The following are the winning organizations for Northwest Missouri State University’s 2009 Homecoming celebration. Click on the headline for the results.
The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra will return to the swing-era legend's hometown of Clarinda, Iowa, for the annual Glenn Miller Festival June 10-13. The Miller band will perform at the festival at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 12. This year's celebration will also include appearances by Hunter Fuerste and His American Vintage Orchestra; the Tamana Girls High School Band from Tamana, Japan; and the United States Air Force Noteables.
Veterans from American Legion Post No. 100, Maryville, and Post No. 464, Conception Junction, will host Memorial Day Services beginning at 11 a.m. Monday, May 31, in front of the west portico of the Nodaway County Courthouse. Don Haynes, Post 100, will serve as master of ceremonies, and the keynote speaker will be Michael Steiner, associate professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University. Joyce Tinsley and Anita Dew will perform patriotic music.
Northwest Advocates for Animal Awareness will host its annual spring luncheon for the New Nodaway Humane Societies Animal Shelter from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 22, in the Fellowship Hall of the First Christian Church of Maryville at Third and Buchanan. Cost is $6 per person.
The New Nodaway Humane Society is hosting three events in April that will benefit the local animal shelter and its programs. Activities include an April 1-9 supply drive led by students from St. Gregory's School; Pancakes for Paws, 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday, April 15, Nodaway County Senior Center; and the Spring Luncheon, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 22. First Christian Church of Maryville.
Local youngsters will get a chance to pick up after the Easter Bunny Saturday during two Easter Egg hunts scheduled for local parks.
The Maryville Host Lions Club and the Maryville Hy-Vee supermarket will co-sponsor the first hunt at 10 a.m. at Donaldson-Westside Park just west of Icon Road. Age groups include 3-and-under, 4-5, 6-7 and 8-10. Prizes and candy will be given away. Children should bring their own baskets.
The second hunt, sponsored by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter at Northwest Missouri State University, will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday in Beal Park, which is located at Seventh and Laura streets in Maryville.
The Skidmore Christian Church will host an Easter Weekend Celebration Friday, April 2, through Sunday, April 4. Friday and Saturday services begin at 7 p.m. Easter Sunday services will take place at 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Evangelist Cecil Todd will preach, and the nationally known singing duo Lowell and Duke Mason will perform gospel music.
Retired Northwest Missouri State University faculty, staff and administrators living in and around the Maryville area are encouraged to attend “Coffee and Chat with Colleagues,” also known as the Triple C Club, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 23, at the Alumni House, located on Fourth Street across from the Gaunt House on the south end of the Northwest campus.
Male students at Northwest Missouri State University — and other are men wishing to put their best foot forward — are being invited to strap on a pair of high heels this month to help women combat assault and sexual violence.
About 80 Northwest Missouri State University students will present projects, papers, performances and creative works during the annual Celebration of Quality, which will take place Tuesday, March 9, in the J.W. Jones Student Union.
The Maryville chapter of the American Association of University Women will sponsor the seventh annual Opal Eckert Walk Saturday, March 20, in Bearcat Arena on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the walk follows at at 9 a.m.
The scene was the Maryville Community Center, but anyone would have sworn this party was held at a swank nightclub in Upper Manhattan. Themed "New York-New York," the 2010 St. Francis Gala, which took place Saturday night, was a glamorous evening of food, music and good cheer, all for the sake of raising money for a new digital mammography machine at St. Francis Hospital & Health Services. For those of you who missed it, here are a few photos from an evening when Maryville was transformed into the city that never sleeps. See Monday's "Daily Forum" for the full story.
Gordon Russell, left, and Estel Lee Mann, right, were recently crowned king and queen during the Valentine's royalty coronation at Golden Living Center in Maryville. Also pictured is Golden Living's activities director Kourtney McEnaney.
Two sisters, Theresa Schmitz, 45, of Ravenwood, and Mary Collins, 36, of Conception Junction, walked the Relay for Life survivors’ lap together Saturday for the first time as both survivors of cancer. The event was held at Beal Park.
Darbi Bauman, principal of South Nodaway R-IV Elementary School in Guilford, was standing outside her office Wednesday morning trying to talk to some of her staff. It would have been easier to do if she could have stopped crying.
