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Mindi L. Phillips, Editor

On my route through Northwest Missouri, I often stop to chatand grab a bite to eat. Occasionally, I forgoe this routine to speedup my route, and I end up with a greasy slice of pizza and a stalecup of gas station coffee, followed by a raging case of heartburnffor my troubles.

On the good days, I remember to mix it up with the locals at the best little hometown eateries. Along my Albany route, I can usu-ally be seen at Deb’s Dinky Diner. I rarely leave without dessert, but I never leave hungry!

When I’m in the northernmost region of my route, I often stopat Civili-Tea, a classy little tea room in Allendale, run by Michele

Hertl. I occasionally grab a scone or a mufn to take home for thenext day’s breakfast. A few minutes of chatter, and I’m on my wayagain, scurrying across the rolling landscape of our fair region.

My last delivery day, I stopped. I don’t mean, I got out, ran afew papers in, and grabbed a scone to go. I stopped. I sat down fora cup of tea. But that was hardly all I got.

Along with a delicious cup of tea, and a chance to catch my breath, I settled in for a leisurely conversation with Ms. Hertl. Wevisited about the weather and drafty windows. She told me of her

search for a new dog. But mostly, I heard her story of the origin ofher tea room, one that sits in one of the smallest towns on my route,far from the hustle and bustle of busy commuters grabbing a cup ofcaffeine for the road, and far from a prime location for heavy trafcand high prot.

Prot. That’s another issue. Michelle doesn’t run her sweetlittle tea room for her own prot. Each year, she chooses a charityto benet from the annual prot.

Much to my dismay, I recently read in a local publication

that Ms. Hertl will close Civili-Tea for the month and willre-open in March. I will be eagerly awaiting the reopening.This brought a realization that the labor of love called The

Regular Joe is special to me because it takes me to my newfavorite locations such as this special little shop in Allendale.It takes me back to the communities I knew and loved as achild. It gives me an opportunity to enjoy scenery that, evenafter living here all my life, still manages to take my breathaway. But most of all, just as Civili-Tea does for Michele, itoffers me an opportunity to give back.

Mindi photo by Quentin Miller

From the Desk of Joe Northwest2



3Our “Regular” Contributors:Jay Kerner, founder

Mindi Phillips, publisher/editor

Danny Phillips, music

Rich Piper, editorialDevyn Porter, lifestyle

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My Fear Paula A. Hayward

The spider glided down its silken thread, performing a macabre, melancholy dance. A dance I

wanted no part of, yet I kept staring. I was caught up in the frenetic way it sequenced its legs and

the gentle sway due to the vent blowing on it as it inched further toward me. My eyes never left it,

my hand reached for the nearest book. The spider lost in the symphony of its creation, and I wanted

to squish it.

The legs sent chills throughout me. A thousand spiders had met their death while they scaled the

walls of my home, they cause me panic, especially the ones that seemingly appear out of nowhere.

They all die, but this one dancing bothered me most. It is not just that it seemed to be oating, it is

when the slightest breeze happened upon it, and he spun. He spun as if he enjoyed it, like a Vegas

show I did not ask for.

My hand stayed steady on the book, my eyes mesmerized by the show. A faint sonata began to

play in my head. The spider danced for its life and I let it. My hand left the book and I sat amazed.

“Why you?” I whispered. “Why should I let you live?”

He stopped as if he heard me. My heart pounded as I leaned my head further toward it, squinting

to catch its detail. Its nearly transparent yellow body and legs were the color of straw.The legs continued and I swallowed to subdue the fear. Gazing from the strand to the oor, I cal-

culated where he might land if he repelled all the way down. I surmised he would sneak behind the

curtains, the ones nearly the same straw color. My heart beat in time to the sonata. His legs moved in

time to my heartbeat. All of creation focused on my fear and the dance. For a moment, the spider and

I had a connection. For a moment, I glimpsed his world where oating was possible and the ceiling

a logical place to hang out. For a moment, I was not afraid.

We came to an agreement. I would leave the room, he would nish his show without audience,

and he could live. I picked up my book, backed out of the room never letting my eyes leave his view,

and I found myself humming the sonata as I shut the door behind me. I imagined the breeze from

the door sending him into a gentle spiral. Perhaps he too was smiling and enjoying the performance.



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CLARKSDALE

Sundays: Clarksdale Opry, 2pm (Hawman Center)

FILLMORE

Fridays: Music and Dance, 7pm (Fillmore Community Hall)

GENTRY

FRI 2/13 Ramblin Country Show, Special Guest Sheila Pierson 7:30 pm (photo)

GRANT CITY

Wednesdays: Jam Session, 6pm (Senior Center)

KING CITY

Sat 2/21: Rock N Country Variety Show, 7pm (Tri County Visitors Center)

MARYVILLE

Sundays: Northwest Opry Country, 2pm (Nodaway County Senior Center)

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Danny R. Phillips

There is just something about Elliott Smith in the dark of the new

day’s morning.

The angelic, lost soul voice of Smith, who passed away by his ownhand on October 21, 2003, washes through the room like the ghosts of lost

love, regret, and fragments of opportuni-

ties wasted, friends no longer on your side,

friends yet to be discovered.

As I stare into the beginnings of a new

life alone, Elliott comforts me, soothes me,

and tells me it will be just ne - much like

The Beatles showed me melody, Big Star

showed me perfection, and Nirvana toldme it was ok to be pissed - and to focus that

anger into words on a page. Elliott Smith

made great albums over his all too short

life, be it Either/Or , From a Basement on a

Hill (a posthumous offering compiled by his

family and nished by friends following his

suicide), or any others I may have criminal-

ly omitted in my words here. However, the

one that calls me back is 2000’s Figure 8.Opening with the track “Son of Sam,”

Figure 8 is a showcase of how Smith’s mu-

sical inuences had affected him. Whether

they come from his days in punk rock bands,

his unabashed love for The Beatles, and especial-

ly Memphis, Tennessee’s Big Star, the gang of

rock n roll misanthropes is certainly present and

accounted for.

“Son of Sam” is possibly the bounciest, live-

liest ditty ever written about a dog-worshipping

serial killer; light piano work opens the track,

but, much like many of Elliott’s songs, “Son of

Sam” has moments of anger and confusion.

“Somebody I Used to Know” really hits

home for me now that my marriage has departed.

“Now that you’re big enough to run your own

show/ You’re just somebody that I used to know.”

It is a story for failed lovers or someone that just

failed at life.“In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)’s” pi-

ano line plays like it is sound tracking a silent

movie, slowing and speeding up to go along with

the action, all while Elliott’s voice is layered like seraphim on high, sing-

ing for a sunny day. Elliott Smith was always looking for a crack in a

cloud, wanting desperately the warmth of the sun on his tired face.

Sadly, the sun hid itself away from Elliott, only peeking from the cur-

tain, only showing up in the grand arrangements that weave themselvesto Peter Glass as much as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson and the jagged

simplicity of folk great Pete Seeger. Elliott

Smith stands with all the other greats that

went mostly unnoticed in their lifetimes

(look up Nick Drake to set as the prime ex-

ample) and only after death garner fans and

curious onlookers as what they were in real-

ity: greats of their craft.

They say every writer has one great book in them, every musician one great al-

bum. Figure 8 is his shot to greatness, his

masterwork.

Danny Phillips’ music and pop culturemusings regularly appear in online and print publications including Missouri LifeMagazine, American Roots, Blurt Maga-zine, Deli Magazine, Popshifter, and The

Regular Joe. Listen to his free form podcast“Don’t Have a Clue” the 2nd Saturday ofevery month at 4pm on www.stjosephmusic- foundation.org

Joe Music - 5From the Shelf: Elliott Smith’s Figure 8



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ALBANY

Thu 2/5 “Unsinkable” Molly Brown Presentation, 2:30 (Middle

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CONCEPTION JCT

Sun 2/8: Tri-C Ball Club Pancake Breakfast, 7am (American Legion)

FAIRFAX

Sun 2/1: Souper Bowl Dinner, 11:30am (United Methodist Church)

TARKIO

Sun 2/8: Tarkio Renewal Potato Bar, 11am (Community Building)Sun 2/8: Chili/Soup Cook-off & Throw Down (UMC)

ONGOING EVENTS

Bethany: Thursdays Dungeons & Dragons, 5pm (Gamers

Place)

Fri & Sat Magic the Gathering, 6pm (Gamers Place)

Tuesdays Story Hour, 9:15am (Public Library)

Grant City: 2nd Friday Potluck, Noon (Senior Center) (photo)

King City Senior Center: Potluck Dinner 3rd Wednesday

Pitch Tournament Last Monday

Cards Daily (photo)

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Events & Festivals across NWMO



Jay Kerner

Regular Joe Founder/ Fridge Worthy Writer

Somewhere around 25 years ago or so, I wrote my

rst family Christmas letter.

We always received a few clever ones from some

crazy creative family and friends, so I knew I was

going to have to do something different if I want-

ed to hang with the pros.

That’s why I added a little bonus: a silly picture of

me in a smoking jacket seated next to my taxider-

mied goat. (We could talk more about the goat,

but that’s a story all its own.)

Anyway, I sent out around 50 copies to folks

across the country, to mostly popular response.

Over the next months and years I experienced a

visceral thrill to discover that picture on lots of

my friends’ and families’ refrigerators.

I began to realize that I had crossed that invisible

barrier that separates the important from the mun-

dane, the relevant from the not so much. I had

become refrigerator worthy!

My picture was up there with the good report

cards and the “save the date” notices. My art (if

I may be so bold as to call it that), right up there

alongside the hand-traced turkeys and nger-paint

masterpieces.

And a surprising number stayed there for years!

Come the next holiday season I started getting

early requests for the new version. Now the pres-

sure was on. You can’t keep giving them the same

ol’-same ol’.

There were a few hits and some horrible misses

over the next few years. But then, the kids every-

where (and of all ages) got their hands on Pho-

toshop, and before you knew it, everybody was

an artist, and pretty much any knucklehead with

access to a keyboard was putting out the kind of

stupid stuff that had been my personal domain for

a number of years.

It wasn’t fun anymore after everyone was doing

it, so I slacked off for a bit. Then, the opportunity

popped up to do this ridiculous paper, and with it,

the chance to inict my silliness regularly on an

unsuspecting audience.After doing this going on eight years, we’ve had

some hits and misses in the paper, too. We’ve

been lucky to have put out a few things that reso-

nated with some folks. Again, we’ve been excited

to have seen a few of them on refrigerators.

If you think about it, hasn’t that simple kitchen

appliance become the main repository for the bits

of paper we hold in highest regard?

Photos. The key-code for the internet. Long ex-

pired pizza coupons. The cartoon that just nails it.

Grocery lists, doctor’s appointments, baseball

schedules, and the card from your bail bond guy.

And all held up with little magnets. You can talk

about Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, or any other

titan of American industry, but I wonder about the

dude that invented the refrigerator magnet. We

may have a car in every garage in this country and

a dozen or so lightbulbs in the average home, but

both gures are dwarfed by the number of refrig-

erator magnets.

There’s a hierarchy in the magnet world. The old-

school, heavy duty ones are reserved for the most

important stuff. Over the decades, magnets have

gotten thinner and cheaper, to the point that some

budget-advertiser’s versions won’t hold up any-

thing at all. Heck, they’ll barely hold themselves

up there. Yet we still keep them for some reason.

Who throws away a perfectly good refrigerator

magnet?

But I digress. (I do that!) Anyway, it always tick-

les me to see my stuff on people’s fridge or any-

where else they may have kept them.

When my mother-in-law passed away this fall,

I was touched when I found a dozen or more of

her favorite pieces of mine, cut out and saved in

a kitchen drawer. (Those feelings were tempered

a bit by the fact that I found them under about a

hundred of Alonzo Weston’s.)

When you create a disposable medium like this,

you get excited anytime one avoids joining their

brethren at the recycler. I guess that’s what keeps

us going in the wee dark hours: the idea that

something we produce, just maybe, has a chance

at kitchen immortality. We know we won’t hit ev-

ery time, but shoot, a boy can dream, can’t he?

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Rich Piper

Far be it for me to try to pin down particular characteristics of any

group of people. Why, that would just not be politically correct in this

day and age. Plus, I won’t pretend to carry any earned credentials to do

so. However, I do write a column, so that pretty much gives me license tostep out on the ledge and suggest that out in the great Northwest MO, rural

folks seem to have certain tendencies, values, and ways about living life.

Things that I think are worth celebrating.

So, in advance of my getting one of those big government grants toresearch something that most everyone already knows, here is my short list

of some rural folk tendencies.

Rural folk send a larger percentage of their sons and daughters into the

military. They don’t complain about this or claim injustice or some othervictimization; instead they take pride in the folks that enlist, both theirs

and others, both friends and strangers, and both rural and urban.

Rural folk travel much farther to a hospital. Generally verbally, per-

sonally thanking staff when they see them, making positive social com-ments about the care being received, and expressing understanding if there

is a need to transfer to another hospital in the “city.”

Rural folk don’t seem to get embarrassed by the ag, or sit during the

pledge to the ag, or fail to take off their often seemingly ever present ball

cap in respect to the ag. Rural folk also tend to immediately know what

ag one is talking about when just the word ag is spoken.

Rural folk have discovered a way to overcome urban crowding and

packed neighborhoods. They, the rural folk who account for approximate-ly 14% of the population in Missouri, live on about 95% of the land of

Missouri. Not only that, but generally rural folks would be glad to share

some of that land if anybody wanted to move out of the city or suburbs.

(Another 16% of the population of Missouri lives on the edges of cities orwhat the census would identify as a micro-urban area. That would techni-

cally cover folks like me, as I live about a mile from a major

shopping center and one lot from a farm eld.)

Rural folk also include the just over 2% of all folk who,still, thankfully, live on a farm. This segment of rural folk,

often land rich and cash poor, undertake the hard work that

enables the nearly 98% of the rest of the population to have

access to something rather important: food.Rural folk as a segment of the driving population do far

less texting while driving. To be honest, I don’t have any sta-

tistics to back this up. However, in that cell phone coveragein many rural areas is rarer than a cow on the road, I think I’m

pretty safe that there isn’t as much texting on county roads as

there is on city streets.

Rural folk seem to take a fair amount of disparaging com-ments like the next narrow bridge over a creek; it’s just some-

thing you get over. For example, there is a lot of talk about

rural schools being substandard and city schools being better.

The reality is that small schools generally have the best

educational outcomes for most kids; whether that small school is located

in the middle of a city or in the middle of an otherwise farm eld.

Small schools see a higher percentage of their students graduate. Havestudents often better at working with others and as a team, a key charac-

teristic sought by today’s employers. Rural schools are under closer local

control than any mid to large school possibly could be.

And, if transported into a large city and made a private or charterschool, with its low student to teacher resources, high level of commit-

ment by teachers, teacher ability to stretch resources and instill creativity,

it would charge a high tuition rate and be praised far and wide for its goodwork for and with students.

There are other slurs that rural folk endure, but I’ll leave that for per-

haps another column. Instead, let me close with this admission:

Rural folk have a tendency to wonder about city folk.For example, do you remember when the television series Cheers was

on. It had a name and tag line in its theme song: Where Everybody Knows

Your Name. Part of the premise of the show was what made that bar spe-

cial was that everybody knew everybody.Rural folk tend to wonder why someone would need to go to a bar to

get that treasured relationship. That’s simply a way of life – everybody

knows my name.

Yup, one of the best tendencies is that rural folk are…well…they arefolksy. Informal, unpretentious; just folk!

Rich has spent most of his adult life living and/or working in small, ru-

ral communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, including several long

stretches in Northwest Missouri. Rich chooses to spend most of his week-

day, daytime hours teaching students science, and other things, in Union

Star. He also chooses to spend his Sundays, and some other occasional

time, with the good folks in Cainsville. You can reach Rich at RichPiper@

LifePraise.org with comments.

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Mike Rockett, Jr.

I was on a blessedly tranquil three mile run and pondering my new found

desire to enter the tness industry when I had an epiphany. Let me begin by

saying I was totally unsure on what level or in which capacity I would enter this

often misunderstood business of physical tness, all I knew was that I wanted in.I had been working on a video project about a local woman who had decided to

compete as a bodybuilder for the rst time. She owned a successful bakery on the

south end of town and was training for a show while lling orders for decadent

cupcakes, cookies and cakes for all occasions.

Why don’t YOU do a show? I thought to myself. I chuckled inwardly, right

before the weight of those thoughts stopped me dead in my tracks.

It has been six months since that run, and the video project never got off the

ground. That woman who sculpted her frame while baking frosted delights is

now in the building phase for her next competition scheduled in Spring 2015.

She has competed three times and placed each time. She closed her bakery and is

considering going pro (and all that entails). As for me, that heavy thought trans-mogried into a dream worth the pursuit. Little did I realize that there would be

days, weeks, months where I would have to go to greater lengths to continue the

pursuit of that new dream. I’m looking to compete my rst time in South Texas

either Fall 2015 or Spring 2016.

I train with people at my local gym that are serious about bodybuilding. I

watch them (often asking silly questions) hoping to learn new ways to train and

stimulate muscle growth; I have developed a completely new respect for those

who are chasing the same dream. I have come out of the lines of the “occasional”

and am seeking the rank of “committed.” In doing so I have been branded by my

former comrades from the Resolution Reserves! I am classied a “Gym Snob!”In my own defense I have to admit that I am a Gym Snob, but not for the rea-

son my former comrades think. It is out of this commitment that I have learned a

few things about the plight of the committed, ve things actually! There are ve

reasons why I became a gym snob.

5. Inadequacies: At rst thought this reason makes absolutely no sense.

But after weeks of chasing something I have no idea how to achieve, I have had

to confront several inadequacies; insecurities and ignorance. Allow me to illus-

trate? It is popular bodybuilding lore that a young Arnold Schwarzenegger came

to terms with the fact that his calves were not proportionate to his burgeoning

physique. Nevertheless, The Austrian Oak confronted this inadequacy by going

home, gathering every pair of pants he owned, and cutting the legs off below theknee. For months he wore pants that exposed his underdeveloped calves to inten-

tionally face the discomfort (such an inadequacy could have seriously thwarted

his career) which motivated him to train harder. Of course he trained his legs and

became Mr. Olympia 6 times. Imagine John Q. Public chasing a similar dream

having to confront his mufn top and hypotrophic physique? I won’t be cutting

my shirts in half anytime soon, but the point is fairly clear.

4. Sacrice: Being consistent at physical self-improvement requires

aligning priorities in an order that confounds the average person. This requires

sacrice on all levels including (but certainly not limited to) nances, time man-

agement, and personal relationships. Fitness Model and competitor Brian Casadwalked out of a job in Kansas City, Kansas, (making excellent money) to open a

Title Boxing gym in Dallas, Texas. Funds were so tight after the initial purchase

that he taught the majority of the daily classes while living in the back, after keep-

ing a separate residence proved a hindrance. Not only did his sacrice pay off,

but he is now a successful tness model, travels extensively, and keeps a separate

residence from his now successful gym in Dallas.

3. Focus: It isn’t created or made - it is forged. It is forged in the melting

hot res of failure just as success is. And I am convinced that anyone seeking a

higher level of achievement than the average gym rat will actually spend more

time forging focus than physiques. If physical tness is a journey, then focus isthe venue.

2. Fear of Failure: Anyone seeking the opportunity to pose onstage clad

in nothing more than a pair of speedos or board trunks to an audience of several

hundred to several thousand people will be afraid, at some point, to do so. Every

day you have to face that fear because you can’t really get rid of it. So what do

you do? You use it! Fear can help you approach your dreams with a heightened

sense of respect. It can teach you to take goal seriously, soberly. It can help you

make decisions that otherwise you wouldn’t make. You’ll decide not to indulge

in that small piece of cheesecake at the family dinner. You’ll avoid that snooze

button if you’re 12 weeks out from competition. And plain oatmeal becomes a

blessed moment of carb indulgence when Pop-Tarts just aren’t practical. 1. The Dream: Show me someone with an above average physique who

could complete his/her bicep routine while the building around them is burning to

the ground. I’ll show you someone with more than a “goal.” They are most likely

chasing a “dream.” And dreams, as glamorous as that may sound, are precise

works of machinery that are easily parlayed by any monkey wrench just lying

around. Not only do you have to chase and work that dream, but you have to

protect it. Anything you do, anyone you know could unwittingly kick that garden

variety monkey wrench into the machine and cost weeks of work, focus, and even

nance. Every decision and action is considered at least twice. Every possible

outcome is calculated multiple times. Words scribbled on Post-It-Notes stuck onthe bathroom mirror in the shape of a person. These are components of “The Dr

eam.”

“Gym Snobs” aren’t opposed to newbies looking around and asking

questions if they see the same level of respect. Goals aren’t just achieved they

are fought for. I liken it to Paris Hilton who takes advantage of certain luxuries

that were given to her. It’s not that she didn’t lift a nger to earn those luxuries;

it’s not even that she aunts those luxuries. (What parent wouldn’t want to bless

their child with the fruits of their hard work?) It is her mockery of the hard work -

ing people who have to go to greater lengths than Miss Hilton will ever know to

achieve just a portion of that luxury.

It is those that come in and stop for a stylish sele in between sets. It isthose that mistreat the equipment and risk certain injury. It is those that get de-

fensive when certain boundaries are drawn for the betterment of all who use the

equipment (and blatantly cross that boundary with little regard for others). Those

seles are better taken at home before you go to the gym (or after, at home, while

your biceps are pumped), not while someone is waiting to use the machine you

are on. If you have any shred of doubt about any of the equipment, it is best to

ask. When someone sets a boundary chances are they are trying to protect you

from injury (and themselves from litigation).

I am chasing a dream and have no idea how to achieve it, and what little I

have learned are basically fundamentals to a lifestyle of tness professionally orotherwise. And if you are so inclined I would suggest seeking the rank of “com-

mitted.” There is no better feeling than when you leave the gym knowing you

have given your best with the sore muscles to prove it.

Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s leg day and I am running late.

5 Reasons Why I Became a Gym Snob Joe Health-13



Savannah Student Receives Scholarship

Agri science major receives scholar-

ship in memory of Savannah native

MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Mis-

souri State University student Craig David

Russell is the recipient of the Matthew White

Memorial Scholarship for the 2014-15 aca-

demic year.

The scholarship was established in mem-ory of Matthew White, an agriculture busi-

ness major at Northwest who died in a 2005

automobile accident after completing his

sophomore year at the University. The schol-

arship was established in 2006 by his parents

and Northwest alumni, Steve and Julie White

of Savannah, Mo. Steve is a 1980 graduate of

Northwest, and Julie is a 1981 graduate.

Russell, a sophomore agricultural sciencemajor from Savannah. He is the son of John

and Debbie Russell.

The endowed scholarship is awarded to a

continuing student at Northwest studying an

agriculture-related major. A scholarship of

at least $500 is awarded with preference to

graduates of Savannah High School, North

Andrew High School in Rosendale as well as

students from Missouri or Iowa.For more information about the Matthew

White Memorial Scholarship or Northwest

Foundation Inc., call 660.562.1248 or send

an email to [email protected].

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Four Students selected for spring legisla-tive internships

MARYVILLE, Mo. – Four Northwest

Missouri State University students will

work alongside state representatives this

spring and learn about Missouri government

as part of the University’s legislative intern-

ship program.

The internship program, which beginsin January and ends in May, annually sends

Northwest students to Jefferson City, Mo.,

to gain valuable experience in the legislative

process and an understanding of how Mis-

souri is governed.

Northwest’s 2015 legislative interns are

Joseph Hegeman, a junior animal science

major from Savannah, Mo.; Matthew Jones,

a junior political science major from Stan- berry, Mo.; Ashton Raffety, a senior eco-

nomics major from Drexel, Mo.; and Justin

Wilson, a junior economics major from

Stover, Mo.

Each intern is placed in the ofce of a

state senator or state representative. The

students track legislation, conduct research,

attend committee hearings, assist with con-

stituent issues and lead tours of the Capitol.Interns are selected based on grade-point

average and interests. Candidates must

write an essay addressing why they should

be placed in the program and complete an

interview with a panel that includes Dr.

Daniel Smith, assistant professor of politi-

cal science and co-director of the Missouri

Legislative Internship Program; Rosalie

Weathermon, career development coordina-tor; and Vice President of Student Affairs

Dr. Matt Baker. Selected students receive a

$3,000 stipend.

Past interns have remained active in the

halls of the capitol or gone on to successful

careers in politics at all levels of govern-

ment including public relations and law.

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Graduate students’ artwork featured in

new DeLuce Gallery exhibit

MARYVILLE, Mo. – The artwork of re-

cent graduates and current graduate students

at ve distinguished universities is featured

in the latest exhibit to ll Northwest MissouriState University’s Olive DeLuce Art Gallery.

The exhibit opened with a panel discus-

sion featuring the artists and reception on

Monday, Jan. 26, in the Charles Johnson The-

ater at the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The featured student artists represent ve

Master of Fine Arts programs throughout the

United States: the University of Iowa, Ari-zona State University, the University of Kan-

sas, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and

the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“The works selected for the show vary in

medium and content providing us a window

into the diversity of contemporary artistic

practices,” said Glenn Williams, associate

professor of art at Northwest. “The objective

of the show is to reect the various currentsoccurring in visual arts education at the grad-

uate level.”

The exhibit will remain open until Fri-

day, Feb. 27, in the Olive DeLuce Art Gal-

lery. Regular DeLuce Gallery hours are 2 to

5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays.

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For more information about Northwest

Missouri State University visit www.nwmis-

souri.edu/media/

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St. Francis Hospital & Health Services is proud of its long relationship

and strong roots in northwest Missouri. On September 8, 1894, the sameyear of the St. Louis World’s Fair, we began as St. Joseph Hospital, a

12-bed facility located in a house on three acres of land next to St.

Mary’s Catholic Church (now St. Gregory’s Catholic Church).

Our first patient, Thomas Kidney, was admitted a week before we

officially opened, heralding a commitment to patient care that has long

been a hallmark of this hospital. Today, St. Francis Hospital & Health

Services is a 81-bed, Joint Commission Accredited, full-service acute

care facility, with advanced programs in women’s health, surgery, sports

medicine and mental health to name just a few.

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