MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Missouri State University will be holding a surplus property sale including items such as desks, file cabinets, pool tables and more.
The sale will be held at 9 a.m.Tuesday, April 24, at the Materials Distribution Center, located at the corner of West 16th Street and College Park Drive.
According to a press release from Northwest, the sale is open to the public, including Northwest students and employees. Sale items will be available for inspection by potential buyers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, April 23, and 8 to 9 a.m.Tuesday, April 24.
Full payment must be made immediately after the sale. The University will accept cash, money order, cashier or certified check, personal or business check. All purchased property must be removed by 4 p.m. on Friday, April 27.
Items to be sold, include, but are not limited to: Miscellaneous computer equipment and supplies, miscellaneous notebooks, desks, file cabinets (4-drawer and 2-drawer), miscellaneous chairs, wood bookshelves, glass display case, glass display pie case, 8-foot folding tables, 6-foot round folding tables, small round tables, small square tables, entertainment centers, executive desks, magazine rack, lateral metal file cabinet, A/V carts, speakers, pool tables, futon, music stands, paper presses, greenhouse plant stand, map storage cabinet, decorative rugs, upright pianos, air compressors, doors, safety cabinets, bricks and scrap metal.
For more information, call Angie Wolters in the Northwest purchasing department at (660) 562-1178 or click here.
The Apple Blossom Festival is less than two weeks away and it will kick off with a bigger BBQ.
According to a press release, the “Made With Uncommon Character” campaign, is leading the the 12th annual Apple Blossom BBQ Contest for the first time.
“We’re excited to lead the Apple Blossom BBQ Contest this year and help it grow into more of a festival with more entertainment and food options,” said Kristi Bailey, campaign director.
Triumph Foods is the event’s presenting sponsor and VanZinos BBQ will be serving pulled pork sandwiches and side dishes along with pork tacos to celebrate the Cinco de Mayo weekend.
“While it’s fun to watch the BBQ teams compete like how you see on Food Network, the smell of the BBQ makes you want a whole meal,” Bailey said. “Thanks to Triumph and VanZinos for helping us bring a meal for residents to enjoy.”
Attendees also will be able to sample the work of competitors that participate in the People’s Choice Contest on Friday night.
The weekend schedule is:
Friday, May 4
Civic Center Park
5 to 10 p.m. People’s Choice Tasting & Pulled Pork BBQ Meal & Beverages with additional vendors
7 to 10 p.m. Music by Blue Oyster Culture Club
Saturday, May 5
9:30 to 11 a.m. Apple Blossom Parade from Noyes & Frederick to Fourth & Felix Downtown
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Live Radio Remote by KKJO at Civic Center Park
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pulled Pork BBQ Meal & Beverages, Kids Activities by Renovation Church, Vendor Fair at Civic Center Park with a Cinco de Mayo fiesta feel.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Discover Downtown First Saturday Activities in Felix Street Square
3 to 3:30 p.m. BBQ Competition Awards Presentation at Civic Center Park
There is still time to sign up to participate as a BBQ Team and be a vendor at the event. Click here for more information.
The early bird price for meal tickets is $8 for adults and $4 for kids. At the door, adult meal price is $10 and $5 for kids. Early bird tickets are available at the link above.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Voices of Courage Child Advocacy Center, who recently hosted the Apple Blossom BBQ.
(UPDATE) Area law enforcement conducted an overnight operation which resulted in several arrests.
According to Captain Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department, the goal of the joint operation was to locate and stop vehicles fleeing from officers.
Wilson said area law enforcement agencies involved included the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force with outlying support from Elwood, Doniphan County and Andrew County Sheriff Departments.
“It was very well-thought out, very well-planned. It went from the late evening hours into the early morning hours and we would just say that the operation was a success,” Wilson said. “There were vehicles that did flee from officers, these vehicles were tracked by air assets and there were arrests made as a result of this operation.”
Wilson said there were five arrests made as a result of suspects fleeing from officers. Wilson said vehicles flee from officers during normal or investigative traffic stops and some that flee from officers may do so because a suspect is driving a stolen vehicle.
“Our officers made us very aware of the fact that a lot of vehicles are fleeing from them. This presents a danger not only to the citizens, as far as the driving of these suspects when they flee in their vehicles, but also it speaks to the fact that they are normally involved in some sort of criminal behavior that we’re trying to stop them for anyway,” Wilson said. “(We orchestrated) an operation with this much planning and safety involved in it, to hopefully have somewhat of an affect on these suspects choosing to flee from us, that’s kind of what the premise is behind this. Much like doing a special operation for narcotics or anything along those lines, we saw a problem and we implemented some planning to address that problem.”
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(7:56 a.m. Friday) The St. Joseph Police Department made several arrests overnight due to a joint operation.
According to Sgt. Wayne Byrom with the police department, the operation between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. focused on stolen vehicles and vehicles fleeing from officers.
Around 9:30 Thursday night, police were following a car on 16th Street when the vehicle attempted to get away. The driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into another vehicle parked outside a home. Two people in the vehicle were taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
More information on the results of the joint operation will be released later Friday.
Temperatures will still be cooler than normal this weekend, but not nearly as cold as the previous few weekends. Friday looks pleasant, but rain chances move in eastern KS and western MO Saturday. Those chances will spread into central and eastern MO Saturday night into Sunday before moving away from the area Sunday afternoon. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Light south southeast wind becoming southeast 8 to 13 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44. East wind 7 to 11 mph.
Saturday: A chance of showers, mainly after 1 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 56. East southeast wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers, mainly before 1 a.m. Cloudy, with a low around 43. East northeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: A slight chance of showers before 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 60. East northeast wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 44.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 66.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers before 1 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 62.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Gov. Greitens booking photo courtesy St. Louis Police Department
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge on Thursday rejected a request from Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to dismiss a felony criminal indictment against him, but sanctioned prosecutors for failing to turn over evidence as soon as they should have.
Greitens was indicted in February on a charge of invasion of privacy. He’s accused of taking and transmitting a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair in 2015, before he was elected. Greitens has admitted to what he says was an “entirely consensual” affair and has denied criminal wrongdoing.
Attorneys for Greitens say a private investigator hired by the prosecutor has repeatedly lied to the court. They also allege that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner knew he lied, and that her office has withheld evidence from the defense.
Circuit Judge Rex Burlison’s sanctions allow the defense to retake depositions with the woman who is at the center of the case and with the private investigator. Both are expected next week, said Susan Ryan, a spokeswoman for the circuit attorney’s office.
Attorneys for Greitens have said prosecutors withheld a videotaped deposition with the woman until an hour before a special state House committee released a report last week that cited allegations of unwanted sexual aggression, and has been slow to turn over other evidence.
Defense attorneys also said 11 pages of private investigator William Tisaby’s notes from a deposition of a friend of the woman, requested weeks ago, were not turned over until Sunday, and only after Greitens’ lawyers threatened to go to court to ask for them.
“These rules are not mere rules of etiquette,” the judge said. “Clearly in this case the state has committed sanctionable discovery violations of the rules of criminal procedure.”
Greitens’ attorneys have also argued that Tisaby has repeatedly lied to the court. For example, he said he didn’t take notes during an interview of the woman, but photos and a video showed him taking notes. In another instance, Tisaby said he checked his laptop for notes during a deposition lunch break, but later said the laptop wasn’t even in St. Louis, defense attorneys said.
Prosecutors have said they made a mistake in relying on Tisaby but that it didn’t warrant dismissing the case.
Tisaby has not returned phone and email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Greitens’ trial is scheduled for May 14. It’s among many worries for the Republican governor. A growing number of lawmakers, including all of the top Republicans, have called on Greitens to resign.
Those resignation calls increased after Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley said Tuesday that an investigation by his office determined that Greitens may have committed another crime by using a donor list from the veterans’ charity he founded, The Mission Continues, to raise money for his gubernatorial campaign without the charity’s permission. Since the alleged crime happened in St. Louis it will be up to Gardner, a Democrat, to decide whether to file charges.
Ryan declined to speculate Thursday on whether new charges would be filed.
Hawley also turned over his findings to the House investigatory committee, which is to recommend in the coming weeks whether to pursue impeachment proceedings to try to remove Grietens from office.
House Speaker Todd Richardson said Thursday that the panel is moving “as expeditiously” but “as thoroughly” as possible and has no particular deadline. The Legislature is to end its regular work May 18. Richardson said a “substantial” number of Republican House members have already signed a petition to call the Legislature into a special session if needed to consider impeachment.
The Missouri Department of Agriculture launched the 9th annual Focus on Missouri Agriculture photo contest, asking Missourians to share the unique stories and images of agriculture through photographs.
The contest, which runs through June 15, is an opportunity for amateur photographers across the state to submit their best images of Missouri agriculture. That image may take shape through a breathtaking farm landscape, an aerial shot of harvest, a farm tractor that has been in the family for years or a fun moment showcasing farm life captured on a mobile device.
The Focus on Missouri Agriculture Photo Contest is open to Missouri’s amateur photographers of all ages. Participants may enter up to three photos in each of the six categories. The photo contest categories are: Beauty of the Farm, Faces of the Farm, The Farmer’s Life, Pride of the Farm and Farm Selfie. Children’s Barnyard, a special category for budding photographers ages 12 and under, is back for the 9th annual contest as well.
Entries will be judged on visual impact, creativity, memorable content and image quality. The contest offers prizes and many chances to win thanks to the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s Missouri Grown program. A $50 Missouri Grown Market gift certificate will be awarded to the first place winner in each of the six categories. A Missouri Grown Market gift certificate, valued at $100, will be awarded to the Best of Show. Category winners and Best of Show will also receive professional canvas prints of their winning shot.
Winners will be announced in mid-July, and winning images will be displayed during the Missouri State Fair in the Agriculture Building, Aug. 9-19, 2018.
For more information, visit the Missouri Dept. of Agriculture’s website.
Generally quiet weather is expected through the next week. While there is a chance for some showers Saturday into Sunday, it doesn’t look like a washout. Otherwise, temperatures should trend warmer, getting close to normal by Monday. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Sunny, with a high near 56. North northeast wind 7 to 9 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 34. East wind 3 to 8 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 61. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. East wind 7 to 9 mph.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 57. East southeast wind around 9 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 62.
Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 44.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 66.
Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Parties on the Parkway 2018 logo courtesy of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce.
The St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce has released the 2018 schedule for Parties on the Parkway.
Kristi Bailey with the Chamber said the free event is held from 5 to 8 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month from May through September.
“We have live music, food, drinks and it’s a way to either hang out with your coworkers after work or bring the family out and enjoy some sunshine,” Bailey said.
View the full schedule below and visit saintjoseph.com for more information.
A luncheon next week will serve soup to raise money for area agencies that help the food insecure.
This will be the 13th year for the Hunger Coalition’s Empty Bowls luncheon. The Hunger Coalition is made up of InterServ, Open Door Food Kitchen, Catholic Charities and Second Harvest Community Food Bank.
Marsha Rosenthal with the Hunger Coalition said Second Harvest supplies InterServ, Open Door Food Kitchen and more with commodities for the over 51,000 food insecure individuals in the area. Over 16,000 of those individuals are children. Rosenthal said food insecurity affects people in all walks of life and situations.
“You can be a member of the working poor, meaning you do work but your salary is very low, you can be homeless, you can be a senior citizen who has to make a decision between paying for their medicine or eating, which is a sad state of affairs,” Rosenthal said. “All of these people have a hard time. We have children who take part in the free meal program in the schools and we have adults who go without eating so their children will eat when they’re at home.”
The Empty Bowls luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24th, at the Wyatt Park Baptist Church. Admission is $25 per person. Local restaurants will showcase their signature soups at the luncheon and everyone can vote for their favorite.
MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Northwest Missouri State University’s Student Senate is sponsoring its annual spring blood drive this week in cooperation with the Community Blood Center.
According to a press release, the blood drive started Tuesday and continues through Thursday, April 19, in the Tower View Room, located on the third floor of the J.W. Jones Student Union. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4:30 pm. each day.
“Every donation matters, and just one pint of blood can save three people’s lives,” said Madison Adler, the civic service chair for Northwest’s Student Senate and a senior criminology major from Smithville, Missouri.
The Community Blood Center is the primary supplier of blood and blood components in the region, serving more than 65 local hospitals and medical centers. Student Senate annually sponsors fall, winter and spring blood drives in cooperation with the Community Blood Center to boost blood supplies in northwest Missouri.
Blood from volunteer donors assists cancer patients recovering from the rigors of chemotherapy, auto accident victims needing blood for emergency surgeries or mothers needing blood as the result of traumatic birth deliveries.
For more information, contact Student Senate’s Civic Committee at [email protected] or (660) 562-1218 or the Community Blood Center at (800) 245-7035.
MARYVILLE, Mo. – Northwest Missouri State University will be holding a surplus property sale including items such as desks, file cabinets, pool tables and more.
The Missouri Department of Agriculture launched the 9th annual Focus on Missouri Agriculture photo contest, asking Missourians to share the unique stories and images of agriculture through photographs.
