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30 Years Ago–November 30, 1990

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
November 24, 2020
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Don Siegrist, superintendent of the Platte County R-3 School District, will be the featured speaker at the reception for Presiding Commissioner Raph Wittmeyer, who will be retiring at the end of the year. The reception will be held in conjunction with an open house for the new Platte County Administration Building on Friday, Nov. 30 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.


Archie and Mildred Adkinson celebrated 50 years of marriage with an open house for family and friends. The event was held Nov. 25 from 1-5 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Parkville, Mo.

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Since Iben Browning, a New Mexico climatologist, has predicted a major earthquake in Missouri on Dec. 3, sales of earthquake insurance have boomed. “In 10 years time I only wrote two or three, but since the publicity I average two or three a day now,” reports Olin Miller, Platte City insurance agent.


In the basketball season opener, the Platte County Pirates fell to St. Pius 50-42 Tuesday night at St. Pius. The Pirates could not overcome a very rocky start, when they were outscored by Pius 23-5 in the first eight minutes of the game.


Platte City will officially launch the Christmas season this Saturday with a variety of events on Main Street. The Main Street Theater will provide strolling carolers in costumes of the 1800s.

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Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley is owner/editor/publisher of the Platte County Landmark. Foley has been on the news beat in Platte County with The Landmark for 38 years, specializing in local government issues and accountability journalism. He has penned multiple award-winning investigative pieces. He provides weekly observations and editorial commentary in his Between the Lines column and serves as host of Landmark Live, a light-hearted videocast featuring newsmakers and events in the Northland. During his time at the helm of The Landmark, the newspaper has been awarded on multiple occasions for General Excellence in the Missouri Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. In 2016, Foley won the Tom and Pat Gish Award, a national honor given by the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky for displaying courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. A big fan of the Chiefs and Royals, Foley resides in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

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