September 2020

RICHMOND – Vehicles line up hours early and stretch out several blocks deep along North Shaw Street to wait on free food day in front of the Salvation Army Family Store and Donation Center. There will be food for all, but demand exceeds supply, store director Phillip Powers said.

KANSAS CITY-NORTH – The Northland Coalition, the tri-county umbrella coalition for 20 local community coalitions, has launched a newly designed, user-friendly website featuring expanded prevention information, resources and partnership contacts, coalition information states.

COLUMBIA– The State Historical Society of Missouri and the St. Louis Ambassadors seek public participation to develop a bicentennial time capsule containing items that document Missouri’s past, present and future.

WEEK AGO, Missouri topped 100,000 COVID-19 cases; and this week, the nation surpassed 200,000 deaths, based on records kept by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. Based on 118,000 reported Missouri cases and 1,743 deaths, better than 1 out of every 100 people in this state who get the virus, or 1.4%, dies. The number of cases in Clay County, 3,704, vs. the number of virus deaths in the county, 54, show 1.45% of those who get the virus in Clay die. Ray County, sharing a border with Clay County, has recorded 158 cases with no deaths.

JEFFERSON CITY – A bronze bust of America’s and Missouri’s first female county clerk, Annie White Baxter, is finally in the Hall of Famous Missourians. Rep.

JEFFERSON CITY – Although not as dramatic as the name would imply, pavement “blowups” are the summer’s version of potholes. Blowups are created by a combination of moisture, Blowups are created by a combination of moisture, weakening pavement and temperatures consistently reaching 90 degrees or more across the state, the Missouri Department of Transportation stated.

Mamie Marie “Sue” Trainer, 93, of Richmond, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at NorthCare Hospice House in Kansas City.

Betty Jean (Onka) Petrechko, 93, of Richmond, passed away quietly at her home in the early morning hours of Sept. 8, 2020. Betty was born on Nov. 20, 1926, in Sugar Creek, to John and Bessie (Clark) Onka. In 1984, she married Edmund A. Petrechko Sr., who preceded her in death on Sept. 7, 1986.