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April 2, 2020ext Slice Vol. XXV No. 14May 28, 2020

Maryville, county, aMbulance leaders hold Joint 911 subcoMMittee Meeting

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Maryville City Manager Greg McDanel, along with a city councilman and 911 dis-patch personnel, Bill Florea, ambulance district operations director, Sheriff Randy Strong, along with his captain and 911 dispatch personnel gathered May 21 during the Nodaway County Commission meeting as the Joint 911 Subcommittee. McDanel shared the construction of the public safety facility is looking at a possible August completion. Much of the work now turns to preparing personnel for the consolidation of the 911 emergency dispatch services. He also provided information of a new, unbudgeted item to be purchased to allow for a more complete and potential live-saving interview with the emergency caller. The EMD software will cost $50,000 initially with a $5,400 annual subscription and require three months of advance training. Both the city and county leaders noted they will contact the appropriate attorneys on the possibility of using CARES funding for the purchase.

Virus cases reachdouble-digits in county

NN selects Johnson as high school principal

by Kathryn rice

Nine-year-old Tessa Mayne has stayed busy through the school shut-down because of COVID-19 by trying out what she one

day wants to become, a tele-vision news anchor. Tessa, the daughter of Kortney and Chad Mayne, has made Maryville her home for almost two years.

She has an older brother, Connor, who is 13. The fam-ily has two dogs, a Vizsla named Bo, and a Silky Terrier named Marley. Tessa is looking forward to fourth grade at Eugene Field Elementary School this coming fall. Highlights will be her friends, Chloe and McCoy, and physical educa-tion class in the gym because

of the games played. Tessa’s journey to be a video interviewer started when Tessa and her mom filmed Tessa’s interview with a college-age neighbor about how the coronavirus was affecting her and her plans to graduate. Her mom posts the completed videos online to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Tessa uses a

long wand to help her and her subject to maintain social distancing. People liked the interview, so Tessa decided to continue to entertain people with the approximate five-minute segments. Kortney remarked the community has been sup-portive of Tessa’s interviews

Eugene Field’s Tessa Mayne undertakes video interviews

Some of the many people she has inter-viewed include left, Mosaic Medical Center -

Maryville President Nate Blackford and right, Maryville Mayor Rachael Martin.

See Mayne, pg. 15

The Municipal Election slated originally in April, will be Tuesday, June 2 and will have a ballot question for South Nodaway and Northeast Nodaway school patrons. The two ballot issues are worded somewhat differ-ently, however the language speaks to the continuation of a tax levy to improve the

capital assets of the districts. Both will have require a four-sevenths majority to pass. Even though the date for the election was changed from April to June, the number of positive votes did not change to the normal June election amount of two-thirds. South Nodaway is offer-ing a $1,000,000 no-tax increase bond issue. “The district is hopeful that it will be supported, but at the same time we recog-nize the hardships that the COVID-19 pandemic has created in the economy,” said Superintendent Johnnie Silkett. “Although the proj-ect will not increase the tax levy, the campaign steering committee for the project will be largely subdued, as to be sensitive to some of the difficult situations that may be facing our families.” If passed, the property tax rate would remain at 59¢ per $100 of assessed valuation. The funds from the bond issue will be used to add a new ag shop that would be twice the size of the old one and place it in the current

location of the greenhouse and move the greenhouse across the street in the mid-dle of the west parking lot. The new shop would be a lean-to building that would create access to the current English room that would become the ag classroom. “We would also address the need for a multipurpose building that would be in the current location of the out-door basketball courts. This building would link the cur-rent metal building on the north side of the school with the main school building through the lobby on the east side of the gym. This build-ing would have three large overhead doors that would open up on good weather days for recess, communi-ty and music events,” said Silkett. When the doors are down in the winter it can be used for inside recess, PE, STEM learning and youth basket-ball. The current lobby will be turned into large mens and womens bathrooms and create the entrance into the gym. The metal building

to the north of the school will get a new roof that will extend to the gym wall and

it will be attached to the new

See Ballot, pg. 24

Nodaway County Health Department Administrator Tom Patterson announced May 21 four additional individuals who reside in Nodaway County have test-ed positive for the COVID - 19. This increases the county

total to 12. The three males, ages 20-30, 50-60, and 60-70, were tested outside of Nodaway County, are asymptomatic and being isolated separately.

See Virus, pg. 23

North Nodaway R-VI recently selected Roger Johnson as the 2020-21 high school/middle school prin-cipal. Johnson has been in the education field for the past 27 years. He has a bachelors of art from Central College in Pella, IA and a masters in educational leadership from Northwest Missouri State University. He was an assistant principal, athletic director and principal at West Nodaway R-I for five years. As a teacher, Johnson has taught social studies, the past three years at NN. Johnson and his wife, Kathy, have been married for 22 years and have four children.

“I have really enjoyed working with the students and staff here at North Nodaway,” Johnson said. “They are like one giant family. I’m excited about the opportunity to lead that

See Johnson, pg. 23