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Smokeout: Now is always the best time to quit
In its 40th annual Great American Smokeout campaign, the American Cancer Society is still telling smokers to call it quits. Each November the organization sets aside the third Thursday of the month to encourage smokers to give up the habit for good. Yesterday, smokers and tobacco users everywhere were asked to make a plan to…
Read MoreTreat yourself to healthy holidays
The holiday season is quickly approaching, and a lot of people are dreading the excess poundage that comes after family celebrations and delicious dinners. For those who are seeking to stay fit over Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, Hy-Vee dietitian Deanna Bowers is here to help. “People are going to want to eat sweet treats…
Read More‘Big Boy’ room honors Chip Strong
Staff and board members of the New Nodaway Humane Society gathered alongside the family of the late Frank H. “Chip” Strong Jr. Tuesday at the society’s Maryville animal shelter to dedicate the newly remodeled and renamed Big Boy’s Get Acquainted Room. The room will serve as a place where animals and potential adoptive owners can…
Read MoreNW freshmen organize benefit dinner
A group of Northwest Missouri State University freshmen is organizing a dinner in order to promote international understanding while raising money for the New Nodaway Humane Society. The students are members of a University Seminar (formerly Freshman Seminar) class taught by Assistant Professor Sue Wood. As part of the class, the group was required to…
Read MoreStockings of Hope still going strong
As the holidays approach, a local mother who has turned tragedy into a way to work through her grief is continuing efforts to help the less fortunate. Marsha Martin, Hopkins, lost her son, Ben McIntyre, in 2011 in a car accident. In the fall of 2012, as a way to cope with her loss, Martin…
Read MoreSanta Cops cares ‘4 kids’
Area law enforcement agencies are banding together this holiday season to make sure Nodaway County children in need have a joyful Christmas. The Missouri State Highway Patrol, Northwest Missouri State University Police Department, Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office, and the Maryville Department of Public Safety are all participating in Santa Cops 4 Kids, an effort to…
Read MoreCrafter offers new take on a quilting collectible
A local craft vendor is offering a new version of a traditional favorite to collectors and quilt fanciers in Nodaway county. Joan Wilmes, creator and owner of Country Crafts, creates quilt squares in traditional patterns using wood rather than fabric. The wooden quilt squares are a creative alternative decoration for quilt lovers as well as…
Read MoreScholastic book fair set for Horace Mann school
The Horace Mann Laboratory School Scholastic book fair returns to the Northwest Missouri State University campus this month. Book fair hours will be 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. today through Friday, Nov. 20, and Monday, Nov. 23, in Horace Mann room No. 135 in Brown Education Hall. The fair will continue from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.…
Read MoreCare home ‘graduate’ gets back on her feet
Last June Maryville resident Shirley Zech began having trouble walking. By the end of the month she was wheelchair bound, in pain, and unable to put weight on her legs. She sought treatment at the University of Kansas Medical Center, but doctors there were baffled. Zech hadn’t suffered a fall or any other injury, and…
Read MoreMurder night aids library’s young adult reading program
The Maryville Public Library presented an evening of mayhem and 1980s fashion Thursday during a prom-themed murder mystery night. Murder mystery re-enactments have become popular party games in recent years. One of the players portrays the murder victim and another takes on the role of the killer. In true pulp-novel fashion, it is up to…
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