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Thursday, November 17, 2011
(USPS 088-820) Vol. XXXIX New Series, No. 46 Canton, Mo. 63435 • 16 Pages • 2 Sections • 55 cents
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SINGER PLEADS GUILTY TO MAKING THREAT AGAINST SCHOOL
Photo by Rita Cox
Many Lewis County residents snapped photos of this beautiful sunset last week.
SINGER Dan Steinbeck, Editor
dan@lewispnj.com
The Canton teenager who threatened to burn down the Canon R-V School in September, pled guilty to the charge in Lewis County Court Nov. 10. Heather Singer, 17, pled guilty to one class C felony count of making a terrorist threat. Bond has been posted and the court released her from house arrests. She is scheduled to be sentenced January 5, 2012, pending the pre-sentence assessment from the board of probation and parole. She had been enrolled at the Canton school when she communicated on Facebook, an internet social networking page, and confirmed to a school official and law enforcement her intents.
RED CROSS TO HOST BLOOD DRIVE
The American Red Cross will be hosting a blood drive on Nov. 23 and Nov. 30. For the Nov. 23 date, the location will be at the Country Aire Retirement Estates in Lewistown from 2-6 p.m. For those wanting to donate on the Nov. 30 date, the drive will be located at Canton High School from 1-6 p.m. This is a correction from the Nov. 10 paper that stated the first date of the Blood Drive as being Nov. 11.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATES AT
Western Lewis County District receives new fire truck Dan Steinbeck, Editor dan@lewispnj.com
The Western Lewis County Fire Protection District took possession of a new fire truck Friday. The new truck is a 2012 E-One pumper truck with a rescue body, purchased through Banner Fire Equipment. The pumper/rescue truck replaces a 1970 GMC pumper the district has already sold. The E-One is able to haul five firefighters, where the older one could only carry two. Four of those fire fighters can strap on self-contained breathing apparatus units while seated. The new truck has a 970-gallon tank, which is more than the 750-gallon truck of the pumper it replaced. The new truck also has a 30-gallon foam reservoir. The new truck can pump 1,250 gallons per minute, compared to the 500 gallon per minute of
the older truck. It has a topmounted pump, which gets the pump operator off the ground, and has a deck gun for a direct stream from the truck for larger fires. “It will increase the water we can put on a fire, it can haul more water, and more fire-fighters,” said Fire Chief Harry Scifres. With it having a rescue truck body, it will carry rescue equipment. The new truck will be the first-out unit at the Lewistown base where it will be housed. The former first-out truck at Lewistown is now the second out, a yellow 1979 Ford pumper, which can seat four, but has an open cab. The truck was introduced Saturday at a district soup supper, where the last brand new truck, a 1957 pumper, now owned by former Lewistown fireman Shorty Smith, was also on
hand. The LaBelle Fire Auxiliary got a $38,000 USDA Rural Development Grant; the District put up $70,000, and the rest of the $218,000 cost is covered by Rural Development loans. Scifres said the truck will be ready for service in about a week, once hoses are transferred and radios are installed.
The Western Lewis County District shows off the new 2012 E-One pumper truck. Submitted Photos
CANTON BOAT RAMP BEING REPLACED Dan Steinbeck, Editor dan@lewispnj.com
A boat ramp built by the Missouri Department of Conservation in Canton a decade ago is being replaced. A construction crew from the Conservation Department has removed the older 16-foot wide ramp at the south end of the South riverfront part in Canton and is replacing it with a 24-foot wide ramp. The ramp will be about 150 feet long, including the portion that
will be in the river. Construction began Nov. 1 and should be finished in a couple of weeks, according to lead carpenter Alan McKim. Construction worker Daryl Fountain said the Mississippi River had undermined the concrete and rock of the ramp. On Nov. 8, a road grader was smoothing the gravel base of the ramp. The in-river part of the ramp was poured another day on ground, and when cured, was pushed into the river.
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