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Stories from Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Buffalo - Buffalo Livestock Market: Monthly Sheep and Goat Auction for 04/24/12 (Agriculture Report ~ 04/25/12)
Clyde Wendler (Obituary ~ 04/25/12)
Clyde Edgar Wendler, 85, of Miami, Okla., died on Monday, February 29, 2012. Clyde was born Jan. 5, 1927 in Stotts City, Mo. and was raised in Freistatt, Mo. On January 23, 1948 he married Betty Rawlings, of Monett, Mo. They lived and raised their family in Monett for the next 62 years. ...
Gene Pruett (Obituary ~ 04/25/12)
Gene Curtis Pruett, age 87, of Freistatt, died at 9:55 p.m. on Monday, April 23. No services are planned at this time. Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Fohn Funeral Home, Cassville.
Liman Maple (Obituary ~ 04/25/12)
s Liman Samuel Maples, age 100, of Aurora, died at 1:10 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, at the Aurora Nursing Center. A funeral service, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home in Aurora, will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27, at the Wilson Avenue Baptist Church in Aurora, with burial at the Maple Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until service time at the church...
Open enrollment for summer and fall 2012 at Crowder College begins on Monday, April 30. Schedules are available at the Southwest Area Career Center or at 303 E. Cleveland in Monett. For complete course listings, information or to apply for admission, visit www.crowder.edu. To make an appointment to enroll, call 236-2895 or e-mail monett@crowder.edu...
Monett Main Street making major strides (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
Major advances in the Monett Main Street program have taken place since January. Work plans have been defined in advance of this week's board meeting on Thursday. Monett Main Street is a two-year partnership between the Monett Downtown Betterment Group, the Monett Chamber of Commerce and the City of Monett. The original board included representatives from each group...
Dawson is latest R-1 Board hire (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
Mike Dawson has been hired as the new assistant superintendent of educational services for the Monett R-1 School District, beginning with the 2012-13 school year. Dawson will succeed Brad Hanson, who will become Monett's new superintendent. Dawson currently serves as the principal of Branson Elementary West, a position he held for the past nine years. Dawson previously served four years in the Los Angeles, Calif., area as both an elementary teacher and principal...
Supreme Court ruling has local impact (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
A ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court over sales tax charges by the Department of Revenue will cost Barry County over $100,000 a year. The ruling applies only to sales tax. Counties that have adopted a use tax, which collects on out-of-county transactions, will not be affected...
Woman is targeted by scam (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
A man claiming to be a Monett resident's grandson imprisoned in Quito, Ecuador, has scammed the woman of $4,100. The incident occurred Tuesday, April 24, when a man called the woman stating he was in prison for wrecking a rental car. He said he needed $4,100 wired via Western Union immediately or "something bad would happen." He then transferred the call to another man, Richard Gomez, who acted as an official who claimed to be helping the imprisoned man...
Students big part of teacher's honor (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
Pierce City elementary teacher Linda Brottlund is the type of teacher who inspires her students. Last month, her students took the time to express their feelings toward their teacher by handwriting a stack of individual notes nominating her for the Teacher of the Month award, sponsored by EFCO, a Pella company, and The Monett Times...
PERFECT MORNING FOR A RUN (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
BarCo 911 dispatchers honored (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
The Barry County E-911 Operations Center celebrated National Telecommuicators Week with a barbecue and awards ceremony honoring the E-911 dispatching team. "Those who do this line of work know that we are the last ones to get thanked," said Pat Blevins, Barry County E-911 dispatching operations manager. "We often hear about the wonderful job that our firefighters and officers have done, but you don't usually hear about the great work done by our communicators...
Man pleads guilty to producing child porn (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
A Golden man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of producing child pornography. On Monday, Timothy Stringer, 34, was facing a jury trial in federal court in Springfield when he decided to plead guilty to the charges against him. Stringer admitted that he used two cell phones and a digital camera to take photos of a 15-year-old minor. The images included photos of Stringer and the minor engaged in sex...
Injuries follow string of wrecks (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
An Aurora man was seriously injured in a single vehicle wreck Tuesday on Interstate 44 about two miles east of Marshfield. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 4:27 a.m. when the driver of a 2005 GMC, Charles A. Dry, 26, of Aurora, fell asleep while driving and traveled off the right side of the highway, causing the vehicle to overturn...
Monett police responded to 1,736 incidents last month (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
Officers with the Monett Police Department responded to 1,736 incidents, not including 911 calls, during the month of March, along with 10 collisions involving 18 vehicles. No injury wrecks were documented, but 14 vehicles were damaged during March...
FANTASTIC TURNOUT (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
PUBLIC SERVICE (Local News ~ 04/25/12)
Two candidates for the Monett R-1 Board of Education who ran without opposition were sworn into office during the board's reorganizational meeting. Taking the oath of office from board secretary Patty Leach were A.J. Bahl, left, joining the board for the first time, and J.D. Roberts, right, returning for his third term...
98th birthday celebration (Other Record ~ 04/25/12)
Freddie Hemphill, of Monett, will celebrate her 98th birthday on Saturday, April 28 with close family. She would appreciate cards.
Birth announced (Births ~ 04/25/12)
Emily and Shamus O'Hagan, of Rogers, Ark., announce the birth of their daughter, Devanie Belle O'Hagan, born at 11:10 a.m. on March 14 at Mercy Rogers Hospital in Rogers, Ark. She weighed six pounds, six ounces and measured 19 inches. She was welcomed home by maternal grandparents Doug and Marsha Williams, of Monett, and great-grandparents Geneva Stephenson, of Monett, and Winnie Williams, of Aurora. ...
Couple to wed in June (Wedding ~ 04/25/12)
Ken and Lori Gaspar, of Monett, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stephanie Gaspar, of Monett, to Greg Brenton, of Manchester, son of Jeff and Jill Brenton, of Manchester. The bride-elect is a 2007 graduate of Monett High School. ...
New face at Benchmark (Other Record ~ 04/25/12)
Benchmark Healthcare in Monett has named Kim Turner as the new director of nursing. Turner began her nursing career in 1988. Since earning her nursing degree, she has gained experience in acute care, emergency trauma, cardiac ICU and long-term care. ...
Hat collection on display (Other Record ~ 04/25/12)
A display of Pearl Mackey's hat collection can be viewed through May 1 at the Monett Museum, located at 705 E. Broadway. The museum is open from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.
Monett Library News (Other Record ~ 04/25/12)
April is "Multi-cultural Communication Month," so check out a book or audio that teaches a foreign language at the Monett Branch Library. "National Humor Month" and "National Poetry Month" are also celebrated this month, so look for a comedy in the DVD collection, or check out the collection of poetry books for children and adults...
Monett Middle School honor rolls are announced (Features ~ 04/25/12)
Monett Middle School has announced the All-A honor roll for seventh grade, and honored students are pictured above. In the front row, from left, are: Daniel Salas, Dario Rodriguez, Eric Villa, Alex Turner, Cale Harper and Jacob Furry. Back row: Cassidy Pachner, Deven Kimsey, Joel Ridenour, Haley Williams, Kristen Buck, Shane Pass and Shelby Kuhnert...
Norman receives certificate (Features ~ 04/25/12)
The Monett Board of Education recently presented Ed Norman, welding instructor at Southwest Area Career Center, a certificate of achievement for being named 2012 SkillsUSA Advisor of the Year for Missouri. Pictured above, from left, are: Norman receiving a certificate from Russ Moreland, Southwest Area Career Center director...
Berean students and staff honored at luncheon (Features ~ 04/25/12)
Berean Christian Academy students and staff were honored the first week of March at the Hands of Hope luncheon, sponsored by The Fun Zone in Cassville. The staff and students were selected by the academy based on Christian behavior and the character topic of patience. Those honored are pictured above. From left, are: Marney Nowland, math teacher; Ashtyn McClerry; Faith Brittenham; and Susan Hall, second grade teacher...
USMTS rocks Monett Speedway (High School Sports ~ 04/25/12)
Over 70 cars in four divisions shook the three-eighth of a mile dirt track oval at the Monett Speedway Sunday night. The night was highlighted by the bi-annual arrival of the United States Modified Touring Series (USMTS). Terry Phillips passed race-long leader Rodney Sanders with nine laps remaining to win the seventh annual Race Brothers Farm and Home Supply Missouri Nationals and his second straight USMTS Casey's Cup victory...
Late inning rally lifts Purdy to win (High School Sports ~ 04/25/12)
For the third consecutive year and sixth time in seven years, the Purdy Eagles baseball team claimed the Ozark 7 Conference title. On Monday, the Eagles scored four times in the sixth inning to earn a 4-2 victory over Wheaton. "Every win is important, and tonight we earned another conference title," said Purdy coach Joshua Hughes. "However, we only achieved a portion of our goals this season with the victory. We have to stay hungry, because we know there is still a lot of season left."...
Baseball Cubs' rally falls just short against Houn's (High School Sports ~ 04/25/12)
The Monett Cubs rallied for five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to tie the game at 8-8, but it wasn't enough as the Aurora Houn' Dawgs earned a 9-8 victory over the Cubs Tuesday night. "I saw some good things happen for our team tonight," said Monett coach Michael Calhoun. "We scored five runs in an inning and eight runs in a game. Those were both season highs for us. We still have plenty to work on."...
Cubs golf team advances to sectional playoff round (High School Sports ~ 04/25/12)
The sun was shining, but Mother Nature still made her presence felt with large wind gusts during the Class 3, District 6 golf tournament at Honey Creek golf course in Aurora on Tuesday. Despite the difficult playing conditions, the Monett Cubs golf team advanced to the sectional round next Wednesday at Briar Brook in Carl Junction...
Monett track takes second at Cubs Relays (High School Sports ~ 04/25/12)
The Monett Cubs boys' and girls' track teams each took second place in the 10-team Cubs Relays Tuesday night. Cassville won the boys' division, recording 113.5 points. Monett was second with 104 points, and McDonald County finished third with 70 points...


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Students fight back against a book ban that has a Pennsylvania community divided
By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Linh Tran, Sahar Akbarzai and Mirna Alsharif, CNN
Updated 12:10 AM EDT, Thu September 16, 2021
Community divided over book ban at school board meeting
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Students in a southern Pennsylvania school district are battling the latest example of panic spreading over how history and race are taught in schools across the US.
"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about equality and loving each other," Central York High School senior Christina Ellis told CNN.
Ellis is among the students protesting a book ban in York, Pennsylvania, and questions whether the officials who decided to remove certain reading materials from the curriculum even read the resources they deem controversial. She was joined by other teens protesting in front of Central York High School this week.
On Monday, students, parents and other community members debated during a virtual school board meeting about the list of anti-racism books and resources that were banned from the curriculum by the Central York school board last year.
Last October, the all-White school board unanimously banned a list of educational resources that included a children's book about Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai's autobiography and CNN's Sesame Street town hall on racism.
From chaotic school board meetings to political strife along party lines, debates about diverse curriculum have ignited controversy across the country in recent months. And earlier this month, a new Texas law aimed at restricting discussions of race and history in schools had some educators second guessing themselves and forgoing civics-related activities to avoid running afoul of it.
But in York, discussions about race erupted in the wake of last summer's protests and students started having more conversations about racism and creating more inclusive environments.
School officials say it's not a ban, and the materials are "frozen" while the board vets the material. But that process has taken nearly a year. At the virtual board meeting on Monday, district leaders said the materials are still prohibited.
Some students and their parents said it's frustrating and questioned the logic of a school board that they say isn't diverse and doesn't address the concerns of a multicultural student body.
A senior at Central York High School, Edha Gupta, said the book ban, "was a slap in the face."
"This is a board that after hearing their students' concerns about diversity in the district, hearing my struggle with race, being an Indian American and consistently feeling like I didn't belong. After all those conversations for weeks on end, they still pursued the book ban."
Gupta isn't the only student angry with the board.
"I was deeply hurt when I heard about this book ban, which hurts Black and brown authors and resources," said Ellis, a Black senior, at the high school.
She said the books are crucial to teaching students about racism.
"Why is a Sesame Street episode threatening the education of children. If anything this school board is threatening education," she said during the meeting.
School librarians have pulled books from shelves, and teachers say their lesson plans have been impacted.
"I have to now, with this resource ban, think twice about whether or not I should or could use a James Baldwin quote as an opening for my class," said Ben Hodge, a teacher at Central York High School.
Teachers Ben Hodge and Patricia Jackson.
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There's also some fear among educators.
"There are teachers looking over their shoulders wondering if someone's going to be at their door darkening their door, saying you said something or you mentioned something or used something that you were not supposed to," said Patricia Jackson, who has taught in the Central York School District for more than 20 years.
The fact that all the banned materials are by or about people of color is just a coincidence, according to Jane Johnson, the school board president.
"Concerns were based on the content of the resources, not the author or topic…," she said in a statement.
What do the parents say
"I don't think that a board that lacks diversity is the appropriate authority to determine what qualifies as appropriate material to address race in this community," said Brandi Miller, a parent of a student in the school district.
Angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board meeting was halted by the school board because the crowd refused to quiet down, Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021.
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However, other parents were supportive of the ban.
One mother said,"the community is 100% against an critical race theory indoctrination agenda," during Monday's meeting. "Schools are not the place for politics or identity to be shaped."
But critical race theory is not taught in K-12 curriculum.
"This is very clearly an attack on diversity, equity (and) inclusion. It very much feels like a political overreach based on misinformation," Ana Ramón, deputy director of advocacy at the Intercultural Development Research Association, told CNN earlier this month.
York parent Matt Weyant commended the school board for implementing the ban.
"I don't want my daughter growing up feeling guilty because she's White," he said.
That sentiment is spreading across the US. A growing number of states have passed or are considering policies strictly defining what students are allowed to learn about race.
But it's the students who are missing out say former and current students.
During the board meeting, a man who said he was alumnus of the school district, said that unless the school board can go through each book on the ban and explain what's so "abhorrent," about each of them, then the books should be allowed back into the school's curriculum.
"I want to learn genuine history," said Olivia Pituch, a student who was protesting in front of Central York High School this week.
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"I don't want to learn a White-washed version. I want to hear all of it. I don't want everyone to be worried about how we feel because no one was worried about how BIPOC members of the community felt."
But one expert said this ban is different from many of the other debates across the country.
"This seems pretty egregious. I can see how certain trainings or workshops that some parents take exception to seem really outside of what a history class can be expected to do," said Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, an associate professor of history at the New School. "But the kind of texts that are being banned here make me feel that there is now just sort of an allergy to anything that mentions race or racism."
This is about more than a book, or a movie, or even a curriculum, veteran teachers argue. In York, they worry it's a war on their profession.
"I am not an enemy of the state. I am here to take care of your babies when they walk into my classroom and there are some I'm looking up at them, but they're still babies," Jackson, the York teacher, said.

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This summer, several SWCDs joined forces with Metro and the Intertwine Alliance, with several other partners, in a large-scale citizen science effort to help map Oregon white oak throughout the Portland Metro region.
The goal of the Oak Mapping Work Group is to create a high-quality map of the Portland Metro region's imperiled Oregon white oak habitat to guide conservation and willing-seller acquisitions, as well as improve connectivity for oak-associated species.
Interested volunteers were trained to use the mapping tool, an app for their smartphones that uses global positioning system (GPS) data to pinpoint the location of each oak. Staff from Clackamas, East Multnomah, Tualatin, and West Multnomah SWCDs joined the effort this summer, mapping trees in their respective counties. Similar work has been done by other conservation professionals and more than 45 volunteers.
What happens to all these data points? The location of each tree and any photos submitted are stored in a database, from which a map of oak tree locations is generated. The data are being used to refine a computer model that interprets aerial photographs to identify oak trees in areas where volunteers are unable to survey.
Funding for the OakQuest 2014 effort has been generously provided by Metro's voter-funded Nature in Neighborhoods grant program, Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.


Riddikulus!!!! Get ready for Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Comedy... a comedy show for people who love (or even mildly like) Harry Potter. You may be asking, why do a Harry Potter show now?!?! With Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Comedy we're taking a little bit of improv, a little bit of sketch comedy, and... Expelliarmus... we get an amazing Harry Potter themed comedy show. We'll have a few Harry Potter themed surprises in store for you, plus everyone who comes in a Harry Potter inspired costume will get in for free. So whether you're a Gryffindor or Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, this show has something for you. ---- Nerdvana is a brand new monthly show at the Push Comedy Show. It's a comedy show for nerds, by nerds. Each month we lovingly poke fun at some of our favorite sci-fi and fantasy books, tv shows and movies. Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who and more... nothing is safe. If you are a fan of all things nerd, you'll love this show. Nerdvana presents: Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Comedy Thursday, September 29th at 7pm. Tickets are $10, Free if you come in costume. Riddikulus!!!!


John Mendelssohn died on 14 May 2014, aged 85.
John Mendelssohn died peacefully after a short illness. He lived for many years at Praters, between Nunney Church and Nunney Castle.
A distant relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn, John Nigel Mendelssohn was married to Noelle for 61 years. He was the father of Gillian and James, guardian of Philippa and proud grandfather of Ben, Edward, Tim and Kate.
He will be remembered in Nunney as a kind, warm-hearted and community-spirited man, who could often be seen picking up litter around the village. Famously, he regularly used a golf club to put dog mess into the moat.
John Mendelssohn had a passionate interest in music and technology. He ran a website about Nunney long before Visit Nunney was set up. Together with Noelle, he organised annual parties for children in the village as well as regular Macmillan Coffee mornings and drinks parties to introduce 'newcomers' to other villagers.
His cremation will take place in private. A Thanksgiving Service to celebrate John's life will be held at a later date.
Our thoughts are with Noelle and the family.