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Sunday News-Leader November 19, 2006 3B Missouri Around ozarks Scout works to map cemetery Eagle Scout project hopes to help people find sites among the more than 320 graves. By Greg Miller grave sites that way. More than 320 graves are known to be in the cemetery, and Mary Helen Allen, a member of the Walnut Grove Church Cemetery board, said more resting places are waiting to found. DON SHRUBSHELL COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Ken Hainsworth (right), 16, copies headstone information at the Walnut Grove Church Cemetery with the help of friends. COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE Columbia when it comes to popular spots for grandmother-grandson bonding, cemeteries probably aren't high on the list.

But on a recent morning, Sonja Nor- dyke and Ken Hains- worth stomped around Walnut Grove Church Cemetery in rural Boone County. "Ten-point-zero-three," Ken said, jotting down the figure with his ungloved right hand. "Did you get it, hon?" Nordyke asked her grandson. "Yeah, .03," Ken said. "Are you asking, or are you stating?" Nordyke asked.

Nordyke was one of about a dozen family members, friends and Boy Scouts who went to the small cemetery near Rocheport Gravel Road and Route to help Ken survey the graveyard. A 16-year-old Scout in Troop 233, Ken chose to make a map of the cemetery to help him qualify to become an Eagle Scout. "I thought it sounded kind of cool because it's not really a run-of-the-mill Eagle Scout project," the Rock Bridge High School junior said. "There's just a big list of names right now. I'll be able to make a map of that, and people will be able to find" Libraries "We are continually finding out about more people that are there that we don't Columbia Springfield know about," Allen said.

"I've been working on this, grave by grave, for the last four years. It's very tedious." After being put in touch with Allen by a friend, Ken recruited Mark Child, a Yale University graduate with a doctorate in archaeology, to help with the survey. Ken knew Child from church. "All you need is just geometry," Child said while retrieving a few spools of measuring tape. "This is old-form archaeology." To create a map with tape measures, pencils and paper, Child and Ken reached the cemetery about 6:30 on a recent morning and set up stakes every 20 meters on the perimeter, along a chain-link fence, to act as data points.

Tape measures were then stretched from two different data points to the same headstone, the distances were recorded, the stone's information was documented and the surveyors moved to another stone all 320 to Kansas IP City St. Louis Springfield Nevada Bolivar Lamar (160 Willard Carthage Joplin Republii Battlefield Nlxa Monett 0 Cassville Neosho 65 Branson 25 MILES REPUBLIC Sign up by Monday for coed volleyball tourney The Republic Parks and Recreation Department will host a coed adult volleyball tournament Dec. 2. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

at the Republic Community Center, 711 E. Miller Road. Participants must register by Monday. The tournament fee is $90 per team. Contact Recreation Supervisor Allison Davis at 732-3500 for more information.

SPRINGFIELD Family, career night for students and families A family night and career and information fair titled "The Game of Life Living, Choosing, Winning" will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at Central High School, 423 Central St. There will be information on physical and mental health, relationships, gang activity, careers, post-secondary opportunities, academic-related choices, attendance and more. Representatives from community groups, local sports teams and service organizations will be available to answer questions. Michael Car-lie from Missouri State Uni the Camdraton Rolla Waynesville 44 Fort Leonard Wood Llckino Houston Lebanon Buffalo Strafford Marshfleld inqfield Cabool Rooerivllle Mansfield Ozark CAva West Plains Gainesville versity will be the keynote speaker.

A free dinner will be served, and each family will be given an 8-by-10 portrait by a professional photographer. There will be a raffle, with iPods, televisions and computers given away. The event is sponsored by Drury University's "Home, School and Community" graduate-level class, its Comer Collaborative Partnership, its College Bound Program and the Community Partnership's Caring Communities Initiative. The event is free and open to the public but targeted to K-12 students and their families. Evangel sets open house for adult education Evangel University will hold an open house Monday for adults interested in the school's degree completion program.

The p.m. reception will be held in the west lobby of Academic Building which faces Glenstone Avenue, just north of the flagpole. Evangel's adult education program offers bachelor's degrees in management, communication and human services, as well as an associate of arts degree in general education. For more information, call 865-2811 Lisa Tyson, ext. 8267 or Stephanie Barnes, ext.

8276, in the Graduate and Professional Studies office. can help with holiday recipes Popularity of cooking shows has increased patrons' appetite for cookbooks and DVDs. Allen's grandmother, a member of the McQuitty family, is well represented in the nearly 3-acre cemetery. Allen is working on a book about the occupants of Walnut Grove and can recount tales of respected ministers, murders and area tragedies. "You kind of start living back there," Allen said.

"You just never know what you're going to find." As Ken studied his purple folder crammed with numbers, Child stood back, observing. The 37-year-old archaeologist said it would take time to compile the numbers onto a map to scale, but he was happy to help Ken because they share the same goal. "We want to be able to print out a large map so anyone who ever came here could find their ancestors," he said. "We're trying to provide a service for the public." with the Plimoth Plantation living history museum. The more than 80 recipes run the gamut from New England roast turkey and Indiana persimmon pudding to oyster stew and 1950s-era mold gelatin salads.

"The Thanksgiving Table: Recipes and Ideas to Create Your Own Holiday Tradition" by Diane Morgan has a chapter of vegetarian entrees, but mostly provides the traditional and contemporary dishes with a different twist. "Perfect Light Desserts: Fabulous Desserts with Fewer Calories" by Nick Malgieri and David Joachim uses moderate amounts and careful proportions to lighten up the calorie intake toward the end of those holiday feasts. Jeanne C. Duffey, community relations director for the Springfield-Greene County Library District, can be reached at jeannedimail.sgcl.org. help Talent bilize GOP loyalists, a strat mrfknliinnf onnaa.fAh,: bilize GOP loyalists, a strategy that did not appear to have bolstered Talent's campaign.

"It didn't seem to make any difference," Rushefsky said. "Talent carried Greene County, but he didn't carry it as much as he had done before. Part of that is the president is very unpopular. So what he was able to do is try to get the bases to come out." And that effort failed to attract the county's independent or undecided voters, such as Miller. McCaskill's way of conversing with "average people" appealed to him, he said.

"Talent would have done better if Bush stayed away," said Miller, who is opposed to the war in Iraq. take similar measurements. "We should be able to get all the measurements today," Child said, as his footsteps sank into moist ground. "I'm hoping." Church history Walnut Grove Church was founded in 1835 after a group of parishioners broke away from a neighboring house of worship over a disagreement on the future of their missionary work. The history Allen has been able to uncover since then has been limited, but she does know the church gave away its pews in the 1920s.

"We're kind of guessing that's about the time they disbanded," she said. Allen, 64, said she was drawn to get involved with the cemetery association because of her connection to the plot and because she is interested in history. You might also try his book, "Nick Stellino's Glorious Italian Cooking." Need other ideas for your holiday feasts? Here are few more new and recently released cookbooks that you can check out from the library. "The Bon Appetit Cookbook" by Barbara Fairchild contains 1,200 recipes collected from the popular cooking magazine now 50 years old. The book's editor describes the recipes as classics "with a sophisticated twist" and easy to make using reliable techniques.

Example: Pan-Seared Chicken with Goat Cheese Mashed Potatoes. "Giving Thanks: Thanksgiving Recipes and History, from Pilgrims to Pumpkin Pie" by Kathleen Curtin and Sandra L. Oliver is a food history written in conjunction campaign, recog nized the need to pay extra attention to southwest Missouri after losing the gubernatorial bid in 2002. Following the 2002 race, the state auditor said she did not spend enough time in the region, which may have cost her that election. Fast forward to the recent Election Day, when McCaskill dropped by Springfield's Delaware Elementary School to greet supporters and push her campaign's get-out-the-vote effort.

Talent was in Springfield the day before Election Day. And before that, President George Bush stumped in Springfield and Joplin to mo What is it about the holidays that send us scurrying to the cookbook shelf for recipes? All year around we dish up the food, but at this time of the year, we want our menus to be special. And that's where the Springfield-Greene County Library District can be as helpful as a KitchenAid mixer. "You can probably find cookbooks and DVDs from almost At the Jeanne DUFFEY likhaiiy CADI 'C: FREE'SOCKS" A 'jsPtz 7th rcha.s1 of I 417-869-3615 closed toe styles. Friday Saturday tf V0 1 Nov.

24th 25th Only Sale Items exluded Jr all of the Food Network chefs in our collection," said Lisa Sampley, whose job is to buy the materials for the eight library branches and bookmobile. "Patron demand for cookbooks has always been high, but with the popularity of cooking shows, it's expanded even more. Sampley recommends the DVDs by Paula Deen, host of "Paula's Home Cooking" show, and Alton Brown's books and DVDs. "His cooking show has a scientific bent with a lot of historical background, measurements and techniques," she said. Does onion-glazed pot roast and baked pasta sound good to you? It's on a DVD from chef Nick Stellino's PBS program, "Cucina Amore." voted for the stem cell (amendment) would tend to vote for McCaskill," Rushefsky said.

"If you looked at the returns, the two were going in lock step." Since the election, Talent has noted that his campaign could not overcome the national consensus regarding the Republican Party. Rushefsky agreed with his observation. "It was just not a good year to be a Republican no Democratic incumbent lost in the House, the Senate or governor's race," he said. "Not only did the Democrats capture the House and the Senate, but they also have a majority of the governors' races." Election: Bush's support didn't seem to Continued from Page IB "By and large, those who Even before the Senate Ul i- -1 1.1 KCnA nrmv would've McCaskill 2006 senatorial races don't offer a strict apples-to-apples comparison, 2006's closer margins may point to contributing election factors, including get-out-the-vote efforts and national issues ranging from the country's sentiment on the war in Iraq to the Rep. Mark Foley scandal to the statewide stem cell initiative.

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