Myers Park Driver School Use Approved.

Council The City Council approved a procedure that would allow the use of the former Myers Park Municipal Airport as a "low speed driving school" during their regular meeting at City Hall last Tuesday night.

The concept for this use of the facility was proposed by Loren Barnett who has worked with the Public Safety Committee developing a general lease agreement. Barnett anticipates that Myers Park would be a good location for private, high school and law enforcement driver education.

.The facility is to be leased only to certified instructors, with the base fee of $20.00 per hour. The lessee also must have a minimum of $500,000 in liability insurance for bodily injury and property damage, as well as a Certificate of Insurance giving proof of workers compensation coverage.

Barnett said that he would like to use this facility as a test market to determine whether or not a private driving course in the Carthage area is financially feasible. If so he may promote or develop a permanent driving course near Carthage, which would rival those on the East and West coasts.

Chamber Announces Free Seminars

The Chamber, in conjunction with top marketing consultant Daniel Corp of DANMAR Enterprises, is pleased to announce the development of new seminars offered free to Chamber members. The first event will be held Tuesday, July 21 at 6:00 p.m. in the Carthage Public Library Annex. "Our members were surveyed for their interest in business seminars," according to Chamber Board President Edie Swingle-Neil. "Everyone responded very well to the idea and we are so pleased to have such a knowledgeable person like Dan lead these events," Edie added.

Mr. Corp has prepared and conducted more than 400 seminars instructing over 7,500 people from various states representing more than 1,500 companies. The seminars will be presented free to the members thanks to Dan's volunteer efforts, and underwriting from Pat Golay of LandGo Broadcasting, in conjunction with KSN-TV16

The theme for the series is Simplifying the Complicated. Mr. Corp developed specific areas of focus based in part on results from the Chamber's Member Benefits Survey conducted in late May.

Titled Business Focus '98, the first in a series of three two hour sessions. Seating in the facility is limited to 60, so early signup is very important to those interested.

The July session will cover areas of Retail/Small Business Marketing; Human Motivation and the Media; Psychology of the Consumer...How To: get'em, sell'em, and keep'em; and Improving Business Image.

The dates for future seminars will be announced soon in a special brochure on the series being developed by the Chamber.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

I had one a those moments that make ya stop in your tracks. A recent high school graduate told me he used ta pick up the Mornin’ Mail when he was a kid. At first I thought he was makin’ a joke, but then realized he wasn’t kiddin’.

It struck me that we are now reachin’ a second generation of readers. We now have another audience to add to the Still Kickin’ folks and the baby boomers - "generation X" I guess. I was never made aware of what exactly the "X" stands for or where it came from. I suppose with this newly realized audience, I need ta become more "hip" or whatever. I doubt there is much danger of any great changes in the Mail however. The only mission of this paper has always been to document local happenin’s, amuse and inform. It appears we have now jumped at least one "generation gap."

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Carthage Farm & Home Supply, Inc.

The Super Handyman

by Al Carrell and Kelly Carrell

Dear Al: My gutters got clogged and overflowed, causing a huge mess in the front courtyard of my home. They looked clean when I last serviced them, but I had missed a clog that was inside a downspout. I found that the fastest way to remove downspout clogs is to stick your garden hose down into it and force out the clog with the water pressure. If it won't unclog from the top, try it from the bottom. It worked great for me.

Dear Al & Kelly: The old, removable wallpaper in my young son's room was ugly but I didn't want to paper over it. I ended up painting it. First I used a primer and then two coats of plain beige paint. My son is allowed to draw anything anywhere he chooses on the walls. When they get too busy or he gets older, it will be easy to pull off the removable wallpaper for the next scheme.

A SUPER HINT-If you have a box full of wood screws for something like a new deck you're building, pour a little liquid hand soap over the screws, and they will practically put themselves into the wood.

Dear Carrells: I have been redoing my basement to turn it into a study. A lot of the work I've done had some ripping and cutting, and I needed a longer workbench to help support the long materials. I didn't have any type of appropriate table, so I used the only thing around that was available, the family ironing board. It was the perfect height and long to handle the material.

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