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January 6, 2008
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Leonard Griswell works 45 to 50 hours a week at Shakespeare's Pizza and says he doesn't have too much time to juggle. On Sunday afternoon, he practiced his hobby in Peace Park. "I was going to ride my motorcycle today but the battery was dead so I decided to come here and juggle. The warm weather is going to be brief so I just want to make the best of it," he said. Griswell started juggling 10 years ago while living with two professional jugglers in San Francisco.
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MU men's diving team members, sophomore Ryan Meeker, left, and senior David Boyko decided to take their workout outside on Saturday. David said why run on a treadmill when you can come outside and enjoy this great day.
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Charlie Williams, a 16-year-old student at Hickman High School, took advantage of the warm weather on Saturday to practice on one of the basketball courts in Douglass Park Williams He is a member of the Columbia Youth Basketball team.
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Elaine Walker, far left, Dr. Tessa Marshall, third from the right, Autumn Dunivan, second from the right and Derek Caudill, farthest right, look on as Bob Walker, Elaine's husband, pushes a sickly calf from its house. About every other week, students from Mizzou's school of veterinary medicine come out to the Walker farm to help immunize and look after the calves.
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Elaine Walker, far left, Dr. Tessa Marshall, third from the right, Autumn Dunivan, second from the right and Derek Caudill, farthest right, look on as Bob Walker, Elaine's husband, pushes a sickly calf from its house. About every other week, students from Mizzou's school of veterinary medicine come out to the Walker farm to help immunize and look after the calves.
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Egleases Cooter, center, takes a shot at Hillbilly Golf, also known as Canadian Horseshoe, at a friends BBQ Sunday while Sandra Garten, left, Scott Rawlings and Paul Craig, right, watch. The warm weather brought friends together for their first BBQ of the year.
Full day on a farm
Elaine Walker collects eggs she missed the night before. Walker raises about 20 chickens, some of which she calls "Easter Egg" chickens because they lay multi-colored eggs.
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Elaine Walker takes her buggy horse, Ace, on a ride. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon Walker hitches up Ace and takes him to visit her parents who live just a couple of miles down the road in Hatton, MO.
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Elaine Walker takes her buggy horse, Ace, on a ride. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon Walker hitches up Ace and takes him to visit her parents who live just a couple of miles down the road in Hatton, MO.
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Elaine Walker records the immunization and temperature of several Holstein calves on Tues., Nov. 22. The Walkers raise bottle calves for Echo-L Dairy Farms, which is just a few miles down the road from their home.
January 5, 2008
Bluffs to get $810,588 from U.S. for new Alzheimer's center
Karen Enyard, director of The Bluffs' Alzheimer's wing, reviews drawings for the proposed center.
Book explores the life of a man convicted of creating a catastrophe
On July 17, 1993, one day after the West Quincy levee break, 14,000 acres of land flooded. Two bridges are visible: the Memorial Bridge, front, had been underwater for over a week. Right is the Bayview Bridge the only way to cross the Mississippi between St. Louis and Keokuk, Iowa.
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The cover of Adam Pitluk's book, "Damned to Eternity." The book was released Jan. 1.
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Adam Pitluk, author of "Damned to Eternity" and a 1999 graduate of the MU Journalism School.
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Sandbaggers try to block floodwaters in Quincy, Ill., on July 13, 1993. James Scott had volunteered in the effort to contain the flood only to become the focus of the blame.
January 4, 2008
Kansas defense surprises Virginia Tech in Orange Bowl
Kansas' Aqib Talib flips the ball after scoring a touchdown against Virginia Tech on an interception return in the first quarter.
MU nursing student donates bone marrow to stranger
Katie Quinn, an MU nursing student, volunteered to donate her peripheral blood stem cells after learning that she was a perfect DNA match for a 22-year-old girl with acute leukemia. Quinn has never met the woman.
Columbia vocal coach still going strong at 80
Harry Morrison, who taught voice at MU for 30 years, poses in front of the piano in his home.
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Harry Morrison has been choir conductor for First Presbyterian for more than 37 years.
Virginia church attempts to include diverse flock
Wendel Cover, pastor of Word of Life Assembly of God Church in Springfield, Va., greets twins Curtis and Otis Ofori after a recent service.
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