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Pamla LaDon Klenczar: An Artist Whose Work Is Inspired By Dreams

September 18-19: Artist Opens Her Studio For 2010 Newton County Studio Tour

It took Pamla Klenczar 12 years to get back into painting and drawing after a bad experience with her high school teacher temporarily halted her artistic talents.When she did return to her art, it was her dreams about "The Ascension" that made her put brush to canvas once again.
  "It was through these dreams that I believed I needed to show 'The Ascension' come to life in a painting," she said. Two years later, in 1985, she completed her painting and continues to immerse herself in her art career. Although she has worked privately with a few artists, she is "basically selftaught." The scope of her artwork is extensive and includes pen and ink, colored pencils, acrylics, and "some fun stuff."
  She began working with pen and ink, using technical pens with the smallest nib and the blackest ink she could find. Most of these drawings are of gardens or rooms.

A blowzy blonde
Her dark roots
Beginning to show

Stan Thawley,
St. Louis, Mo.

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Cassville's All American
Red Heads

Small Town Ozarks Girls Paved The Road For Women's Basketball

When Ed Sullivan introduced the All American Red Heads girls basketball team to the television viewing audience of his show in 1955, he stated that the team had not lost a game that season. This was a focal point for this basketball team, especially noting that the girls had played five-on-five basketball against men's teams all over the
United States and various parts of the world.
  The All American Red Heads played over seven thousand basketball games in front of an estimated four million spectators in their fifty years of existence. Only the acceptance of women as equals in the basketball world would end the run of the All American Red Heads. During their years of playing, they were prime examples of small town All American girls.