August 2022
Lady Vikings’ soccer team earns Top 25 NAIA preseason ranking
MVC Athletics The Missouri Valley College women’s soccer team will open its 2022 season Nationally ranked in the NAIA Women’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Preseason Poll. The Vikings will start the 2022 season ranked No.
Chiefs running back job surprisingly up for grabs in camp
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) Clyde Edwards- Helaire and Isiah Pacheco were chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs on opposite ends of the draft spectrum, one of them a first-round pick with the accompanying expectations and the other a seventh- round longshot. Midway through training camp, they might as well have been picked one after the other.
MVC men’s soccer team opens season ranked in Top 10
MVC Athletics The Missouri Valley College men’s soccer team will open its 2022 season Nationally ranked in the NAIA Men’s Soccer Coaches’ Top 25 Preseason Poll. The Vikings will start the 2022 season ranked No.
New Local Leadership for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
James Box has been called to serve as the new Branch President of the Marshall Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was sustained by vote at the Aug.7 Sacrament Meeting.
Missouri puts recreational marijuana on November ballot
Missouri’s General Election ballot in November will include an effort to legalize adult recreational marijuana. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office certified the ballot measure led by a group called LegalMO2022. The initiative petition would let people 21 and older to use cannabis and allow Missourians with nonviolent marijuana-related offenses to automatically have their related criminal records cleared. The program would include a six-percent state tax with proceeds to benefit veterans’ healthcare, drug addiction treatment and Missouri’s Public Defender System. According to LegalMO2022, state officials certified 214,535 voter signatures across the state’s eight congressional districts as valid, exceeding the required minimum of 184,720 needed to make the fall ballot.
Coach Flabby
Dear Coach, I turned 40 this year and decided to get back into tennis which I played in high school. Two weeks into the process and only after playing a few sets my knees, back and elbow are killing me. What's upwith that? Is it all over for me or is there hope for the future?
Community drama reenactment well received by the audiences
The “Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus,” presented Aug. 6 and 7 outside the exterior transformed home of the Rev. Jeanette Pack was well received by the audiences of 50 each evening. Written and narrated by the Rev. Jeanette, the participants were a combination of community members and friends that came from as far as Branson, Mo.
The negative can be positive
John Keats claimed that Samuel Taylor Coleridge would 'let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge.' Wow -- but you get the gist. Look at today's deal. Against South's four-spade contract, West leads the club king. He continues with the queen, but East overtakes with the ace and shifts to the heart three. Should South play the jack or the king?
Corns caused by repeated damage to so skin
Dear Doctors: I run a lot and developed a growth on the knuckle of my second toe. It's hard, with a sharp point in the middle, and it hurts. I thought it was a callus, but my running coach says it's a corn. I thought only older people got those. Will it go away on its own?