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GATHERING: On Holden Street, Piper Whipkins, 3, talks with Marcy Whipkins and Shawn Kelly.

CHUGGING into Old Drum Coffeehouse and Bakery, Matthew Meehan, 8, checks out the menu.

THE BELLE of the Halloween bash, Joely Kate Lillard, 3, looks for her mother Thursday.

A BIG PUPPY puts an arm around Jayden Pennington, 2. Brandon Hickerson plays fire dog for the Johnson County Fire Protection District, which gave out free hot dogs.

LOOKING for ghosts, Ghostbuster Jonathan Larimore, 13, finds the ghost of Duke in front of him and brother Nathan, 9, behind.

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JACK ‘MILES’ VENTIMIGLIAStar-Journal Editor

Warrensburg – Main Street Executive Director Julie Tur-nipseed said Thursday that the 16th Annual Trick-Or-Treat downtown could have drawn 3,000 people.

“The weather was wonderful, the people came out and we were very pleased,” she said.

With people coming and going, and with the event spread from the Johnson County Fire Dis-trict station by the library south along Holden Street to City Hall, and also west along Pine Street, getting a more exact crowd count proved elusive, she said.

Spreading out the people made the event more relaxed for par-ticipants, who did not have to crowd the sidewalks.

“We wanted people to enjoy

the whole downtown, the whole event –The Great Pumpkin Race, the Ghoulish Treat Walk, the Needle in a Haystack, and the concession stands ... and the bounce house,” Turnipseed said.

“A lot of candy was given away ... and the University of Central Missouri Dance Club did such a great job – that was a new addition and the people really enjoyed it.”

The exact number is not known, but what is certain, Turnipseed said, is coopera-tion made the event successful. Thinking about the 17th Annual Trick-or-Treat is in progress.

“We’re going to keep expanding this event, and making it a great event for the community,” Tur-nipseed said.

Community event draws hundreds downtown

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UNIVERSITY of Central Missouri President Chuck Ambrose addresses the Missouri Joint Committee on Education.

JACK ‘MILES’ VENTIMIGLIAStar-Journal Editor

Warrensburg – The Missouri Joint Committee on Education works to develop a funding for-mula for higher education when meeting Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, committee Chairman David Pearce said.

Pearce said Thursday testi-mony by Missouri Higher Edu-cation Commissioner David Russell helped give the com-mittee direction.

“What they proposed was that only new money that comes to higher education would be used for performance-based funding,” Pearce said.

In other words, universities and colleges would not compete for the base amount of money available, but what the state can add to the base.

Council on Public Higher Education Director Brian Long varied from Russell’s suggestion by stating more money should be devoted to higher education, but just half of that new money

should go to performance-based goals.

Pearce said his committee is tasked with developing a for-mula, but whether and how the state will have to fund a formula is another issue.

“That’s something that will go through the appropriations process,” Pearce said.

Russell addressed the com-mittee Oct. 23 at the University of Central Missouri.

“Policy makers increasingly are demanding that performance

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Committee considers state fundsfor higher ed based on outcomes

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