Stories from Wednesday, February 9, 2005

The Marshall Public Library's "Picture Your World" travelogue, scheduled for Tuesday night, was postponed due to inclement weather. It will now be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10. To accomodate this change, the the Missouri Valley College dance team performance in honor of Black History Month has been moved up. That program will begin at 6:30 p.m...

A member of state Sen. Bill Stouffer's staff will be present for a mobile office at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at Emma Fay's Country Restaurant in Slater. Stouffer said mobile office sessions will provide 21st District constituents the opportunity to speak with a member of his staff and seek assistance in dealing with state government or discuss their views on legislation during the informal sessions...

Winter weather is being blamed for a single-vehicle crash in Saline County that injured a Warrensburg woman Tuesday afternoon. A preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol shows that the crash occurred at 3:35 p.m. on Interstate 70 just east of Route YY when 44-year-old Robin L. Best lost control of her 2000 Ford. The vehicle veered off the north side of the snow-covered highway and struck an embankment before overturning and coming to rest back on the road...

Remember the highly popular Wendy's commercials that ran over a decade ago and featured an elderly woman whose famous line, "Where's the beef?" spurred the franchise into the national fast-food spotlight? Well, according to Brent Bryant, executive vice president for the Missouri Cattlemen's Association [MCA], "the beef" is all over the state of Missouri...

The Sweet Springs Board of Education was greeted by a slew of cards from students -- or as Superintendent Boyd Jones put it "our younger patrons" -- at the board's regular meeting Monday. The cards thanking them for their hard work were in honor of National School Board Recognition Week...

A Marshall man suffered serious injuries in a crash Tuesday that claimed the life of a Kansas City woman. According to a preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred at 7:15 a.m. at Interstate 70's 56 mile marker in Lafayette County...

With a government mandate expected to increase demand for bio-diesel fuel, local officials would like to see a production facility built in Saline County. Roy Hunter, executive director of the Marshall-Saline Development Corporation has been a proponent of building an bio-diesel plant for years. At Tuesday's Board of Directors meeting, he pitched the idea once again...

Heavy snow falls rapidly over Marshall Tuesday afternoon, cutting visibility of the Saline County Courthouse's clock tower. Accumulation of an inch and a half was reported in Marshall. Right: A woman pushes through the flakes on the Marshall square Tuesday. The storm caught some residents out in the cold, dropping the bulk of its snow as many of them were leaving work...

BOYS NCMC Kirksville 57, at Moberly 56 Lewis & Clark Paris at Fayette, ppd. Salisbury at Marceline, ppd. I-70 Sweet Springs at Windsor, ppd. Concordia 54, at St. Paul 44 CCAA Malta Bend at Bunceton, ppd. (2/23) at Jamestown 74, Higbee 70 Pilot Grove 45, at Otterville 37Non-conference...

The Missouri Valley College men's volleyball team passed a major mid-term exam Tuesday by upending second-ranked Lindenwood in four games at the Burns Athletic Complex. The No. 5 Vikings notched a 30-25, 30-27, 27-30, 30-21 MAMVIC decision behind 18 kills from freshman Adam Tuifagu, the league's "player of the week." Although Valley struggled at times with its hitting accuracy, at 29.7 percent for the night, it also made plenty of shots -- downing a combined 29 of 60 with four errors during the second and fourth sets.. ...

A handful of Salt Fork YMCA Swim Club members took part in a major meet in Columbia during the final weekend of January, hoping to get qualifying times for the Missouri Valley Swimming Division II East Championships at Springfield on Feb. 25-27. The Columbia Swim Club Winter Invitational included hundreds of entries from some of the top programs from the Missouri Valley and Ozark local swim clubs -- including the Kansas City Blazers, Flyers and Rockwoods clubs of St. ...

Delmar E. Tunnell, 85, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Marshall, died Monday, Feb. 7, 2005, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Rev. Jim Cooper will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 14, at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Front matter It is always gratifying to see a project come to fruition after hard work and planning. This week I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Eveleth Hill, former children's services coordinator. In 2004, Hill received a grant for the Marshall Public Library from the St. Louis Rams football team. The theme is "Exercise Your Mind, Exercise Your Body!"...