The Cass County Board of Supervisors, today (Friday) board approved a permit for display of fireworks in an unincorporated area of Cass County. Supervisor Chuck Rieken said the fireworks will be part of the City of Lewis’ Celebration on June 25^th. Rieken said the pyrotechnics will be fired south of Duane Weirch’s place by a company known as “Flashing Thunder,” which has handled similar events for the City for several years.

The Board also received a report from Cass County Engineer Charles Marker, who said Gus Construction will begin work Monday morning, on a triple concrete box culvert project for Bridge #20, located about two-miles south of Highway 92 on County Road N-28, south of Cumberland. A detour route will be in-place while the work is underway. The route is one-mile north of the project site, one-mile west, then south and east, before connecting back to N-28. Marker says he knows the bridge closure comes at a bad time, with farmers trying to get out into their fields, but it’s out of his hands. He says the contractor is given a certain window to perform the work, and they handle it when their crews are available for a specific project.

And, the Supervisors received a quarterly report from Cass County Conservation Director Micah Lee, who said activities are starting to ramp-up for the spring in the County parks and outdoor education area. Micah said Cold Springs State Park near Lewis is open for camping. They’ve also added gravel to the various county park entrances and roads, including the Nodaway Recreation Area, Cold Springs, Turkey Creek and Hitchcock House.

And, as he mentioned to the Board back in January, Lee said they continue to have vandalism issues to the posts that are designed to prevent motor vehicle traffic on the T-Bone Trail. He said also he’s spoken with Cass County Sheriff Darby McLaren about the problem, but there is no immediate, viable solution. McLaren suggested installing trail cameras to catch the culprits, but Lee says there’s no place nearby to mount them high enough where they won’t get damaged or stolen.