November 7, 2012 issue vpvr_Part3

The Missourian Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Page 5FPUBLIC NOTICES"BECAUSE THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW"

Trustee’s Sale

TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: Peggy Sue Cart-

wright, and Danny R. Cart-wright, Wife and Husband, Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by Peggy Sue Cartwright, and Danny R. Cartwright, Wife and Husband, dated February 17, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, as Reference #0605759, and modified by Judg-ment recorded on 05/22/2012, as Document #1209148, the under-signed Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, will on Thursday, Novem-ber 15, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:50 P.M.), at the North Front Door of the Court-house, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Mis-souri, to-wit:

A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CITY OF ST. CLAIR, BEING PART OF THE NORTHEAST QR. OF THE NORTHWEST QR. SECTION TWENTY-FIVE (25), TOWNSHIP FORTY-TWO (42) NORTH, RANGE ONE (1) WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., FRANKLIN COUNTY, MIS-SOURI DESCRIBED AS FOL-LOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID QR. QR. SECTION, THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 40 MINUTES WEST OF THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID QR. SECTION 454.20 FEET TO A POINT IN THE WEST LINE OF THE OLD UNION-ST. CLAIR COUNTY ROAD (SOME-TIMES KNOWN AS BASKETT STREET), BEING THE POINT OF BEGINNING OF THE PAR-CEL HEREIN DESCRIBED, CONTINUE THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 40 MINUTES WEST ON SAID SOUTH LINE 285 FEET TO AN IRON ROD, THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES 20 MINUTES WEST 116 FEET, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 40 MINUTES EAST 106.08 FEET, THENCE NORTH 9 DE-GREES 40 MINUTES WEST

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the note described in and secured by Deed of Trust dated July 14, 2009, executed by Shirley Klingsick, a single per-son, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Frank-lin County, Missouri, on July 28, 2009, in Document No. 0915485, and conveying to the undersigned Trustee the following property in Franklin County, Missouri, to-wit:

LOT TWENTY (20) OF CHAM-BER OF COMMERCE SUB-DIVISION IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, AS PER PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK F, PAGE 18 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, MIS-SOURI.

at the request of the legal hold-er of said note who has elected to declare the entire indebtedness due and payable, and in accor-dance with the provisions of the said Deed of Trust, the under-signed Trustee will on Thursday, November 15, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., sell said property at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the Southwest front door of the Franklin County Judicial Center, 401 East Main Street, in the City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, to satisfy said note and costs.

SALE WILL COMMENCE AT 1:00 P.M.

/s/ Richard F. MayerRichard F. Mayer, TrusteePursuant to the Fair Debt Col-

lection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collec-tor or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any informa-tion obtained will be used for that purpose.

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TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: Jason M. Peth and

Brandy M. Peth, husband and wife, Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by Jason M. Peth and Brandy M. Peth, husband and wife, dated November 29, 2004, and record-ed in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri as Reference #2004-30539 the undersigned Succes-sor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, will on Friday, November 16, 2012, be-tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 11:15 A.M.), at the North Front Door of the Courthouse, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Missouri, to-wit:

LOT FIVE (5), BLOCK FOUR (4) OF SCHMITT ADDITION TO THE CITY OF SULLIVAN, AS PER PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK E, PAGE 12 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, FRANKLIN COUN-TY, MISSOURI.

to satisfy said debt and cost.MILLSAP & SINGER, P.C., Successor Trustee612 Spirit DriveSt. Louis, MO 63005(636) 537-0110File No: 140066.111612.294572

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Pursuant to the Fair Debt Col-lection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information con-cerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given di-rectly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information ob-tained will be used for that pur-pose.


TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: Roy W. Clark Jr. and

Nancy Clark, Husband and Wife, Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by Roy W. Clark Jr. and Nancy Clark, Husband and Wife, dated November 10, 2004, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Mis-souri, as Document Number 0610657, the undersigned Suc-cessor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, will on Thursday, November 15, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:50 P.M.), at the North Front Door of the Courthouse, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Missouri, to-wit:

LOT TWO (2) OF BAILEY ADDITION IN THE CITY OF SULLIVAN LOCATED IN THE WEST HALF OF THE SOUTH-WEST QUARTER OF SEC-TION EIGHT (8), TOWNSHIP FORTY (40) NORTH, RANGE TWO (2) WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., AS PER PLAT OF RE-CORD [IN] PLAT BOOK G, PAGE 40 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS, [FRANKLIN COUNTY, MIS-SOURI.] [THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN BRACKETS HAS BEEN ADDED TO MORE ACCURATELY REFLECT THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION.]


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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the note described in and secured by Deed of Trust dated December 18, 2009 exe-cuted by ROBERT ELDRIDGE and TAMMY ELDRIDGE, his wife, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Frank-lin County, Missouri, on Decem-ber 23, 2009 in Document No. 0924592, and conveying to the undersigned Trustee the follow-ing property in Franklin County, Missouri, to-wit:

A part of the Northwest quar-ter of Section Twenty-two (22), Township Forty-four (44), Range One (1) West, Franklin County Missouri, lying and being in the City of Washington, on the South side of Horn Street and 71 feet in width and being the

West part of a Parcel deeded by August Wehmueller and wife to Joseph G. Miesner, February 1st, 1912 described as follows: Begin-ning at a point in the South line of Horn Street, 147 feet West of the Northeast corner of the old Miesner Parcel; thence West along the South line of Horn Street 71 feet to the Northeast corner of a Parcel formerly owned by Mittendorf; thence South 185-1/2 feet to the Northwest corner of the Ernst tract; thence East along the Ernst North line 71 feet to a point; thence North to a point of beginning, the same being the West 71 feet of a tract now owned by Grantors in this Deed as de-scribed in Deed of record in Vol. 120, Page 247.

More correctly described as:

A part of the Northwest quar-ter of Section Twenty-two (22), Township Forty-four (44), Range One (1) West, Franklin County Missouri, lying and being in the City of Washington, on the South side of Horn Street and 71 feet in width and being the West part of a Parcel deeded by August Wehmueller and wife to Joseph G. Miesner, February 1st, 1912 described as follows: Begin-ning at a point in the South line of Horn Street, 147 feet West of the Northeast corner of the old Miesner Parcel; thence West along the South line of Horn Street 71 feet to the Northeast corner of a Parcel formerly owned by Mittendorf; thence South 185-1/2 feet to the Northwest corner of the Ernst tract; thence East along the Ernst North line 71 feet to a point; thence North to a point of beginning.

at the request of the legal hold-er of said note who has elected to declare the entire indebtedness due and payable, and in accor-dance with the provisions of the said Deed of Trust, the under-signed Trustee will on Monday, November 19, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., sell said property at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the Southwest front door of the Franklin County Judicial Center, 401 East Main Street, in the City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, to satisfy said note and costs.

SALE WILL COMMENCE AT 1:00 P.M.

/s/ Richard F. MayerRichard F. Mayer, TrusteePursuant to the Fair Debt Col-

lection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collec-tor or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any informa-tion obtained will be used for that purpose.


0.5 FEET, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 40 MINUTES EAST 160 FEET TO A POINT IN THE WEST LINE OF THE AFORE-MENTIONED COUNTY ROAD, THENCE SOUTH 9 DEGREES 40 MINUTES EAST ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID ROAD 116.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.


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TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: August Herbst and

Patricia Herbst, Husband and Wife, Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by August Herbst and Patricia Herbst, Husband and Wife, dat-ed April 18, 2005, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Mis-souri, as Document No.: 2005-10902, the undersigned Succes-sor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, will on Thursday, November 8, 2012, be-tween the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:50 P.M.), at the North Front Door of the Courthouse, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Missouri, to-wit:

THE FOLLOWING LAND SITUATED IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, MISSOURI, TO-WIT: LOT NINETEEN (19) OF STA-BLESTONE ESTATES, A SUB-DIVISION OF PART OF THE SOUTHEAST QR. IN SECTION THIRTY-ONE (31), TOWNSHIP FORTY-THREE (43) NORTH, RANGE ONE (1) EAST OF THE 5TH P.M., AS PER PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 644, PAGE 183 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS.


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TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: John A. Kirkpatrick

II and Kayce M. Kirkpatrick, Husband and Wife Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by John A. Kirkpatrick II and Kayce M. Kirkpatrick, Husband and Wife dated April 24, 2009 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri as Document Number 0908813 the under-signed Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note will on Thursday, Novem-ber 8, 2012 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:50 PM), at the North Front Door of the Court House, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Mis-souri, to wit:

LOT EIGHT (8) BLOCK B OF LAKE SAINT CLAIR, A SUBDI-VISION IN SECTION TWO (2), TOWNSHIP FORTY-ONE (41) NORTH, RANGE ONE (1) WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., IN FRANK-LIN COUNTY, MISSOURI AS PER PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK J PAGE 42 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF DEEDS.

to satisfy said debt and cost.MILLSAP & SINGER, P.C., Successor Trustee

TRUSTEE’S SALE IN RE: Brennan Boehm and

Isabella Boehm, Husband and Wife, Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation se-cured by Deed of Trust executed by Brennan Boehm and Isabella Boehm, Husband and Wife, dated August 30, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, as Reference #0620971, the under-signed Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, will on Thursday, Novem-ber 8, 2012, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 4:50 P.M.), at the North Front Door of the Court-house, City of Union, County of Franklin, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following de-scribed real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Franklin County, State of Mis-souri, to-wit:

LOT TWO (2) OF MERCER ACRES, A SUBDIVISION IN PART OF THE SOUTH HALF OF LOT 1 OF THE NORTH-WEST QR. IN SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 1 WEST OF THE 5TH P.M., AS PER PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK P, PAGE 550 IN THE OFFICE OF THE RE-CORDER OF DEEDS, FRANK-LIN COUNTY, MISSOURI.


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612 Spirit DriveSt. Louis, MO 63005(636) 537-0110File No: 146793.110812.292574

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* * *Senior LifeTimes is the only

publication published in Franklin County that focuses on senior citizens. It is a Mis-sourian publication.

IN THE 20TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT,

FRANKLIN COUNTY, MISSOURI

Judge or Division: PROBATE

Case Number: 12AB-PR00256

In the Estate of: ED BLASE, Deceased.

NOTICE OF LETTERS TESTAMENTARY

GRANTED (Independent Administration)To All Persons Interested in

the Estate of ED BLASE, De-cedent:

On October 30, 2012, the last will of the decedent having been admitted to probate, the follow-ing individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of ED BLASE, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri. The personal represen-tative may administer the estate independently without adjudi-cation, order, or direction of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court, unless a petition for su-pervised administration is made to and granted by the court. The name, business address and phone number of the personal representative is:

PAUL BLASE, 3342 NORTH SEELEY AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60618

The personal representative’s attorney’s name, business ad-dress and phone number is:

MATTHEW SCHROEDER, 80 NORTH OAK STREET, UNION, MO 63084, 636-583-5118.

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



Judge or Division: V PROBATE

Case Number: 12AB-PR00259

In the Estate of:NANCY E. BRIEGEL,

Deceased.NOTICE OF LETTERS

TESTAMENTARY GRANTED

(Independent Administration)To All Persons Interested in

the Estate of NANCY E. BRIE-GEL, Decedent:

On OCTOBER 30, 2012, the last will of the decedent having been admitted to probate, the fol-lowing individual was appointed the personal representative of the estate of NANCY E. BRIE-GEL, decedent, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri. The personal representative may ad-minister the estate independent-ly without adjudication, order, or direction of the Probate Division of the Circuit Court, unless a pe-tition for supervised administra-tion is made to and granted by the court. The name and busi-ness address of the personal rep-resentative is:

SANDRA L. YENZER, 817 WEST MAIN STREET, UNION, MO 63084

The personal representative’s attorney’s name and business address are:

A. DAVID ARAND, 405 WEST HIGHWAY 50, SUITE 600, UNION, MO 63084, 636-583-0843.

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 peri-ods. Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s li-ability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Date of the decedent’s death: 24-SEP-2012

Date of first publication: NO-VEMBER 7, 2012

BILL D. MILLER, ClerkPhyllis ShafferkoetterDeputy ClerkReceipt of this notice by mail

should not be construed by the recipient to indicate that the recipient necessarily has a ben-eficial interest in the estate. The nature and extent of any person’s interest, if any, can be deter-mined from the files and records of this estate in the Probate Divi-sion of the above referenced Cir-cuit Court.

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Letters Granted Section 473.444, RSMo, or any other applicable limitation peri-ods. Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo, shall be construed to bar any action against a decedent’s li-ability insurance carrier through a defendant ad litem pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.

Date of the decedent’s death: 04-NOV-2011

Date of first publication: No-vember 7, 2012

BILL D. MILLER CLERKBy: Scarlett Borgmann Deputy ClerkReceipt of this notice by mail

should not be construed by the recipient to indicate that the recipient necessarily has a ben-eficial interest in the estate. The nature and extent of any person’s interest, if any, can be deter-mined from the files and records of this estate in the Probate Divi-sion of the above referenced Cir-cuit Court.


IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY,

MISSOURI PROBATE DIVISION V

DAVID B. TOBBEN, Associate Circuit Judge

NOTICE OF CONSERVATORSHIP OF

DISABLED PERSONTO ALL PERSONS INTER-

ESTED IN THE ESTATE OF Maria Coral,

a Disabled Person: Estate No. 12AB-PR00203On the 19th day of October,

2012, Jose Coral was appointed Conservator of the Estate of Ma-ria Coral, a person adjudicated disabled under the laws of Mis-souri, by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri. The business address of the Conservator is 768 Merrifields Drive, O’Fallon, IL 62269, and Conservators’ at-torney is Patrick Pedano whose business address is 1750 South Brentwood Blvd. Suite 401, Saint Louis, MO 63144.

All creditors of said disabled person are notified to file their claims in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court.

Date of first publication is: Oc-tober 24

BILL D. MILLER, Clerk of the Circuit Court of

Franklin County, Missouri By Scarlett Borgmann, Deputy Clerk Publish in The Missourian October 24,

31, November 7 and 14, 2012.


MISSOURI PROBATE DIVISION DAVID B. TOBBEN

Associate Circuit JudgeIn the Matter of:Diamond Angelina Johnson

Clyde James Johnson Donavin Drake Johnson,

Minors Amy Aubuchon,

Petitioner. Estate No.:

12AB-PR00252 12AB-PR00253 12AB-PR00254

NOTICE OF HEARINGNotice to all persons interested

in the person and estate of Dia-mond Angelina Johnson, Clyde James Johnson and Donavin Drake Johnson, minors:

You are hereby notified that there has been filed in the Pro-bate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, at Union, Missouri:

Petition for appointment of Guardian of said minors and the court is satisfied that there is good cause for the exercise of jurisdiction as to the matters charged in said petition. Judg-ment by default may be rendered unless an answer or other plead-ing is filed or unless you other-wise appear and defend within 45 days after the date of the first publication of this notice, and all persons interested are hereby notified that said petition will be heard by the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, at Union, Mis-souri, in the Judicial Center at 401 East Main, Union, Missouri.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on October 26, 2012.

(seal)BILL D. MILLER, Clerk By Scarlett Borgmann, Deputy Clerk Attorney: Marie Lipowicz 1511 Glenn Brooke Woods Cir. Ballwin, MO 63021 Publish in The Missourian October 31,

November 7, 14 and 21, 2012.

CHANGE OF NAMETo Whom It May Concern:Public Notice is hereby given

that on October 26, 2012, by an order of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, State of Mis-souri, Cause No. 12AB-DR00469, the name of Madyson Riley Har-ris-Bastean was changed to Ma-dyson Riley Bastean.

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Change of Name

Public Hearing

Conservatorship



Judge or Division:GAEL D. WOOD

Plaintiff/Petitioner:Janell D. Case-Forrest

vs.Defendant/Respondent:

Mark A. ForrestNature of Suit:

FC Dissolution—w/o Children Case Number: 12AB-DR00085NOTICE UPON ORDER

FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

The State of Missouri to: MARK A. FORREST

You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, the object and general nature of which is FC Dissolution – w/o Children.

The names of all parties in this action are stated in the cap-tion above and the name(s) and address(es) of the attorney(s) for the plaintiff/petitioner are:

BENJAMIN HOTZ, 5 SOUTH OAK, UNION, MO 63084

You are further notified that, unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action within 45 days after NOVEMBER 7, 2012, judgment by default will be entered against you.

(seal)10-31-2012Bill D. MillerClerkKaren McDonaldDeputy ClerkPublish in The Missourian November 7,

14, 21 and 28, 2012.


MISSOURIJUVENILE DIVISION

DAVID B. TOBBENAssociate Circuit Judge

In the MatterR.G.

Case No: 11AB-JU00151Female d.o.b. 08/14/2011

Corie GearyJuvenile Officer of

Franklin County, MOPetitioner,

Brent Callaway, natural father

RespondentSTATE OF MISSOURI ) ) ss.County of Franklin )THE STATE OF MISSOURI

TO RESPONDENT:You are hereby notified that

an action has been commenced against you in the court named in the above caption, the object and general nature of which is to

PUBLIC NOTICEThe contents of the following

storage units will be offered at public auction / sale on Saturday, November 24, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. at 47 STORAGE, 7668 Hwy. 47, between Union and St. Clair.

Unit #B03; Gwynne Eche-kamp, 1707 Prairie Dell Rd., Union, MO 63084

Unit #C13: Kenneth M. Kuhl, 2013 Myick Manor, Union, MO 63084

Unit #E04; Billy Joe McMul-lin, 3158 Sunset Ln., Union, MO 63084

Unit #E10: Bruce Aubuchon, 7092 Hwy. 47, Union, MO 63084

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MISSOURIJUVENILE DIVISION

DAVID B. TOBBENAssociate Circuit Judge

In the MatterE.J.C., E.C., M.C., S.C. & C.C.

12AB-JU00155, 156, 157, 158, 159

d.o.b. 12/6/09,12/6/09,7/28/075/15/06,3/23/04Laura Sexton,

Juvenile Officer of Franklin County, Mo

Petitioner,Tammi Champion,

natural mother Respondent

STATE OF MISSOURI ) ) ss.County of Franklin )THE STATE OF MISSOURI

TO RESPONDENT:You are hereby notified that

an action has been commenced against you in the court named in the above caption, the object and general nature of which is to terminate your parental rights to E.J.C., E.C., M.C., S.C., C.C.. The name of the mother is Tammi Champion. Your property is not affected.

The name of the court in which this action is pending and the name of all the parties to said suit are stated above in the cap-tion hereof and the name and address of the attorney for Peti-tioner is:

Laura Sexton,120 South Church StreetUnion, MO 63084You are further notified that,

unless you file an answer or other pleading and serve the same on the Petitioner or his attorney or shall otherwise appear and de-fend against the aforesaid peti-tion within forty-five days after



Judge or Division:I. I. Lamke

Plaintiff/Petitioner:KIRSTEN NICOLE

LIPPMANNSTEPHEN DOMINIC

LIPPMANNvs.

Defendant/Respondent:CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL

POENature of Suit:

FC Adoption StepchildCase Number: 12AB-JU00260NOTICE UPON ORDER


The State of Missouri to: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL POE

You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, the object and general nature of which is FC Adoption Stepchild.


FREDERICK H. SCHWETYE, 8 SOUTH CHURCH STREET, UNION, MO 63084

636-583-3800You are further notified that,

unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action with-in 45 days after OCTOBER 31, 2012, judgment by default will be entered against you.

(seal)10-25-12Bill D. MillerClerkBy Karen McDonaldDeputy ClerkPublish in The Missourian October 31,

November 7, 14 and 21, 2012.



Judge or Division:I. I. Lamke

Plaintiff/Petitioner:MARLEE JEAN FRANCES

DABLEMONT JONATHAN BRYCE

DABLEMONTvs.

Defendant/Respondent:JACOB ASHERNature of Suit:

FC Adoption StepchildCase Number: 12AB-JU00261NOTICE UPON ORDER


The State of Missouri to: JACOB ASHER

You are notified that an action has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, the object and general nature of which is FC Adoption Stepchild.


JOSEPH W. PURSCHKE, 316 EAST LOCUST STREET, UNION, MO 63084

You are further notified that, unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action with-in 45 days after OCTOBER 31, 2012, judgment by default will be entered against you.

(seal)10-25-12Bill D. Miller, ClerkBy Karen McDonaldDeputy ClerkPublish in The Missourian October 31,

November 7, 14 and 21, 2012.

The Missourian Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Page 6FPUBLIC NOTICES"BECAUSE THE PEOPLE MUST KNOW"

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY

TRUSTEEEstate of Natalie A. DickensTo all persons interested in the

estate of Natalie A. Dickens, de-cedent, whose last known address was 532 Fairfield Valley Road, St. Albans, Missouri 63073:

The undersigned, Sandra K. Brown, is acting as Trustee un-der a trust, the terms of which provide that the debts of the decedent may be paid by the Trustees upon receipt of proper proof thereof. The address of the Trustee is 1033 Dutch Mill Drive, Ballwin, MO 63011-3678.

All creditors of the decedent are notified to present their claims to the undersigned within six (6) months from the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

Date of first publication is No-vember 7, 2012.

SANDRA K. BROWN, TRUSTEEPublish in The Missourian November 7,

14, 21 and 28, 2012.


MISSOURI, PROBATE DIVISION V

In the Estate of:Richard Melvin Juntti,

DeceasedEstate No. 12AB-PR00015NOTICE OF FILING

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT AND SCHEDULE OF

PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION

To all persons interested in the Estate of Melvin Juntti, deceased:

You are hereby notified that that the undersigned Indepen-dent Personal Representative will file A Statement of Account and Schedule of Proposed Dis-tribution in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri, Pro-bate Division, on Dec. 10, 2012, or as may be continued by the Court; that if no objections are filed in the Court within Twenty days after the filing of the State-ment of Account, the Indepen-dent Personal Representative will distribution in accordance with the Schedule of Proposed Distribution in the Statement of Account.

You are further notified that:If no proceeding is commenced

in the Court within one year after the filing of the Statement of Ac-count, the Independent Personal Representative thereby will be discharged from further claim or demand by an interested party.

Independent Personal Repre-sentative Ruth M. Wethy




Judge or Division: V PROBATE

Case Number: 09AB-PR00295-01

In the Estate of:EZEKIEL EDWARD OTTEN,

Deceased.NOTICE TO CREDITORS

(Small Estate)To All Persons Interested

in the Estate of EZEKIEL ED-WARD OTTEN, Decedent.

On OCTOBER 24, 2013, an amended small estate affida-vit was filed by the distributees for the decedent under Section 473.097, RSMo, with the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Missouri.

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the Board of Education, School District of Washington, 220 Lo-cust Street, Washington, Mis-souri for the following:

Marthasville Elementary Window Treatment Replace-ments

A mandatory pre-bid walkthru meeting for all qualified bidders is scheduled on Wednesday, No-vember 14, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. at the Marthasville Elementary School Building.

Bids will be accepted by the Purchasing Department until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 16, 2012. Bids will be opened publicly at that time.

Bids must be in a sealed enve-lope marked:

“Marthasville Elementary Window Treatment Replace-ments Project” and delivered to the Purchasing Department located at the Board of Education Office, School District of Wash-ington, 220 Locust Street, Wash-ington, Mo.

Said bids will be tabulated and presented to the Board of Educa-tion at the next Board Meeting scheduled on Wednesday, Novem-ber 28, 2012.

All bidders are welcome to be present at the time of bid open-ing. Bidders must be bonded and insured. All prevailing wage re-quirements will apply.

The Board of Education re-serves the right to reject any and all bids.

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terminate your parental rights to R.G. The name of the father is Brent Callaway. Your property is not affected.

The name of the court in which this action is pending and the name of all the parties to said suit are stated above in the cap-tion hereof and the name and address of the attorney for Peti-tioner is:

Corie Geary #62905120 South Church StreetUnion, MO 63084636-583-7333You are further notified that,

unless you file an answer or other pleading and serve the same on the Petitioner or his attorney or shall otherwise appear and de-fend against the aforesaid peti-tion within forty-five days after the 17th day of October, 2012, judgment by default will be ren-dered against you.

It is ordered that a copy hereof be published according to law and the provision of Section 506.160 in the Washington Missourian, a newspaper of general circula-tion published in the County of Franklin, State of Missouri.

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of the said court this 12th day of October, 2012.

BILL MILLERClerk of the CourtCarmella KinstlerDeputy ClerkPublish in The Missourian October 17,

24, 31 and November 7, 2012.

the 31st day of October, 2012, judgment by default will be ren-dered against you.

It is ordered that a copy hereof be published according to law and the provision of Section 506.160 in the Washington Missourian, a newspaper of general circula-tion published in the County of Franklin, State of Missouri.

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November 7, 14 and 21, 2012.

“Homeless” and HungryEighth-grade students at St. John the Baptist School in Villa Ridge, from left, Kate Williams, Grace Fletcher and Rachel Conroy were eager to get a bowl of soup during an overnight homeless event the class participated in Thursday evening, Oct. 25, at the school. Students, who slept inside cardboard shelters they had built earlier in the afternoon, hadn’t had any food since lunch when they went through the “soup kitchen” line to receive a small bowl of soup, simple sandwich, piece of fruit and a glass of water. Serving the soup is parent volunteer Donna Katzung. Missourian Photo.

Traffic is moving on the14th Street bridge and street extension that connects Stafford Street and High Street. This is the view looking toward Stafford and Jefferson streets. K.J. Unnerstall Contracting is the general contractor on the project. Missourian Photo.

A body of water bordered by an old bridge and fall foliage could make a seasonal post card for the city of Labadie. This photo was taken Sunday, Oct. 14. Missourian Photo.

ECC Theater Performance Is November 15-17

Tickets are now on sale for East Central College’s adaptation of “Proof” by Da-vid Auburn.

Directed by Vince Nie-haus, “Proof” will be per-formed Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 15-17, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18, at 2 p.m.

Tickets can be reserved or purchased online by going to the ECC website at: www.eastcentral.edu/foundation/

and selecting the “purchase tickets” tab at the top of the page.

They also can be reserved by calling the box office at 636-584-6693.

Patrons of the Arts, sea-son pass holders and ECC students are admitted at no charge.

Weather information is available from The Missou-rian’s Web site, which is emis-sourian.com.

Board May Ask Voters To Eliminate Position

Of Elected City CollectorBy Gregg JonesUnion Missourian Editor

Union voters will likely choose in April to keep or eliminate the elected city collec-tor position.

The city’s personnel, finance and public works committee agreed to place a mea-sure on the April 2013 ballot asking voters if they would like to eliminate that posi-tion.

In 2009, aldermen passed an ordinance that stripped the collector’s position of all duties and reduced the salary to $1 com-pensation, and to contract collection ser-vices with Franklin County.

The city collector is Terry Copeland. His term expires in April 2014.

By state statute, aldermen can set the salary of an elected position but cannot eliminate the position without a vote of the people.

According to Union Finance Offi-

cer Heather Keith, last year the county charged the city for collection service a $4,000 fee and about 2 percent of the total taxes collected.

If all Union residents would have paid taxes last year, the county would have taken 2 percent of $1,850,033, or just over $21,000. However not all residents paid the taxes owed.

Keith noted that the benefits and pay-ments to the city’s insurance provider to-taled $60,398 for the city collector prior to Copeland.

“It is time to proceed with this,” said Al-derman Bob Schmuke. “We didn’t do this before because we wanted to make sure it benefited the city.”

City Administrator Russell Rost said he contacted City Collector Terry Copeland to inform him that the committee would dis-cuss the elimination of the collector’s posi-tion.

Griesheimer Asks for Use Tax SupportBy Gregg JonesUnion Missourian Editor

Franklin County Pre-siding Commissioner John Griesheimer is asking mu-nicipalities to join the coun-ty in pursuing a “local option use tax” to capture sales tax on large items purchased out of state.

Griesheimer spoke to the Union Personnel, Finance and Public Works Commit-tee Monday asking officials to ask voters in April 2013 to approve the tax.

A January Missouri Su-preme Court ruling states cities and counties can’t col-lect sales taxes on vehicle, marine and trailer sales if the purchase was made out of state. The ruling went into effect in March.

That gives local dealers a “competitive disadvantage,” Griesheimer said.

It is estimated that the Supreme Court ruling will cost Franklin County over

$1 million in sales tax rev-enue a year.

State sales taxes, at the rate of 4.225 percent, still are collected on all vehicles registered to Missouri resi-dents.

If a vehicle is purchased in Illinois the buyer is not subject to the municipal sales tax, only state sales tax. If a vehicle is purchased in Missouri, for the same price, the buyer still is re-quired to pay the local sales taxes.

“It is totally unfair,” Griesheimer said. “As this continues to progress it is going to cost jobs — there is no doubt about it.”

A local use tax would be a mechanism to collect the taxes for items purchased out of state, Griesheimer said.

County officials have not voted to place a use tax on the ballot.

The city of Washington is

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Line Up to VoteUnion residents waited to vote at the First Methodist Church Tuesday morn-

ing. There were about 20 residents outside the polling place before polls opened at 6 a.m. Election officials predicted a more than 70 percent voter turnout Tuesday. Missourian Photo/Gregg Jones.

Crews Battle BlazeThese Union Fire Protection District firefighters spent several hours early Tuesday on the scene of this fire

at 6 Chad Lane, Union. Crews were dispatched after 1 a.m. to Akcire Group, Inc., an industrial dry-cleaning company located off Prairie Dell Road. Equipment and personnel from 11 fire districts provided mutual aid during the fire. Missourian Photo/Gregg Jones.

Recommend Pay Increase for Elected OfficialsBy Gregg JonesUnion Missourian Editor

City officials Monday agreed to nearly double the pay of aldermen that better align with the salaries of elected officials in other mu-nicipalities.

Personnel, finance and pub-lic works committee members recommended that aldermen approve an ordinance that will increase the annual pay of alder-men from $2,000 to $3,900.

If approved, the ordinance would impact aldermen who are elected in April 2013.

City Administrator Russell Rost said $3,900 was just below the average pay of aldermen in Missouri cities with similar popu-lations and budgets as Union.

“You really aren’t voting for yourself, but for who is running and wins in April,” said City Ad-ministrator Russell Rost.

He added that a survey was conducted among Missouri cities

through the Missouri Municipal League (MML). Rost used infor-mation from the 11 cities that are the most similar in size and bud-get to Union.

Committee members Dale Schmuke, David Pope, Karen Erwin and James Albrecht voted in favor of the recommendation. Alderman Vicki Jo Hooper voted against the salary increase rec-ommendation.

The last pay increase for alder-men was in 1987.

“This is something the board has struggled with in the past,” said Schmuke.

Some officials have noted that an increased salary may attract a qualified candidate who may not run otherwise.

“I certainly hope they don’t run for money, but to make things right for the city,” said Erwin.

Rost said the item has been placed on the committee’s agenda in October each year so it can be discussed before filing for city of-

fices opens in December.City Attorney Tim Melenbrink

has said that once filing opens, the salaries should remain the same. However, if they choose to change the salaries, it should be done at the appropriate time.

Rost added that the goal this year is to vote on the increases before filing for office opens in December.

Two years ago, the city agreed to increase the pay of the munici-

Fire Causes Heavy DamageFire officials said oil-soaked ab-

sorbent pads kept crews on the scene of a blaze Tuesday at an industrial dry cleaning company for almost 12 hours.

Union Fire Protection District Chief Russ Hamilton said there were nine fire districts on the scene of the three-alarm fire and two more sta-tioned within the Union district.

He said the first crews were dis-patched at 1:05 a.m. to the to Akcire Group, Inc., located at 6 Chad Lane, Union. The building is off of Prairie Dell Road.

“The nature of business is they bring in oil-soaked absorbent pads, launder those pads and ship them back out,” said Hamilton. “They have a system set up where pads

go through an extractor and then through a dry-cleaning process.”

Fire crews with equipment from Union, St. Clair, Beaufort-Leslie, Boles, Pacific, Washington, Marthas-ville, Gerald-Rosebud and Sullivan all responded to the scene. Eureka and Metro West fire companies were stationed at Union Firehouse No. 3.

Requests Ballot Initiative

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“If we do this as a number of entities, we have a better chance to pass it.”

– John GriesheimerPresiding Commissioner

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the only entity in the county that still receives local taxes for vehicles purchased out of state through the voter-ap-proved local option use tax.

The city of Washington currently has a 2 percent option use tax. That means Washington could still col-lect 2 percent in taxes on vehicles purchased by city residents, even if the vehicle came from out of state or from a private individual.

Griesheimer said there was a bill to fix the tax reve-nue hole created by the high

court approved last legis-lative session, but it was vetoed by Gov. Jay Nixon because it included a retro-active clause.

He added that even if a similar bill is approved, it could get challenged again in the Supreme Court.

“The only way to fix this is to push for a use tax,” Griesheimer said.

That is why he will push for a local use tax even if legislators fast track a bill that would allow Missouri entities to collect the vehicle taxes.

He further explained that he will meet with Ger-ald city officials Thursday night, and others in the coming weeks.

“If we do this as a num-ber of entities, we have a better chance to pass it,” Griesheimer said.

City Administrator Rus-sell Rost said he was in-formed earlier this year that the city would lose about $42,000 annually in tax rev-enue as a result of the Su-preme Court ruling.

“That was before people knew about it,” he said.

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Hamilton said there were both oil-soaked pads and clean pads that were on fire.

“Of course the oil-soaked rags burned a lot faster,” he said. “It was a very tedious process to get that extin-guished.”

Hamilton added that many of the pads were stacked in piles or shrink wrapped and stored off the ground waiting to be loaded into trucks

“I would call it a total loss,” he said.

At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday there still was a Union res-cue truck at the scene with a crew assisting Franklin County Arson Investigator Jim Schuhmacher with an investigation.

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County CollectionThe county collector’s office

began collecting for munici-palities in 1998 when it start-ed collecting for Washington. Other cities began soliciting the service.

In 2010, Union was the lat-est to have the county collect its taxes.

Each of the cities the coun-ty collects for is assessed a charge for the service. One and one-half percent of the total charge goes to the col-lector’s fund and one-half percent goes to the assessor’s fund.

That money goes to the general revenue fund and offsets the extra costs in each office.

In addition to the collec-tor and assessor charges, the county collector and clerk each get a $2,000 commission for their services. This is be-cause both are held person-ally accountable for the accu-racy of their offices.

Berger, Gerald, Leslie, Oak Grove Village and Parkway Village do not have to pay to have the county collect their taxes for them because so lit-tle tax is collected.

Another benefit to cities is that the county is better able to collect on delinquent bills. As long as the individual lives within the state, he or she will have to pay personal property tax to renew license plates and tags at the Missouri De-partment of Revenue.

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pal judge position to bring it in line with other local city judges.

That decision was made prior to an election for the city judge position in April 2011.

The city judge earns $5,484 and the mayor earns $6,000. According to the fig-ures presented by Rost, the average pay for mayors in similar cities is more than $9,000.

The committee will wait to address a pay increase for the mayor’s position. Mayor Mike Livengood’s term will end in 2015.

Officials have said that it is the opinion of the MML that an elected official can be given a raise anytime be-fore an election is certified.

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Cut OpeningsFirefighters cut through large doors Tuesday while fighting this fire at 6 Chad

Lane, Union. Crews were dispatched after 1 a.m. to Akcire Group, Inc. There were multiple departments and districts that responded to the fire at the industrial dry cleaning company. Missourian Photo.

Union Woman Killed While Crossing Highway

A 47-year-old Union wom-an was killed Sunday after she was struck by a car while trying to cross the roadway on foot.

Shari L. Pehle was struck by a 2000 Chevrolet Cobalt driven southbound at 6:14 p.m. by Jennifer Greenlee, 37, Richwoods, Union police said.

Authorities said Pehle was involved in a noninjury crash near her home on Highway

47 south of Highway 50. She left the crash scene on foot to get insurance information from her residence, police said.

When she tried to again cross the road to return to the crash scene, Pehle was struck by the Greenlee vehicle.

Greenlee attempted to stop her vehicle before it struck Pehle. There was no alcohol involved in the incident, po-lice said.

Willow Brooke BoxerWillow Brooke Assisted Living facility resident Bob

Belk dressed as a boxer during an open house. The event featured activities for children, food and a haunted house. Missourian Photo.

Beaufort Veterans Assembly

Beaufort Elementary will hold an event Friday, Nov. 9, at 8:50 a.m. to honor veter-ans.

The assembly will be in the school gym and all veter-ans, active duty and reserve members and families are in-vited to attend.

For more information peo-ple may call the school at 636-583-7744, or 573-484-3221.

Willow Brooke Open House

Willow Brooke Assisted Living will hold an open house Thursday, Nov. 15, from 10-11:30 a.m.

There will be guided tours and refreshments available.

The public is invited to at-tend the event at 1 Potomac Court, Union.

Attendees also will be eli-gible to win a $100 gift card.

For more information people may call 636-583-2799.

IC Vets ProgramImmaculate Conception

Grade School, Union, will hold a veterans recogni-tion event Friday, Nov. 9, at 9 a.m. All veterans and current service members are invited to attend. The event will be held in the parish center.

United Way Dine OutThe Union Pasta House

will donate 15 percent of its dine-in and carry-out sales to the Franklin County Area United Way Nov. 14. The “dine out for United Way” event will be from 4 p.m. to close. The Pasta House is located at 101 E. Indepen-dence Drive, Union.

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Library Game Day ActivitiesA Game Day will be held

Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Union branch of the Scenic Regional Library from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Social Competitive

Gaming Network (SCGN) is cosponsoring the event and will set up Wii and Xbox Kinect systems in the library meeting room. The SCGN is a gaming group in Washington that meets at the Crux.

There also will be board games for children, board games and card games for adults and teens.

For more information, people may contact the li-brary at 636-583-3224.

To see what else SCGN is doing people may visit www.meetup.com/Social-Competitive-Gaming-Net-work-STL/.

Jaycees to Hold Pub Crawl

Union Jaycees will hold a “Light the Night” to benefit the annual Tree of Lights Campaign.

The pub crawl will be Nov. 17 at several local bars, and ending at the Municipal Auditorium with a dance.

Union Jaycees members will be selling shirts which are the tickets to make participants eligible for the crawl.

UHS Veterans EventVeterans are invited

to attend the Union High School Veterans Day cer-emony Monday, Nov. 12. A reception will be held from 1-2 p.m. followed by the as-sembly at 2 p.m. For more information people may call the school at 636-583-2513.

Program For Garden Winterizing

Scenic Regional Library in Union will be having a program about winterizing gardens Thursday, Nov. 8, from 1-2 p.m. Leslie Mahin from Hillermann Nursery & Florist talks about how to prepare gardens for the upcoming winter months.

She will be covering var-ious topics ranging from garden cleanup to properly storing the tools. The pro-gram is free and for adults, ages 18 and older.

People may preregister by visiting the Union Li-brary at 308 Hawthorne Drive or calling 636-583-3224.

License Office ClosedThe Union License Of-

fice will be closed Monday, Nov. 12, for Veterans Day. The office will open Tuesday, Nov. 13, for regular business hours.

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The Missourian Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Page 3UUnion High School FFA Student Wins National Award

Union FFA member, al-ready immersed in a hands-on experience aimed to jumpstart careers in agri-culture, can add one more impressive achievement: national winner.

Kenny Voss was named the national winner of the Agricultural Mechanics Energy System – Entrepre-neurship/Placement Award by a panel of judges during the 85th National FFA Con-vention and Expo in India-napolis

Voss was one of four FFA members nationwide se-lected as national finalists in the category sponsored nationally by The Lincoln Electric Company as a spe-cial project of the National FFA Foundation.

The National FFA Or-ganization’s Agricultural Proficiency Awards pro-gram recognizes outstand-ing student achievement in agribusiness gained through establishment of a new business, working for an existing company or otherwise gaining hands-on career experience. It serves as the award structure for an FFA member’s Super-vised Agricultural Experi-ence (mandatory for all FFA members) that is designed to develop specialized skills in 49 categories that they can apply toward their fu-ture careers. Awards are available at the local, state and national levels.

Voss became eligible for the national award af-ter winning the Missouri state FFA competition ear-lier this year and will take home a $1,000 award plus a special plaque.

He is supported by his parents Rita and Dennis and his FFA adviser Dani-elle Blair.

The National FFA Orga-nization is a national youth organization of 557,318 student members as part of 7,498 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The FFA mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by develop-ing their potential for pre-mier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural educa-

tion. The National FFA Or-ganization operates under a federal charter granted by the 81st U. S. Congress and it is an integral part of public instruction in agri-culture. The U.S. Depart-ment of Education provides leadership and helps set di-rection for FFA as a service to state and local agricul-tural education programs. For more, visit the National FFA Organization online at www.FFA.org, on Facebook, Twitter and the official Na-tional FFA Organization blog.

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Donate Stuffed AnimalsMembers of the Union Moose Lodge recently presented a donation of 24 Tommy

Moose stuffed animals to the Union Ambulance District. Pictured, from left, are Larry Rutledge, Moose administrator; Christy Edler, Justin Schulte, Kim Rice, Moose Governor Charlie Miller, Chris Newman and Moose Community Service Chair Joy Cokley. The stuffed animals are given to children involved in an emer-gency situation. Missourian Photo.

Voss Wins AwardKenny Voss, left, was the winner of the Agricultural Me-

chanics Energy System – Entrepreneurship/Placement Award at the National FFA Convention. He is pictured with Jason Scales, welding education specialist, with Lincoln Electric Company, the award sponsor. Submitted Photo.

Raise Funds for CrosspointA McTeachers Night at the Union McDonald’s raised $711.95 for Crosspoint Chris-

tian School. Pictured, from left, are Deanna Frioli, Mc-Donald’s public relations; Margie Smith, dining room manager; Patti Nantz, head elementary teacher; and Erik Howard, teach-er, dressed as Cornwal-lis the Cougar. The funds will be used for technol-ogy improvements for the Crosspoint elementary de-partment. Missourian Photo.

Lions Collect Used EyeglassesMany of the everyday ac-

tivities we take for granted, like going to school, reading a book, watching the sunset, watching television, or going to work, are impossible for millions of people in develop-ing countries. This is because they are in desperate need of eyeglasses and unable to af-ford or obtain the basic eye care they need.

During the month of No-vember, the Union Lions

Club will collect used pre-scription eyeglasses and sunglasses along with non-prescription reading glasses and sunglasses as part of a unique recycling program. The glasses will be cleaned and prepared for distribu-tion by Lions in these devel-oping countries.

The Union Lions Club is asking area residents to look through drawers and clos-ets for old eyeglasses. Then

donate the eyeglasses to the Lions Recycle for Sight Pro-gram.

To donate used glasses (including sunglasses and reading glasses), place them in the specially marked Li-ons Recycle for Sight boxes at one of six locations: Bank of Franklin County (Kra-kow), Scenic Regional Li-brary (Union), Union Eye Associates, and United Bank of Union (all three locations).

For more information, people may contact Devin Struttmann at 636-583-8267.Middle School Craft

Show Hours ExtendedThe Union Middle School

PTO is extending the craft show shopping time at the this year’s event.

The craft show will be held Nov. 10-11.

Due to large crowds and the large numbers of ven-dors expected, the fair will be open an extra hour on Sun-day, Nov. 11. Doors will open at 10 a.m and the event will end at 4 p.m.

The Saturday, Nov. 10,

hours will remain the same and are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There are vendors from seven states with 315 booths selling items that include candles, clothing, baskets, metal works, pottery, kettle korn, fudge, dolls, Christmas decor and much more.

Shuttle buses will run from the city lake and city pool to assist with parking.

For more information peo-ple may call 636-583-5855.

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The only County Seat Se-nior Center jam session for November will be held Thurs-day, Nov. 29.

In December the jam ses-sion will continue to be held the second Thursday of the month on Dec. 13.

For more information peo-ple may call Ceal Andre at 636-583-3599.

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Halloween was much dif-ferent for me as a kid than for the little ghouls that I saw running around town last week.

We set up camp outside of our house. We built a fire, invited a few friends over and prepared for the onslaught of costumed chil-dren begging for candy.

There were about 12 kids who came down the street. We didn’t see the first kid until after 6:30 p.m.

When I was a kid we would start trick-or-treat-ing at 5:30 p.m., give or take, and we would keep go-ing until around 9 p.m.

We didn’t use little plas-tic buckets shaped like pumpkins to collect candy.

Instead, we ripped the pillowcases off the pillows and filled them to the brim with candy.

When we got home we would devour a few pounds of candy before slipping the

pillow cases back onto the pillows and lay down in a pre-diabetic daze.

I may have stretched the truth a bit, but when I was a kid there were swarms of children in our neighbor-hood pounding on doors and screaming for candy.

Jami and I prepared for a large number of kids, and we were a little disappoint-ed when very few stopped by for treats.

It is hard to eat a healthy diet when you buy 50 Snick-ers bars and can only give away 20.

I know some neighbor-hood streets were packed with kids, but I think there are fewer kids who are ask-ing strangers for candy.

Many children go to trunk-or-treats sponsored by local organizations and churches.

It is a safer alternative to coming within feet of adults who they have never seen before.

But going door to door is a fond memory I will always have.

The children who I did see in costume this year were much more creative than I was.

I saw some awesome lit-tle tykes dressed as Mario and Luigi, a giant mouse in a trap and two kids dressed as an egg, a pancake accom-panied by their dog dressed as bacon.

Growing up in Michigan, there was always a possibil-ity of freezing temperatures and even snow on Hallow-een.

We would dress warmly but by the end of an evening spent walking and sweat-ing, I had taken half of my costume off and was just a kid in a cap with a pillow-case asking for handouts.

My costume seldom var-ied from year to year. I was either a clown or a devil, both of which I have been

called just recently without the costume.

There was one year that I was bold and dressed as a hobo. That was essentially the same old clothes and long coat I wore as a clown, but I didn’t wear the face paint.

I got in trouble that year in school because while I was dressed as a hobo, I rolled up my pants and closed my coat and trans-formed into a flasher.

That didn’t go over very well with my teacher and I was back to being a hobo.

While I don’t encourage children to dress as flash-ers, I was hoping to see more trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood — even if they were just kids in capes asking for handouts.

Students Named to Union High School Honor Roll

Union High School recently announced its honor roll.

Students named to the hon-or roll are listed below.

General HonorWyatt Alberts, Noah Alli-

son, Catriona Apps, Kaila Au-buchon, Samantha Aubuchon, Rachel Barone, Kyle Baugh-man, Kelsey Baxter, Nora Becker, Courteney Benson, Curtis Bergner, Mitchell Bev-foden, Kaylyn Bigley, Vandalia Boehmer, Brian Borgmann, Samantha Bounds, Zackary Brandhorst, Alyssa Breeden, Raylene Breuer, Dalton Brink-er;

Tylor Brown, Madelena Bush, Dakota Cain, Brooke Carey, Daniel Casey, Robert Casey, Shelbi Ciaramitaro, Alyssa Coons, Kelsey Cooper, Brittany Corbett, Mallory Cox, Martin Crabtree, Dalton Crawford, Cassandra Cun-ningham, Andrew Daehnke, Ashton Dehn, Dakota Din-telman, Casi Dixon, Dennis Dodd, Chelsey Dorris, Nicho-las Eads, James Eagan;

Nathan Erwin, Danielle Feth, Conrad Fink, Abigail Furey, Zachary Gibson, Ja-cob Gillick, Heather Goodwin, Trevor Grannemann, Dustin Griffin, Marissa Groves, Megan Guin, Joseph Ham, Leann Harris, Shania Head, Christopher Heinz, Luke Her-ring, Glen Hervey, Brittany Hess, Patrick Hill, Alexander Hinson, Alexandria Holmes, Douglas Horn;

Anna Houston, Sarah Hubbard, Laura Hubenthal, Johnathan Hugyez, Jeffrey Hunt, Natalie Jarvis, Benja-min Jeffs, Rikki (paige) Kel-ly, Austin Koester, Zachary Kramer, Matthew Kretzler, Ja-cob Kreutz, Allyson Ladymon, Zachary Lanham, Krystina Latham, Joseph Lenau, Tay-lor Leone, James Lewis, Jing “Jenavia” Liu, Kaylee Long, Kelsey Lowe, Kory Lucas;

Nicholas Maher, Tina Ma-kic, Jason Matson, Jerod Mattingly, Hannah Mayfield, Zachary McBride, Nathan McKinney, Ceiley Milburn, Shelby Miller, Morgan Mill-heiser, Sarah Mohrlock, Jona-than Mueller, Meghan Neace, Hannah Neithardt, Alexan-dria Nelson, Elizabeth Nix, Kaitlyn Novara, Zachary Nut-ter, Ryan Overschmidt, Cody Pace;

Tyler Pace, Destyn Payne, Casey Peth, Autumn Phillips, Logan Pieske, Michael Pisane, Kara Poole, Alyssa Quintos, Jerica Reeser, Alyssa Reiker, Taylor Resnik, Diamond Riley, Brittany Rogers, Sean Rol-wing, Gabriel Ross, Janna Ru-ether, Leah Russell, Chelsey Scharff, Brandi Schlueter, Anne Schroeder, Cole Schroed-er, Nicholas Schumaker, Ryan Schumaker;

Julia Sedlacek, Kendall Sheler, Emily Sippel, Kath-erine Sippel, Miranda Smith, Stanley Smith, Jordan Snod-grass, Alex Solter, Hannah Strader, Nathan Strupp, Wade Suerig, Emily Tappe, Henry

Tappe, Katrina Taylor, Lau-ren Terschluse, Kayla Thorn-ton, Noah Tiffany, Mina Todd, Morgan Trout, Caitlin Tyree, Weston Ullrich, Celina Vana-tta, Scott Vanzee;

Daniela Velazquez, Tyler Virkler, Whitney Vitt, Alex-ander Voss, Brian Voss, Kath-erine Voss, Ryan Ware, Lor’E Wells, MacKenzie White, Sa-mantha Wickes, Damien Wi-erson, Justine Wiles, Clara Williams, Anna Wilmesher, Cody Wissmann, Mason Witte, Preslee Wittenborn, Niklas Wohlmacher, Sidney Woolfe, Quentin York, Joseph Young and Courtney Zweifel.

Merit HonorElli Aldrich, Megan Alte-

mueller, Emily Arens, Kyle Arens, Rachel Ballmann, Cody Barnhart, Jessica Bar-ringhaus, Rachael Bassett, Sarah Baumgartner, Emily Bay, Shawn Bevfoden, Tara Binsbacher, Dakota Birk-mann, Elizabeth Birkmann, Jared Birkmann, Amber Bock, Devin Bock, Danielle Bock-lage, Paige Bohnert, Taylor Bond, Albert Bondor, Andrew Bondor, Bianca Bondor;

Christopher Bondor, Callie Boyd, Deven Boyd, Lindsey Boyer, Abbie Brack, Chyanne Bradley, Allison Brautigam, Dillon Breeden, Michaela Briggs, Julie Brinker, Ali-cia Brueggemann, Elizabeth Brueggemann, Dean Buchan-an, Luke Buhr, Tanner Bunch, Taylor Bunch, Cassondra Busch, Kayla Cacciatore, Mat-thew Campbell, Ethan Canby, Hannah Candrl, Justin Carey;

Sheena Carroll, Charles Cary, Nicholas Ciaccio, Alex Ciot, Andrei Ciot, Jonathon Clark, Shannon Clark, Haley Cluck, Cornelia Cojocaru, Kristen Collins, Bethany Coons, Nicholas Coppedge, Ali-cia Corbett, Bianca Courtway, Kevin Curran, Dakota Dames-Dace, Andrea Daud, Christina Daud, Seth Davidson, Maline Davis, Jessica Desnoyer, Jes-sica Dietrich, Alonnah Diez, Jacob Doepke;

Abby Drainer, Dominic Dunn, Brendan Dunne, Jen-nifer Eagan, Erich Eastman, Lillian Edwards, Timothy Emmendorfer, Lauren Emory, Emily Evert, Taylor Faccaro, Ashley Farrell, Haley Far-rell, Casey Fawcett, Molly Femmer, Nathaniel Feth, Dylan Fitzgerald, Melody Fitzhugh, Aldwin Fleer, Chey-enne Frank, Alexander Gaebe, Taylor Gaebe, Trenton Garvey, Megan Girardier;

Rebecca Grace, Andrew Graham, Logan Grainger, Sa-vannah Grawe, Ashlee Grim, Faith Groenke, Cole Guerrant, Margaret Haberberger, Orlan-do Hatfield, Teresa Heberer, Joshua Heller, Ellen Herring, Melissa Hicks, Dylan Hill, Kirsten Hill, Shaela Hinkle, Brianna Hoerr, Ryan Hoerr, Jennifer Horn, Ethan Horst, Alexander Howland, Nicko-las Hutcheson, Kelsey Huxel, Alisa Iler, Kristina Ingersoll, Daniel Jansson, Macee Jarvis,

Erika Jeffries, Jessica Jenkins, Shayla Johnson, Jillian John-ston, Jessica Juliette, Andrew Kaiser, Joseph Kassebaum, Kayla Kelly, Shannon Kelly, Danielle Kemper, Ethan Kerr, Tai Kidd;

Shelby Kiewitt, Emily King, Emma Klenke, Kelsey Kloep-pel, Victoria Koenig, Casey Kohler, Dawn Kohler, Derek Koselke, Emily Kossmann, Rebeccah Kramer, Victoria Kramer, Trenton Kranz, Jes-see Kruse, Jacob Kuhl, Josh-ua Labeau, Lukis Ladymon, Miranda Ladymon, Briana Lakebrink, Paige Lansford, Anthony LaParry, Matthew Lauber, Taylor Lavalle, Kait-lyn Lawson;

Andrew Lenau, Christa Lenau, Jacob Lenau, Cory Lohmeyer, Hannah Lopez, Dustin Luechtefeld, Em-ily Luxton, Kaelynn MacLeay, Kayla Magraw, Ariel Manion, Katrina Marshall, MacKenzie Mathews, Haylee Maxwell, Anthony McGarity, Ciena Mc-New, Brynn Mechem, Amber Messmer, Peggy Metcalf, Au-brey Meyer, Caleb Meyer, John Meyer, Nolan Meyer, Jeanette Minix, Ashton Mounts, Kierra Mundt, Kaylee Murphy, Mi-randa Murray, Dillen Myers, Cheyenne Narup, Tyler Ness, Siven Nitschke, Tara Nolkem-per, Emily Nowak, Hannah Nowak, Joseph Oliver, Justice Oliver, Jacob Osseck, Alexan-dria Overstreet;

Serena Page, Elizabeth Parker, Karissa Peth, Jordan Phillips, Dylan Pich, Blake Pickard, Leah Pinnell, Olivia Plank, Kelly Porter, Jordynn Reeser, Katelyn Reidel, Mor-gan Reiker, Katelyn Riechers, Austin Riedy, Stephanie Roeh-rs, Erin Rose, Cassandra Ross, Sara Rudd, Jacob Rudman, Brooke Ruether, Jacob Rus-sell, Nathan Saleniuc, Samuel Sander, Ronnie Sanford, Ray-lyn Schiller;

Mason Schink, Paige Schlu-eter, Nicholas Schmidt, Timo-thy Schmidt, Emily Schroeder, Stephanie Schroeder, Sara Schulte, Makayla Schumann, Adam Schwentker, Anyssa Sexton, Megan Shafferkoetter, Dayeana Shell, Emily Sied-hoff, Lyndsy Siedhoff, Thomas Sieve, Ciersten Simpson, Jon-athan Sohn, Rebecca Stack-le, Daniel Stahlman, Sarah Steinmann, Jessica Sterner, Helen Stokes, Maddie Stowe;

Jonathan Strugari, Joseph Strugari, Ruth Strugari, Na-than Swan, Cassidy Terrill, Chelsea Thornton, Jordan Thorpe, Dylan Trusty, Kayla Tyree, Emily Underdown, Aus-tin Vancil, Ashley Vandiver, Kayla Vondera, Kaitlin Voss, Kenneth Voss;

Michael Wachter, Nicho-las Wachter, Olivia Walther, Angelique Ward, Anne Ward, Robert Ward, Connor Watson, Braden Watts, Kacie Weath-erly, Kennedy Weatherly, Andrew Webb, Cole Weddle, Abigail Weiss, Alex Williams, Blake Wright and Emily Zim-merman.

Oasis Lanes Bowlers Raise Funds

Bowlers recently “bowled for the cure” at Oasis Lanes and raised $92.95 for the National Breast Cancer Founda-tion.

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. strives to raise funds and edu-cate people in the battle against breast cancer through global events and legislative actions each year. Breast cancer is still killing and impacting far too many of our loved ones.

Oasis Lanes owners said they will continue to participate in the raising of funds for worthy causes.

Decorate Cookies At Library

Scenic Regional Library will be decorating Christ-mas cookies this December.

A baker from Blue Duck Café and Bakery in Wash-ington will be demonstrat-ing how to make beautiful creations for the Christmas holiday.

The baker will be cover-ing basic cookie decorating techniques.

It will be hands on and participants will have the opportunity to decorate their own cookies.

The program will be on Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. It is free and open to adults, but space is lim-ited.

People may visit the li-brary at 308 Hawthorne Drive, Union, or call 636-583-3224 to sign up.

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An armed robbery took place in a Pacif-ic business this past Friday, the first such crime in recent memory, police said.

“This is the first armed robbery on my watch,” Police Chief Matt Mansell said.

A man in a black cowboy hat walked into the Red Wing Shoe Store at 313 E. Osage at about 1 p.m. looked at merchandise and asked prices. He left saying he might be back.

The man returned a few minutes later, knocked on the rear door to the store and pointed a gun at the store manager, Man-

sell said.“He went in and cased the store,” the po-

lice chief said.The store manager screamed and ran

out the front door and across the street.The suspect left the scene in a red Ford

Expedition.Police arrived on the scene within sec-

onds, Mansell said.Capt. Larry Cook called St. Louis, Jef-

ferson and Franklin County sheriff ’s de-partments, the city of Eureka and the Mis-souri Highway Patrol asking them to help look for the suspect.

It was later determined that the man entered the store after the manager fled to safety and left with some personal prop-erty.

“This is definitely considered armed robbery,” Mansell said.

The authorities did not locate the sus-pect on Friday, but the investigation is on-going, he said.

“We have three detectives working on it,” Mansell said. “We do have some evi-dence.”

It is believed that the individual is not from this area.

Mansell said it is unusual to have an armed robbery in Pacific, but not totally surprising with the holiday season draw-ing near in tough economic times.

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Armed Robbery Friday at East Osage Shoe Store

Police Acquire HumveePolice Chief Matt Mansell stands beside the Humvee that the Pacific Police Depart-

ment received from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). Mansell worked for 18 months trying to get a DOD discarded Humvee. Last month he contacted Lisa Geiser with the Missouri Department of Public Safety and was able to pick up the vehicle in Jefferson City Oct. 1. The rough terrain vehicle will be useful in high water, heavy snow and heavily wooded areas, Mansell said. Missourian Photo.

Check Out EquipmentNike Elementary School students got a close-up look at fire trucks and other equip-

ment during a recent visit by the Pacific Fire District. Above, fourth-grade students listen to an explanation of the equipment used to fight fires. Submitted Photo.

Man Fled in Red Ford Expedition

City Gets Humvee FromDepartment of Defense

Can Go Anywhere in Any WeatherBy Pauline MassonPacific Editor

The Pacific Police Department has been given a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) discarded Humvee.

The 1992, all-terrain vehicle, will en-hance the department’s ability to answer many calls that it now is not capable of handling, according to Police Chief Matt Mansell.

“There are times when a police car can’t get through things like heavy snow or high water,” Mansell said. “This is a full military vehicle that can get anywhere in any weather.”

The vehicle would also be used in res-cue searches in heavy woods, where it could carry ambulance district personnel. A clear interior in the extended bed ve-hicle would allow the department to carry EMTs to remote rescue spots and bring victims out on a flat board.

“Heavy woods is also a favorite place of methamphetamine labs,” Mansell said.

The chief said he spent more than 18 months trying to acquire one of the ve-hicles. He worked through the DOD pro-cess of redistributing obsolete vehicles from its equipment lot focusing on the

DOD website. He studied obsolete or re-dundant equipment that is issued to mu-nicipalities and counties and process for cities to acquire it.

“I didn’t seem to be getting anywhere,” the chief said. “A month ago I connected with Lisa Geiser with the Missouri De-partment of Public Service and we were able to pick up the Humvee in Jefferson City yesterday.”

Mansell observed that there is much more to this rough and ready vehicle than meets the eye of ordinary civilians. The average motorist cannot just get in and drive one.

“It will be assigned to specific officers,” Mansell said. “There will definitely have to be some training involved.”

Mansell said he fooled around with the interior of the vehicle for more than an hour and could not turn on the lights.

“Luckily we have an office with some ex-military people on the force. Rodney Backus drove the vehicles in Afghani-stan,” the chief said. “He was able to get in and show me a few things in a matter of minutes.”

The Humvee can definitely help the de-partment get into places vehicles cannot get into now, Mansell said.

Sports Club Finalizing Dinner Auction PlansBy Pauline MassonPacific Editor

The Pacific Indian Sports Club is final-izing plans for the 16th Annual Banquet and Dinner Auction.

The annual event is the largest fund-raiser for the Pacific Indian Sports Clubs. Through donations from businesses and individuals, the proceeds benefit hun-dreds of students involved in school dis-trict team athletics.

Cost is $15 per person or $120 for a ta-ble of eight.

In recent years, proceeds from the event have been used to buy an end zone vid-eo tower camera for football and a Noah shooting system, which includes camera, laptop and software for girls and boys bas-ketball.

Ketina Armstrong, Riverbend School, is donations chairperson. Her team is solicit-ing businesses for items to be auctioned in the live auction or blind auction. She can be reached at 636-271-1481, or at karm-

[email protected] the funds from the dinner auc-

tion purchase for the school athletes is often items the district cannot afford to purchase. They supply needed equipment to support every team in grades eight through 12.

Items bought in the past included mas-cot and break-through banners for cheer-leading; Ipod, Ipod dock and poms for dancing; softball jugs pitching machine and scoreboard for softball; and pitching mounds for baseball.

Superintendent Randy George notes that volleyball, football, soccer, pole vault, wrestling, weight room, and golf teams all benefit from the sports club’s annual din-ner action.

“This annual fundraiser is invaluable to the district’s team athletics,” George said.

Stephanie Schomber is president of the Sports Club.

For ticket information contact Cheryl McDaniel, MVR-III central office, at 636-271-1400.

Silica Sand Bluffs Ranks As Most Visual AttractionBy Pauline MassonPacific Editor

The sand bluffs and caves along Pacific’s northeast border have been identified as the city’s most visual attraction.

The landmark won that distinction as officials begin to explore ways to attract tourists to the city.

In recent years private citizens have found new ways to attract visitors to the bluffs.

A Civil War replica cannon, placed atop the sand bluff at the center of Old Town in Blackburn Park, attracts a constant stream of Civil War enthusiasts.

Video cameras aimed at the cannon show visitors getting out of their vehicles to look at the cannon, or the view, all hours of the day.

A small meditation garden dedicated to parents of children who have died was created at the base of the bluff in Lower Blackburn Park. Named A Dad and a

Mom’s (ADAM)s garden, the small park also attracts visitors daily.

Restaurant owner Phil Zahn opened the old mining caves opposite his Third Rail restaurant, allowing thousands of visitors, and locals who had never been inside the caves to explore the vaulted openings.

The MVGHS Civil War Committee iden-tified the Route 66 business park in front of Zahn’s caves, as the logical location where the legendary Civil War Camp Herron was located.

One member of the tourism commis-sion said this could be just the beginning of mining the city’s most obvious geological formation — not for Silica sand, as a local industrial firm has done for 100 years — but for history and geology studies.

“We have the most dramatic exposure of the St. Peters sandstone in Missouri,” said Jo Schaper, local geologist, who often gives seminars on the sand and its origin.

The most frequent geology questions

Nike Elementary Holds Healthy Body, Brain Event

Teaching children about living a healthy lifestyle is not as hard as some might think, according to Nike El-ementary School educators.

Teachers, along with Cindy Meyer, school nurse, Lynn Will, school computer lab aide and yearbook coor-dinator, teamed up with Liz Byerley, Chartwell Foods, who is the district director of health and nutrition, staged a Healthy Body, Healthy Brain Family Reading Night in the gym for students and parents.

During the Oct. 4 activity,

students and family mem-bers learned some simple ways to build brainpower.

The event had a twofold purpose, according to Will. Students and parents were able to spend time as a fam-ily learning about ways to keep their bodies and brains in tiptop shape.

Participants were able to make a fun snack, practice proper hand washing, get important reminders about bike and car safety, ways to build brainpower, and more.

Students received tooth-brushes and toothpaste af-

ter learning proper brush-ing techniques.

Candee Vogel showed stu-dents how to do yoga.

Nancy Rosa went through role-playing games with kids showing ways to re-solve conflicts.

Nurse Cindy Meyer talk-ed to students about fat con-tent in foods and making healthy food choices.

Byerley helped students make fruit kabobs using healthy food choices.

The event was sponsored by school-wide Title I Fund-


I Have to Tell You...Pauline Masson, Editor

Cleta Null is the CEO of Christmas Present.

If that sounds like a play on words, I have to tell you, Charles Dickens’ transformation of Scrooge was like a whisper compared to the whirl-wind of giving that takes place in the Pacific com-munity each Christmas.

Cleta is organizer of the Adopt-a-Family program, which crisscrosses the needs of struggling families with the age-old desire to do something special for Christmas tied together like Jacob’s dream of a lad-der reaching to heaven. It all holds together, one knot at a time.

Cleta has set up a program, now 20 years old that collects, assembles and redistributes thousands of presents for specific families in a two-month period. And every piece is individually wrapped.

She is the promoter, revenue generator, buyer, warehouser, assembler, gift wrapper and deliverer of many Christmases that might never have been.

Here’s how it works. All year schoolchildren and civic groups hold fundraisers, collecting money to buttress the store of clothing and gifts that pile up in the basement of Cleta’s snug home on Highway 100.

At this point, it’s unknown how many struggling families will apply for a Christmas basket of cloth-ing, gifts and food this year. Last year, the group provided Christmas for 673 families, including 2,400 children and 100 senior citizens.

Donated diapers, strollers and cars seats that ex-ceeded the needs of families were donated to Preg-nancy Assistance. They also gave out 200 bicycles, one to every child who asked for one on their list. Any extra bicycles were given to the Backpackers program.

Agape House Food Pantry, the Meramec Valley School District and local churches help Cleta iden-tify and qualify families that might need an extra package under their tree each year. Applications are sorted to identify the number of adults, and number, age and gender of children. Each one will receive one item of clothing, one gift and a complete Christ-mas dinner.

The children each receive socks, underwear, a new outfit and a warm coat. If they have identified a gift they particularly want, she makes note of it. She considers this list the orders for her annual business.

This program concludes in a rush of deliveries in family cars, trucks and SUVs that lasts a full week — this is the week Cleta said that people feel the greatest need for Santa Claus, the mythical giver of magical presents.

It’s not about charity, she says, it’s about the health of community sharing — a custom that is older than both the conversion of Scrooge and Santa Claus, which were invented to demonstrate the el-egance of giving.

Where does she get the stuff to help all these fam-ilies? She’s a heck of a salesman and promoter of her program. Did I mention that earlier?

Wal-Mart gives her every package of socks or underwear that has been opened in the store or re-turned and every bicycle that has been returned. They give her children’s clothing, including girls holiday dresses of red satin and lace collars. But this is just a fraction of what she needs to fill all those orders.

If you walked into Cleta’s basement while all this is going on you might think it looked like a resale business in high gear. Items are piled against three sides of the wall, from the floor to eye level. Boxes are labeled in handwritten notes. Volunteers are inspecting the gifts, especially the electronic items, to make sure they are new and that they work and have batteries if needed.

Now she looks at her list and the revenue need-ed to buy the remaining items needed. Churches, civic organizations, schoolchildren and individuals contribute to this program. She buys the items that have not been donated.

After all this inventory comes into her home, a faithful corps of volunteers sort it by size and gen-der. Toys and other gifts are sorted by category. Now comes the task of filling the orders for each family.

One at a time, a volunteer takes a plastic bag — not the traditional Christmas basket of lore, which wouldn’t hold all the items anyway. The volunteer takes the order describing one family, goes to the stockpile and selects the items that are on the list. If something can’t be found and funds are available, Cleta goes out and buys what the child wants.

The bags then move to the packing area where another group of volunteers gift wrap each item, put a gift tag on it with the family member’s name and place each item back in the bag.

Getting the things to each family requires an-other set of logistics. Some packages are taken to the Community School gym where families can pick them up on a certain day. Others are taken to the churches that provided the names where, often, they are delivered to the family’s door.

Every year, at the last minute, someone calls Cle-ta to tell her of another family.

“I don’t turn anyone away,” she said. Cleta fills the order herself and calls the individual who con-tacted her to pick it up at her house.

“Everybody gets all new stuff now,” she said. “When we first started we collected used clothing and stuffed animals — just so they would have something under their tree. But now it’s all new.”

Somehow the community gets wind that all this is going on at Cleta’s home.

“Some people show up at her door and say ‘Just give me one family and I’ll buy all the items for that family,’ ” she said. “They always return with all the clothes and toys on the list. I’m never disappointed.”

The Pacific Agape house provides all the food for these Christmas dinners, plus, when they have enough, a week’s worth of groceries.

Did I mention that Cleta did not have the back-ground of a corporate mover and shaker. Instead, she had a really good life and wants to give some-thing to the community.

If you have a hankering to help, Cleta says she needs new clothing, toys, gifts for infants, preschool-ers, school-aged children and teens.

“Cash donations are always needed and put to good use,” she said.

For more information, or to make a contribution, contact Cleta Null, 636-742-2244, Debbie Kelley, 636-675-0444, or Brenda McDaniel, 636-271-5315.

Pauline Masson can be reached at [email protected] or 314-805-9800.

As the Christmas season approaches, would-be rob-bers and burglars become more desperate and more brazen, he said.

“I would remind citizens to be careful and take secu-rity measures for their own safety and for their proper-ty,” Mansell said. “It would be a good idea for businesses to put in alarms and secu-rity cameras. I think they would even get a break on their insurance costs.”

ing and Nike Elementary School.

Stephanie Bray gave stu-dents in attendance a “good fit” book.

“The book was a remind-

er of how important reading is to student achievement and success,” Will said.

Schaper hears on her tours are why is the sand so white at Pacific and why are the cliffs so sheer?

The color of the sand question is her favorite. The sand has been washed for 450 million years and the river cut down the bluffs over that period of time.

The bluffs within the city limits of Pacific were cut back by mining or for Route 66 excavation. But other stretches of the out-crop still show the dis-tinctive lines of the river sculpting.

Currently our sand, which has traditionally been used for glass because of its purity, is being used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to get natural gas out of shale.

“Water is pumped down at high pressure to crack the shale to get the gas out and the silica sand — called the proppant in this use — is pumped in to hold the crack open,” Schaper said.

The silica sand is perfect for this use because it is naturally rounded.

“It is almost as good a sphere as you can get any-where in nature,” the geolo-gist said. “It is strong, has the right shape and is rela-tively cheap.”

“Fracking shale for nat-ural gas might not be the most interesting point to

some visitors when they’re looking at our bluffs,” Schaper said. “But it re-quires huge amounts of sil-ica sand and we’re sitting on top of a lot of it.”

Schaper is constantly reminded that people don’t know much about the sand bluffs or the caves as she conducts geology field trips to the area.

The Alpine Shop in Kirk-wood sets up the tours and Schaper acts as guide and resident geologist.

“Basically I want people to understand the geol-ogy of the area and how the sand was formed in an inland sea,” she said. “Be-cause of how it was formed it has become economically valuable to us.”

Always the student, Schaper also attends the tours that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) does for outreach geology bringing

teachers to the area.Art Hebrank, site ad-

ministrator for Federal Mill and Mine Complex No. 3 in Park Hill, leads the DNR tours.

“This is the old St. Joe Lead Company east of Flat River and De Soto, near Bonne Terre in St. Francois County,” she said.

Schaper, who is currently employed as assistant edi-tor of the River Hills Trav-eler, taught creative writ-ing at a junior college for 10 years, served as recep-tionist for state park visitor centers for the same period, and currently serves on the Franklin County Tourism Commission.

The greatest benefit to Pacific and the area of the white silica sand bluffs is that they are a natural landmark, hardly rivaled in Missouri.

The best place to view the exposure is driving

north on Highway F, south of Pacific.

“As you drive through the cut south of town, you can see the entire water marks left by the river,” she said. “It looks like a ring on a bathtub.”

Another good vantage point to view the bluffs is rafting or canoeing on the Meramec River from Pa-cific Palisades to Allenton.

“You are traveling along right against those 20-foot and 50-foot bluffs,” she said. “It’s awesome.”

Looking at the bluffs is not the only thing that of-fers visitors something to photograph and write home about, Schaper said.

“I’d invite visitors to get a lunch-to-go and park on top of Blackburn Park to look out over the expanse,” Schaper said. “You look out over the river valley and you also see the sand bluffs.”

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Coleman for the CureStudents and staff of Coleman Elementary wore pink and formed a human pink rib-

bon to honor Cheryl Jackson, Coleman Elementary principal, for Bosses Day in Oc-tober. Donations were made to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in memory of Jack-son’s mother, who passed away from breast cancer. Submitted Photo.

Eager ReaderColeman Elementary held a fall book fair the week of

Oct. 12-18. Students visited the book fair during the school day, and families were able to purchase books during evening parent conferences. Books and Bites, an opportunity to enjoy breakfast and visit the book fair with parents, was held Oct. 17 and 18. This young reader enjoyed his new book, complete with 3-D glasses, after finishing breakfast. Submitted Photo.

Raise Money for Make-A-Wish FoundationTwo Riverbend School academic focus classes recently raised $672.63 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Stu-

dents made, prepared and sold ghost grams as well as organized a dance for the eighth-grade student body. Pictured are students in Jenna Alt’s and Linda Schnur’s classes, holding up the ghost grams. Submitted Photo.

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Cold Snap Doesn’t Deter Flea Market CustomersBy Pauline Masson Pacific Editor

An early November cold snap and pre-dictions of rain did not keep shoppers away from this past Saturday’s St. Louis Street flea market.

The weather did keep some vendors from bringing their wares, but people turned out looking for good buys.

The bimonthly market has previously attracted enough vendors to fill up the street on both sides and down the center from First to Second Street.

“We almost didn’t set up because they kept saying it was going to rain,” said Sheri Jones, whose booth was in front of Larry Mueller’s Gold Shield store at Second and St. Louis streets.

“But as it turns out it’s a good day for chili,” she said. “I’ve sold at least 2 gallons.”

One after another vendor told the same story.

“I wish there were more vendors,” said Jay Jameson of St. Peters, who was mak-ing his first visit to Pacific after learning about the event on Craig’s List. Jameson set up tables lined with rings.

“There are plenty of customers,” James-on said. “So far I’ve done remarkably well.”

Mary Thomure, who lives in Indian Hills, took off her black knit gloves to try on a ring. “I’m a browser,” she said. “I can’t stay away.”

She wasn’t alone. Other customers donned sweaters and coats with hoods to check out the stacks of merchandise to keep vendors busy.

Brandon Seals, 6, and his sister Alyssa, 7, came looking for video games that would play in their PlayStation 2.

“I like this one, but it only plays on X Box,” said Brandon, putting a CD back on the pile. Eventually, Brandon selected Mid-night Club. It takes 90 minutes to complete the game.

“It’s really for two. We’ll play it togeth-er,” he said, nodding toward Alyssa.

The youngsters are the children of De-nise Jolly and David Seals. They attend Zitzman Elementary School and spend most weekends with their grandmother, Betty Littleton, who lives on Fifth Street.

“It seemed like a good outing to bring them over to the flea market,” Littleton said. “They knew what they were looking for.”

Melissa Williams and her sister, Tina Pittman, who formerly had a booth in an antique mall and had decided to get out of the business, set up two tables with a mix

of furry critters in Christmas outfits, home décor pieces and things that had come out of their homes.

“It’s just our stuff,” Williams said.Among their “stuff” was one of the bona

fide antiques of the day, a Victorian plush toy, a stuffed dog that their parents gave to Pittman 25 years ago. They paid $200 for it at the time.

“It was very old even then,” Pittman said.

The only markings on the apparatus, which may double as a riding toy, are the words “Made in England,” on the tires. They were asking $75 for it and at 11 a.m., halfway through the 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. sale, they had no takers.

Bob Mueller and Jim Davis, regular ven-dors at the St. Louis Street events, offered an eclectic mix of old books, belt buckles, old crocks, guitars, new items and used toys. Most of their items were well priced to move.

Mueller who formerly operated the Pacif-ic Auction House — and has a well-known collection of John Wayne memorabilia that he has taken to his home since the auction closed — said he still has a couple of rental spaces filled with items from the auction house that he’s ready to get rid of.

“I’m actually trying to get out of the business,” he said.

Carol Johnson, every vendor’s dream customer, was all smiles carrying two large white plastic bags bulging with soft items.

“They’re maternity clothes in size small and medium,” she said. “Sheri is expect-ing.”

Johnson’s daughter Sheri Walter lives in Sigonella, Italy, where her husband Sean Walter is chief of operations at the large Naval Air Station on a three-year assign-ment.

Johnson says her daughter, living near the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, does not have access to the kind of stores she’d find in America.

“It takes seven days for a package to get there,” she said. “I can’t wait for her to try these on.”

At the end of the street, Dan Murphy and Harry Mayle of Eureka were first tim-ers, but were having such a good day they would do it again.

“I’d say we’ve done very well,” Duncan said. “There weren’t a lot of vendors, but there was a steady supply of customers and we think there’ll be more.”

The Downtown Pacific Merchants Asso-ciation sponsored the event, the fourth in 2012.

Close Look at Firefighters Kindergarten, first- and second-grade students at Nike Elementary couldn’t resist

touching the fireman’s protective gloves and see him dressed in full gear. The visit to their school by the Pacific Fire District gave them a close look at firefighters and the gear they wear when fighting a fire. Submitted Photo.

Fire Safety Visit at Nike SchoolNike Elementary stu-

dents got a close-up view of fire trucks and the protec-tive gear that firefighters wear during a recent visit to their school by firefight-ers from the Pacific Fire District.

Students in kindergar-ten through fifth grade learned the basics of fire safety.

One firefighter dressed out in the protective cloth-

ing and breathing appara-tus worn when fighting a fire and younger students got a chance to touch the fireman’s protective gloves and gear.

Students also learned about the fire truck and the fire district’s smaller rescue truck and the equip-ment on it.

Reading about fire trucks in books or even see-ing them in movies could

never duplicate the experi-ence of seeing them close up, school officials said.

Students also engaged in a question and answer session with the firemen.

Fredbird Meets Essay WinnersSt. Louis Cardinals’ mascot Fredbird met drug-free essay contest winners at a

recent visit to Robertsville Elementary School Oct. 18. Fredbird and Cardinals spokesman Mike Claiborne shared the importance of staying in school, being ac-tive and participating in sports, and being drug free. Nike and Robertsville students shared the visit. Adults pictured, from left, are Lisa Weirich, Nike principal; Greta Franklin, Robertsville principal; Mike Claiborne, Cardinals’ spokesman; and Fred-bird. Submitted Photo.

Resolving Conflicts

Nancy Rosa role-plays with Nike Elementary School students, demon-strating ways to resolve conflicts during a Healthy Body, Healthy Brain Fam-ily Reading Night at the school Oct. 4. Title I Fund-ing and Nike Elementary School sponsored the event, in which students and their families learned ways to keep their bodies and brains in tiptop shape.

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Breakfast of ChampionsStudents with 100 percent perfect attendance for the first quarter were invited to a

special breakfast celebration Oct.18. Some 40 students were invited to attend. They were able to bring one guest and each received a certificate of recognition for their achieve-ment. School officials said several students were very close to perfect attendance and are working hard for this special invitation during second quarter. Submitted Photo.

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Liz Byerley, left, with Chartwell Foods, helps Nike Elementary stu-dents make fruit ka-bobs after learning about healthy food choices during Healthy Body, Healthy Brain Family Reading Night at their school Oct. 4. Participants were learn-ing how to make a fun snack. Submitted Photo.

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Packed HouseThe St. Clair Elks Lodge was packed with early voters Tuesday as out-of-town residents filled out their ballots.

More than 100 individuals were waiting outside of the Elks Lodge before polls opened at 6 a.m. and a steady stream of voters filed in as daylight broke. Local, state and national races were decided on Tuesday and some state and local issues also appeared on the ballot. Missourian Photo/Keith E. Domke.

Flag BearerSt. Clair High School senior quarterback Kyle Juergens carries

the St. Clair flag as he leads the Bulldogs onto the football field Monday night in Sullivan. St. Clair battled the Eagles on the gridiron in the Class 4A District 3 championship game. The contest lived up to its hype as the second-seeded Bulldogs battled the top-seeded and undefeated Eagles through the four quarters before falling 32-17. St. Clair ended its season with a 10-2 record with both losses coming to Sullivan. The Eagles are 12-0 and advance to the next round of the MSHSAA playoffs on Saturday. For more on the game, see Sports. Missourian Photo/Bill Battle.

Rental Permit Law in Books

Aldermen Pass Ordinance

Setting Rules And RegulationsBy Keith E. DomkeSt. Clair Missourian Editor

About a year after it first came up for discussion, the St. Clair Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance Mon-day night establishing new rules and regulations for a rental occupancy permit program within the city.

The issue first was brought to the city’s plan-ning and zoning table last fall and since then was vol-leyed back and forth be-tween the planners and aldermen to tweak the lan-guage and finalize the pro-cedures included.

Compliance with the or-dinance will be voluntary until Oct. 1, 2013, at which time it will become manda-tory.

“Planning and zoning had this before them for (several) months,” Mayor Ron Blum said in introducing the ordi-nance for discussion among the aldermen Monday night.

Nominations Accepted for Chamber BoardThe St. Clair Area Chamber of

Commerce continues to seek candi-dates to serve on its nine-member board of directors. Board members are elected by the general member-ship to serve three-year terms.

During the board’s October meeting, three individuals were nominated for the terms that would begin in 2013, if elected — Kira Long, owner of Firehouse Signs and Designs; Matthew Bee-son, Plaze Inc.’s director of opera-

tions for its St. Clair facility; and active volunteer Teresa Connelly. Nominations will be accepted

through the Chamber office until Friday, Nov. 9.

The board election will take

place during the general member-ship meeting on Nov. 28. The elect-ees will be announced at that time after the votes are tallied.

“This is a great opportunity for individuals who care about our community and have the time to get involved,” current board Presi-dent Keith E. Domke said. “We truly hope people will think about becoming a board member. Our Chamber is moving forward, and

Filing for Next Year’s Municipal Election Begins in December

Four City Positions to Be on Ballot By Keith E. DomkeSt. Clair Missourian Editor

The filing period for individuals seeking elected positions within the St. Clair city limits will begin Dec. 12.

Information given to the board of aldermen last month states the 2013 election calendar gives peo-ple a five-week window to declare their candidacy. Filing closes on Jan. 15, 2013.

Four municipal positions will be on the ballot — mayor, two al-dermen and judge.

For the first time, the next may-oral term will be four years. Vot-ers in 2011 decided to expand the term from the current two years beginning in 2013.

Mayor Ron Blum currently is in his third two-year term as St. Clair’s leader.

One alderman term in each of the city’s two wards will be up.

In Ward 1, Zach Fuchs was ap-pointed at the beginning of the year to fill the unexpired term of Connie Marrocco, who resigned in December 2011. Unopposed, he won re-election this past April to serve the remaining year.

His and Barb McGlenn’s first two-year term will expire. Mc-Glenn represents the second ward.

Earlier this year, Ward 1’s Na-

than Tate and Ward 2’s Travis Dierker ran unopposed for their seats. Also, City Collector Lynne Huff defeated three challengers to keep her position.

Municipal Court Judge A. Da-vid Arand was appointed by Blum to fill out the unexpired term of longtime judge Nick Gasaway late last year, and, like Fuchs, won re-election in April running un-opposed for the final year of the term.

Gasaway had reached the state-required retirement age of 75 and was forced to step down.

The judge’s position is a two-year term.

The election is scheduled for April 2.

PromotionIn other business from late last

month, city employee Nick Wil-liams was promoted to wastewater system supervisor. In conjunction with the promotion, he received a salary increase to $17.89 per hour.

“The administration recom-mends a change in his employ-ment status,” City Administrator Rick Childers said.

The motion unanimously was approved.

“He is a dedicated employee,” Blum said in supporting the pro-motion. “He is a good, all-around

“The St. Clair Area Chamber of Commerce has had a great year, and that is a direct result of dedicated leadership from the current board of directors. ... If you’ve ever thought about becoming more involved, now is the time to do it.”

— Angela CrawfordChamber Executive Director

Daughter Charged In Theft At Dad’s Business

The daughter of I-44 Truck Center owner Mark Robbins was one of two in-dividuals arrested last week after an incident at his busi-ness.

According to the St. Clair Police Department, felony burglary and theft/steal-ing charges were issued on 17-year-old Jessica Robbins, of St. Clair, and 20-year-old Jacob Mahan, of Pacific.

The Class C felony charg-es stem from an alleged rob-bery that took place at the truck center, 705 N. Service Road West, last Tuesday, Oct. 30. Police Chief Bill Hammack said officers were dispatched to that location at 11:17 p.m. for a burglary that had been interrupted.

While law enforcement was responding, they were notified that Mark Robbins had interrupted the bur-glary and had followed a suspect vehicle to the west-bound I-44 rest area.

At the rest area, Ham-mack said an undetermined but “large amount” of mon-ey was found that allegedly had been taken from the

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Yum Yum FunZora Spindler, left, and Alex Parker enjoy decorating and then eating their cup-

cakes during the Franklin County Cooperative’s fall festival that took place last week on Halloween. Submitted Photo.

Kiwanis Student of the MonthNeyko Dominguez, second from the right, recently was named the St. Clair

Kiwanis Club’s St. Clair High School student of the month for September. Domin-guez, a senior and the son of Ramiro Dominguez, is active in football, basketball, Pep Club and History Club at SCHS as well as activities in the community. Pic-tured with him are, from left, SCHS teacher Cathy Robertson, St. Clair Kiwanis treasurer Ginger Murphy and SCHS teacher Alicia Schoonover. Missourian Photo.

we’re moving forward be-cause of the hard work put in by those who do get in-volved.”

Bob Triphahn will take over the reins of board president in January.

Two current board mem-bers whose terms will ex-pire this year have decided to step down at the end of the year and not seek re-election. Paula Dace and Charlie Butler both were appointed to fill two-year terms that expire this year.

The third board member whose term expires at the end of this year, Bethany Perryman of Plaze, was ap-pointed by the board to serve another year following the resignation of Debbie Mitch-ell of Quick Cash. Mitchell resigned earlier this month.

Perryman was board

president in 2011.Absentee

Chamber members who wish to vote via absentee ballot may do so after the nomination period has ex-pired on Friday. Chamber bylaws dictate that ab-sentee ballots may be cast through a request to the executive director, Angela Crawford. They must be filled out, sealed and re-turned either by regular mail or by personally drop-ping them off at the Cham-ber office.

The absentee process re-mains an option up until the day before the board election. Only one ballot may be cast per business or Chamber member.

“The St. Clair Area Chamber of Commerce has had a great year, and that is a direct result of dedi-

cated leadership from the current board of directors,” Crawford said. “We have been working to strategi-cally position the Chamber for the years to come, and while you certainly don’t have to be a board member to have influence on the di-rection of the organization, we would welcome your in-put in the process. If you’ve ever thought about becom-ing more involved, now is the time to do it.”

Other current board members are Tim Davis, Certified Collision and Re-pair, vice president; Mike Murphy, superintendent of the St. Clair R-XIII School District, treasurer; and Stephanie Smith, St. Clair Jaycees president.

For more information, contact the Chamber at 636-629-6000, extension 3.

worker.”Previously, Williams

was listed as a wastewater plant operator. But after Clairborne Saucier resigned earlier this year, Williams assumed the responsibili-ties of plant operations in addition to his duties as pretreatment coordinator, Childers said.

According to approved 2012 budget information, Williams was making $14.09 per hour.

AuditAlso in October, Tammy

Alsop of Hochschild, Bloom & Co. LLP presented the city’s 2011 financial audit.

“The city did a good job holding to its budget in 2011,” she said during her presentation. “You held ex-pendables very well.”

Information in the audit stated the city’s total expen-ditures were under budget in 2011 by $5,241, “mainly due to expenditures being under budget in the admin-istration department.”

business, and Jessica Rob-bins and Mahan were ar-rested. Hammack would not say how much money was involved.

The police chief did con-firm that Jessica Robbins was the daughter of Mark Robbins.

A third individual, a 21-year-old St. Clair man, also was arrested, but charges were not issued.

Bond was set at $35,000 for both Jessica Robbins and Mahan.

According to the charging documents, the Class C fel-ony burglary/theft charges against the two individuals means the value of the prop-erty or services is more than $500 but less than $25,000.

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SCHS Veterans Day Event Monday Others Scheduled at Lonedell, Legion, Senior Center

St. Clair High School will serve as host to its annual Veterans Day assembly from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, in the gymnasium.

Veterans are invited to at-tend breakfast in the SCHS cafeteria starting at 8 a.m.

Air Force Junior ROTC Cadet Capt. Harley Love will serve as emcee of the event. The MIA/POW detail commander will be Cadet Lt. Col. Libby Brown, while Cadet Col. Daniel Pende-graft will serve as the flag detail commander.

Colors will be presented by the JROTC Color Guard. The speaker will be SCHS Princi-pal Kevin Hillman. A POW/

MIA ceremony and flag-fold-ing ceremony will take place. The band and Concert Cho-rale also will perform.

At the end of the event, a veterans’ powerpoint pre-sentation is scheduled.

Veterans Day is Sunday, Nov. 11.

For more information or to RSVP, contact SCHS Air Force Junior ROTC instruc-tor Greg Cohen at 636-629-3500, extension 4099.

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serve as host to a Veterans Day assembly at 1 p.m. on Monday at the school.

Legion Post 347, 35 E. North

St., is planning a Veterans Day ceremony at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11.

A buddy luncheon will fol-low.

Center, 310 Park Ave., vet-erans will be honored begin-ning at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 16.

Special guests will be a group of veterans from the St. James Veterans Home.

Refreshments will be served until 11:30 with a lunch to follow.

Individuals with ques-tions or wish to make reser-vations should call Admin-istrator Mary Baldwin at 636-629-2187.

“There have been numer-ous discussions, decisions and compromises.

“It has been run through the washing machine sev-eral times.”

When Blum asked if City Administrator Rick Childers had anything to add regarding the or-dinance and its details, Childers responded by saying, “I believe this has been discussed at length.”

The aldermen had no questions on Monday, and the ordinance quickly was passed unanimously.

City Inspector Jeremy Crowe and Ward 2 Alder-man Travis Dierker, who also serves as a member of the planning and zoning board, both gave a sigh of relief when the vote was taken. Both of those men, as well as members of the city’s planning and zoning board, have been instru-mental in formulating the rental occupancy permit program.

The aldermen first re-viewed a draft of the ordi-nance in September after City Attorney Kurt Voss had taken final recom-mendations from the plan-ners. The aldermen kicked it back to planning and zoning after Chairman Myrna Turner wanted to review it one more time as prepared.

The planning board again reviewed the docu-ment during its October meeting, and gave its final blessing.

Later in October, Voss told the aldermen that the proposed ordinance should be ready for final review

and potential adoption this month.

The OrdinanceThe planners spent nine

months creating the rules and regulations for the permit program, which fo-cuses on minimum housing and life-safety standards for rental units within the city limits.

In July, the panel origi-nally voted to send the rules and regulations to the board of aldermen. In August, the aldermen conducted a public hear-ing on the proposed regu-lations after the planners conducted a public hearing of their own in June. In September, after Voss cre-ated the draft ordinance, the aldermen put the ball back in the planners’ court after Turner requested her group give it the final re-view.

So, the board went through the draft and questions raised about it from Crowe.

The ordinance basically targets rental units in an effort to upgrade the stan-dards within the city lim-its. The majority of the regulations follow already established city ordinanc-es.

Current minimum hous-ing standards for St. Clair residents are included in Chapter 12-1/2, Article II of the city’s code of ordi-nances. Those minimum standards include sections on sanitary facilities and conditions; food prepara-tion facilities; living space requirements; heating and cooling requirements; lead-based paint compli-ance; and structural condi-

tion and safety.Minimum life-safety

standards target structur-al safety, electrical safety, fire safety, carbon mon-oxide safety and general safety. Those standards are outlined in Chapter 6-61 of the city’s code of ordinances which concern the definition of a danger-ous building.

The city also has adopt-ed the updated 2009 Inter-national Property Mainte-nance Code.

Planning board mem-bers as well as Crowe have said the main idea behind revising the program is making sure residences are safe for each occupant who lives in them while providing a way for the city to enforce that safety.

Fines are built into the penalty portion of the program as are property inspections. There are also fees to apply for the inspections as well as to have them recorded at city hall.

Permit ProgramA $25 fee will be charged

for each inspection, and a $5 recording fee will be as-sessed each time a dwell-ing changes occupants.

Landlords will need to keep the city’s building de-partment informed of any change in tenants as well as scheduling an inspec-tion if one is needed.

Failure to obey the reg-ulations could result in fi-nancial penalties of up to $100 per day.

An inspector will exam-ine the interior and ex-terior of the property for structural soundness as well as safety issues.

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Jordan Bell took a break from going trunk to trunk at the First Baptist Church to sample a sucker Wednes-day night, Oct. 31. The red candy made his lips match his already pink nose, cheeks and ears. Jordan’s older brother Collin con-tinued the family Disney theme by wearing a Mickey Mouse costume.

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I want to preface this col-umn by saying anything writ-ten in this space this week cannot be held against me by anyone, especially my wife.

Let me also say in conjunc-tion with the above statement that in 31-plus years of mar-riage I never have considered wandering nor do I ever plan to do so in the future. ...

However, I write those two sentences first so I can now state this: Having a grandson around is like having a chick magnet in your possession.

My wife and I just re-turned from a weeklong visit to Texas, where our new ad-dition arrived in late Septem-ber. We got there on his one-month birthday and stayed through Halloween week. We returned on Sunday.

While in Texas, we had an awesome time fussing over our new family member. Be-ing first-time grandparents, it was a very special time for Nancy and me, and we im-mensely enjoyed and cher-ished every moment there.

Being a grandfather is bet-ter than I thought it would be — if that is possible. There truly are not many things bet-ter in life.

Ah, the fountain of youth!Being first-timers them-

selves, our daughter, Rach-elle, and son-in-law, Charles, are learning the ropes of parenthood. They are off to a great start, but also are going through the frustrations of how to handle crying spells, poopy diapers, feeding sched-ules and a big lack of sleep.

Charlie also is juggling be-ing a working man, a newspa-per editor no less, as well as being a new dad. Of course, since the news game never quiets down, he published his weekly newspaper, handled other office duties and ran ragged between home and the office getting things done.

In between all that, the five of us managed to do a little sightseeing.

My daughter was quite anxious to get out of the house for a bit during the week since she had the baby help. So, one of our field trips was to the

Riverwalk in San Antonio. The Riverwalk features plen-ty of shops, restaurants and other things to see and do.

So, it also features plenty of people.

Dynamic DuoWhile cruising the down-

town area on foot via the Riverwalk, which is actually along the San Antonio River near the Alamo, we stopped for an early dinner at one of the restaurants. It was Oct. 31, or Halloween.

Of course, grandson Kha-len — dressed in an orange outfit and Halloween jack-o’-lantern hat for the holiday — decided to cry when our food arrived. He has been blessed with a good set of lungs.

So, being the proud grand-dad I am, I said I would hold him while the others ate.

So, I took him, left the ta-ble and quieted him through walking, bouncing and talk-ing. I even got a smile or two out of him as well as the occa-

sional “coo.” I think he drooled a little, too.

And the women came out of the woodwork.

While I was strolling along the Riverwalk taking care of my new little buddy, females were attracted to us like ants to a picnic. Several, both old-er and younger than I, came over to admire the dynamic duo.

“He’s sooooooo cute!” one woman said to another as they walked up to us.

That’s when I made my big mistake.

“Awwww. Thanks,” I said, adding. “And what do you think of my grandson?”

Oops.Despite that error in judg-

ment, I quickly learned that no pickup lines would be nec-essary under these circum-stances, not that I know any in the first place. Members of the fairer sex came up to us and didn’t even wait for me to speak. In fact, I didn’t

even have to speak. And they stayed even when I did speak.

They smiled, got pretty darn close and even touched my arm a few times while spending several moments with us before moving on.

I haven’t been this popu-lar with women since I had a “date” with all of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders about 29 years ago. Yes, that really happened. Ask Nancy.

Yes, we were married then.And I thought walking a

dog was supposed to be one of the great attractions for the opposite sex.

At any rate, this admira-tion happened more than once as Khalen and I basked in the spotlight until my wife finished her meal and ruined my fun. She pretended to be concerned about me and my food, but I know what her con-cerns really were.

Party-pooper!I told Khalen to get used to

girls in his life acting like my wife just had.

Shortly thereafter, my daughter needed to feed her son, so she and Charlie went one way for a while as Nancy and I went the other. Nancy and I continued to browse shops — without little Kha-len to keep us company and at the center of attention.

And that ended up being a crying shame as soon we passed — yes, only passed — the local Hooters restaurant, complete with the infamous waitresses who on this day were dressed in, shall we say, unique Halloween costumes instead of their classic orange and white outfits.

A couple of these gals were outside the establishment try-ing to “lure” customers inside.

Just think if I would have had my little grandson with me instead of my wife!

I probably would have been the one doing some cooing. ... Take note that I said “coo,” not “drool.”

Trick or treat?As always, thanks for

reading — and especially for remembering those first two essential sentences as you continued.


Yours truly holds grandson Khalen along the San An-tonio Riverwalk on Halloween. Missourian Photo.

SCHS Top AthletesTyler Hinson, left, and LeAnndra Wishon, right,

were named St. Clair High School’s athletes of the week last week for their efforts in cross country and cheerleading, respectively. Standing between them is Randy Berliner of Household Sales & Leasing, the sponsor of the award. Submitted Photo.

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Business owners have the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit by partici-pating in the St. Clair Area Chamber of Commerce’s holi-day window painting contest.

Resurrected last year by the Chamber, the Merchants Committee again is sponsor-ing the friendly competition, which encourages businesses along Main Street and in oth-er locations to decorate their storefront windows by paint-ing them in a holiday theme.

“Can you believe it’s almost Christmas?” St. Clair Cham-ber Executive Director Angela Crawford said. “Wouldn’t it be great to have every storefront window in St. Clair painted? Let’s get into the holiday spir-it.”

The deadline to register is Friday. Registrations are being accepted through the Chamber office. Forms are online at www.stclairmo.com.

Students involved in vari-ous clubs at St. Clair High School have volunteered to help paint windows. Crawford said at least seven windows

can be decorated with the as-sistance of the students on a first-come, first-served basis. Windows also can be painted by employees. The businesses must supply paint, and win-dows must feature some kind of holiday theme.

No props, lights or other decor can be added for the window to be eligible for priz-es. The winner will receive a one-year complimentary membership to the St. Clair Chamber, free booth rental at the planned St. Clair Busi-ness Expo next year and $100 in Chamber Bucks. The run-ner-up will get one prepaid meal ticket to all 2013 Cham-ber membership lunches and $50 in Chamber Bucks.

The Chamber Bucks are provided by Farmers & Mer-chants Bank and are good at participating area businesses.

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Edgar Murray Honor RollEdgar Murray recently re-

leased the names of students named to the first quarter aca-demic achievement list. Students are listed below.

Third Grade A Honor Roll — Justice Adams, Gavin Allen, Richard Bales, Haley Brown, Case Busse, Macey Click, Bradley Counts, Joshua Durbin, Emma Dyche, Cole Gratzer, Shianna Hei-gl, Maggie Hopkins, Kaitlyn Hum-phrey, Ian Jaros, Jack Luxton;

Jordan Lyons, Adrienne Man-grum, Heidi Maxwell, Wyatt Mi-chno, Makena Myers, Katarina North, Cora Reed, Hayley Schro-eder, Lydia Shelden, Current Smith, Seth Turman, Braedin Turner, Cecilia Vanness, Connor Wall, Patrick Wildt and Jeremiah Williams.

Third Grade B Honor Roll — Madisyn Ahearn, Kaden Ash, Damien Bay, Eric Bolden, Alaina Butera, Malikai Collins, Steven Conner, Carter Cook, Ethan Crow, Aiden Davenport Cortivo, Alexan-dra Ellenberger, Makenzie Folk-erts, Marissa Frazier, Cameron Gable, Michael Givens, Destiny Gore, Roland Harrison;

Anthony Heigl, Ellyce Hof-meister, Brianna Huntington, Breanna Ifland, Hunter Ingle, Kaitlyn Janson, Sierra Jesion-owski, Allie Jobe, Brendan Juer-gens, Shelby King, Cheyanne Kostecki, Anthony Kresyman, Madison Landstra, Wyatt Lil-ly, Cameron Long, Mackenzie Lowder, Madison Lowder;

Hayden McGlenn, Brandi Mc-Inturff, Hailey Michael, Hanna Michael, Kierra Miller, Collin Moriarty, Caleb Muschany, Dylan Neal, Daisy Newbold, Saige Palm-er, Austyn Phipps, Ethan Pinson, Haley Richardson, Marilyn Row-den, Arianna Selter, Angel Selz, Christopher Sohn, Colton Taylor, Taryn Tinker, Emma Wiley, Ber-lyn Wohlgemuth and Brittney Woods.

Fourth Grade A Honor Roll — Hannah Beeson, Anna Conner, Liam Crisler, Blake Elliott, Melo-dy Flynn, Drake Geisert, Dakota Gotsch, Arin Halmich, Leila Han-ley, Jacob Hassler;

Kyley Henry, Wade Hoffman, Mackynzi Humphrey, Brooklyn Hyatt, Trenton Kiefer, Gavin McGlenn, Mya McQueen, Con-nor North, Kennedy Pruitt, Kiley Sanders, Grace Smiley, Emma Smith;

Autumn Sohn, Katlyn Sprague, Alexis Stahlman, Wyatt Strothcamp, Brianna Sullivan, Rachel Suttmueller, Mia Traut-man, Elexis Wohlgemuth and Adriana Ziegler.

Fourth Grade B Honor Roll — Zachary Adams, Emma Baker, Allison Banks, Dora Bell, Jes-sica Bess, Jonathan Bigu, Katelyn

Brown, Ty Bruce, Alexis Capestro, Mollie Carter, Jayce Clark, Ru-tie Cordia, Adian Decker, Wesley Dingley, Blaine Downey;

Blaine Elliott, Emma El-liott, Carolyn Everhart, Shelby Fiedler, Brenden Fisher, Jesse Gamble, Dylan Godefroid, Mad-elyn Griffith, Reece Hanley, Syd-ney Hannon, Lucas Hardin Abby Harting, Mark Havin, Austin Hawkins;

Cameron Haynes, Carissa Heagle, Austin Hedge, Nicole Hei-gl, Wesley Hinson, Taylor John-son, Travis Linsley, Jason Little-ton, Maxwell Love, Colton Lucas, Tristen Madigan, Julia Maiden, Grace Markle, Gabrielle Maxwell, Abbigail Mayer;

Emily McCutchen, Damien Messex, Mardariries Miles, Alivia Miller, Boston Miller, Bradley Miller, Brian Mills, KyleKaine Moore, Addyson Murphey, Ally Newton, Samuel Oermann, Devin Oyan, Justin Parks, Alexis Patter-son;

Justin Payne, Zachary Perry, Chet Phillips, Adam Pipes, Ol-ivia Pratt, Robert Prichard, Ma-kia Reed, Aaliyah Richardson, Landen Roberts, Cody Ross, Trev-or Shadrick, Taylor Sikes, Trent Simonson, Brady Simpson, Carter Smith;

Roger Sohn, Erika Souders, Marjorie Stanley, Hailey Stulce, Aiden Taylor, Cole Venable, Ethan Via, Sebastion Vitt, Natalie Walk-er, Emma Walters, Jacob Weirich, Chason Wilken, Madyson Wil-liams, Harley Young, Dane Ziegler and Ethan Zielke.

Fifth Grade A Honor Roll — Kyle Banderman, Emily Barkhurst, Ryan Barrett, Allison Bright, Ryan Crowe, Nicholas Di-erking, Emily Eggerding, Hannah Folk, Kasandra Fryer, Faith Gro-fe, Summer Hake, Calvin Henry, Alexandria Hill, Alana Hinson, Emma Hinson;

Abby Hoff, Jolee King, Han-nah Kitson, Hannah Licklider, Justin Lindgren, Alyssa McCor-mack, Alisabith Moore, Lillianne Oermann, Hayley Revelle, Owen Roussin, Alyssa Sullivan, Dayton Turner, Sophie Viehmann, Leah Wallace, Skylar Webb and Lillian Williams.

Fifth Grade B Honor Roll — Destiny Barnes, Hunter Bausch, Derrick Benton, Michael Benton, Brady Black, Chase Blankenship, Stephanie Bouvier, Austin Brady, Austin Brown, Gauge Brown, Kai-tlin Brown, Salvatore Caminiti, Michael Cash, Rantsom Dabbs, Brenden Dace, Amanda Dalton;

Nikolas DeClue, Austin Duff, Adriane Fairow, Ashton Fedder-sen, Joey Guyton, Shauna Hale, Logan Hanley, Alex Hansel, Seth Harlow, Chloe Harrison, Taylor Harrison, Chasity Hearn, Jacob Henderson, Alaxandria Hickman, Caleb Hooks, Meredith Howard;

Hunter Hutchison, Andrea Ingle, Robert Ivie, Elijah John-son, Skyler Johnson, Calvin Juer-gens, Tate Kamper, Drake Kelley, Madison Kennedy, Gunner Laur, Braeden Lederle, Wilson Long, Jill Love, Collin Mangrum, Ethan Martin, Melissa Martin, Addison McCall;

Dawson McCutchen, Madison Monshower, Nicole Moore, Kay Moriarty, Jaidyn Neaveill, An-thony Otero, Christine Parker, Makayla Parmeley, Kyrren Pe-terson, Gabriel Pruteanu, Pey-ton Purcell, Vivian Ridens, Julia Sampson, Sommer Schneider, Grace Simcox;

Dylan Sohn, Tristin Spoon, Lo-gan Stephan, Brendyn Stricker, Calen Sullivan, Dalton Thompson, Makenzie Turner, Austin Twichell, Zachary Vaughn, Kylie Weber, Emma Weigle, Kylee Wilken, Syd-ney Wilson, Elizabeth Wisdom, Jordan Woodcock and Daytona Young.

By Sue BlesiFranklin County Historian

The one-room rural schools that once dotted the country-side can be credited with im-parting the three R’s to future teachers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, politicians, writers and advanced scholars, some of whom earned a place in history beyond the borders of Franklin County.

Charles U. Becker was a product of the Cedar Fork community and of the origi-nal Maupin School, a tiny log structure once located five miles south of New Haven.

Born Oct. 21, 1868, he was the oldest child of Prussian immigrant Herman Becker and his wife, Sarah E. (Mau-pin). Charles taught in the one-room Detmold School for a couple of years.

A 1890 issue of the Repub-lican Tribune reported that his school was the only one in that section that did not close for Thanksgiving.

Young Charles was 11 years old in the 1880 Lyon Township census. His younger siblings were listed as Mary E. Becker, 9; Nancy Ellen, 8; William H., 6; John Mosias, 4; and Edward, 6 months. Three more were born later, but their names have not yet been found.

Becker has remained un-der the radar in Franklin County historical circles for years, but he was mentioned in the 1968 Franklin County Historical Review. That is where I came upon his name and learned that Secretary of State Becker had been born in Franklin County.

Despite his success, very little information on Becker could be located through area historical societies

Knowing he was secretary of state from 1921 to 1933, I checked a couple of volumes for the typical biographical summary, only to learn those accounts provided minimal in-formation on his early years. I did learn he had served as a state representative from Polk County from 1914 to 1919.

The reason Becker largely has been overlooked in Frank-lin County history is because he was elected from Polk County where he eventually settled. Perusing the Internet in search of more, I checked with the Polk County Histori-cal Society and learned that William Kollenbach had made a presentation on Becker to their organization.

A white pages search yield-ed a phone number for Kol-lenbach, and we had a nice discussion. He sent me a copy of an in-depth St. Louis Star article featuring Becker dur-ing his unsuccessful run for governor.

Becker was the grandson of Franklin County pioneer Mosias Maupin and a nephew of Col. Amos W. Maupin, both well known to area historical circles. A. W. Maupin, a Civil War veteran who was also sheriff during that unsettled era, was Becker’s childhood idol.

Becker was a multifaceted politician and spent 16 years farming at Wishart, Mo., in Polk County, reportedly writ-ing 5,000 words a day. He pro-duced articles on outdoor life, short and long fiction stories for magazines, and dime nov-els.

Much of his work was of the Wild West genre. A cou-ple of his titles were “Break-ing in a Lawyer,” which was

published in a 1930 edition of Wild West Stories and Com-plete Novel Magazine, and “A House in Disorder,” a 172-page book.

While teaching at Detmold, he went to Kansas City to visit an uncle who was an admirer of William Rockhill Nelson, a journalist who founded the Kansas City Star.

Charles Becker argued with the uncle and the out-come was a wager that any-one who could teach school could do ordinary newspaper work. That was the impetus for a new career.

He went to work doing po-lice reporting for the Kansas City Mail and was soon hired by the Kansas City Star, even-tually promoted to editor.

In 1901, he quit his job and

went to Beaumont, Texas, fol-lowing the oil boom. It’s a good thing he had bought a round-trip ticket because he headed back to Polk County three months later.

He moved into an empty log cabin on the family farm and wrote and read and wrote some more. He abandoned the farm for a yearlong stint as commercial editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but re-turned again to the farm.

Over the years he had made friends with many country editors, and their support helped him win a leg-islative seat in 1914. When he ran for governor in 1934, he was hit with a barrage of criti-cism because he had placed large amounts of state license money in banks that failed.

Becker had a modest home in Jefferson City and, as late as 1934, did not have an au-tomobile, choosing to ride the streetcar to the Capitol daily.

He married Mary B. Tolson of Kirksville on May 13, 1920. They had one daughter, Mary Jane Becker, to whom he was devoted.

His only recreation was fishing and he said he fished every “decent” stream in the state.

Checking for his parents’ graves in Franklin County proved fruitless, but I eventu-ally located them at Morris-ville Cemetery in Polk County.

I don’t know when his par-ents left Franklin County or whether any of his siblings might have stayed here. Nor do I know how they might be related to the many other Beckers in this county.

Herman died on Jan. 30, 1906, and Sarah Elizabeth died on March 1, 1917.

Charles U. Becker’s grave also is listed in this cemetery, and I believe he originally was buried at Morrisville, but his body may have been moved.

An impressive memorial stone has been erected in the Riverview Cemetery in Jeffer-son City. He died on May 21, 1934, of cirrhosis of the liver in a St. Joseph, Mo., hospital. He was 65 years old.


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This official photograph of Franklin County na-tive Charles U. Becker is printed in several Missouri official manuals from when he served as secretary of state. Submitted Photo.

Collecting CandySeveral volunteers at St. Clair Southern Baptist Church passed out candy and

information in the church parking lot on Wednesday evening, Oct. 31. Dressed as a little flapper girl from the 1920s, Bailey, 6, walked down the line of volunteers and gratefully received candy from each of them. Missourian Photo.

Missouri Secretary of State Was Franklin County Native

Sullivan Man Dies in CrashA Sullivan man who police

say was driving in the wrong direction on Interstate 44 in Phelps County was killed on Saturday morning when his vehicle struck an oncoming semitrailer.

Fifty-year-old John O’Neal was killed in the crash that occurred at 1:09 a.m. on Nov. 3 in the westbound lanes of I-44 near the 190.6 mile marker. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:25 a.m. by Phelps County Deputy Coroner Lenox James.

According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, O’Neal was driving a 1991 Buick Century eastbound in the westbound lanes of the interstate. A westbound 2001 Freightliner driven by Orville J. Hess, 65, of Salem, Ill., tried to avoid the oncoming car by swerv-ing to the right and driving off the highway. The Buick struck the trailer of the semi and overturned.

The crash also involved

a second semitrailer, a 2005 Freightliner driven by Ranjit S. Pelia, 24, of Winton, Calif. The patrol stated Pelia, also traveling westbound in the westbound lanes, attempted to avoid the accident by driv-ing off the right side of the road. The two semitrailers also overturned.

O’Neal, who was not wear-ing a safety belt, was ejected.

Pelia was transported to Phelps County Regional

Medical Center with mi-nor injuries. It is unknown whether he was wearing a safety belt. Hess, who was wearing a safety belt, was not injured.

The Buick and the 2001 Freightliner were totaled. Damage to the 2005 Freight-liner was moderate.

The patrol’s online report did not state a reason why O’Neal was traveling in the wrong direction.

Man Hurt In Accident

A St. Louis man suffered minor injuries on Monday afternoon when he was in-volved in a one-vehicle ac-cident on Highway K near New Hope Church Road.

The Missouri Highway Patrol stated that Marlin W. Sasseen, 75, was taken to Mercy Hospital Washington by St. Clair Ambulance fol-lowing the 1:33 p.m. crash.

According to the patrol, Sasseen was southbound on Highway K in a 2001 Mer-cury Grand Marquis when he traveled off the right side of the road at the New Hope Church Road intersection and struck a tree. He was wearing a safety belt.

Damage to the car was moderate.

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Housing, Voting and Power: Problems Abound Post-Sandy

NEW YORK (AP) — From trying to fig-ure out where people would live to how they would be able to vote and when all the lights will finally come on, government of-ficials are still facing multiple fronts in the efforts to recover from Superstorm Sandy. All that, and there’s another storm coming.

Where to house potentially tens of thou-sands of people left homeless by the storm is the most pressing crisis, as cold weather sets in.

“It’s not going to be a simple task. It’s going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. his-tory,” said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis manage-ment consulting firm founded by former Federal Emergency Management Agency director James Lee Witt.

FEMA said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency hous-ing assistance and has put 34,000 people in New York and New Jersey up in hotels and motels. But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehen-sive plan for finding them long-term places to live. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing there and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking.

Sandy killed more 100 people in 10 states but vented the worst of its fury on New Jersey and New York. A week after the storm slammed the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, more than 1 million homes and businesses remained without power.

Another storm — a nor’easter pack-ing heavy rain and gusts of 50 to 60 mph — was headed for the area Wednesday, threatening more flooding and power out-ages that could undo some of the repairs made in the past few days.

With the temperatures dropping into

the 30s overnight, people in dark, unheat-ed homes were urged to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers.

Because so many people have been dis-placed by the storm, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order allowing people to vote in Tuesday’s statewide and presidential elections at any polling place in the state. New Jersey had already taken similar measures.

“Just because you are displaced doesn’t mean you are disenfranchised,” Cuomo said. “Compared to what we have had to deal with in the past week, this will be a walk in the park when it comes to voting.”

As for long-term housing for the home-less, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that the govern-ment is looking into using everything from hotels and motels to FEMA trailers and prefab homes.

“Given the extent of need, no option is off the table,” she said. “All of them will have some place in this puzzle.”

Officials have yet to even establish the magnitude of the problem.

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloom-berg said Monday that officials are going door-to-door in hard-hit areas to assess the need for shelter. He said the worst-case estimate is 40,000 people, half of them in public housing.

But he said as many as 20,000 will prob-ably get their heat and power back within a few days. Ultimately, the number of peo-ple who need longer-term housing could be under 10,000, he said.

In New Jersey, state officials said they are still trying to figure out how many peo-ple will need long-term housing. At least 4,000 residents were in New Jersey shel-ters.

Missouri Plays Role in Fracking With Silica Sand

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mis-souri drillers haven’t been able to take advantage of the hydraulic fracturing revolu-tion that has driven down natural gas prices across the country, but other companies are experiencing an economic heyday by supplying an in-gredient that is playing a big role in the fracking boom.

The Show-Me State doesn’t have vast reserves of natural gas, but it does have huge quantities of nearly pure sili-ca sand, which is in wide de-mand among energy produc-ers who use the tiny granules to crack shale rock and allow oil and natural gas to escape.

The St. Louis Post-Dis-patch reported Sunday that several companies across eastern Missouri have emerged as suppliers of so-called frack sand.

Among them is Mississippi Sand LLC, formed in 2008 by a group of partners including Fred Weber Inc., a road con-struction company that later sold its interest in the sand company but still supplies raw sandstone from its quar-ry just south of Festus.

A 65-foot layer of yellowish rock inside the quarry is eas-ily identifiable from the edge of a large open pit.

Fifty-ton trucks haul a load of clumpy sandstone up a dirt road every few minutes and deposit it at a processing plant at the quarry.

“When they dump it, that’s when we start with it,” Mis-sissippi Sand plant manager Mike Cochran says.

Every truckload goes through a series of machines linked by conveyers. Clumpy sandstone is broken into smaller bits at each stop, eventually into tiny spherical grain that are washed and dried to remove almost all of the moisture.

After that, they’re run through mesh screens that sort the sand by grain size.

Every hour, an employee carries a plastic bag full of sand to a small lab in a near-by metal building to be tested to make sure the granules meet American Petroleum Institute specifications.

The hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — process in-volves injecting huge quan-tities of water and sand and chemicals into the ground under high pressure to break apart shale rock and release natural gas.

“We’ve been fracking wells forever,” said Shari Dunn-Norman, associate professor of petroleum engineering at Missouri S&T University in Rolla. “The technology really was perfected in the ‘80s or even the late 1970s.”

Recent advances have made the technology more economical for oil and gas producers, allowing it to be deployed widely. It has trig-

gered a boom that has driven down natural gas prices.

The eastern Missouri sand is nearly pure silica, or quartz, which allows it to maintain its integrity thou-sands of feet below ground.

“Mother Nature has done a lot of work on this mate-rial,” said Thomas Dolley, a mineral commodity special-ist for the U.S. Geological Survey. The sand “is not per-fectly round, but it’s as good as you’re going to get.”

The sand is in the St. Peter Sandstone, a geologic forma-tion created by a shallow in-land sea that covered parts of the country’s midsection hun-dreds of millions of years ago. The layer of rock crumbles easily and extends from Min-nesota to Arkansas.

Dolley said there are prob-ably at least 100 mines in the Midwest that produce the sand, but the actual number could be twice that.

A metric ton of the sand sells for about $40 to $50, Dolley said, but that doesn’t include transportation costs that can push the total cost for an oil or gas producer to more than $200 a ton.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said more than 65 million tons of sand, worth an estimated $2 billion, have been sold since mining of the St. Peter Sand-stone in Missouri began in the 1870s.

Good News for East Coast: Storm Weaker Than Expected

NEW YORK (AP) — Weather experts had good news for beleaguered northeast coastal residents Tuesday: A new storm that threatened to complicate Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts on Wednesday now looks like it will be weaker than expected.

As the storm moves up the Atlantic coast from Florida it now is expected to veer far-ther offshore than earlier pro-jections had indicated. Jeff Masters of the private weath-er service Weather Under-ground says that means less wind and rainfall on land.

Even so, he said winds could still gust to 50 mph in New York and New Jersey Wednesday afternoon and evening.

And Lauren Nash, a me-teorologist from the National

Weather Service, said wind gusts might blow down tree limbs weakened from Sandy and cause more power out-

ages. On Wednesday night, gusts may occasionally reach 60 mph in coastal Connecti-cut and Long Island, she said.

Clearview ConcertClearview Elementary held a fall concert Oct. 29. Fifth- and sixth-grade students took

part in a show called “Dateline: Rock and Roll” under the direction of music teacher Stephanie Holdmeyer. Students sang songs from previous decades. Missourian Photo.

St. Louis Seeking Best Ideas For the Use of Vacant Land

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis has too many vacant lots and no solid plans for what to do with them, so City Hall and Washington University are teaming up for a contest aimed at enlist-ing the public’s help in solv-ing the dilemma.

The “Sustainable Land Lab” contest will hand over four vacant lots in north St. Louis for two years to those who come up with the best ideas to put them to pro-ductive use, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Or-ganizers expect to hear from artists, designers, entrepre-neurs, urban farmers and others.

City officials hope they will generate ideas that can be used throughout the city.

“This is not just an ideas competition,” said Cath-erine Werner, sustainability director for the city. “We’re looking for practical demon-strations on the sites, and hopefully things that can be replicated down the road in other places.”

The St. Louis Land Re-utilization Authority, which takes over real estate if taxes go unpaid, has nearly 10,000 properties in its in-ventory. Most of them are

vacant land. Private owners possess thousands of other parcels.

There are some success stories. Some vacant land has become community gar-dens. Some get purchased by neighbors for use as side yards. Others are placed together for larger develop-

ments.The Land Lab seeks to

find more new ideas and find new life for the lots more quickly.

“I feel pretty strongly that we’ll see lots of cre-ative minds come out of the woodwork,” said Phil Valko, director of sustainability at Washington University.

Organizers say the focus will be on ideas that are en-vironmentally and economi-cally sustainable as well as repeatable.

The two-year lease is designed to let the win-ners see how their projects evolve and how the market responds and to give curious people the chance to check it out, Werner said.

Initial proposals for one of six empty lots are due in December and will be narrowed in three rounds of presentations and judg-ing. Up to four winners will be chosen in April. They’ll $5,000 in seed money in ad-dition to the two-year lease.

Organizers hope to run similar competitions in oth-er neighborhoods.

Teenager Gets Probation in Hate Crime Case

JACKSON, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri teenager has been sentenced to five years of probation for a hate crime assault.

The Southeast Missouri-an reports that the sentence was handed down Monday for 17-year-old Mercedes Ayers of Cape Girardeau. She pleaded guilty last month. In exchange, Cape Girardeau County pros-ecutors dropped a charge of first-degree burglary.

In her guilty plea, Ayers admitted beating a neigh-bor, Jeana Terry, in July. She said the beating was motivated in part by Terry’s sexual orientation. Terry is a lesbian.

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Sitter Gets 12 Years in Death of ToddlerST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP)

— An eastern Missouri woman who allowed the 15-month-old nephew she was babysitting to drown while she was drunk has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The St. Louis Post-Dis-patch reports that 36-year-old Erin Robyn Lottmann of St.

Charles County was sentenced Monday. She pleaded guilty to pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and endanger-ing the welfare of a child.

Lottmann was babysit-ting John Robert Howard of Warrenton at her home in August 2011 when she took the child swimming. She told authorities she had four shots

of whiskey that day. Assistant prosecutor Becky Schaffer said tests showed Lottmann’s blood-alcohol content was nearly four times the legal limit for driving.

Lottmann’s 14-year-old daughter found the boy un-conscious on the swimming pool deck. Paramedics could not revive him.

Americans Face Prospect Of Status Quo Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — A barrage of negative ads, more than $2 billion in spend-ing and endless campaign stops all come down to this: Americans likely will elect a Congress as divided as the one they’ve been ranting about for two years.

In Tuesday’s voting, Republicans are poised to hold the 435-seat House, with Democrats expected to gain a small hand-ful of seats at best from roughly 60 com-petitive races but fall well short of the net 25 needed for the majority. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is poised to wield the gavel again.

Senate Democrats are likely to maintain their narrow advantage as two Republican candidates’ clumsy comments about rape and abortion could cost the GOP Indiana and dampens its prospects of winning Mis-souri — two major roadblocks in the Repub-lican path to the majority.

Republicans hoped the math would work in their favor — Democrats are defending 23 seats, the GOP 10 — but solid Demo-cratic recruits and the close presidential race, added to the GOP candidate stumbles may ensure that Nevada Sen. Harry Reid remains majority leader.

“That’s extremely frustrating for what everyone thought was a Republican advan-tage,” Ron Bonjean, a Republican consultant and former top Capitol Hill aide, said of the developments in Indiana and Missouri.

Ideological ChasmNo matter who wins the presidency —

President Barack Obama or Republican Mitt Romney — the nation’s chief executive will be dealing with a Congress no closer to bridging the ideological chasm and showing no inclination to end the months of dysfunc-tion. Tea party numbers are certain to tick up in the Senate with Republican Ted Cruz heavily favored in Texas and Deb Fischer looking to grab the Nebraska seat.

In the House, the movement that pro-pelled the GOP to the majority in 2010 will be even more emboldened even if a few of the big-name tea partiers lose.

Sal Russo, head of the Tea Party Express, likened the group to the anti-Vietnam War movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s that he said remade the Democratic Party. He envisions the same with the GOP.

“In the sense that the anti-war move-ment brought out millions of people that had not been involved in politics and they became engaged in a material way,” Russo said in an interview as he headed to what he expects will be a victory party for Cruz in Texas.

The Democratic Party, he insists, has never been the same and neither will the GOP after the influx of tea partiers.

When the Senate votes are counted, moderate Republicans and Democrats from Massachusetts and Montana could be gone, leaving the chamber with just a handful of the lawmakers inclined to reach across the aisle. Republican Sen. Olympic Snowe of Maine decided to retire earlier this year, frustrated with the partisan gridlock in

Congress.New England’s three other GOP senators

are New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte, Maine’s Susan Collins and Massachusetts’ Scott Brown, now an underdog against Democrat Elizabeth Warren in a race for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s seat.

“The few Republicans who are in office in New England are an endangered species,” said veteran Democratic strategist Dan Payne, who is working for independent An-gus King. “Their party has shifted so far to the right.”

King is favored to win the three-way race for Snowe’s seat.

ImpedimentA Bloomberg poll in September found

that 55 percent of Americans said Congress will continue to be an impediment no mat-ter who is elected president. Just 32 percent said Congress would get the message and work together.

Democratic strategist Steve McMahon said he worries that with a divided Con-gress “we can probably expect hyper parti-sanship and gridlock everywhere. It seems like Americans can expect more of the same.”

The other certainty is neither Obama nor Romney will have much of a mandate based on the razor-thin presidential race and the likelihood that the majority party in the Senate will be nowhere near a filibuster-proof majority.

“Neither candidate will be able to claim that voters endorsed a clear and specific plan for balancing the budget because nei-ther of them offered such a plan,” said John J. Pitney, a professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College.

Republican strategist Terry Holt said a newly elected president who has the will could put their mark on policy and make some significant changes.

“But there is so much ideological divi-sion that you will have to risk your politi-cal life to get something done in the next Congress,” Holt said. “It is an all-or-nothing proposition by virtue of the divided nature of the country. You have to stick your neck out if you’re to get anything done.”

Fiscal CliffWeeks before the January inauguration,

Congress will have to decide what to do about a $607 billion so-called fiscal cliff: the combination of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and automatic, across-the-board spending reductions to domestic and defense pro-grams. Economists warn that no action will plunge the country into another recession.

“At the end of the day, you have so many ticking time bombs,” said GOP strategist John Feehery. “Having just a complete grid-lock is not an acceptable solution.”

Congress may decide in the lame-duck session to delay the major decisions to early next year, especially if Romney wins the presidency. But they can’t put off economic decisions for too long.

“The road to fiscal perdition is a cul-de-sac,” Pitney said.

Poll Problems Cropping Up in Spots Around U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sporadic problems were reported Tuesday at poll-ing places around the country, including a con-frontation in Pennsylva-nia involving Republican inspectors over access to some polls and a last-minute court fight in Ohio over election software. One Florida elections of-fice mistakenly told voters in robocalls the election was on Wednesday.

Although the majority of complaints were sim-ply long lines, the Elec-tion Protection coalition of civil rights and voting ac-cess groups said they had gotten some more serious calls among more than 35,000 received on a toll-free voter protection hot-line.

“’It’s already started and it’s busy,” said Bar-bara Arnwine, president of the Lawyers Commit-tee for Civil Rights Under Law.

In Philadelphia, the Republican Party said 75 legally credentialed vot-ing inspectors were re-moved from polling places in the heavily Democratic city, prompting the GOP to seek a court order pro-viding them access. Lo-cal prosecutors were also looking into the reports. Democratic Party officials did not immediately re-turn a message seeking comment.

The battleground state of Ohio was the scene of yet another court battle, this one involving a law-suit claiming voting soft-ware installed by the state could allow manipulation of ballots by non-election board officials. The law-suit wants a judge to or-

der Ohio not to use the software — something state elections officials said would “unnecessarily thwart the smooth opera-tion of the election.”

The Florida robocall glitch occurred in Pinellas County, location of St. Pe-tersburg and Tampa Bay. Officials said the calls in-tended for Monday were wrongly recycled Tuesday, telling possibly thousands of voters they had until “7 p.m. tomorrow” to vote, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Nancy Whitlock, spokes-woman for the county’s supervisor of elections, said officials immediately stopped the calls Tuesday morning when the prob-lem was discovered and a second message went out telling voters to disregard the previous call.

Elsewhere, the Election Protection coalition re-ported problems with bal-lot scanners in the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Dayton and Toledo; late-opening polling places in minority neighborhoods in Galves-ton, Texas; and some pre-cincts in the Tampa, Fla., area where voters are be-ing redirected to another polling place where they must cast a provisional ballot.

Meanwhile, voters in several storm-ravaged ar-eas in New York and New Jersey expressed relief and even elation at being able to vote at all, consid-ering the devastation from Superstorm Sandy. Lines were long in Point Pleas-ant, N.J., where residents from the Jersey Shore communities of Point Pleasant Beach and Man-toloking had to cast their

ballots due to damage in their hometowns. Many people still have no pow-er eight days after Sandy pummeled the shore.

“Nothing is more impor-tant than voting. What is the connection between voting and this?” said Alex Shamis, a resident of hard-hit Staten Island, gesturing to his mud-filled home.

Any voting problems are being closely moni-tored after months of legal and political battles over more voter ID restrictions and other laws, mostly fruitless hunts for suppos-edly ineligible people on voting rolls in many states and sustained claims that black and Hispanic vot-ers are being targeted for intimidation and suppres-sion.

Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, said even in states where the re-strictive laws have been blocked or delayed, many people still think they are in effect.

“The laws were struck down but the confusion re-mains,” Waldman said.

Many of these issues could resurface in the courts after Tuesday, par-ticularly if the race be-tween President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, is too close to call or heads for a recount in states such as Ohio or Florida.

The Justice Depart-ment was to have at least 780 observers at key poll-ing places in 23 states to ensure compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act and look into any allega-tions of voter fraud.


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