Elizabeth Navarro Alakayleh, daughter of Mrs. Tommie Flores and the late Abel Navarro of San Antonio, Tex., and James Russell Jones, son of Elizabeth Jones of Kansas City, North and Jr. R. Jones or Riverside, are engaged to be married. Liz attended school at Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio, Texas is currently employed as a machine operator by Vanguard Packaging. Rusty attended Winnetonka High School, Kansas City, Mo. and is employed as grocery manager by the 4 B Corporation. Maternal grandmother to Rusty is Lucile L. Jones of Platte City and his paternal grandparents are Jim and Virginia Jones of Weston.
Sharp’s Station Bridge on Interurban Road will continue to be closed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays while McDougal Construction tries to remove the huge pile of Platte River flood debris and silt lodged by one pillar. So far McDougal has directed a high pressure pump on the pile to wash silt back into the river and a crew is now cutting up logs wedged in the pile to float downstream. The pileup has forced most of the river flow into the right channel. A demolitions expert determined that explosives cannot be used to dislodge the pile because of the way it is constructed.
Platte County R-3’s School Board will hold a hearing on the district’s proposed 1994-95 budget on Aug. 18 at 6 p.m. in the central office. The proposed budget has a tax rate of $3.93.
