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Friday, January 18, 2019

REPUBLICAN-TIMES TRENTON

Trenton, MO 64683 APRIL ELECTION Deadline Passes

Area Voters Have Choices Trenton city voters will have a full slate of candidates from which to choose when they go to the polls in April.

With filing for city office ending on Tuesday, the local ballot has races for all four city wards as well as for mayor, where four individuals have filed. Voting takes place on April 2 and includes city, school and nursing home district elections.

City The Trenton mayor’s race has four persons seeking the four-year position currently held by Dr. Nick McHargue.

Dr. McHargue has filed for reelection and is being challenged by current second ward councilman Larry Porter, Linda Crooks and Rocky Dunkin.

There are two candidates in each of the city’s four wards.

The first ward race pits Kenny Weaver against incumbent Glen Briggs while Danny Brewer and Robert Romesburg are seeking the second ward position. In the third ward, a post now held by Travis Elbert, candidates are Harry Kately and former Trenton mayor Cathie Smith.

The fourth ward has former councilman Jim Bush taking on John Dolan for the seat now held by Jennifer Hottes.

Bob McIntyre, who previously filed in the fourth ward, has withdrawn from the race.

Candidates for positions in other area communities include: Galt - Jason Grindstaff* and Jay Blackburn*, two-year alderman at large; Jessica Gannon, mayor*.

Laredo - Derek Eckert, Cassidy Russell, Brett Matthews* and Saundra Marrs*, councilman-at-large (two two-year openings to be filled).

Spickard - Janice Vandevender* and Frank Felder*, two-year council member-atlarge; no one file for mayor.

Jamesport - Gary Alexander*, south ward alderman; Geoff Eads*, north ward alderman; and Rick Shepherd Sr. and Dana R. Urton, mayor (one two-year position to be filled).

Princeton - Mike Homedale*, north ward; Dee McKinney*, south ward.

School Only two individuals filed for the two open seats on the Trenton R-9 Board of Education.

Incumbents Dorothy Taul and Marci Cutsinger are the only candidates for the two three-year positions. Although they are the only candidates for the two open spots, Superintendent Dan Wiebers said their names will appear on the ballot as the school district plans to also have a bond proposal for voters to consider.

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TRENTON R-9 BOARD OF EDUCATION

County Commission The Grundy County Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday at the courthouse.

In addition to continuing work on the 2019 budget, the commission plans to meet with Ambulance Director Steve Tracy at 10 a.m. and with Marv Meyers of Group Benefits at 11 a.m.

Police Personnel Board The Police Personnel Board of the Trenton City Council will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Law Enforcement Center. The meeting will be an executive session, closed to the public and news media, and involves a personnel matter.

Chamber Luncheon Set The Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its quarterly luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at the KCP&L community room.

John Bennett, transition case manager with the St. Joseph Adult Education and Learning Center/Webster Learning Center, will be the speaker for the noon meeting.

The cost is $10 for chamber members and $11 for nonmembers. Persons are asked to make a reservation no later than Friday, Jan. 25 and may do so by calling the chamber office at 359-4324 or by email at trentonchamber@att.net.

Valentine’s Fundraiser The Five Points Alive Committee is planning a Valentine’s meal on Friday, Feb. 8.

The event will be held in The Space in downtown Trenton, with doors to open at 6 p.m. and dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m. A donation of $20 per person is being asked to cover the cost of the meal, which will include lasagna or chicken piccata, vegetable medley, bread, salad and a choice of dessert (the dessert will include a chocolatedipped strawberry). Coffee, iced tea and water will also be available.

Persons can contact Kathi Brewer at Howard’s Department Store to sign up and pay for the meal. Proceeds from the event go to support efforts of the Five Points Alive Committee in their promotion of the downtown area.

NCMC Board Meets A motion to approve a one-time suspension of board policies to allow the Trenton Area Chamber of Commerce to hold its annual meeting at the Ketcham Community Center in March did not pass during a special meeting of the North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees on Monday.

Three votes were cast in favor and three were opposed to the motion, which would have suspended board policies involving the prohibition of alcohol on the college campus. Voting in favor were Diane Lowrey, Dr. NiCole Neal and Rob Maloney. Voting against were Don Dalrymple, Dr. John Holcomb and Chris Hoffman.

AREA SCHOOL BOARDS

Facility Improvements

‘No-Tax Increase’ Levy Will Be On April Ballot Patrons in the Trenton R-9 School District will vote in April on what is being called a “no-tax increase” levy to fund building improvement projects, following action taken by the board of education on Wednesday night.

On a vote of 7-0, the board approved a resolution to place the issue on the April 2 ballot, asking voters to approve a continuance of the current 90-cent debt service levy that would pay for construction and renovation as well as equipment for projects at the high school/middle school campus, the elementary school and C.F. Russell Stadium.

The current 90-cent levy is scheduled to come off the district levy in 2020, with the bonds for the middle school being paid off, and the board is asking patrons to renew that portion of the levy for the building project. Keeping the levy would allow the district to be issued $7 million in general obligation bonds to pay for the work.

Jeff Ellison and Jeremy Proctor of Ellis-Auxier architectural firm were at the meeting to review preliminary drawings of work the district would like to see completed if the levy is approved. The main portion of the project involves construction of a 500-seat performing arts center, which would be constructed between the high school commons area and music building and would allow for connection of all buildings on campus through the construction of corridors on both sides of the center. A second project would involve renovation of the media center to make it more user-friendly for students and staff, including providing additional space for testing and computer labs.

At Rissler Elementary, a new vestibule would be constructed to make the building and office area more secure as well as providing a staff work area.

The project at C.F. Russell Stadium would involve construction of new restrooms and a concession stand.

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Headworks Project Moves Forward

The estimated cost for the project is $6.8 million, with $3.9 million estimated to construct the performing arts center and corridor areas. The library cost estimate was listed at $544,000, stadium work was listed at $280,000 and work at Rissler was listed at $147,000. Costs were also built in for contingencies and furnishings (if needed).

Superintendent Dan Wiebers noted that the vote would not increase the debt levy already being paid by patrons, rather it would just continue the 90 cents already being paid. He said that the Trenton R-9 School District has one of the lowest levies in the area at $4.145 (which includes the 90 cents). Levies in the area range from $5.9975 in the Laredo R-7 School District to $4.0243 in the South Harrison School District. Levies in eight other districts are also higher than the levy in Trenton.

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City Council Overrides Tax Counsel Hiring Veto Members of the Trenton City Council on Monday night overrode a veto by the mayor to hire a tax counsel who will assist the city with documents needed to finance the purchase of the city’s fire training tower and related expenses.

On a vote of 6-0, the council overrode the veto by Mayor

Dr. Nick McHargue and agreed to hire Gilmore Bell of Kansas City to prepare the documentation being required

by Community Leasing Partners of Manhattan, KS, which is providing a $1.2 million loan to the city for the project.

The council has already approved purchase of a burn

tower at the cost of $730,000.

The remaining money being borrowed would pay for development of the site where the tower is to be constructed, including concrete work, fencing, graveling and electrical service.

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Grundy R-5, Pleasant View R-6, Princeton R-5, Laredo R-7

Superintendent Contracts Extended Contract extensions were offered and reports given during meetings this week of the Grundy R-5, Pleasant View R-6, Princeton R-5 and Laredo R-7 boards of education.

Grundy R-5 The Grundy R-5 Board of Education took action on several items during its meeting on Wednesday night.

Superintendent Rob Deaver said the board approved the purchase of a new accounting software for the district and will be advertising for bids to provide bus transportation to the district for the 2019-20 school year. Approval was also given to the vocational business and professional development program evaluations.

It was announced that Allen Berry and Opie Peterson have filed for the two three-year positions open on the school board and that Donnie Fordyce is the only candidate for the one-year position. The incumbents, Randy Radcliff and Danny Berry, chose not to refile.

The board reviewed ACT and End of Course results and approved online classes for several students. Certificates were presented to members as part of

the MSBA School Board Recognition Week activities. Students of the Quarter and students on the A and B honor rolls were also recognized.

An executive session was held for personnel with no announcement made.

The next meeting will be at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13.

Pleasant View R-6 The Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education voted to extend the superintendent’s contract during its meeting on Tuesday night.

According to information provided

by Superintendent Rebecca Steinhoff, the board extended her contract by one year to maintain a three-year agreement that runs through 2021-2022 school year. Her salary is to be determined at a later date.

Several reports were presented to the board, including an update on enrollment in the special education program.

There are 21 in the early childhood program and 20 in K-8. This is up two from a year ago. Enrollment updates include 34 in the ECSE preschool, down two from last year; 20 in regular preschool, up two from last year; and 95

National Weather Service Expect snow Friday night into Saturday with up to 4 inches forecast. Partly sunny and cold this weekend, highs in the teens and lows as low as 4 on Saturday night. Monday’s high at Trenton was 30 with a trace of freezing rain, Tuesday’s high was 34 and Wednesday’s high was 32. The low was 28 and .01 of an inch of rain was recorded.

Wednesday’s high at the Government Weather Station near Spickard was 30, the low was 28.

in grades K-8, up three from last year.

The board discussed the upcoming school year transportation contracts as well as the need to implement a new accounting program, but took no action. The first reading was held on proposed MSBA policy updates. Teachers Kylie Davis and Naomi Meinecke gave updates about their class activities.

It was announced that Danny Westcott and Laurie Frisbie filed for the two three-year openings on the school board, but that no one filed for the open two-year term. Among future dates of importance mentioned were an early out on Jan. 18, school in session on Jan. 21 as a makeup date due to inclement weather and the third quarter mid-term on Feb. 1.

The next board meeting will be at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11.

Princeton R-5 The Princeton R-5 Board of Education extended the contract of Superintendent Jerry Girdner at its meeting on Tuesday night.

Board Secretary Christy Stockman said the contract was extended by one year to keep a three-year agreement that ends in June of 2022. The salary is

to be determined at a later time.

The board approved a $1 per hour shift differential for night custodians.

Custodians working the 2 to 10 p.m. shift will now be paid $11.98 per hour while the daytime custodian pay will be $10.98 per hour.

Approval was given to several MSBA board policies and an update was given on the recent completion of the building additions and campus improvements. Projects to be completed this summer were discussed as well as the need for a new accounting software program. Girdner informed the board that the $75,000 reimbursement from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the track project has been received and that the addition of one handicap parking stall at the track and field area will be completed this summer. A work session is to be scheduled to review the needs of the district. It was announced that Nathan Evans and Ron Parsons filed for re-election to the board.

Following an executive session, the board accepted the resignation of Tom Hotmer as a teacher and coach, effec-

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The THS boys and girls basketball teams will be headed to the Hamilton Tournament next week. See page 3 of today’s Republican-Times for the bracket, along with brackets from next week’s Meadville and Gilman City tournaments.

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SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING

Plattsburg Tournament

Trump, Whitney Win Titles At Plattsburg Tournament In high school wrestling, matches are scheduled for six minutes - three periods, two minutes each.

Jadan Whitney wrestled six minutes on Monday at the Sam Martin Invitational Wrestling Tournament in Plattsburg. He won five matches.

Trenton’s Class 1 number one state-ranked 195-pounder put on quite a show, dominating his division on the way to a 5-0 record and a weight class championship. He pinned every opponent he faced inside of the first period.

Whitney faced no ranked opponents at the tournament, but two of his wins came over wrestlers from

Class 2 schools and his win over Kearney’s Colt Post gave him a victory over a Class 3 wrestler. The five wins pushed Whitney to 27-2 overall on the season, with his only losses coming against a 220-pounder and a Class 2 195-pounder.

In addition to Whitney, Trenton got another individual championship from Mark Trump, who won the 170pound bracket with a 2-0 record.

Trump won his first match by fall and defeated his lone other contender via an 8-6 decision to wrap up his weight class title.

Other placewinners for Trenton included Caleb Johnson (182) and

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL

Kaden Owen (145), both of whom were second at their respective weights, and Noah Lewis, who was third at 160 pounds.

Johnson ran a 2-1 record at the tournament, falling by pin in his first match before bouncing back with a 71 decision win and a victory by fall.

Owen was 0-2, falling twice to Maryville’s Connor Weiss, the only other 145-pounder at the event.

Lewis wrestled tough against Plattsburg’s Klayton Kennedy, ranked eighth in the state at 160 pounds, but ultimately lost by a 4-3 decision.

Lewis followed up the opening loss with back-to-back wins by fall before

being pinned by Kearney’s Coby Aebersold, the second-ranked wrestler in the state at the Class 3 level. Lewis again bounced back from the loss with a win by fall, one that gave him a final record of 3-2 and a third-place finish in his weight class.

Other Trenton wrestlers in action on the day included Dakota Wendt, who was fourth at 138 pounds with a 1-3 record; Payden McCullough, who was fifth at 132 pounds with a 3-2 record; Brice Gibler, who was fifth at 126 pounds with an 0-4 record; Thomas Lovell, who was fourth at 106 pounds with a 1-3 record; and Jarvis Collis, who was sixth at 285

Trenton Bulldogs 60, Hamilton Hornets 33

HORNETS HAMMERED Trenton Girls Crush Hamilton For Third Lawson Tournament Title In A Row In case you were wondering if the Trenton High School girls basketball team had forgotten about how last season ended, they haven’t.

In the championship of the Lawson Tournament on Moanday night, the Bulldogs faced off with Hamilton - the team whose overtime victory in last year’s district championship game abruptly halted a potential return for Trenton to the ShowMe Showdown.

Overtime was never a concern in Monday’s rematch as Trenton demolished the Hornets 60-33 to lay claim to its thirdstraight Lawson Tournament championship.

“We came ready to play,” Trenton Head Coach Brian Upton said. “We didn’t shoot particularly well, but our defense does travel.”

Trenton’s defense indeed traveled to Lawson. The Bulldogs were stellar all tournament long, limiting tournament foes West Platte, North Platte and Hamilton to a combined 73 points - a new Lawson Tournament record.

In the championship, Trenton suffocated Hamilton with its defense. Between 12 steals as a team and five blocked shots, the Hornets were barely allowed to breathe, let alone get off shots. When the Hornets did get looks, they weren’t great and Trenton controlled the boards. The Bulldogs had 30 rebounds in the game, 21 of them on the defensive end.

Hamilton’s leading scorer last season and this year - Nora Ford - was stifled, scoring just 11 points in the game and Trenton held the Hamilton guard scoreless for the entire second half.

“Salem (Croy) and Lexi (Whitaker) did a great job on Ford,” Upton said. “We communicated and rotated help defense very well and didn’t give Hamilton very many good looks at the basket. Maci (Moore) and Sidney (Lynch) cleaned up

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The Trenton High School girls basketball team captured its third-straight Lawson Tournament championship on Monday with a 60-33 win over Hamilton in the championship game. Members of the team include, from left, front row, Mykah Hurley, Sidney Lynch, Ainsley Tolson, Salem Croy, Taylor Richman, back row, Assistant Coach John Cowling, McKayla Blackburn, Maci Moore, Lexi Whitaker, Chandler Lynch, Teya Cooksey, Gracyn Rongey and Head Coach Brian Upton.

the boards and we made it tough on them to run their offense.”

Hamilton, ranked ninth in the state at the Class 2 level after having dropped from Class 3 ahead of this season, wasn’t in the game long as Trenton jumped on the Hornets early, leading 15-8 after one quarter. Moore, who had six points in the first quarter, really took over in the second period, going six-for-six from the field with 12 more points. Moore would finish the contest with a game-high 25 points and eight rebounds. She was named the Lawson Tournament MVP after the game, averaging 22.3 points per game in the Bulldogs’ three victories.

“Offensively, the girls did a great job of finding Maci around the basket,” Upton said. “Hamilton really didn’t have an answer for her.”

Behind Moore, Trenton got 13 points, four assists and three steals from Mykah Hurley and 11 points, four rebounds, six

assists and five steals from Ainsley Tolson. Tolson and Hurley were named to the all-tournament team along with Moore.

Trenton would also get four points, eight rebounds and three assists from Lynch and three points and three assists from Croy. Whitaker had two points and two steals and Taylor Richman added two points and four rebounds.

While Trenton set the all-time tournament mark for defensive efficency, the offense just missed a record of its own.

Trenton scored 193 points in the three games. The tournament record is 201.

With the win, Trenton vaulted to 15-0 overall on the season.

UP NEXT Trenton’s road trip to Polo on Tuesday was postponed due to inclement weather.

The Bulldogs are scheduled to travel to Milan for action tonight (Friday). Tip off is set for 6 p.m.

Season Ended Jan. 15

State Hunters Harvest 290,339 Deer Franklin with 5,826 deer harvested, Callaway with 5,545 and Howell with 5,350. Of the 290,339 deer harvested, 136,776 were antlered bucks, 30,116 were button bucks and 123,447 were does.

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Grundy Draws Split The Grundy R-5 High School basketball teams split with Northwestern on Monday night, winning the girls game 7048 while falling 79-34 in the boys game.

Morgan Axtell led the girls with 23 points, eight rebounds and three assists while Aubrey Gann added 19 points, six rebounds and four steals. The Panthers got 14 points, seven assists and four steals from Daya Allnutt and Alissa Webb had eight points, 12 rebounds and four assists. Brianna Carpio chipped in with six points, six steals and four assists.

The Grundy boys, meanwhile, got 12 points from Caden Gann and eight from Wayne Baxter.

Grundy R-5 was in action on Thursday against Mercer.

The Panthers will compete in the Meadville Tournament next week.

Hotmer Resignation Official

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Missouri's 2018-2019 deerhunting season ended Jan. 15 with the Missouri Department of Conservation reporting a preliminary total harvest of 290,339 deer. Top counties for the overall season were

pounds with an 0-5 record.

GIRLS Trenton’s two girl wrestlers were in action at the tournament as well in the girls division. Teresa Yoder was seventh at 126 pounds, going 0-4 on the day. Libby Fewins was fourth at 167 pounds, going 2-3 overall.

UP NEXT Trenton was scheduled to host Brookfield and Richmond in a triangular at the THS gym on Tuesday, but that event was pushed to Thursday due to the weather. The Bulldogs will be at the Brookfield Tournament on Saturday, weather permitting. That event is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m.

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total deer were taken with 865 being antlered bucks, 147 being button bucks and 671 being does. Other local counties saw 2,857 total deer harvested in Harrison County, 2,344 in Daviess, 2,036 in Livingston, 2,260 in Mercer, 2,705 in Putnam and 2,780 in Sullivan.

Hunters harvested 284,477 deer during the 2017-2018 deer hunting season. The most recent record season was in 2012-2013 with a total harvest of 313,254.

Deer hunting ended with the close of the archery season.

Preliminary data from MDC showed that hunters checked 54,447 deer during the archery season. Top counties for the archery season were Jefferson with 1,262 deer harvested, St. Louis with 1,083 and Franklin with 1,068. Hunters checked 51,991 deer during the 20172018 archery season.

Fall archery turkey hunting also ended on Jan. 15. Preliminary data from MDC showed 2,095 turkeys harvested. Top

counties for the archery turkey season were Callaway with 56 birds harvested, Franklin with 44 and Monroe with 38. For the previous year, hunters harvested 2,426 turkeys during the fall archery season.

Persons can get more deer and turkey harvest data for the current season at the website, short.mdc.mo.gov/Z3g. Deer harvest data for past seasons is available at short.mdc.mo.gov/Z3M. Turkey harvest data for past seasons at short.mdc.mo.gov/Z3Y. MDC reported eight firearms-related hunting incidents during the 2018 fall deer and turkey hunting seasons.

Three were fatalities with two occurring incidental to hunting while at hunting camps and one was a self-inflicted incident in the field. Of the five non-fatal incidents, four were self-inflicted and the fifth occurred when the shooter shot a victim while swinging on game.

Princeton Head football Coach Thomas Hotmer made his resignation from Princeton official this week, ending a threeyear stint at the helm of the Tigers.

Hotmer’s plans to leave the program he pulled out of the depths of a three-year tailspin in which Princeton went 327 became known in December, but it became official when he tendered his resignation at Tuesday’s board meeting.

“Coach Hotmer has made a lasting impression on our school, students and community,” Princeton Superintendent Jerry Girdner said. “I am thankful for the character and leadership (Hotmer) has provided for our student-athletes. I wish Coach Hotmer and his wife, Alyse the best as their family grows and they move to the next chapter in their lives.”

Under Hotmer’s guidance, the Tigers were 21-14 in the past three seasons. Princeton played for district championships in 2016 and 2017, winning the district title and the Grand River Conference in 2017 - a year the Tigers finished 12-1 as state quarterfinalists.

“Coach Hotmer made a positive impact not only on our football program, but on our school district and community,” Princeton Athletic Director John Goodin said. “He will be greatly missed. The search for a new head football coach will begin immediately.”

North Central Notebook Seth Herrold, R-T Sports Editor

NCMC WOMEN DROP FOURTH STRAIGHT The North Central Missouri College women’s baskball team’s slide continued on Tuesday night as the Pirates were handed a 79-65 loss by Crowder College.

North Central fell behind 17-10 in the opening quarter and spent the rest of the night chasing those points. The Pirates trailed by just eight points entering the final frame, but Crowder closed the contest on a 25-19 run to seal the victory.

Da’Briauna Bables led North Central in the loss with 16 points. Hailey Burrows added 13 points and Megan Ernzen finished with 11.

The North Central women (6-9) looked to snap the streak on Thursday, traveling to Leavenworth, KS to take on the University of St. Mary junior varsity. North Central will host Metropolitan Community College on Wednesday, Jan. 23. Tipoff at the Ketcham Community Center in Trenton is set for 5 p.m.

NCMC MEN HANDED LOSSES The North Central Missouri College men’s basketball team was dealt losses on Monday and Wednesday nights. On Monday the Pirates fell 76-75 at home to Kansas City Kansas Community College and on Wednesday, North Central was defeated 9275 on the road against 10th-ranked Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS. In the one-point loss on Monday, North Central ran out to a 10-point lead in the first half, but the advantage wouldn’t last.

KCKCC chipped away at the Pirates in the second half, completing the comeback and picking up a one-point road win in the end.

Soloman Thomas and Calvin Heidenwith each scored 13 points and Stephen Campbell and Cameron Lockett each had nine. Jaran Richman scored eight points.

On Wednesday, NCMC couldn’t match the 10th-ranked Cavaliers, falling behind by 20 points in the opening half. There would be no coming back for the Pirates, though North Central did outscore Johnson County marginally in the second half.

Lockett had 17 points and eight rebounds to lead the Pirates while Jordan Reece scored 17 points as well. Quinan Rieves added 11 pints and eight rebounds and Thomas finished with nine points and three assists.

With the two losses, the North Central men fell to 8-8 overall on the season. North Central will host Metropolitan Community College on Wednesday. Tipoff at the Ketcham Community Center in Trenton is set for 7 p.m.

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SPORTS

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OP/ED

The Final Word

by Diane Lowrey R-T Editor

Learn About Your Candidates Voters in the city of Trenton will have a lot to think about before heading to the polls to cast their vote on April 2.

For the first time in many, many years, there are races for all four city council ward positions as well as for the office of mayor. When the deadline to file for the April election passed on Tuesday, each of the city’s wards had two candidates while no less than four persons wanted the job of leading the city council for the next four years. A list of those individuals apDiane Lowrey pears on the front page of today’s newspaper.

Of those who have filed, only two are incumbents while three others either currently hold or have held a city office in the past. The rest of the candidates are on the city ballot for the first time.

Although it’s still early in the game, some of the candidates have already started doing a little posturing with statements on various media and I anticipate there will be much more said by all of these individuals before April 2 rolls around. As someone who has been around local politics for a long time (40 years covering the city council, county commission, etc.), I would encourage each and every voter to read what each candidate has to say, then do some digging on your own to make sure that what is being said jives with the actual facts.

Lots of information gets bandied about during election time and many times only part of the story actually gets told (usually the part that is going to make the candidate sound the best). There are plenty of sources available by which facts can be checked. Just because someone says something, doesn’t always make the statement true.

As has been done in the past, the Republican-Times will be asking each of the council and mayor candidates a series of questions about important issues involving the city, with the answers to be published in the newspaper to better inform voters prior to the election. If you have a suggestion for a question, please contact me at the newspaper within the next few weeks so that we can ask questions about issues of which you have a concern. The questionnaires will be going to the candidates the first week in February and will be published in midto late-March, prior to the election.

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Controlling Sports Betting

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If the Kansas City Chiefs play the Indianapolis Colts in the playoffs next year, odds are you will be able to place a bet on that game.

Missouri's new medical marijuana law contains a privacy provision to protect business and medical records related to the new industry. But state officials are using it to deny the public the right to know even the identities of those who have applied to become marijuana growers and distributors.

Could there be any worse possible way to start a new industry involving the production and distribution of a previously illicit drug than to shroud it in secrecy? The state should remove this gag order immediately, or the Legislature should approve clarifying language to eliminate confusion over state reporting requirements.

Missouri voters in November amended the state Constitution to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. The growing and distribution of the marijuana will be conducted by private entities licensed by the state.

Entities that want in on this new market recently started submitting applications to be licensed as growers or distributors. Under the new law, the state is required to safeguard "the confidentiality of reports or other information obtained from an applicant or licensee containing any individualized data, information, or records related to the licensee or its operation."

That makes perfect sense. It would be improper for the state to publicly reveal internal financial records of companies that are in competition with one another, especially records that could conceivably include people's confidential medical information.

But by what leap of logic does the state go from that to, We won't even tell you who will be licensed to grow or distribute the marijuana?

That's essentially what Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services, which is implementing the new law, is telling journalists who have sought the identities of those who have applied for cultivation and distribution licenses. Other business permit information is freely available on state websites.

As the Post-Dispatch's Jack Suntrup recently reported, DHSS is using the privacy provision in the new law to justify denying the public any information at all about the applicants.

The amendment's wording makes clear that was never the intent. It specifies the state must safeguard records containing "sales information, financial records, tax returns, credit reports, cultivation information, testing results, and security information and plans, or revealing any patient information."

Nowhere in that detailed list does it say the very identities of the applicants should be hidden.

"The language was included in Amendment 2 to keep the medical information of patients confidential, as well as sensitive information from applicants," says John Payne, campaign manager for New Approach Missouri, the group that pushed for medical marijuana legalization. The group doesn't see "any reason the name of the applicants wouldn't be public."

Nor do we. There's nothing notorious about applying for a medical marijuana license. But preventing the public from even knowing who those applicants are is a level of secrecy better suited to a street-corner pot dealer than a state government.

— St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Guest Editorials Last May, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 1992 ban on sports betting in most states outside of Nevada and other states began thinking about ways to legalize sports wagering. Most of Missouri's neighbors — Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee — have recently filed legislation to that effect. Arkansas approved its version of sports betting last June.

Missouri likely will act during the current legislative term, and it's expected some form of a sports wagering law will be passed. Estimates predict sports wagering could add between $18 million to $40 million to the state coffers.

So sports betting is here. The real debate could be how it's set up and controlled.

At least three sports betting bills were pre-filed before the session began and will define the argument. So far, we favor the bill proposed by Sen. Denny Hoskins, RWarrensburg.

Hoskins' bill simply adds sports betting to the existing riverboat casinos in Missouri, taxes the gross receipts at 14 percent, and puts control in the hands of the Missouri Gaming Commission.

If you're thinking that 14 percent sounds a little steep, you would be right. According to ESPN, Nevada taxes gaming revenue at 6.75 percent while New Jersey is at 8.5 percent.

Hoskins' proposal does have a couple of unique aspects.

First, 2 percent of gross receipts will be transferred to the Veterans Commission Capital Improvement Fund for the construction, maintenance and equipment needs of veterans' homes and cemeteries in the state.

Second, under the proposal, the casino will collect what's called an "integrity" fee of .5 percent. Hoskins would like to use that money to build entertainment infrastructure, such as convention centers, stadiums and transportation facilities.

Both earmarks would be used for a specific purpose, a prospect that we think is important.

We've long given up on the promise that gaming funds would be used to pay for public schools, a selling point when casino gambling was initially passed. Sure, gaming money entered through the front door of state budgets and was used for education, then the legislature subtracted other funds out the back door. Casino revenue has not been a financial panacea to public schools.

Thus, we favor earmarking some of the revenue from sports betting. Let's use some of the money to improve the lives of veterans and make our state an attractive convention and entertainment destination rather than being absorbed into the rest of the state's revenue.

If we're betting on sports wagering, let's make sure there's a payoff.

— St. Joseph News Press

ELECTED OFFICIALS ADDRESSES SEN. ROY BLUNT

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Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-5721

SEN. JOSH HAWLEY

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Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-6154

U.S. REP. SAM GRAVES

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Washington D.C. 20515 Phone: 202-225-7041 E-Mail: sam.graves@mail.house.gov

STATE SEN. DAN HEGEMAN

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COMMUNITY Ford Judy Jackson Services were cancelled on Sunday morning, Jan 13, at the Galt Christian Church.

Stan and Mary Helen Richardson and Judy Jackson attended services at the Galt Baptist Church. Ann Schreffler had the children's moment and Gene Schreffler's message was "Jesus Said, Who Do You Say That I Am," with scripture from Luke 9:18-27.

Stan and Mary Helen Richardson went to Cameron on Friday where Mary Helen had a doctor's appointment.

Judy Jackson visited on Thurs-

day afternoon with Les and Lora Jackson. The Richardsons and Judy visited on Monday with Ramah Smith at the Wright Memorial Hospital.

Jerry and Sharon Berry ate supper on Monday with Ruby Elliott. Danny and Colt Berry visited with Jerry and Sharon during the week.

Jim Westergaard, Louie Berry, Judy Jackson and Stan Richardson were among those that attended a belated Galt Lions Club Christmas dinner at the Galt Cafe on Wednesday.

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Church Activities

Breilly Roy Gives Program Wesley Methodist Church Retirees held their monthly luncheon on Wednesday, Jan. 9 with 25 members and one guest present.

The hostess, Susanne Walden, gave the blessing before the meal.

Breilly Roy presented a program on her travels this past year. She traveled in the spring with a group to a sheep farm, Comarca County, located in Patagonia, an archipelago in the southern part of Chile.

While there she learned about their local culture and agritourism. In May, she visited the Galapagos Islands, a group of volcanic islands in the Pacific off the coast of Ecuador.

While there she studied their wildlife and the economic im-

pact of ecotourism on the wildlife that reside there. She spent the summer months in Wells, ME, where she was an intern at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. Ms. Roy wants to combine her marine biology degrees and her theater background to work in education, possibly with National Geographic.

President John Keith presided at the business meeting. The group voted to attend a theater show at the Maples Repertory, in Macon.

The next meeting will be on Feb. 13 with Rosslyn Maloney and John and Pam Keith as hosts.

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In other business, the board: â&#x20AC;˘ approved extension of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation contract with Apple Bus through the 2023-24 school year. Director of Supportive Services Kris Ockenfels said some changes were made to the existing contract and that the cost to the district for the transportation services will increase by approximately 3.4 percent each year that the contract is in force. Next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contract will be $558,122. â&#x20AC;˘ approved disbursement of Frank Drake library funds to the Grundy County-Jewett Norris Library in the amount of $1,919.85. â&#x20AC;˘ approved an agreement with Tyler Technologies for use of SISfin financial software, beginning next year, at a cost to the district of $31,520 for the initial implementation and a yearly charge of $5,434 for maintenance and support.

As part of the conversion, Tyler Technology will convert the last three years of needed data from the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing software into the new program.

The district already uses similar software for its student data management. â&#x20AC;˘ approved a request from the Grundy County Breast Cancer Support Group to assume planning and implementation of future â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pink Out Nightâ&#x20AC;? activities held in the R9 District. â&#x20AC;˘ approved several MSBA policy updates on a wide range of subjects to comply with new and existing laws, including a requirement that school districts complete 1,044 hours of

BUSINESS classroom time to qualify as a school year. Days will no longer be counted. â&#x20AC;˘ approved submission of a GECâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;grant application for $150 by teacher Joel Hultman to purchase digital video equipment for the eighth grade American History class and skills lab. â&#x20AC;˘ was told of a $3,010.55 gift from Citizens Bank and Trust through the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bulldog Debit Card swipe program. â&#x20AC;˘ heard evaluation reports on the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early childhood, Parents as Teacher and health services programs. â&#x20AC;˘ was told, as part of the safety report, that fire alarms in district buildings were checked over the winter break and were found to be in working order. â&#x20AC;˘ was recognized by the Missouri School Boards Association with a certificate as part of School Board Recognition Week activities, which are Feb. 10-16.

Following an executive session for personnel, the board voted to accept the resignations of second grade teacher Denni Berti and Success Center teacher Trent Ireland, effective at the end of the school year. Approved as substitutes were Dane Stiles, Adele Rowland,â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Madeline Barone, Kellen Overstreet and Dakotah Mathews.

The board was also scheduled to review applications for the superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position, but were unable to do so. A special meeting was set for 1 p.m. on Friday at the district office. The meeting has been listed as an executive session for personnel, closed to the public and news media.

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US Bank Building Closure The US Bank facility at 121 E. Ninth St. will close on April 10 and all operations will be moved to the location at 1801 E.â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Ninth St. Evan Lapiska, with the US Bank public affairs and corporate communications office, said changes in customer banking behavior, including migration toward digital and mobile banking platforms, are leading to the company reevaluating its situation. In some cases, a limited number of branch locations in select markets are being consolidated, with Trenton being one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a difficult decision that affects our employees, customers and communities, but one we do not take lightly,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The bank is providing employees at both facilities a number of options and working with them to make the transition as smooth as possible, including identifying other opportunities that may be available with the organization, Lapiska said. Kim Washburn will continue as the branch manager for the combined locations.

Trenton Shopko Remains Open The Trenton Shopko store is not among the list of stores to be closed by the company as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.

A total of 38 stores are scheduled to be closed, including three in Missouri. They include stores at Carrollton, Albany and Memphis. Albany is scheduled to close onâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;March 3, Carrollton on April 8 and Memphis on April 15.

The company cited excessive debt and ongoing competitive pressure as forcing it to seek protection from its creditors. Shopko plans to continue operating through the reorganization process.

Landes Buys Second Facility The former Seventh Heaven/TNT convenience store on 28th Street has been purchased by Landes Oil, Inc., which plans to reopen the business in the spring.

Purchase of the building was completed in December and renovation is currently being done. It is hoped the new business can be open in April.

The purchase gives Landes Oil two locations in Trenton, with the other being located on Ninth Street. Landes Oil has been in business since 1948.

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Trenton Area Calendar of Events SATURDAY Southwestern Bell, Hy-Vee, noon.

Wellness Challenge Weigh-In, Ketcham Community Center, Business Hours.

THSâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Class of 1954, Dinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Diner, 9 a.m.

Church Women United Thrift Shop open, 17th &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;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.

Community Card Playing, Galt Lions Hall, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY Narcotics Anonymous, St.â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, 4 p.m.

MONDAY Chapter MN PEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Social, The Space, 5 p.m.

Community Blood Center Bloodmobile, North 65 Center, noon to 6 p.m.

Trenton Elks Lodge No. 801, Lodge Hall, meal at 6:30 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m.

Grundy County-Jewett Norris Library open until 7 p.m.

Weight Busters, Grundy County Health Department. Weigh-in at 5:30 p.m., meeting at 6 p.m. For more information, call 485-6424.

Lose to Win Club, Wesley United Methodist Church. Weigh-in at 10:30 a.m., meeting at 11 a.m. For more information, call 359-6144.

Green Hills Alcoholics Anonymous, 10th Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m. For more information, call 359-2704 or 357-2367.

MIâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Group of Alcoholics Anonymous, 2901 Hoover Drive, 7 p.m.

Al-Anon Family Support Group, North 65 Center, 7 p.m.

Line Dancers, North 65 Center, 9:30 a.m.

Cards, North 65 Center, 12:30 p.m.

TUESDAY Community Writers Group, Shakespeare Room of the NCMC LIbrary, 3 p.m.

Major Dale Stepp American Legion Post No. 31, American Legion Hall, 6 p.m.

Walk-In Tuesday, Grundy County Health Department, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Veterans Mobile Medical Unit, Wright Memorialâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Hospital parking lot, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Call 816-922-2000 for appointment.

Crafty Ladies, First Baptist Church, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Celebrate Recovery, Wesley United Methodist Church, 6:30 p.m.

Domestic Violence/Anger Management Group, North Central Missouri Mental Health Center, 7 to 9 p.m.

Trentonâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Lions Club, First Christian Church Fellowship Hall, noon.

Spickard Coffee Club,â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Spickard Fire Station Kitchen, 8 a.m.

Cards and Exercise Class, North 65 Center, 12:30 p.m.

Activity Night, North 65 Center, 6 to 9 p.m.

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AGRICULTURE

Hometown Boy

by Duane Dailey, Professor Emeritus University of Missouri

THE WEATHER SEEMS DIFFERENT; MAYBE THE CLIMATE DID CHANGE Weather ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normal no more. A double negative may best describe recent weather.

Two negatives make a positive. Negatives often describe Missouri weather. A Pat Guinan story at yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end told that weather was ending near normal, on average. Yet, we had bad extremes, back to back. April was cold. May was hot. Both set records. But when averaged the temperature ends near normal.

December may shift that average from normal. It was one of 10 warmest. And, it was one of the wettest. Early in November snows fell as severe blizzards. Then a long stretch of December felt like October.

Fall-like conditions made it nice for fall-calving cow herds to thrive. Calves on milk and grass didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burn food keeping warm. They grew faster.

Mama cows grazed on stockpiled pastures, if grass wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t already eaten.

Warm wet weather brought mud. Grazing herds tore up pastures and were removed to save the sod. Mud also stymied crop farmers who couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finish combining soybeans. Lots of farmers asked: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with this crazy weather?

As I write, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m snowbound

going into the third day. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know when I can move my car out and over a ridge of snow left by the road grader.

I tried to scoop out, but left snow on top of the car. I'd never seen that much snow.

When measured it came to 15 inches while still snowing.

Shocking! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never seen that much snow in Columbia.

My daughter Lucinda reminded me of a 12-inch snow that closed MU for a day. After that closing, leaders said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never close again. It caused endless hassle on who is essential and who isn't needed to work. Also, who got paid and who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed. Now leaders not accustomed to Missouri volatile weather, close MU. In fact, they closed campus based on a severe storm advisory. Now I see a flood of e-mail on how time sheets must be filled out.

One thing I recall from farmboy days: There were no â&#x20AC;&#x153;snow days.â&#x20AC;? School never closed. Farm chores were done no matter depth of snow or bitterness of wind. Hay was hauled. Hogs fed. Eggs gathered. Cows milked. Do farms still have that many chores?

Do farm kids work these jobs?

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a difference be-

tween day-to-day weather and climate. Climate accumulates long term. To me, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no doubt that we make manmade impact on global warming.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our new climate.

When I first came to Columbia to enroll at MU, there were about 32,000 people in Columbia. Now, there must be 130,000. In my short commute to work I compete with 100,000 cars it seems. There are high-rise garages and parking lots extending out from campus. Every time we start a car, carbon dioxide goes into the air. CO2 molecules rise to form a lid on the globe, which affects sun rays and heat holding.

We even warm the oceans.

A story this week told that ocean water warmed 40 percent faster than predicted five years ago. Warm water evaporates into the air faster. Now, in Missouri we get millions of tons of water vapor floating up from the Gulf. When moist warm air hits Arctic cold fronts, we get storms.

That gives me thoughts to ponder as I lounge about on snow days. I failed to make it to the supermarket for weekend shopping. The weather affects business. I know weather affects farming more than ever.

Tell me what happens across rural Missouri. Here, it cancels basketball games.

Does weather ever affect local high school games?

Send your weather report to duanedailey7@gmail.com. Or Tweet @AgNewsDailey.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fescue Toxicosis And Managementâ&#x20AC;?

New Booklet Guides Farmers In Managing Tall Fescue Everything needed to manage toxic fescue comes in a new edition of an old booklet, says Craig Roberts, University of Missouri Extension specialist.

First copies of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fescue Toxicosis and Management,â&#x20AC;? second edition, have arrived.

The 20 pages go beyond a guide sheet. It tells everything a farmer needs to manage tall fescue, Roberts says. All who enroll in multistate fescue schools in 2019 receive a free copy. It provides the agenda for the one-day schools.

Roberts, an MU forage specialist, joined with co-author John Andrae of Clemson University to re-do a publication they wrote in 2010. Much more is known now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In our original book, we just mention novel endophyte fescue. Now five seed companies offer different nontoxic fescue varieties,â&#x20AC;?

Roberts says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tell many ways to manage fescue toxicosis,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the best way to solve the problem is to kill old fescue then plant a novel variety.â&#x20AC;?

The widespread K-31 fescue grows an internal fungus that makes a toxin that protects the grass from droughts, pests and grazing livestock.

Researchers discovered other internal fungi, or endophytes, that protect fescue but do not poison grazing livestock.

Tall fescue fits in many farm grazing plans.

Its toxicity allows it to survive largely unmanaged. The downside is severe losses, including fescue foot. Toxin restricts blood flow in animals, resulting in frozen feet. Those often cause loss of hooves and death.

The book cover photo shows three Missouri feeder calves on toxic fescue. Instead of grazing, one stands in a watering tank. The others stand in wet mud. All are cooling their heels.

Canino Produce To Close January 23 HOUSTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; For decades, Ruby Emory has been going to Canino's to buy cucumbers to make her famous hot pickles.

The Houston Chronicle reports when it's time to start canning, she goes straight to Tom Krolczyk, one of the store's longest-serving employees, to find out if the cucumbers are fresh.

"You want good, fresh pickles. If they don't have them, he'll tell me what day to come in," said Emory, 85, a Heights resident who began shopping at the Airline Drive farmers market in the 1960s.

Customers of Canino Produce, the family-owned produce purveyor that's anchored the Heights-area farmers market for years, are making their final visits to the store, which will close later this month as the septuagenarian owners retire on the eve of the property's planned redevelopment.

Local shoppers have been lamenting the closing on social media since word began

to spread in December of the store's demise. They've told stories of weekly visits with their aging parents, how they would go there as kids, and how they now take out-of-town visitors there to shop the tables of fruits, vegetables and freshlyshelled nuts in the cavernous 1940s warehouse.

Annie Hawkins visits Canino's a few times a year to buy for all the big holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

Hawkins, 62, who retired from the Houston Independent School District, has shopped there since the early 1970s. She recently stopped in for just a few things: potatoes, corn and pecans.

"We hate it," she said about the closing.

Bill Canino, whose father started the store in 1948, said the business has irrevocably changed from when there were hundreds farms across Harris and adjoining counties that supplied fresh produce to the market. Canino's cousin, Mark Atkinson of Atkinson Farms, has one of the few

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farms left. His operation in Spring is surrounded by new housing on every side.

"I'm in the middle of four subdivisions," he said.

Now, much of the produce comes from Mexico and South America. The pecans are mostly from Texas or Georgia.

The nut business, which is part of what Canino's is known for, is seasonal. During the last four months of the year, nut sales make up as much as 40 percent of the business. That falls to around 5 percent during summer.

Canino's is closing Jan. 23. The store at 2520 Airline Drive is the largest retail tenant in the larger market area, but still only occupies a small piece of the nearly 18acre property. The property was sold in May to a local real estate investment company planning to renovate and update the market to make it more appealing to existing shoppers and new ones.

"If I was younger," Canino said. "I'm sure I'd stay while they revamp."

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The unshed winter coats, still worn in summer, are another sign of the toxicosis impact.

Cattle standing in ponds are not grazing or gaining weight.

Many studies cited tell of novel endophyte varieties that improve gains, reproduction and milking. Most losses are not visible, nor as dramatic as hoof loss.

Replacing fescue is long and complicated.

But payoffs are large and lasting.

The report tells eight management strategies for toxicosis. Those range from dilution with clover to managed grazing or diet supplements.

All suggestions are based on research.

Roberts doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect farmers to read all the literature cites, but citations increased to 73 from 47 in the first book.

The booklet comes from a prime source: The American Society of Agronomy.

As he described the new data, Roberts held one of the first copies off the press. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have information later on how to get them. The best way will be to attend one of the fescue grazing schools starting in March. Those will be free with enrollment.

The Fescue Belt includes states from Missouri southeast to South Carolina and Georgia.

In March, the fescue schools will start in Missouri and travel on to six states across the Fescue Belt. Georgia has joined the network since last year. That was where fescue toxicosis was first described.

The organizing sponsor is the Alliance for Grassland Renewal. That brings together seed companies, testing labs, farmers, USDA agencies and universities.

All work together to tell the same story across the states, Roberts says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The group came a long way in unifying grass management.â&#x20AC;? Livestock benefits. Farmers pocket profits.

Extension Offers Series Of Guides On Cover Crops University of Missouri Extension offers a new series of guides on cover crops for farmers and farm advisers.

Missouri farmers are planting more cover crops than ever to improve soil health, says Rob Myers, MU adjunct associate professor of plant sciences. He developed the guides.

In the last year, Missouri farmers received nearly $20 million in state and federal funding to plant cover crops.

Cereal rye remains the most popular cover crop, but many farmers plant cover crop mixes, including diverse cover crop â&#x20AC;&#x153;cocktails,â&#x20AC;? Myers says. They usually plant these mixes after wheat harvest to improve soil or for grazing.

Missouri farmers plant summer crops such as buckwheat, sunflowers and millets as cover crops and sometimes for seed.

Canola is another dual-purpose crop that is planted in the fall and overwinters like wheat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the key principles of soil health is to increase plant diversity in a field, which better supports soil microbes,â&#x20AC;? says Myers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This can be done with cover crops or a third cash crop in a corn and soybean rotation. Fortunately, some Missouriadapted alternative crops work for cash harvest or as cover crops. These new publications tell how to grow and use these versatile crops.â&#x20AC;?

Crops with potential in Missouri for dual use for cover crop or harvest include sunflowers, buckwheat, canola and diverse millet species. Sunflowers, a true American native, have a long history in Missouri, says Myers. Buckwheat is gaining new interest as a cover crop, even though it also has been grown in Missouri in past years for grain. Canola, an in-demand oilseed, serves as winter cover and for grazing. Diverse millet species work for forage, seed harvest or cover crop use.

The guides in the series are available for free download: â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing Millets for Grain, Forage or Cover Crop Use,â&#x20AC;? extension.missouri.edu/p/g4164(opens in new window) â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing Buckwheat for Grain or Cover Crop Use,â&#x20AC;? extension.missouri.edu/p/g4163(opens in new window) â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Growing Canola for Oilseed or Cover Crop Use,â&#x20AC;? extension.missouri.edu/p/g4162(opens in new window) â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunflowers: A Versatile Native Crop,â&#x20AC;? extension.missouri.edu/p/G4701(opens in new window) See also: â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cover Crops in Missouri: Putting Them to Work on Your Farm,â&#x20AC;? extension.missouri.edu/p/g4161

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North Central Missouri College held its annual spring convocation on Friday, Jan. 11 and welcomed four new fulltime employees. They included, from left, Elissa Zorn, nursing instructor; Maggie Bowman, campus store associate in operations; and Jeffrey Jackson, custodian. Not pictured is Ronna Owens, library assistant.

NEW ARRIVALS Quinn Marie Ripley Jordan and Lindsay Ripley of Country Club are the parents of a 7 pound, 7 ounce baby girl, born at 11:06 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 at Mosaic Hospital in St. Joseph.

The baby was 20 inches long and was named Quinn Marie.

She is the couple’s first child.

Maternal grandparents are Lee and Dana Creason of Trenton. Maternal great-

grandparents are Bob and Marie Campbell of Laredo, Richard Creason of Trenton and the late Venita Creason.

Paternal grandparents are Bob and Gina Ripley of Oregon, MO. Paternal greatgrandparents are Albert and Glenda Atkins of Oregon, MO, B.J. Ripley of Forest City, the late Lowell Ripley and the late Betty Atkins.

Council

other departments to pay for sewer work. However, he noted that should the council decide to loan money between departments, there should be a written loan agreement that outlines specific payback terms.

The council approved a utility services shut-off policy, which will go into effect on April 1. The policy is being instituted to reduce the number of service shutoffs for nonpayment of bills and to reduce the number of after-hour reconnect calls due to shutoffs.

Under the new policy, reconnects will be made only between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (excluding holidays). If a reconnect is required due to an emergency situation, there will be an after hours reconnect fee of $150 charged. To qualify as an emergency, residents must be on life support equipment and listed on the TMU emergency connection list on file at city hall. A copy of the policy will be made available to all customers in their bills prior to going into effect.

The council voted to purchase a force switch to be installed on a transformer at 10th Street and Harris Avenue, which will help with intermittent outages being experienced at the Nestle plant. The switch will cost $3,460. A recloser, to be placed on a pole at Second and Kitty Street, was also purchased at a cost of $17,670.

In other business, the council: • approved two ordinances, purchasing sand and rock from Norris Quarries.

• agreed to eliminate the check ledger listings from the monthly financial packets.

• asked Urton to set up a meeting with the county commission to discuss projects on which the city and county can work together.

• asked the police chief and city administrator to look for a different location for the police shooting range, which is currently located near the water plant.

• reminded citizens that there is a city ordinance requiring property owners to remove snow from their sidewalks.

• was told the Normal Street road project was being rebid and discussed concerns about Ninth Street, which is to be overlayed by the state in 2020.

• recognized city personnel who assisted in any way with the snowstorm this past weekend.

• was told Suddenlink would be increasing its prices for its cable television services.

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The money for the project is being borrowed over a 20year period at a fixed interest rate of 4.68 percent, with annual payments being $90,000.

The loan is being paid back from funds generated from the city fire tax approved by voters in 2017.

Toni Stegeman of Gilmore Bell told council members the cost to prepare the documents and issue a tax opinion to Community Leasing would be around $10,000. That cost would be rolled into the principal of the city’s loan with Community Leasing and would leave the payments at $90,000.

The initial vote to approve Gilmore Bell as special tax counsel was 4-2 with Glen Briggs, Lou Fisher, Larry Porter and Larry Crawford in favor. Brad Chumbley and David Mlika were opposed.

Travis Elbert and Jennifer Hottes were absent.

Mayor McHargue then vetoed the vote, stating he did not like the additional cost and was unhappy that the loan interest to be paid by the city to Community Leasing would be tax exempt. City Attorney Tara Walker told the council that the documentation and opinion being required by Community Leasing were beyond her expertise. Fire Chief Brandon Gibler said that while he was not happy about the additional cost, the $10,000 was less than 1 percent of the estimated cost for the entire project and felt that moving forward “was the right thing to do.”

City Administrator Ron Urton said the city has until Feb. 1 to order the fire training tower at the $730,000 cost. He noted the cost of steel has risen considerably since that time and any delay would increase the cost of the tower.

On a vote of 6-0, the council agreed to proceed with the headworks project at the wastewater plant, having Burns and McDonnell begin the design phase of the work.

With other improvements already being done at the plant, officials believe it would be more cost effective to integrate the headworks into the existing project while Irvinbilt, which is doing the project, is still on site. The cost for the headworks project has been estimated at around $2.8 to $3 million.

Although not discussed, the council has been given a letter from CPA Mark Higgins, who stated he would not recommend using utility funds from

The Green Hills Wellness Challenge kicked off on Jan. 10-11 with 164 people signing up.

The challenge is being sponsored by the Grundy County Health Department, the Ketcham Community Center, the Trenton Republican-Times, Trenton Hy-Vee and University Extension.

This year’s total prize pool is $2,340, which will be divided among participants who lose 10 percent or more of their initial body weight. To be eligible for the prize money, participants must also weigh-in each week. Weekly weigh-ins began this week.

Rosemary Coon is the win-

ner of the maintenance prize for having maintained the highest amount of weight loss from the start of last year’s challenge to the beginning of this year’s event. She maintained a 12.93 percent weightloss from the start of last year’s challenge and will receive a $300 cash prize from the health department.

Others maintaining a weight loss from last year of 10 percent or greater were Janet Slater, 12.15 percent; Amy Dixon, 11.35 percent; Jimmie Hinkle, 10.99 percent; Shaun McCullough, 10.77 percent; and Brenda Morris, 10.32 percent.

CARD SHOWERS A card shower has been requested for Kathleen Singleton, who will be celebrating her 93rd birthday anniversary on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

Cards may be sent to her in care of the Sunnyview Nursing Home, 1311 E. 28th St., Room 308, Trenton, MO 64683.

AREA MENUS NORTH 65 CENTER Monday-Lasagna, tuscan blend, mixed green salad, applesauce, garlic bread, oatmeal cake.

Tuesday-Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, lima beans, peaches, ice cream, homemade bread.

Wednesday-Pork loin, augratin potatoes, three-bean salad, mandarin oranges, whole wheat roll.

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tive at the end of the school year. Diana Hernandez was hired for the daytime custodian position at the elementary school.

The next board meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11.

Laredo R-7 Patrons in the Laredo R-7 School District will be voting to continue a $1.40 operating tax levy in April following action taken by the board of education on Monday night.

Superintendent Misty Foster said the board voted to place the issue on the April 2 ballot. The levy, originally approved in 2014 and set to expire in April, would provide funds for additional general operating expenses. If approved, the levy would be in effect for a five-year period.

The board approved the purchase of financial management software and discussed, but took no action on, building improvements. Approval was

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Other area board candidates include: Grundy R-5 - Allan Berry and Opie Peterson, three-year positions; Donnie Fordyce, one-year unexpired term. Chris Novak, who had previously filed for a three-year term, has withdrawn. No election required.

Pleasant View R-6 - Danny Westcott* and Laurie Frisbie, three-year terms; no one filed for the two-year unexpired term. An election will be required.

Laredo R-7 - Angela Lowrey and Kristi Urich*, three-year terms. No board election needed. The district will have an operating tax levy continuation issue on the ballot.

Spickard R-2 - Jesse Richmond* and Nancy Anderson*,

Thursday-Liver and onions or chicken strip, spinach, baked potatoes, Jello salad with fruit, whole wheat roll.

Friday-Baked chicken breast, cheesy mashed potatoes, peas, rosy pears, whole wheat roll.

(Coffee, iced tea, water and milk are served daily and an alternate meal of chef’s salad, crackers and fruit cup is available each day.)

DAILY RECORD CIRCUIT COURT Associate Division Judge Steven D. Hudson The following defendants pleaded guilty to their charges and paid their fines through the Fine Collection Center, with their names provided to the Republican-Times: Jeffrey R. Bentz, Nekooska, WI, pleaded guilty to pursuing/taking/killing/possessing or disposing of wildlife illegally and was fined $249.50.

Pleading guilty to speeding and fined $30.50 were Jacquelyn N. Edmundson, Corydon, IA; and Tony V. Strunk, Independence.

William B. Harvey, Chillicothe, and Shay L. Esbeck, Gallatin, pleaded guilty to not wearing a seat belt and were fined $10.

Pleading guilty to speeding and fined $55.50 were Sheryl L. Newcomb, Liberty; Jakobi N. Welch, Jamesport; and Jackie L. Woodley, Jr., Trenton.

Jerri Ann Roberts, Trenton, pleaded guilty to failing to display valid vehicle license plates on a motor vehicle and was fined $30.50.

Owen A. Schweizer, Gallatin, pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined $155.50.

Municipal Division Judge Steven D. Hudson Melanie Byrnes, Trenton, pleaded guilty to stealing, property damage and disorderly conduct and was sentenced to serve seven days in the Grundy County Detention Center on each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently and credit given for six days served. She is to pay $41.50 costs on each charge.

Bailey Dannatt, Trenton, pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle with defective equipment and was fined $15.50 and

$41.50 costs.

Dwayne Couch, Trenton, pleaded guilty to a building code violation and was fined $150 and $41.50 costs.

Erin Gathercole, Trenton, pleaded guilty to a miscellaneous moving violation and was fined $75.50 and $41.50 costs.

Amy Nelson, Trenton, pleaded guilty to having expired plates on a vehicle and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs.

She also pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle without maintaining financial responsibility and was fined $25.50 and $41.50 costs.

Sarah McGuire, no address listed, pleaded guilty to having an expired driver’s license and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs.

Jeffrey Hahn, Trenton, pleaded guilty to violating the open container ordinance and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs.

Joseph Weiberg, Marceline, pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, involving an accident, and was fined $25.50 and $41.50 costs.

MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS Petitions Granted Haley B. Floyd vs. Anthony Floyd.

Myrick W. DenHartog vs. Nina A. DenHartog.

REAL ESTATE Bradley D. Griffin and wife to Cheyenne A. Dixon and wife.

Hixson Farms LLC to Alan Buckner.

Cheyenne A. Dixon and wife to Mikaela R. Ledford.

David J. Kurtz and wife to David J. Kurtz, Trustee and others.

Roger J. Hawkins and wife to Jared Phillips and wife.

Teen Facing Felony Charge given to allow third through sixth grade students to play on the elementary basketball teams. Field trips to Kansas City on April 25 for students in kindergarten through second grade and to the Omaha Zoo on May 2 for third through eighth grade students were also approved.

The board reviewed the Annual Performance Report and approved purchase of Smartboard, using federal grant funds. The board reviewed the budget and contracted days for transportation. Board members were also recognized for their service to the district as part of annual School Board Recognition Week activities. It was announced the board would review and vote on the 201920 proposed calendar at the February meeting.

An executive session was held for legal matters, personnel, confidential records and student matters, with no announcement made.

The next meeting of the board will be on Monday, Feb. 11.

three-year terms. No election required.

Princeton R-5 - Nathan Evans* and Ron Parsons*, three-year terms. No election required.

Tri-County R-7 - Jennifer Simons*, Heath Carter* and Trent Brewer, three-year terms.

No election required.

Newtown-Harris R-3 - Matt Clark* and Nancy Halferty, three-year terms. No election required.

Gilman City - Matt Clark* and Kelly Sperry*, three-year terms. No election required.

Nursing Home District The Grundy County Nursing Home District Board of Directors, which oversees operations of the Sunnyview Nursing Home and Apartments, has two candidates for the two threeyear positions to be filed. They are incumbent Jim Cox and Jim Bush.

A Unionville teenager has been arrested and charged with first degree statutory rape, an unclassified felony.

According to online court records, Hunter Clinkenbeard is being held in the Grundy County Detention Center on $150,000 cash-only bond. The

18-year-old is accused of having sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 14, knowing that the child was under the age of consent. The incident allegedly occurred Dec. 29 in Trenton. Clinkenbeard is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 22.

Laredo Clerk Gets Increase The Laredo Board of Aldermen met on Jan. 14.

Following the city clerk’s annual evaluation, the board approved a pay increase of 3 percent to $13.88 per hour for the current clerk, Ashley Campbell. It was also announced that incumbents Brett

Matthews and Saundra Marrs as well as Derek Eckert and Cassidy Russell have filed for the two two-year alderman atlarge positions to be filled in the April 2 election.

The next board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11.

R-5 Names Honor Roll Grundy R-5 Senior/Junior High School has announced its second quarter honor roll for the 2018-19 school year.

Named to the “A” honor roll were Caden Ashford, Mayce Axtell, Morgan Axtell, Emma Baxter, Wayne Baxter, Kendra Betz, Taylor Brunelle, Lane Kenley, Maddie Littleton, Alexis McCarlson and Alissa Webb, seniors; Ellen Baxter, Briana Carpio, Aubrey Gann, Anna Milazzo, Jandie Peterson, Kyle Randall, Robert Urich and Tanner Williams, juniors; Parker Christy, Ada Fox, Rylee Johnson, Grace Larson, Cooper Lewis, Macy Saul, Haven Sharp and Abby Webb, sophomores; Daya Allnutt, Fletcher Christy and

Logan Foster, freshmen; Cole Peterson, eighth grade; and Raegen Griswold, Carly Smith and Layton Stonger, seventh grade.

Named to the “B” honor roll were Kyle Bower, senior; Austin Blair, Caleb Brazel and Dorothy Mathews, juniors; Felisha Anderson, Weston Carver, Aiden Gann, Caden Gann, Abigail Mathews, Lacy Smith and Emily Spears, sophomores; Tracer Golden, freshman; Skyler Bonnett and Aidan Rains, eighth grade; and Corbin Axtell, Cooper Coffman, Slade Hill, Seanacie Ireland, Nicholas Mann-Smiley and Molly Milazzo, seventh grade.

Bethards At Board Training Jack Bethards, a member of the Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education, participated in essential board member certification training sponsored by the Missouri School Boards Association.

The 16 hours of training combined with online independent study with onsite interactive sessions was held on Dec. 7 in Brookfield. The certification training places emphasis on improveming student achievement by pro-

viding guidance to board members on appropriate ways to evaluate and influence student performance in their local districts. Other topics addressed included information on the role of the school board in providing oversight of a school district, an overview of legal issues, techniques for establishing school district policy, fundamentals of school finance and the role of the school board in establishing district goals.

LOCAL GRAIN PRICES JAN. 16 GFG Ag Services-Trenton (www.gfgagservices.com) Corn, 3.34; oats, 4.00; soybeans, 8.15; milo, 2.94.

Trenton MFA

Soybeans, 8.10 (Jan 19) 8.05 (Feb 19) 8.00 (Mar 19) 8.08 (Apr 19); Corn, 3.29 (Jan19) 3.24 (Feb 19) 3.19 (March 19).

Laredo MFA

Soybeans, 8.05 (Jan 19) 8.00 (Feb 19) 7.95 (Mar 19) 8.03 (Apr 19); Corn, 3.29 (Jan 19) 3.24 (Feb 19) 3.19 (Mar 19).

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Growers/Carrollton (1-800-722-4407) Old Crop - Corn 3.79, Soybeans 8.34, Wheat 4.54.

2019 Crop - Corn 3.54, Soybeans 8.57, Wheat 4.73.

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Delta is the first airline to put a price tag on the partial government shutdown, saying that it’s going to cost the carrier $25 million in revenue this month.

Most investors understand that’s a small sum to a company that raked in about $10.7 billion last quarter, and the market reacted calmly to Delta’s disclosure this week.

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You have a great meal in a nice restaurant. The service was friendly and excellent. When the check comes and I put my money down for the waitress, she says as she picks it up, "Do you need change?"

This ticks me off to no end. I have, in the past, gone through the trouble to try to educate the servers, in the hope of breaking them of the habit. So I explain to them that you never, ever put the customer on the defensive by insinuating that he is cheap for wanting change from the bills he put down. The servers I explain this to sometimes understand, but most of the time, they do not. They just think I am some senior citizen who complains a lot.

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wedding at a lake next year in a state where neither she nor her fiance lives or has relatives.

Her plan is to hold a very small (with about 10 people) private ceremony, to be followed by a reception with about 150 people.

My question is: Is this proper? All the guests are coming from out of state. Shouldn't all the guests be invited to the ceremony? I don't feel it's my place to tell the bride-to-be what I think, but I'm disappointed. I always look forward to the actual wedding ceremony more than the reception. Is that just me? -- Confused Guest-to-Be Dear Confused: Yes, you're right that typically, everyone would be invited to the ceremony. If anything, I've seen more weddings where the reverse is done -- where more people are free to come to the ceremony than the reception because of budget constraints.

(How generous of this couple to want to include everyone in the free dinner and drinks part!)

For whatever reason, the bride and groom want to keep the ceremony private. It might not be the traditional choice, but it's their choice.

Don't take this as your being excluded. It's still important to them that you all share in this day. It sounds as if they're looking at the party not merely as a reception but as a celebration of their love in its own right. That's special. Have fun.

greater numbers it could do real damage to the airlines by causing widespread travel delays.

Investors worry that scenes of long airport lines could compound the prospect of slower economic growth in 2019. Delta and United Airlines this week issued first-quarter revenue outlooks that were weaker than the just-concluded fourth quarter of 2018.

Sporadic long lines in Atlanta and a few other airports haven’t hurt bookings yet, “but given how fickle business travelers can be, it is not out of the question that they will reconsider the way they travel,” says Cowen analyst Helane Becker.

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New Hardware Department Gift Certificates and Delivery Available â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Free Estimates 32089 St. Hwy 6, Jamesport 660-684-6404 FFeb22 -----------------------------------------PIANO TUNING SERVICE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Taking out the wrong note since 1988. Keith Sarver 660-4252547. Like Us on Facebook!

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FFeb8 ------------------------------------------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 359-7683.

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SIERRA A MCCORMACK Body Waxing * Chemical Peels Facials * Lash Lift PAT ATTI is now doing Nail Dips & Gels TMar15 ------------------------------------------We are now your STIHL L Dealer See us for Sales & Service on all STIHL L Products GRUNDY Y COUNTY LUMBER COMP PANY 1020 Oklahoma Ave. (660) 359-2070 | Trenton, MO * No. 1 Quality * Fast & Courteous Service * Everyday Competitive Prices FJan18 ------------------------------------------LAUHOFF JEWELRY Downtown Chillicothe - 620 Washington St. Open Monday-Friday 9:00-5:30, Saturday 9:00-1:00.

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CLASSIFIEDS FINANCIAL STATEMENT LINCOLN TOWNSHIP, GRUNDY COUNTY Year Ending December 31, 2018 BEGINNING BALANCE JANUARY 1, 2018 RECEIPTS: Cart Rock Sur Tax Current Property Tax Delinquent Property Tax Railroad & Utility Other TOTAL RECEIPTS

$ 64,391.01

TOTAL AVAILABLE BALANCE

$154,315.84

EXPENSES: Fuel & Oil Hired Labor Rock Repairs Grader Payments Insurance Taxes Legal Fees Misc.

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$ 23,432.72 541.98 5,974.61 65.00 57,045.81 2,864.71 $ 89,924.83

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1,319.07 18,498.58 22,161.00 2,774.32 5,511.28 3,297.00 252.90 134.00 888.93 $ 54,837.08

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT MYERS TOWNSHIP, GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI For The Year Ending December 31, 2018 BEGINNING CASH BALANCE: RECEIPTS: Sur Tax, Current Property Tax, Delinquent Property Tax, Railroad & Utility Tax 2018 Cart Rock Contributions TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE DISBURSEMENTS: Vendor Norris Quarries, LLC Wayne Miller Farmers Bank Crow Walker Ins. Randy Kitchen The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Co-op MTO MO Div. of Empl. Sec. Nationwide Ins. Trenton Rep.-Times Citizens Bank & Trust TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS ENDING CASH BALANCE

Purpose Rock Rock Hauling Grader Payment Ins. Premium Wages Fuel Grader Chains Unemployment Surety Bond Ads Bank Fees

$15,415.50

19,595.90 13,379.20 264.00 $33,239.10 $48,654.60

15,705.82 7,055.99 3,849.21 1,850.00 1,456.00 991.78 684.00 100.43 100.00 95.00 42.00 $31,930.23 $16,724.37

I, Jake Batson, Trustee of Myers Township, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete and correct statement as required by Section 231.280 RSMo for the year ending December 31, 2018. d18

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Jeff Archuleta, 54, died of natural causes on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019 with his family at his side.

A celebration of life will be held at a later time.

He was born on May 20, 1964.

He is survived by two sisters, Sandy (Bryan) Meservey of Trenton and Ysella (Lathan) Moore of Cameron; a daughter, Brandi (Kevin) Tuttle of Milan; a son, Jeremy Moore of New Mexico; two nephews, Coleman (Krystal) Browning and Zane Jenkins of Milan; two nieces, Natosha (Michael) Renfro and Brittany (Kyle)

DEATHS

FUNERALS

SERVICES SET

Jeff Archuleta

Edna J. “Janie” May

Sherry Ingraham

Jeff Archuleta

Comer of Chillicothe; stepparents, Jorry and Susan Browning of Trenton; several great-nephews; and a greatniece. He is also survived by

his grandfather, Ben Hernandez, his aunt, Diane Diaz and his uncles, Ben Hernandez and his wife, Ronda and Johnny Hernandez, all of New Mexico.

He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Mary Hernandez; his mother, Joanna Guerin; and two nephews, J.R. Archuleta and B.J. Bouzek.

Jeff was full of life and made it his goal to put a smile on your face, even on your worst day.

As our brother would say, “Ain’t nothin’ but air and opportunity. I’m out.”

Funeral services for Edna J. “Janie” May were held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 at the Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton.

Bro. Mike Williams officiated.

Mrs. May, a 94-year-old resident of Brookfield, died at 2:32 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019 at Hedrick Medical

Center at Chillicothe.

Recordings of “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace” were played.

Pallbearers were Colin May, Jeremy Bingham, Doyle Williams, Larry May, Billy Don O’Connor and Patrick O’Connor.

Burial was in Humphreys Cemetery at Humphreys.

Funeral services for Sherry Ingraham, which had been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, have been moved to Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019 due to the weather forecast.

The services will be held at 11 a.m. at Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home in Trenton. A reception will follow at the First Assembly of God Church in Trenton.

Lula Grace Keith Hudspeth Lula Grace Keith Hudspeth, an 89-year-old resident of Liberty, died on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018 at the Pleasant Valley Manor Nursing Home, where she had resided the past four years.

A celebration of life is planned for a later date in Kansas City.

Mrs. Hudspeth was born on March 29, 1929, the daughter of Ray Olin and Sarah Alice Keith. She grew up in Linn, Livingston and Grundy counties and graduated in 1947

from Trenton High School.

She was married to Paul Brown and they lived in Kansas City following his return from the Army. She worked at National Bellas Hess and retired from the IBM Corporation in Kansas City.

She later married Richard Hudspeth, who preceded her in death in 1998. They raised their two granddaughters, Tina and Stacy.

She is survived by a daughter, Carol Sue (Mike) Van Buskirk of the state of Wash-

ington; two granddaughters; two grandsons; six greatgranddaughters; three greatgreat-grandchildren; two sisters, Virginia Lynch and Bonnie (Otto) Gumm; a brother, Jerry (Bonita) Keith; and a sister-in-law, Glenda Faye Keith.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Dale Keith and Wilbern Keith; and an infant sister, Carolee Keith.

Sandra J. Jackson Sandra J. "Meme" Jackson, an 83-year-old resident of North Kansas City, died on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019.

Graveside services will be held 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton.

Family visitation will be from noon until service time at Resthaven Mortuary.

Mrs. Jackson was born on Aug. 4, 1935 in Trenton, the daughter of Erma Whitney and Oren Hildenbrand. She was a graduate of Trenton High School.

She was married on June 20, 1953 in Trenton to Donald

Jackson, who preceded her in death in 1984. She worked as a bookkeeper for Grundy County Lumber and Jim’s Building Supply and later as a live-in manager at the Super 8 in Trenton. She was a member of the Tenth Street Baptist Church.

Mrs. Jackson was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a daughter, Shannon Heiman; and a sister, Cordelia Shuler.

She is survived by her daughter, Sherry (Tim) Taylor of Kansas City; five grandchildren, Sabrina Howell and her husband, Matt of Grenada,

MS, Whitney Keeton and her husband, Craig of Greenwood, Seth Davidson and his wife, Julie of Saltillo, MS, Sarah Cothran and her husband, Brad of Greenville, SC and David Linford and his wife, Risa of Beaufort, SC; three step-grandchildren, Curt, Rebecca and Laura; four greatgrandchildren, Macy, Claire, Rebecca and Vivian; and seven step-great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions are suggested to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Online condolences may be left at www.whitakereads.com

Wilbern L. Keith Wilbern L. Keith, an 84year-old resident of Kemmerer, WY, died on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018.

Burial was held at the South Lincoln Cemetery in Kemmerer.

Mr. Keith was born on March 28, 1934 at Shafter, the son of Ray Olin and Sarah Alice Keith. He graduated in 1952 from Jamesport High School.

He joined the Army, serving with the 57th Engineering Company from 1953 to 1956, including some time in Germany. After receiving an honorable discharge, he returned

to Missouri and worked as a welder for Dairy and Creamery Equipment Co. in Kansas City for over 20 years.

He was fist married to Karen Sue Caselman of Jamesport. He moved to Kemmerer, WY in 1976 and continued his welding career with FMC Plant and Mine.

He was married in 1992 at Kemmerer to Darlene Sadler, who died 10 days after her husband. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He enjoyed leather and woodworking, braiding leads for the mules he broke and trained and building grandfather

clocks. He enjoyed mule shows and riding in parades.

He also won the town turkey shoot 10 years in a row.

He is survived by a son, Patrick and his family; a daughter, Christie and son-inlaw, Casey; a granddaughter, Lacy; two sisters, Virginia Lynch and Bonnie (Otto) Gumm; a brother, Jerry (Bonita) Keith; and a sister-inlaw, Glenda Faye Keith.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Dale Keith; and an infant sister, Carolee Keith. A sister, Lula Grace Hudspeth, died two weeks after her brother.

Martha J. Stone Martha J. Stone, a 93-yearold resident of Clearwater, FL, died on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 at Serenity Gardens Chapel in Largo, FL. Private interment will be at a later date.

Mrs. Stone was born on July 26, 1925 in Trenton, the daughter of Maples P. Owens and Elsie May Stamper. She grew up in Trenton and graduated from Trenton High School. As a young woman, she moved to Kansas City, where she worked at North American Aviation and then moved to Los Angeles, CA to work at Firestone. She fondly told stories of joining the USO in California and participating in their socials and dances entertaining troops on leave from World War II. It was at one of those socials where she met fellow Missourian and Navy sailor George W. Stone. They married on June 23, 1946 in Trenton and made their home there.

George worked in the family’s

Martha J. Stone

automobile business and they had two daughters. In 1961, they moved to Hudson, OH, where George ran George Stone Ford and Martha volunteered with the Hudson Welcome Wagon.

Once their daughters were grown, the Stones moved to Clearwater, where they remained for the rest of their lives. The Stones celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1996 at a celebration full of family and friends.

Martha was a smart, sophisticated woman who loved wine, food and travel. She was quick with a smile and loved

to laugh, often at her own expense.

She was a member of Anona Methodist Church.

Mrs. Stone is survived by many friends and admirers, including her daughters, Connie (Bobby) Hall and Georgann Reeves; grandchildren, Kim (Ron) McDaniel, Erin Hughey, Michale Hall and Katherine (Jason) Jenkins; a great-grandson, Ryder Jenkins; and nieces and nephews, Sally (Mark) Forester, Steve Owens, Gary (Pat) Owens, Philip Owens, Ruthann (Philip) Josephson, Denise (Mike) Belcher, Stephen Desper and Suzanne Mayo.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George; a brother, Kenneth Owens; a sister, Barbara Noble; and niece, Linda Ballew.

Memorial donations are suggested to the Best Friends Animal Society.

Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Clearwater is in charge of arrangements.

Photo Courtesy of E’Lisha Gass

The Trenton Middle School Spelling Bee was held on Wednesday morning with winners and alternates selected to compete at the Grundy County Spelling Bee on Jan. 30 at TMS. The fifth grade winner was Chylissa Turner with the word “resemble.” The fifth grade runner-up was Titus Kottwitz and the alternate was Isaac Bonta. Shaylise Turner was the sixth grade champion, spelling the word “flail.” Josh Truitt was the runner-up and Mirena King was the alternate. The winning word in the seventh grade bee was “conservatory” with Zane Michael named the champion speller. Braeden Bullman-Hartman was the runner-up and Ava Frazier was the alternate. Kaylea Boyle won the eighth grade bee with the word “qualify.” Eliana Cowling was the runner-up and Jillian Voorhies is the alternate. The spelling bee winners, runners-up and alternates are, from left, front row, Isaac Bonta, Mirena King, Ava Frazier, Jillian Voorhies; middle row, Chylissa Turner, Shaylise Turner, Zane Michael, Kaylea Boyle; and back row, Titus Kottwitz, Josh Truitt, Braeden BullmanHartman and Eliana Cowling.