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Volume 104 • Number80 • Friday, May 2, 2014 • PO Box 188 • 111 E. Jenkins • Maryville, MO
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Maryville’s facelift Rentals a growth industry By JIM FALL
Executive editor
To classify the recent surge in residential building in Maryville as a “boom” might be a bit optimistic, but with permits for new construction totaling nearly $1 million already on the record for 2014, the trend in local housing certainly points toward growth. Add in the additional $3.4 million estimated cost of the new 46-unit Oak Pointe at Maryville assisted living facility at 817 S. Country Club Road, and the local housing picture looks even better. The number of permits issued for new single-family residences during the record year of 2006 — 33 — is probably not in jeopardy in the coming seven months, but there is little doubt that the pace of new construction is picking up. There were 12 new single-
family permits totaling just under $2.5 million issued during 2013, according to records maintained by Stacy Wood in the Maryville Public Works Department. A lone $250,000 single-family permit has been issued so far during 2014. In addition, a $2.8 million building permit for the new 24-unit Villas at the Summit phase 2 project under construction at 2412 Aurora Ave., combined with five new duplexes valued at $1.75 million, pushed the total value of estimated new construction last year to more than $8.2 million. The new two- to eight-unit apartment complexes coming into the Maryville housing inventory are due in large part to the implementation of the Campus Town Redevelopment Incentive Program — CTRIP — implemented a year and a half ago by See CONSTRUCTION Page 13
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Back from oblivion
Micky Smith (right) and Larry Pritchett of Mick’s Construction remove the brick façade from the front of a single-family residence at 122 S. Walnut Smith has purchased and is in the process of rehabilitating. The house is one of four currently registered with Maryville’s code enforcement department as being remodeled or scheduled for demolition.
Man’s best friend is a class act, too By KEVIN BIRDSELL Staff writer
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Pet partners
Natalia Paugh (kneeling) reads from “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” by Bill Martin Jr. to Olivia Mikkelsen (standing), volunteer Toni Newcomer (seated) and her two dogs Woody (brown) and Brooke (white). The two therapy dogs join in weekly reading sessions at Eugene Field Elementary School.
For centuries, man’s best friend has done everything in its power to calm, sooth and assist the human race. And in Beth Goudge’s class at Eugene Field Elementary School, the faithful dog is continuing that age-old mission. Therapy dogs visit Goudge’s special education classroom twice each Thursday in order to help students with their reading. The dogs are part of the Pet Partners organization, a non-profit group that works to help people live healthier, happier lives by providing access to therapy, service and companion animals. “We started this program in the fall,” Goudge said. “My friends
have some dogs that are registered through Pet Partners, and they had a program like this that they worked with in Texas. So they were anxious to get it started up here. I had been looking for some reading dogs, and it all worked out that we were in the right place at the right time.” Goudge and special education teacher Hanna Erspamer say the dogs are a welcome presence during the sessions, during which the children read to them. “It’s another way to encourage kids to read,” Erspamer said. “It’s a positive environment and something for them to look forward to.” The program started as a way to motivate students. But it’s grown into something more. See THERAPY Page 16
AdInk group provides $800 for Haiti relief By TONY BROWN News editor
Northwest Missouri State University students closed out a fundraiser this week that raised nearly $800 for a locally supported orphanage and school serving children in the poverty-ridden Caribbean nation of Haiti. Maryville Hy-Vee Store Director Chris Wiltfong presented AdInk members Kelsey Chabot and Michelle Patton with a check Thursday for $355, the profits from the sale of plastic bandages at the store during the month of April along with
a donation from the Curad company. AdInk is a campus club for advertising and marketing majors. Advisor Jacquie Lamer was also on hand for the presentation as was communications Professor Bayo Oludaja, who is heavily involved as a volunteer with House of Hope, a faith-based Haitian mission that cares for 70 orphaned or abandoned children in the town of Williamson. Wiltfong also presented AdInk with a large plastic tube filled with plastic bandages and other first-aid See PROJECT Page 13
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Raising Hope
Participants in an April fundraising project benefitting House of Hope, which operates a school and orphanage in Haiti, are pictured during a check presentation Thursday at the Maryville Hy-Vee supermarket. Pictured from left: Professor Bayo Oludaja, AdInk advisor Jacquie Lamer, AdInk member Michelle Patton, Hy-Vee Store Director Chris Wiltfong and AdInk member Kelsey Chabot.
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