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ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS Metro JUMP START Fishing derby slated Saturday at Krug Park The South St. Joseph Progressive Association and North Side Action Group are sponsoring a fishing derby Saturday at Krug Park. Children ages 12 through 15 will fish from 9 to 11 a.m., and children 11 and younger will fish from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The fee is $1 to enter and can be exchanged for a hot dog and pop. Those attending should bring equipment and bait. Additional bait will be provided as needed. Prizes will be awarded. Junior Optimist Club being organized The Sunrise Optimist Club of St.

Joseph is organizing a Junior Optimist Club for boys and girls 6 to 8 years old. If you and your child would like to hear more about the Junior Optimist Club, an event will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bartlett Park. Cold drinks will be provided, but participants should bring a lunch. For more information, call Phyllis Sullivan at 279-8715.

Oregon, Big Lake events scheduled OREGON, Mo. Two area events are scheduled to take place this weekend. The Heritage Workshop will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Hoop's Place in Oregon. Jesse Carroll Day will start at noon Sunday at Big Lake Dining Lodge.

There will be a buffet and professional entertainment by Merrill Sparks. Day of entertainment planned in Ravanna RAVANNA, Mo. Ravanna will have a day of entertainment starting at 9 a.m. Saturday at Ravanna Park. There will be a flower show, a parade, a flea market, a baby show, a raffle drawing and other activities.

Food and beverages will be available. For more information, call (660) 382-4723, (660) 382-4375, (660) 748-4723 or (660) 382- 4679. Hap Ki Do classes to be offered at YWCA The YWCA in St. Joseph will offer Hap Ki Do classes for children from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays from Sept.

5 through Nov. 2. The cost is $31.50 for members and $36 for non-members ages ages 7 to 14. The cost is $42.75 for members and $49.50 for non 15 and older. Shawn Moser, a black belt Hap Ki Do, will instruct the class.

For more information, call 232-4481. Turning back the pages 100 years ago: Members of the library and school boards have adopted working plans for a new library. 50 years ago: A total of 55,000 ballots and other election supplies will cost the county $6,446. 10 years ago: St. Joseph has lost more than 5,000 residents since 1980, according to preliminary figures from the Census Bureau.

Tuesday AUG. 22, 2000 News story or photo idea? Call City Editor Steve Booher at 271-8583. Or e-mail Steve at com 5,200 cram MWSC halls First day of classes brings long lines to bookstore and to entrances on Mitchell By MEREDITH HINES DOCHTERMAN St. Joseph News-Press Traffic was heavy at Missouri Western State College during the first day of classes Monday, but it was caused by the students shopping for textbooks at the college bookstore rather than vehicles backed up on Mitchell Avenue. "It (the traffic) comes in waves," said Greg Nikes, bookstore manager.

"You can tell when classes are over, because that is when we have people in here." The bookstore had a steady stream of students purchasing school supplies and dormitory decorating materials, a trend that should continue throughout the week. "The first two days of a new semester are our busiest, but we'll be busy the entire first week," Mr. Nikes said. For Jaclyn Sandy, a junior in Missouri Western's nursing program, buying her textbooks wasn't an easy task, especially after seeing their size. "I'm only buying half today," she said.

Commuting from Hamilton, Ms. Sandy makes the drive to St. Joseph four days a week for classes. Despite the road construction on Faraon Street, she had no trouble getting to class on time this morning. "Some students straggled in late, but I don't think I'll have a problem," she said.

With an estimated 5,200 students enrolled at Missouri Western this year, the roadwork will cause headaches for some students, but college officials have tried to inform students about the construction even before they moved onto campus last week. Currently, there are only three entrances to Missouri all off of Mitchell Avenue. An additional route off Northeast College Drive, which will only be accessible off Faraon Street east from Riverside Road, should be open by the end of August. The roadwork on Faraon Street isn't the only construction in progress at Missouri Western. Renovations are taking place in each classroom on campus, upgrading them to "smart" classrooms, providing the latest technology and equipment.

"The physical work in each classroom is about 99 percent complete," said Lynn Snyder, director of institutional advancement. "The instructional media equipment has been installed in about 25 percent of the classrooms." The work isn't expected to affect classes. "We've been able to work through the majority of class schedules," Ms. Snyder said. In addition, renovations at the Fred Eder Student Building are expected to be complete by mid-November, but the education, English, foreign language, journalism and psychology departments will move back into the building after finals.

The five departments are currently housed in the Janet Gorman Murphy Acade-. mic Center. Truck rams downtown theater Re A driven truck by Christopher Grint, 16, crashed through the front windows of the Trail Theatre late Sunday night. No one in the theater was injured. IVAL LAWHON JR.

St. Joseph News Press Trail Theatre becomes drive-in By ROBERTA FARRIS atre, 111 N. Ninth St. Christopher was transported Geoff Sollars, owner of the His vehicle, a 1990 Dodge by ambulance to Heartland Trail Theatre, said he wasn't St. Joseph News-Press Dakota, stopped in the lobby of Regional Medical Center, but a sure about the amount of damthe theater, nursing super- age, although he estimated it to A St.

Joseph teen-ager destroying visor on Mon- be about $7,000. The theater destroyed the entrance of a the glass day couldn't was open for business on Monlocal movie theater after losing doors and confirm he day. control of his car Sunday night. damaging the things was brought "Some things are irreplaceSome Christopher R. Grint, 16, 1919 south wall.

are into the hospi- able and cannot be replaced," N. 31st came out of the parking lot at Taco Bell, 910 Francis onto North Ninth Street about 10 p.m. According to the police report, Christopher said he came out of the parking lot, his tires started spinning and he lost control of his car, crashing into the front of the Trail The- A witness told a St. Joseph police owner officer he saw Christopher spinning his tires as he left the parking lot and then heard a crash, according to the report. Geoff Sollars, The teenof Trail Theatre ager received two summonses in the accident, but the report didn't state what the summonses were for and the officer who worked the accident wasn't available.

Mr. Sollars said. The front doors and a poster frame, both of which were destroyed, were 50 years old, he said. He also didn't know if they'd be able to redo the walls. the way they were prior to the accident.

No one inside the theater was injured, Mr. Sollars said. You can have these candidates for a song, or maybe a kiss an effort to prop up my Ozzfests, some nomination for Father of lesson should Year, I attempted to bond emerge. There with my kids. I'm not sure they must be somerequired or even wanted this, thing you can but their curiosity at the take from a dayundertaking got the better of long, sunburnthem.

inducing, My daughter showed me how eardrum-splita thumb and forefinger can be ting, mosh-pitformed into a letter a young ting, tattooperson's symbol for loser. For flaunting, bodysome reason, she showed this to piercing, me repeatedly, long after I breast-exposing understood the gesture. rite, but what is In a more expensive venture, I accompanied my son to Sand- things, I stone Amphitheater last week think. One is for a metalhead's holiday known that I will not as Ozzfest. This road show keeps be Father of the alive the cash flow and career of Year.

Two is Ozzy Osbourne, an aging Brit that there are who proves that what rock 'n' some things roll doesn't kill with excess, it that should not remakes as parody. lic. Thus, I found it cool, in that Oddly, I flashed sitting sitting-under-a-baking-sun sun way. lesson Thursday For every one of life's the closing night 12 Need a pharmacist 2 early in the 3 Our Pharmacists are on Duty at 5 7:30 a.m. Monday thru Saturday.

Sundays 9 a.m.-2 p.nt. FREE CITYWIDE DELIVERY ROGERS PHARMACY 2524 Frederick Ave. 232-3348 Toll Free lege on IVAL LAWHON Joseph News-Press Jaclyn Sandy of Hamilton; goes through stacks of textbooks Monday afternoon in the college bookstore at Missouri Western State Colthe first day of classes. Sewer loophole is closed Agreements required for non-residents By PATTY SCULLY St. Joseph News-Press Without comment or debate.

the St. Joseph City Council on Monday closed a loophole that allows non-residents to use the municipal sewage system at below -cost rates. Engineering consultants Black Veatch of Kansas City have recommended for years that the city charge non-residents a rate consistent with the actual cost of service. Sewer ordinances guaranteed that property owners outside the city limits could hook into the system and pay the same rate as customers inside the corporate limits. The council unanimously approved the amendment, which also clarifies language that appeared to give non-residents' a "right" to hook into the municipal system.

New language states the connection is a privilege and requires a written sewer service agreement. The issue of controlling who hooks into the system and how much they pay has growing importance with residential subdivisions on the city's outskirts and the possibility of heavy industry locating in the area. Sewer usage also can be a major bargaining pawn in annexation negotiations. tal. ratic convention.

There, on the podium in front of God, delegates and a television audience that spanned the cable spectrum, were Al and Tipper Gore swapping spit. I'm not the only one who noticed this. (One tabloid took note, picturing the lip-locked second couple under the headline: "Get a As the camera panned the convention floor, everyone seemed uncomfortable but Ted Kennedy. It dawned on me then that running his mate wife, Joseph Hadassah, Lieberhad been a bit grabby during the evening's preliminaries. Come to think of it, George W.

Bush and Laura got a little faced at the Republican convention a couple of weeks before. What's going on here? When did the ship of state turn into the Love Boat? Obviously, with the sitting president not known for keeping Please see B4 Newton's Law Ken NEWTON EMAIL: npgco.com PHONE: 816-271- 8678 FAX: 816-271- 8692 be done in pub- back to this as I watched of the Democ- his affections at home, those wanting to succeed Mr. Clinton believe it necessary to show their wives some public loving, making reluctant voyeurs of us all. Gakkk! Is the Clinton legacy going to be these displays? If Mr. Gore pulls ahead in the polls, does that mean George W.

will tell the missus to brace herself for the good of the party? Has national discourse given way to a kissing contest? There are other problems. When U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft came to St. Joseph in July to officially begin his re-election campaign, he grabbed a guitar and busted into song.

Right there on Lovers Lane. I saw a news account from southern Missouri over the weekend that said the senator did the same thing down there. I don't want a candidate singing to me any more than I want Ricky Martin outlining his plans for saving Social Security. It seems unlikely Mr. Ashcroft's opponent, Gov.

Mel Carnahan, will try this campaign technique. When last seen, in song 40 years ago, Mr. Carnahan wore minstrel garb, belting out "Mammy" for a civic group in Rolla. It's not a moment he wants to recall in this lifetime. 01 All of this, kissing and singing, boils down to votes.

If -it gets them some, they will do it. If it turned out voters loved a dancer, the whole bunch of them would be at Arthur Murray's learning the -cha. When it comes to bonding, don't trust them any more than my kids trust me. Listen to what the candidates have to say. It's easier than watching these spousal make out sessions.

Ken Newton's column runs on Tuesdays and Sundays..