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Pictured above are (from left to right) Rick Stultz, Ed Mott, Max Mefford, Jim Bode, Jim Thompson, Chuck Miles, Harvey Fifer, Doug Elsen, Doug Provorse and Danny Hays.

The MFA facility on East Maple in Shelbina is 57 years old and showing its age. The completion of the new facility on West Maple gives its employees and customers a better place to work and purchase products.
   “When they started this project they made it to where our warehouse space would be enough to house about 10,000 units of seed, which has been our drawback from the other warehouse,” Manager Chuck Miles explained.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1028 0906 2/11/2009 hdl

The Shelbina City Council decided to widen its parameters on its City Administrator search, allowing whoever takes the position to live outside the city limits if they so choose. This decision was made during the regular city council meeting Tuesday night at the Shelbina City Hall.
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   The City of Shelbina is currently without a city administrator. Mayor John Smith and the council decided it would be best to allow candidates for the city administrator position to not be required to move to town if they would get the job.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1029 0906 2/11/2009 hdl

MoDOT Director Pete Rahn was in Hannibal on Thursday talking to the public about his interest in making the State’s seat belt law a primary law. He also talked about cost share projects such as the Highway 36 four-lane highway.

Missouri Department of Transportation Director Pete Rahn carries a list with him all the time of 2,183 names of people who have died on Missouri roadways in the last four years who weren’t wearing seat belts. Rahn, who was in Hannibal on Thursday, said that he is pushing hard to make Missouri’s seat belt law a primary law.
   If it would become a primary law, a person could get pulled over and ticketed for not wearing a seat belt. As it stands now, a driver has to be pulled over for another reason and then can be given a ticket for no seat belt.
   Rahn said the people on his list range in age from four months old to 97 years old. “It is heart-sickening to see these names and to know that if we had a primary belt law passed in 2005, that 360 of those names would not be there,” he said. Currently 25 states and the District of Columbia have primary safety belt laws.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1030 0906 2/11/2009 hdl

The Shelbina Fire Protection District responded to a mutual aid call on Saturday, Feb. 7.
   The Shelbina Firefighters received a call at 2:11 p.m. from Shelby County 911 that the Shelbyville Fire Department was requesting assistance at a large natural cover fire east of Shelbyville on Shelby County Road 357.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1031 0906 2/11/2009 hdl

Students from South Shelby High School participated in the 2009 Region III Family, Career and Community Leaders of America STAR (Students Taking Action With Recognition) Events held on February 3, 2009 at Macon.
   The students participated among several other competitors from throughout Northeast Missouri. The South Shelby chapter had 41 members compete at the regional level, 35 members then received gold ratings and 33 will advance to state. The top two gold star winners in each category will advance to state competition in Columbia, March 29-March 31, there they will compete against other regional winners across the state.
   For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.   1032 0906 2/11/2009 hdl