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THURS., JULY 20, 2023
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Council to Rebid Concrete Contracts Trenton City Council met at City Hall on Monday, July 10 at 7 p.m. to discuss reports, Main Street public comments, bids, and new business. Reports were given by Councilmember Briggs concerning the city website. Councilmember Mlika requested the day and times for the shooting of fireworks be looked at by the administrative committee. Updates were given concerning the progress on the new airport and reported to be 50 percent completed. There was discussion of changing the time of the council meetings to 6 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. so that people could go home early. The main concern was that the meeting time at 6 p.m. conflicts with the Trenton facilities meeting.
Public comments were then given by Lauren Dannar on Main Street Trenton activities. It was reported that Brew Fest will be on October 28 and there will be a Turkey Trot marathon on the morning of Thanksgiving. There were questions about farmers market food truck vendors and if they are licensed with the city of Trenton. The farmers market is not run by Main Street Trenton but is currently being run by a farmers market team committee. Main Street has been reaching out to the committee to help educate and organize the farmers market including food truck vendors. It was reported that food truck vendors at Trenton’s farmers market do have a license with the city of Trenton. The council then moved [See Council, Page 2]
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Parrack is R-T Summer Intern by Amanda Parrack R-T Summer Intern I am very excited and grateful for the opportunity to work with Trenton Republican-Times as an intern this summer. My name is Amanda Parrack and I am currently attending Missouri State University in Springfield as a creative writing major with a minor in Spanish. I love learning languages and other cultures but my true passion in writing is poetry. Some of my favorite authors are Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, and John Green. I am really passionate about the English language, and the ways we can reach other people with our words becoming our greatest weapon. At Missouri State, I am very involved in the resident life community and writing organizations such as Sigma Tau Delta, national honor society for writers. This fall, I will be
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City of Trenton Recycling Guidelines Mayor Jackie Soptic recently released the City of Trenton Recycling Guidelines. Plastics are to be collected by Hope Haven Industries, during their weekly residential curbside pick-up. To prepare plastics for recycling, rinse out all containers, rinse and remove lids, place in clear bags and set at the curb on your scheduled trash pick-up day. For tin and aluminum, items are to be collected by Hope Haven Industries during their weekly residential curbside pick-up. Items are to be rinsed out, with rinsed and removed lids, and placed in clear bags to be set at the curb on your scheduled pick-up day. Cardboard is to be collected by Hope Haven Industries during their weekly residential curbside pickup, with boxes broken down,
Stop by the Farmer’s Market at Sesquicentennial Park Saturday morning from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
stacked and tied in a bundle. Place cardboard on the curb on your scheduled pick-up day. To prepare newspaper, junk mail, magazines, office paper or cereal boxes, place items in clear bags and set them at the curb on your scheduled trash pick-up day. Items will be collected by Hope Haven Industries during their weekly residential curbside pickup. For glass materials, items are to be dropped off at the Rapid Removal site, 86 NW 10th Ave, Trenton, 8 a.m to 4 p.m, Monday through Friday. To prepare glass items for recycling, rinse and remove lids, and labels may stay on glass items. Household appliances may be dropped off at the Rapid Removal site with no quantity limit. To recycle paint and paint cans,
items may be collected by Rapid Removal at curbside on your scheduled residential trash pick-up day. To prepare items, empty paint cans, remove lid and allow paint residue to dry with lid off paint can. With cans filled with paint, fill cans with cat litter and leave the lid to the can off. Flat screen televisions may be collected by Rapid Removal at curbside on your scheduled residential trash pick-up day. Only flat screen TVs may be collected, TVs with batteries cannot be collected. To recycle bulk items, such as couches or lounge chairs, these items may be dropped off at the Rapid Removal site. Trenton residents may take one bulk item per person, per week, with proof of Trenton residency. Waste oil and car batteries may
BRIEFS GEC Membership Meeting
Grundy Electric Cooperative will host their Annual Meeting of the Membership Thursday, August 3, at the Bethany High School in Bethany. Dinner and registration will begin at 4:30 pm with musical entertainment by Grandview Station. Registered members will receive a $10 energy credit and tote bag. The business meeting will begin at 6:30 pm with reports on the cooperative, election of directors, and voting on proposed bylaw amendments. A drawing for six $200 electric bill credits will be held. All Grundy Electric Cooperative member-owners are invited to attend.
be dropped off at the Rapid Removal site, with waste oil in their containers and car batteries intact. Styrofoam can be taken to Clinco in Cameron, 1205 W. Grand and placed in a receptacle in the back of their building. The building will be available all day 24/7. To contact Clinco for more information call 816-632-3066. Electronics may be taken to Community Opportunity in Kirksville, 3602 N. Industrial Drive. For more information call 660-6655768. If you have any questions, please contact the vendors - Rapid Removal (Trenton) 660-654-4287, Hope Haven (Chillicothe) 660646-5175, Clincos (Cameron) 816632-3066 and Community Opportunity (Kirksville) 660-6655768.
Community Blood Drive July 31
Community Blood Center (CBC) will conduct a lifesaving blood drive on Monday, July 31 from 12 p.m to to 6 p.m at the North 65 Center, 2901 Hoover Drive in Trenton. CBC is the primary provider of blood and blood components to 70 plus hospitals and medical centers in the Greater Kansas City region. Donors are encouraged to make an appointment by visiting savealifenow.org/group using Group Code: TN. For additional details, contact Todd Schnobelen at 816-8109274. For more information regarding the donor center and mobile blood drive or how to set up your own drive, visit www.savealifenow.org or call 1-877-468-6844.
Building and Nuisance Board Meets The Trenton Building and Nuisance board met on Monday, June 26th at 6 p.m to discuss declaration of nuisances, public hearings and new business. Under declaration of nuisance, property at 510 E. 17th street, owned by Kim Allen, was reported by Code Enforcement Officer Wes Barone to have been sent a letter with no response. The board agreed to send it to public hearing. Property at 2102 Park Lane, owned by Fred and Patsy Griffin, was reported by Barone with no response from the owners and was sent to public hearing. Property at 418 W. 13th Ct., owned by Just Believe LLC (Las Vegas, Nevada), was reported by Barone with no response from the owners and was sent to public hearing. Steve Hudson was present at the meeting to discuss property at 308 S. Main, listed as being owned by Herbert and Inha Hudson. He said that since his grandparents are both deceased, there is a need to find out who actually owns the property. The board granted a 30 day extension for this to take place. On property at 1615 Tindall Avenue, owned by Phillip Milazzo, Barone said he had received no response from the owner. The board agreed to send the property to public hearing. Under public hearing, property at 824 Custer Street, owned by Sione Penitani Unu and Lose Unu, was reported to still be in progress and was granted a 30 day extension. Property at 403 W. 13th Street, owned by Max King, was reported to have torn down the building with approval from the board for 30 days to clean up any leftover debris. Under findings of fact, [See Nuisance, Page 2]