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Drought!
A meeting to discuss 2018 drought, pasture, hay and liveMichael stock concerns is slated for 5:30 nd termp.m. July 11 at the Andrew Councer. ee page ty Youth Building in Savannah. Topics discussed will include: ● Alternative Feeds/ CRP Hay/ ByProducts and their V alue ●
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This evening is designed to give attendees some options regarding some of the challenges regarding shortage of hay, water concerns and having enough feed resources to get through the next several months. Please RSVP by July 9 by calling 816-324-3147. Supper will be provided. The Andrew County Youth Building is located at 201 South Banyon, Savannah.
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Maxwell convicted of stealing over $150,000
A Caldwell County property, and seven jury has convicted C felony counts of Dana Lee Maxwell, forgery. 43, Gallatin, of 13 felThe B felony carony counts involving ries 5-15 years in the embezzlement at the Missouri DepartTri-County R-7 School ment of Corrections. District. The C felonies, at the Maxwell was a time of the charges, former secretary and carry up to seven bookkeeper at the years in prison and a school during a period fine of $5,000. Dana Maxw ell from May 2012 to AuMaxwell will regust 2015. Maxwell was charged main free on $100,000 bond until with misappropriating $151,073 sentencing by Judge Thomas R. after an audit in 2015. Alley on Sept. 7. The defendant The four-day trial began June waived jury sentencing during 25 at the Caldwell County court- a pre-trial conference on June house in Kingston on a change 15. According to Daviess County of venue from Daviess County. Prosecutor Annie Gibson, sevIt concluded on June 28 with the eral plea offers were extended, jury’s unanimous decision after and all were rejected by the dethree hours of deliberation. fendant. Maxwell was convicted of one Over a thousand documents class B felony count of receiv- were obtained to be presented as ing stolen property, five class C evidence for the trial. felony counts of receiving stolen School Superintendent David
Probasco testified on behalf of the school about the issuance of checks, credit cards, signatures on checks and credit cards, and procedures. Diana Klosterman from Westbrook Auditing Company also testified on behalf of the school district. The Westbrook firm was hired to complete an audit after it was discovered by the superintendent and board members that monies could be missing. It was evident that funds were being misappropriated from the lunch program and the athletic program. Ms. Klosterman also noted that there were credit card purchases which were not authorized. The firm also found discrepancies in the petty cash funds. It was the policy of the school to issue credit cards to school personnel for purchases for various projects, which were then to be returned to the vault in the
office. However, it was found Ms. Maxwell had used a credit card which had been issued to a former superintendent. Daviess County Sheriff Deputy Robert Mazur did an extensive investigation obtaining receipts ( continued on page 4)
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Video featuring Daviess County to debut on CMT by T.L. Huffman, staff writer
The video featuring Lake Viking and other areas of Daviess County will air soon on CMT. Stills from the video have been posted recently on Post Monroe’s website.
Mike Caudle came back to his hometown to make a video for CMT which will debut July 4 worldwide. The video features a rising star country duo known as Post Monroe. Mike is a 1995 graduate of Winston High School. He attended UCM at Warrensburg and ended up in the hospitality industry. He moved to Iowa in 2000. He was a co-owner of a live music venue in West Des Moines, IA. Mike’s introduction to the film business came in 2010 when he submitted a concept for a “bar rescue” style show called “American Spirits”. Mike says he was one of the first to offer a nightclub-style show to the network show runners. The producers passed on his concept; however, filming for “Bar Rescue” suddenly was announced for Spike TV just four weeks after his contract had expired. “It happens all the time in Hollywood,” he says. “They took elements of our concept and did something that cost less per episode than our show would have been.” Mike wasn’t angry or bitter about it… “I was excited that they thought our idea was good enough for a produced show.” Mike got a second break when he produced six episodes of “The Fence” which covered the sensitive issue of suicide among America’s veterans. His video was purchased by Air National Guard and was used as a training module for suicide prevention. During this time, Mike still co-owned the Bombay Bicycle Club, but he and his partners decided to sell the place in 2012. He thought about opening a new bar, but realized he was happier making films than being in the bar business. He connected with Jacob Moyer, the owner of Luminary Creative, a video and film-making company who had worked with Mike on several productions. He asked Jacob to teach him the business. “Everybody thought I was crazy,” he says. “How was I going to make a living doing film in Des Moines, Iowa?” ( continued on page 12)