Today's Feature

Annual Children’s Christmas Party.

The Carthage Police Department’s 28th Annual Children’s Christmas Party will be held Saturday, December 17th from 10 a.m. till noon at the Carthage Memorial Hall Building. A gift and refreshments will be provided for invited children.

Parents are requested to observe the party from the balcony, due to very limited floor space. For children who must be attended, one parent may accompany the child onto the main floor.

Invitations must be presented for entry. The invitations for the party will be mailed out beginning today. The previous year’s party saw the attendance of 587 children. This year the attendance is expected to be even larger with approximately 900 invitations being mailed.

For individuals needing special assistance please contact Chief of Police Dennis Veach 24 hours in advance of this event at 417-237-7200. (TDD - 417-237-7200 or Missouri TDD Relay - 800-735-2466 for persons with hearing impairment.

The Christmas Party is organized by the Police Department as a way to ensure that area children receive a gift for Christmas.

Stench Report:
Monday,
12/5/05

No Odor Complaints

I know a lotta folks that can tell ya ‘bout the weather dependin’ on a knee or a finger givin’ ‘em a warnin’ when the weather’s gettin’ ready ta change.

I think instead of investin’ in all those radar machines, they otta have five or ten folks sittin’ ‘round every night, tellin’ us what aches and pains they’re havin’ and what it all means. Be a lot more fun than listenin’ ta some long winded explanation of all the reasons nobody can tell for sure what the weather’s gonna do.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Enforced Rest Causes Rapid Deconditioning

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am forced to take a rest from my exercise program for about two months. How will this affect me? I have been actively training for the past 10 years and am in pretty good shape. — L.P.

ANSWER: Deconditioning occurs fairly rapidly. In the 1960s, exercise scientists conducted an experiment called The Rest and Training Study. They put young men, in their early 20s, to bed rest for three weeks. They tested the men’s strength and endurance before they were put to bed and again after the three weeks in bed. As expected, the men’s fitness had regressed to levels way below the levels they had possessed at the beginning of the experiment.

Thirty years later, the experimenters rounded up the same men, now in their 50s. During the 30 years, none had engaged in any physical training. They were mostly sedentary. Still, their level of fitness was greater than it had been after they spent those three weeks in bed rest. The men were then put into a supervised exercise program. After six months, they had attained a state of fitness that was superior to their fitness when they were 20 and were first tested before bed rest.

There is a bright side to all this. Well-trained men and women can maintain their gains by exercising only one day a week. They will not make any improvements, but they can stem the losses with one day of exercise.