Stories from Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Christine Summers, 93, of Gilliam, died Tuesday, March 7, 2006, at Big Bend Retreat in Slater. Funeral arrangements are pending at Weiker Funeral Home in Slater.

Janie Lee Smith, 58, of Slater, died Monday, March 6, 2006, at University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics in Columbia. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at United Methodist Church of Slater. Elder F. Jonathan White will officiate. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 10, at H.T. May and Son Funeral Home in Marshall and the family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday. Burial will be in Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Slater...

2006 All-Lewis & Clark Conference Boys First Team Honorable Mention...

2006 All-Lewis & Clark Conference Girls First Team Honorable Mention...

KANSAS CITY -- Marshall's Tyler Nichols had some golden moments at the Missouri Valley Swimming Division II-East Championships, Feb. 24-26 at Kansas City's Central High School. The Salt Fork YMCA 12-year-old swimmer won five individual titles among the seven events he entered, posting times faster than his qualifying marks in each race. ...

Slater Mayor Stephen K. Allegri told the City Council Tuesday that several ribbon cuttings and grand openings will highlight activities April 15 in the downtown. "It is important to support downtown businesses," Allegri said. "We've got a great downtown."...

"Clyde's Corner," the site of numerous accidents over the years on U.S. Highway 65 east of Malta Bend, could become less of a sharp corner under a proposal from the Missouri Department of Transportation. Mike McGrath, area engineer with MoDOT, was on hand Wednesday morning to discuss with the Saline County Commission the plan being developed for improving safety along that section of Highway 65...

The Marshall Tourism Commission has nearly $60,000 to give away. Now it just needs projects to give the funds to. The commission met March 8 but did not have any new applications to consider. Commission Secretary Angie Wells reported that nine individuals and organizations had picked up applications recently...

Smile, Saline County. Oh, and look toward the skies. You're going to be the subject of aerial photography in the next few months as part of a Global Information System (GIS) project. A meeting of county, Marshall city and Marshall Municipal Utilities officials Tuesday morning cleared up a couple of issues -- what will be included in the aerial photography project and what entities will bear the costs. ...

What do wrestling and rodeo at Missouri Valley College have in common? Women. Students from both sports gave demonstrations and answered questions March 7 at the Marshall Habilitation Center as part of MHC's Women's History Month celebration. The women's wrestling team is the newest addition to MVC's sports offerings but is the oldest program of its kind in the country, according to Coach Carl Murphree. The team formed in 1999 and has won the national tourney the past two years...

A couple of months ago, one of my neighbors suggested a book to me. It's titled "A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century." The author, Oliver Van DeMille, promotes what he sees as a leadership education based on classic works of literature that the founders of our country read and understood...