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Breastfeeding
support group
The Texas County
Memorial Hospital breast-
feeding support group will
meet Thursday, July 25,
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in
the education room, locat-
ed on the medical surgical
floor at the hospital.
Jennifer Terrill, a registered
nurse and internationally
board certified lactation
consultant at TCMH, will
facilitate the breastfeeding
support group. The group
is open to mothers who
are currently breastfeeding
or expectant mothers
planning to breastfeed
after the births of their
children. Mothers may
bring their breastfeeding
children to the meeting.
The group offers educa-
tion, support and encour-
agement for area mothers.
Support group meetings
are held on the fourth
Thursday of every month.
The support group is free,
but the obstetrics depart-
ment requires pre-registra-
tion with the obstetrics
department.
For more information or
to register, contact the
TCMH obstetrics depart-
ment at 417-967-1260.
Rabies Case in
Texas County
A domestic cat sent to the
State Public Health
Laboratory on Thursday,
July 18, by the Texas
County Health
Department has tested
positive for rabies. The
Health Department was
notified on Friday, July 19,
of the findings. A follow-up
investigation has been con-
ducted by the health
department to identify any
persons or animals that
may have come in contact
with the rabid cat, who
was infected after being bit
by a skunk. More on
the story, A2.
Deaths
Marion Elizabeth
Diedrich
Troy Wayne Jones
Darnell Kinserlow
Simone Leohmann
Ricky R. Willis
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farmers eligible for low-interest emergency loans
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Licking PD receives
grant, new radar unit
By Durga Walker
Staff Writer
durga@thelickingnews.com
The Southeast Coalition for
Roadway Safety has
announced the award of Law
Enforcement Grants for 2014.
The grants are intended to
improve roadway safety in
southeast Missouri.
The Licking Police
Department was one of 19 agen-
cies from an application area of
25 counties in this section of the
state to be awarded funding,
which they received in the form
of a new radar unit for one of
the departments vehicles.
We received a Stalker Dual
DSR radar unit, said Police
Chief Scott Lindsey.
This unit will replace one
that is fifteen years old and
was only capable of checking
the speeds of vehicles in
oncoming traffic. The new
radar will be able to check
speeds in multiple directions
and of multiple vehicles at the
same time.
According to the coalition,
the grants were reviewed by
their own executive members,
which include personnel from
law enforcement agencies,
healthcare advocates, state
government agencies and pri-
vate businesses.
The coalition based the
Walter Plant returns to Licking
By Debbie Dakin
Managing Editor
debbie@
thelickingnews.com
Licking Bridge Builders
volunteers hosted a free
luncheon and concert on
Thursday, July 18, at Fox
Fire Station. The highly tal-
ented Walter Plant returned
to Licking to provide the
musical entertainment.
This is the third year hes
performed for us, said
Bridge Builders Director
Cindy Wampner. Hes a learned Braille there. After
great musician and we just
love him.
Plant plays four key-
boards, at least two simulta-
neously, while singing a
mixture of country and
gospel. He has a rich bari-
tone voice that can really
make you feel his music. His
talent is so strong you
almost forget the fact that
he is blind.
Artist Lanie Frick in her workspace, Painted Trail Studio.
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THURSDAY, July 25, 2013 N ews
Pioneer Day
50
Includes Tax
Celebration this
Saturday
By Debbie Dakin
Managing Editor
debbie@thelickingnews.com
A Pioneer Day Celebration will be held
Saturday, July 27, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the
Piney River Heritage farm near Slabtown.
The event will feature live demonstrations of
rope making, woodworking, soap making, quilt-
ing, wheat thrashing, Dutch oven cooking, black-
smithing, mountain man, rug making, crafts and
candle making.
There will be some great old-time games for
the kids, including three-legged race, sack race,
stick pull, graces, beanbag toss and more. In
addition, there will be two-man sawing, toma-
hawk throw, live music, food and its all free!
This event will give us a glimpse back into his-
tory at the skills the early pioneers needed to
survive. And it is quite fitting that it will take
place on a location that is so rich in local history.
Piney River Heritage Farm, a 500- to 600-acre
Submitted photo
site, now owned by the Forestry Service, was the
Corporal Pat Burton with the Licking Police Departments new
site where Sylvester Pattie built one of the first
radar unit acquired with a grant from the Southeast Coalition
sash sawmills along the Piney River in 1816.
for Roadway Safety.
There are four buildings still standing on the
awards on incidents of greatest room in the budget to upgrade site. The oldest is the old barn built back in the
1800s, probably around the time of the Civil War.
need, but always with the goal equipment, said Lindsey. Im
of reducing fatalities and thankful that the coalition pro- This barn is considered to be one of the oldest
injuries on Missouris high- vides these grants to local and largest single-pin barns in the state of
ways. departments to assist in high- Missouri.
The grants could be used to way safety efforts. The structure is still quite sound, and local res-
cover the costs of overtime or Several other area agencies ident Wilson Elliott, with the help of some Amish
equipment for DWI check- received grants for 2014, workers, has performed necessary restoration to
points, saturation patrols or including the Houston, the barn. Elliott sawed and provided the lumber,
law enforcement, the coalition Mountain Grove, Mountain and the restoration was done much in the man-
said. View, Summersville and West ner the barn was originally built.
Its often difficult to find Plains police departments. See Pioneer Page A12
Plant, who was born pre- does all the driving, plus the
mature, was also born blind. setting up and taking down
He has not let this be an of equipment, and fulfilling
obstacle or stand in his way. whatever needs Walter may
He fell in love with music as request of her. She loves
a young child and started gospel music just as much
taking piano lessons at the as her husband, and the two
age of 5. Walter and a couple of them make a strong
of teenagers formed a band team.
when he was younger, play- Even though country
ing for VFWs and churches, songs have been a big part of
with Walter playing lead Plants past, he is striving to
guitar. go more towards gospel only.
Born in Corpus Christi, He has recorded 16 albums
Texas, Plant was educated but told the audience, If you
in public school and even are interested in any of the
country albums you need to
graduating, he began sup- get them because when they Photo by Debbie Dakin
porting himself as a singer are gone, they are gone. Walter Plant is a multi-talented artist who has music in his
and musician. In his early Plants love of the Lord is soul and plays four keyboards, reads Braille and entertains
days he sang mostly country, apparent, and he wishes to the audience with every song that makes you want him to
but Plants true love is show others that the Father keep on singing.
gospel. He now tours as a has shown him the way and
solo act, providing all of his is an example of His love. recent appearances in other lowing afternoon he was at
own music, with no back-up It can be hard making it areas close by. On July 12, Palace Union Church, near
recordings. He has been per- going only gospel, said he appeared in Lebanon at Fort Leonard Wood.
forming for over 30 years. Plant, but God will pro- Lebanon Cowboy Church. For more information
Plants number one assis- vide. The next evening he was at about Walter Plant, visit
tant is his wife, Joy. She Plant has also made Mt. Hermon Methodist his website at www.wal-
Church, in Salem. The fol- terplant.com.
Local artist, Lanie Frick, to
host talk in Raymondville
By Skyler Huff artistic transformation with friend and for-
Staff Writer mer neighbor, Aya Katz, an ape language
researcher who runs a small press, that
Local artist, Lanie Frick, will be speaking sparked the idea for a public event on the
Tuesday, July 30, at the Orchard House, in matter.
Raymondville. Her talk, entitled Aya and I were having a conversation
Transforming the Artistic Process, will and she asked me what I had been creating
begin at 7 p.m. lately. I responded that I was not really
Frick will be discussing the transforma- painting anything specific because I am in
tion process of artists when the way they cre- the middle of transforming my artistic
ate art begins to shift. She will answer three process, Frick said.
main questions: How does an artist trans- She thought that such a thing sounded
form? Why does an artist transform? What very interesting and wanted me to tell her
does it feel like when transformation occurs? about it. At that moment, I didnt have the
Frick herself is currently going through a words to explain it. Transforming the
transformation process. For the last several artists process is amorphous. Its an intu-
years, Frick has focused on landscape itive experience that evolves. Its not about
paintings. Currently, she is shifting back to following steps that are set. There are steps
horse, wildlife and other subject matters to it, but the kind you dont realize youre
Photo by Skyler Huff that are yet to be determined. taking until you look back on them.
It was actually the discussion of her own See Frick Page A12
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