TimesVolume 143, Number 2, Thursday, May 3, 2018

Tipton, Missouri, USPS 631-580 Birthplace of the Butterfield Stage

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The Tipton

Presiding over the Tipton High School “Adventure Awaits” were seniors Hayden Dillon and Jacob Gengler, crowned Tipton High School 2018 Prom Queen and King Saturday night, April 28, shown at left. Above, senior Tristan Bolin and his date, sophomore Maddi Carpenter, arrived for the grand promenade in a bright yellow golf cart. A host of family mem-bers and friends awaited the prom goers at the entrance to the high school’s circle drive where many photos were taken as the crowd “oohed” and “ahhed” each arrival. Students were ushered into the junior high wing and the Tipton Elementary School gym which had been decorated by the com-mittee of sponsoring teaches, parents and junior class mem-bers into a worldwide travelling

Tipton High students findadventure at 2018 Prom

adventure. Wade Petree served as emcee for the night. In keeping with the “around the world” theme, the menu fea-tured Mexican and Italian fare. Chicken and beef burritos from El Pueblo Mexican Restaurant and chicken alfredo and salad from Bobbio’s were served as the main entreés. Rolls were do-nated by Colton’s, Jefferson City, and the parents made strawberry shortcake, chocolate mousse and dirt cake desserts. The Cookie Puzzle at New Franklin provid-ed sugar cookies decorated like the world. The senior history was de-livered by Kenton Stover, and Water’s Light & Sound, Eldon, provided music for the dance which was scheduled to end at midnight.

Council meets Monday to consider street, mowing Accepting a street and hay mowing are on the tentative agenda released this week for the Monday, May 7 meeting of the Tipton City Council. Barry Combs will address the council concerning accep-tance of Tracee Road in the Combs-Oligschlaeger subdivi-sion when the body meets at 6 p.m. Also at the top of the agenda is a request by Dan Oligschlaeger for permission to let the grass on the vacant lots in the same subdi-vision grow until it can be baled for hay by Memorial Day. In old business, the council will hear from the public works department, the fire department and the administrative office of the city. Under public works, bids for street paving will be reported, a request for a street light will be considered, and an update will be given on the park ballfields. The fire department will pres-ent the council with the most re-cent ISO report which evaluates the city for fire insurance pur-poses. Under administration, a com-prehensive plan for annexation

will be discussed and the coun-cil will hear a proposal for an increase in the city’s portion of the monthly solid waste pickup fee. The total currently includes a 50-cent fee per customer per month to cover the cost of billing and the annual citywide cleanup. A second citywide cleanup has been added to the schedule, in the fall, and the fee is no longer meeting the cost of those needs. An executive session is includ-ed on the agenda to discuss per-sonnel matters that may include hiring, firing, promoting or dis-cipline of employees. In new business, the council will consider a proposed or-dinance to officially authorize demolition of the Webb proper-ty at 111 E. Howard St. since it has changed hands. It is included on the city’s list for demolition with a Housing and Urban De-velopment grant and is now city-owned. Budget amendments to be made by a proposed ordinance will also be considered. The council’s meeting with the exception of closed-door dis-cussion is open to the public.

Brunch at Fortuna Baptistto honor mothers, Saturday Mothers, grandmothers and mother figures with their daugh-ters are invited to enjoy brunch and fellowship at the Fortuna Baptist Church on Saturday, May 5. The morning will begin at 10:30 a.m. Guest speaker Gladys Silvey will share her ministry, “A Stitch in Time,” following the brunch. Her presentation will include music and testimony. Silvey was born and raised in

Versailles where she also raised her three children. She was ad-ministrator of Kidwell Home in Versailles for more than 25 years. In her retirement she start-ed quilting as a hobby. Gladys and her daughters, Debbie and Sandy, will share how “A Stitch in Time” has not only influenced her quilting, but also their Christian walk as they faced numerous challenges along the way.

Spring sing The Tipton Elementary fourth, fifth and sixth grade students showcased their spring program for family members and friends who filled the Tipton High School gym on Tuesday evening, April

24. The vocal music department and fifth and sixth grade band pre-sented the program.

Library board reviews statestandards, to write policies

by Becky Holloway The Tipton Municipal Library Board gave its first look at stan-dards for the operation of librar-ies as outlined by the Missouri State Library during its meet-ing Thursday, April 26 and a committee was formed to begin writing policies for Price James Library. The board reviewed standards for library administration and governance, and it was agreed that 11 of the 16 standards have been met. Board president Jeanne Ed-wards contacted the State Li-brary about a template for a policy manual, and was referred to policies in place at other li-braries, as well as Kentucky and Wisconsin. Ruth Anne Self, Lori Best-gen, Lisa Toler Knipp and Becky Holloway volunteered to serve as a committee and look at pol-icies in place at other libraries across the state and other states with regard to administration and governance. They will bring their findings back to the next meeting. In a joint effort with the

Friends of Price James Library, the board will hold a “spring cleaning” of the second floor on Sunday, May 6 and Saturday, May 19, if necessary. The board will also hold a book sale in conjunction with Olive Ashurst Day to dispose of books that have been removed from circulation or second cop-ies which have been donated. A report of other Olive Ashurst Day actitivities was given by Friends member Cindy Suddarth. More research is being con-ducted into developing a website for the library. The trustees heard a report by library director Marsha Nelson on needs at the library, numbers served and upcoming programs. Among them is a book signing by author Jeremy Ämick and Jim Shipley on Saturday, May 12. The board voted to authorize payment of Missouri Unemploy-ment Insurance on a quarterly basis. The board’s next meeting will be at 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 24.

FCCLA to serve pancakes The Tipton High School chap-ter of FCCLA will hold a pan-cake breakfast on Saturday, May 5 to help students attend the na-tional convention. The breakfast was resched-uled from an April date due to the forecast of icy weather. Pancakes, sausage, eggs, ba-con and fruit with coffee, milk

and juice will be served in the school cafeteria from 7:30 until 10 a.m. Plates will run $8 for adults and $6 for children under 12. Students who are qualifiers for national competition will also have silent auction items and services available for bidding to help in their fundraising efforts.

Tipton is new location forregional Festival of Sharing Plans are underway for the ecumenical project Festival of Sharing 2018, and Tipton has been named the hub for the Cen-tral Region. The Tipton United Methodist Church will serve as the host for the Sept. 22 Sharef-est event. A meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 15 at the church for everyone who wants to be part of the project, locally or internationally. The Festival of Sharing, an in-terfaith, state-wide celebration, responds to world hunger, pover-ty and injustice by raising aware-ness of the causes and a pooling of resources to find solutions. The goal is to “promote and sup-port projects and programs by providing funding and goods.” Festival of Sharing is governed by a coordinating committee of volunteers from around the state of Missouri. Traditionally, the Festival was held on the third Saturday in October due to its proximity to World Food Day. This year, several regional events are being held in September and October. On the designated dates, agen-cies will visit local host sites to pickup donations that have been made to help in their efforts. In 2017, Festival of Sharing partnered with 98 agencies serv-ing more than 70,000 people across the state. There are numerous ways lo-cal individuals, churches and or-ganizations can help in the Festi-val. Among those are assembling

packs of paper products, food boxes, personal hygiene packs, reading and writing packs, baby bundles, student dental packs, backpacks of love for children, youth personal care packs and collecting blankets and quilts, as well as cash donations to the Missouri Agape House, Missou-ri Patch for children of incar-cerated mothers, the Missouri Women’s Prison Pack, Missouri Faith Voices and Missouri Pota-toes. Item collected for distribution around the world include school kits, hygiene kits and cleanup buckets filled with supplies, The Rainbow Network provides shoes to poor people in Nicara-gua, Heifer International rais-es money to improve access to clean water in Senegal. Other projects collect eye-glasses for the people of Mex-ico’s Yucatan, raise money for scholarships to the Ludhiana Christian Medical College, pro-vide mobility carts to disabled persons in impoverished com-munities and another garden seeds. A quilt auction on Oct. 27 in Columbia will raise money for the CWS Blankets+ program. It is hoped a quilt can be donated from the Tipton community. The Sharefest at Tipton will serve Columbia/Jefferson City, Sedalia and Lake of the Ozarks agencies. For more information contact Sheila Moon.