Cheesy Zucchini Rice
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs (optional)
2 cups lower sodium chicken broth
1 cup long grain white rice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch cayenne pepper
2 cups shreddedzucchini
3/4 cups shredded Gruyere cheese
2 teaspoons chopped fresh marjoram or oregano
For crumb topper, if desired, melt 1 tablespoon butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add panko, if desired. Cook and stir until toasted, about 2 minutes. Remove from saucepan. Add broth to saucepan. Bring to boiling. Add rice, salt and cayenne pepper. Cover, reduce heat and simmer until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender, 20 minutes. Gently fold in zucchini, cheese, marjoram, and remaining 2 Tbsp. butter. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Sprinkle with crumb topper, if using.
Per serving: 1,049 calories; 66g fat; 76g carbs; 40g protein
Herrman’s Historical Happenings week of July 26
1879 A notice in the Bates Co Record newspaper “Dr. Tucker now fills teeth with an Electric Mallatt. It must be seen to believe it”.
1905 A number of Butlerites attend the log rolling at Amsterdam.
1906 A party of young Butler ladies, who have been camping Southeast of Butler, for two weeks, return to their homes. They said they were besieged by callers each night.
1918 It is declared that the biggest crowd ever has assembled at the county seat, as over 12,000 bid farewell to the 137 young men are leaving for Fort Riley Ks. Butler.
1979 The 36th annual Hume fair opens for a three day run.
1980 16 year old Steven Inlow is released on self defense in the shooting of 19 year old Thomas E. Kleiman. Merwin.
1991 The Butler Jaycees are extending, by opening a chapter in Peculiar, Mo.
1996 Midwest Lumber of Butler is chosen as the Business of the Week. Owners John & Maribeth Golloday.
The Bates County Museum is open for tours and events. Call 660-679-0134 for info.
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Last Saturday morning, the morning low temperature at Oshkosh, Wisconsin was actually two degrees warmer than it was in Butler. That wasn’t going to hold, but we had it nice while it lasted. The rain that fell when the cold front passed was welcome, for the most part. Fog shrouded the airports from Harrisonville north on Wednesday, even though it was essentially clear in Bates County. There seems to be a weather-change line around Harrisonville, as observed over the years.
Oshkosh, of course, is the site of this week’s annual AirVenture celebration of aviation, attracting hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts and 10,000 airplanes flown in. Butler airport manager Chris Hall has been on the grounds for a couple of weeks, parked in a prime spot, while we languished in the heat. Les Gorden made an early departure for the show in his T-28C warbird, and a nice Wittman Tailwind homebuilt out of Abilene, Texas stopped in Friday enroute to event. Also visiting this week were a Cessna Skylane from Bolivar, a Beech Bonanza V35, a Piper Cherokee and a Robinson R44 helicopter.
The U.S. House of Representatives, constitutionally charged with allocating money to fund bureaucracies, passed an FAA Reauthorization Act this week, always an exercise in Pork Barrel politics and lobbying for pet causes. These funding bills typically cover five years or so, when they finally get duly signed. Nobody ever gets all they want from them. We users who send our gas tax and excise tax money to what used to be called an “Aviation Trust Fund” must wait for it to be allocated back to us, minus the usually handling charges, announced as “Senator so-and-so brings $10 million in Federal Funds to the state to build some runways” when it’s really our own money.
One provision in the House bill forbids airports to quit selling leaded aviation gasoline before the always-coming unleaded 100-octane fuel becomes available. This is causing anguish for UL100 developers, who need empty tanks to store their new juice. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg situation. The purpose of the rule is to keep overeager environmentalists from grounding thirsty airplanes at their hometown airport during what everyone expects to eventually be a changeover to no-lead avgas, but the devil is the details. It’ll have to get fixed.
The usual flood of new-product announcements preceding the Oshkosh show has begun. Garmin has announced it’ll soon have emergency automatic-landing capability for the Beech King Air twin turboprops, much like Piper, Daher and Pilatus has for their Garmin-equipped singles, and a cheaper $2000 radar altimeter for little planes, which can call out the last 500 feet down to the pavement. Texas Aircraft (which actually sells airplanes from Brazil) says it’ll soon have a four-seater to go with its two-seat trainer, if the FAA approves it, and Cessna has a spiffy new set of interior improvements for its legacy piston singles.
Our weekly question asked why composite airplanes are usually finished in white color, while wood, aluminum or fabric planes can be any shade. As reader Rodney Rom knew, the plastic lamination structures don’t handle heat well and must be painted with a reflective coating to keep their cool. Our question for next week would be, “which of the primary flight controls is actually the one that turns the airplane?” Hint; it’s not the one you think of first. You can send your answers to kochhaus1@gmail.com.
As landowner Sanjay Patel looked on, several council members stated opinions on the matter prior to the vote. “It could be rumor, or not, that there could be another RV park going in just on the other side of I-49” said Scott Mallatt as a discussion ensued “And I’m hearing there is a lot of concern what an RV park might look like. Just know, if it’s outside the city limits, it’s out of the city’s control. But if it’s inside city limits, we can control it through code and law enforcement. And we can collect tax money from it. I just think we need to look at this openly.”
Denny Rich was the first to voice concerns regarding negative impacts such as traffic issues, and what will the park look like 3 to 5 years down the road? He also questioned what impacts it might bring being so close to Sunset Park, located just south. The Patel team rebutting, saying there won’t be that much traffic, as most will be coming in to park only or leaving after their stay.
As the conversation wound down, it was asked if any previously addressed code violations on properties in Butler owned by Patel had been rectified. Yes. Have all the recommendations made by the planning commission been addressed and followed? Yes. Is the conditional use permit revocable? Yes. Who will police the RV park for violations? Mr. Patel spoke up and assured everyone there will be a dedicated person on site 24/7 to oversee all aspects, including any code violations as well.
With that, Mayor Henry called for a motion and Becki Randalls responded to deny the conditional use permit for the RV park based on impacts on the street system and a negative impact on property values.
It went to a vote and the final tally came with Rich, Alkire, Liggins, Wainscott and Randalls saying no to the project; the lone yes came from Mallatt. Hall and Behringer were absent.
In other council news it was decided to tear down the old swimming pool building on south High street. Following a short debate of whether or not to spend $8,500 to fix the roof, the discussion centered mostly on whether or not would the building be put to good use- most likely it would be used for storage, and does the city need that?
A motion was made by Mallatt to keep the building and repair the roof, with a second by Marlene Wainscott which failed. He then made a motion to demolish it, which carried. The lone no vote on demolishing came from Wainscott as well.
As the planning commission previously approved updating codes related to allowing rabbits and chickens within city limits on residential property, the measure was passed 4-2, with no votes coming from Liggins and Wainscott. A copy of the ordinance is available at city hall.
Remember the Butler city council meets on the first and third Tuesdays, 7 pm at city hall. The public is encouraged to attend.
