On the Street... by Chuck Haney
This weekend is a big one in Chillicothe and hundreds of visitors will file into town first on Friday evening for the annual Cruise Night and parade of cars, trucks and motorcycles beginning at 7:30 p.m. Then the next day, Saturday, July 17, in beautiful and shady Simpson Park folks will have the opportunity to view around 300 vehicles beginning early in the morning through Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The down around the square event begins around 6 p.m. with vehicles lining up and the Cruise Night starting at 7:30 p.m. It will proceed north on Washington and the Washington Street from Jackson to Polk will be closed starting at 7:30 to allow the vehicles to pass in review. Once the final vehicle has passed Polk Street, the highway will open and remain open.
The route again this year goes north to Park Lane, over to Morningside Center and back to U.S. 65 and then north to the Baptist Home before returning on U.S. 65 to 190, going west on 190 and turn to go past Indian Hills before returning to U.S. 65 via Fairway Drive and then south back to the courthouse where the law enforcement escort and most vehicles will pull out of the formation.
Kim Bloss, one of the organizers said they were urging the vehicles to continue on south on Washington if they want but it would be without any emergency vehicle support.
There will be 50’s and 60’s music on the south side of the courthouse plaza after the Cruise with music by KCHI. Jackson from Washington to Locust will be closed throughout the evening. Econo Lodge Inn & Suites (formerly Best Western) will again serve as the host hotel for the car show.
In connection with the car show a special event and tribute will take place on Friday starting at 11 a.m. in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot.
The Chillicothe Car Show is honoring Jack’s Sandwich Shop and the late Lowell Jackson and his family. Lowell’s wife Lela, daughter Janet (David) Lauhoff and son Delvin along with the children of the family as well as the newest grandchildren born this summer will be on hand Friday cooking up the World Famous Jack’s Sandwich Shop tenderloins.
The family invites you to come and join them as they celebrate a great piece of Chillicothe history and in a tribute to the late Lowell Jackson. They will begin cooking at 11 a.m. on the Piggly Wiggly lot and be there until the tenderloins are gone.
Lowell Jackson, his wife, family and sister-in-law Lena (Mrs. Carroll Surber) fixed and sold 1,500 tenderloins a week back then, said Janet Lauhoff. They operated the famous Jack’s Sandwich Shop from 1959 to 1961 before Lowell went back in the service with the U.S Air Force. He returned from the Air Force in 1973 and he and his wife again purchased the business. They closed the shop in 1989 when Lowell became the head cook at Bishop Hogan School. Jackson died in January 1994.
“We already have several special orders, including 90 for Morningside Center for their patients and staff,” said Janet Lauhoff as she spoke with me Sunday evening. “We’re excited about all of this and the whole family is going to have a great time saluting Dad.”
Once the tenderloins are gone this Friday and they close down, the famous recipe will officially be turned over to Tony Clark and Piggly Wiggly. In continued honor of Lowell Jackson, who had that famous Jack’s Sandwich Shop at Third and Washington, his world famous tenderloin will proudly be served and offered exclusively through Piggly Wiggly Deli from now on after Friday.
During the celebration last Saturday in Macon of the official opening of the final 52-mile stretch of double lane pavement for U.S. 36, the planning group took time to recognize Chillicotheans Ed Douglas, Terry Rumery and Kenneth Churchill along with the late Bill Murry of Wheeling.
Douglas formerly served as Highway Commissioner and is now president of the U.S. 36/I-72 Association. He was also one of the co-emcees for the event. Rumery, an economic developer, is the past president of the U.S. 36 Association and Churchill is a longtime and active board member of the original 36 group. Another longtime active member was the late Bob Staton, Sr.
From the stage, Mrs. Marjorie Murry as well as Churchill were recognized to the approximately 150 persons in attendance for the one hour 35-minute program that took place in 83 degree temperature. Murry barnstormed the state and area in getting the legislature and MoDOT to name U.S. 36 as VFW Highway and U.S. 65 as American Legion Highway.
Others from Chillicothe present for the program included Melvin Littrell, Benny Simpson (Chula) and his granddaughter, Mrs. Murry, Marla Douglas, Gordon Smith, Churchill, City Administrator Dean Brookshier, Visitors Bureau Director Amy Supple, and Mayor Chuck Haney.
Jonne Parrish will remember the Friday night crash of a crop dusting plane and will like others wonder how pilot Duane Urich of Trenton walked away without an injury. She was in the back yard of their rural home just east of the Chillicothe airport when she heard a funny sound and then looked over a barrier and saw the plane crash.
The plane wasn’t very high in the air from takeoff and that may have saved Urich’s life. The plane dropped quickly, dug a small hole in the ground with the engine that broke away and then the plane flipped over.
Urich walked about 100 feet to Mrs. Parrish and her husband and she said “was very calm” but was covered with the chemicals from the spray plane. “We washed him off with a garden hose and Jerry called 911. He is a very lucky man.
Urich, reported to be a commercial pilot for Fed–X, had been in and out of the local airport all day getting fuel while spraying for a Chillicothe ag firm. The plane and engine were hauled away to a hanger at the airport Monday for the FAA.
I got a special invitation from Terry Nibarger last week to come out and look at the new offices in the Chadwick Plaza for Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. at 891 Fairway Drive in the Chadwick Plaza.
Moving a little more than a week ago from shared office space in the Chadwick Plaza, the new investment office was designed by Nibarger, the branch manager, with work done by Case Contracting.
Entering through the front door there is large reception area and space for Lisa Jones, client service manager as well as chairs for clients.
Next and off to the left is a large office for Nibarger. Across the hallway is a work/file room, a nice conference room seating eight and back to the far left is a second office now occupied by Nibarger’s son Ben, who is here for the summer. He is an accounting major at the University of Missouri and is in graduate school. Back in the far right area there is a break room and mechanical room.
Nibarger said there is still furniture to arrive along with two more flat screen televisions.
The move from two doors east in the complex at Chadwick Plaza was made June 30. Nibarger had been with the investment/trust department at Citizens Bank & Trust for 13 ½ years and Lisa Jones had been there for 19 ½ years. The move to temporary quarters in the Chadwick Plaza was made in January.
Nibarger told me it was nice to have the construction completed and the new office open. “It provides a great environment for our work.” Area families and businesses have a tremendous need for assistance with the managing of their investments and financial plans. “There has never been a greater need for this type of work than right now,” Nibarger said. Twenty years experience and a great company like Raymond James to back me up really helps, he added.
The newest Chillicothe daycare is now open. Little Hornets Daycare opened recently in remodeled quarters at 218 JFK near the Field School and is now accepting children (see ad this edition).
Chrissy Prewitt-Girres is the child care provider and limited spots are now available. The daycare operates from 7 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks are provided for 18 months and older.
Sophie’s Place on the north side of square is now ready to accept appointments for Princess Parties to be held at the rear of Sophie’s Place (the former Parks Shoes building) according to Kathy McNally, owner.
The move has now been completed from the space at the back to the larger quarters facing Webster. Sophie’s place features quality pre-loved children’s clothes. McNally said that new items are arriving daily for fall and winter.
Appointments for children’s birthday parties and events in the Princess Room are now being accepted.
Ehrhardt Hospitality has promoted Jody Yuille as Assistant General Manger of Comfort Inn & Suites at Business Highway 36 in Chillicothe. Yuille is excited to use her previous banquet experience in her new position.
Yuille is a 2009 graduate of Missouri State University in Springfield where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality and Restaurant Administration. She was in the hospitality honor society Eta Sigma Delta and is a member of Hospitality Leaders of Tomorrow.
She resides in Braymer and enjoys cake decorating and outdoor activities including going to the lake.
One good piece of news for the Chillicothe Mudcats included a team record 17 strikeouts by pitcher Mark Robinette last Friday night at Shaffer Park against the Joplin Outlaws. Robinette, a right-hander, carried a no-hitter into the ninth before Joplin finished with one hit to spoil it.
The host family in Chillicothe for collegiate player Robinette is Eric and Jennifer Reeter.
Granddaughter Carly Carlton and I went to the fairgrounds Sunday afternoon to take in the fair’s annual baby show. That is sight with the expo center full of youngsters.
We were there to see my great grandsons Jaydin Kohl and Max Cranmer compete in the baby show.
It was a good day as granddaughter Courtnie and Ryan returned to the back of the building to inform me that Max, who is nine months old, won his division and Jaydin, who will be three in January finished with a third place ribbon. While Jaydin competed and Carly took photos grandpa got to give Max his long awaited bottle.
The Livingston County food pantry will be distributing commodities on Thursday, July 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 703 Milwaukee. If you need to sign up or have questions please call 660-707-0450.
I stopped by to wish Opal Coats a Happy 90th birthday Sunday and to visit with her son Jack and wife, as well as Opal’s daughter Connie Greever and husband Chuck. Jack Coats was a starting quarterback his junior and senior year in 1964-65 for Coach Bob Fairchild and helped lead the Chillicothe Hornets to their first ever unbeaten season.
Coats and his wife Norma reside in Massachusetts. His dad, the late C.W. (Wally) Coats was a Wilson sporting goods salesmen, Ban Johnson baseball coach, an official starter for track meets and a friend of every coach in Northwest Missouri in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s.
Opal said she has a lot of wonderful friends and she just wanted to thank everyone for the cards, visits, flowers, etc. “It was a special day.”
Last week I was honored to be among the “No Name” club members at a dinner at the Country Club honoring John Irvin on his 99th birthday. John had plenty of birthday events including dinner at Seasons in Gallatin, a trip to Arrow Rock for a production, and topped it off Monday with Banana Crème pie baked by Ruth Ann Steele at Indian Hills. There was also a special gooseberry pie baked by Grace Anderson and a special birthday cake from Francine’s.
The No Name club members were joined in singing Happy Birthday to John by Eloise Barnes, Margee Miller, Emma Dedrick, Chris Simmons, Millie Gordon, Donna Westfall and Ruth Benson. Betty Preston-Steele directed the folks in singing.
I want to send special congratulations to longtime friends Don and Thelma James who celebrate No. 50 on July 17. Happy Anniversary to Doug and Renee Girres on July 15. Happy 13th Anniversary to Mike and Becky Parkey on July 20.
The following are celebrating birthdays from July 14 through July 20--Joyce Marlay, Bub Baker, Ronnie Narr of Wheeling, Debbie Jenkins, Pam Campbell, Roder Nyberg, Brandie Gillilan, Katie Kepner, Lewis Baker, Leland Baker, Anthony Ewing, Dale Sims, Keith Johnson, Gabe Jones, Roger Boley, James Black, Kevin Fender, Been Koehly, John Marcolla, Donald Ware, Frances Cox, Phyllis Peniston, Mary Shore, Jane King, Roger Lee, Charlotte Alexander, Geraldine Reeter, Pat Meek, David Gillespie, Katie Milanovich and Kevin Gaston.
A special birthday wish goes to Bobbi Jo Zimmer who turns 13 this week. She is the daughter of the late Bob Zimmer, long time Ad Pages delivery man and ever a part of the Ad Pages Family.
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Our deepest sympathy goes to the family, relatives and friends of Larry Littrell who died July 5. We also express our deepest sympathy to the family of Mary Ellen Paschal, 61, of Brookfield who was buried last week. She was a sister of Bonnie Mitchell, Ruby Lamp and Wanda Sams of Chillicothe.
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