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Volume 104 • Number 3 • Monday, January 6, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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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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