Obituary -- Vivian Grace 1915-2016

Vivian Isabel (Hardy) Grace, age 100, second child of Jesse and Belle (Gray) Hardy, born December 7, 1915 at the farm home North of Grant City, Missouri, died Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Mosaic Life Care, St. Joseph, Missouri.

She completed her primary schooling at Hass (Haas) School, Worth County, Missouri and graduated from Grant City High School in 1933 after which she attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, Maryville, Missouri.  On July 18, 1934, Vivian married Clifford P. Grace also of Grant City.   The couple lived in Eldora, Colorado and Wichita, Kansas before returning to the Grant City area in 1948.

Vivian was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, her parents, two sisters and two brothers.  She is survived by daughter Nancy Ulibarri and her husband Frank, Blue Springs, Missouri; daughter Teddee Grace, Boulder, Colorado; and son Clifford Patrick Grace and wife Vera-Jo, Tacoma, Washington; four granddaughters; three great grandsons; and two great granddaughters.

Vivian was an active member of the Denver, Missouri, Methodist Church and had served as a foster parent and a caregiver to many children as a day care operator in Albany, Missouri, and at her home.

After her husband’s death in 1975 she continued to live on the family farm.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, January 23, 2016, at the Andrews-Hann Funeral Home in Grant City.  The family will receive friends from 1-2 P.M. prior to the services.  Burial will be in Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Denver, Missouri.

NEN to Hold Hypnotist Show

Hypnotist B.J. Talley will come and perform a hypnotist act Friday, February 19th at 7 pm at Northeast Nodaway. Proceeds will benefit the Northeast Nodaway After-Prom. Tickets can be purchased at school or at the door; call Northeast Nodaway School at (660) 937-3125 for more information. The NEN Freshman Class will have a concession stand open before the show and during intermission.

Ticket prices are $7 for 7th grade and up, $5 for kindergarten to 6th grade, and free for preschool. The snow and ice date will be Friday, February 26th.

Jill Spire Nets 20 as NEN Girls Down Trojans

Northeast Nodaway came racing out of the gate in 2016, picking up their third straight win, downing Union Star 48-31 last Monday in Union Star. They took an 11-2 lead after one and put the game away in the third quarter, outscoring the Trojans 14-5 in getting the win.

Jill Spire led the Bluejays with 20 points. Dallis Coffelt had 10, Taylor Coffelt 5, and Vanessa Riley, Talina Nelson, and Allie Runde had 2 each. Northeast was 7 for 16 from the free throw line.

For Union Star, Alicia Sondregger did all she could, getting 16 points and two 3-pointers for her team. Hannah Cliben had 10 points.

NEN Girls Down Cards; Winning Streak Reaches Five

Northeast Nodaway’s girls ran their winning streak to five as their picked up their 8th win of the season, downing Stewartsville 44-32 Friday night. It didn’t look that way at first as they fell into a 9-4 hole after one quarter. But then they fought back to take a 13-12 halftime lead and then put the Cardinals away with a 19-4 third quarter.

Dallis Coffelt led the scoring for Northeast with 15 points. Jill Spire had 14, Makayla Adwell had 7, Allie Runde 4, and Vanessa Riley and Taylor Coffelt each 2.

Tiger Boys Throw Scare Into Powerhouse Gallatin

The Tigers already have shown that they can beat good teams. However, challenging elite teams has been a struggle until Friday night’s game against Gallatin Friday. Worth County used an 18-9 second quarter to take a 39-33 lead in a high scoring first half. Worth County threatened to fall apart in the third after being outscored 25-12 in that frame, but then came back and outscored the Bulldogs 14-10 in the fourth to make the final 68-65.

Nine different Tigers got on the board for Bryce Schafer’s Tigers. Cade Allee had another double figure game with 16. Drake Kinsella had 15, Brevyn Ross 10, Ryan McClellan had 7, Drake Simmons 6, Isaac Alarcon 5, Chris Alarcon 2, Mason Hawk 2, and Ben Badell 2.

The Tigers used the long ball to stay in the game, getting ten triples. Cade Allee had 3, Drake Kinsella 2, Drake Simmons 2, and Brevyn Ross, Ryan McClellan, and Isaac Alarcon each had one.

Worth County Sheriff's Report

1-4 – Person in about lost CCW permit.
1-4 – Resident calls about someone using her driveway.
1-4 – Out of county resident calls about Facebook posting.
1-4 – Officer transports prisoners from jail to court.
1-4 – Two residents in to apply for concealed carry permit.
1-5 – Highway Patrol officer in office.
1-6 – Resident wants officer to check on her house.
1-7 – Officer called to residence in Grant City over juvenile problem.
1-7 – Officers on court duty.
1-7 – Person stuck in ditch, needs assistance.
1-8 – Report of car in ditch near 246 & 46; wrecker en route to help.
1-8 – Highway Patrol in to do interviews.
1-8 – Person in to renew CCW permit.
1-8 – 911 call of house alarm in rural Worth County.
1-9 – Officer transports three male subjects to jail on a 24-hour hold.

Bullying a Major Issue for NW Missouri, Country

Recently, the Maryville Daily Forum printed a headline, “North Nodaway Bullies Shamrocks in Transition for Victory.” We expressed our disapproval of the headline on Facebook and got over 40 likes from people in all three of the school communities that we cover, North Nodaway, Worth County, and Northeast Nodaway as well as a few from North Harrison. This shows that bullying continues to be a major issue for the area as well as the country. The website NoBullying.com is part of a worldwide movement against bullying and has 650,000 monthly visitors, with the stated goal of reaching 1 million in the near future. They are an online community for anyone who needs help dealing with all kinds of bullying.

Stopping bullying depends on recognizing it for what it is. Bullying does not necessarily involve physical violence, although it can include that. The US Department of Health and Human Services has a website, stopbullying.gov, which defines bullying as unwanted aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance that is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated over time. This includes such actions as threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. It can include telling someone, “Go play by yourself!”

The site breaks down bullying further. Verbal bullying includes such actions as teasing, name-calling, inappropriate comments, taunting, or threats. Social bullying includes leaving someone out on purpose, telling people not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors, or embarrassing someone in public. Physical bullying can include hitting/kicking/punching, spitting, tripping/pushing, taking or breaking someone’s things, or making mean or rude hand gestures.

With the rise of social media such as Facebook and Snapchat, cyberbulling has become an increasingly important issue. It can be just as harmful as other kinds of bullying. The Cyberbullying Research Center has a website, www.cyberbullying.org, which is specifically dedicated to addressing it. Two testimonials on that site demonstrate the harmful effects of online bullying:

I'm sure you've all heard about this new site formspring.me. It's a truly horrible site. It gives bullies a chance to verbally insult people without putting a face or a name to them. It wears people down after a while and only causes drama. I was harassed for a good amount of time on it when I had one. It caused drama between a good friend of mine and me. Thankfully we resolved it. People also thought it was their business to know about my boyfriend and I, and would constantly ask questions, and my parents also saw these too. Formspring.me should be deleted. It will only cause hurt for teenagers around the world." - 15 year-old girl from CA

"I have been friends with this person for 3 years now. Well best friends. I never thought she could do this to me. She's lying and getting our friends on her said. All i can do is watch. She's called me " Ugly RagDoll , Useless , Babied all my life , Jealous , I need to grow up , unpopular , I can go and riot under a rock! Who says these kinds of things? Only someone that is heartless and that has never been bullied before. They don't know how it feels i guess." - 12 year-old girl from MI

The site notes that cyberbullying causes victims to have low self-esteem, suicidal ideation, anger, frustration, and other emotional and psychological problems. It is related to other real world issues such as school problems, anti-social behavior, substance use, and delinquency. While the Centers for Disease Control reports that cyberbullying has declined from 2011 to 2013, with 14.8% of students reporting that they had been bullied in 2013 as opposed to 16.2% in 2011, it continues to be a problem in this country.

The site PACER.org is a Minnesota-based site that focused on disabled children and has a section on bullying. Possible warning signs that your child is being bullied include depression, anxiety, sleep difficulty, and poor school adjustment. Children who bully others experience problems as well, including substance use, academic problems, and violence later in adolescence and adulthood. Youth victimized by peers are 3.3 times more likely to report a suicide attempt than youth who reported not being bullied. The site suicide.org has a Suicide Prevention Hotline for this area; it is (888) 279-8188. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911.

PACER notes that intervention from others makes a significant difference in the occurrence of bullying and that proper support from others makes a positive difference. Some of the most helpful things teachers or other adults can do include listening, checking in with the child to ensure that it has stopped, and constructive advice. Some of the least helpful things an adult can do is tell the child to solve the problem themselves, tell the student that bullying wouldn’t happen if they acted differently, ignoring the problem, or telling the student to stop tattling. Supportive actions from peers and bystanders can make an even bigger difference in stopping bullying than actions by adults.
If you or someone you know is a target of real-life or online bullying or violence, the State of Missouri has a school violence hotline at (866) 748-7047 toll free. You may fill out a form online at schoolviolencehotline.com, download a free Mo ReportIt app from your App store, or text to 847411 using keyword “Reportit” and include your school name and city.