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From the Desk of Joe Northwest Mindi L. Phillips, Editor
This thing we call Regular Joe (Northwest) was created as an entertainment newspaper with each of you in mind. We like to add a little something of interest for everyone while keeping you up to date on all the hometown events and live music in the area. As I receive the pieces from the Joe’s contributors each month, I tend to look for a “theme” of sorts. I notice this month that many point to the idea of leaving a legacy or what one can glean from the lives of others. It is pointed out in the pages to follow that one should not be “tempted to do nothing” but to “act intentionally” and make a contribution. Many leave a large legacy, maybe contribute to the actual pages of history. Maybe one leaves behind a mark on the literal landscape on the culture of our nation. And some just touch the small circle around them. Not one way is lesser than the other, and we all have something we can give to others. One simple way in which we can all do this quite easily is to give FEEDBACK. Specifically, we can give the writers who contribute their time and talents to the Joe some good old fashioned opinions and encouragement. Some of us have busy lives and don’t always take a moment to tell others just what they did right. Some of us, on the other hand, tend to take quite a shine to reporting others’ flaws, and we downright love to point them out in loud, bold ways. Most of the time, this has an effect that damages the very person or entity we were trying to fix. But what if we left in our wake a stormy path of constructive thoughts and ideas instead? What if we went about our day thinking of ways to encourage the people who we come across in print, the people who take time to contribute a little something special to our lives, the writers who bring a chuckle or a smile or a fond memory to us each month with their contributions in the Joe, by sending them just a short message telling them how they make us feel when we read their monthly columns? What if we write just a few words to say what we would like to see from them in the future? What if we say, “Hey, you’re my favorite columnist”? What if we let them know that their efforts are not wasted, but appreciated, by the readers of the Joe? And what if, somewhere along the way, this leaves in the hearts and minds of others the thought that what they do for the Northwest Missouri community matters to us? What if we spread the notion that, if this is a paper for us, for our community, that we should be actively contributing to its shaping? I myself love getting out into the NWMO area for deliveries, as I actually run into many readers and get a little positive feedback in person. Our writers don’t always get that opportunity, though I did have a story shared with me from one writer who recently got a heap of just such feedback...miles beyond our local delivery area! While I was excited to hear this, I hope that we here “at home” could also make such an effort. I implore you to share your thoughts and suggestions by emailing us here: northwest@regularjoepaper.com
Mindi
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Live Music Across NWMO
New And Ongoing Live Music Events... BETHANY Fri 8/7: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW Hall) Fri 8/21: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW Hall) Sat 8/29: Bill & Lisa & the Green River Survivors, 7pm (Legion Hall) Sat 9/5: Eric Pasley, with Madd Hoss Jackson, 7:30pm (Fairgrounds) CLARKSDALE Sundays: Clarksdale Opry, 2pm (Hawman Center) FILLMORE Fridays: Music and Dance, 7pm (Fillmore Community Hall) GENTRY Fri 8/14: Ramblin Country Show, guest Josh Kollitz, 7:30 pm (Lions) Fri 8/28: Ramblin Country Show, 7:30 pm (Lions) GRAHAM Sat 8/29: The Bullhaulers, 8pm (City Park) GRANT CITY Wednesdays: Jam Session, 6pm (Senior Center) Sat 8/8: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW/Skating Rink) Sat 8/22: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW/Skating Rink) KING CITY Sat 8/15: Rock N Country Variety Show, 7pm (TriCo Visitors Center) MARYVILLE Sundays: Northwest Opry Country, 2pm (Nodaway Co Senior Center) Sundays: Forney and Paxson, 7pm (Eagles Lodge Bearcat Aerie #3669) OREGON Thursdays: Country Music Dance, 7pm (TJ Hall Comm Bldg) SAVANNAH Fridays: Savannah Country Jamboree, 6pm (Senior Ctr)
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A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Jay Kerner Publisher/Fashion Victim
Anyone who has seen me out and about knows how little I normally care about my appearance. I purposely avoid Walmart so I don’t end up in any “People of” compilations. However during my teenage years I had a couple of very specific areas where I totally bought in to the popular opinion of the day. The first were Converse tennis shoes. Oh man! We were poor kids. We got no-name, no-tread rejects from Block’s Super Discount Store. Leon threw in a handy pocket comb. Nobody in our neighborhood paid any attention to tennis shoes. But all of a sudden, in the late 60’s, “Chucks” started showing up on our playground. Black canvas low-tops. (Only a total dweeb would wear high tops.) One pair after another, the cool kids had ‘em. The jocks for sure. That was my first experience with discrimination. The kids in the Chucks totally lorded it over the Keds, the Red Ball Jets, and all the rest of us. It was a seriously real thing, and seemed like the biggest deal in the entire world for a 6th grade boy at that point in history. The worst was when somebody way less cool than you got some and leapfrogged you in being picked for kickball. Good thing there was no 11th Commandment prohibiting the coveting of other’s footwear, cuz my soul would have been in big trouble, Jack. I admit it freely. I coveted big time. I used to ride the bus downtown and drool over them at Spartan Sporting Goods, but at $12 a pair, they were just a dream, when our whole family could be shod for the same money in shoddier brands. My time as a social pariah finally ended (temporarily) when I opened a pair of green suede Converse for Christmas in 1970. No foolin’. I just about peed myself! I wore them to school in the snow that first day back after break. (Duh!) I was welcomed into the fraternity like I just figured out the secret handshake. And immediately looked around for some poor bastards to lord it over. It sucked to be them. I may have been wearing a threadbare T and high-water pants, but baby I had the right shoes, and nothing else mattered.
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I rode that wave of marginal acceptance for a few years, till the start of my sophomore year of High School. That’s when Big Bell Levi’s hit my universe like a denim-covered wrecking ball. Damn it! My shoes were cool, but you couldn’t see past my no-name jeans! There was suddenly ,one and only one, socially acceptable leg covering garment. Big Bell Levi’s. Nothing else. The other name brands were immediately shunned en masse, especially anything straight-leg. Heaven forbid! A guy like me in Big Yanks from K-Mart was pitied like a leper. You’d see people stare, then look away real quick, embarrassed. I was sacking groceries at the time, and knew I needed to sack-up and spring for some acceptable jeans. A.J. August was the place. I remember being led to the stacks, like a holy altar of coolness. Someone handed me a pair in my size, and I was giddy with excitement. They were stiff with new. The blue was so blue I can barely describe it. As soon as the clerk left me in the dressing room, I held them to my nose and inhaled as hard as I could. I smelled the times. I smelled rock-and-roll. I smelled free love and political unrest. Or it could have been insecticide, I don’t know. What I did know was that I was once again allowed at the cool table. People who had never noticed me suddenly did. People I’d previously gotten along fine with suddenly looked at me like a turn-coat or something. I heard a bit of “who does he think he is?”, but I didn’t care. I had the right jeans. I was somebody now. At least for a while. My senior year was when disco hit. The music went to…well, let’s just say it wasn’t good. And all of a sudden, people were going polyester. The “leisure suit” was a thing. Sorry, but the kid wasn’t having any. Not long after that, the Queen came into the picture and immediately started shaping my wardrobe. If you’ve ever seen me look even halfway decent, anytime in the last 3-plus decades, it’s her doing. The rest of the time it’s been up to me and you get what you get. Left to my own devices, I’d be in tie-dye and overalls every day. Hey, it’s a look!
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Events & Festivals across NWMO
ALBANY Sat 8/8: 29th Annual NW Medical Center Golf Tournament (Golf Course) Sat 8/8: NWMO Tractor Pullers Association, 6:30pm BETHANY 9/3-9/7: NWMO Fair (Fairgrounds) Fri 9/4: NWMO Tractor Pullers Association, 6:30pm FAIRFAX 8/14-8/16: Fairfax Fair Golden 50 Years GRAHAM Sat 8/22: NWMO Tractor Pullers Association, 6:30pm 8/27 -8/29: Graham Street Fair (City Park) ROCK PORT Sat 8/1: NWMO Tractor Pullers Association, 6pm 8/21: Annual Midwest Ag Expo (Country Club) 8/28-8/29: CH-F CommuniTEE Benefit Golf STANBERRY Sat 8/29: NWMO Tractor Pullers Association, 6:30pm
ONGOING EVENTS ALBANY: 2nd Wed: Book Club, 10am (Carnegie Library) BETHANY: Thu: Dungeons & Dragons, 5pm (Gamers Palace) Fri & Sat: Magic the Gathering, 6pm (Gamers Palace) GRANT CITY: 2nd Friday: Potluck, Noon (Senior Center) KING CITY: 3rd Wednesday: Potluck Dinner (Senior Center) Last Monday: Pitch Tournament (Senior Center) Daily: Cards (Senior Center)
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Finding Jacob Paula Hayward
7 Why Jabob? What makes him special? When I was a child he was one of the oldest ancestors I knew about. Standing in the cemetery the other day, I thought about what it meant when I say I am related to Jacob Holland. He fought in four wars, apparently learned how to doctor from the Native Americans, and lived until he was 95. He led what sounds like an adventurous life. More than the facts, I often wonder what traits I inherited from him. We often pass down heirlooms from generation to generation, but what about personal characteristics? How much of that part of our past survives in the present? As a historian-in-training, I find the contrast between this weathered stone and the documentation on him fascinating. The memories of his life are not as faded as the epitaph. It is easy to find information on him now. In death, he has an active online presence. If you Google his name you will find a photo where he sits stoically, aged but with confidence. Jacob Holland is one of those people you hope you inherited something from. His picture exudes a rugged determination. Yes, that is it. That is what I hope to have inherited from him. Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a glimmer of it perhaps.
When I was a child, I spent a lot of time at funerals. In turn, I spent a fair amount of time exploring cemeteries. There is a certain peace when you visit someone at their final resting place. In the Fairport cemetery, I can trace my lineage back several generations. It is the Fairport cemetery in which I am most familiar, standing there with the breeze, the sound of a cow in the distance, and maybe a dog barking. Yet, as a child we explored the old Maysville cemetery as well. On one particular trip we went seeking the grave of Jacob Holland, my grandfather with a few greats added in. I remember it being hard to find. I remember feeling like a detective trying to find this ancestor born in 1791, eons ago it seemed like then. I remember wondering who he had been, yet even then he was more than a name. My parents own his marriage certificate; it is still framed in their home. I went to visit Jacob the other day. It had been so long I initially went to the wrong cemetery, shortly finding my way through the school lot, down another street, and up the hill. It took all of two minutes to find his headstone. I could almost hear the echoes of my sister and me calling out, “We found him!� Today, the stone is illegible, worn by the environment and the years. I knew it was the stone Paula Hayward writes about life from her cottage on the corner by the placement to other family and from pictures I found online. in small-town Missouri. She is currently studying for a degree in hisSomewhere in my stash of photos is one of a time when anyone could tory while re-inventing her own Middle Age. read the name.
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The Bullhaulers Danny R. Phillips
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Seger, Marshall Tucker Band, Peter Frampton, Elvin Bishop, 38 Special, and Little Feat. The Bullhaulers are able to blend the Much can be found in a name. The moniker a band chooses styles well, stepping from country in one bar to rock n roll in the says much about who they are as people and as a band. Kansas next. They’ve entertained barrooms, honky tonks, parties, and City band The Bullhaulers show fairs of all sizes, always leavtheir influences in their name ing a room full of smiling faces and the music they follow and wondering when they’d be back respect. around for another show. Blending influences like Bob Come and see one of Kansas Seger, The Marshall Tucker City’s best country rock bands Band, Waylon Jennings, and the as they take the stage at 8pm. entire roster of the outlaw counCome join the fun with the great try movement of the 1960’s and people of Graham, and enjoy the 70’s to create a sound that pleascountry-fried goodness that is es both themselves and their The Bullhaulers. growing audience. Now, they’re For more info, visit www. ready to bring their love of that thebullhaulers.com or find them music to the people of Graham, on Facebook. Missouri, as they take the stage as part of the Graham Street Fair Danny Phillips’ music and on August 29th. pop culture musings regularly The Bullhaulers were formed appear in online and print pubin 2008 in Kansas City by Justin Schoening (lead vocals, gui- lications including Missouri Life Magazine, American Roots, tar), Joel Martin (lead guitar), and Russell Edgar (bass) as a way Blurt Magazine, Deli Magazine, Popshifter, and The Regular to play the music that they held deep in their souls. The follow- Joe. Listen to his free form podcast “Don’t Have a Clue” the ing year, the band was joined by Bill Larson (drums), rounding 2nd Saturday of every month at 4pm on www.stjosephmusicout the current lineup and giving more zest to the already formi- foundation.org dable lineup until 2011 when fiddle player Jason Meyerkorth joined the fold, making the band what they are today. The guys grew up on southern rock greats like Molly Hatchet, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kris Kristofferson, and many others. In their short time as a band, The Bullhaulers have had the pleasure and honor of sharing the stage with both legends and newcomers, including Billy Joe Shaver, Turnpike Troubadours, Whitey Morgan, respected wordsmith Chris Knight, and too many others to list here. In 2014, The Bullhaulers released their debut album Honky Tonk Chronicles to a solid reception throughout the music community, mixing their love of traditional country as well as aspects of the outlaw country movement, resulting in a sound that is equal parts Charlie Daniels Band, Bob
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It Takes All Kinds
Nathan Davis
Recently, King City local Jim Nash announced his run for presidency in local newspapers. Vowing to, “begin the slow and painful process of returning the US to a constitutional government,” Nash is challenging the status quo of career politicians and defying the typical campaign process. Many people would question the validity of his campaign as he faces such astronomical odds of winning. However, he is capitalizing on the idea of citizen legislators, individuals who have a full-time career aside from politics. Unfortunately, this viewpoint is often justified at the expense of career politicians. This is a pragmatic example highlighting the much broader discussion of the merits of both career and citizen politicians, and it aids in proving the necessity of both. Perhaps an examination of the past would be beneficial to unraveling such a continually debated topic. In 1774, delegates gathered and formed the Continental Congress, the first national legislative assemblage of its kind in the United States. Many of these same delegates would go on to participate in the Constitutional Convention, bolstering themselves as Founding Fathers. However, most of these men held other occupations. They had an ample amount of political and civic experience,
but yet only nine delegates relied on public office as a considerable portion of their income. Because of this, many of the Founding Fathers were both career politicians and citizen legislators. It is possible, of course, that the term “career politician” has been morphed into an easy criticism of otherwise effective elected officials. After all, career politicians seem fairly adequate. Someone pursuing a profession in politics is surely capable of dutifully carrying out their electors’ will. They would even have advantageous understanding and experience in contrast with their citizen legislator counterparts. However, an individual following a career in politics could certainly seem detached from the American people and may well be. Being a member of congress for 25+ years certainly doesn’t fit the average American archetype. Another issue and commonly asserted criticism of career politicians is that without private sector opportunity awaiting their return, they will be increasingly motivated to fulfill their own agenda of reelection rather than serving for the betterment of the United States and its citizens. It seems that career politicians have gained a negative connotation as upcoming competition attempts to remove long-sitting incumbents. Painting someone who
has been in office 20 years as out-of-touch is not necessarily a difficult task, regardless if they actually are. This skew of perception detracts from measures that should be used to judge candidates, such as voting records and leadership abilities. While it may be easy to justify the dismissal of a career politician on the grounds that they’re outof-touch, it may not be entirely fair. Like most situations, balance is key. The combined wisdom of experienced career politicians and real-world citizen legislators is certainly a force to be reckoned with. A United States without citizen legislators would probably have a government that was unaware, while a United States without career politicians would probably be hindered by a lack of experience. It is plainly unfair to value either over the other when both are a crucial part of democracy. With this equality in mind, voters can judge candidates on relevant issues, as opposed to predisposed notions about their background. Northwest Missouri anxiously awaits more information about Jim Nash’s presidential campaign. Share your comments or suggestions by emailing us at northwest@regularjoepaper.com
Intentional Acts of Appreciation Rich Piper
As the summer winds down, and hopefully also the heat, we will move towards the fall and what is often a series of more routine weeks for kids, their parents and grandparents as school starts up. Schools, particularly elementary and secondary in our local communities throughout the land of The Regular Joe of Northwest MO, provide the important role of helping kids learn knowledge and skills necessary and useful in life, encourage the development of sound character, and help prepare for college (or other post high school training), career, and citizenship. However, for many of the communities in our region, the local school is also recognized as an important anchor to our community. Along with perhaps a few churches, a grocery store, a gas station, and perhaps a few other organizations and/or businesses that help supply the community’s identity, the local school is vital to the community’s existence. (Our region’s larger communities may not as consciously appreciate the importance of their local school – but they should.) My general impression is that most folks, in most communities, take pride in their local schools, are glad they exist, support their teachers and staff, and hope that the school will continue to be around for generations of students to come. Certainly there is the disagreement here, and the disparaging word there – but it would be unrealistic to think that any school would be absolutely perfect in every way, every day. We are after all talking about human beings; the kids, the teachers, the staff, the parents, the folks of the community; all quite human. But that brings me along to a suggestion I wish to share based on my belief that we folks in the land of the great and good Northwest MO really do appreciate our local schools and want to be supportive of them. However, we are also human and sometimes let opportunities pass for showing appreciation. And also, keeping in mind that teachers and staff are human also and would like to know they are appreciated. Thus I suggest Intentional Acts of Appreciation. Not random acts of kindness, but intentional, planned, purposeful acts to express thankfulness. Allow me to share a dirty little secret learned from decades of serving the public in many difference capacities: You don’t hear many positive things, but you hear a whole lot of negative things. It just seems to be human nature. This is what the “Intentional” in Intentional Acts of Appreciation is all about. To intentionally communicate appreciation to specific individuals for the job they are doing. To intentionally recognize and celebrate the good things that folks are doing within our communities. While I am focusing here, in light of the startup of school, on teachers and staff, Intentional Acts of Appreciation could just as importantly be focused on local firefighters, first responders, ambulance personnel, law enforcement, and others.
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However, being human, the larger the task, the less likely we are to undertake it. So dear readers, let us just start with our local schools and the individuals that make our local school possible: the teachers, administrators, cooks, secretaries, bookkeepers, maintenance workers, school board members, etc. And if that list is too large, narrow it down to the one or two people that you are particularly glad are working at your local school. Then just for good measure, add another one or two individuals that are there that you really don’t know well but you realize play an important role. Send a little card that just says thanks for being there. Maybe add a little line about what it is they do that you appreciate about them. Pass along a can of soda or a candy bar. Teachers almost always seem to need extra pencils, or pens, or Kleenex, or Sharpies, or any number of other small items that they generally have to purchase on their own for use by their students. Support staff would be touched by a note of appreciation also, as well as perhaps a snack bar or soda. Or you could extend an intentional act of appreciation toward an administrator – trust me as one who has run a few small organizations during my earlier years of life; they need to know appreciation also. Just remember that appreciation is the most valuable thing you will be giving. In the land of The Regular Joe of Northwest MO, where we take pride in our friendliness, compassion, and caring, we should never let those who work on behalf of our communities to ever feel that they work in a “thank-less” job. If we are serious about celebrating the good things in life, the good things of our community and of our rural style of life, let us be intentional in showing appreciation to folks that help make our respective communities the best place in the world to live. Starting now, let’s show some Intentional Acts of Appreciation Rich has spent most of his adult life living and/or working in small, rural communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, including several long stretches in Northwest Missouri. Rich chooses to spend most of his weekday, 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.
TRIVIA: Which Bugsy Maugh album was released in 1967?
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Trivia answer from page 11: The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw,.
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Bugsy Maugh Danny R. Phillips
Some people make their impact on a global scale through diplomacy, art, or science. Others make a difference locally, helping with kids, befriending young people like King City’s Tyler O’Neal. “I’ve known Bugsy my whole life,” Mr. O’Neal said with a look of loss only found in someone who loses a dear part of the life. “I can’t believe he’s gone. Bugsy was always there for me and he knew I had his back. I’m going to miss him.” Charles “Bugsy” Maugh was one of the precious few who touched people around the world as well as in his adopted hometown of Rosendale, Missouri. Born March 7, 1942, to LeRoy and Charlene Thomsen, Bugsy was adopted in childhood by the couple Fred and Martha Maugh. With his passing on July 2, 2015, the area has lost a true link to the wild rock n roll that defined the 1960’s and shaped how we approach music even today. He was 73 years old. A talented musician, a member of the St. Joseph Central High Class of 1960, Bugsy took his bass guitar and played with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band where Maugh sang lead on one of the band’s most loved songs, “Drivin’ Wheel.” Bugsy played with them at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, considered by many to be one of the most important musical moments of all time and is widely acknowledged as the jumping off point for the Summer of Love. After recording the albums The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, In My Own Dream, and Strawberry Jam, Maugh went on to record two well-received solo records (Bugsy and Inside Bugsy), he worked as a composer and played bass for or worked with Todd Rundgren, The Small Faces, The Ford Blues Band, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and many others. Bugsy also had the distinct pleasure of sharing the stage with the likes of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, soul great Otis Redding and so many more that space and time doesn’t allow me to list them all.
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Yes, Bugsy was a legendary bassist rising up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, but his real legacy, the things that really matter are the “little” things: making a difference in a young man’s life, sharing stories of glory filled rock n roll nights. His legacy lies in the friends he made in St. Joseph like Regular Joe founder Jay Kerner, musician Tracy Huffman, Magoon’s Delicatessen owner Barry Woodhull; blues man Jerry Forney, and every musician, music lover, or just someone down for a good story. Yes, Bugsy has left us. He is gone to his reward, joining his friends in Rock n Roll Heaven. In addition, what Bugsy leaves behind is a Rock Hall-level career (though he was not included when The Paul Butterfield Blues Band got the nod for induction this year), great memories with friends, the annual Bugsy Blues Bust (an open jam for any musician that wants to join in), and the mark he left on all that met him. Remembrances do not come with money, long hours at an office, a big cold house, or how new your car is. A person’s legacy comes from making a difference in people’s lives and the impact that you leave when you are gone. Bugsy did all that and then some; he made a difference to the people around him and on the music world. Bugsy Maugh is a man who made his presence known in the world. He will truly be missed.
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Welcome Back Events, Golf Tourney, for August scramble; the second nine holes are a two-person “shot in the dark” with a glow-in-the-dark golf ball. Play also includes a $10,000 hole-in-one prize and a 50/50 putting challenge. Check-in and a light dinner are 5 to 5:45 p.m. A dessert bar is served after the first nine holes. Entry fee is $75 per player, which includes green fees, a cart, food, prizes and light-up golf balls for each team. Contact info for this event: Jenni Wall wesley@nwmissouri.edu (660) 853-9659 ########## New Student Convocation to be Held
MARYVILLE, Mo. – The annual New Student Convocation officially welcomes first-year students to Northwest campus and the Bearcat Family. Lamkin Activity Center, Bearcat SAC Sponsors Outdoor Movie Arena on Sunday, August 30, 2015 from 2:45 pm to 3:45 pm. Speakers include President Dr. John Jasinski, Provost Dr. MARYVILLE, Mo. – SAC is sponsoring an outdoor movie on Thursday, August 27, 2015. Pitch Perfect 2 wi.ll be shown Tim Mottett, Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Matt Baker and Student Senate President. The Bearcat Marching Band, at 6pm Bearcat Steppers and cheerleaders also perform. ########## ########## Welcome Back Picnic March to the Tower & Tree Planting Memorial Bell Tower MARYVILLE, Mo. – Employees and their families are invited to Northwest’s annual Welcome Back Picnic, hosted MARYVILLE, Mo. – Bearcat Nation is invited to greet by Dr. and Mrs. Jasinski, at Raymond J. Courter College Park Pavilion on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 new students as they take their walk through the Memorial Bell Tower on Sunday, August 30, 2015, at 3:45pm for the March to pm. the Tower & Tree Planting. The evening will include a picnic buffet as well as a “kid The March will be followed by the annual freshmen tree zone” with face painters, Kool Kats, inflatables and interaction planting and an ice cream social. with Northwest student-athletes. Attire is summer casual. ########## Golf Tournament at Mozingo MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Wesley Student Center hosts its 13th annual Shot in the Dark Golf Tournament to benefit the Wesley Foundation on Friday, August 14, 2015. The tournament at Mozingo Lake Golf Course tees off with a shotgun start at 6 p.m. The first nine holes are a two-person
Contact info for this event: Gina Bradley, University Event Coordinator gbradle@nwmissouri.edu (660) 562-1143 ########## For more information about Northwest Missouri State University visit www.nwmissouri.edu/media/
The Learning...It Never Stops Rick Hoffman
(NOTE FROM RICK: As I said last time, at 40 years old, I have served twenty years in the US Air Force, I’m going on fifteen years as a firefighter, and I work part time slingin’ concrete for the average bird bath enthusiast. I play golf, enjoy music, love horror movies, and collect most anything. I can quote movies from dusk till dawn and still find time to be sarcastic. After all my time spent doing any number of the aforementioned, I’ve learned one thing: I don’t know everything. I learn something new all of the time. So...I write them down. For the past year I’ve been doing a “Things I Learned This Week” top 10 list on Facebook, things I’ve learned, notice, observed, been witnessed to, obsessed over. My friends have enjoyed them so much that I was talked into taking it public. Well...more public than Facebook.)
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their bra off at the end of the day is exactly how I feel about taking off my shoes and socks. Can’t get em off fast enough, then across the room they go. 5. Apparently love is what makes a Subaru. I thought it was the great gas mileage and AWD. Boy was I wrong. 4. Speaking of car commercials, Anyone else wanna drop a Viagra in their gas tank? 3. My dreams have been getting so real lately. This week I dreamed I was eating a big dinner and woke up three pounds heavier. 2. For people with two jobs like me: Ya ever wake up in a complete daze and can’t remember which damn job you’re supposed to be at??? 1. Am I the only one who gets frustrated when checking the mail on a rainy day only to find some important pieces, now soggy and dripping? It’s almost as if my letter carrier hates me. Annnnndddddd...Done, hands up. And now, I must go deliver my charisma to a local watering hole. Here’s to hoping all youse guys have a great month. Until next month...Uh....Well...Yeah.
It’s Sunday night...do you know what your friends are doing? I don’t either, chances are...I don’t even know most of them. How am I supposed to know what your friends are doing?!!! I mean, I barely...ahem...Anyway, here’s the Things I Learned This Rick Hoffman resides in Northwest Missouri. Along with fireMonth Top Ten. fighting for the USAF and concrete slingin’, Rick is lead singer in 10. Why is it that when you discover a spider web, it’s usually a heavy metal band, a writer, and a helluva dancer. early in the morning, on your way out the door, wet, and it glides...right across your face? As if spiders planned for how tall you are and specifically place their web at that height. Oh, and your mouth is usually open. 9. Speaking of spider webs, damn, the mosquitos are bad this year. 8. When checking the mail and finding an empty mailbox, I’m hit with one of two guaranteed emotions. I’m either happy that there’s no bills...or briefly sad that there’s no mail. 7. I like to challenge myself sometimes by trying to walk in between rain drops. 6. The way women feel about taking
Lord’s Warehouse donations needed: coats & food items E of Albany on Hwy 136 660-726-4297 Regular Joe is looking for your stories of Northwest Missouri past - your childhood memories, old traditions, favorite corner store...Photographs are also welcome. Email us at northwest@regularjoepaper.com
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