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UPSP 213-200 Vol. 155, No. 36
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Jan. 29, 2020
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Medical marijuana licenses for dispensary facilities include Red Stag in Gallatin The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has begun the process of issuing a total of 192 licenses for medical marijuana dispensary facilities. Red Stag Retail LLC, located at 509 North Main Street in Gallatin, was among those approved. Red Stag Retail LLC is a limited liability company out of St. Louis, according to Missouri Secretary of State online business filing. The company formed in July 2019. Registered agent is Ryan White of St. Louis. The name of the organizer is listed as Alex Close of Columbus, Ohio. Once open, Red Stag Retail will carry a selection of THC and CBD dispensary menu products to help qualified patients that have received their medical marijuana card. All products sold at this dispensary must be tested by independent third party labs licensed by the state. Per Article 14, 24 dispensary
facilities will be licensed per congressional district in Missouri. Missouri is divided into eight congressional districts. “We are committed to making medical marijuana safe and accessible for qualified patients of Missouri,” said Lyndall Fraker, director of the DHSS Section for Medical Marijuana Regulation. “This phase of program implementation is vital to product accessibility for Missourians throughout the entire state.” Dispensary facilities whose applications are approved will receive notification of that approval to the email addresses of the individual who created the user account in the Medical Marijuana Registry Portal, the individual listed in the application as the primary contact, and at least one other individual identified in the application. Notifications of application
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A former Cameron high school teacher was sentenced in federal court Jan. 28 for secretly recording pornographic videos of three teenage victims in his bathroom. William Derek Williams, 40, Cameron, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to 20 years in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Williams to 10 years of supervised release following incarceration. Williams formerly was a high school language arts
teacher and more recently a part-time high school multimedia teacher at the time of the offense. Williams pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2019, to one count of producing child pornography. Williams admitted that he secretly filmed three different victims over a five-year period from January 2013 to September 2018 while they were in the basement bathroom of his residence. A then-15-year-old victim
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Local food bank closing; hopes for establishing new one arise The Food Bank of the Gallatin Adventist Community Services Center will be closing sometime in the near future, with hopes that a new location can be found and a new food bank established in order to continue to serve the community. A series of unfortunate events have led to the closing of the food bank. Last year, the long-time director of the Daviess County Food Bank, Bill Reed, passed away. The current director, his wife, Karen Reed, 82, recently fractured two vertebrae in her back moving items in the food bank. The food bank is a very labor intensive enterprise, with boxes of heavy food being loaded and unloaded off trucks. The work
is putting a strain on an aging group of volunteers. The Food Bank needs to find a new home, volunteer crew, and administration. “We will be talking to city representatives and the county commissioners and sending letters to churches and clubs that we hope can help,” Mrs. Reed says. “Even $50 a month donation would be a big help financially to a new food bank. The food bank has an account at BTC Bank in Gallatin, where individuals can make donations. The account will be transferred to the new food bank.” Mrs. Reed is hoping that the county and city will band together to create a food bank. Ideally,
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Close to 200 hunters gathered for a coyote drive on Jan. 25. The hunters gathered at the Daviess-Caldwell County line and swept along six four-mile sections. Permission was received from each landowner before the hunt. The hunters shot 30 coyotes using shotguns with #4 bird shot, with a range of about 80 yards. The drive is conducted by the hunters lining up on the perimeter of the tract, then
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Karen Reed and her late husband, Bill, at the Food Bank at Gallatin Adventist Community Center [file photo]
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on vocal signal — they yell from one hunter to the next — they all move in toward the center of the tract. Hunters are approximately 100-150 yards apart. On this drive last year, hunters harvested 46 coyotes. The best take in one drive (per tract) was 12 coyotes. The organizers keep the carcasses to sell and burn the blemished ones. Mennonite and Amish hunters find out
about the Coyote Drive from the Busy Bee Amish newspaper. Other drives were held at La Plata, Gibbs, Jamesport, and Hamilton. These drives saw 104 coyotes killed all together. The hunts in Caldwell-Daviess average about 140-160 participants including Amish, Mennonite, and “English” and cover as many as eight tracts. Jamesport will hold another coyote drive on Jan. 31.
the county, in conjunction with the city, churches, charitable organizations and the ministerial alliance, will organize a board of directors to oversee the management and operation of the food bank. If a new food bank can be established, the current food bank will donate its walk-in cooler and freezer, chest freezers, shelves, and miscellaneous equipment for the new operation. The Gallatin Adventist Community Services Center will continue to support the new food bank beyond the donation of equipment. It will pay for the continued upkeep of a new website created for the current food bank. Current volunteers are willing to assist in the organization and operation of the new food bank by passing on its books, outlining volunteer job descriptions, helping in the development of a new crew, and management of the distribution of food. “The new food bank will need many volunteers for organizing and dating foods, driving to col-
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New Year’s Day fire destroys Kidder home An early morning fire on the first day of the new year destroyed the home belonging to Rick Bottorff of Kidder. The fire started around 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 1, at the house located at 16221 Yale Avenue. Bottorff says a portable electric heater was the cause of the fire. Bottorff and his three sons, age 10, 12 and 13, escaped the fire without injury. The boys are students at Hamilton. The Kidder-Altamont-Winston/KAW Fire Department responded to the blaze. Bottorff had insurance. He has a trailer home to live in for now and is hoping to rebuild in the future.
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