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Volume 104 • Number 35 • Friday, February 21, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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High winds demolish hangars at airport Gusts reach 50 mph during late-winter storm By TONY BROWN News editor
Northwesterly winds gusting to nearly 50 mph blew into Maryville Thursday, downing limbs and trees and causing considerable havoc, especially at the Northwest Missouri Regional Airport, where two hangars were destroyed resulting in damage to three airplanes. The storm began around 9:30 a.m. as skies darkened and a steady rain turned into driving sleet. Just west of town across Highway 46 from the Maryville Country Club, what appeared to be a large grain bin was uprooted from its foundation and blown into a pasture. At the airport, a couple of miles further west, the wind leveled one hangar and tore the roof off another. Airport manager Kevin Rankin said the northernmost structure contained a Cessna 172 single-engine plane that he uses to give flying lessons along with a 1978 two-prop Piper Navajo owned by Northwest Missouri State University, which has long
been nicknamed “Bearcat 1.” The second hangar to the south contained a second Cessna 172, which Rankin said is privately owned. All three planes sustained damage, the extent of which had yet to be determined. The force of the wind at the airport was great enough to scatter lumber, pieces of corrugated metal and other debris eastward onto Hawk Road and across an adjoining field. Power lines serving the hangars were knocked down, and utility crews were dispatched in order to shut off the electricity to the affected structures. Rankin said a total of 22 planes are kept of the airport, and that all of them except the university craft are privately owned. Twenty of the planes are kept in hangars, which are also privately owned and constructed on land leased from the city of Maryville. Rankin said both the planes and hangars are insured by their owners, and that the city is not financially responsible for repairing the damage.
TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
Winds wreak havoc
A single-engine Cessna stands inside what remains of its hangar at Northwest Missouri Regional Airport. More severe winter weather barreled into Nodaway County Thursday, bringing rain, sleet and winds strong enough to bring down trees and damage structures.
Methodist Church reveals expansion plan for building By TONY BROWN News editor
After two years of prayer and preparation, the First United Methodist Church of Maryville has announced that it is moving forward with plans to raise $1.7 million over six years in order to add a new “welcome center” onto the north side of its 120-year-old house of worship. A recently announced capital campaign, set to begin this spring, calls for numerous other interior and exterior changes as well, including an elevator that the church’s pastor, the Rev. Scott Moon, says the building has needed “forever.” Also planned are a new tower-topped main entrance at the northwest corner of the existing church, an interior courtyard, handicapped-accessible restrooms, a revamped nursery and reconfigured classrooms.
The height of the hail
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Burlington Junction resident Cathy Mather captured this photograph from her porch, facing across the street to the city park, during the height of the brief hailstorm that surprised northwest Missouri Thursday morning. The hail was accompanied by damaging high winds, sleet, rain and falling temperatures throughout the region.
— Rev. Scott Moon
Wild weather blamed for line breaks By Steve Hartman Staff writer
Drastic swings in temperature during February are being blamed for a series of water line breaks within the city of Maryville. “We’ve had three major breaks in the past two weeks,” Maryville director of public works C.E. Goodall said. “All have been caused by shifts in the ground caused by the freeze/ thaw cycle.”
All three of these recent breaks have caused crews to work around the clock to restore service. In all cases, the crews worked through the night in less than ideal weather. The most recent break, in the 500 block of West Halsey, has been repaired, but the area was still under a boil advisory as of today. “We are testing the water at the Halsey location now, and we hope to rescind the boil advisory sometime today,” Goodall said.
‘We have improved dramatically when it comes to serving the needs of first-time worshippers and others looking for a church home’
Goodall is hopeful that late-winter temperatures will rise above freezing soon and stay there, which will stabilize the ground and prevent major shifts, which puts pressure on buried pipes. “Up until the last two weeks, it had been a pretty normal winter in terms of broken lines,” Goodall said. “Hopefully, temperatures will stabilize and stay above freezing, and the ground will quit shifting and putting pressure on the pipes.”
Moon said Thursday the campaign launch follows months of “work and prayer” during which lay leaders and rankand-file members have sought to more clearly define the church’s vision, ministry and role in the community. In addition to seeking divine guidance, Moon and his congregation also received some very down-to-earth advice from the Rev. Bob Farr, a “congregational excellence” specialist based in Columbia. Moon said Farr proved essential in helping the church take a hard look at its mission and ministry “before we even started talking about bricks and mortar.” With Farr’s help, the church signed off on five “prescriptions” of needed improvements that involved all aspects of its operation. Number five embraced the proposed new construction, which Moon said has been designed to reinforce See METHODIST Page 3
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