Today's Feature
Fire Trucks Big
Ticket Items.
The City Council Budget/Ways
and Means Committee will begin budget hearings
next Wednesday evening. With the largest portion
of the budget committed to maintaining the
current levels of service, most of the decisions
facing the Committee will concern various
department requested capital improvements.
The Fire Department request for
the replacement of two 1985 pumper trucks and one
tanker with two new vehicles will represent an
approximate $250,000 expenditure.
During the Public Safety
Committee meeting last Monday, the possibility of
a seven year lease for the equipment was
discussed. Committee members H.J. Johnson and
Lujene Clark wanted to look at other options
rather than the lease.
Johnson suggested the
possibility of purchasing one of the trucks
outright this year and delaying the purchase of
the second truck. Clark noted that the ladder
truck purchased several years ago was paid for
over the course of the manufacturing process.
Three payments were made at various stages of
completion over two fiscal years. Chief Cooper
was asked to research the options.
Living
With Grief: Children,
Adolescents, and Loss.
new release
On Wednesday, April 26 at 12:30
p.m., University Outreach and Extension will host
the seventh annual Hospice Foundation of America
National Bereavement Teleconference. "Living
With Grief: Children, Adolescents, and
Loss," moderated by Cokie Roberts of ABC
News, will examine ways to help children and
adolescents cope with loss.
The program will offer insight
and practical suggestions for those assisting
young people with issues that include death,
serious illness, divorce, and other traumatic
incidents. The teleconference is intended for
both professionals and laypeople who deal with
young people.
This program is offered free of
charge. Continuing Education credits are
available for a wide range of professions. For
more information about the teleconference,
contact the University Outreach and Extension
Center in Carthage at 417-358-2158.
Fifth
Annual Relay For Life.
news release American Cancer
Society
I’m sure everyone at
sometime or another has been directly or
indirectly involved with someone’s fight
with cancer. You felt helpless, nothing you could
do, well here’s your chance.
The Fifth Annual Relay for Life
will be held June 9th and June 10th at Central
Park in Carthage. We are in the need for teams.
Community members from businesses, schools,
churches as well as cancer survivors, their
families and friends, all come together to fight
this nasty disease.
We need teams of 8 to 15 people
(the more you have the less you need to walk) to
pull together to walk through the night, rain or
shine. This is more than a fundraiser, this is a
celebration of those people who have beat the
odds and for those who have not.
This is a fun-filled weekend to
be had by all. For more information please
contact Nancy at 358-3560, Lana at 359-8120,
Teresa at 359-5702 or the American Cancer Society
at 624-6808.
Flowers donated by
Alexandria’s Garden and more classes set for
artCamp 2000!!!
news release from artCentral
by Robin Putnam
We are Sooo thrilled!! For the
second time we have been given a virtual TON of
annuals for our little flowerbeds!! Eda and Steve
Eissinger, artCentral members and owners of
Alexandria’s Country Garden and Greenhouses,
have been veryto us (again) and have donated
enough annuals to fill our beds to the brim!!
When we were in the Geranium
House they donated annuals for our yard there
too!! We truly appreciate their generosity!! Hyde
House will have a very beautiful yard in a few
weeks when these little buggers start growing!!
Three cheers for Steve and Eda!!!
There is a lot to cheer about
these days........our art-Camp schedule is
filling up fast !
The newest classes we have set
are : Anne-Marie Gailey, Joplin, teaches art in
Webb City. She will be offering a 2 day class in
clay with a theme of Ancient Egyptian Art !!!
Each stu-dent will work in clay and the piece or
pieces will be fired and then painted in lovely
golds and blues !! It really sounds like it will
be a lot of fun !!! Again, this is a 2 day class
!!
Next we have Randy Wright,
Joplin, who is a jeweler BUT working on her Art
Ed degree at MSSC !! She will be teaching copper
relief one day and weaving another !! The copper
relief project will be a design or drawing pushed
into the soft copper resulting in a raised
‘painting’ !!
Her weaving project will
include drawing a design and putting together a
hand-held ‘loom’ and then weaving the
design !! Again....lots of fun and interesting,
too !!
Tom Jones, Carthage, is the art
teacher at Jasper High School. He will teach a
class in printmaking !! This is a technique where
a design or drawing is impressed onto a soft
surface, the surface is inked with the excess
removed and then clean paper is pressed on to
‘print’ the design !! It’s a real
challenge if your putting in lettering or
words....you have to write them backwards so
they’ll be readable when printed on the
paper !!! It’s a cool process and TONS of
fun....messy, too !!
Those classes almost fill our 2
week camp. We have just one day left to fill !!
We thank all the artists and teachers for signing
up !! We couldn’t do it without them !!
Remember registration starts in
May, ages 8-14 !!
More.......next week. 358-4404.
1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com
under organizations. Our hours are Tues. - Sat.
9am - 3pm and Sundays 12 - 4pm.
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