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Kids Fishing today Flower power at Bennett Spring Featured are 10 of Don't miss the annual the world's best bo- Kids Fishing event at Ben- tanical gardens. nett Spring State Park today. See the Monday Inside American Profi le edition of The Daily Record for the story and photos. Volume 69, Number 104 One Dollar Wanda Berkich MAY 3 & 4, 2014 DEATHS Shadel's Colonial/Lebanon You need to read today’s Leb a non Daily Record Rosalie Winifred Whitehead • Local products make mark on post-season Page 1B Holman-Howe/Lebanon See Pages 2A, 8A GOOD Trena Lynn Morgan REA SONS • Kirk Pearce takes 'A Look Back' Page 3A Tommy Dale Kinworthy 4 Michael Joseph Dutchuk • Hilton: Regulation nation 65536 Page 6A Waynesville Memorial Chapel • Massey review: 'Spider-Man 2' Page 5B www.holmanhowe.com www.lebanondailyrecord.com Mercy Lebanon plans chapel project Hospital's Health Foundation sets fundraising goal of $1M over 5 years By Julie Turner-Crawford is to the people that we serve, the and not everyone He added that faith is a large part The Daily Record patients and the families, and the co- recovers,” he said. of the community that Mercy Hospital [email protected] workers here, we really felt it needed “The nurses. the Lebanon serves, and he hopes a new Mercy Hospital Lebanon hopes to be redone, revitalized and moved doctors and staff ... chapel will provide an inviting place that it will soon have a place for fami- to a location that is very prominent what they give to for all who come to the facility. lies, as well as caregivers, to go for a to the organization here so that it patients and how “We wanted to enhance our chapel little quiet time with a new chapel. project that has been discussed for a becomes a drawing area, a collection much care and and really do it right and kind of hon- The Mercy Health Foundation couple of years and will now become area, for people to come and spend devotion, we rec- or where we live and the importance Lebanon has set a $1 million fund- a reality. time with their creator.” ognized that there of faith in our lives,” Gillen said. raising goal over the next fi ve years In addition to having a place for the are times they need The planned chapel will be a “The chapel we have had (which Gillen for the new facility, which will feature is located in a small room across families of patients to gather, Gillen to go and be alone “stand-alone” chapel, according to a closed-in garden courtyard, cast from the hospital’s gift shop) prob- said many of the hospital’s employ- in a quite place to information from Mercy, and will be and natural stone walls, and delicate ably hasn’t had the prominence it has ees also need a place for prayer and spend time refl ecting and re-energiz- able to accommodate larger groups stained glass. needed for this organization, being a refl ection. ing themselves. We really felt that the and memorial services. Mercy Hospital Lebanon President Catholic, faith-based organization,” “Taking care of patients, it is a chapel is really something that needs See ‘Chapel’/ page 9A Mike Gillen said a new chapel is a he said. “How important that faith personal commitment you make, to be redone.” Art Walk Pros share with students at Career Day Man charged scheduled for May 10 with choking, From LDR Staff The Lebanon Art Guild and Gallery will be holding its hitting fi ancee Lebanon Art Walk show and sale on May 10 from 10 a.m. to From LDR Staff according to a probable 4 p.m. in the 200 block of West A Lebanon man who cause statement released Commercial Street. called the police on his by the Laclede County Those who attend the event fiancee after a late-night Prosecut- will be able to view the work fight is behind bars after ing At- of 16 art guild members and police determined he had torney's several other artists. Types allegedly choked and hit office. of media represented will in- the woman. The of- clude watercolor, acrylic and Charles Quincey Wil- ficer then oil paintings as well as draw- liams, 43, is charged with a spoke ing, multimedia, sculpture, class C felony of domestic with the wood carving, fi ber arts and assault in the second de- fiancee basketry. gree. Williams is being held to get her The event will also feature in the Laclede County Jail Williams side of a variety of art demonstra- in lieu of a $5,000 cash-or- the story. tions. Lake of the Ozarks surety bond, according to The fiancee, who reported- Woodcarvers will provide a online court records. ly had bruising and swell- woodcarving demonstration. A Lebanon Police officer ing on her face and red Roberto Regaldo will provide was dispatched at about marks on her neck, told the an acrylic painting demonstra- 11:26 p.m. Wednesday to a officer that Williams had tion, and there will also be a home on Silverwood Drive "come home drunk" and basket weaving demonstra- for a report of a domestic was calling her names. tion. assault. Williams allegedly threw For those who prefer the The officer spoke to Wil- items around in their bed- written word to the visual arts, liams, who reportedly had room. The two went to the local author Laura Valenti will blood on his lip and the kitchen, where Williams be selling and autographing odor of intoxicants coming allegedly hit the woman in her novels at the event. from his breath. Williams the face and choked her. The Lebanon Humane Soci- LDR photo/Fines Massey told the officer that he had He also allegedly threw ety will also get in on the act, Laclede County Associate Court Judge Steve Jackson answers a child's question in Karl come home late and got items from the kitchen at bringing puppies and kittens McKimmey's class during Career Day Friday at Boswell Elementary School. Fifth graders got into a fight with his fian- her, according to the state- in hopes that Art Walk attend- a taste of grownup life during the event, hearing from people from various professions, rang- cee. He refused to show his ment. ees will adopt them. ing from police offi cers to a doctor. The students had been learning about career pathways injury to the officer, saying See ‘Art Walk’/ page 9A throughout the semester. he "just wanted to leave," See ‘Choking’/ page 9A Band director Ruether refl ects on his years at LHS By Kelly Morgan "I've never minded getting up early in The Daily Record the morning and working hard, staying up [email protected] as late as needed. I love being around the When he passes the baton to his successor students -- all kinds of different students at the end of this year, 14-year Lebanon band that like different things, but we can come director Keith Ruether will be able to look together and take our differences and put back on 28 years in music education. them aside, and come together for one thing. Ruether's longstanding interest in music And I like that teamwork aspect of it. Prob- dates back to his own days as a high school ably mostly I like to make good music and band student when he was infl uenced by his to sound good and to let people hear what own band director. we've put together "I was really in our classroom inspired by my '... I just fell in love with the time to make a high school band town and the school and the really good-sound- director, Profes- ing band." sor Roy D. 'Skip' location, and I just knew that it Ruether earned Vandelicht," he was where God wanted me to be his degree from stated. "I had at that particular time in my life.' Central Methodist some talent, but College, then got he really brought his fi rst teaching it out of me. He job in Steelville, seemed interested in all of my activities, not where he worked for fi ve years. After that, just my band activities. I played football and he spent nine years directing the Fulton High basketball, and he seemed to care about his School Band and might have stayed there students, and we really had a good band and longer if not for the persistence of then LHS made good music at Fayette High School." principal Chris Neal. Becoming a band director would mean LDR photo/Kelly Morgan long hours and hard work, but Ruether Lebanon High School Band Director Keith Ruether directs music students at the school. See ‘Ruether’/ page 10A After 14 years as Lebanon's band director, Ruether is retiring at the end of the school year. didn't mind. In fact, he loves his job. Page 2A THE LEBANON (MO.) DAILY RECORD WEEKEND, MAY 3 & 4, 2014 www.lebanondailyrecord.com CALENDAR DEATHS TODAY’S The Lebanon Daily Record Jason, Matt, Kayla, Mike, 1 p.m. Monday, May 5, 2014, Telephone Company for sev- BIRT BIRTHDAYSHDAYS Calendar of Events is open to Natlaie, Zach, Nanda, Gary, in the Memorial Chapels and eral years. In 2005, she moved churches, civic groups, clubs, Actor George Gaynes is 97. Debbie, Adam, Keliegh, Dave Crematory of Waynesville/St. to Schaumburg, Ill. schools and other Lebanon- Actress Ann B. Davis is 88. Jr., Krystal, Chad, Karman; Robert. She was raised in the Jew- Actor Alex Cord is 81.