Today's Feature

Grand Marshall Announced.

News release

The Carthage Chamber of Commerce, along with the Maple Leaf Festival planning committee, is pleased to announce the 40th Annual Maple Leaf Parade Grand Marshall will be Mr. George S. Beimdiek of Carthage.

"Selecting a Grand Marshall for the parade is one of the biggest challenges our planning committee faces each year," said Debra Smith, Director of Member Services for the Carthage Chamber of Commerce. "All the nominees are very deserving of the honor. Narrowing it down to one can be extremely difficult."

Carthage residents were asked to submit their Grand Marshall candidates in mid-May. Acceptable candidates must have resided in, or are current residents of Carthage and have made a significant and positive impact on the community and its residents throughout their lifetime.

George S. Beimdiek is a graduate of Carthage High School, local business man and long-time community supporter. He has been involved with numerous civic organizations including the Salvation Army, Carthage United Fund (now known as the Carthage Area United Way), the Carthage YMCA, Carthage Family Literacy Council, Boy Scouts of America, Carthage Rotary Club, and the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. George also supports higher education through a variety of scholarship programs through Crowder College, Missouri Southern State University and the School of the Ozarks.

George is a devoted member of the Grace Episcopal Church in Carthage. He has two children, Carolyn Phelps and Steve Beimdiek. His first wife, Geraldine Hafner Buescher, also Carolyn and Steve’s mother, passed away in 1992. George then married Ameila Cordonnier.

For more information, contact the Chamber at 358-2373.

Stench Report:

Thursday,
9/28/06

No Stench Detected on Carthage Square

Some of the players on occasion would show up with a bat they owned, but most of us used those supplied by the team. I always picked a small bat and can remember chokin’ up quite a ways on a twenty-nine incher early on.

I never thought of it much at the time, but I never had my own personal bat. The household had a big wood thirty-six inch that was cracked and taped we furnished for sandlot games, but I never considered it for "real" games.

I was always taught it was more important to get on base than to swing a big bat anyway.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Hawthorn has been used for centuries to support normal cardiovascular function. Hawthorn is rich in certain naturally occurring constituents that appear to work synergistically with one another to support cardiovascular function. The active component is thought to be flavonoid glycoside, but hawthorn also contains other compounds that are beneficial to your health, including additional flavonoids and even vit. C. Flavonoids give many plants their pigmentation and are loosely classified as compounds that protect and even strengthen living organisms and their bodily processes.

Cayenne pepper has documented positive effects on the circulatory system. Although used for thousands of years in many different cultures, cayenne has come into common use in arthritis creams, circulatory support formulas and in spicy recipes. The active ingredient, capsaicin, makes the plant hot. Cayenne contains carotenoids and the vitamins C & E to name a few. Studies have shown promise for cayenne as a means to support healthy cardiovascular function by helping to maintain blood pressure and cholesterol levels within a healthy range. Cayenne stimulates sweating which helps remove impurities from the body.

As with any dietary supplement, check with a knowledgable herbalist, nutritionist and your family physician.

artCentral
Art Notes from Hyde House
By Sally Armstrong, Director of artCentral

Just this morning I have hung a new show at our wonderful new satellite gallery at the Sirloin Stockade on Central Avenue. This is the work of Mike Shelton, Joplin, and includes several watercolor originals as well as giclee prints of other works. We thank again Cheryl Church for her long run at this Atrium Gallery, and look forward to many of you viewing Mike’s work for the next several weeks while he is there.

The galleries are empty once again, and in preparation for our next big show by watercolor artist Elizabeth Dedon Pauly. I spoke in an earlier article that Betsy is originally a Minnesotan, having attended St.Olaf College and graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1980. Since that time she has lived in a variety of places including Dallas Texas, where she acquired her husband Chuck, and Carthage. Presently she and her husband split their time between three "cottages", one here, one on Medicine Lake in Minnesota, and one in Englewood Florida.

Betsy’s desire to paint and the ability to do so was instinctive. She says, "Internalizing and expressing the world’s physical beauties through one’s own eyes, mind, heart and hands, into images bearing a hallmark of personal creativity, defines the essence of art. I am ever grateful to live out this passion, to rephrase the natural order into watercolor and ink. Both the act of re-creation and its encapsulated outcome, souvenir colors and textures, seed my soul, as do the happy moments of connectivity with other eyes, minds and hearts. Details and discussions of training, techniques, exhibitions, and sales all aside, ultimately a painting speaks fully for itself."

Her art has progressed over a period of 21 years beginning with shows in Dallas and inclusive of exhibits and auctions as well as solo appearances in Carthage, Joplin and now in Florida. We at artCentral are pleased to have the first show in this area since her last appearance in Midwest Gathering of the Artists quite a few years ago.

Next week I will tell you about Betsy’s particular work. Her opening is scheduled for October 6th and I invite you to put this date on your calendar now and plan to attend.