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Arbor Day Celebration.

Carthage’s Arbor Day Celebration will be held this afternoon, Friday, April 20th, at 2:00 p.m. in Carter Park on River Street. Missouri Department of Conservation Urban Forester Jon Skinner will be present at the event to announce Carthage’s qualification for the National Arbor Day Foundation’s "Tree City USA" program. This year will be Carthage’s eighth year in the program. A tree will also be planted at the park.

Skinner noted during a recent interview that in addition to Carthage’s status as a Tree City, Carthage Water and Electric has met the qualifications for the Arbor Day Foundation’s "Tree Line USA" program for its second year. This program recognizes public and private utilities across the nation that demonstrate practices that protect and enhance America’s urban forests.

National Arbor Day will be celebrated the following Friday, April 27th. Arbor Day was founded in the state of Nebraska by J. Sterling Morton in 1872. It is estimated that over a million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day.

Went to change a light bulb in my desk lamp today, and I saw the warnin’ label. It says, "to reduce the risk of fire use 60 watt type A or smaller." I think I’d feel a little better if it said "to eliminate the risk" of fire. I guess the only way to completely eliminate the risk would be to never plug the thing in.

Most of us are willin’ to live with a little risk in our lives. The couple a fender benders I’ve been personally involved in bring home the point that bein’ out on the road in an automobile is risky business. Unless a person is willin’ to give up the rewards of reasonably safe, reliable transportation, they eventually get back in a car and put themselves at risk again.

‘Course, with automobiles, it’s not the car that’s dangerous, it’s the nut behind the wheel.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Natural Nutrition
By Mari An Willis

Lots of people using essential oils. The following is a list of commonly used oils.

Basil - Uplifting and refreshing. Used for poor memory, confusion, indecision, depression, fear, paranoia, mental stress, and fatigue.

Bergamot - Relaxing, refreshing, and uplifting. Used for anxiety, nervous tension, and depression.

Clary Sage - Warming, relaxing, euphoric, aphrodisiac. Centers the mind. Used for PMS, depression, anxiety, hyperactivity, panic, fear, paranoia, and hysteria.

Eucalyptus - Cooling and stimulating. Purifying. Balancing.

Geranium - Stimulating, uplifting, energizing. Special affinity to the female body. Used for anxiety, depression, tension, PMS.

Jasmine - Stimulating, euphoric, aphrodisiac. Increases confidence. Used for depression, lack of libido.

Juniper - Refreshing, stimulating, detoxifying. Used for poor memory, mental stress and fatigue, apathy, lack of energy.

Lavender - Balancing, relaxing. Used for nervous tension, depression, headaches, insomnia, impatience and irritability.

Lemon - Refreshing, detoxifying. Used for clearing and cleansing the mental palate.

Patchouli - The smell of the 60’s! Antidepressant, anti-inflammatory, anti-emetic, antimicrobial. Acne athlete’s foot, chapped skin... Stress related conditions.

Peppermint - Cooling, refreshing, stimulating. Used for poor memory, depression, melancholy, confusion, indecision, nausea, congestion.

Ylang Ylang - Aphrodisiac, euphoric, relaxing, calming. Balances nervous system. Used for stress, insomnia, depression, anger, panic, pre-testing anxiety.

This article is meant for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. References available by request. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.

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Art Notes from Hyde House
By Sally Armstrong, Director of artCentral

"EXPRESSIONS" In Clay is ready for the viewers and artists! I am so happy to have been able to display 54 of the works brought to me at Hyde House in both galleries for this new show opening on Friday. If you want to see some very interesting pieces from some of our very talented and dedicated local potters, this show is for you. In the last two articles I attempted to profile 8 of the 18 artists represented, from Miami OK, Oronogo, Joplin, Carthage, Rolla, Lebanon, Diamond and Saginaw MO and Pittsburg and Ft. Scott KS. Now let me talk about the art I have seen from the rest, for whom I do not have biographies.

Ginger and Ken Bogle are an "artist couple" from Oronogo, Missouri. The piece of Ginger’s that caught my attention is a tiny jade green ceramic tea pot. Ken has a tea pot-like piece too, but definitely sculptural in nature, with an applied leather handle. He has several beautifully colored glazed vases as well, one a beautiful purple.

Jim Christman of Joplin has brought some brightly colored hand painted and glazed bottles for his offering. Lori Fish, Lebanon, has hand-painted designs too, on her small-necked narrow bottles, but in a matt finish, yellows, blues and greens. Both of these artists have introduced art on the surfaces of their pieces. And Debbie Reed of Joplin has done some beautiful oriental painted designs inside two bowls and a small vase, koi and a tea ceremony, which incorporate her first love, painting.

The offerings of Daria Claiborne, formerly of Carthage now living in Joplin, include a set of three "golden bowls", bowls almost the same, yet unique. Her beautiful oval serving dish with applied curved handles has nice contrast of color, and is one of the pieces featured on the invitation. Rita Moore of Joplin also has a beautifully glazed in gold vase that was featured on the invitation as well as several other wonderful examples, including a ripple-rimmed bowl with a stamped design and beautiful green and creme glaze. Connie Knudtson completes the printed art pieces from the card with an interesting green bowl in a clay design inside that I have been calling "cabbage leaf", and she does this bowl in a larger version in ivory as well as a small brown glazed bowl in an interesting "leather finished and patterned" glaze.

Art student Todd Petillo of Joplin exhibits a fine hand on the wheel with his beautiful black tea set, both functional but beautiful to look at, and an interesting set of 4 bottles with snug-fitted hand thrown caps. Again, utilitarian, but beautiful. And group president Sylvia Shirley of Pittsburg shows imagination in her glazes on 3 shino bowls of various sizes. Also of Pittsburg, Gregory Krepps, shows beautiful thinly created hand-pinched pots glazed in slip and then stone burnished, a very tedious process I am told. One of these bowls displays a cracked-clay surface below the smooth upper body. Lastly, for those lovers of blue and white are two pieces by Lori Doty of Rolla, in a smooth white porcelain glaze and blue accents.

The potters will be present both Friday evening and all day Saturday in a special outdoor POTTERY FAIR to be set up on the grounds of the Hyde House, so come out Friday evening at 6:00 for the opening of the gallery show, and spend some time browsing the fair, or choose Saturday to visit us. The gallery show runs through May 7th.