Young entrepreneurs pitched robots as a business investment Wednesday at Webster Learning Center.

“He can talk he can show pictures on his face, he can move, and other stuff,” said William Hausman a 4th-graders in the St. Joseph School District Gifted and Talented program (GATE).

“Robots are not a toy, robots can help all around the world,” said GATE 4th-grader Joshua Peek.

Students in the GATE class presented their robot build to a panel of judges and attempted to sell the machine.

“As we build through the program we try to build through more entrepreneurship and getting the kids to understand business practices,” said GATE teacher Ashley Jevorutsky. “This is my first step to get the kids used to presenting to a group of people that is not necessarily their teacher.”

Students helped to put together a video advertising their robot and presented that video to the judges.

“They can help in the world,” said Hausman. “Go to outer-space, one’s up there right now on Mars.”

 

According to the Trenton Police Department 53-year-old Rebecca Taul of Trenton Missouri has been identified by the Grundy County Coroner’s Office as the woman firefighters found dead in a burning house fire Sunday.

Trenton Chief of Police Tommy Wright said on the department’s Facebook page Wednesday that Taul’s next of kin have been notified.

Taul was found with multiple gunshot wounds from a small-caliber handgun which she received before the fire was set in the 600 block of Grundy Street.

As we previously reported, Monday night a standoff came to a close at a home near McFall, Missouri when law enforcement officials entered to find 50-year-old David M. Call of Kansas City Missouri dead from a self-inflected gunshot wound.

Call was a suspect in Taul’s death and had been charged Monday with murder, arson, armed criminal action and the abandonment of a corpse. A warrant had been issued for his arrest.

The Madraliers, Northwest Missouri State University’s chamber choir, will present a fall concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Charles Johnson Theater at the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building.

The chamber choir, directed by Dr. Brian Lanier, associate professor of music, will perform a varied program, including Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria, Hymn to St. Cecilia” by Benjamin Britten and “Six Chansons” by Paul Hindemith. The Vivaldi work will be performed with orchestra.

“My approach to choral music is to give our students a broad view of repertoire across time,” Lanier said. “The opportunity to perform master works such as the Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’ with orchestral forces is a valuable experience for the students. Last fall we performed Bach’s ‘Magnificat,’ and ‘Gloria’ is a perfect companion piece for us to study and learn. The Britten work is very colorful and harmonically challenging. Hindemith’s ‘Six Chansons’ is a delightful setting of poems by Rilke about scenes from nature and seasons.”

The concert is free and the public is invited to attend.

The Madraliers have made numerous appearances for prestigious music organizations, including the American Choral Directors Association and the Missouri Music Educators Association. They will also present the 41st Annual Yuletide Feaste, Dec. 5-6 on the Northwest Campus.

The Madraliers choral ensemble is a select group of undergraduate and graduate students representing a variety of disciplines and majors at Northwest. In the spring, the same students become Celebration, the show choir for the University.

East Hills Shopping Center is happy to announce the annual Safe Trick-Or-Treat event for children in Northwest Missouri. Safe Trick-Or-Treat will take place from 6:00pm – 8:00pm on October 31st. All of the 60+ shops inside East Hills including Rally House and Family Christian will be participating in this Halloween tradition.

“We just want to provide a safe and fun environment for both kids and adults, and what better place to do that than East Hills Shopping Center,” said Regan Lyons, Director of Marketing for East Hills Shopping Center. “As a mom, I know that it can be tough this time of year to find a balance between celebrating Halloween and staying safe, this event is a great way to do both.”

This is an annual event at East Hills Shopping Center where over 60 stores come together to give out candy to little trick-or-treaters who stop by on Friday. This is the 49th time this event has been held and this is the largest number of participants the shopping center has ever had.

For more information about Safe Trick-Or-Treat and many other events, please visit www.shopeasthills.com or call (816) 279-5667.

A four-hour long standoff came to a close at a home near McFall, Missouri Monday night when law enforcement official entered to find 50-year-old David M. Call of Kansas City, Missouri dead from a self-inflected gunshot wound.

Call was a suspect in a homicide that occurred in Trenton, Missouri Sunday, Oct. 26. Call was charged Monday with murder, arson, armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

“Investigators pinged his cellphone which led us to the Pattonsburg Missouri area, and finally led us to the residence there just east of McFall,” said Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jacob Angle. “We were able to establish a quick perimeter so we felt we had the threat secure at that time.”

Angle said Call fired several shots at officers then barricaded himself into the residence near McFall, Missouri.

KCTV5 is reporting that Call’s former girlfriend, Becky Nelson Taul was the woman firefighters found Sunday inside the home located in the 600 block of Grundy Street in Trenton, Mo. Sunday. Taul was found with multiple gunshot wounds from a small-caliber handgun which she received before the fire was set.

The investigation continues by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Trenton Police Department, Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, and Daviess County Sheriff’s Department.

St. Joseph City Council members Ken Beck and Spanky O’Dell are asking their fellow citizens to consider a passing a use tax and a fuel tax to finally solve the streets problem. Beck says it’s clear that residents want better streets, by a wide margin.  680 KFEQ’s Barry Birr has that story:

The St. Joseph Police Department has identified 29-year-old Romino Burta as the man killed by a train Saturday afternoon.

Captain Jeff Wilson said Burta has been a St. Joseph resident since he started working at Triumph Foods.

Burta was killed Saturday after he tried to cross the railroad crossing near Illinois Avenue around 2:30 p.m.

Headphones were found at the scene of the accident but Capt. Wilson said it is not possible to confirm if those can be tied to why the incident took place.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday for Randolph Seating & Mobility to celebrate its anniversary and the addition of a new department.

Randolph has been in business for 15-years and just recently opened a new respiratory department.

A ribbon-cutting was held Monday by the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce to mark the grand-opening of the new department.

Randolph originally started in a small 400 square foot retail space and now has nearly 8,000 square feed at its location on 2303 S. 22nd Street just south of 36th highway on the east side of 22nd street.

A playground launch party is being held Tuesday at Progressive Community Services to inform the public about a universal playground that will break ground in St. Joseph early next year.

Lynn Smith, Executive Director of Progressive Community Services said, “Our organization helps make sure that people with developmental disabilities are included in both the work and play in our community. This playground will be a wonderful place for children and their families to play together and meet other children and families in the community.”

Progressive signed a contract with the organization Unlimited Play to create a playground in St. Joseph that will be accessible to everyone.  The new playground will be located at the new YMCA site, the St. Joseph Community Campus, near the Shoppes at North Village.

Unlimited Play describes itself as an organization that “partners with community organizations and municipalities to design, fund raise and build universally accessible playgrounds.” The non-profit organization was born from the hopes of two parents who wanted their child with a developmental disability to be able to play on structures and with others at their community playground.

The community kicked off party will be held Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at Progressive Community Services located at 1620 N. Woodbine Rd. in St. Joseph, Mo.

 

A fatal house fire in Trenton Missouri is now under investigation.

According to the Trenton Police Department’s Facebook page Trenton Fire was called to the 600 block of Grundy on a house fire call. When firefighters arrived the house was fully involved. While trying to extinguish the blaze firefighters discovered a body in the home.

Trenton Police Chief Tommy Wright said an investigation is underway by the Trenton Police Department, Grundy County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Fire Marshal’s and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The identity of the deceased individual will not be released until a forensic identification can be made.