Did Ya Know... The Carthage Chamber of Commerce is taking orders for the souvenir afghans which feature the historic Jasper County Courthouse as a log cabin back in the 1800's.
Did Ya Know... Create-A-Cover is back at the Carthage Public Library. They are sponsoring the Summer Reading Club to win prizes. Activity and preschool storytime sessions will be held Wednesday mornings at 10:30 in June.
Did Ya Know... The Carthage Municipal Pool is now open 12 to 6 Monday through Saturday and 1 to 5:30 on Sunday. For information, contact the Parks and Recreation office at 358-6778.
Did Ya Know... Enhanced 9-1-1 will be available countywide in late July.
How do you fix a broken tomato? With tomato paste.
"You're going out to play golf again?" his wife complained. "Don't be angry with me," her husband replied. "I'm only doing it under strict doctor's orders." "Do I look that stupid?" she said. "You expect me to believe that your doctor told you to play golf?" "But it's true," he said, as he walked out the front door. "He told me specifically that I should get some iron every day!"
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.
Quick Returns from Mining.
H. Campbell said today: "The quickest returns from mining that I have ever known were recorded Saturday on some land near Webb City in which I am interested. Two boys began work from the grass roots at noon on Friday and Saturday. They had taken out 1100 pounds of lead." This made them $10 each perday for their labor.
Elected Principal at Carl Junction.
W. T. Franklin was Saturday night elected principal of the Carl Junction schools by the board of education of that place. Mr. Franklin is a young man of energy and ability and one of the most progressive teachers of the county. His many friends will wish him success.
G. A. R. Day.
Sat., July 3, is to be G. A. R. day, and the local post will have speakers of National reputation secured for the event.
Carthage has been named in the top five of communities with populations of 5,000 and above of the 10,000 communities that entered the “Prettiest Painted Places in America” competition, according to a news release by Carthage Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Heather Kelly yesterday afternoon. The contest is being sponsored by the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute. Carthage will compete against larger communities such as St. Louis, Missouri and New Oleans, Louisiana as well smaller communities such as Abbeville, Louisiana and Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Contest coordinator John Stauffer said the decision to include Carthage in the top five was based on several factors. One of those was the tourism video which was funded by the City of Carthage and the Missouri Division of Tourism. The Institute was also given a copy of the Carthage Tourism brochures and a brochure of the Victorian Homes as well as the historic Jasper County Courthouse. Contest officials are planning a visit to Carthage in early August to learn about the area and a winner will be announced in September, according to Ms. Kelly. She also stated that she feels that this could be wonderful exposure for Carthage on a national level.
Citizens can receive more information about the competition by visiting the web site for the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality located at ww.paintquality.com. The Chamber will be announcing more details on the competition as they become available throughout the summer.
The Public Works Committee is scheduled to look at the proposed “Storm Water Control” ordinance this afternoon at 5 at City Hall. This is yet another one a those decisions that doesn’t affect ya much unless your back yard gets flooded ever’time it clouds up a bit.
The housing developers and the City have a considerable interest in gettin’ this thing worked out, mainly figurin’ who’s gonna pay for what.
The City is lookin’ to keep the storm water from becomin’ more of a problem than it already is, at the same time wantin’ to encourage folks to build new homes in the city.
The developers warn that makin’ the price of gettin’ property ready to meet excessive regulations will make such development too expensive.
The City, of course, would bear the expense of diggin’ bigger ditches if the runoff is increased. This has been at least a four year discussion that may be comin’ to a close.
This is some fact, but mostly, Just Jake Talkin’.
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FACTS ABOUT FATS: The most talked about dietary factors, fats and cholesterol, are often misunderstood. Here's a simplified description taken from a Consumer Information release from the United States General Service Administration.
There’s “good” cholesterol (HDL) and “bad” cholesterol (LDL). Cholesterol is carried in our blood by lipoproteins, which are chemical compounds made up of fats and protein. (If you see the prefix, lipo, used in a word, you can assume fat is involved. Liposuction, for example, means sucking out fat in a plastic surgery procedure.)
When a lipoprotein contains more fat than protein, it’s called a low density lipoprotein, or LDL. This cholesterol is more likely to deposit fatty buildup in the arteries, which can lead to heart attacks. This is why it’s called the “bad” cholesterol.
HDL cholesterol can actually help reduce the overall amount of cholesterol in the blood, which means it can protect against heart disease. So, of course, this is the “good” cholesterol. Have your cholesterol levels checked regularly by your doctor. To lower your risk of heart disease, keep your cholesterol level below 200; your LDL cholesterol under 130.
Reverend Dean Galyen, Assemblies of God missionary to East Africa, will be the featured guest speaker at Carthage First Assembly Church on Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. according to Reverend James Perkins, pastor.
Dean and Peggy Galyen live in Malawi, a small East African nation located between Zambia and Mozambique. Their ministry takes them throughout the region.
"We primarily preach crusades, " Dean reports. "While I am preaching adult crusades, Peggy is heading up children's outreaches to accompany them. We use whatever facilities God makes available. We've preached in tents, held meetings outdoors, and rented buildings. But wherever we minister, our goal remains the same - we want to see churches established in areas where none have been before."
This desire to plant new congregations has taken the Galyens into some of Africa's toughest areas. They visited Rwanda after a wave of inter-tribal genocide killed hundreds of thousands of people. They were in Kikwit, Zaire, after the Ebola virus threatened to ravage the population.
Besides holding crusades and building up new congregations, Dean trains church leadership. He has taught short courses in Bible schools in several nations, and conducted seminars. He firmly believes that both pastors and lay leaders in the church should be founded in solid biblical study. Dean's own call to the mission field came as he was preparing to go to college.
"I had a vision of an African man who told me I had to go into the ministry for his sake," he remembers.
As a result of the vision, he declined a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin and went to North Central Bible College. The Galyens ministered in the United States for many years before accepting their assignment to Africa. Wherever they served, they sought to increase the missions awareness of their churches. Dean took numbers of ministry teams from their last church in St. Louis, Missouri, overseas in outreach. On one of their trips to Africa, Dean finally met the man he had seen in his vision.
"His name was Jean Waye," he says, "and I know that God has called me to Africa to reach many more people like him."
The public is invited to attend the Galyens' missions presentation on June 18, 1997.
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Communication is the key to successful relationships, whether business or personal. The relationship between a hairdresser and client are both personal and business. Do you want a haircut or a "trim"? Big difference! Your idea of a trim and your hairdressers idea of a trim could be very different. Do you prefer your hair cut "over the ear"? To some "over the ear" means the ear is covered - but to a hairdresser, "over the ear" could mean the hair is cut above the ear, exposing the entire ear.
To many a "body perm" just means no tight curl - but technically, a "body perm" has no curl - just bend and volume in the hair. A picture is worth a thousand words. If you have difficulty explaining to your hairdresser what you want - or if you don't know exactly what you want, look for pictures. You may not want the exact style in the picture, but with a little communication, your hairdresser should be able to see what you like about the picture. It may be the neckline, or the front or sides or it may be the entire style. Don't be afraid to show pictures.
Try to be sure your stylist understands what you want and your stylist will do his or her best to see that you are satisfied. Good communication can result in a satisfying stylist - client relationships making good business for both parties and a good hair day for the client.
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If you get an advertisement or such, make sure to send a reply back. Like I said earlier, we get enough junk mail at home...
Have you ever heard of Smiley's? They came about as a result of Netiquette in an attempt to develop a way to express emotion more effectively in an e/mail message. At the end of a sentence that is supposed to be describing something happy you might put this type of smiley :) (it's a sideways happy face), or if you're sad about something you might type :(. One more example... lets say your being sarcastic or kidding about something, you might type :-). (The semicolon is supposed to make it look like it's winking.. get it?!?)
Other Netiquette guidelines come about when you are creating a World Wide Web site. Concepts such as having too many pictures of black backgrounds with white text are sometimes considered a violation. Blinking text can also be considered a violation by some. Actually, anything that might slow down your connection to that particular page may be termed a violation of Netiquette!
To be totally honest... I guess just about anything that could get on your nerves or annoy you would be considered a violation of netiquette. The whole point is, if it annoys you, it probably annoys others as well.
County wide 9-1-1 service is scheduled to be available late July, says Harlan Snow, Chairman of the Jasper County Emergency Services Board. Chairman Snow reports that the Board is very anxious to assure that Joplin City residents within Jasper County have access to the fully Enhanced 9-1-1 Services contemporaneously with all other County residents, according to a new release yesterday.
“The system implementation plan as authorized by the Board, which has the statutory duty to design and coordinate the delivery of such services included a variety of features that would allow Jasper County residents to reach one of the two Public Safety Answering Points in time of real crisis,” said the release.
“This fully integrated design is clearly in the best interests of the public and sought to remove previous objections to sharing such responsibilities,” said Chairman Snow.
Executive Director of the Board’s 9-1-1 Center, William A. Cade, Jr. concurred. “It is the Board’s hope that the public duty to provide competent, prompt, effective emergency communications will always outweigh other considerations. This level of service to residents has to well above the usual debate between County and City and should be focused strictly on providing the best service,” said Cade.
The release went on to explain that the costs of providing the City of Joplin with plan compliant equipment and trunk lines as well as the necessary support services, to meet the specific parameters of the Board’s implementation plan, is generally agreed upon as a Board responsibility. Enhanced 9-1-1 Service in Jasper County is funded solely from a one tenth of one percent sales tax, approved by the voters in 1994.