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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
REPUBLICAN-TIMES TRENTON
Trenton, MO 64683
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Established Sept. 4, 1864 - 155th Year - No. 43
GREAT NORTHWEST DAY
Ten Pages & 1 Insert
Feb. 5-6
Area Priorities Set For Event Legislators are back to work in Jefferson City and community advocates throughout northwest Missouri are ready to share their priorities this year at Great Northwest Day at the Capitol, scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 5 and Wednesday, Feb. 6. This event, focused on raising awareness of northwest Missouri to state legislators and departments, features an introduction on the House and Senate floors, a regional luncheon, informative roundtables and an educational breakfast. The new luau theme for the main event on Tuesday night provides an opportunity for community representatives to promote their communities to legislators and others who are invited to attend. One of the many strengths of Great Northwest Day at the Capitol is how the steering committee collects and prioritizes issues and concerns that impact the entire northwest region. “The Great Northwest Day committee works hard to listen to all in the region and find out priorities that benefit the region as a whole,” said Micah Landes, 2019 Steering Committee chairman and North Central Missouri Development Alliance Executive Director. “Collaborating and speaking as a unified voice has proven to be powerful.” This year’s priorities include: Caring for our Youngest Citizens - By better caring for our youngest citizens we are actually preventing a domino effect of poverty, poor health and poor performance in school results that end up costing our state billions of dollars over time. We can help break this cycle at the root cause by ensuring appropriate childcare options are available, parents are educated on how to best care for their children from birth, and high-quality pre-
school education is available to all families in rural and urban communities. Great Northwest Day supports leadership development efforts for our citizens starting from day one because the world they will be navigating will be far more advanced and complex than any other generation of humans has ever experienced. Doing all we can to invest in their success is an investment in our own future quality of life. Aligning to Educate and Advance Our Workforce The future of our region depends on an educated and skilled workforce. Educational districts and institutions contributing to the development of Missouri’s next generation of citizens, from preschool through multiple postsecondary options such as professional certificate and degree programs, cannot fulfill their mission without your support. Great Northwest Day asks our legislators to continue investing in education, workforce development, mental health and substance abuse treatment as they are all intertwined and impact how well our youth and adults are able to show up to advance their learning and move our state forward. For two- and four-year higher education institutions, support MoExcels grants and infrastructure improvements and support further performance funding investments based on workforce-focused measures. Rural High-Speed Broadband Access and Affordability - We live in a world that is omni connected and dependent on technology communications. With over 40 percent of Missouri’s population living in rural areas, it is essential to support the foundational infrastructure that can provide universal service to all Missourians at an affordable price. See Northwest, Page 4
Briefs... County Spelling Bee Moved The Grundy County Spelling, originally scheduled for this Wednesday, will now take place on Wednesday, Feb 6. The spelling bee will be at 1 p.m. in the Trenton Middle School Media Center and will feature spellers from Grundy R-5, Laredo R-7, Pleasant View R-6I, and TMS. All friends and families of the contestants are invited to attend.
Addition To Agenda An addition has been made to the agenda for today’s (Tuesday) meeting of the Grundy County Commission. Pam Pickett has asked to meet with the commission to discuss road maintainance for Franklin Township at 3:30 p.m.
Park Finance Meeting The Finance Committee of the Trenton Park Board will hold a meeting at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 31 at the park department office. The only item on the announced agenda is a discussion of the 2019-2020 park budget. The meeting is open to the public.
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Trenton High School will hold its annual courtwarming coronation on Friday, Feb. 1 with royalty to be crowned between the girls and boys varsity basketball games against Stanberry in the THS gym. Pictured are, from left, senior candidates Teresa Yoder and Max McNabb, Sidney Lynch and Taylor Richman and Jadan Whitney; junior attendants Lexi Whitaker and Mark Trump; sophomore attendants Lexi Gott and Camdyn Leeper; and freshman attendants Chandler Lynch and Tanner Lynch. The courtwarming dance will be held in the THS gym following the game until 11 p.m.
TRENTON R-9 BOARD
New Superintendent Named A Kansas man has been named as the new superintendent of the Trenton R-9 School District. Mike Stegman will assume his new duties on July 1. He comes from the Cimarron-Ensign Unified School District 102 in Cimarron, KS, where he has served as superintendent since 2016. He has over 20 years of superintendent experience in the state of Kansas. Stegman was offered a three-year contract by the Trenton R-9 Board of Education on Friday following interviews with seven candidates. He will be paid $110,000 for
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the first year and his contract will have an option of an extension each year. “We feel very fortunate to get a superintendent with his experience,” R-9 Board President Doug Franklin said. “That is going to be very helpful in what we have coming up with our bond issue, which he has experience in, as well as other things in the future. We are very excited.” Stegman and his wife, Marcie, a fifth grade teacher, are the parents of three children, who are in college in Omaha, NE, Lawrence, KS and Atchison, KS. It is the closer prox-
imity to their children that was one of the reasons Stegman applied for the Trenton position. “We are very family-oriented and with all three of our children in the eastern part of Kansas and in southern Nebraska, we were wanting to get closer to where they are,” Stegman said. “Dr. (Bob) Watkins (who helped the R-9 Board with the superintendent search through the MSBA) told me about this position and after doing some research, I felt this would be a good fit for me and my family.” Stegman said he was im-
pressed with what he called the “progressive nature” of Trenton, pointing to the recent efforts by the community to bring in Nestle as a replacement for ConAgra. “You don’t see those kind of things happen and it says a lot about the community when you can pull together and keep a large business going,” he said. Stegman will be replacing Dan Wiebers, who is leaving the school district at the end of his contract on June 30 to assume the superintendent’s job in Chillicothe.
Current Runway Approved In 1964
Airport Part Of Trenton History Editor’s Note: Persons who have a memory to share about any topic related to Trenton and the surrounding area are asked to do so by e-mailing the Republican-Times newspaper at rtimes@lyn.net. Stories should include the writer’s name, address and telephone number. Stories are to be submitted by e-mail and will appear periodically in the newspaper. by Allene Maloney The first mention of an airport for Trenton was on Dec. 11, 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt made $100 million available to build a network of aircraft landing fields across the entire 48 states. This announcement came two weeks after Grundy County had received $35,000 for seven WPA projects that gave 300 unemployed workers a job. An additional $5,000 to build an airport was very much desired, but the requirements for the airport were very strict and time allowed to submit an application by airmail or telegram was limited to a few days. Specifications for the airport were that it must be built on land with an option to buy or a 10-year lease and a hard surface road with the landing field running east and west. Four sites were offered immediately and the committee checked to find
I Remember Trenton A Glimpse of Our Past one that qualified. Land offered north of Edinburg was too far from a hard surface road. A site north of Moberly Park was not on a hard surface road. The C.A. Hoover farm, south of Trenton, had a hard surface road, however, it would run through the landing field, making it necessary to move the road. The O.W. McVay tract had a mortgage and a 10-year lease was not possible. According to Jim Brodie, only one Trenton businessman at that time owned an airplane and that was Charles Gipson, who also owned a funeral home and a furniture store. Brodie also remembers that at the end of World War II in 1945, when Harold Bock and Robert Cullers returned home after serving in the Army Air Force, they each brought a plane with them. Marvin Cudney bought a plane soon after his discharge, which he kept at his farm in northeast Washington Township. Harold Bock’s plane was called a pusher-plane because the propeller was
not on the front of the plane but behind the motors mounted on the back side of the wings. Sometime during the 1940s, Merrill Moore built an airport on his farm at the junction of Highway 6 and Route V, 10 miles east of Trenton. The landing field was just that, a level section of the pasture. He did build a hanger of concrete blocks, which is still standing. Mary Ann McClain Stadler of Laredo remembers, as a small child and visiting her grandparents, Rev. Reuben and Cordelia Blunt, that airplanes lifting off from the Moore Ace High Airport runway appeared to be heading directly to her grandmother’s kitchen windows. Her grandparents lived on an adjoining farm. The next mention of an airport for Trenton was on July 20, 1946. The deal offered was if the city had a $10,000 airport fund, it could get $10,000 more from the state,
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National Weather Service Brutally cold temperatures and wind chill are expected on Wednesday with a high near -4 and lows around -11. Otherwise, mostly cloudy and temperatures slowly rising throughout the week. The high on Jan. 24 was 25, Friday’s high was 29, Saturday’s high was 33 and Sunday’s high was 42, the low was 11. There was no report from the Government Weather Station near Spickard.
Kansas Man Chosen For Post
The Trenton HIgh School wrestling team took second place in the Grand River Conference Tournament held on Saturday. See page 2 of today’s Republican-Times for a recap from the event held at Gallatin.
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