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Soren Blamey, 8, takes a closer look at a black swallowtail in the children’s petting zoo during the Butterfly Festival
at Close Memorial Park on Sunday. The festival is a fundraiser for the Close Memorial Park.
Delaney Mann, 3, holds her but-
terfly fan that she made during the
festival.
Cole Tyndall, 3, looks through a
magnifying glass in the petting
zoo on Sunday.
Melah Nelson, 10, has a butterfly
painted onto her face by Dana
Mirowski of Friends of the Garden.
A woman takes a photo of a but-
terfly inside the butterfly house
during the Butterfly Festival at
Close Memorial Park on Sunday.
Photo gallery: See
more images from the
GALLERY Butterfly Festival at
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Bond gets roasted at
Alzheimer’s benefit
COLUMBIA — Missouri
Sen. Kit Bond took some
ribbing during a benefit for
Alzheimer’s.
Bond’s reputation as an
ear-marker and his verbal
gaffes were fuel for the
friends who roasted him to
raise money for the
Alzheimer’s Association.
The event was Saturday
night in Columbia.
Bond is leaving Washing-
ton after 24 years.
Thomas Payne, dean of
the University of Missouri’s
College of Agriculture, Food
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and Natural Resources,
hoisted a large cardboard
cutout of an ATM machine
with Bond’s face on it in ref-
erence to the numerous ap-
propriations Bond helped
secure for the school.
— The Associated Press
The Butterfly Festival featured butterflies native to Missouri.
Butterfly days
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Butterfly en-
thusiasts and
members of the
community attend-
ed the Butterfly Festival
at Close Memorial Park on
Saturday and Sunday.
The festival’s main attraction was
the butterfly house, which featured
butterflies native to Missouri.
“You can see caterpillars and
chrysalises and butterflies emerging
from chrysalises,” said Cindy Willis,
a Friends of the Garden board mem-
ber.
Other activities at the festival in-
cluded a caterpillar petting zoo
Ian McWhilt, 4, touches a caterpillar at the petting zoo a during the
Butterfly Festival. Other activities at the event included looking at the But-
terfly House, crafts and plants and gardening merchandise for sale.
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Students prepare
for Tanzania trip
By Cliff Sain
CSAIN@NEWS-LEADER.COM
As 13 Central High
School students prepare
for a trip to Tanzania, they
have a lot to get done.
After all, this is not a
weekend trip to the lake.
It’s not even like a trip to
Europe. These students
will be traveling to a re-
mote African village
where there is not a corner
store to serve your needs.
“If you forget something,
you can’t just go buy it,”
said Laurel O’Reilly, one of
the Central students.
The students will be
traveling to Tanzania Aug.
8-21 as part of a class in
which they have been
working with Springfield
chocolate maker Shawn
Askinosie as he develops a
new source for cocoa
beans.
The students raised
funds to have a deep-water
well dug in a village they
will visit.
There are many details
to worry about: getting
passports, knowing what
to pack, knowing what to
expect, learning about the
culture, and more.
Perhaps one of the more
unpleasant aspects is get-
ting shots and other med-
ications.
“They haven’t been too
bad,” said Mitchell Traf-
ford, of the shots.
The students had to re-
ceive a shot for hepatitis B
and another for yellow
fever. There is also an oral
anti-typhoid medicine
that student Bryn Prater
said was probably the
worst one of all.
“The typhoid one caused
side effects for a lot of us,”
she said. “I think it was
worth it, though, if it
means we will be safe. The
side effects weren’t much
different than a flu shot.”
There’s clothes to con-
sider.
The students have pur-
chased or are purchasing a
where people could wardrobe for the trip.
see caterpillars up Specifically, they need
close and touch quick-drying clothes.
some of them. “We’ll get to do laundry
There were also crafts, while we are there,” Prater
vendors selling plants and gar- said. “We’ll have packets of
dening merchandise and classes Tide so we can wash our
about butterfly gardening and pho- clothes in the sink. But we
tographing and identifying butter- are going to be on the go,
flies. so we want them to dry
The Butterfly Festival is a quickly. It’s hard to pack
fundraiser for the Close Memorial wet jeans.”
Park. They also want some
“Donations will go to maintain clothes that are, for lack of
current gardens and to expand cur- a better term, disposable.
rent gardens in the future,” Willis That’s because they are
said. taking long plane rides, in-
cluding an overnight flight
from New York to London
and another overnight
flight from Amsterdam,
Netherlands to Nairobi,
Kenya.
As Trafford explained,
it’s easier and saves space
to change into a shirt from
your carry-on and simply
get rid of the old shirt.
They also have an eight-
hour layover in London.
And the students need to
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About the
project
The 13 Central High
School students are part
of a Cocoa Honors class
that began working with
Springfield chocolate mak-
er Shawn Askinosie in the
fall of 2009. They have
been part of Askinosie’s
venture to add an African
chocolate to his line of
products that already in-
clude chocolate from Mex-
ico, Ecuador and the
Philippines. He specializes
in single-source chocolate
that comes from a single
farmer or farmer group.
The students have fol-
lowed the process of se-
lecting a source from the
beginning, helping Aski-
nosie along the way, and
even making the final de-
cision of which country
would be the source.
While in Tanzania, the
students will meet the
farmers group that will
produce the beans. The
students raised funds to
have a deep-water well
dug in the farmers’ village.
‘Great group
of kids’
Shawn Askinosie usually
travels alone on his inter-
national business trips,
not with a group of stu-
dents. He said the logis-
tics of organizing the trip
are “gargantuan.”
“The bottom line is that
we have a great group of
kids, and I believe that
our work will transform
some lives. That makes it
all worth it. I promise,
some of these kids will
come back from Africa
changed in ways they
could never imagine.”
keep that potential for dis-
posability in mind for
everything, just in case.
“You have to bring things
that you might not bring
back,” Trafford said.
Prater said she is still
bringing her iPod.
“I won’t be able to sleep
on the plane without it,”
she said.
The students have also
been helping raise money
for their trip and to pay for
the drilling of a deep-wa-
ter well for the village.
Prater said they have ap-
proached a lot of business-
es, but perhaps the most
rewarding fundraiser was
at their own school when
they raised $500 from fel-
low students who gave
whatever they could, often
in amounts smaller than
$1.
“They get approached a
lot (for donations), but it’s
something they can see,”
Prater said. “We can show
them a slide show of what
we built. This way, it
means so much more to
everyone involved.”
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