LCAA moving forward into new era

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ART - SPORTS
Daum Museum
sees progress on
three fronts
By Faith Bemiss
[email protected]
Over the last eight years, the Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art, on the campus of State Fair
Community College, has experienced growth on
“three fronts,” said museum Director and Curator
Tom Piché Jr.
The Museum’s permanent collection has
increased, the position of museum registrar has
been filled and the Daum has further developed its
education programs.
When Piché arrived eight years ago, the permanent collection contained 1,000 two- and threedimensional pieces. It now contains 1,600.
“We’ve added significant acquisitions in the
major areas where we collect,” he noted. “That
includes painting, sculptural ceramic, our photography collection, and our contemporary print
collection. I think it’s really a great and inclusive
survey of contemporary graphic art.
“The acquisitions have increased and that’s great
because we are always looking at what Dr. Daum
collected originally,” he added. “We try to expand
that story with our acquisitions. From my point of
view it’s great because we have significant resources now.”
With the increase of acquisitions, Piché is able to
pull from a variety of artwork to assemble exhibitions. It is also useful for educational purposes.
“Its a good thing for the community, I think,” he
said. “It’s here, we don’t have to bring it in. That
seems like it will continue in the future.
“We have an acquisition endowment,” he added.
“Even though we have lost our main benefactor,
Dr. Daum, who really helped us acquire the lion’s
share of these objects. Thanks to his foresight with
the acquisitions endowment, we’ll be able to add
prudently to the collection in the years to come.”
Another area of progress was the addition of a
museum registrar, a position filled three years ago
by Matthew Clouse. This addition is beneficial for
the permanent collection.
“He is the first person to hold that position at the
museum,” Piché said. “That position deals directly
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Ragtime festival sees advancements
By Faith Bemiss
[email protected]
The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation has experienced two
difficult years, but change
has brought positive
results recently with the
help of longtime ragtime
aficionado Larry Melton,
of Union. Melton, coordinator of the Ragtime
Achieve Project, has been
working on a ragtime
archives exhibit and is
bringing the “legends”
of ragtime to the festival
this year.
“It’s never fun when
things have to change,”
Foundation President
Kathleen Boswell said.
“But, sometimes things
are changing in such a
big way that you might
as well change everything
so it’s better and it’s lined
up.”
Last year, the Foundation closed its store on
Ohio Avenue and has
moved into the newly
renovated Liberty Center
Association for the Arts.
Boswell said the move
is appropriate because
the LCAA is slated to
become an “arts mecca”
for the area.
“By us having our
home there, that adds to
that stature of the building and to their mission,”
she noted.
She added that Melton
is the one who came up
with the 2016 festival
theme, “Sedalia Where
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
On March 9, former Sedalian Larry Melton works to install Scott Joplin archives for the “Sedalia in the
Ragtime Era 1895 to 1904” exhibit at the Katy Depot. Melton, now of Union, began the Scott Joplin
International Ragtime Festival in 1974 and has amassed a large collection of ragtime memorabilia. He
handcrafted the exhibit by himself at his home in Union.
America’s Music Began.”
Over the last year, the
Foundation, LCAA and
the Sedalia Heritage
Foundation asked Melton
if he’d like to become
involved again with the
festival. Melton previoulsy served as the Sedalia
Area Chamber of Commerce Director and was
instrumental in starting
the annual Scott Joplin
International Ragtime
Festival in 1974.
“It’s such a joy to come
back to revisit all of this,”
he said March 9 from the
Katy Depot.
Since 1976, Melton has
amassed a large collection of ragtime memorabilia. On March 8-10, he
was in town setting up a
three-dimensional exhibit
at the Katy Depot. All of
the exhibits were handcrafted by Melton himself
using his collection. It
will be on exhibit through
2016.
“It’s a way to showcase
the collection, which is
amazing,” Melton said.
The exhibit features
three-dimensional cutouts of memorabilia
taking in 10 glass cases
and four to five panels.
Melton said he began putting the exhibit together
after Christmas.
“I’d work about eight to
10 hours a day on it,” he
added. “But I’m also, at
the same time, conserving the photographs, the
sheet music, and every-
thing. So, it’s a little more
involved than just creating the exhibit.”
Foundation Executive
Director Terri Ballard
said she’s excited to see
the festival go to the
“next level.”
“This is going to be a
great year because we’re
going to be doing all the
archives, and the archive
is going to be built up
to be year-round,” she
noted. “Larry Melton …
he’s an amazing man.
“Every now and then
he’ll send us a poem and
he’s sent us this wonderful poem on Scott Joplin,” Ballard added. “It’s
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LCAA moving forward into new era
By Faith Bemiss
[email protected]
The Liberty Center
Association for the Arts
is slowly coming back
to life after a $900,000
renovation that began in
June 2015. The renovation is phase one of a
three-phase project.
Phase one renovations
include an 90-foot long
addition on the west
side of the building that
will showcase three art
galleries, access to the
theater, new ADA accessible bathrooms and a
restructured first floor.
LCAA Executive
Director Terri Ballard
said they will now look
toward phase two,
which will renovate the
upstairs, and address
the roof and a few structural issues. Phase two
will cost approximately
$400,000. Phase three,
costing approximately
$80,000, will address a
fly-system for theatrical
performances.
Ballard said LCAA has
requested funds from
the Mid-Town TIF Commission for phase two
and three.
City Administrator
Gary Edwards and City
Community Development Director John Simmons said the request
is being taken into
consideration during the
assessment and revaluation of all projects by
the Mid-Town TIF Commission.
“TIF funds are an
incremental increase in
property and sales taxes
in a geographic region,”
Simmons explained. “…
In this case, it is a downtown area where the city
captures an incremental
increase in property
and sales tax to direct
those funds back into
the downtown for public
improvements.”
The celebration of
phase one’s completion
will take place in May.
Ballard said the open
house will be a free
event and will feature a
celebration of the arts in
Sedalia including poetry,
music, acting, dance and
much more.
“We have a lot of artistic people in Sedalia, so
it will be a celebration of
all genres of performing
art,” she added.
Ballard said in the last
year the building has
been transformed.
“It’s gone from an
Photo courtesy of Liberty Center Association for the Arts
The Liberty Center Association for the Arts has completed phase one in a three-phase renovation project. “It’s been at times overwhelming,
but it’s wonderful to see that the community pulled together to take this building to the next level in the arts,” LCAA Executive Director
Terri Ballard said.
outside handicapped
entrance that was slowly
deteriorating away, to
a nice indoor handicapped access with gallery space that’s on one
level,” she noted.
The LCAA Theatre
can now be accessed,
without stairs, from
the gallery hallway in
the new addition. The
lounge is now downstairs, the lobby totally
remodeled and the box
office moved to the east
side.
Helping to bring the
interior of LCAA together is the carpentry work
of State Fair Community
College Art Instructor
Don Luper.
“Donnie is on our
board and sometimes
things happen for a reason,” Ballard said. “Had
Donnie not been on our
board, this would not
have happened. He saw
the plans and he, as a
board member, stepped
up and volunteered to
make the customized
wood trim in the front
entrance.”
The dark oak trim
complements the ambiance of the historic
theatre building that is
nearly a century old.
“He wanted a dark
finish, and he comes
in about every evening
and works on it,” she
added. “He still has a
few things to do. In our
lounge he took pieces
of the old bar and made
a nice new bar. Our
lounge will be Scott Joplin era themed.”
Luper is also making
cabinets that will house
ragtime artifacts from
the Scott Joplin era.
“It will match the rest
of the decor,” Ballard
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with the permanent collection. So as that’s been
growing, it became necessary to have a staff person who is devoted to the
care, and the recording,
and the maintenance of
the permanent collection.
“He’s really started
from ground zero, building up records of every
piece, inventorying, condition reporting, investigating the best housing
for the pieces,” he added.
“So, that’s been a high
priority project for us.”
Along with the position
of registrar, the museum
has a new database for
the permanent collection,
which is featured on the
Daum’s website.
“It is accessible to the
general public,” Piché
noted. “People can go to
our website and preview
exhibitions, but they can
also see what we own
and what’s maybe not on
view while they are visiting.”
Another point of progress for the Daum is an
increase in educational
programs, under the
direction of Curator of
Education Vicki Weaver.
“Because Vicki has
been so well trained now
in the methodology of
Visual Thinking Strategy,
it’s enabled us to make
a bigger difference on
campus,” Piché said. “In
terms of having programs
that target the students.”
He added that individuals don’t need to have an
art background to benefit
from the VTS program.
“It’s enabled us to
reach out to classes and
offer curriculum-based
programs to classes
you wouldn’t necessarily associate with an art
museum,” he noted.
Piché referred to
agricultural leadership,
radiology and criminal
justice students who
benefit from the critical
thinking skills used in
the program.
“Visual Thinking Strategy builds on the skills
of observation, and being
able to articulate what
you see,” he added. “We
are not the first group
to do this, Harvard has
used this in their medical
system. Because it trains
doctors to be better
diagnosticians. To look
deeply and analyze what
they are seeing …
“It has wider applications then just looking at
art,” he noted. “It’s about
higher level thinking.
That’s been an important
change. Through her
programs on campus we
are reaching about 1,000
students each academic
year.”
The Museum also
offers a VTS program,
Daum Escape, for school
children that brings in
numerous students each
year.
“The Daum Escape
continues to grow,” Piché
said. “I think when it
began, it was around 700
every year and we are up
to around 1,000.”
The program, originally for fifth graders,
has been opened up to a
variety students.
“The Daum Escape
has been going on for 11
years, and it’s strong and
it’s healthy,” he added.
“We see growth every
year.”
One challenge for
Piché is keeping the
temporary exhibition
programs “fresh.”
“I’m always looking
for artists and ideas to
explore exhibitions,” he
said.
This summer he is
focusing on an exhibition
of the permanent collection, and in the fall he is
planning a show with two
artists from New York
City and Kansas City.
“They will be exhibiting together,” he said.
“They are artists who
both work with fiber.”
Recently progress has
also been made in the
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Faith Bemiss | Democrat
In September 2015, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art docents were given a walk-through of the new exhibit, “Kindred Virtuosities,” by
museum Director and Curator Tom Piché Jr. The group was looking at “Failed Monuments” (2014-15) by Garry Noland. Over the last few
years the Museum’s permanent collection has increased, the position of museum registrar has been filled and the Daum has increased
its education programs.
physical aspects of the
Museum.
“Thanks to the college,
we upgraded our gallery
lighting system last year,”
Piché said. “This year we
are making some very
needed upgrades to the
HVAC systems.”
He is also thankful for
a “gift” from Mrs. Katherine Menefee, of Kansas
City. The donation is in
memory of her late
husband Thomas Menefee, originally from Sedalia.
“She gave us a gift to
dedicate our library in his
memory,” Piché
said. “That will enable us
to to really pump up the
resource material that the
library contains.”
Faith Bemiss can be reached at
530-0289 or @flbemiss.
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
In April 2015, Jayvon Jones checks out a glazed and stained stoneware sculpture, named “Invisible
Man,” created by Sergei Isupov. The sculpture is downstairs at the Daum Museum of Contemporary
Art on the campus of State Fair Community College. Jones was with a group of students from the
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German Immigrant Memorial preserves local history
By Faith Bemiss
[email protected]
COLE CAMP — A
German Immigrant
Memorial is preserving
the history and genealogy
of families in Pettis, Benton and Morgan counties
though a project sponsored by the Cole Camp
Low German Club.
The recently completed
memorial sits along Main
Street near the intersection of Maple Street
in Cole Camp. Project
spokesman and memorial
committee member Neil
Heimsoth said the idea of
a monument came to him
several years ago while
he and his wife Marilyn
were in Michigan.
“A number of years
ago, Marilyn and I
attended a German singers function, a meeting in
Detroit,” he said. “At this
German Clubhouse they
had a beautiful memorial
of stone, dedicated to the
Germans who had settled
in that area. It started me
to thinking.”
A few years ago
Heimsoth, a local artist,
bought a small house
to use as his studio at
209 E. Main St. in Cole
Camp. The house came
with an extra lot. The lot
along with an idea from
his friend Bob Owens,
a World War II veteran,
helped him decide to
build the memorial on
Main Street.
“Owens was stationed
in Berlin right after the
war,” Heimsoth said.
“Berlin was cleaning up
the city, and there was
this big building that was
heavily damaged and they
went ahead and blew it
down. Bob dug those
two (stones) out of the
rubble. One of them was
broken in three pieces
and he had them shipped
home.”
Those two stones are
now part of the German
Immigrant Memorial.
After Heimsoth saw the
large stones sitting in
Owens’ backyard he
began making sketches of
the memorial and eventually constructed a smallscale model.
“Marilyn thought it
was a good idea, and I
talked to the German
Club about it and asked
if they would sponsor it,”
Heimsoth added. “Then
we put together a committee from members of
the German Club.”
Committee members
include Heimsoth, his
wife, Pete Stelling,
Milton Von Holten and
Eldon Harms. Mike
Chavers helped with the
design. Chavers also
helped with the bricks
that bear the names of
German immigrants and
their descendants.
“When I was struggling
with this wall, he was
the one who said ‘lets
go ahead and make it
curved,’” Heimsoth said.
Construction of the
memorial began in 2014.
With the help of W&M
Welding, of Sedalia,
care was made to build
around a tall pine that
stands as a focal point.
Heimsoth said he wanted
the memorial centered
on the pine tree but was
concerned that digging
the foundation would kill
the tree.
“I went out and talked
to the (Missouri) Conservation Department about
it and they said ‘you
won’t kill it but you will
certainly weaken the root
system and a strong wind
could blow it over,’” he
said. “Our committee put
our heads together and
decided rather than digging a foundation for this
wall we drilled four holes
and poured four concrete
piers.
“W&M Welding in
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
Thirty-eight porcelain tiles line the back of the memorial,
representing the 38 counties of Lower Saxony where 90 percent of
the Pettis, Benton and Morgan counties German immigrants came
from when settling in the area. The tiles were made special-made
in London England.
Sedalia they helped us
with this,” he added.
“They ordered a steel
I-beam … that was
curved. It came in in
two pieces. They set it
and welded it together
for us and then we built
this wall on top of that
I-beam.”
To fund the project,
Heimsoth and the committee sold bricks to
those who have German
immigrant relatives who
settled in Pettis, Benton and Morgan county
areas.
“The area in the back
was reserved entirely for
stones engraved with
the names of the original
immigrants that moved
here from Europe,” Heimsoth said. “I like to think
of it as being lovingly surrounded by this wall.
For those who wish
to have a brick at the
memorial, Heimsoth sits
down and goes over their
genealogy.
“We help them,” he
said. “We’ve got a great
genealogist in Texas that
we work with.”
Names of immigrant
families are etched into
eight-by-eight-inch bricks
along with where the
individual came from in
Germany. The bricks may
contain up to six lines of
script. Next generation
families are are also listed
on other bricks toward
the front of the memorial.
A map of Germany has
been etched on the back
of a large granite memorial stone. Heimsoth said
many of the immigrants
came from the District of
Lower Saxony.
“Probably 90 percent
of them came from one
area,” he said. “They at
that time called it Hannover, today it’s called
Lower Saxony.”
The map of Lower Saxony is then broken down
into 38 counties. Porcelain tiles each bearing the
coat of arms representing
the 38 counties line the
back wall of the memorial. The tiles, costing
$75 each, were special
ordered and made in London, England.
The stones Owens
brought back from Germany have been placed
along each side of the
memorial. The stone on
the left has a helmet with
a dragon adorning the
top while the stone on
the right has bird with
wings spread and a crown
perched on its head.
“We know that this is
the coat-of-arms of Brandenburg,” Heimsoth said
of the left side.
The project is still
ongoing and the committee is still selling bricks.
“My disappointment
is we don’t have more
people from Morgan
County and Pettis County involved in it,” he said.
“In the immigrant area
we have room for about
75 more bricks and in the
descendant area we have
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
A German Immigrant Memorial has been completed in Cole Camp
and features the names of immigrants from Pettis, Benton and
Morgan counties along with their descendants.
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
Neil Heimsoth looks at one of the stones brought back to the United
States by World War II veteran Bob Owens. Owens was stationed in
Berlin after the war and found the stone and its companion in
bombed-out rubble. He had them shipped back home. They are now
part of the German Immigrant Memorial in Cole Camp.
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
The 38 districts or counties of Lower Saxony are represented on
the back of a granite stone at the German Immigrant Memorial
recently constructed at Cole Camp.
or for more information
about the German Immigrant Memorial, contact
Heimsoth at 668-3157 or
[email protected].
almost 400 left.”
Heimsoth added that
the German Immigrant
Memorial will be dedicated June 11 to coincide
with Cole Camp’s German Saengerfest.
To purchase a brick
Faith Bemiss can be reached at
530-0289 or @flbemiss.
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tion. (Sedalia’s) Mayor
has agreed to open the
festival with this proclamation.”
Ballard said Melton has
been the catalyst behind
getting the Ragtime Legends to attend the festival
this year.
“Today’s people who
play, these are their
heroes,” she added.
“Because they have paved
the way. The gentlemen who played at the
first festival and helped
organize it are all coming
back. There’s lots of good
things happening.”
Returning this year
for the festival, slated
for June 1-4, are Max
Morath, Richard Zimmerman, Terry Waldo and
David Rifkin. Also during
this year’s festival, PBS
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said. “Then we also have
the bar from the Wood’s
Opera House, and it’s
being refurbished. We’ll
have that at the other
end of the room so
people can have a drink
from a historic Joplin
era bar.”
LCAA slowly began
to reopen in December with a “Downton
Abbey” event Dec. 11
hosted by KMOS-TV in
Warrensburg.
“They did all the
promotions for that and
rented the building,”
Ballard said. “It went
really well.”
She added that people
were excited to visit
LCAA and get a “sneak
peek” of the renovations.
Following the December event LCAA hosted
Sedalia Democrat
about the men.
“This festival is historically quite significant
in terms of American
music,” Melton said. “It’s
not the largest. Others
draw the big name entertainers, but everybody
who’s been in ragtime
has been here. It’s been
continuous since ‘83 and
started in ‘74, and it’s in
Sedalia where America’s
music began. The significance of this little
community sustaining a
festival of international
renown is quite a phenomena.”
Melton said he contacted Morath, Zimmerman, Waldo and Rifkin
and asked them to be in
attendance for the 2016
festival.
“Max Morath is the
oldest,” Melton said. “He
is the old Broadway performer who took ragtime
on the road for 50 years.
He’s just a consummate
entertainer and gentleman and historian.
“He no longer performs, but he’s going
to come back and participate in the panel and
emcee the Thursday
night concert,” he added.
Zimmerman was the
first music director of the
festival. Melton said he
hired Zimmerman, of Los
Angeles, because of his
extensive knowledge of
ragtime musicians.
“He’s another great
historian,” Melton noted.
“Richard is a fount of
knowledge. He’s the only
one to record all of the
Joplin works, including
the opera.”
Melton said back in
1974, Waldo was considered the “young” entertainer.
“Well he’s 71 or
72-years-old now,” he
added. “Terry is a big
New York jazz and ragtime performer. He does
things at Lincoln Center
and the Smithsonian.”
Rifkin will be the
youngest of the four legends to return.
“David showed up on
my door step in ‘73, a
year before the festival,” Melton said. “He’d
heard about it … and
wanted to be a part of
it. David is a master violinist, he had a 30-plus
year ragtime radio program in San Francisco
that he is now retired
from.
“He has attended
every festival in Sedalia
since 1974,” he added.
“Every single one. He is
sort of the grandfather
of the festival performers. Because he’s done
it all.”
Melton said there are
many local people, who
are still living, who also
helped out with the festival over the years.
“The festival in Seda-
its first official 2016
event Feb. 6 with Ragtime music legend Jeff
Barnhart. Barnhart
presented an afternoon
silent film along with
an evening of diverse
live music in the LCAA
Theatre.
In March the first
theatre production since
the renovations was performed the weekends of
March 4 and 11. Ballard
said Agatha Christie’s
murder-mystery “The
Hollow” was presented,
with 12 cast members,
and was well received.
On April 14 LCAA
will present Second
City.
“Second City is out of
Chicago,” Ballard said.
“It’s a comedy school
and they train a lot of
the people you see on
‘Saturday Night Live.’
Will Ferrell and Tina
Fey trained with Second
City. We have a troupe
from Second City coming to do ‘Improv Allstars.’
In July LCAA will
present a children’s play.
“We are really expanding what we do with the
youth,” Ballard noted.
“We started last fall
and it’s a partnership
between us and (Sedalia) Parks and Recreation.
“We will be doing
a children’s choir this
summer and Lucy Clark
will direct Disney’s
“Little Mermaid,” she
added. “The choir will
learn music from that
and they can be in the
show if they choose to
be part of the cast.”
November will see a
return of the popular
musical comedy the
“Church Basement
Ladies,” who will present a Christmas show
“Away in the Basement.”
“We’ve made sure we
brought in the right
people to address the
needs of this building,”
Ballard added.
She cited former
Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art
Curator and internationally known artist Doug
Freed and also Sylvia
Thompson with Peerbolte Creative, of Warrensburg.
Ballard is pleased with
how the Sedalia community worked together
to propel LCAA forward
into a new era.
“It’s been at times
overwhelming, but it’s
wonderful to see that
the community pulled
together to take this
building to the next
level in the arts,” she
said. “That will, in turn,
take the art offerings
in our community to a
higher level.
“I’m excited to have
the support of the com-
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
Larry Melton talks about the Wood’s Opera House that once stood
at Second Street and Lamine Avenue. Sedalia’s ragtime composer
and musician, Scott Joplin, often played at the the opera house.
“Sedalia had 12 theatres at that time,” Melton added.
lia has now taken on
a venerable status,”
he noted. “It is so
respected and so wellknown. Anybody that is
a ragtime buff aspires to
attend the festival.
“It’s had two bad
years,” he added.
“When things have not
gone well, the public
has stepped up. Not
only have the Sedalia
people pitched in and
made it happen and
kept it going, but the
visitors, the fans and
the performers worked
their hearts out for this.
That’s what’s inspired
me as I get back
involved.”
munity behind the project,” Ballard added. “I’m
excited to walk into this
beautiful building every
morning to go to work.
It’s very exciting for me.
We are looking forward
to sharing this new
space.”
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Arts and Entertainment, Business, Military, Education, Sports, Health Care, Community Service and Faith. The articles
are divided into four sections and will be submitted to the daily edition on March 31, and April 1, 2016.
FAITH - COMMUNITY SERVICE
Building on
faith since 1880s
Built in 1880s, St. John’s
Catholic Church to expand
By Hope Lecchi
[email protected]
Nestled quietly in the small community of
Bahner is St. John’s Catholic Church.
While many area small churches are struggling
to maintain and grow their congregation, St.
John’s, in existence since 1880, is not only seeing a spiritual growth but has plans physically to
expand the church.
“We hope to add a structure to the church that
will serve as community center, a gathering place
for the congregation to use,” Katie Albrecht said.
“Our church can hold about 130 people and we
simply need a place that can accommodate more
people.”
Albrecht explained that although church members hope to expand, they do not want to lose
the sense of community and caring the church is
known for.
“My husband and I joined the church about a
year ago with the birth of our twins,” Albrecht
said. “One of the main reasons we joined is
because the people here genuinely care about
those who come to church here.
“It’s the environment here that is so inviting,
the members say, ‘come let me talk to you, be a
part of us,’ but yet they are not at all intrusive,”
Albrecht added. “They are very welcoming and
excited to see new people come to the church.”
Albrecht commented that one of the keys to
the church is the mix of generations who attend
the church.
“We have such a good mix of ages and the
opportunity to meet people who you feel you
have something in common with is nice,” she
said. “We all tend to stay after mass and visit,
which I am grateful for.
“When we had the twins christened here everyone gave them gifts and wanted to be a part of
our joy,” she added. “That can be hard to find at
many of the larger churches.”
It is the opportunity to spend more time
together that has prompted the building project.
The congregation has raised $50,000 for the
proposed addition and has plans to break ground
once they reach their goal of $60,000.
The members have hosted several functions
including ice cream socials and soup benefits
and have plans to host a spring celebration bingo
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Nicole Cooke | Democrat
Music students from Amigos de Cristo sing and play tambourine and guitar Monday, Jan. 18, for the small crowd in attendance at Sacred
Heart Church during the Martin Luther King Day Celebration.
Amigos de Cristo making a difference
By Faith Bemiss
[email protected]
Iglesia Luterana Amigos de Cristo, 3003 W.
11th St., was founded in
1998 and has been helping the local community
for many years.
“It’s something we
have a passion for,”
Elvera Satterwhite,
co-founder with her
husband Kenneth, said
in February. “In ‘97 we
started informally meeting with Bible classes
in homes. In 1998, St.
Paul’s Lutheran Church
became like our mother
church.”
Services were conducted at St. Paul’s
through 2000.
“In December of 2000
we bought this building
from Christ Trinity, and
we moved over here,”
Satterwhite added.
“April 18, 1998, was the
official start date.”
There are 75 people
in Amigos’ congregation with the majority
of them being Hispanic.
The church sponsors
Boy Scout Troop 300
and Cub Scout Pack
300, offers a Teen Mom
program and a youth
music group.
“We have an active
music group that started
in 2002,” Satterwhite
said. “We had a young
man here from Chile, his
name is Cesar Palacios.
He’s an awesome musician. He had a dream
of starting a children’s
music group, to teach
them music from their
county and authentic,
traditional instruments.
“We didn’t have
money to pay him, so
my husband and I let
him stay at our house,”
she added. “We gave
him room-and-board in
exchange for teaching
our kids music. He did
that for two years.”
Later the church was
able to get a Missouri
Arts Council grant to
help with the music program.
“We still have an
Missouri Arts Council
grant, which pays for
music lessons for our
kids,” she added.
The church has two
music teachers, Jennifer Brown and Nathan
Edwards.
“They teach piano,
guitar, flute, marimba
and different kinds of
percussion,” Satterwhite
said.
Satterwhite noted the
church owns a Peruvian
zampoña, or pan flute,
but at present there are
no children interested in
playing the instrument.
“We have some new
musicians, new youngsters that are just coming up the ranks,” Satterwhite said.”We have
one little girl who is 5,
who is just doing fabulous.”
Edwards also gives
voice lessons for the
children.
“We’ve discovered this
one little guy who has a
Vienna Boy’s Choir-quality voice,” she noted. “It
is so awesome! Every
once in awhile, when
Nathan’s working with
him, we’ll hear this quality come through and
it’s so wonderful. I can’t
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BACA protecting, empowering abused children
By Faith Bemiss
visit of a perp, who was
still out of jail, and would
be in the child’s life someBikers Against Child
how. That would comAbuse has a common
pletely undo the progress
goal: to protect children
that they made.”
and to empower them.
Chandler said Lilly
BACA State Fair Chapcalled upon his friends
ter President and Child
who rode motorcycles.
Liaison Jeff Chandler,
“Twenty-five people
also known as Tank, said
showed up to do a levelthe group’s mission state- one, which is to go out
ment emphasizes that
and meet
they stand
the child,”
physically
“We are only here to he added.
and mentally empower that child.
When
with the
BACA
child so they We do not condone
conducts a
violence, but we
won’t have
level-one,
to be afraid
are an obstacle to
they already
and alone in violence.” — BACA
have backan abusive
ground hisState Fair Chapter
situation.
about
President and Child tory
BACA is
the child
Liaison Jeff “Tank” and usua national
organization Chandler.
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the began in
has been
Utah in 1980.
interviewed by an agency
“Chief (John Paul Lilly) prior to their arrival.
was the founder and he
Through BACA each
was a clinical therapist,”
child gets to select a
Chandler said. “What he
motorcycle “road name”
was finding was all the
and they are presented
progress that he would
with a vest with a patch
make with the children
bearing that name.
he was seeing could eas“They pick out a patch
ily be undone with one
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that we have, there are
five different ones,”
Chandler said. “Usually
it’s ‘Welcome to the Family’ or ‘I will Not Live
in Fear.’ We go out as
a chapter, we meet the
child and the child gets
two primaries.”
Primaries are specially
selected BACA members
who will work closely
with the child.
“The child has their
phone numbers and they
contact the child usually,
in the first month, about
once a week,” Chandler
said. “Then it might go
to every two weeks. It’s
as much as the child
needs or wants. The child
can contact the primary
anytime they want.
“If the child is afraid
and wakes up one night
with nightmares … they
call the primary and
we will go over there,”
he added. “We are only
here to empower that
child. We do not condone
violence, but we are an
obstacle to violence.”
BACA members recognize that they are
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
State Fair Chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse President Jeff “Tank” Chandler shows his BACA
patch that represents he’s been cleared by the FBI in a background check with the National Crime
Information Center. “No one is in BACA without being NCIC cleared,” he noted. Last year BACA helped
52 children in abusive situations.
not therapists and they
always encourage the
child to have therapy if
needed. Chandler said
they often don’t need to
know the particulars of
the cases they help with,
all they need to know is
the child was abused.
“Whether it’s physical,
sexual, mental, that’s all
we need to know,” he
noted. “When we take a
child on, once a BACA
child you are always a
BACA child.”
Chandler added that
once the child has gone
to court (if they do) and
the perpetrator is in jail,
BACA has a Heroes’ Ride
for them.
“They are our heroes,”
he said. “We’ll go out
and pick up the child and
take the child on a ride.
We give them a patch for
their vest that says ‘I am
a Hero.’
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night which will feature
a silent auction and
some other activities
from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 8.
“It is such a wonderful thing that so many
of our church members
have unique talents,”
Albrecht said. “That is
how we are planning to
get the addition to the
old schoolhouse on the
church grounds built,
by using the talents and
skills of the members.
“We will have to hire a
few individuals to pour
the floors and do the
exterior walls, but from
then we plan on completing most of the work
ourselves,” Albrecht
added.
Plans for the addition
focus on connecting to
the existing structure
through the schoolhouse
on the south (back) side
of the building.
“We want to have a
big picture window on
the south side so we
can overlook the valley,”
Albrecht said. “It is such
a beautiful setting there.
“We have faith that
this will happen in the
near future,” Albrecht
added. “Every Saturday
at Mass we say a special
prayer for the building
and the dedication of
those to see it become a
reality.”
Hope Lecchi | Democrat
St. John’s Catholic Church in Bahner is it appears today. The
church was first constructed in 1880 and is about to undergo a
building project to add additional space for a meeting hall. The
church itself will not be renovated but the schoolhouse on the
church grounds will be enlarged.
Hope Lecchi | Democrat
The front of the schoolhouse on the grounds of St. John’s Catholic
church is pictured prior to a renovations project. The church hosts
Mass Saturday evenings. Members of the church hope to begin an
addition to the structure later this year so they can accommodate
more guests to the church for special events including receptions
and their annual ice cream social.
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Ministerial Association
works together help community
board.
“There’s lots of coordination between aid
groups for families in
need,” McMullin said.
In addition to the aid
organizations, the PCMA
hosts summer lunches
for kids at Liberty Park
and solicits direct donations from community
members and businesses
to assist the needy. The
association organizes a
drive to provide children
with school supplies prior
to the start of each school
year. The group was also
instrumental in forming
the Interfaith Chapel at
Bothwell Regional Health
Center.
“It’s fantastic to see
a group of pastors get
together to solve problems,” said Pastor Richard Adams, who represents the Wesley United
Church. “We started this
organization after seeing
similar programs in other
cities and the benefits
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By Nicole Cooke
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It’s been a successful year for SedaliaPettis County United
Way, with a campaign
that raised almost
$500,000, the inaugural
Day of Caring and the
launch of the Community Impact Model.
While SPCUW didn’t
quite reach its 201516 campaign goal, all
those involved said
they still consider the
campaign an overall
success.
The goal of raising $506,696 for the
partner agencies
served by SPCUW was
announced during the
kick-off event in August
2015. As of Feb. 19 at
the annual campaign
wrap-up luncheon,
SPCUW was about
$27,000 short of that
goal, but 2015-16 Campaign Chair Deanna
Clark said she’s still
proud of everyone’s
efforts.
The 2015-16 campaign may have ended
short of the goal, but it
saw many new organizations and businesses
either donate for the
first time, revitalize
their United Way campaign, or increase their
giving. During her recognition of donors and
volunteers, Clark noted
that the businesses who
received a Gold Award
for donating $1,000 or
more made up the largest portion of money,
being responsible for
about $420,000.
Over the last year,
SPCUW has begun to
implement the first
steps of the Communi-
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leader, left, and Robert Parker install a Hiltie Anchor Oct. 10,
2015, during the SPCUW Day of Caring. Hillburn and Parker
were repairing, re-installing and painting a metal handrail for a
woman’s home on West Third Street.
Sometimes collaboration is the key to success
in helping the community.
That’s what members
of the Pettis County
Ministerial Association
have found since the
association of churches
was formed in the early
1980s.
“Our mission statement is to ‘celebrate what
we hold in common,”’
said First Christian
Church Pastor Chad
McMullin.
Church members representing several denominations throughout the
area jointly organize
fundraisers for assistance
organizations such as
The Salvation Army
and Open Door, which
was started by the association. Two of the association’s board members
serve on Open Door’s
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ty Impact Model, which
will occur alongside
campaign fundraising.
$15,000 from funds
raised has been allocated for the initiative,
focusing on increasing
the median income in
Pettis County, which
is $10,000 less than
the state average, said
Community Impact
Committee Chair Chris
Stewart during the luncheon.
SPCUW has long
operated solely on
the community chest
model — hosting an
annual campaign to
fund its partners —
but now it is a hybrid,
working on both community chest and community impact. Other
United Way agencies,
such as Columbia,
have transitioned to
only working on community impact, which
SPCUW Executive
Director Staci Harrison
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County United Way, help SPCUW Campaign Chair Deanna Clark
announce the 2015 campaign goal of $505,696 during the kickoff luncheon at Convention Hall.
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serve. The Association
helps strengthen communal aid.”
The members meet
monthly to work on fundraising and other projects
within the community.
They also host weekly
Bible study sessions for
pastors, host Baccalaureate for Smith-Cotton’s
senior class annually and
host Lenten breakfasts
every Wednesday morning during Lent at the
churches of various members.
“Our goal is to help out
anyone in need through
a coordinated effort,”
Adams said. “Quite often
according to need.”
PCMA members
encourage growth among
the association.
“There’s still room to
grow,” McMullin said.
“Our goal is to highlight
every ministry we can.”
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Progress 2016
D4 April 1, 2016
Sedalia Democrat
Cristo
From page D1
wait to see him grow up
and see how that voice
turns out.”
The Amigos de Cristo
music group often goes
out into the community
to perform.
“We just sang at the
Martin Luther King
Day,” Satterwhite said.
“We also sang at the
city’s Christmas party at
Convention Hall.”
The group has performed concerts in the
park, sang at local nursing homes, and sings
for the children’s play at
the church each Sunday.
They also accept invitations to sing.
“If anybody calls we’d
be glad to come,” Satterwhite added.
In February the
church received a new
grant that will expand
their services further.
“We received a small
grant from LCMS
(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) called
‘Stand by your Community.’” Satterwhite
said. One of the things
it does is enable us to
hire a part-time person
to help with social services, and we’ve hired
Gabriela Menjivar who
is an interpreter for the
Sedalia 200 schools.
The office is now open
for social services from
4 to 6 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday
afternoons, and on Tuesdays from 1 to 4.”
Janet Torres, who
began the Amigos’ Teen
Mom Program, plans to
use the grant to provide
three events each year.
The Teen Mom program
is doing well, Satterwhite said.
“That started out
because Janet worked at
the Bothwell Hospital
OB/GYN clinic,” she
added. “That’s where
she hooked into, wow,
these kids are having a
Submitted photos
Young men from Amigos de Cristo Church clean up mountains of leaves in a yard on South Stewart Avenue last fall. From left are Thomas Evans, Bryce Chalfant, Luis Sotelo
and Emilio Olivos. Sotelo is cinching up a large tarp; the young men raked a large number of leaves onto the tarp, then tied it into a huge bundle. It was then hoisted into a
pickup truck before taking it to the city’s site for composting.
really difficult time.”
Torres told the Democrat in October 2015
that lack of education
and no support for teen
mothers often results in
harm to the infant.
“I wanted something
local where we could
help them, and just
give them the basics,”
she said. “I know in
Warrensburg they have
something similar,
but it’s a little more
advanced.”
Torres added that the
program teaches the
young mothers what to
expect when they are
expecting.
“What’s going to
happen to you for the
next nine months,” she
noted.
Satterwhite said
the church has a new
fundraising program,
Servant’s Day, coming
up April 2. Boy Scout
Troop 300 and the
church’s music students
are planning to provide
spring cleaning for
those in the community
who need the service.
“We had a gentleman
who came here named
Larry King,” she said.
“Larry helped one of our
scouts with his Eagle
Project. Larry had a
problem with his back
and mentioned that he
still had fall leaves in his
yard.”
Satterwhite said she
told Boy Scout Troop
300 they needed service
hours and suggested
they rake the leaves in
King’s yard.
“They have to have
service hours for their
badges,” she added. “I
saw all these big boys
out there raking these
mountains of leaves and
I thought ‘you know
what, we could do a fundraiser like this.’”
By mid-February
the group had already
booked three people
who needed work done
in their yards. The
youth will work for up
to six hours in teams
of two with an adult
supervisor. Funds raised
will go toward the cost
of music lessons for the
music students and summer camp for the Boy
Scouts.
“We get a MAC (Missouri Arts Council)
Grant, and it’s just not
enough to cover the
whole year,” she said.
“We would run out of
funds by May if we
didn’t do any fundraising.”
The church has a third
grant that will cover a
youth program, but they
don’t have a youth director.
“We are looking for
somebody who can do
some meaningful things
with our youth, very
part-time,” she noted.
“We want education, we
want social activities
and we want spiritual
growth.”
For more information
about Amigos de Cristo
Church, call 826-2788.
Faith Bemiss can be reached at
530-0289 or @flbemiss.
Submitted photos
Amigos de Cristo Boy Scout Troop 300 member Antonio Olivos,
Eagle scout candidate, right, with Nathaniel Edwards, assistant
scout master, works on Olivos’s Eagle project on a very cold day
this winter. Olivos built a fence around the church’s trash can area
and built a box for storage of outdoor balls and other outdoor toys
in the backyard for his Eagle project.
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Progress 2016
tSedalia Democrat
Children
From page D1
“As long as the child
has got to the point
where they’re empowered, then we try to wean
them off of us,” he added.
“We will eventually put
them on the inactive list,
but they will still have a
primary and the helpline.
We’re there as much as
the child needs us.”
In the past year BACA
has helped 52 children.
“A lot of those are inactive, but unfortunately
the phone keeps ringing,”
he said. “I’ve already had
six calls this year on the
helpline.”
If need be, BACA members will go to court with
the child.
“We’ll pick the child up
at the house and escort
the child to the court if
that’s what they want,”
Chandler said. “The child
gets all the say in what
we do. The child always
has a choice. They have
a choice whether they go
United
From page D3
laborate on important
issues.
“Community impact
is looking at the areas
of health, education and
income to identify solutions to the most critical
issues in the community
that’s holding us back,”
Harrison explained.
“Finding ways for our
community to continue
to collaborate and build
upon what we are doing
in those three areas.”
Harrison said as a
board, and after talking with community
members and SPCUW
partners, they have
decided the target goal
on the rides with us or
not. Most do, there’s a
few who still are a little
afraid of the bikes.”
BACA members go
through extensive training before they are
allowed to work with
a child. Chandler said
he and his wife Dina
“Stiletto” Chandler went
through 20 months of
training before receiving
patches. All members
start out as a supporter
and train to receive their
patches.
“No one is in BACA
with out being NCIC
(National Crime Information Center) cleared,”
he noted. “It’s an FBI
background check. We
fingerprint everybody.
“Once we get the
results back from the
fingerprinting, if they are
cleared, they get a NCIC
patch,” he added. “That
represents that they have
been cleared. So, any
BACA member that sees
that will know.”
Once a BACA member
has been cleared they
begin supporter training.
Training usually takes a
least a year.
“There is a lot of training that goes into that,”
he added. “A year is just
a guideline.”
BACA works with
other agencies such as
the Pettis County Division of Family Services,
Pathways Community
Health, Child Safe of
Central Missouri Inc. and
the courts.
“Sometimes the court
will call us and say they
have a case coming up,”
Chandler said.
People also contact
BACA through the
group’s helpline.
During the year BACA
children aren’t forgotten by the group. Each
year BACA provides two
parties for all the BACA
children they have helped
in the local area, a summer outing and picnic
and a Christmas party
complete with multiple
presents, food and a visit
from Santa.
When fundraising
April 1, 2016 D5
events occur the money
raised goes toward the
annual BACA children’s
parties or it is sometimes
used for therapy if a child
has no health insurance.
“All of the money we
raise from fundraising
and donations, that
money goes into a fund,”
Chandler said. “We have
a therapy fund. If the
child’s parents do not
have insurance or if they
are not on Medicaid, we
will work with Pathways
and we will help fund the
therapy.
“We do try to get
the child into therapy
because without therapy
it’s hard to make progress in empowering that
child,” he added. “Just
being there isn’t always
enough.”
Chandler said BACA
depends on the public’s
help.
“April is our child
abuse awareness month,”
he noted. “Come April
every Saturday and Sunday you will see us out
at Walmart and different
restaurants. We’ll have
Faith Bemiss | Democrat
BACA recently had a table at the Cabin Fever Sports Show on the
Missouri State Fairgrounds in February. The group is a 501-C3 nonprofit and members are all volunteers.
things set up where we’ll
stand outside and pass
out our brochures and
child abuse awareness
pamphlets.”
For more information,
visit www.bacaworld.org.
For child abuse help, call
the State Fair Chapter of
BACA helpline at 1-800414-4141.
Faith Bemiss can be reached at
530-0289 or @flbemiss.
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grade reading level, and
improving attendance.
Harrison and Stewart
have been meeting with
school district superintendents in the county
to create plans to reach
those goals.
Oct. 10, 2015, was the
first Day of Caring for
SPCUW and another
one is planned for this
October; about 140
volunteers gathered for
the inaugural event.
Stewart said projects
like that will help create
“yearlong relevance” for
United Way in the area.
Harrison told the
Democrat in October
that the Day of Caring
is an opportunity for
people who may not
have the financial ability to give back to their
community, but have talents and skills to do so.
“There’s also people
in our community that
need help,” she added.
“This was an opportunity to pair those two
groups of people. Really,
it’s just a large event
of neighbors helping
neighbors.”
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