On the Street... by Chuck Haney
I have some exciting good news to share with you about a new addition to an existing plant and the success story of the development of Chadwick Plaza in north Chillicothe.
In my city Mayor’s column this week in the C-T and on the city website I will have some comments in regard to last week’s vote on using our existing capital improvement tax to build a new hospital.
I know we are all ready to get out of the house and enjoy a weekend. That opportunity arrives this weekend and if you are a sports/outdoor enthusiast this is your weekend.
Here’s what is going on!
The third annual North Missouri Outdoor Classic is this Saturday and Sunday at the Chillicothe High School just off 190.
The eighth annual Chillicothe Elks Lodge Gun and Knife Show takes place this Friday evening, all day Saturday and most of Sunday.
The Chillicothe Hornet boy's basketball team plays Savannah at the field house this Friday starting with a frosh game at 5 p.m. and Saturday there will be a doubleheader at the field house when the Chillicothe Lady Hornets host Kirksville at 6 p.m. and the Chillicothe boys host Kirksville at around 7:30 p.m. in a pair of games that were postponed by weather earlier this season. Remember the Friday night games and the Saturday games are at the Middle School field house.
The exciting Outdoor Classic at the high school, the popular gun and knife show at the Elks and high school basketball what a weekend.
Got time for more sports this week?
The 57th annual CLAA Conference boys and girls basketball tournament is all this week at Tina-Avalon High School, about 14 miles south of Chillicothe on U.S. 65. The finals are Saturday night and should bring together some state ranked teams.
Just think, a month from now Daylight Saving Time begins and a week later it will be the first day of spring… I can hardly wait.
Cloverleaf/Farmers Produce Cold Storage located in the Farmers’ Electric Industrial Park has a building expansion underway that will make it Chillicothe’s largest industrial plant or factory.
In an interview with Brian Anderson the plant is putting in an expansion of 50,000 square feet at the north end of its existing building and when completed will make the plant a 313,000 square foot facility. “It’s all about better serving our customers in the United States and to help our exports,” said Anderson, who has served as plant manager here since February 2004.
The present cold storage plant formerly known as Bond Cold Storage began operation as a 150,000 facility in July of 1999. The building was expanded more than 100,000 square feet a few years ago and now will get its third addition.
According to Terry Rumery, economic developer for the FEC industrial park, city, CMU and CDC, the new cold storage plant at 313,000 square feet tops WireCo (formerly Wire Rope) at 283,000 square feet (also in the industrial park) and the Donaldson Company in southeast Chillicothe at 260,000 square feet.
The Cloverleaf plant employment currently has 67 full-time employees. From time to time there are a number of part-timers working at the plant, according to Anderson. Bond Cold Storage was sold to Cloverleaf/Farmers Produce in April of 2005.
Working in cold storage refrigeration, the employees load and unload cold storage products from many name brand companies and businesses that are brought in and taken out by tractor trailer trucks.
Anderson said that on an average there are 35 trucks in and out of the FEC industrial park to their plant each day through the week and on an average move 1.5 million pounds of frozen products per day.
Construction of the new addition began in November and is expected to be completed by late March, Anderson stated.
There are eight plants or industrial buildings in the FEC Park and when operating at full strength there are 600 persons working, Rumery said. There is also a 50,000 square foot spec building that was constructed just south of WireCo which FEC and Rumery are promoting for lease or sale.
Among those in the industrial park besides Wireco and Cloverleaf/Farmers Produce are Associated Packing Technologies, Gear for Sports, Mid West Quality Glove & Gear warehouse, DeLaval Manufacturing, Helena Chemical Inc., and an asphalt company.
FEC also has a business park that is south and adjacent to the industrial park. It is in an area between business 36 and U.S. 36 and Mitchell Avenue.
The business park is home to a Dollar General, Kille Kubota, Social Security office, Morton Buildings, Super 8 Motel, and the USDA Service Center that is also home to the offices of Soil Water Conservation, FSA, RD, NRCS field office and Green Hills RC & D.
Back in 1999 when Rolfe and Julie McCoy purchased the buildings and ground of the old Windmoore motel, service station, dance hall, café and antique barn they had a plan and they had some ideas, but today they each will tell you that they never dreamed what has and is happening to the place they call Chadwick Plaza.
The demolition of the café, gas station, big dance hall, motel and a large barn with old antique vehicles followed a short time after purchase. Gone was the big hill across the road from the Country Club golf course and buildings that served food, beer, held country dances and grassy area where cattle once roamed. The old big dance hall was even host to a Chillicothe Quarterback dinner and program at which the late basketball legend Dr. Phog Allen once spoke to a crowd of 250 plus.
Then in 2000 the first brick building went up. It was to serve as the new home of McCoy Dental Clinic, now known as McCoy & Samples Dental Clinic. It is located near where the L-shaped motel was. Orthodontist Ed Kavanaugh D.D.S PC also has his practice in the building. The McCoy dental office started by now retired Dr. Chad McCoy, Rolfe’s father, was then located on Elm Street, originally sharing space with the late Dr. Joseph Conrad.
Next a similar brick building was constructed to the north of the dental building and facing south. It would be home on one side (east) to Foresight EyeCare (David Hoel) and Sophisticuts Beauty Salon (west). Both of those businesses are the original tenants.
The next move was townhouses and they were on the plan just west and behind the dental building. There are six and all were either sold or are being leased. One group on the south side has a great view of the country club golf course. The last townhouse was occupied a little more than a year ago.
The next move was another similar brick building. It would be next door of the dental clinic and just southeast of those occupied by the beauty salon and Dr. Hoel. It would become home to Hedrick Family Care in October 2008.
In the spring of 2009 the McCoy’s put another piece together in the Chadwick Plaza. Construction of five attached business/professional offices (2,000 square feet each) began just to the east of the optometrist/beauty salon building. It stretched from that point to just west of U.S. 65.
The first unit was finished in October and is now home for Clinical Psychologists Dr. Brooke Dixon Preylo and Dr. Samuel Preylo, Jr. They are Northwest Behavioral Health Consultants providing diagnostic assessments, psychological testing, consultations, psychotherapy and workshops.
When they came to town last year they operated from basement office space at the dental clinic while the five business/professional complexs was being constructed. The health consultants were the first occupants of the newest part of the plaza.
Just last week Terry Nibarger, CFP, announced his affiliation with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., and he and his longtime assistant Lisa Jones at Citizens Bank & Trust will share office space in one of the new units.
Just recently Drs. Jon and Kris Cole of Cole Family Chiropractic Clinic that has been here for more than a year, completed arrangements with the McCoy’s to become a tenant in one of the new spaces. They are expected to be up and running in their new quarters late this month or early March.
Last week Mrs. McCoy, who manages the properties and is a former Chief Operating Officer at Midwest Quality Gloves & Gear, told me that she is also pretty sure they will have the announcement of another new tenant soon.
The McCoy’s said the Chadwick Plaza has turned into a professional/health, dental, business complex consisting of 32,000 square and that’s okay by them. Now in its 10th year since the development began, there may just be one professional/office space available and that’s after three double condos and three business/professional buildings and the series of five smaller office spaces in the new business complex are completed.
All is ready for the third annual Outdoor Classic and it will be at a new location with plenty of parking. The Classic sponsored by the North Missouri Sportsman’s Alliance, is set for this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Chillicothe High School and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Programs and seminars will be presented by Rod Owen, Karl Rice, James Harrison, Ed Schneider, Darrell Sidney, Roy Roper, Rick Hahne and Jeff Beringer on everything from whitetail deer and fur trapping to turkey calling, cat fishing, bear hunting, waterfowl calls, etc.
Miss Missouri Tara Osseck will make a special appearance on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The first annual Jakes turkey calling championship will be held in two age divisions, 8-13 and 14-18. At 12 Sunday at the Dickinson Performing Arts Center James Harrison, world turkey calling team champion, will appear. There will be plenty of booths to visit.
Kerby Vulgamott, coordinator for the Elks eighth annual Gun and Knife Show, said that all booth and table space has again been filled for the three-day show that starts at 5 p.m. Friday and runs through Sunday afternoon. “We have 67 tables sold and we’re full, said Vulgamott. There will be food by the Ladies Auxiliary and a gun show. It is a buy, sell, and trade show.
Chillicothe Hornet football fans will have the opportunity to continue to see one the school’s all-time great athletes perform with the announced signing of a National Letter of Intent by Bryce Young last week. Young, an All-State football player on both offense and defense, was featured in a file action photo on the front page of the News Press last Thursday as one of the top signees among 18 coming to Northwest Missouri University.
Young, a three-time All-Stater, is scheduled to play wide receiver and possibly return punts and kickoffs, according to a statement made by Bearcat Coach Mel Tjeerdsma when talking about his recruits last week in an article in the St. Joseph News Press.
Young will join another former Hornet, Brett Grozinger, a 6-4, 280-pound guard who earned second team All-American honors last fall as a junior as well as being named as a finalist for the Gene Upshaw Award that is given to the nation’s top lineman.
Grozinger is the son of Jim and Paula Grozinger and Young is the son of Brent and Karen Young. Young, his parents and his high school Coach Phil Willard were present for last week’s signing at the high school commons on Wednesday.
HERE AND THERE—A retirement reception will be hosted by Investors National Bank for Jim Houseworth this Thursday, Feb. 11, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
KCHI (98.5 fm and 1010 am) will be holding its radio auction this Wednesday and Thursday and Feb. 17 and 18. The auction begins each of the four evenings at 6 p.m.
The Grace Church annual Shrove Tuesday shrimp dinner is Tuesday, Feb. 16 with two dining times from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the church social hall at 421 Elm. Call 646-4288 or 646-2221 to reserve your time (see ad).
The pump price for gasoline at most Chillicothe stations dropped to $2.39 last Friday, the lowest price since last October 2009.
Go Super Bowl Champion Saints. We should have bet cash Kerby.
Happy 69th wedding anniversary on Valentine’s Day to Ralph and Louise Wilson of Chillicothe. The Wilson’s family is hosting an open house for their parents on Sunday, Feb. 14 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Grand River Area Family YMCA. The family requests only the gift of your presence.
Happy Anniversary to Gerald and Peggy Switzer on Feb. 12.
Happy Birthday to the following who are celebrating birthdays from Feb. 10 through Feb. 16--Janet Barnhart, JoAnne Shannon, Warren Hoyt, Jason Spears, J. Alan Scott, Bob Conkling, Rosa Dowling, Steve Brookshier, Leroy Dominique Wayne Mefford, Ruth Rupe, Shirley Transue, Jo Ann Constant, Doris Hendrix, Donna Ireland, Trent Gann, Diana Kinder and Sharon Barnes. Belated birthday greetings go to David Gilgour and Liberty Perkins.
I have already told you more than I know.
Our deepest sympathy goes to the family Felix Buckner, 93, of rural Wheeling. Mr. Buckner died last week. We also send our sympathy to Mrs. Louis Wilson and her family following the loss of her sister Wilma Curtis of Brookfield.
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