season in the SEC with an 11-7 mark, good burn BCS Championship game, and the for a fifth place tie. I think the Tigers will NFL in full playoff mode culminating with improve on this finish and I look for them the Super Bowl on Feb. 2, football gives to contend for the SEC championship. way to lots of basketball Coach Bill Self’s Kansas on all levels during the squad is aiming for its 10th month of January. consecutive Big 12 conferAt the high school ence title. The Jayhawks level, hoops season hits open conference play on high gear with lots of conWednesday with a road conference and tournament test with Oklahoma. Like matchups. By the end of Mizzou, Kansas also has sevthis month, we will have a en conference games on its much clearer idea of how schedule in January. Kansas the Spoofhounds, Trojans, finished 14-4 in the Big 12 Rockets, Longhorns, Ealast season. gles, Bluejays and MusMy final note of the week tangs are going to finish is good news for those of within their respective us who enjoy summer and conferences, and potential warm weather. As of today, Steve Hartman district tournament seeds there are only 39 days until Staff Writer will begin to materialize. pitchers and catchers begin At the college level, the reporting to spring trainNorthwest Missouri State men and women ing. I believe the 2014 season holds lots have a key conference matchup tonight at of promise for both Royals and Cardinals home with Northeastern Oklahoma. Two fans. The Royals open the season March more pivotal MIAA contests, with Central 31 in Detroit, while the Redbirds also open Missouri on the 18th, and Missouri South- their season on March 31 in Cincinnati. ern on the 22nd, highlight the Bearcat This is my personal favorite part of the home schedule for January. yearly sports season, as the NCAA basketMissouri dives headlong into SEC play ball tournament (aka March Madness) is on Wednesday with a home matchup with followed up by the beginning of the MLB Georgia. This will be the first of seven season. Mix in some warmer spring weathJanuary conference games for coach Frank er and it gets no better for this fan.
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Northeast Nodaway sophomore Dallis Coffelt put up a layup in between a pair of Mercer defenders in the Lady Jays’ 54-34 loss last Friday night. Northeast Nodaway was out-scored 17-3 in what turned out to be the decisive second quarter.
Northeast Nodaway downed by Mercer behind 3-point barrage By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff Writer
Strong three-point shooting from the Mercer Lady Cardinals led to defeat for the Northeast Nodaway Lady Bluejays. The Lady Jays played a tough first quarter, only trailing 15-12, but the second quarter was a different story. The Jays were out-scored 17-3 in the second quarter and trailed 32-15 at the half. “We left a lot of easy shots up on the rim and couldn’t get anything to go in,” head coach Vance Proffitt said. “We didn’t do a very good job of executing and finishing the play, but I thought our effort was pretty good.” Despite a small surge in the fourth quar-
ter, out-scoring the Lady Cardinals 13-9, the Lady Jays lost 54-34. The Lady Cardinals hit nine three-point shots in the game, four of which came during the big second-quarter run. “They were making threes and we were missing twos almost every possession and that doesn’t turn out very well,” Proffitt said. “We have got to do a better job getting through the screens. We were getting screened where we shouldn’t almost every time.” Junior Briana Riley led the Lady Jays in scoring with 11. Sophomore Talina Nelson chipped in with six points. The Lady Jays travel to Union Star to take on the Lady Trojans tonight. Tip-off for that game will be at 6 p.m.
Chiefs suffer stunning 45-44 loss By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Andy Reid was almost speechless. He couldn’t explain how the Chiefs’ defense blew a 28-point lead or why Kansas City’s offense could only generate two field goals in the final 28 and one-half minutes. He didn’t bother to reflect on how a promising 9-0 start turned into yet another first-game playoff exit for the Chiefs. And he didn’t dare try to put a bitter 45-44 wild-card loss into historical context. “Sometimes the game speaks for itself, so you don’t have to say a whole lot,” Reid said when asked about his postgame locker room speech. For the Chiefs (11-6), it was a crushing blow to a remarkable turnaround season. They went from 2-14 to the playoffs behind Reid and new quarterback Alex Smith and for most of the first three quarters, it looked as though Kansas City would finally end a two-decade drought without a postseason win. And when the Chiefs led 38-10 with 13:39 left in the third quarter, it seemed all but assured that they would be
moving on next weekend. Instead, they watched helplessly as Andrew Luck led the Colts on the secondlargest playoff comeback in NFL history. Kansas City closed the season with three straight losses, six losses in their last eight games, and a record-breaking eighth straight playoff loss. “Any time you’re leading like that and then have them battle back and then take it and losing by a point is a tough pill to swallow,” Smith said. Especially on a day on which Luck appeared to be pressing. The Colts quarterback turned things around by throwing three of his four touchdowns in the second half, scoring on a fumble return and connecting with a wide-open T.Y. Hilton on a 64-yard go-ahead TD pass. “One for the ages,” Indianapolis coach Chuck Pagano said. Indianapolis (12-5) became only the second playoff team to rally from that big a deficit, according to STATS. Buffalo rallied from 32 points to beat Houston 41-38 in January 1993, though that one required overtime. See CHIEFS, Page 9
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Dream season for Chiefs ends in nightmare fashion By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In many ways, it was a dream, going from 2-14 and the first overall pick in the NFL draft to 11-5 and a spot in the playoffs. Yet it ended in just about the most nightmarish way possible, a second-half collapse and another round of postseason heartache. No wonder the Kansas City Chiefs had such a hard time summarizing their season in the minutes and hours after a gut-wrenching 45-44 loss at Indianapolis on Saturday. “You know, I certainly think you use this as drive,” Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith said Sunday between wrap-up meetings. “I think it’s good to be playing in these types of games. I think these types of games are contagious. You go back to playing in just regular-season games, you want that itch. You have that urge to try to get to these types of games. “I certainly think that foundation has been laid for next year.” The Chiefs have lost a record eight straight postseason games,
their last victory coming after the 1993 season. Most of the current members of the team were in grade school, some of them still in diapers, the last time Kansas City tasted any success in games that truly matter. It appeared for most of three quarters Saturday that things would be different. Kansas City had raced to a 31-10 halftime lead, and then took advantage of an interception early in the third quarter to tack on a touchdown that several Chiefs would say later should have sealed the game. The problem was that they started playing as if the game was in hand, while Andrew Luck and the playoff-tested Colts started to play as though they had nothing to lose. The result was a furious secondhalf rally, one made possible by unconscionable breakdowns by a defense that was spectacular during a 9-0 start. Luck torched a secondary that wilted when it faced
premier quarterbacks such as Peyton Manning and Philip Rivers, and his 64-yard touchdown pass to T.Y. Hilton with 4:21 left finished off the second-biggest comeback in NFL playoff history — Buffalo rallied from 32 points down to beat Houston in overtime in 1993. “I sat there and talked to them this morning and there were a lot of long faces,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Sunday. “They had their hearts ripped out. I can work with that. “They should hurt. That’ll make us better.” The last time the Chiefs won a playoff game, Joe Montana was the quarterback and the Titans
were still the Oilers. Since then, there have been all manner of playoff heartbreaks: — The Chiefs missed three field goals against Indianapolis after the 1995 season, when they had gone 13-3 during the regular season and harbored championship aspirations. — Two years later, the Chiefs lost a 14-10 heartbreaker to the Denver Broncos, who would go on to beat the Green Bay Packers and win the Super Bowl. — After the 2003 season, the Chiefs lost again to the Colts in a game featuring two of the league’s premier offenses — and in which neither team punted. But the way that Kansas City melted down Saturday may trump all of those disappointments. “It’s hard to put in words, to lose a game that we clearly had control over,” said linebacker Derrick Johnson, who is now 0-3 in playoff games in his nine-year career. “Coming from having the first
pick last year to making the playoff this year, we did accomplish some things. At the same time, our standard is very high and this one hurts.” While players were going through final meetings Sunday, Reid met briefly with reporters at the team’s practice facility. He said that no changes are planned for his coaching staff, though he did acknowledge that some of his assistants would probably be pursued by other teams. Reid also said it was too early to discuss personnel issues. The Chiefs have most of their key players already under contract for next season. Their biggest loss figures to be left tackle Branden Albert, whom they gave the franchise tag to this season. But even he may be allowed to leave in free agency with viable replacements already in house. They’ll be seeking help at wide receiver and in the defensive backfield in free agency and the draft, but for the most part, the Chiefs should return intact next season. When they will attempt to make another run at ending two decades of playoff futility.
Chiefs lose as Colts rally from historical deficit in Indy Continued from Page 8 The teams’ 1,049 combined total yards is an NFL postseason record and their 89 combined points is third. Luck was an incredible mix of good and bad, finishing 29-of-45 for 443 yards, the second-highest yardage total in franchise history for a playoff game. He also matched his career high with three interceptions. Hilton broke franchise playoff records with 13 catches and 224 yards and also caught two TDs. “I don’t know if it ever crossed
my mind on how it would be remembered,” Luck said after winning his first playoff game four seasons quicker than it took his predecessor, Peyton Manning. “When I took a knee, and you feel the buzz and the energy of the crowd and see your teammates’ faces, that makes it special.” For Kansas City, it was another brief, miserable postseason appearance. And the Chiefs went home beaten up, too. All-pro running back Jamaal Charles left with a concussion on the opening possession. Knile Da-
vis, Charles’ backup, left in the fourth quarter with what appeared to be a left knee injury. Receiver Donnie Avery and cornerback Brandon Flowers were knocked out with second-half concussions and linebacker Justin Houston, who had just returned from an elbow injury this week, was out with a knee injury when Hilton caught the winning pass. That put even more pressure on Smith, who was 30-of-46 for 378 yards with four TDs and no interceptions, but lost a fumble that led to a touchdown for Indy. He had a chance to rally the Chiefs
after Hilton’s score and wound up throwing to Dwayne Bowe — who caught the ball but was out of bounds — on fourth-and-11 with 1:55 to play. Indy, down 31-10 at halftime, made it worse when Luck’s first pass of the second half was picked off and returned to the Indy 18. Three plays later, it was 38-10. But Luck had plenty of time to make the jaw-dropping rally. With Indy going no-huddle, Luck started throwing at will. He eventually caught the Chiefs’ defense off-guard when Donald Brown scored on a 10-yard run
to start the rally. Then Luck capitalized on the fumble by hooking with Brown on a three-yard TD pass to make it 38-24. After Luck’s third interception turned into a 42-yard field goal, he answered with a 12-yard TD pass to cut the deficit to 41-31 after three quarters. Even when Eric Berry jarred the ball loose from Brown near the goal line, Luck had the answer. He scooped up the bouncing ball and squirted through the middle to make it 41-38. And after a Kansas City field, goal, Luck found Hilton to win it.
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As 2013 comes to a clThis was the deal in last week’s final column. Chen Yuechen from China won the 2013 Richard Freeman Junior Deal of the
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Year from the International Bridge Press Association for his defense against six no-trump. Chen (West) had guessed to lead his club three. South had taken East’s nine with his ace, played a diamond to dummy’s jack, and run the heart jack. West had won and found the killing return of his remaining diamond. South won in his hand, cashed his club king, and led a spade, planning to finesse dummy’s 10. He needed two dummy entries: one to repeat the heart finesse and the second to cash the 13th heart. But Chen put up his spade jack, a textbook entry-killing play that defeated the contract. I wonder how many readers noticed that South missed an interesting chance to make his contract. Before playing a diamond to dummy’s jack, declarer should have cashed his diamond ace. This looks pointless, but not when West started with only two diamonds. When he got in with his heart ace, he would
have been endplayed. If West returned a club, South could get four tricks in the suit by playing low from the dummy to collect three spades, one heart, four diamonds and four clubs. Or, if West shifted to a low spade, declarer would win with dummy’s 10 and have his second dummy entry. He would win three spades, three hearts, four diamonds and two clubs. This is called a Dentist’s Coup -- extracting the safe exit card(s) from a defender’s hand.
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NEWS BRIEFS Vow leads to kindness KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman who spent the year after her 40th birthday performing 40 acts of goodness to honor people who made a mark in her life is inspiring others. Tami Greenberg of Prairie Village, Kan., volunteered so many hours around town that she lost count and called her project “A Year of Being 40 and Grateful. Her story moved Danny O’Neill, founder of the Roasterie, a Kansas City coffee roaster, to tears. He announced a plan to “commit to 50+ random, but somewhat planned, acts of kindness” and encouraged others to do the same in his annual Christmas letter. Others also were inspired. A work colleague was moved to send a letter of thanks to an old teacher/coach from high school. Another woman shared the article on her Facebook page and started her own project for her 40th birthday.
Record cold crushes U.S.
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Praise His name
The Rev. Jason Hawk addresses his congregation Sunday during morning worship services at The Bridge on South Main Street. The renovated former furniture store is the new home of a non-denominational evangelical church in Maryville formerly located on East Third.
The Bridge offers crossing to faithful By TONY BROWN News editor
After two years of fundraising and construction, the non-denominational Maryville congregation calling itself The Bridge has moved into its new worship center at 1122 South Main. This Sunday marked the fifth week since the 100-member church moved from its former location on East Third Street, which years ago was known as the Maryville Assembly of God before being re-named Community of Faith. Like Community, The Bridge is not formally a member of any denomination but maintains its “historical affiliation” with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, a group of loosely associated churches that forms the world’s largest body of Pentecostal believers. Pentecostalism is a form of Christianity that emerged in the early 20th century and that emphasizes the importance of a direct personal encounter with God through baptism by the Holy Spirit. The Rev. Jason Hawk, who became The Bridge’s pastor in September, said the fully refurbished 22,000 squarefoot facility — formerly a furniture store — represents an opportunity for the church both to expand its membership and the scope of its ministry. “We are really fortunate and very pleased with the facility and the way it turned out,” said Hawk, who said the role of the church will continue to stress connecting families and individuals with the “word of God” through worship and religious training that is relevant to “the way people are living today.” Don’t expect to find stained glass, responsive readings, organ music and a formal liturgy at The Bridge. Wor-
ship there places a heavy emphasis on informality, simplicity and communal experience. In place of a pulpit and an altar there is a large stage outfitted with drums, a Kurzweil keyboard, electric guitars and two large projection screens that flash either hymn lyrics or patterns of abstract color. Hawk, dressed in a dark shirt, dark jeans and polished boots, preaches from behind a simple black music stand. The congregation shares in most of the singing, which ranges from hymnbook standards like “Jesus Paid it All”
“We are really fortunate and very pleased with the facility and the way it turned out.” – Rev. Jason Hawk to chant-like praise choruses sung to rock rhythms and containing lyrics like “Clothed in rainbows of living color, flashes of lightning, rolls of thunder. Blessing and honor, strength and glory and power be to you the only wise king.” Hawk said such non-traditional elements underscore the Bridge’s commitment to doing whatever it takes to transform lives through the saving power of God. In other words, the worship space itself is intended as a sort of blank slate decorated by the lives of the congregation rather than conventional liturgical trappings. “Our emphasis in our worship isn’t so much the building as our personal lives,” Hawk said. “We want to be flexible and at the same time honor God.”
In that same vein, Hawk said The Bridge’s mission is to “build leaders for life,” especially with regard to equipping young people for roles as effective husbands and wives, mothers and fathers. “We have three stated purposes,” Hawk said, “reaching people who are far from God, equipping them for kingdom living and sending them into the world to make a difference.” By “kingdom living,” Hawk said he meant developing a relationship with God that fosters sound life decisions and the wise management of one’s spiritual, physical and material resources. “We definitely see this place as an equipping center,” said Hawk, who explained that Sunday worship is just one facet of the church’s strategy for ministry. Other offerings at The Bridge include a Sunday morning Children’s Church for youngsters in first-throughthird grades and a Sunday evening service for older children and teenagers. The overall theme for The Bridge’s youth ministry is “Building Leaders for Life.” In addition to participating in the adult Sunday service, church members participate in small group sessions, which Hawk said are generally held at least twice a month in private homes. Besides the main sanctuary, the new church embraces a large carpeted area designed for receptions and other gatherings. There is also a still-unfinished activity space that, among other things, houses an indoor range used by Centershot, the church’s “archery ministry.” Offices, classrooms and a nursery fill the remainder of the space. Installation of a kitchen and adjoining food preparation area remains in the planning stages.
Odds long for Medicaid expansion By DAVID A. LIEB
The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Medicaid expansion remains a priority for Gov. Jay Nixon as Missouri lawmakers open their annual legislative session this week. Yet the prospects of that occurring appear slim. Like last year, Missouri’s Democratic governor and Republican legislative leaders are entering the session
with a wide rhetorical and ideological gap on the question of whether Missouri should expand Medicaid eligibility to thousands of lower-income adults. Republican lawmakers, who have instead called for Medicaid “reform,” may even have trouble agreeing on what that should entail — raising the potential that no Medicaid legislation gets passed during the session that runs from Wednesday
through May 16. Missouri’s Medicaid program currently covers more than 850,000 people. Nixon’s administration estimates an additional 300,000 — many of them uninsured — could eventually be added to the program if Missouri takes advantage of a federal health care law that pays extra money to states that raise adult Medicaid eligibility. Missouri would have to
cover adults earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level, an annual income of about $32,500 for a family of four. The state currently cuts off eligibility at less than $4,500 annually for that same family. Twenty-five other states already have expanded Medicaid eligibility and will be getting the bonus payments this year. Nixon lists a Medicaid See MEDICAID, Page 6
(AP) — As if anyone in frozen-to-the-bone Maryville needed reminding, snow-covered roads, high winds and ice were creating dangerous driving conditions Sunday from the Dakotas to Missouri to Delaware amidst a phenomenon weather-watchers are callling a “polar vortex.” The counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air will affect more than half of the continental U.S. throug Monday and Tuesday with wind chill warnings stretching from Montana to Alabama. “It’s just a dangerous cold,” National Weather Service meteorologist Butch Dye in Missouri said. Several states in the Midwest were getting walloped with up to a foot of new snow, and residents shoveled out and stocked up on groceries before bitterly cold temperatures set in overnight. Five to 7 inches fell overnight in the Chicago area, while 8 to 10 inches was expected to fall in central Illinois, Indiana and Michigan later Sunday. Forecasts also called for several inches in western Tennessee and 1 to 3 inches in Kentucky.
Museum HQ moves JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A museum featuring more than a century’s worth of military artifacts is moving to a new location in Jefferson City. The Museum of Missouri Military History opened in 1999 and sees about 3,000 visitors annually. But officials hope that number will grow this summer when the revamped attraction is tentatively scheduled to reopen at the entrance of the Missouri National Guard’s Ike Skelton Training Site. The attraction had been housed in the oldest remaining building from the site’s days as the Algoa prison. But many items didn’t fit well in the space, including a homemade Philippine cannon made of ironwood that was too large and a World War I German mortar that was too heavy. Now, Curator Charles Machon along with interns, volunteers and Guard members will sort and re-create exhibits to fit into the new museum space and its 25 new display boxes. Items such as the World War I German mortar will be out for public viewing, packaged with uniforms, manuals and other antiques from the era.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD Pope gets recording VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead. “What are the nuns doing that they can’t answer the phone?” Francis asked in the message he left, the recording of which was obtained by Spain’s El Mundo newspaper and broadcast on Italian media Saturday. “This is Pope Francis. I wanted to offer you greetings for the end of the year. Maybe I’ll try to call again later. May God bless you,” he said. Francis has made a habit out of calling people out of the blue, often checking in with ordinary folk who have written him about their hardships. He places the calls himself, as evidenced by the message.
Official resigns in Klingon INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (AP) — Call it a politician boldly going where no one has gone before. On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from the Indian Trail Town Council in North Carolina. Waddell says he opted to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race on the “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, as an inside joke. Mayor Michael Alvarez is calling the letter unprofessional. Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015. Waddell says he also needs to devote time to mounting a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party’s platform against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.