Local News – Friday, November 1st, 2019
The Dent County Commissioners met Thursday morning at the Dent County Courthouse. Melissa Weed from US Bank was in to have some paperwork signed by the commissioners on the new graders financed through US Bank. In the road report, District 1 Commissioner Dennis Purcell said a man would be cutting brush on Dent County Road 2480 while a work crew would be completing the assembly of a spreader box and installing it on a truck. Purcell stated another crew would be out replacing road signs that are missing or have been stolen near the Bunker area, especially on county roads 5680 and 5690. District 2 Commissioner Gary Larson said a man would be cutting brush on Dent County Road 2300 while a work crew would be out repairing and checking road signs. Another crew would be doing maintenance at the shop according to Larson. Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles reported that all the three commissioners attended an economic development meeting at Intercounty Electric in Licking Tuesday where about 50 people were in attendance. Skiles said the consensus of the group to improve economic development was the tremendous need to have better broadband Internet in the area. Skiles also attended the Meramec Regional Emergency Planning Committee meeting where Dent County finished three training grant applications. Those training grant classes to be held in Dent County were for anhydrous ammonia awareness, for chemical suicides, and for flammable liquids and ethanol fuels. Dent County Clerk Angie Curley reported she was working on the county budget for 2020. She also reported that she will sign a contract with Cyber Defense Election Strategy Assessment to provide cyber security assessment services for elections. This is being paid for by the Missouri Secretary of State office. The commission heard a presentation by Jeff Pabst from LAGERS about the county retirement plan as they are just exploring the different retirement options available to their employees. The Dent County Commission will meet Monday morning at 9:00 at the courthouse and the meeting is open to the public.
“A Night in the French Quarter Masquerade Ball” Casino Night will be held Saturday night at the Salem Community Center@The Armory. This is a fundraiser for Healthy Dent County and is co-sponsored this year by Cahill Construction. The doors will open at 6:00 with the gaming events beginning at 6:30 and last until 9:30. Players will be able to play roulette, craps and black jack plus other games of chance for a chance at outstanding prizes. Tickets are available at the Salem Community Center@The Armory today for $50 per person, or $85 for a couple. Each ticket will provide the player with $10,000 worth of gaming money and if you come in proper masquerade attire, you will receive an additional $1,000 worth of gaming money as a bonus. The gaming will come to an end near 9:30 and all players will then trade in the gaming money for tickets. Those tickets will be placed in containers to determine prize winners of the prizes available. Prizes to be awarded include a four night stay at La Belle Maison in New Orleans near the French Quarter, a one week stay in Branson at Stormy Point Resort, a 55” Smart TV, St. Louis Blues Hockey Tickets, Missouri Tiger Basketball Tickets, zero gravity chairs with a fire pit, a three piece wicker furniture set, an I-Pad, an I-Life robot vacuum cleaner, a T/C Compass bolt action rifle, a folding wagon and cooler, a decorative barrel donated by Independent Stave and more. Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the event. For more information, call 729-8163.