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Volume 104 • Number 18 • Tuesday, January 28, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO • 75¢
Blame bitter cold on Polar Vortex - Part 2 By TONY BROWN News editor
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Less than ideal working conditions
A city of Maryville maintenance crew worked in bitter cold Monday to repair a broken water pipe at the intersection of Grant and Fillmore streets. Though a few lines have sprung leaks around town, Public Works Director C.E. Goodall said his department’s cold-weather woes have been mostly limited to frozen meters.
Midwest shivers as thermometers plummet again
If the weather this winter was a horror movie they could title it “Return of the Polar Vortex.” For the second time in two weeks Nodaway County — along with much of the rest of the Midwest — has become cloaked in an arctic chill sweeping down from northeastern Canada. Temperatures plunged to just above zero both Sunday and Monday night with windchill readings of between 10 and 20 below. In what is becoming a brutally typical pattern — especially from the perspective the city’s pothole repair crew — highs were to zoom back into the 40s on Wednesday before settling in at a more seasonable range of 25 or 30 degrees toward the end of the week. Maryville Public Works Director C.E. Goodall said Monday that the cold weather has caused a few problems with frozen water meters and broken pipes, but nothing out of the ordinary. One city crew spent much of Monday morning repairing a broken water line at the intersection of Grant and Fillmore that produced a block-long crust of ice spreading south to Lincoln Street. “It’s just a matter of it being so cold,” Goodall said. “Also, with the weather freezing and heating up again, we’re getSee VORTEX, Page 3
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CHICAGO (AP) — Another winter day, another belowzero high for many parts of the Midwest. The deep freeze has returned, bringing with it wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, cancelations of schools and trains, and signs of resignation from parents forced to bring kids to work and residents who are tired of bundling up. “We had two (employees) call in because they couldn’t come to work because of the school closings and another called in sick,” said Kristelle Brister, the manager of a downtown Chicago Starbucks who had to bring her 9-yearold son into the store because his school was closed. “It’s hard.” A persistent weather pattern that’s driving Arctic air south forced temperatures to plummet overnight Sunday. The cold snap should begin to moderate by Wednesday afternoon.
‘Actual temperatures will range from the teens in northern Kentucky to doubledigits below zero in Minnesota, but even colder wind chills were expected — minus 43 in Minneapolis; minus 18 in Dayton, Ohio; minus 14 in Kansas City; and minus 3 in Louisville.’ By sunrise Monday, weather forecasters in Chicago were telling viewers that the high temperature for the day had already come and gone and that the low may reach minus 4 degrees with wind chills at 40 below. Meanwhile, at a 24-hour drugstore in Omaha, Neb., where wind chills were 21 below, Amy Henry said she was longing for warmer weather. “I just look at my (apartment) pool every day and say, ‘Oh, come on, summer,’” the 36-year-old store clerk said. Residents of the Dakotas dealt with dangerous cold and wind gusts Sunday that reached up to 60 mph, blowing snow to the point where it was nearly impossible to travel in some spots. On Monday, snow drifts kept Interstate 29 closed from Sioux Falls to the Canadian border. In Windom, southwestern Minnesota, drifting snow and whiteout conditions closed several highways Sunday, stranding about 70 people, including a bus full of hockey players, at a recreation center for the night.
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Jefferson C-123 fourth-grade teacher Terri Jermain helps Trevor McCrary edit a post on the class blog. The blog is a shared project involving fourth-graders at several Nodaway County schools.
Nodaway County youngsters blog their way to school success By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff writer
Fourth-graders from across Nodaway County have found a convenient way to stay connected to one another — blogging on the Internet. Youngsters taking part in the blog come from all seven public elementary schools in the county. A total of 210 students have access to the blog — short for web log — through kid-
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blog.org. The name of their page is Nodaway County Fourth Graders. “I think I saw it first on Twitter,” Jefferson C-123 fourth-grade teacher Terri Jermain said. “It was early in the year, and I thought it would be easy to set up. … I was pretty motivated to set it up when I saw that we could be checking out other students’ responses.” The blog was first used during Missouri Day last October when
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students at several schools were working on projects pertaining to Missouri history, geography and literature. “I’m glad Mrs. Jermain invited us to join her on her blog,” Northeast Nodaway R-V fourth-grade teacher Denise Henggeler said. “It has been a wonderful way for my students to practice non-fiction reading and writing.” See BLOG, Page 3
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