Christian County Missouri Chapter
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
Will Meet on Thursday, April 7 —7:00 p.m.
at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church - 877 Hwy JJ.

From the West, take Hwy 14 East from 65 Hwy through Ozark towards Sparta and approximately 1 mile past W Hwy take a left off of 14 onto JJ Hwy, then 0.8 tenths of a mile to Mt. Zion Baptist Church on the left.
 
             

Featured Speaker: Christian County Sheriff Joey Kyle

Other Planned Disussion Topics

 
• Selling Raw Milk & Produce  vs The Health Board
• The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  the fake “food safety” (really “food control”) bill S.510/HR.2751 passed the Lame Duck Congress on December 21, 2010, and was signed into law January 2011. What can be done to protect our right to grow our own food and eat what we choose, now that this bill is law?
• Christian County Building Codes and Planning/Zoning regulations.

Lawrence County Chapter Meeting
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
Tuesday, April 5 – 7:00 p.m.

The meeting will be held at an old church in Mount Vernon. The directions are: Go approximately 2 blocks N. on Market St. (in front of the Keen Bean) to Division W. 1 1/2 blocks to the corner of Division and West St. look for a  red roof.

As you all know there are a lot of issues to talk about, and work on.

From Chapter Co-Ordinator Eric Vimont

Ozarks Property Rights Congress Meeting
March 24 -7:00 p.m.—Hayloft Restaurant 
Mountain Grove, Missouri

Come early if you care to eat as no food is allowed in the meeting room.

Meeting Topics

 Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area—West Plains Council on the Arts and Ozarks Preservation, Inc. have decided to redirect their attention “toward opportunities to foster cultural conservation and economic opportunity that won’t necessitate the involvement of the NHA program and will rely  as much as possible on public funding.” It seems that the voices of the people of the Ozarks have been heard. OPRC will continue to monitor WPCOA and OP, Inc. until we are certain the OHNHA is really a dead issue.
  

Doreen Hannes will talk about the Sedgewick, Maine Food Freedom Ordinance that seeks to give local people “the right to produce, process, sell, purchase and consume local foods thus promoting self-reliance, the preservation of family farms, and local food traditions.” These rights are threatened by the “Food Safety and Modernization Act” passed by Congress in Dec. 2010 & signed by the President on January 5, 2011

 The wording of some of the Agriculture bills in the Missouri General Assembly is troubling. It would seem that there are possible dangers our “right-to-use-our property-as-ours.” We will focus on some of those.
 
We can’t relax just because we think the current Heritage Area threat may be going away.

The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance!
 

If you wish to download the Mountain View Heritage Area Meeting Flyer to hand out,  it is here in PDF format.  (It is better to right-click, save-as to your hard drive to view & print.):
Mountain View Heritage Meeting

Meeting to Discuss
Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area

March 3—7:30 p.m. Mountain View, Missouri Community Center

 
Area residents concerned about 13 area counties being designated a National Heritage Area, will have a chance to hear the matter discussed and voice their concerns at the meeting. 

Spokespersons for West Plains Council on the Arts, Ozarks Preservation Inc., and the National Park Service have been invited. They will have an opportunity to present their case and answer questions from the public.
   
 Ozarks Property Rights Congress is hosting the event and will present the landowner, private property rights point of view.

For more information: info@ozarksprc.com
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
P.O. Box 47, Mountain Grove, MO 65711

Ozarks Property Rights Congress Meeting
February 24 -7:00 p.m.-Hayloft Restaurant– Mountain Grove, Missouri
Come early if you care to eat as no food is allowed in the meeting room.

Much is happening with the proposed 13 County Ozarks Highland National Heritage Area and we will bring the updates to you at the meeting. It is getting down to crunch time to stop it. The 13 counties are Wright, Douglas, Ozark, Texas, Howell, Dent, Reynolds, Iron, Wayne, Carter, Ripley, Shannon, and Oregon

County Commissioners across the areas are becoming aware of the burdens this NHA will bring on their counties if it is allowed to become law. The National Park Service will bring their rules to bear on the counties through the local management entity who is pushing for this. If their rules are not accepted then funding will be withheld. Follow the money.

We need to stop this land control proposal, disguised as a “save the stories and heritage of the area” warm fuzzy thing. The West Plains Council on the Arts (the local management entity) has opened a comment period through March 5. The address is P.O. Box 339, West Plains, MO 65775. Email: arts@townsqr.com or call Matt Meacham at 417-372-3177. Remember, the only way there is a record of your comment, is if you put it in writing, either letter or email. We recommend that you also send copies to both MO Senators, Rep. JoAnn Emerson, the National Park Service director, and your state senator & representative. Also, let your County Commissioners that you don’t want any part of it.

 Thousands of dollars received by the Missouri Dept of Social Services, Family Support Division, from the Federal Stimulus funds have already been spent on this for Feasibility Studies, websites, and other NHA related things. How does this help disadvantaged families in our counties?

OZARKS PROPERTY RIGHTS CONGRESS MEETING
February 17 -7:00 p.m. Vaught’s Family Restaurant
West of Gainesville, Missouri  on Highway 160
On meeting nights,
food is served from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Doreen Hannes will hit the highlights and answer questions about the proposed Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area
The groundwork is laid. The Feasibility Studies are complete. Time is short. 

Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area is an attempt to establish governmental authority over the Ozarks region. While the proponents of the Heritage Area designation may deny this, excerpts from Ozark Action, Inc sponsored feasibility study and National Park Service documents tell a different story. OPRC will present these and  let you decide what their intentions are. Documents (700+ pages), obtained only by a freedom of information act (FOIA) request, after weeks of waiting for voluntarily shared documents, show that they had fear of property rights advocates getting access to these documents. That fear was substantiated. Promoters have taken pains to hide the facts about this program. They have quietly gone about ‘’selling” the ”program”, telling unsuspecting County Commissioners and Community leaders how this program will help save our ‘’stories”, market local products, & bring busloads of tourists to their area.

Documents detailing what has happened  to landowners in other Heritage Areas do not paint a pretty picture. Once the National Park Service hands down its “guidelines,” property rights go out the window. And there is no “opting-out.” Steve Hodapp ( formerly worked with the National Park Service  to create the NHA program and was point person for NHA legislation on the House Resource Committee) said,  ”It (opting-out) is a physical and geographical impossibility. One is either inside the boundaries of a National Heritage Area, or outside the boundaries. And if one is within the boundaries, and there is a management plan that prescribes, indeed mandates, programs and activities to protect, enhance, and manage natural and scenic values within the National Heritage Area—in one way or another private landowners are not goint to be allowed to convert their cornfield to a pig farm or paint their silo purple with yellow stripes.”  From The Virginia Land Rights Coalition website.  NHA Testimony from Robert J. Smith    http://www.vlc.org/articles/168.html

These are times that call for all who care about their rights, to become educated and knowlegeable on  issues that seek to restrict the freedom to live their lives as free Americans.
Please come to the meeting and bring someone with you.

Ozarks Property Rights Congress Meeting
January 27 -7:00 p.m.-Hayloft Restaurant–
Mountain Grove, Missouri
Come early if you care to eat, as no food is allowed in the meeting room.
The meeting is “Weather permitting.” If in doubt, call 417-948-2379 or 417-668-5977
 
Meeting Topics

We requested & have received some Freedom of Information Act documents concerning Ozarks National Heritage Area. It is obvious from the documents that the process of forming the NHA is further along than their committee led us to believe. The more we see of the documents, the more we oppose this National Park Service land control measure, disguised as preserving the “heritage of the area.” Initiated by several folks in West Plains, this measure will do nothing to bring jobs & money into the 13 counties it will cover. It will put tax dollars in the pockets of the ones who initiated it. Research into some of 37 other NHAs reveals that some have used their federally acquired authority to impose restrictive zoning requirements on the region’s property owners to limit development and/or to force it into directions agreeable to those who guide the management of the National Heritage Area. Can we afford to take that chance with our private property rights?

 Morningland Dairy has had a day in court (rather 2 long days in court). Doreen will be reporting on what happened in the West Plains courtroom.

 S. 510, the so-called “Food Safety Bill” has been passed & signed into law. What next? A meeting was held at the Springfield Livestock Auction on the 18th to discuss what our next steps should be to protect our right to grow food and eat what we want to. Doreen will have more information for us.

Get involved in protecting what freedoms we have left!

Please Help Save the Future of Your Food and Ag Supply!

When: January 18, 2011
Where: Springfield Livestock Marketing Center
(Directions & Map Below)
Time: 7:00 pm
Why: Because FOOD FREEDOM matters

Directions: 6821 West Independence Drive, Springfield, MO 65802—Exit # 70, I-44

View Map & Get Directions

Join the discussion with Doreen Hannes and see how YOU can help save your FOOD & AG FREEDOM for you & future generations… before it’s too late!

There will be time for Questions and Answers following the discussion.

Download the Food & Ag Freedom Meeting Flyer

Doreen Hannes has been a full time volunteer advocate for independent agriculture since 2005 and is a well-respected leader in the national movement to halt the National Animal Identification System, now known as ADT (Animal Disease Traceability). Doreen has written extensively on the topic of NAIS as well as authored and co-authored several white papers on NAIS and other topics affecting the consolidation of agriculture.

Read more about Doreen at http://newswithviews.com/Hannes/doreenA.htm and http://truth-farmer.blogspot.com

Find out the truth about the new ‘food safety’ bill just passed by Congress. HELP SAVE OUR FOOD & AG FREEDOM — Without it, we have NO freedom.

Do you eat? If your answer is YES, Please Join Us!

Meeting postponed until February 10

Due to the prospect of extreme cold and inclement weather, the decision has been made to postpone the January OPRC Meeting in Gainesville until February 10.

Also factoring into the decision to postpone is the prospect of having much more information on the proposed 13 county Ozarks National Heritage Area. We have in our hands the 702 page FOIA documents regarding this proposal. It will take a little time to examine what this tome contains.

So, weather permitting, we will see you on February 10, 2011 at Vaught’s Family Restaurant, on Highway 160 west of Gainesville, Missouri at 7:00 p.m. On meeting nights food is served from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

A reminder will be sent before the meeting. For more info call 417-284-3742.

Weather permitting, there will be a OPRC meeting in Mountain Grove, Missouri at the Hayloft Restaurant at 7:00 p.m. on January 27. Come early, if you care to eat, as no food is allowed in the meeting room, due to limited restaurant staff.

For more information on the Mountain Grove meeting call 417-948-2379.

 
Lawrence County Chapter 
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
will meet Tues. December 7th at 6:00 p.m.
at the Down The Lane Cafe, 
17376 Law 1135, Mt. Vernon, Missouri
Phone 229-2117

Hello Friends,
There are a lot of  issues to talk about, including but not limited to, cities limiting the right of producing food on private land, States as well as the feds. doing the same and far worse, and as always the Lawrence County land use plan. Please!!!!! tell your neighbors and bring them now, before the water is at a full boil, while the frog can still jump.

I will speak plainly, Freedom and Liberty are being stolen from us and our children at an astonishing pace now. Shall we be known as the generation that accepted it without a whimper?

May The Lord forbid that!

Eric V.Vimont, Co-ordinator