Local News – Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
This Saturday night at 7:00 at the Salem Civic Theatre (better know as the City Hall Auditorium), the Cosmopolitan Club’s 71st Annual Variety Show and Miss Salem Contest themed “A Night to Remember” will be held with David Massengale as the Master of Ceremonies. Ten girls will vie for the title of Miss Salem and this year’s contestants include Neely Leathers sponsored by Inman Insurance, Cierra Richardson sponsored by Family Trash Services, Yadira Blanco sponsored by Bigos Mexican Restaurant, Riley Darby sponsored by the Bank of Salem, Scire Goodson sponsored by Black’s A+ Septic, Tessa Gorman sponsored by Vandvort Drug, Skyler Klapperich sponsored by Our Monkey Shack, Kylie Parks sponsored by Shear Edge and Hannah Brookshire sponsored by Town and Country Bank. The 2023 Miss Salem will be crowned by the 2022 Miss Salem, Sierra Rusco. There will be performances from the Salem Academy of Dance, the Ozark Spirit Cloggers, ATA Taekwondo, Jake Holmlund and the Short Term Disorder Band, That Band 2.0 and a violin solo by Trinity Haas as well the introduction of the contestants by narrator Catherine Dent. The doors will open at 6:30 and the cost of admission is $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for children five years of age and above, and children four and under are FREE. If you can’t make it to the event, KSMO Media will stream the event LIVE on ksmoradio.com, the KSMO Stream Facebook and on the KSMO YouTube Page. Some musical selections in the show may may be muted due to copyright infringement laws or be replaced with a copyright approved song during the stream.
The Opening Day of catch-and-keep trout season started yesterday morning at 6:30 at Montauk State Park. There were 1,587 adult trout tags and another 146 youth tags sold as of 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. A number of lunkers were caught during the day with the largest being an 7-pound, 7-ounces rainbow by Micah Faulkner of Salem followed by a 6 pound, 4-ounce rainbow caught by Chris Hood of Houston. Three other rainbow trout were caught on opening day were at six pounds or above: a 6-pound, 2-ounce trout caught by Eric Lowing of O’Fallon; a 6-pound, 1-ounce trout caught by Cabe Steinburn of Hazelwood and a six- pounder caught by Lawson Toman of Salem. The catch-and-keep season will be in effect until October 31st.
“Tie-Hacking on the Current River” is the next topic for discussion at the Dent County Historical Society’s meeting for the eventual project of “Telling the Story of the Current River from the Road” this Saturday morning at 10:00 in the James & Gahr Fellowship Hall in Salem. Alex Primm will be the special guest. Primm and wife Cathy lived south of Rolla until recently. Cathy worked for the Department of Natural Resources. Alex is an oral historian and storyteller who has lived in various parts of the Ozarks. For several years Primm was a curator at the Ozark Agricultural Museum at Maramec Spring Park and began collecting oral history. So stories about logging, farm life, and living on the frontier might be one of his stories. His recent book ‘Ozark Voices: Oral History from the Heartland’ is being made into an audiobook for the blind via the Library of Congress. He will also show and discuss his book. For more information: contact Deloris Gray Wood at 573-729-2545.
Only one-third of all family businesses have developed a plan to transition their businesses to another owner. If your family farm has no succession plan or your plan needs an overhaul, then attend this interactive 2-hour workshop called “Preparing for Farm Succession Planning” on March 6th from 6:00 to 8:30 at the Wurdack Farm in Cook Station. You will learn how to navigate family roles and business roles to prevent conflict, improve communication within the family farm business, share farm management decision-making with family during short-term crises, organize a plan to transition farm ownership and management responsibilities to the next generation. Join MU Extension Agricultural Business and Policy specialists Wesley Tucker and Rachel Hopkins to start your farm succession planning at this no-cost workshop. You can register in advance at extension.missouri.edu/counties/dent and type in Farm Succession in the search bar. You can guarantee your seat and refreshments and registration will remain open until all seats are reserved. You can also register by calling the Washington County Extension Office at 573-438-2671.