Forum Flashbacks: Oct. 10-16

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Workers borrowed the City of Maryville’s ladder truck last week to repair the clock above the Nodaway County Courthouse. The repairs to the clock are part of an improvement project for the facility funded through the voter-approved one-half cent sales tax.

25 years ago

• A new Wal-Mart Discount City will apparently anchor a special tax district designed to encourage development along relocated U.S. Highway 71.
  City Manager David Angerer told the Maryville City Council, late in Monday night’s council session, he had met with Wal-Mart officials about the corporation’s plans for constructing a new store, which would be used as the basis for a tax income financing district.
  While officials from both the Maryville Wal-Mart and the corporation’s Bentonville, Ark. headquarters refused to comment on any plans for Maryville, Angerer said Wal-Mart officials had told him they were planning to construct a 150,000-square-foot store in 1995 — the year which marks the corporation’s 10th anniversary in Maryville.

15 years ago

• Vicki L. Auxier, 48, a former Maryville High School teacher, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Oct. 19 — just one week prior to the start of her trial in Atchison County on one felony count of statutory rape. …
  Auxier was charged in February after an investigation revealed an alleged inappropriate relationship with a male student.
  Her defense attorney is working out the details of the case and is asking for probation, while the prosecuting attorney counters with jail time.
  Auxier resigned from her position at MHS as a tenured English teacher in January.
• Winning coaching awards is nothing new to Joe Drake; however, it never gets old for the Maryville wrestling coach. The Wrestling Coaches Association named Drake as its District 8 Coach of the Year for 2004 at a banquet Monday night in Camdenton.
  “Even though it’s somewhat a long time removed from (last season) it’s still pretty nice to receive the award,” Drake said.
  This is the 14th time that Drake has received the distinction.

5 years ago

• When he was first asked to become a beekeeper at Conception Abbey, Brother Anselm Broom wasn’t sure if it was a serious request.
  “At first, I thought it was a very interesting idea, but that it will probably pass,” Brother Broom says. “A month later, Father Benedict came again, so I thought he must be serious. At that point, I said ‘OK, I’ll give it a try.’”
  Three years ago, Broom started working with local beekeeper Jerry Auffert on three beehives on Conception Abbey’s 1,000 acres. He now has five hives that produce honey for the Abbey’s bookstore.
• Trudy Kinman says she always knew she wanted to be a teacher. Kinman, a speech and debate teacher at Maryville High School, is the recent recipient of the Wayne Brown Award for Outstanding Teacher from the Speech & Theatre Association of Missouri.
  Named after Wayne Brown, a speech and theater teacher at Central High School in Kansas City who died of a heart attack, the award is presented each year to an outstanding teacher in the state.