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Volume 104 • Number 70 • Friday, April 11, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Bank robbery suspects indicted By STEVE HARTMAN Staff writer
Filling out the big board
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Maryville High School Activities Coordinator Paul Snow, shown standing next to an organizational board that maps out Spoofhound athletics events, has been named the 2014 Missouri Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Athletic Director of the Year for the Northwest District.
Snow named AD of the Year By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff writer
The Missouri Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association has selected its district Athletic Directors of the Year, a list that includes Maryville High School Activities Coordinator Paul Snow. Snow was selected to receive the honor for the work he put in while serving as MHS athletics director during the current school year. He learned of the award on April 7 during the MIAAA spring conference. “It’s the athletic directors
state organization,” Snow said. “We just held our year-end spring conference, and every region in the state votes on a representative within their region to become Athletic Director of the Year.” The recognition means Snow is now be in the running for the organization’s state Athletic Director of the Year award, the winner of which will be chosen by the entire MIAAA membership. In order to be eligible to receive the district honor, an AD must be nominated by another athletic director in his
or her district. Savannah R-3 High School Activities Director Bruce Humphrey placed Snow’s name in the hat. “Paul, like most ADs, does so many helpful things that most coaches, players and parents don’t even know about,” Humphrey said. “The Maryville Spoofhounds have been highly competitive under his watch, and will continue to be so. Because of that, it was a no-brainer to nominate Paul to be the MIAAA Northwest AD of the Year.” Snow received a unanimous See SNOW Page 3
Three Iowa men were indicted this week by a federal grand jury for the armed robbery of the Citizens Bank & Trust branch in Burlington Junction, according to an announcement released by the office of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Tammy Dickinson. Donald D. Kestner Jr., 26 and Torrence Joseph O’Neill, 26, both of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and Travis Joe Davis, 27, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, were charged in a threecount indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City. Wednesday’s indictments allege that Kestner, O’Neill and Davis stole $12,282 from the bank on March 21, 2014. Kestner and Davis are also charged with one count of aiding and abetting one another to brandish a firearm during a crime of violence. In addition, Kestner was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Under federal law it is illegal for anyone who has been convicted of a felony to be in possession of any firearm or ammunition. Kestner, who has a prior felony conviction for burglary, allegedly possessed a .45-caliber pistol. Money stolen during the holdup, which had been stuffed into a battered, soft-sided briefcase, was recovered by Nodaway County deputies on March 25 from an undisclosed location after officers learned of its probable location from information developed during the investigation. After a private citizen telephoned Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White about a possible robbery in progress, law enforcement responded to the scene and pursued the suspects north on rural gravel roads and blacktops using both patrol cars and aircraft. The three men were run to ground in a wooded area just south of the Iowa line.
Travis Joe Davis
Donald D. Kestner Jr.
Torrence Joseph O’Neill
Nodaway declared healthy — but we’re a little plump By TONY BROWN News editor
Nodaway County got some good news recently from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a New Jerseybased institution said to be the nation’s largest health- and wellness-focused philanthropic organization. According to the foundation’s latest rankings for the state of Missouri, Nodaway is the No. 1 county in the state with regard to “health outcomes,” No. 5 for “health factors” and No. 8 in both “quality of life” and “physical environment.” Della Rhoades, administrator of the Nodaway County Health Center in Maryville, said Thursday the report is encouraging on a number of fronts but also shows that this area has a number of challenges when it comes to improving the overall level of public health and well-being. For example, 9 percent of county residents surveyed indicated that they could not afford to go see a physician, which compares to a 14-percent average statewide. That’s good as far as it goes. However the ratio of primary-
care physicians available in the county is one per every 1,676 residents, which compares to a one-per-1,455 ratio on average across the rest of the sate. In terms of mental health care, the caregiver shortage is just plain bleak. There are 1,802 Nodaway residents for every local mental health-care provider. The statewide ratio is about half that, 975 to one. But while Maryville could certainly use more doctors and other health-care professionals, Rhoades said the community’s rural character is probably a plus, since patients often see their care-givers socially — at church, in the grocery store, at a restaurant — which can make people less reluctant to seek treatment when they are not feeling well. “That familiarity makes people more comfortable when seeking health care,” she said. Other “health outcomes” data shows that a lesser percentage of local residents believe they are only in poor or fair health than elsewhere in the state (14 percent compared to 16 percent), and that the combined number of poor physical and mental health days in
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Nodaway — 6.2 — is better that the Missouri average of 7.5. Nodaway also has a lower number of low-birthweight infants born each year, 6.4 babies per 1,000 births compared to 8.1 babies per 1,000 for the state as a whole. One of the stats Rhoades said she is most pleased with is the county’s continuing decline in the number of smokers. The foundation report indicated that while 15 percent of Nodaway residents are still lighting up that is a significantly lower mark than Missouri’s 23 percent overall, one of the highest in the nation. Rhoades said the county’s relatively high number of non-smokers is largely due to a cultural shift that began nearly a decade ago that led to Maryville being the first city in Missouri to ban cigarettes from restaurants and banquet facilities in 2006. That ordinance was later expanded to include public areas and workplaces, including bars and clubs that have hired staff. Other bright spots in the report include lower countywide rates for diabetes, HIV, infant mortality, violent See NODAWAY Page 3
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Della Rhoades, administrator of the Nodaway County Health Center in Maryville, said the most recent statewide health survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contains a lot of good news for Nodaway County. However, smarter life-style choices pertaining especially to diet and exercise hold significant potential for reducing local rates of diabetes, obesity and cancer.
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