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Sugar & Spice Daycare burns
Sugar & Spice Daycare, 320 Second
St., burned Saturday from a Saturday
fi re of unknown origin.
More than a dozen volunteers from
the Monroe City and Paris fi re departments
responded to the two-story
structure fi re after neighbors
reported the fi re to the Monroe City
Police Department.
Firefi ghters contained the fi re to the
second story of the building, but
Wayne Doolin said that extensive
water, smoke and heat damage to
the fi re fl oor destroyed the building.
Doolin and his wife own the property
and leased it to Sugar & Spice.
Sugar & Spice Daycare is owned by
Mary McNeal and has been in business
for nine years at that location.
Photo by Adrian Saunders
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R-1 third grade class wins 500 books
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JoAnn Woodall's Monroe City Elementary School
third-grade class was one of 200 classes of 16,000 entrants
in the nation to win the "Care Where You Are"
Sweepstakes sponsored by Scholastic Book Clubs.
The prize of 500 books has been donated to the
Monroe City Youth Center.
The prize winners were participants in Scholastic
Book Clubs' ClassroomsCare program, a program that
encourages reading by asking classrooms to read 100
books. Scholastic donates up to one million books to
kids in need through the program.
"This class was so excited to learn we had won
this sweepstakes," Woodall said. "We had talked a lot
about the ClassroomsCare program when we decided
to get involved with it in the fall. We really feel good
about being able to donate the books to the youth center,
where many children will be able to enjoy them."
ClassroomsCare is open to all classrooms nationwide
through Scholastic Book Club catalogues and the
Scholastic website.
"The students now how entertaining and informative
reading is for them," Woodall said. "By being chosen
as a winning class in the "Care Where You Are"
Sweepstakes, students are also learning how special it
is to give where needed."
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Ag department freezes assets of Audrain firm
The Missouri Department of Agriculture
has frozen the assets of T.J. Gieseker Farms
and Trucking of Martinsburg, an Audrain
County trucking company and grain elevator.
The family-owned business has more
than $2 million in debts but less than $1 million
in assets, according to attorney general
Chris Koster.
A meeting has been set for farmers interested
in the developments. It will be held
Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m. at the Knights
of Columbus Hall at 300 Jefferson St. in
Martinsburg.
Any farmers or sellers who have sold
grain to Gieseker and those who have not
been paid by Gieseker are asked to contact
the Missouri Department of Agriculture’s
Grain Regulatory Services at (573) 751-
4112 to fi le a claim.
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Charles Pollitt, retired motel owner, dies
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Charles E. Pollitt, 92, of
Hannibal died at 6:10 p.m. on Saturday,
Feb. 21, 2009, at Beth Haven
Nursing Home in Hannibal.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 25, at the James
O’Donnell Funeral Home in
Hannibal. Father Mike Quinn will
offi ciate with burial, with full military
rites by Emmette J. Shields
American Legion Post #55 at the
Grand View Burial Park.
Mr. Pollitt was born Sept. 14,
1916, in Marion County, Mo., to
Charles P. and Rose Hamm Pollitt.
He was married to Margaret
Kendrick on Sept. 1, 1940, and she
survives. Other survivors include
three children, Patrick C. (Carol)
Pollitt of Holts Summit, Michael
J. (Brenda) Pollitt of Monroe City,
and Cynthia R. (Kevin) Forrest of
Knob Noster, Mo.; a sister, Mary
Kuntemeyer of Palmyra; 10 grandchildren,
eight great-grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. He was
preceded in death by his parents;
a daughter, Sharon Sankpill; two
brothers and a sister.
Mr. Pollitt was a U.S. Air Force
veteran of World War II. He was
the owner and operator of motels
in Monroe City and Hannibal. In
his retirement, Mr. Pollitt had been
a driver for Older Adults Transportation
Service since 1986.
He
attended Clear Creek School and
was a graduate of Palmyra High
School. He enjoyed golfi ng, traveling
and playing cards, especially
bridge and shanghai rummy. He
was a member of Emmett J. Shields
American Legion Post #55. He was
a Christian by faith.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the American Diabetes Association
or Holy Family School in
care of the James O’Donnell Funeral
Home.
Pallbeares will be Stephen
Sankpill, Jim Sankpill, Kevin Forrest,
Scott Pollitt, Brian Pollitt and
Jerry Lund.
Online condolences may be
made at www.jamesodonnellfuneralhome.
com
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Services held for Mike Burgess, former Monroe City business owner
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Funeral services for Michael
Lloyd “Mike” Burgess, 56, of Rolla,
formerly of Dixon and Monroe
City, were held Monday, Feb. 23,
2009, with burial in Dixon Public
Cemetery.
Mr. Burgess died at 6:43 a.m.
on Friday, Feb. 20, at the University
of Missouri Hospital and Clinics,
Columbia.
He was born on July 2, 1952, at
Waynesville, a son of Lloyd Arthur
and Bonnie Mae (Copeland) Burgess.
His mother died on Oct. 12,
2004.
Mr. Burgess had accepted Jesus
Christ as his personal savior
in 1966 and followed his Lord in
baptism while attending the First
Christian Church at Dixon, and
at the time of his death, the First
Methodist Church, Hannibal, was
considered his home church.
He was a 1970 graduate of the
Dixon R-1 High School, a member
of the 1969 Missouri State Champion
High School Basketball Team,
and an outstanding member of his
high school baseball team being
the fi rst player to hit a homerun
ball out of the new Dixon baseball
fi eld in 1970.
He graduated from Missouri
State University, Springfi eld, with
a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English
and a Bachelor of Arts Degree
in Art. He especially enjoyed
sculpting pottery, playing his guitar
and harmonica, scenic photography
and listening to all kinds of
music.
During his working life, he
was the owner and operator of the
Monroe City Motor Company,
Monroe City, for 20 years, and had
also been employed by his Uncle
Frank Burgess at the Burgess North
American Van Lines Company for
two years.
Survivors include a son, Cale
Michael Burgess, Monroe City;
one daughter, Amy Elizabeth Burgess,
Phoenix, Ariz.; his father,
Lloyd Burgess, Dixon; one brother
Fred (Julie) Burgess, St. James;
one sister, Lisa Burgess Sims, Rolla;
two nephews, Ryan Sims and
Tom Burgess; two nieces, Brooke
Sims Durbin and Jennifer Burgess
Simmons; one great-nephew,
Corbin Sims; one great-niece, Ava
Sims; and a host of other relatives
and friends.
The Birmingham-Martin Funeral
Homes was in charge of arrangements
and the Monday service
with the Rev. Marshall Hagler, Believers
Praise Center, St. James, offi
ciating and Ron Burns delivering
a eulogy during the service.
Interment was in the Dixon
Cemetery under the direction of
the Dixon Chapel of the Birmingham-
Martin Funeral Homes. Pallbearers
were members of the 1969
Missouri State Champion High
School Basketball Team: Dale
Dake, Paul Hauck, Dean Dickens,
Danny Rickerson, Richard McMillian,
Mike Sims, Fred Hauck, John
Brown and Henry Hauck with
Randall Irvin and Kenny Acord
serving posthumously as honorary
pallbearers.
Memorial contributions are suggested
by the family to the Dixon
Community Scholarship Fund
at Birmingham-Martin Funeral
Home, P.O. Box EE, Dixon, Mo.i
65459.
Tributes may be shared with the
family at www.birminghammartinfuneralhomes.
com
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