AFL-CIO Community Services kicks off its “Christmas in July FUNdraiser” with the popular Trivia Night this Saturday.

Come test your knowledge at our holiday-themed trivia contest. But don’t worry, not all questions are about Christmas.

They plan a silent auction and some mini games too.

The event is scheduled July 11 at the Green Acres Ballroom, 3500 N. Village Drive (by the Hollywood Theaters). Doors open at 5 pm and the games starts at 7 pm. Bring your own snacks and drinks or buy refreshments at the event.

Your team of up to ten people can register for $20 per person.

The funds raised through Christmas in July go to support agency initiatives, including Help Me Hotline, Adopt-A-Family, Soles for Christ, Cinderella’s Closet, and the Lions Club eyeglasses program. For more information, please call 364-1131

If you do not have time to play, you can donate a toy or make a $10 donation for a chance to win $500 cash in our month-long toy drive and raffle. July 31 raffle winners will be drawn at our Christmas in July Community Clothes Closet sale. (Need not be present to win.)

Donations stay in the St Joseph area helping your neighbors in need.

The Wingnuts Flying Circus returns to Tarkio this weekend at the Gould Peterson Municipal Airport . The “Greatest Little Airshow” is Saturday. Admission to the show is $10 with children 5 and under free.

Ethan Copple has given free rides in vintage aircraft to the flight line crew. Two members of the crew, a pair of cadets from Council Bluffs, Iowa, had to leave the show early last year.

So Mr Copple flew up to Council Bluffs to give them their makeup rides. This video was shot from the roll bar of a Fairchild PT-19

More information is available at their Web site here.

Two Kansas City men were seriously hurt when a tractor trailer rammed into a dump truck at a highway construction site.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report says a Mack truck driven by Marion Collins, 54,  entered the construction zone along I-29 south of Mound City Thursday morning. The vehicle struck the rear of the dump truck, driven by Darin Meyer, 50.

Both drivers suffered serious injuries and were transported to Mosaic Life Care.

A boil advisory was put into place Thursday after a water main break in DeKalb County.

Public Water Supply No. 1 has issued a boil advisory after a water main break along 268th St.

Customers within the boundaries of North-36 Hwy, South-116 Hwy, East-Y Hwy, and West-VV Hwy/169 Hwy are under the advisory until otherwise notified.

This includes the cities of Braley and Perrin area but not the cities of Easton or Stewartsville.

A murder trial that has already prompted two delays in Clinton County will be moved to Clay County on a change of venue.

Adam Baker of Cameron was charged with 2nd Degree Murder and Armed Criminal Action after the fatal shooting of his wife Holly Baker in February. His case has been delayed twice as judges in Clinton County recused themselves.

The Missouri Supreme Court assigned Clay County Judge Larry Harman to hear the case.  On Thursday, Mr Baker’s lawyer Brian Klopfenstein filed a motion for a change of venue, a right that is guaranteed in Missouri counties with populations under 75,000 people. Judge Harman granted the motion. The case will be moved to Liberty, Missouri for trial in Clay County.

Judge Harman set the case on the court’s calendar for a docket call September 11 at 8:30 am.

Officials in Clinton County said Mr Baker was due to be transported to Clay County Thursday afternoon.

Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway has released the audit of Nodaway County. The audit report includes information collected for the Dec. 31, 2014 audit period and lists the county’s overall performance rating as “good.”

Prior to this report, Nodaway County’s most recent audit was released in February 2012, which also included a “good” rating.

 

“Nodaway County has received a performance rating of ‘good,’ the second highest rating available, for two consecutive audits,” Galloway said. “While there were some areas of concern, the recommendations made by my office will assist county officials as they work to make improvements in county government operations.”

Audit staff noted findings in four audit areas. Of the 11 total findings, nine related to operations in the Sheriff’s office. These included lack of controls over the sheriff’s commissary accounting and receipting procedures, disbursement procedures, and tracking of civil and criminal process papers. Other finds include errors in reporting of county sales tax and proper accounting of fuel usage by the road and bridge department.

The complete report of the Nodaway County audit is available here.

 

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – Contractors working on the new Bankers Crossing Bridge south of St. Joseph on U.S. Route 59 announced they will close the bridge on Monday, July 13, 2015.

Previously it had been announced the bridge would close on Tuesday, July 14. In order to tie in the new bridge to the existing roadway, U.S. Route 59 will be closed up to 30 calendar days.

Traffic will be directed over a signed detour on Routes 752, 371 and 116.

While this closure will be a brief inconvenience for many, MoDOT said it brings much needed updates to the roadway. The old bridge, built in 1936, carries more than 5,000 cars per day and is structurally deficient. It is 24-feet wide with no shoulders and has limited sight distance, due to the curve of the highway. The new bridge is wider, provides shoulders for safety and realigns the roadway.