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Volume 104 • Number 38 • Wednesday, February 26, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO • 75¢
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Super spellers
The top four finishers at the 2014 Nodaway County Spelling Bee are, left to right, 1st place, Hayden Mildward, Maryville Middle School; 2nd place, Hunter Johnson, Maryville Middle School; 3rd place, Kobe Hendrix, Nodaway-Holt; and 4th place, Ryan Riley, North Nodaway.
Mildward wins county bee By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
Time to file
Maryville attorney Doug Thomson, left, submits filing papers Tuesday to Nodaway County Clerk Beth Walker at the County Administration Center. Yesterday was the first day candidates could file to have their names included on the August primary election ballot.
Filing period opens for August primary STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The 2014 campaign season in Missouri officially opened Tuesday as scores of hopeful politicians lined up at the secretary of state’s office to fill out paperwork that will put their names on the August primary ballot. The first day of Missouri’s month-long
candidate filing period is typically the busiest, partly because of tradition and partly because opening-day filers get to participate in a random drawing that determines who is listed first on the ballot for each office. Local candidates filing at the Nodaway County clerk’s office Tuesday for See FILING, Page 6
Fourteen competitors from districts countywide gathered at North Nodaway R-VI High School Tuesday for the 2014 Nodaway County Spelling Bee, and Maryville Middle School’s Hayden Mildward emerged as the champion. The second-place finisher was Hunter Johnson of Maryville Middle School, while Nodaway-Holt’s Kobe Hendrix finished third, and North Nodaway’s Ryan Riley captured fourth place. Eleven of the 14 competitors were eliminated from contention in the first round, and Hendrix was forced to take his seat in round four, leaving the Maryville Middle School classmates, seventh-grader Mildward and fifth-grader Johnson, to vie
for the crown. Following a spirited seven-round duel, Johnson misspelled “massage,” and Mildward clinched the championship by correctly spelling “earthenware.” The eleven competitors eliminated in round one reentered the competition as finalists for fourth place. Another multi-round duel developed between Nodaway-Holt’s Jasmine Parker, St. Gregory’s Patrick Baker and North Nodaway’s Ryan Riley. After several rounds of competition, Ryan overcame Jasmine to clinch fourth place. Hayden and Hunter, the top two finishers, will represent Nodaway County in the regional spelling bee, which will take place Saturday, March 8, at St. Francis Xavier Parish Center in St. Joseph. Kobe and Ryan will
serve as alternates. Jefferson C-123 was represented in the competition by fifth-grader Trevor McQueen and sixth-grader Megan Galbraith. Maryville Middle School’s representatives were seventh-grader Hayden Mildward and fifthgrader Hunter Johnson. Nodaway-Holt R-VII contestants were fifth-graders Jasmine Parker and Kobe Hendrix. Northeast Nodaway RV’s representatives were fifth-grader Anne Schieber and sixth-grader Reed McIntyre, while North Nodaway R-VI was represented by sixth-graders Ryan Riley and Wyatt O’Riley. St. Gregory’s School contestants were fifth-grader Gunnar Grispino and eighth-grader Patrick Baker, and West Nodaway R-I sent seventh-graders Madalyn Walker and Kassidy Brady.
Local student shares national debate title MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Northwest Missouri State University Speaking Bearcats forensics team earned more championship hardware last weekend at the inaugural Public Communication Speech and Debate League National Tournament at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. The duo of Emily Meyers, a freshman public relations major from Maryville, and Nick Van Ross, a freshman marketing major from Lee’s Summit, took the national title in the Public Forum Debate category. Meyers and Van Ross also placed second and third, respectively, in the Public Forum Speaker category. Now 19, Meyers graduated last year from Maryville High School where she participated in a number of National Forensic League meets. “I really enjoy performing, but I also enjoy debate because it’s performance mixed with knowledge,” she said. In addition to pairing with Van Ross in the Public Forum Debate class, Meyers also competes in the categories of persuasion, impromptu speaking, prose reading and
communication analysis, She was partnered with Van Ross earlier in the school year after the Northwest debate coach decided they would make a good team. “He’s a very good partner,” Meyers said of Van Ross. “We get along very well. He makes really aggressive arguments, and I make it sound pretty. He’s the debater, and I’m the speaker.” Also at Indianola, Northwest’s Tristan Newell, a freshman English major from Liberty, placed fifth in Radio Broadcasting as the Bearcats finished third in the overall team sweepstakes category and second in debate team sweepstakes. “Northwest (had) just three novice competitors in two events, but those students had an amazingly strong showing against much larger teams from Simpson, Ohio, Marietta and Ottawa,” Director of Forensics Brian Swafford said. “The team of Emily Meyers and Nick Van Ross won all preliminary rounds of Public Forum and were the top-seeded team going into the final round.” See MEYERS, Page 6
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Emily Meyers, Maryville, was half of a Northwest Missouri State University Public Forum Debate duo that earned first-place honors over the weekend at the inaugural Public Communication Speech and Debate League National Tournament at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
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