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Volume 104 • Number 40 • Friday, February 28, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
Matt Webb
Bruce Twaddle
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Greg McDanel
Twaddle says if McDanel is the Two state titles haven’t changed Watson builds it, man behind the Webb’s approach they will come master plan Maryville High School coach Matt Webb is a unique individual when it comes to his philosophy on how to build a successful prep football program. With the enviable record of 30 straight victories in his first two seasons at the helm of the MHS football program — which obviously led to consecutive state Class 3A championships — Webb, a former Spoofhound himself, says he knows that record cannot be sustained forever. “Our foundations don’t change,” he said recently in his somewhat cramped office adjacent to the team’s offseason workout area and locker room. “When we lose, and we will, sooner or later, our core foundations will not change. “We don’t talk about losing, ever; we talk about winning the day, every day,” the former William Jewell College player and NCAA coach said. Rather, the message Coach Webb delivers to his team is
Making a difference features by Jim Fall Executive editor
It’s a long way from the first tee at North Berwick in Scotland to what will soon become the first tee of a brand new course at Mozingo Lake in Missouri, but the two have quite a bit in common. For starters, Maryville dentist Dr. Bruce Twaddle was in Scotland for The Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s in 2012 when he had the opportunity to play at North Berwick, a golf course at the seaside community of East Lothian, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. Twaddle, an avid golfer who competes annually with a group of long-time Maryville friends for the mythical “Spoofhound Cup,” noticed a sign near the opening tee box that provided him with a new perspective — on the game itself, and for his hometown. Almost as soon as the caddie pointed it out, the prover-
See WEBB Page 10A
See TWADDLE Page 8A
When Northwest Missouri State University graduate Greg McDanel signed on to be the Maryville city manager two years ago, he already knew quite a bit about the community. He knows a lot more now. And he finds new challenges almost every day. “Actually, I would say things have gone better than I expected they might. This community has a lot of special things working in its behalf,” he said. “The city council has been demanding, but they are progressive, and set some lofty goals — and we have accomplished some of them already.” McDanel is quick to identify the council’s adoption of the comprehensive plan developed for the city “as the biggest, most important single thing we have done. “It was an expensive investment that could be criticized if we let it sit on the shelf,” he said, “but we use it in almost all of our decisions, regardless of the topic.” See MCDANEL Page 9A
Novelist finds niche with ‘Wilder Mage’ By TONY BROWN News editor
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Nodaway novelist
Fantasy writer Carol Coffelt, who goes by the pen name C.D. Coffelt, sits at her desk in the farmhouse she shares with her husband, Bryan, southwest of Maryville. Coffelt’s first novel, “Wilder Mage: The Magic Withheld,” published by Musa, has been selling briskly as an e-book on Amazon.
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Carol Coffelt has always had a vivid imagination, a lively sense of wonder that has been steadily nourished over the years by a love of good books and a persistent hunch that the world inside one’s mind is even larger than the cornfields and wide horizons of rural northwest Missouri. And now that imagination is paying off for the 59-year-old farm wife and former Department of Corrections sergeant who recently published her first novel, an “urban fantasy” tale titled “Wilder Mage: The Magic Withheld.” Unlike the self-published books trumpeted in clumsy, sometimes handwritten, press releases that unfailingly end up on the desks of small-town newspaper editors, Coffelt’s novel is no vanity project.
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She’s a real writer turning out commercial work for a real publisher (Ohio-based Musa Publishing) and collecting real checks. For now, her book is only available in electronic form, but e-books are big business these days, and “Wilder Image” is selling briskly. Making the Amazon list Released in 2013, the novel sold 900 copies in just three weeks, and briefly went to No. 1 on Amazon’s electronic best-seller list in the horror category. The book topped out at No. 9 on the urban fantasy list and reached 611th overall. In a saturated fiction market where selling as few as 5,000 books counts as a significant feat, those are impressive numbers for a firsttime novelist lacking both an agent and connections at a writer-friendly university — “ins” that many scribblers have found essential. See NOVELIST Page 9A
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