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BRIEFS No Fireworks Yet
If you live in the city limits of Trenton or Gallatin, city ordinances prohibit you from shooting off fireworks until later this week. According to the Trenton Police Department, fireworks can be discharged in the city limits from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday, July 2, and Saturday, July 3, and from 8 a.m. until midnight on Sunday, July 4. Bottle rockets and sky lanterns are prohibited from being discharged in the city limits. Trenton’s Independence Day Celebration is scheduled for Friday, July 2 with free events (including axe throwing) getting under way in the Five Points area at around 4 p.m., followed by a free performance by the Peterson Farm Bros at 7 p.m. and a meet and greet at 8 p.m. Fireworks are scheduled for about 9:30 p.m. at the Black Silo Winery. Those attending any of the events should bring a lawn chair. At Gallatin, the police department has posted that fireworks may be discharged in the city limits from 8 a.m. until midnight on Sunday, July 4. Fireworks are not to be discharged within 200 feet of any church, school, nursing home or gas station or fired from or at a vehicle or at any person.
Extension Office Moving
The Grundy County University of Missouri Extension office will be closed this week so the office can be moved to its new location. The office will re-open on Tuesday, July 6 at its new location, 1104 Main St. The new phone number for the office is 660-359-5636.
Area Board Agendas
Two are school boards have planned meetings for this week. The Grundy R-5 Board of Education will meet in special session at 6 o’clock tonight (Tuesday, June 29) at the school. The meeting will be held to amend the 2020-21 budget to reflect actual figures, approve the 2021-22 budget and hold a closed session to discuss personnel and student discipline. The Tri-County R-7 Board of Education will meet in special session at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 30 in the school library. Items on the announced agenda include proposals for the old gym, project updates, approval of remaining bills for the fiscal year, transfer of funds, approval of the 2021-22 budget, real estate, discussion of COVID-19 planning and an executive session to discuss personnel.
Laredo Board OKs Budget
The Laredo R-7 Board of Education met June 24, approving amendments to the 2020-21 budget and giving approval to the new budget. According to district provided information, the board approved amendments to the 2020-21 budget to reflect actual revenues and expenditures for the year and gave approval to the 2021-22 budget. Anticipated revenues and expenditures were not available on Friday. In other business, the board approved some MSBA policy updates and forms and held the first reading on others, approved a transportation report and gave their approval to the Safe Return to In-Person and Continuity of Services Plan. Board members heard a building update and learned that the district audit will be held Aug. 5. An executive session was held, with no announcement made.
Individual Crossed Center Line, Collided With Trailer Photo Courtesy of Kristi Urich
STORM DAMAGE
At least one tornado struck in Grundy County Thursday night, according to Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs. Scattered storm damage was reported over a large portion of the county, with the most significant damage noted east of Laredo, where this picture of the Mark and Kristi Urich farm was taken. The possible tornado, which has not been confirmed by the National Weather Service, followed a path that started at 37th and Onyx Lane and traveled east roughly five miles, ending near NE 45th and Highway J. If it was a tornado, Briggs said it would have been a possible F0 to F1. He said the damage east of Laredo was likely due to straightline winds that exended from north of Laredo along SE 12th to the east, crossing into Sullivan County along SE 120th. Briggs said that during the peak of the storm, at least 1,200 electric meters were without power, with some not regaining electricity until late Friday night. No injuries were reported in the storm.
COVID Funding Boosts R-9 Budget Board Hires Susan Gott As New Rissler Principal It’s not a bad time to be a public school district as an influx of funds coming from COVID-19 money is helping districts pay for items that might have been out of reach otherwise. For the Trenton R-9 School District, the funds have helped make the 2021-22 budget look pretty good after a 2020-21 year that didn’t end too bad either. The 2020-21 budget began the year with a 30.73 percent fund balance and was built on a deficit of $150,000. R-9 Superintendent Mike Stegman pointed to the closing of school for
the last three months of the 20192020 school year, which led to savings, and ESSER I and II funding coming into the district coffers this year as helping the district end the budget year on June 30 with an approximate 37 percent fund balance. This year’s budget is also intentionally built as a deficit with the addition of academic programming and supply budget lines. Even with a nearly $1,000,000 deficit, the district’s unrestricted cash should stay at the 30 percent mark. That does not take into account that the district is qualified for ESSER III funds in the amount of $2,638,446. The budget shows total anticipated revenues of $12,301,838.46 and expenditures of $13,793,857.36. Added to an end-
ing 2021 balance of $5,913,785.52, the district will be starting the year with a total balance of $18,215,623.98. The anticipated balance on June 30, 2022 is $4,421,766.62, but that does not include the earlier-mentioned $2.6 million that is anticipated to be received this year. Fund 1 (the Incidental Fund, which is unrestricted), shows total anticipated revenues of $5,100,188.32 and expected expenditures are listed at $5,118,949.94. After transfers and Title money are taken into the equation, the balance is scheduled to be $3,354,711.09. Fund 2 (the Teacher’s Fund) shows total receipts of $6,331,258.40 and expenditures of [See R-9, Page 3]
Galt Fair Returns With 2021 Edition ‘Welcome Back’ The Theme For Annual Event “Welcome Back” is the theme of the 2021 Galt Community Fair, scheduled for July 8-11, with street games, two street dances, a prince and princess contest and fireworks highlighting the annual summer event that had to be cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will feature inflatables all weekend, with activities beginning Thursday, July 8, with the Galt Fire Protection District Ladies Auxiliary serving hamburgers, hot dogs and sides from 5 to 8 p.m. at the fire station. Grundy R-5 FFA members should have their shopwork entered into the farm mechanics exhibition by 9 a.m. that morning.
Activities continue on Friday, July 9 with 4-H exhibits to be entered by 10 a.m., with all entries to be this year’s work. Judging will be held that day. Quilts, crafts, flower arrangements and garden entries must be entered by 10 a.m. at the fire station. No previous blue-ribbon winners may be entered in the contest and items must be picked up by 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 10. Vendor booths will also open Friday evening and remain open on Saturday. For more information on vendor booths, contact Reta Smiley at 660-6543454. The lunch room will also open on both Friday and Saturday at 11 a.m. and will be closed during the parade on Saturday. A street dance featuring “No Apology” will be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m. with those planning to attend that event or others asked to bring a lawn chair. It will be a big day for kids on
Saturday, July 10, as street contests will be held at 10 a.m. The kiddie parade will be held that evening, with entries to be lined up by the bank building by 5:30 p.m. for judging. Prizes will be awarded in the pet parade (under 12) bicycle (under 12), best costume (under 12) and best clown. The “Welcome Back” theme will be utilized for the big parade scheduled for 6 p.m. Again, all entries should be in line at the ball park by 5:30 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded to float (related to the theme), best old car or truck, best old tractor, best decorated horse and rider and horse or mule hitch (two or more). Several drawings, sponsored by the Galt Lions Club, Galt Firefighters Ladies Auxiliary and Grundy R-5 FFA, will be held Saturday night as will the prince and princess contest. Contestants in the pennya-vote contest include Addisyn
Jones Wins Best In Show Wine And Wheels Car Show Draws 71 Entries At Black Silo While Carl Jones took home the Best of Show prize at the annual Wine and Wheels Car Show, Life Options Green Hills was the real winner of the annual event, held at Black Silo Winery. The car show, moved from Saturday to Sunday due to wet weather, drew 71
vehicles and all proceeds from the entry fees, raffle tickets and a pulled pork tent sponsored by Lance Otto were donated to Life Options Green Hills, this year’s chosen charity. Jones exhibited a 1973 Ford Bronco, which was deemed the Best of Show by judges and was also the “Charity’s Choice.” Other winners included: Fully Custom – 1. Jimmy Wooton, 1971 Chevy Chevelle station wagon; 2. Dakota Cutsinger, 1970 Chevy El Camino. [See CAR SHOW, Page 3]
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An area man lost his life in an accident Friday afternoon just north of Trenton on Highway 65. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred when a sport utility vehicle driven by 20-year-old David Clay (Austin) Travis of Spickard was southbound on Highway 65 about two miles north of Trenton. His 2007 Suzuki sport utility vehicle crossed the center line as it was going past a 2004 Sterling AT95 truck driven by Clayton Radcliff, 25, of Trenton, which was northbound. As the two vehicles passed, the SUV struck the towed unit of Radcliff’s vehicle. It then spun off the west side of the roadway and came to rest on the shoulder, facing south. Radcliff’s vehicle, meanwhile, came to a controlled stop north of the crash. Mr. Travis was taken by Grundy County Ambulance to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, where he was pronounced dead. A passenger in his vehicle, 21-year-old Sean Babbitt of Humphreys, was also taken to WMH for injuries that were listed as moderate. Neither man was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. Radcliff was not reported injured in the accident, which shut down both lanes of Highway 65 for a period of time before the east shoulder was opened for traffic to by-pass investigators and debris from the wreck. The Travis vehicle was totaled and was towed from the scene, while the Radcliff vehicle sustained only minor damage. The accident was investigated by Trooper K.J. Cool and Sgt. H.A. Sears of the Major Crash Investigation Unit, with assistance from Cpl. J.C. Gilliland, Cpl. D.R. Reuter, CVO R.E. Powell and the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department.
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