Forum Flashbacks: Oct. 3-9

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This year, Energizer is the pacesetter for the 2005 United Way campaign. One of the promotional activities was a “Kiss the Pig” contest. Galen Lewis was the lucky contestant chosen by his Energizer colleagues to kiss the pig.

25 years ago

• A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 180 days in jail and five years probation as a result of an incident which occurred on the Northwest Missouri State University campus.
  Shane L. Johnson plead guilty to charges of felony forcible rape, felony forcible sodomy and misdemeanor sexual abuse in the third degree Thursday, in a Platte County court room.
• A Maryville physician has been named chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors.
  Patrick B. Harr, M.D., was appointed to the post by the organization’s board of directors during a late September meeting in Boston.
• Nearly three years after it was drafted, a planning and zoning ordinance will be implemented by Polk Township.
  When the ordinance goes into effect Jan. 1, 1995, Polk Township will be the first of Nodaway County’s 15 townships to implement a zoning ordinance. The move comes after county officials rejected the idea of a county-wide zoning ordinance last month.

15 years ago

• Kyle Nicholas Tunell of Maryville, son of Roger Tunell and Maria Tunell, Maryville, and a 1997 graduate of West Nodaway R-1 High School, Burlington Junction, has returned home from serving in Iraq due to being injured while defending our country.
  Tunell is a Second Batallion Fifth Marine out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., with his MOS specialty in infantry. He is nearly finished with eight years of service, the first four years being in active duty and the last four as a reservist.
  Tunell ended up with a head trauma that left five contusions to the brain — three on a frontal lobe and two on his left cerebella on the back of his head. Right after the injury he had a hemorrhage to the brain, but luckily it stopped without having surgery. He also had some shrapnel wounds to the face, his leg and his forehead.

5 years ago

• The State Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency recently assessed damage to rural bridges and other infrastructure caused by a torrential Sept. 9 storm that ripped through Nodaway and surrounding counties.
  Three different storms this summer each caused parts of Nodaway to receive more than 6 inches of rain said Robert Stiens, South District county commissioner. …
  Taken together, the storms debilitated 65 bridges and tubes, about 30 of which were damaged to the point of impassibility, Stiens said.
• The all-rounders at Northwest Missouri State University have no intention of getting caught behind or clean bowled, even if they’re facing wicked finger spin. In fact, they’re going full-blooded no matter how googly or grubber the toss because they fully intend to get their full innings even if it’s a sticky wicket.
  Say what?
  Well, in American English, let’s just say that football is no longer the only game in town. A growing number of international students at Northwest — especially students from India — means that the venerable game of cricket has arrived in Maryville.
  Actually, international students at the university have been playing cricket in parking lots and vacant lots for years, but this fall Northwest was able to construct and open a new cricket pitch on the southwest corner of campus near the intersection of Fourth Street and Country Club Road.