News Staff If you want to play poker for charity, the United Way of Northeast Missouri will be dealing the cards.
They’re having a Texas Hold’em tournament at the Dukum Inn on December 9th. They tried it back in May and it was a success, so they’re doing it again. First place prize 500 bucks. 250 for 2nd and 100 bucks for third. The United Way provides funding for 11 local charities.
A teenage driver is charged with drunk driving after a wreck Friday morning about 2:30. The patrol says 18 year old Floyd Miller crossed the center line, ran off the side of the road and flipped his Ford pick-up on Missouri 6 near Hurdland. He was check out at the hospital, but not seriously hurt.
And a 33 year old woman was flown to the hospital with serious injuries after a mid-morning wreck Saturday on route M near Tiplett. Dougie Bruce ran of the road…hit a guard rail…then drove down an embankment. She was not buckled in and was thrown out of the vehicle. Bruce was taken by chopper to University hospital in Columbia.
Kirksville’s planning and zoning board heard this week that a developer is interested in the strip mall where Penny’s and Gordman’s used to be. But the developer wants to turn the buildings into self-storage units. City council would have to change zoning to allow the storage business. And the planning commission may vote on that next month
Two drivers suffered moderate injuries in a rear-end crash yesterday morning on route JJ near Huntsville. The patrol says a 92 year old woman, Mary Galegor, rear ended a Nissan truck that was driven by 47 yr old Cory Weathers of Moberly.
Masking-up at Truman state. The University mask policy will continue until the end of the fall semester. They will take a look at the mask policy again before the start of the spring semester. As of now, 57% of all Truman students are fully vaccinated, while 63% of dorm students are fully vaccinated and among the staff, 72% of all employees have been vaccinated.
The Adair County health dept says covid cases are going up. Nine new cases confirmed in the county
yesterday — meaning 38 active cases right now…the highest since Oct. 8th.
The nine newly confirmed cases involve females ages 3, 70 and 84, and males ages 7, 17, 24, 25, 61 and 62. Two cases are in the K-12 schools, one is in local universities, and three are breakthrough infections in people who are vaxxed.
From Oct. 30 through Nov. 5, 69% of the cases are in people 30 and younger, 52% were females and 48% were males. One-third were in the K-12 schools. Adair County is in the substantial category when it comes to transmission of COVID-19.
Covid-count in Adair County: Seven new cases reported Tuesday. That brings the total of active cases at the moment to 30. The youngest to get the virus in this latest group — a 3 month old boy — as well as a 2 year old boy and a 7 year old boy. The oldest with the virus, an 80 year old man. Since the pandemic started, there’s been 3,683 cases in the county, and nearly all recovered.
The Adair County Health Department recommends that all county residents ages 12 and older get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the Delta variant. Though two of the current cases involve people who got the virus even fully vaccinated.
Would you like to be a substitute teacher? There’s a shortage of them, and many people think you have to be a trained teacher to be a fill-in.
But you don’t. Next Monday, Truman State is having a workshop to help people learn how to become a substitute. The Department of Education will host the workshop at 7 p.m. Nov. 15 in Violette Hall 1000, and it will also be on Zoom. Those in attendance, the school says, will find out more about the critical need for substitute teachers and get hands-on assistance with the application process.
Missouri Lottery out with a press release to say that players won more than $84 million in the month of October.
In addition, with people shelling out money for tickets, Missiouri’s education fund got $32 million from all the people who hoped to win last month…but didn’t.
The Lotto Draw game has been going for 35 years. With players winning $790 million dollars.
But studies have shown your chances of dating a supermodel are 500 times better than your chances of becoming a lottery winner. Meaning plenty of people play…but few win
Three new cases of covid-19 reported in Sullivan county. So six cases active in the county at the moment. Only 38% of sullivan county residents are fully vaccinated.