Leadership Class at City Hall.

The Carthage Chamber of Commerce sponsored Leadership Carthage program focused on the structure of the Carthage City government yesterday morning in City Hall.

Mayor Kenneth Johnson, Council member and Mayor Pro Tem Jackie Boyer, and Council member H.J. Johnson assisted with the presentation. Also assisting were Claude Dickens and Bob Williams of CW&EP, Bob Copeland of McCune Brooks, and Leigh Ann Brown Jennifer Richardson from the Public Library.

After a brief break, City department heads presented a view of their roles within the City. City Administrator Tom Short was in charge of the class and gave an overview of the City Budget process.

The program’s principal goal is to build a resource of community leadership on a planned, continuing basis. This is the third year for the program.

Leadership Carthage is a 9 session seminar with classes meeting twice a month beginning in January and concluding in April. Sessions are held at various locations throughout Carthage. Candidates are selected on the basis of written applications.

Jasper County Taxes Collected.

news release Jasper County Collector

Stephen H. Holt, Jasper County Collector, has announced $30,759,592.01 was collected by his office for the month of December, 2000.

This amount includes $18,502,782.09 in 2000 real estate taxes, $57,888.29 in 1999 real estate taxes, and $1,493.24 in 1997 real estate taxes.

Also collected was $8,323,815.00 in 2000 personal property taxes, $42,483.36 in 1999 personal property taxes, $4,096.46 in 1998 personal property and $121.73 in 1997 personal property taxes.

$3,822,808.34 was collected in 2000 Personal and Real, Local and State Assessed Railroad and Utility taxes.

$637.00 in duplicate receipts, $2,800.00 in merchants licenses, $60.00 in publication fees, and $606.50 in miscellaneous fees.

Distribution of the $20,845,183.17 allocated to schools in Jasper County is as follows: Carl Junction R-I $2,686,592.30; Sarcoxie R-II $356,018.21; Golden City R-III $53,994.65; Diamond R-IV $46,900.84; Jasper R-V $472,430.63; Webb City R-VII $2,441,192.29; Joplin R-VIII $9,956,920.70; Carthage R-IX $4,603,365.74; Avilla R-XIII $227,767.81.

Distribution of the $89,967.12 allocated to cities in Jasper County is as follows: Carthage $6,231.97; Webb City $11,894.08; Joplin $35,759.36; Alba $2,037.69; Asbury $769.59; Avilla $289.68; Carl Junction $13,559.34; Carterville $3,520.87; Duenweg $2,328.79; Jasper $2,850.88; La Russell $128.33; Neck City $235.00; Oronogo $2,740.04; Purcell $839.26; Reeds $277.83; Sarcoxie $6,331.69; and Waco $172.72.

Stephen H. Holt, Jasper County Collector, reminds all rural residents of Jasper County, that have not changed their addresses to their correct 911 address to do so now. These changes must be made with the Jasper County Assessor’s office. Their phone numbers are (417) 625-4356 or (417) 358-0440. These addresses need to be changed now to assure proper delivery of the 2001 Tax Statements.

Sculptor Bill Snow
Featured Member!

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

Coming up this May will be our annual Membership meeting. This is a regular Board meeting except all of our members are encouraged to attend. It’s a time for the membership to be able to voice their opinions, vote on new Board members and offer suggestions as to how and what they would like to see artCentral do or become.

We’ll be sure and let you know when this meeting will be held and hope you’ll consider attending.

Wow....wasn’t the article on Bill Snow’s latest project something else !! We are so pleased to have had one of our members in the spotlight.

You might remember we told you he was teaching a stone carving workshop last summer. He has been teaching for a number of years and has quite a following !!

His yearly workshops are held in Alba and Nebraska each summer. Some of his students come all the way from Minnesota, California and Canada. His workshop in Alba had quite a few students from Carthage, too.

Some of Bill’s bronze sculptures in this area include ‘Alice in Wonder-land’ at the Carthage Library Gardens, she is about 6 feet tall and stepping out of a book, ‘Compassion" is the 24 foot high hands and cross at St. John’s Hospital in Joplin and he was one of a team that created Marlin Perkins in Central Park.

The stockyard on I-44 has his ‘Longhorn’ which weighs about 24 tons and is about 18 feet across. This is the largest carving, in America, of a longhorn’s head !!

Most people familar with his work know him for his awesome carvings of bears and other animals. He works in different kinds of alabaster, marble and lime-stone as well as clay and producing bronzes.

More.........next week. 358-4404. 1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com M-W-F 9am - 3pm.

I’ve seen the Leadership Carthage program workin’ over the last couple a years and I’m convinced it is onea the best ways for folks to get a glimpse of what’s involved in runnin’ a City and County.

Those attendin’ the classes seem ta have a real interest. The only problem with the course is the time restraints. Each class has ‘bout four hours to load all the information they can, but usually there just isn’t time for all the questions that seem ta come up. Hopefully the folks attendin’ will take even more of an interest and spend some time on their own learnin’ even more about the community.

‘Course almost all of the course is given by volunteers. Another indication of the depth of commitment by our citizens.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Oak Street health & herbs

Natural Nutrition

by Mari An Willis

Although Spring is just around the corner, it is not here yet. One could not tell that by the shorts and sandals I have seen on the teens. It serves to remind me of how much colder I get now than when I was that age. In order to increase heat in the body, one may consume more cayenne or other variety of hot peppers or ginger if one does not like peppers. These increase the circulation which in turn warms us up. I enjoy a bath with ground ginger in it. It warms me through to the bone and as one person observed, the bath water never seems to get cold. I pour about an ounce into my big old claw foot cast iron tub. To avoid a rather messy tub, you may choose to steep a very strong tea on the stove then strain it and pour into tub. It will still be a warm brown, but it is worth it. This type of bath is great after a massage as it will produce a sweat, clearing out some stirred up toxins. Many find it helpful after sport events or even your first spring hike.

Black elderberry tincture has proven itself again this flu season. I have many who report that they are much better after just a couple days. Many of the "natural" remedies should be taken at the first signs of an imbalance. It is much easier to have these products on hand as we all know most things seem to hit home on the weekends. That is what prevention and "striking while the iron is hot" are all about....being prepared.

With sinuses flaring some are using essential oils to clear and soothe mucous membranes. They are often inhaled or gently massaged over sinus area. Eucalyptus and peppermint are considered antiseptic, antiviral, decongestant and expectorant. Tea tree oil is considered an immunostimulant, antibacterial, antiviral, and expectorant.

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