A Flood Warning continues for the Missouri River at St Joseph until October 1st.

According to the National Weather Service, at 9:30 Monday morning, the stage was at 17 feet, which is flood stage. The river is expected to continue to rise to near 18.4 feet by early Wednesday morning and fall below flood stage by Sunday morning.

There will be opportunities offered in St. Joseph and Trenton during National Child Passenger Safety Week to get a free car seat check.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, three out of four child safety seats are improperly installed. Missouri law requires all children under eight to be in a child safety or booster seat until they are 80 pounds or 4 feet 9 inches tall.  With the variety of makes and models of car seats on the market, many caregivers are confused on how to properly install the seats. That’s where certified Child Passenger Safety technicians can help.

Keeping kids in Northwest Missouri safe on the roads is the goal of free car seat checks. Certified Child Passenger Safety technicians will assist parents and caregivers on proper car seat installation and usage. Bring your vehicle and the car seat you’d like checked or installed to one of the two free car seat check locations listed below and a CPS Technicians will help determine if it’s the correct one to keep your young passenger as safe as they can be and make sure it’s securely installed in your vehicle.

• St. Joseph: Tuesday, Sept. 25, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. – Green Valley Baptist Church Parking Lot, 3110 Cook Road (just west of the Belt Highway)
• Trenton: Thursday, Sept. 27, 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. – Grundy County Health Department, 1716 Lincoln Street

If you can’t make it to an event, but still want your car seat checked, visit seatcheck.org to find a certified technician near you.

For more information, click here.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in the Northwest Missouri region planned for the week of Sept. 24 – 30 from the Missouri Department of Transportation.

In addition to the work listed below, there may be other road work conducted throughout the region. Many of these will be moving operations and could include lane closures with delays. All scheduled maintenance and construction projects are subject to change.

MoDOT reminds the public to stay alert, watch for road work, buckle up, slow down, and drive with extreme caution through work zones and in changing weather conditions.

For more information about a project, please contact MoDOT at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT (888-275-6636) or visit modot.org/northwest. You can also follow MoDOT’s Northwest Missouri District on Twitter @ModotNorthwest and on Facebook.

Atchison County

Interstate 29 – Resurfacing project from the Iowa state line to Route 111, Sept. 24 – 29

Route J – Bridge inspection at the Tarkio River Bridge, Sept. 24 – 28

Buchanan County

U.S. Route 169 (Belt Highway) – Pedestrian crossing improvement project at U.S. Route 36 and South Belt Wal-Mart intersections, Sept. 24 – 28. The signals at the Belt Highway and U.S. Route 36 intersection will be dark and law enforcement will direct traffic on Sept. 25 from approximately 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Route DD – Bridge maintenance at the East Fork Bee Creek Bridge, Sept. 24 – 26. A temporary traffic signal has been installed.

Caldwell County                                               

U.S. Route 36 – Guardrail work from just east of the DeKalb County line to Route 33 (DeKalb County), Sept. 24 – 28, daylight hours

Clinton County

I-35 – Pavement repair from mile marker 34 (approximately one mile north of Route PP) to Route PP, Sept. 24 – 28. This project may include overnight lane closures.

Daviess County

U.S. Route 69 – Resurfacing project from I-35 to Route 6, Sept. 24 – 25. A pilot car will direct traffic through the work zone.

U.S. Route 69 – Resurfacing project from Route C to Route AA (Harrison County), Sept. 24 – 25. A pilot car will direct traffic through the work zone.

Route J – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Route D to Titan Road, Sept. 24 – 28, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily

Route Z – Pothole patching from the city limits of Pattonsburg to the city limits of King City (Gentry County) Sept. 24 – 28. A flagger will direct traffic through the work zone.

Route Y – Culvert extension, Sept. 25

DeKalb County

U.S. Route 36 – Guardrail work from just east of the Caldwell County line to Route 33, Sept. 24 – 28, daylight hours

Gentry County

Route P – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from McConkley Trail to 590th Road, Sept. 24, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Route A – Milling and pothole patching, Sept. 24 – 26

Route Z – Pothole patching from the city limits of Pattonsburg (Daviess County) to the city limits of King City, Sept. 24 – 28. A flagger will direct traffic through the work zone.

Route P – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from 590th Road to 345th Road, Sept. 25, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Route AF – Pothole patching from Route P (Nodaway County) to Route B, Sept. 27

Route T – Milling and pothole patching from Route A to Route AA, Sept. 27 –28

Grundy County

Route NN – Pothole patching and sealing north of Route N, Sept. 24 – 28

Harrison County

U.S. Route 69 – Resurfacing project from Route AA to Route C (Daviess County), Sept. 24 – 25. A pilot car will direct traffic through the work zone.

Holt County

Route A – Bridge inspection at the Nodaway River Bridge, Sept. 24 – 28

Linn County

U.S. Route 36 – Pavement improvements eastbound from Route 5 at Meadville to Route 139, Sept. 24 – 27

Livingston County

U.S. Route 36 – Bridge maintenance at the Muddy Creek Bridge, Sept. 24 – 25

U.S. Route 36 – Bridge maintenance at the Utica Overflow Bridge, Sept. 26 – 27

Mercer County

Route W – Pothole patching, Sept. 24 – 28

Nodaway County

Route V – Pothole patching from Icon Road to Route ZZ, Sept. 24

Route M – Bridge inspection at the Platte River Bridge, Sept. 24 – 28

Route EE – Pothole patching, Sept. 25

Route 46 – Pothole patching from U.S. Route 136 to Route NN, Sept. 26

Route AF – Pothole patching from Route P to Route B (Gentry County), Sept. 27

Putnam County

U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED for a bridge replacement project at the West Locust Creek Bridge. The road will be closed through September. A signed detour is in place.

U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED for a bridge replacement project at the Elm Branch Bridge. The road will be closed through September. A signed detour is in place.

Worth County

Route YY – CLOSED at the Middle Fork of the Grand River after a regularly scheduled inspection revealed critical deterioration to the structure. At a minimum, the bridge will remain closed through November. The closure could be extended if further assessment warrants.

Route H – Shoulder work 1.5 miles south of the Iowa state line, Sept. 24

Route K – Pothole patching, Sept. 25 – 27

MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Northwest Regional Professional Development Center at Northwest Missouri State University on Sept. 6 honored the work of 12 area teachers and named its 2019 Northwest Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year.

Kirsten Applegate, a middle school mathematics and computer science teacher in the Stanberry R-II School District, received the Teacher of the Year award and a $250 cash award at the annual Northwest Regional Teacher of the Year Celebration on the Northwest campus.

Applegate will next represent the Northwest region and be recognized at the Missouri State Teacher of the Year Awards Banquet on Oct. 22 in Jefferson City.

Eleven other northwest Missouri regional teachers were recognized at the banquet as nominees for Northwest Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year:

• Stacey Calfee, Nodaway-Holt R-VII School District
• Terri Clement, Maryville R-II School District
• Katie Jenkins, Northeast Nodaway R-V School District
• Mandy Klenk, Cameron R-I School District
• Aaron Konrad, Lathrop R-II School District
• Ashley Kountz, Mid-Buchanan R-V School District
• Spenser Naylor, Albany R-III School District
• Cassie Pope-Bejan, Winston R-VI.
• Tim Roush, North Andrew R-VI School District
• Debbie Tomlinson, Tri-County R-VII School District
• Ryan VanDyke, St. Joseph School District

The Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year program is designed to focus public attention on excellence in teaching and to honor classroom teachers in all regions of Missouri. Recognition of outstanding teachers establishes a culture that rewards excellence in teaching validating the work of teachers. It also provides teachers a platform to speak and share about educational issues as well as showcase teachers as positive role models. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) coordinates the program with financial support provided by the Boeing Company and the Monsanto Fund.

The Northwest Missouri Regional Teacher of the Year celebration is sponsored by Northwest Missouri State University and the Northwest Regional Professional Development Center in collaboration with the Northwest Missouri Association of School Administrators, Missouri State Teachers Association, L.J. Hart & Company, North Central Missouri College and Missouri Western State University.

The Northwest Regional Professional Development Center, a fixture at Northwest since 1995, is contracted through DESE and provides professional development and direct support to 59 school districts in the 15-county northwest Missouri region.

– Northwest Missouri State University press release –

There will be several speakers this week at Missouri Western State University covering a variety of topics.

On Wednesday, Amal Kassir, a young Muslim Syrian-American poet, storyteller and activist, will speak at Missouri Western.

Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Kassir has performed in 10 countries and more than 45 cities. She has conducted workshops, given lectures and recited her poetry in venues ranging from youth prisons to orphanages to refugee camps to universities to churches to community spaces for the public. She advocates for education and building individual agency in underserved and vulnerable populations, especially through writing.

Kassir’s appearance is sponsored by the Center for Multicultural Education, the International Center, the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Student Government Association. Kassir will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. The presentation is free and open to the public.

 

On Thursday, a political geographer from Virginia will present a talk titled “Boasts of the Confederacy? Race, Memory and the Politics of Monument Landscapes in Southeast Virginia.”

Dr. Jonathan Leib is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His research interest have largely focused on political and cultural change in the American South, with an emphasis on the politics of Civil Rights symbols as well as issues of voting rights and elections in the region.

Dr. Leib’s talk is part of Missouri Western’s Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series, presented by the Department of History and Geography.

The presentation takes place at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in Agenstein Hall, room 224 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The event is free and open to the public.

 

Also on Thursday, Michael Brown Sr. will speak as part of the Standing in Your Truth Lecture Series.

Brown Sr. will share the true story of his experience of his son’s death, and he will present a father’s perspective on social justice, conflict resolution, community engagement and confronting racism.

The presentation takes place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101 and is free and open to the public.