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Volume 104 • Number 61 • Monday, March 31, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Record numbers for Chamber’s spring home show By TONY BROWN News editor
What a difference a year makes. This year’s Northwest Missouri Home and Better Living Show — with the help of perfect spring weather and an improved planning process leading up to the event – scored big on Sunday with twice the number of vendors and a steady crowd of potential customers browsing the booths and checking out the displays.
‘This is a great opportunity for the community to see what we have to offer.’ — Erick Auxier Mozingo Lake Recreation Park
Maryville Daily Forum Publisher Phil Cobb said the event, which was hosted by the Greater Maryville Chamber of Commerce at the Community Center, benefitted from a greater amount of advanced planning, which has been going on for several weeks. The fact that this year’s show, unlike the 2013 edition, didn’t take place during a late-winter storm doubtless helped as well. Melanie Smith, executive director of the Maryville Chamber, credited the home show’s success with “a great group of volunteers” who concentrated on seeking out potential vendors that would be a “good fit for the this type of event” as well as working to increase awareness about the exhibition among the general public. The show is now in its fourth year, and Smith said merchants in both Maryville and surrounding
communities are coming to view it as a solid opportunity to reach out to new customers as the weather warms, and the annual round of home repairs, gardening and outdoor recreational activities begins. She noted that most of the vendors who participated last year came back again in 2014, and that the show is gradually making a regional reputation for itself. In addition to Maryville merchants, businesses represented at Sunday’s event came from as far away as Omaha, Neb., as well as neighboring towns like Clarinda, Iowa; Stanberry; and Burlington Junction. “It’s a great chance for our (Chamber) members to get out and show what they have going on,” Smith said. “We also want people to know that Maryville is a great place to live, work and play. So this is great for families — a place where everyone can go together on Sunday afternoon. It’s just a fun event for everybody.” For many local residents, the show was the first chance to view the city of Maryville’s new marketing display advertising Mozingo Lake Recreation Park. The backdrop is decorated with full color images of the park’s golf course and camping, fishing and boating facilities beneath the phrase “Change your … destination.” Visually the display is of a piece with a comprehensive branding initiative for the park designed last year by marketing students at Northwest Missouri State University. Mozingo Operations Manager Erick Auxier spent the home show handing out fliers and answering questions about the park while standing beside the display’s small, portable putting green. “This is a great opportunity for the community to see what we have to offer,” Auxier said of city parSee CHAMBER, Page 5
Home and Better Living Show
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More than 50 vendors, along with over 600 potential customers, attended Sunday’s fourth annual Northwest Missouri Home and Better Living Show at the Maryville Community Center. Items on display included everything from skin care products and kitchenware to replacement windows and an underground storm shelter.
Getting into the ‘swing’ of spring
TONY BROWN/DAILY FORUM
Mozingo Lake Recreation Park staff members Erick Auxier, left, and Brandon Cartwright, stand beside the city’s new Mozingo marketing display Sunday at the Northwest Missouri Home and Better Living Show. It was the first chance many local residents have had to see the display, which was viewed by thousands at last year’s Iowa State Fair.
Event rids homes of waste, old tires By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer
Hazardous waste collection
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A Tradebe Environmental Services worker sorts through some of the household waste dropped off by area residents Saturday during a Northwest Missouri Solid Waste Management District collection event.
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Participation levels were high at the Northwest Missouri Solid Waste Management District’s hazardous household waste and tire collection event that took place from 8 a.m. until noon Saturday at the Nodaway County maintenance barn in Maryville. “We had the perfect day for our waste collection event,” said Linda Laderoute, the environmental planner for the Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments. “We had wonderful weather, hard working volunteers and great participation from our residents.” One hundred and seventy-two vehicles were driven through the collection area as residents dropped
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off both waste and tires. By comparison, last year’s event recorded only 106 vehicles. Residents from Atchison, Holt, Gentry, Nodaway and Worth counties were allowed to participate in the event, which was limited to residential recyclers. Items accepted included fertilizer, pesticides, household chemicals (bleach, ammonia and cleaners), batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, mercury, antifreeze, paint and varnish. “A Household Hazardous Waste Grant from the state Department of Natural Resources allows us to hire a team from Tradebe Environmental Services to handle, sort and categorize the household waste products,” Laderoute said. See WASTE, Page 5
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