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Promise
County
kept Romine
proposal
resident Pay less at the
returns pump, pay more
to wrestling at license office
for daughter By Peggy Bess
For the Leader
By Tony Krausz
For the Leader The Missouri Legislature is contem-
plating legislation that would cost owners
Shayla Johnson, 8, of Arnold entered of higher-fuel-economy vehicles more –
the gym first. in some cases much more – to annually
Then the young girl, who dresses renew their license
like a broken China doll and goes by the plates.
stage name Abigail, led her father around SB 201 is spon-
the wrestling ring for a Feb. 9 sold-out sored by State Sen.
wrestling show at the South Broadway Gary Romine, R-
Athletic Club in St. Louis. Farmington, whose
Shayla is the reason her father, Brian 3rd District takes in
Johnson, 43, of Arnold, better known Ron Rigdon photo the southern half of
Jefferson County.
See WRESTLER, Page 26 Khayman (Brian Johnson) climbs into the ring to do battle with his Romine said
opponent, Shaft, at the South Broadway Athletic Club on Feb. 9.
the legislation is Gary Romine
aimed at ensuring
Lawsuit promised
Moutray to resign as Pevely
that motorists more equally share the cost
of maintaining the state’s road system.
over Civic Center “This would create parity among

Police chief at end of March expansion project

By Kevin Carbery
For the Leader
Pevely Police Chief Charles “Tony”
Moutray, who’s been on administrative
leave since early January, is resigning
from the job effective March 31, Mayor
Stephanie Haas announced after Monday’s
Board of Aldermen meeting.
Haas said Moutray’s attorney, Al-
lison Sweeney, worked out a separation
agreement for her client with city attor-
ney Sean Westhoff earlier that day, and
then Westhoff informed board members
about the agreement during a closed
drivers,” Romine said.
He noted that the state’s gasoline tax
bites hardest on drivers who get fewer
meeting held before By Steve Taylor miles per gallon because they buy more
the regular meeting. For the Leader gasoline. Those whose vehicles are more
The board did fuel-efficient pay less in tax dollars and
not vote to accept The expansion of the High Ridge drivers whose vehicles use no gasoline –
Moutray’s resigna- Civic Center property looks like a go – or all-electric vehicles, for example – pay
tion, but Haas said does it? no gasoline tax.
she expects an of- Jefferson County Council members “We should all be paying our fair
ficial vote on the voted 6-0 with an abstention in January share,” Romine said.
matter at a future to buy a 1.05-acre piece of land at 2800
meeting. Horrell Lane, which would be added to the The proposal
Ward 1 Alder- Tony Moutray Civic Center “L”-shaped lot to make it a
man Steve Markus rectangle of about 4 acres total. Romine’s bill, which has made it
said Moutray had been on paid leave, but Then, the council voted 4-1 with two out of committee and is now eligible for
See PEVELY, Page 24 See CIVIC CENTER, Page 25 See ROMINE, Page 24

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2 Jefferson County Leader News Thursday, March 7, 2019

Man charged in tavern stabbing death

By Kevin Carbery
For the Leader
Keith Dozier, 34, of Festus died
early March 1, about an hour after he was
stabbed with a knife at the Crystal Tavern
in Crystal City.
Dwayne Bisch, 38, of De Soto has
been charged with two felonies for alleg-
edly stabbing Dozier at about 11:20 p.m.
Feb. 28 at the bar, 118 Mississippi Ave.
Bisch allegedly started a fight with
Dozier and then stabbed him, according to
the probable-cause statement in the case.
“Mr. Bisch had instigated the fight
with the victim and another subject,” the
report said. “Two witnesses said they saw
Bisch stab the victim.”
Authorities said they don’t know
what the fight was
about.
taken by Joachim-Plattin Ambulance to
Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City,
Inside
Trivia ........................................ 9
However, nu- where he was pronounced dead at 12:28 School................................... 10
merous witnesses a.m. March 1. Business........................... 12-13
told investigators The Jefferson County Prosecuting Editorial ............................ 14-15
that Bisch start- Attorney’s Office has charged Bisch with
For children .......................... 18
ed a fight with second-degree murder, a class A felony
Dozier, and then punishable by 10 to 30 years or life in Obituaries......................... 19-22
a 35-year-old Pe- prison, as well armed criminal action, Calendar ................................ 23
vely man who was an unclassified felony punishable by a Sports................................ 27-31
Dwayne Bisch
with Dozier tried minimum of three years in prison. Outdoors ............................... 31
to intervene, Crys- Bisch was being held Monday at Classified ......................... 32-39
tal City Police Chief Chad Helms said. the Jefferson County Jail on a $500,000 Homes ............................. 32-34
“(The Pevely man) got between the cash-only bond. Notices.............................. 36-37
suspect and the victim and got punched in Helms said the Pevely man was not
transported for treatment of his injuries.
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the head and had minor injuries,” Helms
said. “The victim and suspect then began However, Crystal City Police will seek www.myleaderpaper.com
to fight.” a misdemeanor assault charge against
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Vandals strike Fenton
Church of Nazarene
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Of-
fice is investigating vandalism at the
Fenton Church of the Nazarene, 365
Saline Road.
The church was vandalized some-
time Feb. 13-14, the Sheriff’s Office
reported.
The vandals apparently got into
the church through an unlocked front
door and “tore apart” the church offices,
tipping over file cabinets and throwing
papers around the floor.
Nothing appeared to be stolen. How-
ever, intruders caused an estimated $400
worth of damage to two interior doors
and frames and a drawer on a desk in an
office, the report said.
As of Feb. 26, no arrests had been
made, Sgt. Matthew Moore said. Any-
one with information is asked to call
the Sheriff’s Office Detective Bureau at
636-797-5515.
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Arnold man sought in assault of his wife
Arnold Police are searching for a
48-year-old Arnold man for allegedly
assaulting his wife. The assault happened
between midnight and 10 a.m. Feb. 2 at
the Quality Inn and Suites, 3610 West
Outer Road, authorities reported.
Police were called to St. Alexius
Hospital in St. Louis on Feb. 3 because
a 43-year-old woman who was being
treated there said her husband assaulted
her at the hotel the night before. The
woman told police her husband accused
her of cheating on him and then assaulted
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
Two seriously hurt in crash on I-55 during police pursuit
By Kevin Carbery
and Kim Robertson
For the Leader
A 21-year-old Festus man and a
37-year-old Imperial man were seriously
hurt the morning of March 1 after they
crashed a stolen pickup on I-55 south of
Festus during a police pursuit, authorities
reported.
The 21-year-old was driving the
pickup, and the 37-year-old was a pas-
senger in the truck, the Missouri State
Highway Patrol reported.
The pickup, a 1995 Ford F-150, re-
portedly was stolen about 6:30 a.m. from
Summit Insulation, a business at 10707
Business 21 in Hillsboro, said Steve
Meinberg, police administrator for the
Hillsboro Police Department.
Reward offered for information about burglary
Festus-area business
robbed of thousands
of dollars in equipment
By Kevin Carbery
For the Leader
John Schnurr, who owns Exterior
Creations, 2858 Hwy. 67, south of Festus
is offering a $500 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
those responsible for breaking into his
business and stealing thousands of dollars
in property.
The burglary at the business – which
specializes in excavation, demolition,
retaining wall construction and snow
removal – occurred between 4 p.m. Feb.
22 and 11:30 a.m. Feb. 26, Jefferson
County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Grant
Bissell said.
Schnurr said he is taking the burglary
personally and wants to do all he can to
help authorities find the culprits.
“I want to set an example,” he said.
“It’s worth it to spend $500.”
Schnurr said it looked like the burglar
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“It was a work truck,” Meinberg said.
He said the pickup was reported
stolen after an employee from the com-
pany was headed to work and spotted
the pickup traveling the opposite way
on Business 21 and didn’t recognize the
driver.
Meinberg said it is not known how
those who stole the pickup got inside it.
At about 11 a.m., a Sheriff’s Office
deputy spotted the stolen vehicle and
began pursuing it, Bissell said.
“Our deputy was westbound on Hwy.
A when he saw the vehicle eastbound
on A,” Bissell said. “He changed direc-
tion and pursued it, ended up beside the
vehicle. The deputy continued pursuing
to (I-55) southbound. (The driver) made
some kind of sharp turn onto northbound
61-67.”
cut a lock to gain access to his lot, which
he leases from Wilson Homes, a business
that operates on the same property.
“The property is divided into two
lots,” he said. “In between (the two busi-
nesses) there is a cell tower easement. The
cell tower lock was cut and they came in
there. They broke into my shop through
a side door. They busted the whole door
jamb.”
He said the burglars used some kind
of tool, possibly a screwdriver, to start
a 1994 Ford F-450 truck parked on the
property and backed it up to a “roll-up
door” at his shop. Then, they presum-
ably loaded the truck with items from
Schnurr’s business, including two dirt
bikes, a Polaris ATV and numerous tools
and drove away.
A business associate owns the truck
that was stolen, Schnurr said.
He estimated the value of the sto-
len items and damage to the business
at $15,000 to $18,000, excluding the
pickup, which was later recovered in St.
Francois County.
“They found it yesterday (Feb. 27) in
Bonne Terre,” Schnurr said. “(Insurance)
will probably total it.”
He estimated the truck’s worth at
$7,000 to $10,000.
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The deputy could not make the
turn at that point and the Missouri State
Highway Patrol continued the pursuit,
said Cpl. Juston Wheetley of the high-
way patrol.
The pickup ended up back on south-
bound I-55, and at 11:13 a.m. near mile
marker 172.4 south of Festus, it ran off
the right side of the interstate and struck
a tree, the patrol report said.
Both men were transported by
Joachim-Plattin Ambulance, with the
21-year-old taken to Mercy Hospital
South in south St. Louis County, and the
37-year-old to Mercy Hospital St. Louis
in Creve Coeur, the report said.
A Mercy South spokesman said the
21-year-old was transferred to Mercy St.
Louis, and a Mercy St. Louis spokes-
woman said the 21-year-old was in
The pickup was severely damaged,
and none of Schnurr’s stolen items were
found with it, he said.
Bissell said Feb. 27 that the Sheriff’s
Office was investigating the incident but
had not identified any suspects or made
any arrests. Anyone with information
about the burglary is urged to call the
Sheriff’s Office at 636-797-5515. For
information about the reward, call the
business at 314-226-4118.
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“good condition” Monday.
However, the spokeswoman said the
hospital had no information about the
37-year-old.
Wheetley said Monday that both men
were still hospitalized and will be arrested
when released from hospital care.
Both men were wearing seat belts,
the patrol reported.
The pickup was totaled, the report
said.
Both southbound lanes on I-55 near
mile marker 172 were closed after the
crash.
“About 12:30 p.m., they opened
one lane of southbound 55,” Wheetley
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4 Jefferson County Leader News Thursday, March 7, 2019

St. Rose auction raises more than $100,000

By Mary McKinstry
For the Leader

St. Rose of Lima Catholic School

in De Soto raised more than $100,000 at
its 24th annual fundraising auction, held
Saturday night at the Knights of Colum-
bus Hall in De Soto, said the Rev. Alex
Anderson, the church’s pastor.
“It might be as much as $110,000,”
Anderson said Monday. “We’ll know for
sure in a couple of days.”
One hundred percent of the proceeds
will go to the school, the majority for
tuition assistance for students, he said.
The snow held off long enough Sat-
urday for the event to go off without a
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were lucky.”
The event drew 380 people and was
sold out three weeks before the event,
Anderson said.
The theme of the fundraiser was “A Restricted H 10 ac. Tracts
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Health Dept hires staffer for Wellness Van Pawn King customer
allegedly steals ring
By Katelyn Mary Skaggs “I like to be hands-on,” Arnold Police are trying to find
For the Leader she said. “That’s another a 47-year-old Fenton woman who
reason the van seemed to allegedly stole a ring worth almost
The Jefferson County be a good fit.” $2,000 from Pawn King, 520 Jeffco
Health Department Wellness She said the van’s Blvd. Authorities reported the woman,
Van is out and about more space is smaller than an described as a regular customer, was
these days, thanks to the recent office and a bit different to trying on rings at about 1 p.m. Feb.
hire of Mary Tongay. work in, but she likes being 23, and while a store employee was
Tongay started as the able to work with patients distracted, allegedly put the $1,995
van’s full-time family nurse one-on-one. ring in her purse and left the store.
practitioner on Dec. 17. The Before joining the As of Feb. 25, the ring had not been
van is now able to be out in the Health Department, Ton- recovered, and Arnold Police had not
community five days a week gay worked as a nurse been able to make contact with the
instead of two days. at a dialysis center. She woman, Lt. Clinton Wooldridge said.
“I think it is going to be said she wasn’t actively -- Tony Krausz
a very productive, busy, busy searching for a different
year,” Wellness Van Program job when she received an Credit cards stolen
coordinator Debby Moore
said.
email about the position.
“I was kind of looking,
from car at day care
Health Department Direc- but I wasn’t looking hard,” Arnold Police are investigating a
theft of credit cards from a car parked
tor Kelley Vollmar said keep- Katelyn Mary Skaggs photo she said. “I was excited
at the Goddard School, 3228 Miller
ing the van busy is the aim. Melissa Rule, 35, receives a checkup in the Jefferson County Health when I got the call for the
“When we got the Well- Department’s Wellness Van from Mary Tongay. Rule is a resident of interview and even more Road, in the Arnold area. The victim,
ness Van our goal was to Sunnyhill, where the van makes frequent stops. excited when they offered a 36-year-old St. Louis woman, told
always have it out five days a me the job.” police the cards were stolen between
week and be able to provide services out Tongay started working part-time Tongay earned her 5:49 p.m. and 5:55 p.m. Feb. 22 while
in the community, where people need with the Health Department in November nursing degree from Mineral Area Col- she was picking up her child.
them,” she said. before transitioning to full-time work. lege in 2006 and became a nurse practi- The stolen cards allegedly were
Since hitting the road in May 2018, She said she already feels at home. tioner in 2016. used to purchase $1,041.15 in mer-
the van has made more than 50 commu- “Public health has kind of always “My whole life all I wanted to be was chandise at two stores in Arnold, ac-
nity visits and has seen more than 600 been something I have wanted to do,” a nurse,” she said. cording to the report. As of Feb. 25,
patients around the county, Moore said. she said. “I just really wanted to feel like She earned her Certified Nursing the stolen cards had not been recov-
Last year, the Health Department re- I was making a difference and giving back Assistant certificate while she was still ered and there were no suspects, Lt.
ceived a grant from the Missouri Founda- to the community.” in high school. She lives in Park Hills Clinton Wooldridge said. Anyone with
tion for Health that is covering Tongay’s Tongay said the van is a bit different and enjoys spending time outdoors and information should call Arnold Police
$48-an-hour compensation. from working in an office with a full staff. with her family when she’s not working. at 636-296-3204. -- Tony Krausz
6 Jefferson County Leader
Festus OK’s tax abatements for Hampton Inn
By Kevin Carbery
For the Leader
It looks like a Hampton Inn hotel
will be built on Shapiro Drive south of
Hwy. A on Larry Goodwin’s planned-
unit development in Festus now that
the City Council has agreed to offer the
developer tax abatements to help finance
the multimillion-dollar project.
The Festus City Council voted 7-0
Feb. 27 to issue $10 million in Chapter
100 industrial revenue bonds, which
would provide the tax abatements and
reduce the developer’s overall cost to
build the hotel.
The deal calls for the property’s real
estate taxes to remain the same for 10
years, despite an increase in the prop-
erty’s value because of the addition of
the hotel.
Festus Hospitality LLC Property is
the hotel developer, according to the or-
dinance approving the use of the Chapter
100 bonds.
The Festus Hospitality LLC Property
organizers are Dharmesh Sharma and
Vadilal Bhagat, both of St. Louis, with
Eureka Expo sold out for
vendors; seniors welcome
The first Eureka Senior Expo is
sold out for vendors, and organizers at
Leader Publications hope seniors in the
community will respond with the same
enthusiasm.
Seniors ages 50 and older are en-
couraged to attend the event, which will
be held from 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday,
March 27, in the atrium at Victorian
Gardens, 15 Hilltop Village Center Dr.
Admission and parking are free.
“We are very pleased by the re-
sponse from local businesses and orga-
nizations that are interested in working
with seniors,” Publisher Pam LaPlant
said. “We have room for 36 vendors at
the event, and as of last week, we were
sold out.”
Vendors will bring information
about services and products they offer.
Vendors also will have giveaways, at-
tendance prizes and games for visitors.
Seniors who attend the expo may
choose from a variety of speakers and
activities during the event.
The day starts with free coffee and
“pancake puppies,” a doughnut-like
treat provided by the Eureka Denny’s
restaurant. Starting at 10 a.m., Victorian
Gardens will offer a $5 lunch for those
who are interested.
Seniors may choose to attend free
informational sessions, including Bet-
ter Business Bureau warnings about
scams targeting seniors, hints to beat the
winter doldrums, tips for downsizing
your home and advice from the Mis-
souri Secretary of State to keep your
investments safe. Seniors also will get
a chance to try out a mini Silver Sneak-
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Bhagat also listed as the company’s reg-
istered agent, according to the Missouri
Secretary of State website.
The developers could not be reached
for comment.
Festus Mayor Mike Cage, on the
other hand, was happy to talk about the
project.
“I’m excited about it,” he said.
“Within, probably, 90 days you’ll see
building materials on site and, then,
building will start. This is a 100-percent
certainty.”
Goodwin’s planned-unit develop-
ment includes 50 acres overlooking I-55.
The PUD’s first tenant was a KFC restau-
rant that opened in December 2018. An
existing nearby business, R.P. Lumber,
was the second company to announce
it was entering the PUD when its own-
ers decided to extend their property into
Goodwin’s development.
Hampton Inn, which would be the
third business in the PUD, is slated to be
built at 199 Shapiro Drive, south of the
KFC, and will be a substantial construc-
tion project, Festus City Administrator
Greg Camp said.
ers class to see if they would like to join
the program, which is offered at The
Timbers in Eureka.
A student dance troupe from St.
Mark’s Lutheran School in Eureka
is scheduled to perform. The official
Leader Senior Expo band, J.B. Louis
and the Legends, will bring their high-
energy musical show featuring country
music classics and a few old-time rock
’n roll tunes. Seniors are encouraged to
dance and sing along.
Seniors may play free bingo, take
the putt-putt golf challenge, and sign up
for a chance to win prizes, including a
grand-prize trip to Branson. You must
be present to win the grand prize, which
includes a two-night stay at a Branson
hotel, two tickets to Silver Dollar City,
two tickets to the Showboat Branson
Belle, two tickets to see “Sampson”
at the Sight and Sound Theater and a
basket of Branson goodies.
“The Eureka Senior Expo promises
to be a fun, lively event,” LaPlant said.
“We look forward to meeting lots of
new people and seeing many of the
friends who join us for all our Senior
Expos.”
Vendor spaces are available for the
Leader’s next Senior Expo, which will
be held April 24 in De Soto.
For information about being part
of that event, please call the Leader at
636-931-7560 or email pamlaplant@
leaderpublications.biz.
The Leader also will hold senior
expos in Festus on June 19, on the West
Side on July 31 and in Arnold on Oct. 9.
--Peggy Scott
“The estimated construction cost is
$4 million,” Camp said. “They’re looking
at a four-story, 94-room hotel with a total
of 65,000 square feet.”
Camp said this is the first time Festus
has agreed to use Chapter 100 industrial
revenue bonds.
“Chapter 100 allows for the city to
assume ownership on paper of the subject
property. Once that happens, the property
becomes tax exempt,” he said. “The city
will more or less lease the property to the
Hampton Inn owners.
“The total amount of savings to the
developers, just for the real estate taxes,
is $1.2 million (over the 10 years). They
will be paying the amount for the current
assessment, before improvements.”
By offering the abatements to the de-
veloper, cities, school districts and other
taxing entities, which receive revenue
from real estate taxes, would not see an
increase in funding that normally would
result when improvements are made to
properties in their areas.
According to the Chapter 100 agree-
ment for the Hampton Inn development,
the city of Festus would “forego” $145,011
in additional tax revenue the improve-
ments would generate over the next 10
years if no abatements were in place.
The Festus R-6 School District would
forego the largest amount, $818,921 in
additional tax revenue.
Following is a list of other entities
that would forego additional tax revenue:
Jefferson County Revenue, $1,684; Jef-
ferson County Parks, $5,969; Jefferson
County Health Unit, $23,593; Jefferson
County Disability, $20,007; Jefferson
College, $72,505; Jefferson County
Mental Health, $20,007; Festus Special
Road, $39,358; JPAD, $31,005; state of
Missouri, $6,560; surtax, $52,477.
He said that city officials believe that
while the city and other taxing entities
won’t see an increase in real estate tax
revenue from that particular property over
the next 10 years, the abatements will pay
off in the long run.
“Hotels bring other types of busi-
nesses we want to encourage, like res-
taurants,” he said.
Festus R-6 Superintendent Link
Luttrell said school district officials un-
derstand why the abatements are being
offered and support the plan.
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“The city informed us about this deal
before it happened,” he said. “We knew
they had to make concessions to secure
an anchor for the development. We were
OK with it.”
Joachim-Plattin Ambulance District
Administrator Curtis Stueve said he, too,
believes the deal may be a boost to the area.
“I think it could be a good thing,”
Stueve said. “It will be adding a business
to the city and the hope is it will attract
other businesses that will generate more
tax revenues.”
However, due to a state statute, fire
and ambulance districts may opt out of
up to 100 percent of applicable real estate
tax abatements as part of such deals, and
JPAD chose to opt out at 50 percent.
When the abatements end in 10
years, the property will be assessed at its
full rate, Camp said
“After 10 years, the deal expires and
the lease arrangement ends and they will
pay the full assessment,” he said.
Camp said the deal does not cover all
types of taxes for the developers.
“The personal property taxes will
still apply for items such as furnishings
for the hotel,” he said.
Camp said the Hampton Inn devel-
opers also would be exempt from paying
sales taxes on construction materials pur-
chased in Missouri, and projections show
those savings could be about $330,000.
“It depends at the end of the day
on construction costs,” he said. “If they
purchase materials for construction of the
hotel anywhere in the state of Missouri,
they are exempt from the sales tax. If they
go outside of Missouri, it does not apply.
So, they get some upfront savings on their
construction costs.”
While it is the first time for the city
of Festus to issue Chapter 100 bonds to
assist a developer, other entities in the
county have used them.
In 2015, for example, the city of
Arnold issued Chapter 100 bonds to
help Anheuser-Busch InBev finance the
expansion of its can plant there.
Another use occurred in 2005, when
the Jefferson County Commission ap-
proved incentives for the River Cement
Co. to build a new, modernized plant
south of Festus.
Festus Ward 4 Councilman Jim Tin-
nin did not attend the Feb. 27 meeting.
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O’Connor, Flamion families featured at banquet

By Tony Krausz De Soto Police Department, was a Ball- year, will benefit BackStoppers of St.
win Police officer when he was shot. His Louis, she said.
For the Leader
family moved into a smart home built by “I believe we are helping 64 families
the Gary Sinise Foundation in November (in the St. Louis area) through BackStop-
BackStoppers of Jefferson County
2017. pers,” Litton said. “They take care of
will hold its Biennial Membership Drive
The foundation reportedly is build- families. They make sure the children
Banquet from 6-10 p.m. Saturday, March
ing a smart home in Fenton for the are taken care of, that the mortgage and
9, at the Festus-Crystal City Elks Lodge
O’Connors. car is paid for, and they pay for college
No. 1721, 4 Elks Drive, in Crystal City.
The banquet also will feature live for children.
Tickets for the event cost $40 per
music, and those who sign up or renew “BackStoppers is totally dependent
person, $75 for a couple or $280 for a
Mike Flamion Ryan O’Connor their BackStoppers memberships will on donations and memberships. Member-
table for eight.
have their form entered in a drawing for ships can be individual, family, business
As of March 4, 500 tickets had been
“She tells a remarkable story about a flat-screen television that was donated or corporation. There are all kinds of
sold and fewer than 50 tickets were still
that day,” Litton said. “She really gives by the De Soto Walmart, Litton said. levels of memberships, and memberships
available, said Donna Litton, treasurer for
a play-by-play of the day. I really want She also said Walmart manager Scott can be paid in full, through payroll deduc-
BackStoppers of Jefferson County.
to get her story out there.” Sherrill helped secure a grant from the tion or other installments.”
The event will include a cocktail hour
Flamion and his wife, Sarah, are company to help cover the cost of the Tickets for the banquet may be pur-
from 6-7 p.m. followed by a dinner. An
scheduled to speak at the banquet. banquet. chased at the door or reserved by calling
open bar will be included.
Flamion, who spent the first seven Proceeds from the evening, along Litton at 636-208-8176 or Doug Reuther
In addition, the banquet will feature
years of his nine-year career with the with other money raised throughout the Sr. at Reuther Ford at 636-464-9000.
messages from the families of two of-
ficers with local ties who were seriously
wounded in the line of duty and helped
by Backstoppers – Ryan O’Connor, a Imperial man allegedly found in Arnold with meth, paraphernalia
retired Arnold Police officer who was
shot in the head in December 2017 by A 34-year-old Imperial man was The man already was wanted on for the Sheriff’s Office, according to
a burglary suspect, and former De Soto arrested after he allegedly ran a red an active arrest warrant through the the report.
Police Officer Mike Flamion, who was light on Jeffco Boulevard in Arnold Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the Depending on results from the
shot in July 2016 during a traffic stop in and was found with methamphet- report said. drug analysis, Arnold Police will seek
Ballwin, where he worked at the time, amine and drug paraphernalia. The After arresting the man, the officer charges against the man through the
and was paralyzed from the neck down. man was arrested about 8:30 a.m. Feb. searched the pickup and allegedly found Jefferson County Prosecuting Attor-
O’Connor’s wife, Barbara, will be 21, Arnold Police reported. a jacket and inside it a substance that ney’s Office for possession of meth
featured in a video interview recount- Police pulled over a 1991 Chevro- appeared to be meth, as well as drug and drug paraphernalia, driving with a
ing when her husband was shot. The let S-10 at Advance Auto Parts, 3800 paraphernalia. revoked license and failure to stop for a
interview was scheduled to be recorded Jeffco Blvd., after the pickup alleg- The man was taken to the Police red light, Lt. Clinton Wooldridge said.
Wednesday at Jefferson College, Litton edly went through a red light. Station, where he was booked and held -- Tony Krausz
said.

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8 Jefferson County Leader People in the News Thursday, March 7, 2019

County Council installs Groeteke as chair for 2019

By Steve Taylor
For the Leader
Charles Groeteke is the new chair-
man of the Jefferson County Council.
He replaces Don Bickowski (Dis-
trict 1, Eureka), who left the council at
the end of December after losing the
August 2018 primary to Brian Haskins
(District 1, High Ridge), who ran
unopposed in the November general
election.
Groeteke (District 4, Barnhart), an
original member of the council when it
was seated in January 2011 after voters
approved the charter form of government
in 2008, was the council’s first vice-
chairman and has served in that role for
the last two years.
The council voted 6-0 Jan. 14 to
name Groeteke chairman for the com-
ing year.
Renee Reu- The council named the council chair.
ter, who was the has always chosen “I’m pleased that the council put
c o u n c i l ’s c h a i r the chair and vice enough faith in me to choose me to lead
for five of its first chair in separate them, especially with a new county ex-
eight years, was votes. ecutive in place,” Groeteke said.
chosen as the vice Groeteke said Reuter said serving as the vice chair
chair. his main goal as would be a new challenge.
That vote was the new chair is to In two of her five years as chair,
4-2, with Haskins heal the wounds Groeteke was the vice chair (in 2011
and Tracey Perry from the last cou- and 2017).
(District 5, Festus), Charles Groeteke Renee Reuter ple of years be- “It will be a little different, that’s for
who were attend- tween some coun- sure,” she said. “But I’m happy to serve
ing their first council meeting after being cil members and former County Execu- the council in any capacity. Charlie will
elected in November, casting the dissent- tive Ken Waller, who is now county clerk. do a great job as chair.”
ing votes. “I want to work with the (newly Reuter said the vice chair works
Earlier in the meeting, the council elected) county executive (Dennis Gan- primarily behind the scenes.
voted 2-4 against choosing Perry for the non) to move the county forward,” he “The vice chair largely serves as a
vice chair job, with the voting following said. sounding board to the chair and helps in
identical lines. Gannon said he plans to meet with anything they need,” she said. “The vice
Haskins had suggested electing Groeteke regularly to discuss county chair does a lot of research for the chair,
Groeteke and Perry as a slate, but his issues. and I want to help him with anything he
motion never came to a vote. Groeteke said he was honored to be needs.”

Dittmer man splits $151,000 Lottery jackpot

William Burrous of Dittmer plays
the Missouri Lottery’s Show Me Cash
game each day.
On Feb. 18, his persistence paid
off when he and another player in
the St. Louis area each bought tickets
that matched all five numbers from
that day’s Show Me Cash drawing,
providing each player with half of the
$151,000 jackpot.
Burrous said in the time he’s played
Lane Esch collected more than $1,100 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Show Me Cash, he has often found himself
matching four of the five numbers.
While checking the numbers the
morning after he bought the winning
ticket, he realized he had matched all five.
The winning numbers for the Feb.
18 Show Me Cash drawing were 8, 14,
20, 26 and 32.
Burrous’ winning Quick Pick ticket
was purchased at Express Mart, 900
Peach Tree Plaza, in Hillsboro.

Herculaneum boy collects for St. Jude

Lane Esch, 11, of Herculaneum re-
cently raised $1,111 for St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. In
addition to donating the $100 he received
and his grandfather also collected dona-
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Who played which TV role is a common topic
M
y parents do not own a com-
puter, but they have me, so I
get calls when they want to
know what television show a particular
actor was on or who played which part.
This comes up more than you’d
think since they regularly watch old
series on channels like MeTV.
I usually have to look it up, but not
surprisingly given my interest in trivia,
I sometimes know the answer off the
top of my head.
Dad loves old Westerns, so his
queries often involve series like “Gun-
smoke” or “Bonanza.”
Mom’s questions could be about
anything from “Leave It To Beaver” to
a “Perry Mason” episode.
I also enjoy watching old TV
shows. It’s a treat for me to see some-
thing like “Have Gun, Will Travel,” an
acclaimed program I heard about for
years, but I’d never seen until recently,
Trivia nights
TWIN CITY AREA OPTIMISTS: 7 p.m.
Friday, March 8, at the Festus KC, 316 N.
Adams St. Doors open 6 p.m. Cost: $160
tables of eight; includes soda, beer, pop-
corn. Must be 21. No outside alcohol, no
smoking. Prizes to top three tables, atten-
dance prizes, raffle baskets. To sign up:
Sue Boyer, 636-937-0540.
SECKMAN ELEMENTARY PAR-
ENTS: 7 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at An-
dre’s Banquet Center, 4238 Telegraph
Road, south St. Louis County. Doors open
6:30 p.m. Admission: $25; tables of 10. To
sign up: Sherry Harrington, 636-296-2030
or email harringtons@foxc6.org.
HILLSBORO LIONS: 7 p.m. Saturday,
March 9, at Hillsboro Community Civic
Center, 10349 Business 21. Doors open
6 p.m. Cost: $100 in advance for table
of eight; $120 at the door. Fiesta theme.
Bring your own snacks. Cash bar. Benefits
scholarships for Hillsboro and Grandview
seniors. Reservations: 636-789-2029.
FOX MIDDLE BRAVES BAND BOOST-
ERS: 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, at Royale
Orleans, 2801 Telegraph Road, south St.
Louis County. Doors open 6 p.m. Admission:
$25; tables of 10 for $250. Must be 21. To
sign up: fmsbandtrivia@gmail.com.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATH-
OLIC CHURCH: 7 p.m. Saturday, March
23, at the church, 2300 Church Road,
Arnold. Doors open 6 p.m. Admission:
$12.50 in advance, $15 at door. Reserva-
tions: Cheryl, 636-461-0330.
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when I was channel surfing.
This week’s trivia quiz is on who
played whom on TV series. While I
give both first and last names, give
yourself a correct answer if you give
only the first name.
For five more questions on the
topic, see myleaderpaper.com.
1. Isabel Sanford played which charac-
ter on “The Jeffersons”?
2. What was the name of the character
played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus on “Sein-
feld”?
3. Patrick MacNee starred as John
Steed on which British import that aired in
the U.S. on ABC?
4. Lisa Loring played which member of
the clan on “The Addams Family”?
5. Which actor plays the part of Dre
Johnson on “Black-ish”?
6. Michael Conrad played Sgt. Phil Es-
terhaus on which cop show?
7. What part did Ann B. Davis play on
“The Brady Bunch”?
8. Who played Barney Stinson on “How
I Met Your Mother”?
9. Barry Morse played which character
on “The Fugitive”?
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ANSWERS: 1. Louise Jefferson, whom I am scheduled to host the follow-
her husband called “Weezy.” 2. Elaine ing upcoming trivia events: Friday, March
Benes. 3. “The Avengers.” 4. Wednesday. 8, Peace Lutheran Church Trivia at the
5. Anthony Anderson. 6. “Hill Street Blues.” church, 737 Barracksview Road, St. Louis
7. Alice Nelson. I didn’t recall Alice’s last County, call 314-892-5610; Saturday, May
name, but found it out by research. 8. Neil 11, Juvenile Diabetes Research Founda-
Patrick Harris. I thought this was a terrific tion Trivia at the Eureka Parks and Recre-
sitcom until its final season, when it fizzled. ation Center, 333 Bald Hill Road, Eureka,
9. Lt. Philip Gerard. 10. Jill Taylor, Tim’s call 314-691-1902.
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10 Jefferson County Leader
Powers named to
Harding dean’s list
Mark Powers, a sophomore
computer science major from Hillsboro,
was named to the dean’s list for the fall
semester at Harding University in Searcy,
Ark.
To be eligible for the dean’s list, a
student must earn a 3.65 or higher grade-
point average on a four-point scale.
Truman State honors
top students for fall
Truman State University in Kirksville
has released its president’s and vice
president’s academic honor rolls for the
fall semester.
To qualify for the president’s list, a
student must earn a perfect 4.0 grade-
point average.
To be listed on the vice president for
academic affairs list, a student must earn
a grade-point average of 3.5 or above.
PRESIDENT’S LIST
BARNHART: Makayla Holt.
FESTUS: Ellie Steller.
HILLSBORO: Hannah Dickmann, Tes-
sa Smreker-Bruce.
VICE PRESIDENT’S LIST
BARNHART: Sydney Coleman, Benja-
min Haefner, Madison Henderson.
DE SOTO: Grant Fauth.
FESTUS: Alyssa Becherer, Kara Gray.
PEVELY: Kalven Duncan.
MBU satellite campuses
award honors for fall
Missouri Baptist University’s
Regional Learning Centers in Arnold,
Farmington and Hillsboro have released
the names of students who earned
academic honors for the fall semester.
The president’s citation honors
students who achieved a perfect 4.0
grade-point average during the semester.
The dean’s list includes students who
earned a grade-point average of 3.75
or higher, while the honor roll names
students who earned between 3.5 and
3.75.
Students named to the lists include:
PRESIDENT’S CITATION: Paige
Smith, Hillsboro; Reagan Ahner, Barnhart;
Thomas Kelam, Hillsboro; Kyrie Hood,
Barnhart.
DEAN’S LIST: Sarah Hilker, Festus;
Katherine Morehouse, Crystal City; Ashley
Greenwalt, Festus.
HONOR ROLL: Tonya Hale, De Soto.
School/Scouts
College music groups College to hold
schedule two concerts amateur film contest
Jefferson College’s choirs and band
ensembles will hold free concerts this
week in the Fine Arts Theatre on the
Hillsboro campus.
The Jefferson College Chamber
Singers, Community Chorale and Concert
Chorale will present “Light Shines in the
Darkness” by Michael John Trotta with a
guest appearance by the Festus High School
Concert Choir at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 10.
The Concert Band’s presentation,
“Travels of the Mind” will be held at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, March 12.
Reservations are not required.
Hillsboro PTO holding
casino night March 30
The Hillsboro Guardian Hawks
PTO will hold a casino night on Saturday,
March 30. The event will be held from
7-10 p.m. at the Hillsboro Community
Civic Center, 10349 Business 21. Doors
will open at 6:30 p.m.
Participants may dress up for the
evening or come in casual dress.
Admission is $20 in advance or $25
at the door and includes $5,000 in gaming
vouchers, light snacks and drinks. Dealers
will offer instruction on how to play the
games. In addition to offering black jack,
roulette, craps and poker, there will be
a money wheel and raffles and silent
auctions.
To b u y t i c k e t s , c a l l S a r a a t
314-606-4633 or send an email to
hillsboroguardianhawks@gmail.com.
Scout notes
Local Girl Scouts hold
Thinking Day March 9
Girl Scouts from Neighborhood 8
will hold an International Thinking Day
event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday,
March 9, at Hillsboro United Methodist
Church, 4810 Hwy. B.
The free event, put on by Girl Scout
troops from Hillsboro and Grandview
schools, will include a performance by
Irish tenor Jeffrey Gonder at 9:30 a.m., a
tae kwon do demonstration by Girl Scout
Troop 732 at 10:30 a.m., a sampling of
international cookies at 11:30 a.m. and a
cultural costume walk at 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Workshop, auditions
set for spring play
Community filmmaking teams are The Jefferson College Theatre
invited to produce an original short film Department will hold a choreography
during the annual 48-Hour Film Festival workshop and auditions for its summer
sponsored by the Jefferson College musical, “Chicago.” Those who audition
Events and Cultural Diversity Committee must be 16 years of age or older.
and Art Department.  The choreography workshop will
An optional informational meeting be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday,
will be held at noon on Friday, March 8, March 9, in the Fine Arts Theatre on the
in the Fine Arts Mac Lab on the Hillsboro Hillsboro campus.
campus. Cast and dance auditions will be held
There is no cost to enter. Teams of up on Wednesday, March 27, and Thursday,
to five members will be given a theme and March 28, in the Fine Arts Theatre.
required elements and must work within Callbacks will be March 30.
48 hours to write, shoot and edit a film For more information, call 636-481-
up to seven minutes long. 3367.
Cash prizes will be awarded for the
top three films.
Entries will be shown at a public
Stafford to perform at
screening April 26 in the Fine Arts Jazz Showcase
Theatre on the Hillsboro campus. The Jefferson College Spring Jazz
For entry forms or details, call Nick Showcase will feature Grammy Award-
Nihira at 646-481-3377 or send an email winning trumpeter Terell Stafford.
to nnihira@jeffco.edu. He will perform with the Jefferson
College jazz ensembles in a concert at
St. Pius X High to hold 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Fine
Arts Theatre on the Hillsboro campus.
open house March 12 Admission is $5 ($2 students and
St. Pius X High School in Crystal seniors). Tickets can be purchased in
City will hold its annual spring open advance at the cashier’s window on the
house from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, Hillsboro campus. If available, tickets
at the school, 1030 St. Pius Drive. will be sold at the door.
Parents of prospective students can A free master class will be held
learn about Catholic education, wellness, at 4 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building,
extracurricular activities and financing giving attendees the opportunity to ask
options. questions, interact with Stafford and hear
For information, call Matt Schutte at musical demonstrations and excerpts.
636-931-7487, ext. 143. Reservations are not required.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 Community Jefferson County Leader 11

Herculaneum holds Bingo on March 22

social March 9 to benefit NextStep Are YOU Stop by the
getting ALL
Herculaneum residents are invited The Young Friends of NextStep for De Soto Walmart
to attend a meet-and-greet ice cream and Life will sponsor Rock ’n Roll Bingo on of the NO COST Call for a
Tuesdays,
FREE
cake social with fellow residents. Friday, March 22, at Frederick’s Banquet
benefits you are
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
The social, called “Meet in the and Concert Center, 201 Main St., in Festus.
Middle,” will be held from 1-3 p.m. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and bingo entitled to?
Saturday, March 9, at the Autumn Ridge will begin at 7 p.m. Cost is $20 per player Medicare
Senior Living center, 300 Autumn Ridge
Drive off Scenic Drive.
in advance or $25 at the door.
There will be 12 rounds of bingo
Insurance
The location was chosen as a center covering a wide range of music, with Review
point between the older portions of the participants naming the tune or artist.
city east of I-55 and newer homes west There will also be raffles and attendance
of the highway. prizes. Food and drinks will be sold, but Dawn A. Penberthy
The event will feature informational participants may bring their own snacks. Insurance Agency, LLC
tables from the city, civic and service Register online at nextstepforlife.org.
organizations, churches and other groups.
In addition to an ice cream sundae
For information, call 636-282-4405. 314-220-0491
bar and cake and drinks, musical
entertainment will be provided and
attendance prizes will be given out.
The event is sponsored by the city Performing Arts
of Herculaneum, Autumn Ridge and and Cultural
Herculaneum Today and Tomorrow. Enrichment
For information, call 636-931-8400,
636-475-4447 or 314-852-4964. SPRING 2019
SPRING PLAY
Feb. 28 - Mar. 3 Spring Play “One Slight Hitch” Thurs, 10 am, Fri. 8 pm, Sat. 8 pm, Sun. 2 pm
Wine and Dine event It’s Courtney’s wedding day, and her mom, Delia, is making sure that everything is perfect. The groom is perfect, the dress
benefits veterans is perfect, and the decorations (assuming they arrive) will be perfect. Then, like in any good farce, the doorbell rings.
And all hell breaks loose. So much for perfect. **Please note- this play contains adult language and adult situations**
The annual Wine and Dine Your
Valentine event, rescheduled from Feb. March 10 Choir Concert “Masterworks Performance” @ 3 pm FREE!
BAND
CONCERT
16, will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, March
9, at Fore Honor Golf and Event Center March 12 Band Concert “Travels of the Mind” @ 7:30 pm FREE!
at Deer Creek USA, 5300 Dulin Creek FREE!
Road, in House Springs. March 14 Spring Jazz Showcase @ 7:30 pm
Proceeds will benefit the Fore Honor Featuring Grammy-winning Trumpeter, Terell Stafford
Foundation, which assists the military, New York based Terell Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile trumpet player, who combines
veterans and first responders. a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism.
Cost is $65 and will include a six- JAZZ
CONCERT
course dinner with wine and live music. March 15 -17 48 Hour Film Festival (Filming Dates) FREE!
Doors open at 6 p.m. Form a team of 5 or less and write, film & edit your project in 48 hours!
Anyone can enter. Specific guidelines will be given. Present your film & win prizes!
To reserve seats, call 636-671-0447.
April 1-5 High School Art Exhibit FREE! TERRELL

Sign up now for soil, STAFFORD

April 13 & 15 Jefferson County Shakespeare Project

crops conference
The annual Jefferson County Soils
and Crops Conference will be held on
Saturday, March 16, in conjunction with
the annual meeting of the Jefferson County
Soil and Water Conservation District.
Registration will begin at 4 p.m. at
“Romeo and Juliet” Sat. 6 pm, Mon. 10 am
The Jefferson County Shakespeare Project involves area high school
students & teachers in a collaborative setting to produce Shakespeare!
April 23 MADCO @ 7:30 pm
MADCO (Modern American Dance Company) is a premier dance
company that provides audiences with entertaining and innovative MADCO
Jefferson County

dance experiences and inspires students of all ages.

Grandview High School, 11470 Hwy.
C, in Hillsboro. Registration is $10 for April 25 TEDx FREE!
adults and $5 for children ages 6-12, with TEDx is a program of locally organized events that bring the community together to share a TED-like
children 5 and under free. experience. Some of the best talks from TEDx events have gone on to be featured on TED.com.
The event will include a dinner,
exhibits by area businesses and April 26 48 Hour Film Festival Screening FREE!
CHOIR
CONCERT
agencies, drone demonstrations and the
keynote presentation, “Use of Drones
April 29-May 10 Jefferson College Student Art Exhibit FREE!

in Agriculture,” by Kent Shannon, May 7 Band Concert “Ritual, Reflection & Rejoicing” @ 7:30 pm FREE!
agricultural engineer field specialist with
the University of Missouri Extension. May 8-9 Spring Pottery Sale Wed. 10 am – 6 pm, Thurs. 10 am – 4 pm FREE!
RSVP by March 11 to 636-797-5391
or jeffersonco@missouri.edu. May 9 Choir Concert “Music in Song - A Celebration of Human Emotion” @ 7:30 pm FREE! POTTERY
SALE

We want your
community news!
To submit your community
news to the Leader, email the
details, along with a photo if you
have one, to the newsroom at nvr-
weakly@aol.com. For more infor-
mation, call the newsroom at 636-
931-7560.
June 14-16 & Summer Musical “Chicago” Fri. 7 pm, Sat. 7 pm, Sun. 2 pm
June 21-23 Set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 1920s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian
murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma’s serving time for killing her husband and
sister after finding the two in bed together. Driven chorus girl Roxie’s been tossed in the joint for bumping off
the lover she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of
prison matron Mama Morton and slickster lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a murder-of-
the-week media frenzy, thus preparing the world for a splashy showbiz comeback. But Roxie’s got some of
her own tricks up her sleeve… **Please note- this play contains adult language and adult situations**
Individual Event Pricing/Advance Tickets: $5 General Admission / $2 Students, Seniors, Play Matinees jeffco.edu/pace
Individual advance ticket purchases must be done at the Cashier’s Window (in the Student Center). Tickets can also be purchased at the door (cash only). (636) 481-3123
JEFFERSON COLLEGE IS SMOKE-FREE, TOBACCO-FREE & ALCOHOL-FREE: A HEALTHY PLACE TO LEARN, LIVE, & WORK
12 Jefferson County Leader Business Thursday, March 7, 2019

Vietnamese restaurant to open this spring in Festus

By Kevin Carbery
For the Leader
It looks like a Vietnamese restaurant
is coming to Festus.
The Saigon Restaurant is expected
to open in a few months at 343 N. Creek
Drive, where the Taytro’s restaurant op-
erated before relocating in January just
a short distance away, to 331 N. Creek
Drive.
Saigon Restaurant owners are Nathan
and Sophie Dinh of south St. Louis, who
are related to Jefferson County Realtor
Tammy Fadler.
The Dinhs said this will be their first
restaurant.
Nathan Dinh, 28, said he and his wife
hope to open their restaurant sometime
in May.
The couple has begun remodeling
the space and look forward to opening
the business, Sophie Dinh said.
“We were inspired by my aunt,
Tammy Fadler, to come here,” she said.
“We see a lot of opportunity here.”
The Dinhs said they plan to move
to the area.
“We want to start a family here,”
Sophie Dinh said.
Festus City Council members voted
7-0 on Feb. 27 to approve a liquor license Gordon Bess photo
for the restaurant. Ward 4 Councilman This space at 343 N. Creek Drive in Festus, formerly occupied by Taytro’s, will be the
Jim Tinnin did not attend the meeting. site of the new Saigon Restaurant.

Parkton Child Care Center opens in Barnhart

By Tony Krausz
For the Leader
Parkton Assembly of God’s child
care center, 1672 Old Hwy. M, in Barn-
hart has opened for business and is ac-
cepting enrollment.
The center, which opened in Decem-
ber, can enroll up to 80 children and can
provide care for children from 6 weeks
to 12 years old.
“Based on our location and the pro-
grams we are offering, I think we will fill
up quickly,” director Melissa Eddy said.
“We have had referrals from parents who
are happy and referring other families. I
think that is a big thing. When parents
are happy, they will refer their friends
with children.”
Eddy currently oversees a staff of six
teachers, but the staff number will rise as
more children enroll.
“The teachers have been doing
some really fun, creative activities
Tony Krausz photo with the children,” Eddy said. “They
The child care center at Parkton Assembly of God in Barnhart has been open since are really enjoying engaging with the
December. children.”
The day care building is 5,081 square
feet and cost a little more than $750,000
to build, said the Rev. Monty Roark, the
church’s pastor.
There are two fully equipped
playgrounds, which are fenced in, and
a large open field for children when
weather permits. Roark said there is
15,000 square feet of outdoor space for
day care students to use.
“We have had some really great
feedback from parents about how much
they are enjoying the program,” Eddy
said.
“We have heard about how beau-
tiful the building and facilities are.
The teachers are absolutely wonderful
teachers, who are doing exciting things
in the classroom,” she said.
The day care, which is next to the
church, charges different rates for each
age group with tuition for full-time
care costing between $170 per week
for preschoolers and $230 a week for
infants.
The center also offers a part-time
program.

You can locate a Mercy doctor on Amazon’s Alexa

Mercy recently launched a skill
through Amazon Alexa, a voice-enabled
Alexa is on devices such as Echo,
Echo Dot, Echo Show and Fire tablets. LITTLE DRAGONS PRESCHOOL
search service on Amazon devices, to
give people a hands-free way to find a
Users must add the skill to their de-
vice through Amazon. The skill does not It's Time To Enroll!!
doctor in the Mercy system. provide medical advice.
De Soto School District #73 announces enrollment for its Early Childhood
Dreaming Up the Ideal Program for the 2019-2020 school year. Children need to be 3 or 4 years
old before July 31, 2019 to enroll.
Retirement Is Your Job. Little Dragons will have OPEN ENROLLMENT on March 1st, March 15th
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and 12:30-3:00 p.m. NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY but this will be first
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Parents need to bring their child’s immunizations records, birth certificate,
To learn more about why Edward and proof of residency (i.e. utility bill, property tax receipt). The enrollment
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or visit a financial advisor today. Preference will be given to De Soto School District residents for enrollment
openings in our preschool program. Remaining available openings will
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 Business Jefferson County Leader 13

Jefferson County Lumber Co. has been in business 90 years at Imperial Main Street
and Hwy. 61-67 in Imperial.

Laborers work for food pantries Jefferson County Lumber

Members and retirees from Laborers Local 110 collected food and money for the
Hillsboro and De Soto Food pantries. The group delivered about 700 pounds of food
to each pantry, as well as a check for $2,250 to each one. Members and retirees
celebrates 90th anniversary
from the local donated much of the food and money and also held raffles and other
activities. Top photo: Greg Cook, Frank Lewis, Connie Browning, director of the By Kevin Carbery
Hillsboro Food Pantry, and Eddie Wideman. Below: Frank Lewis, Eddie Wideman, For the Leader
De Soto Food Pantry director Mildred Sloan and Greg Cook.
The Jefferson County Lumber Co.,
located at the intersection of Hwy. 61-67
and Imperial Main Street, had its 90th
anniversary last month.
Ed Kottmeier, owner of the company,
said a long history of excellent employees
is the main reason the business has lasted
for nine decades.
“I think, probably, the thing that’s
kept us going the most is we have a
great staff of employees,” he said.
“There’s lots of experience for helping
people and contractors. Experienced
staff, for sure.”
The business traces its roots to 1926,
when Ed Kottmeier’s grandfather, George
Kottmeier, bought the Girard Milling Co.
in Kimmswick. In February 1929, he
incorporated it as the Jefferson County
Lumber Co. and built the store and lum-
beryard, which are still operating in the
same location today.
From that point on, the Kottmeier
family has continuously passed the busi-
ness from generation to generation.
“I’m third generation,” Ed said. “My
son, David works here, fourth generation,
and my grandson Sam works here in sum-
mers. He’s fifth generation.”
Ed’s father, Carl, also worked at the
business, as did other family members.

Hillsboro native publishes children’s book

A former Jefferson College art stu- was published in February. It is 32 pages
dent has published a children’s book she of illustrated scenes depicting different
wrote and illustrated called “Just So Baby birth stories, all drawn by Williams.
Is Loved, However You Meet.” Williams now lives in Huntsville,
The book by Rachael (Needham) Ala. Her book is available on Amazon.
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Candid Camera is
The Staff
Pam LaPlant

always the thing Publisher

Peggy Scott
with today’s parents Assistant Publisher

M
Peggy Bess
y sister texted me last week with Editor
the bad news. “There are no baby Glenda O’Tool Potts
pictures of you. At least not in my Advertising Manager
possession.” Kim Robertson
When our parents died within six Managing Editor
weeks of each other a decade ago, my Steve Taylor
two little sisters packed up all the photos News and Community Editor
and memorabilia with a plan to compile a Gordon Bess
memory book. Associate Editor
Life intervened, as it does, and work
Tony Krausz
on the project didn’t heat up until a few Eureka Editor
weeks ago.
A flurry of questions have come from Laura Marlow
Special Sections Editor
the younger sibs, who think the older ones
might remember more: When did our Russell Korando
parents return to Missouri from my dad’s Sports Editor
military service in New Mexico? Where Jeff Adams
was our (now-deceased) older brother Rob Schneider
Mark Grebe
born? Why are there no baby pictures of Lisa Reuther
my parents’ third-born child? (That would Advertising Sales
be me.) well-documented lives. Before children That would seem to rule out potty-
training photos, but the list covered that Debbie Skaggs
“There are some of Kathy and Terry can speak, they know how to preen for the Michelle Engelhardt
(the older pair) when you should be born, smartphone camera. under a separate heading, and advised Production Artists
but you aren’t in them,” my sister, Janice, A similarly aged co-worker, like me, against posting photos that might give a
bully ammunition. Carol Thomure
texted. was born into the middle of a large fam- Classified Advertising
Ouch. My already well-developed ily, and like me, has scant images of her Notice, the advice wasn’t against
inferiority complex took note. What? They taking pictures like that, just against mak- Kevin Carbery
childhood. She said as much recently to Katelyn Mary Skaggs
hid me under a basket? Is that how I caught her incredulous daughter-in-law, mother of ing them public. Maybe more parents
Reporters
my claustrophobia? four. and grandparents should ask themselves,
Mom always told me that a blurry “Should I?” before taking so many photos. Ted Howell
“For goodness sakes, I have photos of Sherree Faries Fite
snapshot of a baby on the front lawn was my kids’ poop!” the young mother de- You wonder if an entire generation of nar- Ron Rigdon
me, but the photo was far enough away you clared. cissistic adults will be the result. Photographers
wouldn’t have been able to prove it. She I can see that happening. Not long I’m betting my parents loved me as
Sue Singer
was a kind soul, and maybe she just wanted ago I was washing my hands in the ladies’ much as I love my kids and my kids love Mary McKinstry
to spare my feelings. And my sister can’t room at a restaurant when I overheard a their kids, even though I have no photos to Proofreaders
even find THAT photo. small one in a nearby stall, speaking to his prove it. When I arrived, my older sister
Oh, how times have changed within was not yet 3 and my brother was not yet To Reach The Leader
mother.
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We took dozens of photos of our three proudly. parents, and it stayed that way, as three Voice: 636-931-7560
more children followed. Fax: 636-931-2226
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grandchildren has been the principal sub- “Middle children. We suffer,” I texted By Mail
wouldn’t be surprised. P.O.Box 159
ject of hundreds of photographs. At least. I adore all the digital photos my my sister.
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Thursday, March 7, 2019
Letters
New homes will
not provide the
funds R-6 needs
To the editor:
I agree with the Feb. 28 letter from
Jim Leach regarding the excellence
of Festus R-6 Schools. We do have an
exceptionally effective district, and it is
because of our teachers and administra-
tion, all of whom work magic every day
by delivering top-ranked academics on
the county’s lowest tax rate.
However, I respectfully disagree with
one key statement he made with regard
to the upcoming April 2 vote on Prop F.
He said “extra revenue” generated by
new residential developments “should
be sufficient without increasing taxes
for anyone.”
I wish this were so, but the truth is
that even if every one of those 200 new
homes he referenced were built tomor-
row, at $200K per home, the increased
revenue for the Festus R-6 School District
equates to a mere 12 cents (per $100 as-
sessed valuation).
This increase, while helpful, wouldn’t
come close to paying for the 59-cent in-
crease needed for more school resource
officers, building a performing arts center,
building an activity center, correcting
congestion/safety for daily student drop-
off/pickup or starting Festus’ very own
Pre-K Program.
We’d need five of the Burns Farm
subdivisions to meet that mark, which is
not happening anytime soon, and doesn’t
even account for the added strain on space
(more homes = more students = more
classroom space needed).
I don’t like taxes any more than the
next guy, but when a notoriously cost-
conscious school district asks me for
more money to provide for our kids’ edu-
cation, I know it’s a legitimate need and
that the time has come to pay it forward.
Justin R. Rhyneer
Festus
Why? Why?
Some things
make no sense
To the editor:
Every day, things happen that do not
make logical sense to me. No, not politics;
I leave that to the experts.
These are occurrences I cannot do
anything to cure, but I just ask the ques-
tion: “Why?” For instance:
■ Ameren spends multiple thousands
of customers’ money on TV and radio
ads, as well as various public promotions.
They tell us how wonderful they are and
how we can save electricity by installing a
new, expensive air conditioning and heat
system. They themselves would spend so
much less money if they included this in-
formation on a flier with the invoice. Plus,
it can be found on Ameren’s website.
Opinions
■ Why do head-on collisions happen
on straight stretches of dry pavement?
■ Heavily traveled, curvy Sandy
Creek Road has no shoulder and a sharp
drop-off, yet it is designated as a bike
route.
■ Taking a number at the license
office was too simple. Now, you have to
use a computer to sign in.
■ Cities are planting trees and shrubs
next to the curb, impeding drivers’ line
of sight.
■ Headlights keep getting brighter
and more blinding.
■ Tracking a package has become so
difficult. I call, and the “finder” speaks in
an accent I can’t understand while he or
she can’t understand hillbilly.
■ When did it become fashionable to
eat with your fork upside down?
■ Ponder on this thought for a mo-
ment. It is a federal offense to kill an
unborn eagle or shoot a goose with lead
shot, but perfectly legal to kill an unborn
child. It is ironic that wildlife has more
rights than an unborn child.
■ On a happier note, from experi-
ence, the more perfect marriage is when
the wife finally learns to interpret your
sign language and mumbling.
Buck Hamlan
Pevely
Grandview R-2
is responding to
funding squeeze;
it’ll get worse
To the editor:
Next August, the Grandview R-2
School District, located in rural west
Jefferson County, will change to a four-
day-a-week schedule.
Missouri State University estimates
that by next school year, more than 50 of
Missouri’s 518 school districts will be on
a four-day schedule.
Why is this happening?
Year after year, the Republican-
controlled Missouri Legislature cuts the
public school transportation budget. The
districts have been forced to pay more of
the cost of operating school buses, reduc-
ing the money available for teachers.
According to the Missouri State
Teachers Association, Missouri ranks
41st nationally in teacher salaries, down
from 40th last year.
Grandview’s pay is among the lowest
in the St. Louis region. Of course, the dis-
trict has a retention problem. Grandview
officials believe that offering the four-day
schedule will offset the lack of pay.
The lack of funding for our schools
is going to get worse. Starting in 2020,
corporations will receive a tax cut from
6.25 percent to 4 percent. Six states pay
zero (Nevada, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas,
Washington and Wyoming). Why would
any corporation choose to relocate to
Missouri, based on taxes?
Do you want your tax money to go
Jefferson County Leader 15
to the rich and corporate welfare, or do
you want your tax money to educate your
As the Democratic field tries to run
left of each other, the candidates promise
children? And what about having to pay each of us free health care, free college
for day care on Monday?
When will voters realize that Demo-
education, free child care, guaranteed
income, elimination of fossil fuels, open
crats advocate for working families, and borders, and more.
Republicans advocate for corporations While they have not actually articu-
and the rich? lated how they would pay for this, I imag-
ine the answer is just to tax the rich some
more. The federal reserve could help by
Barbara Marco
printing as much money as needed.
De Soto
The Republicans just preach lower
taxes, less government and nothing free.
Fox C-6 is asking They must be crazy. Why would any
voter not thank Bernie and all the other
for too much Democratic candidates for everything
free, instead of the responsibility of pay-
ing for services?
To the editor:
Donald Trump and Republicans are
According to the Fox C-6 School
deplorable, racist, misogynistic, anti-
District website, in the April 2 election,
immigrant, anti-environment, and anti-
the district is asking for a property tax
everything good. Voters should not be
increase of 40 cents per $100 of assessed
swayed by the economic progress of the
valuation to finance a $70 million bond
last two years.
issue.
The presidential election in 2020 will
They use the example that it will
be the time for all to elect a Democrat,
only cost the owner of a home valued
so with government control we can all
at $120,000 about $1.75 a week or $91
be equal.
a year.
I believe the majority of homeowners
will see an increase of two or three times Vance Garber
that amount. Festus
They also conveniently omit the fact
that the district also receives funds from
personal property taxes, which would be
subject to the increase.
The district also received an increase
Kevin, you sure
in 2017 when the county assessor raised missed one
the assessed value on most homes in the
district. To the editor:
I know Fox C-6 needs to maintain its In Kevin Carbery’s Feb. 28 trivia
facilities, but I question the need for this
great of an increase.
quiz about upbeat rock songs that are,
in his words, “high-energy tunes that get
my blood pumping,” and “gave an im-
mediate adrenaline rush and allowed me
Alfred Jeude
Barnhart to keep on motoring,” he neglected the
most appropriate song – “Radar Love”
by Golden Earring.
The lyrics are perfect: 
Too good to be “I’ve been drivin’ all night, my
true? Not if you ask hand’s wet on the wheel.
There’s a voice in my head that drives
Dem candidates my heel.
No more speed, I’m almost there.  
Gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
To the editor:
Well, it took most of my lifetime,
but I finally see the light. Having been
Last car to pass, here I go.
And the line of cars drove down real
a conservative all my life, I am reborn. slow.”
Graduating from college in 1969
with a degree in economics, I was falsely
The driving drum beat doesn’t let go.
In fact, if you’re not speeding when
this song starts, you very well might be
indoctrinated that economic policies have
by the time it ends.
consequences. Four years wasted. Listen-
ing to the crowded field of the Democratic
progressive/socialistic candidates, I now George Haberberger
realize we can have it all. Imperial
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Chapter 10 – The shrines of ancestors
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t Grandma’s house, Alex
frowned.
“Is there anything in Mexico
City that would make it worth that long
trip?”
“Two places stand out in my
mind,” Grandma replied. “The Pyramid
of the Sun was one. It gave me chills.”
“It’s just a big pile of stones, isn’t
it, Grandma?”
“It is so much more, Alex. There
is a whole complex that includes the
Avenue of the Dead, the Pyramid of the
Moon and the Pyramid of the Feathered
Serpent. I started to climb the 248 steps
but gave up about halfway. The altitude
there is more than 7,000 feet above sea
level. Still, from midway I could see
most of the complex below.
“I learned later that the perimeter at
the base of the Sun Pyramid is almost
the same measure as the Great Pyra-
mid of Egypt and that the temple and
the other buildings in the complex are
all turned in the same orientation to
the sun. I also learned that inside the
pyramid is a long tunnel that leads to a
central chamber with a spring.
“The pyramid must have been sig-
nificant to the ancient people who built
it. They took time to finish its exterior
with lime plaster from surrounding
areas. They painted brilliantly colored
murals onto it. Most of the paint and
plaster are no longer visible but at one
time there were Jaguar heads and paws,
stars and snake rattles. Obsidian arrow-
heads and human figurines have also
been found.”
“What do you think they used the
buildings for, Grandma?”
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The whole area was busy with tourists
that day, but I tried to imagine what
the site must have looked like on a
quiet morning with the sun first rising
over a tall mountain beyond. It must
have been impressive to the natives
who could hardly remember how it
had come to be, perhaps hundreds
of years before they were born. No
doubt legends developed over the
years to explain it.”
***
“The next day we visited the
Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It
was difficult for us to understand why
people would travel for miles, crawling
on their knees over pathways strewn
with rocks and gravel, to get there. The
knees of some were bleeding as they
crawled into the church. But this was
their way of honoring the Virgin Mary
who had been so kind to a humble na-
tive peasant in the 1500s.
“Juan Diego was walking from his
village to the Mexico City area in the
early morning of Dec. 9, 1531. On the
slopes of a hill, Juan saw a vision of a
girl 15 or 16 years old, surrounded by
light. Speaking to him in his local lan-
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“Juan Diego recognized the young
woman as the Virgin Mary the Spanish
priest had told them about. Diego told
his story to the local archbishop, who
instructed him to return to the hill and
ask the lady for a miraculous sign to
prove her identity.
“The first sign was the Virgin’s
healing of Juan’s uncle. The Virgin then
told Juan Diego to gather flowers from
the top of the hill. December was very
late in the growing season for flow-
ers to bloom. To Juan’s surprise, on
the usually barren hilltop, Juan found
blooming Spanish roses (not native to
Mexico) which the Virgin then arranged
inside his cloak.
“When Juan Diego opened his
cloak before the archbishop on Dec.
12, the flowers fell to the floor. In their
place was the image of the Virgin of
Guadalupe, miraculously imprinted
on the fabric. A shrine was built and
pilgrimages have been made to the
expanding shrine ever since.
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near Mexico City. At 738 feet across
and 246 feet high it is the third-largest
pyramid in the world. Only two pyra-
mids at Giza, Egypt, are larger.
Construction is estimated to have
begun around 100 A.D. and contin-
ued for at least 200 years. The build-
ing techniques used were simple, but
the sheer size of the pyramid makes
the structure amazing. The gentle
30-degree slope of the pyramid walls
holds in vast volumes of soil, rubble
and rocks.
In later years, an altar was con-
structed on top of the pyramid. This
has not survived into modern times.
The Pyramid of the Moon and Pyra-
mid of the Feathered Serpent were
also built later. When the Aztecs in-
vaded the Mexican Central Plateau in
the early 1300s, they found a nearly
abandoned city. They named it Teo-
tihuacan (the place where gods were
born), connecting it with their own cre-
ation stories.
Mexico has its own literature,
featuring authors like Agustín Yanez,
Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. As
important are the stories and legends
that were repeated throughout the
centuries and are now being written
down.
Through music, Mexicans have
preserved many of their ancestors’
traditions, including sounds similar to
those produced by the ancient Aztec
drums.
dark-skinned Virgin representing their
mixed heritage and national identity.
Her image was used in the struggle for
independence against the Spanish.
“Alex, I hope the story is true be-
cause it shows how God speaks to all of
us by His grace, and not to our preju-
dices. We felt that grace that evening
as we visited a local youth fellowship
meeting. Within the small group of fel-
low Christians, we felt the mutual trust
and respect we all need.”
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Thursday, March 7, 2019 Obituaries
Jannette C. Farmer, 72, University City
Jannette C. Farmer, 72, of University City died Feb. 26,
2019, at University City Forest Manor. Mrs. Farmer was a
former custodian for the Festus R-6 School District. She had
been a member of the American War Mothers-Harrison Cook
Chapter, Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church and Seniors
Group Heman Park of University City. She enjoyed watching
the Dallas Cowboys and the L.A. Lakers, visiting the sick and
doing missionary work, and she loved wearing hats. Born Nov.
10, 1946, in Crystal City, she was the daughter of the late War-
ren and Anna Mae (Ellis) Bingham. She was preceded in death
by her husband: Howard Earl Farmer.
She is survived by two daughters: Angela Walker of St. Louis and Juanita Jones
of St. Louis; a brother: Stanley Bingham of Festus; two sisters: Annette (Paul) Hall
of Festus and Vera Bingham of Festus; and three grandchildren: Joerell W. Walker,
Imani A. Walker and Josephine Jones-Davis. She was preceded in death by a son:
Keith Bingham; a sister: Verena Robinson; and a brother-in-law: Richard Robinson.
Visitation is at 11 a.m. and a funeral service is at noon Saturday, March 9, at Mahn
Twin City Chapel, 515 Collins, in Festus. Burial will be at a later date in the National
Cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. Arrangements are by Mahn Twin City Chapel.
James B. Boyer, 92, formerly of Old Mines
James B. Boyer, 92, of Hillsboro, formerly of Old Mines
(“Frogtown”) died March 1, 2019. Mr. Boyer worked for the
Anheuser Bush Brewery for 40 years. He served with the U.S.
Merchant Marine from 1942-47 and with the U.S. Army during
the Korean War from 1950-1952.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years: Verna (Peters) Boyer;
a daughter: Karen (Robert) Freese; and numerous grandchildren,
siblings, nieces and nephews, cousins and friends. He was pre-
ceded in death by a son: James R. Boyer.
A funeral service was held March 6 at Hoffmeister South
County Chapel in St. Louis County. Burial was in the Park Lawn
Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Hoffmeister South County Chapel.
Edna La Von Pratte-Johnson, 83, O’Fallon
Edna La Von Pratte-Johnson, 83, of O’Fallon, formerly of
De Soto, died March 3, 2019, at her home. Mrs. Pratte-Johnson
was a licensed practical nurse for the Cedar Grove & Commu-
nity Care Center and a member of the Church of Nazarene in
De Soto. She enjoyed sewing, crocheting, quilting and canning.
Born Nov. 7, 1935, in Clarkton, she was the daughter of the late
Clarenda (McGill) and Charles S. Glover. She was preceded in
death by two husbands: Paul L. Pratte and Charles E. Johnson.
She is survived by three sons: Timothy (Patty) Pratte of
Festus, Kevin (Carrie) Pratte of De Soto and Jeffrey M. Pratte
of De Soto; two daughters: Deborah Pratte-Hatch of O’Fallon and Karen (Caleb)
Miller of Edwardsville, Ill; a son-in-law: David Melton of Springfield; 12 grandchil-
dren: Clarenda, Kalantha, Scott, Marshall, Nick, Amanda, Mark, Sarah, Emily, Liam,
Liana and Drew; and four great-grandchildren: Jackson, Truman, Maddie and Grace.
She was preceded in death by a daughter: Detona Melton; eight brothers: Jack,
Roy, Doyle, Charles, L.C., Denver, Harold and Chester Glover; three sisters: Genevieve
Harvison, Bernice Moseby and Betty Ann Glover; and a great-grandson: Brantlee.
Visitation will be at 11 a.m. and a funeral service is scheduled for noon Saturday,
March 9, at Mahn Funeral Home, 900 North Main St., in De Soto, officiated by the
Rev. Jimmy Turner. Burial is in the Peaceful Ridge Mausoleum in De Soto. Memorials
may be made to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are under the direction
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David White, 77, Crystal City
David White, 77, of Crystal City died Feb. 10, 2019, at
Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis County. Mr. White worked
as a concrete finisher for Anderson Concrete and was affection-
ately known as “Mr. Fixit.” He enjoyed fishing, country music,
blues music and spending time with his family. Born Nov. 21,
1941, in Ste. Genevieve, he was the son of the late Herbert and
Genevieve (Madison) White.
He is survived by his wife: Shelby (Kellogg) Jackson;
six sons: David “Tony” Brown of Festus, Charles White of
Crystal City, Brian (Carla) White of Crystal City, Carl White
of Festus, David Jackson of Crystal City and Dwight Jackson of Crystal City; two
daughters: Stepheny (Ronald) Herrington of Festus and Devonne (Lonnie) Boga
of Ferguson; a sister: Virginia Marahall of Crystal City; two brothers: Jerome
White of Crystal City and John (Loretta) White of Festus; 25 grandchildren:
Tonyelle Evans, Miracle Ann Marie Brown, Sherard Jackson, Tenechia Jackson,
Alethia Tabb, Princess White, Jevon White, Regina Herrington, Cedric Russell,
Lindsey White, Tyler White, Jared White, Alexis White, Aaliya White, Madison
Merchand, Justin Fartney, Nadyia White, Shaylee White, Tristan Pierce, Trinity
Hanna, Mercedes Boga, Lonnie Boga, Shaquille Boga, Nyla Jackson and Peyton
Green; and numerous great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two daughters: Alethia Jackson and Stephen Jackson;
a son: Darrell Brown; and two brothers: Herbert White and Milton White.
Funeral services were held Feb. 22 at Mahn Twin City Chapel in Festus, officiated
by Elder Charles Culton. Burial was in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Crystal
City. Arrangements were under the direction of Mahn Twin City Chapel.
Lillian Alta Midgett, 83, De Soto
Lillian Alta Midgett, 83, of De Soto died Feb. 7, 2019, at
her home. Mrs. Midgett worked in the housekeeping department
at Jefferson Memorial Hospital (now Mercy Hospital Jefferson)
in Crystal City. Born Nov. 30, 1935, in Palmer, she was the
daughter of the late Don and Gladine (Mason) Beers. She was
preceded in death by her husband: Ellis Edmond Midgett.
She is survived by four sons: Dennis (Pam) Midgett, Rich-
ard Midgett, David ( Ramona) Midgett and Douglas (JoAnna)
Midgett; three daughters: Donna (David) Lucas, Connie Reyn-
olds and Tammy Midgett; three siblings: Fay King, Kay (Dave)
Nicks and Ray (Lynn) Beers; a sister-in-law: Anna June Midgett;
10 grandchildren: Caitlin Midgett, Joshua (April) Reynolds, Jeremy Reynolds, James
(Ashley) Midgett, Matthew (Kara) Midgett, Kelly Midgett, Alex Midgett, Nicholas
Midgett, Christopher Midgett and Jonathan Lucas; and 15 great-grandchildren: Ash-
ley Reynolds, Josh Reynolds, Jacob Reynolds, Desiree Peterson, Aidon Peterson,
Ashton Peterson, Maddie Grubb, Aiden Cantrell, Wyatt Midgett, Ben Midgett, Reed
Midgett, Elliott Franklin, Liam Reynolds, Gwen Reynolds, Roland Reynolds, with
another on the way.
She was preceded in death by a son: Arthur Glenn Midgett; four siblings: Earlen
(Ginnie) Beers, Ivan Beers, Bertha (Floyd) Hill and Maybelle Beers; and a grand-
daughter: Jessica Midgett.
Funeral services were held Feb. 9 at DeClue Funeral Home in Potosi, officiated
by Joshua Reynolds, David Midgett and other family members. Burial was in the
Palmer Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of De Clue Funeral Home.
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Life Story: Robert Lee Tucker, 84, of Festus

“Life Story” is posted on Saturdays Central Methodist College, observing
on Leader Publications’ website. It fo- student teachers.
cuses on one individual’s impact on his “He loved that,” Ruth said. “But we
or her community. This story, written by wanted to do some traveling and other
Laura Marlow, was posted March 2. things, so he finally retired.”

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But he wasn’t quite done with public
etired Festus R-6 School District life. He ran for and won a seat on the
Superintendent Robert Tucker Festus City Council.
always tried to “look deeper,” his “I was surprised he did it – I think
family says. someone talked him into it,” Ruth said.
“He was always much more inter- “I think he felt like the community had
ested in someone’s character and their been wonderful to him and this was a way
life circumstances than their pedigree,” he could give back.”
said his daughter, Janetta McCreary, 62, Mr. Tucker suffered a major heart
of Festus. attack in 1996.
Mr. Tucker died Feb. 23 of com- “It was a bad one, and they didn’t
plications from heart disease. He was think he would make it,” Ruth said. “He
a longtime teacher and administrator at had surgery and they did six bypasses.”
Festus R-6. Ruth and Robert Tucker in their most He recovered well, but his heart was
He grew up on a farm in the Bootheel, recent church directory portrait. permanently weakened. In the last couple
the youngest of nine children, and attend- tus, encouraged him to come for a visit, of years, heart damage and lung problems
Mr. Tucker as the “little red-headed,
ed a tiny school where his older sister was since Superintendent Ralph Tynes was freckle-faced country boy” who would go
began to take him down.
the teacher. After graduating from Senath looking for teachers. on to a long career in education. “He was in the hospital a few times,
High in 1952, he came to St. Louis and “He rode to Festus with her and her and he finally came home on hospice in
worked briefly on the assembly line at husband,” Ruth said. “He met with Mr. my daughters worked it with him.” late October,” Ruth said. “It was up and
McDonnell Douglas. He enlisted in the Tynes, got hired and rode back home on In spite of his public position, Mr. down; he had some better days and some
military in 1953. the bus.” Tucker was a private person. not so good. But he was at the table for
“He wanted The family moved to Festus in 1959, “Most people didn’t get to see the Thanksgiving and Christmas, and his
the Air Force, but and Mr. Tucker taught seventh and eighth side of him we did,” Janetta said. “He mind was fine.”
they had already grade and drove a bus, earning his mas- taught my sister to play basketball, taught Ruth said her husband was proud of
met their quota,” ter’s degree in 1963. me volleyball. He never missed any of his career in education and grateful for
said his wife, Ruth. “He was a hands-on father,” Janetta our activities – and that continued into the GI Bill that gave him the opportunity
“Well, he couldn’t said. “He took me on his school bus, and our adult life and with our kids. to go to college.
just go home; they we would go to Biggie Burger after his “They went all over to the grandkids’ “He never dreamed he could grow
had already given bus run.” activities – Kansas, New York, even up and do things like he did,” she said.
him a going-away He soon moved out of the classroom Alaska one year.” “This little red-headed, freckle-faced
party. So he went Cpl. Robert Tucker (and the driver’s seat) and into adminis- In 1989, Mr. Tucker hung up his country boy sure took advantage of the
across the hall and in the early 1950s. tration. superintendent hat. opportunities he had.
joined the Army.” “The elementary principal, Mr. “He just decided it was time to retire, “He was a joyful person, very opti-
He was headed to Korea when the Wood, was retiring, and they offered the and he would try doing something else,” mistic, very positive.
armistice was signed. job to Bob,” Ruth said. He barely had Ruth said. “At church, they talk about ‘a life
“Instead, they sent him to Germany time to settle in, though. He worked for the Missouri School well lived,’ and I think that describes him
and Austria, the 35th Infantry Regiment,” “They asked him to help at the high Boards Association for a while, then for very well.”
Ruth said. “He was discharged in 1955.” school, so he went there and became the
Back home, he reconnected with friends,
one of whom arranged a blind date with
assistant to Mr. Tynes,” Ruth said. “He
earned a specialist degree in education in Jessie ‘Marlene’ Volner, 79, Hillsboro
young Ruth Sims. The two were married 1977, and when Mr. Tynes retired in the Jessie “Marlene” Volner, 79, of Hillsboro died Feb. 27,
in December 1955, and had Janetta 14 late ’70s, Bob became superintendent.” 2019. Mrs. Volner was a former bus driver for the Fox C-6
months later and daughter Patricia in Janetta said the Tuckers were a tight- School District. Born Aug. 30, 1939, in St. Louis, she was the
1969. knit family. daughter of the late Clarice M. (Hoffman) and William H. Lepp.
He completed one year at Southern “I always tell people I had a sort of She was preceded in death by her husband: Richard Z. Volner.
Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Ark., Ward and June Cleaver childhood,” Ja- She is survived by two sons: Richard (Judith A.) Volner and
and eventually transferred to Arkansas netta said. “We did everything together Ronald S. Volner; a daughter: Charlene K. (Jeff N.) Farny; a
State University in Jonesboro, Ruth said. as a family. He and Mom and I lived in brother: William H. Lepp; nine grandchildren: David (Angie),
While still a student, he began teach- Oregon for a summer while he did some Amy, Karly (Jason), Katy, Leslie (Roger), Jesse, Scott and
ing at a tiny country school in Paragould, kind of fellowship. He would go to ad- Michael Volner and Ashley (Danny) Phillips; and 13 great-
driving the bus for extra pay. His sister, ministrator meetings, and we’d go along. grandchildren: Hailey, Joey, Jace, Ryan, Kloe, Kaleb, Bella, Abby, Alexa, Kera,
Genevieve Holligan, who taught at Fes- “My dad ran a booth at the rodeo and Cheyenne, Kylie and Nathan. She was preceded in death by a sister: Beverly Sweeney.
Visitation is from 11 a.m. until a funeral service at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at
Nancy Carol Vessell, 77, Festus Heiligtag-Lang-Fendler Funeral Home, 1081 Jeffco Blvd., in Arnold. Arrangements
are under the direction of Heiligtag-Lang-Fendler Funeral Home.
Nancy Carol Vessell, 77, of Festus died Feb. 14, 2019,
at Festus Manor Nursing Home. Mrs. Vessell had worked for
many years as an activity coordinator at the nursing home. Born Diane Louise Nobles, 69, Festus
March 10, 1941, in Great Falls, Mont., she was the daughter of Diane Louise Nobles, 69, of Festus died Feb. 27, 2019, at
the late Charles and Ethel (Milburn) Houck. Parkland Health Center in Farmington. Mrs. Nobles was born
She is survived by four sons: Lonnie (Annie) Vessell of Feb. 12, 1950, in St. Louis, the daughter of the late Mary Norma
Florida, James (Michelle) Vessell of Ohio, Barry (Cindi) Ves- (Miller) Schilling and Lance Monroe Curtis.
sell of Paulina, La., and Scott (Brook) Vessel of Huttu, Texas; She is survived by a son: James P. Grimm of Festus; a
two sisters: Mary (Holland) Anderson of St. Louis and Susan daughter: Faye Anderson of Crestwood; three brothers: Patrick
(Roy) Cox of St. Louis; and many grandchildren and great- (Debbie) Curtis of O’Fallon, Denny (Cheryl) Curtis of Perryville
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a sister: Judy Crask; and a grandson: and Steve Curtis of Pevely; three sisters: Janet (Joe) Toregrase
Damien Vessell-Blevins. of Las Vegas, Ruthie Reinert of Pevely and Jean (David) Doyle
A memorial gathering is at 9 a.m. and a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Saturday, March of Herculaneum; and three grandchildren: Natasha Gardner, Raven Anderson and Lisa
16, at Our Lady Catholic Church, 1550 St. Mary’s Lane, in Festus. Burial is in the Sa- Dimercurio. She was preceded in death by a brother: Timothy Curtis.
cred Heart Cemetery in Crystal City. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Funeral services were held March 2 at Vinyard Funeral Home in Festus, officiated
Society. Arrangements are under the direction of Mahn Twin City Chapel in Festus. by Pastor Ron Mackey. Arrangements were by Vinyard Funeral Home.
Thursday, March 7, 2019 Obituaries Jefferson County Leader 21

Rita Marie Skaggs, 93, Festus
Rita Marie Skaggs, 93, of Festus died March 1, 2019, at
Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City. Mrs. Skaggs was a
charter member of Our Lady Catholic Church in Festus, where
she was active with the quilting group. Born May 11, 1925,
in Festus, she was the daughter of the late Henry Schuh and
Mary (Kohler) Schuh Herman. She was preceded in death by
her husband: Willis Alvin Skaggs.
She is survived by a son: Eric G. (Kimberly) Skaggs of
Cottontown, Tenn.; two grandsons: Shane (Allison) Skaggs
and Jared (Jenny) Skaggs; seven great-grandchildren: Olivia, Juliana, Gabriella,
Luke, Kylee, Makenzie and Caroline Skaggs; and a sister: Verneda (the late Clifford)
Moser of Festus.
She was preceded in death by two sisters: Matilda “Till” (the late Earl) Skaggs
and Virginia (the late Roland) Lucas; five brothers: Norman (the late Norma) Schuh,
Valley J. (the late Virginia “Virgie”) Schuh, Fred (the late Ethel) Schuh, and infants
Ernest and Edward Schuh; and her stepfather: Andrew A. Herman.
Funeral Mass was held March 5 at Our Lady Catholic Church in Festus, offici-
ated by Father Gregory Klump. Burial was in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Crystal
City. Memorials may be made to the St. Vincent de Paul Society at Our Lady Church
or in the form of Masses. Arrangements were under the direction of Vinyard Funeral
Home in Festus.
Beverly Graham, 72, High Ridge
Beverly Graham, 72, of High Ridge died March 3, 2019, in
St. Louis. Mrs. Graham loved music and enjoyed spending her
time playing the piano and collecting dolls. Born Dec. 6, 1946,
in Anna, Ill., she was the daughter of the late Pete Brimm and
Hazel (Schlenker) Cline.
She is survived by her husband: Thomas Graham; two chil-
dren: Tina (Mike) Walker and Kimberly (Steve) Hauser; seven
grandchildren: Codi (Kristie) Graham, Kaitlyn Walker, Kaitlyn
Hauser, Kara Hauser, Kristina Walker, Steven Hauser, and
Michelle Walker; and many other family members and friends.
She was preceded in death by a son: Wesley Graham; and her stepfather: Floyd Cline.
Visitation is scheduled from 4-8 p.m. today (March 7) at Chapel Hill Mortuary,
6300 Hwy. 30, in Cedar Hill. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, March
8, at the funeral home, followed by burial in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Me-
morials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 425 South Woods Mill
Road, Suite 110, Town and Country, 63017. Arrangements are under the direction of
Marilyn Ann Johnson, 79, Hillsboro
Marilyn Ann Johnson, 79, of Hillsboro, formerly of He-
matite, died March 4, 2019, at her home. Mrs. Johnson was
a realtor with Century 21 and a member of First Christian
Church of Hematite. She was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan
and enjoyed spending time with her family, friends and neigh-
bors in Hematite. Born April 9, 1939, in Crystal City, she was
the daughter of the late Margaret (Pinkley) and Eugene Boyer.
She is survived by a son: Bruce (Suzie) Johnson of He-
matite; three daughters: Vicki (Wade) Amsden of Festus, Lori
(Robert “Bob”) Bundstein of Hillsboro and Gayle Johnson of
Festus; a sister-in-law: Stephanie Boyer of Ash Grove; a broth-
er-in-law: Sam Kitchen of Fayetteville, N.C.; seven grandchildren: Bobby Johnson,
Kevin Johnson, Joseph (Karina) Amsden, Elizabeth (Patrick) Langelier, Katie (Steve)
Picou, Bradley Bundstein and Claude Piva; seven great-grandchildren: Ella Miller,
Hailey Miller, Kaden Smith, Chase Smith, Andi Langelier, Remi Langelier and Liam
Amsden; a nephew: David Boyer; and a great-niece: Emily Boyer.
She was preceded in death by a brother: Donald Boyer; a sister: Peggy Kitchen;
and a grandson: Rusty Piva.
A memorial gathering will be from 10 a.m. until the memorial service at 11 a.m.
Friday, March 8, at Vinyard Funeral home, 616 W. Main St., in Festus, officiated by
Pastor Tish Green. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association. Ar-
rangements are under the direction of Vinyard Funeral Home.
Cameron Michael Spink, 23, Bonne Terre
Cameron Michael Spink, 23, of Bonne Terre died March 3,
2019, at his home. Mr. Spink was an auto appraiser and attended
Encounter Church in Arnold. He was born Sept. 15, 1995, in
Crystal City, the son of Kerri Spink of Bonne Terre.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his grandmother:
Darline Spink of Arnold, Missouri; his stepmother: Tracey Ray;
three siblings: Tara, Sean and Kasey; two aunts: Roberta (Darryl)
Kuenzle of Barnhart and Sandy (Elmer) Hearst of De Soto; two
uncles: Michael (Melissa) Spink of De Soto and Stephen “Scott”
(Carolyn) Spink of Festus; and a nephew: Caine.
A memorial gathering is scheduled from 4 p.m. until a me-
morial service at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Vinyard Funeral Home, 616 W. Main,
in Festus. Arrangements are under the direction of Vinyard Funeral Home.

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Wayne Edward Schilli Jr., 62, of Crystal City died March
2, 2019, at his home. Mr. Schilli was a machine operator at a
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of De Soto; two grandchildren: Blake Youngblood and Lilah Goodman; and several
nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a brother: Jimmy J. O’Neal Jr.
A memorial gathering is at noon, followed by a memorial service at 3 p.m.
Saturday, March 9, at Dietrich-Mothershead Funeral Home, 220 N. Main St., in
De Soto, officiated by Brother Bob Thebeau. Arrangements are under the direction of
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22 Jefferson County Leader Obituaries/Nuptials Thursday, March 7, 2019

Gary Wayne Corcoran, 67, Florissant
Gary Wayne Corcoran, 67, of Florissant died July 20, 2018,
at his home. Mr. Corcoran was a graduate of Crystal City High
School who enjoyed traveling, sprint car racing, country music
and spending time with his wife. He was the son of the late Ann
(Murphy) Corcoran.
He is survived by his wife of 20 years: Deborah (Wilcox)
Corcoran; three children: Gary Junior (Jennifer) Senter, Tiffany
Helms and Jason Senter; and numerous family members and
friends.
He was preceded in death by a brother: Roger Corcoran.
A celebration of life was held July 27 at Hutchens Mortuary in Florissant. Me-
morials may be made to the American Heart Association or the American Diabetes
Association. Arrangements were under the direction of Hutchens Funeral Home.
Ann Marie Corcoran, 99, Festus
Ann Marie Corcoran, 99, of Festus died Feb. 27, 2019, at
Fountainbleau Nursing Center in Festus. Mrs. Corcoran was
a member of Plattin United Methodist Church. She loved to
crochet and read, and is remembered as an exceptional mother.
Born Dec. 4, 1919, in Pevely, she was the daughter of the late
Minnie (Bruedigam) and George Noah Murphy.
She is survived by two daughters-in-law: O’Linda Corcoran
of Escondido, Calif., and Deborah Corcoran of Florissant; four
grandchildren: Sabrina (Joseph) Kadi, Gary (Jennifer) Senter
Jr., Tiffany (James) Mueller and Jason Senter; seven great-
grandchildren; and a sister. She was preceded in death by two
sons: Roger Dale Corcoran and Gary Wayne Corcoran; and three brothers.
A funeral service was held March 5 at Vinyard Funeral Home in Festus, officiated
by the Rev. Kayla Roe. Burial was in Rose Lawn Memorial Gardens in Crystal City.
Arrangements were under the direction of Vinyard Funeral Home.
Candice Ann Maher, 35, House Springs
Candice Ann (Cramer) Maher, 35, of House Springs died
Feb. 26, 2019, at Evelyn House in Creve Coeur. Mrs. Maher had
worked at Costco. Born July 3, 1983, in St. Louis, she was the
daughter of Tom and Sherry (Rieser) Cramer of House Springs.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by her husband of
12 years: Joe Maher of House Springs; two children: Michael
and David Maher of House Springs; a sister: Nicole Gibson of
St. Louis; many other relatives and friends; and her two pets:
Pugsley and Leroy.
A celebration of life will be held from 5:30-11 p.m. Friday,
March 8, at Occasions Event Place, 9451 Gentry Ave., in St.
Louis. Memorials may be made to Sisters Against Rare Cervical Cancer online at
rarecervicalcancers.org.
Mary Gaye Goodwin, 70, Festus
Mary Gaye Goodwin, 70, of Festus died March 1, 2019, at
her home. Mrs. Goodwin was a member of Sacred Heart Church
in Crystal City and the Red Hat Society. She had worked at
Casey’s General Store in Crystal City and Frederick’s Catering
in Festus. Born July 13, 1948, in St. Louis, she was the daughter
of the late Vera Ruth “Vee” (Greegor) and Frederick Linderer.
She was preceded in death by her husband: Charles Steven
“Steve” Goodwin, who died in December.
She is survived by a son: Charles Steven Goodwin II of
Festus; two daughters: Stephanie (Cori Thibault) Goodwin of
Gainesville, Fla., and Courtney (Wayne Williams) Goodwin
of Ste. Genevieve; four sisters: Kerry (Ron) Scaggs of Festus, Nancy (Tom) Meyer
of Bloomsdale, Cindy (Jim) Fallert of Bloomsdale and Cindy Akers of St. Louis;
four brothers: Gary (Barbara) Linderer of Branson, Eric “Mike” (Mary) Linderer of
Lenexa, Kan., Robin (Donna) Linderer of Lenexa and Jeffrey (Charla) Linderer of
Manhattan, Kan.; numerous nieces and nephews; and many co-workers and friends
at the Crystal City Casey’s.
A joint memorial service is planned for the Goodwins on Thursday, April 18, at
Vinyard Funeral Home, 616 W. Main St., in Festus. A memorial gathering is at 5 p.m.,
followed by a memorial service at 7 p.m. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Vinyard Funeral Home.
Nellie Mae Aldridge, 93, Imperial
Nellie Mae Aldridge, 93, of Imperial died Feb. 25, 2019,
at Crystal Oaks Nursing Center in Crystal City. Mrs. Aldridge
was a retired nursing assistant and a member of the Baptist faith.
Born Feb. 10, 1926, in Hartville, she was the daughter of
the late Roy and Maude (Arnold) Hutson. She was preceded in
death by her husband: Delbert Eugene Aldridge.
She is survived by four children: Bonnie (Mike) Harding
of Festus, Shirley (John) Cissell of Crystal City, Nelda (Nick)
Constantino of High Ridge and retired Army Col. Kenneth
Aldridge of Bristow, Va.; three siblings: Sylvie Pyle of Mans-
field, Leroy Hutson of Mountain Grove and Donnie Hutson of
Mountain Grove; seven grandchildren: Paula Voss of Arnold, David Dwayne Reece of
O’Fallon, Tammie Reece Kube of Imperial, Bill Hodge of Imperial, Sarah Haggard of
Cedar Hill, James Aldridge of Manhattan, N.Y., and Michelle Aldridge of Asheville,
N.C.; and 10 great-grandchildren: Megan Talley of O’Fallon, Ryan Reece and Chad
Reece of O’Fallon, Tucker Kube of Imperial, Sydnie Kube of Imperial, Isabella Hodge
of Imperial, Keith Haggard, Cailey Haggard and Natalie Aldridge of Asheville, N.C.,
and Jared Aldridge of North Carolina. She was preceded in death by three sisters:
Goldie, Betty and Maxine; a brother: Troy Hutson; and a grandson: Marine Gunnery
Sgt. Michael Abrams.
Funeral services were held March 1 at Kutis Funeral Home in south St. Louis
County, officiated by John Cissell. Burial was in the Mount Hope Cemetery in St.
Louis County. Arrangements were under the direction of Kutis Funeral Home.

Litviak, Roth wed in October ceremony

Alicia Litviak and Timothy Roth of
St. Louis were married Oct. 27, 2018, at
Haue Valley in Pacific, in a ceremony
officiated by Pastor Herc Noblitt.
The bride is the daughter of Mike
Litviak of Hillsboro and Denise Conway
of Hillsboro. She is a graduate of Hills-
boro High School and holds a bachelor’s
degree from Missouri Baptist University
and a master’s degree from Lindenwood
University. She is employed as a coun-
selor with the Parkway School District.
The groom is the son of Bill Roth
James and Jacqueline Garner at the time The Garners in a recent photo.
of Cedar Hill and Kelly Roth of Eureka.
of their 1968 wedding.
He is a Northwest High School graduate
and is employed with Clinical Solutions.
The couple chose Melissa Neiswan-
Garners celebrate golden wedding anniversary
der of St. Peters as maid of honor and Jacqueline (Jarvis) and James Garner James retired from St. Joe Lead Co.
Oscar Rendon of Maryland Heights as Timothy and Alicia (Litviak) Roth Jr. of Herculaneum celebrated their 50th in Herculaneum in 1985 and has been
best man. wedding anniversary on Dec. 16, 2018, self-employed selling equipment for
Bridesmaids were Alysha McGuirk Dunmire of Florissant. at a party hosted by their daughters. The many years.
of Fenton, Jordanne Pagel of Maryland The ring bearer was Dylan Roth Garners were married Dec. 14, 1968, in Jacqueline retired from working
Heights, Jenna Roth of Cedar Hill and and the couple’s dog, Sophia, served as Hematite. as the manager of the Shoe Warehouse
Sarah Roth of Cedar Hill. flower girl. They have three daughters: Dawn Outlet in Crystal City.
Groomsmen were Adam Roth of The usher was Jake Hudson. Follow- (Clarence) Warner, Kelly (Jeff) Stelling The Garners are members of Victory
Cedar Hill, Anthony Litviak of Hillsboro, ing a honeymoon in Breckenridge, Colo., and Amy (Ron) Oshia; seven grandchil- Church in Pevely. They enjoy traveling to
Andrew Litviak of Hillsboro and Ray the Roths reside in Creve Coeur. dren; and five great-grandchildren. Florida to relax on the Gulf coast beaches.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Thursday, March 7
„„De Soto Railroad Employees Memorial, 6
p.m., first Thursdays, St. Rose of Lima, 504 S.
Fourth St. Call 636-586-8366.
„„Friends of the Library, 2 p.m., first Thursdays,
De Soto Public Library, 712 S. Main St.
„„Herculaneum Historical Society, 7 p.m., first
Thursdays, Herculaneum City Hall, 1 Parkwood
Court. Speaker: Stephen Huss on Gov. Thomas
C. Fletcher. Call 636-475-5476.
„„Grace Way Quilt Guild, 6:30 p.m. first
Thursdays, First Baptist Church of De Soto, 2000
Grace Way. All skill levels welcome.
„„Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Festus
Public Library, 400 W. Main St.
„„Bingo and pinochle, 10 a.m. Thursdays and
Mondays, De Soto Senior Center, 13227 Hwy. E.
Lunch reservations: 636-337-7578.
„„Exercise class, 11 a.m. Thursdays and
Tuesdays, Quad Cities Senior Center, 221
Bailey Road, Crystal City. Meal reservations:
636-937-8333.
„„Jam session, noon to 3:30 p.m., De Soto
Community Center, 400 Boyd St. Free admission.
Food and drinks sold. Call 314-723-0760.
„„Yoga class, 1:30 p.m., Festus Public Library,
400 W. Main St. Free.
Friday, March 8
„„Children’s concert, 7 p.m., Windsor Branch of
the Jefferson County Library, 7479 Metropolitan
Blvd., Barnhart. Free. Shake Ups perform power-
pop songs from and about cartoons. For all ages.
To sign up: 636-461-1914.
„„Fish fry, 4-7 p.m., Our Lady Catholic Church,
1550 St. Mary’s Lane, Festus. Baked tilapia, fried
cod, catfish, shrimp plus sides, desserts, drinks.
Carryouts. Call 636-937-5513.
„„Meeting about film contest, noon, Fine Arts
Mac lab, Jefferson College, Hillsboro campus.
Contest open to teams of up to five members,
who will have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit
a film. Call Nick Nihira at 636-481-3377 or 636-
797-3000.
„„Yard sale, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, starts 7 a.m.
Saturday, Mount Olive UMC, 13675 Mount Olive
Road, De Soto.
„„Jeffco Bridge Club, 9:45 a.m. Fridays and
Tuesdays, Case and Buck’s Banquet Center,
7095 Metropolitan Blvd., Barnhart. Call Rita,
636-464-8768.
„„Music, 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, Festus
American Legion, 849 American Legion Drive.
Kitchen open until 8 p.m. Call 636-937-3000.
„„Exercise class, 11-11:30 a.m. Fridays and
Mondays, De Soto Senior Center, 13227 Hwy.
E. Lunch reservations: 636-337-7578.
„„Jam session, 10 a.m. to noon, De Soto Senior
Center, 13227 Hwy. E. Lunch reservations: 636-
337-7578.
„„Music, 6 p.m., CIA, 13468 Hwy. JJ, south
of Festus. Open jam and open mike. Free
admission, coffee, tea. Band: Rock N Country.
Kitchen opens 5 p.m. Call 314-703-4006.
„„Fish fry, noon to 6 p.m., Herculaneum
Amvets, 690 Joachim Ave. Plates with two sides:
$10; sandwiches with one side: $6. Carryouts,
deliveries. Sponsor: Ladies Auxiliary and Sons
of Amvets. Call 636-749-4040.
„„Coloring and puzzle club, 12:30 p.m.,
Windsor Branch of the Jefferson County Library,
7479 Metropolitan Blvd., Barnhart. Bring own
food and supplies; library has some supplies.
Call 636-461-1914.
„„Fish fry, 4-7:30 p.m., Meramec Arnold Elks.
1515 Miller Road, Imperial. Baked and fried
cod, Jack salmon, shrimp, chicken strips. Call
636-464-8960.
Saturday, March 9
„„M e m b e r s h i p drive and dinner for
BackStoppers, 6-10 p.m., Festus-Crystal City
Elks, 4 Elks Drive, Crystal City. Tickets: $40, $75
for couples and $280 for table of eight. Includes
dinner, open bar, live music, raffles and prizes.
Speeches by two first responders who benefitted
from BackStoppers. Call 636-464-9000.
„„Turkey call and owl shoot, 6 p.m. Festus-
Crystal City Conservation Club, 2567 Hwy. 61
South, south of Festus. Appearance by Ralph
Duren, national turkey gobbling champion and world
quail calling champion. Free. Call 636-933-0908.
„„History presentation, 10 a.m., De Soto
Community Center, 400 Boyd St. Speaker:
Stephen Huss, author of “The Lost Missouri
Governor” on Gov. Thomas Fletcher. Books
available for sale and signing. Call 314-379-8660.
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CIA Hall raises money for gifts
The Community Improvement Association east of De Soto raised $1,560 through a
fundraiser luncheon and Curly Lane’s Christmas show. Members used the money
to shop for Christmas presents for needy children from local schools.
„„Electronic investigators program, 9:30 a.m.,
De Soto Public Library, 712 S. Main St. Free. To
sign up: 636-586-3858.
„„“Meet in the Middle” ice cream and cake
social, 1-3 p.m., Autumn Ridge Senior Living,
300 Autumn Ridge Drive off Scenic Drive,
Herculaneum. For Herculaneum residents.
Information about city and service providers,
music, attendance prizes. Sponsors:
Herculaneum, Autumn Ridge, Herculaneum
Today and Tomorrow. Call 636-931-8400, 636-
475-4447 or 314-852-4964.
„„Choreography workshop, 9 a.m. to noon, Fine
Arts Theater, Jefferson College, Hillsboro campus.
For 16 and older, who will learn dance skills for the
college’s summer musical “Chicago.” Information:
636-481-3367 or rellison@jeffco.edu.
„„International Thinking Day event, 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m., Hillsboro United Methodist Church,
4810 Hwy. B. Free. Performance by Irish tenor
Jeffrey Gonder, tae kwon do demonstration by
Girl Scouts, sampling of international cookies,
cultural costume walk.
„„Wine and Dine event, 7 p.m., Fore Honor Golf
and Event Center at Deer Creek USA, 5300 Dulin
Creek Road, House Springs. Doors open 6 p.m.
Cost: $65; includes six-course dinner with wine,
live music. Benefits: Fore Honor Foundation.
Reservations: 636-671-0447.
„„Choir concert, 3 p.m., Fine Arts Theater,
Jefferson College, Hillsboro campus. Free.
College’s Chamber Singers, Community Chorale
and Concert Chorale, will present “Light Shines
in the Darkness” with the Festus High School
Concert Choir.
„„De Soto Food Pantry, distribution 9 a.m. to
noon, second Saturdays, 705 E. Stone St. at
Flucom Road. Schedule changes: 636-586-7300.
„„Breakfast, 7-10 a.m., De Soto Masons, Third
and Boyd streets. Pancakes, sausage and eggs,
biscuits and gravy: $2 to $6. Call 636-586-8337.
„„Tails for Tales preschool story hour, 10:30
a.m., second Saturdays, De Soto Public Library,
712 S. Main St. Call 636-586-3858.
„„Star party, 7-8 p.m., Jefferson College softball
field, Hillsboro. Telescopes provided or bring own.
Canceled in case of inclement weather or clouds.
Call Maryanne Angliongto, 636-481-3318.
„„Art walk, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., walkway next to
114 Main St., Festus. Features works by local
artists and merchants.
„„Ozark Food Pantry, distribution 8:30-10:45
a.m., Sunset Park, Festus. Bring proof of income.
Must live in 63019, 63028, 63047, 63048 or 63070
ZIP codes.
„„Shooting match, noon, De Soto VFW, 1651
Hwy. E. Call 636-586-9765.
„„Storybird program, 12:30 p.m., De Soto
Public Library, 712 S. Main St. Free. For grades
5 and older, who will create books from artwork.
Call 636-586-2858.
Sunday, March 10
„„Kress Farm Garden Preserve, 1 p.m., second
Sundays, 5137 Glade Chapel Road, Hillsboro.
Call Jo Ferguson, 636-296-9306.
„„Breakfast, 7:30-10:30 a.m., second Sundays,
De Soto Amvets, Hwy. 21 and Amvets Drive.
Sponsor: Auxiliary. Call 636-586-1750.
„„Dance, 5-9 p.m., Festus American Legion,
849 American Legion Drive. Admission: $8. Call
636-937-3000.
Jefferson County Leader
„„Shooting match, noon, De Soto Amvets, Hwy.
21 and Amvets Drive. Meat and money rounds.
Call 636-586-1750.
„„Shooting match, 8:30 a.m., Festus American
Legion, 849 American Legion Drive. Call 636-
937-3000.
Monday, March 11
„„Jefferson County Beekeepers, 7 p.m., 918
Natchez Trace, Bloomsdale, about 10 miles south
of Festus off Hwy. 61. Organizational meeting.
Call Larry Thomas, 314-808-0849.
„„St. Pius X Lancer Dancer Showcase, 7 p.m.,
St. Pius X High School, 1030 St. Pius Drive,
Crystal City. Admission: $5 adults; $3 students.
Email brandeeboyd01@yahoo.com.
„„Tails with Tales, 6 p.m., Windsor Branch of
the Jefferson County Library, 7479 Metropolitan
Blvd., Barnhart. Free. Beginning and reluctant
readers can read to a therapy dog. To sign up:
636-461-1914.
„„Blood drive, 2:30-6:30 p.m., United Methodist
Church, 4810 Hwy. B, Hillsboro. Sponsor:
American Red Cross. Donors need to bring
identification such as a driver’s license or a blood
donor card. Call 314-658-2000.
„„Three Rivers chapter of the Missouri
Archaeology Society, 7 p.m., second Mondays,
Mastodon State Historic Site, Imperial. Call Eric
Smith, 636-464-2976.
„„Home Brewers Club, 6:30 p.m., second
Mondays, Main and Mill Brewing Co., 240 Main
St., Festus. Call Bill, 573-842-8096.
„„Preschool story hour, 10:30 a.m., De Soto
Public Library, 712 S. Main St. Call 636-586-3858.
„„Adult coloring club, 1 p.m., De Soto Public
Library, 712 S. Main St. Free. Call 636-586-3858.
Tuesday, March 12
„„Blood drive, 7:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.,
Herculaneum High School, 1 Blackcat Drive.
Herculaneum. Sponsor: American Red Cross.
Donors need to bring ID. Call 314-658-2000.
„„Band concert, 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Theater,
Jefferson College, Hillsboro campus. Free.
College’s Concert Band will present “Travels of
the Mind.”
„„Belews Creek Watershed Partnership, 7
p.m., second Tuesdays, Kress Farm Garden
Preserve, 5317 Glade Chapel Road, Hillsboro.
Call 636-274-4823.
„„Blood pressure checks, 11 a.m. second
Tuesdays, Quad Cities Senior Center, 2221 Bailey
Road, Crystal City. Free. Meal reservations: 636-
937-8333.
„„S t o r y t i m e , 1 0 a . m . , Tu e s d a y s a n d
Wednesdays, Windsor Branch of the Jefferson
County Library, 7479 Metropolitan Blvd., Barnhart.
Free. Call 636-461-1914.
„„Tech play time for children, 10:45 a.m.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Windsor Branch of
the Jefferson County Library, 7479 Metropolitan
Blvd., Barnhart. Free for ages 2-5, who can explore
library’s tech toys. To sign up: 636-461-1914.
„„Food pantry, 8:30-11:30 a.m., First United
Methodist Church of Festus-Crystal City, 113
Grand Ave., Festus. For those who live in 63019
or 63028 ZIP codes. Call 636-937-6205.
„„Jam session, 6-9 p.m., De Soto Community
Center, 400 Boyd St. Free. Call 636-586-5227.
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„„Paws For Reading program, 5:30-6:30 p.m.,
Festus Public Library, 400 W. Main St. Children
can practice by reading to therapy dog. Call
636-937-2017.
Wednesday, March 13
„„Beekeeping class, 7 p.m., Windsor Branch of
the Jefferson County Library, 7479 Metropolitan
Blvd., Barnhart. Free, Speaker: Scott Moser of
the Jefferson County Beekeepers Association.
To sign up: 636-741-5933.
„„Music, 10 a.m., second Wednesdays, Quad
Cities Senior Center, 221 Bailey Road, Crystal
City. Lunch reservations: 636-937-8333.
Thursday, March 14
„„Blood drive, 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Windsor
High School, 6208 Hwy. 61-67, Imperial. Sponsor:
American Red Cross. Donors need to bring
identification such as a driver’s license or a blood
donor card. Call 314-658-2000.
„„Jazz concert, 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Theatre,
Jefferson College, Hillsboro campus. Grammy
Award-winning trumpeter Terell Stafford will perform
with college’s jazz ensembles. Admission: $5 ($2
students and seniors). Tickets at cashier’s window
on Hillsboro campus; if available, tickets also sold
at door. Free master class with Stafford at 4 p.m. in
Fine Arts Building; reservations not required.
„„History program, 6:30 p.m., Arnold Branch
of the Jefferson County Library, 1701 Missouri
State Road. Free. Topic: “Boos and Booze: The
History and Hauntings of Infamous Beer Barons
of St. Louis.” To sign up: 636-296-5171.
„„Crystal City Book Club, second Thursdays, 7
p.m., Crystal City Public Library, 736 Mississippi
Ave. Adults discuss variety of genres. Light
refreshments. Call 636-937-8573.
„„Show Me Woodturners, 6:30-9 p.m., second
Thursdays, Heuby E. Moore Band Building,
Sunset Park, Festus. Call 636-937-6682.
The Leader is pleased to run community events
free of charge in the calendar. Send events to
Leader Calendar, P.O. Box 159, Festus, 63028,
or to nvrweakly@aol.com. Events that occur
weekly are listed on a space-available basis.
Only nonprofit events that are open to the public
are eligible.
Church notes
Church seeks donations
to help the needy
Trinity Mount Carmel Church of
Jefferson County is seeking donations.
The church, 321 S. Adams St.,
Festus, serves a balanced meal after its 11
a.m. service each Sunday to the homeless
and to others who need a meal. The
church also gives away winter clothes and
coats for those who need them.
Church officials are working to
establish a community garden that can
be used for those in need.
Donations will help feed more
people, install shelves, buy a freezer and
obtain seedlings for the garden.
The church has set up a GoFundMe
page for cash donations that can be
accessed through the church’s website,
trinitychurchjc.com.
For information, call 314-456-9452.
Ministerial Alliance
holds Lenten service
The Twin City Ministerial Alliance
will hold special Lenten services around
the area. The Rev. Lari Grubbs, pastor
of First Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) in Festus, will speak at 5 p.m.
Sunday, March 10, at Wesley United
Methodist Church, 3551 Hwy. 61 south
of Hwy. AA, south of Festus.
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no longer will receive pay following the
announcement of his impending resigna-
tion. Moutray was being paid a $55,000
annual salary as of April 2018.
“He’ll be paid his comp time owed
and vacation time owed, but his salary
stopped with the resignation (notifica-
tion),” Markus said.
Moutray referred questions to his
attorney.
Sweeney said Tuesday she could not
confirm the financial aspects of the separa-
tion, but submitted a written statement on
Moutray’s behalf.
“Given everything that has happened
between the city of Pevely and Chief
Moutray over the last 18 months, the par-
ties came to the realization that there was
no realistic way for the chief to return and
effectively run the department,” she said
in the statement. “After much reflection
and thought, the chief determined it was
in the best interest of the community, the
city and most importantly his officers for
him to part ways with the city.”
On Jan. 7, the board voted 7-0 to place
Moutray on paid administrative leave amid
allegations about a domestic dispute at his
Festus-area home in November 2018.
Moutray’s wife, Dawn Moutray,
contacted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s
Office Nov. 17, 2018, alleging she had
been injured during an altercation with
her husband.
No charges were filed against
Moutray, but after information about the
alleged dispute got out, it drew attention
from a wide range of people, including
representatives from anti-domestic abuse
organizations.
Moutray has not commented about his
wife’s allegations or about his administra-
tive leave. However, Sweeney said Jan. 8
that her client had done nothing to deserve
being removed from his position.
Also at the Jan. 7 meeting, the board
hired attorney Gregory P. White to in-
vestigate the domestic abuse allegations
against Moutray. That investigation was
still underway as of Monday, but likely
will end now that Moutray is resigning,
Markus said.
“We didn’t talk about it (during ex-
ecutive session),” he said. “I’d say the
investigation will stop because he’s gone.
That’s my personal opinion.”
According to court records, Dawn
Moutray filed for divorce from Moutray
Feb. 20 in Jefferson County Circuit Court.
Miller leads Pevely Police
Haas said Capt. Larry Miller, who has
been in charge of Pevely’s Police Depart-
ment since Moutray was placed on leave,
will continue to lead the department until
a new police chief is named.
“We will go out for applications once
the Police Personnel Board establishes the
requirements,” she said.
Miller said he plans to apply for the
job.
He said the department has oper-
ated smoothly despite Moutray’s abrupt
departure.
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debate on the Senate floor, would change
Missouri’s non-commercial vehicle licens-
ing fees from horsepower-based to a fee
schedule that is based, instead, on how
many miles per gallon a vehicle gets.
If approved by the Legislature and
signed by Gov. Mike Parson, the law
would take effect on Aug. 28, 2021.
Missouri is currently the only state to
base license fees on horsepower, which is
considered an antiquated method, and if
the change is made to a mpg fee structure,
it would be the first state in the country
to adopt that method.
The bill calls for a sliding fee scale
for mpg above 29, starting with a base
license fee of $24 annually (the fee most
Missouri vehicle owners pay now).
For a vehicle that gets 30 mpg (based
on industry averaging of city/highway
miles) the owner would pay an extra $6,
and the fee would go up by $6 for every
additional mile, to a maximum of 60 mpg,
when the fee reaches $210. For 61 mpg
and above, the fee would not rise.
So, if a vehicle gets 35 miles per
gallon, the license fee would cost $54,
while the owner of a vehicle that gets 29
or fewer mpg would pay only the base
of $24.
At the top of the scale, the owner of
an all-electric vehicle would pay the $210
fee, plus an existing annual $75 “decal
fee,” set by the Legislature in 1998 for
electrics. (Owners of plug-in hybrids pay
a $37.50 decal fee.) Missouri is among 20
states that currently charge extra fees for
fuel-economy vehicles, although similar
legislation is reportedly under discussion
in another 17 states.
Looking for revenue
So, if Missouri SB 201 is approved,
the owner of an all-electric vehicle
would be charged $285 annually to
keep it legal, more than 10 times the
fee charged to owners of vehicles that
use the most gasoline.
Romine said the bill is not intended
to penalize people who choose a fuel-
efficient vehicle as a means to protect
the environment.
“We have to change with the times
and people should be as environmen-
tally conscious as possible,” he said.
But Missouri can’t afford to ignore
its need for transportation funding,
Romine said, especially after voters
in November 2018 rejected a 10-cent
increase to the state’s existing 17-cent
gas tax, fourth-lowest in the country.
“The more we have electric cars
and hybrids, the more we will see an
adverse effect in funding for roads,”
Romine said. “Not a day goes by that
we don’t talk about it (the need for more
revenue).”
Romine is vice chairman of the
Senate Committee on Transportation,
Infrastructure and Public Safety and
the “we” he refers to are the six other
members of the committee and offi-
cials with the Missouri Department of
Transportation.
“The more we have
electric cars and
hybrids, the more we will
see an adverse effect in
funding for roads.”
State Sen. Gary Romine
R-Farmington
MoDOT in support
MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna
said he supports Romine’s bill, as well
as a companion bill, HB 500, that is
proposed in the Missouri House. Eventu-
ally, one of the bills might take the lead or
elements in each might be merged, as they
make their way through the Legislature.
Federal funding helped in crafting
Missouri’s proposed legislation, McKenna
said, noting that the increasing popular-
ity of electric vehicles is not only a state
problem but a national one, since federal
road funds are mostly derived from the
national 18.4-cent-per-gallon (24.4 cents
for diesel) fuel tax.
While electric vehicles reportedly
make up only 1 percent of the non-com-
mercial market now, analysts expect that
to rise to 15 percent by 2030 and perhaps
up to 55 percent by 2040, as the cost of
the vehicles comes down and the range of
travel between charges goes up.
People who drive fuel-efficient ve-
hicles should not get a “free ride on the
transportation network,” McKenna said.
“Their use of the bridges and roads is the
same as everyone else’s.”
So far, Missouri is among a handful
of states receiving federal grants to study
alternatives to gasoline taxes.
MoDOT received $250,000 in 2017,
$2.88 million in 2018 and $1.72 million
earlier this year to test new ways to finance
highway and bridge projects.
The money comes from the Fed-
eral Highway Administration through its
Surface Transportation System Funding
Alternatives program.
McKenna said a 23-member group
called the 21st Century Task Force on
Transportation traveled the state for seven
months in 2017, collecting information
and feedback, and then made an 88-page
report to the Legislature. Romine’s pro-
posed legislation lines up with one of the
recommendations in the report.
McKenna said those who choose an
electric vehicle because they want to save
money will still see significant savings,
despite a higher license fee.
“This (the legislation) is not a disin-
centive” to purchase an electric vehicle,
he said.
Annual savings on gasoline versus
kilowatts is presently calculated at about
$3,000, McKenna said, and the $210 li-
cense fee is “a small piece,” comparatively.
“They (electric vehicles) are good
for the environment and good for pocket-
books,” he said. “The negative impact is
that every mile they travel, we’re drawing
less revenue.
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“We’re not funding even half of what
we need to maintain our roads and bridges
in the state. This is about equity.”
Romine said the Senate’s fiscal over-
sight calculated that SB 201 would bring
in an additional $62 million to $78 million
when it is fully in effect, but McKenna said
his department sees it as “revenue neutral,”
because gas tax revenue goes down with
every purchase of an electric vehicle.
McKenna noted that some other
states receiving study grants have been
looking at charging drivers by the number
of miles they travel, but he sees major
issues with that method.
“It would cost 20 percent of the
revenue just to collect it (mileage-based
fees),” he said. “Plus, there are legitimate
privacy concerns.”
Vehicles would need to be tracked
to record how many miles they travel
and where, since each state would be due
revenue for miles traveled on its roads.
McKenna said he is hopeful the leg-
islation will pass.
“It’s good policy,” he said.
Jefferson County has another impor-
tant voice in the transportation funding
debate in 114th District State Rep. Becky
Ruth, R-Festus, who chairs the House
Transportation Committee.
Contacted in February, she said she
had not yet had an opportunity to com-
pare Romine’s bill with HB 500, spon-
sored by 61st District State Rep. Aaron
Griesheimer, R-Washington.
“There are an array of bills out there
on ways to improve our infrastructure,
and we will be looking at the merits of
each of them,” Ruth said. “There is not
going to be one miracle thing that is go-
ing to fix this.”
Opposition
Katherine Stainken, policy director
for Plug In America, a nonprofit that rep-
resents drivers of electric vehicles across
the U.S., hopes Missouri’s proposed leg-
islation does not become law.
While she agrees that alternatives to
the gasoline tax will be needed as electric
vehicles become more popular, she views
SB 201 as unfair.
“Right now, the highest registration
fee is in Georgia (at) $200, and a lot of
policymakers think that was a mistake
and want to reduce it to $25,” she said.
“This kind of policy penalizes EV drivers
and won’t be sustainable in the long run.”
Stainken said fees based on miles
traveled or by weight make more sense,
and also noted that gasoline taxes in
most states (like Missouri) have not been
indexed for inflation.
“That’s what they should be looking
to address,” she said.
“People realize that the future of
transportation is electric, whether they
want it to be or not, and this (transporta-
tion funding) needs to be a nationwide
conversation,” she said.
She suggested that Missouri table ac-
tion and study the issue further. A drasti-
cally higher license fee for fuel-efficient
cars “is just putting a Band-Aid on the
issue,” Stainken said.
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Fenton man sentenced to eight years in prison for drugs
By Tony Krausz
For the Leader
Jason J. Hardman, 39, of Fenton has
been sentenced to eight years in prison
following felony drug convictions and
probation violations, according to court
papers.
On Jan. 8, Jefferson County Div. 4
Circuit Judge Brenda Stacey revoked
Hardman’s probation and executed an
eight-year prison term for drug trafficking
and a five-year term for possession of a
controlled substance he previously had
been sentenced to. The two terms will be
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abstentions on Feb. 25 to transfer $43,000
from one area of the budget to another so
it could pay the owner of the lot, LCASS
Contracting Co. of High Ridge, for the
parcel.
The purchase of the property has
generated controversy, though.
Linda Schroeder of House Springs,
a longtime member of the county’s Parks
Board, which governs the activities of the
Jefferson County Parks and Recreation
Department, resigned in protest of the
purchase.
After the Feb. 25 meeting, Schroeder
said she plans to file suit in an effort to
prevent the county from closing on the
purchase.
“I’m going to sue the county,” she
said. “I’ve already spoken with a lawyer
about this. I believe the county has not
followed its process. They’re asking tax-
payers to pay for something without the
opportunity to properly respond.”
No suit had been filed as of Monday,
at the Leader deadline.
Schroeder questioned why the Jan.
28 vote to buy the land was part of the
council’s consent agenda – a bundle of
mostly routine items that require a single
vote – rather than treated as a separate or-
dinance, which calls for three affirmative
votes over at least two meetings.
Former County Councilman Don
Bickowski, who served eight years repre-
senting District 1, agreed.
“I don’t remember a time when a land
purchase was a consent agenda item,” he
said.
County Executive Dennis Gannon,
who sets the council meeting agendas, said
the consent agenda was the proper place
for the purchase.
“It is a contract, which makes the con-
sent agenda a proper place for it,” he said.
“Anyone on the council can pull any bill
off the consent agenda (for further discus-
sion or to be treated as a regular item), but
no one did it.”
Two appraisals, two prices
Critics of the purchase, including
Schroeder and Bickowski, also have con-
tested the appraisals of the land.
The county got two appraisals, an ini-
tial one that valued the property at $30,000
and a later one setting the value at $43,000.
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served concurrently,
or at the same time,
court records said.
Jefferson Coun-
ty assistant prosecut-
ing attorney Lindsay
E. Whalen handled
the cases.
In December
2012, Hardman, for-
merly of Barnhart Jason Hardman
and Dittmer, was
found in Jefferson County with more
than 30 grams of methamphetamine, the
probable-cause statement said.
Jefferson County Council members voted in January to buy a 1.05-acre piece of land
at 2800 Horrell Lane, which would be added to the Civic Center “L”-shaped lot to make
it a rectangle of about 4 acres total.
Parks Director Tim Pigg said when
he learned the property, which was owned
by Virginia Horrell for years but bought in
2016 by Daniel Lakin and LCASS Con-
tracting, might be available, his depart-
ment paid for an appraisal by Steven Todd
of Todd Real Estate Services of Festus.
Todd set the value of the property at
$30,000.
However, Pigg said, Lakin wanted
$43,000 for the lot.
In April 2018, he said, the Jefferson
County Parks Foundation – a private group
that helps pay for parks improvements but
works independently of the Parks Board
– paid for a second appraisal by Nancy
Hollingshead of Appraisals by Nancy LLC
of House Springs, which set the property’s
market value at $43,000.
The Parks Board was presented with
the second appraisal but did not act on
whether to buy the property.
The County Council was asked in
May 2018 to consider a proposal to pur-
chase the lot for $43,000, but after no one
introduced the bill, it died.
But then the council revisited the issue
in January and agreed to buy the land, and
the controversy surfaced.
Schroeder, Bickowski and another
critic of the purchase, Nancy Jordan of
Jefferson County Leader
He pleaded guilty to the charge and
was sentenced in November 2013 to eight
years in prison. However, he was released
in April 2014 after completing a treatment
program, the sentence was suspended and
he was placed on five years’ probation,
court documents said.
Hardman violated his probation
on Aug. 14, 2016, when he was found
in Jefferson County in possession of a
controlled substance. He pleaded guilty
to the charge in April 2017 and the eight-
year term was executed, to be served
concurrently with a five-year prison term
he was sentenced to for the possession
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High Ridge, said they felt the second ap-
praisal was improper.
“I’m really confused why the County
Council would go with a higher appraisal,”
Jordan said, “rather than consider its own
appraisal (by Todd).”
Bickowski and Schroeder also ques-
tioned why Brian Haskins’ name originally
was on the cover sheet of the Hollingshead
appraisal when it was presented to the
council in May 2018, but was removed
when the issue was revived.
Haskins (District 1, High Ridge), who
defeated Bickowski on a pro-parks agenda
in the August 2018 election, said there’s a
simple explanation.
“When I was president of the Parks
Foundation, four or five years ago we
contracted with Hollingsworth on an ap-
praisal for the Northwest Sports Complex
to prepare for a grant application, which
we ultimately received.
“I was no longer part of the Parks
Foundation when the (second) appraisal
was ordered, but she just assumed I was
still part of it. Once that was pointed out,
my name was taken off. Nothing in the ap-
praisal changed. It was just a cover sheet.”
Schroeder also presented the council a
list of small, vacant residential lots that are
either on the market or have sold recently,
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charge from the 2016 incident. He again
was released early – in July 2018 – after
completing a treatment program, and he
was placed on five years’ probation, ac-
cording to court records.
However, he violated the probation
yet again, and Stacey executed the previ-
ous two prison terms.
Hardman previously was convicted
of felony drug possession tied to a Sept.
2006 incident in Ste. Genevieve County,
according to court records.
Hardman currently is in the Eastern
Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional
Center in Bonne Terre.
noting that very few of them in the North-
west R-1 School District are listed or have
sold for near the $30,000 of the original
appraisal, much less the second one.
Gannon has said that squaring off
the irregularly shaped lot makes it more
valuable for the county than for any other
buyer. “We want to be able to put this
property together so we can start applying
for grants and putting it to use,” Gannon
said. “You have to remember that apprais-
als are opinions.”
Council members dissent
Councilman Charles Groeteke (Dis-
trict 4, Barnhart), who cast the sole dissent-
ing vote on Feb. 25 after abstaining on the
land purchase vote, said he has carefully
considered the issue.
Groeteke said a proposed county
Americans With Disabilities Act transition
plan estimated that it would cost $39,000
to bring the High Ridge Civic Center into
compliance.
“I’d rather spend the money on bring-
ing our buildings into compliance so they
can be used by all of our residents than
spending it on extra property,” he said.
Councilman Jim Terry (District 7,
Cedar Hill), who voted for the purchase
but abstained on the budget move, said
he took the information presented by op-
ponents into consideration.
“I support adding the property, but
I think the price we’re paying is way
too high,” he said. “If I was against the
purchase, I would have voted no (on the
budget move). By abstaining, once I heard
additional information, I considered that a
less strong ‘no’ vote, at least in my mind.”
Councilwoman Renee Reuter (Dis-
trict 2, Imperial) also said she considered
information provided by opponents.
“I did vote to buy the property, and
that was one vote,” she said. “But I was
going on the information I had at the time.
Since then, other information has been pre-
sented, and if someone comes to Hillsboro
to present information, for us not to look
at it, I think is disingenuous.”
Haskins said he’s happy the purchase
looks as if it’s going to happen.
“This is going to benefit a lot of peo-
ple,” he said. “These issues we’re talking
about now are going to seem insignificant
years from now when our children and
grandchildren are enjoying this park.”
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Ron Rigdon photo
Khayman signals to the online crowd that he is in full
control of the match.
Wrestler: Father, counselor and painter, Johnson returns to the ring
Continued from Page 1
as Khayman, Master of the Dark Arts,
began wrestling again after taking nearly
a decade off.
For that February match, Johnson and
his daughter stalked around the ring, with
a casket on one side and the theme song
from the movie, “Dead Silence” playing,
followed by the song “Fire on High” by
ELO.
Johnson, the 6-foot-2-inch, 215-pound
professional wrestler, stopped in front of
one section of the 600 fans who came
out to see the Mid-Missouri Wrestling
Alliance’s show, stretched out his arms,
flipped back a leather hood covering his
face and revealed a white mask streaked
with red and black.
He is a regular competitor for the
MMWA, which holds matches the second
Saturday of every month at the athletic
club, 2301 S. Seventh St.
For the match last month, he was
taking on Lamont Thomas, 60, a wrestler
known as Shaft, who, according to an
ongoing MMWA storyline, was a referee
who tried his best to make sure Khayman
didn’t win his matches.
The feud was coming to a head with
the casket match, which required a wres-
tler to put his opponent in the casket and
shut the lid. It was the first match of its
kind for the club, and the idea to do the
match came about because Johnson was
one of six people to take home a coffin
after participating in the Six Flags 30-hour
coffin challenge held last October at the
Eureka amusement park.
“That was the one I spent the night
in,” Johnson said.
Before the bell sounded, Xander –
Brian Johnson’s 11-year-old son – turned
and said, “My dad is going to win.”
About 15 minutes later, Xander’s
prediction proved right, after a match that
featured Khayman suplexing Shaft from
the middle rope; Shaft hitting Khayman
with a foreign object; Khayman being
put in the casket and fighting his way out
after a doll released mist in Shaft’s face;
and finally a swinging neck-breaker in the
middle of the ring that allowed Khayman
to roll Shaft into the casket, all carried
out to a mix of cheers and boos from the
crowd.
News
Khayman engages his fans at the South Broadway
Athletic Club prior to a Feb. 9 bout.
Lisa Rigdon photo
Khayman and his daughter/manager
Shayla make their way into the gym where
Khayman would do battle with Shaft.
“It is like nothing in the world,”
Johnson said about performing in the ring.
“You are a super hero. You get to live vi-
cariously through (a wrestling character)
for a couple of nights a month. They say
shrinks need shrinks; this is my shrink.
This keeps me even keel.”
Real world
Johnson is a counselor for Preferred
Family Health Care and works in the Han-
cock and Bayless school districts. He also
works as a professional painter.
“I’m doing what I always thought I
wanted to do,” he said of being a coun-
selor. “Not only am I helping the youth of
America find a way, if they have problems,
I help them with that. I help guide them
to their post-secondary careers. And I can
be a mentor and someone to talk to. That
means the world.”
Johnson, who first started wrestling
in 2003, said his family also means the
world to him, and Shayla is why he took
up the sport again after a leg injury forced
him to give it up in 2007.
But then he was watching the World
Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night
Raw weekly show with his daughter,
and she asked a life-changing question,
Johnson said.
“When are you going to do it again?’”
she asked her father.
“I said, ‘I don’t know if I can do it
again,’” and she said, ‘I want to do it.’”
That led to a promise.
“The deal was if I could get back
Lisa Rigdon photo
Khayman takes control of his match against Shaft.
Outside the wrestling arena, Brian
Johnson spends time with his daughter,
Shayla, and son, Xander.
in shape and my body could still do it, I
would wrestle by her birthday,” Johnson
said. “That was about eight months out.
It was November; we were shooting for
June.”
Getting started
Nearly 15 years before that promise
for a comeback, Johnson found his way
into professional wrestling while working
at Home Depot.
Johnson said he saw a picture in
the break room of a man surrounded by
people he worked with in a wrestling ring.
It turned out the guy in the ring was the
store’s electric department manager, and
Johnson quickly tracked him down.
“I told him, ‘I don’t care what I have
to do, I want to do this. I have to try to do
it,’” Johnson said.
He began training in Smithton, Ill.,
and then in East Carondelet, Ill.
“I took to it like a fish to water,” said
Johnson, who grew up playing goalie
in soccer and was on teams at Webster
University and briefly at Lindenwood
University.
“I managed to do about four months
of training in a week because I was able
to do what was needed to be done.”
Johnson was contacted by MMWA,
which was working out of a building in
Soulard at the time, and after a month
training with the promotion, he had his
first match and was a mainstay until 2007.
“My leg blew up,” said Johnson, who
was MMWA’s light heavyweight cham-
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Ron Rigdon photo
pion three times. “I tore my groin, the
top of my quadricep, strained both sides
of my knee and tore my calf all at once. It
happened in the ring one night, but I went
home and all was fine. The next day, I was
painting, and I heard a pop in my leg and
the whole thing just went. That brought a
quick end to everything we had going on.”
The return
Johnson went to an MMWA show at
the Athletic Club after making the birth-
day promise to Shayla, and right away,
the question was – is a comeback in the
works?
“I hadn’t talked to anybody,” he said.
“I was like, ‘We will see.’”
Johnson contacted Jim Yount at
Dynamo Pro Wrestling, an independent
wrestling organization in St. Louis, about
a place to train. Then he started training
with an old wrestling friend – Matthew
McDarby, 33, whose wrestling character
is Mauler McDarby.
McDarby said Johnson had helped
him early in his career and he was happy
to repay the favor.
“Brian was a guy who was like, ‘I’m
going to help you learn some stuff,’” said
McDarby, who started wrestling when
he was 21. “I felt in my heart I owed it
to him to give him the same kind of help
that he gave me when I started. I wanted
to repay it.”
Johnson said he dropped about 37
pounds when he started training again,
and though the workouts were rigorous,
they weren’t as hard as he thought they
would be.
“I think it was better that I built it up
in my head how bad it was going to be,”
Johnson said.
He returned to wrestling in May 2017
as Khayman – a name from a character in
Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles”
– and has been going strong ever since.
Johnson said he plans to keep wres-
tling for as long as he is physically able
to perform.
“I’m living the best of both worlds,”
he said. “I still get to be home with my
family and do everything I want to do,
and I still get to do this.”
Johnson and his wife, Starr, 42, have
been married for 12 years.
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The Class 4 District 3 Boys Final

County
Line
Russell
Korando

Pool play is benefit

to county teams

G
reg Fortner wrapped up the
last game of his head coaching
career in Jackson on Feb. 25.
Fortner coached the Northwest girls
basketball team
for two years.
The Lions (12-13)
lost to Poplar
Bluff 57-29 in the
Class 5 District 1
tournament and
senior Megan
Fortner played
her final game for
her dad. Greg said
watching Megan Lisa Rigdon photos
Greg Fortner Hillsboro boys basketball players, from left, Evan Worley, Michael Brewer, Garrett Pinkley and Ethan Worley each cut a piece of
and his son, Seth
Fortner, come to the conclusion of their net from the rim after the Hawks beat Lutheran South 68-53 to win the Class 4 District 3 title on Friday. It’s the Hawks’ third straight
district championship. To see more photos, go to myleaderpaper.com.

Hawks power past Lancers

prep careers made it a perfect time to
step aside.
Seth was the quarterback for the
Lions in the fall and played guard and
forward for the Lion boys this winter.
“I’m sure you’ll still see me around
Northwest (athletics),” Fortner said.
Before the season began, the coach
said it would be “sad” and “fun” at the
same time watching the youngest of
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Leader
By Russell Korando
For the Leader
Hillsboro head coach Dan Johnson
lets his seniors play in foul trouble.
Senior forward Michael Brewer
picked up his third foul 30 seconds after
Lutheran South’s Jack Lawson tied the
Class 4 District 3 championship 40-40
at the end of the third quarter on Friday.
Class 4 District 3 boys
Feb. 23-March 1 at Hillsboro
Seeds: 1. Hillsboro; 2. Lutheran South;
3. Rockwood Summit; 4. Festus; 5. Windsor;
6. Pacific
Feb. 23: Festus 62, Windsor 50; Summit
60, Pacific 40
Feb. 26: Hillsboro 57, Festus 43; Lutheran
South 67, Summit 55
March 1: (Championship) Hillsboro 68,
Lutheran South 53

Athlete
Many coaches would have waved Class 4 District 3 girls
Brewer to the bench, but Johnson let Feb. 23-March 1 at Hillsboro

of the
Week
Michael Brewer
Hillsboro basketball
The senior forward scored 20 points
in the Class 4 District 3 semifinals
against Festus and led all scorers with
20 more in the Hawks’ 68-53 district
championship win against Lutheran
South on Friday. For his career, Brewer
has scored 1,726 points, grabbed 956
rebounds and been a part of three
consecutive district champions. He
will attend the University of Southern
Mississippi in Hattiesburg next fall on
a baseball scholarship.
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Seeds: 1. Festus; 2. Lutheran South; 3.
Brewer stay in the game, and the top- Pacific; 4. Rockwood Summit; 5. Notre Dame
seeded Hawks (23-4) responded by scor- St. Louis; 6. Hillsboro; 7. Windsor
ing the first eight, and 12 of the first 14
points, of the fourth quarter against South
Feb. 23: Pacific 56, Hillsboro 27; Summit
61, Notre Dame 43; Lutheran South 61,
Windsor 28
(No. 2, 16-11) and were never threatened Feb. 25: Summit 45, Festus 33; Lutheran
again in their 68-53 win at home. South 60, Pacific 48
“You still have to be aggressive when March 1: (Championship) Summit 41, Hillsboro junior guard Mark Moore lifts off
they drive the ball on you,” Brewer said.
Lutheran South 34
for a shot against Lutheran South.
“We’ve been playing Michael all
titles, a record of 72-13, and the Hawks deadline.
year in foul trouble,” Johnson said. “If
are virtually unbeaten at home (a single Hillsboro was beaten by Sikeston in
he has two fouls in the second quarter,
loss). the sectional game the last two years, but
we leave him in there. We did the same
The Hawks played District 4 cham- the Bulldogs (25-1) dropped their first
thing with Gaven (Pinkley) last year and
pion St. Mary’s (15-12) in the sectional game of the season in the District 1 final
we do that with seniors we trust.”
round on Tuesday, after the Leader to Cape Girardeau Central (25-3).
In the last three years under Johnson,
The Hawks have won 15 games in a
Hillsboro has stacked up three district
row and haven’t lost in 2019.
Two turns in the key by junior guard
Mark Moore locked away the Hawks’ lat-
“We’ve been playing Michael all year est district crown as their 28-point fourth
in foul trouble. If he has two fouls in the quarter began. Moore made two straight
shots inside the key, then tucked away a
second quarter, we leave him in there.” pair of free throws after a technical foul
Dan Johnson by Lutheran South’s Josiah Yaeger to give
Hillsboro boys basketball head coach See CHAMPS, Page 30
28 Jefferson County Leader
St. James guard overwhelms Blue Jays
By Russell Korando
For the Leader
Jefferson saw a little too much of
Andrew Branson in its first-ever boys
basketball sectional game.
Branson, a junior guard for St. James,
scored a game-high 31 points and led
his team to a 52-37 victory in the Class
3 game Feb. 27 at Jefferson College in
Hillsboro.
The Blue Jays finished their season
at 19-9.
Many of Branson’s forays to the rim
resulted in trips to the free-throw line,
where he made 13 of 14 shots.
“In the second
half, St. James was
a little quicker to
the loose balls,”
J e ff e r s o n h e a d
coach Sean Breeze
said. “(Branson)
was getting what
he wanted and we
had a hard time
stopping him.”
Sean Breeze Jefferson
senior Easton Null scored more than
1,000 points over the last two seasons,
both ending with Player of the Year hon-
ors in the Jefferson County Activities As-
sociation small-schools. Null finished his
career with the Blue Jays scoring 1,865
points. Winning a district championship
was a perfect way for Null to cap his
career, he said.
“My first three years we weren’t suc-
cessful in district,” Null said. “So coming
out and winning three district games and
the championship meant a lot. Our team
showed a lot of heart and we showed how
we could play under Coach Breeze with
defensive intensity.”
Null scored the game’s first basket
against St. James, but his next effort
from behind the arc was an air ball and
he didn’t make another shot from the field
until 49 seconds remained in the first half.
“It wasn’t a good night for a poor
Thunder booms in Columbia
The Twin City Thunder fourth-grade boys basketball team finished first with a record
of 6-0 at the Show Me State Games in Columbia on Feb. 22-24. Team members, front
row, from left, are Brayden Good, Cooper Schilly, Hudson Bates and Kamden Yates.
In the back, from left, are coach Terence Wilkes, Parker Perry, Braydon Wilkes, Gus
Drinen, Colin Finney and coach Steve Yates.
Sports
Boys Basketball Playoff Notebook
Jefferson senior Cole Holdinghausen, right, tries to grab a rebound from St. James
junior Andrew Branson during the Class 3 boys basketball sectionals on Feb. 27. To
see more photos, go to myleaderpaper.com.
offensive night,” said Null, who led Jef-
ferson with 12 points. “Our defense held
them to 23 points in the first half, so I
think it was still there tonight.
“It was a great career. I couldn’t have
done it without my teammates setting
screens so I could get those open shots. I
was fortunate to hit a lot of them.”
Junior forward Jon Weik made a
3-point basket and then blocked a St.
James shot a minute into the third quarter,
then Null’s trey cut the Tigers’ lead to
25-21 with 6:57 left in the third quarter.
But that’s as close as the Blue Jays would
get after junior guard Austin Ridenhour
scored and Branson made a 3-point basket
Ted Howell photos
to make it 30-21.
Perhaps a sign of the end for Jeffer-
son was a 3-point effort by senior Erik
Eisenbeis that got stuck between the glass
and the rim. The Blue Jays were awarded
possession after that shot and Null scored
to trim the Tigers’ lead to seven. Senior
guard Tyler Recker and Branson com-
bined for the next six points for St. James.
Breeze said the Blue Jays spent so
much energy on defense trying to rally,
the offense was flat and unable to crack
the Tigers.
Jefferson senior Collin Gosnell looks to
score against St. James in the Class 3
sectionals.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
“Their defense is very good. They
pressure and are under your nose the
whole time,” Breeze said. “I would have
liked to (get) the ball inside more. We
were out of sync on offense. I think every-
body could see that. We tried to run some
sets and nothing was working. When you
get that pressure, instead of looking at
the rim, you tend to turn your back to it.”
The loss to the Tigers was just the
third game this sea-
son that Weik was
held to 10 points
or fewer as he reg-
istered nine. Weik
averaged 18 points
per game this sea-
son and poured in
25 against St. Pius
X in the Class 3
District 3 final.
Early in the
Easton Null sectional game, the
Blue Jays fed senior guard Cole Holding-
hausen on the baseline outside of the arc.
Holdinghausen’s 3-pointer with 2:05 left
in the first tied the game 7-7. He didn’t
score again, though.
“He’s hit those for us all year. If he
had 10 more open shots, we’d give it to
him,” Breeze said.
Null, Holdinghausen, Eisenbeis, Ja-
cob Bridges, Collin Gosnell and Daniel
McWhorter all played their final games
as seniors for Jefferson.
“We had incredible effort and heart
from our seniors,” Breeze said. “It was
their effort and determination that got us
here. It wasn’t our best game, but the ef-
fort and heart were there. St. James was
just better tonight.”
Despite all of the points and confer-
ence awards, Null said he’s still weighing
his options about where or if he’ll play
college basketball. Buying into Breeze’s
defensive philosophy helped Jefferson
capture its first district title, Null said.
“When we came out in that first
district game against Woodland, I could
see that our defensive intensity changed
a lot,” Null said. “Everybody was tak-
ing pride in not letting their guy score.
When our offense is clicking, it’s hard
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to beat us.”
St. James lost to Charleston, 83-64,
in the Class 3 quarterfinals on Saturday.
The Tigers (18-11) were seeking to return
to the state’s final four for the first time
since 1976, when they won the Class 2A
championship.
Hawks keep heat on Tigers
Once the deluge of 3-point baskets
dried up in the second quarter, the Hills-
boro defense went to work.
The Hawks (No. 1 seed) and Festus
(No. 4) combined for 10 3-pointers in the
opening quarter of the Class 4 District 3
boys basketball semifinals on Feb. 26.
But Hillsboro clamped down on the pe-
rimeter and held the Tigers to six points
over the next two quarters en route to a
57-43 victory.
“We always take what the defense
gives us,” Hillsboro head coach Dan
Johnson said. “We saw a little bit differ-
ent defense than what we’ve seen from
Festus in the past. Whoever’s open, we
let it fly. We don’t feel like you can key
on one or two guys.”
Hillsboro is 6-0 against Festus the
past two seasons and has won eight
straight against the Tigers, dating back
to December 2015.
“We had a concerted effort to take
their inside game away,” Festus head
coach Jason Therrell said. “You have to
take something away from them. If they
miss a couple of those (3-pointers) it
might be a different game.”
Junior Ethan Worley made the
Hawks’ first trey of the game and sank
another as the buzzer sounded to end the
first quarter. Worley didn’t score the rest
of the game. Guards Mark Moore (nine
points) and Ben Lampkins (18) each
made three 3-pointers and senior forward
Michael Brewer added another in the
course of scoring a game-high 20 points.
“We really focused on defense in
the second quarter,” said Brewer, who
averages 21.2 points and 10.8 rebounds
per game. “Our shots weren’t falling. We
focused on something else.”
Brewer slung a 30-foot pass to Lamp-
kins, who scored to give the Hawks a
31-19 lead. Lampkins returned the favor
by feeding Brewer for his signature alley-
oop slam dunk as the buzzer sounded to
end the first half.
After Lampkins scored to give
Hillsboro a 44-21 lead 20 seconds into
the fourth, the Hawks were threatening
to turn on the running clock under the
mercy rule.
But Festus senior Kobe Branscomb
and Aquille Mohammed had other ideas
and the two combined to score all of the
points in the Tigers’ 8-0 run that forced
Hillsboro head coach Dan Johnson to
call time.
Mohammed led Festus with 14
points. Branscomb scored nine to go
along with four rebounds, two assists and
two steals. For the season, Branscomb
averaged 11.3 points per game.
“Kobe has meant everything to us the
last couple of years with his heart and his
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Russell Korando photo
Festus senior Kobe Branscomb averaged
11 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this
season.
hustle,” Therrell said. “I couldn’t be more
proud of the way he represented Festus.”
Festus (17-10) entered the district
tournament without its leading scorer
after senior Savez Thomas was dismissed
from the team for a “discipline issue,”
Therrell said. Mohammed started both
district games. He made 34 of 42 free
throws (81 percent) this season.
“(Mohammed’s) a good player and
has been the second half of the season
and I’m proud of the way he progressed
this year. He kept maturing on and off the
court,” Therrell said.
Thomas averaged 12 points and six
rebounds in 20 games.
“He did contribute to us this year. I
don’t know what his (Thomas’) presence
would have meant to this game, but if you
make a mistake you can’t be part of the
team,” Therrell said.
Lampkins said despite Hillsboro’s
winning streak over Festus, the Tigers
are a tough opponent.
“They play really good defense on
us,” Lampkins said. “It seems when we
move the ball early we force some things,
then we get stops and score in transition.
“They can bring a lot of shooters
off the bench. They have guys who can
drive really well. You have to know who
you’re guarding.”
Jags post first winning
season in nine years
Forced to play the final third of the
basketball season without their leading
scorer and rebounder, the Seckman girls
still posted their first winning season in
nine years.
Junior Makayla Parton, who aver-
aged 18 points and nine boards, was
sidelined for the balance of the regular
season after suffering a high ankle sprain
against Northwest in late January. She
made a cameo appearance in the Jag-
uars’ Class 5 District 1 game against
top-seeded Jackson on Feb. 25, but that
wasn’t enough.
The Indians beat Seckman (No. 4)
Jefferson County Leader
60-23 and then won their third straight
district title with a 43-35 victory over
Poplar Bluff (No. 2) in the final.
Seckman finished 13-11.
“I think Jackson has everything you
need to be a final four team,” Seckman
assistant coach Jim Claxton said. “They
have eight seniors, start three, and yet
have a freshman point guard and a
sophomore shooting guard who is a solid
player. They’re one of those teams built
to make a run. Yet we were up 11-10 late
in the first quarter. Their freshman hit a 3
(pointer), and they proceeded to go on a
42-1 run. It was just a blitzkrieg.
“Any time you lose a scorer who
averaged 16, 17 points, 10 rebounds, and
plays at the top of our press (defense), it
forced us to change everything, offen-
sively and defensively. But it also gave
other people opportunities to score. Los-
ing Makayla, though, certainly changed
the flow of our offense. And defensively
we had to play zone most nights, which
is something we never do. We knew we
couldn’t cover the points she scored, so
we had to try and limit the possessions of
the other teams.”
Claxton said even without the 6-0 ju-
nior, the Jaguars did have some other girls
step to the forefront to help register that
rare winning season. In the first season of
pool play among Suburban Conference
teams, Seckman finished 4-3 in Green
pool games. The Green pool is the third
tier of four in the alignment.
“There were two games, back to
back, where Tatum Wyman scored 18 and
23 (points), and she gained some confi-
dence and consistency,” Claxton said.
“Abby Townsend was pretty consistent all
the way through as our second option. But
we were very pleased, especially, with the
way Tatum stepped up.”
Seckman boys bow out
The Seckman boys, on the other hand,
haven’t come close to establishing a win-
Foeller honored for title
De Soto High School sophomore
Jaycee Foeller was honored on the Mis-
souri House Floor on Feb. 26 for her
historic wrestling achievement.
Foeller capped a perfect 35-0 season
by pinning Lafay-
ette sophomore
Josette Partney
in 3:48 to win the
167-pound cham-
pionship during
the Missouri State
High School Ac-
tivities Association
(MSHSAA) girls
wrestling cham-
pionship meet on
Jaycee Foeller
Feb. 16 at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia.
State representatives Elaine Gan-
non (R-De Soto) and Mike McGirl (R-
Potosi) presented a House resolution to
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Lisa Rigdon photo
Seckman teammates Savana Stephens,
left, and Makayla Parton await a rebound
during a game against Eureka in January.
ning record under Travis Williams, who
completed his third season as the head
coach.
And although they finished just
6-19 after their 69-39 District 1 loss to
Jackson (No. 2), the Jaguars (No. 3) tied
for second in the Blue pool. Seckman’s
5-2 league mark equaled that of Clayton
and both teams finished a game behind
University City.
“I think they came together better
this year than in the past,” Williams said.
“But we’re still not where we want to be
as far as the culture of the team. It’s such
a work in progress, when you’re not used
to winning.”
Isaac Hoog averaged nine points per
game and Williams said Hoog “had his mo-
ments.” Jacob Deuster set the school record
for steals in a season with 94. Josh Herget
led the team with 40 free throws. Miles
McPheeters played well down the stretch.
“But not one player ended the season
with more assists than turnovers,” Wil-
liams said.
Seckman is 18-56 in three seasons
under Williams.
“We’re searching for ways to figure
it out,” Williams said.
Foeller to recognize her for becoming
the first 167-pound female state wres-
tling champion. 
This was the first year MSHSAA
sanctioned girls wrestling, and 12 cham-
pions were crowned in Columbia.
Lebanon won the first girls title with
87 points. Lafayette was second with 81.
De Soto scored 28 points and registered
the county’s top finish in 16th. Seckman
(13 points, 37th), Northwest (9, 46th),
Windsor (4, 56th) and Fox (3, 68th) were
the rest of the county teams at state.
Foeller has been a nationally ranked
wrestler since winning the 180-pound
championship at the U.S. Marine Corps
Cadet/Junior Freestyle National Champion-
ships in Fargo, N.D., last July. She wrestled
for the Dragons boys team last season.
To see a photo of the presentation,
go to myleaderpaper.com.
30 Jefferson County Leader
Vikings reload after trip to World Series
By Russell Korando
For the Leader
Now for the encore.
After winning a program-record 54
games and reaching Grand Junction,
Colo., for a fourth appearance in the
NJCAA World Series in its 50th season
last spring, the Jefferson College baseball
team enters 2019 as the fifth-ranked Divi-
sion I team in the country.
If the Vikings are to come close to
matching last season’s success, they’ll
have to do it with a new head coach and
without slugger Joey Polak, the 2018
American Baseball Coaches Associ-
ation-Rawlings Player of the Year.
Pat Evers took his record of 172-65
(.726) as Jefferson’s coach to Maryville
University, where he’s the new skipper.
Jefferson College hired Kevin
Moulder to replace Evers. Moulder
played for Murray State University in
Kentucky, was an assistant coach at St.
Louis University for seven years and
returned to Murray State as head coach.
The Vikings (7-6) began their season
with eight games in Mississippi where they
finished 5-3. Jefferson beat Bryant and
Stratton of Wisconsin twice in a double-
header at home on Feb. 25, before falling
20-0 to Wabash Valley on Feb. 26 and drop-
ping two to Missouri Community College
Athletic Conference rival Crowder College
rival Crowder College the next day.
On Feb. 20, the Vikings won two
games at Webster University in St. Louis.
Jefferson won the first 7-0 after freshman
Matt Erwin hit a grand slam and pitchers
Adam Link (6 innings, 3 hits) and Nick
Logusch (1 inning, 2 strikeouts) com-
bined for the shut out. In the 12-5 win in
the nightcap, Adam Parker was the win-
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Hillsboro a 48-40 lead with 5:45 to play.
Yaeger scored the game’s next
basket 20 seconds later, but Brewer and
junior Garrett Pinkley made field goals
for the Hawks, and the Lancers began
fouling to try to stay close. Brewer
picked up his fourth foul with 2:29 to
play and Hillsboro leading 56-46.
Instead of fouling out, Brewer
sank all four of his free throws down
the stretch and grabbed three defensive
rebounds to finish with 11. He scored a
game-high 20 points and didn’t miss a
shot from the field (7 for 7) or the charity
stripe (5 for 5).
“We knew we had to come together
defensively, and on offense we had to
stop giving them easy ones,” Johnson
said. “The easy buckets they got in the
second and third quarters were off of our
miscues. We started getting the ball to
Michael more inside the 3-point line.”
Brewer and junior forward Evan
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Jefferson College sophomore Matt Turino
is back at leadoff and center field.
ning pitcher for the Vikings, who used
five pitchers. Jefferson’s offense pounded
out five doubles. The Vikings crushed 156
two-baggers last year.
Muddy fields
and rainouts have
halted the Vikings’
season since then.
Jefferson post-
poned another
home doublehead-
er against Crowder
on Feb. 28.
“Like a lot of
teams right now,
Jason Rackers
we’re trying to
play as much as we can,” said Moulder,
who lives in St. Louis. “I’ve been really
happy with our defense, which has been
remarkable even though we haven’t been
outside much. That’s been the best thing.
We’re a touch behind offensively because
Worley were the only Hawks to make
a 3-point basket. Moore, senior Ben
Lampkins and junior Ethan Worley (in
11 games with the Hawks) had combined
to make 137 3-pointers before the district
final.
“Coaches tell us during the game that
if our shots aren’t falling, play hard at the
defensive end,” Lampkins said.
In the game’s 32 minutes, the Lanc-
ers held the lead for less than a minute.
They did manage to cut Brewer off from
the inside.
“They were clogging me in the
lane,” Brewer said. “You have to keep
on going.”
“They were trying to take him away
but there were a few times we missed him
inside,” Johnson said. “He demands so
much attention we have to at least try to
get it to him to free up everything else.”
Evan Worley picked up the slack in
the first with four early points, and he fin-
ished with 18. Evan and Ethan have added
a combined 15 points per game since they
we have not seen much live pitching.
“We’re really excited and feel good
about where we’re at. The first six games
were against nationally ranked teams and
we came out 3-3. We’d probably end
up 5-1 or 6-0 against those teams a few
weeks from now.”
Polak is continuing his baseball
career at Missouri State University in
Springfield. He holds the Vikings’ sin-
gle-season home run record with 32 (the
old mark was 18) and had a .459 batting
average, .991 slugging percentage, 107
RBIs and 216 total bases.
That kind of loss would leave a 10-
ton meteor crater on most lineups, but
leave it to Jefferson College to find a
suitable replacement.
Sophomore Grant Wood followed
Moulder from Murray State, where Wood
was named the Ohio Valley Conference
Freshman of the Year in 2018. Wood start-
ed 52 games, drew a team-high 50 walks
and was fifth among Division I players
with a .520 on-base percentage. Wood will
primarily play second base for the Vikings.
“He’ll be a dynamic offensive player
and will have a major impact for us,”
Moulder said.
Not only do 10 players return from
last year’s record-setting team, but all
were starters and each made a significant
contribution. Pitchers Jason Rackers (6-
7) and Austin Cheeley (6-8) and center
fielder Matt Turino are all on track to be
drafted by a professional team in June,
or will move on to a Division I program.
Rackers won his start in the World
Series and struck out 103 batters in 82
innings and had a record of 11-1. He com-
bined with Cheeley for a two-hit shutout
against Meridian and Rackers was named
the NJCAA Pitcher of the Week last week.
transferred from Windsor in January.
Hillsboro held Lutheran South’s
leading scorer, senior guard Nick Wagner,
scoreless through most of the first quarter.
Wagner averaged more than 14 points per
game this season, and his three 3-point
baskets within 2:30 at the start of the
second rallied the Lancers to within 21-
19. Wagner scored a team-high 17 points.
“He got loose in the second quarter
and I don’t think he got too many other
looks,” Johnson said. “That was by design
as well.”
“He’s a great shooter anywhere he
touches the ball,” Lampkins said.
Evan Mulhauser scored the first bas-
ket of the second half for Lutheran South
to cut the Hawks’ lead to one. Brewer and
Ethan Worley countered with buckets, un-
til Austin Reis again made it a one-point
game with a trey for the Lancers.
Moments later, Brewer cartwheeled
out of bounds going for a ball along the
baseline and drew a foul on the play. A
basket by Reis with 3:33 to play in the
Thursday, March 7, 2019
About the only thing that’s changed for
Rackers this year is his uniform number,
which was 29 last year and 12 now.
“We are really excited about him and
he’s the bell cow of the pitching staff,”
Moulder said. “He carried a no-hitter
into the seventh (against Meridian) and
gave up a clean infield hit. We’re going
to count on him.
“I don’t think he’s gotten any bigger.
Quite frankly, he’s plenty big enough. I
feel he has gotten better.”
Cheeley throws a live fastball and
will fill the same role as last year out of
the bullpen. He struck out 48 batters in
44 1/3 innings with three saves and a 2.44
ERA last season and already has a win
and a save this year.
“He’s kind of the linchpin of the
bullpen,” Moulder said. “You can trust
him in a tight spot with the game on the
line. His splitter is really tough.”
Sophomores Anthony Green, Dalton
Doyle, Austin Hicks and Riley Boyd all
pitched last year. Hicks was 10-1 with a 3.14
ERA last season, but a sore back has kept
him off the mound early on. This is Green’s
third year on the team; he’s been redshirted
the last two years because of injuries.
“Riley is one of our more dynamic
arms on the staff,” Moulder said. “He’s
taken a step forward with his pitch devel-
opment. He’s on the radar of pro teams.”
Moulder said this year’s pitching
staff may be better than the 2018 version.
Turino, who is from Toronto, has
signed with the University of Tennessee,
but he’ll patrol center field for the Vikings
this spring. Turino won a Gold Glove last
year, bats leadoff and can hit for power.
He led the Vikings with 18 stolen bases,
smacked 19 doubles, batted .354 and drove
home 70 runs from the top of the order.
third gave the Lancers a brief one-point
lead. Brewer and Lampkins took the lead
away with a pair of field goals to make
it 38-35 Hawks. Reis fouled out with 35
seconds left in the game.
“We needed our guards to be strong
with the basketball and not turn it over,”
Johnson said. “While (the guards) didn’t
put up big numbers, they handled the
pressure really well and their defense
was excellent.”
With a string of district titles grow-
ing, Johnson said his veterans continue
to set an example that leads to success.
For the second time in three seasons,
Johnson was one of the last members of
the team to climb the ladder and cut a
piece of string from the net after claim-
ing the district title, a tradition he hopes
to continue.
“I’m so proud of this group,” he
said. “This was supposed to be the year
to beat Hillsboro after we had all of
those guys graduate last year and here
we are again.”
Thursday, March 7, 2019
County volunteer honored for hunter education
J
efferson County is making head-
lines in outdoors news, and leading
the way is the announcement of
David Peters as the 2018 MDC Volun-
teer Hunter Education Instructor of the
Year for the St. Louis Region.
A resident of Morse Mill, Peters has
served as a volunteer educator since 2004.
As a regional winner, Peters is eligible for
the award on the statewide level.
“Dave Peters has a passion to give
back to others through his time, talents
and gifts,” said outdoor skills special-
ist Conrad Mallady, who nominated
Peters. “When a class is shorthanded,
or an area is void of instructors, Peters
is one of those instructors who is called
on to fill the need. If he’s available,
he’s there, and it doesn’t matter how far
away the location is.”
In addition to his regular work in
Jefferson County, Peters has assisted with
classes as far away as Potosi, Sullivan,
Forest Park and at the August A. Busch
Memorial Conservation Area in St.
Charles County. Peters also assisted with
a bow-hunter education class at the High
Ridge Fire Protection District last year.
In addition to volunteering for the
hunter education program, Peters is a
Missouri Stream Team team leader for
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his five children, Megan, play her final
season of basketball before she jets off to
Alabama to play softball at Jacksonville
State University. Fortner was the second-
leading scorer in the St. Louis area this
season with 21.2 points per game. She
notched a season-high 37 points against
Riverview Gardens on Feb. 20.
“I think she had her best season
offensively,” Greg Fortner said. “There
were a lot of times she didn’t play a lot
because the games weren’t close.”
In the seven Suburban Conference
Blue pool games Fortner played in, her
scoring average rose to 26.9 points per
game. In league games, Fortner made 68
of 121 (56.2 percent) shots from the field.
I reported last summer that in 2017
superintendents from each school district
in the St. Louis Suburban Association
voted in favor of realigning their athletic
teams. We’re two-thirds through the prep
athletic season so I wanted to gather
some thoughts about how the color-
coded system is working out.
Fortner’s Lions are in the Blue pool,
which is the lowest of four tiers. The new
system was set up to provide teams a more
competitive balance. Yellow is the top
pool, followed by Red, Green and Blue.
Jennings won the Blue pool with
a 7-0 league record. McCluer South-
Berkeley (6-1) was second and the
Lions (5-2) came in third. The previ-
ous two seasons had Northwest in the
Suburban West Conference, where they
were 3-15 in league games over that
span and frequent fodder for the likes of
Lafayette and Eureka.
Obviously the reconfiguration
worked in both Megan Fortner’s and
Outdoor News/Sports
Outdoor
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John J.
Winkelman
an 11-mile stretch of the Big River in
Jefferson County, and he helps out at
the Peace Pantry in Dittmer.
Event returns for 55th year
The longest-running turkey calling
contest in the state of Missouri is back for
its 55th consecutive year at the Festus-
Crystal City Conservation Club begin-
ning at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, with
nationally-known animal impersonator
Ralph Duren returning as event host.
Admission is free, and anyone is
welcome to enter the contest. Callers
ages 9 and under pay $2 each to com-
pete. The entry fee for callers ages 10-15
is $5 each. Amateur division callers pay
$10, and the open division charge is $18.
The owl hooting portion of the contest
includes an amateur division with a $5
entry fee and open division for $10.
For information, call 636-933-0908.
Ron Rigdon photo
Fox’s Abbey Gierer looks for an open
teammate. The Warriors finished 4-3 in
the Suburban Conference Green pool.
the team’s favor. Greg Fortner said
he understands why league officials
made the change, but there’s room for
improvement.
“I get why they did it. It hurt us
from the aspect of scheduling,” Fortner
said. “We lost a lot of freshmen and JV
games. Finding freshmen basketball
games was tough this year in a lot of
places because numbers are down. Our
freshmen only played nine or 10 games.
Our JV played 20 games, so that wasn’t
bad. I didn’t like the travel. There were
a lot of long nights during the week.”
From Feb. 1 to Feb. 22 the Lions
made conference road trips to Univer-
sity City, Riverview Gardens, McCluer
South-Berkeley and Jennings.
“We got some more wins, but I
don’t know if you lose games at the
lower levels, how much good can come
out of this,” Fortner said. “I miss the
old conference because you knew you
Jefferson County Leader
David Peters, left, was named 2018
Volunteer Instructor of the Year for the
St. Louis Region. Presenting the award is
outdoor skills specialist Conrad Mallady.
Prescribed fire class planned
in Hillsboro
Controlled burning has been an
effective land management tool for
Missouri and Jefferson County residents
since long before the land was known
as Missouri or Jefferson County. In ad-
dition to controlling invasive species,
flames benefit native plants and wildlife.
A free public workshop for land-
owners is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon
on Saturday, March 23, at the University
of Missouri Extension Office, 301 Third
St., in Hillsboro. Participants will learn
to use fire to manage grasslands, prairies,
woodlands, glades and other areas, and
important safety factors like timing and
would get to play (freshmen, JV and
varsity) games all in one night.”
Fortner, a former prep basketball
official, said the games the Lions played
north of the St. Louis County line
weren’t officiated as closely as the ones
closer to home. He said the problem is
officials are given assignments in one
area and rarely do they step outside of it.
“I would like to see, if they stick
with this, the officials be assigned north
and south,” Fortner said, “so during
the year there’s consistency. I feel like
the games were officiated differently
between the north and south. They were
like summer league games up north.”
After finishing 1-8 in the Suburban
West in 2017-2018, the Fox girls bas-
ketball team was placed in the Green
pool, where they finished 4-3 inside
of a season mark of 13-10. Mighty
Oakville won the Green with a record
of 8-0. Another season like that and the
Tigers will surely move up to the Red.
Fox head coach Matt Weber said
as far as travel was concerned, the
Warriors’ schedule was about the same
distance-wise. In its last conference
game of the season on Feb. 21, Fox
shredded Clayton for 30 points in the
fourth quarter in a 75-66 win. Senior
Abbey Gierer scored a season-high 31
points. Gierer is one of six seniors on
the Warriors this season.
“We had a lot of competitive (pool)
games,” Weber said. “We’ll see what
comes in the future. Losing six seniors,
that’s a lot of talent to replace.”
Each graduating class makes it
trickier to determine how to re-set the
pools every two years. Some programs
roll over the talent from year to year
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proper conditions.
The workshop is a requirement for
landowners to develop a burn plan with
the Natural Resources Conservation
Service or the conservation department.
Advance registration is required by
calling Alex Ruff at 636-300-1953, ext.
4162. Lunch will be provided.
Owl man returns to county
If you haven’t had a chance to
see and hear Mark Glenshaw and his
program about the owls in Forest Park,
another chance is coming to town when
he shares his “Hiding in Plain Sight”
multi-media presentation at 11:30 a.m.
on Saturday, March 16, at the Crystal
City Public Library.
The program covers how he found
the owls, facts about the species and
different behaviors he has documented
on owl prowls over the years.
For more information, call 636-
937-7166.
John J. Winkelman is community
relations manager at Mercy Hospital
Jefferson. If you have news for the
Leader’s Outdoor News page, e-mail
ogmjohnw@aol.com and you can fol-
low John on Twitter at @johnjwink99.
and win consistently. Others aren’t so
lucky. Weber said his freshmen team
played in fewer games this year, forcing
him to make adjustments.
Eureka, Lafayette, McCluer North,
Mehlville, Northwest, Parkway South,
Seckman and Lindbergh comprise the
Yellow pool in wrestling. The Jaguars
captured the Yellow championship. The
Lancers came in second and the Lions
were third. Northwest’s two pool losses
were to Seckman and Lafayette. The
Lions’ girls team finished 8-0 and won
the Yellow pool.
Northwest head coach Ron Wilhelm
said the pool system has advantages and
disadvantages.
“We seek out top competition,
no matter what,” Wilhelm said. “The
thing you hear is you miss those natural
rivalries and sometimes transportation-
wise, it’s a hassle to go 50 miles for a
conference match.
“A lot of basketball coaches have
said they like it because night in and
night out they have a competitive
chance to win their games,” he said.
No matter what pool a wrestling
team finds itself in, there’s no restric-
tions on where it can go to find the best
tournaments in the state and beyond.
“We have a way of putting the elite
teams together and there’s so much
flexibility to get into tournaments on
the western side of the state,” Wilhelm
said.
Based on the pool records of the
three Jefferson County teams, there
was a rise in competitive scores and
win totals. That was the main goal of
the change. It appears the pool system
could be around for some time.
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South County - 1-2 bdrm w/ near Gravois Bluffs, no pets
appl., a/c, small pet ok. $565-$625 314-409-5050, 636-349-0332,
HOMES FOR SALE HOMES FOR SALE 314-277-7498.
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FESTUS, 2bdrm, first floor, ap-
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644 W. Main St. • $139,900 Cort Dietz Broker/Team Lead
636-937-9405.
Centrally located on West Main Street in RE/MAX realty café
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w/crown molding & fireplace. Kitchen w/ TEAM 3 bdrm., 2 bath, all electric, frigerator, stove, new carpet, 1yr
all appliances staying, hardwood flooring & central air/heat, w/d hookup.
adjoining breakfast room. 2 bedroom & 1 full lease, $460mo, +$460 security
No pets. $535/mo. Equal
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De Soto, MO 63020 included, 314-856-2611.
906 Autumn Knoll Place, Festus, MO
$214,400 DRASTIC PRICE REDUCTION! Sellers have ground out of state near daughter to ARNOLD, 2bdrm, all electric,
152 Southmore
7164 Woods Rd,St., Hillsboro,
Hillsboro, MO 63050 MO 63052
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OVER an ACRE in HILLSBORO Schools! 4 Bedroom home has just received a open floor LOOK!plan.
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210 Gran Vista • $219,900 You'll love that this home has main level laundry and a two car
total makeover and it was well worth the wait. You’ll love the roomy Kitchen with
plan! Massive Family Room/Formal Dining with access to a bonus room
overlooking the back yard! Check it out today!
has garage.
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Apartments
Dishwasher and a NEW Range! Amazing top grade windows, trim and doors too. (seller is a wood craftsmen), New Water Heater, new lighting throughout, bath ARNOLD, QUIET! Remod-
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main floor laundry. Vaulted ceilings & fireplace. The upper level has 3 large bedrooms and full bath (all new) & also has its own updates too. Entire home has been painted as well. Amazing kitchen adorned with eled w/stainless appliances,
HVAC system. Zoned heating/cooling in a 2 story is a MUST HAVE! Both of the HVAC SLABS of GRANITE and Stainless Steel Appliances. Main Floor Laundry too. The 1-2bdrm, $600-$700mo some
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Granite counter tops in the kitchen w/adjoining systems are brand new. A NEW Roof, NEW siding, NEW Fascia/trim/shutters mean lower level is fully finished with a 2nd KITCHEN, bedroom, bath and family room.
$449,000 1bdrm $550 mo., Medium
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w/wet bar, large rec areas & full bath. storage for equipment. The basement also has a rough-in for a full bath. Don’t wait!featuring an cave!
custom cabinetry GRANITE counters! 2000SF of
9646 Persimmon Pt., Hillsboro
finished space! Spacious comfortable, it even
oversized 3 car garage! Includes vintage barn for the horses, a 32x64 with w/d hookups $725 mo. floors, w/d hookup, storage lock-
SERENITY & 3 ACRES NEW LIS
TING $
289,900
out building with a concrete floor for all of your toys and quiet like
NEW LISTING 495,000 $
Pets $25 mo., only 2 allowed. er $550mo 314-640-2988.
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5 BEDROOMS! MUST SEE! This stunning home offers an unobstructed view of 743 Sunset Haven, De Soto, MO 63020
Lake Brierwood on a large double lot. You’ll love the two story foyer featuring Amazing 4400SF RANCH on 10.75 ACRES of beautiful rolling hills suitable
a GORGEOUS black iron spindle staircase. AMAZING MILLWORK! Coffered and for horses, fencing, livestock or crops. 6 CAR attached garage space, 2.5 Total electric, refrigerator, stove, SENIOR HOUSING, Pevely,
Tray Ceilings too. The kitchen is sure to please with 42” custom cabinets, lots CAR detached garage to match house and a 42x80 outbuilding with wood dishwasher, very modern, coin 1bdrm $525mo, water, sewer,
2787 Harmon • $264,900 of counter space and breakfast bar. A formal dining room, butlers pantry, den, heat and concrete floors for your car collection, equipment, workshop
1 1/2 story home w/ 3,000 sq ft of living hearth room, and breakfast room mud room and a FULL bath too. The Master or convert to a barn! House is solid as a castle with custom woodwork, operated laundry room on site. trash included, 314-800-3488
SUITE has a beautiful Lake View from a large Bay Window and offers lots of heavy moldings, solid doors, wood thermo windows and more. Main floor
space. Wrap around porch & 2 story wall closet space, jet tub, separate shower and coffered ceilings. The Upper Level Laundry, ISLAND kitchen, breakfast room & formal dining room with TRAY Nice quiet community, large BARNHART, 2bdrm, basement,
of windows in the great room . Bright open
kitchen, plenty of cabinets, center island &
features a 7’ 4” WIDE hallway access to All 5 bedrooms as well as laundry
room - CONVENIENT! MANY UPGRADES THROUGHOUT! The basement is
ceiling. Master Suite features a JET tub, separate shower and walk-ins. The
finished LL comes with a woodstove, custom bar with brickwork, billiard yard and swimming pool. laundry room, attached garage,
roughed in as well for the option of additional living space. area, 2 hobby rooms, safe room and an additional BR/Bath. nice yard, no pets, $645mo
walk in pantry. Main floor laundry. Finished
lower level w/ rec area. Lush garden!! An Thanks for making 2018 our best ever! 636-797-4682 +last+dep, 636-942-4637, 314-
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Over $8 Million in Commercial Transactions in 2018!
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CONDOMINIUMS FOR HOMES FOR SALE HOMES FOR SALE HOMES FOR SALE HOMES FOR SALE HOMES FOR SALE
RENT
                                                 
RAINTREE, Hillsboro, 2bdrm,

Open Houses
2bth, family room, laundry-room,  407 East Miller, De Soto 601 Carolyn Drive, Poplar Bluff 901 Rock Rd., De Soto 
$800mo, w/lease, 314-602-9771  
 Saturday 
TOWNHOUSE FOR
RENT
 March 9 
 1 - 3 p.m. 3BD/2BA • $113,000 3BD/2BA • $151,700 3BD/1BA • $96,900

PEVELY, 884 Banks, 3bdrm,  
1608 North Third, De Soto 4262 Flucom, De Soto List and Buy with "Heartland Realty" where we support:
1bth, total electric, $750mo 314-  A SAFE PLACE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER. 
800-3488  50 Jefferson Square, 
3bdrm, 2bth, 1022 Menkhus  
Ave, Festus, w/d hook-up, De Soto, MO 63020
 
$850mo 314-800-3488.
 636-337-0600 3BD/1.5BA • $124,900 4BD/2BA, 1.2+/- Ac. • $249,000 
FESTUS, N.5th St, 2bdrm
$650mo, 3bdrm $750mo, 1.5bth  494 Hill Side Rd., De Soto 409 Margaret, De Soto 12901 Mohawk Dr., De Soto 
314-800-3488.  PR Patty Hammond Amanda Terry Louise

EW IC
E Owner/Broker Wall New Robertson
PEVELY, 806 Pinson Ct., 3bdrm, N
 
1bth, washer/dryer hook-ups,  
$700mo, 314-800-3488
 2BD/1.5BA, 8.5+/- Ac. • $49,900 3BD/1.5BA • $149,900 4BD/3.5BA, 10+/- Ac. • $307,000 
 
ROOMS FOR RENT 14158 W. Sunrise Lake, De Soto 301 North Thomas, De Soto 160 Fox Run, De Soto
 PR 
NEWLY FURNISHED, private  EW IC
E Patty Vicki Molly 
N William
bath, entrance, patio, parking, Renick Orchard Wideman Orchard
 
kitchenette, big screen, free wifi/
cable, laundry. Must see! 2mi  
from 55, $150wk 314-574-5037.  2BD/1BA • $126,500 3BD/3.5BA • $200,000 3BD/2BA, 3.8+/- Ac. • $142,000 
 1720 Chouteau Ave., St. Louis 4211 Flucom Rd., De Soto 518 North Fifth, De Soto 
PR
ROOMMATE WANTED  EW IC
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N
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Senior share house w/senior, Ungerank
 Ringo Kite Stringer 
free rent for house keeping. 636-
789-4344.  2BD/2BA • $110,000 3BD/2.5BA, 1+/- Ac. • $109,900 
2BD/1BA • $92,400
 55 North 2nd, Ste. Genevieve 7997 Medley Dr., Dittmer

225 S 5th St., De Soto
RENTALS AVAILABLE  PR 
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HALL FOR Rent: VFW Post
3777, 900 VFW Dr., Festus, MO.  
Dixie Lisa Bob
Call Charlie 314-602-0017.  Wehner Turner Whaley 
3BD/2BA • $89,900 3BD/2BA, 1.4+/- Ac. • $170,900 4BD/1.5BA • $99,900
HALL RENTAL or pavilion rental  
for any occasion, new lower  • NO HIDDEN FEES • FREE BUYERS REPRESENTATION • NO ADMINISTRATION FEE 
rates. American Legion Post
253, Festus. 636-937-3000.  Website: heartlandhomesrealty.com • Email: heartlandhomesrealty@yahoo.com •  of the Home 
                                                 

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348 Festus Centre Dr. - Festus
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NEW LISTING
Arnold
501 Hickory Manor
Well maintained, updated, large
split foyer. $229,900.
Festus
14331 Miranda Dr.
Custom home with 4BD/3.5BA on
corner lot. $299,900.
Imperial
Old Highway
M #18053246 - 1000 Blackhills, Festus - Incredible
23.03 acre piece
of property already
surveyed and platted for 3598 Gracie Waggoner Rd.
70 home development.
$977,000.
636-931-3700 Call To Join Our Team
636-931-3750
RESIDENTIAL HOMES RESIDENTIAL HOMES RESIDENTIAL HOMES RESIDENTIAL HOMES LOTS & ACREAGE
De Soto Festus Fenton Marquand #18060363 - Sec. 1 Lot 96 Monte Rosa, De Soto
- Large corner lot near gate and swimming area.
Perfect location for your dream home or spec
home! $6,000.
#19006348 - 9522 Southern Belle Dr., Hillsboro
- Golf course lot that backs to the 17th fairway.
$8,500.
4308 State Route 110 4244 Lockeport Landing 852 Shadow Pine Dr. 1400 Wayne County 202 #18053450 - Hillside Rd., De Soto - Access to
2BD/1BA ranch home on almost an acre New ranch style home. 3BD/2BA and 4 bedroom, 4 bath 2-story home. Recently renovated! Relax and unwind on Big River!! Excellent location between 21 and
with 2 car attached garage. $74,000. main floor laundry. $219,900 Main floor laundry. $279,900. this scenic property! $174,900. 67! Build your dream home on this secluded 6
acres. $15,000.
De Soto Festus Crystal City Commercial #19006349 - 2 Vineland School Rd., De Soto
- Duplex building site with access to city water
and sewer. Zoned R-3. $23,500.
#18053418 - Lot 2 Rock n Horse Farms, Festus
- Extra wide lot will allow for most any home plan.
This lot has great views from just about any angle.
Jefferson R-7 School District. $28,900.
103 Red Berry Lane 113 Doctrine Dr. 10 Rivermont 1198 W. Gannon, Festus
3BD/3BA home with lots of updates Cute 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch that is Fabulous 6BD/5BA ranch overlooks the Remarkable location for just about any #19007710 - Lot 11 Westward Trails, Imperial
already under construction. $179,900. Mississippi! 6,000 sq. ft. $750,000. type of business venture. $1,400,000. - Building site for multi family building. $29,900.
and option for 4th BD! $174,900.
#19000194 - 5503 Lot 46 US Highway 61-67,
FARMS COMMERCIAL Imperial - Great building lot with highway footage.
Lot is in natural state but rolls gently to the rear.
Festus Potosi St. Louis Hillsboro This lot may even allow for a starter business
site. $34,000.
lot to build your dream home on. Most types and
designs of homes will fit. $36,900.
Mineral & State St. 4658 Gravois Ave. 4 Hickory Ridge Dr. #19007880 - 5990 Flint Ridge, Pacific - Building
Nearly 40 acre tract of land including many WOW! 217 acre farm with public water, sewer Great investment opportunity! Custom built 9,200+ sq. ft. strip center. Great lot for your dream home overlooking the river!
buildings, a pavilion, a 6 year old well. $636,000. and utilities. Creek and 3 barns. $759,500. Fully rented. $289,000 visability from Hwy. 21. $1,000,000. $45,000.

NEW HOME Open Daily Starting in the $170’s Starting in

DEVELOPMENTS the $190’s
12-5 55 S to Pevely exit, R on Hwy Z,
R on Metropolitan, L into Hunters
Starting at $244,900 Starting at $170,900
FOR EVERY
Glen Subdivision. Lockeport
Hwy 55 South to Richardson Rd. exit.
In Arnold Landing Hwy 55 South to right at Festus/

LIFESTYLE
Continue on Vogel Rd., cross over Old Hillsboro exit, right on Hwy A, approx. 55 south to Pevely exit, left on Hwy. Z straight across Hwy. 67 to Abbey
Lemay Ferry Rd. to subdivision on left. In Barnhart In Hillsboro 7 miles to subdivision on right. Lane, go about 1 mile to stop sign, Vineyards is next road on left.
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DUPLEX FOR RENT
Hall rental, most reasonable
rates around. Post 42 Hercula-
neum 636-543-4832.
OFFICE SPACE FOR
LEASE
OFFICE SPACE
1000 sq. ft., ground level
508 N. Truman,
Crystal City, $600/mo.
636-937-2928
NEAR COURTHOUSE: Office,
2/rooms, including reception
area. New paint, new carpet,
$650mo, water included, located
on Business 21, Hillsboro. 636-
797-4993.
MOBILE HOMES FOR
RENT
MOBILE HOMES FOR MOBILE HOMES FOR CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION HAULING SERVICE
RENT SALE SERVICE SERVICE
JLH Co. LLC
1-2 or 3bdrms, water, sewer, GOVERO AND SON, flatwork,
trash, lawn care, pad included, MOBILE HOME BROKERS floors, sidewalks, driveways, “Perfect Residential Delivery”
Lakeside Manor, Festus $550- #1 broker in Jefferson County Single
patios, 636-586-0194, 636-524- Axel
$795mo 636-937-8245. for over 20 years. Decks Built / Repaired / Stained 2560. Dump
F E N TO N A R E A H O M E O N NO money up front / Warranty
CD CONSTRUCTION: siding,
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MOBILE HOME PADS 2 bath 16x80. Vinyl siding and shingled decks, additions, finish base- Dirt • Rock • Mulch
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314-313-4324
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C/air, shed, and deck. Must see! Asking
only $15,900.
636-337-7733 barns, free estimates, call/text,
314-229-8923
HILLSBORO/PEVELY, single
pad, 6mo free, $180mo, trash, TOP ARNOLD AREA PARK ON
DAVE PETTIBONE’S
sewer, 314-691-2054.
CORNER LOT. Spacious 3 bdrm Triple C Concrete
28x60 dbl wide. Vinyl siding/shingled ELECTRICIAN HAULING
roof. Appli’s. Shed and deck. Utility Custom Concrete Creations SERVICE
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• Stamped Concrete • Exposed Aggregate
SALE DRASTICALLY REDUCED. Now • Retaining Walls • Pavers • Firepits removed. Houses and garages
Webb Electric
only $16,900. House Springs area park. • Bobcat Excavation • Pool Decks
Insured - Free Estimates
cleaned out. Eviction clean up.
3 bdrm 16x80 with 2 baths. Vinyl siding,
FIXER UPPER home, Hillsboro
shingled roof, c/air, shed, deck and all Dennis Bogad • 314-458-6398 Upgrades - Remodels, 636-535-5090 • 314-960-7389
MHP. $1 plus 6/months free lot
appli’s including wash/dryer. New Construction - service calls
rent, deposit required, 636-931- $165 panel inspections
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• Basement Floors • Garage Floors ed, insured, 636-399-9234. 314-799-1889
• Sidewalks • Street Repairs

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LOTS FOR SALE • Stamped Colored Concrete AFFORDABLE QUALITY Work,
• Fully Insured licensed, bonded, insured, crt/
crds accepted, Chuck 636-282-
Skip’s Hauling
10 ACRE lot, partially cleared,
Joachim Ridge Sub, 112 Cedar
• 15% Discount for Military
0397. & Demolition
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Veterans & Senior Citizens

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• Appliances • Furniture • Debris
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Water • Sewer • Trash • Lawn Maintenance Included
1, 2 and 3 Bedrooms Available
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Gravel Driveways Repaired 10 - 35 cu. yd.
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at
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Financing Available
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GUTTERING SERVICE
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seamless gutters. Gutterguards

Rhonda & Jerry

available, all colors, 636-586-

Owner: James Rudd

2119. (636) 524-1453
HOUSE WASHES starting
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bathrooms, kitchens, HANDYMAN SERVICE
roofing, 30+ yrs.
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remodeling, semi-retired, free
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• Flooring Call Jim 314-723-0027 - Insured 314-800-9222 /314-278-0327
JEWELRY
• Any Handyman
mowing, mulching, bushes, de- HEATING/COOLING
pendable, free estimates, Scott ROOFING SPECIAL SERVICE
Service! 636-208-5660. FREE UPGRADE ON SHINGLES Diamonds, jewelry repair, bat-
teries. McKinley Jewelers, 308
FREE ESTIMATES! Commercial services. Mowing, PROFESSIONAL FURNACE
S.Main, De Soto, 636-586-3342.
636-222-7783 weed-eating, trimming, edging, repair, Carrier, Lennox, Trane,
mulch. Spring cleanup. 636-543- Ruud,, emergency service 314-
MMDesignandbuild.com 302-0195.
1927. Ben Secrease LAWN & GARDEN
D&R Home Repairs: free esti- - TRIMMING
mates, call for 10% off 314-717- PAINTING SERVICE - TOPPING - REMOVAL MISC FOR SALE Lawn mower, chainsaw, small
Residential • Commercial engine repair/blade sharpening,
3175. - STUMP REMOVAL reasonable rates, 636-253-8167
• Shingle Roofing New/Repair
SITTING FOX Services: Re-
modeling, kitchens, basements, AAA PAINTING • Tuck-Pointing
• Seamless Guttering
25+ YEARS EXPERIENCE
Locally Owned
VENDOR/CRAFT FAIR
PETS
painting, repairs. 636-671-2984.
www.sittingfoxservices.com
Interior and Exterior
Powerwashing & Mildew Removal
• EPDM TPO Roofing
- FULLY INSURED -
De Soto
Specializing In Staining Cedar 5 Generations Community Center
FREE ESTIMATES Anheuser
TAPE, paint, textures profes- & Log Homes, Decks, etc. 314-965-6203
sional job, reasonable prices, Residential/commercial regerroofingandsiding.com 937-2100 Saturday, March 9 Animal Clinic
free estimates 636-586-8177. Free estimates. 30+ years experience Email: regerroof1@aol.com
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. 285 US Hwy. 61
BROOKS TUCKPOINTING, GARY NAUCKE - INSURED Bloomsdale, MO 63627
chimney repair, glass blocks, WATERPROOFING
636-937-2130 Mon. 9-5, Tues. 7-4, Wed. 8-5, Thurs. 7-5,
brick, stone, 636-797-2947, 314-
910-3132.
SERVICE STAIRLIFTS Fri. 8-5, Sat. (open every other)
573-483-5034
QUALITY FIRST Taping and Sold installed
Painting, specializing in drywall w/warranty.
LANDSCAPING repairs and custom finishes. Call Since 2003. Chihuahuas and Chorkies $300-
SERVICE Dave 314-226-6968. New and certified
pre-owned.
$500, long, short hair, call, text,
• Basement Waterproofing 314-566-1226.
JESKE PAINTING, quality in-
Amazing Walls terior, exterior, power washing, • Roofing • Siding • Guttering • foundation repair
• storm Water mitigation
314-965-3899 JULIAN PIG, 30lbs, neutured,
insured, references, 314-313- Fully Insured 8mo. Male goats, m/f alpacaes.
and Waterfalls (314) 556-5797
• Walls and Flower Beds
7210
FREE ESTIMATES! E.S.LEONARDCONTRACTING.COM
Silver Laced Polish roosters
314-348-6472.
JOHN GRAHAM painting. In- FREE upgrade with purchase
• Paver Patios and Sidewalks
• Fencing • Stone Veneer
terior, exterior, power washing, of full roof replacement. Sherreé PUG PUPPIES: 2/males,
JOHNSON WATERPROOFING,
• Sod Installation • Concrete Flatwork decks, drywall finish, wallpaper
removal. Over 15 years experi-
Serving Jefferson County
for over 30 Years! foundation repair, house raising, Fite wormed, shots, starting at
$400obo, 314-795-9046.
A CHRISTIAN FAMILY BUSINESS
(636) 937-5998 • (314) 401-7586 ence. Very reasonable priced 636-942-2300 wall bracing. Free estimates,
and top notch quality. Call or text SHELBYROOFING.NET transferable lifetime warranty. Original Artwork, AKC ROTTWEILER puppies:
636-586-7551. 12/26/18, 4 males $1000ea
John 314-769-3332 Creative Kevin 636-748-7892.
PROFESSIONAL PAINTING, Photography and
wallpapering: 30yrs, interior, HHHHH MISC SERVICE Portraits, Photo
GAY LYNN’S in my home pet
sitting, dependable, reasonable
exterior, cabinets, decks, refer-
ences 314-640-4085. GOLD STAR G&J
Restoration 636-343-1469.

ROOFING & EXTERIORS, LLC Email:

Fully Insured
Free Estimates
• Retaining Walls • Concrete
• Flatwork • Pavers
• Drainage Issues
• Tree Removal • Water Features
• References Available
Call Dan at:
314-568-0469
Steve and Sons Landscaping:
Retaining walls, mulching, seed-
ing, soding, bobcat grading,
French drains, mowing, power-
washing, brush hogging, 636-
253-8303.
PFL Landscaping & Tree Ser-
vice. Retaining walls, mulch, dirt,
636-375-0987.
Thorne Lawn & Landscapes
LLC. Retaining walls. Paver
patios & driveways. Lawn care.
Give us a call we do it all. Free
estimates. 636-638-2424.
Rottweiler Puppies, born
PLUMBING SERVICE “THE ROOFING Recycling, Inc. fotogal54@hotmail.com
12/12/18, AKC, both parents on
site, De Soto 314-591-3361
PROFESSIONALS” We buy all Call/Text: 314-780-7717
636-296-0110 scrap metal.
636-475-5152
WANTED
• RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL 1250 Herky Horine Rd., Pevely The Sacred Heart ST. Vincent
• INDUSTRIAL De Paul Clothing room is open
Shingles, EPDM Rubber, TPO
Fully Insured DECKS RESTORED, repaired,
Tuesday and Saturday from
9-12 located in the Sacred Heart
Williams Logging
CAMERA/LOCATING & HYDROFLUSHING annex behind Sacred Heart
Serving Jefferson County for 30 years. pressure washed, stained, ex- We Buy Standing
perienced, insured, A+ BBB, Church (555 Bailey Road, Crys-
GOLDSTAREXTERIORSLLC.COM EverythingDecks.net 636-337- tal City). This clothing room is Timber
7733. opened for all to shop. We sell
new and used clothes that are 573-247-5859
Collins MOVING SERVICE small reasonably priced. If you haven’t
Drain Cleaning & moves, local or long distance: been to our clothing room please
Plumbing Repair LLC weeklongmovers.com 636-947- come by and check us out.
Festus, MO 63028 4484.
Specializing in drain BOSS snowplows: v, straight,
cleaning and plumbing repair UTV, ATV. Parts, used plows
Darwin Collins, Owner • 28 Years Experience APPLIANCE REPAIR 636-479-4993.
SERVICE
314-698-7033 MOVING SALE, misc items, ev-
erything goes, furniture, house-
Jones Plumbing: new construc-
PROFESSIONAL APPLIANCE hold items, 636-535-3666
repair, Whirlpool, GE, Frigidaire,
tion, repairs, septic systems, wa- LG, emergency service 314- LIGHT BULBS: 4ft fluorescent
ter heaters, water lines, drains 302-0195. bulbs for home or office. 73
unclogged www.jonesplumbing- new and used 40w, $50 obo for
WE BUY
service.com 636-586-3799. APPLIANCE REPAIR, all major all. 314-724-1314 if no answer UNWANTED CARS,
TREE SERVICE brands, all work guaranteed, please leave message. TRUCKS, VANS
27+yrs 636-797-8019. Running or not, $50-$2,000.
REMODELING PHR Tree Care: complete ser- Quick cash paid for complete
SERVICE vice, stump grinding, reason- APPLIANCES vehicles. Free towing.
able, insured 314-874-9172. CLEANING SERVICE
Call Jason Now At:
DECKS BUILT, repaired, re- Grega & Gleich Tree Service: RECONDITIONED APPLIANC- 636-208-7061
stored, stripped, stained, Old Fashioned dutch cleaning, ES at bargain prices, delivered
Tree removal, trimming, dead deep clean everything, refer-
experienced, insured, Ev- wooding, 30yrs experience, in- and guaranteed, Haney’s 636-
erythingDecks.net A+BBB. 636- ences, Loyce 314-807-6367 337-6377 WANTED TO buy: 120 gallon,
sured, 636-797-5826, 314-920- 250 gallon, 500 gallon and 1000
337-7733. 0446.
gallon propane tanks, call 636-
475-9450.
36 Jefferson County Leader
WANTED
Junkers Towed FREE!
Woody’s
CASH
4
CARS &
TRUCKS
636-296-1618
ARROWHEADS! Indian Arti-
facts! Executive in Clayton loves
the hobby! Buying collections,
answering questions & looking
for properties to buy or lease to
look on within 45min of Clayton
that seem to have a good con-
centration of arrowheads. 314-
608-2692.
Buying broke down, unwanted,
wrecked cars, trucks or vans.
free towing call 573-749-2102
ALL TYPES standing timber,
hard/soft. Low impact logging.
Will not leave your property a
mess! TK Timberland Manage-
ment 636-274-0803.
NOTICES
De Soto School District # 73
Silent Auction Surplus Property
Available Items may be viewed
on the District web site
www.desoto.k12.mo.us
under Surplus Property.
All sealed bids must be received
by March 15th at 12:00 pm
Please contact Gary Grzeskowiak
to view any items or with any
questions at
grzesk.gary@desoto.k12.mo.us
NOT RESPONSIBLE for debts
other than my own, Charles
Hearst 3/7/2019.
BID NOTICES
BID NOTICE
The Windsor C-1 School District
is seeking bid proposals from
IT solutions providers for self-
provisioned fiber, leased lit fiber and
internet access complying with all
terms and conditions described in
the Request For Proposal. RFP’s will
be available on the district’s website
at: www.windsor.k12.mo.us, Main
Page Headlines, and at the Central
Office between the hours of 9:00 AM
and 3:00 PM. Sealed bid proposals
must be received by Monday, March
25th 2019 at 3:00 PM, and must be
marked “RFP Self Provisioned Fiber”
and bid openings will occur at 3 PM.
The selected vendor(s)/contractor(s)
will comply in all respects with the
applicable Prevailing Wage Law
and determination. The Windsor
C-1 School District is an equal
opportunity employer and does
not discriminate on the basis of
age, sex, creed, color, national
origin or handicap. For additional
information, contact Jason Roussin
at 636-464-4405.
NOTICES
NOTICE OF CORPORATE DISSOLUTION TO ALL CREDITORS OF AND
CLAIMANTS AGAINST D&D FUNTIME, INC.
On February 26, 2019, D&D Funtime, Inc., a Missouri corporation (the
Corporation) filed its Articles of Dissolution with the Missouri Secretary of
State. Dissolution was effective on February 26, 2019. All claims against
the corporation should be directed to the corporation at:
c/o Kevin C. Roberts, Esq.
Roberts, Wooten and Zimmer, L.L.C.
P.o. Box 888
Hillsboro, Missouri 63050
All claims must include:
1. The name and address of the claimant;
2. The amount claimed;
3. The basis of the claim; and,
4. Document of the claim.
All claims against D&D Funtime, Inc. will be barred unless a proceeding
to enforce the claim is commenced within two years after the publication
of this Notice.
YARD SALES
DE SOTO Fri 3/8, 7am-3pm,
Sat, 3/9, 7am-?, 13675 Mt Olive
Rd. Mt Olive UMC, indoor
FESTUS Sat, 3/9, 7am-?, 3714
Plass Rd. heated, antique furni-
ture, household, Dyson vacuum,
and more
ESTATE SALES
FESTUS Sat-Sun, 3-9/10, 8am-
3pm, 708 Lee Ave. family run,
furniture, tools, toys, household,
collectible dolls, china, books,
cash only, indoor
CHILD CARE
HOUSE SPRINGS, Mon-Fri
24hrs, state licensed, insured,
Missouri State Assistance, 636-
677-4764.
In home child care, Imperial.
State licensed, affordable, 314-
346-0686, 636-464-2691.
20yrs experience, flexible hours,
reasonable, FT/PT, meals, Fes-
tus Schools 636-933-9100.
HELP WANTED
Hiring experienced caregivers,
FT/PT, between $11 and $13/
hour. 636-891-4984.
Semi retired CDL dump truck
driver, full-time, part-time 314-
732-2648, 636-343-3066.
LANDSCAPING / IRRIGATION,
experience a plus! Students/re-
tirees welcome 314-799-5330.
Get paid to care for your loved
one at home, Medicaid required,
314-375-6602, helpfulhandsin-
homecare.com
Landscape maintenance per-
son, all aspects of landscape
maintenance, reliable, good
driving record, year round work,
some knowledge in plants help-
ful. Equal opportunity employ-
ment. send resume fax 636-343-
1582 or call 636-343-2201.
NOW HIRING lawn care labor-
ers, experience preferred, upto
$15hr, 314-898-8151
Get paid to care for your loved
one at home, Medicaid required,
314-375-6602, helpfulhandsin-
homecare.com
MA1 position, part time avali-
able, Magnolia Home 636-933-
0662
HOUSEKEEPER: Oak Knoll
Apartments, Festus, email re-
sume: vickithurman615@yahoo.
com or mail: 1 Oak Knoll, Fes-
tus, MO 63028
TELEMARKETERS: schedule
free hearing exams, hourly plus
bonus, So. County 636-333-
1585.
Apple of Your Eye Learning Cen-
ter, Affton, ft/pt lead/assistant
teachers. Must be 18yrs 314-
638-1568.
NOTICES
Classified 636-931-7560 Thursday, March 7, 2019
BID NOTICES BID NOTICES BID NOTICES HELP WANTED
NOTICE Rosemont Senior Living
The West Ridge Subdivision Homeowners Association of Festus is soliciting bids for the following
NOW HIRING
to be performed in the common ground areas within the subdivision. Work is expected to start
approximately by April 1, 2019. All bids due by March 15, 2019 by email: WRHOAbids@gmail.
com or mailed to: WRHOA POBox 604, Festus, MO 63028. Each bid submitted MUST have the
Cook FT/PT
following information included to be considered at the time of submission: Apply Within:
• Current Contractor License for the City of Festus. 2121 Ridge Dr., Arnold
• Current Certificate of Liability Insurance.
• Estimate for item/s interested in bidding. (Such as, item 2 Grass mowing and Dispatcher
grass edging/trimming.) Looking for energetic outgoing
DETAILS OF COMMON GROUND AREAS: individual to work for a plumbing
company in Arnold. Must be
1. Light landscape needs such as pruning and weeding on an “As-needed” basis. experienced in doing data entry
2. Grass mowing and grass edging/trimming approximately weekly, weather permitting. and general office skills. Full time
3. Fresh new Mulch. position. Mon.-Fri. 9-5. Call for
ITEMS 1, 2, 3 TO BE PERFORMED AT THESE LOCATIONS: interview 314-575-5486.
A) Entrance of subdivision located at Gran Vista Drive.
B) Entrance of subdivision located at Silica Drive.
C) Water detention overflow area that is fenced, located near Gran Vista Drive entrance. Cori
This is only for overflow of excessive rain water.
D) Cul-de-sacs located at: Gran Vista Dr., Silica Dr., Garden Ln., Pond Ct.,
Manor
Due to increased census, the
West Ridge Dr., Peterein Ct. following employment opportunities
E) Seating area located on Gran Vista Dr. are currently available:
4. Tree trimming of limbs and/or dead trees at all common ground areas located near: NIGHT C.N.A.
A) Between properties on Gran Vista Dr. behind the seating area.
B) Between properties located on Garden Ln. and West Ridge Dr. DAY/EVE L.P.N.
C) Between properties located on West Ridge Dr. and Gran Vista Dr. DAY/EVE R.N.
D) Behind properties located on Silica Dr.
All bids must comply with all local regulations of Festus, Missouri. Questions need to be sent to GROUNDSKEEPER
WRHOAbids@gmail.com. The West Ridge Homeowners’ Association board reserves the right FT/PT DIETARY AIDE
to reject any and all bids, in whole and in part, and to waive any informality.
RECEPTIONIST
Interested applicants may apply online at:
corimanor.jobapponline.com
BID NOTICES BID NOTICES BID NOTICES 636-343-2282 EOE
CITY OF FESTUS
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS – PARK SECURITY CAMERAS
Sunnyhill, Inc.
INTRODUCTION HIRING EVENT
The City of Festus is seeking a firm to provide security cameras and installation for the Festus Parks System. The City of Festus intends to
award a contract to a firm that will meet our qualification criteria and has successfully performed services on similar projects in the past. To March 8
be considered, a proposal must be received by 2:00 P.M. on April 11, 2019 at 711 West Main Street, Festus, MO 63028, clearly marked
“Park Security Cameras” or emailed to gcamp@cityofestus.org. Email delivery is preferred. The City reserves the right to reject any or all 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
proposals submitted.
SCOPE OF SERVICES
Direct Support
The proposal shall be according to the following specifications or an equivalent product or service: Professionals
Ludwig Park – The City of Festus is requesting a surveillance system to be installed in the Ludwig shelter. A camera will be installed outside
under the overhang. A POE injector will be installed in the shelter to provide Power to the camera. An SD card will record Motion events. Program
Shropshire Park – The City of Festus is requesting a surveillance system to be installed in Shropshire park. The recording server will be Instructors
located in a lockable wall cabinet in the concession stand. A fisheye camera will be installed outside the concession stand windows under the
overhang. A point to point system will be installed on the concession stand and maintenance shed. 3 pole mounted cameras will be installed Arnold Job Center
in the park on the identified poles. Contractor will install trenched network cable from maintenance shed to each camera pole and install AC
power. POE switches will be installed to power the cameras. 3675 West Outer Rd.
Sunset Park – The City of Festus is requesting a surveillance system to be installed in Sunset park. The recording server will be located in Ste. 102
a lockable wall cabinet in the park shelter. Two fisheye cameras will be installed under the overhang. A pole mounted camera will be installed Arnold, MO 63010
in the park on the identified pole. Contractor will install trenched network cable from maintenance shed to each camera pole and install AC
power. POE switches will be installed to power the cameras. Apple of Your Eye Academy,
West City Park – The City of Festus is requesting a surveillance system to be installed in West City park. The recording server will be Affton, ft/pt lead and assistant
located in a lockable wall cabinet in the concession stand. 4 cameras will be installed in the concession area under the overhang. A point teachers. Must be 18yrs 314-
to point system will be installed on the concession stand and the Pavilion pole. 2 pole mounted cameras will be installed in the park on an
638-1568.
identified pole. Contractor will install AC power. POE switches will be installed to power the cameras.
Asphalt paving construction,
Contractor to include all parts and material to properly secure, mount, and weatherproof all equipment, terminations, and cabling. The system
chauffer license required, text or
is expected to be fully functional with all parts and accessories included. Server based on motion recording, 7-10 Frames per second, 30
call, 636-543-5899
days retention with room for growth. Server hard drive is 4TB. Category5e cable.
PROGRAM SPECIALIST- Of-
SELECTION PROCESS
The selection committee will include senior staff members of the City of Festus. The criteria for selecting the contractor are reputation and fice of Job Training Programs,
Jefferson-Franklin Inc. has an
experience, capability and availability of staff, understanding of the problem, proximity and financial stability and cost.
opening for a part time position.
INSURANCE AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY This position will assist in provid-
The Contractor shall obtain and maintain such insurance from an insurance company satisfactory to Owner and authorized to write casualty ing program and clerical support
insurance in the State of Missouri as will protect himself, his subcontractors and the Owner from claims for bodily injury, death or property for clients enrolled in employ-
damage which may arise from any and all operations and under this Contract. Any such insurance policy shall name the Owner as an ability and training opportunities.
additional named insured. The Contractor shall not commence work under this contract until he has obtained all insurance required under this Qualifications: Associate degree
paragraph and shall have filed the certificate of insurance or the certified copy of the insurance policy with the Owner. Each insurance policy or above preferred and/or work
shall contain a clause providing that it shall not be cancelled by the insurance company without thirty (30) days written notice to the Owner experience directly related re-
of an intention to cancel. The amounts of such insurance shall be as indicated below: quired. Compensation rate per
(This certificate of insurance shall indicate the City of Festus as additional insured and contain the appropriate signed endorsements as hour based on education and/
required by the City.) or work experience. Visit https://
(1) Workmen’s Compensation and Employer’s Liability Insurance: www.jeff-frankjobs.com/ to ob-
tain a copy of Employment Ap-
Workmen’s Compensation and Employer’s Liability Insurance shall be secured and maintained as required by State where the work is located. plication form or contact Office
(2) Public Liability, Bodily Injury, and Property Damage: of Job Training Programs at
636-524-8593 for more informa-
• Injury or death of one person - $1,000,000
• Injury to more than one person in a single accident - $2,000,000 tion. Office of Job Training Pro-
• Property Damage - $1,000,000 grams, Jefferson-Franklin Coun-
ties Inc. is an Equal Opportunity
(3) Automobile and Truck Public Liability, Bodily Injury, and Property Damage: Employer
• Injury or death of one person - $1,000,000
• Injury to more than one person in a single accident - $2,000,000 Hillsboro Dental is looking for
• Property Damage - $1,000,000 a part time with potential of be-
coming full time dental assis-
(4) If the contractor maintains higher limits than the minimums required above, the City requires and shall be entitled to coverage for the
tant. No experience required.
higher limits maintained by the contractor.
Dental experience a plus, but
(5) If the City determines appropriate a certificate of insurance must be filed with the City providing builders risk insurance for the proposed we will train the right individual.
project. Resumes can be mailed to: #4
After August 28, 2018 and pursuant to RSMo Section 290.230, prevailing wage shall not be paid for public works projects where the Hickory Ridge Road Ste 100,
estimated costs, or accepted bids, are $75,000 or less. Hillsboro, MO 63050.
CONTACT INFORMATION Victorian Cleaning Services
Written questions about this RFP may be sent by email to gcamp@cityoffestus.org prior to the submission deadline. Reponses will be shared looking to hire for as needed po-
by all interested responders to the RFP. sition. For more info please con-
tact Victoria @ 573-210-8125 or
314-550-9000. Complete back-
Add yellow screened box behind your word ad for only $5 extra per paper. ground check required.
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PUBLIC AUCTION HELP WANTED PUBLIC AUCTION HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

Summit Road Missouri Healthcare PUBLIC AUCTION 3/12/19 CLEAN-TECH

Auction House for ALL Doors Open at 5 p.m.
LABORER FOR FENCE CREW Asphalt Paving
NOW HIRING
13150 Summit Road Hiring Grassroots Organizer Auction at 6:15 p.m.
Immediate openings for
Apply In Person: Dump Truck Drivers
De Soto, MO 63020 $38,000/yr. 5557 U.S. Hwy. 61/67 Heartland Wholesale
Imperial, MO 63052 GENERAL CLEANERS in the Fence Supply • Drivers must have
We buy full & partial estates. Email cover letter/resume: (1 mile N. Imperial Main Street) Class A CDL
Fenton area starting at $10/ Commercial/Residential
jake@mohealthcareforall.org Antiques • Collectibles • Must have experience
636-465-5649 For more info 314-596-1353 Jake Coins • Furniture • Toys
hour. Also hiring CUSTODIAL
SUPERVISORS $13/hour.
3390 US Hwy. 61, Bloomsdale
573-483-2600
Sports Memorabilia Enjoy a consistent work
636-461-2500
PUBLIC AUCTION PUBLIC AUCTION Tools • Cast Iron schedule, peaceful work
General Merchandise environment, and opportunities Baldwin Construction AUTO MECHANIC
All items sold as is/where is for advancement! Please apply
Hosted by White’s Auction Service to our South County openings Experience in: Brakes,
contact for information at www.cleantechcompany.com/ A manufactured Front-End, Tune-Up and more.
573-756-1009 or 314-620-8536 careers or send resume to home installation
All items paid for and removed day of sale. awing@cleantechcompany.com company is State Insp. License Required
looking to hire $18-25/hr., based on experience.
HELP WANTED crew members. 40-48 hr. work week.
300 FORBY ROAD
Construction
EUREKA, MO
63025 experience a plus. Call Dennis (314) 416-8155
Advanced Pool and Spa 636-938-5151 NEW!
mherrick@standrews1.com 314-803-5305 Experienced General Service
is looking for a
Laborer and ON-SITE INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED Tire Installer from $15/hr.;
40-48 hr. work week.
Office Worker Positions Available:
Experience preferred, willing Housekeeping
to train possible candidates.
636-938-3080 CNA’s Applebee’s in Arnold
Benefits: FREE Employee is now hiring
• CMT/MA-1
Meals, 401k, Medical/Dental,
(00) Vision, Homelike Atmosphere EOE awesome people to fill a few
select cook positions. Pay
PUBLIC AUCTION starting up to $15/hr. Please
SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 • 11:00 A.M. RESIDENTIAL CLEANING
Immediate Team Openings!
Earn While
You Burn
• Dietary Aide apply in person or at www.
112 East Clement St. De Soto, MO 63020 Looking for full time Up to $14
pleaseapplyonline.com/bigriver
From De Soto take Hwy. 110 to left on North Main St. to left at second set of railroad dependable people.
per hour
Apply within.
Days, no weekends.
Autumn Ridge
tracks then right on East Main St. to left on East Clement St. (behind De Soto Recycle
Center) WATCH FOR SIGNS. HELD INSIDE Top pay, paid weekly. plus tips!
INCLUDES 30 DAY & 60 DAY • Driver Supervisors up to $14/hr.
GUNS – TOOLS – NEW HOME REMODELING/CONSTRUCTION SIGNING BONUS! • Movers up to $10/hr. 300 Autumn Ridge Dr.
Must have reliable car with • Weekly pay
ITEMS & MISC. current insurance. • Fully equipped new trucks Herculaneum, MO 63048
GUNS: Colt match target .22 semi-auto pistol, Winchester 30-30, Winchester • Truck assignments for regular drivers No Phone Calls Please!
Family owned plastic injection
Please call to schedule an interview.
model 100 & large lot of assorted ammo. KOBALT TOOLS/MISC.: 8-gallon air • Part and Full Time • Sundays off molding facility has IMMEDIATE
compressors, Quiet Tech 2 & 4 gallon pancake air compressors, roll around tool set,
185 pc. tool box & tool set, roll around table saw, 19 pc. wrench set, pipe wrench,
636-225-1065 • A great team-oriented atmosphere
If interested please apply in
full-time openings for ALL shifts
10” miter saw, 80 volt electric 21” cut push mower, 38 pc. tool set, battery powered person with Tom Schopp Timber Creek 60 day temp to
weed-eaters & brush saws, 7” bench top tile saw & bolt cutter. TOOLS: Magnum
LTS electric true airless paint sprayer, Wagner paint sprayers, 2 Craftsman truck tool NOW HIRING 10966 Gravois Industrial Ct.
Sunset Hills, MO 63128 Resort hire positions
boxes, 8” earth auger, shop vacs., Craftsman torpedo heater, hand & power tools, drill Or online at seeking available.
bits, Hitachi table for saw, Troy-Bilt weed-eater & trimmers. MISC.: Craftsman 20” Roofers: Apprentices twomenandatruck.com
chainsaw, sump pumps, attic ladder, shop lights, ceiling fans, garbage disposals, utility Journeymen Front Office To apply online:
cabinet, Char-Broil gas BBQ. grill, fans, 126 can beverage cooler, electric fireplace, 110 Foremen Manager talentforce.com
& 220 window air conditioners, portable air conditioners, heaters, vent free gas space
Supervisors TEAM HOUSE
heater, Dura-flame heater, mail boxes, lawn chairs, planters, exterior shutters, window
CLEANERS WANTED!
to lead a team of Front Desk Or Call
blinds, stainless & ceramic kitchen sinks & bath vanities, bath tubs, toilets, faucets, $19/hour - based Specialists and maintain the daily
door locks, lot of indoor & outdoor lighting, large lot of steel toe work shoes, metal on experience • Drive our company cars operations of guest services. 636-282-5270
signs, large lot of bath salts & First Aid cream, 5 pallet lots of misc. items & more not
gone through at time of listing. CDL Drivers: Crane/forklift • Start $11-11.50 per hour Must be flexible with hours, $10.00/hr.
All property to be paid for the day of sale & removal, sold as is, where is. Announcements day of experience • Weekly bonus including weekends and holidays.
Apply online at
314-567-2007
sale take precedence over all printed material. Not responsible for accidents or theft. Refreshments OSHA 10/30
available day of the sale. CASH/CHECK/DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD WITH PROPER ID.
hour certified www.Orangelake.com
MERSEAL/JARVIS AUCTION SERVICE - DE SOTO, MO EOE
Jim Merseal 636-586-3982 or Jimmy Jarvis 636-586-1640 or 636-524-3115 Call Matt Bade
View Photos & Full Listings at: www.auctionzip.com (Merseal ID #39342) 314-892-1331
or email Timber Creek
matt@baderoofing.com
www.baderoofing.com
Resort
BID NOTICES BID NOTICES
FT Maintenance Seeking in-home caregivers
to join our team in
De Soto School District Technician South St. Louis County &
NOTICE OF INVITATION TO BID Must be HVAC Certified Jefferson County areas.
Substitute Teachers Candidate should have some skills Requirements:
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PROPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
needed-$75/day valid driver’s license,
FOR GOOSE CREEK LAKE TRUSTEES, INC. 2019 ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. in all areas of maintenance including insured vehicle and passing
Goose Creek Lake Trustees, Inc., French Village, Missouri will receive sealed Pick up a substitute teacher electrical, plumbing and carpentry. background check.
Bids for the Proposed Infrastructure Improvements. Bids will be received at the packet from the Drywall experience a plus. Attention to
Day shift pay ranges from
offices of the Goose Creek Lake Trustees, Inc., 6200 Office Road, French Village, Administration Building. detail and organizational skills required.
Must be flexible with hours, including $10 to $14/hour. Big River Nursing
MO 63036, until 4:00 P.M., local time on Thursday, March 14, 2019. The work
includes the Roadway Reconstruction and Resurfacing of approximately 5.8
Requires DESE Substitute Teacher
Certificate and background check. nights, weekends and holidays. Apply at: and Rehabilitation
Apply online at http://shc189.ersp.biz/
miles plus 2 parking lots of asphalt pavement. Gravel roads need to be figured
Equal Opportunity Employer employment or call office at Join Our Excellent Team!
at 3 to 4 inches of asphalt, patching and resurfacing. The project includes www.Orangelake.com
314-835-1100 $500 Referral Bonus for all
various roads throughout Goose Creek Lake. Bid information may be obtained 636-586-1000
and/or viewed at the office of Goose Creek Lake Trustee, Inc. during regular Licensed Nursing Staff
business hours of Sunday through Thursday, 12 noon until 4:00 P.M. and Friday
and Saturday 8:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. There is also information available on the HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED Day Shift/Night Shift RN/LPN
Goose Creek Lake Trustees website http://www.goosecreeksubdivision.org/. $4,000 Sign-On Bonus and
Goose Creek Lake Trustees, Inc. reserves the right to reject any or all bids or night shift differential
any part thereof, to waive any informalities in the bidding, and to accept the
bids deemed most favorable to the interest of the Owner after all bids have
been examined and evaluated. Published by Goose Creek Lake Trustees, Inc.,
Imperial, De Soto and South 12-hour shifts for nurses
$100 Bonus for approved
extra shifts!
posted 02/15/2019.
County License Offices are looking Evening Shift CMT
$1,500 Sign-On Bonus,
INVITATION TO BID
The Jefferson County Health Department is soliciting
for friendly people to join our team Differentials,
Starting rate $12.45
sealed bids for the design, fabrication and installation Evening / Night Shift CNAs
of one double-faced monument sign with electronic The position requires data entry, customer service and inventory Differentials and Weekend
message board and a wall sign at the following location: management. Must be able to pass a random drug test as well as a Option Available
5864 State Rd. PP, High Ridge, MO 63049. Sealed background check, and all taxes must be paid up to date. $1,000 Sign-On Bonus
bids will be accepted between the hours of 8:00 a.m. $50 Bonus for approved
and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and must be $9.50 - $10.50 per hour. extra shifts for CNA / CMT!
received in a Sealed envelope marked “Monument
Open Interviews To Be Held At:
CNAs start at $11.25/hour
signs RFP 2019-02” no later than March 13, 2019 Differentials for every shift.
at 2:00 p.m. CST at: Jefferson County Health We pay more for experience!
Department, 405 Main St., Hillsboro, MO 63050, (636) Imperial License Office
Apply in person at:
797-3737. RFP packets with application and general 1238 Main St., Imperial, Missouri 6400 The Cedars Court
specifications and requirements are available at the on Saturday, March 9, 2019 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Cedar Hill, MO 63016
JCHD Hillsboro location or requested by email: Steve. Or Call 636-274-1777
sikes@jeffcohealth.org Any questions contact: 636-464-8999 x304 for more information
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HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

Open Interviews
Now Accepting Applications For
C.N.A.’s - For Night Shift Attention All Teachers!
Are you looking for part-time after school hours (15 hrs. min.
Apply In Person At: per week) working with children and adults with developmental
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Riverview at the Park disabilites?
1100 Progress Parkway, Ste. Genevieve, MO 63670 • $12.63 per hour
• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in DeSoto 573-883-3500 • Flexible schedule
• Mileage reimbrusement
1525 Villa Drive, DeSoto, MO 63020
Open interviews available Tuesdays
Immediate hiring for: & Thursdays 8:00am – 2:00pm or
Direct Support Professionals
Training provided.
CLEANERS WANTED apply on-line at sunnyhillinc.org for
Program Instructor position.
A Healthy Home Cleaning Service LLC Location : 3343 Armbruster Rd, DeSoto, MO 63020
For more information visit www.ponybird.org is looking to hire a few cleaners for its Hillsboro Sunnyhill, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
or call 636-931-5818 location. Must be personable, reliable &
Pony Bird, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. detailed. Must pass background check & drug
test if hired. Great hours with great pay.
Company cars and uniforms provided. BUILDING INSPECTOR
Please call Donna @ 636-375-1246 CITY OF PEVELY, MISSOURI
for more info or email:
The City of Pevely is accepting applications for a full-time Building
donna@ahealthyhomecleaningservice.com Inspector/Code Enforcement Officer.
Applicants must have experience with commercial and residential
construction, plan review, zoning regulations, and construction
NOW management. A minimum of 5 years’ experience and/or training
required.
Now Hiring HIRING! As a condition of employment, the applicant must obtain certifications
in the International Building Code’s primary residential building
• ANIMAL CARE TEAM • Arnold • High Ridge • Fenton • South County • Eureka
inspector categories.
Part Time Seasonal Position (March-October) Salary starting at $18.50 per hour and varies depending on qualifications.
20-30 hours per week • Production Workers Candidates will be subject to pre-employment drug testing and
background check.
• Participate in the daily care and husbandry of animals including but not • Machine Operators Deadline to submit applications: 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 14,
limited to birds, mammals and reptiles.
• Participate in the daily educational shows and presentations. • Electrical Assemblers 2019.
• Daily cleaning, hosing, scrubbing stalls and cleaning equipment. Send application, cover letter, resume, and three professional references
• Provide excellent guest service. • Shipping & Receiving (Split Shift) to the City of Pevely, 401 Main Street, Pevely, MO 63070 or email to
• Plastic Molding Operators ( All Shifts) ckoch@cityofpevely.org. The City of Pevely is EOE/ADA employer.
To apply, send resume to
Rachel.Huxel@anheuser-busch.com • CNC Machinists
Interested applicants please call Westaff at HELP WANTED HELP WANTED
636-349-0222 for more information, send resume to
mofenton@westaff.com or fax resume to 636-349-1266
Pony Bird, Inc. or stop by: 916 Brookwood Center, Fenton.
Program Instructors
De Soto Location Are you looking for a rewarding career working with individuals
with developmental disabilities?
Clinical Nurse • $12.63 per hour
• Flexible schedule JOIN OUR
• Mileage reimbursement TEAM
Needed for care and treatment of persons with multiple
disabilities. The clinical nurse works with a team to monitor Open interviews available
Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:00am
the care of the residents and provide necessary support to – 2:00pm or apply on-line at
maintain optimal health care outcomes. Must be a licensed sunnyhillinc.org for Program
RN or LPN, have or be able to obtain a chauffeur’s license, Director position.
minimum of two years experience, computer skills, and able Location : 3343 Armbruster Rd, DeSoto, MO 63020
to work independently. 40 hours per week and benefits. Victor’s Home Care is hiring RN’s Sunnyhill, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Email resumes to: mona@ponybird.org and personal care aides to

EOE provide in-home services to our clients HELP WANTED HELP WANTED
in Jefferson County: High Ridge, De Soto,
Festus, Crystal City, Arnold, and Imperial.
COOK Must have reliable transportation, active We Are Growing!
car insurance, and pass background
screening. Please call 636-931-7188 Great Career Opportunity!
(After 6 months grinders receive a $1,000 bonus)
To prepare and serve meals to clients while meeting the standards of
Department of Social Services as well as Department of Mental Health at all from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday.
times in the facility. Benefits Include:
Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED): Required Medical 11 Paid Holidays 401K (50% Matching up to 6%)
Experience: 1 plus years of experience in food service environment Dental/Vision Tuition Reimbursement Employee Assistance Program
Certifications/Licenses: ServeSafe Certification Preferred Scenic Nursing Life Insurance Profit Sharing Five Days Vacation at 6 months
Full Time and Part Time Positions available – Days and Rehab Center, Generous Compensation!
$12.50 per hour LLC, has exciting
To apply, please go to www.comtrea.org and click on Career Opportunities. MetalTek International is a foundry located in
opportunities
No phone calls please. EOE Pevely, MO hiring:
available for the
following positions: • Chip/Hand Grinders, 1st, 2nd & 3rd
City of De Soto Public Works Department Shifts Available
Maintenance Worker • Evening To be considered, complete an application online for
The City of De Soto Public Works is seeking applications
for a full-time Maintenance Worker. High School diploma,
CMT/CNA the Carondelet Division in Pevely, Missouri at:
www.metaltek.com
GED, or other certificate of competency; experience in
• Nights CNA
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and
Individuals with Disabilities. Drug Free Workplace
manual work and proven record of dependability. Requires
Missouri CDL Driver’s License or must obtain within six (6) Walk-ins
months. The work includes general maintenance and repair Welcome • Nights LPN/RN
work, operation of power tools and light-duty equipment,
operation of trucks and heavy-duty equipment, reading
water meters, checking meters for leaks and turning www.Teamscenic.com
meters on an off. Knowledge in Asphalt work is preferred.
The starting salary is $13.50 per hour,, DOQ. Applications
are available at City Hall, 17 Boyd Street, De Soto, MO.,
between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Applications can also be found online at desotomo.com.
LEADER Classified
Applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on March 21,
2019. Submit applications to City Hall. De Soto is an Equal
636-931-7560
Opportunity Employer. myleaderpaper.com
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HELP WANTED

BAISCH
ATV’S FOR SALE
REPAIR ATV, motorcycle, China
bikes: quality work, reasonable
March for Hunger
Seckman, Windsor collect more than 1,700 food items
prices 636-208-0232.
Nursing Center 2014 Yamaha 550, 125-hrs,
all factory, computer updates,
Now accepting $5000firm, 314-471-1419
applications for By Tony Krausz
Full-Time LPN or RN AUTO SERVICES For the Leader
12-hour night shift in
long-term care facility.
Lamberts Auto Repair Seckman and Windsor high
Apply in person at: school students donated a busload
Baisch Nursing Center, Catalytic Converters
3260 Baisch Drive, Starting at $159 of food and then some to Sister
De Soto, MO 63020 Dual Exhaust $275 Christine’s Food Pantry at St. Jo-
or fax resume to Flex Pipes $99.99 seph Catholic Church in Imperial
636-586-2292 EOE
636-467-7978 on March 1.
The food was collected dur-
HELP WANTED HELP WANTED
ing the two schools’ latest edition
of March for Hunger – an event
that has students at both campuses
Sunnyhill, Inc. is NOW HIRING gathering donations of food and
then culminating with students Lisa Rigdon photos
Direct Support Professionals (DSPs)! Jake Deaver gives classmate Dakota Steffens a push down Seckman
marching from Mastodon State
Direct Support Professionals work in the homes of people Road during the March for Hunger event. See more photos online at
we support to help them with daily living skills such as cooking, Historic Site along Seckman Road
cleaning, hygiene, and accessing the community. to Seckman High in Imperial, col- myleaderpaper.com.
• Immediate openings for all shifts
• Full and Part time positions available
lecting more food along the way.
• Paid training and certification The event netted more than
• $100 sign-on bonus after completion of training
1,700 nonperishable food items,
Apply online at: with the Seckman campus collect-
sunnyhillinc.org/careers
or contact Human Resources: ing more than 1,000 items and the
314-845-3900 for more information.
Windsor campus bringing in more
Sunnyhill, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
than 700 items, said co-chairs Joc-
elynn Brewer, a Seckman sopho-
HELP WANTED HELP WANTED more, and Lauren Stefanus, a
Windsor sophomore.
“It was probably the most food
Pacific Care Center is hiring... we have ever had, which is very
RN day & night 12 hour shifts exciting,” Brewer said.
Stefanus said the food filled
LPN day & night 12 hours shifts all but about 11 seats on a bus, as
CMT day & evening 8 hour shifts Seckman High School teacher Andrea Patterson checks with Staff Sgt,
well as a trailer, which were used Josh Brown to see if her students can pet Vern the Army dog.
CNA day & night 12 hour shifts to transport the food to the pantry.
Resident Helpers day & night 8 or 12 hour shifts “We had so many cans, we Seckman Road, but students gath- their choice.
Dietary Aides Full & Part time 6a-2:30p & 11:30a-7:30p filled up the food pantry,” Stefanus ered a lot prior to the event, which “Just from that alone, we had
Activity Assistants Full time days & evenings said. “They had tables empty and contributed to the big haul. more than 300 cans,” Brewer said.
We offer 401K, health/dental/vision/life insurance, PTO, ready for us to put cans and boxes “I think what happened was a “That was really exciting.”
competitive wages, direct deposit, friendly/team oriented on; about 10 minutes after we got lot of people sent food with their Stefanus said high school
atmosphere. Come and join our team. teachers offered incentives, like
there, everything was full. We were kids to school, so that food wasn’t
APPLY ON-LINE OR IN PERSON putting stuff on top of deep freezers outside (at the subdivision entranc- homework passes and test points,
Pacific Care Center, 105 South Sixth Street, Pacific, MO 63069 and the floor.” es) in the cold and bad weather,” for students who brought in food.
636-271-4222 • www.pacificcarecenter.net Seckman’s Brandon Haynes Brewer said. Also, Windsor history and
and Windsor’s Josh Krupp also She said Student Council government teacher Steven Roed-
were co-chairs for the event, which members blasted social media with ersheimer volunteered to be duct
the schools’ Student Council mem- a challenge on Feb. 28, offering taped to a wall during lunch hour
e
Hom ment bers organized. a raffle ticket to each student and with students getting a strip of tape
rove About 80 students, plus U.S. staff member for every five food to use on him for every three cans
Imp military recruiters and Jefferson items they donated. of food donated.
Hel County Sheriff’s Office personnel, One name was drawn for each Stefanus said the duct taping
Yard Want p took part in the march. class – freshman, sophomore, ju- was scheduled for Feb. 28, but
ed
Sale Brewer and Stefanus said there
wasn’t a lot of food to pick up at the
nior and senior – and for the staff, classes were canceled that day
because of bad weather, so it was
and the winners each received a
entrances to the subdivisions along $10 or $15 gift card to a place of rescheduled for Monday.
“It is really awesome how
se
Hou ale the teachers are willing to help us
for S
with such a good cause like this,”
Stefanus said.
Tru Brewer and Stefanus said it
for Sck was great having both the military
ale recruiters and Sheriff’s Office spon-

Open 24/7
sor the event this year. In previous
years, the military was the lone
sponsor, while deputies provided
an escort for the march.
“I’m really proud of all of the
Place your classified ad effort everyone put in,” Brewer
said. “It was heartwarming to see
online at how much food we brought in be-
cause of how many families we are

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going to help with what we did. It
Windsor High School Student Council members Maggie Funston and Toby is just awesome that we are helping
Stagner carry donations from Seckman Middle School. our community like that.”
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