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REPUBLICAN-TIMES TRENTON
Trenton, MO 64683
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Ten Pages & 1 Insert
Established Sept. 4, 1864 - 156th Year - No. 86
GRUNDY COUNTY MUSEUM
Briefs...
Opens July 4 For 2020 Season
Photography History Is Featured Exhibit “Photography Now and Then” will be the theme for the 2020 focus exhibit at the Grundy County Museum, which opens on Saturday, July 4. Included in the exhibit will be: • A display of 75-plus cameras and items of dark room equipment. The display includes a 1908 Conley, box, folding, bellows, Polaroid, single lens reflex and movievideo cameras from spring wound to battery powered digital. • Sixteen information panels presenting the sequential technical innovations as photogra-
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phy progressed from pinhole cameras to today’s digital still and video cameras. • A walk-in “pinhole camera” demonstrating the earliest concept of photography. • An authentic darkroom equipped with developing tanks, a contact printer and an enlarger. • A list of 16 of Trenton’s historic professional photographers 1890 to 1970. • A display of Trenton and Grundy County venues in the 1930s. • A photo slideshow of photography by current local photographers. • A photo-op station with an
WRIGHT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
GRUNDY COUNTY Mail-In, Absentee
COVID-19 Numbers
Primary Election Ballots Available
As of Thursday morning, Grundy County has five active cases of COVID-19, with two new cases reported. Numbers provided by the Grundy County Health Department show 21 total positive cases since testing began. Other area counties and their testing numbers (reporting varies from county to county) - Sullivan, 112 (eight active); Linn, 19 (three active, 1 death); Harrison, 17; Livingston, 15 (seven recovered, seven under observation, one released); Caldwell, 14 (12 recovered); Carroll, 11 (no active); Daviess, 9 (four current, five recovered); Mercer, 6 (four out of isolation); and Putnam, 3 (two released, 1 being monitored). Other counties in the Region H area of northwest Missouri include Andrew, 52; Atchison, 4; Buchanan, 886; Clinton, 27; DeKalb, 11; Gentry 58; Holt, 2; Nodaway, 26; and Worth, 4.
8-foot by 8-foot background photo of the iconic Speed Graphic camera. The museum is open from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on weekends and holidays. All the museum campus buildings will be open. Admission is $2 for adults, with free admission for active military and children age 12 and under. The museum will be following the recommendations of the Grundy County Health Department regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors will be required to wear masks and observe social distancing. Hand sanitizing and disposable masks will be available.
Age enda Se et Forr Ju u ly 7 The Grundy County Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday at the courthouse. Items on the agenda include a road and bridge update at 8:30 a.m., with an emergency management update at 9 a.m. The commission is scheduled to meet with Ambulance Director Steve Tracy at 10 a.m. and with Grundy County Health Department Administrator Elizabeth Gibson at 10:45 a.m.
MDC, Foundation Team Up For Project
Walkers Can Now ID State Wildflowers by Diane Lowrey R-T Editor Those using the walking trail at Wright Memorial Hospital can not only view newly-planted wildflowers native to Missouri, but can also learn about those species using technology most persons always carry with them. A project started in 2019 has resulted in a barcode being added to signage identifying each of the 320 wildflower plantings located along the trail. Walkers can then use an app on their cellphone to click on the barcode (the app, QR Reader, can be downloaded for free from the phone’s app store). Clicking on the barcode will then take viewers to the website, plantsmap.com, where a photo of the flower will be shown and detailed information will be highlighted. A second viewing option is also available. Persons can open the camera app on their phone and point to the wildflower sign. A message will appear, asking the viewer to open the Safari app. Once the app is clicked on, viewers will then go to the same “plantsmap.com” website. Gary Schuett, who worked on the project with his wife Joyce, said the Missouri Department of Conservation was looking for a location to feature Missouri wildflowers and that a conversation with MDC Private Land Conservationist Scott Roy resulted in the walking trail being chosen as the per-
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manent site. Schuett researched what flowers could be used and mapped out how and where the flowers should be planted. The idea of the plan was to have flowers that would grow from May until October, which is when the walking trail gets a lot of use. “We wanted to make sure that we had something growing all the time,” Schuett said, adding the plan also outlined the appropriate spacing of the flowers as well as colors, sizing and when they bloom. The flowers are located at two seating sites along the walking trail on the west side of the hospital. The MDC provided the wildflowers, which Schuett estimated would have cost around $1,600 if they had been purchased by the hospital. The planting took place last July, with help from Schuett and the crew from Lawnworks LLC, which has assisted the hospital in other outdoor projects in the past. Some of the flowers bloomed late last summer and in early fall, with the spring and early summer plantings now making their debut. The signs that identify each of the flowers contain not only the name of the species, but the scientific name as well. Schuett said there are 22 varieties within the 320 wildflowers that have been planted, with nearly two-thirds of those species being recognizable to See WMH, Page 9
R-T Photos/Diane Lowrey
Persons using the Wright Memorial Hospital walking trail can now use their cellphones to learn about the Missouri wildflowers recently planted near two of the seating areas. The project is a joint venture of the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Wright Memorial Hospital Foundation. Gary and Joyce Schuett, pictured above, organized the flower areas.
Tri-County R-7 , Grundy R-5, Spickard R-2, Laredo R-7, Princeton R-5, Newtown-Harris R-3
2020-21 Budgets Approved At Meetings Area school districts approved budgets for the 2020-21 school year as well as closed out the 201920 school year financials during recent meetings of their boards of education. Tri-County R-7 A deficit budget for the 2020-21 school year was approved by the Tri-County R-7 Board of Education during a meeting on Tuesday night. Superintendent David Probasco reported that revenues are projected at $2,777,512 while expenditures
are estimated at $2,858,657, resulting in a deficit of $81,145. Probasco said revenues have been lowered from previous years to reflect withholdings in state funding and other decreases due to the economic impacts of COVID-19. The board voted to amend the 2019-20 budget to reflect actual revenues and expenditures as well as approved budget transfers. The board discussed COVID-19 planning, but took no action. The next meeting of the board will be on Thursday,
July 9. Grundy R-5 The Grundy R-5 Board of Education approved its 2020-21 budget and took action on personnel during a meeting on Monday night, June 29. Superintendent Phil Fox reported the district is looking at having a balanced budget next school year, with revenues listed at $2,354,851 and expenditures See Boards, Page 9
Mail-in ballots will be available for the Aug. 4 Primary Election with both mailin and absentee voting now under way. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, voters are now being allowed to vote by mail for the August election with no reason needed to seek a mail-in ballot from Grundy County Clerk Betty Spickard’s office. Any registered voter can request a mail-in ballot with the voted ballot required to be notarized. The request form can be delivered to the county clerk’s office by mail or in person, but the ballot itself must be mailed. A request for an absentee ballot can take place in person through the mail, by fax or by e-mail. The request form seeks a reason for the need to vote absentee and the reason will determine if the ballot must be notarized. Those requesting an absentee ballot due to being incapacitated or confined due to illness or physical disability (including caring for a person who is incapacitated for confined due to illness or disability) will not be required to have their ballots notarized. In addition, those who have contracted or are in an at-risk category for contracting or transmitting COVID-19 will not be required to have the ballot notarized. Those considered to be at risk include those who are 65 years of age and older, have serious heart conditions, are immunocompromised, have liver disease, live in a longterm care facility licensed under Chapter 198, RSMo, have chronic lung disease or moderate to severe asthma, have chronic kidney disease and are undergoing dialysis or those who have diabetes. Other reasons an absentee ballot may be requested but require notarization include being absent from their precinct on election day, religious belief or practice, employment as an election authority or by an election authority at a location other than their polling place or being a certified participant in the address confidentiality program under the Missouri law because of safety concerns. If a person is voting absentee at the courthouse, the clerk’s office can notarize the signature. The last day to request a ballot by mail is Wednesday, July 22. The deadline to vote absentee in the clerk’s office is 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 3.
TRENTON COMMUNITY FIREWORKS DISPLAY FRIDAY, JULY 3 - DUSK - BLACK SILO WINERY
National Weather Service
It will be a warm weekend with a high of 90 expected on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Lows will be in the low 70s with a 20 percent chance of rain each day. The high at Trenton on both Monday and Tuesday was 89 with Wednesday’s high hitting 86. The low on Wednesday was 67 and .88 of an inch of rain fell. The high on Wednesday at the Government Weather Station near Spickard was 83, the low was 66 with .10 of an inch of rain.
What’s Inside... The Grundy R-5 FFA chapter held its end of year banquet on Thursday, June 25 at the high school in Galt. See page 3 of today’s Republican-Times for photos and a list of award winners.
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