Forum Flashbacks: April 30 – May 5

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Les Ackman sat at her scrapbooking table in her Maryville home recently. Ackman will have a scrapbooking spread published in “Memory Makers” magazine this month.

25 years ago

• The two Maryville High School students responsible for the continuing construction of an outdoor classroom at MHS will do anything to see it through to completion.
  Even if that means being caught on video tape falling into a creek surrounding the area that will soon house the outdoor classroom.
  Nicole Fuller and Jason Heldenbrand were back in front of the Maryville R-II Board of Education last night to present an update on the project.
  The project is a part of a scholarship application Fuller and Heldenbrand are seeking.
  Last night, they told the board 325 entries had been received and their project had been chosen as one of the top 25 nationally, one of the top five in the district in which they are competing.
• OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After 16 days of gruesome, perilous, heartbreaking work, rescue workers walked out of the federal building for the last time today after completing the search for bodies buried in the rubble.
  The bombing killed 167 people, including two adults who were still missing, said Assistant Fire Chief Jon Hansen. Nineteen of the victims were children.
  “Now we can put an end to it,” said Sgt. Harold Thompson, a city firefighter who helped pull the last body from chest-high debris.
  “You take your worst nightmare, it’s like you’re waking up. But it’s still there,” he said.

15 years ago

• Three South Nodaway freshmen have a worthy goal in mind and hope to find help in realizing its completion.
  Ray Alkire, Kaleb Walter and Danielle Amos, members of the South Nodaway Public Achievement Program, are planning to raise enough money to purchase and erect a marquee sign in Barnard.
  The sign will be located just off Highway M, near the Depot in Barnard. It will be used to benefit not only the South Nodaway School District, but the Barnard and Guilford communities as well.

5 years ago

• Former North Nodaway athletic director Tim Conn is returning to the North Nodaway R-VI School District as high school principal for the 2015-16 schol term, replacing Travis Dimmitt, who resigned the position in March to take over the ministry at the Wesley Student Center at Northwest Missouri State University.
  “I am excited to return to North Nodaway,” Conn said. “It’s a great school with great kids and the community really supports the school.”
• For 17 years a brood of “periodical” cicada nymph has been tunneling through the soil, sucking sap from roots and growing from tiny specks into bumblebee-sized nymphs.
  Soon, the insects will emerge by the thousands in western Missouri, southern Iowa and other states, transforming into winged adults and leaving their dried, brown exoskeletons behind.
  Seventeen-year cicadas pose no threat to people and a minimal threat to trees. But later this month the outdoors is expected to be abuzz with sound wherever they emerge, according to Rob Lawrence, a forest entomologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation.