R-9 Gold Pass Available.

The Carthage R-9 School will continue it’s "Gold Pass" program this year.

The district uses the Gold Pass to show the appreciation of the encouragement area residents give to students by attending various school activities.

To promote that support, the district offers complimentary Gold Passes to persons age 60 or over who are residents of the R-9 School District. The pass is effective for life and authorizes free admittance to all home athletic events and other district-hosted activities, with the exception of district and state tournaments.

To obtain a Gold Pass, those interested can contact the District Administrative Office at 710 Lyon Street in Carthage.

Proof of age should be available upon request.

For more information call 359-7000,

First Home Game of Season Tonight.

The Carthage Tigers will play their first home football game of the season this evening against Branson beginning at 7 p.m.

The team has scheduled six home games this season.

Jasper County Jail Count

192August 25, 2011

Total Including Placed out of County

It was just a pleasant picture. The guy was backin’ up to pull out of a parkin’ spot. It so happened that maneuver blocked the drive I was attemptin’ to enter. Suddenly realizin’ I was waitin’, the fella placed the biscuit of some kind he was eatin’ in his mouth, turned to me and waved in a friendly way, put the car in drive and drove off.

I can only suppose he was smilin’ behind that large hunk of bread in his mouth, all I could see was crust and his eyes peerin’ over the top.

I suppose that some might have been embarrassed in that situation. I don’t think the other driver was in this case, and I certainly wasn’t. It was merely a pleasant exchange of ever’day circumstances. If you happen to get caught with your mouth over full, just wave big and drive off. It’s the friendly thing ta do.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Weekly Column

artCentral

ART NOTES from Hyde House

by Sally Armstrong, Director of artCentral

As we continue to wind down our current season of 2011, I am working towards creating our next season’s calendar, and it looks to be a good one! We will be offering some new artists, some groups of painters, and some old friends on our calendar line-up. I am currently in the process of securing additional artists for the season as well, so if you are an artist and would like to be considered for an exhibition please let me know. Our members who make up the plein aire painters group "Day Trippers" will be exhibiting in the new season, and we look forward to the new work that this group, consisting of Kristin Huke, Carthage, Becky Golubski, Pierce City and Crystal Manning, Carl Junction, and others, bring to Hyde House gallery. I am also pleased to welcome back long-time member and fine painter Donna Roberts of Joplin, who paints in both watercolor and oils, and her talented daughter Kelly Moreland, who does beautiful fiber/mixed media art, in their second show together for artCentral. We will look forward to a first showing by Springfield artist, and new member to artCentral, Dale Augustson who paints with acrylics in a contemporary style to one of the exhibition dates, and look forward to seeing more of this well known Springfield artist’s work in our gallery. Also, there will be an exhibition of member artist Alice Lynn Greenwood’s interesting portrait paintings, in a unique style. Alice comes to Carthage from Fayetteville, Arkansas and is an enthusiastic new member of artCentral. Additionally, we will offer the donation of a portion of the personal art collection of our most valued Wendy Christensen, to be displayed and purchased by viewers in a memorial sale of these works, and possibly another auction of personal works from various members’ collections, so stay tuned for these developments in the upcoming year, 2012. It will prove to be an interesting season I am sure!