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October 2015 Vol 2, Issue 10October 2015 Vol 2, Issue 10

Mindi L. Phillips, Editor

This month’s cover girl is Annastyn Sue Shannon. She is 2 years old. Her mother Amanda (Pigg) Shannon graduated from Albany High School. Annastyn’s grandpar-ents are Allen and Peggy Pigg. Though her parents Brian and Amanda no longer live in Northwest Missouri, Annastyn loves visiting them at the farm and riding in the tractors with her papa.

We all have connections to people and places beyond our current homes. As the leaves turn and the holidays are not so far away, these people and places are on our radar more than ever.

As we travel these backroads in our mind, let’s think of just what it is that keeps us coming back. Love, laughter, shared traditions...let’s breathe in the autumn air and fill our hearts with the memories.

Take a quick look back on the year. Have you spent enough time with the ones who make up these memories? The weather is still pleasant and mild, and the scenery is soon to reach its turning point, a breathtaking landscape awash with warm colors of fall. Take a drive. See the ones you love. Visit the places that bring back the rush of happy times.

For me, I get to take that pleasure trip on a monthly basis, as I deliver each issue to you, my friends in the Northwest. I’m lucky, because no matter how often I forget to think back and appreciate it, the route always gives me time to think. I reflect on the morning and evening bus rides from south of Gentry to Albany for 13 years. And the route from Albany to Bethany and back midday, for two years of vocational school. I get to think about trips to see family, Christmas shop-ping trips to Maryville, a trip to get a baby calf, hauled home in the back of a pale blue Pinto.

Sometimes, I’m lucky enough to share the ride with my son Jack. Often he plays with his tablet, catches up on the latest “Wimpy Kid” book, or as the day wears on, dozes for a nap. But often he actually listens as I tell him yet another tale of some wide place in the road that my childhood special.

For the sake of your own “Annastyns” and “Jacks,” let’s remember to keep our local traditions alive and businesses thriving, so that there will be many trips down not only the figurative but the real memory lane that is our NWMO.

Mindi

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4 Live Music Across NWMO

New And Ongoing Live Music Events...BETHANYFri 10/2: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW Hall)Fri 10/16: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW Hall)Sat 10/31: Bill & Lisa & the Green River Survivors, 7pm (Legion Hall)

CLARKSDALESundays: Clarksdale Opry, 2pm (Hawman Center)

FILLMOREFridays: Music and Dance, 7pm (Fillmore Community Hall)

GENTRYFri 10/9: Ramblin Country Show, 7:30 pm (Lions)Fri 10/23: Ramblin Country Show, 7:30 pm (Lions)

GRANT CITYWednesdays: Jam Session, 6pm (Senior Center)Sat 10/10: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW/Skating Rink)Sat 10/24: Country Style Band, 7pm (VFW/Skating Rink)

KING CITYSat 10/17: Rock N Country Variety Show with special guests Bill Jordan & Vance Monday, 7pm (TriCo Visitors Center)

MARYVILLESundays: Northwest Opry Country, 2pm (Nodaway Co Senior Center)Sundays: Forney & Paxson, 7pm (Eagles Lodge Bearcat Aerie#3669)Sat 10/17: Blown Cover (following the 9am HyVee Seven Miles Trail Run, during BBQ until 3pm) (Mozingo Lake)

OREGONThursdays: Country Music Dance, 7pm (TJ Hall Comm Bldg)

SAVANNAHSaturdays: Savannah Country Jamboree, 6:30pm (Senior Center)

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Everybody dies. Differing beliefs about what happens to you

after that is the number one reason for war in the history of our species.

The number two reason is the fighting over your stuff after you’re gone.

Somebody is getting grandma’s buffet. And the china. And the silver.

Somebody has grandpa’s checkbook and safe deposit box key.The jostling for position starts before the body cools to room

temperature. Often, way before that.I’ve seen families squabble over ratty old tables and chairs, caus-

ing rifts that never healed. The toxic mixture of grief and greed brings out the worst in us

all. I like to think that I’m immune to all that, but mostly I just don’t

care about the same items as most folks.When someone close passes, I get out of the way and let every-

body else do what they will. Then, once the “valuables” have all been claimed, I move in for the screwdrivers. And the scissors. And the garden tools.

I guess I like to remember people through the things they used.Like I’ll be turning a screw and suddenly wonder if I’ve finally

used the tool in my hand as many times as my grandfather did during his life. (In our time of cordless screwdrivers, not likely!)

Or I’ll dig a little flower planting spot for the Queen with her Aunt Sissy’s spade. It’s probably a century old, but still does the job it was made for, as dependably as it did when new.

I replace missing buttons from the big jar I got from grandma, who added to it over a lifetime, after getting it from her own mother who did the same. Now I’ve added to it myself with buttons from my mother-in-law and other relatives.

I like to think about all the garments held together by the contents of that jar. The petticoats and the school clothes. The flour sack dresses, the coats of many colors, and the teddy bear eyes.

I like to think about a time where folks of modest means held the simplest of appliances in such high regard. Back when home sewn clothes were handed down till they were only good as rags, but not before the buttons were carefully salvaged for the next project.

I have a glass pie pan from my Aunt Roonie who made the sec-ond best lemon meringue pie in the universe. (After her mother’s!) I tried to make one myself, and clearly the pie gene can skip genera-

tions.I have my father-in-law’s rickety step ladder, every rung a tes-

tament to his life’s maintenance chores. Drips of white paint from every coat he put on the house. (Every five years, over as many decades.) Speckles here and there of the gray from their porch. I’ve added my own meager contributions, with the green from my garage door and a touch of blue from our guest room.

I have some of my late brother’s hand tools. His framing ham-mer is so big I have to use two hands to swing it unless I choke way up. I know he is making fun of me every time I use it, wherever he’s watching from.

I have so many carving knives I forget where they all came from. I couldn’t possibly have a use for them all, but I don’t like the idea of them passing from the family. I don’t get bogged down with the math, but just think of all the Thanksgiving turkeys rendered by the implements in that drawer. All the Christmas hams.

I have my stepfather’s glass eyes in a tiny box in my desk. His good one and his backup. I wanted to put them on my baby grand-daughter’s forehead and say, “Don’t you think she has great-grand-pa’s eyes?” Daughter was not amused.

I have everyone’s ice cream scoops. Silly I know, but once you have three, it’s a collection. From there it just kind of happens. You might be surprised to see how many different types there are. I love some of the most basic designs, but some of the others are downright ingenious.

We own lots of handmade family items. Intricate quilts from a century that didn’t touch this one.Needlepoint and crochet projects from the middle of the last cen-

tury. Holiday scenes and days of the week, the most popular themes.Handmade lace doilies, out the wazoo. Because really, can you

ever have enough lace doilies?I picture generations of our family’s womenfolk, all in rockers

by the fire. Listening to the radio and embellishing their simple lives stitch by stitch. Each adding a layer of her own efforts to the ancient cedar chest that lives in our bedroom.

You can dig down through it like an archeologist and track the timeline of our ancestors, clear back to before they came to this country.

I suppose at my age, all of this should inspire me to be more pro-active in how I deal with what I will eventually leave behind myself.

Probably, but I may just let the family divide my treasures how-ever they want after I’m gone.

Seems a shame to break up the odd taxidermy collection, but between that and the ugly sport-coats, there should be something for everyone.

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6 Events & Festivals across NWMO

KING CITYSat 10/3: Farmers Market, 8am - 12pm (City Park)Wed 10/7: Farmers Market, 3pm - 7pm (City Park)Sat 10/10: Farmers Market, 8am - 12pm (City Park)Fri 10/30: Trick or Treat the Merchants, 3pm

MARYVILLE10/1-10/3: “The World of Carl Sandburg,” 7:30pm (Ron Houston Center)Sun 10/4: “The World of Carl Sandburg,” 2pm (Ron Houston Center)Tue 10/13: Encore: “All Hands on Deck,” 7:30pm (Ron Houston Center)Sat 10/17: HyVee Seven Miles Trail Run, 9am (Mozingo Lake)Sat 10/24: NWMSU Homecoming Parade, 9amThu 10/29: 20th Annual Downtown Trick or Treat, 5pm (Downtown)

MOUND CITYSat 10/5: Great Northwest Winefest, 12pm (North Griffith Park)

PATTONSBURGFri 10/4: Antique Car, Tractor, Engine Show (Lions Club)

ONGOING EVENTS

ALBANY: 2nd Wed: Book Club, 10am (Carnegie Li-brary)

BETHANY: Thursday: Dungeons & Dragons, 5pm (Gamers Palace) Fri & Sat: Magic the Gathering, 6pm (Gam-ers Palace)

GRANT CITY: 2nd Friday: Potluck, Noon (Senior Cen-ter)

KING CITY: 3rd Wednesday: Potluck Dinner (Senior Center) Last Monday: Pitch Tournament (Senior Center) Daily: Cards (Senior Center)

Maryville Public LibraryOct. 1 Story Hour “Don’t Let the Pigeon...” for

birth to 6 yrs, 5:30pm

Oct. 15 Lego Club for kids in grades 1st-4th,6-7 pm Space is limited. Must register to attend.

Registration begins Sept. 25th.

Oct. 20th Story Hour ages 3-8 years, 6:15 pm

Every Thursday, Book Nibblers ages birth to 3 years, 9:45 - 10:15 am

To reserve a spot for Story Hour and Lego Club, call the library at 660-582-5281

Paula A. Hayward

I hate spiders. I’ve written about them before. I avoid them. I kill them. When I was a kid, I could spot a spider on my wall from across the room. One night I remember calling out for my dad to come and take care of it, too afraid to get out of bed. For a while, my family lived in my parents’ basement. It was a finished basement, complete with wolf spiders in the closet. A few times I got up, left the room, came back to find a wolf spider on the bed. My screaming woke up my mom a few times, and I was a grown adult. She rescued me. If you are afraid of spiders, do not Google “wolf spider,” fair warning.

Ironically, snakes do not instill in me the same fear. I survived five years in Louisiana with snakes and even two baby alligators in our yard. The alligators lived in the drainage ditch for a while. I even picked up a wild snake for the first time, granted it was tiny and non-poisonous. My dog hosted a snake in her bedroom one night. She slept in the sunroom and the door had been open the day before. In the haze of the morning, I wondered who left a tan garden hose in the sunroom. My screaming that day woke up everyone in the house. The dog apparently had a good time; the snake finally left. I felt victorious just getting the darn thing out of the house. We named one of the alligators Bandersnatch. They disappeared after a while.

Spiders, however, give me panic attacks. I feel shaky and my skin crawls when I see one. This year has been different. My yard has a lot of funnel spiders, not as creepy as wolf spiders; still do not recommending you Google. Every year one makes a web by my back door. This year I let one stay. His name is Huit, which is French for eight. I talk to Huit when he peeps out. He is shy; makes nice webs though. Huit is my therapy. If I can like one spider, maybe I can overcome the panic.

The other day at school (I am a college student) a spider snuck out from under the staircase. I was sitting at a table, and at first, I felt glad my feet were propped up on another chair. Most classes were over and so the building was quiet. This spider was fascinating, not dissimilar to Huit. Hon-estly, I did not get close enough to type this spider. We were also in the science building, which might be one reason I thought he would be welcome. He would crawl for a min-ute, stop, then crawl some more. I found myself rooting for him. I found myself hoping no one would walk by and squish him, definitely a new thought for me. He made it across the room and disappeared. Immediately I realized I did not feel that same sense of dread I do with most spiders.

Like a work in progress, I did try to kill a big spider in my kitchen later in the evening. He got away too. I am wearing shoes in the house for a few days. For Huit, I am trying though. I doubt he is going to be welcomed in the house as the days get cold, but I am going to let him stay in the corner outside. Maybe I will count it as Halloween décor.

Paula Hayward writes about life from her cottage on the corner in small-town Missouri. She is currently studying for a de-gree in history while re-inventing her own Middle Age.

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The Babadook (2014) ***1/2

“ B a - b a - d o o k - d o O K -DOOK!”

It has been a few years since I had goose bumps on my arms while watching a “horror” film and I am glad to say that I felt them again while watching this micro-budgeted, Australian import starring Essie Davis (Girl with a Pearl Earring) as a grieving wife who finds her-self all alone while still car-ing for her troubled and/or difficult young son after the death of her husband while driving her to the hospital to give birth.

The Babadook will surely be marketed as a standard horror film but I think many might be disappointed with it if they expect it to be filled with nonstop terror, blood and gore. There is no blood or gore and the terror is a slow-building, psychological one of dread as the film starts off simply enough (ie - slow for some) as a story about the mother and her tempestu-ous child (a good rather un-known Noah Wiseman) whom she doesn’t know how to manage as she is a frazzled, hard-working single mother who isn’t over-ly close with her remaining family (a despi-cable sister) while still mourning the loss of her deceased husband.

The boy, Samuel, isn’t an easy child to read either as he clearly has some problems; but what problems are inherent and natural and what others stem from something pos-sibly more sinister?

While reading her son to sleep one night, Amelia (Davis), encounters a book she has never seen before and in it she encounters the devilish character called Mister Baba-dook. The children’s story and creepy illus-

trations cause her unease to swell and she hides the book away hoping to forget about its unnerving storyline (it is as if it were speaking directly to her and the situation she finds herself in).

Only...The Babadook doesn’t go away! And Mister Babadook let it be known that once he was inside a home he cannot be gotten rid of! And the audience sees and feels Amelia’s exasperation with all things grief, horror, fear and dread as she believes she is losing her mind because an apparent children’s book is beginning to dictate her life.

Oh how horrifying and dreadful her anguish and grief become! Sorry, Ame-lia...but not really because I liked this!

The Babadook isn’t a classic horror film and many will be turned off by its seem-ingly slow pace as it is much more attuned to that of a psy-chological horror film. We don’t have a frenzied slasher running about.

Here we get the Baba-dook!

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Rich Piper

It is fall. The weather turns a bit cooler, the colors of the trees turn more colorful, the harvest dinners mark up more of the community calendars, and folks who hunt wear even more camo.

With fall upon us, we also find the fields are alive with the sound of…combines, tractors, and pickups clattering about collecting crops.

This is a great race that takes place throughout the land of The Regular Joe of Northwest MO. A race that competes with football for physical endurance and baseball for being a seemingly endless competition, for it can wear a person out as well as appear to go on far too long.

It is a race that seeks to accumulate as much as possible, in as many working hours that can be squeezed into a day. It begins when nature says the crops are ready, and is often forced to end when nature says it’s impossible to do any more.

This is the time of harvest.Some of the most complicat-

ed, and expensive, technology on wheels moves about country lanes to go from field to field. The work starts early, and thanks to headlights, it goes late.

City folk might get behind one of the lumbering creatures of cultivation and become im-patient with the slow speed and inability to pass that provides an unwanted obstruction to some vital future for which time is preciously ticking away; despite the often displayed willingness of the farmer to pull over onto an already too narrow side strip of the road and to slow down even more to allow passing, as their time to harvest ticks away.

Local folk often spend their brief time behind such obstructions noting in their minds the model of the equipment and the year it was built, who’s driving it, and what plot of land they are headed to, and whether they, the driver/operator, not themselves, are ahead of sched-ule or behind.

Then there is also the race with the market, not just to market. If the harvest is low, the price might be high; a good thing except when it is your harvest that is low. Or the harvest is high, a good thing one would think, except when it means prices are low.

In most businesses, the law of supply and demand can work in the entrepreneur’s favor and result in a reasonable, sustained profit. In farming, there are a lot of demands upon the farmer, but a reliable profit is often in short supply.

Yet season after season, decade after decade, generation after

generation – off to the fields they go. Harvesting…hope. Preserved pristine fields and forests, set aside for wildlife and for

the sake of preservation, are wonderful gifts to present and future generations.

But the harvesting of the fall brings food to the hungry and raw, natural materials to use in industry. It provides the core for the vast majority of rural economies in which folk work to produce goods and services that folk purchase and use in their everyday lives.

The clamoring of a big city factory often reminds folks of the many benefits of industrialization and the modern comforts of wages paid and goods produced.

However, the sweat, and grease stains, and crop dust, the weath-ered brow, and yes even in fall the sun burnt neck, the multiple lights

flashing through the fields at night, the hum of motors, the breakfast eaten behind the wheel, quick break to go to church on Sunday morning or the grandkid’s game on Friday night, the mud and other of nature’s gifts that dirty a boot, the red and the black ink of the books, the achy back, and the tired eyes – all not as notice-able as the physical footprint of a huge urban factory.

But just as much a sign, to those who can see, as well as a reminder to those who can ponder, of the importance of agriculture in our great North-west MO. And just as without

the workers and owners of the factory, not much would be produced. Without the farmers, who are generally one and the same, worker and owner, the harvest would not take place.

It is the harvest that brings hope, not just to the farmer but to the folks who love and life the rural life, including so many of us that will never till the soil. Harvesting the hope that our small towns, and schools, and café’s, and mom and pop stores, and gas stations and garages, equipment dealers and parts stores, churches and commu-nity centers, all will have another year of harvesting the good life, for good folks.

Rich has spent most of his adult life living and/or working in small, rural communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, including several long stretches in Northwest Missouri. Rich chooses to spend most of his weekday, daytime hours teaching students science, and other things, in Union Star. He also chooses to spend his Sundays, and some other occasional time, with the good folks in Cainsville. You can reach Rich at RichPiper@LifePraise.org with comments.

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Mike Rockett, Jr.Middle Age Hustle: Adventures in Motivation

It is many a filmmaker’s goal, having found a great idea for a movie, to take that idea and craft a thriller that will keep audiences gloriously glued to the edge of their seats.

When you boil it all down a film of this type is really nothing more than a lead character attaining a goal while going through hell to get there. Just as the lead character has to earn his reward, so do we as we watch him, her, or them overcome obstacles of all shapes and sizes to achieve said goal. Some of the best action flicks involve this technique as the good guy escapes, kills the bad guy, and gets the girl.

Never is a film more powerful than when it is based on actual people or events, and the same principle applies even though the dynamic is altered. John Q. Average seeks to attain or accomplish a goal and overcomes severe adversity often at a personal cost. Now here is a rich source of motivation.

Here are two movies that have personally motivated me in my search for the means to success.

1. The Pursuit of Happyness: With the chops of a thespian and the clout to get the Yellow Pages adapted, Will Smith covers his engorged biceps, skips the sci-fi weaponry and brings his per-formance down to earth. He portrays real life stockbroker Chris Gardner and as one of the producers Smith helps to spin a tale of rags to riches glory.

The heart of the story is told in one scene where father and son (Played by Big Will’s real son Jaden Smith) play a game of one on one in the slums of San Francisco. In a moment of parental guid-ance the elder Gardner unwittingly steps on his sons burgeoning yet fragile sense of worth. It is a moment all parents dread, but even with the best of intentions often find themselves mixed up in. It is in that moment he opens up and admonishes his son to protect his dreams and to not ever let anyone tell him he can’t achieve them.

“If you want something, go get it period.” It is in that moment I AM the adopted son of an international

superstar and he is teaching me to chase my dream. 2. Notorious: This is the story of Christopher Wallace, a thug

drug dealer with a talent for freestyle flow that took him to the top of the music business. His life was cut short after a drive by shoot-ing in Southern California.

Wallace, known to the world as The Notorious B.I.G., was found and groomed for rap music stardom by none other than Sean “Puffy” Combs. While far from a moral compass for the Notori-ous B.I.G., Puffy was definitely guidance, often centering Wallace when his appetites for excess and women (and the turbulence of the music biz) threw him off course.

Understanding the chase for cash could lead to ruin because money comes and goes, Puffy positions Biggie for immeasurable success with one line: “Don’t chase the paper (money), chase the dream!”

I’m no rapper, but at that moment in the movie, I want to be!There are many movies that are an excellent source of motiva-

tion. While I am a self-professed movie buff, you don’t have to be a Cinephile to find inspiration and motivation in a movie to chase your dream, whatever it may be. Remember. if you want some-thing, go get it! Period!

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Northwest announces 2015-2016 Encore performance series

MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Mis-souri State University’s Office of Stu-dent Involvement has released its Encore performance series schedule for the 2015-2016 academic year, which will feature Caribbean dance, patriotic singing, four masters of harmony, a festive variety show and a new musical favorite.

“The goal for the Encore performance series this year is to bring the campus together,” said Anthony Maly, a coordi-nator in Northwest’s Office of Student Involvement. “We want students to have the opportunity to see shows from metro-politan areas that most of them would not normally see in a rural area.”

Season ticket holders may purchase tickets, beginning today. Ticket sales for the general public begin Friday, Sept. 25. Tickets are free for all Northwest students, and Northwest employees may purchase discounted tickets.

Encore tickets may be purchased between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Student Services Center on the first floor of the Adminis-tration Building, by calling 660.562.1212 or online at www.nwmissouri.edu/getinvolved/encore.htm.

All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Ron Houston Center for the Per-forming Arts.

Financial support for the series is provided by the Missouri Arts Council

For more information about the En-core season, or to learn about giving to the program, contact the Office of Student Involvement at 660.562.1226.

Encore scheduleSaturday, Oct. 3: Grupo AtlanticoThis event is free for all patrons to at-

tend. Season ticket holders receive priority seating.

Grupo Atlantico shares the rich tri-eth-nic heritage of African, Indian and Spanish roots with sounds of the Caribbean and coastal regions of Colombia, South Ameri-ca. Joyous, earthy dance traditions of Latin America offer exciting glimpses of authen-tic Colombian Carnival, Native American customs, African and Spanish artistic influences in the New World. The symbolism of cos-tumes, dance steps and body movements are explained in cultural and ceremonial contexts, with the use of live

music, posters, slides and video.For more information, visit Grupo At-

lantico’s Facebook page by clicking here.Grupo Atlantico’s performance at

Northwest will conclude the University’s Intercultural Festival, which features workshops, lectures, activities and per-formances Sept. 28 through Oct. 3 on the Northwest campus. The performance is supported by the Missouri Arts Council and the Missouri Humanities Council.

Tuesday, Oct. 13: “All Hands on Deck”“America’s most patriotic musical

show” features singing and dancing based on Bob Hope’s 1942 U.S.O. tour to the troops. “All Hands on Deck” features four sparkling Hollywood stars, accompanied by the rich sounds of the Hollywood Vic-tory Caravan orchestra, which delivers an electrifying evening of classic songs, dances and laughs that Americans of all ages love. From roadshow to radio broad-cast, tight harmonies, on-air antics, classic commercials and rousing comedy grace-fully climax to a finish of a lifetime – a full-circle, patriotic salute to our active duty and veteran members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

For more information, visit www.all-handsondeckthemusical.com.

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Carol Carpenter

I’ve visited wonderful cities from east to westnorth from Detroit and Chicagosouth from New Orleans to Miamiwith concrete and steel canyonsblaring horns and sirensthe never truly dark streets.

I’ve been to the mountains of the westwatched sunrises kiss snow packed glaciersrafted on froth and frosty riversstared in wonder at the deep canyonsand red rock monoliths.

I’ve walked the northern pine forestsalong the root beer riversheard the wind rustling in the treetops but something always brings me back here to the rolling hills ofsoutheast Nebraska, southwest Iowa,northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri.

I need to feel the freedom of the open skyof a roostertail of dust on a gravel road or flying down a two-lane blacktopwith fenceposts peppered with meadowlarks and red winged blackbirdsbetween fields of emerald corntawny wheat bending in the breeze alfalfa speckled with big round balesdark sunflower faces dancing in the sun.

Let me smell the wild plums bloomingor feel the prairie wind against my skin;then throw a fistful of popcorn cloudsacross the bright cornflower bowlspeckle it with red tail hawks and whirling turkey vulturesfor here beneath this wide open skyI am once againHome.

Carol Carpenter is a writer/photographer living in the paradise of northwest Missouri. Carpenter enjoys singing, watching the birds, playing with her grandson and making pie.

(photo submitted by Carol Carpenter)

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Since 1894

St. Francis Hospital & Health Services is proud of its long relationship

and strong roots in northwest Missouri. On September 8, 1894, the same

year of the St. Louis World’s Fair, we began as St. Joseph Hospital, a

12-bed facility located in a house on three acres of land next to St.

Mary’s Catholic Church (now St. Gregory’s Catholic Church).

Our first patient, Thomas Kidney, was admitted a week before we

officially opened, heralding a commitment to patient care that has long

been a hallmark of this hospital. Today, St. Francis Hospital & Health

Services is a 81-bed, Joint Commission Accredited, full-service acute

care facility, with advanced programs in women’s health, surgery, sports

medicine and mental health to name just a few.

As we look forward to our future together, St. Francis Hospital &

Health Services remains committed to this community and will

continually strive to provide the highest quality of healthcare!

A Mission Of Service

For 120 Years

660-562-2600 • www.stfrancismaryville.com • 2016 South Main Street • Maryville, MO 64468