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Back in the Good Old Days EIGHTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1935 • The Monett Cubs were beaten 31-0 by Joplin on Oct. 4. The next day, The Times wrote, “Monett’s football interest is in only one thing, that the Cubs rank well in their class, and make a showing in the conference games that will bring credit to the school.

When a team is matched out of their class, it isn’t a game, it’s a disaster. Race horses are not matched in that manner. Good sporty contests that thrill the onlookers are those where the contestants are fairly evenly matched. There is, after all, such a thing as sportsmanship.”

• The WPA sidewalk project is meeting with enthusiastic response by Monett property owners.

Engineer C.F. Honts, who is sponsoring the movement, will measure the property free of charge and answer any questions.

The federal government will furnish the form lumber for the walks and the labor. The property owner is to buy the sand, gravel and cement. Mr. Honts believes that, by buying in quantities, he will be able to get a minimum price for the material.

SEVENTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1945 • Monett’s telephone system, along with telephone exchanges throughout the nation, limped along on Oct. 5 with only emergency service being rendered. Promptly at noon, the 25 local operators on day duty walked away from their switchboards to attend a meeting of their union. Only the chief operator and the night chief operator were on duty, telling callers “only emergency calls are

being accepted.”

• Coming from behind in the third quarter to push over two touchdowns, the Monett Cubs on Oct. 5 won their first Big 8 Conference game of the season by defeating Webb City 13 to 6. The Cubs and the Cardinals battled in mud and fog that made the players almost unrecognizable in the latter half of the contest.

SIXTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1955 • Construction plans for erecting a new 38,000 square foot modern factory building were announced on Oct. 4 by George Meierhoffer, president of the Vaisey-Bristol Shoe Company. The new one-story structure will be built on a three acres site one-and-a-half blocks north of Broadway on 13th Street on land recently purchased from the Gillioz Construction Company.

• On Oct. 4, Missouri voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of the new school foundation program that will be paid for by a two-cent cigarette tax. The program would raise state aid to schools from around $51 million to about $71 million.

Superintendent E.E. Camp said Monett would receive $185 per pupil without increasing the local levy and he would recommend substantial pay raises for teachers.

FIFTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1965 • Private citizens, Monett High School students and members of the Monett Jaycees helped move merchandise out of Suit’s Jewelry and into the old M.E. Gillioz offices at 516 E. Broadway in the wake of the fire that gutted two upstairs apartments

and caused heavy damage to two others at 418 E. Broadway on Oct. 5. Fire trucks from Pierce City, Aurora and Mt. Vernon came to help Monett firefighters, who fought the blaze for nearly an hour.

• Monett High School seniors won first place for their float with the theme “We’ve Got A Tiger In Our Tank” in the homecoming parade. It wasn’t enough to win, for the Lamar Tigers beat the Cubs 37-0, the first shutout for Monett in 22 games.

FORTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1975 • Dedication of the Monett High School football stadium in memory of the late Burl Fowler, MHS head football and wrestling coach, presentation of a memorial scoreboard to the Monett R-1 School District by the Monett Lions Club, and presentation of 50 state flags to the community as a Bicentennial project highlighted halftime activities at Monett’s Oct. 10 game against Carl Junction, which the Cubs won 41-12.

• Jim Klousia, 1971 Monett High School graduate, closed a stellar tennis career at Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar with a tennis record of 107 wins and 33 losses in singles play and 81 wins and 36 losses in doubles.

Klousia was the undisputed top player in District 16 of the NAIA. THIRTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1985 • The Crosslines thrift store will reopen on Oct. 11 at 505 Ninth St., formerly the Decor Shop. The two-story building a Third and Broadway, used since 1984, has been determined to be unsafe due to deterioration in the rear wall.

These five girls, members of Vivian Rauch’s Dancing School, presented the number “Frankie and Johnny, Boogie Dance” on the entertainment program at the Monett Frisco Rally on Oct. 14, 1955 at Monett City Hall Auditorium. Other specialty numbers by local performers, a movie and free prizes were included on the program. Pictured above, as they practiced their number, from left, were: Marilyn Shanks, Rancine Wallner, Janet Klingsporn, Jeanne Pilant and Rochelle Stewart. File photo/The Monett Times • Citizens for Fitness have announced plans for an exercise trail at the Monett City Park. The course, planned to provide maximum physical fitness opportunities for the user, is planned for early spring installation in the south section of the city park.

Miracle Recreation will provide the equipment, with additional fundraising planned and help from the Monett Area United Fund.

TWENTY YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 1995 • Next week will be a big one for Softouch Manufacturing in Monett, as the first four-horse trailer made after the devastating July 19 fire comes off the production line. The fire was isolated to the rear of the 5,000 square foot trim department, but the petroleum

base in the soot proved to be acidic, impregnating all the aluminum in the plant, requiring replacement of $102,000 in material.

• City engineer Kevin Sprenkle has begun work identifying ways to improve Monett’s flooding situation. Sprenkle called for upsizing culverts, defining channels on private property, tracking where storm water has run through residential areas and digging a place for it to go.

TEN YEARS AGO Oct. 4-10, 2005 • For the first time, an association of alumni from Monett High School has

organized, and has begun regular meetings with a goal of providing networking between graduates and creating a vehicle through which support can be extended to the school.

• The Monett City Council has awarded the contract for construction along Highway 60 in the stretch east of Chapell Drive where Lowe’s will be building. The entire project on Highway 60 will go this week to the Missouri Highway Commission, where final approval is expected for Monett’s innovative financing deal.

APAC got the contract for just under $1.5 million.

ON THE COVER: Leslie Henry, elementary school counselor at Monett, looks over a binder of information on this year’s backpack program, which is assisting 90 children at the Monett Elementary, Central Park Elementary and Monett Intermediate School campuses. Melonie Roberts/ reporter@monett-times.com

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Hungry kids do not learn Food insecurity can be culprit in learning delays

By Melonie Roberts

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reporter@monett-times.com

ducators across the country have learned first-hand the challenges of trying to teach children who are suffering from food insecurity, and they are taking steps to address the issue.

Local school districts have implemented breakfast programs that offer students the opportunity to eat a nutritionally-sound meal before heading off the classes. Kitchen staffers switch gears then to prepare lunches, which sometimes include two or more entree choices for students, teachers and administrators.

While students often get two good meals a day at school, many times, those are the only meals they eat during the course of the day, and weekends prove to be especially challenging.

To address weekend hunger issues, Monett Elementary School implemented a backpack program eight years ago to discretely provide meals for children already enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program, who would benefit from the additional nutritional resources.

“We currently have 90 kids enrolled in our program,” said Leslie Henry, Monett’s elementary school counselor.

“We have six or seven on a waiting list, so if one student moves out of the district, we have another to slide right into that spot.”

The program, operated through Ozark Food Harvest’s Food For Thought initiative, is geared toward younger children, and offers easily-opened individual service packages of cereals, fruits and vegetables, as well as entrees like macaroni and cheese or Chef Boyardee pasta meals, juice boxes, shelf-stable milk, and animal crackers or cookies.

“As students age, they decide it’s ‘not cool’ to receive the backpack items,” Henry said. “So, we have to be a little more discrete at the middle school. Sometimes, if a student is absent and they have a sibling, I will

send their items home with that student. We make every effort to make sure students on the program receive their items.”

Ozark Food Harvest has fine-tuned the program by looking at things such as product weight, nutritional values and portability.

“Most of these backpack items weigh about five pounds,” Henry said.

“We have to make sure it’s something the little guys can carry it home.”

To keep meal times from being boring, the menus change quarterly, or about every nine weeks. In addition, personal hygiene kits containing a toothbrush and travel-sized containers of shampoo, toothpaste and soap are included with the food items.

It takes approximately $350 per child to fund the program for a year.

This year, donations totaling $4,587 have already poured into the district.

“We have individuals who will sponsor a child for a year,” Henry said. “Other people, like those on fixed incomes who want to help, can only donate a portion of that. Corporations and businesses often host fundraising drives to donate to the backpack program, as well. Funding comes from all over, anonymously or through promotional drives. But, every dime helps. So far this year, we have about a tenth of what we need for the entire year.”

One good thing Henry noted was increased community awareness had resulted in the full funding of last year’s program.

“That was awesome,” Henry said.

“That totaled $25,200 for 72 kids. Our challenge this year is the additional $6,000 it will take to fund the additional 18 student we’ve added this year, but I’m excited and encouraged.

“I’m continually amazed at the community support. Monett is an awesome community.”

The Purdy School District has a similar program, but it’s operated throughout Stones Prairie Lutheran Church and aided through donations from the Aid Association for Lutherans.

“St. John’s Lutheran Church Stones Prairie Vision Leadership team heard about other programs like Monett’s in the spring of 2010 and felt if there was Continued on Page 7

The Monett School District partners with Ozark Food Harvest in Springfield to package and distribute nutritionally-beneficial meals through the backpack program. The organization also donates hygiene kits every month to dispense along with food items. Melonie Roberts/reporter@monett-times.com

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A look at area events this week

By Murray Bishoff

SPRINGFIELD: The Hosea Bilyeu famlly performs at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Remington’s, 1655 W. Republic Rd. College of the Ozarks assistant professor of music Clara Campbell Christian performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at Ellis Hall at Missouri State University.

A community band will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 at the Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts.

At Drury University’s Clara Thompson Hall, the Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Drury Jazz Orchestra will play at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 7.

A jazz symposium will be offered at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Ellis Hall at Missouri State University.

The Voci Angelica Trio performs at 5 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Barnett Recital Hall at Evangel University.

Lydia Loveless and Jason Isbell perform at 7 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the Gillioz Theater, 325 Park Central East.

ROGERS, Ark.: At the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Rd., Tobymac, Britt Nicole, Colton Dixon and Hollyn perform at 7 p.m. on Sunday.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.: At George’s Majestic Lounge, 519 W. Dickson, performing this week are In the Valley Below and The Moth and the Flame on Thursday; Earl and Them, Mudhawk and a Pink Floyd tribute concert on Friday; Moon Taxi and Backup Planet on Saturday; Nate Hancock, Randall Shreve and Sarah Hughes on Oct. 5; Cherub and Hippie Sabotage on Oct. 6; and Aaron Watson and Curtis Grimes on Oct. 8.

At the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, 416 Stadium Dr., the University of Arkansas Women’s Chorus performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The UA Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5. The Schola Cantorum Choir will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 8.

Singer songwriter Buddy Mondlock performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Fayetteville Underground, 101 W. Mountain St. CARTHAGE: At the Woodshed at Cherry’s Art Emporium, 311 S. Main in the square, Julie Kellogg performs at “An Evening with Spirits” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. A Pink Floyd Tribute concert is

offered at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

JOPLIN: At the Downstream Casino, west of Joplin, the Nace Brothers play on Friday. Lance Griffith and Midnight Prairie Band play country rock on Saturday. LoCash offers a free concert on Oct. 8.

TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 S. Second St., the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis performs at 8 p.m. on Friday. Quartetto de Cremona, a classic string quartet, plays works by Webern, Mozart and Brahms at 3 p.m. on Sunday in the John H. Williams Theatre. The two biggest performers in the ragtime field touring today, Jeff Barnhart and Brian Holland, perform at 7 p.m. on Oct. 6 at the John H. Williams Theatre.

Pop queen Ariana Grande performs at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 at the BOK Center, 200 S. Denver.

The Tulsa Children’s Choir and guest Leona Mitchell perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Tulsa Garden Center, 2435 S. Peoria Ave. At Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main, performing this week are Glass Animals and Hinds on Friday; Meg Myers and Jarryd James on Sunday; Father John Misty and Tess and Dave on Oct. 5; Royal Blood and Bass Drum of Death on Oct. 6; Jewel Runner, Boots, Bishop Nehru and Cuz Lightyear on Oct. 7; and Cherub, Hippie Sabotage and Shooka on Oct. 8.

PITTSBURG, Kan.: At the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts, 1711 S. Homer, the Pittsburg State University Wind Ensemble plays at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The PSU Jazz Ensembles play at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5.

KANSAS CITY: The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra presents “A Night at the Cotton Club” at 8 p.m. on Friday in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center.

Kristin Chenoweth performs Broadway songs with the Kansas City Symphony at 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Kauffman Center.

The Kansas City Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony performs at 7 p.m. on Sunday at the Kauffman Center. The conservatory’s Musica Nova new music ensemble performs eight works at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry.

At the Midland Theater, 1228 Main, Glass Animals play at 8 p.m. on Thursday; Of Monsters and Men play at 8 p.m.

Friday; Seether plays at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 7; Tori Kelly performs at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 8.

José Porcel and his Compania Flamenca perform at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St.

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SPRINGFIELD: A live broadcast of the 2015 Manhattan Short Film Festival will be viewed at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Plaster Student Union at Missouri State University.

Original one-act plays, “Trash” by Don Gordon, “The Flaxen Miss Jack” by Jay Huling and “The Big Pay Day” by Walter Thinners, will be presented through Saturday in the Studio Theatre at Drury University.

Springfield Little Theater presents “Grease” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at 311 E. Walnut.

OZARK: Jacob Fuchs’ play “Vanity and Valor” runs through Oct. 17 at the Stained Glass Theater, 1996 W. Evangel St. JOPLIN: Alejandro Casona’s play “No Suicide in Springtime” is presented by the Missouri State University Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6-8 with more shows through Oct. 10 at the Bud Walton Theater on the Missouri Southern State University campus.

Wayne Hoffman, illusionist, performs at 7 p.m. on Oct. 7 at the Corley Auditorium at MSSU. JOPLIN: Stained Glass Theater presents the children’s musical “The Near-Sighted Knight and the Far-Sighted Dragon” at 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday at 2101 Annie Baxter Ave. TULSA, Okla.: At the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, “The BFG (Big Friendly Giant),” based on a Roald Dahl children’s story, is presented at 7 p.m. on Friday in the John H. Williams Theatre. Zach Braff’s play “All New People” opens at 8 p.m. on Oct. 8 and runs through next weekend at the Liddy Doenges Theatre.

Clark Youth Theater presents a musical stage version of the film “Catch Me If You Can” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, with shows running through the next weekend at the Henthorne Performing Arts Center, 4825 S. Quaker Ave. Molière’s play “The Miser” is presented at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m.

Sunday and again next weekend at the Van Trease Community College Performing Arts Center, 81st and Highway 169.

Sapulpa Community Theatre presents Frederick Knott’s play “Wait Until Dark” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.

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SPECIAL EVENTS AURORA: The 31st annual Aurora Car and Truck Show will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Oak Park.

Live music will be played from noon to 3 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD: Comedian Ralphie May performs at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Gillioz Theater, 325 Park Central East.

Repticon, the Springfield Reptile and Exotic Animal Show, runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Center Hall, 3001 N. Grant.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark.: The 25th annual Corvette Weekend runs through Saturday with activities centered at the Best Western Inn

of the Ozarks.

JOPLIN: Birds, Bluegrass and Barbecue, an evening of concessions and live music by For Heaven’s Sake, runs from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Wildcat Glades Conservation Center, south of Joplin.

TULSA, Okla.: The Tulsa State Fair opens Thursday and runs through Oct. 11 at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st. St. NEVADA: Magician Derek Hughes performs at 8 p.m. on Saturday at the Cottey College Center for the Arts.

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Sunday at 124 . Water St. in Sapulpa.

NEVADA: Community Council on the Performing Arts presents Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. on Sunday and again next weekend at the Fox Playhouse, 110 S. Main.

KANSAS CITY: Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George,” runs at 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St. A touring production of the Broadway show “Wicked” opens Oct. 7 and runs through Oct. 18 at the Music Hall, 13th and Central.

The Alvin Ailey II dance troupe performs at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the Folly Theater, with more shows next weekend.

The Coterie Theatre’s production of “The Miracle Worker,” the story of Helen Keller, runs through Oct. 25 at Crown Center, Grand Blvd. and Pershing Road.

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SPRINGFIELD: Ozark Fall Farm Fest runs Friday through Sunday at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds.

Harvest Fest runs weekends through October at the Springfield Park system’s Rutledge-Wilson Farm Park, 3825 W. Farm Rd. 146.

Oktoberfest is planned Saturday in Park Central Square, with neighboring eateries participating.

ROGERS, Ark.: Oktoberfest runs Saturday downtown.

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark.: The 68th annual Original Ozark Folk Festival runs Oct. 6 through Oct. 10. Planned events include the Queen’s Tea and the Hedgehoppers playing at 7 p.m. at the Auditorium, 36 S. Main; and on Thursday, the Barefoot Ball featuring Cutty Rye at 8 p.m. at the Basin Park Hotel.

TULSA, Okla.: GARBA, a festival of traditional music and food from India, runs 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at 111 E. Brady.

LEE’S SUMMIT: The 40th annual Festival of Arts, Crafts and Music will be held Saturday at 8010 E. Park Rd.

PICK

THREE

Murray’s top picks for the week

1

For opulent drama and great music, nothing this week will beat the final performances of Kansas City Lyric Opera production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway.

The Kauffman Center is an exceptional facility, with a well used big stage. All seats have superscript translations of the original Italian on the back that will enable anyone to follow the opera, all the way to the statue coming to life that drags the defiant Don Juan off to the Underworld.

If you like to sample offbeat material, try the Last Comic Standing performers from the TV show bring their tour at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts in Springfield. Comics love to hone their material, and with a national tour, their material should get better and better. All the Hammons Hall seats should be good for this show.

3

If you liked the Repurposed Faire in Monett, check out the Ritzy Rooster Fab and Funky Expo, with 150 booths showing creative decor ideas, runs from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday at the Joplin Convention Center. There will be an abundance of unusual and creative material offered by the artisans themselves at an event well timed for yearend shopping.

2

Murray Bishoff is a veteran theatergoer, traveling weekends to many of the venues within driving distance, from Tulsa to St. Louis. From dance recitals to operas, he’s been there and shares his recommendations.

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Food insecurity is prevalent for many children in the nation, and in Monett, educators have taken steps to address the issue by implementing a weekend nutrition campaign called the backpack program. Businesses, civic groups and individuals contribute financially to the program, which provides six meals, similar to those pictured, comprised of easy-to-open packages to carry students through the weekend. Melonie Roberts/reporter@ monett-times.com

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AurOrA HOuN DAwG AutO FeSt Area businesses and industries host volunteer fundraising drives to benefit the local backpack program. At a recent presentation, three local companies, SRC Automotive, 3D Corporate Solutions and EFCO Corp., collaborated on a group donation of $3,776 to benefit the Monett School District’s backpack supplemental nutrition program.

Pictured, from left, are: Juan Alberto, who works in shipping at SRC Automotive; Kim Wise, group leader at SRC; Norman Mendez, a company interpreter with EFCO Corp.; Leslie Henry, elementary school counselor; Thomas Hall, who works in shipping at SRC; and Roxane Hill, a purchase coordinator with 3D Corporate Solutions. Melonie Roberts/ reporter@monett-times.com

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Hungry: Students must be enrolled in free/reduced lunch program to qualify

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a need at Purdy Schools, we would like to be of service,” said Raynell Schallert, one of the program organizers. “We contacted the schools and found there was a definite need, so the program began.”

The group opted not to use Ozarks Food Harvest for a number of reasons.

“We found we can provide food more cost-effectively by shopping at Aldi’s, Sam’s and Walmart,” she said.

“Children are provided three meals and a

snack for each day they do not have school. At Christmas, those families also receive a box of groceries. We try to make the meals healthy, cost-effective and as kid-friendly as possible.”

Students are selected for the program through a special committee that works with Janet Boys, the elementary school principal, and Susan Henderson, elementary school secretary.

“We try to cap the number of students at 25,” Schallert said. “We

focus on students in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, and older siblings of those students are not excluded. We started with 12 students at the end of the 20092010 school year, and the program has grown since then. We have provided service for up to 44 students per school year.”

Funding for the program started in 2013 with a $10,000 grant written through Thrivent Financial, which included a matching funds option.

Community members

matched $5,000, so the program received an additional $5,000 from Thrivent, for a total of $20,000. It takes approximately $8,000 to $10,000 to support the program for a school year, depending on the number of students serviced.

“If it were not for the generous support of area churches and the community, this program would not be possible,” Schallert said. “Various churches, civic organizations and individuals have provided both financial support and assisted with physical operations of packing meals into backpacks each week.

“Members of the Purdy National Honor Society

have undertaken the backpack program as a service project, and they will come in and pack a month’s worth of meals at one time, which is a tremendous help and makes the weekly time requirement much less.”

Schallert said applications are being accepted for the program, and students must already be enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program though the school to be eligible.

Verona does not have an established backpack program, but Julie Rysted, elementary counselor, is looking to form a committee of school personnel and community members to

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address the issue.

“I think the community needs to have that involvement, that ownership, to make the program work,” she said.

Rysted said she would like to start the program this year, but the implementation of such an endeavor would be dependent on a number of factors.

“We are not going to provide a breakfast, lunch and dinner over the weekend,” Rysted said.

“We just want to offer a supplement to what they already have.”

Rysted said the district has a very high percentage of students on the free and reduced lunch program, and identifying students in need would not be problematic.

“The more stability we can create in a home, the more the student can come to school prepared to learn,” she said. “We know things can happen.

The loss of a parent’s job or an unexpected life event can create financial instability in a home.

“We have such great kids and a very supportive community. I believe they’ll jump on board.”

Messages left for Tami Gripka, project coordinator for the Pierce City program, were not returned.

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Man can’t cope with pregnant girlfriend and ailing ex-wife D

EAR ABBY: My situation is upsetting and I don’t know what to do anymore. My girlfriend, “Dana,” is pregnant. My ex-wife showed up at our door with terminal cancer and nowhere to go. When I told her she could stay with us, Dana moved out.

There is no one that my ex can rely on except me. I am torn. I love Dana and don’t want to lose her, but I can’t turn my back on someone who has no one in her life who cares. I wish Dana could understand what I’m going through. Please help.

— IN TURMOIL IN WISCONSIN DEAR IN TURMOIL: Are you absolutely certain about your ex-wife’s prognosis? Have you verified it? Why is she your ex-wife? Why are you the only one in her life who cares? Has she burned all her other bridges?

Without more information, your question is a tough one to answer. But if you love Dana, then the wrong woman is living with you. While you don’t have to turn your back on your ex if she truly is terminal, you should absolutely find her other living arrangements.

DEAR ABBY: I am five years older than my fiance. He has never

defensive, and you’ll get the answers you’re looking for.

Jeanne Phillips Dear Abby been married and has a daughter. We have been together for a few years, and something has happened to make me wonder about him.

I thought it was funny that he bought Cosmopolitan magazine every month and talked about his flat belly. But I recently found my Victoria’s Secret catalog hidden in his toolbox. I have also seen him look at other, much younger women. Am I making something out of nothing? — SUSPICIOUS IN MAINE DEAR SUSPICIOUS: Yes. All men “look.” It goes along with being male.

As to his having stashed your lingerie catalog in his toolbox, that’s rather chaste considering the number of men who buy Playboy, Hustler and watch online videos.

I don’t know what conclusions you’re jumping to, but you’ll be better off clearing the air with your boyfriend rather than stewing about it. If you do it good-naturedly, it shouldn’t make him

DEAR ABBY: I’m 16 and lead a pretty good life. I attend a fantastic school, do well, have lots of friends and am overall happy.

I have siblings and a mom who loves me. The thing is — I don’t love her. It’s not because of “teenage angst”; I just don’t like her as a person. I’m polite to her and she doesn’t know how I feel. How should I handle this?

— CONCERNED DAUGHTER IN SAN FRANCISCO DEAR CONCERNED DAUGHTER: I think you should “handle it” by keeping your trap shut. Not every mother likes/loves her daughter all the time either,

but the feeling usually passes. Consider this: Because you have so many positive things going on in your life, your mother may have had something to do with it, so try to be a little less judgmental.

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Thursday, October 1, 2015 • Page 11

Wildlife park in Rwanda recovers 2 decades after genocide

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK, Rwanda — After Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, returning refugees swept into the country’s biggest national park with herds of cattle and wiped out the last lions. Now the once-abandoned reserve on the border with Tanzania is drawing more tourists, reducing poaching and involving more villagers in conservation.

It even re-introduced lions this year.

It is quite a turnaround for Akagera National Park, whose landscape of savannah, acacia woodlands and papyrus swamps was reduced by more than half to 433 square miles (1,122 square kilometers) following the 1990s upheaval. While still reliant on donor funding, the park owes its success to a partnership between a non-profit group with deep pockets and management experience as well as a government led by a powerful leader that has turned stability and tourism into pillars of a

growing economy.

It is not an easy recipe to emulate. In many parts of Africa, conservation has suffered because of state corruption, lax law enforcement, porous national borders and conflicts that make it easier for gunmen to poach wildlife.

Today, visitors to Akagera see hippos, crocodiles and cormorants on sunset cruises on Lake Ihema, where British explorer Henry Stanley camped in the late 19th century. Also on the shore sits an abandoned house that was a weekend retreat for Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, who died when his plane was shot down in 1994, igniting violence that became the genocide.

In 2010, the government of the current president, Paul Kagame, handed management of Akagera to African Parks, a group based in Johannesburg that now runs 10 wildlife areas on the continent. African Parks donors include the Walton Family

Foundation, the European Union and the WWF conservation group.

The Akagera deal happened after the Dubai World holding company dropped investment plans in the park because of the global economic downturn. African Parks often takes over parks in decline and faces hard challenges elsewhere in Africa. In August, the group reported elephant poaching incidents in parks it manages in Chad, Congo and Malawi.

Founded by Belgian colonizers in the 1930s, Akagera is considered a high performer, boosted by the relocation of seven lions from South Africa.

Park revenue was $1 million in 2014, a fivefold increase over 2010 but still short of the annual budget of just over $2 million, said Sarah Hall, Akagera’s tourism and marketing manager. Visitors, mostly day-trippers, nearly doubled to about 28,000, half of them Rwandans, in the same period, Hall said.

The Ruzizi Tented Lodge, managed by the

park, offers rustic but comfortable shelter in a lakeside forest. Wooden boardwalks link the nine solar-powered tents and thatched reception.

Monkeys occasionally block a visitor’s path before scampering away; hippos snort in the darkness. Lodge staff give sound advice: always keep your tent flaps zipped tight.

Last year, half a dozen safari operators expressed interest in a luxury lodge concession in Akagera, but the plan was delayed partly because the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa hurt tourism elsewhere on the continent. Some operators were from Kenya, where tourism has also suffered from attacks

by Islamic extremists.

Outside the park, beehives made from dried banana leaves, pasted with cow dung, hang in trees near the fence, part of an African Parks project to support Rwandan villagers who might otherwise resort to poaching animals or chopping down endangered san-

dalwood trees, whose oil is used in the perfume industry.

One beneficiary of park-backed community programs is Gatete Evode, a former poacher who killed zebra, impala and other animals for the meat but later joined a butchers’ cooperative that sells legal items such as beef.

“Now I’m a free man,” said Evode, relieved at quitting a criminal career.

Rwanda invests 5 percent of revenues from its national parks in community projects such as schools and clinics.

Rwanda has three other national parks, including Volcanoes National Park, home to endangered mountain gorillas, and a shrinking forested area that was approved as a park by lawmakers in September.

There is not much wilderness left in Rwanda, which is known as the “land of a thousand hills.”

Many slopes are heavily cultivated. Rwanda has more than 12 million people and is slightly small-

er than the U.S. state of Massachusetts, which has nearly 7 million people.

To counter threats, African Parks doubled Akagera’s ranger force to about 60 and Rwanda funded construction of a fence along the park’s western perimeter.

Poachers killed 26 animals in Akagera in 2014 — a sharp drop from previous years — and only three through the end of August this year, according to park figures. The last elephant poaching occurred in 2010.

One morning, a woman in a pink T-shirt blew a whistle while leading rangers on an early morning jog around a camp.

A few baboons roamed the grounds, loitering near cooking pots. On a computer screen at park headquarters, staff monitored the movements of the new lions, which wear GPS collars.

Akagera’s next big project is the reintroduction of rhinos, possibly next year. The last recorded sighting of a rhino was in 2007.

CBS hit show ‘CSI’ ends its 15-season run with 2-hour reunion finale

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — There was scant evidence suggesting it would be a hit.

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” was a last-minute pickup by CBS, plugged into a Friday lineup whose widely forecast surefire hit would be a reboot of “The Fugitive,” not a quirky little drama dwelling on hair fibers and blood spatter.

“I thought it was never going to succeed,” says Jorja Fox. At

the time she had a recurring role on “The West Wing” as a Secret Service agent, “but I thought, ‘How fun would it be just to take this ride for a little while!’ By Christmas, I figured I would be back on ‘The West Wing.’”

“I figured there would be an audience for it,” says William Petersen — “among those people who do crossword puzzles. I never thought the audience would also be everyone who’s NEVER done a

crossword puzzle!”

Though set in Las Vegas, “CSI” occupies the world of forensic investigators who solve criminal cases not in the streets or an interrogation room, but in the lab, where the truth reveals itself in the evidence they probe.

Premiering in October 2000, “CSI” was an out-of-nowhere smash. (“The Fugitive” flopped.)

But that was just for starters. It would spawn two long-running spin-offs, set in Miami and New York, and recently gave birth

to a third, “CSI: Cyber,” which now will survive it as the 15-season run of the original “CSI” comes to an end Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT. The two-hour farewell brings back bygone stars including Marg Helgenberger (who played exotic-dancer-turned-investigator Catherine Willows until departing three seasons ago) and Petersen (who headlined for eight-plus seasons as lab boss Gil Grissom).

Petersen recalled that in

2000 he was looking for a TV series, “but I didn’t want to play a lawyer, a cop or a divorced dad. ‘CSI’ was something different, and while we didn’t know what it was going to be, we wanted a chance to figure it out.”

He got his chance and loved the experience, he says, then moved on in 2008 to pursue theater work. (Now he is joining another series, WGN America’s “Manhattan,” for its second season starting Oct. 13.)

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