St. Joseph News-Press from St. Joseph, Missouri • A5

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This movie is Admission is free. For more information, call 236-2136. Get tips and tricks for using Windows 8, the latest version of the popular computer software, at 3 p.m. at the Rolling Hills Library, 1904 N. Belt Highway.

Bring your Windows 8 computer if you have one and please sign up in advance for this free class. For more information, call 232-5479. Tonya Ball will lead the Paper Sensations class at 6:30 p.m. at the Rolling Hills Library, 1904 N. Belt Highway.

Participants will make cards and three-dimensional objects. Please sign up in advance for this class, which costs $7. For more information, call 2325479. Tuesday Night Talks will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pony Express Museum, 914 Penn St.

Karen Graves will discuss wagon trains, including some that left from St. Joseph, and what daily life was like for travelers. Doors will open at 6:15 p.m. WEDNESDAY Archaeologist Jimmy Albright will discuss his travels to Israel in a program at 6 p.m. at the Rolling Hills Library annex, 1906A N.

Belt Highway. He will show pictures and display artifacts. For more information, call 232-5479. THURSDAY The East Hills Library will hold its Tech program from 5 to 6 p.m. Are you stuck with a bothersome problem with your e-reader or tablet? Bring your questions and volunteers will be on hand to help you.

For more information, call 236-2107. FRIDAY The Remington Nature Center, 1502 MacArthur Drive, will be feeding the sh in its aquarium at 10:30 a.m. Come help cut worms and watch as the sh fatten their bellies with corn, peas, minnows and worms. SATURDAY The Andrew County lead genealogy volunteer, Kathy Ridge, will offer a program on doing family history at 2 p.m. at the museum, 202 E.

Duncan Drive, Savannah, Mo. There is no charge. For more information, call (816) 324-4720. A fundraiser soup and chili supper will be from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Faucett Lions Club building, 617 Grand DD, Faucett, Mo.

The cost is $8 for adults, and $4 for children ages 6 to 12. All funds will go toward community projects. For more information, call (816) 253-9824. To list an item in Up e-mail a ier or news release to us at mi- chelle.phelps@newspressnow.com. Or submit your item to our website.

Just log on to newspressnow.com click on the calendar. PING! OUR online poll and YOUR answers your favorite hot beverage? Coffee Tea Cider Hot chocolate Total votes: 251 New question: When will you start to work on your taxes? up Civil rights lm to be shown Interested to know what life was like in St. Joseph during the civil rights movement in the 1960s? If so, want to attend an event next month at the Black Archives Museum. Jeremy Lyons, a graduate student at Missouri Western State University, has written and produced a video documentary, Our Own as part of his thesis. It will be shown that evening.

The lm features interviews with longtime members of the black community. In their own words, the residents share their personal stories and their observations of life in St. Joseph and how it changed as a result of the civil rights movement. The event will be at 7 p.m. on Feb.

7 at the museum, 3406 Frederick Ave. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. Space is limited. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the museum or by calling 2328471. Proceeds will go toward the exhibit fund at the museum.

A5 MONDAY JAN. 20, 2014 By KRISTIN HOPPA St. Joseph News-Press RULO, Neb. Residents from a three-state radius witnessed a brief, but loud, moment in history as the nearly 75-year-old Rulo Bridge was partially demolished Sunday morning. Spectators from Northeast Kansas, Northwest Missouri and southeast Nebraska eagerly gathered, despite the safety blast-zone restriction, to watch the demolition of the bridge completed in 1939, and a trademark of U.S.

Highway 159. A few minutes after 8 a.m., a triggered set of charges ignited and brought the rst phase of the bridge into the chilly Missouri River. start to nish, taken longer than we thought but now that we have the new bridge open, a lot nicer to cross the said Mike Habegger, project manager with the Nebraska Department of Roads. we had to demolish the old one, and it was kind of a landmark that now is going Between 300 to 400 spectators gathered along hillsides and narrow sides of roadways near the waterway to watch the steel trusses over the Nebraska side of the river fall into the waterway below. Small orange sparks exploded, followed by a ground-shaking jolt and gray clouds of smoke as the fragmented steel skeleton dropped into the river before a barge began to remove the sections from the river.

Construction on the new bridge initially began in August 2010 for an improved way between Richardson County, and Holt County, Mo. The project was intended to be completed in 2012, but Mother Nature had other plans, Mr. Habegger joked. basically lost a whole year to the ood of he said. got a little bit of work done in March of 2011, but that is when the ooding started and we come back in and get started on the river section of the bridge until Thanksgiving and Christmas of The Tri-State Corridor Alliance hosted a ceremonial ribbon-cutting and opened the new bridge to on Sept.

1. Although large crowd was unexpected, Mr. Habegger understood why area residents wanted to watch a piece of history. Large crowd gathers to watch Rulo Bridge implosion Bar age debate back in Maryville efore a rape case took over the headlines, one of the hottest news stories of 2013 in Maryville was a debate over the law that allows 19-year-olds to enter local bars. The City Council seemingly put the issue to rest last spring when it decided by a 3-2 vote not to raise the age to 21.

But just a few days after prosecutors decided insufficient evidence existed to file rape charges, the bar age debate jumped back to the forefront when council members voted Jan. 13 to revisit the issue at their next meeting Jan. 27. Mayor Jim Fall and council member Jeff Funston, who both voted against raising the age last year, appeared to switch sides last week when they were among the four votes in favor of bringing the issue back to the table. In a series of public hearings held last year, Northwest Mis- souri State University students and campus leaders argued against raising the age.

They said allowing 19-year-olds into bars allowed for a controlled environment where their ability to consume alcohol would be restricted. If 19-year-olds were banned from bars, they argued, they would instead hang out with friends at house parties, where binge drinking is harder for law enforcement to control. Student Senate President Cody Uhing released a written statement critical of the apparent change of heart. think raising the entry age will negatively impact the goal of creating a safer Mr. Uhing wrote.

cutting down underage drinking, but rather forcing students into environments that foster an irresponsible mindset to omson garners higher-education policy award By RAY SCHERER St. Joseph News-Press The University of Missouri Alumni Association has honored Rep. Mike Thomson, R-Maryville, with the prestigious Henry S. Geyer Award. Mr.

Thomson and MU Chancellor Brady Deaton both received the award Jan. 13 at a ceremony in Jefferson City. The Geyer Award is named after Henry S. Geyer, a former state representative who introduced the language to establish the University of Missouri in 1839. The award is presented annually by the Legislative Network Committee to one state-elected cial and one citizen found to exemplify Mr.

dedication and spirit. The Agriculture Alumni Organization nominated Mr. Thomson for the honor, noting his continuing efforts on behalf of higher-education public policy. efforts are very meaningful and necessary to protect the future of higher education in our said Dianne Drainer, the advocacy director. CAPITOL NOTEBOOK Urban streets named for MLK still struggle By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER Associated Press ST.

LOUIS A walk down the 6-mile city street named for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yields plenty of images that would surely unsettle the civil rights leader: shuttered storefronts, open-air drug markets and a glut of pawn shops, quickie check-cashing providers and liquor stores. The urban decay along Dr. Mar- tin Luther King Jr.

Drive in St. Louis can be found in other major American cities, from Houston and Milwaukee to the capital. a national said Melvin White, a 46-year-old postal worker in St. Louis and founder of a 3-year-old group that is trying to restore legacy on asphalt. King would be turning over in his Nearly three decades into the observance of federal holiday, the continuing decline of the most visible symbols of work has White and others calling for a renewed commitment to the more than 900 streets nationwide named in the Atlanta honor.

The effort centers in St. Louis, where the small is working to reclaim MLK roadways as a source of pride and inspiration, not disappointment over a dream derailed. goals are ambitious, his resources admittedly modest. A neighborhood park is planned across the street from the headquarters. An urban agriculture project to encourage residents to eat healthy and grow their own food has preliminary support from nearby Washington University, one of the wealthiest private colleges.

Above all, Beloved Streets of America wants to build community from the ashes of what was once a thriving retail corridor when White was a child. Please see Page A7 Regional Roundup by Clinton omas The western section of the historic Rulo Bridge, linking southeastern Nebraska and Missouri, comes crashing down during its planned demolition on Sunday over the Missouri River in Rulo, Neb. Matt Ryerson Lincoln Journal Star Please see Page A7 Please see Page A8.