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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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Early morning accident involves school bus, pickup By TONY BROWN News editor
A Jarnik Buses Inc. school bus carrying 37 students and adults from St. Gregory’s School on their way to the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Neb., was involved in a two-vehicle collision at approximately 7:30 a.m. Monday at the intersection of East First and Depot streets. Maryville Public Safety Sgt. Wayne Wilson said there were no serious injuries in the mishap, which occurred as a pickup truck traveling southbound on Depot struck the eastbound bus on the driver’s side front panel. The 2000 Chevrolet Silverado pickup was driven by Carl D. Sherry, 55, of Conception Junction, who was cited for failure to yield. Traffic at the intersection is controlled by stop signs facing north and south on
Depot. East First Street traffic traveling east and west has the right-of-way. Wilson said the pickup sustained serious damage. Both vehicles were towed from the scene. Public Safety Director Keith Wood said the children aboard the bus were fifth- and sixth-graders accompanied by teachers and other adults assigned to supervise the field trip. Wood said Nodaway County ambulance crews responded to the wreck, and that paramedics examined more than 20 people at the scene for possible injuries. While several of those examined were shaken up, no one was transported to the hospital. The St. Gregory’s group was then loaded onto another bus and returned to the school, located at 333 S. Davis Street in Maryville. St. Gregory’s Princi-
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‘A day of great thanksgiving for the safety of our children’
Maryville Public Safety Sgt. Wayne Wilson looks on as an employee from Kizer Collision Repair & Towing prepares to haul a school bus from the scene of a two-vehicle wreck that occurred Monday morning at the intersection of East Main and Depot streets. Thirty-seven children and adults from St. Gregory’s School were aboard the bus, headed for the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, when it was struck on the front driver’s side. pal Susan Martin issued a statement via email to the parents of children attending the parochial school describing Monday as “a day
of great thanksgiving for the safety of all of our children ... and especially our fifthand sixth-grade students and their teachers.”
The email stated that the wreck occurred as the loaded bus was leaving Maryville, and confirmed that there were no injuries.
Martin added that the originally-scheduled Omaha field trip had been tentatively rescheduled for May 19.
Massive pipe organ permeates basilica with sacred sounds By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff writer
Instrument of worship
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The tallest pipes for the organ in the basilica at Conception Abbey stand more than 16 feet tall. Shown at the keyboard in the lower, right-hand corner of this photo is Brother Michael Marcotte, who, along with Father Timothy Schoen, serves as an organist during abbey worship services.
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In 1999, the monks and priests at Conception Abbey in eastern Nodaway County completed a $9 million restoration of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the sanctuary where the brothers meet for Mass and prayers. One of the highlights of the restoration was the organ, a worldclass instrument of the kind usually found in large cities and famous cathedrals. “It was the very first contract that was signed when we were working on the renewal of the church back in 1991,” said Brother Michael Marcotte, who serves the abbey’s organist. “It kind of went in fits and starts, depending on the fundraising. At certain points they slowed their activity on this because they didn’t want to finish it before the church was done because they wanted to be able to know what the acoustics would sound like.” Construction of the organ was completed in 1995, but the instrument wasn’t installed until four years later. “This one was built in 1995 and installed in 1999,” Father Timothy Schoen said. “We were renovating the entire building at the time, and that took longer than we thought. It turns out the organ was ready before the church was.” The monks decided to go with a mechanical action organ, which uses a mechanical rather than an electric linkage for the keys and pedals that allows air to move through the corresponding pipes. “We discovered and felt that mechanical action organs are of a higher quality than other organs,” Schoen said. “We discovered we had to replace the organ because of
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the plans of the renovation of the church building. Given that freedom, we went in this direction. It has been a joy and a pleasure to have it.” More than 32 feet tall and 18 feet wide, the organ contains 39 ranks of pipes, which contain 2,009 individual pipes. Some of the pipes are made of metal and others are metal. “It affects the quality of the sound you get, the warmth of the sound you get,” Marcotte said. The tallest of the pipes stands more than 16 feet, the shortest only a few inches. In order to produce very deep tones, two 16-foot pipes at the rear of the instrument have a connector that allows air to pass through twice. This produces the same sound that would be made by a single 32-foot pipe. “It is an amazing instrument,” Marcotte said. “In terms of organs, it’s a medium sized instrument. … but there’s no question that it fills this space. It’s the right size for us.” Once the organ was installed, getting the correct acoustics for the basilica became the first priority. “The old church had a wood floor, plain wood, unfinished,” Marcotte said. “We knew that changing to brick would be quite a different sound. The acoustics were much more alive when the church was first finished.” “The acoustic in the building is marvelous,” Schoen said. “To have the two work together is quite an experience. … It was dramatically different right after the renovation, and we discovered we had to temper it a little bit. We had to put some absorbent panels around here and there to temper the sound.” When the organ was first installed, the sound had a seven second reverberation time, which was See ORGAN Page 3
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