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The annual Daviess County Junior Livestock Show will be held July 6-7-8 at the Dockery Park fairgrounds in Gallatin. Katie Martin is this year's Livestock Superintendent and the daily emcee. Marcia Bird is in charge of concessions at the livestock show. Alicia Chrisman is the Fair Board President. Last year 187 exhibitors showed 516 animals. There were 94 head of cattle, 73 head of sheep, 55 head of goats, 48 rabbits, 56 poultry and waterfowl and 190 head of swine. The following lists the 2017 county fair events:

• Thursday, July 6 -- Swine in place at 4 p.m. for the Swine Show at 5 p.m. A PeeWee Show immediately follows the champion boar drive at approximately 5:30pm. • Friday, July 7 -- Sheep in place at 9 a.m. for Sheep Show at 10 a.m. A PeeWee Show immediately follows the Lead Line. Goats are to be in place at 12 noon for the Goat Show which immediately follows the Sheep Show (approximately 1 p.m.). A PeeWee Show follows. • Saturday, July 8 -- 9:30 a.m. Rabbit Show and Poultry/Waterfowl Show; 4 p.m. Beef in place for the 5 p.m. Beef Show with the PeeWee Show to follow at approximately 5:30 p.m.

Admission to the livestock show is free with food concessions offered for various charge. The public is invited to a pulled pork barbecue at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Tim Carder named assistant administrator at the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail facility Timothy Carder will be the new assistant administrator for the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail. Mr. Carder was born and raised in the Jameson/Gallatin area. He is a 1984 graduate of Gallatin High School. He began his law enforcement career in 1987 and has continued in that line of work to present day. He has been employed for the last 14 years with the Missouri Department of Corrections, where he started out as a corrections officer and then advanced

to sergeant. He was then part of an investigative unit for almost five years. He conducted internal affairs investigations as well as crime committed within the facility, such as assaults, homicides, property damage, etc. In 2011 he left the investigative unit and has been employed as a lieutenant in a maximum security institution for the last six years. He is currently a reserve deputy for the Daviess County Sheriff ’s Office and has served in that capacity for approximately 15 years.

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Library to host stargazing nights, info sessions, and courthouse eclipse event On Aug. 21, an extremely rare event — a total solar eclipse — will take place along a narrow arched track stretching from Oregon to South Carolina. Daviess County is on this path! At approximately 1:08 p.m. on Aug. 21, various parts of Daviess County will experience one to two minutes of “totality” (total eclipse) during what space experts are calling the celestial event of the century. In anticipation of the total eclipse, from early to mid-August, the Daviess County Library will host several “NASA@mylibrary” sponsored programs for children and adults, including a large scale eclipse viewing event on the courthouse lawn on Aug. 21. All programs are free and open to the public. Below is the event lineup for the August 2017 “NASA@mylibrary” programs. Summer Under the Stars

Series, Friday, Aug. 4, and Friday, Aug. 11, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. in the library basement community room. This is a two-part stargazing series for seniors, adults, students, children, families — everyone! No signup is necessary. A presentation with a question-and-answer session by a NASA Night Sky Network expert will be followed by stargazing outside the library. Come to one or both events —each evening will have a different presenter. Bring your own telescope or use one of ours. Eclipse in a Nutshell, two noon-hour and evening sessions per day, Thursday, Aug. 17, and Friday, Aug. 18, from 12:15-12:45 p.m. and 7-7:30 p.m. These are four short informational sessions, primarily geared toward older children and adults. No signup is necessary. Designed as an eclipse primer so

community members can better understand what they will be seeing on Aug. 21 and why it is so special. Eclipse on the Courthouse Lawn & Community Photo, 112:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21. Beginning at 11 a.m., library staff will be on the courthouse lawn providing information about the eclipse and distributing 2,000 free pairs of solar viewing glasses. The public will be invited to “walk through” a large scaled model of the solar system set up on the lawn. A community photo will be taken at approximately 1 p.m. The total solar eclipse begins at approximately 1:08 p.m. All ages are welcome! The United States is the only country in the world which will experience this eclipse, and further, only a tiny portion of the USA will be able to see the eclipse in totality.

Flooding rivals 2007, even 1993 levels Storms Thursday night, June 29, and continued rain Friday, June 30, saturated the ground in northwest Missouri. Rivers and streams ran full and with nowhere else to go, the accumulating water collected on fields, drowning crops and closing highways. Area farmers watched their soybean and corn fields slowly succumb to the rising water. Larry Vaughn, a farmer at Pattonsburg, drove past Old Pattonsburg and as far south as Hwy. 69 would take him before the highway disappeared under a lake of blue. This was 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 30. No flood in recent memory has matched the devastating flood of 1993 which prompted the whole town of Pattonsburg to move uphill. But there have been other years when the Grand overflowed its banks. Historic crests for the Grand River are:

Looking east at the Grand River from Muddy Creek

Road to Landmark Mfg., east of Muddy Creek Bridge

Grand River looking north from Muddy Creek Aerial photos courtesy Darrell Critten, Gallatin

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Aug. 9, 1909 — 40 ft. July 24, 1993 — 36.60 ft. May 8, 2007 — 34.27 ft. June 1, 1947 — 34.25 ft. Sept. 14, 1973 — 33.80 ft.

Mr. Vaughn looked out over the fluid fields, not sure whether this flood matched the one in 2007. “If it’s not the most water, then it doesn’t miss it by much,” he said. Mr. Vaughn owns 40 acres and rents 160 more. The land lies along the edges of the flood. He has soybeans on the right of Hwy. 69 and corn on the left. The soybeans are all under. The corn might not all be ruined, but he couldn’t get close enough at the time to tell. “You know every spring this (continued on page 12)


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