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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
REPUBLICAN-TIIMES T RENTON
Trenton, MO 64683
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Briefs... Utilitty Commiittee Me eeting The Utility Committee of the Trenton City Council will meet at 6 o’clock tonight (Tuesday) at city hall. Items on the agenda include a review of bids for the wastewater treatment plant storage building, a review of monthly financial reports, an update by the utility director and department reports.
Spiickard Alldermen Meet The Spickard Board of Aldermen met on Saturday morning, taking care of several items. According to information provided by City Clerk Amy Chapman, the board agreed to purchase a new water meter as well as sign a form to have Tara Walker serve as the city attorney for special projects. The financial report was approved and it was reported that the water loss for the monht of December was .21 percent. The next meeting of the board will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 9.
Trren ton R-9 Screenings The Trenton R-9 School District will hold kindergarten and preschool screenings for the 2020-21 school year on Monday, March 23 and Tuesday, March 24. Screenings will be held in the R-9 Early Childhood Center, located at the Rissler Elementary School. Children who will be five years old before Aug. 1 will be eligible to attend kindergarten in the fall while children who will be age three or four before Aug. 1 will be eligible to attend preschool. Parents in the R-9 School District wanting to schedule a screening appointment are asked to call 3592003 as soon as possible. Required documents for the screening include the child’s immunization record, legal birth certificate and proof of residency. Screenings, which are offered at no cost, are anticipated to take approximately one hour or longer per child. Kindergarten students will be tested in the areas of communication, pre-academic reading skills, fine/gross motor skills, vision and hearing. Preschoolers will be tested for language, concepts, motor development, vision and hearing.
THS S Ba and Fund draiser A night of food and laughter awaits those attending the Trenton High School Golden Bulldog Marching Band fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 29. Chad Thornsberry is bringing his “Smart Comedy from a Dumb Accent” show to THS to help the band raise funds for an out-of-state trip the group plans to take during the 2020-2021 school year. The family-friendly event is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. The cost of admission is $15 and tickets are available at Dynamic Tax and Accounting, in the principal offices at the middle school and high school, from any band booster officer or THS band member or at chadthornsberry.com. Prior to the show, the Trenton Band Boosters will host a spaghetti supper in the high school commons. The eatwhat-you-want, pay-what-you-want meal begins at 5:30 p.m. Funds from the meal will also go toward the band trip.
2020 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Photo Courtesy of Ethan Stewart
Twelve members of the Trenton High School Band participated in Graceland University Honor Band activities held Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 8 at the school in Lamoni, IA. Students rehearsed concert music, participated in master classes taught by professional musicians and toured the campus. The honor band performed alongside the Graceland Symphonic Band during a concert on Saturday, with all participants also receiving a $2,000 scholarship if they decide to participate in the Graceland instrumental music program following graduation. Trenton made up 33 percent of the honor band membership. Other schools participating were Winston and Maryville in Missouri and Colfax-Mingo, Dalls Center-Grimes, Central Decatur, Fayette and Wayne in Iowa. THS students participating included, from left, front row, Ann Airey; middle row, Brett Kennedy, Mackenzie, Klinginsmith, Serenity Marsh, Kayleigh Streett; back row, instrumental music instructor Ethan Stewart, Ashley Johnson, Mari Atup, Kayleigh Snuffer, Sarah Tobias, Connor Campbell, Trager Leeper and Rudy Mathews.
AREA SCHOOL BOARDS
Grundy R-5
2020-21 Calendar Approved The Grundy R-5 Board of Education approved the 2020-21 school calendar and discussed possible makeup days during a meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 12. According to information provided by Superintendent Phil Fox, the first day of classes next year in the Grundy R-5 School next will be Tuesday, Aug. 25, with the last day being Thursday, May 13. A total of 1,104 hours were built into the calendar, with the school day running from 8 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. The board approved use of March 12 and March 13 as makeup days for the current school year, if needed. Fox noted that the district calculates its time in school by hours and that R-5 has around three hours that can be missed before makeup time will be needed. The board voted to seek bids for mow-
ing at the high school and elementary school as well as awarding the audit bid to Conrad and Higgins LLC. It was the only bid received and is for a three-year period. Approval was given to the high school student handbook regarding activity eligibility, elementary and secondary principal reports and the transfer of funds for bills. The board discussed but took no action regarding employee health insurance for the 2020-21 school year. The district is part of the Ozark School Benefits Association consortium. Board members asked the administration to survey staff regarding coverage concerns. The board heard a report regarding bandwidth for the district, which has been increased from 20 mb to 30 mb without a cost increase. The board will consider an increase to 50 mb next year.
The board discussed the cooperative agreement for athletics the district has with Newtown-Harris, but took no action. Preschool information was presented, but was tabled until the March meeting. There was a first reading of policy updates from the Missouri Consultants for Education and a bus repair report was presented. The board was also recognized by the Missouri School Boards Association for their service as part of School Board Recognition Week. Following an executive session, the board approved the employment of Bailey Kasinger as the fifth and sixth grade basketball coach. The next meeting of the board will be at 3 p.m. on Monday, March 9 in the high school business room.
‘Risky Nominee’
Sanders Creates Concerns For Democrats LAS VEGAS (AP) — A growing number of Democratic lawmakers, union officials, state leaders and party strategists agree that Bernie Sanders is a risky nominee to put up against President Donald Trump. There's less agreement about whether — and how — to stop him. Critics of the Vermont senator, who has long identified as a democratic socialist, are further than they’ve ever been from unifying behind a moderate alternative. None of the viable centrists in the race is eager to exit the campaign to clear a path for a candidate to become a clear counter to Sanders. And Sanders is looking to Saturday's Nevada caucuses to post another win that would further his status as an early frontrunner. With fear and frustration rising in the party's establishment wing, a high-stakes math problem is emerging. It could be impossible to blunt Sanders as long as a trio of moderate candidates — former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar — stay in the race. And with former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the swath of states that vote on Super Tuesday, March 3, the effort to stop Sanders will become even more challenging
when the campaign goes national next month. “You see this tremendous angst in the party — ‘What are we going to do?’" said Terry McAuliffe, a former Virginia governor who was also chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "We need to unify as fast as we can.” The dynamic is complicated because each of the major moderate candidates has glaring vulnerabilities. Biden began the campaign as a front-runner, but the aura around his operation took a hit after a fourth-place finish in Iowa gave way to a fifthplace finish in New Hampshire. Buttigieg has proved to be the most effective centrist in raising money from the party's traditional high-dollar donors, which puts him in a strong position to compete in an expensive national contest. But the 38-year-old faces linger questions about his experience and his ability to win support from black and Latino voters, a challenge that could come into greater focus if Buttigieg loses badly in Nevada and South Carolina. Kloubchar is newly emboldened after a thirdplace finish in New Hampshire, but she too has little support among minority voters and has largely run a bare-bones campaign operation. “When you have three or four candidates in that same lane, math becomes a problem,” said
National Weather Service
Mostly sunny this week with high temperatures reaching into the low 40s by Friday. Lows will be as low as 12 on Wednesday night. The high at Trenton on Thursday, Feb. 13 was 15, Friday’s high was 21 and Saturday’s high was 47. The high on Sunday was 49 with an overnight low of 27. The high on Sunday at the Government Weather Station near Spickard was 47, the low temperature was 26 and .02 of an inch of rain was recorded.
Harold Schaitberger, general president of the International Association of Firefighters and a Biden loyalist, who admits being “disappointed” by Biden's bad performances and Sanders' rise. Though the opening contests of the primary have only begun, time may quickly run out for a moderate alternative to emerge. By the end of Super Tuesday, more than one third of all delegates will be awarded. Should Sanders build a significant delegate lead — and his strength in California alone makes that possible — it would be very difficult for any other candidate to catch him in the slew of state-bystate elections that follow based on the way delegates are apportioned. “We have a lot of good candidates, but in general we’re incredibly frustrated that the field hasn’t winnowed,” said Robert Wolf, a major fundraiser for Barack Obama, who said he has donated money this cycle to more than a dozen Democrats. Sanders is not one of them. The situation is similar to the Republican primary in 2016, when several anti-Trump alternatives divided their party's moderate vote and allowed Trump to become the nominee despite failing to win a majority of the vote in early primary contests.
There is no significant movement in the works to stop Sanders. And so long as there are a half-dozen viable candidates in the race, it may not matter if there were. Sanders' team expects his Democratic critics and their allies to intensify their attacks in the coming weeks, although they suggest time may be on their side with Super Tuesday just two weeks away. If Sanders comes out of Super Tuesday with a 100-delegate lead, which is possible based on his popularity in California alone, they believe it would be virtually impossible for anyone to catch up before the party's national convention in July. Sanders was showing new signs of confidence as he campaigned over the weekend in Nevada ahead of the state's caucuses next Saturday. Rallying supporters in Carson City on Sunday, he declared he could win Nevada, then California and the Democratic nomination and highlighted attempts from his rivals in both parties to stop him. “I’ve been attacked by the media establishment, I’ve been attacked by the corporate establishment, I’ve been attacked by the Republican establishment, I’ve been attacked by the Dem-
What’s Inside... The THS wrestling team qualified five members for the state tournament while taking second place at the Class 1, District 3 Tournament over the weekend. See page 2 of today’s Republican-Times for photos and a recap.
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