Forum Flashbacks: June 20-21

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Donnie Everhart, left, and Larry Roberts bore into the base of a granite slab while working to repair a courthouse-lawn veterans memorial damaged by vandals in 2004.

25 years ago

• More than 20 Hopkins homes will be renovated and six deteriorating structures will be demolished under a $494,500 grant the community has received.
  The community is one of 74 recipients of more than $23 million in Community Development Block Grant funding through a program administered by the Missouri Department of Economic Development. The recipients were announced by Gov. Mel Carnahan.
• A 17-year-old girl was accidentally shot Sunday when a gun she and two male friends were handling discharged unexpectedly.
  The girl was treated for the injury which was described as a flesh wound.
  According to the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department, charges were brought against all three for minor in possession.
  Charges were also brought against all three for filing a false affidavit.
  The male responsible for firing the weapon was charged with unlawful use of a weapon.

15 Years ago

• The Nodaway County Veterans Memorial, located on the courthouse square in Maryville, is almost like new again.
  The monument was knocked over and broken by vandals in January.
  According to County Commissioner Lester Keith, repairs to the stone cost $9,700, which was covered by the county’s insurance policy.
  Employees from Clinton L. Allen Monuments have installed steel rods into the repaired monument for additional support and to prevent future vandalism.
• A Nodaway County family’s hopes and dreams came to life June 12 on a small lot in Hopkins. It was then that the bare boards of their new home’s walls went up.
  It has been several months since Jeremy and Melissa Calfee, Pickering, received the news that they had been chosen as the recipients of a home built by Nodaway County’s Habitat for Humanity.
  The project has been the result of months of effort on the part of Rex Wallace, Habitat committees, Community Service Inc. and other volunteers.

5 years ago

• A group of activists working to make the possession and use of marijuana legal in Missouri is planning to stage an event in Maryville in hopes of winning converts to the pro-pot cause.
  Members of Show-Me Cannabis say they will host a public town hall-style meeting at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Maryville Community Center, during which they will pitch for legalizing a drug that has been largely criminalized in the United States since the 1920s.
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nodaway County has received a $14,000 grant from the Northwest Missouri Solid Waste Management District.
  “With this grant money, we are going to purchase six additional clothing collection bins,” said BBBS Director Lynette Harbin. “The focus of our grant application was to create convenient local recycling opportunities for those in the outlying areas of Nodaway County and assist Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nodaway County in the process.”