Today's Feature
At Large Question Fails.
The City
Council held it’s regular meeting Tuesday
evening in City Hall. Immediately after roll
call, the Council approved Mayor Kenneth
Johnson’s appointment of David Woods to the
First Ward seat recently vacated by Mike Harris.
"He definitely lives in
the First Ward," said Johnson.
David Woods announced that he
will run for the First Ward seat in the April 6th
general election.
Under second readings, the
proposed ordinance authorizing to ask voters in
Carthage on whether or not they should elect five
of the ten Council members at large by all the
voters and elect the remaining five from their
respective wards failed in a tie vote.
Council member Jackie Boyer
sponsored the proposed ordinance and encouraged
the other members of the Council to vote in
favor.
Council members Jackie Boyer,
David Woods, Claude Newport, Jim Woestman, and
Bill Fortune voted in favor of the proposed
ordinance. Those who voted against where Diane
Sharits, Ron Ferguson, Ronnie Wells, Don Stearnes
and Bill Welch.
The final filing date for City
Council posts is January 20th. Currently filed to
run is First Ward, Claude Newport; Second Ward,
Mike Harris; Third Ward, Jackie Boyer; and Fifth
Ward Don Stearnes. As of yet, no one has filed
for the Fourth Ward seat.
During officers reports, Police
Chief Dennis Veach honored Globe delivery driver
Donald Sharp for his lifesaving efforts on
January 5th. Sharp discovered the body of 93 year
old Florence Blevins between two homes at 3:10
a.m. Sharp immediately summands emergency help.
Veach stated that the
temperatures that morning were in the teens. He
also reported that the woman is alive and
recovering in the hospital due to her discovery
by Sharp.
Also on the agenda was an
Ordinance authorizing a special use permit for a
bed and Breakfast at 901 Grant. The Council
requested that the matter be taken to the
Planning and Zoning Committee. The residence
falls short by 1000 square feet of the 3500
square foot requirement for the operation of a
bed and breakfast.
National Park
Service’s Route 66 Corridor Preservation
Program.
An information session on the
National Park Service’s Route 66 Corridor
Preservation Program will be presented by its
Program Manager Michael Romero Taylor at the
Carthage Library Annex building at 7:00 pm
Thursday January 15. This will be the first
public forum on the Route 66 Corridor project in
recent years for this area.
Taylor and fellow National Park
Service associate Kaisa Barthuli are in the
tri-state area meeting with officials from
various state Route 66 Associations. The Thursday
evening public forum is open to anyone interested
in learning more about this specific program and
should conclude about 8 pm.
In 1999, in response to the
recognized need to preserve the rich resources of
the historic highway, Congress passed an act to
create the Route 66 Corridor Preservation
Program. Administered by the National Park
Service, the program collaborates with private
property owners; non-profit organizations; and
local, state, federal, and tribal governments to
identify, prioritize, and address Route 66
preservation needs. It provides cost-share grants
to successful applicants for the preservation and
restoration of the most significant and
representative properties dating from the
route’s period of outstanding historical
significance, 1926 through 1970. These properties
include the familiar "gas, eat, sleep"
related businesses, cultural landscapes, and the
all-important road segments themselves.
Cost-share grants are also
provided for research, planning, oral history,
interpretation, and education/outreach projects
related to Route 66. The program serves as a
clearinghouse of preservation information, and
provides limited technical assistance.
The Route 66 Corridor
Preservation Program is administered by the
National Park Service’s National Trails
System Office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Designed
as a "seed," or stimulus, program, it
is scheduled to legislatively terminate at the
end of fiscal year 2009, at which time the
National Park Service will appoint a non-federal
entity (or entities) to continue the
program’s purpose.
Program grant funds are
provided through congressional appropriations
which are determined each new fiscal year.
Project eligibility criteria requires a minimum
50% cost-share match provided by the applicant.
Cost-share match may consist of non-federal
funds, or non-federal funds and in-kind services.
All historic preservation projects are required
to conform to the Secretary of the
Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of
Historic Properties which can be reviewed at
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/tps/standguide/index.htm.
Applications for the 2004 cycle will be available
beginning February, 2004 (exact date to be
announced).
To learn more about the
preservation program and read in-depth reports
about the history and NPS surveys of Route 66,
consult the website
http://www.cr.nps.gov/rt66/HistSig/index.htm.
Also on-line are current program newsletters and
other information about current preservation
projects supported by this program.
Program Helps Missouri
Seniors.
A media release from
MissouriPRO reported that a group of insurance
counselors met in Jefferson City to remind
seniors citizens that insurance programs like
Medicare do not have to complicate their lives.
Since 1993, the CLAIM (Community Leaders
Assisting the Insured of Missouri) with services
provided by MissoriPRO offers free health
insurance counseling and assistance.
The CLAIM program is part of a
national network of state health insurance
assistance programs that offers one-on-one
counseling and assistance to people with Medicare
and their families.
CLAIM helps answer questions
about Medicare benefits, Medicare appeals
processes, enrollment questions, Medicare managed
care plans, long-term care insurance, and
suspected Medicare fraud and abuse.
The staff assist people on
Medicare but do not make the decision for
callers. Counselors have no affiliation with the
sale of any insurance or products and all
information is confidential. Seniors who would
like free counseling, should call (800) 390-3330
during regular business hours.
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