Today's Feature

Relatively Speaking at Stone’s Throw.

News release

Stone’s Throw Dinner Theatre of Carthage, Mo will be presenting "Relatively Speaking" By; Alan Ayckbourn with Special permission from Samuel French, Inc. Financial assistance for this production has been provided by Missouri Arts Council, and Schmidt & Associates, PC of Carthage.

Performances are scheduled for Feb. 10, 11, and Feb. 17, 18, 19, 2006. Reservations are required and may be made by calling Stone’s Throw Theatre at 417-358-9665 or Betty Bell at 417-358-7268 or by e-mailing reservations to bbell23@ipa.net. The box office will be open beginning Feb. 6, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon.

Theatre doors open at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with dinner being served at 6:30 p.m. and the performance starting at 7:30 p.m. Sundays the doors open at 12:30 p.m. with dinner at 1:00 p.m. and the performance starting at 2:00 p.m. Admission is $19.50 for adults, $18.50 for seniors over 55 and groups of 10 or more. Youth under 16 are $16.00, and children under 5 are free.

Relatively Speaking is a marvelous cocktail of misunderstandings and mistaken identities. The audience will relish the growing embarrassment and frustration the characters are causing each other as the dialogue reaches farcical absurdity. Chaotic, ingenious and hilarious. Directed by Kendra Goepfert

For more information, contact the theatre 417-358-9665, or Kendra Goepfert 417-782-8667.

To Look At Skate Park Feasibility.

The City Council Public Services Committee will look more closely at the possibility of constructing a skate park in the City. At the meeting earlier this week the committee accepted a petition containing 200 signatures from Carthage High School students which requested the City to approve the building of a skate park. The petition was presented to the committee by citizen Russell Short.

Committee Chair Jim Woestman told Short that the committee has already made note of public interest in the matter and will continue to research the feasibility of the construction, as well as the best location.

The project would need to be funded primarily by independent sources with a potential donation from the City, according to Woestman. Areas of consideration currently include Municipal Park and the Fair Acres area. The committee will continue to discuss the matter at its meeting next month.

The committee has for the past several months conducted an ongoing study of the City parks. The study has listed areas for improvement, maintenance items and developmental ideas.

Stench Report:
Thursday,
2/9/06

No Stench Reported

Now I know that a good portion of ya get tired of me doing this little reminder ever’ year, but for those poor souls that forget the 14th, it’s gotta be done.

After all, it’s not that the earth will come to an end if those flowers or candy doesn’t show up. The real tragedy is the year of makin’ up for it.

‘Course I’m mainly talkin’ to the male species. This is one portion of the social fabric that has not yet moved onto the equality scale. Bathrooms at the convenience store may be shared by male and female (on an individual basis of course), but the "glass ceiling" for men is Valentine’s day.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

A few pieces of nutritional trivia:

• Fast foods are notable for their lack of Vitamin A. If this is your frequent food choice during the rushed day, be sure to consume lots of vegetables and possible supplementation with antioxidants.

• A 12 ounce cola beverage may contain as much as 50 milligrams of caffeine. In the body of a 60 pound child, two or more such cola beverages are equivalent to the caffeine in 8 cups of coffee for a 175 pound adult.

• Even when a person is asleep and totally relaxed the cells of many organs are hard at work expending energy. Cells maintain all life processes without any conscious effort; however, it represents about two-thirds to three-fourths of all the total energy a person spends a day. The remainder is utilized by the muscles.

• In many cases, lactose-intolerant people can tolerate fermented milk products such as yogurt, hard cheeses, cottage cheese and acidophilus milk. The bacteria in these products digest lactose for their own use leaving a product lactose intolerants may consume.

*Source: Understanding Nutrition, 6th Edition. Whitney Rolfes.