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Coronavirus Update

Confirmed Cases to Date

Daviess Co.. (5 active, 16 recovered) 21 Grundy County..... (+4 this week) 34 Caldwell County.. (revised down) 40 Dekalb County.....(+16 this week) 52 Harrison County..... (unchanged) 62 Livingston Co. . .... (+4 this week) 69 Gentry County...... (+2 this week) 89 Clinton County... (+15 this week) 118

Missouri 76,636 cases, 1439 deaths

Statewide change (7 days): +11.4% Source: Missouri DHSS at 9 a.m. Aug. 26

USA: 5.79M confirmed cases, (u) recoveries, 178K deaths Worldwide: 23.9M cases, 15.6M recoveries, 820K deaths

Source: Wikipedia; Daily situation reports available via the World Health Organization NOTE: Most of the positive cases in Daviess County had either mild or no symptoms; all of the recovered have not had any long-term effects. Testing is available, but you should talk to your physician first.

Several CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) have been granted to councils of government and regional planning commissions across North Missouri. The $400,000 grants will enable them to assist businesses, local governments, and community partners as they recover and rebuild economically from the COVID-19 pandemic. Green Hills Regional Planning Commission at Trenton will receive a $400,000 EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to respond to the coronavirus pandemic by supporting busi-

ness owners and community partners to ensure economic recovery. Daviess County is among those counties served by the Green Hills agency. Other $400,000 grant recipients located in North Missouri include Mo-Kan Development at St. Joseph, Northwest Missouri Regional Council of Governments at Maryville, Northeast Missouri Regional Planning Commission at Memphis, and Mark Twain Regional Council of Governments at Perry. These entities, all EDAdesignated Economic Development Districts (EDD), are some of the more than 850 existing,

provements needed to continue reliable service to the area and reduce inflow and infiltration of stormwater into the sewer system. The facility plan should be complete in January 2021. “Water and wastewater treatment systems are key elements of a community’s infrastructure,” said Carol Comer, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. “We are committed to helping Missouri communities find funding for infrastructure improve-

ment projects, which in turn helps protect public and environmental health and supports the local economy.” The department is committed to assisting Missouri communities with water and wastewater infrastructure improvement projects. Through its Financial Assistance Center, the department provides funding opportunities for communities with water quality, wastewater and drinking water infrastructure needs.

Autumn’s monarch butterfly migration Autumn brings streams of monarch butterflies migrating southward through western Missouri. As they mingle with local butterflies, it gives people a fine time to see the orange and black monarchs as they touch down on flowers or warm up on stone. The Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Burr Oak Woods Nature Center will host a free online virtual program about monarchs from 1 to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The center is located in Blue Springs, east of Kansas City. This program will also teach participants how to utilize citizen science to help track the monarch population’s fall migration to wintering grounds in the mountain pine forests of Mexico. Participants will learn how to catch and carefully handle mon-

archs, how to apply small paper tags to the wings, and how to enter tag numbers in a data base. People finding a monarch with a tag can report it to the online data base. The information gathered helps scientists track monarch movements and population trends. A loss of habitat in North America and in Mexico has dwindled monarch populations. People can help them with small landscape plantings of native plants, such as purple coneflowers or native asters where the adults gather nectar, or milkweed where the larvae feed and grow. Registration is required for this program. To register, visit https://short.mdc.mo.gov/ZBe. To learn more about monarchs in Missouri, visit https://short.mdc.mo.gov/ZBn.

City’s street crews ready to trim trees; new fiber service soon to be installed Gallatin aldermen heard a tree trimming policy, a plan to drop cable lines, and got an update on the unfolding saga of the bats during their meeting held Aug. 24. City crews will be trimming tree limbs back between now and winter in street right-of-way to help tall vehicles and buses that use city streets. Public Works Director Mark Morey advises Gallatin residents, that if you know you have a tree that needs to be trimmed and you would rather have it trimmed yourself, you need to have it done prior to crews arriving in your area. Grundy Electric has notified Administrator Rains that they

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Grants help rebuild North Missouri from COVID-19

MDNR awards $40,000 grant to Gallatin for plans to address stormwater flows The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded a $40,000 Clean Water Engineering Report Grant to the City of Gallatin to evaluate and plan for addressing inflow and infiltration of stormwater into the collection system. The grant offers funding to qualifying small communities to help cover engineering costs for evaluating water and wastewater system improvements. The city will use the grant to identify wastewater system im-

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are moving forward with installation of the fiber throughout town. They plan to move their aerial crews to Gallatin in the next month to start dropping the cable lines and placing the fiber in its place. Grundy Electric is requesting use of a small plot to hold a 6x6 building to store their equipment. The board agreed to establish a rental agreement for placing the building on city property. City Administrator will work through the details with Grundy Electric. Police Chief Mark Richards submitted an activity report dated Aug. 24, for the board to review. The activity report included three lockout, three domestic

disturbance, two traffic accident with damage, two juvenile problem, one burglary, one assault, simple, one animal cruelty, one illegal burning, one curfew violation, three suspicious person, two alarm, two harassment, two animal control, one child abuse or neglect, one citizen assist, one suicidal person, one property damage, not vandalism. The department is unable to find the part for the Impala police vehicle. Chief Richards led a discussion on purchasing a used 2014 Explorer equipped with emergency equipment at a reasonable price. There are five dogs in the (continued on page 10)

high-performing EDA EDD, University Center, Tribal, and Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grant recipients invited to apply for supplemental funding under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

The CARES Act, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump, provides EDA with $1.5 billion for economic development assistance programs to help communities prevent and respond to the pandemic.

Food Pantry ‘pop-ups’ slated for this area Second Harvest Community Food Bank and several local communities will have Pop-Up Mobile Pantries visiting over the next few weeks. All the pantries are held from 10 a.m. until 12 noon, while supplies last. ● Gallatin on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the Seventh-Day Adventist Food Pantry, 1210 Willow. ● Gilman City on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at the First Baptist Church, 451 East State Hwy. 146. ● Winston on Monday, Sept. 21, at the Winston School, 200 West 3rd Street. ● Jameson on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at North Daviess School, 413 2nd Street. Second Harvest Community Food Bank alongside volunteers will be distributing food through a one-day mobile food drop. Second Harvest recognizes the need within this area and is taking action by bringing food to the food insecure individuals. This program is open to the general public. There are no income guidelines.

Jamesport downtown reopens Downtown Jamesport is open again following the collapse of the Post Office building on the morning of Aug. 19. All the mail in the post office is believed to have been recovered and Robert Shields, Officerin-Charge, has returned to work after a close call. Shields had just stepped out of the building before it collapsed; no one else was in the building and no one was injured. The American flag, which remained standing while the brick building crumbled to rubble around it, was presented to Shields by Jamesport Fire and Rescue member Christian James Woodring on Aug. 21.

Christian Woodring, Robert Shields

A temporary post office was brought in on Saturday, according to David Roll, Director Daviess County Emergency Management. It is located across the street from the bank at the city parking lot next to the tavern. Post Office boxes have been bolted to the sidewalk so that people can collect their mail and send outgoing mail. The postal service will be providing a “mobile retail unit” to serve the community. The salon to the east of the post office, Mandy Prescott’s Glamour Shop, which shares the wall with the post office is still closed pending the owner’s insurance company sending out their own people. A second building to the south, owned by Minno Graber, was also demolished, Roll said.

Graber had just purchased the property next to the post office. He signed papers the Friday before the collapse with the intention of renovating and opening it up as a quilt store. Graber is Amish. He had no insurance on the property. The property owner just to the south of the Graber building has been in contact with her insurance company (Sue Olsen, owner of Sue’s Soft Stuff). The tavern is open. The postal service brought in their own structural engineer. The insurance company for Terry Spillman, who owns the post office property, sent out a forensic engineer. The postal service leased the building from Spillman. Roll added that Emergency Management has not received any paperwork at this time, therefore the cause of the collapse is still undetermined. Security around the building was provided to the site by the US Postal Service Inspection Police and local law enforcement. Roadways were closed along the four-way intersection and the block was closed off. Route F and State Hwy. 190 were opened by MoDOT on Saturday. Roll said not all the debris has been cleared. Currently samples of rubble are being tested to rule out any potential asbestos, given the age of the structure. Once those test results are back, the removal of the debris will continue. “I want to thank the Jamesport community and businesses for their patience and understanding throughout this incident,” Mr. Roll said, “as well as the First Responders, Jamesport Fire & Rescue, Daviess County Sheriff ’s Office, Daviess County EMS, the city of Jamesport, and state & federal agencies.”


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