Volume 105 Number 106 Wednesday, June 3, 2015 PO Box 188 111 E. Jenkins Maryville, MO 75

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Making progress

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Getting closerThe new Caseys General Store being built on East First Street near the Highway 71 junction is getting closer to completion. Workers have had to fight rainy weather for the past few weeks, but were able to get out and work on Tuesday, pouring concrete for the parking lot.

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Dough masterAli Elzen of Alis Bakery talks about the different kinds of doughnuts he makes fresh daily for sale at his coffee-and-pastry shop located on Sixth Street north of the courthouse square. This Friday is National Doughnut Day, which was first cel-ebrated as a Salvation Army fundraiser in Chicago in 1938.

Doughnut Day offers sweet inspirationBy TONY BROWNStaff writer

Memorial Day is over, which means there wont be another summer holiday until the Fourth of July, right?

Wrong.You may never have heard

of it, but the day after tomor-row marks one of the sweet-est, tastiest tributes on the cal-endar National Doughnut Day, traditionally celebrated on the first Friday in June.

True, nobody gets off work on National Doughnut Day, but at least youre allowed to feel a bit less guilty about stopping off for a big glazed number and a cup of coffee on the way into the office. In fact, why not order up one of those calorie bombs with the choco-late icing and sprinkles?

After all, National Dough-

nut Day comes but once a year.

And yes, this is a real if very unofficial holiday.

A quick Google search re-veals that National Doughnut Day, originally just Donut Day, was established by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the contributions 20 years earlier of donut lass-ies during World War I. The lassies were Salvation Army overseas volunteers, mostly young women, who started making doughnuts and serv-ing them to American sol-diers fighting in France.

According to some ac-counts, the doughnuts were often prepared using an up-side-down helmet as a deep fryer and led to members of the American Expeditionary Forces being called dough-

See HOLE-Y, Page 6

Care home names new administratorBy TONY BROWNStaff writer

Parkdale Manor Care Center, a residential nursing facility at 814 W. South Ave. in Maryville, has a new administrator.

Jim Carrithers, Jr., of St. Joseph, took up his new duties at the care home this week and succeeds former administrator Wally Gray, who retired from Parkdale after 33 years.

A 17-year eldercare veteran, Carrithers served until re-cently as administrator of the Saxton Health Care Inn in St. Joseph, which was acquired a year ago by Tennesse-based Diversicare.

The Saxton/Diversicare facility comprises 120 skilled nursing beds along with 16 units certified for independent living.

Parkdale, in contrast, currently serves about 45 residents living in a selection of semi-private rooms, couples units and private rooms all rated for skilled nursing. The home is owned by Juckette Management Services in Chillicothe.

Before going to work for Saxton, Carrithers served as ad-ministrator for care homes in Savannah and Maysville and earlier in his career worked as a senior account executive for Cellular One in St. Joseph and as a manufacturing dis-patcher for General Dynamics in San Diego, California.

After growing up in Freeport, Illinois, Carrithers moved

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On boardJim Carrithers, Jr. recently assumed the top administrative post at Parkdale Manor Care Center in Maryville and is to oversee a planned interior remodel of the skilled nursing fa-cility scheduled for next fall.

See PARKDALE, Page 3