Trenton Republican-Times 01/18/2022

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

R-T

TRENTON

REPUBLICAN-TIMES

75¢

©Honeycutt Media, LLC

Established Sept. 4, 1864 - 158th Year - No. 39

12 PAGES + 3 INSERTS

republican-times.com

Gallatin Band Performs At Bowl

School Districts Struggling With Staff Shortages Due To COVID

Gallatin Bulldog Pride Marching Band Takes Part In Halftime Show The Gallatin Bulldog Pride Marching Band traveled to San Antonio, TX over Christmas break to perform in the halftime show of the Alamo Bowl.

The band, under the direction of Jack Malo, traveled by chartered bus to San Antonio Dec. 26-31 to compete in various categories and perform in the halftime show of the Alamo Bowl, which saw the Oklahoma Sooners defeat the Oregon Ducks, 47-32 on Dec. 29.

Approximately 500 high school band students from across the country marched to the tune of "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond. GHS was honored by receiving caption awards for best music selections, best drum major and best color guard. The band also received second place in the parade and field review.

While in San Antonio, band members enjoyed the Tejas rodeo fairgrounds for a barbecue dinner and awards ceremony. The participating students and sponsors en-

Local Schools Closing Due To Several Illnesses

Submitted Photo

The Gallatin Pride Marching Band traveled to San Antonio, TX over Christmas break to perform at the Alamo Bowl. The band is under the direction of Jack Malo.

joyed line dancing, smores galore, and the awards ceremony at Tejas.

Band members also had the opportunity to explore the San Antonio River Walk the day before the game, where an Alamo Bowl pep rally took place. GHS was given their own 10-minute spot to perform on the river for Alamo college football fans and tourists.

The band and their sponsors

made a lifetime of memories on this trip. Malo thanked the band boosters, band parents, administration, school board members, community members and Gallatin BTC Bank for their time volunteering for numerous fundraisers, support for the fine arts and the generosity of monetary gifts that made the trip possible.

Newtown-Harris Board Holds Meeting Board Discusses FFA Trip, Co-op With Grundy R-5 The Newtown-Harris Board of Education met Wednesday, Jan. 12, hearing reports but taking little action.

According to minutes provided by Superintendent Dr. Lucas McKinnis, the board discussed complications concerning an FFA trip as well as the athletic cooperative agreement with Grundy R-5 and reapproved the Safe Return to In-Person Instruction

and Continuity of Services Plan. The board agreed to transfer $50,000 from Fund I to Fund 4. Mic Halferty was approved as a substitute teacher and to fill the maintenance position that will be open in the 2022-23 school year. Samantha Miller was hired to coach elementary basketball.

In his report, McKinnis said the new doors are nearly finished and he has submitted the revised ESSER III budget to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and is waiting to hear if it has been approved. He discussed the current shortage

of Binax rapid COVID tests. He said he will continue to try to acquire the tests. Dr. McKinnis said he will be meeting with Rep. Danny Busick on Feb. 4 and encouraged board members to let him know if there are education-related issues they would like discussed. Work is beginning on the 2022-23 school calendar and he plans to bring it to the board in a couple of months.

Principal Kim Palmer reported on her activities and discussed Homecoming, with the game scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 18. She said the delivery of the

Book Blast Books has been postponed due to incorrect labeling, with the books that should have arrived at the school going to Illinois and Ohio. Spring picture day has been set for Feb. 23, she said, which will allow students who did not have their pictures taken in the fall to have them taken now.

Other important dates announced included the Meadville Basketball Tournament, set for Jan. 24-29 and FFA Week, which is Feb. 19-26.

The next regular meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 9.

(AP) — School districts struggling with staff absences because of COVID19 are facing difficult decisions about how to provide the required number of instruction hours while being limited in the number of hours of virtual learning permitted.

The state allows school districts to provide 36 hours — about a week — of alternative instruction out of the 1,044 total hours of instruction required each school year.

Districts that close temporarily because of staff absences could be required to extend the school year to meet the 1,044 hour requirement, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The issue is likely to effect school districts across the state as the Omicron variant, as well as the seasonal flu and upper respiratory infections, are hitting school districts hard. Locally, the Pleasant View R6 School District did not hold classes on Thursday or Friday due to staff and student illness and announced on Sunday that the district would remain closed Tuesday and Wednesday, with virtual classes being offered both days. School officials at North Mercer called classes off on Friday due to a large number of students out for illness.

The 36-hour limit has al-

Biden Speaks On The Importance Of MLK Several Events Honor Slain Civil Rights Leader’s Impact ATLANTA (AP) — Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting "the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is behing held up to America, the president said in a video address.

“It’s time for every elected official in America to make it clear where they stand," Biden said. “It’s

WEATHER ALMANAC Day: High/Low Rain Snow Thursday 55/36 — Friday 39/32 .19 Saturday 35/13 .47 4.9 Sunday 34/14 — Barton Campus Sunday 34/12 —

republicantimes.com

time for every American to stand up. Speak out, be heard. Where do you stand?”

Major holiday events included marches in several cities and the annual Martin Luther King Jr. service at the slain civil rights leader's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock is the senior pastor. Pews have been packed by politicians in past years, but given the pandemic, they offered pre-recorded speeches instead.

Monday would have been the 93rd birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 while helping sanitation workers strike for better pay and workplace safety in Memphis, Tennessee.

King's eldest son criticized Biden and Congress as a whole on Monday for failing to pass voting rights legislation, even as 19 Republican-led states have made it harder to vote in response to former President Donald Trump’s false claims about election-rigging.

“You were successful with infrastructure, which is a great thing -- but we need you to use that same energy to ensure that all Americans have the same unencumbered right to vote,” Martin Luther King III said.

Senate Republicans remain unified in opposition to the Demo-

‘It’s time for every elected official in America to make it clear where they stand. It’s time for every American to stand up. Speak out, be heard. Where do you stand?’

— PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN crats’ voting bills. Biden described their stonewalling as part of “a true attack on our democracy, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to the onslaught of Republican anti-voting laws in an number of states.”

“It’s no longer just about who gets to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote. And whether your vote counts at all. It’s about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion,” Biden said.

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's Black Republican, countered with a series of King Day-themed videos he said would emphasize positive developments on civil rights. Scott sidestepped criticism about GOP

actions and accused Democrats of labeling his party members as racists.

“To compare or conflate people who oppose his positions as being racists and traitors to the country is not only insulting and infuriating, it’s dead wrong,” Scott told The Associated Press.

King, who delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech while leading the 1963 March on Washington and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, considered racial equality inseparable from alleviating poverty and stopping war.

His insistence on nonviolent protest continues to influence activists pushing for civil rights and social change.

The U.S. economy “has never worked fairly for Black Americans — or, really, for any American of color,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a speech delivered Monday, one of many by national leaders acknowledging unmet needs for racial equality on Martin Luther King Day. Yellen referred to King’s famous speech in remarks she recorded for delivery at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network breakfast in Washington, noting the financial metaphor he used when describing the founding fathers’ promises of equality.

[See MLK, Page 4]

ready caused a problem for some school districts. For example, an elementary school in the Normandy Schools Collaborative in St. Louis reached the 36hour limit on Thursday and Normandy High School is close.

Mike Jones of the Normandy School Board this week called state leaders “Neanderthals who belong to a different age” for not giving districts more flexibility to move online during the latest surge of the virus.

The State Board of Education maintained the 36hour limit on Tuesday after hearing a presentation about the problem.

Mallory McGowin, spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, acknowledged many schools currently are struggling to find enough staff for in-person learning.

But she said education officials continue to believe schools are among the safest places for most Missouri students.

BRIEFS Pinewood Derby Jan. 29

Cub Scout Pack 23 will hold its annual Pinewood Derby on Saturday, Jan. 23 in the Trenton High School gym.

Weigh-in will be held from 5:30 to 6 p.m., with racing to begin immediately following the weighins. There will be no late weigh-ins accepted.

Utility Meeting Tonight

The Trenton Utility Committee has scheduled a meeting for 6 p.m., tonight (Tuesday, Jan. 18) at city hall. The meeting is open to the public but can be accessed on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 88282953776.

Items on the announced agenda include department reports, a review of monthly financial reports and a utility director’s report.

Shooting On Amtrak Train

LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — The victim of a fatal shooting on an Amtrak train Friday night has been identified as a 30year-old man from Independence, Missouri, police said.

Police were called around 9:15 p.m. to the Amtrak station in Independence where they found that Richie T. Aaron Jr. had been shot while the train had been stopped earlier at the Lee’s Summit station, said Sgt. Chris Depue.

Police are still looking for the suspect.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 2

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

TRENTON REPUBLICAN-TIMES IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 :: REPUBLICAN-TIMES.COM/CATEGORY/SPORTS

Bulldogs Sweep Trenton Girls Secure Consolation Triangular In Polo Bulldogs Clinch Owen Wins Battle Of Ranked Foes To Seal Dual Win TRENTON 54 POLO 30 TRENTON 37 MARCELINE 25 When Kaden Owen stepped onto the mat for his 160-pound matchup with Marceline’s Ryder Gooch, the situation didn’t seem dire on the surface. Marceline led the dual by more than a single decision at 1910. There were still five weights left to be contested after the 160-pound match, too.

But Marceline was open at two of the remaining weights and the other three were almost pre-determined as they featured wrestlers ranked in the toptwo of their respective weight classes taking on unranked foes. So with the final five weights outcomes nearly cemented, both schools recognized the importance of the 160-pound matchup.

In the end Owen, who just broke into the state rankings at number six, pulled off the mild upset, defeating Gooch, who is ranked third in the state at the weight by a close 8-6 decision.

The rest of the dual played out as predicted and Trenton picked up a 37-25 dual win over the Tigers to sweep a triangular in Polo after defeating the host Panthers 54-30 earlier in the night.

“Probably the match of the night was Kaden Owen at 160,” Trenton head coach Charlie Bacon said.

“He beat a really good kid tonight and wrestled his best match of his season so far to seal the deal for the team win. It was a great night to be a Bulldog.”

It was a big moment for Owen, whose senior season has seen its bumps in the road. But getting the win over the third-ranked wrestler at the weight after breaking into the rankings has thrust him into the state medal discussion.

Two other projected state contenders closed out the dual for Trenton with little drama. Sam Gibson (195) and Caleb Johnson (220), both ranked second in the state at their respective weights, picked up pretty easy pins against their lesser Marceline opponents. Both pins came in the first period with Johnson needing just 10 seconds to secure his win.

Johnson slipped to second in the state rankings for 220, behind St. Pius X’s Rylan Kuhn, despite having not lost a match all season. The change in his standing might have fueled the speed with which he dispatched of his opponent.

At 170, Brayden Wiggins was pinned in the first period by Marceline’s Hunter Nelson, who is ranked first in the state at 170 pounds. The Tigers

were open at 182 and 285, giving Trenton free points near the end of the dual.

Other action against Marceline saw Charlie Riley get a win by fall at 120. Riley returned to the Trenton lineup at the triangular and picked up two wins by fall on the night, also pinning his Polo opponent in the opening dual.

“Charlie Riley was the first to put points on the board,” Bacon said. “It was really good to have him back out on the mat.”

Coleman Griffin won his 152-pound match in the Marceline dual by a 16-8 major decision.

Brayden Hughs narrowly lost at 132, falling by an 11-9 decision, while Gavin Chambers was handed an 8-0 major decision loss at 145. Mason Rongey lost by fall at 126.

His opponent, Canaan Wright, is ranked ninth in the state at 126 pounds.

Against Polo, Gavin Cagle started the night off on the right foot, picking up a pinfall victory at 285 pounds. Polo got wins by forfeit at 106 and 113, but Trenton restored its lead quickly. Riley’s win by fall came at 120, tying the dual, and Polo was open at both 126 and 132 and Trenton was open at 138, leaving the Bulldogs with a sixpoint advantage halfway through the dual.

Chambers (145) and Griffin (152) earned backto-back wins by fall, Chambers’ coming in the third period and Griffin’s in the first. With Polo open at 160, Trenton had pushed a six-point lead to 24 points in just three weights.

Polo momentarily stopped the momentum, getting wins by fall over Wiggins at 170 and Logan Wilson at 182, but Trenton had the hammer with Gibson earning a win by fall at 195 and Johnson taking a win by forfeit at 220.

With the pair of dual victories, Trenton moved to 11-3 overall on the season in head-to-head matches.

Saturday’s Chillicothe Tournament was cancelled due to weather. The Bulldogs will be back on the mat tonight (Tuesday), hosting Brookfield and Richmond in a triangular.

The wrestling triangular begins at 5:30 p.m. and will be a good one. Richmond is ranked fourth in the state team rankings, Brookfield is ranked fifth and Trenton is ranked sixth.

GIRLS Trenton’s girls defeated Polo 15-12 and fell 48-12 to Marceline.

Jacey Hudson (235) picked up a win by fall against Polo while Alison Yoder (159) won by a 9-2 decision and Mercy Schweizer (120) won by forfeit. Avery Clark had the lone loss, wrestling up at 149 and being pinned.

Clark was pinned at 149 against Marceline also and Schweizer was also pinned by a Tiger opponent at 120.

Yoder (159) and Hudson (235) both won by forfeit against Marceline.

Trophy With 23-Point Victory

TRENTON GIRLS 49 RICHMOND 26 The Trenton High School girls basketball team’s offense is never better than when Morgan King is connecting from beyond the three-point arc.

After her third triple of the first quarter settled into the bottom of the net, it was safe to say Trenton’s offense was at its best.

The Bulldogs put together one of their finest offensive games of the season on Friday, grabbing the consolation title at the

Lawson Tournament with a 49-26 victory over the Richmond Spartans.

King’s trio of threepointers in the first quarter laid the ground work as the Bulldogs went on to score double-digit totals in each of the first three quarters, something the defenseminded team hasn’t been able to do a lot this season.

What Trenton has done in nearly every game this season is make life miserable for opposing offenses.

That was still the case in the consolation final. Richmond did a decent job weathering King’s barrage of three-pointers in the opening frame and trailed just 13-8 one quarter in.

The Spartans only scored four points in the second

quarter, however, and Trenton’s defense doubled down in the third quarter, limiting their opponents to a single field goal and just three points total in the frame.

That created a 40-15 lead for the Bulldogs entering the final frame and Trenton was able to coast to the finish and the consolation trophy.

“We were in attack mode offensively and Morgan was on, knocking down shots off of drives,” Trenton head coach Kameron Cool said. “We executed well on both ends of the floor, but our defense in the second and third quarters was on a different level.

I’m very proud of the girls.”

Morgan King led Trenton with 15 points while Mirena King followed with 11. Madi Moore had nine points and 10 rebounds and Gracyn Rongey finished with six points. Trenton also got three points from Rebecca Urich, two points and three steals from Astrid Soriano, two points from Teya Cooksey and one point, six assists and three steals from Chandler Lynch.

With the win, Trenton moved to 8-7 overall on the season. The Bulldogs are at home twice this week, playing host to Polo tonight (Tuesday) and Milan on Friday for Courtwarming.

Both Grand River Conference match-ups are scheduled to tip off at 6 p.m.

SOUTH HARRISON TOURNAMENT

Tournament Finals Pushed To Monday Mercer, Princeton Set For Rematch In Championship PRINCETON GIRLS 40 SOUTH HARRISON 39 South Harrison’s shot at the horn didn’t go down and the Princeton Tigers knocked off the host school 40-39 Thursday night in the girls semifinals of the South Harrison Tournament in Bethany.

It was a measure of revenge for the Tigers who suffered a 36-32 setback only a week earlier in Bethany as the two schools clashed in their Grand River Conference meeting.

This time around it was the Tigers getting the win — one that sets Princeton up for another rematch, this one with in-county rival Mercer.

The Tigers and Cardinals were to meet for the tournament championship in Bethany on Monday after snowy conditions pushed back Saturday’s championship action. Princeton fell 53-32 when the teams met for the first time back on Dec. 10 in Mercer.

Princeton was led in its semifinal victory over South Harrison by 17 points from Addy Henke. Grace Kelly reached double figures as well, finishing with 11.

With the win, Princeton improved to 9-5 overall on the season.

Mercer Girls 58 Tri-County Girls 31 The Mercer girls cruised past TriCounty into the tournament championship with a 27-point semifinal victory on Thursday in Bethany.

Individual scores from the game

Photo courtesy of Terri Wilson Kelly

ADDY HENKE goes up for a layup during Princeton’s 40-39 victory over South Harrison on Thursday. Henke led Princeton in the tournament semifinal victory with 17 points.

were not available as of press time.

Mercer, which moved to 12-1 with the win, was set to face Princeton for the championship on Monday while Tri-County, now 9-3 overall, was scheduled to take on host South Harrison in the third-place game on Monday.

Northeast Nodaway Boys 59 Princeton Boys 52 The Princeton boys were bumped to the third-place game at the South Harrison Tournament, falling 59-52 to Northeast Nodaway on Thursday in Bethany.

The game was tied at 10-10 one quarter in, but the Tigers struggled in

the second and third quarters as Northeast Nodaway built a 43-32 lead entering the final frame. Princeton took off offensively, scoring 20 points over the final eight minutes. But Northeast Nodaway tacked on 15 to its total to keep the Tigers at bay and punch its ticket to the championship game.

Talan Holt led the Tigers in the loss, scoring 20 points. Luke Kelly followed with 15 points and Jaden Finney had six for the Tigers.

Princeton fell to 6-8 on the season with the loss and was scheduled to play for third on Monday in Bethany.

Grundy Gets A Pair Of Wins In Galt Panther Teams Start Fast, Cruise To Victories GRUNDY GIRLS 38 SOUTHWEST 16 GRUNDY BOYS 62 SOUTHWEST 40 The Grundy County High School basketball teams were in non-conference action on Thursday night, picking up a pair of home wins over visiting Southwest Livingston.

Grundy picked up a 3816 win in the girls game before completing the sweep

with a 62-40 victory in the boys game.

Grundy got off to a quick start in the girls contest and led 13-6 one quarter in. The Panthers outscored Southwest in the second, third and fourth quarters as well as the advantage grew throughout the night.

It was the best defensive effort of the year for the Panthers, who limited Southwest to no more than six points in any individual quarter. In the fourth quarter, Grundy shut out the Wildcats, not allowing a point over the final eight minutes.

Grundy was paced by Daya Allnutt, who had 13

points, eight rebounds, seven steals and three assists. Adysan Rains followed with 11 points, two steals and two assists and Skylar Bonnett had eight points, five rebounds, six steals and two assists.

With the win, the Grundy girls improved to 3-10 overall on the season.

Grundy’s boys got off to a quick start as well, racing out to an 18-11 first quarter lead and pushing the advantage to 36-19 by halftime. The lead was 24 points by the time the fourth quarter began and the Panthers were able to coast to the finish, winning by 22 points.

Corbin Axtell had 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists for the Panthers, who also got 19 points, 10 points and three assists from Zack Cross. Cole Peterson also reached double figures for the Panthers, finishing with 10 points.

The win pushed the Grundy boys to 10-4 on the year.

Both Panther teams will be at home again tonight (Tuesday), playing host to East Harrison as Grundy dives back into HDC Conference action. Tip off is scheduled for 6 o’clock in Galt.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 3

republican-times.com

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 • PAGE 3

SPORTS 2022 GHRA BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

SPORTS BRIEFS Gallatin Boys Handed Losses

The Gallatin High School boys basketball team closed the Lawson Tournament with a pair of losses, falling 5844 to top-seeded Richmond in the semifinals on Thursday and 57-49 to second-seeded West Platte in the third-place game on Friday.

Isaac Bird had 18 points, seven rebounds and two steals in the loss to West Platte on Friday. Gallatin also got 13 points and three steals from Brett Hemry in the third-place contest.

Bird had 21 points and 10 rebounds in the loss to Richmond on Thursday. Peyton Johnson scored eight points and had three assists in the semifinal contest.

Gallatin fell to 10-4 overall with the losses. The Bulldogs will play host to Maysville tonight as they return to Grand River Conference action. A girls contest between the two schools tips off at 6 o’clock and the boys game will follow.

Kids Club Wrestles In Chilli

The Trenton Kids Wrestling Club was in action at the Dave Kinen Classic in Chillicothe on Sunday with three wrestlers returning home with individual championships.

Reid Griffin, Wesley Stiles and Brody Trent paced the club, each finishing first in their respective divisions.

Finishing second for Trenton were Clayton Glidewell, Khyler Sprague, Owen Lowe, Karter Spencer, Jacob White and Jacob Black. Finishing third for Trenton were Reed Rongey, Kynsen Bain, Ayden Ortega and Kash Barlow. Trenton also had fourth-place finishers in Atlee Spicher, Haeze Duff, Wyatt Stiles, Toby Lickteig, Lucas Wood, Karsyn Tinsley, Riley Griffin and Braylee Barron.

Princeton Meeting Moved

Due to Saturday’s South Harrison Tournament games being moved to Monday the Princeton informational meeting covering the school’s potential move to the Grand River Conference’s West Division and 8-man football was pushed back.

The meeting will now be held on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the high school activity room. The open meeting will be an opportunity for community members to listen to the Princeton officials spearheading the potential move and ask questions.

CALENDAR TUE 18

WED 19

THU 20

Wrestling

at Lathrop Girls Invite TBA

Trenton Basketball

Gallatin Basketball

SAT 22

at Brook- at Brookat Maysville field Girls field Tourn.

Quad Tourn.

TBA 5:30 p.m.

TBA

TRENTON TRI Trenton 5:30 p.m.

Gallatin Wrestling

FRI 21

at Brook- at Brookfield Girls field Tourn.

Tourn.

TBA TBA

POLO 6 p.m.

MILAN 6 p.m.

MAYSVILLE 6 p.m.

at South Harrison 6 p.m.

at Putnam County Princeton 6 p.m.

POLO 6 p.m.

Basketball

EAST HARRISON Grundy 6 p.m.

at Mercer 6 p.m.

GILMAN CITY 6 p.m.

GRUNDY COUNTY 6 p.m.

at Mercer 6 p.m.

WINSTON 6 p.m.

at Winston 6 p.m.

at East Harrison 6 p.m.

Basketball

Mercer Basketball

Gilman Basketball

Tri-Co. Basketball

at St. Louis 3 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball

at St. Louis 1 p.m.

Shade Denotes Home Event

R-T Sports Calendar sponsored by

TRENTON MAIN STOP 410 Main, Trenton

660-359-5950 Fuel • Snacks • Beverages • Deli Lottery Tickets and more!

KCC Floor 1 - West Gym Entrance Week 1: January 30 KCC Floor 1 1:00 BTC vs. NCMC 1:45 CFM Insurance vs. Lamma Excavating 2:30 Dynamic Tax vs. Skipper Plumbing 3:15 Cox Dentistry vs. Premier Eyecare 4:00 Danny Westcott Trucking vs. Broker Direct 4:45 Grundy County Lumber vs. Modine

KCC Floor 2 - East Gym Entrance

KCC Floor 2 1:00 Drew’s Fireworks vs. CSI 2:00 Chula Farmers Coop vs. American Family 3:00 Wright Memorial vs. R&R Farms 4:15 Farmers Bank vs. Dynamic Tax

Week 2: February 6 KCC Floor 1 KCC Floor 2 1:00 Premier Eyecare vs Dynamic Tax 1:00 Wright Memorial vs R&R Farms 1:45 Skipper Plumbing vs Grundy County Lumber 2:00 CSI vs Chula Farmers Coop 2:30 Modine vs Farmers Bank 3:00 American Family vs Drew’s Fireworks 3:15 Cox Dentistry vs Grundy County Lumber 4:15 Broker Direct vs BTC 4:00 Lamma Excavating vs Danny Westcott Trucking 4:45 NCMC vs CFM Insurance Week 3: February 13 KCC Floor 1 1:00 NCMC vs Danny Westcott Trucking 1:45 BTC vs CFM Insurance 2:30 Lamma Excavating vs Broker Direct 3:15 Premier Eyecare vs Modine 4:00 Grundy County Lumber vs Dynamic Tax 4:45 Modine vs Skipper Plumbing Week 4: February 20 KCC Floor 1 1:00 Cox Dentistry vs Dynamic Tax 1:45 Premier Eyecare vs Skipper Plumbing 2:30 Modine vs Cox Dentistry 3:15 Farmers Bank vs Grundy County Lumber 4:00 BTC vs Lamma Excavating 4:45 NCMC vs Broker Direct Week 5: February 27 KCC Floor 1 1:00 Danny Westcott Trucking vs BTC 1:45 Lamma Excavating vs NCMC 2:30 CFM Insurance vs Broker Direct 3:15 Cox Dentistry vs Skipper Plumbing 4:00 Premier Eyecare vs Grundy County Lumber 4:45 Skipper Plumbing vs Farmers Bank Week 6: March 6 KCC Floor 1 1:00 Premier Eyecare vs Farmers Bank 1:45 Dynamic Tax vs Cox Dentistry 2:30 Skipper Plumbing vs Premier Eyecare 3:15 Grundy County Lumber vs Modine 4:00 Danny Westcott Trucking vs Broker Direct 4:45 CFM Insurance vs Lamma Excavating

TMS 1:00 MFA vs. Coca-Cola 2:15 K4C vs. Chumbley’s 3:30 T&L Auto vs. Coca-Cola 4:45 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King

TMS 1:00 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King 2:15 Coca-Cola vs K4C 3:30 Chumbley’s vs T&L Auto 4:45 MFA vs K4C

KCC Floor 2 1:00 CSI vs American Family 2:00 Chula Farmers Coop vs Drew’s Fireworks 3:00 Wright Memorial vs R&R Farms 4:15 Farmers Bank vs Cox Dentistry

TMS 1:00 MFA vs T&L Auto 2:15 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King 3:30 K4C vs T&L Auto 4:45 Coca-Cola vs Chumbley’s

KCC Floor 2 1:00 Wright Memorial vs R&R Farms 2:00 Drew’s Fireworks vs American Family 3:00 Chula Farmers Coop vs CSI 4:15 CFM Insurance vs Danny Westcott Trucking

TMS 1:00 MFA vs Chumbley’s 2:15 T&L Auto vs Coca-Cola 3:30 Chumbley’s vs K4C 4:45 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King

KCC Floor 2 1:00 Drew’s Fireworks vs CSI 2:00 Chula Farmers Coop vs American Family 3:00 Wright Memorial vs R&R Farms 4:15 Dynamic Tax vs Modine

TMS 1:00 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King 2:15 MFA vs Coca-Cola 3:30 Chumbley’s vs T&L Auto 4:45 K4C vs MFA

KCC Floor 2 1:00 Wright Memorial vs R&R Farms 2:00 Drew’s Fireworks vs Chula Farmers Coop 3:00 CSI vs American Family 4:15 BTC vs NCMC

TMS 1:00 MFA vs Coca-Cola 2:15 Sunnyview vs. Graphics King 3:30 Coca-Cola vs T&L Auto 4:45 K4C vs Chumbley’s

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 4

PAGE 4 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

republican-times.com

LOCAL DEATHS

Virginia Lee Cheek Virginia Lee Cheek, an 88-year-old Trenton resident, died at 10:37 p.m., Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe.

Her body was cremated under the direction of Slater-Neal Funeral Home of Trenton.

No services or memorials are planned at this time.

Mrs. Cheek was born Sept. 21, 1933 in Columbia, the daughter of Harry Paul and Alice Elizabeth Elliott Ballew.

She was married to Robert Lee Cheek on May 25, 1957 in Columbia. He survives of the home.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by one daughter, Diana Lynn

Parker and her husband Douglas of Liberty; one son, Robert Alan Cheek and his wife, Kathy of Trenton; a grandson, Joseph Benjamine “Jobey” Cheek, a disabled American veteran, of Columbia; two sisters, Karen Spears and Shirley Ward; and two brothers, Larry Dale Ballew and Max Wayne Ballew.

She was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Beverly Jean Ballew, Barbara Ann Shaw, Margaret Louise Ballew and Doris Faye Ballew; and one brother, Paul Edward Ballew.

Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.

Nona “Jane” Ragan Nona “Jane” Ragan, a 79-year-old Trenton resident, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS, where she had been a patient for eight days.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 at the Tenth Street Baptist Church in Trenton.

Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery at Trenton.

Open visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 at the Slater-Neal Funeral Home at Trenton.

Mrs. Ragan was born Dec. 10, 1942 in her parents home in Bethany, the daughter of Rufford and Ruby Hancock Wise. She attended school in Pattonsburg, Gilman City and Bethany. In her younger years she worked at Bill and Mary Malone’s restaurant and the Blue Bird Grill, both of Bethany. She also was employed at the cap factory in Pattonsburg and numerous other places. For 29 years she was also employed at Eastview Manor Care Center at Trenton.

She was a very passionate caring person. She always had a large garden and raised fryer chickens to stretch the food dollar. Jane loved and lived for her family.

She attended the Tenth Street Baptist Church, Trenton.

Her survivors include three sons, Danny Junior Ragan and his wife, Gayle of Carrollton, Dennis Ragan and his wife, Robin of Chillicothe and Terry Ragan and his fiancée, Jessica McCall of Independence; six grandchildren, Jordon Ragan, Aaron Ragan, Keaton Ragan, Hanna Ragan, Paige Shouse and Randy Ragan; four step-grandchildren, Terry Cervantes and his wife, Gina of Liberty, Jose Cervantes and his wife, Shelly of Jamesport, Tony Cervantes and his wife, Shelli of Kansas City and Daniel Cervantes and his wife, Margie of Path Fork, KY; seven great-grandchildren; and four sisters, Doris West of Bedford, IA, Barbara Criswell of Trenton, Rosetta Parkhurst of Blythedale and Goldie Ragan of Trenton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Danny Ragan; one son, Rodney Ragan; and two brothers, Cecil Wise and Fred Wise.

Memorials are suggested to the Tenth Street Baptist Church and they may be left with the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.

www.republican-times.com

MOORE’S CONSTRUCTION & WOODWORK, INC.

Mr.

We are ready to replace your old gutters with new seamless aluminum gutters!

660-359-5477

ASAP Locksmith

FUNERALS

Alice Hickman Alice Louise Hickman, a 94-year-old Trenton resident, passed away at 2:38 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022 at Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 at Resthaven Mortuary north of Trenton.

Burial followed in Groff Cemetery.

Alice was born April 25, 1927 in Trenton, the daughter of Roy Marion and Nancy Cleo Reams Hein.

On Aug. 20, 1944 she was united in marriage to Wynn Hickman. He preceded her in death on Sept.

29, 2006.

Alice loved playing pitch at the Senior Center and the “She Club” in Spickard. She also loved listening to Elvis Presley music.

Surviving relatives include her daughters, Glenda Winkler and her husband, Charles of Moberly, Peggy Bryan of Princeton and Marsha Kerr and her husband, Tom of Chula; a sister, Pat Cox and her husband, Larry of Aurora, CO; a sister-in-law,

Ardis Simpson of Spickard; grandchildren Curtis Crawford and his wife, Tona of Trenton, Tim Horton of Kansas City, Kami Smith of Kansas City, Steven Kerr and his wife, Megan of Prairie Village, KS and Susan Ditch and her husband, Morgan of Jefferson City; and greatgrandchildren Trent and Connor Crawford, Brayden and Colton Jeffers, Ainslyn and Gwendolyn Ditch, Hannah and Olive Kerr and Bryson Horton In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, brothers and sisters Carl Raymond, Charles, George, Frank, Roy Hein, Leila, Dorothy, Betty Sue, Mary, Shirley, Helen, and Bertha Mae; and grandchildren Christopher Horton and Callie Crawford Jeffers.

Memorial donations are suggested to the Groff Cemetery and may be left with or mailed to the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.

Doris E. Shafer May Doris E. Shafer May, a 97-year-old Trenton resident and former Browning resident, died at 2:13 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.

Her body was cremated under the direction of Slater-Neal Funeral Home of Trenton. Due to Covid concerns, graveside services will be held at a later date.

Mrs. May was born May 26, 1924 in Humphreys, the daughter of Hubert and Vena Cawood Shafer. She graduated from Humphreys High School and spent most of her life in the Humphreys area.

She was married to Dewayne May on Nov. 22, 1942 at Trenton. He preceded her in death on Aug. 13, 2009.

Her survivors include her children, Jerry (Jane) May of Lawrence, KS, Cheryl (Charles) Ingraham of Lathrop and Larry (Bev) May of Browning; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, Leroy Shafer, her twin Donald Shafer and Francis Shafer; one daughter-in-law, Sharon May; and one granddaughter, Laura Jo May. Memorials are suggested to the Mt. Zion Christian Church or Mt. Zion Cemetery Association of Humphreys. They may be left with the funeral home.

Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.

Daniel E. “Danny” Murphy Daniel E. “Danny” Murphy, an 85-year-old Trenton resident, died at 3 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022 at Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Corydon, IA. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 at Resthaven Mortuary at Trenton.

Mr. Murphy was born March 22, 1936 at Milan, the son of Clifford Eugene and Mary Catherine Fry Murphy. He graduated from Humphreys High School. Before retiring he was employed by the Henderson Trash Service of Trenton.

On June 2, 1957 he was married at the Crandall United Methodist Church, Trenton to Patricia Ann Meeker. She survives of the home.

In addition to his wife,

he is survived by one daughter, Lori Stiles of Trenton; one son, Cary Murphy and his wife, Dee of Galt; three grandchildren, Cassie Cordray and her husband, Daniel, Leslie Brown and Lance Stiles; and three great-grandchildren, Morgan Brown, Marley Brown and Bodie Cordray.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Mary Jane Artz and Patsy Smith; two nieces, Diane Smith and Catherine Fern (Artz) Urionaguena; and one nephew, Michael Artz.

Memorials are suggested to the Wayne County Memorial Hospital in Corydon and may be left with the mortuary.

Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com.

C OX FAMILY D ENTISTRY, P.C.

1011 Cedar St., Trenton Office:

359-6889 • 359-6993

Marilyn Jane Davidson Funeral services for Marilyn Jane Davidson were held at 2 p.m., Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Trenton. Bro. Duane Campbell and Rev. Steve Martin officiated.

Mrs. Davidson, an 86year-old Trenton resident, passed away at 2:11 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 at University Hospital in Columbia.

Special music was presented by soloist Robert Wimer and pianist Elaine

Walker, who performed “I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked”, “The Old Rugged Cross” and “It Is Well With My Soul.”

Pallbearers were Duane Helmandollar, Aric Helmandollar, Jim Dennis, Mason Crawford, Merrit Crawford and Milan Crawford.

Steve Peers and Jack Leib were honorary pallbearers.

Interment was in the Haseville Cemetery.

Rex R. Gray Private graveside services for Rex R. Gray were held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton. Rev. Ron Ratliff officiated.

Mr. Gray, a 96-year-old Trenton resident, died at 10:48 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 at Sunnyview

Nursing Home in Trenton.

Pallbearers were Mike Bohannon, Tanner Wilson, Tristen Wilson and Travis Bohannon.

Military rites were conducted by Joseph L. Norton VFW Post No. 919.

Those participating were Tony Ralston, Sam Smith, John Rice and Gary Dolan.

Spickard, Galt Aldermen Hold January Meetings The Spickard and Galt boards of aldermen met last week, with the Spickard board hearing a request from the Grundy County Commission and the Galt board hearing an engineering report.

Spickard The Spickard Board of Aldermen met Thursday, Jan. 13, discussing a request from the county to use the city water tower for an antenna.

According to information provided by City Clerk Amy Chapman, First District County Commissioner Don Sager was present at the meeting to request that the city allow the county to place an antenna on the city tower to improve the radio communications for emergency services. The board discussed the issue and will hold a special meeting to discuss the request. No date was announced for that meeting.

A water loss report for December showed 8.51 percent, with water loss for all of 2021 coming in at 8 percent.

The next regular meeting is scheduled for Feb. 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Galt The Galt board of Aldermen met Jan. 12, hearing an engineer’s report on the city’s plan for water system improvements.

According to City Clerk Ashley Bonnett, representatives of Benton and Associates Engineers presented their draft Preliminary Engineering Report for the city’s water system improvements. The council approved their draft report to be submitted to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for future water improvements related to low water pressure and other recommendations and improvements.

Filing has closed for the April 2022 election and with the same number of open positions and candidates, no election will be needed. Those filing by the Dec. 28 deadline were incumbent Jay Blackburn, alderman at large- for a two-year term, and Lewis Berry, alderman at large, also for a two-year term.

Berry had been appointed to fill a vacant position until the election.

The next meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16.

LOCAL GRAIN PRICES JAN. 14 Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers/Carrollton (1-800-722-4407) Old crop, corn 6.31, beans 13.79, wheat 7.01.

New crop, corn 5.28, beans 12.63, wheat 7.07.

MLK

• From Front Page •

King said on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial that “America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.” He called it “a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.

But we refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt!”

“It is compelling rhetoric, but I also think Dr.

King knew it was a more than a metaphor. He knew that economic injustice was bound up in the larger injustice he fought against.

From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow, to the present day, our economy has never worked fairly for Black Americans – or, really, for any American of color,” Yellen said.

She said the Biden administration has sought to ensure that no economic institution fails to work for people of color.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 5

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 • PAGE 5

republican-times.com

COMMUNITY

Submitted Photo

The NCMC Science Department was awarded a $1,000 Bill Ausmus Faculty/Staff Mini Grant from the North Central Missouri College Foundation for the Fall 2021 semester. Pictured are Alicia Endicott, left, NCMC Director of Development, and Dr. Susan Stull, life sciences instructor.

Submitted Photo

Ed and Pam Craig Johnston of Trenton will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 22, 2022. The couple was married on Jan. 22, 1972 at the First Baptist Church in Trenton by Rev. A.L. Palmer. They are the parents of two sons, Warren Craig Johnston and his wife, Mikki of Platte City, and William Clayton Johnston and his wife, Amanda, of Kansas City. They also have five grandchildren, Maren, Grant, Wyatt, Ava and Liam Johnston. Cards may be sent to the Johnstons at 398 S.W. Elm Ln., Trenton, MO 64683.

Africa Is Program Topic At Go & Learn Meeting

Submitted Photo

The North Central Missouri College Student Support Services and Tutoring Center’s Better Snacks = Better Grades project was awarded a $489.03 Bill Ausmus Faculty/Staff Mini-Grant for the spring 2021 semester. Pictured are Alicia Endicott, left, NCMC Director of Development, and Jayne Meservey, tutoring center coordinator.

Mini Grants Are Awarded

By NCMC Foundation The North Central Missouri College Foundation has announced the spring and fall 2021 recipients of the Bill Ausmus Faculty/Staff Mini-Grant.

Projects receiving funding for the spring 2021 semester included Student Support Services Learn Science with Models and the Tutoring Center Better Snacks=Better Grades. The project awarded funding for the fall 2021 semester was the Science Department for Physics Equipment.

“To date, the Bill Ausmus Faculty/Staff MiniGrant has awarded over $3500 to NCMC departments. The awarded applications may not have otherwise been funded without this grant opportunity for faculty and staff,” commented NCMC Director of Development Alicia Endicott. “Departmental needs and opportunities arise outside the regular budgeting schedule, and the NCMC Foundation in honor of Bill Ausmus can help those opportunities still be realized.”

The Bill Ausmus Faculty/Staff Mini-Grant is in honor and memory of Dean Emeritus Bill Ausmus. Bill joined Trenton Junior College in the fall of 1967.

During his 20-year tenure,

he wore many hats, including Head Basketball Coach (1967-1972), Athletic Director, Director of Student Personnel, Dean of College, and after the legal separation in 1986 from the Trenton R-9 School District, Assistant to President.

When Bill retired in 1987, a fund was created to promote faculty/staff development at the college, and those funds have grown to allow a regular disbursement by the NCMC Foundation.

Grants are awarded during the fall and spring semesters to benefit programs and departments with equipment, programming, or staff development opportunities. Those interested in contributing to the Ausmus fund or have questions regarding the NCMC Foundation can contact NCMC Director of Development Alicia Endicott at 660-357-6403 or aendicott@mail.ncmissouri.edu.

The NCMC Foundation is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All gifts to the Foundation are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.

For more information about the NCMC Foundation visit, www.ncmissouri.edu/foundation/.

The Go and Learn FCE met for lunch and a business meeting at Dino’s on Jan. 7.

President Lana Snider presided over the meeting and had a devotional entitled “Sunrise.” Roll call was answered with each member telling what they did to bring in the New Year. Angela Snider was a guest.

Members repeated the pledge to the flag and club collect and were given a copy of the programs for the new year, made by Betty Rumbley. An interesting program on Africa was given by the guest, Angela Snider, who had spent some time in Africa.

The next meeting will be held at El Toro at 11 a.m.

Friday, Feb. 4.

TrenTon

republican-Times

National (USPS 638-180) Newspaper Association Published By Honeycutt Media, LLC 122 East Eighth St. Trenton, MO 64683-0548 E-Mail: news@republican-times.com Phone: 660-359-2212 Established September 4, 1864 Periodicals Postage Paid at Trenton, Mo.

--------------

Jamey & D’Anna Honeycutt Co-Publishers

Ronda Lickteig Editor

Wendell Lenhart Publisher Emeritus

Seth Herrold Sports

Composing Angela Dugan, Manager Tomie Walker, Anita Ewing

Business Operations Becca Balliett Susan Plumb

Sales Megan Graham, Curt Thorne --------------

World Strides Trips Are Topic Of Rotary Meeting Jan. 13 Amy Currie was the guest speaker at the Thursday, Jan. 13 meeting of the Trenton Rotary Club, held at the First Christian Church.

Mrs. Currie discussed the educational trips she is leading through World Strides. She is planning to lead one to Europe in May, to Washington D.C. in June and to Costa Rica, also in June. Student travel is important, she said, noting that 92 percent of students who have traveled view the world and travel itself differently. World Strides has 400 programs and has led trips for seven million students. It has 45 ground offices around the globe. The company puts a premium on safety, providing insurance for travelers and a full assortment of travel services.

The trip to Europe is scheduled for May 22-June

4 and will include London, Paris, Lucerne, Munich, Prague and Berlin. Tourists will sample the food, arts, historic sites and markets of Europe. The Washington, D.C. trip will be held June 6-10 and will include stops at Arlington National Cemetery, Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian Institute, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Capitol Hill, the Holocaust Museum, the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

The trip to Costa Rica, which will be held June 1323, will include stops in Manuel, Totuguaro, Montedeveder and Arenal. That trip will include nature walks, surfing, dance lessons, tours, school visits and a cooking class.

Next week’s program will be presented by Amy May of the North Central Missouri Mental Health Center.

Postmaster: Send address changes to: Republican-Times, P.O. Box 548, Trenton, MO 64683 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches.

“The Republican has a greater purpose in life than merely to publish the news.” . . . Col. W.B. Rogers.

Published Tuesday and Friday, except holidays; Single Copy, 70¢ plus 5¢ sales tax, $65 plus tax per year in Trenton, Grundy and adjoining counties. $80 plus tax per year in Missouri and $95 per year out of state.

Trenton Republican-Times 122 E. 8th St. PO Box 548 Trenton, MO 64683

660-359-2212 rtimes@lyn.net Keith Sarver

PIANO TUNING SERVICE

Page Tree Service

Call early! The schedule fills up fast.

*)('&%$&#&"! &" (( & &"! * ) &" &"! )$( ( ( %$

660-425-2547 Taking Out The Wrong Note Since 1988 Like us on Facebook @ Keith Sarver Piano Tuning

See me for quotes on

( %!( * )

(

•Life Insurance •Annuities •Medicare Supplements

RON DOUGAN 903 Main St., Trenton, MO

660 359-0100 53 years in the Insurance Business!

•60 ft. Bucket Truck •Chipper & Stump Grinder

DOWNTOWN CHILLICOTHE • 620 WASHINGTON STREET

C660-646-3504 HILLICOTHE TRENTON • Open Mon-Fri 9-5:30, Sat 9-1 • www.lauhoffjewelry.com

&'(" ( " (

(( & % (

Trenton Area Calendar of Events WEDNESDAY Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous, Tenth Street Baptist Church, noon. For more information, call 359-2704 or 3572367.

North 65 Center: Token Bingo and Cards, 12:30 p.m.

THURSDAY Trenton Rotary Club, BTC Bank Community Room, noon.

North 65 Center: Cards, 12:30 p.m.; Early Bird Bingo, 6:00 p.m.; Regular Bingo, 6:45 p.m.

FRIDAY Church Women United Thrift Shop, 17th & Harris, noon to 4 p.m.

Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m. For more information, call 359-2704.

North 65 Center: Line Dancers, 9:30 a.m.; Cards, 12:30 p.m.

SATURDAY Church Women United Thrift Shop, 17th & Harris, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Grief Share Self-Help Group, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 4:30 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY Narcotics Anonymous, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 4 p.m.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 6

PAGE 6 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

republican-times.com

AMERICAN POLITICS

After Biden's First Year, The Virus And Disunity Rage On WASHINGTON (AP) — From the inaugural platform, President Joe Biden saw American sickness on two fronts — a disease of the national spirit and the one from the rampaging coronavirus — and he saw hope, because leaders always must see that.

“End this uncivil war,” he implored Americans on Jan. 20, 2021. Of the pathogen, he said: “We can overcome this deadly virus."

Neither malady has abated.

For Biden, it's been a year of lofty ambitions grounded by the unrelenting pandemic, a tough hand in Congress, a harrowing end to an overseas war and rising fears for the future of democracy itself. Biden did score a publicworks achievement for the ages. But America’s cracks go deeper than pavement.

In this midterm election year, Biden confronts seething divisions and a Republican Party that propagates the delusion that the 2020 election — exhaustively vetted, validated many times over, fair by all measures — was stolen from Donald Trump. That central, mass lie of a rigged vote has become a pretext in state after state for changing election rules and fueling even further disunity and grievance.

In the dispiriting close of Biden's first year, roadblocks stood in the way of all big things pending.

The Supreme Court blocked his vaccinate-or-test mandate for most large employers. Monthly payments to families that had slashed child poverty ran out Friday, with no assurance they will be renewed. Biden's historic initiative to shore up the social safety net wallowed in Congress. And people under 40 have never seen inflation like this.

Only two days after Biden's lacerating speech in Atlanta invoking the darkest days of segregation, he saw his voting rights legislation run aground when Democratic Sen. Krysten Sinema of Arizona announced her opposition to changing Senate rules to allow the bill to pass by a simple majority.

Her rationale: Altering the rules would only “worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country.”

For all of that, Barack Obama was on to something when he paid his old vice president an odd compliment late in the 2020 campaign. Elect Joe Biden, he said, and after four years of flamboyant Trump dramas and crazy tweets, folks could feel safe ignoring their president and vice president for a spell.

“You’re not going to have to think about them every single day," Obama said. "It just won’t be so exhausting.

You’ll be able to go about your lives.”

Indeed America saw normalcy, some say dignity, return to the White House. Pets came back and so did daily press briefings for the public.

The Trump-era political muzzle came off public health authorities, freeing them to confuse the public all on their own.

First lady Jill Biden's studded “Love” jacket at a global summit not-so-subtly countered the “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” jacket her predecessor wore on her flight to a migrant child detention center.

Instead of promising the world and delivering a Potemkin village (as when Trump declared the virus “very much under control” in February 2020), the Biden White House set pandemic and other goals that were modest to a fault, then exceeded them. The old game of lowering expectations and then taking credit for beating them was back, though such boasting was gone when the dual punch of the delta and omicron variants landed.

Even so, the discipline, drive and baseline competence from the new White House produced notable results.

Biden won a bipartisan infrastructure package that had eluded his two predecessors, coming away with a legacyshaping fix for the rickety pillars of industry and society.

The first signs of that law in action came this month when Washington approved New York City’s Second Avenue subway project to a final engineering phase before shovels hit the ground. The project, which would add three train stops in East Harlem, stalled under Trump.

Americans everywhere will be seeing plenty more orange construction cones for years to come. In just one initiative under the program, 15,000 highway bridges are in line for repairs.

Biden steered more judges through Congress to the federal bench than any recent predecessor. He won approval of a Cabinet that was half women and a minority of white people for the first time. More than 6 million people are back at work and half a billion COVID-19 vaccines have been put in arms, but the nation has a long way to go to return to its pre-pandemic state.

“I think it's a lot of achievements, a lot of accomplishment, in the face of some very serious obstacles,” Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, told The Associated Press on the cusp of Biden's second year in office. “The Biden presidency remains a work in progress.”

Matthew Delmont, a civil rights historian at Dartmouth, expected more from Biden by virtue of Biden's decades of experience as a savvy operator in the capital.

He had anticipated a far more effective COVID-19 response and more urgency, sooner, in countering the rollback of voting rights and tilting of election rules that Republicans are attempting across the country.

“There’s something to be said for the professionalism of the White House and not going from one fire to the next," Delmont said. “What I worry is that the Washington he understands isn’t the Washington we have anymore.”

Political science professor Cal Jillson at Southern Methodist University in Dallas said Biden has displayed “warning track power" — the ability in baseball to hit long but not, as yet, over the fence.

In Biden, Jillson sees a leader who brought the even keel that Obama had talked about from the campaign stage but also one who only rarely delivers a speech worth remembering.

“While there are vast partisan differences in how Biden is seen, in general he is seen as stable but not forceful," he said.

Biden’s First Year: By The Numbers WASHINGTON (AP) — By some counts, President Joe Biden can lay claim to a banner first year in office. But numbers also reveal plenty of setbacks.

Most in the United States got their COVID-19 vaccines, but other countries fared better. Economic growth surged; so did inflation. America exited Afghanistan, but the war ended with a chaotic evacuation and a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops. Pandemic aid and infrastructure bills passed. Pricey legislation to advance Biden's social and climate proposals shrunk and then stalled.

Some notable numbers from Biden's first year: • 63.5% vaccination rate. Most Americans got jabbed. Countries with higher vaccination rates: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

• 3.9% jobless rate. The low unemployment rate is a big highlight of Biden's first year. He inherited a coronavirus-thrashed economy with unemployment at 6.4%. Employers added 6.4 million jobs last year as unemployment dropped well below the 4.6% that the Congressional Budget Office had anticipated in July for the end of 2021.

• 7% inflation. In running the economy hot, Biden got burned as inflation reached a nearly 40-year high. Higher prices led to disapproval of Biden's economic leadership. Gasoline and groceries cost more, and some notable economists said higher prices were a sign that Biden's relief package was too large.

• $1 trillion. The cost of Biden's bipartisan infrastructure law, which includes $550 billion in new spending. To get an agreement, Biden pulled back from the $2.3 trillion he initially proposed. He separately proposed $1.8 trillion for a package of social and climate initiatives, but that was modified and unable to clear the Senate. So Biden got about one-quarter of the $4 trillion in spending he proposed.

• 13 deaths. The number of U.S. troops who died in a suicide bombing at the gate of Kabul's airport during the U.S. evacuation of more than 124,000 people from Afghanistan. At least 169 Afghans were killed, with the evacuations leaving scores of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies behind. More than 2,460 U.S. service members died in Afghanistan over the course of the two-decade war.

• 1.78 million border crossings in the Southwest. Migrants began streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border once Biden became president. There were 1.78 million encounters with border agents during his first 10 full months, a four-fold increase compared with President Donald Trump's last 10 months in office.

• 20 natural disasters. There were 20 extreme weather and climate disasters that each caused damages in excess of $1 billion and killed a combined 688 people. These included a drought, two floods, 11 severe storms, four tropical cyclones, a wildfire and a winter storm. Adjusted for inflation, the U.S. has averaged 7.4 disasters annually since 1980 that caused $1 billion or more in losses.

• 24 states. Biden visited nearly half of America's 50 states during his first year. Excluding stops at his homes in Delaware, top destinations were Pennsylvania (seven times) and Michigan (five times). Both were key states in his 2020 election victory.

Jill Biden went to 35 states.

• 41 federal judges. Biden had 41 judges confirmed to the bench during his first year in office, more than any of his recent predecessors at the same time in their presidencies. Of those, 80% are women, and 53% are people of color, according to the White House.

• 103 days. It took an average of 103 days for Biden nominees requiring Senate confirmation to be confirmed. That’s longer than the average for nominees in the first years of the previous six administrations and nearly three times longer than during Ronald Reagan’s first year in office, according to an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition.

• nine news conferences. There will be a 10th on Wednesday.

Biden has been remarkably press shy. He held nine news conferences (six solo and three joint) and 22 media interviews during his first year. That’s fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors.

• 32 “not a joke" references. It's one of Biden's favorite speech lines. Among the things he said were “not a joke”: Civil rights icons, labor unions that built the middle class, air pollution from Delaware chemical plants, climate change as a national security risk, California voters, Biden's disregard of polls on his economic agenda. Seriously.

That's how Biden has come across to John Ferguson, a retired diplomatic officer in Lovettsville, Virginia, who considers Biden “infinitely better than Trump" but adds: "He seems to give a speech every four hours and he’s not very good at it.”

In large measure, Biden's innate civility and predictability brought the sort of climate change that the world could get behind.

Here once more was a president who believed deeply in alliances and vowed to repair an American reputation frayed by the provocateur in office before him.

There would be no more puzzling feelers about buying Greenland. No more doting looks at Russian President Vladimir Putin; instead, Biden stepped up diplomatic confrontation over Putin's designs on Ukraine. There would be no eerie uplit gatherings around glowing orbs with rulers of dissent-crushing Arab countries like Trump's photo op with the Saudis.

But the world also witnessed Biden's debacle in Afghanistan, a chaotic withdrawal that brought more than 124,000 to safety but stranded thousands of desperate Afghans who had been loyal to the United States and hundreds of U.S. citizens and green card holders.

Discounting warnings from military and diplomatic advisers, Biden misjudged the Taliban’s tenacity and the staying power of Afghan security forces that had seen crucial U.S. military support vanish. He then blamed Afghans for all that went wrong. Millions of Afghans face the threat of famine in the first winter following the Taliban takeover.

All presidents enter the world's most powerful office buoyed by their victory only to confront its limitations in time. For Biden, that happened sooner than for most. A polarized public, Trump's impeachment trial and an evenly divided Senate saw to that.

Biden entered office with a list of to-dos amassed by his party. His quest for a sweeping “Build Back Better” program of social spending turned into a months-long slog, hostage to disagreement between Democrats of the left and center and sometimes to just one man, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, or Manchin and Sinema together.

Biden came late, by some reckonings, to the Trumpinspired Republican efforts in state capitals to revise how people can vote, how those votes are counted and who oversees elections. Defending democratic processes is a universal concern but also, in Delmont's view, the overarching civil rights issue of this time.

“Right now it feels like there’s a lot more passion and energy from folks who would like to restrict or roll back voting rights," Delmont said. Absent an effective defense of those rights by Biden, “I can’t say that he’s doing enough to repay the Black Americans who put him in the White House."

Meantime, day after day, event after event, it was the virus that commanded Biden's attention. “That challenge casts a shadow over everything we do,” Klain said. “I think we've made historic progress there but it's still a challenge.”

PANDEMIC POLITICS Biden is the second U.S. president to be humbled by the coronavirus, which has killed some 846,000 people in this country.

The U.S. is now much better equipped against COVID-19. America’s medical arsenal is stronger by orders of magnitude than in the pandemic's first year and the relief money pumped to households, communities and states also made a big difference, though at a cost of stirring inflation.

The Biden administration has been strikingly successful in procuring vaccines and clearing the way for new antiviral medicines that can be taken at home, which should relieve the strain on hospitals once those pills be-

come widely available.

But testing continues to be a core failure, and millions of Americans still refuse to get vaccinated.

Rapid tests are frustratingly difficult to find, and expensive. PCR tests still take three to five days in many cases to get results. That means Americans will continue to be several steps behind the virus, especially with omicron. It remains to be seen if the administration’s new testing push leads to a meaningful change.

Trump was undone by his bluster, his inability to own up to the seriousness of the situation and his failure to communicate the stakes truthfully to Americans. But Biden has not been entirely free of hubris.

His mask-less springtime stroll with Vice President Kamala Harris in the Rose Garden may be remembered as an ill-conceived example to the country. Biden's July Fourth celebration of American “independence” from the virus was premature, to put it charitably, despite hedging his remarks in recognition of the dangerous delta variant then stirring.

His portrayal of a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” meant to nudge those who won't get the needle, further illustrated the country's us-and-them divide and wasn't exactly true. Fully vaccinated people account for a growing number of cases across the country, though they are far less likely to suffer from it as much as the unvaccinated do. Equally vexing for Biden is that those most protected against the virus remain most afraid of it.

On the other side of the political divide, prominent Republican governors have actively opposed vaccination and mask mandates.

Anti-government sentiment, nurtured by misinformation, has been aimed at public health advisers and their recommendations, long regarded as beyond the political scrum.

As the pandemic enters its third year, the notion that the U.S. may not be able to crush the coronavirus and may have to settle for living with it — a thought that sparked outrage when it briefly surfaced in Trump's time — may now be gaining currency.

Biden's campaign promise from October 2020 hangs in the balance: “I’m going to shut down the virus, not the country."

IN THE WORLD'S EYES Biden campaigned on a promise to restore U.S. leadership, with dignity, among the democracies. He's made good on the style of that while disappointing supporters at home and allies abroad on some of the substance.

Apart from his bungled Afghanistan withdrawal, his efforts to bring Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord and reverse Trump’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the deal have been met only by Iran moving closer than before to nuclear capabilities.

With some of the autocrats he had promised to confront on human rights, Saudi's crown prince among them, he has equivocated.

Steven A. Cook, a Middle East expert and senior fellow at the Council for Foreign Policy, branded Biden’s foreign policy “ruthless pragmatism," especially when it comes to undemocratic Middle East governments. Domestic politics, including Biden’s own concerns about voter abhorrence for high gas prices, have kept him from making America the out-front example of fighting climate change that he'd promised it would be.

While Biden convened global summits for democracies and climate change as promised, and rejoined the Paris climate accord, his biggest effort on climate funding belly-flopped.

That, along with mixed administration efforts at home to keep natural gas and gasoline cheap and flowing while cutting fossil fuel use over the long term, threatens Biden’s aim of making the U.S. a leader by example on the climate.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 7

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 • PAGE 7

republican-times.com

LOCAL/FINANCE DAILY RECORD GRUNDY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT Circuit Division Judge Thomas R. Alley The following cases were heard by Mercer County Associate Judge Matthew Krohn in the absence of Judge Alley: Brayden M. Wiggins, by Rhonda Wiggins, next friend vs. Riverside Country Club.

The defendant’s request for a change of venue was sustained with the case moved to Mercer County. Judge Krohn accepted the case, but will request assignment from the presiding judge.

Robert E. Ewing, Trenton, waived formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty to four felony counts of failing to register as a sex offender. He is scheduled to appear in court again on Feb. 10.

Robert J. Singer, Hale, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of driving while intoxicated-chronic offender, and was sentenced to serve four years in the Department of Corrections. Execution of the sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years, with the condition that he wear an electronic alcohol monitoring device for not less than 90 days. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of possession of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid-prior drug offense and unlawful possession of drug paraphernaliaprior drug offense. He was sentenced to serve 69 days in jail on each charge, with credit given for time served.

Devin A. Pierce, Trenton, changed his plea to guilty on a felony charge of delivery of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid.

He was sentenced to serve eight years in the Department of Corrections and requested to be placed in a long-term substance abuse treatment program.

Samuel J. Anderson, Galt, waived formal arraignment and pleaded guilty to three amended charges of felony endangering the welfare of a child. Imposition of his sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years, with the condition that he follow all recommendations of the Children’s Division and Juvenile Office.

Dallas W. Hughs, Trenton, waived formal arraignment and pleaded guilty to felony charges of delivery of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid and possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoid. He was sentenced to serve seven years in the Department of Corrections on each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently with each other and with any other sentences imposed in other cases.

Todd A. McDowell, Gallatin, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of third degree domestic assault and misdemeanor charges of violating a protection order for an adult and first degree trespassing.

Imposition of his sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years, with the special conditions that he enter and successfully complete an outpatient treatment program

and follow all recommendations, be subject to electronic alcohol monitoring and have no contact with the victim except concerning the children.

Brandon T. May, Trenton, changed his plea to guilty on a felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to serve four years in the Department of Corrections. Execution of the sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years. He admitted violating the terms of his probation on a felony charge of stealing and had his previously suspended sentence converted to seven years in the Department of Correction. Execution of that sentence was suspended and his probation was continued.

Richard Tharp, Princeton, waived formal arraignment and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid.

Imposition of his sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for five years, with credit given for 86 days.

Tommy J. Brittain, Trenton, had a warrant issued due to a drug violation. He is on probation on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana. He was later arrested, with bond set at $7,500 cash only. A hearing was set for Feb. 10.

Cindy J. Gearin, Spickard, admitted violating the terms of her probation on an original felony charge of altering a lottery ticket. Her probation was continued with the additional condition that she enter the Third Circuit Court Treatment Program.

Connie L. McCollum, Laclede, admitted violating the terms of her probation on an original charge of felony stealing. Her probation was revoked and she was sentenced to serve seven years in the Department of Corrections and ordered to pay $1,851.73 restitution.

Timothy A. Nguyen, Trenton, had a capias warrant issued for violating the terms of his probation on original felony charges of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia-amphetamine or methamphetamine. He was later arrested, with bond set at $7,500 cash only. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 10.

Lori A. Pennington, Trenton, admitted violating the terms of her probation on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated-persistent offender and a misdemeanor charge of driving while revoked or suspended -second or third offense. Her probation was continued with the additional condition that she enter the Court Ordered Detention Sanction program in the Department of Corrections and be screened for participation in the Third Circuit Treatment Program upon completion of CODS. Shawn A. Wells, Maryville, had a warrant issued for failing to appear in court on a felony charge of first degree property damage.

Ticket Issued In Mishap

Associate Division Judge Steven D. Hudson Reuben Bontrager, Jamesport, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of operating a vehicle with brakes not in good working order and was fined $203.50.

Christina E. Boatright, Trenton, pleaded guilty to failing to drive on the right half of the roadway was fined $60.50.

Jackelin Vega, Zapata, TX, pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined $70.50.

Angelea C. Salazar, Jamesport, pleaded guilty to not wearing a seat belt and was fined $10.

Kyley R. Culbertson, Trenton, pleaded guilty to failing to register a motor vehicle and was fined $50.50.

REAL ESTATE Jacob A. Bottcher and wife to Terry Jasinski and wife.

Tim Bland to Paul Feidrich.

Larry A. Johnson to Jeffrey Gibson and others.

Gerald J. Hostetler to Aaron S. Bunnell.

DAVIESS COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT Circuit Division Judge Ryan Horsman Henry E. Holcomb, Gallatin, waived formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty to felony charges of failing to register as a sex offender, unlawful possession of a firearm and stealing. He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 9.

Michael J. Beechy, Jamesport, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and purchasing or attempting to purchase or possession of liquor by a minor and had sentencing set for March 9.

Henry C. Hogan, Cameron, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to serve four years in the Department of Corrections on each count.

Jamie N. Toney, Trenton, waived formal arraignment and pleaded not guilty to driving while revoked or suspended and had her case set for Feb. 9.

David A. Grant, Independence, pleaded guilty to felony charges of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid, attempted burglary, possession of burglary tools and driving while revoked or suspended. He was sentenced to seven years in the Department of Corrections on the possession charges and four years on the other charges, with the sentences to run concurrently with each other and consecutive to any other sentences in othe cases.

Cynthia M. Curtis, Altamont, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault and had imposition of her sentence suspended. She was placed on probation for two years and is to serve three days shock incarceration (credit for time served) and have no contact with the victim unless it is related to the children or therapy. She is also to complete the Batterers Intervention Program.

Bruce A. Breasure, Kansas City, KS, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of posses-

No injuries were reported in an accident investigated Wednesday by the Trenton Police Department.

Lt. Larry Smith’s report indicates that the accident occurred shortly before 2 p.m. near the intersection of Oklahoma Avenue and Industrial Drive when a truck driven by Timothy A. Stuver of Trenton was northbound on Oklahoma Avenue. Stuver said he was preparing to make a left turn into a business lot, but was paying attention to heavy machinery on the side of the roadway. He made the left turn, turning into the path of a southbound semi. The driver of the semi, Levi G. Chaney of Cainsville, said he attempted to avoid a collision, but was unable to do so. Stuver was ticketed for careless and imprudent driving by failing to yield to oncoming traffic.

A City of Trenton truck that was being used to plow snow was involved in an accident just before midnight Saturday night.

According to Trenton Police Officer Chanse Houghton’s accident report, the mishap occurred when a Ford F-250 truck owned by the city was being driven by Robert D. Taylor of Trenton. Taylor was southbound on Main Street, plowing the snow, with a van driven by Shelly Brewer, also of Trenton, traveling southbound on Main Street, following the truck. When the truck came to a stop just after going through the intersection of Main and West 12th streets, it began to back up, striking the van. Ms. Brewer said she was unable to back up in time to avoid a collision with the salt/sand spreader of the truck.

There was moderate damage to the van, with no damage reported to the truck. No injuries were reported in the mishap.

sion of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid of 10 grams or less. Sentencing was set for March 9.

Tommy E. Hines, Jamesport, had a warrant issued for his arrest after failing to appear in court on a felony charge of first degree sexual abuse and a misdemeanor charge of fourth degree domestic assault.

Anthony M. McCarty, Lake Station, IN, pleaded guilty for felony charges of forgery and possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and was sentenced to serve four years in the Department of Corrections on each charge. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia and operating a vehicle on the highway without a valid license and was fined $50 on each charge.

Robert A. Kephart, Kansas City, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of driving while revoked or suspended and was sentenced to serve two years in the Department of Corrections. He also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of unlawful possession of drug paraphernaliaprior drug offense and first degree trespassing and was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail on each count. The sentences are to run consecutively.

Leo R. Davis, Gallatin, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of failing to register as a sex offender and had sentencing set for March 9.

Kevin D. Horn, Independence, pleaded guilty to felony charges of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and unlawful possession of a firearm and was sentenced to serve seven years in the Department of Corrections.

He also pleaded guilty to felony charges of possession of burglary tools and resisting arrest and was sentenced to serve four years in the DOC. He also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia-prior drug offense and was sentenced to serve 100 days in jail. In a separate case, Horn pleaded guilty to felony charges of attempted burglary and first degree property damage and was sentenced to serve three years in the Department of Corrections. His sentences are to run consecutively.

Michael A. Moore, Kansas City, KS, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid and had imposition of his sentence suspended. He was placed on probation for five years and is to attend weekly AA/NA classes. He also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle on the highway without a valid license and was fined $150 and to a misdemeanor charge of failing to register a motor vehicle and was fined $50.

TRENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT Jan. 1: officers responded to a domestic dispute at a west residence.

Jan. 2: no activity.

Jan. 3: a subject was arrested on a warrant at a south residence.

Jan. 4: an arrest for trespassing was made at a south residence and officers made an arrest on a warrant at a south residence.

Jan. 5: officers responded to a motor vehicle crash in the east part of town. An arrest was made on a warrant in the north part of town and officers responded to a domestic assault at a west residence.

Jan. 6: suspicious circumstances were investigated at an east residence and officers investigated a report of tampering with utilities at a north business. A nuisance violation was investigated at a west residence.

Jan. 7: no activity.

Jan. 8: an arrest was made in the north part of town for possession of a controlled substance.

Jan. 9: officers responded to a motor vehicle crash in the east part of town.

How To Get More Joy While Giving To Good Causes We may think spending money on ourselves will make us happier than spending it on someone else. That belief can make it hard to carve money out of our budgets to give to good causes.

But research shows that spending money on others is more likely to make us happy. This seems to be a worldwide phenomenon, and one that applies whether we have a lot of money or only a little.

“Generosity and happiness are pretty clearly linked in the research,” says Kristy Archuleta, a professor of financial planning at the University of Georgia. “When we are generous of our time, our talents, giving to others in whatever kind of capacity we can, we tend to be happier.”

Some generous acts create more positive feelings than others, however. Here’s what to consider if you want to maximize your happiness while helping others.

MAKE IT SOCIAL Canadian social psychologist Lara Aknin says she’s been interested in the emotional benefits of financial generosity since she was about 8 and daydreaming ways she could help other people.

“I remember thinking if I save $10, I could give it to my parents and they could go out for dinner,” she laughs. “I clearly had no concept of money (because) I thought $10 would give them an evening out on the town.”

As a graduate student, Aknin investigated ways money could improve well-being and found that “prosocial spending” — spending on others — was a source of happiness. In subsequent research, Aknin — now a distinguished associate professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia — determined that giving was most rewarding when it offered a social connection . Instead of sending someone a gift card to a restaurant, for example, we’ll feel happier if we take them out to dinner, Aknin says.

Volunteering can connect us with others, as can organizing or attending a fundraiser. Giving a group gift or donation is another way to up the social factor, Aknin says.

INVESTIGATE YOUR IMPACT We also want to know that our giving matters. Being able to see or envision the change our contributions will make tends to increase our happiness, Aknin says.

In a 2013 study led by Aknin, participants were given a choice to donate to one of two charities dedicated to improving children’s health in impoverished areas: UNICEF and Spread the Net . Spread the Net offered a concrete example of a donation’s impact by specifying that every $10 given would buy a lifesaving mosquito net. UNICEF did not provide such details. Participants who donated to Spread the Net felt happier after their contribution, but those who gave to UNICEF did not, researchers found.

“The more information we have about the positive impact of our gifts, the greater the emotional rewards,” Aknin says.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give money to UNICEF, of course. But you may get more satisfaction from your donation if you read stories about the organization’s impact or peruse its annual report .

EMPHASIZE CHOICE Want to take the joy out of giving? Make it an obligation, Aknin says. For maximum happiness, people need to have a choice about whether to give, to whom and how much.

“If people feel caught or forced or obliged, these emotional rewards sometimes disappear or can be severely dampened,” she says.

You can increase your sense of autonomy by planning your charitable giving, says Archuleta, a certified financial therapist and co-founder of the Financial Therapy Association . Think about what you value, investigate nonprofits that support those values and consider making recurring contributions part of your budget, she suggests.

If you’re trying to encourage your children to be charitable, consider letting them choose the cause and how much to donate. (You can offer guidelines, such as giving away a nickel, a dime or a quarter of every dollar they receive.) Find ways to demonstrate their impact: $20 might buy a flock of chickens for a family through Heifer International , for example, or feed a shelter pet for a few weeks. And encourage them to make social connections by volunteering or fundraising with friends.

“Giving in the more rewarding ways is important, not only because you feel good in the moment, but that warm glow will be one factor that encourages you to give again,” Aknin says. ************************* This column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Liz Weston is a columnist at NerdWallet, a certified financial planner and the author of “Your Credit Score.”

RUSSELL LIVESTOCK MARKET 31683 US Hwy. 34, Russell, IA 50238 • Barn Phone (641) 535-6065 Weigh Cows - 9:00 am • Feeders - 11:00 am

** SPECIAL CATTLE SALE ** MONdAy, JANUARy 24, 2022

** SPECIAL CATTLE SALE ** MONdAy, JANUARy 31, 2022

BARN WILL BE OPEN SUNDAYS 8 AM - 8 PM WATCH OUR AUCTION LIVE @ www.dvauction.comVisit www.russelllivestockmarket.com • Barn: (641) 535-6065 Owners: Tony & Meshara Ballanger 641-777-3113 - Cell Field Rep: Justen Murphy 641-217-1235 - Cell

Owners: Shawn & Jana Murphy 641-777-0103 - Cell

Field Rep: Brian Mitchell 515-360-1486 - Cell

Field Rep: Tim Rinehart 660-425-0991 - Cell

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 8

republican-times.com

PAGE 8 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

COMICS Garfield® by Jim Davis

For Better or For Worse® by Lynn Johnson

Garfield® by Jim Davis For Better or For Worse® by Lynn Johnson

Garfield® by Jim Davis The Born Loser® by Art and Chip Sansom

Shoe® by Jeff MacNelly The Born Loser® by Art and Chip Sansom

Shoe® by Jeff MacNelly The Born Loser® by Art and Chip Sansom

Shoe® by Jeff MacNelly

Alley Oop® by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon

Alley Oop® by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon

Frank & Ernest® by Bob Thaves

Frank & Ernest® by Bob Thaves

Frank & Ernest® by Bob Thaves

Alley Oop® by Joey Alison Sayers and Jonathan Lemon

For Better or For Worse® by Lynn Johnson

When you want to know the whole story, turn to the source that really sheds some light on the subject.

To order your subscription today, call 359-2212.

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 9

republican-times.com

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 • PAGE 9

ENTERTAINMENT

D

THE Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews ACROSS 1 Close noisily 5 Make tiny cuts 9 Man’s nickname 13 Many a harness racing horse 15 Bat Mitzvah dance 16 Animal enclosure 17 Prince William, to Archie 18 Gets the better of 20 Shameful grade 21 Tricycle rider 23 Star of “Gunsmoke” 24 Donahue &

Hartman 26 Many a computer 27 Sierra Club’s focus 29 Nativity set figurine 32 Diminish 33 Devout 35 Curved bone 37 Rips off 38 Worker with a pick 39 Celebration 40 Mr. Brynner 41 Looks for 42 Actor Willem __ 43 Tried out 45 Gourmets 46 Live __; Georgia’s state

tree 47 Name on a deed 48 Present from birth 51 Calendar pg.

52 Flow back 55 Went into again 58 “Sesame Street” character 60 Actress Mulgrew 61 Barking animal 62 Clark & Cheney 63 Small night light 64 Sprightly 65 Convene

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

ACROSS 1 Turn over __ leaf 5 Skirt fold 10 Actress Behrs 14 Finished 15 Thrusting weapon 16 Seldom seen 17 Palm tree fruit 18 Daring explorer 20 “Be quiet!”

21 Scheming 22 Well-__ machine; efficient team 23 Bring together 25 __ Angeles

26 Bateman & Ritter 28 Pick 31 Foreign farewell 32 Dads 34 “__ we having fun yet?”

36 Sound of distress 37 Short-lived 38 Leaping insect 39 Air gun pellets 40 Plank 41 Pseudonym 42 Hire 44 Devious

©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved.

DOWN 1 Tater 2 Freeway division 3 Good enough 4 Singer Tormé 5 Injections 6 11th of 12: abbr.

7 Fury 8 Secret lover 9 Bracket candlestick 10 Easy to handle 11 Matures 12 Suffix for mild or wild 14 Accept one’s pension 19 Tactless 22 Vaudevillian Olsen 25 Homes on “Gilligan’s Island” 27 __ a soul; no one 28 On the subject of 29 Montana & others

ACROSS 1 In a rage 4 Buy some time 9 __ in the back; betray 13 Simmons or Siskel 14 “Who Wants __ Millionaire” 15 Remedy 16 __ up; admits 17 Loyalty 19 Letter from Greece 20 TV’s “The Rockford __” 21 Uncouth 22 Antlers 24 Little Jack Horner’s dessert 25 Steals

27 Street peddler 30 Felt crummy 31 Injured arm support 33 Buddy 35 Wingtip-towingtip distance 36 Array of ships 37 Frisky 38 “Ready, __, go!”

39 Liquid 40 More exposed 41 Blackjack table operator 43 Worship 44 __ whisker; just barely 45 Draft registrants 46 Hush money

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

1/17/22

30 First choice 31 __-miss; haphazard 33 “The __ Piper of Hamelin” 34 Pen contents 36 Stingers 38 Humility 39 Destiny 41 Git-go 42 Did the tango 44 __ than; before 45 Ram’s mate 47 __ enough; ironically 48 Infuriates 49 “Groovy!”

50 Alpha’s follower 53 Means of transportation 54 Most ideal 56 Pelosi’s title: abbr.

57 Word attached to drops or marks 59 Perimeter

©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved.

1/18/22

27 Sun-dried brick 28 Ran fast 29 Populous state 30 Tasty tidbit 32 Pastor’s advice 33 Broadcast 35 As __ as pie 37 Sound of thunder 38 __ jacket; bulletproof vest 40 Explosion 41 Curved paths 43 Persnickety 44 Stops 46 Too thin 47 Abates 48 Plunder 49 Passport stamp 50 Jerk 52 Tug 53 Breakfast order 55 Double curve 56 Sorority letter 57 Firmament

1/18/22

49 Ruin 51 Hog haven 54 Wound requiring stitches 56 Word with iron or chains 57 “Woe is me!”

58 Incorrect 59 Small digits 60 Kingsley & Savage 61 Cornered 62 Grow old DOWN 1 Kitten cries 2 Wipe out 3 __ Plaines, Illinois 4 Laundry problems

Dear Annie: "Numb and Lost" wrote to you regarding emotional detachment as a result of trauma and challenges in their life and struggles with finding proper therapy. As a 37year-old male who has had difficulties and consequent challenges in therapy, I can relate.

In many ways, finding good therapy is its own battle, on top of the battle presented by whatever it is that causes us to seek therapy in the first place. It's not fair, and it can make an already difficult situation seem all the more hopeless, but persistence is key.

I recommend the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, as a starting point for anyone looking for help with their mental health. They can provide resources specific to a person's location and situation. You can find them at NAMI.org.

Trying to find a good therapist can be a difficult journey. Take one step at a time. When you find a good one, it's well worth it. -Persistent Waddler

Dear Persistent Waddler: You are correct that finding a good therapist can be a battle in and of itself.

But it is well worth it. As Thomas Carlyle wrote, "Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." Thank you for your letter.

Dear Annie: I am the person who wrote to you a few years ago about sending a box of thank-you notes and Forever Stamps as gifts to nonresponders. It was not very successful. This year, I rethought the problem and decided to be straightforward, at least with my own five grandchildren, who range in age from 11 to 25.

I decided that if I didn't tell them, I shouldn't expect them to read my mind. I told them straight out what my expectations would be going forward. "If I give you a gift in person," I said, "you open it in front of me, and you thank me, and that is sufficient. If I send you a gift in the mail, I expect a

COPYRIGHT 2021

4,840

S&P 500

36,960

Dow Jones industrials

4,700

Close: 4,662.85 Change: 3.82 (0.1%)

36,280

Close: 35,911.81 Change: -201.81 (-0.6%)

4,560

DOWN 1 __ up; totals 2 Early boatbuilder 3 Zeal 4 Tiny 5 Braids 6 Serving utensil 7 1 of 7 deadly sins 8 __ bandage; sprain wrap 9 Reasonable bedtime 10 Black-and-blue mark 11 Actor Holliman 12 Acacia or alder 13 Group of cattle 19 Hammers & saws 21 Achieves victory 24 Lunchtime 25 Book page 26 Doorframe piece Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

Written by Annie Lane

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

To find out more about Annie Lane, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

1/17/22

45 Horned animal 46 GEICO spokesman 47 Lisa Marie’s dad 50 Pasture cries 51 Deli loaf 54 Rambunctious 57 Obstacle 58 Supervisor 59 Glistened 60 Monarch 61 Stick around 62 Out of __; not feeling well 63 Big bovines

ear Annie

timely communication saying that it has arrived and was appreciated."

I explained that I don't text, so I would need a phone call or email to inform me that the gift had actually arrived and was not lifted by a porch pirate. I told them that, henceforth, I would be maintaining two lists: a "gift" list, and a "cards only" list. If they don't contact me in a timely fashion, they will be bumped to the "cards only" list.

One hasn't been here to get his gift yet; one opened his gift in my presence; one called me from out of state, and we had a nice chat; and one opened his gift in my presence but called me anyway, saying, "Granny, I just wanted to be sure I stay on the 'gift' list."

I haven't heard from the last, the 11-year-old, so I will stick to my word when his birthday comes later in January. At some point, I might give him another chance, but NOT this year.

Seems like this will work! -- Saying It Straight Dear Saying It Straight: I love this approach. You are correct that people are not mind readers, and being direct with your expectations will help prevent many irritations before they become serious problems.

35,600

10 DAYS

4,800

37,600

4,700

36,800

4,600

10 DAYS

36,000

4,500 35,200

4,400

34,400

4,300 4,200

J

A

S

StocksRecap Vol. (in mil.)

Pvs. Volume Advanced Declined New Highs New Lows

NYSE

N ASD

4,028 3,892 1044 1427 96 109

3,716 3,741 1692 1774 69 534

O

N

DOW DOW Trans.

DOW Util.

NYSE Comp.

NASDAQ S&P 500 S&P 400 Wilshire 5000 Russell 2000

D

33,600

J

HIGH 35,996.43 15,976.06 960.21 17,259.02 14,897.67 4,665.13 2,791.76 47,117.02 2,162.46

LOW 35,641.49 15,718.36 946.80 17,056.67 14,689.43 4,614.80 2,744.51 46,557.88 2,126.12

J

A

CLOSE 35,911.81 15,904.96 953.07 17,219.06 14,893.75 4,662.85 2,782.64 47,103.44 2,162.46

S CHG. -201.81 -99.61 -5.91 -39.95 +86.94 +3.82 -9.12 +23.81 +3.02

O %CHG. -0.56% -0.62% -0.62% -0.23% +0.59% +0.08% -0.33% +0.05% +0.14%

N WK t t t s t t t t t

D MO QTR s s s s s s s s t t s s s s s s t t

J YTD -1.17% -3.48% -2.83% +0.32% -4.80% -2.17% -2.09% -2.80% -3.69%

More transparency on stock buybacks?

Companies would have to publicly report buybacks of their own shares much sooner than they do now under rules being proposed by regulators.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has put forth the proposals with the idea of giving investors timelier and more detailed information on stock buybacks, which vastly increased in volume last year.

Buybacks by the 500 largest public companies totaled an estimated $236 billion in the OctoberDecember quarter, up from $130.5 billion in the same quarter of 2020. Tech companies and big banks

led the repurchasing wave.

Critics argue that executives, whose compensation is often tied to share prices, use buybacks to enrich themselves instead of investing in workers and the business. By reducing the number of shares outstanding, buybacks tend to boost stock prices.

Under the SEC proposals, companies would have to file a report within one business day of a stock purchase.

Currently, companies must only include such information in their quarterly reports. In addition, companies would have to disclose additional details about the stocks they repurchased.

S&P 500 stock buybacks, fourth quarter ©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved.

5 “For Whom the Bell __” 6 Qualified 7 Bruce & Spike 8 Fail to keep up 9 Petrified 10 Fish in a casserole 11 Rainbows 12 Honey producers 13 Coolidge’s party, for short 18 Petit four coating 20 Pebbles’ pa 23 __ up; express feelings 24 __-up; too confined 25 Impudence 26 Cleaned with a cloth 27 Strove for a victory 28 Persecuting; tormenting 29 Not as common 31 Garble one’s

$250 billion

1/19/22

words 32 Flowery ring 34 Stringed instrument 36 Bitty biter 37 Keep for later 39 Advertising handout 40 Boxing round ender 42 Mother Superior 43 Poured 45 Largest of the deer family 46 Fail to keep a secret 47 Unhealthy chest sound 48 “__ See Clearly Now” 49 Oscar hopeful 50 Heap 52 Larch or linden 53 Agreeable answer 55 Fore and __ 56 __ point; partly, but not totally

1/19/22

The Daily Commuter Puzzle is Sponsored by Sunnyview Nursing Home and Apartments, 1311 E. 28th St., Trenton, MO 660-359-5647

On the upswing: With stock buybacks on the rise, the SEC is proposing new reporting rules.

200 150 100 50 0

Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices

*est.

’17

’18

’19

’20

’21* Marcy Gordon; J. Paschke • AP

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 10

PAGE 10 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

republican-times.com

CLASSIFIEDS Classified Advertising Information Phone 359-2212 Classified advertising rate schedule for 1 and 2 days in the Republican-Times is listed below. When insertions are not consecutive days, the 1-day rate applies. Blank lines count as 5 words, capital letters double. All ads must be paid in advance.

DEADLINES: For Tuesday Republican-Times: 4 p.m. the Thursday before For Friday Republican-Times: 10 a.m. the Wednesday before For Green Hills Weekly Shopper: 4 p.m. the Thursday before Ads also appear same number of days on the Internet at www.northwestmissouri.com.

The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy not consistent with editorial policy.

Words Up to15

Lines 3

One Day 9.50

Two Days 12.00

40¢ per word for each additional word over 15 words.

Blind ads should be answered by writing box numbers given in care of the Republican-Times.

BUSINESS/ SERVICES PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "The advertisements appearing in this column may involve the offer of a security as defined by Missouri law, such as investment contracts, partnership interests, or notes. It is possible that these advertisements or the offers on which they are based may require registration with the Missouri Securities Division under Chapter 509 of the Revised Missouri Statutes.

Advertisers and potential advertisers are advised that transactions and advertisements involving securities entail certain rights and responsibilities created by the above mentioned laws. If you have any questions, call your attorney or the Missouri Securities Division at 1800-721-7996.

Anyone considering investing should be aware that all persons who sell securities and the securities they sell must be registered or exempt from registration with the Securities Division of the Secretary of State's office. To make sure the individual and the investment are registered prior to investing, call 1800-721-7996.

INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU INVEST! Always a good policy, especially for business opportunities and franchises. Call MO Attorney General at (880) 392-8222 or the Federal Trade Commission at (877) FTC-HELP for free information. Or visit our Web site at www.ftc.gov/bizop.

The Republican-Times business office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Monday thru Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to Noon on Friday.

The office will be closed on Saturdays.

Republican-Times 122 E. 8th St. 359-2212 Fax: 660-359-4414 -------------------------------------*SEAMLESS GUTTERING* We are ready to replace your old gutters with new seamless aluminum gutters! MOORE’S CONSTRUCTION & WOODWORK, INC. 359-5477. 52 Years Experience.

Tdtf -------------------------------------WANTED!!

Used & Abused Cars & Trucks. Highest prices paid! You Call - We Come Get It! FRONTIER AUTO & TRUCK PARTS (formerly Jim’s Auto Salvage) 145 Hwy. W., Trenton, 3593888.

Fdtf -------------------------------------PIANO TUNING SERVICE – Taking out the wrong note since 1988. Call early spots fill up fast! Keith Sarver 660-425-2547. Like Us on Facebook!

TFeb18 -------------------------------------Call MIDWEST MECHANICAL & rely on comfort.

800-425-0976 or 485-6611, Brian S. Israel, owner. For your heating & cooling needs. All Tax Credits & Rebates available! Geostar Geothermal Heat Pumps.

Over 25 years experience.

Tdtf -------------------------------------Carquest Auto Parts T & L Auto Supply, Inc., 1823 East 9th, Trenton, 3592268, tlautosupply.com.

Monday-Friday, 7-6, Saturday, 7-4.

Fdtf -------------------------------------ASAP LOCKSMITH, Warren Soptic - Owner 359-6625, Trenton.

Tdtf -------------------------------------JAMESPORT LUMBER Full Service Lumberyard. We also sell Trusses/metal/ rebar/concrete blocks. New Hardware Department • Gift Certificates and Delivery Available • Free Estimates.

32089 St. Hwy 6, Jamesport, 660-684-6404 FFeb18 -------------------------------------PAGE TREE SERVICE Jeff Page 359-3699–shop, 359-2202–home. Serving the entire Green Hills Area!

Specializing in tree trimming, stump grinding & complete removal. 60’ bucket truck, chipper & stump grinder. Licensed & insured. Free Estimates!

Tdtf --------------------------------------

Cox Family Dentistry, P.C. Andrew P. Cox, D.D.S. 1011 Cedar St., Trenton.

660-359-6889 or 660-3596993.

Tdtf -------------------------------------RED BARN MINI STORAGE, across from the new hospital. 5 Unit sizes available, prices starting at $19 per month. Call Mike or Jane Cooksey 359-1069 or 3597683.

Fdtf -------------------------------------S&B Hinnen Hauling & Construction, L.L.C. Rock • Sand • Dirt • Asphalt • Grain.

Ag Lime Hauling & Spreading Variable Rate Capability.

Demolition Debris & Excavation Services. Shaunda 660-973-4445, Brian - 660973-2983, 90 Mansur Street, Chula, MO 64635, sbhinnenhauling@yahoo.com FJan21* -------------------------------------LAUHOFF JEWELRY Downtown Chillicothe 620 Washington St. Open Monday-Friday 9:00-5:30, Saturday 9:00-1:00. 660646-3504 www.lauhoffjewelry.com TFeb11 -------------------------------------Willing Workers LLP Do you need your siding or roof replaced? Give Willing Workers a call today for a FREE estimate... 660-9735694, John Kramer, 17594 St. Hwy. 190, Jamesport, MO 64648 TDec21-Jan14* -------------------------------------WILSON’S HEATING & COOLING - We service all makes and models. Authorized Rheem Dealer. Bill Wilson 660-359-3403.

Fdtf -------------------------------------Mid-States Services is now offering: Fiber Optic installs in rural Trenton! MidStates will STILL WAIVE the $150 installation free for those who sign up NOW! Sign up TODAY by calling 660-359-2045 or at http://www.mid-states.net.

4100 Oklahoma Ave., Trenton, MO 64683.

TJan14 -------------------------------------H & S CONTRACTING Remodeling, room additions, garages & decks and pole barns * New homes & basements w/ICF forms * Wall replacement under homes, repair cracks & bowed walls * Leveling, waterproofing * Backhoe & Bobcat work * New water & sewer lines.

Kale Hoerrmann - Owner, 30 years experience – 660953-0724.

FFeb4 -------------------------------------JAMESPORT BUILDERS, 660-684-6931, 32137 State Hwy 6, Jamesport.

POLE BARNS – GARAGES, Spray foam insulation.

FFeb18 -------------------------------------BUY - SELL - TRADE BIG NASTY'S GUNS & AMMO - Stop in and see us at our New Location - 1515 E. 9th Street, Trenton, MO. Nathan Rorebeck, 660-6350469, www.bignastys.com FFeb4 -------------------------------------Elmrose Essentials, 6057 Hwy KK, Chula, MO 64635, Ph: 660-639-2500 Under new ownership Formerly Kate's Kountry Kuboard Mon-Fri 8-6; Sat. 8-5; Closed Sunday. Deli Meats and Cheese * Deli Sandwiches - Hot & Cold * Groceries * Bulk Foods * Fabrics and Sewing Notions * Boots * Cards & Books * Spices * Candy * Homemade Pies & Bread.

FJan4-28* -------------------------------------Richard's NEW & Used Tires Mounting * Balancing * Tire Repair, OVER 3,000 TIRES IN STOCK! Richard Ishmael 660-654-3910, Justin Ishmael 816-351-2595, 3039 E. 10th St., Trenton, MO. TDec28-Jan21 --------------------------------------

INSURANCE HELTON INSURANCE SOLUTIONS - Williams Shopping Center, Trenton, MO. New To Medicare or Want To Compare Pricing ...

Call Brian McDaniel 816289-1935 Or Leah Helton 660-359-3806 or 660-6350537 "Our Quality Of Service Is What Makes Us Different" Tdtf -------------------------------------Shelter Insurance – Cale Gondringer 1601 E 9th St., Suite D. 660-359-4100. LIFE * HOME * AUTO * FARM * BUSINESS. We’re your shield. We’re your shelter.

ShelterInsurance.com Tdtf -------------------------------------See us for quotes on *Life Insurance *Annuities *Medicare Supplements RON DOUGAN, 903 Main St., Trenton, MO, 660-3590100 - 53 years in the Insurance Business Tdtf --------------------------------------

PETS/ANIMALS

Shelly's Pet Care. 660684-6864, 103 S. Locust St., Jamesport, MO 64648. Professional, Personalized Grooming.

Appointments available Monday - Saturday.

35 Years of Experience!

Serving the Green Hills Area since 1996! dtf --------------------------------------

NOTICES

REPUBLICAN-TIMES CHARGES Standard obituaries written by the newspaper are not charged.

Photo with obituary $25 Obituary written as requested starts at $35 Obituary written as requested with photo starts at $60 Photos with standard engagement announcement $25 Photo w/anniversary $25 ea Standard wedding with photo submitted within the 3month deadline $25 Weddings written as requested starts at $50 Weddings submitted over 3 months starts at $50 Wedding picture & cutline submitted over 3 months $25 Color print from R-T $5 -------------------------------------THE PEOPLE’S CO-OP, 1736 East 9th • 359-3313.

Premium Diesel, Gas, 10% Ethanol – CENEX. 83 years of service & experience. MR. TIRE – Dean, Hankook, Cooper tires.

Tdtf -------------------------------------CAPNCM is accepting sealed bids for reroofing of Pattonsburg Manor Apartments, located at 501 Chestnut in Pattonsburg, MO, until April 1st. All bids should include tearing off old shingles, replacement sheeting, refelting, and installation of new Heritage shingles. Bids should be sent to: CAPNCM, c/o Russell Reeter, 1506 Oklahoma, Trenton MO 64683. For full details, contact Russell, 660-359-3907 ext. 1078.

C274d11 --------------------------------------

Visit us on the web at www.republican-times.com

--------------------------------------

WEBSITES

Replacement Parts; Accessories; Chemicals; Tool & equipment. www.tlautosupply.com T470dtf --------------------------------------

FOR RENT

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "All rental property advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.”

"We will not knowingly accept any advertising for rental property which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis."

----------------------------------

Sunnyview Apartments is taking applications for single & double apartments. Sunnyview is a residential care facility for the elderly. We provide qualified staff to administer medications, provide three meals a day and offer minimal assistance with the activities of daily living. Now accepting Medicaid. For more information contact Kathy Cheek at 660-3595647.

S553dtf --------------------------------------

TRENTON VILLAGE APARTMENTS 1700 E. 30th Street 3 bedrooms available $345.00 Housing Accepted Appliances provided, washer & dryer hook-ups.

24 hour maintenance, snow removal and lawn care provided. Equal Housing Opportunity Call LaKrista at 660-359-0300 or Kendra Parkhurst at 816-233-4250 T066d25 -------------------------------------

REAL ESTATE

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "All property advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.”

"We will not knowingly accept any advertising for property which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all advertised property is available on an equal opportunity basis."

---------------------------------------------------------------

PICK GREG For All Your Real Estate Needs!

GREG FREEMAN 358-4003

PickGreg.com dtf ------------------------------------Eddy Real Estate LLC For all your Real Estate needs, we serve: Livingston, Grundy, Daviess, Mercer, Sullivan, Linn, Carroll & Surrounding Counties. 660-6466014 Eddyrealestatellc.com 121 Washington St., Chillicothe, MO Eddyrealestatellc@gmail.com FDec21-Jan14 --------------------------------------

CALL MELISSA For Results That Move You!

MELISSA PURKAPILE 359-1101

MelissaMovesU.com dtf -------------------------------------

FOR SALE Welcome to Major Discounters! We have lots of new products - All discounted prices... Mattresses * Work & Western Boots * Hardware * Furniture * Generators * Dehumidifiers * Televisions * Water Heaters * Cleaning Supplies * Air Fryers & Much More! 25% Off Winter Clothing, Propane & Kerosene Heaters, Portable Heat Pump Heaters 1318 Oklahoma Ave., Trenton, MO (next to Barnes-Baker) 660654-1383 FJan11-Feb4 -------------------------------------Cold Weather Supplies.

Heat tapes, propane torch kits & fuel. Trenton Hardware, 901 Main, 359-3660.

T276d28 --------------------------------------

FARM NEEDS

*WANTED* FARM GROUND TO LEASE! Competitive Rates AARON LANDES, 660-358-2682 L905tf -------------------------------------See Consumer Oil & Supply for your One Stop Shop for Muck and Lacrosse boots and gloves. Consumer Oil & Supply, 614 Harris Ave., 359-2258 C361dtf --------------------------------------

660-359-2212

HELP WANTED Dental Assistant wanted Experience preferred but not mandatory, will train a friendly, caring person. Bring a recent resume to 1011 Cedar, Trenton.

C067d25 -------------------------------------Driver Wanted - Home every weekend and some nights during the week. Good CDL record, tractor-trailer experience. If you aren't making $1500 weekly, call 816-520-3060. Terminal located in Orrick, MO. L068d25 -------------------------------------Owners/Operators Wanted - If you have a dependable tractor and a good MVR and want $5,000$7,000 gross income per week, please call 816-5203060. Terminal located in Orrick, MO. L069d25 -------------------------------------North Central Missouri College is seeking a full-time Custodian. Benefits included.

Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri.edu/ jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660-3576203. NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

N271d25 -------------------------------------North Central Missouri College is seeking an IT Systems Administrator. Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri.edu/jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660-357-6203.

NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

N272d25 --------------------------------------

Part-Time Administrative Assistant Value Vending (Part of Trenton Coca-Cola Bottling Co., LLC) is looking for a part-time employee to join our growing business. Responsibilities include performing general clerical and accounting duties including accounts payable and accounts receivable. Will also be responsible for some light warehouse work including building orders. Must be proficient in QuickBooks, Word, Excel and Outlook. Must be able to lift 20+ pounds. Must have a valid driver's license.

Apply in person at 821 Industrial Drive, Trenton. T273d25 -------------------------------------North Central Missouri College is seeking a full-time Campus Store Associate-Retail Operations. Interested applicants should visit www.ncmissouri.edu/jobs for more information and how to apply or call 660-357-6203.

NCMC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

N275d28 --------------------------------------

122 E. 8th St., Trenton, MO • rtimes@lyn.net Phone 660-359-2212 • Fax 359-4414

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 11

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022 • PAGE 11

republican-times.com

CLASSIFIEDS

Call

MIDWEST MECHANICAL and Rely on Comfort

dJan18

*)('&)%('$#"! " ' )) ' ## ' ' ' " " " " #

660-684-6864 103 S. Locust, Jamesport, MO 64648

Professional, Personalized Grooming APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE MONDAY - SATURDAY 35 years of experience!

Email your classified or legal advertisements to

classifieds@republican-times.com

SHELLY’S PET CARE

MIDWEST MECHANICAL

' '

Brian S. Israel, Owner Over 25 Years Experience

Serving the Green Hills Area Since 1996!

Green Hills Animal Shelter 359-2700 • 3041 E. 10th • Trenton, MO

“Black Cat” - Male Short Haired Cat Looking for home!

“Rome” - Male Short Haired Cat Looking for home!

“Cory” - Male Boxer Mix Looking for home!

“Moose” - Male Labrador/Great Dane Mix Looking for home!

PAPER TOWELS, LAUNDRY DETERGENT, DOG TOYS Purina Red Flannel Dog and Cat Food

$

100 Off Per Bag

on 10 Bag Purchase!

614 Harris Ave. Trenton 359-2258

2006 East Ninth, Trenton

Feed Your New Pet PURINA DOG CHOW 34 Lb. Bag

$

1999

FLIP PAGES FOR WEBSITE.qxp_Trenton Republican-Times 1/17/22 1:24 PM Page 12

PAGE 12 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2022

republican-times.com

AREA TMS Announces Honor Roll For Fall Semester Using a new format that complements the grading scale implemented this school year, Trenton Middle School has announced its honor list for the first semester of the 2021-22 school year.

Students who received all 3’s with a minimum of two 4’s in core content classes have earned “Distinguished Scholar” status, while those receiving all 2.5’s or higher in all classes have earned “Honor Roll” recognition. In addition, students who have demonstrated that they take responsibility, help others, have a positive attitude, show kindness to peers and adults and are honest and dependable have earned a place on the “Citizenship Honor Roll.”

Fifth Grade Honorees Distinguished Scholars – Kennedy Cross, Logan Harris, Zeke Kottwitz, Jerielle Stark and Emma Welch.

Honor Roll – Emma Christenson, Mariah Elder, Sabrina Mills and Betsy Price.

Citizenship Honor Roll – Xadrienne Berry, Jackson Black, Alexis Bundridge, Nevaeh Carpenter, Emma Christenson, Clara Clutter, Kennedy Cross, Thomas Cunningham, Harley Davidson, Caleb Dixon, Mariah Elder, Hayden Ferguson, Aynsley Foster, Khloe Garcia, Zavier Green, Shelby Griffin, Kenna Haesemeyer, Krystina Hall, Logan Harris, Levi Holt, Audrina Israel, Zeke Kottwitz, Ross Maloney, Kenlie McCall, Sabrina Mills, Aubrie Morgans, Ayden Ortega, Eva Pagel, Israel Prescott, Betsy Price, Phoebe Riley, Mia Recendiz, Brittian Rupert, Jax Simpson, Jerielle Stark, Jaxton Thomas, Dayton Waggoner, Rozalea Webb, Emma Welch and Amaya White.

Sixth Grade Honorees Distinguished Scholar – Malachi Kottwitz.

Honor Roll –Annie Currie, Brooklynn Farris, Lynnzi McCullough, Bella Michael, Dixie Warren, Addison Wehar, Bella White and Claire Woodard.

Citizenship Honor Roll – Quinten Cannon, Lillee Dalrymple, Cayden Farmer, Johanna Goodin, Ryan Gott, Saeed Hagelstein, Payton Hanes, Timothy Johnson, Malachi Kottwitz, Gabriel Makovec, Malina Martin, Braden May, Lynnzi McCullough, Bella Michael, Morgan Smith, Lilliahna Sosa, Aidan Spencer, Turner Wagner, Drake Weaver, Addisyn Wehar, Bella White, Bailey Williams.

Seventh Grade Honorees Distinguished Scholars – Kaydan Foster, Alexis Gamet, Emma Gifford, Ryeland Kirk, Henry Lasley, Colton Ledbetter, Makayla Mejia, Bradly Miller, Ashlyn Pagel, Lucy Price, Caleb Ray and Ethan Shell.

Honor Roll – Peyton Baker, Sarai Birkhead, Barett Clark, Lillian Golden, Alyssa Hall, Dillon Hunter, Henry Link, Adylene Lopez, Graeme Sager, Ethan Schultz, Kaidyn Schweizer, Owen Sharp, Caleb Shell, Lydia Smiley, Karsen Spencer, Braxton See Pages 4 & 7 of today’s Republican-Times for Obituaries, the Daily Record and other Area news

Wilson, Laney Woldridge and Emilee Zessi.

Citizenship Honor Roll – Clayton Archuleta, Peyton Baker, Sarai Birkhead, Alexis Bonnett, Kimberly Clark, Justin Dixon, Halie Ewing, Kaydan Foster, Sage Foster, Alexis Gamet, Shy-Ann Garcia, Emma Gifford, Lillian Golden, Aiden Gott, Alyssa Hall, Colton Ledbetter, Henry Link, Adylene Lopez, Makayla Mejia, Bradly Miller, Lillian Ortega, Ashlyn Pagel, Lucy Price, Caleb Ray, Kaidyn Schweizer, Caleb Shell, Ethan Shell, Karsen Spencer, Addison Voorhies, Laney Woldridge and Taeghyn Yerington.

Eight Grade Honorees Distinguished Honor Roll – Isaac Bonta, Kaidence Griffith, Mattea Havens, Titus Kottwitz, Evan Michael, Ivan Michael, Mallory Peterson and Sosha Scott.

Honor Roll – Mylee Baker, Alyssa Bunnell, Kylee Corwin, Ali Cox, Faith Elliott, Kylar Foster, Cody Griffin, Braydon Holtzclaw, Brooke Holtzclaw, Cooper Houser, Savanna Hughs, Josalyn Ledbetter, Evan Michael, Elexyss Miller, Garrison Otto, Kinsley Otto, Logan Roberts, Brayden Sharp, Katy Simpson, Silas Spencer, Chylissa Turner, Brianna Wheelbarger.

Citizenship Honor Roll – Jacob Black, Isaac Bonta, Neveah Bowers, Alyssa Bunnell, Ali Cox, Isaac Dixon, Faith Elliott, Cody Griffin, Kaidence Griffith, Titus Kottwitz, Josalyn Ledbetter, Evan Michael, Ivan Michael, Elexyss Miller, Kinsley Otto, Mallory Peterson, Shelby Romesburg and Katy Simpson.

Submitted Photo

Trenton Middle School Fifth Grade Spelling Bee Winners - from left, Ezekiel Kottwitz, first place, after correctly spelling “telescope”; Wyatt Spurgeon, second; Aynsley Foster, alternate. The top two will compete at the Grundy County Spelling Bee at 1 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 28 at TMS.

Submitted Photo

Trenton Middle School Seventh Grade Spelling Bee Winners - from left, Graeme Sager, first place after correctly spelling “novice”; Henry Lasley, second; Nicholas Sosa, alternate. The top two will compete at the Grundy County Spelling Bee at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28 at TMS.

Submitted Photo

Trenton Middle School Sixth Grade Spelling Bee Winners - from left, Malachi Kottwitz, first place, after correctly spelling “decimal”; Payton Hanes, second; and Gabriel Makovec, alternate. The top two will compete at the Grundy County Spelling Bee at 1 p.m., Friday, Jan. 28 at TMS.

CARD SHOWERS A card shower has been requested for Jim and Dora Gross, who will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. Cards may be sent to them at 610 W. 12th St., Trenton, MO 64683.

HELTON INSURANCE # ' SOLUTIONS ('&%$#"!# Williams " " "% " $ Shopping Center • Trenton, MO "

NewNew To Medicare or Want to or Compare To Medicare WantPricing...

To CALL BRIAN McDANIEL 816-289-1935 Compare Pricing... or LEAH HELTON " (!&" &' (" 660-359-3806 • 660-635-0537 " " " " “OUR QUALITY OF SERVICE IS WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT”

Submitted Photo

Trenton Middle School Eighth Grade Spelling Bee Winners - from left, Isaac Bonta, first place, after correctly spelling “mournful”; Titus Kottwitz, second; and Hussein Haglestein, alternate. The top two will compete at the Grundy County Spelling Bee at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28.

I need a BETTER CAREER!

Apply Today!!

We are looking for a highly motivated

Marketing Consultant to cover the Trenton, Chillicothe & Gallatin area for the Trenton RepublicanTimes Newspaper and Green Hills Weekly Shopper Established accounts.

Good people skills a must!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Send complete resume including 3 professional references to HoneycuttMediaLLC@gmail.com or P.O. Box 548 Trenton, MO 64683