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Vol. 113, No. 036

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OBITUARIES
Allen Moots, 71 Fayetteville, Ark. Karen Olinger, 57 Keytesville, Mo.

KIRKSVILLE

KDIC seeks more members

Downtown group looks to add businesses, open opportunities for more sponsored events
TAYLOR MULLER
@TaylorMullerKDE

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Membership has its perks. Thats the message the Kirksville Downtown Improvement Committee is sending to supporters and businesses in the downtown as it aims to add to its membership rolls and also continue to establish a regular presence in the community. With the winter festivities

around the downtown square over, paid for and closed out, and planning just getting underway for the 2nd annual KDIC Car Show tentatively scheduled for late summer, the downtown improvement group is having a familiar discussion. Nearly two years ago, the same KDIC, under different leadership, called an end to its effort to add a small sales tax in the downtown to support improvements and events. At the time, the group

was hoping to have marquee events and downtown improvements to point to in justifying the additional sales tax burden. Now, the question is how best to incentive membership within the downtown improvement group, adding to its growing coffers but also wrangling up more support with regular events like the window decorating contest with cash prizes and the car show. KDIC looked toward its next window decorating contest for

Valentines Day and its accompanying prizes as its primary incentive right now for paying the approximately $25 membership due. You dont want to be clique-ish and say, You have to be a member to play, but sometimes you do, said KDIC Board member Keith Jackson. All we have is this, until we come up with other things. The Board voted to make its
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Lighting up the community

R-III tabs Kizzire for top job

New superintendent comes to district from Richmond, Mo.
The next leader of the Kirksville R-III School District has been selected and will start this summer. The Kirksville School Board announced the hire Wednesday morning of Dr. Damon Kizzire, currently of the Richmond R-XVI School District. Kizzire, a native of Lawson, Mo., has a bachelor of science in social studies from Missouri State University - Springfield, a masters degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Missouri - Kansas City and a doctorate in education from St. Louis University. Kizzire is currently the superintendent of the Richmond RXVI School District. He brings 23 years of experience as an educator and administrator. He has spent the last 12 years of his education career in Richmond, where he has served as middle school principal, assistant high school principal and held the superintendents position since 2010. Dr. Kizzire brings very solid credentials in academics, finance and leadership, the R-III Boards press release states. The Board was most impressed with his energy and passion for the students and their education. Kizzire will start July 1, with current Superintendent Patrick Williams to retire after more than 30 years with the district.

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Ameren Missouri officials and Helping Hands Mission volunteers gather around Community Lights winner Sandy Rogers (center) Tuesday in Kirksville at a lunch celebrating Rogers volunteerism. From left: volunteer Lola Graham, Ameren Missouris Annette Sweet, Rogers, volunteers Rose Sigsby and Bonnie McKim and Ameren Missouris Trina Muniz. NEMO PHOTOGRAPHY

Kirksville woman wins Ameren contest, money for local charity

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Sandy Rogers is lighting the way as a Kirksville volunteer, leader and recipient of Amerens Community Lights honor. Rogers was nominated and selected as one of the five top winners in Ameren Missouris

Community Lights program, an effort to shine the spotlight on local volunteerism and selflessness and reward those community bright spots with cash prizes. We want people who make their communities shine, said Trina Muniz, communications manager for Ameren Missouri. Muniz and other Ameren staff were on hand in Kirksville at the

Helping Hands Mission to present Rogers with her certificate, which goes along with $2,500 to her favorite charity and $2,500 for herself. Rogers said she chose the Helping Hands Mission in downtown Kirksville because of her daily and longstanding connecSEE CONTEST, 8

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WASHINGTON

Republicans set stage for raising debt limit

(AP) Unwilling to risk spooking the markets, and leading a fractured GOP majority, House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday stepped back from a confrontation with Democrats to let Congress vote on increasing the governments borrowing cap without trying to extract any concessions from the White House. The move risks more displeasure from the tea party but came after most Republicans in the House made clear they had no taste for another high-stakes fight with President Barack Obama over the nations debt ceiling, which must be raised so the government can borrow money to pay all of its bills. A vote was scheduled for Tuesday evening, with Democrats lined up to provide the bulk of support to pass the measure; the Senate was expected to pass the bill and send it to Obama by the end of the week. The vote comes four months after Washington diffused a government shutdown and debt crisis that burned Republicans politically an experience they did not want to repeat. Tuesdays developments, which many Capitol Hill insiders saw coming, marks a major reversal of the GOPs strategy of trying to use the debt limit to force spending cuts or other concessions on Obama. The president yielded to such demands in 2011 before his re-election but has since boxed in Republicans by refusing to negotiate. Boehner, R-Ohio, made the announcement after conservatives failed to rally around his latest plan, floated Monday, to tie lifting the debt ceiling to a measure to reverse cuts to military pensions that were enacted less than two months ago. Earlier plans to tie a debt cap increase to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline or repeal of part of the new health care law failed as well, stymied by a group of hard line conservatives who vowed never to vote for increasing the governments debt, which stands
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