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Volume 104 • Number 24 • Wednesday, February 5, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO • 75¢
Board members begin making 2014 fair plans By TONY BROWN News Editor
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Prepare for the fair
Above: Nodaway County Fair Board members who recently attended the Missouri Association of Fairs and Festivals meeting in Columbia are: front row, left to right, Ellyn Fuller, Linda Shelby, Gayla Striplin, Tonya Wilmes and Kathy McPherson. Back row, left to right, Rick Fuller, Dr. Vince Shelby, Mike Striplin, Steve Mozier, Tom Martin, Twyla Martin and Brian McPherson. Left: Nashville recording artist Rickie Lee Tanner has been booked as the Saturday night headliner during this summer’s Nodaway County Fair, which will take place July 17-19 on the courthouse square. RICKIE LEE TANNER PHOTO
In the midst of a snowy, cold northwest Missouri winter, it’s comforting to think that planning for this summer’s Nodaway County Fair is already underway. A dozen members of the Nodaway County Fair Board recently traveled to Columbia for the annual Missouri Association of Fairs and Festivals meeting, a gathering that attracted representatives from nearly 200 fairs and other public celebrations statewide. Brian McPherson, who has been a member of the local fair board since the 1980s, said the convention is a chance for fair organizers from around the state to talk and share ideas while meeting with entertainers, booking agents, food concession owners and carnival operators. While in Columbia, McPherson said the Nodaway group also participat-
ed in a number of seminars, including one about how to more effectively use the fair’s website as a marketing and information tool. Another session included a discussion about how to ensure the safety of animals, exhibitors and audience members during youth livestock shows, which in Nodaway County begin a couple of days before the fair and continue through the week at the Community Building just west of town. “This is a chance for people to see what’s new in the industry and to learn about things that will make our fairs better,” McPherson said. One gratifying lesson McPherson said the local group learned was that, in many respects, Nodaway County has got this fair thing figured out. “That was the best part of the whole deal,” he said. “When we started coming to this, nobody knew where See FAIR, Page 6
Winter comes home to roost across Missouri By Associated Press
A winter storm bore down on Missouri Tuesday, dumping enough snow to make roads treacherous and forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights and hundreds of schools.
Service’s office in the Kansas City suburb of Pleasant Hill. He said the heaviest snow was expected in a band from the Kansas City area through Macon and into central Illinois. Accumulations of 2 to 4 inches were expected in
‘By Thursday morning, temperatures were expected to drop to 10 to 15 degrees below zero.’ Locally, schools closed Tuesday in Nodaway County in anticipation of the storm or sent students home early as snowfall began to accumulate. Northwest Missouri State University cancelled classes as well and shuttered offices and departments except for essential staff. Children’s Mercy Heartland Specialty Clinics in St. Joseph were closed Tuesday and announced that staff would contact parents of children with appointments so they could reschedule. Eight to 11 inches of snow were forecast across a large portion of northern and central Missouri, said Mike July, a meteorologist with the National Weather
south-central and southwest Missouri. The weather service predicted about 3 inches for the St. Louis region. Kansas City International canceled about 50 departing flights and 40 arrivals, according to the airport’s website. The University of Missouri-Columbia had announced Monday that it would be shut down all day Tuesday. Weather also led Southeast Missouri State to close campuses in Sikeston, Kennett and Malden at noon. And Missouri education officials postponed a St. Louis public hearing on improving unaccredited school districts. Road conditions were ex-
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Neither rain, nor SNOW
Mail carrier Dan Feldhacker walks his route through the heavy snow that descended on Maryville Tuesday. Regardless of the bad weather, mail carriers still made their rounds during this week’s winter storm.
Carriers press on through snow By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff writer
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” reads the famous inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City, and that saying was proven right by the mail
carriers of Maryville on Tuesday. As heavy snowfall hit Maryville around 10 a.m., the mail still had to be delivered, and local postal carriers were up to the task. Preparation is key to any venture, especially those that take place in inclement weather. “Proper undergarments,” mail carrier Valerie Miller said. “Layers.
Light layers are a lot better than solid thick clothes because your body breathes through it better.” Mail carriers aren’t the only ones who need to prepare for the weather. Other Postal Service employees take precautions as well. “Instead of sending Maryville mail to St. Joe and on to Kansas See CARRIERS, Page 6
See WINTER, Page 9
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