CAMERON, Mo. – Route BB in Daviess County is now closed for a culvert replacement, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.
Local maintenance crews have closed Route BB from Unity Avenue to Vow Avenue.
The road will remain closed until 3 p.m. Motorists will need to use an alternate route during the closure.
All work is weather permitting and schedules are subject to change.
Today Sunny, with a high near 57. North northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 36. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Thursday Mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Thursday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 48. East southeast wind 7 to 10 mph.
Friday Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 60. Southeast wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night Showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a low around 52. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Saturday A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Sunday Partly sunny, with a high near 63.
Sunday Night A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Monday Partly sunny, with a high near 65.
Monday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Tuesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.
A Cameron R-1 Elementary School teacher has made the final four in the running for a 2015 Top Teacher Search award.
Donn Harrison is a teacher at Parkview Elementary and is one of the finalists for the award hosted by ABC’s LIVE with Kelly and Michael show.
To view Harrison’s teacher nomination profile click here.
Tuesday Harrison had been narrowed down to a list of 12 finalists but after votes were cast he is now down one of the top four.
Harrison and the other finalist will then travel to New York and be featured on “LIVE” from May 4-7.
Following their appearances, viewers will have the chance to vote for their favorite, and on Friday, May 8, the educator who has received the most votes will be named this year’s Top Teacher live on air.
Bayer Healthcare plans to shut down its St. Joseph facility eliminating more than 100 jobs in the community.
The company had originally said it planned to try to sell its Animal Health production facility located at 3915 S 48th Street Ter. but after looking at the options the company said it’s forced to simply shut the plant down.
“Our intent was to bid off and sell the facility,” said Lauren Dorsch, Sr. Communications Representative. “There weren’t any viable alternatives other than trying to close it. So it’s with a heavy heart that we announce we’re closing the site.”
Bayer said the closure is due to changed market demands and conditions which created excess capacity.
The St. Joseph facility employs around 130 people.
The DVM brand and Expert Care brand of products currently manufactured in St. Joseph will be manufactured at alternative sites and continue to be available as part of the Bayer portfolio. However, all other products produced in St. Joseph will be discontinued and Bayer will sell the products until inventory is exhausted.
The facility will shut down at the end of June, 2015
Dorsch said employees in St. Joseph will be offered a severance package as well as other benefits during the closure.
“In addition to receiving severance and transitional benefits we’re going to work with local leaders to market employment opportunities within the St. Joseph community,” Dorsch said. “In addition, those employees impacted will be receiving notices regarding potential employment opportunities at all Bayer sites, including Shawnee, KS.”
Dorsch said Bayer acquired the St. Joseph facility at the beginning of 2013.
St. Joseph, Mo. — Missouri Western art students could see their canoe-themed sculpture installation in Ann, Arbor, Michigan this spring.
Two of the three sculptures up for a public vote were created by artists at Western.
Canoe Imagine Art is a public art project that repurposes canoes retired by the City of Ann Arbor into works of art, with the purpose of celebrating the history and attributes of the Huron River and/or the city’s park system.
Ann Arbor’s Arts Alliance released a nationwide call for artists to submit works for review and selection and received a total of 21 submissions. A jury of citizens selected a total of six works, three for installation and three for public vote. Of the three pieces up for public vote, one will be chosen for installation.
“Turbine” was designed by Missouri Western students Heather Andrews and Jake Proffit; J. Neil Lawley, assistant professor of art and director of sculpture; and construction professional Dustin Lafromboise. The name is in reference to the movement and occasional turbulence of the river and the history of hydroelectricity generated by the river. The sculpture will stand 11’9” tall and have a diameter of 19’4”. It will be composed of ten (10) recycled canoes, which will be cut in half crossways and arranged into two tilted radial arrays attached to a central pillar. The arrays will be oriented in opposite directions and approximately 30 degrees off the horizontal axis. They will be mounted to metal discs that will allow the canoes to be rotated (either by hand or wind) around its central axis.
“Double Eddy” was designed by J. Neil Lawley. The title is a formal reference to the funneling of an eddy in a river current and the diversion of the waste stream that occurs by using repurposed materials. The proposed sculpture will
stand 13’4” tall and have a diameter of 10’3”. It will be composed of ten (10) recycled canoes, which will be cut in half crossways and arranged into two cone shapes. One of the cones will be inverted and attached to the other, with the ends of the two cones aligned with the negative spaces formed between the joined canoes. There are two possible versions of the piece: one vertically aligned and the other tilted. The vertically aligned version will emphasize symmetry whereas the tilted version creates more of a sense of swirling movement.
The third sculpture up for public vote, “Huron Flower,” was designed by a team from the University of Michigan.
Online public voting is now open for the selection of the final artwork for Canoe Imagine Art. The public is invited to review and vote for their favorite online through May 1. To cast your ballot CLICK HERE.
A Cameron R-1 Elementary School teacher is in the running for a 2015 Top Teacher Search award.
Donn Harrison is a teacher at Parkview Elementary and is one of the finalists for the award hosted by ABC’s LIVE with Kelly and Michael show.
To view Harrison’s teacher nomination profile click here.
Harrison was nominated for the contest and is now one of 12 finalists. Voting is currently underway until 8 a.m. ET tomorrow – the top four will then be named during the Kelly and Michael show which will air at 9 a.m. ET tomorrow.
The four finalist will then travel to New York and be featured on “LIVE” from May 4-7.
Following their appearances, viewers will have the chance to vote for their favorite, and on Friday, May 8, the educator who has received the most votes will be named this year’s Top Teacher live on air.
To cast your vote Click Here.
The St. Joseph Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s are teaming up to offer “how-to” construction clinics for women volunteering during Habitat’s Women’s Build Week.
The National Women Build Week will take place May 2-10. Habitat said it encourages women across the country to devote at least one day to building simple, decent and affordable housing with Habitat in their local communities.
“We are looking forward to National Women Build Week and the opportunity to engage more women in our work,” said Melissa Koch, executive director of St. Joseph Habitat for Humanity. “We invite women of all skill levels to join us on the build site and attend the clinics hosted by Lowe’s.”
Local clinics will be held at Lowe’s of St. Joseph located at 3901 N. Belt Hwy Thursday, April 23rd from 6-7 p.m. The course is called “How to Safely Use Hand and Power Tools.”
To sign up for the clinic, volunteers are asked to contact Rita Boyer at St. Joseph Habitat for Humanity at 816-279-2552.
Lowe’s helped launch National Women Build Week in 2008.
Habitat said each year Lowe’s provides the support of Lowe’s Heroes employee volunteers and conducts how-to clinics at stores to teach volunteers construction skills.
Recognition was given to one area trooper for his efforts to rescue a woman who drove into floodwaters last fall.
15 Missouri State Highway Patrol employees were honored at the Patrol’s annual awards and MASTERS banquet this past weekend.
Among those honored was Sgt. Michael P. Quilty with Troop H.
On Sept. 9, 2014 heavy rainfall in Holt County resulted in flash flooding. According to MSHP Quilty was contacted and dispatched to the area. Quilty and Missouri Department of Conservation Agents Anthony Maupin and Jade Wright rescued a woman who had driven into floodwaters on Missouri Route N, north of Mound City. The floodwaters had washed her vehicle off the roadway. Using a Department of Conservation boat, the trio made their way to the woman and rescued her. During that rescue, Quilty received information regarding flooding over both lanes of Interstate 29 from the 86-mile marker to the 88-mile marker. Several vehicles were in the water and all of those vehicles contained occupants. Learning this, Quilty and the agents cleared the scene of the first rescue and responded to Interstate 29.
Upon arriving at the scene on Interstate 29, Missouri Department of Conservation Agent Eric Abbott determined the water was flowing too swiftly to deploy a boat. Quilty, Agent Maupin, and Agent Wright were able to utilize a front-end loader and motor grader operated by Missouri Department of Transportation employees. Quilty and Wright stood in the bucket of the front-end loader as it maneuvered through the floodwaters. They successfully rescued five civilians. The water flowing over the interstate was approximately three feet deep. Rescuers made two additional trips to rescue the remaining two civilians trapped by the floodwaters. There were no injuries to any of the rescuers and none of the victims required medical attention.
Quilty was given the 2014 Lifesaving Award.
The MSHP commended him for his quick response and innovative thinking. The patrol said his courage and training helped him save eight lives in an extremely dangerous situation.
The Platte County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is tackling the issue of Victims’ Rights with a breakfast.
The Prosecuting Attorney’s office said the public is invited to attend the free breakfast that will be held at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, April 24, 2015 at the Platte City United Methodist Church located at 14040 Highway N.
The breakfast is part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which is April 19th-25th. This year’s theme is “Engaging Communities: Empowering Victims.”
“People who have survived being victimized by crime deserve our support. This breakfast is simple way to empower victims and thank those who work to hold offenders responsible for their crimes,” said Eric Zahnd, Platte County Prosecuting Attorney.
The speaker for the breakfast this year will be NaToyia Wilson. Wilson is a crime victim who was a vocal proponent of Constitutional Amendment 2, which allows evidence prior sex crimes to be admitted in child sex abuse trials. Amendment 2 was enacted after garnering support from about 80% of Missouri voters in November 2014.
The breakfast will also feature the presentation of the Tenth Annual Sara Andrasek Memorial Award, which recognizes an individual or entity that has provided particularly outstanding service to crime victims.
Andrasek was pregnant with her first child when she was raped and murdered. Zahnd’s office and the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department were in the final stages of preparing a death penalty case against Wayne Dumond for that when Dumond died while in custody.
Demolition of a bridge almost 100-years-old is underway in St. Joseph
“We should be done with demolition probably within the next week and a half,” said Brady McKinley, Project Manager. “We removed over half the bridge as of early this morning.”
The City of St. Joseph is replacing the Garfield bridge on Southwest Parkway over Garfield Ave.
It’s part of a CIP project that will cost $2,846,117.98 and is expected to be completed by May of 2016.
“But the contractor hopes that weather providing that they will be done by the end of this calender year,” McKinley said.
The bridge was built in 1927 and has deteriorated over time.
“It’s almost 100 years old and the decay over the years has show,” McKinley said. “We couldn’t even have a fire truck drive across that bridge as it stood before we started this project. That’s how low the load limits were on this bridge.”
The new bridge will also include a 10-foot hike and bike trail that will connect to the city’s current trail system.
“The hike and bike trail that was existing on the north and south ends of the bridge it narrowed down to like a three and a half foot walkway across the bridge,” McKinley said. “When this new bridge is constructed it will be a 10-foot hike and bike trail and it will match up to what’s existing there and it will be a true connection to the north and south end.”
