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by Kelsey AlumbaughStaff Writer
According to a news release, CLARCOR Inc.,
based in Franklin, Tenn., completed the acquisi-
tion of the air filtration business of General Elec-
tric Company’s Power and Water division for
approximately $265 million, on Dec. 16, 2013.
“With over 700 employees around the world
and trailing 12 month annual revenues of approx-
imately $230 million, the business is a leading
supplier of air filtration systems and filters used
in gas turbine applications, as well as industrial
air filtration products and membranes. Head-
quartered in Overland Park, Kan., and with manu-
facturing operations in Missouri, the UK and
China, the business will continue to supply gas
turbine air inlet filtration systems and filters to
GE, which has the world’s largest installed base of
natural gas turbines, under a multi-year supply
agreement,” the release stated.
“We are very excited about this acquisition and
the multiple opportunities it offers CLARCOR,”
Christopher L. Conway, CLARCOR’s chairman,
president and chief executive officer, said in the
release. “Each element of this business – gas tur-
bine filtration, industrial air filtration and mem-
branes – is attractive and fits within our core
strategies and competencies. This transaction cre-
ates exciting new vertical opportunities and rela-
tionships, affords us access to various new
technologies, broadens our already extensive
product portfolio and solidifies what we believe is
our standing as the most diversified filtration
company in the world.”
Lori Ragsdale, director of marketing communi-
cations at CLARCOR, said Slater has been, and will
continue to be, a key manufacturing facility for
CLARCOR, and they “expect for there to be new
opportunities as we continue to grow.”
“Our employees are excited about the possibil-
ities we expect to gain from working with a com-
pany that is focused on filtration,” she said. “This
change elevates the importance of their work and
has resulted in a lot of positive changes and ex-
citement. … Overall the transition has been seam-
less and without disruption to our customers. Our
focus continues to be putting our customers first
and providing great service.”
Ragsdale also said CLARCOR shares in the em-
ployees excitement about the new opportunities
they gain through the synergies and growth po-
tential that lie ahead.
“The Air Filtration business has strengthened
its operations and improved performance over the
past two years to create a world-class filtration
business,” Victor Abate, president and CEO, power
generation products at GE Power and Water, said.
“In the Power Generation segment, we are focused
on our core gas turbine technology, and we have
made the strategic decision to simplify the busi-
ness to better match our core strengths. We are
pleased that the transaction with CLARCOR will
allow air filtration the opportunity to grow and
thrive in the filtration industry.”
Contact Kelsey Alumbaugh at [email protected]
Contributed image
Chris Conway, chairman, CEO and president of CLARCOR Inc., welcomes the Slater team to
the CLARCOR family during a visit in December 2013.
CLARCOR Inc. acquires GE in Slater
by Kelsey AlumbaughStaff Writer
On July 17, 2013, the Slater City Pool lifeguards held a fundraiser to buy a
new slide. Kaylee Holt and Bailey Griffith were two of the lifeguards who
helped with the fundraiser and presented the results to the city council.
“They raised around $3,000,” Assistant City Administrator Gene Griffith
said. “The slide was right at $2,700 so we bought a new shoot for the old one.
That was $400. We’re looking to get some lounges or something. We hope
they have another fundraiser.”
Both Griffith and the mayor were very proud of the lifeguards for plan-
ning the event.
“We’re really proud of the girls. It’s been a long time since any of the life-
guards took any initiative,” Griffith said. “… It was a very good sign, we
thought, that they were actually doing something.”
“These young lifeguards kind of put this thing on themselves,” Mayor
Stephen Allegri said at a July council meeting. “They came up with it. They
decided to do a fundraiser. It speaks well of our youth that they decided to
do it.”
Bailey Griffith said the fundraiser had a great turnout.
“We had an amazing turnout,” she said. “We were very appreciative of all
the businesses that donated to make the event a success, as well as all the
families that came to the pool for a fun night. You can look forward to seeing
Lifeguards raise money to improve Slater City Pool
All of the above photos were contributed from
Bailey Griffith from the lifeguard fundraiser held
on Wednesday, July 17, at the Slater Swimming
Pool. Griffith said they had a great turnout and
thanked the businesses who contributed to the
event.
see Pool, page 3B
Jesse Brown/Democrat-News
Above: Jeanna Tay-
lor (center) teaches
her first- and second-
grade students on
Thursday, Jan. 30 at
Miami school.
the new slide in the
2014 pool season.”
Gene Griffith said the
slide will be installed
before the next pool
season.
“We ran the water
line already so all we
have to do is set the
new slide,” he said. “We
figured the water line
would be the biggest, or
the hardest part, so we
ran it after the pool
closed.”
Because the slide is
over 6 feet tall, the city
is required to put 3-
inch pads around it.
“The new one is 6-
foot 7 inches to the
top,” he explained. “It’s
not monstrous. … It’s
just a curl and being
over six-foot we had to
have the three-inch
mats.”
Griffith said they
hope for a grant for the
mats.
“We have put in a
grant for the three-inch
pads that go around the
slides to make insur-
ance happy,” Griffith
said, explaining the
grant was for pads
made of scrap tire ma-
terials through the De-
partment of Natural
Resources.
He also said they
would find out in mid-
February if DNR is
going to accept grants
for things like park
benches or lifeguard
stands. Griffith said
they would like to apply
to get new lifeguard
stands.
The stands Griffith
said they would like to
apply for are made of
PVC wood with ladders
on both sides and he
said they cost approxi-
mately $1,900 a piece.
“I looked at some
metal ones too with the
plastic covered seat,” he
said. “They were a lot
cheaper too. If we don’t
get the grant we will
probably go with the
metal ones.”
Griffith said the only
other improvement
project planned at the
park is a new roof on a
shelter house because
the shingles are curling
up.
Contact Kelsey Alumbaugh [email protected]
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Gilliam School prepareseighth graders for EOC testing
by Jesse BrownStaff Writer
Gilliam School is taking steps to
prepare its eighth graders for high
school. The state is requiring a new
mandate next year in which eighth-
grade students will take a test to judge
their level of preparedness for high
school. Principal Cindy Beltz is work-
ing to get a step ahead.
“Our eighth graders are going to
have to take EOC, which is end-of-
course testing. It’s a high school-level
class, but they’re not really instructed
in it,” Beltz said. “It’s high school-pre-
paredness is what DESE is calling it.
They take it as eighth graders to show
where they’re at.”
Eighth-grade students will take
these tests and also MAP (Missouri
Assessment Program) tests.
Beltz said Gilliam will also be tak-
ing MAP tests electronically, so the
school has made an emphasis in im-
proving and upgrading its technology.
While the school has bought all-new
textbooks for math and communica-
tion arts, the school has also bought
new SMART Boards to bring their
total up to four, one for every class-
room. The classrooms are paired to-
gether as kindergarten and first grade,
second and third grade, fourth and
fifth, and sixth, seventh and eighth.
The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-
grade class received the first SMART
Board and after seeing the positive in-
fluence it had, Beltz said the school
decided to install them in every class-
room.
“The kids love them. It’s education
and it looks like a game,” Beltz said,
with a laugh.
While the school is small, Beltz ap-
preciates the closeness of relation-
ships the school facilitates.
“It’s a very family-oriented atmos-
phere,” Beltz said. “Everybody takes
care of everybody.”
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Jesse Brown/Democrat-News
One of the four SMART Boards Gilliam School uses to teach its stu-
dents.
Jesse Brown/Democrat-News
Gilliam School is located on the corner of North and Bartlett streets in
the town of Gilliam, off of Hwy 240 in Saline County.
by Jesse BrownStaff Writer
Miami School District Principal and Superintendent Lori Price is provid-
ing the opportunity for students to prepare for the future.
“One of the things that’s new with Miami School District is we have in-
corporated a class for our fifth through eighth graders after lunch that in-
corporates the STEM education, which is science, technology, engineering
and math,” Price said. “It’s something that the kids are thoroughly enjoying
and it’s challenging and it helps them think critically.”
The class began in August, and Price said the school is doing what they
can to prepare their students for the high-school level. Next year, the school
is planning for fifth through eighth graders to each have a laptop as the
school continues to push towards next-generation standards.
“I just think it’s going to be beneficial for them in the long run whenever
they go onto high school and society as a whole,” Price said.
Miami has welcomed seven new staff members to their rank this year:
Diane Sullivan, secretary and bookkeeper; Lucy Taylor, cook; Amy Young,
third-grade teacher; Laura Riley, fourth-grade teacher; Brenda Heilman, eng-
lish, language and arts teacher for the middle school; Edie Taylor, math
teacher for the middle school; and Bobbie Jo Kraft, special education and
physical education teacher.
“I couldn’t have asked for a better school honestly,” Heilman said. “It took
me awhile to get where I’m at and when I landed this job, it has been won-
derful – the whole experience.”
In agreeing with Heilman, new teacher Amy Young said she’s felt very wel-
comed and she doesn’t even mind the 45-minute drive from Pilot Grove,
where she lives currently. Both Young and Riley said they appreciate how the
school itself is like family.
“This is the most comfortable place to work,” Riley said. “... I feel like if I
need anything, somebody is always there to help. I can’t brag on it enough.”
Contact Jesse Brown at [email protected]
Miami school starts to preparestudents for high school
Jesse Brown/Democrat-News
Above: From left to right, Miami students Karley Land, Holly Barney,
Tyler Driskell and Haylee Scheid learn about robotics for the school’s new
STEM class after the lunch. Principal and Superintendent Lori Price said
the class is to help fifth- through eighth-grade students prepare for the
high-school level.
Poolcontinued from page 2B
by Kelsey AlumbaughStaff Writer
Malta Bend R-V School
has brought on seven
new staff members this
year. Five of the schools
19 teachers are new,
along with new
nurse/secretary Whit-
ney O’Brian and Superin-
tendent John Angelhow.
Ryan Armstrong,
physical education and
athletic coach; Susan An-
derson, kindergarten
through 12th-grade spe-
cial education; Samantha
Palmer, sixth grade; Ryan
Adkins, seventh- through
12th-grade English; and
Rebecca Huston, pre-
school aid are filling inte-
gral parts of the staff
over the course of the
school year.
Angelhow returned to
Malta Bend after spend-
ing the past decade in
the Marshall Public
Schools system.
“It’s just been a really
nice transition for me,”
he said. “I was here from
1999-2003 and the ma-
jority of the students
that are here now, I had
their parents when they
were here in school. …
I’m really glad to be here.
It’s been a really nice
transition for me and I
hope that things will re-
main that way.”
Angelhow said from
2003-2013 he was in
Marshall as the assistant
principal at the high
school for five years and
then the principal of
Eastwood Elementary
for five years.
“I’m learning a lot of
new things. It’s just been
a wonderful year as far
as getting to watch the
progress that the district
has achieved from three
years ago to now,” he ex-
plained. “We were a
focus school and have
worked our way out of
that position and we are
proud of that.”
Focus schools are
schools that aren’t doing
well academically, which
is determined by MAP
assessments.
“We have changed our
teaching style. … We are
using differentiated in-
struction to meet the
needs of all students and
that has been a big part
of our moving forward
and becoming a fully ac-
credited school,” he said.
The new staff mem-
bers are not the only
new additions at Malta
Bend R-V. Secretary Deb-
bie Kiser noted the
school has undergone
maintenance and re-
ceived a new roof and
windows.
“They were the origi-
nal windows. It’s made a
huge difference,” she
said.
Kiser also said several
classroom advancements
have taken place over the
past couple of years.
“We updated the sci-
ence lab. We bought new
microscopes. We bought
a new science lab table.
We added an elementary
computer lab in the li-
brary,” she said. “They re-
ally use that a lot.”
It was also noted that
each classroom, along
with the library and art
room, has a smart board
now, which are used fre-
quently as an educa-
tional tool during
instruction.
“We also partnered
with State Fair Commu-
nity College we are doing
duel credit with them
this year,” she said.
The SFCC classes are
online. Online classes
through University of
Central Missouri are also
available. One student at-
tends classes at Missouri
Valley College and sev-
eral juniors take voca-
tional technology
classes.
“This is the first year
that State Fair Commu-
nity College has made
themselves available to
us to use their duel-
credit program,” Angel-
how said. “What we’re
trying to do is give our
kids as much exposure
as we possibly can due to
our limited resources
here, so they have to get
out and see some things
and do some things with
other organizations to
help them in their educa-
tional journey.”
Another new way the
students are encouraged
to learn is with incentive
programs, either through
their individual class-
rooms or, for the sev-
enth- through
12th-grade students,
with Decision Dollars.
“We’ve had Santa
Bucks for the last nine
years and that’s pre-K
through sixth, and that’s
just right before Christ-
mas so then the kids get
to go shop for their par-
ents,” Kiser said. “The
older kids kept saying
what about us, and there
were issues with kids not
getting their homework
done or turned in (so we
started Decision Dol-
lars.)”
Students are awarded
dollars for good behav-
ior, like turning home-
work in on time, and can
buy things at an auction
later. Students are also
given checkbooks, regis-
ters and deposit slips to
learn about banking.
Kiser said the school
is working to generate
more parent involve-
ment, and one way they
are doing that is with a
monthly family night.
“This is the first year
that we’ve done family
nights every month.
That’s going really well
and we have a lot of pos-
itive feedback about
that,” she said.
Contact Kelsey Alumbaugh at [email protected]
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In Feb. 2013, Melissa Hall filled the vacant site administrator position left by
Connie Grisier the previous September.
Receiving her bachelor’s degree studying wildlife ecology and conservation at
Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Hall is looking forward to get-
ting the visitation numbers up.
“Van Meter State Park has a lot of potential of becoming a better known place
to visitors in the future,” Hall said in an August interview. “This park has recre-
ational opportunities and education opportunities that can expand and be better
known to the public.”
Hall said she hasn’t had much time to get things going yet, but she has started
implementing some things for the future.
“In the future, there will be some kayaks, a kayak paddle program, where peo-
ple can rent kayaks (and) they don’t have to bring it on our 18-acre lake,” Hall
said.
Hall said to expect the kayak paddle program to start at the end of 2014 to the
beginning of 2015 for Lake Woolridge. Usually, in order to get on the lake, the
park asks everyone to bring their own supplies, but Hall is hopeful the kayaks
will bring more people to the lake.
Another new addition Hall said she hopes will be ready this coming summer
is to be able to offer ice should a visitor want to purchase some.
“We also got funded to sell ice in the campground and we’re working on build-
ing a platform to hold the ice machine,” Hall said. “Hopefully, sometime this sum-
mer, we’ll have (bags of) ice in the campground that people can purchase... They
don’t have to drive all the way (to) Marshall to get bags of ice.”
Hall said about 20,000 visitors come to Van Meter State Park every year. But,
without giving an estimate, she said she would like to see a lot more come expe-
rience the park.
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By Kelsey AlumbaughStaff Writer
The Slater Depot that sits at the end of Main
Street has long been a part of Slater’s geography,
but as old buildings sometimes do, it outlived its
purpose for Kansas City Southern. KCS has since
built a new depot right next door.
“The old depot needed extensive repairs and
upgrades, so we opted to build a new modular
building to house local employees,” C. Doniele
Carlson, assistant vice president of corporate
communications and community affairs with KCS,
said.
Carlson said employees began occupying the
new depot in Dec. 2013.
“Adjacent to the old brick depot at the end of
Main Street, the new 30-foot by 56-foot modular
building is equipped with six offices, new systems
furniture, a storage room, restrooms and a large
break room, as well as energy-efficient utilities,”
she said. “A new 12x24 outside storage building is
also planned for the site. … The new single-story
building is well-insulated and has a high-effi-
ciency heating and cooling system structure, mak-
ing it more cost-efficient to heat, cool and secure.”
According to Carlson, no decisions have been
made on the disposition of the building if the City
of Slater is unable or unwilling to take it over.
The city council has discussed taking over the
building, but only if the costs aren’t too extreme.
Mayor Stephen Allegri said at the meeting he
would hate to look down Main Street and not see
the depot.
Contact Kelsey Alumbaugh at [email protected]
Kansas City Southern builds new depot in Slater
Kelsey Alumbaugh/Democrat-News
Above: The new Kansas City Southern Depot located on Front Street. The depot sits next to the
historic depot at the end of Main Street.
Below: The old KCS Depot sits at the end of Main Street in Slater. Neither KCS nor the city of
Slater have set plans for the building yet.
Site administrator looking to attract more visitors to Van Meter State Park
Rachel Knight/Democrat-News
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in Feb. 2013.
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Slater Public Schools Superintendent Terry
Lorenz has implemented a leadership team in
which a selected person covers a specific subject
to determine what needs to be improved upon
and changes that would enhance academics.
“The mindset of the district is the biggest
thing. It’s just in a process of change, a leadership
of change,” Lorenz said. “I put a leadership team
together (and) they hadn’t done something like
that before.”
The leadership team Lorenz assembled con-
sists of Sarah Marriot, Jessica Clements, Heather-
lee Ryals, Becky Drummond, Debbie Gonzalez
and Lorenz. The team covers subjects such as sci-
ence, math, english and social studies, to name a
few.
Lorenz said the team has been instrumental in
helping him. He said they’re divided by content
area to focus on that particular subject for its
needs and guidance.
“We are much more organized now than we
were a year and half (ago) when I started,”
Lorenz said. “... We’re starting to get some focus
and direction. We’re a lot more organized about
how we look at a situation or an area for im-
provement and how we divide that, tackle that
and make improvements in those areas.”
Lorenz said while their help has been benefi-
cial to him, he insists there’s more work to be
done and he’s confident this team will help him
in the future.
Some of the improvements and changes the
team has made are new textbooks for science and
math, 17 Amazon Kindle devices for high school
language arts classes and 25 Apple iPads used in
elementary.
While Lorenz has put an emphasis on improv-
ing academics with leadership and upgrades in
technology, he has also strived to improve ath-
letics. New scoreboards have been bought for
football and basketball, wall mats have been re-
placed in the gymnasium and a new section of
bleachers will be installed for the gymnasium
this coming summer.
When both scoreboards started shorting out,
Lorenz talked to a couple of investors and busi-
ness people.
“We had enough money for the basketball
scoreboards and then I had a couple of other
banks and businesses that wanted to support so
we went ahead and pushed into both the football
and basketball scoreboards,” Lorenz said. “We’ve
got about $35,000 invested from these local busi-
nesses and banks.”
The sponsors who supported basketball were
Exchange Bank of Missouri, Messer Machine
Shop, Inc. and GE. The football sponsors were
Wood & Huston Bank, City of Slater, Shelter In-
surance-Russell Kirby, Central Mo Ag Services
and City Pharmacy.
Lorenz said he thinks sports are important be-
cause they help give pride to the community and
can offer a lesson to participants.
“For me, sports (are) just an extension of the
classroom. There’s a way to act, work and carry
yourselves that extends into athletics and it’s one
of the primary reasons for athletics,” Lorenz said.
“I think our coaching staff has done a great job of
impressing that on our young students – that
what you do matters and where you’re at mat-
ters. Wearing that Slater Wildcat jersey matters
and I think they’re starting to take that to heart.”
Contact Jesse Brown at [email protected]
Slater superintendent implementingchanges to improve school district
Contributed by Julie Jacobson
Above: The new basketball scoreboard for Slater Public Schools displays the score at the junior
high boys game vs. Paris on Monday, Nov. 11, 2013
Below: The new football scoreboard for Slater Public Schools displays the score at the varsity
game vs. Milan on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.
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Orearville School emphasized secu-
rity over the last year with the addition
of cameras and upgrades in technology.
“One of the things we did over the
summer, we added four security cam-
eras to our existing ones which gave us
two more outside cameras,” Principal
Gene Neff said.
The new outside cameras cover the
south side and the west side of the
building. The new inside cameras
cover both ends of the main hallway to
the kitchen, Neff said. The four cameras
add to the other 12 cameras for the
school, now totaling 16. The addition
of these new cameras are merely a step
to also upgrade its technology and
boost its security further.
“Our next step is we are interfacing
it with the Sheriff ’s Department,” Neff
said.
Neff said all cameras will be view-
able 24/7 at the Sheriff ’s Department
so if something should go wrong or
there’s an intrusion, the department
will know right away.
“Unbeknownst to the people who in-
stalled this, and to the people at the
Sheriff ’s Department and all the tech-
nology people, with all the computer
systems we have, plus adding (the
added security system), our bandwidth
isn’t big enough,” Neff said.
The school is looking to double its
current bandwidth to accommodate
the additions and upgrades in the se-
curity system, Neff said. Some renova-
tions are also being made in the office
to suit the technology being installed.
With the inclusion of all this tech-
nology, the school conducted its very
first drill should someone intrude the
building on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.
Emergency Management Director Russ
Donnell and Deputy Dave Meyer as-
sisted the school’s administrators in
the drill, where Meyer disguised him-
self as an intruder and made his way
around the school.
According to the press release about
the drill, Neff said “the drill went very
well, the security cameras were an
asset in tracking the intruder as he
made his way around the school and
inside the school as well.”
Superintendent Marilyn Ehlert
made a list of concerns to improve
upon and another drill is planned for
the spring.
“We learned some things with that,
like we should do,” Neff said. “Found a
few places we need to upgrade, some
doors that maybe don’t lock quite as
properly as they ought to.”
Orearville also employed a new spe-
cial education teacher, Kathleen Fra-
niuk. Graduating from Missouri Valley
College last May with her elementary
degree, Franiuk started in August for
the 2013-2014 school year.
“I took the practice in special educa-
tion and got recommended from Valley
actually for this job,” Franiuk said. “It
worked out pretty well.”
Franiuk has made the transition
quite easily due to the school feeling
like one big family and the space to
allow her to develop her teaching
methods.
“I came in and rearranged the whole
room and redecorated and really kind
of turned it into what I felt like was a
good learning environment,” Franiuk
said. “Everyone here has been super,
super helpful.”
Franiuk also finds it encouraging
that Orearville is heading towards
being more technologically savvy.
Ehlert confirmed that direction be-
cause like other schools in the state,
Missouri Assessment Program testing
will become a thing in the past and new
testing will take place on computers.
It’s also a factor as to why the school is
looking to increase its bandwidth.
Contact Jesse Brown at [email protected]
Jesse Brown/Democrat-News
Above: Kathleen Franiuk (center) teaches her students, Christopher
Stockman (left) and Keilan Topps (right). Franiuk is the new special edu-
cation teacher who started in August.
Below left: The monitor displaying the cameras allows Principal Gene
Neff and Superintendent Marilyn Ehlert a view inside and outside of the
school. Efforts are being made where Saline County Sheriff’s Department
will also be able to view the cameras.
Orearville School boosts its security and technology
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