Friesen New Chamber President.

The Carthage Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors unanamously elected Dexter Friesen as President of the Board yesterday morning. Friesen will complete the unfulfilled term of Edie Swingle Neil who resigned on April 29. Vice President Bob Copeland will complete his term and follow the traditional move to President next January.

Friesen and his wife Donna have lived in Carthage since 1992 when they purchased the Econ Lodge Motel. Since that time he has served on various community boards including the Chamber Board for six years. He has also served as a board member of CW&EP, board member of the Fair Acres Family Y, as Treasurer of the First Baptist Church, and has coached and managed Little League and Senior League Baseball.

The Chamber Board also elected members of the Executive Committee and include Friesen, Copeland, Dorothy Greenwood, Treasurer Bill Johnson, and Dr. Greg Goetzinger.

Director Heather Kelly says she is very pleased with the Board’s selection.

Ozarks Artists Colony

Web Site For Area Arts.

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

We're sooo pleased to have Bill here fixing things again. He is working on the garage windows. The lower ones needed to be replaced. He's done a great job....the new windows look exactly like the original ones!! To be able to fix the middle window he had to cut out a cabinet built around it...what a difference!! We can actually see in there now! Why would you put cabinet doors on a window? Anyway..it looks much better now, inside and out!!

We have our sign out in the yard now. Yeah!! Even have some snap dragons planted around it. There are also new bedding plants in a flowerbed between the driveway and the house...sure signs of spring...flowers and sprucing up.

Once Bill is finished with the windows we can work on cleaning up (and out) the building so we can set up our pottery room. The space used to be a potting shed...now it will be a pottery shed!! Yeah!

And while we're in a spring cleaning mood we might as well clean out the basement, too. Seems spring can bring a lot of chores as well as flowers!!

Good news!! Dytri, our Sunday volunteer, will be going to Mexico for a month with her MSSC Spanish class!!

What a lucky duck!! We will miss her cheery face but hope she has a great trip!! And a safe one.

About the Ozarks Artits Colony ...here's more info... according to a hand-out from Tricia Courtney this will be an introductory Internet-based marketing and information program for area artists. For a monthly fee each artist gets a webpage on this site. Art-related events, art offered for sale and artists will be featured.

The site will be up in June and can be accessed through the Globe Online site as well as having it's own domain name, www.ozarkartistcolony.com. The Globe will also run a print campaign for the Colony over a twelve month period.

For anyone interested in this type of marketing contact Ed Simpson at the Joplin Globe. Sounds like a great way to get one's art seen!! artCentral should become a Colony member!! When's the next Board meeting? Someone should suggest it!

Wednesday is Life Drawing day. Five dollars a person..all are welcome...bring your pencils and paper...6-8 p.m.

Annual Membership meeting Tuesday, May 18th, 7 p.m., 1110 E. 13th St. See you then!! More.................next week

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

With the graduation of the first Carthage Leadership class there continues to be some misunderstandin’ about what the effort is all about. It is simply a means to give potential volunteers a short study in the workin’s of the City and those agencies that work within’ the immediate surroundin’ area.

It is fully funded by tuition fees paid by the participants or their employers. It is not any type of fund raiser for any individual or the Chamber of Commerce which sponsors and administers the classes.

Only time can tell if the effort pays off for the individuals or the community. The last I heard there were only two of the four hour sessions with one absence each, out of a total of eight sessions. A good sign that something was worth showin’ up for.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Oak Street health & herb

Natural Nutrition

by Mari An Willis

Have you ever noticed that one day you can know something and then the next time you may be called upon to use that information it is just not there for instant recall? This used to really bother me until I decided that maybe there was something I needed to hear or learn about the subject if I just listened. This was the case last week when I was with a group of people who found out that I had a health food store and was a practicing herbalist. Suddenly I am put on the spot to know everything and share that information readily. I love to do things like that when called upon, but sometimes I just want to relax. This was one of those times. So, I turned it around and heard an interesting story.

One elderly gentleman told in great length about a time when he was younger and on a hunting trip with friends. Seems one of the fellows stepped his way into a trap. Cruel enough for any animal to step into, but a human is much more vocal about an accident like that. The trap hit the edge of his boot and tore through it and the flesh on one side of his foot. A nasty jagged gaping wound and a twisted ankle too. This group of hunters were the exploring type, too, so this happened several miles from the camp. Now, what's a fellow to de once you've been bit by a trap? You take a deep breath and gather. The nip of whiskey was important to stabilize his attitude, so I was told, and then proceeded to clean it with the same. Bill, the doctoring type, knew something about weeds and found some yarrow. He crushed that and made it real juicy and then added a touch of whiskey and proceeded to apply it to that fleshy wound. It stopped the bleeding after awhile. They wrapped it best they could and got him back up the cliffs. Cook had some "darn thing for snake bites and such."

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