On the Street

Right to die
In four days last week, a page on the Missouri Bar’s Web site recorded an unusually high 13,130 hits. The page: a free downloadable form for durable power of attorney for health care and health care directives – further indication that the Terri Schiavo case is prompting Missourians to become legally prepared should they become incapacitated. The forms, which legally document one’s personal wishes and/or appoint a health care proxy, are available at www.mobar.org/ pamphlet/dpa.htm. Meanwhile, the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association last week announced that members would hold public clinics on health care directives 5-7 p.m. the last Wednesday of every month at the Library Center, 4653 S. Campbell.

Bass Pro to Miami
Bass Pro Shops plans to open a sixth Florida store by 2006. A 100,000-square-foot Bass Pro Shops Worldwide Sportsman will become an anchor tenant at Dolphin Mall in Miami-Dade County, according to a news release by Taubman Centers, the mall’s owner. Located five miles west of Miami International Airport, it would be the Springfield retailer’s first store in the Miami area. Bass Pro opened its first Florida store in Dania Beach/Ft. Lauderdale in 1998. A store under construction in the Ft. Myers/Naples area is expected to open this fall. Bass Pro currently has 26 retail locations in 14 states and Canada.

Lasers score top player
The Springfield Lasers tennis team drafted the world’s top player, Lindsay Davenport, last week in Miami, Fla. Representatives from the Springfield-Greene County Park Board and Springfield Lasers World Team Tennis took part in the March 29 bidding process during the NASDAQ-100 Open tournament. Joining Davenport, also the No. 1-ranked women’s singles player in 2004, 2001 and 1998, on the 2005 Lasers roster are Tamarine Tanasugarn, Kaysie Smashey, Rick Leach and Rik DeVoest. The season runs July 4–24. The Lasers schedule will be released in mid-April.

No more drilling
Several area well-drilling contractors no longer carry permits to perform work in Missouri. The Department of Natural Resources released March 18 a list of industry contractors without permits for various reasons, including retirement, change in occupation or job duties, failure to apply for a renewal or violation of the Water Well Driller’s Act. Local well-drilling contractors no longer with permits are Loy Galloway in Galena; Frank Lorenz Jr., John Waitman and James Dobbs in Springfield; Paul Weber in Ozark; Steve Scearce in Mountain Grove; James Lee Borders in Mansfield; and Larry Johnson in Everton. DNR is asking anyone who has had a well drilled by one of these contractors to contact the department’s Geological Survey and Resource Assessment Division for further information.
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