CW&EP Rate Restructure.

The City Council is scheduled to meet in a special meeting next Monday evening to discuss the adjustment of rates as recommended by the CW&EP Board of Directors.

The recommendations will reflect conclusions supported by recent rate studies contracted by the utility. Indications are that the recommendations will not typically result in a significant overall increase in residential billings.

The CW&EP Board has been concerned for several years that the water/wastewater portion of the utility was not paying for itself and was being subsidized by sale of electricity. The recommendation of the Board will be to decrease the rate for electricity while increase the water and wastewater rates.

The Board voted at its January 23rd meeting to recommend the proposal. The vote was 4-1 with Claude Dickens opposing because he felt the water and wastewater rates did not allocate costs correctly to very large industrial customers.

General Manager Bob Williams felt the recommendations were fair to customers in all rate classes.

Wednesday With The Carthage High Seniors Was Great!

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

Well.............we had quite an experience this last Wednesday !! We closed the gallery so we could par-ticipate in the Carthage High, day long symposium, ‘Ethical Decision Making in the Workplace and Society’.

We were the table leader for 7 seniors interested in art as a career. Mr Andy Youngworth led us all through the procedures to set a standard of moral and ethical values. Then each table worked through a number of ethical delimmas to come up with a unanimous solution to the delimma based on our set of morals and values.

The group of kids at the art table were great !! Some were already involved in art and some were more interested in music and interior design. The part they enjoyed the most was the pizza, pop and cookies we had for lunch !!

All in all it was an interesting day.....at least for the adult table leaders........... And no matter what you might hear the kids at the art table were not really serious about the cock-roach thing.

Mr. Youngworth and Mr. Neel Baucom (and all the others who worked on this project) deserve a loud round of applause for all their work getting the symposium put together !!

There were approximately 35 tables with 8-12 seniors per table. Table leaders were doctors, nurses, lawyers, bankers, lots of different people from Leggett and Butterball, small business owners, reporters, firemen, police officers, priests, and one (!) artist/gallery director.

This whole thing took place at Fairview Christin Church. It is truly amazing what they have done to that old Wal-mart building!!

We hope for future symposiums some of the talented artists in this community will volunteer to be the art table leader !!

We have just about one week left for the present exhibit so hurry over and check it out !!

Next opening reception will be March 2. 6pm - 8pm.

More.........next week. 358-4404. 1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com W-TH-F 9am - 3pm.

Letter to the Editor.

Opinions expressed reflect those of the writer
and not necessarily those of the Mornin' Mail.

Dear Editor,

Well that was an exciting city council meeting last week. Can we expect another one like it in two weeks. I think the Alliance could bring a choir or Charley could lead the members that voted the change down in a few spiritual hymns and he could give us a nice sermon. Evidently some of the council members need spiritual help before they can vote. I noticed the Alliance members believe drinking alcohol is a sin, but gluttony is fine. Don’t you just love people that want to control our lives, I guess they don’t think we are smart enough to be able to handle these types of problems ourselves. Well enough on that subject.

Tourism, I see the City Council wants to try to raise motel taxes again. That will bring in about $60,000 a year, then they want to hire a director to run the whole show. Of course that will probably cost 20 to 30 thousand a year. People it is still a new tax and when your friends and relatives come to town they get stuck with it. Every time we turn around we are being stuck with new taxes, R-9 wants to raise our real estate taxes, State of Mo. wants 2 cents a gallon on gasoline. County Commission wants a new tax for law enforcement and probably to buy another building. If the Mayor and city council would spend as much time and money on trying to bring new Retail stores and shops, and maybe a new grocery store to Carthage, as they do on Antique stores and Flea markets maybe when we want some new clothes and other things we would not have to run to Joplin to buy them.

Rudy J. Mueller

Carthage Area United Way
Elects Officers.

news release

The Board of Directors of the Carthage Area United Way has elected officers for 2001.

The new officers are Jim Hess of Leggett & Platt, president; Jack Smith, Arvest Bank, vice-president; Kelly Hartly, H. E. Williams, secretary; and Larry McGuire, Day, McGuire & Keels PC, treasurer.

Those serving on the board are Linda Clemmons, Penmac Personnel Services; Larry Lloyd, Innovative Industries; Miriam Putnam, Carthage Radiologists; Teri Schramm, MSSC; John Stevens, Schreiber Foods, and Susan Williams with new directors Scott Douglas, Leggett & Platt, and Denise Robertson, CW&EP, joining the Board for three-year terms. Bob Copeland, McCune Brooks Hospital, will serve as 2001 campaign chairman.

Nice ta see some a that spring weather. It’s been more than a couple a weeks since we broke over the 60 degree mark. They say we aren’t out of winter by a long shot if ya listen to the ground hog.

I never paid much attention to the shadow theory. Figure the odds of a sunny day matchin’ up with a long winter is pretty good most of the time. ‘Sides, if it doesn’t happen, do ya hear anyone sayin’, "I remember ground hog day."

I put more stock in wooly worms and heavy coats on the livestock. Figure if anything can predict a winter, ask those who are out in it. Not some rodent that hides down in a hole when it cools off a mite.

I predict spring will arrive. Just ain’t sayin’ when.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Oak Street health & herbs

Natural Nutrition

by Mari An Willis

Thanks to the information age, my daughter from Texas keeps me apprised of stuff that she forgot she had heard from me, but holds the authority of having been on the internet....go figure. The following was forwarded:

WATER

a. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.

b. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.

c. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.

d. One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pains for almost 100% of the dieters investigated in a University of Washington study.

e. Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

f. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.

g. Drinking 5 (8 oz.) glasses of water daily may decrease the risk of colon cancer by 45% plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Thirsty yet? Of course, filtered or purified water is your best choice.