More Land.

The City of Carthage owns more land than was previously thought. Parks Director Alan Bull informed the Public Services Committee this week that property at Kellogg Lake near Spring River and Highway 96 belongs to the City. It was discovered that the State of Missouri deeded the property to Carthage in 1963.

The Committee also heard from City Administrator Tom Short concerning the proposed purchase of a collection of presidential memorabilia. Short and members of Main Street Carthage traveled to Nevada to examine the collection but recommended not pursuing the project.

Bull also reported that bids on the new Park Maintenance Building are scheduled to be opened on March 30. All bids submitted for previous specifications were rejected by the Committee earlier because they were above budgeted amounts.

The Committee directed Bull to proceed with obtaining contracts for the use of adult soccer fields. Typically such contracts require a minimum of liability insurance and outlines requirements for maintenance and cleanup responsibilities.

Some Summer Fun Planned!

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

And again we have VICTORY !! Our opening reception last Friday evening was a HUGE success !!

We had more people than we thought could actually fit in the place !! And sooo many new and friendly faces !!

Lots of the new visitors left us their names and address in hopes of being invited to the next one !! And , of course, we will !!

The best news of all is that we sold more art !!

We are are busy gathering all the needed info for this summer’s artCamp 2001. When we get all the details worked out we will let everyone know !! Again, pre-registration is a must and registration will begin in May.

As a reminder......artCamp is for kids 8-14 and is 12 days. It’s 10-2:30 each day, Monday through Saturday. The cost is about $12 per day and some classes run for more than 2 days. Each child should bring a sack lunch and their parents should be timely in deliver-ing them and retrieving them. This summer the artCamp dates are July 23 - August 4.

Last year classes were fun things like multi-media weaving, copper relif, car-tooning and comic strips, writing and illustration, clay, mosaic tile, printmaking and a few different sculpture classes as well as painting.

We are also pleased to announce that this year we will be hosting the 3rd annual Bill Snow stone-carving weekend workshop !! The dates are not set in stone yet, no pun intended, but we will let everyone know when this exciting weekend work-shop will be.

Bill has quite a folllowing for his classes with students coming from as far away as California and Minnesota.

FYI: The Harry S. Truman school in Oronogo is having a fundraising Carnival / Craft Show complete with silent auction, door prizes, food and arts & crafts booths.

Booth space is still available and for more information just call the school. Funds raised will go towards classroom and playground equipment. All happening March 24th !!

More.........next week. 358-4404. 1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com Tues. - Sat 9am - 3pm.

For those who think Carthage is always the last to respond to various civil situations, the proposed ban on glass bottles for alcoholic beverages on City property (except Memorial Hall) gets out front of similar legislation proposed for State parks.

‘Course the day of the glass bottle is on it’s last leg anyway I’d guess.

As a kid I was always on the lookout for pop bottles. A penny or two for each was plenty of incentive for me ta keep the ditches clean of glass RC containers.

The fact that there were no deposits on beer bottles insured that they would be overlooked. They would get inspected on occasion, just as a curiosity. Never found a full one I can remember. Many ended up broken I’m sure. It’s not much fun to throw a plastic bottle at a stop sign.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Oak Street health & herbs

Natural Nutrition

by Mari An Willis

This is it!!! Made it through the hard winter just to see the first jonquals and crocusses in bloom. Makes it worth the wait. I don’t think the winter weather is behind us yet.

News from the Health Sciences Institute has been released regarding the use of extracts of hybrid mushrooms developed in Japan for their immune enhancing abilities. We began reading about these compounds several years ago, but they are just ready to go mainstream in the U.S. The active ingredient is called AHCC (active hexose correlated compound) which has been studied and established as "one of the world’s most powerful—and safe—immune stimulators."*

According to the information supplies from the Health Sciences Institute, many health problems, including some that are not usually associated with the immune system are known to result from varying degrees of immune dysfunction. Some of those mentioned include: gum disease, heart disease, peptic ulcers, recurrent colds, flu and parasites, cancers, slow healing wounds and AIDS.

This hybrid mushroom compound increases NK (natural killer) cell activity against diseased cells as much as 300 percent. It also states that it increases the Interferon levels which inhibit the replication of viruses, and increases the formation of a group of proteins that help destroy cancer cells.*

I wonder if anyone has begun to study our fabulous morrell mushrooms?

* Ghoneum M., et al. International Journal of Immunotherapy, IX(1) pp. 23-28, 1995.
* Society of Natural Immunity.
* This article is meant for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice.