| Today's Feature Closer to City Sidewalk Repairs.
Engineering Department Head Joe
Butler recommended at Tuesday afternoon’s
Public Works Committee meeting that the City
accept a bid from Parchman Builders for the
repair of City-owned sidewalks. Parchman’s
bid of $44,714 was the low bid, coming in below
the $50,000 budgeted for the project. Of the
eight bids received, $73,350 was the next lowest
and the highest was $133,000. Butler had no
explanation for the wide discrepancy among the
bidders.
The project includes 2660
linear feet of sidewalk with an average width of
6 ½ feet.
"He’s got a handle on
it," Butler said of Parchman. "He
thinks he can do it for that."
"This is a heck of a good
deal," said Committee Member Larry Ross.
Ross made the motion to
recommend acceptance of Parchman’s bid to
the full Council and the motion carried.
Recycling Report.
Butler also reported on the use
of the City’s new recycling facility. The
facility has been open for material dropoffs for
four days: Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
November 19, 20 and 21 and Saturday, November 28.
There were 90 vehicles at the landfill on
Saturday, November 28 and 85 the Saturday before.
"This is way up from
normal," said Butler. "We’re
getting quite a bit of recyclable materials, much
more than we thought."
Butler reported that most of
the users have been middle aged or senior
citizens, and there has been no abuse of the
area.
"For the most part the
items are ready to recycle when they
arrive," said Butler. "We’re
having to help a little bit with bundling
newspapers and removing labels."
Recycling Grants
Possible.
Engineering Department Head Joe
Butler asked the Public Works Committee for
permission to applyto the Region M Solid Waste
District for three grants pertaining to recycling
and composting. Each grant may be up to $20,000,
and the City must provide some sort of matching
funds or in-kind contributions.
The first grant of
approximately $5500 would help pay some of the
costs of the new recycling center. If the
recycling center requires one pull each month by
American Disposal, the annual cost will be about
$5000; the cost for education materials is
approximately $500. The City will have already
met its financial obligation to qualify for the
grant through the expense of preparing the site,
asphalting, signage and staff time.
The second grant Butler is
interested in would be to purchase a compost
bagger which costs between $17,000 and $18,000.
Currently, a landfill employee uses a loader to
fill truck beds with compost. With a bagger,
compost would be readily available to people
without trucks as well.
The third grant is for a
trailer-mounted, compartmentalized recycling unit
in the $10,000 range. This would supplement the
stationary dumpsters and could be used as an
educational tool. Butler suggested that it could
be moved to various locations in the city,
including schools and the fire department, to
publicize and encourage recycling. The City would
have to provide a truck and driver as needed.
Butler stressed that each of
these requests would enhance the City’s
recycling program and that no money needs to be
budgeted from the City. Any commitment from the
City would be for in-kind services such as the
use of a truck and staff time.
Committee Chair Bill Fortune
recommended because of time constraints of the
application process that Butler complete the
required information for all three projects and
be prepared to discuss them with the Council next
week.
Carthage Community Band to
Perform.
news release
Carthage Community Band will
present a traditional holiday concert at 2:30
p.m. Sunday, December 6, 1998, at the Carthage
Senior High School Auditorium, Main Street at 7th
Street.
Unique Yuletide music spanning
several centuries and several continents will be
featured in a variety of both sacred and secular
wind ensemble features.
Irene VanGilder, Carthage, will
be spotlighted as vocal soloist. In addition, the
audience will be invited to join in a community
carol sing, with Laura Schwab, Carthage, as song
leader.
A special segment of the
program will salute all military veterans. One
band number will be "Remember Pearl
Harbor," a composition written in December,
1941, and popular throughout the World War I
years.
Members of the Carthage
Community Band are volunteer adult
instrumentalists from throughout the Four-State
Region. Rehearsals are held Monday nights at the
Carthage Senior High School Band Room and
membership remains open. Auditions are not
required.
Conductor Marvin VanGilder, a
veteran retired music educator and former
professional entertainer, is assisted by
Assistant Conductor Vicki Mays, Carl Junction, a
music instructor in the schools of Columbus,
Kan., and Associate Conductors Todd Johnson,
Joplin, who is director of music at College
Heights Christian School, and Fr. James Cong, a
retired priest who formerly was director of bands
for the Army of South Vietnam.
The membership roster includes
residents of Carthage, Joplin, Neosho, Webb City,
Carl Junction, Diamond, Golden City, Nevada;
Cherryvale, Kan.; Jasper; Miami, Okla., and other
communities in the district.
The band also will present
holiday music at 2:30 p.m. Sunday December 13 at
the J.C. Penney Court at Northpark Mall, Joplin,
in addition to a special presentation Wednesday
December 16 on the campus of the Congregation of
the Mother Co-Redemptrix, Carthage.
Mud Brother Pottery and MSSC
Fall Pottery Shows.
by Robin Putnam, artCentral
We hope everyone had a great
Thanksgiving holiday..with this kind of wonderful
weather how could you not?! We (my immediate
family) were very thankful for the sunny and warm
Saturday as we painted our 2-story garage!! A big
thanks to Don & David Knost for the loan of
their big tractor...with the huge bucket on the
front it sure made getting to that peak a lot
easier..and safer!!
artCentral's board has been
asked to attend a Planning and Zoning Committee
meeting on Monday, December 7th. They want us to
discuss with us our application for a special use
permit concerning our move into the Hyde House.
We are sooo excited about how positively things
are going! We appreciate everyone's help and
support. However, it's not a sure thing, yet. We
have to have the City Council's approval. They
won't even bring it up for a vote until the third
week in December. Soooo like we've said
before...keep your fingers crossed for us!!
Some interesting info about
some of our members...Jorge Leyva recently won
First Place in the 1998 Spiva Biennial
Competitive. His work was chose out of a field of
25 artists. Our congratulations to him!!
Helen Kunze will be showing her
colored pencil works in the upstairs gallery at
Spiva with an opening reception held on January
8th. We hope everyone will trek over to Joplin
that evening and check out her show. Helen is a
very talented illustrator with a unique style. We
think she is one of the area's most talented
artists, don't we Mary?!!
If you haven't seen Helen's
work you really should. It's a fascinating medium
and not to many artists use it. That same evening
there will also be a show opening in the
downstairs gallery so make the trip!!
MSSC ceramic students are
having their annual Fall Pottery Show and Sale
going on now through December 18th.
This is a wonderful opportunity
to purchase pottery at extremely reasonable
prices!! Once these artists become established
their prices just keep going up!! They will be
doing RAKU demonstrations on Monday, December 7th
and again on the 14th from 4-8:30 p.m. outside
the Fine Arts Building right off of Duquesne Rd.
The hours for the show and sale are 9-5 Monday
through Friday and 2-5 Saturday and Sunday. The
show is being held in the Spiva Gallery at MSSC.
RAKU is an ancient Japanese
method of firing pottery. It's a great event to
watch..dress warmly and be prepared to leave
smelling like smoke and carring arm loads of
treasures!! Some of the artists participating in
this are Richard Reed (one of our members and a
fledgling potter), Sam Lewis, an art teacher from
Webb City (and my mentor!), Diana Bray, Jeremy
Butler, Jana Yust and David Carpenter...just to
name a few!! There are about 15 artists
participating altogether.
Jack and Lee Ann Sours will be
hosting a show and sale at their home in
Dudenville, MO (near Golden City). Jack aka Mud
Brother Pottery is a terrific potter and Lee Ann
is a fiber artist and creates all natural,
hand-woven items. They will be offering their
hand-made ceramics and woven goods December 3rd
through the 6th. Hours are 4-8 Thursday and
Friday, 10-5 Saturday and 12-5 Sunday. This
weekend event is open to the public and we
encourage you to check out their artwork. For
directions call them at 417-537-4953./
They will also be hosting the
monthly meeting of the Art Forum Thursday, Dec.
3rd. We thank them for sharing their home and
studio with us at such a busy time.
Sooo much happening at the
holidays!! Be sure and stop in at these wonderful
sales!! Hand-made, one-of-a-kind art makes great
Christmas gifts!!
More.....next week.
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