Swimming lessons at
the AC Pool have been set for June 24 - 28. Intermediate class will be 10:00 -
10:45 a.m. Beginners class will be 11:00
- 11:45.
The cost is $25. If
you have more than one child, the cost is $10 per additional child. If you have
any questions, or to register, you can call the pool during normal pool hours at
(660)476-2156.
The St. Clair County
Historical Society invites you to the June 13 meeting at the St. Clair County
Public Library at 7:00 p.m. in Osceola.
Writer and historian, Linda Anderson, will present the program on
"Pioneer Cooking." The public
is invited, free of charge. Refreshments
will be served. Come and join them.
There will be a
smoked meat dinner to benefit Mike Lawson 5:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 15 at
the Montrose Community Building. Dinner includes pulled pork, sides, dessert
and a drink. There will also be a 50/50
raffle, bake sale and live auction by auctioneer, Kevin Wade. Mike was diagnosed with stomach cancer and is
undergoing aggressive treatment. 100% of the proceeds from this event will go
to the Mike Lawson Love Fund. Donations
can be made payable to Mike Lawson Love Fund c/o Montrose Savings Bank, 401
Missouri Avenue, Montrose, MO 64770.
AC Dog Jog is a 5K
walk/run on June 15 at Forest Park in Appleton City starting at 9:30 a.m. Funds raised will go to House Of Hound, a
non-kill animal shelter located in Butler, MO.
More information can be found on their Facebook event page "AC Dog
Jog". Registration and donation
forms can be found on their event page or at H&E Vet Clinic.
The Appleton City
FBLA will be having a Kickin' Chicken Dinner Fundraiser on this Father's Day,
Sunday, June 16. The dinner will be held at the high school commons area from
11:00-1:30. For $10 a plate, the menu is
fried chicken, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, roll and dessert
Proceeds from the dinner will help support Appleton City's FBLA compete at
Nationals in San Antonio, Texas this June. To- go orders are available.
The Trinity United Methodist
Church will host VBS on Saturday, June 22, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. They welcome all
kids, age 3 through Grade 5 (completed)! This year’s theme is “Yee Haw,
Celebrating God’s Greatest Gift”. Registration
will be 8:40 that morning. (Registration
slips may be picked up at Food Fair ahead of time). They look forward to seeing all the kids,
The 15th Annual
Appleton City Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show will be held Saturday, July 13 at
the City Park. Check-in is from 9:00
a.m. to noon and the Car Show will be from noon to 3:00 p.m. There will be a $10 entry fee per
vehicle. There will be judging for all
classes with the top 70 for cars and trucks, top 3 for motorcycles and top 3
for rat rods. There will also be 6 special pick awards. The first 150 entries
will be given dash plaques. D.J. Brandon
Wallace will present music on the stage. There will also be a 50-50 drawing, door
prizes, goodie bags and a live auction.
Food concessions, biscuits & gravy and cobbler & ice cream will
be available. Proceeds from the Show will go toward a pair of $1000
scholarships for local high school students.
In addition, Zink Motor Co, which is one of the oldest Ford dealerships
in the country, is hosting the Kansas City Antique Car Clu8b at the dealership
in Appleton City during the car show.
20-25 Model A’s and Model T’s will be on display. There will be an open
house and tours of this historic dealership.
The admission is free. The
location for this show is across the street from the Appleton City Car Show. For
car show information, call Bob Roos 660-492-2822, Ted McDaniel 660-492-3779, Ed
Hardesty 660-464-0360 or Doug Snodgrass 660-492-2814, or email to
appletoncitycarshow@yahoo.com. T-Shirts are available for sale at Powel’s Tru
Value Hardware.
Appleton City is asking
business owners on Main Street to please adopt a flower barrel and keep it
watered. Everyone would appreciate that!
Per Ordinance #2019-2
“An Ordinance Prohibiting Smoking of any kind in Public Places.”, smoking shall
be prohibited at all time in all City of Appleton City public parks and
playgrounds, including, without limitation: Forest Park, Donohue Dugan Park and
Karlene May Park. Smoking is prohibited
at all parks and playground areas owned by the City and open to the public. Smoking
is prohibited in a building or open-air facility owned, leased or operated by
the city of Appleton City. The Ordinance in its entirety is posted on the
bulletin board outside of City Hall or you may get a paper copy at City Hall.
Quasquacentennial
1995 Pictorial Books may be purchased at both of the AC Banks and the Museum. Make
checks for $25 to AC Park-SQC. This is the first time this book has been
printed. If you haven't purchased one in the last 2 weeks you do not have this
book. A new SQC-Sesquicentennial Historical
Calendar will be offered for sale for $10 as well. The calendar is packed with historical
facts and 144 pictures.
The AC Cemetery
Association is raffling (2) half beefs with processing. Proceeds go to support and maintain the AC
Cemetery. Winners will be announced at
the Applefest in September. Tickets are
available for purchase at St. Clair Co. State Bank, Powell’s Tru Value and
Noble Machine and Manufacturing for $10 each.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
June 13 St. Clair County Historical Society meeting
at the St. Clair County Public Library at 7:00 p.m. in Osceola
June 14 FLAG DAY
June 15 AC Dog Jog 5K walk/run at Forest Park in
Appleton City starting at 9:30 a.m.
June 15 Smoked meat dinner to benefit Mike Lawson
5:00-8:00 p.m. at the Montrose Community Building
June 16 FATHER’S DAY
June 21 Summer begins
June 22 Trinity United Methodist Church VBS 9:00
a.m.-3:00 p.m. Registration 8:40 a.m.
June 24-28 Swimming lessons at AC Pool
SQC - The acronym
will appear many times over the course of the next year in articles. SQC is short
for Sesquicentennial, which will be the 150th year celebration June
10-14, 2020 in Appleton City. Preparation
has already begun. It will take the entire community to make it happen like in
the past town celebrations. The core committee hopes everyone will become
involved, which includes the simplest things, like being in the audiences, attending
the events and wearing period dress or tee shirts that have Appleton City on them.
But, there is so much work, that volunteers are needed to come forward. They
have asked people whose talent may be recognized from past service but there
are so many others that have talents we do not know about. Please let the committee know your abilities.
57 areas have been identified that need committee members. They will entertain
suggestions, but they need to know ideas now to see if will work into the
schedule. They know some people are last minute to everything, but that really
doesn't make it easy for those trying to get everything in place. This SQC is a
celebration of what has happen in the past to the Appleton City area, so think
historical for this celebration...generic activities can take place any year. Step
forward with what you'd like to be involved doing during the event. Contact
maybe made by us mail to Linda Lampkin, 1704 NE County Road 14963, Montrose, MO
64770, 9-9pm 660-476-5857, acmolampkin@yahoo.com
More weeds are
invading our pastures and reducing available acres for cattle to graze. This can lead to reduced pasture utilization
and reduced profit potential of the cattle operation. Reducing weeds in pastures increases grazable
acres for cattle which should improve pasture utilization and profit potential
for the cattle operation. Profit
potential can be improved by better cattle grazing management and incorporation
of forages to extend pasture grazing through the fall and winter. University of
Missouri Extension will be providing a pasture and forage management workshop
in Stockton, Mo. on June 18. The
workshop will be held at the Cedar County Library at 717 East St., Stockton,
Mo. 65785 at 6:00 p. m. MU Extension
speakers and topics covered are as follows: Pat Miller, MU Extension Regional
Agronomy Field Specialist, will be discussing pasture weed control and
improvement and Patrick Davis, MU Extension Regional Livestock Field
Specialist, discussing forage alternatives to extend the cattle grazing season.
The cost of the workshop is $10 per person.
Registration along with payment for the workshop needs to be done by
June 17 to the Cedar County MU Extension Center (113 South Street, Stockton,
Mo. 65785). For questions or more
information contact the Cedar County MU Extension Center at 417-276-3313 or
Patrick Davis by email at davismp@missouri.edu.
You may also find more information on how to improve your grasslands at https://extension2.missouri.edu/programs/nrcs-mu-grasslands-project.
Many Missouri field
crops face fallout from flooding and excessive rain. Survival of flooded corn
and soybean seedlings depends on how long the flood lasts, floodwater
temperatures and how fast fields dry. Flooded
plants deplete oxygen in 24 to 48 hours. Moving water, which allows some oxygen
to get to plants, results in less damage than still water. Young plants can
survive about two days when temperatures exceed 70 F. When temperatures fall to
the mid-60s or below, they can survive as long as four days. Survival also
depends on how much of the plant is submerged.
Plants should show
new leaf development three to five days after water recedes. Examine seedlings
for disease. Look for rotted or discolored seedlings, roots and damping-off
symptoms. (See the recent MU Integrated Pest & Crop Management newsletter
article “Stand loss due to seedling disease” at
ipm.missouri.edu/IPCM/2019/5/seedlingDisease.) Generally, soybean tolerate
flooding longer than corn—up to 48 hours. After 48 hours, expect stand
reduction, loss of vigor and lower yield. Root damage also occurs. This impairs
the plant’s ability to take up water and tolerate drought stress. Abnormally
high temperatures reduce survivability by 50% or more. Plants survive better in
lower temperatures because metabolic processes slow. Flooded plants also can
face disease pressure. Cool, wet fields create favorable conditions for soil
pathogens. They also delay plant development and growth. This puts some plants
at greater risk of soil-borne diseases that attack seeds and seedlings. Seed
treatments can help prevent diseases, but they typically only provide
protection for a couple of weeks under cool, wet conditions. If these
conditions persist longer than that, crop stands are at risk from Pythium, a
parasitic disease that damages seedlings of soybean and corn. Phytophthora also
can damage soybean seedlings or start infections in the early summer that may
develop and kill soybean plants later in the summer.
High-moisture grass
baled above 24% moisture can cause spontaneous combustion. Overheated bales can
burn down a hay barn. Frequent rains this year help grass growth, but it’s been
bad for making hay. Even if damp bales
don’t go up in flames, nutrient quality cooks out of hay. Heat destroys
carbohydrates and makes proteins indigestible to livestock. It’s been hard to
find more than a two-day time with sunshine to cure hay. May is normally the
rainiest month on average. This year breaks rain records. Some places,
particularly in southwestern Missouri, got more than 25 inches of rain in May.
More rain remains in forecasts. Missouri farmers need hay after two drought
years depleted their stored feed. With short drying periods, farmers who cut
hay shouldn’t rush to bale it while it’s still moist. Just accept the rain and
then let the hay dry. Rain removes some soluble carbohydrates, but proteins
remain intact when moist. Poor hay feeds better than moldy hay resulting from
damp baled hay. All hay carries bacteria. Some thermophilic, or heat-loving,
bacteria cause fires in confinement. Hay should not be baled above 20%
moisture. Baling at 25-30% moisture asks for trouble. Haymaking varies widely
across Missouri. If producers were lucky enough to harvest first-cutting hay,
that removed low-quality seed stems. Second-cutting hay should be higher
quality without stems. Mold and fire are not the only problems. Reports from
field specialists told of farmers losing fields of forage to armyworms or
alfalfa weevils. Rains didn’t slow pests.
Ellett Memorial
Hospital Appleton City offers outpatient specialist services for June, 2019. Call 660-476-2111, ext. 5257 for appointments:
June 12 - Upper GI, Colonoscopy– Dr. Namin, June 17 - Rheumatology–Dr. Latinis,
June 20 - Urology – Dr. Boullier and
June 25 - Ortho – Dr. Gray.
OATS BUS schedule for
the week of June 17: St Clair County to Bolivar June 18, St Clair County to
OATS Meeting June 20. For those that live in St Clair County wishing to ride
the OATS Bus please call John at 417-309-3464, Julia at 417-309-3463, in the
Lowry City area call Heidi Carden at 417-309-0146. Need a ride, call on OATS. Available to
everyone (not “just” Seniors/Disabled) 24 hour reservations advance reservation
required. Donation per stop is
suggested. OATS is a door to door, shared ride service; all vans are equipped
with ramps and helpful drivers!
“The Little Apple”
was started by the A. C. Economic Development as way of informing residents of
news and events sponsored by area businesses and organizations. Items of a clearly personal nature, such as
birthdays, anniversaries, awards (not group sponsored), personal sales and the
like are not accepted for publication.
Please email articles for “The Little Apple” to dcp81@embarqmail.com by
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