This document provides the breakfast and lunch menus for the Tarkio R-I School District for the week of November 3-7, 2014. It also includes summaries of recent football games and volleyball seasons from the perspectives of students. Additionally, it announces that tickets will go on sale for the upcoming THS musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and discusses reforms needed for the political process.
This document provides the breakfast and lunch menus for the Tarkio R-I School District for the week of November 3-7, 2014. It also includes summaries of recent football games and volleyball seasons from the perspectives of students. Additionally, it announces that tickets will go on sale for the upcoming THS musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and discusses reforms needed for the political process.
This document provides the breakfast and lunch menus for the Tarkio R-I School District for the week of November 3-7, 2014. It also includes summaries of recent football games and volleyball seasons from the perspectives of students. Additionally, it announces that tickets will go on sale for the upcoming THS musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and discusses reforms needed for the political process.
Monday, November 3 - Breakfast - Cereal, toast, pine- apple, juice, and milk; and Lunch - Chicken and cheese crispito, corn, romaine, mandarin oranges, pineapple tid- bits, and milk. Tuesday, November 4 - Breakfast - Sausage break- fast bagels, cheese stick, pear halves, juice, and milk; and Lunch - Beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, fresh carrots, pears, mixed fruit, bread and butter, and milk. Wednesday, November 5 - Breakfast - Pancake, pea- nut butter, mixed fruit, juice, and milk; and Lunch - Chick- en strips, baked beans, fresh carrots, fresh orange, pear halves, and milk. Thursday, November 6 - Breakfast - Breakfast wrap, cherries, juice, and milk; and Lunch - Cheeseburger on a bun, winter veggies with cheese, spinach, pineapple tid- bits, mixed fruit, and milk. Friday, November 7 - Breakfast - Cheese stick, apple breadstick, peaches, juice, and milk; and Lunch - Biscuits and gravy, tri-tater, green beans, sliced peaches, banana, and milk. A 2nd entree and a chef salad are now available the 5th-12th of each month. Brody Cooper threw one touchdown pass to Lambert as well. Miles Murry scored one touchdown and had one safety. Lambert also had one rushing touchdown and three two-point conversions, Ball had one rushing touch- down and one two-point con- version, and Brendon Bruns had one two-point conver- sion. Shae DeRosier also had one safety. Lambert led in rushing yards with 108, followed by Ball with 76. Shaw was the top Wolves receiver with 81 yards, followed by Ball with 52. As quarterback, Bruns had a total of 139 yards and Cooper 43. Ball also had 28 yards as punter and Deav- en Tunnell had 479 yards as kicker. Lambert had 54 yards in kick-off returns. Trevor Brown made one in- terception. DeRosier and Murry took down the most opponents with eight tack- les each, followed by Tun- nell, Cooper, and Ball with six each. The Wolves had a total of 355 passing yards and 147 rushing yards in the win. This game was the rst playoff game for the Wolves. The win advanced the team to another playoff game against the Rock Port Blue Jays to be played this Fri- day, October 31, at 7 p.m. in Rock Port. Be sure to put on your black, orange, and sil- ver, and cheer on the Wolves to victory. By Senior Kat DeRosier Being a senior hadnt re- ally hit me until I played my nal high school volleyball game. I have been playing volleyball since I started camps in fth grade and the cool thing about it is that Coach Wood has been here the whole time. My love for volleyball has denitely grown over the years, espe- cially when I started high school, but out of all the years my senior year will al- ways be my favorite! I shared it with one other senior, Emily Graves, and I know she would agree with this year being the best, too. I want to give a huge thank you to my Coach, Jayme Wood, and my assistant Coach, Ashley Hummel, for making this year fantastic! I also want to thank all the volleyball parents that have helped with this season. Another big thank you to everyone who has supported the team through thick and thin! This season couldnt have been possible without any of you. Never take anything for granted because before you know it you blink and its all over! I never thought Id ever play my last game. It hit me hard and turning in my jersey is going to be tough. Volleyball is denitely a highlight of my high school career. The stinky knee pads, spans, sweat, tears, laughter, jumping drills, the many bruises, oor burns, sacricing my body, losing my voice, the feeling of get- ting a kill, and much more will all be missed an incred- ible amount. I wouldnt have wanted to play volleyball with anyone else, but the Lady Indians. By Mariana Villagrana What are you going to be this Halloween?!! According to Mrs. Hulls First Grade class, they will all be dressed up as Olivia Schafer wants to be a ninja. Janae Harbin will be dressed up as Bat Girl. Bo Peregrine will be Pe- ter Pan because hes pretty cool! Britney Ritchie is going to be dressed as a skeleton. Dylan Drummond will be a pirate. Brayden Smith is also going to be a ninja. Jaeka Wiley will be a black bride. My tribute to volleyball Photobooth Jacob Stanton will be a scary zombie. Kale Lekey will be the Winter Soldier. Quin Staten is going to be a strong football player. Zoe Madron is going to be Queen Elsa. Bresayda Jimenez will be dressed like a fast chee- tah By Kaleigh Quimby Halloween used to be less about the scary masks, candy, trick-or-treating, and more about the end of har- vest season and the begin- ning of winter. Halloween is a shortened word for All Hallows Eve. On All Hal- lows Eve, people used to avoid meat and substitute it with apples, potato cakes, and soul cakes. Candy corn, caramels, and candy bars are todays traditional Hal- loween meat substitute. Nowadays, it is about costumes and who looks the cutest and the scariest. This day has many movies tailor made for it as many people like to watch scary mov- ies on this day. Most people dont like Halloween for the simple fact that bad pranks happen. This day was more of a ritual than it was a holiday. This is the one holiday of the year that is celebrated dif- ferently in many places. In Mexico, Halloween coincides with The Day of The Dead. Candles, paper wreaths and seasonal owers are all sold during the Day of The Dead celebrations. Day of the Dead is signicant because it is a time to pray and remember friends and family who have passed away. It lasts a total of three days long. This day was created not to mourn, but to remember the happi- ness when these lost souls were still here. Trick or treating, wearing fun costumes and watch- ing scary movies is what this tradition has evolved into, but the most important thing to do is to have a fun time. Happy Halloween! Halloween origins Tickets will go on sale for the Tarkio High School Mu- sical Theatres production of Thoroughly Modern Mil- lie on Monday, November 3. The tickets are $10 and can be purchased in the Tarkio R-I Superintendents Ofce at THS. The dates of the play are Friday, November 21, and Saturday, November 22, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, November 23, at 2 p.m. in the THS Auditorium. The play was written by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, new music by Jeanine Tes- ori and new lyrics by Dick Scanlan. The THS produc- tion will involve 33 students. Casey Martin, Melody Bar- nett, and Brad Mathers are the directors. The musical tells the sto- ry of a small-town girl who comes to New York City to marry for money instead of love. Millie soon begins to take delight in the apper lifestyle, but problems arise. THS Musical Theatre to present Thoroughly Modern Millie NORTHWEST MISSOURI VOTERS CAN RESTORE BALANCE TO OUR POLITICAL PROCESS ON NOVEMBER 4TH Articles in this series are archived at: www.mod1dem.com Reforming Our Political Process My responses to the 2014 Political Courage Test sponsored by Project Vote Smart are available at www.votesmart.org, and may also be accessed through a link at www.mod1dem.com. Unfortunately the efforts of organizations like Vote Smart to better inform voters have been undermined by professional political operatives. They advise their clients not to participate, but then, to mislead voters, distort the responses of opposing candidates who do so. As a result, candidate participation has sharply declined. But it is not only cynical political operatives who distort our political process. It is the structure of the system itself, with gerrymandering (the practice of drawing electoral maps in way that favors one party) that entrenches extremism, and the money politics of special interest groups that likewise entrenches their power. Last week I focused on that $3,000 dinner in Texas because that incident exposed the abuses of unbalanced power, and the corruption that travels with it. The free ow of unregulated lobbyist gifts and unlimited campaign contributions must be ended. As John Micklethwait & Adrian Woolridge, the editors of the The Economist, argue in their most resent book, The Fourth Revolution(2014): It is all very good defending this political expenditure as a constitutionally protected exercise in free speech. But it creates the impression that American democracy is for sale; that the rich have more power than the poor; that favors are being exchanged and deals being done. No matter how often American politicians and donors insist that nothing is being traded, any study of psychology ... suggests that gifts create obligations and expectations on both sides. Solution of the gerrymandering of House and legislative districts is an easier task. The Iowa Plan should be adopted nationwide, where neutral mapmaking rules generate new districts automatically as new census data becomes available. Investing in Our Infrastructure Regardless of the scal position of our state, and of the federal government, greater investments in transportation, water supply, education and clean energy are needed to secure our economic future. The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that governments need to increase by 50 percent their spending on roads, bridges and mass transit, which are the most immediate needs in our state. Missouris highway budget is projected to plummet from a recent high of $1.3 billion annually to a meager $325 million by 2017. Infrastructure investment is an essential driver of our economy. Every $1 billion invested in a highway project creates about 10,000 direct construction jobs, and its ripple effect generates further economic growth. Both Allen Andrews, the Republican candidate, and I agree that a tax increase is essential to meet the operating needs of MoDOT, and to fund its plans to improve our transportation system. Yet in August the voters rejected the sales tax increase that was projected to raise at least $540 million annually to fund MoDOT operations, as they had previous proposals for increasing fuel and/or sales taxes. So one of the great challenges in the next legislative session will be to build a consensus among legislators, and with the voters, on an acceptable tax plan to nance transportation needs. Expansion of Medicaid Eligibility Another great challenge will be to overcome the opposition of a few legislators to a bipartisan plan to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Our state should also assume responsibility for operation of its health insurance exchange, and then work with Congress to improve the ACA. Taking these measures will stimulate economic development by creating as many as 24,000 new, good paying jobs; protect our rural hospitals from the costs of uncompensated care, and can ultimately lift the burden on businesses of providing employee medical insurance, thereby making them more competitive in the global marketplace (and eliminating health insurance costs as a cause of wage stagnation). The case for expansion of Medicaid eligibility is more fully set out in the Sunday (October 26th) edition of the St. Joseph News-Press, at page 3, and can be found online at www.fourwhocan.com As the excerpt from The Economist reprinted at left points out, its time to quit using ACA as a political football and move towards creating a real marketplace for health insurance. This is the approach the polls show a majority of Americans favor, even though the polls also show a majority disapprove of the ACA. Closer analysis of the data, however, reveals that from 16 to 18 percent of the respondents who disapprove think the ACA does not go far enough. Hence, there is no real contradiction in the polls. Only a minority of voters both disapprove of the ACA and favor its repeal. Progress Through Compromise The most recent polls also show that public support for consensus-seeking legislators has jumped to 50 percent, from 34 percent in 2010. That is the type of legislator I would strive to be. My opponent in this election is not the Republican nominee, Allen Andrews, who is a ne young man more open to compromise than many of his prospective colleagues. Instead, my opponent is the faction now in control of his party, and its veto-proof super majority. That faction and its bad ideas, which will not move this state forward. That faction and its contempt for our constitutional system of checks and balances. Having failed in its attempt to undermine the independence of our judiciary two years ago, an effort rejected 3 to 1 by the voters, that faction is now attempting by proposed Constitutional Amendment 10 to aggrandize legislative power over the executive branch. Voters should likewise reject Amendment 10, and also again send a conservative rural Democrat to the state legislature. Obamacare is a totem for every American who hates big government ... Yet its not to blame for Americas health mess, and it could just contain the beginnings of a partial solution to it. At the core of Americas problem ... [is] a subsidy- laden system that is the most expensive and complicated in the world, with much of the government cash going to the rich, millions of people left out and little individual responsibility ... Ironically the socialist Mr. Obama did not do the one thing that might have cut taxpayers costs dramatically: introduce a European single payer health care system ... Instead he tried to tweak Americas system in two ways-to expand coverage and reduce cost ... ...Obamacare is too costly and too complicated, but it is doing a little better than it is given credit for. The share of uninsured 18-64 year-olds has fallen from 18.5% in 2013 to 13.9% in 2014... Since [the] failings [of American health care] lie more within the system than with the presidents attempt to reform it, health reformers should concentrate on three areas that could make its fawed market work better: directing handouts towards the poor rather than the affuent, nudging individuals to take charge of their own health care, and making sure that prices are transparent. Flawed though they are, Obamacares exchanges could be the foundation of a new model... Obamacares effects will not be fully understood for years, but it will never be the core of the problem ... -from How to fx Obamacare, The Economist (September 20, 2014)