| Five members of the University of Missouri Extension Council of Jasper County were re-elected and five were newly elected in the balloting that ended January 25, 2010, according to Peter Carter, council chair.
The re-elected members are Pedro Pantoja, Joplin; David Shaw, Joyce Shaw and Dorothy Shull, Carthage; and Marilyn Thornberry, Webb City. Newly elected members to serve two year terms are: Mick Cooley, Debbie Cooley, Jim Creighton, and George Heisten, Carthage; and Mike Grigg, Webb City.
These members will join the following hold-over members: Emily Boydston, Peter Carter, Debbie Carter, Helen Dillard, John Dillard, Margaret Hartman, Glenn Moll, Karen Moll, Marlene Payne, and Stuart Payne.
Currently, the appointed members to the council are: Jim Honey (Jasper County Commission), Jim West (city of Joplin); Dwight Hoffman (MFA) and Michele Hansford (city of Carthage).
The council has four major responsibilities. They are: (1) to advise the University of Missouri on needed extension educational programs, (2) approve the extension staff housed in Jasper County, (3) arrange for financing the Jasper County Extension Center and (4) hold elections to perpetuate the Council.
Officers for the 2010 council will be elected at the annual meeting being held at the First United Methodist Church in Carthage on the evening of February 9, 2010.
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