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Mound City Published & Printed in Mound City, Missouri Vol. 132, No. 4 75¢ NEWS www.moundcitynews.com Thursday • August 4 • 201 1 Rulo bridge Waters won’t break will open after the community spirit floodwaters Barbeque dinner to be hosted by Craig recede Community Committee According to the Nebraska As the waters begin to Partnering with Craig city Department of Roads, the recede, the Craig, MO, com- officials, the CCC will host Rulo bridge in Rulo, NE, has munity is beginning to move a Summer Barbeque. This not been damaged and will back into its homes, but the event will be on Saturday, be open to traffic once the town still feels a little weary. August 27, at 5:30 p.m. lo- floodwaters recede. Recently, Did you know? It begins af- equipment over the bridge’s cated at the American Le- ter several weeks and lasts gion Hall in Craig. weight limit threatened to more than a year after; di- damage the bridge. After This event is open to ev- saster victims begin to feel bridge engineers checked eryone! Bring your family the structural soundness of hopelessness and weariness to have a little fun, a little the bridge, it has been de- when mass-medias stop re- food, listen to a little music termined that the bridge porting the disaster. Healing and have a great time. Don’t will be up and running while after a disaster rarely hap- forget to bring an appetite! Sgt. Sheldon Lyon with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, left - Answers ques- the new bridge is being com- pens without planning and In addition, the CCC pleted. The completion date tions from television news media, right, on Highway 118 near Big Lake, MO, on Tuesday effort. members talked with some is set for approximately two The Craig Community morning, August 2. Missouri State Trooper Fred Guthrie and his K-9 companion were ap- years from now. local citizens and were en- parently swept away by floodwaters at Big Lake on Monday afternoon, August 1. Committee members had couraged to move forward this deeply on their minds at with the Craig Fest dated for Claims against the Craig Community Com- Saturday and Sunday, Octo- FLOOD CLAIMING LIVES AS WELL AS mittee (CCC) meeting on ber 1-2. This will be a fun Corps need to Thursday, July 21. The com- filled weekend for everyone, mittee decided that mem- including carnival rides for FARMLAND, HOMES, AND BUSINESSES be turned in bers needed to discuss ways youngsters, teens and adults to connect the community along with lots of food and Missouri trooper swept away at Big Lake, by August 5 and encourage people to help vendors. Please mark calen- National Guardsman loses life on return home from Holt County Holt County property own- start the healing process. dars for October 1-2. ers interested in filing a claim After much discussion, For more information, The floodwaters in Holt K-9 Reed’s body was located the effort to protect the wa- for damages against the US the CCC members decided email: craigcommunitycom County are not only claim- in swift moving floodwater ter treatment facility in For- Army Corps of Engineers to have a get-together with [email protected]. ing farmland, homes, and approximately 100 yards est City, MO. (USACE) are being asked to food, music and lots of fun. businesses, but are now from where Trooper Guth- House, age 19, was a front join a community-wide effort to send in claim forms in one the reason for two recent rie’s patrol truck and boat seat passenger in a Toyota large group representing all deaths. were located. K-9 Reed’s that ran off the roadway and the damages in Holt County. Recovery efforts were un- body was recovered. Recov- struck the rear of a trailer Packets are available at derway as of press time on ery efforts for Trooper Guth- parked on the shoulder of the offices of the City of Wednesday, August 3, for rie are continuing. southbound Interstate 435 Craig, City of Mound City Missouri Highway Patrol/ Trooper Guthrie is a com- near N.E. 108th Street in and County Clerk, Oregon. Water Patrol Trooper Fred- bined 17-year veteran of the Kansas City North, MO, at Property owners are asked erick “Fred” F. Guthrie, Jr., former Missouri State Water about 1 p.m. on July 25. The to return the packet to one age 46, of Platte City, MO. On driver of the Toyota and a of the offices listed above by Patrol and the now Missouri Friday, August 5. Monday, August 1, Trooper State Highway Patrol, Wa- passenger in the rear seat, Guthrie and his Patrol K-9 ter Patrol Division. Trooper also members of the Mis- German Shepherd, Reed, Guthrie’s K-9, Reed, was a souri National Guard, were Back-to-school were working Missouri Riv- five-year veteran with the transported to hospitals er flood duty in the area of Patrol. with non-life threatening in- rummage sale Big Lake, MO, on Highway Trooper Guthrie joined juries. None of the occupants 118 in Holt County when the Missouri State Water of the truck that pulled the August 5 and 6 they were apparently swept Patrol on January 2, 1994, trailer were injured. The Mound City United away by swift floodwater in and transitioned to trooper Pfc. House and the other Methodist Church will be the area. with the merger to the High- two guardsmen had been hosting a back-to-school Trooper Guthrie and K-9 way Patrol January 1, 2011, released earlier in the day rummage sale on Friday, Au- Reed were last seen at 1 where he has served in the from duty. The three were gust 5, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. p.m. on Monday when au- Water Patrol Division with- traveling in a personal vehi- and Saturday, August 6, from thorities on flood duty in in Troop A serving Platte cle from the Maryville, MO, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. the area went back to work County. Armory to the Independence There will be a wide va- after lunch. Guthrie’s truck In addition to the miss- Armory. riety of items for sale, in- cluding, but not limited to: was found around 3 p.m. on ing trooper, a member of the House was a member of children’s clothing, adult Highway 118, northeast of Missouri National Guard, Battery D, 1-129th Field clothing, household items, Big Lake. “The trooper and Pfc. Jordan House of Inde- Artillery, in Independence. furniture, and season spe- K-9 Reed were apparently pendence, MO, lost his life in He joined the Guard in May, cific room where summer Longtime Mound City resident, Chet Caton- Stands on swept away by swift flood- an automobile accident on 2010, and served as a can- and winter items will be the lawn in front of what he describes as a witness tree. Al- water in the area,” accord- Monday, July 25, on his way non crew member on the though not officially marked, as some witness trees are, the displayed for sale. Don’t let ing to a Missouri Highway home from state emergency M777A2 155 mm lightweight 17’ circumference burr oak tree stands at the quarter section. the “back-to-school” title fool Patrol press release. flood duty in Holt County, howitzers. In his short time you; there will be something Chet believes the stately tree to be over 200 years old. Law enforcement authori- with the Guard, House had for everyone’s interests. where his last mission in- There will be live music pro- ties searched the area of cluded providing security earned the Army Service vided by the Saranades and Could it be a Witness Tree? Guthrie’s truck by air, water at flood checkpoints in the Ribbon, National Defense a snack shack with various and land on Monday, and be- county. He had been on duty Service Medal, Missouri Rural Mound City resident, food items for sale. his wife, Donna, now live. The gan recovery efforts at day- in the area since June 26. Basic Training Service Rib- Chet Caton, says that a state- tree stands in the back yard. For more information, light on Tuesday. At approxi- He served on several sand- bon and the Missouri State ly burr oak tree on his farm Chet believes the tree to be please contact Carolyn Hall mately 6:25 p.m. on Tuesday, bagging missions to include Emergency Duty Ribbon. at 442-9915. just north of Mound City is a over 200 years old. ‘witness tree’. Witness trees Other historical tales on were originally planted at the the property owned by Chet’s USDA flood quarter sections of land, help- great-grandfather in the ing travelers and residents 1800’s include a dug well PARTY IN THE PARK COVERAGE informational alike better know the land- where people came by in their scape. Another witness tree covered wagons to use it. On meeting August 4 in the county was recorded one such occasion, a man The Holt County USDA on the Munker property at came up and asked to bury his ON BACK PAGE Agencies will be hosting a Squaw Creek Wildlife Refuge. 14 year-old daughter on the flood informational meet- Research led to the discovery property. The girl was buried ing on Thursday, August that the tree was planted for in the Caton Cemetery, which 4, at the Squaw Creek Na- survey purposes in 1842. has 128 graves, 6 of which are tional Wildlife Refuge near When the land in Holt Caton war veterans.