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Winston couple charged with child endangerment, firearms violations Elizabeth Marie Wilkinson, 40, and William Douglas Wilkinson Jr., 42, both of Winston, were each charged May 14 with two counts of child endangerment.

William Wilkinson has also been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of illegal weapon and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to probable cause

statements, Daviess County Deputies Caleb Ireland and Larry Adams were assisting the Division of Family Services with a home visit May 13 due to an anonymous hotline call regarding the residence at 106 E. Second Street in Winston.

Upon entry to the home, there was a strong odor of animal urine and feces. The home con(continued on page 13)

Seventh-day Community Service Center volunteers Robin Rader, Cindy Jones, Serina Jones, and Director Karen Reed.

Generosity carries the day with 760 pounds collected The 27th Annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive was held May 11. Donations of food was left by postal customers mailboxes; about 760 pounds of non-perishable food items were collected. The food was delivered to the Gallatin Seventh-day Adventist Food Pantry where it will be available to low income residents and anyone with an emergency need. The service center is located on Willow Street on the south end of Gallatin and is open every Wednesday (ph: 663-2478). Stamp Out Hunger is the largest, single-day food drive in the United States. For the last quarter century, letter carriers have set aside the second Saturday in May as a special day to do what they can to fight hunger in America.

Kids Fishing Derby slated for June 1 at the Baptist Home

Last Friday and Saturday were very good days for Gallatin, Pattonsburg and Winston athletes, based upon the fact that all 13 who competed in the MSHSAA Class 1 Track and Field Championships came home with at least one medal.

Leading the podium review for local athletes was Panther sophomore Cameron Jones, who earned medals in four individual events, the triple jump (1st/43’8.75”), long jump (3rd/21’6.5”), 100 (4th/11.55) and 200 (4th/23.14) meter sprints. Jones also won the triple jump event a year ago.

Panther teammate Trevor Ireland placed third in the 110 meter high hurdles (15.74) and eighth in the 300 meter hurdles (45.42) to combine with Jones for a second place tie in Class 1 boys’ team standings with Mound City. Rich Hill won the boys’ competition with 47 points.

Claire Hemry’s lone representation for Gallatin’s girls equaled 12 points and a 20th place team finish. Hemry broke her own record in

The Fourth Annual Kids Fishing Derby will be held Saturday, June 1, at the pond located on the west side of The Baptist Home in Chillicothe.

The Baptist Home is located just north of the Green Hills Golf Course on US Highway 65. The event is co-sponsored by the North Missouri Sportsman’s Alliance (NMSA) and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC).

The fishing derby will run from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m.

“Every youngster 15 years of age and under will receive a free fishing lure when they register,” said Steve Shoot, NMSA president. “Only those youngsters participating in the fishing derby will receive the free lure, plus more prizes will be given away from the names of those who registered, at the end of the event.”

Shoot emphasized the Kids Fishing Derby is a non-competitive event and only children will be allowed to fish.

“Adults are allowed to help the kids cast and, if needed, provide minimal assistance when a fish is being brought to shore,” Shoot said.

MDC personnel have already been at the pond, adding a number of fish to the structure to hopefully increase the chances of success for each child taking part in the event, Shoot said. MDC personnel will also be on hand

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Accepting the 2nd place Class 1 team finish for Pattonsburg were Cameron Jones and coaches Dan Dreesen and Heather Jones. Not pictured is Jones’s teammate, Trevor Ireland.

Local athletes chase down 12 state medals; Pattonsburg duo nabs 2nd place in Class 1 Cameron Jones repeats as triple jump state champ

Two services by VFW on Memorial Day Frank Frazier’s VFW Post 2172 will be holding two Memorial Day services on Monday, May 27. The first will be held at 11 a.m. at the Lile Cemetery in Gallatin, and the second will be held at 1 p.m. at the Jamesport Cemetery.

Volunteer opportunities for teens at library Did you know there are some great volunteer opportunities at the Daviess County Library this summer for teens? We have a full and fun schedule planned for Summer Reading Program “A Universe of Stories” and teen volunteers make that possible.

This year there is programming on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

If you live in Pattonsburg, Winston, Jameson or Jamesport, we’ll be visiting your town on Wednesdays and can use help, boots on the ground!

Or, if you don’t particularly want to work with the children, there is also prep-work and read-

Winston FFA taps Shelly Mason and Christensen Cattle Co. as honorary members

ing rack rotations to be done throughout the year.

Volunteer benefits go both ways. The library gets great help for the summer and teens get some volunteer hours to put on scholarship applications, college entrance applications and job applications.

Many student organizations like National Honor Society, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts require service hours. Students throughout Daviess County, eighth grade and above, are welcome to apply.

If you are interested in helping out this summer, stop by the library and fill out an application.

Then get ready to have some fun!

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OPINION

May 22, 2019

By name, not number Memorial Day is a solemn holiday. It began that way when Gen. John A Logan led the first official Decoration Day at Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868. Volunteers that day decorated the graves of more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers which was an overwhelming yet small percentage of the almost 500,000 military personnel who died during the Civil War. If you know someone killed in any of our wars, then every number affiliated with every generation of Americans is very personal.

The last American World War I veteran to pass away was Frank Woodruff Buckles (1901-2011), an Army corporal from Bethany, MO, who served with a detachment from Fort Riley driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.

For America’s Greatest Generation it was World War II when 416,800 died serving this country, with the Korean War soon to follow. My father survived both these Men honored on plaques as you conflicts, serving aboard ship in the enter the first oor of the Daviess County Courthouse: Pacific Theater and then stateside when recalled. One of the few times I ever witWORLD WAR I nessed my father crying was in reaction (plaque erected May 30, 19 24, by the allatin Chapter of the aughto innocent ters of the American e olution in questions memory of a iess County oys O the E itor s S ike who ga e their li es in the orld about a ar 1 1 1 1 framed obert Ad ison photograph ert Ayers tanley ernard of the loyd iddle repair ship Daniel Collier upon which Martin Conaway he served.

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by Darryl Wilkinson mmett owns This was ran ra ier decades after his service, while with eorge udson family in the privacy of the living room at Joseph Linville b y C o n gr essm an S am G r av es ather u ehart I have been working to do just ture” encompasses a variety his home in Warrensburg. allace McAfee that, making sure we’re solving of things. Recently, we’ve seen Gridlock is everywhere these There were another 54,246 American Francis McCray days, from the halls of Congress infrastructure problems as they federal investment in a new, imservice men and women who died during ay oll lmer a to the highways and streets back arise, not kicking the can down proved Main Street in Maryville. the Korean War. We risk much in reducilliam obinson the road. In just the last few Broadband providers across home. ing such sacrifice to mere numbers. illiam eiler It is only fitting, then, that years, we’ve seen the dividends North Missouri are receiving Death claimed Americans along Charles Shaw ilford mith the best way to end the gridlock in several critical infrastructure funds to help connect households the way during the Laotian Civil War John Tracy without high-speed internet acin Washington is to invest in our investments in North Missouri.

(1953-1975), the Lebanon Crisis (1958), uy t The aging Champ Clark cess. And just last week, I was infrastructure and end the gridthe Bay of Pigs (1961), the Simba Rebelarl eist lock that affects Americans ev- Bridge in Louisiana, MO, re- proud to announce that Memohn hetstone lion (1964) before Vietnam where 90,200 ery day. Whether we’re talking ceived a $10 million TIGER grant phis, Tarkio and Bowling Green Americans died. about roads, rivers, railways, or from the U.S. Department of would all see major improveThere are so many more instances World War II (plaque erected May 30, 19 5 3, runways, it’s obvious we have a Transportation, jumpstarting a ments at their local airports, where our service men and women died by the eterans of oreign ars lot of work to do in repairing our $60 million project to replace the thanks to an infrastructure proor were in harm’s way – the Korean Au iliary of a iess County in memory of a iess County oys nation’s crumbling infrastruc- 91-year-old structure and ensur- gram I pushed for to prioritize DMZ Conflict (1966-69), Dominican who ga e their li es in orld ar ing that folks won’t have to travel our rural airports. ture.

Civil War (1965-66), Bolivia (1966-67), 1 1 These key federal investThis week is recognized 77 miles out of the way just to Cambodia (1967-75), South Zaire (1978), Clyde A. Athay ohn . Ayers around the country as Infra- cross the river. I look forward to ments will provide long-term Gulf of Sidra (1981), Lebanese Civil War a id Ayers structure Week, and it’s a great seeing the new bridge open this infrastructure solutions for our (1982-84), Grenada (1983), Gulf of Sidra . ran lin edford communities — ensuring our time to highlight the importance fall.

(1986), Libya (1986), Persian Gulf (1987owell runer irgil Cain Likewise, the Buck O’Neil economic success for years to of coming together to work to88), Tobruk (1989), Panama (1989-90), ane Cunningham wards a lasting solution to repair Bridge – a gateway to Kansas come. the Gulf War (1990-91), Iraq (1991-2003), Charles u ey According to the Business and rebuild our infrastructure. If City — is also in desperate need Somali (1992-95), Bosnia (1992-95), Haiti Charles . oster ee . illilan an infrastructure bill becomes a of replacement. I worked with Roundtable, more infrastructure (1994-95), Kosovo (1998-99), Afghanistan elbert . winn reality, and I hope it will, we have Secretary of Transportation investments like these could in(2001-present), Iraq (2003-11), Northdward M. armon a real opportunity to see major Elaine Chao to secure a $25 mil- crease disposable income for West Pakistan (2004-present), Somalia ugene dward elms loyd . olcomb improvements all around North lion BUILD Grant to help rebuild Missouri households by an av(2007-present), Operation Ocean Shield oe olladay the bridge. This project is criti- erage of $1,000 per year over 20 Missouri and across America.

(2009-16), Libya (2011), Uganda (2011-17), irgil oo er cal to minimizing gridlock and years. That’s huge!

That said, we shouldn’t have Iraq (2014-present), Syria (2014-present), oss . uston While we have many major Charles Laturno to wait for an infrastructure maintaining a safe route over the Yemen (2015-present), Libya (2015-presobert dward ee 18 Rotary such asRiver, the helping connect infrastructure projects to celMissouri package to make necessary im- jails, ent)… illiam M. ollar City and the Northland. ebrate in North Missouri, there provements now. As the S Republiuirrel Cage Kansas Jail in Gallatin, The casualties are so overwhelming loyd . yon However, can Leader of the Transportation that we tend to just lump the numbers en er C. Mc ueen were built during 1881-8 this is about more are still countless projects, large arold A. Mettle and Infrastructure Committee, than just bridges. “Infrastruc- and small, that need attention. into one sum: 1.1 million service memin 12 different states ...and ouglas ee ell We must keep fighting to secure bers have died in all U.S. wars combined.

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We Americans are free to celebrate eight weeks of pregnancy; uly 2 1 dedicated to the memory of the a iess County Memorial Day whenever and however which expands www.NorthMissourian.com rotary Bill jails68,built we want. In fact, there is something right men who ga e their li es12 of the 18Senate ichard . hompson state-authorized 609B South Main, P.O. Box 37, Gallatin, MO 64640 and noble about enjoying our freedoms between 188 and 188 workforce dearl . hipers USPS 213-200 Ph:660.663.2154 Email:gpc@GPCink.com velopment initiatives; to the fullest each and every day. ran il . ennett were built by Pauly Jail arryl Wilkinson, E itor u lisher Faceboo .com G Cin GPC .com Thanks be to God for our service SenateCompany, Bill 224, which reforms uilding Mfg., Vietnam War people in uniform, past and present. We STA Tammy Huffman, reporter; Jessica Holcomb and Elizabeth Wilkinson, bookpla ue dedicated uly 1 by rules of discovery in civil court St. ouis, established keeping/production; Brooke Lee, production; Amanda Eaton, advertising consultant; Margie the eterans of oreign ars only insult if we fail to remember their cases; and Windsor, circulation; Dennis Cox, sports; Ben Gott, Travis Burnett, Neal Hamilton, pressroom.

Au iliary of a iess County Mis- and still in business in 1856 sacrifice …or reflect upon such things in souri in recognition of the heroPOLIC Unless specifically prohibited, digital images submitted for publication, excluding Senate Joint Resolution 14, ic men and women who ser ed terms of numbers rather than by name, studio photos, will be posted online photo galleries and may be available for purchase. in the ietnam ar dedicated to which authorizes a statewide personally. the memory of the a iess CounSUBSC IPTIONS In Missouri $36 per year ($33.46+$2.54 tax); out-of-state $45 per year. referendum on whether to esty men who ga e their li es SINGLE COPY: 75¢ (70¢+5¢ tax). Published Wednesdays — Periodicals Postage Paid at Gallatin, MO 64640. tablish term limits for the ofarryl . McCartney Greater love has no one than this: to e . eld POST AST Send address changes to fices of lieutenant governor, atlay down one’s life for one’s friends.

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MEMORIAL DAY: NEVER FORGET. FOREVER HONOR. This is the first of a 3-part presentation featuring columns written

by Ernie Pyle, history’s greatest war correspondent. The Friends of Ernie Pyle and Scripps Howard Foundation provide these columns which he wrote immediately after the Normandy landings to members of the National Newspaper Association which includes the Gallatin North Missourian. Photos are published with permission from the National Archives. Next week this presentation continues.

Ernie Pyle was the son of a tenant farming parents in west-central Indiana. When Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on the tiny Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, his columns were being delivered to more than 14 million homes according to his New York Times obituary.

Pyle wrote about the hardships and bravery of the common soldier, not the grand strategies of World War II. His description of the G.I.’s life was more important to families on the home front than battlefront tactics of Gens. Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George Patton or Omar Bradley. Prior to the United States’ entry into World War II, Pyle traveled to England and wrote about the Nazi’s continual bombing of London. His columns helped move the mood of America from isolationism to sympathy for the stubborn refusal of Great Britain to succumb to the will of Adolf Hitler. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist’s legacy rests in his words and the impact they had on Americans before and during a war that threatened to take the world behind a curtain of fascism. His columns open a window to the hardships endured by the common U.S. soldier during World War II and serve today to honor what has been called “The Greatest Generation.”

A Pure Miracle NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 12, 1944 – Due to a last-minute alteration in the arrangements, I didn’t arrive on the beachhead until the morning after D-day, after our first wave of assault troops had hit the shore.

By the time we got here the beaches had been taken and the fighting had moved a couple of miles inland. All that remained on the beach was some sniping and artillery fire, and the occasional startling blast of a mine geysering brown sand into the air. That plus a gigantic and pitiful litter of wreckage along miles of shoreline.

Submerged tanks and overturned boats and burned trucks and shellshattered jeeps and sad little personal belongings were strewn all over these bitter sands. That plus the bodies of soldiers lying in rows covered with blankets, the toes of their shoes sticking up in a line as though on drill. And other bodies, uncollected, still sprawling grotesquely in the sand or half hidden by the high grass beyond the beach.

That plus an intense, grim determination of work-weary men to get this chaotic beach organized and get all the vital supplies and the reinforcements moving more rapidly over it from the stacked-up ships standing in droves out to sea. *** Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all. For some of our units it was easy, but in this special sector where I am now our troops faced such odds that our getting ashore was like my whipping Joe Louis down to a pulp.

In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you.

Ashore, facing us, were more enemy troops than we had in our assault waves.

The advantages were all theirs, the disadvantages all ours. The Germans were dug into positions that they had been working on for months, although these were not yet all complete. A one-hundred-foot bluff a couple of hundred yards back from the beach had great concrete gun emplacements built right into the hilltop. These opened to the sides instead of to the front, thus making it very hard for naval fire from the sea to reach them. They could shoot parallel with the beach and cover every foot of it for miles with artillery fire.

Then they had hidden machine-gun nests on the forward slopes, with crossfire taking in every inch of the beach.

These nests were connected by networks of trenches, so that the German gunners could move about without exposing themselves.

Throughout the length of the beach, running zigzag a couple of hundred yards back from the shoreline, was an immense V-shaped ditch fifteen feet deep. Nothing could cross it, not even

men on foot, until fills had been made.

And in other places at the far end of the beach, where the ground is flatter, they had great concrete walls. These were blasted by our naval gunfire or by explosives set by hand after we got ashore.

Our only exits from the beach were several swales or valleys, each about one hundred yards wide. The Germans made the most of these funnel-like traps, sowing them with buried mines. They contained, also, barbed-wire entanglements with mines attached, hidden ditches, and machine guns firing from the slopes.

This is what was on the shore. But our men had to go through a maze nearly as deadly as this before they even got ashore. Underwater obstacles were terrific. The Germans had whole fields of evil devices under the water to catch our boats. Even now, several days after the landing, we have cleared only channels through them and cannot yet approach the whole length of the beach with our ships. Even now some ship or boat hits one of these mines every day and is knocked out of commission.

The Germans had masses of those great six-pronged spiders, made of railroad iron and standing shoulder-high, just beneath the surface of the water for our landing craft to run into. They also had huge logs buried in the sand, pointing upward and outward, their tops just below the water. Attached to these logs were mines.

In addition to these obstacles they had floating mines offshore, land mines buried in the sand of the beach, and more mines in checkerboard rows in the tall grass beyond the sand. And the enemy had four men on shore for every three men we had approaching the shore.

And yet we got on. *** Beach landings are planned to a schedule that is set far ahead of time. They all have to be timed, in order for everything to mesh and for the following waves of troops to be standing off the beach and ready to land at the right moment.

As the landings are planned, some elements of the assault force are to break through quickly, push on inland, and attack the most obvious enemy strong points. It is usually the plan for units to be inland, attacking gun positions from behind, within a matter of minutes after the first men hit the beach.

I have always been amazed at the speed called for in these plans.

You’ll have schedules calling for engineers to land at H-hour plus two minutes, and service troops at H-hour plus thirty minutes, and even for press censors to land at H-hour plus seventy-five minutes.

But in the attack on this special portion of the beach where I am – the worst we had, incidentally – the schedule didn’t hold.

Our men simply could not get past the beach. They were pinned down right on the water’s edge by an inhuman wall of fire from the bluff. Our first waves were on that beach for hours, instead of a few minutes, before they could begin working inland.

You can still see the foxholes they dug at the very edge of the water, in the sand and the small, jumbled rocks that form parts of the beach.

Medical corpsmen attended the wounded as best they could. Men were killed as they stepped out of landing craft. An officer whom I knew got a bullet through the head just as the door of his landing craft was let down. Some men were drowned.

The first crack in the beach defenses was finally accomplished by terrific and wonderful naval gunfire, which knocked out the big emplacements. They tell epic stories of destroyers that ran right up into shallow water and had it out pointblank with the big guns in those concrete emplacements ashore.

When the heavy fire stopped, our men were organized by their officers and pushed on inland, circling machine-gun nests and taking them from the rear.

As one officer said, the only way to take

The E rnie Pyle World War II Museum features the famous j ournalist’s birthplace and a museum dedicated to Pyle’s life and writings as a war correspondent.

It is owned by the Friends of E rnie Pyle, who are dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of the writer whose columns linke d the soldiers on the front line to worried families on the home front. To preserve E rnie Pyle’s memory is to preserve the sacrifices made by what has been dubbed “ The Greatest Generation.” To learn more about the E rnie Pyle World War II Museum located in Dana, Indiana, or make a donation to assist the efforts of the Friends of E rnie Pyle to honor him and that generation, go to www.erniepyle.org.

a beach is to face it and keep going. It is costly at first, but it’s the only way. If the men are pinned down on the beach, dug in and out of action, they might as well not be there at all. They hold up the waves behind them, and nothing is being gained.

Our men were pinned down for a while, but finally they stood up and went through, and so we took that beach and accomplished our landing. We did it with every advantage on the enemy’s side and every disadvantage on ours. In the light of a couple of days of retrospection, we sit and talk and call it a miracle that our men ever got on at all or were able to stay on.

Before long it will be permitted to name the units that did it. Then you will know to whom this glory should go. They suffered casualties. And yet if you take the entire beachhead assault, including other units that had a much easier time, our total casualties in driving this wedge into the continent of Europe were remarkably low – only a fraction, in fact, of what our commanders had been prepared to accept.

And these units that were so battered and went through such hell are still, right at this moment, pushing on inland without rest, their spirits high, their egotism in victory almost reaching the smart-alecky stage.

Their tails are up. “We’ve done it again,” they say. They figure that the rest of the army isn’t needed at all. Which proves that, while their judgment in this regard is bad, they certainly have the spirit that wins battles and eventually wars.

Permission to distribute and re-publish Ernie Pyle’s columns was given by the Scripps Howard Foundation.

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Route KK – closed for bridge rehab After facing delays, contractors from Capital Paving and Construction, working with the Missouri Department of Transportation, now plan to begin construction on the Daviess County Route KK bridge over Interstate 35 on Tuesday, May 28. The bridge will remain closed through early July.

Bridge Rehab Schedule: Clinton County: U.S. Route 69 bridge south of Cameron – now thru early June.

Daviess County: Route KK bridge – May 28 thru mid-July; Route DD bridge - Late June thru early September; Route B/N bridge – Mid-August thru late October; Route C bridge – late August thru early November.

During the bridge projects, the bridges will be closed. Motorists should follow signed detour routes.

Interstate traffic will also be affected. For safety reasons, no traffic will be permitted under the bridges during demolition.

Interstate traffic will be narrowed to one lane in each direction and all traffic will be routed up and over the on and off ramps at the exit. Any reduction of lanes on I-35 will be completed during nighttime hours between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.

All work and schedules are weather permitting.

Kylie Collins named to dean’s Kylie Collins of Gallatin has been named to the Southeast Missouri State University Dean’s List for academic achievement during the spring 2019 semester.

Students named to the list earned at least a 3.75 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, completed at least 12 hours of standard graded credit, achieved no grade below a B and received no failing grades in enrolled courses, including credit/no credit or pass/ fail courses.

Access II hosts second graders for bocci ball & fun day of learning The three classes of second graders from Covey D. Searcy Elementary School attended a Learning Day at Access II in Gallatin for lots of fun activities on May 15. The Trenton DAWGS (Disabled Athletes with Grundy Support) helped teach the 32 participants bocce ball. Pierce Rash and James Ross love the sport and had a blast. Afterward, the students had classes in tactile learning, germ busters, wheel chair races, and finally, a demonstration of a van with a wheel chair lift. Sign language and painting took place right before a lunch of hotdogs and chips.

Troop H plans special enforcement

Drew Prindle recognized by tech school Gallatin High School student Drew Prindle has been selected as “Student of the Fourth Quarter” at Grand River Technical School in Chillicothe. Eighteen students from Grand River Technical School (GRTS) have been recognized as “Students of the Quarter” for fourth quarter of the 2018-2019 school year.

GRTS instructors selected students for this honor based on the following criteria: Outstanding work ethic, excellent attendance, good manners, superior grades and/or significant improvement of grades/

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attendance. Students will receive certificates of excellence, specially-designed sweatshirts recognizing their achievements, and are featured on the GRTS “Wall of Fame.” Star students for each quarter may be seen online at www.grts.org.

Special enforcement operations for Troop H will be in place over the Memorial Day weekend, according to Captain James E. McDonald, commanding officer of Troop H. Troop H will participate in Operation C.A.R.E. (Crash Awareness & Reduction Effort) during the long holiday weekend.

This means that every available trooper in Troop H will be on the road enforcing traffic laws and assisting motorists.

In addition, Troop H troopers will be conducting six hazardous moving operations. Troopers will be alert for all traffic offenses, and be especially vigilant to aggressive driving violations.

Troop H will also be conducting three DWI saturations in the following counties: Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry,

Harrison. These scheduled operations will occur during the peak travel times on May 24, 2019, and May 27, 2019.

“Memorial Day is the first major travel holiday of the year and the Missouri State Highway Patrol urges motorists to wear their seat belts and never drink and drive,” stated Captain McDonald. “The Highway Patrol wants everyone to have a safe Memorial Day weekend.”

The only 100 percent survivable traffic crash is the one that never happens. Make sure everyone in the vehicle is properly restrained in a seat belt or child restraint. Every day as we travel on Missouri’s roadways, we trust that every driver on the road is going to obey the speed limit, pay attention, and drive sober.

“Don’t Violate The Trust.”

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If we were to make a list of favorite garden vegetables, you probably would not find eggplant very near the top of the list. While it may not be as popular as the tomato, it does produce good yields of fruit, Tim B aker which can be used in a wide variety of dishes.

In the 16th century, eggplant was known as the “mad apple,” because it was thought that consumption would lead to insanity.

Originally, eggplant was found in two regions of the world.

Smaller-fruited types came from China, and larger-fruited types came from India. The name of “eggplant” was chosen because of the shape of the small-fruited varieties, which are similar to eggs.

Eggplants will grow in warmer weather, but may fail to set fruit if temperatures get too high. If drying winds accompany the high temperature readings, pollination may be prevented.

Library program picks up STEAM, kicks off with SRP2Go on May 22 Believe it or not, “A Universe of Stories in STEAM,” Daviess County Library’s summer reading program, kicks off with the first SRP2Go in Pattonsburg at the park from 1-2 p.m. on May 22. SRP2Go is bringing summer reading to your little corner of the universe with books to lend, TumbleBooks Storytime, a takehome craft and even an internet hotspot to download e-books for the week. SRP2Go stands for Summer Reading Program to Go and STEAM stands for science and fiction; careers in technology, engineering and design, art and our world, and Math Moonwalk Week.

SRP2Go is scheduled for Wednesdays: 11 a.m. to noon, North Daviess at the park, beginning May 29 1-2 p.m., Pattonsburg at the park, beginning May 22 3-5 p.m., Winston Pop-Up next to the post office, beginning May 29 Jamesport Branch library will enjoy its own SRP2Go on Fridays beginning May 31, with B-I-N-GO at 9 a.m. followed by MU Extension’s Cosmic Cooking class at 9:30. The library will not be open to the public, only SRP2Go will operate out of the library van in the lawn next to the library.

Regular programs are planned at the main branch in Gallatin, for Tuesdays, 10-11 a.m.: B-I-N-G-O (ages 6+) and Rocket Boosters (toddler - K

storytime); Thursdays, 10-11:30 a.m.: Cosmic Cooking (ages 6-8) and Rocket Club (ages 9+); and the big coup de grace, July 16-20 with MOONWALK WEEK, celebrating the 50th anniversary of our first moon landing. Watch for special dates for after-hours movies throughout the summer, too.

All children are invited and welcome to participate in programs, but only children with library cards (free to county students) will earn reading rewards. Children participating in the program will be asked to read 15 minutes per day and will be rewarded all summer long when reaching reading milestones like five hours, seven hours and, finally, completion at 10 hours.

All county schools cheer them again when returning to school in August with their own reading rewards — ask your teacher about book report credits.

(School rewards differ according to district and grade.) Reading zealots are invited to complete the program twice to earn a seat on the library’s Chautauqua Parade float.

Bring the kids. Spread the word. All summer reading events and times are posted on the website calendar at www. daviesscountylibrary.org/calendar. For more information bring the kids to the library, get their library card and pick up a calendar of events.

However, cooler weather will bring a return of fruiting. When fall arrives, eggplants slow their growth, and fruits do not develop.

The best time to harvest eggplant is when they are young, approximately 1/3 to 2/3 of their mature size. If you press lightly on the side of the fruit with your thumb, the flesh should readily spring back. If it does not, the fruit is too mature. Another indicator of maturity is the skin color. Fruit which is still optimal will have a high gloss, but overmature fruit may look dull, with possible bronzing.

When selecting varieties to

grow, choose those that have disease resistance. Some of the diseases that are problems in tomatoes can also attack eggplants, such as verticillium wilt.

Be sure to rotate your crops each year, and this will lessen the likelihood of disease.

Insect pests can be a problem, especially flea beetles. These are small, black beetles, about 1/16 inch long. They feed on the leaves, making many small holes. You will need to maintain a regular spray schedule in order to harvest a crop.

Be sure to give them regular water.

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Lease of sheriff vehicles under discussion Ray Dockery and to discuss a proposal to do land- Grundy) to the CLEO CoordiGary Eads, Home scaping around the courthouse. nating Committee representExchange Bank, The commissioners will discuss ing the 18-county region. Wayne met with the com- all proposals. The issue was con- Uthe seconded; motion passed. mission to discuss tinued until next week.

Workforce development issues a lease purchase agreement Representatives from Mis- were also discussed. for sheriff department vehicles. souri Opioid Crisis Alliance, The commission approved They will return next week to fi- Cathy Nugent, Kevin Royer, their inventory for 2019. nalize the first lease. The issue John Edgar, and Jeffrey Reeves, Discussion was held regardwas continued until next week. met with the commission re- ing brush issues and notices for David Cox made a motion to garding Missouri opioid law- 2019. It was decided to put an ad approve the lease terms as dis- suits. Jeffrey Reeves explained in the paper to start the process cussed with Home Exchange the difference in filing lawsuits before brush letters would be Bank. Wayne Uthe seconded; in Federal Court vs State Court mailed. The issue was continued motion passed. (local judge, local jury). The until next week.

James Lewis, bridge supervi- Missouri Opioid Crisis Alliance Jerry Eads, Marion Township sor, updated the commission on is advocating for state court. resident, left word for someone ongoing work. His crew has been Daviess County would be the from the commission to call him. working on cleaning around the plaintiff (not class action). The Jim Ruse will make the call. outside of the shop last week. lawsuit would be against manuDiscussion was held regardThey have also been working facturers and distributors. Dis- ing ongoing clock tower and outon culverts in Jamesport and cussion was held regarding how side lighting repair.

Washington Townships. Upcom- the opioid epidemic affects the The meeting adjourned at 4 ing bridge work was discussed. community and has harmed the p.m.

The commission advised James county. The alliance stated no This information is taken there was free chain saw safety county funds are involved in the from the minutes of the May training available for his crew. lawsuit.

15, 2019, meeting of the Daviess James will let the commission Jan Duly, Jameson Commu- County Commission. All comknow if they are going to attend. nity Betterment, met with the missioners were present. MinRandy Eads, Washington commission to inform them of an utes from the previous meeting Township, met with the commis- upcoming fish fry and fire truck were approved. Bills and abatesion to discuss road issues on auction on June 1 at Jameson ments were approved.

232nd Street. The commission Park.

The following caswill consult counsel. The issue Steve Bohannon, Grand Rives were heard during was continued until next week. er Township, met with the comLaw Day proceedings Frank Blakemore, Garver mission regarding the process conducted by Judge Engineering, met with the com- to add CART rock mileage, and Ryan Horsman on mission to discuss engineering discussed brush issues.

May 15: services for the county, and David Cox made a motion Charges against Genaro Alwhat bridge projects might be to approve the four commisberto Nunez-Ugarte, St. Paul, coming up. sioners (Bill Walker, Nodaway; MN, were bound over from the INCIDENT SUMMARY DOES NOT Ryan Clark, LegendaryTHISLee Sawyer, Buchanan; EdINCLUDE ROUTINE PATROL ACTIVITIES Associate Division. NunezLawn, met with the commission Douglas, Livingston; Phil Ray, (continued on Page 10 )

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Minnesota man arrested for drugs in traffic stop Benjamin Devine, 20, Eden Prairie, MN, was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, and misdemeanor unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia in a traffic stop at 9:40 p.m. on May 19. According to the probable cause statement prepared by Trooper J. Thompson, the vehicle was pulled over for speeding at the 61 mile marker on I-35 in Daviess County.

The driver of the vehicle, Jack R. Zurn, advised the trooper that his passenger, Benjamin Devine, was in possession of drugs and paraphernalia.

Trooper Thompson located cocaine, marijuana and paraphernalia in the vehicle. Devine said that all of the items belonged to him, and he was placed under arrest. Devine was then transported to the Daviess DeKalb Regional Jail (DDRJ). Judge Adkins set the bond at $25,000 cash only with a 10% deposit allowed.

Bethany man charged with domestic assault, and kidnapping James Whitt, 22, Bethany, was arrested May 20 and charged with two counts of felony domestic assault and misdemeanor kidnapping in connection with an incident at a Pattonsburg residence.

According to the probable cause statement, Deputy Caleb Ireland responded to the call at 2:13 a.m. James Whitt had fled the scene but was later arrested in Bethany. The victim stated that an argument with Whitt had

turned physical. Whitt is currently on probation in District 2 for a prior incident of domestic assault. Judge Adkins set the bond at $35,000 cash only.

5 /1 4 /1 9 12: 17 AM - Phillip Cason, 28 , Chicago, IL, was arrested and charged with felony assault, felony attempted burglary, misdemeanor domestic assault and sex ual misconduct.

J udge Adkins set the bond at $ 10 0 , 0 0 0 cash only.

4 : 11 AM - Altamont, horses out.

4 : 32 AM - Altamont, subj ect walking in the roadway.

5 /1 5 /1 9 12: 0 9 AM - Assisting stranded motorist on I- 35.

3: 32 AM - Gallatin, reference disturbance and locating possible suicidal person.

9 AM - Court in session.

8 : 0 1 PM - J ameson, regarding possible theft.

8 : 55 PM - J avier V alenz uela, 38 , Des Moines, IA, was transferred to DDRJ on a felony Daviess County probation violation warrant. J udge H orsman set the bond at $ 20 , 0 0 0 cash only.

9 : 23 PM - Altamont, reference suspicious activity.

5 /1 6 /1 9 1: 50 PM - J ameson, reference suicidal person.

6 : 21 PM - J amesport, regarding disturbance.

10 : 55 PM - O n the lookout for a missing j uvenile from Iowa.

5 /1 7 /1 9 12: 38 AM - Missing j uvenile located and turned over to Iowa.

10 AM - Court in session.

7 : 4 2 PM - Lock Springs, assisting with a structure ďŹ re.

7 : 56 PM - Weatherby, domestic disturbance.

9 : 30 PM - J eremy H enderson, 39 , Gallatin, was arrested for misdemeanor DWI. H e was transferred to DDRJ for a 12- hour detox .

5 /1 8 /1 9 5: 28 PM - Lake V iking, reference investigation.

11: 29 PM - Deputy en route to northern part of the county, MSH P in pursuit near Gilman City.

11: 35 PM - MSH P advised that the subj ect rammed their patrol car and disabled it, no longer have sight of the suspect.

5 /1 9 /1 9 12: 0 1 PM - Residential burglary alarm at Lake V iking.

2: 4 9 PM - Report of horses out near H ighway 19 0 and H ighway V .

2: 54 PM - J amesport, reference possible animal neglect.

9 : 4 0 PM - B enj amin Devine, 20 , Eden Prairie, MN , was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor possession of marij uana, and misdemeanor unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. J udge Adkins set the bond at $ 25, 0 0 0 cash only.

11: 12 PM - Pattonsburg, reference wanted subj ect from Caldwell County.

11: 39 PM - Caldwell County advised that subj ect is turning himself in.

5 /2 0 /1 9 12: 13 AM - Pattonsburg, domestic disturbance in progress.

12: 28 AM - Deputy on scene, suspect left prior to arrival.

2: 13 AM - J ames Whitt, 22, B ethany, was transferred to DDRJ for two counts of felony domestic assault and misdemeanor kidnapping. J udge Adkins set the bond at $ 35, 0 0 0 cash only.

5: 21 AM - Winston, regarding theft.

6 : 30 AM - Michael Matlock, 35, F ort Gibson, O K , was arrested and charged with misdemeanor stealing. J udge Adkins set the bond at $ 1, 0 0 0 cash only.

12: 0 2 PM - J ameson, reference suspicious person.

1: 4 2 PM - Assisting with a medical call in J amesport.

8 : 14 PM - J amesport, well- being check.

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Chicago man held on $100,000 bond after assault at Jamesport On May 14, Phillip Cason, 28, Chicago, IL, was charged with felony assault, felony attempted burglary, misdemeanor domestic assault and sexual misconduct after an incident on Lock Springs Lake Street, Jamesport, on May 13.

According to the probable cause statement, Cason had attempted to initiate sexual intercourse with the victim, his unwilling paramour, who was caring for a 9-month-old child at the time of the incident.

Cason left the residence, as requested by other occupants of the residence, but returned a short time later and began arguing with another victim who attempted to keep him from entering the residence. Cason struck him in the jaw causing physical injury.

Cason refused to comply with Daviess County Deputies Kyle Cornett and Robert Mazur when they responded to the call. He continued to argue with other occupants of the residence, as well as with the two deputies.

He was then taken into custody. Judge Adkins set bond at $100,000 cash only.

According to Cason’s criminal history, he was charged with assault and battery in Virginia in 2011. He also pled guilty to indecent exposure in Texas in 2014.

He has two failure to appear warrants, one from Virginia and the second from Texas.

were married on Aug. 11, 1951.

He reentered the University of Missouri where he received a bachelor’s and master’s degree.

He received a PhD degree from Iowa State University and became a faculty member in 1965.

In 1962 he started teaching and advising students majoring in agricultural business. He served as advisor of the Ag Business Club. He retired from Iowa State University in 1992 with Emeritus status.

In 1973 Paul and Patricia started Ames Best Hybrids to produce and market seed corn.

The company grew into a full line registered seed company.

It was closed after 33 years because of declining family health.

He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers, James, Richard, William and Roger, and sister, Dottie Thompson.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia; his daughters, Sara Doak of Columbia, and Laura Springer (Neal) of Los Angeles, CA; and brother, John Doak of Dallas, TX. Billy O rn do rf f 1 9 3 7 -2 0 1 9 Inurnment for Billy Orndorff will be held at a later date at Springer Cemetery near Gilman City. Billy’s wishes were for cremation and no services to be held. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are suggested to Comfort Care Hospice in Cameron in care of Stith Funeral Home in Gallatin.

Billy Orndorff, 82, Cameron, died May 19, 2019, at his home.

Billy was born on Feb. 17, 1937, the son of Oral and Gussie (Beverage) Orndorff in Mercer County. He grew up in Princeton and attended Princeton High School.

On March 17, 1958, he was united in marriage to Donna Ratliff in Trenton. They made their home in Brimson until moving to Cameron in 2015.

He served as a teacher, song leader, and deacon at Melbourne

Baptist Church. Billy and his wife Donna became members of Kidder Baptist Church in 2016.

He retired from Nestle as a supervisor after 26 years.

Mr. Orndorff was preceded in death by his parents; six sisters; two brothers; and a great-granddaughter, Karli Jo Holcomb.

Survivors include his wife, Donna of the home; two sons, Alan (Georgette) Orndorff of Brimson, and Dennis (Pam) Orndorff of Chariton, IA; one daughter, Rise (Carl) Holcomb of Pattonsburg; brother, Phillip (Kathy) Orndorff of Colorado Springs, CO; two sisters, Carolyn (Bob) Cooper of Sun City, AZ, and Madelyn Miles of Cameron; 13 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

K at ie Shalz 1 9 2 4 -2 0 1 9 Mass of Christian Burial for Katie Shalz was held May 20 at St. Mary Catholic Church. Interment was at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Arrangements were by Simplify Cremations and Funerals. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations be made to American Cancer Society.

Katie Shalz, 95, St. Joseph, died May 15, 2019, at a local healthcare facility. She was born April 2, 1924, in Gallatin.

Katie married Leon Shalz on Sept. 19, 1942. He preceded her in death on Sept. 7, 2002.

She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Crystal (Gilreath) Vanover; sons, Stephen and James Shalz; three sisters; and two brothers.

Survivors include son, Ronald Shalz (Suzan); daughters, Patricia Logan, Ruth Sparks (Bill), Regina Osborn, Debbie Lawrence (Mike); 18 grandchildren, and 27 great-grandchildren.

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N o t ice o f L et t ers T es t am en t ary G ran t ed ndependent Administration on Resident iduciary o All ersons nterested in the state of R . R JR., e cedent n ay , , the last will of the decedent having been admitted to probate, the following individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of R . R JR., decedent, by the robate ivision of the ircuit ourt of aviess ounty, issouri. he personal representa tive may administer the estate independently without ad udication, order, or direction of the robate ivision of the ircuit ourt, unless a petition for supervised administration is made to and granted by the court. he name and business address is Robert J. riffin, . artegna ane, aricopa, A . he non resident personal representative s designated agent s name and business address is Jeffrey A. rubb, . ain uite , ndepen dence, .

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P aul D o ak 1 9 2 9 -2 0 1 9 Graveside services for Paul Doak were held May 16 at Columbia Cemetery with full military honors.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Paul Doak Agricultural Business Recruiting Scholarship, Iowa State University Foundation, P.O. Box 868, Ames, IA 50010-0868. Arrangements were entrusted to Bach-Yager Funeral Chapel, Columbia.

Paul Douglas Doak, 90, died May 12, 2019, in Columbia.

Paul was born on a farm south of Gallatin, to Edgar Parker and Grace Bryan (Tarwater) Doak on Jan. 5, 1929. He attended schools in the Gallatin, Jameson, and Eagleville areas before his family moved to Olathe, KS, where he attended high school for three years.

After his father’s death in 1946, his mother moved the family to Hallsville. Paul graduated from Hallsville High School in 1947.

Paul started shearing sheep for neighboring farmers. This activity grew into year round employment shearing for large commercial feedlots, ranchers, and farmers in Kansas, Wyoming, and Missouri.

During the Korean War, Paul was drafted into the Army. He was wounded at the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge.

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the 3200 meter run, setting a mark of 12:01.93, finishing in third place. She also placed third in the 1600 meter run for the second straight season, running 5:25.78 this time around.

Gallatin’s Graydee Rains brought home a fourth place medal in the shot put with a toss of 45’10”. He placed 10th overall in the discus with a throw of 129’7”.

The Bulldogs 4x800 meter relay team of Aidan Adkison, Tristen Gibson, Taylor Teel and Ayden Wayne finished in sixth place in 8:43.22, right behind the quartet from Winston: Login Goll, Jacob Uthe, Cy Uthe and Jason Lewis. The Redbird relay team set a new WHS boys’ record for the third time this season (8:36.89).

Adkison just missed the medal stand in the triple jump, finishing 10th with a personal best jump of 40’3”. Cy Uthe ran a personal best 400 meter race (53.46) in Friday’s preliminary but did not qualify for the final.

Pattonsburg’s Sofia Nunn won the gold medal Saturday morning in the para-shot put event.

Gallatin’ s 4 x 8 0 0 meter relay team of Aidan Adkison, Tristen Gibson, Taylor Teel and Ayden Wayne placed 6 th at state.

Claire H emry was a 3rd place state finisher in both the and 320 0 run.

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Winston’ s 4 x 8 0 0 relay team of J acob Lewis, J acob U the, Cy U the and ogin oll set a new record by finishing th at state.

Shamrock bats halt Panther advance

The North Harrison Shamrocks parlayed 3 big offensive outbursts into a 10-7 upset victory over Pattonsburg in last Wednesday’s Class 1, District 15 championship held at Pattonsburg High School.

North Harrison, the #2 district seed, opened the game with 3 singles and a double, scoring 4 times before recording an out. The Shamrocks cashed in 5 more runs in the sixth inning with a lead-off home run by Darin Huitt and a grand slam by Brett Emig.

The Panthers closed the gap to 4-2 in the bottom of the first when Cameron Jones laced a drive down the left field line for a one-out double. Logan Pankau rocketed a drive off the top of the right-center field fence that scored Jones. Cooper Teel delivered the third consecutive double with a smash past third base to score Pankau.

Jones fouled off a couple of breaking balls in the bottom of the third before crushing a fast ball over the fence to cut the Panther deficit to 4-3.

With the Shamrocks leading, 10-3 into the bottom of the seventh inning, Pattonsburg bats came alive for one last push.

Patrick Cowley reached first after being hit by a Huitt pitch.

Jones reached on a 2-out error.

Pankau singled to score Cowley.

Teel drove a liner that caromed off the glove of the center fielder’s glove, scoring both Jones and Pankau. Dillon Turner doubled to right field to drive in the game’s final run.

The contest ended with the game-tying run in the on-deck circle for the Panthers, whose season ended at 10-4.

Graydee Rains brought home a 4 th place medal in the shot put.

Cameron J ones added four medals to last season’ s state medal count by winning the triple j ump, placing 3rd in the long j ump and finishing th in the meter dash and 4 th in the 20 0 meter dash.

ady anther ofia unn cap tured first place in the para shot put event at state.

Trevor Ireland placed 3rd in the 110 meter hurdles and 8 th in the 30 0 meter hurdles.

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Gallatin’s 74th Annual!

Members recognized at FFA banquet

On May 9, the Gallatin FFA Chapter held its 74th Annual FFA Banquet. There were 200 members and guests present.

A special feature of this year’s banquet was the presentation of a memorial donation done by Dennis Cox in memory of his late brother, David Cox. Awards and scholarships for the night were as follows: BTC Bank Scholarship, Libby Endicott; Farmers Bank Senior Achievement Award, Bethany Bailey and Addison Burns; Gallatin FFA Scholarship, Graydee Rains; Vennis and Clara Croy Memorial Scholarship, Tayton Terry and Graydee Rains; outstanding sophomore, Jenna Rains; outstanding junior, Jessica Hart; Star Greenhand, Cloey Waterbury; Star Agribusiness, Hayden Jumps; Star Chapter Farmer, Graydee Rains; DeKalb Outstanding Senior Award, Addison Burns; Blue and Gold Award, Bethany Bailey; Chapter Placement, Tayton Terry.

Other awards and honors presented included contest team and state proficiency awards: The Dairy Foods team received a Group II rating at state.

The team consisted of Justice Fry, Maddi Michael, McKay Marble, and Morgan McBroom.

Morgan was first on the team at state.

The Ag Mech team received a Group II rating at state. The team consisted of Rodell Sperry, Carson Lang, and Haven Gibson. Haven was first on the team at state.

The Soils team received a Group III rating at state. The team consisted of Trenton Ishmael, Klayton Lynch, and Ross Critten. Klayton received top individual on the team.

The Poultry team consisted of Madalyn Shubert, Libby Endicott, Annie Nelson, and Riley Holmes. They received a Group III rating with Riley Holmes being the team’s highest scoring individual.

Olivia Woody, Libby Wilson, Cloey Waterbury, and Silas Giles competed in the FFA Knowledge contest. The Knowledge team received a Group II rating at state with Silas and Cloey tying for the team’s top spot.

The Entomology team received a Group II rating at State.

The team consisted of Addison Burns, Hayden Jumps, Johnna Tadlock, and Carli Beck. Addison was high on the team earning a Group I individual rating at state and also was 3rd place

individual at Lathrop, 1st place individual at the NCMC contest, and 2nd at the District Entomology Contest.

The Floriculture team members this year were Jenna Rains, Tristan Hamilton, Bethany Bailey, and Caragan Baker. The team was 1st at the Lathrop contest. The team received a Group II rating with Jenna Rains being the team’s highest scoring member.

The Ag Sales team consisted of Graydee Rains, Owen Schweizer, Tayton Terry, and Jacob Wilson. The team placed 8th at state with Tayton Terry being the team’s highest scoring individual. He also received a Group 1 rating. The Ag Sales team did an appreciation award to Erin Creson, Dennis Croy and David Rains to thank them for their help throughout the contest season for their help with the contest.

This year there were 29 proficiency applications, with 16 of those proficiencies placing in the top three in area and six qualifying for state. The six state qualifying proficiency winners are as follows: Carli Beck received Area II Winner at State in Specialty Animal Production Placement. Hayden Jumps was also Area II Winner at State in Landscape Management Placement.

In Grain Production Placement Colin Beck was an area winner at state. Tayton Terry represented Area II as the winner at State. Justice Fry was the State winner in Home and Community Development. In AgriScience Integrated Systems Research Addison Burns was also a State winner. Justice and Addison’s applications will now travel to nationals for competition.

Chapter scholarship medals were awarded to the following FFA members: Cloey Water-

bury, Brianna Filley, Libby Wilson, Olivia Woody, Veronica Campbell, Amelie Dutro, Silas Giles, Hailey Holcomb, Makayla Rainey, Rodel Sperry, Kylie Stagner, Cargan Baker, Tristan Hamilton, Alli Baker, Carli Beck, Allen Dutro, Hayden Jumps, Maddi Michael, Jenna Rains, Gabe Allen, Riley Dutro, Libby Endicott, Calvin Grady, Johnna Tadlock, Drayton Harris, Jessica Hart, Gloria Hernandez, Maci McNeely, Annie Nelson, Madalyn Shubert, Morgan Glidewell, Ross Critten, Trent Ishmael, Graydee Rains, Bethany Bailey, Addison Burns, Justice Fry, Riley Holmes, Klayton Lynch, McKay Marble, Savannah Riley, Jacob Wilson, Owen Schweizer, Tayton Terry, and Morgan McBroom.

Chapter leadership medals are awarded to those members who have a 60% or higher attendance at FFA events. The following members received this award: Bethany Bailey, Addison Burns, Justice Fry, Graydee Rains, Owen Schweizer, Tayton Terry, Jacob Wilson, Jessica Hart, Gloria Hernandez, Macie McNeely, Alli Baker, Caragan Baker, Carli Beck, Libby Endicott, Tristan Hamilton, Jenna Rains, Calvin Grady, Hayden Jumps, Brianna Filley, Haven Gibson, Libby Wilson, Rodell Sperry, Kylie Stanger, and Olivia Woody.

The 2019-2020 officer team was also installed at the FFA Banquet. The officers are as follows: Jessica Hart, Chapter President and Area II Chaplain; Gloria Hernandez, Chapter Vice President; Carli Beck, Chapter Secretary; Jenna Rains, Chapter Treasurer; Macie McNeely and Caragan Baker, Chapter Reporters; Hayden Jumps, Chapter Sentinel.

Lewis awarded first ever Harper Scholarship Winston High School graduate (2019) Jacob Lewis has been awarded the first ever Doug Harper Memorial Scholarship, in memory of the long-time fan and announcer of high school and college athletics, who passed away last year. The $500 scholarship is awarded annually to graduating high school seniors, one boy and one girl, who participated in high school basketball and competed in the annual Holiday Hoops during their senior year.

Lewis plans to attend Missouri Western State University to obtain a biology degree toward his goal of becoming a doctor. The scholarship presentation was made by Doug’s son, Heath Harper.

Top students announced at Winston R-6 The Winston R- 6 graduation was held May 19 . V aledictorian of the 20 19 class is Connor Christensen, at left. The salutatorian is J acob Lewis, above right.

Spring sports awards cap 2018-19 GHS school term Gallatin R-5 golf, scholar bowl, baseball and track and field athletes were honored Tuesday night at the R-5 Spring Awards Night. Academic all-conference and 3-sport athletes were among other honors bestowed.

Bo y s G o lf Season: Second at GRC Meet, Second at District Meet. Coach: Chad Sullenger. Team members: Haden Bradford, Hayden Jumps, Justice Fry, Riley Holmes and Owen Schweizer.

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Bradford, Low Stroke Avg. Schweizer and Fry, 4-Year Letterwinners.

Scho lar Bo w l Season: 4-9 overall, 4th in GRC East Division. Coach Nicole Curtis. Team members: Aubrey Burns, John Gibson, Karina Hacking, Riley Holmes (Captain), McKay Marble, Graydee Rains, Cloey Waterbury, Jacob

Ross Nelson signs with CMU Winston R- 6 student Ross N elson signed his band/ music scholarship with Central Missouri U niversity (CMU ) after receiving the J ohn Philip Sousa award and graduating on Sunday, May 19 .

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Courthouse News Ugarte pled guilty to possession of controlled substance, D felony, and was sentenced to two years in the Department of Corrections. For misdemeanors of possession of marijuana and paraphernalia, he was sentenced to time served. He was fined $300 for misdemeanor no valid license, and one charge was dismissed.

Brenda King pled guilty to possession of controlled substance D felony, and was sentenced to four years in the Department of Corrections. She was sentenced to time served for misdemeanors of DWI and drug paraphernalia, sentences concurrent. She was fined $300 for misdemeanor no valid license.

Jeffery Paul Poage had previously pled guilty in March. He was sentenced to five years in the Department of Corrections for possession of controlled substance, D felony, execution of sentence suspended. He was placed on five years probation.

He was fined $80.50 for speeding.

Paul A. Jones pled guilty to DWI physical injury, E felony, and misdemeanors of failure to yield to emergency vehicle and careless and imprudent driving involving an accident. He was sentenced to three years in the Department of Corrections on the felony and to 90 days on each of the misdemeanors, sentences to run concurrently.

A jury trial for Norman Michael Rice was set for Nov. 26, 2019. He is charged with felony assault second degree, misdemeanors of harassment second degree, careless and imprudent driving involving an accident, following too closely, and infractions of speeding and failure to have two lighted headlamps.

Javier Valenzuela was taken into custody for a probation violation and bond was set at $20,000 cash only. He is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of illegal weapon. He posted bond on May 20 and is scheduled for a probation violation hearing on June 12.

Wesley Alexander Kemp pled guilty to no valid license, E felony, and misdemeanor speeding.

Sentencing was continued to July.

Donald Allen Holland pled guilty to driving while revoked, amended from an E felony to an A misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Hannah Elizabeth Mehrhoff pled guilty to possession of controlled substance, D felony. She received a suspended imposition of sentence and five years probation.

Brent Neilsen Adams pled guilty to DWI persistent, E felony, and misdemeanors of no valid license and careless and

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imprudent driving involving an accident. A sentence assessment report was ordered.

Edgar D. Jaime pled guilty to DWI physical injury and leaving the scene of an accident, E felonies, and misdemeanors of careless and imprudent driving, littering and no valid license.

A sentence assessment report was ordered.

A dissolution of marriage was granted to Tina Hendricks from Ricky Hendricks, with her former name of Tina Marie Beck restored.

Midwestern Health Management vs. Jeffrey M. Noah et al was dismissed.

A default judgment was entered for Midwestern Health Management and against Leo G. Hogan et al.

A bench trial was set for July 22, 2019, in Osby Corporation d/b/a Daviess County Nursing & Rehab vs. Glenda Patton and Steven Patton, in a breach of contract case.

Judge Brent Elliott set a bench trial for Aug. 16, 2019, for PST Enterprises vs. Randall Turner, et al, in a change of venue from Clinton County.

Civil cases filed: Debra F. Snapp, Jamesport, vs. Jeffrey L. Snapp, Kidder, dissolution of marriage; In re Carla Marlay, Gallatin, petition for change of name.

A s s o ciat e D iv is io n C iv il C o urt Breach of contract: Portfolio Recover Associates vs. Tracey L. Hackett was dismissed by the parties. VP Inc. vs. Eddie Long was dismissed by the court without prejudice. A default judgment was entered for Merchants Credit Adjusters and against Stephanie Johnson.

Suits on account: Default judgments were entered for LVNV Funding LLC and against Tracy Carder; for LVNV Funding LLC and against Klayton Shaw; for Midwestern Health Management and against Lanny W. Morrow et al. A consent judgment was entered for Midwestern Health Management Inc. and against Tari L. White. Harrison County Community Hospital vs. Nora E. Clutter and St. Luke’s Health System vs. Kristina M. Williams were dismissed by the court without prejudice.

Other contract: Aqua Finance LLC vs. Harold E. Stimpson was dismissed by the parties. ssessor s e Staff members from the assessor’s office will be finishing up review in Salem and Washington Township, and will move on for review and to pick up new construction in Lincoln and Grand River Townships.

Re order s e Marriage licenses issued: Troy Lee Henrie, 36, and Lind-

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sey Marie Edwards, 34, both of Etna, WY; Michael Douglas Mott, 51, Ankeny, IA, and Karen Ruth Kyer, 46, Altoona, IA. Q uit C laim D eeds Lake Viking lot #2105 from Kevin and Teresa Waterbury to Levi and Rachel Taylor; tract in Marion Township from Kevin and Laura Novak and Raymond and Anna Marie Novak to Kevin and Laura Novak. ene iar Deeds Tract in Liberty Township from Brian and Jennifer Duncan to Brian and Jennifer Duncan as trustees of the Brian R. and Jennifer L. Duncan Joint Revocable Trust Agreement; Lake Viking lots #2272, #2273 and #2274 and tract in Liberty Township from Brian and Jennifer Duncan to Brian R. Duncan and Jennifer L. Duncan as trustees of the Brian R. and Jennifer L. Duncan Joint Revocable Trust Agreement; lots in Jamesport from Robert and Peggy Smith to Vicki A. Lockridge. arrant Deeds Tracts in Jackson Township from Glen and Arlene Fry to Floyd and Louise Fry; tract in Grand River Township from Steven and Madelynn Adkison to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; tract in Grand River Township from Robert and Patricia Adkison to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; tract in Grand River Township from Clinton and Melissa Snyder to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; tract in Grand River Township from Susan and Dan Nickell to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; tract in Grand River Township from Douglas B. Snyder to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; tract in Grand River Township from William Dale Snyder to Steven and M. Elaine Bohannon; Partial block in Winston from Joshua Tipton Edwards to Alexandria McNew; tract in Jefferson Township from Gary and Judy Clark to Gary Michael Clark and Mark Allan Clark as joint tenants with right of survivorship; Lake Viking lot #2145 from Jaymes and Sarah Brooks to Darleen Marie Rockwood; tract in Jackson Township from John Edward Wood to Mamie M. Howard, Mayme K. Brinkley and Randall L. Wood as joint tenants with rights of survivorship; Lake Viking lot #1188 from Carol Bunch, trustee of the Warner Bunch and Carol Bunch Revocable Trust, to Carol Bunch and W. Sue Wolfe as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common.

T rus t ee’ s D eed un der A ct iv e T rus t Lake Viking lot #2429 from Sandra Brandstetter Trust to Bradley and Erica Moore.

A lt am o n t U n it ed M et ho dis t Sunday School lesson was “We can be on God’s Family Tree: Jews, Gentiles, Everyone.” God is our vinedresser; he encourages us to bear spiritual fruit, Romans 11:11-24.

Our best wishes to Ethan Walton and Anna Pitchford who were married May 18 at the First Baptist Church in Chillicothe.

Pastor Marilyn and several of our members presented a service at the Daviess County Nursing Home for Sunday worship.

Our prayers are for Sherry Bridgeman and David Roll having surgery at Cameron Regional May 20. We remember Mary Wilson also for comfort.

It is with regret that the Altamont Alumni banquet of 96 years has come to a close because of declining attendance and so many now gone.

We have had so much fun and good memories. Thanks to Jewell Pendleton and Linda Hughs Jones for keeping the Alumni going for the past 20 years. Former students passing this year were Dale Hunt, Bernard Wilson and Jim Parton.

F rien ds in C hris t Kim Brammer welcomed everyone and led opening prayer. Praise songs were “Control” and “Jesus I Believe.” We concluded the sermon series “Fight For It” by Clay Scroggins of North Point Church in Atlanta, GA. The message “Your Struggle Can Be Your Superpower” was from II Corinthians 1: 3-7. Small group time followed the message.

G allat in U n it ed M et ho dis t Pastor Brad Dush opened the service with prayer as Sue Bird played the prelude. Kendra and Aliza were candlelighters. The children’s message was “God’s Will.”

The congregational message was “At the Heart of the Gift,” Acts 11:118. Sue played a lovely piano medley for the offertory.

Congratulations to Daniel and Jennifer Pierce on their marriage.

Please bring fleece pieces, 60inch by 80-inch, to church that will be taken to annual conference to make blankets. No dine in/carry out in May. May 21 at 6 p.m. is church board in fellowship hall.

Wednesday, May 29 is the first noon hot dog ministry outside the south side of the church. June 2 the men will meet at 7 a.m. to go to Hamilton UMC for the fellowship breakfast.

G allat in F irs t Bap t is t Mike Henderson led in intercessory prayer. Dawson King sang special music. Bro. Alan Brock, Director of Missions, presented a message “The Church is…” from Matthew 16:13-18.

REACH Youth hosted a barbecue luncheon for the church family with proceeds to be used to finance summer youth camp registrations.

Food for the event was donated by Jesse Toney.

First Baptist Gallatin will be hosting the birthday party at Daviess County Nursing & Rehab on May 30 at 1:30 p.m.

G allat in F irs t C hris t ian Sunday’s worship service included the installation of Pastor Kyle Taft by Regional Minister Ron Routledge. Pastor Kyle’s message “Devoted Disciples” was based on James 4:1-17. A breakfast reception was hosted by the Fellowship Committee following worship.

Youth Pastor Ryan Beenken will lead youth Bible study at his home at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Disciples Women (CWF) will meet at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, in the gathering area.

The Area Men’s Fellowship Breakfast is at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 1 at the Hamilton Methodist Church.

F airv iew Fairview opened with prayers for Randy Sims, Jerry McFee, Jackie O’s family, Arvella Eaton, Joyce Perkins, Kay Cox, Loretta Speck, Clint Baker, Tracy Michael, Ronnie Cornett, Aspen Clark, Steve McFee, Chance Golden, Carmen Lee, Betty McCulley, Jim Zagney, Marvin McFee, Danny Cornett, Martin Zimmerman, Mary Covert’s mother.

Worship began with the Doxology and prayer by Raymond Searcy.

“In His Time” was accompanied by Marsha Vanisko. Hymn was “Standing on the Promises.” Offering and prayer was by Betty McFee. Special music was by Marsha. Scripture was Proverbs 31:10-15 and the message was “A Virtuous Woman” by Pastor Shadrach Landry. Closing hymn was “Take My Life, Lead Me Lord” and prayer was by Cindy Lang.

Save the date for children’s weekly Bible study starting June 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

L ak e V ik in g Bud Neptune of Gideon’s International spoke Sunday on the Gideon organization. Pastor Robert Nelson preached on “Thy Word,” from Psalm 119:9-16. If you missed the service you can watch it on the Lake Viking Church You Tube channel. The special music was by Mattie Radabaugh and Johnny Brown.

The Ladies Christian Fellowship Breakfast will be held at Trex Country Café on May 25 at 8 a.m. Come out and join other ladies for breakfast and conversation.

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Charles oss, Evangelist; Lord s Day services 10 a.m.; Evening services 6 p.m. or transportation, call 663-4061 or 663-3957.

First Baptist Church (511 W. Richardson St.) — Bro. Wood Marshall, youth pastor.

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Friends in Christ (400 N. Main St.) — Sunday morning worship 9:30 a.m. and small groups at 11 a.m. or more information, call Shonna at 660.663.222 Gallatin First Assembly of God (208 S. Willow St.) — ev. Wayne Smith, Pastor, ph: 660.663.3213. SS 9:45 a.m., Celebrations 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.; Wednesdays 6 p.m.

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Mary Immaculate Catholic Church (409 S. Main) — r. Tom Hermes; Saturday Mass 4:30 p.m. on holiday weekends only; Sunday Mass 10:30 a.m. (all year) Olive Baptist Church (Route V, east of Gallatin) David Leeper, Minister; Sunday School 10 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m. 7 p.m.; Wednesday prayer service 7 p.m. a.m. and Worship 11 a.m.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church (1207 S. Clay St.) — Mike Carner, Pastor, ph: 660.

772.3306; Saturday Sabbath School 9:15 a.m., Worship 11 a.m.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (211 Ash) — David Marble, Bishop, ph: 660.663.925 . Sunday Sacrament Service 10 a.m.; Wednesday youth activities, 7 p.m.

United Methodist Church (111 S. Market) — Pastor Brad Dush; Sunday School and Worship 11 a.m.; www.gal amesumc.webs.com; Email: gallatin umc@hotmail.com

United Methodist Church — Marilyn Dorst, Minister; Worship 9:30 a.m., SS following on 2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays; Sunday School 9:30 a.m. on 1st and 3rd.

First Baptist Church — Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Worship 10:30 a.m.; Sunday Wednesday services 6:30 p.m.; church ph: 749.5577 Fairview Community Church

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United Methodist Church — Eugene eats, Pastor; Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m.

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Once again, next Monday, May 27, we will celebrate Memorial Day. When I say “again,” I say it with joy, not exasperation. The repetition of events can be pleasant or loathsome, a joy or a pain – receiving a notice of payment due “again” or receiving notice that your salary has been deposited in your account “again.”

Celebrating Memorial Day is blessed privilege, albeit a mixed blessing. On one hand, many will be filled with sad memories of loved ones who died for us. However, remembering them is a blessing. Indeed, it would be a travesty to forget.

We are proud of them, thankful for those who fought for us. Yet, we are sad that humanity seems unable to live without fighting and war. With great pride, we attend cemeteries adorned with flags of our country.

Parents take their children to the graves of parents the children will never know. They explain, “This is where your father or mother is buried.

They died fighting for you.” Those loving tributes are well deserved.

However, it surely would be better if those who died for us could have lived for us.

Reflecting on human nature, Jesus told us we would hear of wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6). Still, He wants to be our Prince of Peace. On multiple occasions He indicated the way to His peace is to love one another. He said the remedy for fighting is to love even our enemies.

He went so far as to instruct us to pray for our enemies. Taking his cue from Jesus's words, the Apostle Paul advises us to leave retaliation in the hands of God. Further, he instructed us to “feed our enemies and quench their thirst.” By so doing, he said, “We will heap fiery coals on their head” (Romans 12:19-20). Now, that is a novel way to defeat our enemies.

Those who stand beside the graves of loved one's who died for us may find these words hard to hear. Biblical truths are often that way. We must remember the Bible often tells us how life should be, not necessarily how it is. In our sadness, let us remember it is better to have known and loved our departed loved ones than never to have known or loved them at all. That is what Memorial Day is about. Therefore, remember and celebrate Memorial Day “again.”

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Awards: Hacking, Most Improved. Holmes, Sportsmanship. Rains, Most Valuable and 4-Year Letterwinner.

Bas eball Season: 4-10 overall. Coaches Chris Wever and Dustin Pearson. Gallatin team members: Gabe Allen, Nathan Baker, Ross Critten, Allen Dutro, Ayden Ely, Drayton Harris, Kacen Jones, Klayton Lynch, Morgan McBroom, Colton Rouner, Tayton Terry, Brinley Vandiver, JJ Waters and Gage Wright.

G irls T rack Season: 9th of 16 teams in GRC, 7th of 18 teams at District.

Coaches: Patrick Treece, Courtenay Treece, Penny Gardner and Amy McNeely. Team members: Bethany Bailey, Aubrey Burns, Libby Endicott, Cindy Hacking, Karina Hacking, Claire Hemry (Captain), Morgan Glidewell, Jacklyn Maize, Makayla Rainey, Bre Sample, Kylie Stagner, Addi Stanley (Captain) and Cidnee Toney.

Awards: Stanley, Hustle Award. Sample, Thrower of the Year. Hemry, Golden Shoe. Bailey, Maize and Stanley, 4-Year Letterwinners.

Bo y s T rack Season: 6th of 16 teams in GRC, 4th of 18 teams at District.

Coaches: Treece, Treece, Gard-

ner and McNeely. Team members: Aidan Adkison, Brantley Burns, Jonathan Carder, Landon Corwin, Burke Dalton, John Gibson, Tristen Gibson, Thomas King, Carson Lang, Graydee Rains (Captain), Mormon Stephens, Johnny Stout, Taylor Teel, Mic Warner, Ayden Wayne (Captain) and Kacyn Wayne.

Awards: Adkison, Hustle Award. Rains, Thrower of the Year. A. Wayne, Golden Shoe.

A. Wayne, Rains and J. Gibson, 4-Year Letterwinners.

Academic Award of Excellence (Baseball): Harris, Jones, Lynch and Terry.

A cadem ic A ll- C o n f eren ce Scholar Bowl: Burns, Gibson, Hacking, Holmes, Marble, Rains, Waterbury, Wilson and Woody. Boys Track: Adkison, Dalton, J. Gibson, Rains, Warner, A. Wayne and K. Wayne.

Girls Track: Bailey, Burns, Endicott, C. Hacking, K. Hacking, Hemry, Stagner and Stanley.

Boys Golf: Fry, Holmes and Jumps.

3-Sport Athletes: Endicott, Hemry, Bradford, Adkison, B. Burns, Corwin, T. Gibson, Lang, Rains, A. Wayne, Critten, Dutro, Harris, Vandiver, Waters and Wright.

MSHSAA Award of Excellence: Kelsey Maxwell and Graydee Rains.

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Active Aging Resource Center May 24: Blood pressure; checks 11-12 by 3 Rivers Hospice; May 27: Closed for Memorial Day; May 28: OATS bus will bring you in for lunch M en us M ay 2 7 - 3 1 Monday: closed; Tuesday: spaghetti & meatballs, tossed salad, garlic bread, vegetable blend, fruit with gelatin; Wednesday: BBQ chicken, potato salad, hot roll, green beans, mixed fruit; Thursday: pork cutlet, mashed potatoes and gravy, seasoned carrots, peaches; Friday: chef salad, bean salad, crackers, fruit.

Multi-Purpse Center at Pattonsburg M en us M ay 2 7 - 3 1 Monday: closed; Tuesday: ham loaf, seasoned cabbage, green beans, fruit, oatmeal cookie; Wednesday: sausage, eggs, hash browns, biscuit with gravy, tomato juice, melon; Thursday: pulled pork on bun, sauerkraut salad, Brussels sprouts, Mandarin oranges; Friday: chicken strips or livers, mashed potatoes, gravy, mixed vegetables, pears.

Crowder State Park hosts Explorer Hour, Creatures Night Crowder State Park hosts weekly “Explorer Hour” programs starting at 10 a.m., each Saturday, May 25 through Aug. 31. Meet park staff at the campground amphitheater to explore a short section of trail.

Crowder State Park will host a Creatures of the Night Hike at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, June 1. During this guided night hike, park staff will present information about animals that can be seen and heard at night.

Crowder State Park is located in northern Missouri, off Highway 65; west of Trenton off Highway 146.

For more information about the event, call Crowder State Park at 660-359-6473.

2018 drought and now 2019 flood; area farmers taking a one-two punch In 2018 an exceptional drought plagued parts of northwestern Missouri. Cities and towns reported water supplies falling to critical levels.

Livestock farmers worried about hay reserves and row crop farmers were eyeing the situation with caution as planting season neared.

For Missouri, September 2017-January 2018 ranked as the driest September to January period in more than 40 years, according to University of Missouri Extension climatologist.

The statewide average precipitation for the period was 8.3 inches—slightly more than half the normal of 15.9 inches. That situation has changed. But maybe not for the better as historic flooding is now in the news.

Mandi Bird, Farm Service Agency County Executive Director, reported that from January 1 to April 30 of this year, the area is 1.28 inches above normal for rainfall.

She’s measured total rainfall for May at 6.94 inches so far. As of Tuesday morning it had rained 3.22 inches over the last few rainy day period and it was still raining.

The 30 year average rainfall for May is only 5.3 inches.

According to the Missouri Crop Progress Report, which ended last week, not quite three days were suitable for fieldwork last week. 95% of the corn was planted last year, compared to 62% this year; 58% of the soybeans, compared to 9%; alfalfa hay first cutting was at 24% in 2018, compared to 12% in 2019,

and the same for other hay, 10%, compared to 5%.

Severe flooding that has impacted northwest Missouri and communities along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers will go on for some time due to continued snowmelt and heavy rain. Hundreds of Missouri families have already lost their homes, crops have been damaged and compromised levees have left more communities at risk.

Governor Mike Parson on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Missouri in response to continuing severe weather and forecasts for tornadoes, strong straight-line winds, hail, heavy rainfall, and worsening flooding due to prolonged soil inundation throughout the state.

According to records kept by Mandi Bird, Daviess County’s yearly rain totals reflect 0.11 in 2015; -1.11 in 2016; -8.69 in 2017; and -8.76 in 2018.

Fishing gear loan The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) provides fishing tackle that can be checked out, similar to checking out a library book, at 17 locations in the northwest Missouri region. Free use of loaner gear is offered through MDC’s Discover Nature Fishing program.

Area locations include Crowder State Park; J.C. Penney Memorial Library; and the Caldwell County Public Library.

MDC has placed the fishing gear at public libraries, some MDC offices, and other locations for use by people who would like to try fishing.

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Gallatin school board offers positions, discusses budget and insurance options, contracts to co-op with Jamesport

Winston seniors finish up the year It’ s been a busy couple of days for Winston seniors as they prepare for graduation; they’ ve been cleaning out lockers, taking cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and situational awareness training, attending senior lunch and holding graduation practice.

Winston couple (continued from page one) tained multiple animals, and a substantial amount of animal fecal matter on the floor. The home also contained a large number of fleas, gnats and flies.

Persons in the home at the time included Elizabeth Wilkinson, a 17-year-old juvenile, and an infant only a few days old. Two other juveniles, ages 10 and 15, reside in the home but were not present at the time.

William Wilkinson Jr. was also not present, but several weapons were found in the bedroom which he occupied. Items seized include a Ruger LCP .380 caliber pistol with two loaded magazines, a body armor vest with hard bullet resistant plates in the front and rear, nine loaded

AR-15 rifle magazines and one fully loaded 9 millimeter handgun magazine, and two sets of handcuffs. Marijuana paraphernalia was also found in the bedroom. Found in an upstairs bedroom was numerous rounds of ammunition, multiple round of 5.56 MM and 12 gauge shotgun rounds.

Due to the extreme filth in the home, deputies were unable to search the residence further due to respiratory issues.

Previous felony convictions for William Wilkinson Jr. include tampering first degree and knowingly burning or exploding in 1995, and stealing in 1997. As of presstime on May 22, Wilkinson had not been taken into custody.

200-mile garage sale on Highway 6 The annual 200-Mile Garage Sale on Missouri Highway 6 will take place from June 7 to 9. Any resident living along the route that stretches from Taylor to St. Joseph is encouraged to participate in this event. More details, including a list of garage sales in

each town’s area, can be found on Facebook by searching for the “200 Mile Garage Sale on Highway 6” page or event. If you would like your name added to the list, please message the Facebook page or send an email to 200milegaragesale.com.

GHS alumni celebration set for May 25, fun ‘on the air’ by host, Class of 1969 “We’re Gallatin bulldogs, out of Missouri, that great big farming town….”

Do you know this Gallatin High School fight song may be 50 years old?

Do you remember your GHS fight song? Who was your sophomore math teacher?

Who did your best friend take to your junior prom? These questions and more could be answered at the Gallatin High School Alumni Banquet May 25, 2019.

The honoree/host class of 1969 plans a fun evening. W-GHS 196.9 on the radio dial will be “on the air” for the event with all ’69 alumnus DJs, announcers, and entertainers.

The alumni scholarship winner and family will be honored.

Along with the 50 years out class of ‘69, several alums of the landmark years of 1959 and 1964 will

also be celebrating.

Please make your reservations, so there can be plenty of the great meal for everyone.

Send your $15 each by May 14 to: Alumni Secretary/Treasurer Sharon (Bird) Lockridge, P.O. Box 72, Gallatin, MO 64640.

GHS gym doors open at 4 p.m. with dinner served at 5:30 p.m.

Come celebrate your graduation at this GHS Alumni Banquet.

Basketball coaching and flags positions were offered for the 2019-2020 school year during the May 14 meeting of the Gallatin R-5 Board of Education: varsity boys basketball assistant to Penny Gardner; varsity girls basketball assistant to Terri Feiden; MS head boys basketball coach to Samantha Parman; and flags to Skyler Husong.

The special education position was offered to Mary Jarboe as critical shortage for the 20192020 school year.

The resignation of Kim Johnson as National Honor Society advisor was accepted by a vote of 6-0 (Sweatman abstained).

An extra duty contract was given to Michelle Anthuis as technology liaison for the school’s vendor and the school staff for an amount of $2,000.

A letter of resignation from Joe Clark for May 15, 2019, was accepted.

An additional 10 days was added to Monica Riley’s intent to hire.

The 2019-2020 salary schedule was approved.

The current year budget and the preliminary budget information for 2019-2020 were presented.

The school entered into a one year contract to co-op with Jamesport School for the 2019-20 high school baseball and junior high football season.

Fishing (from page one) the day of the Fishing Derby, providing fishing poles, equipment and bait, plus valuable hands-on assistance to participants.

“The Sportsman’s Alliance will also be providing a free lunch at the end of the event for the kids and their families,” Shoot said. “We’ll have hot dogs, chips and cookies, plus drinks will be provided by Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Chillicothe.”

Last year’s Fishing Derby had to be re-scheduled after a severe thunderstorm forced the cancellation of the event on June 2. The participants in last year’s event caught a lot of bass, bluegill and a few channel catfish when it was held later in the month.

“Hopefully, Mother Nature will cooperate with us this year,” said Shoot. “We just want to make this a fun day for families and their children and grandchildren.”

Watkins Woolen Mill Living History Come join Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and State Historic Site staff as they host a living history farm from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., every Saturday and Sunday through the first weekend in August.

Costumed interpretive staff present life in rural Missouri in the 1870s.

Demonstrations focus on the way people lived and played in the 19th century.

Tours of the Watkins woolen mill and Watkins house are offered daily.

Watkins Woolen Mill State Park and Historic Site is located at 26600 Park Road North in Lawson, north of Kansas City.

For more information about the event, call the visitor center at 816-580-3387.

For more information on state parks and historic sites, please visit the web at mostateparks. com.

Public comment by Tyna Morrison was made expressing appreciation to the building leadership team.

Cindy Boles made a public comment regarding changing the payout rates of personal/sick time at termination/retirement.

Deanna Swalley presented a Sick Leave Pool Committee report. The committee requested a change in policy, that if an individual uses less than 10 days, that individual not have to start over in the contribution of days.

The issue was tabled.

The superintendent, principals and activity director presented reports.

Mr. Gann presented his ISS/ At Risk Report.

Special Education Process Coordinator Cook presented the Special Education report.

The graduation list was approved.

Dr. Copple discussed the plans presented from Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Four plans are being offered. One plan is the existing plan; one plan has a $1,000 deductible; and one plan has a $4,000 deductible and also a Health Savings Account (HSA).

The base plan in the amount of $553.46 will be what the board will

pay for the benefit. The other two will be with a buy-up from employees. The HSA will have the difference paid to the employees into their account.

Insurance rates from Mike Roberts of Creative Planning were approved for July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020.

The board entered into closed session for discussion of personnel and student matters.

The above are the unapproved minutes of the Gallatin R-5 School Board held May 14.

The next school board meeting is at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18.

Board members present were Jesse Bird, Tim Bradford, Pam Critten, Jeffrey Donovan, Trent Dowell, Amy Heldenbrand and Martin Sweatman.

Dr. Copple, Principal Burke, Principal Collins, Principal Thogmartin, Activity Director Gann and Board Secretary Corwin were in attendance.

Staff present was Carrie Cook, Cindy Boles, Tyna Morrison, Deanna Swalley, Amanda Durbin, Carly Boyd, Susan Allen, Courtenay Treece, Sydney Elbert, Debra Sweatman, Kelsey Peterson, April Fenimore and Allie Dolan.

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Agriculture Need your round hay bales wrapped? Located in Jamesport $8.50/bale Call John McKiddy 660-425-1972 Hay ground wanted. Sharecrop or cash rent. Hamilton area. 816223-0928 GELBVIEH PD BULLS 2 year olds and yearlings, excellent quality top EPDs, growth & calving ease. Raising quality gelbvieh genetics 35 years. Hobbs Gelbvieh Genetics. 515-669-6145 Massey Ferguson 2675 tractor with 3,000+ hours. Excellent rubber. Also, Farm King 6ft finishing mower. 3 blades run separate with 2 belts. 660-460-0928 Custom hay baling, mow, rake, and big round bales, field cultivating & disking Call Harry Renne, 660-605-0984.

Auctions Moving Estate Sale of John Thomas. 311 West VanBuren.

Gallatin, MO. May 31, 9:00-4:00 & June 1, 9:00-1:00. Please No Early Sales! Washer, dryer, small chest freezer, lots of furniture, sectional with hide a bed, solid wooden table with 6 chairs, antiques, collection of old oil lamps, several old metal train sets, nice small appliances ,clean household items bedding, toys, tools, and more…. CASH ONLY! Sale Conducted by: “Junk in the Trunk Sisters”; Joy 816-288-9291 & Julie 660-663-7262

Business Opportunities Get your message to more than 18,000 homes in Daviess, Caldwell, Livingston & beyond for as little as $7 per week in the ADZONE. 660-707-1820 or email AdZone@GPCink.com to place your ad TODAY! ROOFING CONTRACTORS: Metal Roof Restoration and Flat Roof Products Manufacturer Looking for Qualified Individuals willing to receive training and install roofing systems. 40 Years of Top Quality Products and Developing Successful Business Owners.

Investment Required. Training Provided. 816-425-1155

For Rent GALLATIN ESTATES APARTMENTS FOR RENT: 1 or 2 bdrm available. HUD vouchers accepted. Rental assistance available to those who qualify.

Equal housing opportunity.

Call 660-663-3114.

GALLATIN, MO; Mary Arlene Apartments. 2 BR apartment, 1 bath, stove, refrigerator, trash & water paid, onsite laundry facility. No pets. Rent/deposit $350. Call 660-605-1050.

Small apartment, ground level, one-bedroom, bath, front room, kitchen, stove, refrigerator, ex-

cellent for single or elderly person. No pets. No smoking. Close to school. One year lease. References. Ph. 660-663-3935.

GALLATIN: Nice double-wide, close to schools. Three-bedroom, 2-bath, front room, kitchen, laundry, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, nice yard. No pets.

No smoking. One-year lease.

References. Ph. 660-663-3935.

CASE Skid Loader, 85hp, by the day, week or month. Contact Gallatin Truck & Tractor, Inc. 660663-2103 or 2104.

STORAGE UNITS: Outside lighting, surveillance cameras, insulated to prevent large temperature variances, different sizes available. Located Hwy. O east of Gallatin. Critten Country Storage, 660-605-3350.

FOR RENT 40x60 metal building. 14 ft side walls, 2 -12x12 overhead doors, bathroom with shower, large wood stove. Rural Braymer area. 660-645-2133 KIDDER, MO 2BR duplex, energy efficient, washer, dryer, stove, dishwasher, refrigerator included. Lawn mowed, snow removal. $500 month $500 deposit. No pets. 816-575-2211 or 913-558-2819.

TRAGER LIMESTONE All Sizes Crushed Limestone and Ag Lime • Trucks Available

Gallatin Quarry 660-663-3101 Nettleton Quarry 660-644-5821 Office 660-646-5831 For Rent in Hamilton: 2 bedrooms 1 bathroom, Central heat & AC, Stove & Refrigerator. Available now Call 816-465-1544 or 816-465-1080.

House for Rent in Gallatin. Cozy 2 BR at 412 South Water St. Reasonable utilities. Stove/refrigerator/washer & dryer hookups.

Recently redecorated. 1 yr lease, 1st month’s rent, plus deposit and two references. Available June 1st. Call 660-605-2184.

For Sale Hamilton 4 bedroom, 1.5 bath, including a study, dining room, and eat-in kitchen. New paint, inside & out. New roof & new AC. Large wrap around porch, and detached garage. Walk to town. $69,000; Call Leslie @ 702-984-8414.

BOATS FOR SALE: New & used boats & pontoons, several to choose from, just watch our website, www.lakevikingmarine.com or call 660-663-3722, Lake Viking Marine.

OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE

by Central Boiler Inc. FREE HEAT & hot water. Eliminate monthly heating bills. Call 660707-3866 today. (No Sunday calls, please).

BASE ROCK, BLACK DIRT AND fill dirt. Huston Trucking & Construction, 660-663-3234 or 660334-0997.

Kettle Creek Ag - Hay Seed & hedge posts for sale. 20 miles West of Chillicothe on route 36.

3 miles North on Turkey Rd. Open 6PM-9PM Mon-Sat. 9855 NE Turkey Rd, Breckenridge, MO.

New 22 Western Style Revolver, $149; New 9 mm automatic, $169; 22 Derringer, $179; Springfield Compact 45 with holster, $385; Guns & Gold Wanted. Cash Buyer. R& R Pawn Shop, Cameron, Mo. 816-632-1787 2005 Harley Davidson Road King approximately 34,000 miles. Call or text for price. 660646-9266

Help Wanted Looking for experienced caregivers. Must be able to pass a background check and drug test. Competitive pay and shift differential. tenderlovinghomeservicesllc.com or 660-4604050 The Gallatin R-V School District is accepting applications for a full-time evening custodial position. Please contact the superintendent’s office, for more information. The Gallatin R-V School District is an equal opportunity employer. 660-6632171; 602 S Olive St, Gallatin, MO 64640 Pattonsburg Multi-Purpose Center, 401 Chesnut, Pattonsburg, is accepting applications for an Administrator’s position.

Experience in computers and QuickBooks is helpful. This position is approximately 30 hours per week, paid holidays & vacation. Please stop by the center for an application M-F 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 660-367-2121.

North Daviess RIII School District is seeking motivated individuals for the following positions: Secretary / Data Reporter; Route Bus Driver for 2019-20 school year. 413 E Second Street, Jameson, MO 64647; Ph. 660-828-4123 DAILY ROUTE DRIVER Graves Foods. Must have Class A or B CDL & able to lift 80lbs.

COMPETITIVE PAY, HOME EVENINGS, PAID VACATION & HOLIDAYS! Apply within or call 660-247-2135 Pattonsburg RII School is currently accepting applications for: Full-time Paraprofessional (60 college credits required) $10/hour plus benefits. Applications are available at pattonsburg.k12.mo.us, or by contacting the district office at 660-367-2111 ext 4, or by email at sireland@pattonsburg.k12. mo.us . EOE HELP WANTED: Teacher, Bethany Head Start, Full Time. Visit www.greenhillsheadstart.org for job description and application or call 660-359-2214. E.O.I.

Notices This is about the person that stole my part Siamese cat back in Dec. She told our neighbor we gave the cat to her. That’s a lie, he said he saw her get the cat and put her in a pet carrier. I took her everywhere and then for her to do that. The more I think about it, I say she isn’t going to get by with it. That’s why I’m going to get a good lawyer. I think I know who she gave my cat to.

Virginia Cox Needing donations for Bethel Cemetery on Lilac Ave., in Gallatin. Graves dating back to the

1800s. Over the years many graves have sunk. Improvements will start soon with dirtwork and reseeding. Thanks for caring. Please send donations to Mary Jo Pittsenbarger, 811 W Johnson, Gallatin, MO 64640 Chillicothe Farmers Market. Saturdays: West Side of the Livingston Co Courthouse 8AM-Noon.

Tuesdays: South Side of the Courthouse 4-6PM. Join us on Facebook @chillicothefarmersmarketmo

Services DAYCARE: Christian Grandmother has an opening for a full time child 2yrs and up. MondayFriday, 6 a.m.-6 p.m. 816-6329475, Gallatin, Mo. References available.

YOUR DIRT IS our bread and butter. Carpet and upholstery cleaning. David Baldwin, 816632-2627 or toll-free 1-888-8542949.

THE HAMILTON BANK checking/savings accounts, loans, IRA’s and C.O.D.’s. Visit www. hamiltonbank.net or call 816583-2143. Branch at Lathrop, MO. Member FDIC & Equal Housing Member.

FOR YOUR ASPHALT & SEALING NEEDS CALL: Griffin Asphalt and Construction LLC, out of Trenton Mo. Larry 660-3591182 or Brad 660-654-1746. 47 years of experience!!

R.Huston Trucking & Construction. All kinds of dirt work, clean out ponds, demolition clearing, pulling trees, site prep, dig basements and tree removal. J.D. Tractor with Hyd ditch mower, brush cutter, track hoe, track loader, back hoe, dozer, scaper, mini hoe, skid louder, dump trucks. Insured! Call Rick 660334-0997 or Ron 660-663-3234, cell 816-390-5161 Custom round baling, wet or dry, same rates. Slicing available. Call Jamin Rinehart 660684-6977 Rosenbaum Plumbing, Sewer and Drain Cleaning. All Your Plumbing Needs. Located in Hamilton, MO, and serving the surrounding area. Repair & Replace sewer & water lines. Robert Rosenbaum, Plumber/Owner. 816-583-2650; 816-632-4240. rosenbaumplumbing@gmail. com; www.rosenbaumplumbing.com Dusty’s Heating, Cooling & Electric. Dusty Huffman. Give us a call and ask about our Preventive Maintenance Program & Duct Cleaning service. 660-9735584 or 660-755-3025, Serving Northern Missouri

Neth Service Heating & Cooling - David Neth; 660-663-5316.

Install, service and repair most heating and cooling equipment.

Abe’s Heating & Cooling - 816205-0362. We fix uncomfortable homes. 24-hr. service, Free Estimates. Repairs, Installation.

Licensed & Insured. 22 Years of Experience, Certified HVAC Technicians, Serving NW Missouri. 62 or older, Military and Veteran Discounts Schindler’s Heating and Cooling; Sales and Service, Cameron, Mo. John H. Schindler; jhschindler@hotmail.com; 816724-1257 Need a painter? Small remodel?

Free quotes. Call David at 660605-1965.

Wanted alteration work. Come to Jo-Don’s Doll Shop. Ask for Joan. 148 W. Sioux Dr Chillicothe. Call 660-646-0682

Wanted Wanting to buy standing timber: Cottonwood, maple, oak, walnut. Call 660-646-5082 after 6:00 p.m.

Farm ground wanted. Competitive rates. Aaron Landes 660-358-2682 Wanted Handy Man - electric and carpentry. Phone or text 660-247-5879 after 12:00 noon.

Garage Sales ADVENTIST CHURCH THRIFT Shop, 1207 S. Clay, Gallatin, Mo. Open: Every Wednesday from 8am-3pm. Open during the noon hour. Free clothing at 1206 S. Willow entrance. 660663-2478

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Winston R-6 presented the 2019 FFA awards during a banquet held May 11. Awards recognized achievements of each class and inducted the 2019-2020 chapter officers. Class histories were presented along with the Greenhand Degree Ceremony, state proficiency awards, state FFA degrees, and recognition of honorary members.

Shelly Mason, and Wyatt and Tammy Christensen of Christensen Cattle Company were inducted as honorary members.

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Amy aldwell received her reenhand egree she participated in airy oods areer evelopment vents, was awarded a ilver Rating for Area reed pea ing, was a member of the nowledge eam, has served as this past year s tar reenhand hapter entinel, Amy aldwell and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. Amy was selected as the tar reenhand.

Jordyn nman received her reenhand egree she participated in airy oods areer evelopment vents, was an Area oting elegate, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. arley Roe received her reenhand egree she participated in airy oods areer evelopment vents, was a member of the nowledge eam, served as the chapter reporter for this past year, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. anleigh heet received her reenhand egree she participated in airy oods areer evelopment vents, was a member of the nowledge eam, was an Area oting elegate, and is the reshman hapter eadership recipient.

Jacob the received his reenhand egree he participated in airy oods areer evelopment vents, has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau, and is the reshman hapter cholarship Recipient.

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alton aton received his hapter egree and orest anagement and roducts roficiency Award.

ogin oll received his hapter egree he participated in the ntomology areer evelopment vents, received the ood ervice roficiency Award, has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau, and is the ophomore hapter eadership recipient.

Reagan arrison received her hapter egree she participated in the loriculture areer evelopment vent which placed th overall in the state, has served as the chapter s reasurer where her boo competed at the area level and received a bron e rating, played her sa ophone with the inston uartet that performed at the tate onvention, received Agricultural echanics esign and abrication roficiency Award, has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau, and is the ophomore hapter cholarship recipient. annah ullinger received her hapter egree she participated in the ntomology areer evelopment vents, has served as the chapter s ecretary, played her trumpet with the inston uartet that performed at Star Chapter the tate onvenFarmer tion, received Agricultural echanics Hannah Hullinger esign and abrication roficiency Award, mall Animal roduction and are roficiency Award, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. annah was selected as the tar hapter armer. yler uessig received his hapter egree he participated in the ntomology areer evelopment vents, received iversified Agricultural roduction roficiency Award, the iversified ivestoc roduction roficiency, orage roduction roficiency Award, the oat roduction roficiency Award, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. yler received the an cholarship. ylie Roe received her hapter egree she participated in the ntomology areer evelopment vents, received the mall Animal roduction and are roficiency Award, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau.

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olly aldwell participated in the loriculture areer evelopment vent at the state level, and is the chapter s current ice resident. he received the Agricultural echanics esign and abrication roficiency Award, iversified orticulture roficiency Award, ood ciutstanding Junior olly aldwell ence roficiency Award, and has

Gladstone man charged in accident A warrant has been issued for Devin L.A. Hall, 24, Gladstone, for felony DWI aggravated, and several misdemeanors in connection with an accident which occurred on April 29 on I-35 near the 62 mile marker.

According to the probable cause statement, Tpr. M. Neely arrived on the scene of the accident and located a Pontiac Aztec which had impacted an embankment, overturned, returned to the roadway and come to rest in the passing lane on its top. Devin Hall was located off the roadway under a tree. An empty bottle of whiskey was located near the vehicle in the debris, and Hall smelled of alcohol.

Trooper Neely later contacted Hall at Liberty Hospital where he admitted to consum-

ing alcoholic beverages that night, but refused to comply with chemical testing. Hall was placed under arrest for DWI. He was released to Liberty Hospital for medical treatment. A computer check shows Hall’s driving privilege was revoked with four active actions. He was convicted of DWI in 2014, in Daviess County and in 2018 in Cameron Municipal Court.

Hall has been charged with DWI aggravated, D felony, failure to comply with ignition interlock device requirements, failure to drive in single lane on roadway, no valid license, failure to maintain financial responsibility, misdemeanors, and a seat belt infraction. Bond has been set at $50,000.

obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau. olly was selected as the utstanding Junior. homas ile participated in the loriculture areer evelopment vent at the state level, played the snare drum in the inston uartet that performed at tate onvention, received a ood ervice roficiency Award, obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau, and was the Junior lass hapter cholarship recipient. yler rimble participated in both the loriculture and the ood cience areer evelopment vents, received the utdoor Recreation roficiency Award, has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau, and was the Junior lass hapter eadership recipient. am the participated in the loriculture areer evelopment vent, received the urf rass anagement roficiency Award, iversified ivestoc roduction roficiency Award, and the iversified Agriculture roficiency Award, and has obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau.

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onnor hristensen received first place at the Area level with his eef roduction lacement roficiency Application, and earned the honor of being recogni ed at the issouri A tate onvention. onnor also is receiving a chapter Agricultural ommunications roficiency Award. e competed in the fall eadership evelopment vents with his issouri attlemen s Association speech where he received a silver rating. onnor also received an Agricultural echanics esign and abrication roficiency Award relating to his upervised Agricultural perience rogram where he owned his own business called elded arpenter. hrough an e tensive application process, onnor has received his tate A degree. helby ason was the retiring inston A chapter president. he competed in the fall eadership evelopment vents with her issouri or roducers speech, where she received a silver rating. helby received a gold medal for her completed placement record boo for recording her hours related to her ood ervice upervised Agricultural perience rogram. he was a member of the inston A alent uartet, playing the tenor sa ophone this year at state convention in olumbia. helby received proficiency awards in ood ervice, eef roduction, Agricultural echanics esign and abrication, Agricultural ommunication roficiency Award, and obtained the issouri Agriculture ills and nowledge ertificate from the issouri arm ureau and received her tate A egree. yler urner received his nvironmental cience and atural Resources roficiency Award and the orest anagement and roduction roficiency Award. After high school yler plans to enter the wor force.

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Memorializing the dead takes special touch

by T.L. Huffman

Taking care of dead bodies for a livelihood might seem strange or depressing to some people. But for Mariah Gibson, a funeral director and embalmer, it’s a matter of perspective.

“I know it sounds weird,” Mariah says.

“But I don’t feel much emotion about something I can’t change. They’ve passed away. I’ll do my best to honor them and serve the community that raised me.”

It may seem an unlikely calling for the 34-year-old 2003 graduate of Gallatin High School. She didn’t come from a long line of family funeral directors. But Mariah actually did have an experience that helped her decide her profession.

“I was working at a local facility for the elderly, thinking of going to nursing school. A gentleman passed away in the night. The people who came to get him were very disrespectful. That’s when I decided that’s what I wanted to do.”

Mariah graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2008, and successfully passed a two-part national board examination prior to graduation. She was a member of Sigma Phi Sigma Fraternity of Mortuary Science and a selected member of the

Mariah says the most rewarding aspect of the job is the appreciation that families express for all that she has done for them. Most families are truly grateful for the stressful nature of her job, that she is available to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that she is a comforting presence at the very worst of times.

“Death is ugly,” Mariah says. “Disease, aging, trauma or accidents, it takes a horrible toll on the body. I try to restore the person to the positive memory-picture that family and friends have of them, to when they were more of a complete person, before the decline. Whole and complete and at peace, that’s the goal.”

bad accident.”

To unwind from the day, Mariah loves to bake and cook, spend time with family and friends, do word puzzles and go to concerts.

She is the daughter of Jeannie and the late Bob Gibson. Jeannie is retired from a nursing career and Bob passed away in 2012.

Mariah has a son Vince, who is eight and in second grade at Searcy R-5 Elementary. Her siblings are Annie and Daryn.

Mariah has been 13 years in the profession. During her career so far, she has seen the phenomenon of four or five husbands and wives who have passed within a year or so of each other. While going to college and working at a funeral home in Kansas City, she had the unpleasant experience of Fred Phelps with the Westboro Baptist Church — who picketed the funerals of military veterans and disaster victims — protesting a procession.

She fears her profession may not last; that she may not be able to retire an embalmer. Traditional funeral arrangements are slipping away.

“There’s a whole generation that doesn’t want to deal with death,” she says.

“When someone dies, life becomes crazy.

It’s a lot of work, though it doesn’t have to be.”

Cremation is less expensive than a traditional burial. In America, roughly 50% of final arrangements are cremation.

“My own dad wanted to be cremated,” Mariah says. “He’d tell us ‘when I die throw me in the fryer.’ And that’s what we did because that’s what he wanted.”

However, she thinks the process of burial is good psychologically for people.

“To see a still and lifeless body allows people to cope and move on from the loss,” she says. “In this area, enough know what they want to do; they want to go into the earth for religious reasons. Traditional values carry us through.”

While in college, Mariah worked with Larry West, who was from Pattonsburg.

The funeral home performed from 250 to 300 funerals a year, nearly all Catholic.

“That was quite an eye opener,” she says. “Everything about a Catholic funeral is a little bit different. And it was interesting to see the volume at a large city funeral home.”

She worked for nearly three years at McGilley until graduating college and during that time knew only three people whose funerals were performed there; they came from area nursing facilities. Mostly she When we went through the untimely death of my worked with strangers.

At dad, I learned that anybody can die anytime Gallatin, she feels she knows everyacademic honor society Phi Theta Kappa. body or their family…and that’s okay.

Mariah worked and lived at the Mc“I like working with people I know,” she Gilley Antioch Chapel in Kansas City all says. “I’d rather have somebody like me through school. In Missouri a person can taking care of them, than somebody who be a funeral director and not an embalmer, doesn’t know them.” but you cannot be an embalmer without Though a funeral director deals with having a funeral director’s license. Mariah loss and grief on a daily basis — the proobtained both in 2009 after completing an fessional term is ‘compassion fatigue’ — apprenticeship under David McWilliams there are parts of Mariah’s job that are at McWilliams Funeral Home in Gallatin. far more difficult than others, such as an She worked for Lindley Funeral Homes in untimely death. the Chillicothe area and also assisted at “When we went through the untimely Turner Family Funeral Home in Maysville death of my dad, I learned that anybody since 2012. She began working as the emcan die anytime,” she says. “I’ve been balmer for Stith Family Funeral Home in there and I know exactly what others are 2016, and worked at McWilliams Funeral experiencing.”

Home until David and Deanna retired in The death of a child is the worst exlate 2018. perience. One of Mariah’s Kyle and Erin Stith took over after Damost frustrating efforts as vid and Deanna McWilliams retired, and an embalmer involved a all the preparation for embalming is done stillbirth, a tiny baby. at Stith in Gallatin; once finished, the bod“I cried for hours,” she ies are taken to other places for the funersays. “It hurts me to not als. Mariah is responsible for all the embe able to make people EARLY balming. look right. People viewing What does an embalmer do exactly? the body may look for two DEADLINE There is actually a great deal to the mea- minutes. I’ve stared at the sures necessary to preserve a human’s body for hours. Things that for May 28 remains for a period of time. But readying stand out to me, nobody Edition the body for a comfortable viewing is one else notices.”

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Mariah is on call every hour of every sleep I ever got, it was so quiet,” she says. “But I’m day if her services are needed.

“Sometimes a lot happens in a day, always scared when I get sometimes nothing happens,” she says. a call, that it’s going to be something difficult, like a “Some days I just answer the phone.”

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favorite part of her job is getting to know people — even if a lot of times it’s after the fact.

“Everybody is loved,” Mariah says. “I get to hear stories people would never tell you on their own. Most fond memories don’t involve expensive things. It’s ice cream at 3 a.m.; a stop at a roadside park; a talk at the kitchen table. It’s always the simple things.”

Everybody’s important to somebody.

“Always somebody comes to a funeral. Sometimes the great-grandchildren come. Even if that great-grandparent wouldn’t know them, they come to pay their respects. It’s touching to see how many turn out. We touch a lot of people in our lives.”

And for many of those who have passed in our area, Mariah’s is the last kind touch on this side.

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