A St. Joseph woman was injured in a rollover accident Thursday afternoon.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said 24-year-old Shelby M. Cain was heading southbound on I-29 in an SUV when she swerved to avoid another vehicle. Cain over corrected and skidded off the west side of the roadway. The SUV struck a sign, then a ditch and
overturned. The SUV came to rest on its top facing south east.
Two children, one 4-year-old girl and one 3-year old boy, were passengers in the SUV.
They were uninjured and released to a relative on the scene. Cain was transported by Buchanan County EMS to Mosaic Life Care.
Monarchs are taking a special emphasis in St. Joseph next month.
“People are becoming aware of the plight of the Monarchs over the past couple of years,” said David Laderoute, Regional Coordinator for the Northwest Region of Missourians for Monrachs.
Laderoute said St. Joseph Mayor Bill Falkner will declare May as Monarch and Milkweed month during the City Council Meeting Monday evening.
Laderoute said the population of Monarchs has declined over the past 20 years which has been caused due to a number of factors.
“It’s not just one thing. It includes deforestation in Mexico–a lot of it illegal; loss of habitat here in the United States through changing farm practices and urban sprawl which is eating up a lot of land,” Laderoute said.
Milkweed is a key component to the survival of the Monarch.
“A lot of people don’t know it, but one plant in particular which they also use as a nectar and pollen source is the milkweed plant. If there’s no milkweed then there’s no Monarchs,” Laderoute said.
He said the community can help in several different ways.
“Anybody can help by planting both milkweed and any other plants Monarchs will like to use as a pollen and nectar source,” he said.
Laderoute said the Monarchs plays an important role in nature.
“They’re a wonderful pollinator. They do a marvelous job of flying from one flower to another and pollinating it,” Laderoute said.
For more information contact David Laderoute at (816) 262-2074
Guests of the 3rd annual Beer Walk for the Arts visit with each other at the Wyeth Tootle Mansion in St. Joseph, Mo., April 25, 2015. (Photo courtesy of Allied Arts Council)
The public has been invited out to have a beer and take a walk to benefit the arts in St. Joseph.
Teresa Fankhauser, Executive Director of the Allied Arts Council said it’s way to get the community involved.
“It’s really important that we find fun ways to bring awareness about the arts to our community and it’s also a way for us to raise addition funds,” said Fankhauser.
Amy Jackson with the Beerwalk committee said the Allied Arts Council’s 4th Annual Beer Walk For The Arts is being held on Saturday, April 30th from 2-5pm.
“It’s in Museum Hill. This is our fourth year. We’ll have six homes featured on Beerwalk and we’re going to have beer samples, local food samples, live music and beautiful architecture,” said Jackson.
Jackson said during the Beerwalk participants will go inside homes from the St. Joseph’s Museum Hill Neighborhood and sample various beers.
“Basically how it works is you’re going to go buy your ticket, either at Hy-Vee or the Allied Arts Council office, the chamber office or on Eventbright,” Jackson said. “The Beerwalk starts at The Dome which is the old Christian Science Church. Check-in is there and then you’re going to be handed a map and sent on your way. There are two samples of beer at each home and then a full beer at the very end. So, you’re going to taste a wide variety of beers.”
In addition to the beer, food and architecture, Jackson said live music will be performed by local musicians.
“We have live music at each location. All local music,” Jackson said. “For the most part they play acoustic which is kind of a laid back, leisurely way of going about the afternoon.”
Tickets are 35 dollars per person, or 50 dollars for a pair. Jackson said it’s not a good idea to wait to the last minute to buy tickets.
“The past three years we’ve sold out,” Jackson said. “I wouldn’t even wait until the day of to get your ticket. You should probably buy it in advance if you’re real eager to go.”
All the proceeds benefit the Arts Fund, which supports Creative Arts Productions, Performing Arts Association, RiverSong, St. Joseph Community Chorus, St. Joseph Symphony, and the Allied Arts Council.
HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina city is bracing for an economic hit if thousands stay away from what’s billed as the world’s largest furniture market.
Organizers say thousands could boycott the semiannual High Point Market to protest a new North Carolina law that limits protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. About 75,000 buyers, sellers and other industry insiders usually cram into High Point for the market, which opens Saturday. The next is scheduled for October.
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who co-authored a market impact study says if 2,000 people boycott the market, it could mean $15 million in lost tourism spending. T. William Lester also says a 5 percent drop in market sales could mean more than $100 million less for North Carolina furniture manufacturers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have pushed legislation through the House that would bar the government from regulating rates that high-speed Internet service providers charge consumers.
House approval came on a near party-line 241-173 vote. With the Senate yet to act and facing a promised veto from the Obama administration, the measure faces long odds of enactment.
Federal Communications Commission has said it has no intention of regulating broadband Internet service rates. Republicans argued that the Obama administration could not be trusted and said the bill would enshrine that principle into law so the commission could not change its mind in the future.
Republicans say competition could be stifled unless lawmakers bar the government from retroactively reviewing rates that broadband providers have imposed.
Democrats say the bill’s language is too broad and could weaken the FCC’s ability to protect consumers. They also say it could erode the net neutrality rules the commission adopted last year, which require service providers to treat all Web traffic the same, such as barring telephone and cable companies from intentionally slowing some content.
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than a million Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks worldwide because the seat belts may not hold people in a crash.
The recall covers certain model 1500 pickups from the 2014 and 2015 model years. GM says a steel cable that connects the belts to the trucks can wear and separate over time. If that happens, the belts could come loose.
The company says it found the problem by analyzing warranty data. GM says there haven’t been any reports of crashes or injuries.
Dealers will enlarge an opening and install a bracket on the cable tensioner. If necessary they’ll replace the tensioner.
Most of the trucks are in the U.S. and Canada, but some are in Latin America and the Middle East.
A St. Joseph woman was injured in a rollover accident Thursday afternoon.
Monarchs are taking a special emphasis in St. Joseph next month.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have pushed legislation through the House that would bar the government from regulating rates that high-speed Internet service providers charge consumers.
