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Friday, January 24, 2020
TRENTON
REPUBLICAN-TIMES
Trenton, MO 64683
Established Sept. 4, 1864 - 156th Year - No. 42
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APRIL 7 ELECTION
Budget Hearing Tuesday The Grundy County Commission will hold a public hearing at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday prior to the approval of the 2020 budget. This is a change in the earlier announced public hearing time. The hearing will be held in the commission room, located on the second floor of the courthouse. The only other item listed on the announced agenda is a 9:30 a.m. meeting at the North Central Missouri College Barton Farm Campus.
NCMC Board Meeting
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Trenton resident Dustin Cox is back to work at Trenton MFA Agri Services after suffering a stroke late last year. Cox credits the quick efforts of Wright Memorial Hospital staff in recognizing his symptoms and administering medical help until he could be transported to Saint Luke’s in Kansas City for further treatment.
I’m proof that it does happen to people my age.” When he arrived at Saint Luke’s in Kansas City, Neurologist and co-director of the Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute Dr. Christine Boutwell introduced herself to him and said, “Mr. Cox, you’ve had a stroke and we’re going to administer the clot busting medicine and an IV.” By the time Cox’s wife, Mandy, arrived in Kansas City, she could already tell a world of difference. Cox spent his first 24 hours at Saint Luke’s Hospital in the ICU, where they discovered a possible cause of the stroke. He had a hole between the upper two chambers of his heart. This defect is found in about 25 percent of Americans and doesn’t usually cause life-threatening issues, but it can allow a blood clot to travel to the brain. He received treatment at Saint Luke’s for three days and went back to
work after a week of rest. “Everybody at Saint Luke’s was really professional, and the nursing staff was outstanding,” Cox said. “We were very impressed with the way things happened and transpired. This hospital is essential to this area as far as we’re concerned. I’m a prime example of that.” Cox has worked at MFA Agri Services for 15 years and is currently the manager at the location in Trenton, helping farmers with seed, grain, and feed. He and his wife were both raised in Trenton and now live on a family farm five miles outside of town with their three children. “I’ve gained knowledge. I’ve always known the warning signs, but now I sit down and tell myself to watch it closely now,” Cox said. Saint Luke’s guide to spot a stroke is See WMH, Page 3
Trenton R-9 Has Race For BOE
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE
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The North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees will meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28 in the president’s office at the Frey Administrative Building. Items on the announced agenda include several personnel items, including a retirement and resignation, employments, salary adjustments, job description updates and Head Start personnel; Head Start surplus items; a presentation by the NCMC Ag Club; and reports from the Head Start directors, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice President for Student Affairs and the college president. An executive session for personnel, legal matters and real estate is also planned.
Schools, Cities, Nursing Home Districts
Tuesday was the final day for candidates to file for school, city and nursing home district elections being held on Tuesday, April 7. The Trenton R-9 Board of Education has four candidates seeking 3 three-year positions with the filing on Tuesday of incumbent Doug Franklin, who currently serves as the board president. Others filing previously for the board were incumbents Corey Leeper and Brandon Gibler, along with Andy Burress. The city of Trenton will not be required to hold an election as all four council positions to be filled have just one candidate each for each of the two-year terms. Those filing for the council include Kevin Klin-
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Local Man Credits Hospital Staff With Lifesaving Effort After Stroke f(Editor’s Note: The following story was provided to the Trenton Republican-Times by the Saint Luke’s Health System.) Dustin Cox suffered a stroke while at work in Trenton and was treated at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. It was the fast actions of the staff at Wright Memorial Hospital, however, that kept him stable until he arrived. Cox, 45, works in agriculture in Trenton and was wrapping up his shift one evening when he lost his balance and dropped a can of soybeans he thought he was still holding. He didn’t feel any pain, but his two co-workers who were still there could tell something was wrong. They sat him down in a chair and called 911. The ambulance transported him to Wright Memorial Hospital – one of Saint Luke’s critical access hospitals – where Dr. Stephen Meirose and nurses performed an MRI and confirmed he had a stroke due to a blood clot in a vessel going to the brain. “He almost looked normal, but there was something odd that made me think maybe he was having a stroke,” Dr. Meirose said. “He was having a little difficulty speaking. Some of his words weren’t making sense, so there was definitely something going on it seemed.” The staff at Wright Memorial assessed Cox’s condition and stabilized him until he was airlifted to the Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. Dr. Meirose says that if it weren’t for Wright Memorial’s proximity to him, Cox likely wouldn’t have received medical attention in time. “With the advent of intervention for strokes, it’s amazing what can be done and how quickly it can be done to decrease any damage from a stroke,” he said. “Saint Luke’s’ stroke intervention and abilities is one of the safest and best there is in the world. We’re fortunate to have it here.” Cox said, “If we didn’t have Wright Memorial Hospital nearby, I would hate to see what could have happened to me in my scenario. I’m 45 years old, I’m not in the typical stroke age range. They told me
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ginsmith in the first ward, Marvin Humphreys in the second ward, incumbent David Mlika in the third ward and Duane Urich in the fourth ward. Also not required to have an election are the North Central Missouri College Board of Trustees and the Grundy County Nursing Home District. At NCMC, incumbents Dr. John Holcomb and Dr. NiCole Neal are the only two having filed for the two six-year terms to be filled. Incumbent Don Altes and Susan Ball are the only two to file for the two three-year nursing home district board vacancies. The city of Princeton will have two races to be decided in April with incumbent Kurt Meighen facing Dillon Adkin-
son for the two-year mayor’s position while Karee Cunningham and Jane Schrader are the candidates for the twoyear south ward position. Incumbent Tony Johnson has no opposition in the north ward. Also with an election scheduled is the city of Jamesport, which has two persons wanting to fill the two-year seat in the south ward, incumbent Reida Gardner and Brandon Robb. Incumbent Rob Murphy is the lone candidate in the north ward. Because of the weather, several area school and cities were unable to be contacted for a list of their candidates. The lists will be published in the RepublicanTimes as soon as they can be obtained.
Because of road conditions due to the recent weather, Rapid Removal has informed area communities that it serves that its drivers are attempting to pick up customer trash in areas to which the company can get its vehicles. In an email to City Administrator Ron Urton, Rapid Removal officials say that due to the roads not being sanded or salted, drivers are unable to drive on some streets because of the ice. The trucks are not four-wheel drive and are hard to stop on this ice, the email said, adding that items that have been put out will be collected when drivers can get to them.
August Primary Filing Dates If you’re considering filing for a county office in the next election, the time to file is fast approaching. Those wishing to file to be on the Tuesday, Aug. 4 primary election ballot may do so beginning Tuesday, Feb. 25 through Tuesday, March 31. County offices up for election and the current officeholder include first district county commissioner (Don Sager), second district commissioner (Joe Brinser), assessor (Kathy Veatch), collector/treasurer (Barb Harris), coroner (Dewayne Slater), public administrator (Jill Eaton) and sheriff (Rodney Herring). Candidates will need to have a Form 5120 filled out and notarized and mailed to the Missouri Department of Revenue before filing with the county clerk’s office, located on the second floor of the courthouse. Persons will need to bring a copy of the 5120 Form and a receipt of payment for filing dues to their respective party when filing. A copy of the 5120 Form can be picked up in the clerk’s office or found online (http://dor.mo.gov/ forms/5120.pdf). A list of political party members can be picked up as well at the clerk’s office for contacting the political party. Anyone wishing to file for committeeperson can do so at the clerk’s office during regular hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. any time between Feb. 25 and March 31. Those with questions may contact the county clerk’s office at 359-4040, ext. 4.
Utility Committee Meets The Utility Committee of the Trenton City Council met on Tuesday night, hearing an update on the electric rate study for Trenton Municipal Utilities. City Administrator Ron Urton said a draft copy of the study is to be reviewed by TMU staff in the middle of February, with the final report to be presented to the council in March. Toth and Associates is doing the study to assist the council in setting future electric rates. Reports were presented and financial information was reviewed with no action taken. Present at the meeting were board committee members Larry Crawford, David Mlika and Cathie Smith as well as Urton, councilman Danny Brewer, City Clerk Cindy Simpson, TMU comptroller Rosetta Marsh and department heads Brad Griffin, Bob Hutchinson, Steve Reid and Kenny Ricketts.
Judges Blocks Portion Of 2016 Law
State Photo ID Legislation Getting Another Look JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers made a case to adopt stringent photo identification requirements for voting on Wednesday, just days after the state Supreme Court struck down key portions of a more lenient voter ID law as unconstitutional. Judges last week permanently blocked a cen-
tral provision of a 2016 voter identification law that required a sworn statement from people lacking a photo ID in order to cast a regular ballot, a move that Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said “eviscerated” the law. The ruling means voters without a photo ID can show a utility bill or another document con-
National Weather Service Snow will move out for the weekend with mostly cloudy skies and highs in the mid to upper 30s. Lows will be in the mid to upper 20s. The high at Trenton on Monday, Jan. 20 was 14, Tuesday’s high was 27 and Wednesday’s high was 33 with a low of 27. A total of 3.6 inches of snow was recorded. The high on Monday at the Government Weather Station near Spickard was 32, the low was 28 with 4 inches of snow recorded.
taining their name and address to cast a regular ballot without having to sign an affidavit. This week, Republican lawmakers proposed a bill that would instead give voters two options: either show a photo ID to cast a regular ballot or else cast a provisional ballot. Provisional ballots would be counted if voters return
to their polling places on the same day with a valid photo ID or if their signatures match the ones on file with election authorities. “We want the people of the state to know that it’s harder potentially to cheat, but if they are registered they can vote and their vote will count," Ashcroft told a House committee.
What’s Inside... The NCMC men’s basketball team got a big win on Monday, defeating the No. 5-ranked team in NJCAA-Division II, Johnson County Community College. See page 2 of today’s Republican-Times for a recap and photos from the game.
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SPORTS NO. 1 NORTH CENTRAL MEN 71, NO. 5 JOHNSON COUNTY MEN 58
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Princeton Girls Go To 3-1 In GRC Play PRINCETON GIRLS 70 PUTNAM COUNTY 35 Not everything was cancelled on Tuesday night as the Princeton High School girls basketball team traveled to Unionville, where the Tigers defeated Putnam County 7035 in Grand River Conference action. Princeton took control of the contest early and never looked back on the way to a 35-point rout of the host Midgets. Lacie Lewis led the Tigers (8-5, 3-1 GRC) with 16 points and Lauren Krohn followed with 13.
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Rayonte Childs drives past a defender during the No. 1 Pirates’ 71-58 victory over No. 5 Johnson County on Monday at the Ketcham Community Center. Childs finished the win with 13 points and three steals.
LOW AND SLOW In Low-Scoring, Physical Contest Pirates Emerge With Victory Over Fifth-Ranked Cavs The North Central Missouri College men’s basketball team vaulted to the top of the national rankings with a high-energy, fast-paced brand of basketball. With fifth-ranked Johnson County making the trip to Trenton on Monday, the Pirates defeated the Cavaliers at their own game. Johnson County no doubt remembered North Central hanging 91 points on the then top-ranked Cavaliers back on Dec. 3. So this time around, a conscious effort was made by the visitors to slow the game into a more physical match-up. And the Pirates beat Johnson County at its own game. North Central embraced the physicality and out-slugged Johnson County 71-58 at the Ketcham Community Center to win the battle of top five-ranked teams. “This game had a different flow to it than most of the games that we have played this year,� North Central head coach Jeremy Esry said. “Our guys did a good job adjusting to the flow and committing to the defensive end of the floor.� The 71 points the Pirates posted was the second-lowest total of the season for the team and the lowest in a victory. The Pirates’ lone loss of the season on Nov. 9 against Parkland was the only time North Central has scored fewer points, collecting just 61 that night. But on the other side, Johnson County’s 58 points were the secondlowest total the Pirates have allowed this year. Only Graceland University’s junior varsity scored fewer points against North Central. With the pace clearly dictated in the
RANKINGS NJCAA DIVISION II TOP 20 1. North Central MO (8), 16-1 2. Milwaukee Area (1), 19-1 3. Des Moines Area (1), 17-2 4. Schoolcraft, 15-1 5. Johnson County, 17-3 6. South Suburban, 18-3 7. Sullivan County, 15-2 8. Beaver County, 16-1 9. Scottsdale, 17-2 10. Davidson County, 16-1 11. Iowa Lakes, 14-3 12. Erie, 12-3 13. North Iowa Area, 15-3 14. Niagra County, 15-3 15. Ancilla, 9-2 16. Parkland, 13-4 17. Kirkwood, 12-4 18. Mott, 14-3 19. Cecil, 13-5 20. Howard, 14-3
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Others receiving votes: Moraine Valley (15-4) 6, Arkansas Mid-South (12-5) 4, Essex County (12-3) 4, Highland (13-5) 3, Garrett (12-3) 2, Lakeland (12-5) 1. Dropped from rankings: Arkansas MidSouth (17).
opening 10 minutes of the game, North Central embraced the challenge. By halftime, a close game had turned into a 37-24 advantage for the Pirates. With offense fleeting in the second half, Rayonte Childs deliverered for the Pirates, scoring 13 points off the bench, all in the game’s final 20 minutes. His effort, combined with North Central’s continued dominance on the defensive end, allowed the 13-point halftime edge to stand at the end of the game. “Rayonte Childs was huge for us off the bench and really sparked us in the second half when we needed it,�
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Marty Jackson holds the ball out of reach from a Johnson County defender during the Pirates’ 71-58 win on Monday in Trenton. Jackson led the Pirates with 16 points, eight rebounds and three assists.
Esry said. “We talked at halftime that if we wanted to win in late February and March, then this would be a great test for us to see if we could win when the pace of the game was slower than we wanted it.� In doing just that, North Central put an exclamation point on its national ranking, moving to 16-1 overall with its 12th-straight victory. Marty Jackson led North Central with 16 points, eight rebounds and three assists. Childs followed with his 13 points, and added three steals. TJ Babikir reached double figures as well, scoring 10 points while Jeramy
Shaw chipped in nine points, three assists and three steals off the bench. North Central’s Homecoming match-up with Metropolitan Community College on Wednesday was postponed due to inclement weather. The Pirates are scheduled to host the Missouri Valley junior varsity tonight (Friday). Tipoff for the men’s-only match-up at the Ketcham Community Center is scheduled for 7 o’clock. Homecoming will now be held as a part of North Central’s match-up with St. Louis Community College on Saturday, Feb. 1. Festivities will begin at the KCC at noon that day.
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Princeton girls 60, at South Harrison girls 41: The Tigers defeated South Harrison 60-41 one night earlier in another GRC match-up in Bethany. Lewis led Princeton with 21 in that victory and Krohn finished with 13. Princeton boys 84, at Putnam County boys 69: Princeton rolled over the Midgets on Tuesday night in Unionville, getting 31 points from Preston Thomas, who also added 14 rebounds and eight assists, and another 30 points from Austin Kelly. Owen Schreffler added nine points and Colton Estes finished with eight. With the win, Princeton moved to 12-2 overall on the season and pushed thier undefeated GRC mark to 4-0. Princeton boys 61, at South Harrison boys 48: Princeton defeated South Harrison for the third time this season on Monday, winning 61-48 on the road in Bethany in the two school’s GRC match-up. Thomas led the Tigers in this game as well, scoring 28 points while Estes added 11 and Kelly finished with nine. Both Princeton teams are scheduled to be at home on tonight (Friday), weather permitting, playing host to the Polo Panthers in a GRC doubleheader.
Sports Briefs... Kids Club Scraps At Staley The Trenton Kids Wrestling Club was in action on Saturday, Jan. 18, competing in the Team Central Scrap at Staley High School in Kansas City. Three Trenton wrestlers returned home with championships as Clayton Glidewell (6U/35), Charlie Riley (14U/110) and Brayden Hughs (14U/125) all won their respective divisions. Riley Griffin (6U/60) and Owen Lowe (6U/65) each placed second at the event and Chase Foster (12U/150) was third. Cooper Eaton (6U/50) and Kynsen Bain (8U/60) each came home with fourth place while Braylee Barron (8U/85) and Jacob Black (12U/150) finished fifth.
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LOCAL DEATHS Linda Cooksey Linda Cooksey, a 77-yearold Edinburg resident, was called Home at 12:35 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 at Resthaven Mortuary in Trenton. Burial will be in Edinburg Cemetery, west of Trenton. Mrs. Cooksey was born on Feb. 20, 1942 in Princeton, the daughter of Richard Sr., and Helen Rae Black Callen. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1960. She was married on Sept. 9, 1966 at Princeton to Robert Dale Cooksey, who preceded her in death on Aug. 27, 2015. Mrs. Cooksey worked for over 30 years at the Trenton Republican-Times and served as the business manager for several years. Before retiring, she was the deputy treasurer for Grundy County and spent many years as Madison Township Collector. She was a lover of all animals and enjoyed the outdoors. One would often find her sitting on her deck in the summer with a cup of coffee and a cigarette in hand. She was an excellent cook and made the best pumpkin pie, “Mam’s famous pumpkin pie, made with a hint of grandma.�
She loved her family and spent a lot of time attending her grandkids and great-grandkids school programs and ball games. She was a member of the Dockery Chapel United Methodist Church and most recently attended Grundy Center United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Edinburg Rebekahs. Surviving relatives include two daughters, Tammy Burgess and her husband, David, and Cassy Gilworth and her husband, Derek, all of Trenton; a son, Cory Cooksey and his wife, Carla of Trenton; four grandchildren, Megan DeVorss and her husband Joseph, Calvin Cooksey, Carly Wanstreet and Kennedy Wanstreet, all of Trenton; five step-grandchildren; four greatgrandchildren; a sister, Carol “Puddy� Hart and her husband, John and a sister-in-law, Mary Callen, all of Princeton. Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by one brother, Richard Callen Jr. Memorial donations can be made to The Dream Factory and may be left at or mailed to the mortuary. Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com
Clarence “Wayne� Stevens Clarence “Wayne� Stevens, 74, died on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 at Forest Hill Funeral Home in Memphis, TN. Mr. Stevens was born on Feb. 10, 1945. He was a 1963 graduate of Trenton High School and retired in 2012 as fleet manager of Ozark Motor Lines. He was a member of the Gilt Edge Church of Christ. He enjoyed music, both listening and playing, as well as showing off his 1971 Buick Grand Sports convertible car at car shows.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Jean Stevens and two children, Annette Stevens Schulz and Tommy (Tina) Stevens, all of Burlison, TN; three grandsons, Steven Schulz, Ryan Stevens and Austin Stevens; two granddaughters, Samantha Jo Schulz and Peyton Stevens; one great-granddaughter, Emmarie Sue Schulz; two brothers, Don (Alice) Smith of Springfield and Bobby Ellis of Trenton; and other nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother, Martha Stuart and his stepfather, Hershel Stuart.
FUNERALS Rosetta A. Sawyer Funeral services for Rosetta A. Sawyer were held at 2:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton. Rev. Doug Crawford officiated. Ms. Sawyer, a 96-year-old resident of Trenton, died on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 at the
Eastview Manor Care Center in Trenton. Recordings of “Amazing Grace� and “Here I Am Lord� were played. A private burial is planned at a later time at South Evans Cemetery, northeast of Trenton.
Clyde Jr. “C.J.� Humphreys Clyde Jr. “C.J.� Humphreys, a 93-year-old resident of Lee’s Summit and formerly of Humphreys, died at 4:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 at Addington Place of Lee’s Summit. Graveside services were held at 11 a.m. today (Friday, Jan. 24, 2020) at the Humphreys Cemetery. Mr. Humphreys was born on July 18, 1926 in Humphreys, the son of Clyde E. and Pearl Birck Humphreys. He graduated from Humphreys High School. He served in the U.S. Maritime Service as a radio officer, followed by a period in the Army Signal Corps teaching electronic countermeasures. Upon discharge he attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, receiving a degree in electrical engineering. He enjoyed a 30-year career with the Federal Aviation Agency in Washington, DC and the Kansas City regional office. After retiring, he returned to the family farm near Humphreys, and later moved to Trenton and then to Lee’s Summit. His survivors include one son, Jan O. Humphreys and his wife, Linda of Lee’s Summit; four grandchildren, Stephanie Cihacek of Lee’s Summit, Laurel Allison and her husband, James of Lea-
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wood, KS, Lynette Ewy and her husband, Nick of Overland Park, KS and Gregory Humphreys and his wife, Brette of Prairie Village, KS; nine great-grandchildren, Zachary and Jackson Cihacek, Pierce, Evan and Claire Allison, Darby and Garrett Ewy and David and Lillian Humphreys; one niece, Pamela Humphreys of Columbia; and two nephews, Melvin Humphreys and his wife, Pat, and Marvin Humphreys, all of Trenton. He was preceded in death by his parents, and one brother and his wife, John Birck and Edna Humphreys. Memorials are suggested to the Humphreys Cemetery and may be left at or mailed to the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com
Edna M. Thompson Edna M. Thompson, a 93year-old resident of East Moline, IL, died on Monday, December 16, 2019 at Hope Creek Care Center in East Moline. A celebration of life will be from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 at East End Club in Moline, IL. Private graveside services will be at a later date at Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton. Mrs. Thompson was born on May 6, 1926 in Trenton, the daughter of Loren and Clara Mitts Sharp. She was married on Jan. 28, 1951 in Moline to John Edwin Thompson, who preceded her in death on March 18, 2006. She graduated from Trenton High School in 1944 and worked at Iowa Bearing Company in Davenport, IA. She was a member of Elks Club, the First Baptist Church at Trenton and the First Baptist
Church at Moline. She enjoyed volunteering, knitting, playing board games and spending time with family, especially with her great-grandson Augie Cross. Survivors include her children, Vern Thompson, Don (Janine) Thompson and Susie (Steve) Thompson Archer, all of Moline; grandchildren, Dylan (Sara) Cross, Alan (Sara) Cross, Brooke (Chris) Banker, Brittney (Rick) Siam, Kayley Chapman and Curtis Thompson; great-grandchildren, Carver and Kayden Banker, Ava and Connor Cross; and her best buddy, Augie Cross. She was preceded in death by her sister, Leo; and brother, Marvin. Memorials may be made to First Tee of the Quad Cities at 2430 River Dr. in Moline, IL. Online condolences may be left at www.resthavenmort.com
Recognized as the Employee of the Month at Sunnyview Nursing Home and Apartments was Courtney Johnson. Ms. Johnson works in nursing and has been caring for residents since 2017. She was presented a check from the Sunnyview Foundation by Sunnyview Administrator Jerry Doerhoff.
Thomas Brings Show To KC Former Trenton resident Marty Thomas recently released a new album and will be showcasing it during a Kansas City area show in February. Thomas, who resides and works in New York City, will be performing at the Music Theater Kansas City at B&B Theaters Shawnee 18 in Shawnee, KS on Friday, Feb. 7. The “Slow Dancing with a Boy� Tour will feature songs from the new album, which rose to number 19 on the iTunes pop charts in its first week of release. The music runs the genre from pop to musical theater. The show gets under way at 8 p.m. and tickets are available through the website http://www.mtkc.org/
marty/ A Trenton native and graduate of Trenton High School, Thomas has been a fixture in New York City since his Broadway debut in “The Secret Garden.� His Broadway credits also include “Xanadu� and “Wicked� and he has also performed in several productions at the New York Theater as well as regionally. His most recent television role was “Charlie� on the Netflix show, “Grace and Frankie.� Musically, “Resurrect Me,� a tune recorded in 2001, was nominated for three Grammy Awards. He is the son of Philip and Carol Thomas of Trenton.
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SNOW DIDN’T STOP FARM MEETINGS, BUT ICE WITH RAIN ON TOP STOPS ALL Snow days don’t stop farmers from attending extension meetings to learn new methods. However, icy roads stop wise travelers. We’re being tested big. lately. We had big turnouts at Show-Me-Select meetings and Missouri Cattlemen’s convention. But, ice came after people were in Columbia, so some stayed an extra day. The Computers on the Farm meeting wasn’t lucky. Severe storm warnings of ice caused farmers and speakers to say they could not meet at Osage Beach. MU organizers cancelled. The best part is speakers who are farmers. MU specialists add more options. Farmers talking to farmers makes good Extension teaching. COTF is different. Computers went from bookkeeping to complex precision farming. Computers even track drones scouting crops. John Travlos, an MU organizer from the start, said this is the fourth year to be hit by bad weather. Last year I recall about 50 cars piled up on icy Hwy. 54 at the Lake. Those who arrived at the resort early held their meeting. but COTF was reset later for all. This time the meeting is reset for Feb. 14-15 at Margaritaville Resort on TanTarA Road. The resort gives good rates for winter meetings. It’ll be almost spring-like by time of a new meeting. Right? We hope. Now more people can attend. There’ll be more details as new speakers are added. Kent Shannon, MU engineer, joined the planning team. He knows precision farming approaches. He’ll answer queries: shannond@missouri.edu. Internet exchanges this week said computer programs aren’t keeping up with advanced farm bookkeeping. With artificial intelligence (AI) surging in manufacturing, more number crunching may guide farm management. I hope by time of COTF
meeting, someone steps up with an AI approach to farm finances. It’s close in precision agriculture. Meanwhile, I’ve learned ice walking. I saw on the web how to walk on ice: Don’t use long strides. Take tiny steps forward, keeping feet under the weight of your body. Facebook calls this “penguin walking.� I tried it and felt secure. Earlier, I learned to never use my cane for stability on ice. The cane slides right out from under me. I did a penguin creep to my iced-over car Friday noon, after a doctor’s appointment. My car was clear when I parked, but icy sidewalks and windshield met me. I reached the car, but a shove on my ice scarper, sent my slick shoes the other way. Plop! I was down hard on water covered icy parking lot in the rain. I crawled to where I pulled myself up on a cold car-door handle. Finally, I was up as another person came out. Seeing me, he learned to be careful. My good deed for the day. There will be plenty more winter meetings, with possible snow and who knows how much ice. There will be Show-MeSelect meetings coming up to plan starting new sales this year in northwest Missouri. Jenna Monnig at Mercer County Extension Center will get stories out. Be watching for those in the next weeks. Buying SMS replacement heifers is a quick way to jump start a better cow herd. It’s faster than growing your own. Producers already advanced their herds, going out of area to buy from six existing sales. Fall sales are held for spring-calving heifers. There are sales for both types of herds, fall and spring calving. All add value to their calves. Those SMS heifer calves make better mama cows. Steer mates make valueadded feeder calves. Tell ice stories at duanedailey7@gmail.com.
LOCAL GRAIN PRICES JAN. 22 GFG Ag Services-Trenton (www.gfgagservices.com) Corn, 3.54; oats, 4.45; soybeans, 8.69; milo, 3.19. Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers/Carrollton (1-800-722-4407) Old Crop - Corn, 3.98; soybeans, 8.83; wheat, 5.57. New Crop - Corn, 3.65; soybeans, 8.80; wheat, 5.51. Trenton MFA Soybeans, 8.69 (Jan 20); 8.59 (Feb 20); 8.54 (Mar 20); 8.63 (Apr 20); 8.75 (New Crop 20). Corn, 3.49 (Jan 20); 3.49 (Feb 20); 3.44 (Mar 20); 3.49 (Apr 20); 3.46 (New Crop 20). Laredo MFA Soybeans, 8.69 (Jan 20); 8.59 (Feb 20); 8.54 (Mar 20); 8.63 (Apr 20); 8.75 (New Crop 20). Corn, 3.49 (Jan 20); 3.49 (Feb 20); 3.44 (Mar 20); 3.49 (Apr 20); 3.46 (New Crop 20).
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Five Points by Wendell Lenhart
Prior Investment Paying Big Dividends Construction on facilities in the Trenton R-9 School District continues to progress despite the recent spate of winter weather we have experienced. A new performing arts center at Trenton High School and concession stand at C.F. Russell Stadium are being built along with improvements being made to Rissler Elementary School and the TMS/THS Media Center. After the 99-cent tax levy used to build the new Trenton Middle School was set to expire last year, district voters agreed to allow the levy to continue with the money to finance the improvements currently Wendell Lenhart needed under way. This “no tax increase” continuation of the levy has allowed these improvements to be made without any additional cost to the taxpayers of the R-9 District. Look how far we’ve come as a school district the last 20 years and all the improvements that have been made in facilities and educational opportunities for our children, giving them a quality education that is a foundation for a successful life. Who knew that the commitment we made as voters years ago would continue to pay dividends more than 20 years later and continue well into the future? And it affects not only our schools and children, but our quality of life in the number of companies and jobs that we are able to attract and retain here. That investment made by voters in 1999 has allowed us to keep our buildings, teachers and educational opportunities up-to-date during a time when other school districts struggle to just maintain what they currently have in place. When I read information in other newspapers about what schools are facing, it makes me proud of what we have been able to accomplish here and the confidence that local voters placed in the school system. The St. Joseph School District faces having to close both elementary and high school buildings as well deciding how to pass an operating levy to make improvements to existing buildings, which date to the 1980’s and earlier. Chillicothe has addressed its school needs for preschool through first grade with a new building near the high school, but still has issues with much older facilities for the grade school and middle school students. They will attempt to pass an increase in the operating levy again this spring after it was recently defeated. It all shows how smart the patrons of the R-9 School District were in 1999.
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A Major Change In Missouri Highway Funding by Phill Brooks, Director Missouri Digital News For the second year, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has proposed an historic and controversial shift in how highways are funded. His idea, approved by the legislature last year and recommended again this year, allocates for highways a small piece of "General Revenue" that finances the bulk of non-highway functions of state government including health, welfare and education. This is an historic shift. For decades, state highways have been financed by the taxes and fees generated from highway users such as gas taxes, along with matching federal transportation funds. That highway revenue is placed in a constitutionally protected "State Road Fund" under the total control of the independent Highways and Transportation Commission. In contrast, the legislature controls use of General Revenue, subject to approval or veto by the governor. There are exceptions for "earmarked" taxes that, by law, must be spent on specific programs. For example, much of the state's gambling tax revenue is dedicated to education. A few agencies are completely free from appropriated General Revenue. The Conservation Department doesn't get a penny of General Revenue. Instead, it's financed by hunting and fishing fees along with a sales tax earmarked for the department. The Transportation Department is appropriated a very small bit of General Revenue, but mostly for non-highway purposes such as aviation, rail and public transportation. The governor's proposal to use $50 million of General Revenue to supple-
ment the highway user-fee system for local road projects has raised concerns by a few legislators. Some complain it's a "rob Peter to pay Paul" approach by diverting General Revenue money from programs like education and health care. Another issue is the degree to which the governor's approach moves selected highway projects into the political arena by using General Revenue that requires approval by the legislature and governor. Last year's appropriation even gave Parson's Economic Development Department a voice in the project selections. That effectively handed the governor bragging rights about the projects. The Transportation Department's website announcement even linked to the governor's office for the list of approved projects. Bragging rights by partisan officials would not be possible for projects financed by State Road Fund monies that are under the total control of the Highways and Transportation Commission. One downside of Parson's approach was demonstrated when a newspaper story reported that a fellow Republican -- former Sen. Jay Wasson, R-Christian County -- sought funding for a project, which he ultimately got. There was no evidence of political favoritism. But involvement of the Republican administration in awarding a state-funded project sought by a former Republican official raised questions. In the governor's defense, State Road Fund taxes and fees simply
have not kept up with the rising costs to adequately maintain highways and to meet the growing volume of traffic. For years, the Transportation Department has warned it does not have enough money to maintain the state highway system. Repeated concerns have been voiced that a deteriorating highway system hinders local business development and recruitment of businesses from other states. But Missouri voters have not been receptive. In 2014, state voters decisively rejected a ten-cent-per gallon motor fuel tax increase. In 1970 and 1992 voters decisively rejected toll roads. In 2012, the Transportation Department director suggested tolls did not require voter approval. But the idea met with stiff legislative opposition. One Republican senator recently told me the highway infrastructure is so horrid that it warrants General Revenue funding. An alternative to this quagmire has been sponsored this year by Sen. Doug Libla, R-Poplar Bluff. His bill would increase the motor fuel tax by just two pennies per gallon. While not enough to fully resolve the highway funding problems, it's small enough to avoid requiring voter approval. Of course, in an election year the prospects of any kind of tax increase without voter approval clearing the legislature would appear to be slim. Even if passed by the legislature, it would be subject to veto by a governor seeking election to a full four-year term.
What Others Are Saying... Law Change Urged An outdated Missouri law limits civil claims arising from sexual abuse offenses committed against children to a 10-year window.
Guest Editorials House Bill 1411 would finally lift the statute of limitations for filing civil lawsuits in child sexual abuse cases. The measure, which is sponsored by state Rep. Sheila Solon, a St. Joseph Republican, is scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday. In 2018, Missouri lawmakers removed the statute of limitations for criminal child sex abuse offenses. Just as a time limit for criminal charges was misguided, so, too, is imposing an expiration date limiting survivors’ ability to seek justice through civil lawsuits. As more allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy have emerged across the country, revealing decades of cover-ups, many other states already have extended or eliminated both the criminal and civil statutes of limitations. Missouri lawmakers should follow suit and act expeditiously to eliminate the time limit for civil claims. “To have a rigid deadline, by which victims must step forward, is both unjust and unwise,” said abuse advocate David Clohessy, the former national president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “It’s unjust to those deeply wounded men and women who want to safeguard other kids from the horror they endured.” Many victims of child sex crimes do not report the abuse they suffered until years later — or even decades. The trauma mostly surfaces in adulthood,
Clohessy said. “Tragically, by the time all of this happens, it’s usually too late for victims to act because of Missouri’s archaic, predator-friendly statute of limitations that essentially gives those who commit or conceal these heinous crimes strong incentives to intimidate victims, threaten whistleblowers, discredit witnesses, destroy evidence and even flee the state or country,” he said. “We desperately need to reverse this.” While there’s no doubt that Missouri’s current statute of limitations should be lifted, some advocates for protecting children have called for tweaks to the legislation, raising questions about whether it could allow lawsuits against individuals but absolve institutions that protected predators from blame. They’re right that both institutions and individuals must be held responsible in these cases. Missouri lawmakers must ensure that victims have every option available to hold predators responsible for their crimes — without the possibility of time expiring. — Kansas City Star
Mothers’ Mortality Rate Up A new report by the Centers for Disease Control shows the mortality rate of mothers has dramatically increased. Missouri is much worse than the average — our state has one of the highest rates of death during and after pregnancies. Our state ranks 44th in the nation, with a 2019 maternal mortality rate of 40.7 per 100,000. The national average is 29.6, according to an October 2019 report by the Center for Health Economics and Policy.
Statistics also show a disparity between whites and blacks, with black women nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or while giving birth. The maternal mortality rate often is used to indicate the level of health care in general within an area. What are the causes of the deaths? The Center for Health Economics and Policy report said chronic health conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic heart disease, increase the risk of complications for pregnant women. Other factors for putting expecting mothers at a greater risk are older maternal age, multiparity (having given birth to five or more children), obesity and lack of health insurance coverage. The increased usage of C-sections in the U.S. has also been linked to higher maternal mortality rates. Some also blame a lack of access to health care for driving up the rate. The Missouri Hospital Association is working with agencies and state lawmakers to address the issue, WGEM-TV recently reported. One thing Missouri has done recently is to join the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. It calls itself a "national data-driven maternal safety and quality improvement initiative based on proven implementation approaches to improving maternal safety and outcomes in the U.S." The goal is to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and severe morbidity across the United States. We hope Missouri lawmakers take note of this growing problem and look for solutions during the recently started legislative session. — Jefferson City News-Tribune
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COMMUNITY Ford Judy Jackson The Galt Baptist Church held services on Sunday morning, Jan 29. Gene Schreffler's message was "The Talents God Has Entrusted to Us," with scripture from Matthew 25:14-30. Stan and Mary Helen Richardson held Bible study at the Sunnyview Nursing Home on Thursday afternoon. They visited with several residents while there and also with
Everett and Ann Cunningham. Jerry and Sharon Berry and Stan and Mary Helen attended the visitation and funeral service for Rosetta Sawyer on Monday afternoon at the Resthaven Mortuary. Jerry and Sharon visited afterward with Tammy Paulus and ate supper with Ruby Elliott. Danny and Colt Berry visited on Tuesday evening with Jerry and Sharon.
Shelburne Cathie Rice At Shelburne Baptist Church on Sunday, Jan. 19, special music was provided by the bell choir playing “It Is Well With My Soul.� The congregation heard about the new program in Grundy County, Friends of Life Options, Green Hills. Pastor Aaron Stark spoke, using scripture references 1 Peter 5:5-11 and Ephesians 6:10. With plenty of road salt, blades and snow shovels, residents from the neighborhood enabled folks to attend Sunday school, church and the business meeting at Shelburne. Many roads continue to be treacherous and are
not advisable to drive on. The ice, rain, and snow over this weekend once again kept many homebound. Being at home is enjoyable and allows persons to begin to find all the items tucked away for a snowy day. Donzetta Prewitt lost her garage and vehicle in an early morning fire on Monday. Help from the Trenton and Jamesport fire departments and her neighbor Andrew Geiser helped keep the fire contained to the one building. Karen Prothero attended supper club with the friends group on Thursday at Washington Street.
Chapter MN Initiates Members Chapter MN, PEO met on Monday, Jan. 20 at the home of hostess Phyllis Jackson with 20 members and one guest, Maureen Funk, present. Wenda Seymour was the cohostess. Initiation ceremonies were held for two new members, Alisia Ormsby and Vicki Weaver. Robin Wilson conducted the business meeting. Lindsay Oram gave the devotion. Members were reminded dues are to be paid before Feb. 1. Corresponding Secretary Barbara Cox read thank you notes from Beverly Hooker, Taylor Ormsby, Elle Neal, Chapter AD, PEO and THS Principal Kasey Bailey. A letter was read from PEO International regarding the VIP  campaign. Mrs. Cox gave a report on the PEO Educational Loan Fund and Ms. Jackson gave a
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report on the Scholar Award. Mrs. Wilson announced she would be appointing a nominating committee for new officers for the next two-year term, which begins on March 1. The Yearbook Committee passed around the list of available dates for hostessing and providing programs for 202021 as well as to check member information. As it was also the celebration of Founder’s Day, Pam Johnston gave the program regarding the history of the PEO “opening ode.� The next meeting will be on Monday, March 2 with Pam Klaver as hostess. Cheri McHargue will be the co-hostess and Mrs. Seymour will have the program.
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Trenton Area Calendar of Events SATURDAY Green Hills Wellness Challenge Weigh-In, Ketcham Community Center, Regular Business Hours. Church Women United Thrift Shop, 17th &  Harris, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Grief Share Self-Help Group, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 4:30 p.m. Celebrate Recovery, Tenth Street Baptist Church, 6 p.m. Community Card Playing, Galt Lions Hall, 6 p.m. SUNDAY Narcotics Anonymous, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 4 p.m.
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AGRICULTURE
Missouri Man Runs One Of Biggest Frauds In US History CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) — Like all the best con artists, Randy Constant was a charmer, hard not to like. Big hearted. Good listener. You’d never have guessed that the father of three, grandfather of five was a liar, cheat and serial philanderer who masterminded one of the biggest and longest-running frauds in the history of American agriculture. “He was a wonderful person,� an old friend told The Kansas City Star. “He just had that other side to him.� And then some. “What he done shocked me to death,� said Stoutsville, Missouri, farmer John Heinecke, who did business with Constant for years. “I didn’t know he was that kind of corrupt.� Church-going family man. School board president. Agribusiness entrepreneur. That’s the caring, accomplished Randy Constant people knew in Chillicothe, Missouri, which advertises itself on road signs as the “Home of Sliced Bread.� Until the full story started to emerge last summer, Constant seemed like one of the best things to come out of Chillicothe since those first pre-cut loaves appeared on store shelves 90 years ago. He made a good living buying and selling organic grain. He raised tilapia by the ton inside a former Walmart, shipping the farm-raised fish to Whole Foods and hundreds of other supermarkets nationwide. His reputation earned him prominent mention in Successful Farming magazine’s June 2017 special issue as one of “10 Successful Farmers to Watch� in America. What the magazine’s editors didn’t know was that Constant was already being closely watched. On a humid Tuesday morning later that same month, a line of black SUVs rolled down Oaklawn Drive and parked outside the four-bedroom, Cape Cod-style house that Constant shared with his wife, Pam. “We have a search warrant,� agents from the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Agriculture said as they appeared at the couple’s front door around 9:30 a.m. For five and a half hours, investigators sorted through records from Constant’s business and personal life. There was a lot of material to process because Constant had quite inexplicably become one of the biggest sellers of “certified organic� feed grain in the entire country. Records showed that in 2016 he sold 7% of all the corn labeled organic and 8% of all the soybeans carrying that designation. More than $19 million worth that year, $24 million the year before and so on every year before that back to 2010 at least. It was impossible for him to have done that legitimately. He didn’t have access to enough organic crop acres to supply so many bushels. “Somebody who was competing with him in the organic market noticed that he was flooding the market with too much grain and at too low of a price for what organic grain should be sold for,� federal prosecutor Anthony Morfitt told The Star. That’s what got the whole thing started. A tip rather than the government’s flawed oversight program for the organic
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food industry. For many years, that inspection system had failed to detect Constant’s fraudulent scheme. Now the feds were onto him. There was plenty of temptation to cheat. Organic grain costs more to produce per bushel than conventionally grown crops and therefore demands a higher price. After processing, it is fed to cattle and chickens, whose meat is also sold at a premium in stores and restaurants because a growing number of consumers are willing to pay more for protein that comes from animals raised on a natural, organic diet. There’s no proof that the meat is any better for you, but some people believe it is and others have philosophical or environmental reasons for preferring it. To earn the National Organic Seal, the plants from which organic grain is harvested cannot have been genetically modified. And they must be grown without help from chemical fertilizers or synthetic weed or bug killers. But for decades the government’s system for ensuring that consumers get what they are paying for has been inadequate. It largely depends on trusting that organic farmers are honest and that the private inspectors who monitor their operations are thorough in reviewing the paperwork because there is no test to determine whether an ear of field corn, say, is organic or not. A clever and unethical seller can successfully pass off cheaper conventionally grown grain for the more expensive organic kind and make a huge profit, if they sell a lot of it. The agents suspected Randy Constant of doing just that. With the FBI’s assistance, the USDA would go on to prove that Constant was a swindler on a grand scale: More than $140 million in fraudulent sales between 2010 and 2017 for grain that was likely worth half that. The Star’s subsequent reporting found that, in fact, his scheme stretched back further than that, to 2007 or 2006. Constant scammed grain buyers, meat producers and millions of American consumers for a decade or more. The organic beef and poultry countless Americans were eating during those years wasn’t organic after all. It was just like any other meat. All thanks to Randy Constant, who squandered the profits on a fish farm that failed, travel and a secret, double life that was shockingly at odds with his good-guy image in Chillicothe. As his family members wept during his sentencing hearing for wire fraud in an Iowa courtroom last August, prosecutors disclosed the scandalous ways Constant had spent some of the ill-gotten profits. Not only did he bankroll extravagant family vacations every summer — counting kids and grandkids, he’d treat a dozen to stays at luxury resorts like Hilton Head, South Carolina — Constant also admitted to using the grain sales money to pay for sex with prostitutes and wagering at casinos. He took more than 20 trips to Las Vegas, often alone, during the seven-year period covered in his indictment. There he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal profits on gambling on the Vegas strip, hiring female escorts and providing financial support to three women with whom he had extramarital affairs. He shared a bank account with one of them, and spent $110,000 on her car payments and other bills, a trip to Spain •WANTED• FARM GROUND to Lease! Competitve Rates
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and surgery to enhance her breasts. “During a roughly sevenmonth period in the course of the scheme,� Constant admitted in court records, “another account in my name and under my control incurred more than $250,000 in Las Vegas-related expenses.� The revelations stunned those who had befriended the onetime high school football star and local Future Farmers of America president. They still find it hard to grasp that someone who once seemed to believe strongly in the value of growing food organically would betray that industry, not to mention business associates, friends and family. “I knew a different Randy than what I read about in the papers,� said former Missouri organic farmer Maryann Kohl, now retired in Palm Springs, California. “Everything about him seemed good and legitimate.� Who was Randy Constant? When did he go astray and how did he get away with his scam for so long? The Star spent more than a month finding answers to those questions by reviewing court, business and government records, as well as conducting interviews with regulators, industry officials and those who knew him. The most intriguing question of all may never be answered. Only Randy Constant knows why he did what he did, but at age 60 he took his own life last August. Three days earlier he’d been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. He was ordered to forfeit $128 million, a fine that he almost certainly never would have been able to pay off. “I know Randy was deeply ashamed of his conduct,� his widow said soon after his passing. She and other family members were unwilling to discuss with a reporter anything more about the man or his many mistakes. Despite Constant’s faults, former business partner Glen Borgerding remains sympathetic and remembers him fondly. “The reaction you get from people after hearing of his suicide is that he deserved what he got,� he said. “But I don’t feel that way. There was a lot of good in Randy and the real tragedy is that he went down this path.� While many sellers have been hit with civil penalties for engaging in organic food fraud, only a few bad actors have ever been prosecuted criminally. One of the first was a Texas farmer sentenced in 2010 to two years in prison for fraudulently mislabeling three kinds of beans and millions of pounds of milo as organic. The next year, two California fertilizer suppliers and an Oregon grain farmer got prison time for falsely claiming their products were organic. And more recently, Bernard Saul of Bliss, Idaho, was sentenced in 2016 to three years in federal custody and three years probation for selling far more “organic� alfalfa seed than his organic farm could have produced. But these cases were small potatoes compared to Constant’s scheme, the disclosure of which stunned the organic food industry both for its scale and how it exposed the shortcomings in the government’s organic certification program. “We have been sitting on a ticking time bomb for years,� Margaret Scoles, the executive director of the International Organic Inspectors Association, said in prepared remarks at an industry conference in October. “We just didn’t know the name of it — Randy Constant. This is a failure on all of our heads. Our system of managing organic integrity proved in-
adequate.â€? Until Constant’s crime became public knowledge at the end of 2018, greater attention had been focused on illicit foreign shipments of grain from the Black Sea region. Almost nothing was being said about the potential for fraud domestically. “Which is interesting, isn’t it?â€? Scoles told The Star. “That we were all looking at the Turkish grain fraud and we were all upset because that horrible imported grain was depressing organic grain prices in this country, and really what was happening was the largest fraud of all was being perpetrated right in the Midwest heartland where everybody’s honest.â€? A 90-minute drive northeast of Kansas City, Chillicothe is about the same size today — population 9,500 — as it was when Jack and JoAnn Constant welcomed into the world the third of their four children. Randall Jay Constant was born two weeks before Christmas in 1958. When he was growing up, Chillicothe was the kind of close-knit, rural community where the local newspaper would print kids’ letters to Santa Claus every Christmas season. Randy’s first appeared in print when he was 7 and then another made the paper two years later, in December 1967. “Santa, I have tried to be a good boy this year,â€? the third-grader wrote. “I want a BB gun, a ball, a catcher’s mitt, a bat and a dart game. Please remember my family. Your friend, Randy Constant, Chillicothe, Mo.â€? In the decade that followed, his name would appear dozens of times in the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune. Most often it was in the high school sports report. At 6 feet, 175 pounds, he was an all-conference defensive end/linebacker his senior year on the football squad, one of two Chillicothe Hornets players selected that spring to play in Missouri’s first-ever Lions All-State Football Game in 1977. He was a good student and a leader off the field. After attending the Boys State leadership program the summer after his junior year, he finished high school, often wearing his blue jacket as president of the local Future Farmers of America chapter. Constant went on to study agricultural economics at Mizzou, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi — motto: “men of principleâ€? — the same fraternity where years earlier Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron Corp., was a member. Constant married his high school sweetheart ahead of graduation in 1981. Over the next dozen years, they had three kids and Randy’s job assignments for his ag industry employers (Archer Daniels Midlands, then Scoular Grain Co. and Pfister Seeds) had the young family moving from town to town across the Midwest. They never stayed in one place for long, from Decatur, Illinois, to Salina, Kansas, with stops in Nebraska, Iowa and the Kansas City suburbs. According to his obituary, “the family returned to Chillicothe in 1994 when Randy became an organic farmer‌â€? Growing food organically was a tiny, but fast-growing industry back then, and there was a lot of confusion over terminology. Definitions differed over what constituted “organic’’ when producing fruits, vegetables, meat, grains and the products made from them. In 1990, Congress sought to establish clarity with the passage of the Organic Foods Production Act. It called for the USDA to define the term and lay out regulations. It took more than a decade to accomplish that, with the final rule published in the Federal Reg-
ister on Dec, 21, 2000. That was around the time Glen Borgerding met Constant. Borgerding was a crop consultant from Minnesota who specialized in organic farming methods. Constant was farming some on his own and was the farm manager for an organic soybean brokerage company that was selling soybeans to the Japanese. “They had hired Randy to run their Missouri operations,’’ said Borgerding, who the company brought on as a consultant. When Borgerding’s contract with the firm ended a year later, he suggested to Constant that they go into business together and Organic Land Management LLC was born in January of 2001. “We clicked really well,� Borgerding said. “We both had skill sets that really complimented each other.� Borgerding’s role was as the strategic thinker, focusing on soil fertility management and doing the paperwork necessary to maintain their croplands’ organic certification. Constant was out in the fields taking care of day-to-day management of the acres they owned or rented in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, while Borgerding oversaw operations in Minnesota and North Dakota. Things went well those first five years, but then trouble came out of nowhere. “We doubled our net worth every year until 2006, when we suddenly had a flat year,� Borgerding said. “This led to our operating-loan lender pulling out on us at the last minute, which left us pretty financially desperate for the 2007 crop year.� He couldn’t figure it out. The yield estimates had been good throughout the growing season. The weather cooperated for the most part. But without access to adequate credit, the joint operation couldn’t survive, and so they split up. It wasn’t until several months after they parted that Borgerding’s suspicions were raised when he got a phone call from a customer who he wasn’t aware of ever doing business with. The man wanted to finish up some paperwork business with Constant. That’s when Borgerding began to think that the down year in 2006 had nothing to do with poor yields. Rather he suspected that Constant was diverting Organic Land Management grain through a different company that Constant had formed without his knowledge. “My gut feeling was that through OLM we were only tracking about one third of what he was actually selling as organic in 2006,� Borgerding said. Years later he was stunned when he read about Constant’s long-running con and sordid double life in Vegas. “When I heard that, I thought to myself, ‘damn, Randy,’ � Borgerding said. “That would have been a helluva ride.� Maryann Kohl met Constant in the 1990s, when both were active in the Missouri Organic Association, which promoted the value of growing crops organically. “He was a very outgoing and well-spoken person,� she said. “Anything he could do to help another person with what they were working on, he would do.� Her family’s farm was near Vandalia, about 150 miles east of Chillicothe. They had become acquainted at association events, but a friendship grew when they, along with Constant’s youngest daughter and two other farmers, visited the United Kingdom in 2004 on a trade mission sponsored by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. “He was fun and very much a gentleman,� Kohl said. He seemed devoted to his family
and appeared to believe in the value of growing food organically. She had no reason to doubt back then that he was complying with all the rules that a farmer must follow to maintain organic certification for his crops. Organic farmers must hire private companies approved by the government to cross-check their books and inspect their farms annually. A few years after that trip to England, Kohl worked for Constant’s certifier, industry-leader Quality Assurance International, and by chance was chosen to inspect his operation, she said. “I was there to make sure he was doing everything right, and as far as I could tell, he certainly was,� she said. “If he was hiding something, he was hiding it very well.� But there are ways to cheat, such as keeping a second set of books. Tests for chemical residues were not mandatory at the time and are even now sporadic. Was Randy Constant cheating even back then, when they drove hundreds of miles to inspect the certified organic farm ground he owned and rented in Missouri, Iowa and Colorado? Kohl can’t help but wonder, but if so she chalks it up to his cleverness, rather than anything she did wrong. “I wasn’t lenient on Randy because I knew him.� She can’t be sure, but believes the year was either 2007 or 2008. But it was around that time, in Nevada, that questions first arose about Constant’s business ethics. An article in the June 2007 issue of an obscure publication, The Organic and NonGMO Report, focused on the mystery surrounding a railcar full of organic soybeans. Constant had sold the beans to Nevada Soy Product, which turned them into soybean oil. One of Nevada Soy’s customers canceled the sale after their tests showed the soybeans had come from genetically modified plants. While there is no test to determine whether a plant was grown organically, it can be determined in a lab whether that plant’s genes have been tinkered with. When Nevada Soy co-owner Bob Rewinkle double checked the grain samples, “sure enough it was positive,� he told The Star last month. According to the 2007 article, one of the scientists who tested the beans said there were only two explanations. Either there was an unintentional mixup, “or someone is trying to make money quick� by mixing genetically modified soybeans with the organic variety. Constant denied wrongdoing, but Rewinkle wanted answers. The spoiled shipment was a $100,000 hit to his bottom line. “As soon as that happened, I went into our certifiers, which at the time happened to be the state of Nevada, and told them what had happened, and they started an investigation,� Rewinkle said. But nothing came of it. He never heard a thing from the USDA, and a spokeswoman at the Nevada Department of Agriculture told The Star that the agency has no record of what happened. The USDA would not speak specifically to this case, but said it had more funding now to investigate complaints than it did back then. Rewinkle is still disgusted with the lack of followup by the USDA. “If you’re the big overseer of the organic program, why don’t you do your job?� he said of the USDA. He then told The Star’s reporter, “You’re the first person that ever contacted me about this.� Rewinkle wasn’t the only one finding fault with the fedSee Constant, Page 7
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eral National Organic Program during that time for failing to uphold the integrity of the organic food certification system. The USDA’s Office of Inspector General issued a searing 2010 audit faulting the organic program’s oversight efforts. Complaints were rarely followed up on and, when they were, it sometimes took years to resolve them. The inspection system was also inadequate, the report said. Twenty years after Congress had required that crops be tested periodically for traces of chemical residues, no strict regulations to that effect were on the books. Out of four certifying agents the OIG reviewed, none was conducting tests on the 5,000 organic farms and other operations they were responsible for. It was in this environment that Randy Constant thrived. “I think he figured out that, there’s just no checks and balances to determine really whether or not a No. 2 corn was actually raised organically or not,” said Clarence Mock, a Nebraska defense attorney who represented one of Constant’s co-conspirators in the criminal case. “They can test for GMO (genetically modified organisms) but corn that’s not GMO, you can’t tell whether it’s been sprayed or not sprayed.” Technically, you can, but you’re not likely to get a positive result unless the inspector hits it just right and collects a plant sample before the residues wash away. The inspectors never hit it just right when it came to Randy Constant. And he learned from that close call with that 2007 shipment to never try passing off genetically modified grain as organic again. During the first two thirds of the past decade, Constant sold
more than 11.5 million bushels of non-GMO corn and soybeans, and almost all of it was falsely labeled as organic. It was the paperwork, not the government’s inspection system, that finally tripped him up. From the documents they seized, the feds were able to analyze the full scope of his operation. At a minimum, he conspired with three Nebraska farmers and one in Missouri to commingle large shipments of conventionally grown grain with the organic kind and get a higher price for all of it. The four co-conspirators all pleaded guilty to their roles and were sent to prison. The criminal cases against Constant and those four farmers centered mostly on those transactions. But the extent of his illegal dealings were larger than that, The Star learned from searching Missouri court records. In one lawsuit, he admitted through an attorney that he also bought millions of dollars worth of non-GMO corn from another Missouri farmer and resold it as organic. Those sales were not part of the criminal case. John Heinecke was one of his bigger suppliers of corn and soybeans, going back to 2004. Last March, while Constant was awaiting sentencing, a judge ordered him to pay Heinecke $2.5 million that he owed him for grain. The judge overlooked arguments from Constant’s Kansas City-area attorney that Heinecke shouldn’t be paid because he was allegedly another one of Constant’s accomplices. In a court filing, attorney Kent Dryer said Heinecke knew what Constant was up to and did more than turn a blind eye. “The Constant defendants will seek to prove at trial,” the court record said, “that Mr. Heinecke was well aware that the corn he was selling to Mr. Constant was being resold as
organic when it was in fact not organic and that Mr. Heinecke was receiving a split — a split that he bargained hard to get — of Mr. Constant’s illegal profits.” The case never went to trial. In an interview, Heinecke said federal agents subpoenaed his business records but he has not been charged with a crime. He denied any prior knowledge of Constant’s scheme. “They pointed fingers at me,” he said, “but I’ve done everything by law. I didn’t do anything illegal because it (the grain sales) didn’t have nothing to do with organic stuff.” Heinecke still hasn’t been paid and could use the money Constant owed him, he said, because he is going through a bankruptcy. Among Heinecke’s creditors are farmers that he bought grain from and resold to Constant. But like many who Constant owed money to when his scheme collapsed, Heinecke won’t likely be made whole. Creditors big and small will have to write off the debts, including those who supplied his aptly named aquaculture operation, Quixotic Farming LLC, which Constant called “a spectacular failure” that lost “many millions of dollars.” There are simply no assets left to go after. “I don’t know if these folks will ever get any money,” said Troy Dietrich, an attorney for an Arkansas farming operation that has an outstanding judgment totaling $1,025,768 against Constant and entities he controlled. Constant’s life ended four months shy of his 61st birthday at the duplex he’d rented for himself and his wife on the edge of Chillicothe. They had sold the Cape Cod to pay bills. While awaiting sentencing, he had earned a living working on a disaster relief crew that took him out of state a lot. Last summer, she had felt fortunate to get her old teaching job back.
The new school term had begun that Monday. Randy was home by himself. Constant’s 93-year-old neighbor in the adjoining unit believes he waited until she was away before he pulled his pickup into the side-by-side garage, closed the door behind him and left the engine running. The neighbor said the carbon monoxide detector in her basement was beeping when she got home later that afternoon. “A sad situation, sad, sad, sad,” said the woman, who did not want her name published. Three days earlier, a federal judge had handed him a stiff sentence, ignoring 70 letters from Chillicothe residents attesting to his character and the many good deeds he’d done for his church and community. “We loved him,” one close friend told The Star last week. “He was a great guy, down to earth.” Constant’s defense attorney had argued that no one was harmed by the fraudulent sales of $142 million worth of fake organic grain, as did Mock, who represented one of the Nebraska co-conspirators. “One of the ironic aspects of all this is that nobody really lost any money,” Mock told The Star. “They turned around and sold their product, right?” The grain buyers lost nothing. They got paid by the feed mills. The feed mills got theirs when the farmers bought the product. The farmers got their share from the distributors, who did business with the supermarkets and restaurants. As for the shoppers who bought organic meat and poultry that wasn’t technically organic, it’s not like their health was harmed in any way, Mock said. They enjoyed their meals, even if they paid more than they should have for them. He said there’s no way to tell whether a cow or chicken was fed organic grain or the regular kind. “I mean, how do you know?
Is it somewhere in their tissue, in their bloodstream?” Judge C.J. Williams in Cedar Rapids did not agree that Constant committed a victimless crime. In sentencing him to a decade of imprisonment, Williams said Constant caused “incalculable damage” to consumers and the organic food industry. Those who make their living farming organically say it’s important that consumers be confident that they are getting what they pay for when they buy certified organic food. Government prosecutors said Constant’s case was meant to reassure the public and the organic food industry that fraud of this type will not be tolerated. New steps are being taken to root out corruption. “They have tightened down even more and stepped up their inspection and audit procedures to prevent that from happening again,” said Derek Davis, president of the Missouri-based Mid-America Organic Association. The organic certifier service that put its stamp of approval on Constant’s operation for more than a decade, Quality Assurance International, told The Star its inspectors were tripped up by Constant’s “highly-organized and sophisticated enterprise.” Constant, said Sarah Krol at QAI’s parent company, NSF International, “went to great lengths to deceive certifiers, regulators and ultimately consumers.” But neither she, nor government prosecutors nor the USDA will specify what those great lengths entailed. Some of the reforms that will make up a new, proposed regulation currently under review by the Office of Management and Budget provide some clues. The rules include requiring more testing for residues, said Jennifer Tucker, deputy administrator of the federal Agricultural Marketing Service, which runs the National Organic Pro-
gram. In an interview, she said the proposed set of rules is based on a risk-based enforcement approach that will allow inspectors to focus the most attention on farms and businesses where the greatest potential for fraud exists. “In order to really catch these bad guys, you have to understand the complete supply chain,” she said. Greater cooperation and pooled sales data will help accomplish that, she believes. “I think we’ve seen a profound cultural shift where instead of just confirming compliance, people are really finding the fraudsters and they’re doing it through tools like trace back and information sharing during investigations,” she said. People associated with the organic industry hope she’s right. But between the documented instances in recent years of whole shiploads of phony organic grain being unloaded at American ports and the Randy Constant scandal, there’s understandable skepticism. The organic food business is now a $50 billion industry within the United States, more than double its size a decade ago, and it continues to grow. When there’s that much money at stake, people are sometimes willing to take a risk that they, too, can beat the system. At least for awhile. One of Constant’s competitors, grain broker Matt Keegan at CapRock Grain, is thankful the scandal helped spur some reforms. “Certifiers have gotten more stringent,” he said. “I think there’s movement to help resolve some of this.’’ But he’s not one who believes there aren’t other Randy Constants out there who still pose a threat to the industry. “I’m convinced that the activity is still going on,” he said. “We need all these bad actors to get out of the marketplace.”
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Dearr Annie: My M very good friend "Pamela" has h a son who recently got marriied. The wedding took place in i the middle of September. The T bride decided at the begiinning of December that she didn't d want to be married. Myy question is this: Who gets thhe gifts? The bride and groom m were living with her parentts until they bought a home, sso they didn't use any of their w wedding gifts. The groom jusst bought a house. I say that hhe should get the gifts; he is nott the one who decided to leave the marriage. -- Wedding Prresent Problems ng Present: Dear Weddin The law varies bby state. Generallyy, if the gifts were given to the couple, then the gifts are communal propeerty and will be divided up how wever the rest of their property iis divided up. It's worth the husbband consulting an attorney oon this matter. Morally speakingg, that's a diff-ferent question, but I tend to agree with you: This woman put him out in the cold. The least she could ddo is let him have the toaster.
Dear Ann nie: My husband and I have liived together for more than 30 years, and we demarried about 15 cided to get m years ago. We live in a difffferent state thann his family and don't see theem often. We We do exchange carrds, holiday gifts, calls, etc. Seeveral women in his family (sppecificallyy, his sister and her addult daughter) will not address m me in writing by my name. I kept my birth name when I married and they know that, but anything they send to us either refers to Mary Smith" (his "John and M last name) or "The Smiths." My husbannd has reminded them of my nname, and I have included a litttle note on some holiday cardss in the past to remind them ass well. I can only assume that they disagree withh my decision to keep my ow wn name, and it continues to uupset me. It feels disrespectful,, to say the least. My husband thinks it's no big deal. Is he rigght? Is it worth me reaching out ddirectly to each of them to ask w why they are doing this when I otherwise don't have a lot of contact with
"Ask Me Anything: A Ye Year of Advice From Dear Annie" is out now! Annie Lane's debut book -- featuring favorite columns on love, friendship, family and etiquette -- is available as a paperback and ebook. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 CREA ATORS.COM
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them, or should I just let it go and try not to let it bother me? -- Ms. Addressed Dear Ms. Addressed: Write this offf as ignorance. Sure, there's a chance they're deliberately disrespecting your choice to keep your name -but you'd only be assuming that. Recall that old saying about what happens when you assume: The language is a shade too colorful for a family paper, but the gist is not to do it. Truly r y,, it costs you nothing to generously give others the benefit of the doubt, even to those who haven't earned it. So presume innocence, and ask your husband to remind them again of your last name. If he resists because "it isn't a big deal," tell him that it's important to you. Not every matter needs to be cataclysmic to be worthy of addressing.
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Gett me offf tthis wild ride Last year was one of the best in decades for with S&P 500 index funds returning g U.S. stocks, w %. more than 30% But even as stocks set new records, mutual fund investors headed for the exit. They pulled $41.4 billion m more out of U.S. stock fund ds last year than they put in, according to Morningstar. Meanwhile the ey poured more than halff a trillion dollars into bond funds and another $5 547 5 billion 547.5 into money ma arket funds. Last year wa as the sixth time during the e decade-long bull run that investors pulle ed money
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The Republican-Times business office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday. The office will be closed on Saturdays. Republican-Times 122 E. 8th St. 359-2212 Fax: 660-359-4414 ------------------------------------------Corie Cutsinger - Single Phase, Three Phase, Motor Controls, Control Voltages, Computer Controlled Equipment. New thermal imaging camera; bucket truck for aeriel work; underground locator. Wired Electrical & Automation, LLC, 359-1847. Mdtf ------------------------------------------*SEAMLESS GUTTERING* We are ready to replace your old gutters with new seamless aluminum gutters! MOORE’S CONSTRUCTION & WOODWORK, INC. 359-5477. 52 Years Experience. TMar13 ------------------------------------------WANTED!! Used & Abused Cars & Trucks. Highest prices paid! You Call - We Come Get It! FRONTIER AUTO & TRUCK PARTS (formerly Jim’s Auto Salvage) 145 Hwy. W., Trenton, 359-3888. Fdtf ------------------------------------------PIANO TUNING SERVICE – Taking out the wrong note since 1988. Keith Sarver 660-4252547. Like Us on Facebook! TJan24 ------------------------------------------Call MIDWEST MECHANICAL & rely on comfort. 800425-0976 or 485-6611, Brian S. Israel, owner. For your heating & cooling needs. All Tax Credits & Rebates available! Geostar Geothermal Heat Pumps. Over 25 years experience. TFeb7 ------------------------------------------Carquest Auto Parts T & L Auto Supply, Inc., 1823 East 9th, Trenton, 359-2268, tlautosupply.com. Monday-Friday, 76, Saturday, 7-4. Thdtf ------------------------------------------ASAP LOCKSMITH, Warren Soptic - Owner - 359-6625, Trenton. TMar20 -----------------------------------------Cox Family Dentistry, P.C. Andrew P. Cox, D.D.S. 1011 Cedar St., Trenton. 660-3596889 or 660-359-6993. TFeb7 ------------------------------------------JAMESPORT LUMBER Full Service Lumberyard We also sell Trusses/ metal/rebar/concrete blocks. New Hardware Department Gift Certificates and Delivery Available – Free Estimates 32089 St. Hwy 6, Jamesport 660-684-6404 FJan24 -----------------------------------------RED BARN MINI STORAGE, across from the new hospital. 5 Unit sizes available, prices starting at $19 per month. Call Mike or Jane Cooksey 359-1069 or 359-7683. Fdtf -------------------------------------------
PAGE TREE SERVICE Jeff Page 359-3699–shop, 3592202–home. Serving the entire Green Hills Area! Specializing in tree trimming, stump grinding & complete removal. 60’ bucket truck, chipper & stump grinder. Licensed & insured. Free Estimates! TApr3 ------------------------------------------H & S CONTRACTING Remodeling, room additions, garages & decks * New homes & basements w/ICF forms * Wall replacement under homes, repair cracks & bowed walls * Leveling, waterproofing & excavation. Kale Hoerrmann Owner, 30 years experience – 660-412-3131. FApr3 ------------------------------------------JAMESPORT BUILDERS 660-684-6931 32137 State Hwy 6, Jamesport POLE BARNS – GARAGES Spray foam insulation FJan24 ------------------------------------------STYLES UNLIMITED SALON & BOUTIQUE 142 E 9th Street. 660-359-2310. Monday through Saturday PATTI SHANNON, CHRIS BIRKHEAD & RACHEL BREITENBUCHER Hair/Nails SIERRA MCCORMACK Esthetician JESSICA STANDIFORD Licensed Massage Therapist TFeb7 ------------------------------------------WILSON’S HEATING & COOLING - We service all makes and models. Authorized Rheem Dealer. Bill Wilson 660359-3403. FFeb7 ------------------------------------------The Gilman Cafe Home of the Famous Tenderloins! Daily Specials as well as Menu Items New Winter Hours Monday - Friday 11 am - 4 pm Saturday 7 am - 4 pm Closed Sunday 660-876-5888 TMar20 ------------------------------------------RENTAL DEPARTMENT * Sewer Snake * Floor Sander * Floor Polisher * Post Auger (1 man) * Pressure Washer * Table & Chairs JIM’S BUILDING SUPPLIES DO IT BEST HARDWARE & RENTAL CENTER 3029 Oklahoma Ave., Trenton 660-359-4444 Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m. – Noon TJan31 ------------------------------------------JERRY'S GUN SHOP & NORTH MISSOURI OUTDOORS 10761 Argo Road * Chula, MO 660-639-2555, home 660-359-1897, cell 660-349-0654, cell Now Offering Archery Supplies - Sales & Service We Still Buy * Sell * Trade Guns * Hunting Supplies HRS: Tues. - Fri. 10-5; Sat. 9-5 Call for Availability Visa * Mastercard Mathews FJan31 ------------------------------------------CLARK PLUMBING & HEATING, 2324 Princeton Road, 359-2007. Residential & Commercial, New Construction, Remodel & Repair, Water Heaters & Boilers, Sewer & Drain Cleaning, Video Inspection, Backhoe Service, Certified, Backflow Testing & Installation. TJan6-31 ------------------------------------------S&B Hinnen Hauling & Construction, L.L.C. Rock • Sand • Dirt Asphalt • Grain Demolition Debris & Excavation Services Shaunda - 660-973-4445 Brian - 660-973-2983 90 Mansur Street Chula, MO 64635 sbhinnenhauling@yahoo.com FDec30-Jan24 -------------------------------------------
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INSURANCE Shelter Insurance – Cale Gondringer 1601 E 9th St., Suite D. 660-359-4100. LIFE * HOME * AUTO * FARM * BUSINESS. We’re your shield. We’re your shelter. ShelterInsurance.com TFeb7 ------------------------------------------Turning 65 This Year? Call Larry Bunnell at 359-7467 or 359-4700 for your insurance quotes on Medicare Supplements, Nursing Home, Major Medical, Life & Group Health plans. 1600 East 9th Street, Trenton. TMar20 ------------------------------------------See me for quotes on *Life Insurance *Guaranteed Life Insurance *Annuities *IRAs *Medicare Supplements RON DOUGAN 903 Main St., Trenton, MO 660-359-0100 51 years in the Insurance Business TMar20 ------------------------------------------HELTON INSURANCE Williams Shopping Center, Trenton, MO. New To Medicare or Want To Compare Pricing ... Call Phil or Leah 660-359-3806 * 660-635-0434 * 660-635-0537. We welcome Brian McDaniel to our team! He is originally from Gilman City and we feel his 26 years experience in the insurance business is a BIG PLUS to our agency. Give Brian a call at 816-289-1935 "Our Quality Of Service Is What Makes Us Different" TFeb7 ------------------------------------------Transitioning into Medicare soon? or want to compare plan prices? It only takes 10 minutes to discuss the savings or benefits you should be receiving. Call or text me today for your FREE consultation! Danielle Knapp Licensed Agent Senior Benefits Services 660-654-3077 SBSteam.net/danielleknapp Visit me at: 1039 Oklahoma Avenue - Trenton TJan31 -------------------------------------------
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Sunnyview Apartments is taking applications for single & double apartments. Sunnyview is a residential care facility for the elderly. We provide qualified staff to administer medications, provide three meals a day and offer minimal assistance with the activities of daily living. Now accepting Medicaid. For more information contact Kathy Cheek at 660-359-5647. S553dtf ------------------------------------------1, 2 and 3 bedroom houses for rent. 1 bedroom apartment for rent with utilities paid. Bob Morgans. 660-654-0460. dtf ------------------------------------------LOCK-N-GO STORAGE 2709 Pleasant Plain 660-6540241. tf ------------------------------------------ADAMS PARK APARTMENTS Two bedroom apartments for rent. Income based rent. We accept HUD. For further information, contact the manager at: 660-359-6666, MondayThursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. 1312 E. 9th St. MO Relay #711 Equal Opportunity Provider & Employer A109d4 ------------------------------------------
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FOR SALE For all your electrical needs, fuse boxes, breaker boxes & breakers Square D, GE & CutlerHammer. Trenton Hardware, 901 Main, 359-3660. T84d28 -------------------------------------------
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "All property advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.� "We will not knowingly accept any advertising for property which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all advertised property is available on an equal opportunity basis." ---------------------------------------------------------------
1724 E. 9th St. • Trenton, Mo. 660-359-2224
Price Reduced! - Cozy ranch that is priced to sell in this fantastic location near Moberly Park and the city pool! The main floor consists of a living room, kitchen, dining area, two bedrooms, full bathroom, and third bedroom that has been converted into a den that could easily become a bedroom again. The full, walkout basement is unfinished and makes for great storage, work area, and a 1 car garage. Enjoy the outdoor toys with 2 sheds and a carport. $79,900
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FARM NEEDS *WANTED* FARM GROUND TO LEASE! Competitive Rates AARON LANDES 660-358-2682 L905tf ------------------------------------------CRP/PASTURE CLEARING Tree Pulling/Removal with Skid Loader Call Gabe Buzzard Trenton, MO 816-678-3918 FMar13 ------------------------------------------See GFG Ag Services for your One Stop Shop for hunters. Muck and Lacrosse boots, gloves and Trophy Rocks. GFG Ag Services 614 Harris Ave 359-2588 or 359-6180 G19dtf ------------------------------------------BETTER CHOICES Call your local Merschman Seeds Dealer Rodney Roberts 660-654-0622 rodneyr@merschmanseeds.com. Brandy Roberts 660-654-0086 doublerrag@gmail.com MJan17-Feb28 -------------------------------------------
NOTICES New Listing - You will love the comfortable home feel and quaint details of this 2200 sq. ft. home with plenty of room for entertaining. Sliding barn doors open into an additional smaller room that is currently being used for a den, but would also be ideal for an office. There is a full unfinished basement that has the laundry hookups, is plumbed for a bathroom if desired, has all kinds of room for storage and with just a few steps walks out to the detached garage. This fantastic garage is 24x60 and offers a four car drive thru concept with overhead doors on each end with concrete drive access from 2 sides of the corner lot. $139,900 See all of our listings at www.c21trenton.com or visit us on Facebook.com/c21trenton. C85d24 -------------------------------------------
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HELP WANTED The City of Laredo is accepting applications for a part-time Maintenance worker. Must be at least 21 years of age with a clean background and be able to pass drug and alcohol screenings. Must be able to do manual labor including lifting and able to operate a tractor, road grader, lawn mower, etc. Water & wastewater license preferred but not required. Driver's license & H.S. Diploma/GED required. Salary negotiable based on experience. Taking applications through February 6th. Contact Laredo City Hall at (660) 286-2632 for further information and applications. EOEC L81d4 ------------------------------------------Tindal MFA has 2 full-time positions: 1 full-time truck driver & 1 full-time custom applicator/truck driver. Both positions require a class A CDL. Both positions are 40 hours a week plus overtime in season. Both positions will offer health insurance, 401K retirement, vacation. Apply at http://mfainc.com/about/careers or stop by Trenton and apply in person. M80d24 ------------------------------------------Immediate positions available for off road articulating truck heavy equipment machine operators. Experience preferred but not required. Wages range from $17-20.00 based off experience. Health/life package. Pre-drug screening. Overnight travel possible depending on job site; which varies covering NW Missouri and Southern Iowa. Daily allowance paid if travel is 61+ miles from residence. Apply online at www.kkentconst.com. K714d28* ------------------------------------------Maintenance Technician This position will support the operation and maintenance of the biogas generation system and the biogas flare system for multiple farms located in northern Missouri. Contact HR@Roeslein.com for more information. R027d7* -------------------------------------------
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660-359-3285 FFDD is a EOE employer. PickGreg.com dtf ----------------------------------------For Service Beyond The Sale, Call Me! John Graber Land & Farm Specialist 660-654-3566 johngraber@davidsonre.com Davidson Real Estate Specializing in Land & Farms 321 N. Walnut Cameron, MO 64429 (816) 632-4400 www.FarmSales.com info@davidsonre.com FJan31 -------------------------------------------
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT for Marion Township, Grundy County, Missouri for the year ending December 31, 2019 BEGINNING CASH BALANCE
$24,043.75
RECEIPTS Township Taxes CART Rock Misc. Receipts TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE
50,013.90 20,756.88 5,085.18 $75,855.96 $99,879.71
DISBURSEMENTS: Rock - Norris Quarries Fuel/Oil - MFA Fluids - MFA Utilities - KCPL Parts/Repairs Newspaper Notice - Republican-Times Federal Tax Missouri Div. Employment Rock Hauling - Wayne Miller Labor Insurance Tires/Repair - MTO Mowing - Huber Brothers Meeting Costs Miscellaneous TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
45,569.97 4,273.46 209.13 298.31 203.92 182.10 118.79 322.25 16,975.94 5,707.70 2,247.00 2,507.50 660.00 349.29 241.74 $79,569.97
ENDING CASH BALANCE $20,309.74 I, Phillip Fox, Trustee of Marion Township do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete and correct statement as required by Section 231.280 RSMo for the year ending December 31, 2019. d24
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IN THE 3RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT, GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI IN THE MATTER OF: TYNSLEE AVALINE DEHART, Minor. Case No.: 19AG-PR00055 NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION The State of Missouri to: TRISTAN LEE VENCILL
UNKNOWN TRENTON, MO 64683 You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Probate Court of Grundy County, Missouri, the object and general nature of which is Guardianship and Conservatorship of a Minor for whom you are the putative natural father per Section 210.822.1, RSMo. The names of all parties in this action are stated in the caption above and the name and address of the attorney for the petitioner is: CRYSTAL LOVETT 6 SOUTH GREEN STREET GREEN CITY, MO 63545 660-874-5075 You are further notified that,
FINANCIAL STATEMENT JACKSON TOWNSHIP, GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI For The Year Ending December 31, 2019 BEGINNING CASH BALANCE RECEIPTS CART Rock Current Property Tax Delinquent Property Tax Railroad & Utility Tax Interest Other
$$57,104.66
TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE DISBURSEMENTS: Vendor Purpose Grundy Electric Utilities Salaries Board & Employee Norris Rock Hutchinson & Co. Insurance MEM Insurance IRS Taxes Misc. Vendors Misc. Expense Republican-Times Ads T&L Auto Supply Grader Repair Tim Miller Rock Haul Vince Campbell Grader Repair Troy George Backhoe Warren Meservey Mowing Lamma Excavating Road Tube Repair People’s Coop Fuel MFA Fuel Pfaff Dozing Dozer Work Grundy Co. Treasurer Election Costs West Bend Bond Trustee Bond TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS ENDING CASH BALANCE
$46,472.14 $103,576.80
8,409.79 34,820.04 48.17 1,438.09 1,178.61 577.44
800.00 5,018.60 10,800.13 3,068.00 1,134.00 857.71 366.11 145.70 131.20 3,092.93 2,348.29 475.00 250.00 1,500.00 129.51 1,401.48 840.00 121.24 100.00 $32,579.90 $70,996.90
I, David Meservey, Trustee of Jackson Township do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete and correct statement as required by Section 231.280 RSMo for the year ending December 31, 2019. d24
unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action within 45 days after January 17, 2020, judgment by default will be entered against you. /s/ Madison Beverlin Probate Clerk dJan17,24,31, Feb7 ------------------------------------------IN THE 3RD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT, GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI IN THE MATTER OF: TAYDEN BLAICE DEHARTSHOEMAKER, Minor. Case No.: 19AG-PR00054
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION The State of Missouri to: BART TYLER UNKNOWN TRENTON, MO 64683 You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Probate Court of Grundy County, Missouri, the object and general nature of which is Guardianship and Conservatorship of a Minor for whom you are the putative natural father per Section 210.822.1, RSMo. The names of all parties in this action are stated in the caption above and the name and
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address of the attorney for the petitioner is: CRYSTAL LOVETT 6 SOUTH GREEN STREET GREEN CITY, MO 63545 660-874-5075 You are further notified that, unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action within 45 days after January 17, 2020, judgment by default will be entered against you. /s/ Madison Beverlin Probate Clerk dJan17,24,31, Feb7 -------------------------------------------
TRENTON MUNICIPAL UTILITIES Advertisement for Bidders Trenton Municipal Utilities (TMU) is accepting bids for 40ft x 60ft x 16ft Building. Bids will be accepted at City Hall, 1100 Main St., Trenton, MO 64683, until 2:00 p.m. on February 12, 2020. Specification and more information can be obtained by contacting Bob Hutchinson at 660-359-3801. TMU reserves the right to reject any or all bids or waive any irregularities that are in the best interest of TMU. dJan24 -------------------------------------------
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Spickard Fire Protection District, Grundy County, Missouri For The Year Ending December 31, 2019. BEGINNING CASH BALANCE $29,881.71 RECEIPTS Sur Tax 0.00 Current Property Tax 26,463.02 Delinquent Property Tax 1,405.96 Railroad & Utility Tax 13,036.16 Interest 116.31 Other 964.00 TOTAL RECEIPTS $41,985.45 TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE $71,867.16
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, GRUNDY COUNTY, MISSOURI For The Year Ending December 31, 2019. BEGINNING CASH BALANCE $43,691.33 RECEIPTS Sur Tax 232.55 Current Property Tax 23,844.32 Delinquent Property Tax 584.71 Railroad & Utility Tax 12,354.08 Interest 91.19 Other 1,121.04 Cart Rock 12,155.96 TOTAL RECEIPTS $50,383.85 TOTAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE $94,075.18
DISBURSEMENTS: Vendor Purpose VFIS Insurance 10,479.00 Ferrellgas Propane 3,764.52 Miller Heating Stove Repair 491.47 City of Spickard Sewer & Water 126.75 Republican-Times Ads & Financial 173.80 Farmers Bank of N. Mo. Truck Payment 7,810.71 Toddomatic Truck Repair 279.62 Spickard Fire Dept. Bills 3,000.00 Grundy Electric Safety Tester 849.90 Grundy Co. Lumber Lumber 43.98 O’Reilly Parts 12.44 T & L Auto Batteries/Parts 1,045.21 Mike Martin Reimbursement Parts 110.03 Heiman Fire Hoses, etc. 1,452.52 Marrs Mowing Mowing 250.00 Sager Tax Tax Preparation 120.00 Travelers Workmans Comp 2,766.00 Stephens MFA Fuel 46.70 FFAM Dues 280.00 Gary Lee Reimbursement 5.83 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS $33,108.48 ENDING CASH BALANCE $38,758.68 I, Margaret Chapman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Spickard Fire Protection District do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete and correct statement as required by Section 231.280 RSMo for the year ending December 31, 2019. d24
DISBURSEMENTS: Vendor Purpose Grundy Co. Clerk Tubes & Election 699.72 Sharon Ferris Tax Preparation 53.00 MTO Tire Repair 215.00 Randy Kitchen Grader Operator 6,201.55 Norris Quarry Rock 8,753.41 Div. of Emp. Unemployment 305.53 KCP&L Electric 151.88 IRS SOC 1,111.56 Republican-Times Ads & Financial 105.10 Mo. Emp. Mutual Insurance 1,141.00 T & L Auto Parts 270.19 Advant Tires 1,827.00 Foley Parts 166.52 Paul Derry Repair 1,468.36 MFA Fuel 2,630.55 Tim Miller Haul 2,000.79 Crow Miller Insurance 2,536.00 CFM Insurance 224.00 John Wagner Tube Install 300.00 CNA Bond 215.00 Bank Checks & Safe Dep. 89.64 Miscellaneous 167.56 TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS $30,633.36 ENDING CASH BALANCE $63,441.82 I, Margaret Chapman, Clerk of Franklin Township, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a complete and correct statement as required by Section 231.280 RSMo for the year ending December 31, 2019. d24
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AREA Nursing Home Holds Meeting The Board of Directors of the Grundy County Nursing Home District met on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home and Apartments. Administrator Jerry Doerhoff reported the board discussed work on energy projects involving upgrading the boiler to a new HVAC system and window replacement. Doerhoff presented the administrator’s report, which included discussion of the Christmas party for residents, staff/resident activities and marketing for the month. The board went into closed session to approve minutes of the Dec. 17 closed meeting. The next board meeting will be at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 18 in the conference room of the administrator’s office at the nursing home.
AREA MENUS NORTH 65 CENTER Monday-Oven-fried chicken, baked potato, green beans, mixed fruit, pineapple upside down cake, whole wheat bread. Tuesday-Beef pot roast with gravy, mashed potatoes, candied carrots, mixed fruit, whole wheat bread, oatmeal cookie. Wednesday-Ham and beans, broccoli salad, carrots, fruited gelatin with whipped topping, cornbread. Thursday-Chicken alfredo, italian tossed salad, sonoma blend vegetables, garlic bread, five cup salad. Friday-Meatballs, buttered peas, carrots, baked macaroni and cheese, whole wheat bread, pineapple, no bake cookie. (Coffee, iced tea, water and milk are served daily and an alternate meal of chef’s salad, crackers and fruit cup is available each day.) See Page 3 of today’s Republican-Times for Obituaries and other Back Page news
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CARD SHOWERS A card shower has been requested for Pat McWilliams, who will celebrate her 90th birthday anniversary on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Cards may be sent to her at 1749 Swimmer Point, Trenton, MO 64683.
EMERGENCY SERVICES Trenton Police Department Jan. 14: officers responded to an animal bite at an east residence and to an unattended death at a south residence. Jan. 15: a motor vehicle accident was reported in the east part of town and officers responded to a Safe Schools Act violation in the east part of town. A domestic assault was investigated at a north residence. Jan. 16: an arrest was made on a warrant at an east residence and another subject was arrested in the east part of town for driving while their license was suspended. Jan. 17: officers responded to an unattended death at an east business and investigated a report of an assault at an east residence. A minor was found to be in possession of intoxicating liquor in the east part of town and nuisance violations were investigated at a north residence and two east residences. Jan. 18: a subject violated a protection order at a west residence.
CIRCUIT COURT Associate Division Judge Steven D. Hudson Associate Civil Velocity Investments LLC vs. Patricia Calivere. The court entered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $8,312.60. The case involved breach of contract. Midland Funding LLC vs. Cathy Jenkins. The court entered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $877.64. The case involved a suit on account. Capital One Bank (USA) NA vs. Alfred P. Marriot. The court entered a consent judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2,774.10. The case involved a suit on account. GFG Agriproducts LLC vs. Bonnie Rusk. A bench trial was set for March 18 in the case, which involves a suit on account. Inova Federal Credit Union vs. Kyle D. Sharp. The court entered a consent judgment in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $14,719.12. The case involved a promissory note. Mercury Surgery Center, LLC vs. Charles N. Veatch. A bench trial was set for May 6 on the case, which involves a suit on account. Exchange Bank of Missouri vs. Charles N. Veatch. A bench trial was set for May 6 on the case, which involves a promissory note. William R. Gray vs. Green Hills Women’s Shelter and Janell Vestal. The court set a bench trial for March 4 on the case, which involves a small claims matter over $100. Municipal Division Judge Steven D. Hudson Pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and fined $25.50 and $41.50 costs were Denell S. Berry, Trenton; and Steven R. Berry, Trenton;
Mental Health Board Meets The Board of Directors of the North Central Missouri Mental Health Center will meet in regular session at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28 at the NCMMHC office in Trenton. Items on the announced agenda include quarterly review of FY2020 strategic goals, review of check registers, discussion of the Wallace R. Greene Education Assistance Award, a review of staffing patterns and the executive director’s report.
Jason E. Clay, Kansas City, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and trespassing and was sentenced to serve 13 days in the Grundy County Detention Center on each charge, with credit given for 13 days served. Costs were waived in both cases. Pleading guilty to nuisance violations and fined $150 and $41.50 costs were Robert D. Burkeybile, Trenton; Thomas E. Matlage, Trenton; and Jennifer D. Tunnell, Trenton; Ismael Garcia, Newtown, pleaded guilty to following another vehicle too closely and was fined $60.50 and $41.50 costs. Matthew S. Goerne, Trenton, pleaded guilty to two charges of harassment and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs on each charge. Makayla M. Gordon, Trenton, pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle in a careless and reckless manner and was fined $100.50 and $41.50 costs. Amber L. McHargue, Trenton,
pleaded guilty to having an animal at large and having no animal license and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs on each charge. Ronnie L. Stevens and Michael D. Trobough, both of Trenton, pleaded guilty to trespassing and were fined $25.50 and $41.50 costs. Christopher J. Warren, Trenton, pleaded guilty to having an animal at large and was fined $50.50 and $41.50 costs. Danny L. Welch, Trenton, pleaded guilty to stealing and was fined $200 and $41.50 costs. MARRIAGE DISSOLUTIONS Petitions Filed Mark Templeton vs. Jayna Templeton. Arthur S. Nunn vs. Kim D. Nunn. REAL ESTATE Alva F. Moore and wife to Eller Farms LLC. Derlin L. Johnson and wife to Adam C. Millburn, Sr., Trustee and others.
Two Fail To Be In Court Two persons have been arrested following their failure to appear in court as ordered. According to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office, Spickard resident Linda S. Wilcox, 64, failed to appear in court on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, a class C felony, and has posted $2,500 bond. She is scheduled to be back in court Feb. 13. Also scheduled for a Feb. 13 court appearance is Josy N. Simmons, a 28-year-old Trenton resident who failed to appear on a charge of possession of a controlled substance except 35 grams or less of marijuana/synthetic cannabinoid, a class D felony. She has also posted $2,500 bond.
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