Searching For The Formula.

The City Council Public Services Committee is scheduled to meet this evening at 7 p.m. in the Park Department administration building.

The agenda includes the consideration and discussion of the hiring of an architect to complete the design of the golf course renovations. The recent $1.8 million grant from the Steadley Trust and the loss of the architect who helped develop the golf course master plan is putting pressure on the Committee to get the project moving.

Preliminary plans are to begin construction in early summer 2002 and have the nine hole renovations ready for the 2003 season.

The Committee is also scheduled to discuss a resolution for submitting a grant request to the Steadley Trust and the Boylan Foundation for the 4th of July Celebration.

The agenda also includes discussion of the Memorial Hall renovations and the proposed walking trail at the Fair Acres Sports Complex.

The Public Services Committee oversees City owned buildings, the Park Department, and other duties as requested by the Mayor or Council.

New ESC Joplin Location.

new release

Economic Security Corporation of Southwest Area (ESC), the local Community Action Agency, Chief Executive Officer, John Joines, announced that ESC will be open for business at their new office location at 302 Joplin Street, Joplin, MO, effective Monday, December 17th. The phone number will remain the same, 781-0352, but the phone access for personnel and departments will be limited due to the move from Monday, December 10th, until Friday, December 14th.

Community Development Outreach will be closed Monday and Wednesday, December 10th and 12th to facilitate staff packing and moving. For clients seeking assistance, Tuesday, December 11th, Outreach will be temorarily located in the Joplin Head Start building at 1200 N. Main Street, Joplin, MO. Hours will be 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Outreach will resume regular hours at the 302 Joplin Street office on Thursday, December 13th. Their offices will be on the second floor.

Women’s Health Services/Family Planning will close the Joplin clinic for the week of December 10th through December 14th. Clinics in Newton and McDonald counties will be held as scheduled. For emergencies, patients can call 781-0352. On Monday, December 17th, the new phone number for the Women’s Health Services will be 781-4788. The clinic will be located on the first floor.

Commentary
Martin "Bubs" Hohulin
State Representative, District 126

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and is gearing up for the holiday season ahead. In Jefferson City, legislators are gearing up for the 2002 Session, which starts in only 5 weeks. Prefiling of bills can start the first week of December. In the next few weeks I will be writing about some of the bills that are being filed.

This week, though, I will be writing about yet another outlandish event that has taken place at the University of Missouri Columbia. You will remember that after the attacks on the United States, a left wing whacko professor at the Journalism School at MU by the name of Stacy Woelfel prohibited the wearing of patriotic ribbons by the staff of television station KOMU, the station owned by MU. Many of you responded to the call for help and wrote, emailed, and called the MU administration. They basically thumbed their noses at us. Now another incredible development has happened.

The Student Senate has rejected a resolution expressing support for the United States and our military that is involved in bringing justice to these cowardly dregs of the earth. That’s right, the students have turned their backs on the very country they are citizens of! Where did they learn these values, from Stacy Woelfel perhaps? Maybe they learned it from the President of the University, Manuel Pacheco, or the Chancellor, Richard Wallace. These are the men that refused to take a stand and do what is right the last time. Are the two events unrelated? I doubt it very much.

The Speaker of the Student Senate, Tiffany Ellis, said that this is ‘a very emotional issue for my generation and I don’t think it is right for the Student Senate to take such a stand’. Guess what, Miss Ellis? It is an emotional issue for all of us. That is seen in the outpouring of support for our country, our leaders, and most of all, our troops. I suggest that you and the rest of the student senators come down off your falsely moral, political high horse and support the nation that allows you to make such a stupid statement. It was further constantly reported that it was a ‘conservative student group’ that was supporting the resolution. Are they saying that only conservatives are supporting the United States and our troops? I love it when they get caught in their own words.

I wrote at the first of this column that prefiling of bills start the first week of December. I am not usually a big filer of bills. It is my belief that we already have enough laws. This time I will be filing legislation regarding the University of Missouri.

Students like Tiffany Ellis and professors like Stacy Woelfel have the right to their convoluted opinions. However, they do not have the right to your and my money. We are the ones paying the bills for them. If they want to embarrass the University and the citizens of this state, they can do it with their own money. I will be researching the budget for the University and will be introducing legislation that attempts to reduce the amount of your money going to the University of Missouri. In the mean time, Miss Ellis, grow up, and Stacy Woelfel, Manuel Pacheco, and Richard Wallace, get out.

As usual, I can be reached at House Post Office, State Capitol, Jefferson
City, MO 65101 or 1-800-878-7126, or mhohulin@services.state.mo.us for your questions, comments, or advice.

This one friend a mine was familiar with the part of the country I grew up in and mentioned on occasion that his dad had a friend he visited from there.

Come ta find out, the friend of the dad coached in the high school I attended. I not only learned a little football, basketball, and track from this fella, I also worked for him doin’ odd jobs durin’ a summer. On top a that, this friend’s mother, Mrs. Jones, was my first grade teacher.

Now I’m guessin’ both myself and the coach are wonderin’ what the conversations are in the friend’s family. As far as I can remember we don’t have any dark secrets ta worry about. Now the guy that replaced this coach my senior year, that’s a whole different story.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune- Brooks Hospital

Health Notes

Health & Nutrition by Judith Sheldon

THE EGG AND US: Eggs, and dishes containing eggs, may soon come with at least one risk factor removed.

Egg yolks continue to be a source of saturated fats and anyone wishing to cut down on fat to help reduce LDL cholesterol levels in their blood should continue to eat whole eggs in moderation, or, in amounts allowed by their doctor-approved diets.

However, the risk of contracting salmonella poisoning from eggs and products made with uncooked eggs (such as ice cream) may soon become practically nil, thanks to several Purdue University researchers who have developed a process for pasteurizing eggs in the shell to kill salmonella bacteria.

Although it’s been known for a long time that heat can kill the bacteria - which is why eggs are relatively safe when cooked thoroughly - that same heat will cook an egg in its shell, which would make it unmarketable for obvious reasons.

But with the new process at Purdue, an egg can be put through a new low-temperature, long-time pasteurization process which will kill the bacteria, but won’t solidify the yolk or egg white. It’s estimated this will add only a few cents per dozen to the cost of eggs.