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Number 41

Benefit chili/soup supper

for Jessica Lindsay this Sunday
A benefit chili/soup supper for Jessica Lindsay of
Tarkio will be held Sunday,
January 10, at the Tarkio
United Methodist Church
from 4-7 p.m.
Jessica suffered a stroke
last week and is hospitalized in Omaha, NE. Jessica, husband Tommy, and
daughter Savanna are a
part of the United Method-

ist Church family. If you can

help by providing desserts
and/or work at the dinner,
please call Rachel Graves at
660-253-0194.
Also important to the
success of this benefit will
be a great turnout, so please
spread the word! Help the
church achieve its goal of
support for the Lindsays!

FFA Chapter makes picnic tables for park

THE TARKIO HIGH SCHOOL FFA CHAPTER - Represented
by members, from left to right, Kris Riley, Ethan Riley, Colin Joesting, and sponsor Dustin Lambertsen, made six picnic tables for
Niedermeyer Park in Tarkio. The City of Tarkio purchased five of
the tables and the FFA Chapter donated one. All were made by
the students in the ag shop at Tarkio High School.


(Photo By Megan McAdams)

Field Day fun

TARKIO ELEMENTARY STUDENTS - Participated
in Field Day on Monday, May 18, 2015. A variety of
activities were held, including tug of war, sack races
(Quin Staten and Janae Harbin), a creative version of
yard twister, water races, tire rolling races, and more.
Even some teachers got in on the fun and everyone had
a blast, whether they were competing or watching the
fun!

(Photo By Megan McAdams)

KAREN MESSBARGER - Delivers a pizza to customers

at Pizza Hut in Tarkio on her last day of work, Wednesday,
December 30, 2015, after 31 years of service.


(Photo By Megan McAdams)

After 31 years of service, Karen

Messbarger retires from Pizza Hut

Fourth graders tour Jefferson City

Karen Messbarger said

goodbye to Pizza Hut, its
customers, and employees
on Wednesday, December
30, 2015, after 31 years of
service. She began at the
restaurant in Tarkio as a
waitress and eventually became a shift manager.

Karen was well-liked by

pizza loving customers and
will be greatly missed! She
said she will miss the customers and crew, but has a
long to-do list waiting for
her in retirement. Congratulations Karen!

THE TARKIO ELEMENTARY - Fourth graders, teachers, an

THS Alumni Banquet
THE CLASS OF 1950 - Was one of the honored class- administrator, and parents traveled to Jefferson City, MO, on
es recognized by the Tarkio High School Alumni Asso- Monday, May 18, 2015, on a chartered bus. The students toured
ciation at the Alumni Banquet held Saturday, May 23, the Missouri State Capitol Building, Museum of Missouri Mili2015. Pictured are, from left to right: front row - Betty tary History, Missouri Supreme Court Building including Judge
(Mather) Freeman, Doris (Adamson) Withrow, and Zel Fishers 4th floor judges chambers, and the Cole County His(Photo By Erica Taylor)
Anna (Bowlin) Bennett; and back row - Carl Riley, Cal- torical Society Museum.
vin Fahrion, Biff (Collins) Hogue, Eugene Kemerling,
JUNE
and Frank Withrow. Not pictured is Donna Howell.


(Photo By Megan McAdams)
PICTURED AT LEFT ARE, FROM LEFT TO
RIGHT - Seminarian Mr. Matthew Klim, Seminarian
Nicholas Cooper, Master of Ceremonies (Seminarian)
Stephen Vaccaro, Father Bryan Amthor, Father Reginald Sander O.S.B, Father Dustin Collins (Tennessee),
Father Dylan Schrader (Diocese of Jefferson City, MO),
Seminarian Nathan Rueb, and Seminarian Garrett
King.
(Photo By Kathleen Langer)

Father Bryan Amthor celebrates

ordination to the Priesthood
Barry, Joni, and Matthew Amthor, all of Tarkio,
are happy to announce that
their son and brother, Father
Bryan Amthor, celebrated
his Ordination into the Ro-

man Catholic Priesthood at the Cathedral

of the Immaculate Conception, Kansas City, Most Reverend Robert W. Finn celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the
MO, on Saturday, May Mass and the Ordination through the Imposition of Hands and
23, 2015, at 10 a.m. The the Invocation of the Holy Spirit.

Its very rare that a race

horse wins the Triple Crown
- the Kentucky Derby, the
Preakness, and the Belmont
Stakes - and rarer still that
we locals know someone who
was able to witness it, and
even rarer still that it WAS
some locals who witnessed
it. Steve and Marvetta Volker were in New York when
American Pharaoh won the
Belmont Stakes on June 6,
2015, clinching the Triple
Crown win. Its been 37
years since the last horse,
Affirmed, won the glory.
The Volkers planned the
trip back in February, never
imagining theyd get to witness history in the making.
The roar of the crowd was
deafening when American
Pharaoh crossed the finish
line, commented Marvetta.

We still cant believe

we were part of all
Fantastic rodeo weekend enjoyed by all
the excitement. I pur- TARKIO RESIDENTS AND THOSE WHO MADE TARKIO
chased four $2 tickets THEIR HOME - For the weekend enjoyed two days of fun-filled
and did not cash them festivities. Friday and Saturday nights, June 12 and 13, saw the
in. Im saving them for 21st annual Tarkio Rodeo held at the Tarkio Rodeo Grounds.
my scrapbook.

(Photo By Megan McAdams)

Local couple witnesses history in

the making at Belmont Stakes

Following his plan: Sheriff answers

the call to serve his community

By
Nancy
ZoellnerHogland, The Missouri
Sheriff Magazine Editor,
www.mosheriffs.com
Atchison County Sheriff
Dennis Martin feels that
hes always had a call on
his life to serve the public.
He initially answered by
working as an EMT for the
Atchison-Holt Ambulance
District. Then in 1989, he
was asked to go to work as a
reserve officer for the Tarkio
Police Department and he
jumped at the chance.
It was another opportunity. Not being clich, I
believe it was a God-given
opportunity. It was where
I needed to be at that time
in my life, he said, adding
that, in addition to working
part-time as a reserve, he attended a basic 120-hour law
enforcement academy while
continuing to work full-time
as an EMT.
Then one day in late 1991
or early 1992, while standing in the barn washing
down the ambulance, he was
approached by two women
from the Atchison County

Democratic Committee asking if hed consider running

for sheriff. Since it wasnt
the first - or last - time he
was asked that question, he
decided to seriously consider
how he should respond. He
and his wife, Phyllis, talked
about it, prayed about it and
finally determined that if he
wasnt supposed to be sheriff, the public wouldnt vote
him into office.
He won the election and
took office at one minute after midnight on January 1,
1993 in the middle of a blizzard.
I was driving a 1970
Mercury four-door sedan at
the time and that became
my patrol vehicle. I had a
red light on the dash and
a hand unit and that, literally, was how I began, he
laughed. It wasnt until mid1995 that he was even reimbursed for all the business
miles he drove. Previously,
he received mileage only for
civil process or when he responded to calls for service.
Although the deputies drove
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