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Celebrating 150 years of serving Lebanon and Laclede County

LEBANON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Excitement is build-ing for the 2016 Lebanon Christmas Parade which will be held next Saturday at 11 a.m.

“It’s not too late to sub-mit your entry whether it be a fl oat, vehicles, horses, etc. The registration dead-line is Monday, at 4 p.m.,” said Lebanon Area Cham-ber of Commerce executive director Darrell Pollock. “Currently we have nearly a hundred entries for the parade lineup.

“We are expecting won-derful weather and a tre-mendous turnout from the community to watch and participate in Lebanon’s Christmas Parade, which is one of the longest ongoing parades in southwest Mis-souri.”

The 2016 Lebanon Christmas Parade Grand Marshal is Pastor Dean Rhoades, and the theme for the Lebanon Christmas Parade this year is, “The True Meaning of Christmas is Love.”

Parade set for Nov. 19

LDR photos/Kelly MorganAt right, Detroit Tool and Engineering CEO Jim

Sheldon speaks to the Lebanon Rotary Club on Thurs-day. Sheldon became the owner of DTE in September,

and he told the Rotarians he predicts that the company, pictured above, will continue to grow.

‘It’s kind of hard to get your peo-ple pumped up and motivated

and want to do things for you and improve when you can’t monetize

that a little bit.’

The new owner and CEO of Detroit Tool and Engineering sees a bright future ahead for the company and predicts that DTE will double in size by 2020.

Jim Sheldon took the helm at DTE in September, and on Thursday he gave the Lebanon Rotary Club a glimpse of his plans for the business.

Sheldon has a double major in manufacturing management and business economics and is also a certifi ed engineer in California. He was the president of DTE Inc. from 1998 to 2004, and he has made three previous attempts to purchase the company in 2003, 2010, and 2014.

“I’m not here to buy it, take the money and sell it,” Sheldon told Rotarians. “I’m here for the next 80 years ... My family will be coming here. One son and two son-in-laws are in the business, out of university, and they’ll be in the company and someday they’ll be running it the same way the the Carrs did it. ... So we do have a plan and we do have a vision for where this is going.”

Sheldon said that DTE was in “serious decline” when he took over, but the company has stabilized in the past six weeks, and he predicts that this quarter will beat the fi ve previous quarters.

Sheldon said that one of the new management’s fi rst acts was to give all DTE employees a bonus and an across-the-board raise, bumping their pay above the national average.

“Some employees had not had a raise for 10 years,” Sheldon said. “That’s a different model than I understand in how to

run a business. It’s kind of hard to get your people pumped up and motivated and want to do things for you and improve when you can’t monetize that a little bit.”

DTE has also hired four full-time employees and four part-time employees, and the company is currently looking at hiring two more employees. Two of the full-time em-ployees will be moving to Lebanon

from elsewhere, but Sheldon said that he would prefer to hire people locally.

“We’ve got to bring the talent and the skill level in some areas back in here,” he stated.

Sheldon said that while some people see DTE as a manufac-turing company, he sees it as an engineering company.

“In the direction we’re going, we need bachelor’s degree, master’s degree engineering students in here,” Sheldon stated. “It’s not the toolmaker like it was yesterday.”

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DTE LOOKS TO FUTURE

New owner voices optimism for company’s growth

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City buys small parcel for new parkThe Lebanon Parks Department

has purchased a piece of land located at 780 Catherine Street that could be transformed into a park.

The Lebanon Park Board an-nounced Wednesday during its monthly meeting that it is purchasing the 195 x 132-foot piece of land for ap-proximately $800. The property, which Lebanon Parks Director John Shelton says is somewhere between a half or a third of a city block in size, has been available to purchase for some time now, but Shelton said the park board wasn’t sure if it should make an offer until “the moment was right.”

“We bid approximately $20 more

than the property owners owed on taxes,” Shelton said. “I think the price is fair to the county and the public. We are very lucky we got it.”

The property is diagonally con-nected to the back part of W.T. Vernon Park, and only separated by Catherine Street.

“If the land was a checkerboard and your checker piece was on W.T. Vernon Park, the only move you could make would be to the new property on Catherine Street. It’s catty-corner to the park,” he explained. With a location so close to W.T Vernon Park, Shelton says it’s only natural to try and turn it into a park or make the property an exten-sion of W.T. Vernon.

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LDR photo/Aaron JenningsThe Lebanon Park Board’s recent bid on a piece of property located at 780 Catherine Street paid off as they acquired it for $800. The new purchase may soon become an addition to W.T. Vernon Park.

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“While we love W.T. Vernon Park, it’s near a very busy Harwood Av-enue that only seems to get busier and busier as time goes on. We’ve always talked about moving it to a less busy site, and we now may have a solution.”

According to Shelton, the site has all the criteria needed to be a park.

“We’d like to get started

soon, but we have still have some work going on in a few other spots. As most people know, we have a lot things going on in our parks, and we’re getting some pretty terrifi c results,” he said.

“The property on (Cath-erine Street) is just a blank lot right now. It has some nice trees on it. Over the next couple months, we’ll

get in there with a brush hog, and do the best that we can to make it look good.”

Shelton says the new land will need a meter, a shelter, and playground equipment before it can be considered a park. Some of the park’s older play-ground equipment has re-cently been powder coated, and Shelton says using it

will save the department money.

“There’s still a lot of questions that need to be answered. I have no doubt the new property will be a park and a nice one at that. As soon as we get some free time I expect the board members and I will take a better look at everything and go from there,” Shel-ton said.

For those coming to watch, the parade will follow the traditional route, beginning at Bo-swell Park and ending on North Jefferson at Price Cutter. The parade announcer’s stage will be located in front of Arvest Bank.

Parade registration forms are available at the Chamber offi ce at 186 North Adams Ave. on the website at www.lebano-missouri.com.

In order to get the skilled employees it needs while still hiring people from Lebanon, DTE intends to continue its sup-port of Ozarks Technical and Community College and to increase its deal-ings with Missouri State University.

DTE has also hired two fi rms to rebrand the com-pany with a goal of attract-ing younger workers.

“Millenials and Gen-Xers are the future,” Shel-don said. “There’s some

employees in the plant (who) say, ‘Yeah, we’re ag-ing. Bring someone in and we’ll train them.’ But no, no, no, it doesn’t work that way anymore. I can’t tell my kids what to do; they’re totally different in the way they approach things. We have to attract this kind of talent.”

Sheldon also said that in the future DTE will focus heavily on markets that have positive key eco-nomic indicators, but he was not ready to say what

those markets were.“We feel like we’ll

double by the year 2020,” Sheldon said of the com-pany’s future. “Obviously, that’s going to create jobs for the community, and we will rely heavily on the community, Missouri State University and OTC to give us the people we need, because I don’t want to just bring people in from Arizona or Nebraska; I’d rather bring all of them up from the Lebanon area or the greater Missouri area.”

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FROM THE FRONT

LOCAL

Submitted photoThe Joel E. Barber 8th grade held a fundraiser for their 8th grade after graduation party at Dickey’s Barbecue on Nov. 1, raising over $500 between food sales and tips. Accepting the check were members of the 8th grade class. In the front row are Maggie Bowlin, Amanda DeWitt, Cole Patten, Allyssa Nutt and Presley Cottongim. In the back are Shane Ashlock, Danessa Williams, owner of Lebanon Dickey’s, Cordell Zebel and Hunter Henry.

BARBER KIDS RAISE FUNDS AT DICKEY’S

LDR STAFFVeterans Day was

Friday, and many people locally and nationwide paid respects to veterans and active duty members around the country in a variety of ways.

Walgreens and other stores offered discounts for all former and cur-rent service members and their families as well as a handful of local gas stations. McDonald’s was offering veterans a free lunch.

For those that wished to pay respect in a more formal fashion, a special ceremony was held at the Cowan Civic Center for all veterans of past, pres-ent, and future. After the presentation of colors, the nation anthem, the pledge of allegiance, and an inno-vation prayer, a Veteran’s

Day video played for all spectators to view. Mayor Josh Ray, who is also a veteran, was the guest speaker at the event.

Lebanon High School held their annual Vet-eran’s Day Ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday in Boswell Auditorium as Sergeant First Class in the Army National Guard Michael Kellner, who is also a Lebanon Middle School history teacher, as the guest speaker. The LHS Drama department also contributed to the ceremony with as the Advanced Drama class performed a Veterans Day skit. Lebanon Middle School and Boswell also held assemblies asking a handful of children what Veterans Day means to them.

Vets honored locally, around the country

LDR STAFFThe Lebanon Police Department

is investigating a possible act of ar-son that resulted in a shop building being completely destroyed.

The Lebanon Fire Department and LPD responded at about 6 p.m. Tuesday night to a residential structure fi re in the 800 block of East Street.

According to Lebanon Fire Chief

Sam Schneider, the fi re turned out to be an uninhabited shop building that was being used for storage. The building was engulfed in fl ames when fi refi ghters arrived and could not be saved from total destruction.

While he would not give details into the ongoing investigation, Sch-neider did say the fi re was “suspi-cious.”

At the scene, witnesses told the

police that they saw two juvenile males ages 13 and 15 in the area of the fi re on bicycles. A woman was able to identify the juvenile sus-pects, according to a Lebanon Police Department incident report.

The incident is being investigated by the LPD’s Bureau of Investi-gation. The Missouri State Fire Marshal’s Offi ce is not involved, Schneider said.

Police investigate suspected case of arson