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Filing for April election concludes with challengers for city’s Ward 2,E-911 board’s Southern District

Owensville voters in the second ward will have a contested race for aldermen on their April 3 Municipal Election ballot.

William Wade signed up Thursday morning to challenge incumbent Denise Bohl for a two-year seat on the Board of Aldermen. For city voters, that will be the only contested race. No one filed to challenge Mayor John Kamler or Ward 1 Aldermen Dr. Cathy Lahmeyer.

Southern Gasconade County residents will have a contested race for the E-911 Board of Directors.

Joyce Baxter, Bland, and Sharen Piles, Rosebud, each registered as candidates for a four-year term as director for the Southern District. As expected, Clyde Zelch did not seek another term as director for the Southern District.

Betty Estes, Rosebud, was the only candidate to register for the at-large direc-tor’s seat she currently holds.

In the Northern District, former county assessor Joseph Mundwiller was the only candidate to file for that seat. Mundwiller will be unopposed to replace Doug Clark who did not seek another term.

The Gasconade County R-2 School District will not need to hold an election due to state statute allowing for so-called “non-election elections.” Only two candidates filed for the two open Board of Director seats which were available this election cycle.

Incumbent Debbie Landolt, Gerald, filed her intent on Friday afternoon to seek another three-year term. Also filing a notice of candidacy was Molly (Schaeper-koetter) Steinbeck, of Bland. Steinbeck signed up on Thursday. Bryan Curtman had announced last week he would not seek another term as an R-2 director due to plans to expand his insurance business by opening a new office in Sullivan.

Both incumbents to the Gasconade Manor Nursing Home District filed notices to seek another term. Patricia Smith signed up Friday to represent District No. 5 which includes residents in the Boulware and Boeuff townships near in the north-central portion of the county. Jean Koenig, representing residents in Ward 1 in Owensville, signed up earlier in the filing period.

Since neither candidate will face opposition, no election will be needed.Both incumbents to the Owensville Area Ambulance District will also be

unopposed in their respective sub-districts. Greg Carey registered for another three-year term on Friday in sub-district No. 2. Major Thomas signed up previ-ously in No. 5. Both positions are for three-year terms.

BY DAVE MARNERMANAgiNg [email protected]

Up to four juvenile male students at Owensville High School face disciplinary action for their involvement in an alleged threat of violence.

Owensville police on Friday said the freshmen boys were removed from the high school by their parents or guardians. Police said all four were questioned under their Miranda rights in the presence of a parent or guardian. Authorities conducting the interviews included a Franklin County juvenile officer, the district’s assistant superintendent, Dr. Jeri K. Hardy, and Owensville policemen Brenn Finley and Det. Rob Green.

“The school has taken appropriate action against the suspects — the co-conspira-tors,” said Finley, an Owensville police-man assigned to the Gasconade County R-2 School District as a trained school resource officer. “The school received a report of suspected school-shooting plan-ning. Witnesses stated several students approached them about joining (in on the plan). These students were identified and questioned. Cell phones and computers were confiscated for further investigation.”

No weapons were found on school property, according to police and school administration. Personal communication devices from all four, and at least one computer hard-drive belonging to one of the four youths, have been seized by police, according to Green. Applications for war-rants were being sought this week to have

these items examined by forensic experts with the St. Charles County Cybercrimes Task Force.

“The threat information is being treated as serious until the investigators can prove otherwise, or so that threat can be evalu-ated,” said Finley.

Names of the four suspects are not be-ing released since they are minors. The investigation is continuing this week. Since Monday was a holiday, Green said police were not expected to make applications for warrants until mid-week.

R-2 schools were not in session on Monday due to the holiday or Tuesday due to professional development workshops for staff.

Police were at the school until nearly 3 p.m. Friday conducting their investigation.

Police also interviewed at least three other students who had either heard about the threats, or read about them on social media platforms. Police said the coopera-tion they received from concerned students was most valuable in their investigation.

Superintendent Dr. Chuck Garner spoke with The Republican at the school Friday afternoon and gave a brief overview of the morning’s events.

“Our No. 1 priority is the security and safety of all of our students and staff and once we felt we had information of a cred-ible nature, and knew everyone was safe, we shared that information,” Garner told The Republican in an interview conducted Friday afternoon outside the school office.

He said there was “just a threat” made

Four juveniles face disciplinary action after making threat of shooting at OHS

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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BY DAVE MARNERMANAgiNg [email protected]

Dennis Epple’s third-generation family home east of Morrison was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon in sub-freezing weather conditions.

Cliff Rost, assistant chief of the volun-teer Morrison Fire Department, said the family burned wood but the cause of fire was undetermined due to the extensive damage.

“It was already out the roof when we got there,” said Rost of the fire call reported at 3:52 p.m. by an Epple family member.

Rost said he didn’t think anyone was at home at the time of the fire.

“You know how these old farm houses are,” he said of the wood-frame structure built in the 1800s which included a log cabin. “It got plenty of ventilation.”

Rost estimated firemen from Morrison, Hermann and Chamois poured 19,000 gal-lons of water on the structure before leav-ing the scene at 6:30 p.m. as temperatures continued to plummet into the single digits.

Morrison firemen returned to the scene at 10:30 p.m. and spent two hours extin-guishing a wind-blown rekindle.

“The wind picked up. Everything was ice-covered,” said Rost of their effort to prevent fire from reaching two nearby outbuildings including a 16x20 utility shed.

“This time of year, it’s super tough on equipment and it’s hard on us,” said Rost. “The good thing is no one got hurt and no one was home.”

Epple may be known to some south-county residents for helping run livestock shows during the county fair.

Morrison firemen and their neighboring community departments hauled water from about four miles away out of Morrison’s station. Rost said Morrison’s acquisition about three years ago of a 3,000 gallon tanker was a valuable asset for their small community.

“You have to get water,” said Rost. “This has really helped us. With this weather, this mutual aid with other departments is key.”

‘…way back there’Within 24 minutes of Morrison being

dispatched to their fire, Mt. Sterling and Owensville volunteers were toned out for a structure fire off Osage County Road 221 north of Mt. Sterling in the 200 block of Parsons Lane.

It was 12 degrees out and firemen from the Mt. Sterling station arrived 20 minutes later at 4:36 p.m. to a scene were flames were already coming through the eaves and roof line. Both occupants of the residence were safely out of the home.

Firemen from the Owensville fire sta-tions arrived at 4:54 p.m.

“It was a pretty good haul,” said Ow-ensville Fire Chief Curtis Aytes. “It was way back there.”

The house is owned by Dennis Geohe-gen of St. Louis. Harry Potts was listed as the renter, according to the Owensville Fire

Department’s report.Aytes said the upper level of the wood-

frame two-house located near the Heckman Bend area of the Gasconade River burned away. Firemen from Hermann’s Swiss station and Linn assisted the Mt. Sterling and Owensville volunteers. Hermann volunteers brought a load of water before being released to assist with the fire east of Morrison. Linn sent a tanker crew.

Aytes said a wood stove in the kitchen was connected to a chimney in the inte-rior of the approximately 100-year-old “typical farmhouse” of “balloon-frame construction.”

“They had a flue fire which got outside the flue and into the wall,” said Aytes. “It went right up into the second story.”

That type of construction, he said, has framing which extends from the basement sill all the way up to the rafters on the second floor. There are no fire breaks in the walls.

Firemen drafted water from a pond after

breaking a hole through the ice.“We drafted water from a pond on the

site so water supply wasn’t really a prob-lem,” said Aytes. “It was just bitterly cold temperatures. Nothing wants to work right when it’s that cold.”

It had dropped to 8 degrees by the time the command post left the scene at 7:05 p.m.

G-RFPD has quick response to early-morning call Saturday

An early-morning fire at Marvin and Judy Willimann’s residence on U.S. 50 east of Rosebud caused extensive damage to the couple’s kitchen and living room but was extinguished before it burned through the roof.

Marvin said he awoke around 4 a.m. use the bathroom and noticed that some lamps which are usually on in the living room were off. He checked his breakers which had been tripped, reset them, but then the

EXtENSiVE DAMAgE was evident in the kitchen of Marvin and Judy Willimann’s residence east of Rosebud following an early-morning fire Saturday in their attic. The couple escaped injury following the discovery of the fire around 4:30 a.m. Jan. 13. Sev-eral ceiling joists which were heavily charred were removed in the fire-fighting effort.

PHOTO BY DAVE MARNER

Fires destroy two county residences, extensive damage reported to a thirdArea volunteer firemen battle extreme cold weather

FiREMEN FRoM Owensville’s Mt. Sterling station make an initial attack as heavy, black smoke pours out of the second floor.

FiREMEN FRoM Owensville’s Mt. Sterling and town stations set up a portable tank for water supply and drafted water from a nearby farm pond at the fire off Osage County Road 221.

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GoinG South

Fearless SUV drivers, terrified passengers

Vicious bug could be flue or maybe just a bad cold

Since the 1960s and 1970s, Sport Utility Ve-hicles have increased in popularity with the driving public. That demand for SUVs has

added to car makers’ bottom lines and increased profits for car dealers.

Four-wheel drive pickup truck sales also have surged but that’s a different animal designed more for rough work in harsh conditions and rough terrain with farmers, ranchers and construction companies in mind, or to show your neighbors you can afford one.

Today’s SUVs are descendants of the famed mili-tary Jeep of WWII and Korea which endured itself to soldiers who wanted one when they returned to civilian life. To meet that demand, Willys made the Jeep CJ 5 and later the CJ 7. Direct descendants still exist in the form of Jeep Wranglers and similar SUVs.

Not willing to let Willys monopolize that market, International Harvester came out with the Scout, GM chimed in with the K5 Blazer and Ford added the Bronco to its lineup. The Scout is long gone but versions of the Blazer and Bronco hung around.

While still in college I had a Willys station wagon. It wasn’t four-wheel drive but it did have high ground clearance and got me to classes as well as to hunting and fishing spots around Springfield. My first real four-wheel drive was a short-wheel-

base pickup truck version of the 1967 IH Scout the finance division of the company I worked for repossessed from a rancher in Oklahoma. I got it for the outstanding balance on the loan but had to go down and pick it up myself.

I was so proud of it that I stopped to show it to my dad who walked around it, looked under the hood, and said the only difference between my truck and his truck was that I would have to walk farther to get help. He was right, of course, as I quickly learned. To get a tow truck with a long enough cable to reach the bogged down Scout was expensive even then.

My next 4x4 was a 1975 Chevy K5 Blazer bought new for about $6,700 from McQueen Chevrolet. It finally bought the farm at a little over 314,000 miles. I’ve had some form of SUV ever since but none are

remembered as fondly as that one.Real SUVs start out on a light truck frame. They

have high ground clearance and a transfer case to engage four-wheel drive. They get notoriously poor gas mileage.

In my opinion, some of the vehicles car mak-ers are hyping today as SUVs are not SUVs. The proper term for them is Crossover Utility Vehicles. CUVs are put together in unibody fashion just like cars. They don’t have transfer cases because they’re all-wheel drive all the time. Their ground clearance isn’t much more than is a family sedan.

With a skilled driver, some of them might be capable of getting to a few of the places real SUVs can go. Unless greatly modified, they will not be used in rock climbing competition. Nor would they pass my unscientific test for a true SUV.

A SUV should be able to get around on the muddy farm roads in western Kansas, endure a genuine South Dakota blizzard and negotiate the back roads two tracks of Wyoming’s high plains. But the big-gest test, again in my humble opinion, is traveling the “Jeep” trails in Colorado. Known as the Alpine Loop connecting Lake City, Ouray, Silverton and Telluride over unpaved, high mountain passes, it puts tough SUVs and fearless drivers to the test.

These trails were cut into the sides of mountains in the 1870s so gold and silver ore could be hauled from the mines to town and supplies from town to the mining camps. They have no guard rails, no traffic lights, rarely a place wide enough to meet and get by another vehicle, and no speed limit. Drivers need not worry about getting a ticket as their vehicle picks up speed free falling into the canyon 800 feet below after they slide off the road.

There are several ghost towns along the loop and some are still standing, preserved by the dry mountain air. Mine tailings are visible on the sides of mountains well above timberline and heavy mining machinery lays abandoned in several locations. The cost of moving it up the mountain could be justified when the mines were producing but hauling it down after the gold and silver veins petered out could not. It was left behind.

Drivers on these Jeep trails appear fearless be-cause they have a steering wheel to hang onto and feel they are in control. That doesn’t make terrified passengers in the vehicle feel any better especially when their side is on the outside edge and they are looking straight down at the bottom of that canyon 800 feet below.

Bug alert! Stay away from sick friends.The Sunday morning paper’s top story reports it’s too early to know if this year’s

flu vaccine failed. We have more cases, early, it says.Friday before Christmas I came down with something. It seemed to have all

symptoms of flu. After four awful days over a holiday weekend, I self- diagnosed flu.I wasn’t about ready to die, just close. So I didn’t go to the hospital ER. When

I finally saw my internist, his diagnosis was: “It’s something going around.”The patient ahead of me had the bug. He was better with words than I am. He

said it felt like he’d been “hit by a truck.”I said that every bone, muscle and joint ached. Plus I had a deep cough and my

nose flowed like a faucet. Messy me.My doctor agreed it sounded like flu. But he’d

had flu tests run on prior patients. Tests showed: “Not flu.”

Doc told of strong over-the-counter pills. Compared to Rx drugs they were cheap. They worked. Even better, he prescribed Rx cough syrup with codeine. Who says opioids are bad? After the first dose, coughing stopped. Then, I slept all afternoon. Night-after-night of coughing and sleeplessness wore me out.

After the evening dose, I slept through the night. At my age, sleeping through the night is rare. Nature calls. Who says opioids are bad?

After constant coughing stopped, I quit the happy juice. I’ll save that bottle of syrup for the next coughing jag. Codeine is powerful, a miracle drug.

I’ve had big painkillers after surgery. I’m sent away with big bottles of powerful opioids. I recall after heart surgery I knew I didn’t need pain pills. That is until the hospital meds wore off. I was wrong, big time.

I needed them for about three days. After that, I wanted to get off the goofy pills. I wanted my brain back.

I’ve been told by two doctors that I have high tolerance for pain. I think that I learned that as a farm boy. Working for dad, there were no “sick days.”

Chickens, pigs and calves had to be fed. Eggs were gathered. The milk cow was milked. Chores didn’t stop.

I was lucky that only one accident got medical attention. Now, I recall it was mom who took me to the doctor. That Doc gave a pain shot, a stitch and a ban-dage. No opioids. When Dad got home, he thought that wound wasn’t worthy of a doctor visit.

His unwritten rule: “Suck it up and keep going.In recent years, some of us who grew up together realize our parents would be

arrested for neglect today. What would happen to parents if a group of young teen boys went hunting all afternoon with no idea of where or for how long? We were armed with 22 rifles.

There was not a lot of shooting. Boys knew 22 caliber shells cost lots of money, maybe 50 cents a box. However, we could bring back rabbit or squirrel for supper.

The bug this year affects different people different ways. Symptoms vary; but length of recovery remains about three weeks. If it’s flu, it’s a virus that antibiotic can’t touch. A cold microbe might respond.

If antibiotic is used, that’s not three or four pills. It takes a bottle of pills. Tak-ing partial doses only creates stronger strains. Flu virus evolves continually into something new. That may defeat flu tests.

Farmers learned, the hard way, about not using enough herbicides. Weeds that escape become resistant to chemicals. Use of glyphosate year after year built powerful resistant weeds. Resistant weed populations explode.

Last year dicamba proved a super killer of tough weeds. But, serious side effects damaged plants far beyond known drift patterns.

The warning “read the label and follow directions” means more. Untrained spraying becomes hugely expensive.

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I read that, nationally, 40 percent of rural hospitals are in serious financial difficulty, with many already closed.

I know rural Missouri hospitals are easily included, with many closing, due to the annual refusal by our legislators to expand Medicaid. Most other states have expanded. Since we have not, our exposure to more closings is greater than most. Therefore more people will die due to lack of emergency rooms in rural areas.

With insurance, people go to doctors, which is inexpensive. Without, they use expensive ERs. According to the article, rural hospitals can no longer afford to support this life or death crisis.

Now the Trump Administration is making it easier for states to eliminate more people from Medicaid.

Martin WalshGlendale, Mo.

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Over the Christmas holidays I attended craft fairs in Hermann and Owensville. Wow! What talent and creativity exists in Gasconade County.

My question is: Why don’t more of these artists show off their abilities at the county fair?

I know your Mom told you not to “show off” but I think she would approve of it in this instance.

Most of you reading this are not think-ing of the fair, but these cold, wintry days are the perfect time to plan and make a project to exhibit in July. Whatever you create — crafts, baked goods, canned goods, garden products, woodworking, upcycled items, leatherwork, basket weaving, jewelry, whatever — we can find a category for it. And don’t forget to search the attic for some antiques.

Each year, thousands of people attend the Gasconade County Fair. Many are from out of town. What an opportunity to showcase our county and the talents that abound here. For the four days of the 2018 fair, let’s do a little “showing off.”

Your Mom called and said it’s OK.Phyllis Gross

State Sen. Mike kehoeMissouri’s 6th District

What started as a routine week in the capitol ended as anything but routine.

I hope there is never again another week like it. Missourians understand that elected officials are not perfect, but they have the rightful expectation that their elected officials, regardless of party or position, exhibit high standards of per-sonal conduct.

I was shocked to learn of the allega-tions against the governor and am very concerned by them. As this situation continues to evolve, I expect the governor to be honest and transparent. This can be done while respecting the privacy of the first-lady and their children.

As a formal Naval officer, the governor knows full well that the actions of one or a few affect the perception of many. The perception of many good men and women who come to the capitol to repre-sent their districts and work to make their communities and state a better place has been tarnished as a result of the governor’s alleged actions.

The governor owns this now and it is up to him to re-establish the trust and confidence placed in him by Missourians.

This is not the time for spin or political shell games, it is time to be personally accountable for his actions, whatever they may have been.

The Senate and the House remain committed to advancing an agenda that continues moving Missouri forward. As has been the case each year he has been President Pro Tem, Senator Ron Richard has quickly assigned many important bills to committee for consideration. Some committees met this week and I expect the committee process to be well under way by next week. As committee chairs hear and pass bills out of committee they will proceed to the floor for debate by the Senate as a whole.

In the coming weeks, appropriations committees in both the House and the Sen-ate will continue work crafting a budget for the 2019 fiscal year. I talk with Sen. Dan Brown, the chair of the senate ap-propriations committee, on a daily basis and know that he and his staff are already at work using the agreed upon consensus revenue estimate for the upcoming year.

The budget process is lengthy and laborious, but this is as it should be, given the significance of spending your tax dollars.

The American Red Cross has issued an urgent call for blood donations of all types. Severe winter weather has had a tremendous impact on blood donations already with more than 200 blood drives cancelled in 2018. As a result, over 6,500 blood and platelet donations have gone uncollected. In addition, hectic holiday schedules as well as seasonal illnesses collectively contributed to more than 28,000 fewer donations in November and December. This healthcare issue is so important it has received coverage from television news programs and newspapers around the country. January is National Blood Donor Month. An upcoming opportunity to give blood near you is at LSC Communications, 1005 Commercial Drive, Owensville, Friday, Jan. 19, noon to 5 p.m.

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Social media sparks debate in era of school lock-downs

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A story posted to The Republican’s Facebook page early Friday afternoon sparked an interesting debate in this era of school lock-downs over the public’s right to know something immediately and a school district’s primary concerns of student safety (first) and accurately informing parents in a timely manner (a very close second).

The school district has a safety policy in place. They’ve discussed this policy in closed session. It’s a safety issue and it’s for school officials, local law enforcement agencies, and emergency responders to share. It’s not information that is shared with parents.

Or the media.We’d like to know more but we un-

derstand the safety protocol.School officials addressed our con-

cerns in good time on Friday afternoon after first providing district parents on their call list with a telephone message sent out shortly after 11 a.m.

“I got the call and although I would have liked to have known right away, from a superintendent’s perspective, releasing this information would have brought on an influx of fearful parents trying to get to their children,” posted Jennifer Morris to our page. “In a lock down, this wouldn’t

have been possible. The result would have been an angry mob of parents outside of the schools. This could have obstructed the active investigation by diverting the focus of the officials. Even though I dis-like the way it had to be, I feel like the district did what was best for the students at the time.”

Her comment was one of 45 made on our page among 247 shares and 26,864 views as of Monday evening.

It was an accurate comment and hit on one the main concerns district officials have stated for not letting everyone in on the security plan — you would not want everyone showing up on school grounds in a potential emergency situation.

Law enforcement agencies are trained to remove — eliminate if need be — any deadly threats from school environments.

That’s our reality in 2018 and in recent years.

The training conducted at local schools and businesses in recent years reflects the change in strategy which has evolved in recent years as mass shooting-incidents have taught lessons which can’t be ignored. Active shooters will be elimi-nated first. Then those needing rescuing or treatment will be reached. That’s the cold, harsh reality.

Evaluating legislatorsBy Phill Brooks

A statehouse journalism student recently asked me what criteria could be used to evaluate the effec-tiveness of legislators. I responded it’s almost impossible to identify a standard that could be applied equally to all legislators.

The most obvious yardstick, the number of bills passed, is completely misleading. There are piles of bills that do almost nothing of significance — such as naming a day in honor of a Missourian or cleanup bills that repeal expired laws or fix grammatical errors.

Even if you limit consideration to major bills, the numbers yardstick is inadequate.

With a Republican-controlled legislature, Democrats get few major bills passed. Even among Republicans, committee chairs get a lot more of their bills passed.

Another flaw in using bill count involves the varying breadth of bills. Some bills deal with just one subject. Others, like omnibus bills incorporate a wide variety of issues contained in separate bills.

For example, just one bill of hundreds of pages virtually rewrote the state’s entire criminal code that had evolved from hundreds of bills over the years.

Beyond that, really crafty leg-islators get their ideas made into law by sticking their amendments onto bills they did not sponsor, but are moving through the legislature.

It’s a smart tactic for a legislator pushing a controversial issue to wait until the closing days when the hectic pace makes it easier to sneak in things and the approaching pas-sage deadline causes sponsors to be more willing to accept amendments in order to get to a vote.

But there’s a much more fun-damental flaw in measuring effec-tiveness by bills passed that was taught to me by a few conservative lawmakers when I first began as a statehouse reporter.

Back then, Democrats controlled the legislature and were pushing bills to expand welfare and impose tougher consumer protections on business. Those conservatives ar-gued to me that if you believed in limited government, the fewer of these bills passed the better.

For them, success was the num-ber of bills they could kill — not pass.

Now, of course, it’s some Demo-crats who measure their success based on stopping the Republican majority passing bills for busi-ness tax breaks, limits on lawsuits against business, gun rights and abortion restrictions.

Even if there were a quantifiable standard of effectiveness, there’s no single answer to an essential ques-tion: “effective at what?”

Legislators have quite different objectives as to what they seek to accomplish. Some put priority on the immediate needs of their

constituents.But I’m not sure there is a

measurable record of constituent services such as getting the govern-mental bureaucracy to respond to a constituent or to speed up the state permit process for a business project of importance to the community.

And, what about the hours leg-islators spend talking with school kids from their districts? Some more senior members and legislative leaders focus more on statewide problems. Others pursue ideologi-cal objectives.

For some, protecting their per-sonal professions is a high priority.

That’s not necessarily crass self interest. Some see their professions as important to society.

Some use their professional expertise to pursue professional changes to benefit the general pub-lic. Some of the strongest voices for protecting health care consumer rights have been lawmakers from medical professions.

But some legislators do pursue self-interest objectives such as election to higher office or getting a higher paying state or private job after leaving the legislature.

And what about legislators who rack up large quantities of bills because they accept large amounts of lobbyist expenditures by special interests that sought and possibly wrote those bills?

Ultimately, I came to the real-ization that you are in a far better position than we statehouse report-ers to judge the effectiveness of your local legislators — but only if you take the responsibility to keep informed about what your lawmakers are doing.

Read and listen to the news about your lawmakers. Look at the bills sponsored. Look at the campaign and lobbyist funds your legislators got. Do they represent your values and views?

How often does your local leg-islator have community forums? Does he or she really listen to constituents’ concerns and honestly answer their questions?

(Phill Brooks has been a Mis-souri statehouse reporter since 1970, making him dean of the statehouse press corps. He is the statehouse correspondent for KMOX Radio, director of MDN and a faculty member of the Mis-souri School of Journalism. He has covered every governor since the late Warren Hearnes).

capitol perspectives

by Phill Brooks

JEFFERSON CITY — State Budget Director Dan Haug an-nounced Jan. 3 that 2018 fiscal year-to-date net general revenue collections increased 4.13 per-cent compared to 2017, from $4.26 billion last year to $4.44 billion this year.

Net general revenue col-lections for December 2017 remained flat at 0.0 percent compared to those for December 2016, from $813.1 million last year to $813.1 million this year.

Individual income tax collec-tions increased 2.2 percent for the year, from $3.15 billion last year to $3.22 billion this year, and decreased 4.3 percent for the month.

Sales and use tax collec-tions increased 0.8 percent for the year from $1.05 billion last year to $1.06 billion this year and increased 1.5 percent for the month.

Corporate income and cor-

porate franchise tax collections increased 26.5 percent for the year, from $179.9 million last year to $227.5 million this year and increased 45.3 percent for the month.

All other collections in-creased 4.4 percent for the year, from $214.4 million last year to $223.8 million this year but decreased 14.3 percent for the month.

Refunds decreased 11.8 per-cent for the year, from $339.1 million last year to $299.0 mil-lion this year and decreased 7.1 percent for the month.

The FY 2018 total refund line includes Debt Offset Es-crow amounts, which had not previously been included in the FY 2017 refund amount. Haug noted the figures included in the monthly general revenue report represent a snapshot in time and can vary widely based on a multitude of factors.

From the missouri Digital News

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Eric Greitens and his wife, Sheena, re-leased a statement the night of Jan. 10 confirming he had an extramarital affair several years ago.

The announcement was made in response to reporting by St. Louis television station KMOV, which aired a report Wednesday describing a 2015 affair and alleging that Greitens took an incriminating photo of the woman and threatened to make it public if she spoke about the relationship.

The woman’s ex-husband told KMOV that Greitens “took a picture of my wife naked as blackmail. There is no worse person.” He added, “I think it’s as bad as it gets, It’s as bad as it gets when someone takes advantage of something.”

The station did not reveal the names of the man or his ex-wife. While the governor acknowledged the affair, he released a statement

strongly denying the photo or any threats. In a recorded phone conversa-tion provided to KMOV, the woman said Greitens apologized after the encounter and told her he had deleted the picture.

The woman did not give an interview to KMOV.

The statement from the governor and his wife provided to KMOV stated, “A few years ago, before Eric was elected Governor, there was a time when he was unfaithful in our marriage. This was a deeply personal mistake. Eric took responsibility, and we dealt with this together hon-estly and privately. While we never would have wished for this pain in our marriage, or the pain that this has caused others, with God’s mercy Sheena has forgiven and we have emerged stronger. We understand that there will be some people who cannot forgive — but for those who can find it in your heart, Eric asks for your forgiveness, and we are grateful for your love, your compassion, and your prayers.”

Sheena Greitens released an additional statement, saying, “We have a loving marriage and an awesome family; anything beyond that is between us and God. I want the media and those who wish to peddle gossip to stay away from me and my children.”

House Speaker Todd Richardson, Speaker Pro Tem Elijah Haahr, and Majority Floor Leader Rob Vescovo released a joint statement, saying, “While the details of the story continue to emerge, the allegations made against the governor last night are deeply concerning. The governor must be forthright and accountable for his actions.”

State Rep. David Wood out of the Versailles area chairs the House committee on education.

His weekly reports have quite a bit of good information about the state’s educational system es-pecially when it comes to funding during budget preparations. This week, however, Wood’s report touched on head injuries in Missouri high school activities.

Wood reports the recently completed week include a visit to the Joint Committee on Education meeting from Missouri State High School Activities Association and University of Missouri personnel.

“MSHSAA came to present the brain injury report for the 2016-17 school years,” Wood noted. “They have been compiling information on each sport and activity when a brain injury occurs for several years.”

Policies addressing head injuries became a hot topic a couple of years ago and school districts involved with MSHSAA programs are re-quired to report numbers.

“It is no surprise that football is leading the way, followed by girls soccer and sideline cheerleading,” Wood noted in his report. “I am not sure how music activities made the list with 11 occurrences but I am sure they are interesting stories.”

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Greitens acknowledges he had affair in 2015; denies blackmail allegations involving hair stylist

but “no time-line given to it.”The threat was reported to the

high school office.“We reacted as we would any-

time we would have received any type of statement like that,” Garner said, adding the district followed its established “safety protocol.”

After school officials were notified of a potential threat, the school was locked down. Students and staff were ordered to remain in their classrooms during first hour and through the end of second hour

(approximately 10:30 a.m. due to Friday scheduling at the school). Students were allowed to go to their third-hour class as scheduled.

At 11:02 a.m., R-2 parents on the district’s automated calling system received notification of the lock-down. Garner said all parents in the system should have received their message within 15 minutes of the initial call being made although at least one parent said they never received the notice.

He said district staff and police

were able to determine within those two class periods what the threat was and who allegedly made the threat. Once that was determined, district officials released accurate information about the situation, Garner said.

“We take statements like this very seriously and we take the safety of our students and faculty very seriously,” said Garner. “We follow the policy and procedures in our handbook. We follow the safety protocol we have established. This

falls into those guidelines.”Garner said some of the delay in

releasing the information was due to taking the time to interview students to determine who actually knew something, or if they were simply repeating something they had heard second hand. Police said school of-ficials followed their district safety policy and have taken “appropriate action at this time.”

City Marshal Robert Rickerd said Green and Finley “did a great job working this incident.”

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power went out completely. His wife awoke and heard crackling sounds overhead in the kitchen.

Sometime around 4:30, he wasn’t sure of the exact time, he said he called for the Gerald-Rosebud Fire Protection to respond. Firemen were toned out at 4:47 a.m. and the first unit on the scene reported heavy smoke in the attic and coming out from underneath the eaves.

“They were here in about five minutes,” said Willimann. “I can’t thank them enough.”

Fire above the plaster-over-drywall ceiling was burning through the ceiling joists but never got through to the roofline. Firemen had to pulled down extensive sections of the ceiling in those two rooms and cut out sections of several joists to extinguish the fire. The couple will be able to make repairs.

“The trucks got out exception-ally fast that night and had they arrived five minutes later the fire would have done much more damage,” said Gerald-Rosebud’s Deputy Chief Warren Weiss.

Probable cause of the fire was ruled as electrical in nature, ac-cording to Weiss who noted the Willimanns reported their breakers

were tripped when they awoke and that they smelled an electrical odor.

Firemen from the Beaufort-Leslie, Owensville, and New Haven-Berger departments also

responded to assist the Gerald-Rosebud firemen. Firemen were on the scene until 7 a.m. and U.S. 50 was closed between Route T and Danz Road for several hours as traf-

fic was diverted around fire-fighting equipment staged on the highway.

“It was a good save,” Weiss said. (With reporting by Linda Trest

of The Republican’s staff).

Area fires • From page 1

VoluNteer FiremeN from Owensville, Mt. Sterling, Linn and Hermann fought the house fire off Osage County Road 221 on Parsons Lane late Monday afternoon into the evening in 12-degree weather. It was 8 degrees when firemen cleared the scene after 7 p.m.; it was minus-5 degrees on Tuesday morning.

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OHS threat • From page 1

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We are ever grateful to the surrounding fire departments from Gerald-Rosebud, Owensville, Bland, Beaufort-Leslie and New Haven-Berger

for their hard work at our house fire last Saturday. They were very professional and showed great respect to preserve our personal

items. We admire the strength they used to

battle this fire on such a cold morning.

They saved our house! Also, thank you to everyone for your

thoughts and prayers.

State Technical CollegeKory Lucas of Beaufort; Garret

Carey and Austin Strange of Bour-bon; Michael Harris, Collin Murray, Eli Palmer and Timothy Sanders of Cuba; Dakota DeBroeck; Joseph Hanger, Cody Head, Tyler Kuhn, Jordan Leicht, Kyle Overkamp and Quentin Starke of Hermann; Brianna Bunners, Tyler Cason, Bo DeBoeuf, Rhiannon Edler, Megan Fritsch, Daniel Hinch, Brookelyn Limberg, Alejandro Marquez, Abigail O’Hara and Lance Thomas of Owensville; and Jacob Linhardt of Rosebud have been named to the Dean’s List for the 2017 Fall semester at State Technical College of Missouri.

Lincoln UniversityJeremy Morin of Gerald; Taylor

Erfling and Braden Hart of Her-mann; and Madeline Havelka of Owensville have been named to the Dean’s List for the 2017 Fall semester at Lincoln University of Missouri.

University of Central MissouriEmily Dawn Dunlap of Owens-

ville and Kristen E. Bauer and Sara N. Elfline of Rosebud have been named to the 4.0 Dean’s List for the 2017 Fall semester at University of Central Missouri.

Allison N. Livell has been named to the 3.5-3.99 Dean’s List for the 2017 Fall semester at University of Central Missouri.

COLLEGE CLIPS

With the birth of Elaina Rose Fox, the Fox family celebrates five generations in their family. The members of the family representing the five generations are (top row, from left): Mitchell Fox. Jr.; Mitchell Fox III; (bottom row, from left) John Peirick; Schevion Fox; and Elaina.

Five generations

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Elaina Rose FoxMitchell Fox III and Ashley Fox of Owens-

ville wish to announce the birth of their daughter Elaina, born Sept. 27, 2017, in Sullivan.

Elaina weighed five pounds and 15 ounces at birth and was 18.5 inches long.

Paternal grandparents are Mitchell Fox Jr. and Joy Fox of St. Charles and Jody and Gerri Cravey of Vidalia, Ga.

Maternal grandparents are Kenneth Foster Sr. and Bonnie Foster, both of Owensville.

Paternal great-grandparents are Mitchell Fox Sr. and Schevion Fox of Owensville, Linda Lockhart of Gerald and Jerry Lockhart of Beaufort.

Maternal great-grandparents are Marie Mercer of Owensville and Jimmy Raymond of Belton.

Paternal great-great-grandparents are John and Ruth Peirick of New Haven.

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80 years ago - Jan. 20, 1938Owensville Cagers take invitational

Owensville High School basketball team won first place in the Invitational Tournament held here by defeating St. James in the finals Saturday night. The score was 18-16.

Members of the team are (front row, left to right) B. Pollock, D. Koch, B. Boyd, E. West, captain; C. Tackitt, C. Bruton, Coach L. Barrow, (bottom row, left to right) C. Kurrelmeyer, J. Aufder Heide, K. Hackmann, G. Huff and K. Hartman.

60 years ago - Jan. 23, 1958Rain didn’t stop them

Heavy spring rains and floods did not stop these Gasconade County farmers from qualifying as members of the MFA 100 Bushel Corn Club. The members are shown with some of their trophies in a picture made at a dinner given in their honor at Owensville last Tuesday night. They are, from left to right: Ottmar Rode, Hermann, who averaged 112.3 bushels per acres; Floyd Nicks, Owensville, 132.49 bushels; Vernon Nicks, Owensville, 118.59 bushels; Myron Rost, Morrison, 136.49 bushels; and Raymond Meyer, Hermann, 127.88 bushels.

–––Tegeler-Wehmeyer plan to wed

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tegeler of Gerald announce the engagement of their daughter, Shirley Jean, to Mr. Vernon Wehmeyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theo Wehmeyer of Owensville. The wedding will take place

some time in June.This engagement announcement was published

in the Jan. 23, 1958 edition of The Gasconade County Republican. Engagement announcements published in The Gasconade County Republican are run free of charge and are an elegant way of documenting your memories for lifetimes to come. We also publish birth, wedding and anniversary

announcements at no cost. To submit your an-nouncement, e-mail [email protected].

45 years ago - Jan. 17, 1973Employees honored

Fourteen employees of the local Brown Shoe Company plant were awarded 25-year pins Friday by Elmer Wheeler, plant superintendent. This brings to more than 50 the number of employees in the local plant who have worked 25 or more consecutive years. The 14 honored Friday are: Stanley Bulas, Mrs. Minnie Payton, Lydia Ditt-man, Loretta Walters, Mrs. Eleanor Binkhoelter, Donald Koepke, Leon Lansford, Mrs. Virginia Hohenstreet, Melvin Jones, George Haag, Mrs. Esther Medley, Mrs. Velma Haddox, Mrs. Mabel Homfeldt and Wilfred Gillman.

30 years ago - Jan. 20, 1988Forrester retires

Homer Forrester, center, an employee of the local Brown Shoe Co. plant for 34 years, retired last week. Forrester worked 20 years in the lasting room and the last 14 in maintenance. Also shown are Calvin Smith, left, plant superintendent, and Steve Patton, plant engineer.

20 years ago - Jan. 21, 1998Named to All-Conference Choir

Based on auditions held Jan. 14 at Owensville High School, these OHS students earned Four Rivers Conference All -Conference choir honors. Selected to perform at concerts Feb 24 at Sulli-van and St. Clair high schools as members of the 98-member All Choference Choir were (in front, from left), Eyreka Peterson, Juanita Buescher, April

Decker and Jenny Crum; in back, Shawn Janke, Collin Frahm, Adam Niewald, Rodney Wehmeyer, Pat Brown, Lorie Wright, Robby Huesgen and Christine Dority.

–––Record amount in Tootsie Roll campaign

Knights of Columbus members Lee Ragsdale, Fred Vogt and Jude Naes announced Council No. 9465 raised more than $3,200 during its annual Tootsie Roll drive to benefit children with mental handicaps.

–––50 year Mason

Amo Kreter was honored Saturday night by Owensville Lodge No. 624, A.F. & A.M.., as a 50-year Mason and member of the local lodge.

15 years ago - Jan. 202, 2003Chamber welcomes Dominos

Owensville Chamber of Commerce officials last week welcomed Domino’s Pizza as a new member and new business in the city. From left are Brenda Limberg, Chamber president; Domino’s franchise owners Pat and Jay Howie; Ron Luebbert, executive director of the Chamber; Charles Bade, Chamber board member; and Chris Szwargulski, manager of the local Domino’s at Highway 28 and Fourth Street.

10 years ago - Jan. 23, 2008Democrats elect 2008 officers

Gasconade County Democrat Club members held their annual election of officers at their monthly meeting on Sunday. Pictured with Tod DeVeydt (far left), candidate for the 111th State Representative seat are (from left) Leona Reid, Bland (treasurer), Carol Hanson, Bland (president), Jeanette Sage, Bay (vice president) and Pam Jaegers, Hermann (secretary).

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Savannah Wood, Fail to register motor vehicle with Department of Revenue. Fine of $80, plus costs.

Nancy Fisher, Assault. SIS two years probation, plus costs.

David Glandon, Fail to register motor vehicle with Department of Revenue. Fine of $80, plus costs.

Shannon Redmond, Speeding 53/35. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Savannah Wood, After license tab. Fine of $80, plus costs.

Kyle Wehmeyer, DWS. Fine of $300, plus costs.

Kyle Wehmeyer, Careless and imprudent. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Matthew Holtzer, Speed-ing 51/25. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Joshua Barton, Fail to obey police. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Joshua Barton, Trespass. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Joshua Barton, Peace disturbance. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Joshua Barton, Boister-ousness. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Danny Basenberg, Steal-ing. Fine of $300, plus costs.

Bobbie Brumley, Defec-tive equipment. Fine of $150, plus costs.

Owensville Municipal cOurtHonorable Judge david baylard, presiding

Casper Schneider

Casper Hen-ry Schneider, 93, St. James, formerly of Ow-ensville, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, at Missouri Vet-

eran’s Home.He was born Jan. 19, 1924, to

August and Mary (Poppenhouse) Schneider, in Owensville.

Casper served in the U.S. Army and was a lineman for Three Riv-ers Electric.

He was preceded in death by parents, August and Mary; brother, Frank Schneider; and sister, Lucille Barnhardt.

He is survived by brother, Eu-gene Schneider of O’Fallon; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be held Wednes-day, Jan. 17, from 3-7 p.m. at Got-tenstroeter Chapel in Owensville.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, Jan. 18, at 10:30 a.m., at Gottenstroeter Chapel in Ow-ensville with Rev. Kevin Sullivan officiating.

Burial will be in Miller Cem-etery near Owensville with full military honors.

Arrangements entrusted to Gottenstroeter Funeral Home, Owensville.

Lavern Raaf

Lavern Helen Raaf, 79, Ger-ald, died Sun-day, Jan. 7, 2018, at Mercy Hospi-tal, Washington.

She was born Aug. 21, 1938,

to Louis and Edna (Pruessner) Panhorst, north of Gerald.

She was united in marriage to William H. Raaf, Sept. 7, 1957, at Ebenezer Stone Church.

Lavern attended Beemont School. She was confirmed at Ebenezer Stone Church April, 6, 1952, with joint classes through Stone Church and St. Paul’s United Church of Christ. She was a mem-ber of St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Gerald. Lavern worked at Paramount Cap Factory in Gerald and did child care.

She was preceded in death by parents, Louis and Edna; husband, William; brothers, Harley, Leonard and Richard Panhorst; brothers-in-law, Earl Rohlfing, Dr. Graydon Ballard, Richard Raaf and Herbert Raaf; sisters-in-law, Mayme Pan-horst, Anna Mae Raaf Ballard and Marie Raaf.

She is survived by sons, Duane Raaf and wife Deborah of Ow-ensville, Randy Raaf and wife Deborah and Roger Raaf, all of Gerald; daughter, Karen Stillman and husband Paul of Gerald; sister, Elda Rohlfing of Gerald; sisters-in-law, Julia Panhorst of Eureka, Marilyn Schmidt and husband Landon of Lee’s Summitt; grand-children, Chad and Mandy Raaf, Sarah Traub and husband Justin, Eric Raaf, Emily Kerley and hus-band Zac, Tyler and Bailey Still-man; great-grandchildren, Lizzie and John Traub, Lillian Raaf and Janie Kerley; special friend, Betty Boehmer of New Haven; special care givers, Christina Long and Mary Margaret Bee; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Funeral services were held Friday, Jan. 12 at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Gerald with Pastor Glenn Hollander officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Family request memorials to Alzheimer’s Association or St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Cemetery.

Arrangements entrusted to Gottenstroeter Funeral Home in Gerald.

Marilyn Miller

Marilyn Ma-rie Miller, 93, O w e n s v i l l e , died Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City.

She was born Sept. 11, 1924, to Dewey and Clara (Walter) Brink-man, in Bay.

She was united in marriage to Raymond Miller, Oct. 14, 1951, at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Bay.

Marilyn was a member of Bay Bethel Presbyterian Church where she was a choir member and played the organ for services for a time. She later attended Woollam United Methodist Church near Owensville.

She was preceded in death by parents, Dewey and Clara; hus-band, Raymond in 2008; brother, Walter “Bob” Brinkman; and sister-in-law, Billie Brinkman.

She is survived by son, Glenn Miller; daughter, Judy Morris and husband Pat; and sister LaVerne Brinkman, all of Owensville.

Visitation will be Friday, Jan. 19, from 9-11 a.m. at Gottenstroeter Chapel in Owensville. Funeral ser-vices will follow with Rev. Jackie Asher officiating.

Burial will be in the Bay Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery (Pilgrims Rest).

Arrangements entrusted to Gottenstroeter Funeral Home in Owensville.

area Obituaries

Linda Hafley

Linda Joyce Hafley, 68, Bay, died Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, at her residence.

She was born May 15, 1949,

to Elmer Ervin and Minnie Matilda (Kreter) Hafley, in Bay.

Linda was a member of Pin Oak Baptist Church. She enjoyed sewing and was a St. Louis Car-dinals fan.

She was preceded in death by parents, Elmer and Minnie; sister, Doris Hafley; and brother, Donald Hafley.

She is survived by daughter, Kari Hafley of Bay; sister, Loretta Hafley of Hermann; and niece, Brenda Derby of Hermann.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan. 16, at Gottenstroeter Chapel in Owensville with Pastor Glen Duncan officiating.

Burial was in Giedinghagen Cemetery in Mt. Sterling.


Ola Kottwitz

Ola “Fern” Kottwitz, 87, Bland , d ied Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, at Jefferson City Manor.

She was born Sept. 18, 1930, to Edwin F. and Eunice (Shockley) Biehl, in rural Gasconade County.

She was united in marriage to Edward Theodore Kottwitz, April 12, 1952, in Bland.

Fern was a member of Zion Evangelical Church in Bland and was a lifelong member of the area. At the age of 16, she started working for the International Shoe Factory in Bland and was later employed at the Kellwood Tent Company in Bland.

Fern enjoyed quilting, garden-ing, attending church dinners and watching RFDTV and St. Louis Cardinal’s baseball games. She loved to cook and feed her family but most of all, she loved spending time with them.

She was preceded in death by siblings, Evelyn Biehl, Leon Biehl and Linda Kay Green.

She is survived by daughter, Donna Temme and husband Ron of Jefferson City; son, Dale Kottwitz of Belle; sister, grandchildren, Cassandra Price and husband Mi-chael of Louisburg, Kan., Richard Temme and wife Ashley of Jeffer-son City, Patrick Temme of Jeffer-son City and Samantha Kottwitz of Belle; great-grandchildren, Bryn-

Carl Mosher

Carl D. Mosher, 77, Howland Township, Ohio, died Jan. 4, 2018, in Winston-Salem, N.C., after a short illness.

He was born Sept. 27, 1940, to Dorsie W. Mosher Sr. and Edythe Dehn Mosher, in Vichy.

He was united in marriage to Sarah Sneed, July 31, 1965.

Carl graduated from Belle High School and the University of Missouri, Rolla, with a BS in mechanical engineering.

Carl was employed with GE Lighting in Illinois, Florida, Ohio and Virginia for 36 years, with the last 20 in plant management, retiring in January of 2001. He was active in Rotary, United Way and many community and manu-facturing leadership roles. Carl was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose and a life member of the Elks. He was also an ac-complished craftsman and enjoyed making beautiful furniture and woodworking.

He was preceded in death by parents, Dorsie Sr. and Edythe; sisters and brothers-in-law, Betty Tucker and husband Art, Vera Pi-azza and husband Al and Margaret Bentlage and husband Leo.

He is survived by wife, Sarah; son, Cary of Columbus, Ohio; daughter, Carla Gibson of Warren, Ohio; sister, Patricia Straw and Liza Hearns; brothers, Dorsie Mosher Jr. and wife Natalia, Ronald Mosher and wife Sadie and Randall Mosher; and four grandchildren.

A celebration of life service will be held Thursday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m., at the Howland United Methodist Church, Warren, Ohio.

Interment will be in the family cemetery in Missouri at a later date.

Memorial contributions sug-gested to Howland Methodist Chruch, Warren, Ohio.

Arrangements entrusted to Lane Funeral Home.

Jack Presser

Jack Presser, 86, Hermann, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, at Hermann Area Hospital.

He was born Feb. 15, 1931,

to Jess and Jeffie Hazel (Sims) Presser, in Cave City, Ark.

He was united in marriage to Billie Hagar, Dec. 8, 1951, in New Port, Ark.

Jack was a truck driver for MODOT and enjoyed fishing, woodworking and tinkering with lawnmowers.

He was preceded in death by wife, Billie; parents, Jess and Jef-fie; son, Richard Presser; brothers, Jessie and Bobby Presser; and one sister in infancy.

He is survived by daughters, Jackie Wenkel and husband Terry of Russellville and Linda Scego of Rhineland; brothers, Jerry Presser and wife Joyce of Troy and Eddie Presser of Arkansas; sister, Ruth Haynes of Troy; grandchildren, Sandy Withers and husband Gare, Jack Wenkel and wife Jen-nifer, Kimberly Overkamp and husband Kerry and Benjamin and Nicholas Presser; and by eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Visitation will be held Thurs-day, Jan. 18 from 5-7 p.m. at Got-tenstroeter Funeral Home Chapel in Owensville.

His body will be cremated and no services are planned.

Arrangements entrusted to Gottenstroeter Funeral Home in Owensville.

Melvin Brandt

Melvin El-mer Brandt, 91, O w e n s v i l l e , died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, at Frene Valley of Owensville.

He was born, Sept. 1, 1926, to Elmer and Elma (Rauter) Brandt, in Drake.

He was united in marriage to Adoree Holzschuh, Nov. 13, 1948, in Fulton, Ark.

Melvin was a member of Beemont Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by parents, Elmer and Elma; and brother, Leonard Brandt.

He is survived by wife, Adoree, of Owensville; sister, Delores Holtgrewe of Rosebud; children, Loretta Kohlbush and husband Dennis of Bland and Leon Brandt and wife Sharon of Grovetown, Ga.; and six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 15, at Gottenstroeter Chapel with Rev. Kevin Sullivan officiating.

Burial was in Owensville City Cemetery.


Fred Schneider

Fred Schnei-der, 83, Gerald, died Friday, Dec. 29, 2017, at his residence.

He was born May 24, 1934.

He was unit-ed in marriage to Maggie Schneider for 22 years.

Fred was a member of Friendly Assembly of God Church, Gerald, for 21 years.

He was preceded in death by son, Steve Schneider.

He is survived by wife, Maggie; daughters, Terry Schneider, Anita (Schneider) Mundle and husband Jamie, Pat Schneider and Debbie (Schneider) Priest and husband Mike; sons, Todd Schneider and wife Kim, Rod Schneider and David Schneider; step-daughters, Lisa Cantrell and Linda Bennett; step-sons, Scott Bennett, Kenneth Bennett and wife Cheryl and Mike Bennett and wife Liz; grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held Thurs-day, Jan. 18, from 10-11 a.m., at Friendly Assembly of God Church, Gerald. A memorial service, with full military honors, will follow with Rev. Maggie Schneider, Rev. Carol Brown and Pastor Rod Mus-grave officiating.

lee and Brayden Temme; sister, Geraldine Ketterer of Iowa; and many nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 13, at Sassmann’s Chapel in Bland with Mark Farran officiating.

Interment was in the Old Bland Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Old Bland Cem-etery fund.

Arrangements entrusted to Sassmann’s Chapel, Bland.

Patrick McDuffie

Patrick McDuffie, 59, died Jan. 14, 2018, near Rosebud.Visitation will be held Saturday, Jan. 21, from 12-2 p.m. at Gotten-

stroeter Chapel in Owensville. Memorial services will follow.A complete obituary will be published at a later date.Arrangements entrusted to Gottenstroeter Funeral Home, Owensville.

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Wintry blast of snow, cold blows into OwensvilleRoger Nicks sweeps snow off a bus Monday. R-2 bus mechanics were preparing for extreme cold weather and expected buses to operate on normal schedules when students returned to class today. School parking lots (right) were also cleared of the approximately 2-inch snowfall. Snow is bladed at City Cemetery (below) ahead of a funeral on Monday. Trash collection went on as scheduled (lower right) and First Baptist’s lot was cleared by early afternoon. A snowman waves from a church building (top) and Gerard Rebmann’s newest sign makes reference to recent transgressions by Missouri’s governor.

PHOTOS BY DAVE MARNER

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DRIVER’S LICENSE written and road tests will be held on the first and third Wednesday of the month in Owensville beginning Feb. 7, according to the commander of Owensville VFW Post 6133 where testing is conducted. No testing is scheduled in Owens-ville the remainder of January, according to Michael Stillman. Written testing is scheduled from 9:45 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday under the new schedule. Driving skills exami-nations are scheduled from 9:45 to 11:35 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m. those days. Motorcycle skills testing will be conducted from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. only. The previous days were the first, third, and fifth Mondays of each month.

JESSIE BAYLESS, art teacher at Gerald Elementary School, has been selected as a representative for the Missouri Art Education Association serving the central region. “I’m excited to serve Central MO counties by keeping them up with local and national Art Ed info and advocacy and arrang-ing opportunity for professional development and collaboration to provide meaningful art expe-riences to all of our students,” Bayless wrote in a post to her social media Facebook page.

GASCONADE COUNTY R-2 School District’s Board of Education is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22, at the Administrative Building. The meeting is open to the public.

DOUG CLARK, who is not seeking another term on the Gasconade County E-911 Board of Directors, was identi-fied by an erroneous last name in a reference in a story published Jan. 10. The Republican regrets the error.

OwENSVILLE HIGH School is looking for preschool-ers to participate in a Child De-velopment Preschool program. Children ages 3 through 5 are needed to take part in a program instructed by Hannah Fletcher’s advanced child development class. Preschoolers will partici-pate in learning activities de-signed for educational growth, improving motor skills and increasing social interaction. Students in the child develop-ment class will be responsible for planning and preparing these learning activities and will gain interaction skills with preschoolers. The preschool begins Monday, Feb. 5 and continues through Wednesday, March 28. Classes will be held in the mornings on Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:55 a.m. and Friday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. For applications and more information, contact the high school at 437-2174. Applica-tions are due by Friday, Jan. 19.

THE HELpING HANDS Outreach Center of Gasconade County (HHOC) will hold its annual meeting and dinner on Friday, Jan. 19, at First Baptist Church, 112 West Lincoln Avenue, in Owensville. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with the annual meeting to follow at approximately 7 p.m. RSVP to Roger Jett via email at [email protected], or via phone at 537-437-2774.

LINN —The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Osage County Natural Resources Conservation Service will hold a pre-scribed burn workshop for interested landowners at Linn Fire Protection District’s Station No. 1, 210 West Main, in Linn, on Friday, Feb. 9.

This workshop, part of MDC’s commitment to work with landown-ers interested in learning how to properly and safely utilize prescribed fire to manage grasslands, prairies, woodlands, glades and other natural communities on their land, is held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and registration is required by Feb. 5.

Taught by MDC certified burners, participants will learn about the value and purpose of prescribed fire as a land management tool, and will receive instruction on how to safely and effectively plan and conduct a controlled burn. The workshop will also discuss situations where pre-scribed burning could create benefits for both property owners and their land, and wildlife habitat. This workshop is a prerequisite to having a burn plan developed by NRCS or MDC.

A brown-bag lunch will be provided. The workshop is free. Call Seth Barrioz, a private lands conservationist for the MDC, at 575-897-3797, extension 116. The Linn firehouse is on the east end of town, up the hill from McDonald’s on the right, immediately after you pass Route U. A demonstration burn will be conducted at a nearby site if weather and ground conditions are appropriate. Dress appropriately and wear jeans and closed-toe boots.

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A committee of local high school officials and community leaders will select the recipient. The committee will consider each applicant’s scholastic achievements, educational goals, citizenship, moral character and participation and leadership in school and community activities. The scholarship is given without regard to race, disability, religion, national origin or gender of applicants. The name of the recipient will be announced at the close of the school year.

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A survey prepared on behalf of the Owensville Park Board is now online and also available in print form.

Owensville residents and mem-bers of the surrounding communi-ties are invited to complete the survey now through Feb. 14. Ow-ensville Park Board members are seeking information for long-term parks planning and invite all those who use the community’s parks to compete the survey.

Area youth are particularly en-couraged to complete the survey since data compiled from it will be integrated into long-term planning.

The Park Board survey is live and installed in two places on the city of Owensville website (www.cityofowensville.com). It is found on the city’s “Home Page” and also under “Public Notices.”

Paper copies are also available at the front counter at City Hall. Printed copies of the document will also be available at the Owensville Branch of Scenic Regional Library.

The survey was compiled by Owensville resident Cathy Lah-meyer, an alderman in Ward 1, with input from Owensville Park Board members. Dana Hampton, vice president of the park’s group, coordinated the compilation of survey question with Lahmeyer.

“Our survey is designed to solicit basic information about the public’s use of Owensville’s Park System,” an introduction to the survey notes. “We want to discover who is using the parks, find out what’s working and what’s not, as well as gather suggestions for improve-ments needed. The information gathered will be used to develop a 5-10 Year Strategic Plan for the

department. The survey is open to all area residents who use the Park System, not just residents of the City of Owensville.”

Those taking the survey are asked to complete it in one sitting since the program is not set up to save answers if you leave the page.

“Thank you for taking the time to complete our survey,” members of the Owensville Park Board said in a press release announcing the opening status of the survey.

Make your opinion heard There are questions which will

allow you to select more than one item you like, or which you use, in the park system. There is also an opportunity to add comments to certain questions in the survey if you wish.

It should take approximately 8 to 10 minutes to complete the survey.

The survey is found online at https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54nwieogZpWpodD .

Links to the survey will also be posted on The Republican’s website along with this story at www.Gas-conadeCountyRepublican.com .

Owensville parks survey now online: city residents, non-residents, youth invited to participate in planning

WINTER PARK (on left), adjacent to Memorial Park, includes a pavilion, playground and racquet ball courts.

PSC approves 22-cent decrease in Ameren electric bills on EEIC

JEFFERSON CITY — Mis-souri’s Public Service Commis-sion has approved a request from Ameren Missouri to adjust the Energy Efficiency Investment Charge (EEIC) that appears on the

monthly bills of electric customers of Ameren Missouri.

For a typical residential customer using 1,060 kWh (kilowatt-hours) of electricity a month, the EEIC will drop by approximately 22 cents a month, effective Jan. 25. The ad-justment reflects costs of approved energy efficiency programs under the Missouri Energy Efficiency

Investment Act (MEEIA).The Energy Efficiency Invest-

ment Charge (EEIC) is a charge which encourages utility companies to implement demand-side and energy efficiency programs and was part of the Missouri Energy Ef-ficiency Investment Act (MEEIA). The mechanism is reflected as a separate line item on customer bills.


OWENSVILLE’S MEMORIAL PARK as seen from above Highway 28 and the Red Oak Road (lower, left) and Parker Drive entrances (on right). A portion of Owensville Golf Course is on the far right and Memorial Field is in the center. Winter Water Park is behind the water tower.

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Gasconade county commission meetinG minutes THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 2018The Gasconade County Com-

mission met with Presiding Com-missioner Larry Miskel, Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lair-more, Northern District Commis-sioner Jim Holland present at Drake with road department; work began on budget with preliminary num-bers entered and projects outlined to be done in-house versus outside bid; work has been getting done in shop rather than on the roads and trimming trees until extreme cold dry weather breaks; permit was received for installing Agri-Ready signs.

Commission then convened at Owensville City Hall beginning with Pledge of Allegiance.

PRIOR MINUTESCommissioner Lairmore made a

motion to approve prior Commis-sion minutes dated Dec. 28, 2017. Commissioner Holland seconded the motion. The motion passed by vote:

Commissioner Holland (Yes), Commissioner Lairmore (Yes), Commissioner Miskel (Yes).

ROAD CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS

Commission reported discussion earlier today at road department to Clerk Lietzow for the official minutes; they gave her road depart-ment’s budget as it is now. She had sent the revenue projections to road department late Wednesday after-noon, but did not include beginning balance, so for now, they are unsure if numbers will hold.

Commissioner Holland said that Hermann Fire Department has done a lot of work at the north radio tower and building site and asked if road department could dump load of rock and they agreed; that reminded Clerk Lietzow that the two new agreements for this change have not been prepared yet.

GENERAL DISCUSSIONCorrespondence received in-

cluded: Harbison-Walker Interna-tional notified Commission they

applied to MoDNR for permit to mine clay in Section 7, Township 42N, Range 4W and Section 23/26, Township 42N, Range 5W. Also, Ivan Schraeder confirmed in an of-ficial letter his relocation to another firm and sent the forms needing Commission signature if agreeing to continue service contract.

Treasurer Mike Feagan pre-sented and reviewed his monthly account balances along with his required semi-annual report for July-December and his annual settlement all of which has been verified by Clerk Lietzow’s office as much as can be. It was pointed out, Courthouse Restoration fund received $27,300 in donations in December 2017.

Dale Maune came back to Com-mission session to have further discussion regarding the citizens group request for a law enforce-ment sales tax to be placed on a 2018 ballot by Commission; Sheriff John Romanus was also present. Mr. Maune said with a 1/2 cent sales tax bringing in $965,000 in 2017, if 25% of current Sheriff’s budget was returned to General Revenue at $241000, that could be used for pay increases for other offices, paying down the roof loan or for more Courthouse restoration. Commission asked Mr. Maune what the taxpayers would see for these additional funds and he said more officers, allowing road deputies to not have to serve as detectives and more pay for all; Commission asked Sheriff Romanus to respond to that because that is not what Commis-sion considers as the answer, as they are tasked with how to benefit all of the offices and departments, not just law enforcement. Sheriff Romanus said besides more officers and office help, putting more cars on the road, cameras in the cars, providing School Resource Officer in both public and private schools in Gasconade County and expanding law enforcement into small cities wanting to contract for services. The biggest problem is since nearly all surrounding counties have a tax and can pay more to officers, we

can’t keep officers. While arrests are up and 320 people went through jail in 2017, he doesn’t see that lessening, but he stated a jail is not a part of this tax issue. Commission asked if the rate paid for prisoner board is going up and he said it is possible. Presiding Commissioner Miskel asked Clerk Lietzow when decision needs to be made if con-sidering for April ballot and she said the ballot language needs to be certified to her office by Jan. 23, at a cost of approximately $11,000. Commission discussed contacting Mr. Schraeder, but RSMo 675.82 is pretty explicit on ballot language and Commission can issue a court order calling the election; the only decision to be spelled out will be the amount of Sheriff’s General Revenue budget to be returned if tax is approved by voters. Clerk Lietzow asked Sheriff Romanus if he was ready to submit his budgets and he said later today.

Commission will meet tomor-row at Courthouse for budget workshop; they will finish their own budget today. Commissioner Holland mentioned starting a per-petual fund for General Revenue’s contribution to Courthouse Resto-ration fund.

Regarding Courthouse interior work, it is starting on Monday; the exterior work is on hold for better weather. No bids were received for generator as advertised.

REPORT OF FEESCommission reviewed monthly

reports of fees collected for Decem-ber 2017 as follows:

County Clerk Lesa Lietzow - $4,368.00, Sheriff John Romanus - $290.00 DSSSF, $1,335.09 civil fee fund.

REPORT OF FEESCommission reviews report of

fees for December 2017, from Pa-mela R. Greunke, Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Deeds for Divisions 1, 2 and 4 in the following amounts:

Recording-$4,953.10 Dom Viol-$15.00 CERF-$1,960.00

Rec Records Reten-$2,029.14 Record Techn-$346.25Clerk fees-$545.93 County fees-$449.80 Incarc/medcl costs-$3,369.31 LETF-$50.00 PATF-$13.75Fines-$3,163.00 Sheriff’s fees/mileage-$321.21Overpayment-$9.50 Misc county fees-$141.70Dep. Sher. Sal. Suppl.-$0 Gasc. Co. Drug Court-$0Gasc. Co. Garnishment Fund-

$130.00 Inmate Security Fund-$46.00

ABATEMENT(S), ADD-ONSCommission approved the fol-

lowing items: Abatement(s) #1965 through

#1974 Add-ons #8163 through #8209

ADJOURNCommissioner Lairmore mo-

tioned that the Commission adjourn until Friday, Jan. 5, 2018; Presiding Commissioner Miskel seconded and meeting adjourned.

FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 2018The Gasconade County Com-

mission met with Presiding Com-missioner Larry Miskel, Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lair-more, Northern District Commis-sioner Jim Holland present at Court-house to begin work on budget.

BUDGET DISCUSSIONAll elected officials and depart-

ment heads had submitted their budgets timely and Clerk Lietzow’s office and Treasurer Mike Feagan closed and balanced 2017 revenue and projected 2018 revenue. This gave Commission what they needed to see, along with beginning bal-ances; at this point, General Rev-enue expenses are $120,000 more than balance will allow.

They spent time looking at all budgets, asking questions, which Clerk Lietzow answered as best she could and what she couldn’t answer, will be asked of the elected official before the next meeting or

if necessary, at the next meeting.EMD Kris Bayless prepared his

budget before knowing beginning balance available, and since that number was down considerably, his expenses will have to be lowered. Clerk Lietzow will notify him and schedule him to come in.

Public Administrator Fay Ows-ley’s budget had increased enough to warrant asking some questions as did Prosecuting Attorney Mary Weston’s so they will be scheduled to come in. Collector Shawn Schlot-tach had stopped in for another mat-ter and they asked about her budget; she said computer issues during tax season were problematic so new equipment is needed, but she has allowed her Tax Maintenance Fund to accumulate enough to cover cost.

Commission asked if she had still set aside money for former jail area remodel and she did at $12,000 again.

There were several questions for Sheriff John Romanus specifi-cally on his three General Revenue budgets which they see reductions needed in expenses and he will be asked to come in; Commission is still discussing law enforcement sales tax issue and are waiting to see the plan he prepares.

One expense in Sheriff Roma-nus’ budget that he was getting more information on was the Non-Emergency Services contract the county has with E911; it was his thoughts that could be reduced but according to their Administrator it could not be. Commission would like the contract looked at and talk to other officials who pay for this service also.

Commission asked Clerk Liet-zow about housekeeping issues budgeted for and she said they were not, so the list was reviewed;

projects postponed to 2019 budget include: security and surveillance cameras for both Courthouse and Swiss substation along with ID badges for personnel.

Courthouse Restoration fund will be able to fund finishing repairs in second floor offices, courtroom, jury room and rotunda, along with finishing lights on roof for flag and re-working courtroom a/c drain-age issues. In addition, that fund should also be able to cover the cost of repairs to Associate Circuit Courtroom damaged ceiling from the bathroom directly above in prisoner holding cell due to delib-erate overflows, in Sheriff’s north office. If any funds would remain at this point, Commission would like to start work on remodeling jail as plans were drawn for Trea-surer’s office, handicap accessible bathroom and storage; they want to utilize the funds Collector Schlot-tach has set aside for several years and at least start with that.

General Revenue building and grounds budget which was sig-nificantly over-budget with all roof leaks in 2017 and moving expenses will have funds for moving the Eitzen statue outside to perma-nent home with help from Garden Club and school, grading, sloping and adding gravel to parking lot, moving Pros. Atty. and Sheriff’s offices back in and Assessor back upstairs and more grounds cleanup. As discussed before, Commission will pursue website setup and maintenance.

ADJOURNCommissioner Lairmore mo-

tioned that the Commission adjourn until Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018; Commissioner Holland seconded and meeting adjourned.

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Chapter Two:

It was a cold day. The month of March offers no promise of budding trees or sprouting daffodils when you live high above the Arctic Circle. Not many people make their home there, but James had grown up in those parts and was used to the weather. Snow blanketed the ground, but the thin light of early spring allowed James better visibility to look for caribou and wolverine, anything he could hunt and bring back to his village. James had been a hunter for most of his life. The Inupiat people of Point Lay, Alaska, on the coast of the Chukchi Sea, rely on skilled subsistence hunters like James and others. Alaska Native People along the northwest coast of Alaska hunt marine mammals, birds, fish and other land animals to keep their families healthy. Commercial food, which can be purchased for a few dollars in the lower 48 states, is very expensive there: noodles can cost $13, and red or green peppers as much as $10 each. What the meat hunters bring back is vitally important to the villagers’ survival. That day in March, James and his friend drove their snowmobiles 40 miles outside of Point Lay. He would have been happy to find any animal to bring back for his family and village, but a large animal, like a caribou, would be best. And that’s when he saw the polar bear. Being an Alaska native, James was legally allowed to hunt marine mammals like polar bears. Of course, it was rare for him to take a bear. In his lifetime as a hunter, this bear would only be his ninth. James did not take killing a polar bear lightly. These animals were respected and revered in Inupiat culture. But James was tasked with providing meat for his village, so he took what opportunities that luck and nature presented to him. He shot the bear. When the bear was down, James approached it. Once certain that it was dead, he rolled it over. That’s when he noticed something different. The other eight bears that James

had hunted had all been large, burly males with gigantic paws and teeth. This bear was a bit smaller, and on its stomach was a row of dark teats. This bear was a nursing sow. “Somewhere,” he thought, “she has a cub.” James was crushed. He had not realized that the bear was a female, especially a nursing mother. “We’ve got to find the den,” James said to his hunting companion. “There’s a cub out here, and it won’t survive for long without her.” The two men set out through the bitter wind and spring sunlight, until they saw the opening of a polar bear den.

A PolarBear’s TaleKALI:

CHAPTER TWO OF EIGHT

AUTHOR: CAROLYN MUELLER | ILLUSTRATOR: JEREMY PATTON & JAYNE BALLEW

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Scott, the son of Stephen and Mary Eiler, is a 2000 graduate of Owensville High School, has attended East Central College, and is a 2002 graduate of the Eastern Missouri Police Academy where he obtained

a Class A Peace Officers License. Scott is a loving father to a growing family of two beautiful girls, an infant son, and dedicated husband to his wife Breanna, a life-long Gasconade County resident.

Scott’s life of service to our community began in 2003. He has served with the Owensville Police Department, the Rosebud Police Department where he held the rank of sergeant, and Gasconade County Sheriff ’s Office. Currently, Scott, is a sergeant with Gasconade County where he is tasked with supervising day-to-day field operations in the department. He has spent a total of 12 years with Gasconade County with positions held on the Sheriff ’s Emergency Response Team (S.E.R.T.), as evidence custodian, a search and rescue diver, and as a supervisor for over 5 years. Many new officers have learned the trade by working under Scott’s guidance and have continued to grow throughout their careers thanks to the foundations he has built.

Throughout the years, Scott has been involved in many high profile cases and knows the seriousness of thorough investigations and professional police work. Many property crimes have been solved by Scott with thousands of dollars of items returned to those who worked so hard to have them. Scott has and will continue to work hand-in-hand with our local drug task force to rid Owensville of drugs which have became an epidemic with our community’s youth. Under Scott’s leadership, YOUR Owensville Police Department will become a professional law enforcement agency you can be proud of.

Born and raised in Owensville, Scott Eiler knows what this community is all about. With over two decades of living in the city limits, Scott is no

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Please vote for SCOTT EILER for City Marshal of Owensville ~ April 03, 2018Paid for by Scott Eiler, candidate.

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Wednesday, Jan. 17Spaghetti/Meat Sauce, Garlic Bread, Corn, Mandarin Oranges

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Friday, Jan. 19Nacho Lil’ Bites, Spicy Pinto Beans, Strawberries

Monday, Jan. 22BBQ Rib/Bun, French Fries, Car-rot Sticks, Peaches

Tuesday, Jan. 23Salisbury Steak, Mashed Potato, Green Peas, Dinner Roll, Fruit Cup

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A day fit for a princessFriends and family helped Julia Stone celebrate her eighth birthday Saturday with a Disney-themed princess party at the Owensville VFW hall. The youngster is undergoing treatment for her second bout with Ewing sarcoma — a rare childhood cancer. A parade from Rosebud to Owensville brought her to town. Apparatus from the Owensville Fire Department and Gerald-Rosebud Fire Protection District travel on Highway 28 in Owensville on Saturday in a parade which included Rosebud Police Sgt. Mason Griffith, Owensville City Marshal Robert Rickerd, Gasconade County Sheriff John Romanus, and personnel from the Gerald Area Ambulance District. Performance artists from Influx Inferno greeted her, her parents Rich and Rachel, and her guests with twirling and spinning displays of fire. Guests were introduced as they entered the hall and took their seats. Julia hugs her aunt, Stephanie Baker (below, on far left) as Baker’s husband, Kyle, and Julia’s grandfather, Dave Kamper, mother, Rachel, and Sheriff Romanus look on. Julia (top) waves to those gathered out front of the VFW hall as she arrived in the Owensville fire truck.

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THE BOARD OF AL-DERMEN were scheduled to meet last Thursday, Jan. 11. That meeting was cancelled due to expected inclement weather. The meeting had not been rescheduled at press time.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will meet next Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 5:30 p.m. at the Depot in Legion Park.

More good students at GES

The Owensville Women of the Moose recently announced good student awards for the second quarter of the school year. Students selected are shown at left, in no particular order: Riley Poertner, Kaidyn Lawrence, Landen Pratt, Kayden Stockton, Peyton Pohlmann, Mason Turner, Jillian Pauk, Sam Wallis, Lucy Greunke, J’miaha Boyd, Madison Slinkard, Brody Slinkard, Mckenzie Risse, Kylie Milburn, River Dahms and Kyrstin King. Students received a cash award for their selection as good students. Teachers’ recommendations are used when choosing the good students.

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Saturday morning attic fire damages Rosebud homeThe home of Marvin and Judy Willimann sustained considerable damage after fireman extinguished an attic fire early Saturday morning. Firemen had to rip out ceilings in the home (above) to get to the flames. The homeowners discovered the fire around 4:45 a.m. For a full report on the fire, see the front page of this issue. The home is located in the 2400 block of U.S. Highway 50, Rosebud. PHOTO BY DAVE MARNER

Connie Lato, 52, of Sullivan was seriously injured in a one-vehicle crash that occurred Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 8:30 a.m.

Lato was driving a 2002 Ford Explorer westbound on State Route AC near Rocky Hollow Road when the accident occurred.

A report by Tpr. M. A. White with Troop C of the Missouri State Highway Patrol asserts that Lato fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle then traveled off the right side of the roadway, struck a sign and then a fence.

Lato was using a seat belt, but suffered serious injuries. She was transported to Mercy St. Louis by Gerald ambulance. The vehicle was totalled and towed from the scene.

Driver, asleep at the wheel, crashes vehicle

Arrest made in shooting death of county man

Friday, Jan. 12, at 9 p.m. a Franklin County deputies responded to a call of a gunshot victim in the 1200 block of Wardfield Road, north of Lonedell.

Sheriff Steve Pelton reports that when deputies arrived, they found the victim, Darrell L. Johnson, unresponsive. A deputy began CPR and continued until emergency services arrived on scene. Johnson was trans-ported to Mercy Washington, but did not survive his injury.

A witness described two vehicles leaving the area after the shooting, a small red car and a black truck. The following day, Pelton released that information asked for the public’s assistance in identifying and locating the vehicles or suspects.

Franklin County detectives and detectives with the Multi-County Narcotics and Violent Crime Unit worked through the weekend, fol-lowing leads.

Monday, Jan. 15, Pelton announced an arrest in the case in the 300 block of Morrison Ave. in Waterloo, Ill.

Wesley Tatom, 24, of Salem was charged with second degree murder.Tatom allegedly went to Johnson’s home near Robertsville and an

altercation occurred. During the altercation, Johnson was fatally shot. Bond for Tatom was set at $250,000 cash. Pelton said he would like to thank the Franklin County residents who

contributed information leading to Tatom’s arrest. He also acknowledges assistance from the Waterloo Police Department, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police.

Landwehr’s suit against City heads to trialBY LINDA TRESTREPUBLICAN STAFF [email protected]

In 2016, Bradley Landwehr, a former Public Works Director for the City of Gerald, filed a federal lawsuit against the City and former and current aldermen, and a former mayor.

Landwehr’s amended com-plaint, contained five counts against the defendants. This week, only one of those counts will go a jury trial that began Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 8:45 a.m. That count alleges that Landwehr’s first amendment right to free speech and political as-sociation was violated. Landwehr alleges that he “was terminated by the Defendants based upon the exercise of his First Amendment right as a private citizen to support his brother’s candidacy for mayor and/or based upon his political association with his brother, who was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor during the 2015 municipal election.”

Count II, claiming age discrimi-nation, was dismissed last June.

Counts III through V of his original complaint were dismissed by the court in December.

Count III claimed retaliation by all defendants.

Count IV alleged a conspiracy to violate civil rights.

Count V concerned a state law conspiracy claim.

The case will be heard by the Honorable John A. Ross in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin Tuesday. The court has allowed time for the trial to con-tinue through Friday, Jan. 19, if necessary.

Landwehr has asked the court to “Award Plaintiff punitive damages against these Defendants in their individual capacities in such sum as this court believes will serve to punish them and to deter them and others from like conduct;” along with other awards including at-torney fees.

City Clerk Jane Hungler also is required to attend the trial as witness for the defendants. Former Ward 2 Alderman Annette Justus is expected to appear as a witness for the plaintiff, according to one of the defendants.

An affidavit of Rick Duncan, a former resident of Gerald, was one of three items included on an exhibit index submitted to the court by an attorney for the defendants.

The plaintiff’s exhibit list in-cluded 38 items, many of which were council minutes and other city documents. The last item on the amended list was titled, “Lions Hall Picture.” Elections used to be held at the Lions Hall in Gerald, before being moved to the St. Gerald’s Church Hall. The April 2015 municipal election that had Landwehr’s brother on the ballot for mayor would have been held at the Lions Hall.

Two file for April municipal election

BY LINDA TRESTREPUBLICAN STAFF [email protected]

Voters should fill three alder-manic seats in the municipal elec-tion in April.

A seat in Ward 1 is being vacated by Ruth Haase.

Both seats in Ward 2 will be open, one with a two-year term and one with a one-year term. Those seats are currently held by Kevin Grube and Tina Bauguess.

When the deadline for filing for candidacy closed yesterday at 5 p.m., only two people had filed.

And both of those filed for the Ward 1 seat.

Brad Landwehr filed Friday, Jan. 12 to run for the open seat.

Scott Long filed Tuesday, Jan. 16 for the same Ward 1 seat.

With no one declaring candidacy for the Ward 2 seats, several options remain.

Interested parties could file as a write-in candidate. Prospective candidates have several weeks to get that filing done.

If no one files as a write-in candidate, it may be left to Mayor Cary Parker to make appointments to the positions.

Bayless to serve on MO Art Education Association

Jessie Bayless, art teacher at Gerald Elementary, has been se-lected to serve as a representative of the District Six of the Missouri Art Education Association MAEA. This professional organization pro-vides networking and support to art teachers throughout Missouri. The group also promotes art education at all levels from early childhood through adult and community

programs. In District 6, Bayless will repre-

sent Camden, Miller, Cole, Pulaski, Phelps, Crawford, Gasconade, Osage, Maries, and Dent counties.

Bayless will be attending the national convention in Seattle in March. While there she will watch her former high school art teacher, Connie Shoemaker, accept two national educator awards.

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The second quarter honor roll for the 2017-18 school year has been re leased by Owensville High School and includes 27 seniors, 27 juniors, 28 so ph o mores and 34 freshmen named to the “A” honor roll.

Senior “A” Honor RollRylee M. Adams, Adriene E.

Aubuchon, Katlyn G. Bufford, Annalisa Campani, Bryan M. Candrl, Madison D. Czapla, Re-nee A. Elliott, Nickolaus J. Hinch, Mackenzie L. Hoffman, Michaela R. Huerner, Raven I. Huxel, Adam M. Koepke, Michael D. Lahmeyer, Louis A. McCurry, Colton E. Moore, Emma Nicks, Rylee A. Powell, Alex M. Ryals, Kelsey R. Ryerson, Ronald Scheper, Edna Stogsdill, Grace K. Tayloe, Antho-ny R. Terry Jr., Dane A. Thompson, Grace E. Toelke, Taylor M. Wildeb-randt, Karlee F. Wright

Senior “B” Honor RollAustin R. Angell, Orion S. Bar-

nett, Avery J. Baumgartner, Desiree Nicole Belloir, Zoie E. Bertag-nolli, Jacqueline G. Bettis, Cooper L. Bombach, Sierra D. Brandt, Kassidi J. Branson, Brannon A. Brocato, Garret L. Bunt, Olivia F. Bunton, Denise M. Clark, Jazzmin L. Crews, Tabitha M. Davis, Al-lison M. Dintelman, Graham D. Dunlap, Eric L. Eckert, Samuel A. Emily, Alexis M. Enke, Brandon L. Faragher, Dustin J. Faragher, Jacob

Giedinghagen, Sean A. Gould, Brayden R. Grannemann, Andrew C. Hardy, Jeffery M. Harrell, Dylan S. Helming, Timothy A. Isom, Claira Jahnsen, Dustin R. Jahnsen, Garrett M. Jahnsen, Grace T. Jett, Jonathon A. Krumrey, Jazmine Lambert, Meagan M. Lewis, Eli Linhardt, Christopher L. Link, Brant M. Littrell, Grace Arrin Losh, Ashley Marquez, Isiah Dan-iel Maurer, Josie N. Miller, Ty C. Misner, Adam D. Nagel, Richard W. Nelms, Audrey J. Phelps, Kaleb Aaron Pyle, Tanner C, Rector, John G. Reed, Taylor A. Reed, Maria S. Richardson, Austin T. Robert-son, Jade E. Siemerink, Grant D. Steever, Joyce E. Stewart, Laurynn J. Tallent, Brooke D. Thomas, Shi-anne R. Thomas, Clara L. Tyree, Emily M. Uzzle, Julia Annemarie Vinke, Madison A. Walters, Libby A. Whitaker

Junior “A” Honor RollKaylee R. Abney, Megan M.

Binkhoelter, Celeste N. Brandt, Taryn L. Curtis, Breanna N. Di-estelkamp, Chayse Doerr, Haylee L. Grannemann, Jacob J. Hall, Heather P. Hoffman, Sahara A. Huebner, Mikayla S. Kentch, Abigail Dawn Koepke, Morgan N. Lairmore, Chantel G. Littrell, Jacob W. Luther, Carli J. McCurry, Emily E. Moeller, Sadie C. Moritz, Amber N. Nelms, Hailey A. Schneider, Tj J. Slagle, Katheryn M. Smart,

Paige M. Tayloe, Reece A. Wehm-eyer, Chyann E. Williams, Ella A. Wright, Christyna Zheng

Junior “B” Honor RollAlexis R. Altemeyer, Mercedes

C. Angell, Nathan D. Angell, Mackenzie E. Armstrong, Pawit Aroonkaew, Jacob W. Barch, Drew A. Baumbach, Gage Belloir, Jasmine N. Bowman, Samantha Brown, Trent W. Buescher, Ter-rence Ray Burke, Jodi B. Campbell, Kyle D. Collins, Jay A. Copeland, Veronica A. Courtouise, Caleigh A. Crofford, Shayla C. Davis, Edward D. Declue, Ashley N. Drewel, Lane M. Engelbrecht, Devon A. Far-ris, Augustus J. Feldmann, Noah L. Forrester, Lameciah G. Gates, Jacob A. Harden, Tristan M. He-flin, Shane S. Heintz, Almudena Imedio-Perez, Mackenzie L. Jack-son, Logan J. Jahnsen, Gabriel A. Johnson, Desiree C. Lee, Anthony J. Livell, Bradley N. Long, Ivy M. Lottmann, Mya F. Lough, Zachary J. Lovelady, Seth T. Mayberry, Ma-randa K. Menefee, Liana C. Miller, Alexander C. Mounce, Taylor B. Pietraschke, Bailey M. Rasmussen, John B. Redick, Katlynn J. Roberts, Julie A. Sample, Alexandra M. Saunsaucie, Jenelle J. Schlottach, Victoria L. Siebert, Brandon J. Sharp, Emma J. Skornia, Taylor W. Smith, Madison R. Stogsdill, Cordell C. Walker, Wasba Wasba, Raegan L. West, Addison K. White,

Shania J. Wilson, Julie A. Wright

Sophomore “A” Honor RollMichael S. Adkison, Sean T.

Adkison, Veronica P. Aytes, Kyra M. Binkhoelter, Christian Doerr, Abigail M. Finley, Jessika Magda-lena Gill, Molli E. Gross, Joseph W. Havelka, Kathryn R. Hughey, Ken-dra L. Hults, Arissa Ison, Emma L. Jahnsen, Alexander J. Kellogg, Al-exandria J. Krupp, Erika G. Lauer, Jade M. Lestarge, Christian J. Lowes, Michael A. Miles, Victoria B. Nowack, Blaine M. Reed, Tara L. Schnelting, Alesha D. Shock-ley, Brendan C. Smith, Alexis R. Snodgrass, Melissa Steiner, Logan J. Tiefenbrunn, Laken M. Williams

Sophomore “B” Honor RollTrevor L. Abernathy, Rose E.

Adams, Jonah F. Adkison, Candice N. Alexander, Brandon Mitchell Allen, Sophia A. Ashner, Hannah M. Baughman, Hattie L. Baum-stark, Boston Lewis Belk, Corvin L. Bertram, Tighe K. Bombach, Tanner C. Brandon, Destinee F. Busenhart, Hannah N. Charboneau, Emily E. Copeland, Katie L. Davis, Elijah Decker, Brook M. Eiler, Skyler N. Emo, Wesley J. Eubanks, Dylan M. Fudge, Justin A. Garner, Javohntae M. Gates, Morgan T. Gibson, Carlie Hanheide, Paige V. Heckelmann, Brandon C. Hiatt, Dylan N. Hollandsworth, Caelie L. Horstmann, Hunter Hutchison,

Caeman M. Johnson, Taylor N. Lancaster, Tonie M. Lee, Blake C. Lewis, Caitlyn B. Linders, Cody A. Linders, Jazabel Marquez, Joshua Masten, Gracie McGee, Daxton F. Mehrhoff, Micaela A. Miller, Austyn Morgan, Deyinaira N. Nap-pier, Boyde E. Nicks, Alysah M. Pratt, Mackenzie M. Rademacher, Emma K. Reed, Christopher S. Ripley, Mason L. Russell, Carlotta Schlingmann, Lane P. Schroeter, Ashley E. Smith, Lucy A. Smith, Cierra Speer, Madison K. Steever, Michael A. Stockton, Brooke A. Titov, Victoria J. Vincent, Riley C. Wehmeyer, Marissa K. West-Derby, Lisa Ann Whitaker, Trey-den X. Williams, Haley J. Winter, Benjamen A. Woemmel, Sivanna J. Wolford

Freshman “A” Honor RollKatherine Augusta Angell, Ju-

lianna M. Bayless, Christina A. Becker, Alyssa Belloir, Macen N. Blankenship, Bryor L. Bogle, Isabelle V. Bruckerhoff, Gabrielle R. Bunners, Katherine I. Candrl, Alisen K. Chapman, Samuel L. Farrell, Carley V. Finn, Trey C. Fisher, Olivia A. Gerloff, Mekayla G. Gibson, Justin C. Hall, Dalton A. Halloran, Tyler J. Heidbrink, Jonah M. Hoffman, Dustin J. Jen-kins, Katelyn L. Landolt, Taylor M. McClure, Kara Meyer, Caden T. Moss, Cadi J. Ruth, Sydney L. Silvers, Anna J. Skornia, Kylee N.

Terrill, Austin Ryan Terry, Emily E. Tiefenbrunn, Elijah M. Waters, Ju-lianna G. Watkins, Garret L. West, Timothy J. Whelan

Freshman “B” Honor RollJustin L. Angell, Luci N. Angell,

Derek A. Aubuchon, Madeline M. Avery, Jonathen T. Aytes, Bryce N. Blankenship, Paige R. Bossaller, Halie K. Boyer, Hannah K. Bunt, Natasha L. Clark, Robert S. Claspill, Haley N. Coello, Kathryn A. Depew, Matthew A. Dischbein, Mackenzie B. Dotson, Sharon J. Eckert, Zaid C. Epstein, Abigail M. Fries, Evan R. Grannemann, Bri-anna R. Green, Aliyah M. Hanna, Mariah Holzschuh, Grady E. Horn, Kaylei D. Hurst, Kendra L. Jack-son, Kolby M. Jahnsen, Katherine M. Johnsen, Kody J. Kath, Avery Grace Kelley, Libby A. Korman, Connor D. Lang, Olyvia P. Lauth, Tristan Liebi, Jordan M. Linde-meyer, Jodi A. Lock, Eliana K. Maurer, Keirstin N. McCormick, Grace K. McFalls, Emily J. McK-inney, Kaitlyn B. Nelson, Evan L. Newbound, Dustin D. Nochta, Cameron R. O’neal, Tayton J. Par-sons, Leandra I. Peterman, Emily C. Pike, Ethan Z. Poertner, Haley Quertermous, Tayler L. Ransom, Ethan T. Reed, Cole D. Schroeter, Colten A. Terrill, Lydia Weaver

Owensville Middle School second quarter honor roll

Owensville High School second quarter honor roll

The Owensville Middle School has released their second quarter ho n or roll for the 2017-18 school year and includes 27 sixth graders, 32 seventh gra d ers and 46 eighth graders list ed on the “A” hon or roll.

8th Grade “A” Honor RollCaden Binkhoelter, Kayla Blanken-

ship, Derek Brandt, Sarah Brown, Breana Buescher, Alivia Carlin, Hunter Colombo, Isabella Davis, Paige Deimeke, Jacqueline Diehl, Hunter Engelbrecht, Tara Enke, Lo-gan Evans, Anna Finley, Nathan Graham, Anna Heidbrink, Keira Hendrix, Kyla Hendrix, Brianna Jahnsen, Ely Jenkins-Davis, Wesley Kandlbinder, Jaeden Kne-hans, Shelby Koepke, Eoin Krupp, Faith Lange, Cody Link, Hayden Loeb, Austin Lowder, Michael Lowes, Shelby Malone, Emily Marquez, Cayden McCurry, Abigail Moeller, Harm Rademacher, Holley Rig-gins, Brady Sherrow, Jordan Snodgrass, Michael Steinbeck, Olivia Vandegriffe, Bailey Wehmeyer, Reagan Wehmeyer, Jadyn Williams, Wesley Winter, Kayden Wood, Addison Wright and Frederic Zheng

8th Grade “B” Honor RollNathan Abel, Jenna Armstrong, Matthew

Aufderheide, Caden Baker, Nina Baker,

Cheyanne Bartel, Ava Basler-Parker, Hat-tie Baumgartner, Jocelyn Benson, Zesa Bollinger, Abigail Boone, Alexandria Bow-man, Steven Brandhorst, Konner Branson, Alexis Branson, Jacob Breedlove, James Bruckerhoff, Trevor Buck, Emilie Burnett, Aubrey Dawson, Brendan Decker, Mariah Delmain, Emely Farmer, Cecilia Feldmann, Jason Fuchs, Cami Gray, Dominic Grigaitis, Arissa Huff, Nathan Hughey, Joshua Jaycox, Jayden Jedele, Jessica Johnson, Arabella Jones, Ashton Kramme, Mckenzie Lambert, Celine Lansford, Mark Lavalle, Jazmyne Logan, Paige Loyd, Alyssa Manning, Doro-thy Mayberry, Secret Maylee, Brianna Mc-Gee, Dezmyn Moore, Charley Muschany, Linda Muschany, Tyler Perkins, Miranda Powers, Faith Pratt, Leah Reed, Justin Ro-ethemeyer, Devas Roper, Jon Saunsaucie, Shawna Schuler, Madilynn Seaman, Seth Seibert, Erik Shell, Madison Silvers, Shae-lyn Stinecipher, Zachary Stogsdill, Braedn Stone, Kyah Tiefenbrunn, Chloe Tucker, Landon Valley, Jasmine Vitt, Josye Walters, Alyssa Wehmeyer, Kyah Weirich, Alexus Wenkel, Elijah Wilson, Cordilia Woolsey, Lillynn Wotipka, Sawyer Wright

7th Grade “A” Honor RollPeyton Adams, Dalton Bailie, Avery

Bastunas, Katelynn Bertram, Benjamin Blackwell, Payton Boyd, Wyatt Bridgeman, Drew Copeland, Madison Crull, Kaylee Fisher, Ella Gehlert, Kiana Guerrero, April Jahnsen, Madeline Johnsen, Kylie Kitchen, Peyton Lairmore, Will Lauth, Austin Lu-ecke, Aurora Maher, Savannah McClure, William Mogensen, Emily Nichols, Rane Rehmert, Reese Rehmert, Saylor Richard-son, Kelby Schoenfeld, Lauren Shields, Joseph Skornia, Gabriel Soest, Abigail Terry, Landry Watson and Molly Wnuk

7th Grade “B” Honor RollAngel Batchelor, Kanye Boyd, Hunter

Boyer, Gavin Brandt, Amelia Brown, Liberty Brown, Thomas Carbaugh, Steven Charboneau, Raven Clark, Lacie Clark, Kristopher East-Kurgas, Mallory Eberlin, Elizabeth Eiler, Breydan Estes, Gabrielle Farmer, Claire Feldmann, Trenton Fox, Nathaniel Gallardo, Josie Gerlemann, Hunter Gibson, Michelle Giebe, Kohl Grannemann, Natalie Gray, Gabrielle Hale, Noah Holtmeyer, Emily Hupfeld, Camri Jones, Wyatt Kramme, Brayden Kuebler, Lia Kyzer, Xander Lansford, Austin Long,

Ava McCormick, William Mentz, Caetlyn Miller, Kevin Million, Lucas Morgan, Anastasia Mounce, William Muehlhau-sen, Samuel Nicks, Makhia Otten, Bryce Payne, Anthony Plocinski, Harley Pyrtle, Carl Rehmert, Melissa Schnelting, Trevor Shockley, Dillon Slinkard, Logan Slinkard, Cristefer Stanfield, Emmajean Stringer, Zechariah Teal, Rae Weible, Charles Whelan, Josie Wilka, Gage Wright, Iziah Wyman-Waltman, Kylie Yoder

6th Grade “A” Honor Roll

Anya Binkhoelter, Andrew Blankenship, Kate Blankenship, Victoria Buck, Kaeori Butler, Ellie Cool, Jace Cunningham, Emma Daniels, Carleigh Dixon, Blake Elliott, Landon Ely, Layne Evans, Keontrae Gates, Sophia Gregor, Layni Heidbreder, Emelia Lakebrink, Kendra Lay, Jacoby Limberg, Sean Trenton Million, Isabella Pratt, Kiersten Pursley, Ahna Rasmussen, Ayla Schmanke, Leah Schunemeyer, Taylor Snodgrass, Lily Steinbeck, Ayden Tallent and Kamila Yetkin

6th Grade “B” Honor RollGrace Abell, Martin Alexander, Cole

Angell, Victoria Apel, Viridiana Balbontin, Jayden Barnett, Laine Baumbach, Jordan

Bialczyk, Raeann Bollman, Tessa Cantlon, Brian Collins, Garrett Crosby, Emily Davis, Tristan Davis, Luis Delong, Arianna Dicken, Aaliyah Diehl, Jasmine Duncan, Mckenzy Echols, Mckenna Edwards, Gracie Engel-brecht, Ivy Evans, Lily-Kate Farrell, Jessa-lyn Farris, Kaitlyn Gibson, Allysan Gooch, Felix Guerrero, Amber Harbert, Katelyn Harbert, Payton Harness, Ethan Harris, Morgan Hinson, Katelyn Holtzer, Connor Jahnsen, Jim Jenkins, Laini Justus, Courtney Keeney, Hailey Keeney, Logan Kleekamp, Nickolas Koepke, Aden Lambert, Jayna Larsen, Morgan Lavalle, Spencer Loeb, Shayla Lowe, Austin Mades, Isaac Marquez, Braydan McDaniel, Elise McFalls, Tanner Meyer, Madison Miles, Sean Paul Million, Alexus Nagel, Hannah Nelson, Jackie Payton, Cody Perkins, Danica Peterman, Karli Pfeiffer, Makensy Pigg, Dominic Pogue, Audrey Quilacio, Morgan Reed, Dana Ripley, Macee Ritter, Kallista Rose, Miranda Schaller, Tyler Scheer, Michael Schoen, Blake Shoemaker, Colton Skiles, Jacob Smith, Gavin Smith, Isabella Smith, Hannah Stoker, David Stringer, Nevaeh Tayloe, Taylor Thompson, Olivia Vinson, Peyton Weinland, Kaleb Wells, Jada Wize-man, Isabelle Wright

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1 Administrator’s NoticesIN THE 20TH JUDICIAL

CIRCUIT COURT OFGASCONADE COUNTY,

MISSOURIPROBATECase No: 17GA-PR00084

In the Estate of RONALD GILBERT WAINRIGHT, Deceased.

NOTICE OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION GRANTED

(Supervised Administration - Non-Resident Fiduciary)

To All Persons Interested in the Estate of RONALD GILBERT WAINRIGHT, Decedent:

On December 20, 2017, the fol-lowing individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of RONALD GILBERT WAINRIGHT, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Gasconade County, Missouri. The personal representative’s business address and phone number is:

SHERRI HIRN,907 Chesapeake Tr.,

Cantonment, FL, 32533 904-339-1885

The personal representative’s at-torney’s name, business address and phone number are:

PAUL OTTO SCHMANKE,Schmanke Law Office, LLC

301 E. Main Street, Union, MO 63084-1621

573-677-5020The non-resident personal repre-

sentative’s designated agent’s name, business address and phone number are:

PAUL OTTO SCHMANKE,Schmanke Law Office, LLC

301 E. Main Street, Union, MO 63084-1621

573-677-5020All creditors of said decedent are

notified to file claims in court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or if a copy of this notice was mailed to, or served upon, such creditor by the personal representative, then within two months from the date it was mailed or served, whichever is later, or be forever barred to the fullest extent permissible by law. Such six-month period and such two-month period do not extend the limitation period that would bar claims one year after the decedent’s death, as provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or any other applicable limitation periods. Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s liability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Date of the decedent’s death: JULY 17, 2017

Pamela R Greunke, Circuit ClerkMargaret Coulter, Deputy Clerk

Publish in the Gasconade County Republican: December 27, 2017, and January 3, January 10, and January 17, 2018.

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CIRCUIT COURT OFGASCONADE COUNTY,

MISSOURIPROBATECase No: 17GA-PR00077

In the Estate of CHENG EE BROWN, Deceased.

NOTICE OF LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION GRANTED(Independent Administration -

Non-Resident Fiduciary)To All Persons Interested in the

Estate of CHENG EE BROWN, Decedent:

On December 20, 2017, the fol-lowing individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of CHENG EE BROWN, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Gasconade County, Missouri. The personal representative’s business address and phone number is:

MICHAEL LEE BROWN,46 Flint Road,

Acton, MA, 01720 617-504-5877

The personal representative’s at-torney’s name, business address and phone number are:

SAMANTHA C WACKER,The Law Office of

Samantha C Wacker 224 Elm Street,

Washington, MO 63090-2327 636-239-3301

The non-resident personal repre-sentative’s designated agent’s name, business address and phone number are:

SAMANTHA C WACKER,The Law Office of

Samantha C Wacker 224 Elm Street,

Washington, MO 63090-2327 636-239-3301

All creditors of said decedent are notified to file claims in court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or if a copy of this notice was mailed to, or served upon, such creditor by the personal representative, then within two months from the date it was mailed or served, whichever is later, or be forever barred to the fullest extent permissible by law. Such six-month period and such two-month period do not extend the limitation period that would bar claims one year after the decedent’s death, as provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or any other applicable limitation periods. Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s liability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Date of the decedent’s death: MARCH 1, 2017

Pamela R Greunke, Circuit ClerkMargaret Coulter, Deputy Clerk

Publish in the Gasconade County Republican: December 27, 2017, and January 3, January 10, and January 17, 2018.

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CIRCUIT COURT, GASCONADE COUNTY,

MISSOURIPROBATE DIVISIONCase No: 17GA-PR00086In the Estate of AMOS OSCAR BERGER, Deceased,

NOTICE OF LETTERSTESTAMENTARY GRANTED(Supervised Administration)

To All Persons Interested In The Estate of AMOS OSCAR BERGER, Decedent:

On December 26, 2017, the fol-lowing individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of AMOS OSCAR BERGER, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Gasconade County, Missouri.

The personal representative’s busi-ness address is:

JAMES BERGER, 5528 PINEWOOD FOREST,

ST LOUIS, MO 63128 The personal representative’s at-

tomey’s name, business address and phone number is:

MICHAEL RAY MUNDWILLER, 526 E WASHINGTON,

OWENSVILLE, MO 65066, 573-43 7-2828.

All creditors of said decedent are notified to file claims in court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or if a copy of this notice was mailed to, or served upon, such creditor by the personal representative, then within two months from the date it was mailed or served, whichever is later, or be forever barred to the fullest extent permissible by law. Such six-month period and such two-month period do not extend the limitation period that would bar claims one year after the decedent’s death, as provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or any other applicable limitation periods. Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s liability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Date of Decedent’s death: October 17, 2017.

Pamela RGreunke, Circuit ClerkMargaret Coulter, Deputy Clerk

Date of Decedent’s death: Oct. 17, 2017.Publish in the Gasconade County

Republican: January 3, January 10, January 17, and January 24, 2018.

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5 Miscellaneous NoticesPUBLIC NOTICE OF SURFACE MINING APPLICATION – NEW SITE ADDITION TO PERMITHarbisonWalker International, Inc.,

1301 Westminister Ave., Fulton, MO 65251, has applied for a new site(s) addition to their permit from the De-partment of Natural Resources, Land Reclamation Commission, to mine Clay on 67, 8 acre(s) of land located in Gasconade County, Section(s) 23 & 26, 17 Township(s) 42N, 42N, Range(s) 5W, 4W.

This(ese) operation(s) will be con-ducted during the approximate dates of February 15, 2018 to December 31, 2050.

Mail written comments, or a request for an informal public meeting to: Director, Land Reclamation Program, Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176. All comments and requests for a public meeting must be submitted in writing to the Director’s office no later than fifteen (15) days following the final public notice publication date. For more information about this process, please contact the Land Reclamation Program by telephone at 573-751-4041.

Publish in the Gasconade County Republican: January 3, January 10, January 17, and January 24, 2018.

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Renters have until the above date and time to redeem their contents by paying in full all back rents and fees.

IN DEFAULT: Israel Blakley, Elizabeth Blakley, Doug Brumit, Melvin Brunk, Donald Burrows, Debra Cody & Wolf Dolles, Sarah Schulman Campbell, Andrea Curtis, Travis Frey, Jeremy Holan, Amanda Hollandsworth, Dennis Howard, Ian Huff, Brenda Ingram, Crystal Livingston, Mark Mierisch, Richard Montgomery & Robert Schears, Todd Parsons, Dean & Kayla Rugen, Kirk Rulo, Ray Schroeder, Lynnette Seamon, Vada Smith, Michael Strahan, Chelsea Terry, and Marcie Wallace.

Due to the default in payment, H&M Rental will take possession of the contents of the following renters’

sheds on Friday, January 26, 2018 at 1:00pm; items to be sold at a later date.

•NOTICE•NOTICE•

The proposed budget for Gasconade County w i l l be ava i lab le fo r public inspection starting Monday, January 22, 2018 in the Gasconade County Clerk’s Office.

A Public Hearing for final budget adoption will be held Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 9:00am in the EOC located in the lowest level of the Courthouse.

Public comments and suggestions are welcome.Lesa LietzowCounty Clerk

Gasconade county courthouse

2X2s for January 14, 2018 ( All Statewides)



If found, please call 573-699-4117

“Jerry”German Shepard (Jerry)

missing from Maries Rd. 426 on Gasconade County line.

Belongs to active military soldier.

Last seenJan. 10, 2018

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NICE 2 BR 1 BATH HOME on quiet paved road just off Highway 50. Home sits on a half acre lot and has lots of updates done in 2010 including roof, siding, windows, paint, kitchen, A/C and furnace. Has a large deck on the back perfect for BBQ and relaxing outside. This home is clean and move-in ready. $52,000; #2774

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MAR-BAL, INC. offers an excellent benefit package including health and dental insurance, vacation and holiday pay, 401K/profit sharing and additional bonus programs. Resumes may be presented in person or mailed to the address below, faxed to 573-885-4555 or sent to [email protected].

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

We are currently accepting applications for 2nd Shift (3:00pm–11:30pm) and 3rd Shift (11:00pm–7:30am) injection molding press operators. Must be able to use various hand tools, occasionally lift 25-30 pounds, and stand for long periods of time.

PRESS OPERATORS

We have an opening for a 3rd Shift supervisor. Qualified candidates will have supervisory experience in a molding operation. This is a hands on position that requires the ability to supervise daily shift activities while meeting production and quality standards.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

We have openings for experienced fork truck drivers on 2nd and 3rd Shifts. Experience in scanning product in and out of work stations is a plus.

MATERIAL HANDLER

MAR-BAL, Inc.Attn: Personnel Director

101 Commerce Dr.Cuba, Mo 65453

Pre-employment drug screen required. E.O.E.

~ HELP WANTED~CUSTOM APPLICATOR

• Must have the ability to acquire knowledge of agricultural equipment.

• Mechanical & computer skills helpful.EOE M/F/D/V

Send resumé to:MFA Agri Services1312 Hwy. 28 WestP.O. Box 586Owensville, MO 65066

573-437-2135

Hwy. 47 at Hwy. V • Union • www.jimtrenary.com

of union, Mo

The number one GM dealer in Franklin County, Jim Trenary of Union is looking to hire a

LUBE TECHNICIANFull time position. Competitive pay plus other benefits. Must have 2 years experience. No phone calls please. Come in today for an application or e-mail your resume to [email protected]

Hwy. 47 at Hwy. V • Union • www.jimtrenary.com

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The number one GM dealer in Franklin County, Jim Trenary of Union is looking to expandit’s technician base.

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No phone calls please.Come in today for anapplication or e-mail your resume [email protected]

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Apply in person Monday–Friday

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Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Veteran

OUTSTANDING BENEFIT PACKAGE TO INCLUDE:

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• Must be conditioned for physical work, standing entire shift • Must be at least 18 years of age and able to work overtime• Strong work history and high school diploma/GED required.

3rd Shift ~ STARTING RATE: $14.35/hour(Includes 80¢/hour Shift Differential)

Follow Hwy. H past Onondaga Cave, cross river, first road on left.

Applications available under “jobs” atwww.ozarkoutdoors.net

Please mail or bring in completed application.Ozark Outdoors 200 Ozark Outdoor LaneLeasburg, Mo. 65535573-245-6437

*BUILDING MAINTENANCE (building repairs, upkeep, electric, plumbing, water, sewer, heating & cooling, and new installation)

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Prefer that candidates have experience, tools and CDL. This will also include beach work and various other jobs as needed throughout the year.

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“All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, l imi tat ion or d iscr iminat ion based on race, color religion, sex, handicap, family status or national origin or intention to make

any such preference, limitation or discrimination. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby in formed that a l l dwel l ings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.”

The Gasconade County Republican

ANNOUNCEMENTS0070 No Hunting or FishingN O T R E S P A S S I N G / N OHUNTING/NO FISHING NOFENCE CUTTING at any time. Itwill no longer be tolerated. We havepurple paint, signs and cameras. It’sover. Oldenburg Farm on DrakeSchool and Barren Fork Roads.Thank you, Edward Oldenburg.

NOTICE: IF you would like to haveyour property listed in the NoHunting/No Trespassing sec-tion of the Gasconade County Re-publican for as little as $60.00 peryear, call 437-2323 for details.

NO TRESPASSING, NO HUNT-ING: of any kind at ANYTIME onOpitz farm/property on TschapplerRd. in Owensville, MO.

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Basketball Jan. 17-20 ...........................................................................Belle Tournament★ Jan. 29 (Boys & Girls, Varsity) .................................................................... Belle Jan. 30 ............................................................................................... Bourbon★ Feb. 1 (Boys & Girls, JV Only) ............................................................ Hermann★ Feb. 2 (Boys & Girls, Varsity Only) (HC) ............................................... Hermann Feb. 6 ............................................................................................. St. James Feb. 7-10 ..................................................................Bourbon JV Tournament★ Feb. 9 ......................................................................................... New Haven ★ Feb. 13 (Senior Night) ............................................................................. Pacific

★Home GamesAll reg. home games start at 5:30 p.m.

★ Jan. 16 ........................................................................................ St. Clair Jan. 22-26 ................................................Hermann Varsity Tournament★ Jan. 29 (Boys & Girls, Varsity) ............................................................ Belle★ Feb. 1 (Boys & Girls, JV Only) .................................................... Hermann★ Feb. 2 (Boys & Girls, Varsity Only) (HC) ....................................... Hermann Feb. 3 ............................................................................ Helias Shootout Feb. 5 .................................................................................... St. James Feb. 7-10 ................................................................... Pacific JV Tournament ★ Feb. 8 ............................................................................................. New Haven

★Home GamesAll reg. home games start at 5:30 p.m.

★ Jan. 18 .....................................................................................Blair Oaks/MMA Jan. 20 .................................................Fr. Zumwalt South Varsity Tournament★ Jan. 23 ................................................................. Park Hills Central/St. James Jan. 25 ................................................................. St. James / Pacific Triangle★ Jan. 26 ....................................................................Owensville JV Tournament★ Jan. 30 (Senior Night) ................................................................Faitma/S. Boone★ Feb. 1 .........................................................................................Sullivan/Potosi Feb. 2 ......................................................................................................Willard Feb. 3. .............................................................. Marshfield Varsity Tournament

★Home Meet

www.GasconadeCountyRepublican.comWEDNESDAY, JAN. 17, 2018 ■ PAGE 16

Gasconade County girl’s basketball in MokaneDutchgirl defenders Stephani Elliott and Ella Wright (left, from left) watch the ball against North Callaway in the consolation semifinals of the South Callaway Girls Basketball Tournament last week in Mokane. Hermann’s Quincy Erickson (above, left) battles for a rebound with New Bloomfield’s Samantha Haas in championship semifinal action last Wednesday night.

PHOTO (LEFT) BY WILL JOHNSON, PHOTO (ABOVE) BY DAVE MARNER

BY WILL JOHNSONSPORTS [email protected]

MOKANE — Opening the South Callaway Girls Basketball Tournament last Monday with a 62-49 loss to fourth-seeded New Bloomfield, Ryan Flanagan’s Owensville Dutchgirls saw a familiar foe in the consolation semifinals last Wednesday night at South Callaway Middle School (SCMS).

North Callaway’s Lady Thunderbirds came in as the eight seed against the fifth-seeded Dutchgirls.

This was a rematch of last year’s con-solation title game with the seeds reversed.

Getting within a point four times in the final 4:31 of the game, the Dutchgirls could not take the lead before falling to North Callaway 47-46.

Down 30-18 at halftime, Owensville outscored the Lady Thunderbirds 15-6 in the third quarter to go into the fourth trailing by just three points, 36-33.

Staying within striking distance the entire fourth quarter, the Dutchgirls could not overcome 26 turnovers before being sent to Friday’s seventh-place game against Montgomery County’s Lady Wildcats.

Breanna Diestelkamp led the Dutchgirls against North Callaway with a game-high 22 points. Morgan Lairmore also reached double figures scoring eight of her 11 points in the second half.

Diestelkamp added 10 rebounds, six

AUSTIN ANGELL (above) works to put Sullivan’s Ethan Hines on his back during their round one match at 120 pounds at Saturday’s 23rd Annual Owensville Wrestling Invitational Tournament. BLAINE SCHOENFELD (below) gets behind Cameron’s Jacob Drager to earn two points during their bout at 152 pounds. PHOTOS BY WILL JOHNSON


Mother Nature nearly caused the annual Owensville Invitational Wrestling Tourna-ment to be canceled yet again.

Fortunately for Rod Barndollar’s Dutch-men and the other teams in attendance, the tournament was able to be held Saturday throughout the day at Owensville High School.

Open at 106 and 113 pounds, OHS’ first grappler to hit the mats was senior Austin Angell at 120 pounds.

Winning his first two matches by fall, Angell drew a bye in round three before winning his fourth-round bout by fall in 2:51 over Dexter’s Cutter Cornett.

That set up a round-five showdown for

the championship at 120 pounds between Angell and Cameron’s Thorin Green.

Pinned in 1:07, Angell settled for a second-place medal in his final Owensville Wrestling Tournament.

Getting his first taste of tournament action on the home mats, freshman Caden Moss suited up at 126 pounds for OHS.

Losing all three of his pool matches by fall, Moss went into the bracket portion of his tournament going up against Lutheran South’s Carson Heskett.

Trailing 10-2 after two periods, Moss ended up being pinned by the Lancer senior in 5:00.

Drawing byes in his final two matches, Moss placed seventh at 126 pounds.

Competing in the “B” pool at 132 pounds was Dutchmen sophomore Tighe Bombach.

That moved proved beneficial.

Able to collect a pair of victories, Tighe won a 6-2 decision over Borgia’s Garrett Posinski before pinning Affton’s Lailah Carter in :38 to take third place.

Also in the “B” pool at 138 pounds, sophomore Boston Belk fell in all three of his matches by pin to settle for fifth place.

Owensville’s next grappler was senior Dustin Jahnsen at 145 pounds. He entered the day four wins shy of 100 for his career.

In his first-round match against Mason Keena (Dexter), Jahnsen won a 14-2 ma-jor decision. His second-round bout had him facing Missouri Military Academy’s (MMA) Wrayvauz Givens.

Pinning the Colonel sophomore in 1:59, Jahnsen took on Boonville’s Brant Whittaker with the pool championship on the line.

Injuring his arm during the match, Dustin

lost by technical fall 18-2 to the Pirate freshman placing him second in the pool.

Injury defaulting the rest of the tourna-ment, Jahnsen settled for fourth place and is still two wins from 100 for his career.

At 152 pounds, Blaine Schoenfeld had some orange and black company in senior teammate Cooper Bombach fresh off a bout with mono.

Schoenfeld won his first four matches including a 2-1 decision over Cooper to set up the championship match against Osage’s Austin Magnuson.

Pinned in 2:22, Schoenfeld settled for second place at 152 pounds.

Aside from a loss to Schoenfeld and Magnuson, the elder Bombach won his

MORGAN LAIRMORE, ANNA SKORNIA AND KATE ANGELL (above, from left) surround North Callaway’s Allie Schlueter during Owensville’s 47-46 consolation semifinal loss last Wednesday night at the South Callaway Girl’s Basketball Tournament in Mokane. OHS went on to fall 57-55 in the seventh-place game against Montgomery County in spite of a career-high 40 points from Breanna Diestelkamp. PHOTO BY WILL JOHNSON


Sibling rivalries?

Saturday during the 23rd An-nual Owensville Wrestling Invi-tational, another set of siblings added themselves to a short list.

St. James’ Cole and Cort Petty became the latest set of siblings to win their weight classes in the same year at 170 and 195 pounds respectively.

Prior to the Petty brothers, Billy and Brian Duncan from Hercula-neum accomplished the feat two years in a row during the 2012 and 2013 tournaments.

Brian won both of his Ow-ensville Tournament titles at 285 pounds while Billy claimed the 160-pound title in 2012 followed by the 170-pound crown in 2013.

Capping off the late 2000’s and kicking off the 2010’s, the Owens-ville Wrestling Tournament saw an invasion of Strope wrestlers from Fatima High School in the small Osage County town of Westphalia.

Starting in 2009, Aaron Strope won his first of three straight tournament titles at 135 pounds while his older brother Cory Strope took the title that same year at 145 pounds.

In 2010, Ryan claimed his first of two consecutive Owens-ville Tournament crowns at 103 pounds while Aaron won another title moving up to the 152-pound weight class.

In 2011, Ryan (112) and Aaron (145) made it six Owensville Tournament titles between the three Strope brothers in a three-year span.

St. Clair’s Randi and Ryan Beltz are the lone brother-sister combi-nation to win Owensville Tour-nament crowns in the same year winning the 119 and 152-pound weight classes respectively.

by WILL JOHNSON

‘WILL’FUL THINKING

V/JV Dutchmen Basketball1/17-20 OHS at Belle Tourn.

V/JV Dutchgirl Basketball1/22-24 OHS V at Hermann Tourn. (See bracket on page 18)

OMS Dutchmen Basketball1/18 OMS vs. St. James 5:30 p.m.1/22-25 OMS 7th at Sullivan Tourn. (See bracket on Page 18)1/22-25 OMS 8th at St. Clair Tourn. (See bracket on page 18)

OHS Dutchmen Wrestling1/18 OHS vs. Blair Oaks/Mis-souri Military Academy 5:30 p.m.1/20 OHS V at Ft. Zumwalt South Tournament TBA1/23 OHS vs. St. James/Central (Park Hills) 5 p.m.

Dutchmen Freshman Basketball1/17 OHS at New Haven 5:30 p.m.1/22-26 OHS Freshman Boys Tournament at OES (See page 18 for more information)

Unless noted otherwise, all Dutchmen and Dutchgirl basket-ball games will be V/JV double-headers. Wrestling meets will also be JV and Varsity and all OMS and OHS Freshman basketball home games will be at OES.

OHS SPORTS THIS WEEK

OHS wrestlers keep eight medals in town

Diestelkamp reaches 40-point mark at South Callaway

See Wrestlers on Page 20

See Diestelkamp on Page 19


OMS Dutchmen to end seasons next week in tournament actionBY WILL JOHNSONSPORTS [email protected]

After one more home game tomorrow night (Thursday) against St. James at Owensville Elemen-tary School, Owensville middle school basketball teams coached by Mark Jett, Bruce Paneitz and Kris Altemeyer will wrap up their respective 2017-18 seasons in tournaments along Interstate 44 in Franklin County.

Splitting their daytime double-header in Phelps County back in

mid-December, the seventh-grade Dutchmen will look to avenge their loss to the Tigers while the eighth-grade Dutchmen will go for their second victory in as many tries.

Next week after tomorrow’s home doubleheader with St. James, the seventh-grade Dutchmen will head to Sullivan Middle School to compete in the Sullivan 7th Grade Boys Basketball Tournament while the eighth-grade Dutchmen will venture along Highways 50 and 47 to compete in Bulldog country at St. Clair’s 8th Grade Boys Basketball Tournament.

STEELVILLE STAR PHOTO COURTESY OF ROB VIEHMAN

Dutchmen fall in Highway 19 showdown at SteelvilleCaleb Gray (above, left) handles the basketball while keeping a Cardinal defender at bay last Tuesday night at Steelville High School. Owensville fell on the road 61-32 after being held to 10 second-half points. OHS will return action this week in the Belle Tournament.

ChampionshipThurs., Jan. 25

7:30 p.m.

ConsolationThurs., Jan. 25

5:00 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 246:15 p.m.

(4) New HavenMon., Jan. 22

6:15 p.m.(5) Pacific

(2) OwensvilleTues., Jan. 23

5:00 p.m.(7) St. James

Tues., Jan. 237:30 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 245:00 p.m.

St. Clair 8th Grade Boys Basketball Tournament

January 22 - 25, 2018

(1) SullivanMon., Jan. 22

5:00 p.m.(8) St. Clair

Third PlaceThurs., Jan. 25

6:15 p.m.

Tues., Jan. 236:15 p.m.

(3) UnionMon., Jan. 22

7:30 p.m.(6) Hermann

ChampionshipThurs., Jan. 25

7:30 p.m.

ConsolationThurs., Jan. 25

5:00 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 246:45 p.m.

(4) WashingtonMon., Jan. 22

6:15 p.m.(5) Owensville

(2) HermannMon., Jan. 22

7:30 p.m.(7) St. Clair

Tues., Jan. 237:30 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 245:30 p.m.

Sullivan 7th Grade Boys Basketball Tournament

January 22 - 25, 2018

(1) UnionMon., Jan. 22

5:00 p.m.(8) Pacific

Third PlaceThurs., Jan. 25

6:15 p.m.

Tues., Jan. 236:15 p.m.

(3) St. JamesTues., Jan. 23

5:00 p.m.(6) Sullivan

ChampionshipFri., Jan. 26

8:00 p.m. @ HHS

ConsolationFri., Jan. 26

5:00 p.m. @ HHS

Wed., Jan. 247:30 p.m. @ HHS

(4) ChamoisMon., Jan. 23

7:30 p.m. @ HMS(5) Montgomery Co.

(2) HermannMon., Jan. 22

6:00 p.m. @ HHS(7) Bourbon

Wed., Jan. 246:00 p.m. @ HHS

Wed., Jan. 247:30 p.m. @ HMS

2018 Hermann Invitational Girls Basketball Tournament

January 22 - 27, 2018

(1) St. ClairMon., Jan. 22

6:00 p.m. @ HMS(8) Wright City

Third PlaceFri., Jan. 26

6:30 p.m. @ HHS

Wed., Jan. 246:00 p.m. @ HMS

(3) New HavenMon., Jan. 22

7:30 p.m. @ HHS(6) OwensvilleSeventh Place

Sat., Jan. 27 1:00 p.m. @ HHS


Switching to a nine-team format last year, it will stay the same for this year’s Owensville Freshman Boys Basketball Tournament next week at Owensville Elementary School.

Split up into three pools of three teams, the top two teams in each pool will advance to play in hardware games on Friday, Jan. 26.

Points allowed throughout pool play will be used to break any ties.

Teams in Pool A will include St. James, Fatima and Hermann.

Making up Pool B will be St. Clair, New Haven and Pacific. Rounding the tournament field in Pool C will be Sullivan, Union and Owensville.

Games on Monday, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23 and Thursday, Jan. 25 will all be played at OES at 5 p.m., 6:15 p.m., and 7:30 p.m.

Monday games will begin with St. James facing Fatima followed by St. Clair going up against New Haven. Monday action will end with Sullivan taking on Union.

Tuesday action will start with Fatima playing Hermann followed by New Haven and Pacific. Tues-day’s final game will see Owens-

ville take on Union.Wrapping up pool play on

Thursday will be St. James against Hermann, St. Clair against Pacific and Owensville against Sullivan.

On Friday, Jan. 26, the two teams with the third-best records will play for consolation at 5 p.m., followed by the third-place game at 6:15 with the two teams having the second-best records in pool play.

Concluding the tournament will be the championship game at 7:15 p.m., pitting the two teams with the best records after ties are broken in the event there are three teams that finish the tournament 2-0.

Dutchmen freshman basketball to host nine-team tournament

MID MISSOURI HIGH SCHOOL TRAVEL LEAGUEJanuary 14, 2018

W LOwensville HS 31 4Union HS #1 29.5 4.5Borgia HS 25 10Sullivan HS 19 16St. Clair HS 16 19 Washington HS #2 10 25Union HS #2 4.5 29.5Washington HS #1 4 31

Individual Boy’s High Scratch GameJared Loeffel (Sullivan) ....................... 208

Individual Girl’s High Scratch GameBryanna Winfree (Washington) ........... 230

Individual Boy’s High Scratch SeriesJared Loeffel (Sullivan) ....................... 533

Individual Girl’s High Scratch SeriesBryanna Winfree (Washington) ........... 513

Team Scratch GameWashington HS #2 ............................... 872

Team Scratch SeriesWashington HS #2 ............................. 2292

Team Handicap GameWashington HS #2 ............................. 1277

Team Handicap SeriesOwensville HS ................................... 3605

OHS Team members include Jacob Hum-phrey, Mike Simoneaux, Cole Allen, Brad Long, Branden Schuman, Chase Finley, Riley Slawinski and Dane Allen.

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DUTCHGIRL BASKET-BALL opened the Four Rivers Conference (FRC) portion of their schedule last night (Tuesday) against St. Clair’s Lady Bulldogs falling 57-18 in the JV game and 56-40 in varsity action.

OMS DUTCHMEN bas-ketball games from Thursday, Jan. 11 at Sullivan that were cancelled due to inclement weather will not be made up.

DUTCHMEN FRESH-MAN basketball at Sullivan from Thursday, Jan. 11 will also not be made up. Their game against Belle at Bland Middle School from last night (Tuesday) was also cancelled and will be made up on Mon-day, Jan. 29 at 5 p.m., at OHS.


OHS’ Dutch Divas place fifth in Farmington SaturdaySaturday at Farmington High School, Hillary Blasko’s Owensville High School Dutch Divas’ Dance Team competed in the annual Farmington Dance Invitational. Placing fifth out of six teams, OHS competed against Bayless, Grandview, Christian, Herculaneum, and Central Park Hills in the 1/2 Hip Hop Division. Mackenzie Hoffman also competed against 29 others in the solo/ensemble division. Young ladies pictured (above, from left) from Farmington include Kylee Terrill, Caleigh Crofford, Karlee Wright, Hoffman, Jazzmin Crews, Grace Toelke, Brooke Thomas and Zoie Bertagnolli. Not pictured but also members of the Dutch Divas are Megan Binkhoelter and Mariah Holzschuh.

Competing in tournaments throughout Crawford County over the last month, the Owensville fourth-grade Dutchgirls left Cuba Saturday with championship medals. Team members pictured (above, in front, from left) with their medals include Mylee Curtis, Ashley Reed, Clara Julius, Abby Morgan, Olivia Crull and Victoria Wright; and in back, Joe Breedlove (coach), Hailey Lissner, Jenna Breedlove, Rachel Koepke, Jordin Garner, Carly Julius, McKenzie Risse and Curtis Julius (coach). They have also won a tournament in Bourbon and placed third recently in Steelville.

Fourth grade Dutchgirls enjoy tournament success in Crawford County

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steals, four assists and two blocked shots against the Lady Thunder-birds.

Katelyn Landolt just missed double figures posting six of her nine points in the third quarter.

Stephani Elliott and Anna Skor-

nia both added two points.Also played at SCMS, the

Dutchgirls once again found them-selves trailing at halftime by a score of 34-25.

Getting 13 of their 15 third-quarter points from Diestelkamp,

Owensville went into the final eight minutes facing just a four-point deficit, 44-40.

Equaling her third-quarter output, Diestelkamp also posted a baker’s dozen in the fourth quarter of Owensville’s 57-55 loss to the

Lady Wildcats for seventh place.In addition to her career-high

40 points, Diestelkamp added 19 rebounds and nine steals narrowly missing a triple double.

Kate Angell and Landolt each added four points.

Diestelkamp • from page 17

TREVOR ABERNATHY (above, center) keeps the ball high during Owensville’s road basketball game last Tuesday night at Steelville.

Dutchmen hoops drop road games at Steelville, Wright City


Basketball action last week on the road did not go the way of Owensville’s Dutchmen.

Last Tuesday night in Steelville, OHS fell 50-29 in JV action before the Cardinals also took the varsity game, 62-31. Caleb Gray led the Dutchmen with 12 points in varsity action while Zaid Epstein also had 12 points for the JV Dutchmen.

Friday night in Wright City, Owensville ended up on the wrong side of both games falling 39-30 in the JV game and 53-44 in varsity action.

Epstein also led the JV Dutch-men against Wright City with eight points.

Wyatt Ellis led the varsity Dutchmen with 11 points against the host Wildcats.

OHS will start the Belle Tourna-ment tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:30 p.m., against Cuba.

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other three matches to earn the third-place medal in his final Owensville Tournament at 152 pounds.

Needing just over three minutes of wrestling, senior Tanner Rector won his first three matches to win his pool going into bracket action at 160 pounds.

Pinning Borgia’s Dominic Dolce in 3:55, Rector faced Sullivan’s Alec McCormick in the title bout at 160 pounds.

Defeating McCormick by fall in 1:30 earlier in the day, Rector was

pinned by the Eagle senior in 3:30 to settle for second place.

Fellow senior Caleb Gray was next for OHS in the “A” pool at 170 pounds.

Pinned by Cole Petty (St. James and Evan Shetley (Sullivan), Gray posted wins in his other two matches to earn the third-place medal.

In the “B” pool at 170 pounds, sophomore Cody Linders hit the mats for the Dutchmen.

Pinning Fatima’s Jason Wood-ruff in pool wrestling, Linders went

into bracket action placing second in Pool “A”.

After being pinned by Parker VanSlyke (Dexter) in his first bracket match, Linders came back to earn third place winning a 14-9 decision over Jacob Guebert (Lu-theran South).

Open at 182 pounds, Owens-ville’s next wrestler was senior Colton Moore at 195 pounds.

Pinned in round three by St. James’ Cort Petty, Moore won his remaining four matches all by fall

in the first period to place second in his weight class.

Also making his Owensville Tournament debut, freshman Dakota Martin competed for the Dutchmen at 220 pounds.

Injured during his second-round match, Martin settled for seventh place after injury defaulting the rest of the tournament.

Rounding out the OHS wrestling line up was senior Bryce Mistler at 285 pounds.

Falling in his first three matches,

Mistler’s last shot at a win came against MMA’s Sky Thunderchild.

Pinning the Colonel grappler in 1:38, Mistler took fourth place at 285 pounds in his final Owensville Tournament.

Barndollar’s Dutchmen wres-tlers will spend a lot of time on the home mats throughout the rest of the month of January.

Coming up on Thursday, Jan. 18, Owensville will host a tri-meet against Blair Oaks’ Falcons and the Missouri Military Academy Colo-

nels out of Mexico, Mo., beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Over the weekend on Satur-day, Jan. 20, Barndollar’s varsity Dutchmen wrestlers will compete in the annual Fort Zumwalt South Wrestling Tournament.

Owensville will host their sec-ond home tri-meet in a four-day span on Tuesday, Jan. 23 welcoming St. James’ Tigers and the Central Park Hills Rebels to Gasconade County starting at 5 p.m.

Wrestlers • from page 17

FOUR MATS (top) of wrestling were going non-stop for about six hours Saturday during the 23rd Annual Dutchmen Invitational Wrestling Tournament at Owensville High School. The 22nd edition of the tournament was cancelled last year due to inclement weather. HUNTER LONG (left, far right) shows his enthusiasm being a table worker during the tournament. COLTON MOORE (above right) prepares to finish off Cameron wrestler Dalan Myers in the fifth and final round of the tournament at 195 pounds. PHOTOS BY DAVE MARNER

23rd Dutchmen Wrestling Invitational

January 13, 2018

Individual Champions106A - Bryston Pemberton (Dexter)113A - Lucas Laux (Fatima)120A - Thorin Green (Cameron)126A - Travis Waldner (Dexter)132A - Mikey Crocker (St. James)132B - Trevor McDonald (Dexter) 138A - Dylan Hellebusch (Borgia)138B - Styles Fountain (MMA)145A - Brant Whitaker (Boonville)152A - Austin Magnuson (Osage)160A - Alec McCormick (Sullivan)170A - Cole Petty (St. James)170B - Anthony Martin (Osage)182A - Jadin Harrison (Affton)195A - Cort Petty (St. James)220A - Gabe Rumbaoa (Boonville) 285A - Joe Bryant (Cameron)

Dutchmen results106A - OPEN113A - OPEN120A - Austin Angell 3-1, 2nd126A - Caden Moss 0-4, 7th132A - OPEN132B - Tighe Bombach 2-2, 3rd 138A - OPEN138B - Boston Belk 0-4, 5th145A - Dustin Jahnsen 2-1, 4th152A - Blaine Schoenfeld 4-1, 2nd152A - Cooper Bombach 3-2, 3rd160A - Tanner Rector 4-1, 2nd170A - Caleb Gray 2-2, 3rd170B - Cody Linders 2-3, 3rd182A - OPEN195A - Colton Moore 4-1, 2nd220A - Dakota Martin 0-2, 7th285A - Bryce Mistler 1-3, 4th

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