Forum Flashbacks: April 9-15

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Although heavy rains fell late Monday night, Jenny Dirks and her daughter Evangeline spent a little mother-daughter time fishing at Colden Pond during a warm stretch yesterday.

25 years ago

• Just ask anybody.
  Friend or foe, the thing most people will remember most about Robert Colville’s service on the Maryville R-II Board of Education is his commitment to education.
  “I guess the thing that sticks out most in my mind about Bob is his dedication to education,” Marilyn Griffin, who replaced Colville as board president at Wednesday’s board meeting, said. “I think it is incredible that someone could maintain the kind of dedication he has. He is always prepared. He reads everything; I don’t think a thing goes across his desk that he doesn’t read. And he has had a wealth of experience, not just here in Maryville, but everywhere.”
  Colville was appointed to the Maryville R-II Board of Education some 17 years ago when Jim Hartman, then a member of the board, left the district to take a job as postmaster in Stanberry.
• Out with the old and in with the new.
  Changes were the main item on the agenda Monday night as the Maryville City Council officially adopted the results of last week’s election which replaced Jeff Funston with George English and re-elected Dale Mathes to the Council.
  Both English and Mathes were sworn-in for three-year terms but not before Mathes announced he would be stepping down as mayor and recommended the council appoint Councilman Jerry Riggs as the next mayor of Maryville.

15 years ago

• Two Maryville men have been charged with setting a Maryville Public Safety patrol car on fire last month, but no charges have been filed against them for a similar fire to a Northwest Missouri State University Campus Safety patrol car three weeks earlier.
  However, on Thursday Maryville Public Safety director Keith Wood said he “absolutely” still believes the two fires are connected — and that others might be arrested in a string of crimes.
  Nineteen-year-old Anthony O. Ferry and 20-year-old Brian W. David were arrested on April 2 and charged with setting the Public Safety car on fire.

5 years ago

• The Northeast Nodaway R-V Booster Club will sponsor a donkey basketball game at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18 in the Northeast Nodaway gymnasium.
  Booster club president DeAnn Redden said this is not the first time the donkeys have “hooped it up” at Northeast Nodaway.
  “The donkeys were here several years ago,” Redden said. “It was a very successful fundraiser then and people really seemed to enjoy them, so we decided to bring them back.”
• A “new” Maryville City Council reconstituted itself this week following the April 7 municipal elections, but in this case change really does mean things have remained the same.
  Two council seats were open as voters went to the polls last week, but incumbent Jerry Riggs, appointed last year to fill an unexpired term, was re-elected to a three-year term in his own right. So only one new face appeared on the dais during the council’s regular Monday session, that of Maryville Middle School science teacher Jason McDowell.
  After Riggs and McDowell were sworn in by City Clerk Sheila Smail, the council’s first order of business was to elect a new mayor and new mayor pro tem. In short order, the five-member governing board re-elected Mayor Renee Riedel to a second one-year-term.