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Volume 104 • Number 17 • Monday, January 27, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Campus fitness center proposed By BRANDON ZENNER Northwest Missourian
The campus building formerly known as the Robert P. Foster Aquatic Center may soon become home for Northwest Missouri State University students seeking a different kind of workout. A proposed plan could transform the now-closed indoor swimming pool into a new fitness center by fall 2015. The proposal was developed by a group of university personnel consisting of Athletic Director Mel Tjeerdsma; Matt Baker, vice president of student affairs; Robert Lade, director of recreational
sports; as well as Matthew Symonds, health and physical education professor. “For a school of 7,000 students, what we have for a fitness center is not very much,” Tjeerdsma said. “This is a trend that several universities are doing; they are beefing up their recreational fitness facilities. We think it’s going to be a win-win for everybody.” Some of the center’s features would include a 30-foot climbing wall, human abilities and performance labs, a dance and yoga studio, as well as multiple levels that would host cardio equipment. According to Baker, the new See FITNESS, Page 5
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Student fitness center
Pictured is an artist’s rendering of a proposed student fitness center at Northwest Missouri State University, which would be located in a renovated Robert P. Foster Aquatic Center, a facility closed two years ago due to budget cuts.
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Recycling research
Linda Laderoute, environmental planner at the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments, is conducting a recycling survey through March 15 that will provide local governments with data needed to apply for grants and establish recycling programs tailored to the needs of local residents.
Planner seeks to sell region on recycling By TONY BROWN News editor
PHOTOS BY TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
Celebrating St. Gregory’s Children at St. Gregory’s School got a head start celebrating Catholic Schools Week on Friday with a “100th Day of School” party. The special week of activities had its official beginning on Sunday with a pancake breakfast served up by Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White and other volunteers from St. Gregory Barbarigo Church. White, shown here at the pancake grill, entertained youngsters by tossing flapjacks several feet through the air so that the children could — usually — catch them
on their plates. Following the pancake feed and morning Mass, St. Gregory’s staff conducted tours of the school for prospective students and their families. Also pictured taking part in Friday’s 100th Day of School activities are Luke Allen and Channing Harbin, shown holding “100” coloring book pages. Aiden Vasquez, Lila Steiner, Kori Quinlin, Halle Zimmerman and Grace Stiens got into the spirit of things by making and modeling “100” glasses. The
teacher is Jenny Renshaw. Catholic Schools Week events were to continue this morning with Maryville Mayor Jim Fall reading a proclamation in the St. Gregory’s gymnasium. Other activities planned for students throughout the week include writing letters to area priests, nuns, monks and parish volunteers; collecting donations for world hunger relief; a school-wide spelling bee on Friday; and field trips featuring a movie, roller skating and bowling.
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Linda Laderoute has a passion for recycling. Sure, it’s her profession, but it’s also a belief that the quality of life human beings create for themselves is deeply connected to the way we share and exploit the resources of our planet home. Laderoute, the environmental planner for the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments, is the first to admit that recycling can be a tough sell in Nodaway and surrounding counties. For decades in rural north Missouri, solid waste was simply called trash, and it was something you loaded into the back of a pickup truck and hauled to the nearest gully. That mindset, Laderoute admits, can be tough to overcome.
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“People here have an independent spirit,” said the California native, who later spent many years on the East Coast before moving to Maryville. “When you tell people they have to do something, they’re going to say, ‘Well, no I don’t.’” But the reality, Laderoute says, is that the days simply stacking bags full of unsorted garbage along the curb or dumping that old refrigerator out in the country somewhere are over. Landfills fill up, and tougher environmental regulations are forcing a growing number to close. The city of Maryville, for example, pays tens of thousands of dollars each year for monitoring its former landfill site north of town, and would face huge punitive fines if it failed to meet standards imposed by See RECYCLING, Page 5
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