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Volume 104 • Number 45 • Friday, March 7, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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One injured in 148 crash By TONY BROWN News editor
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A close call
A Nodaway County sheriff’s deputy walks across rubble-strewn Highway 148 north of Maryville at 200th Street Wednesday following a three-vehicle collision involving an 18-wheeler, an SUV and a pickup truck.
An elderly Hopkins woman suffered moderate injuries late Wednesday afternoon in a three-car collision involving an 18-wheeler at 220th Street and Highway 148 three miles north of Maryville. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, a 2012 Nissan Murano driven by Donna S. Nelson, 67, Ravenwood, was traveling westbound at a speed “too fast for conditions” as Nelson attempted to turn south onto Highway 148, striking a 2006 Freightliner tractortrailer driven by Michael B. Parkhurst, 52, Eagleville. Parkhurst was southbound on the two-lane highway when the Nelson vehicle struck the big rig on the passenger side, according to the patrol. A third vehicle, a 2008 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Lola M. Steeve, 79, Hopkins, was northbound at
the time of the collision, and in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the wreck struck the passenger side of Nelson’s Murano. The pickup was forced off the highway and came to rest on the east side of the pavement, while the Murano careened off the snow-covered west shoulder, landing in a ditch. Parkhurst was able to bring the 18-wheeler to a controlled stop at the side of the road. Steeve, who like the other drivers was wearing a seat belt, was taken by Nodaway County ambulance to St. Francis Hospital. No one else was hurt. Both the Nissan and Chevrolet were described as totaled. The 18-wheel tanker truck sustained minor damage and was driven from the scene. Patrol Cpl. Scott E. Pritzel was assisted in working the accident by the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department and local fire and rescue personnel.
Art is life for Maryville painter By TONY BROWN News editor
STEVE HARTMAN/DAILY FORUM
Jackie’s story
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Kirsten Imry) shares facts about her life with school volunteer Cindy Bliley and a group of second-graders at the annual Presidential Showcase at St. Gregory’s School.
St. Gregory’s Presidential Showcase back By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer
Thirteen fifth-graders from Betsy Nielsen’s social studies class carried on an annual tradition at St. Gregory’s School Thursday by participating in the Presidential Showcase. Each student selected a president or first lady and researched facts about the life and times of the person they selected in the cross-curricular activity. “We spent about two weeks preparing for the event,” See PRESIDENTIAL Page 3
Lee Coats is an artist. She’s always been an artist, and she knew from girlhood that she could do things with a brush or a pencil or a crayon that other people simply could not. “I did the best Mayflower in the fourth grade,” she said of a long-ago Thanksgiving art assignment tackled while she was growing up, the daughter of an architect, in Omaha, Neb. And it wasn’t too many years after rendering the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America that Coats decided to begin a voyage of her own, a journey that took her first to the University of NebraskaOmaha, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art, and then on to UN’s Lincoln campus, where she completed her MFA. The next stop for the young painter was New York City, where she spent a couple of years working at a small advertising agency before ultimately ending up in Kansas City as a designer for Hallmark. Coats spent a total of 14 years creating images for the iconic Missouri greeting card company before fate intervened and brought the university-trained painter and self-described urbanite to rural northwest Missouri. Ready for something new, Coats applied for the
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job of art director at The Printery House, a card, book and gift shop operated by the monks at Conception Abbey, and she got the job. She spent 10 years there before retiring
in 2011, leaving behind her a large catalog of drawings, illustrations, graphic designs and artworks that were reproduced on cards and gifts that found their way to people all over the
A work of art
world. One of her signature creations while working at the abbey was the popular “Brother Christopher” character, a boyish, robed, See COATS Page 6
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Maryville artist Lee Coats displays a few of the 15 or so artworks she plans to display next month during a Riverwalk Art Association show at Mitchell Park Plaza in St. Joseph.
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