Bethany Republican

Bethany
Vol. 86, No. 7
Quick
clips
Area news
Producers meeting: Corn and soybean producers hold district meeting
at the Fordyce farm, followed by a
fish fry. Page 8.
Red flag warnings: Bethany Fire
Department answers to 10 grass
fire calls in as many days during dry
weather and burn advisory. Page 8.
Honor roll: Cainsville R-I schools
announce students named to Excellence and the Red and Black Honor
Rolls for third quarter. Page 5.
Conservation meeting: Harrison
County Soil and Water Conservation
District will hold its annual meeting
on March 24. Page 8.
Republican-Clipper
The official newspaper of Harrison County, Missouri
Bonnie Thompson’s 1985 abduction shocked community
by Phil Conger
Bonnie Thompson still carries
around an unwelcome souvenir from
her abduction 30 years ago from a
Bethany convenience store.
Bonnie was shot in the back of the
head at an isolated location in northern
Daviess County after being grabbed at
the Bethany One-Stop Store by a man
who had just stolen money from the
store’s cash register.
That Mrs. Thompson, now 77, survived the encounter with convicted
killer Larry Dean Fielding of Hampton,
Iowa, was nothing short of a miracle.
“God looked over me,” Bonnie said
in an interview on Sunday.
Mrs. Thompson doesn’t dwell on
her shooting, she said, but “you can’t
really forget something like that.”
The 25-caliber bullet still lodged
in her head also serves as a reminder
of her close brush with death. She said
she received another scan a couple of
weeks ago, and the bullet was still in
the same location.
Medical personnel told her “it
looked like it is in a good place,” she
said.
Mrs. Thompson’s abduction while
she was working alone at the convenience store at 10:15 p.m. on March 14,
1985, shocked the Bethany community.
David Wilson, who then owned
the store, told officers that a customer
had come into the convenience stop
by the arm pulling her into his car.
He drove south of
Bethany and pulled
off to the side of
the road, telling the
store clerk to get
into the trunk.
She recalled that
the trunk was filthy
and she was afraid
that she would
get her coat dirty,
asking Fielding to
cover the floor with
a blanket, which he
This is the story of the abduction as it appeared in the follow- did.
Bonnie recalled
ing issue of the Republican-Clipper.
that Fielding threatened her during the
and found it unattended. When Wilson
got to the store, Mrs. Thompson was ordeal, telling her, “I don’t have anygone and money had been taken from thing to lose.”
The gunman and hostage continthe cash register. This led to a frantic
search by area law officers for the miss- ued on to a road south of Gilman City.
Bonnie tried to keep her cool. “I was
ing woman.
Mrs. Thompson recalled that Field- trying to follow where we were going,”
ing had come into the station earlier in she said.
Fielding pulled onto a gravel road
the evening asking to use the rest room.
He left to try to contact a local minister just over the line in Daviess County
about getting some money for gasoline. where he ordered his hostage out of the
He returned a short time later and filled trunk. He put his handgun against the
up his car with gas before coming into back of her head and pulled the trigger
before taking off in his car.
the store.
Bonnie said she was stunned by the
He suddenly took cash from the cash
register and grabbed Mrs. Thompson shot but does not believe that she lost
consciousness.
Tae Kwon Do
teams coming
to Bethany
Sports
USA wrestlers: Bethany USA wrestlers qualified for the regionals during
competitions on March 14 at Staley
High School. Page 6.
Track preparations: South Harrison’s track teams are using springlike weather to prepare for opening
the season next week. Page 6.
HDC Conference: The HDC Conference releases the all-conference
teams at the close of the basketball
season. Page 6.
Haiti mission: South Harrison’s
senior football players set their sights
on a missionary trip to Haiti. Page 6.
Alumni tournament: The annual
South Harrison alumni basketball
tournament is scheduled for the last
Saturday of the month. Page 6.
Kids’ basketball: The Bethany
Community Gym hosts annual third
and fourth grade basketball tournament. Page 6.
Weather
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Five-Day Forecast
Winds should calm down after a
breezy few days and temperatures
should begin to climb, despite
considerable cloudiness on Thursday.
Highs are expected to reach the mid
50s and easterly winds should only
reach 10 mph. Skies should clear for
the weekend, however, with sunny
skies on Friday and highs in the mid
60s during the day and lows around
40 at night. Saturday should provide
more of the same weather, with sunny
skies and highs in the low 60s during
the day, and lows in the lower 30s at
night. Clouds return on Sunday and
Monday, with highs around 50 and
lows in the lower 30s for the start of
the workweek.
Temperatures provided by KAAN
Drawing submitted by South Harrison
New uniform: This shows the design for the new band uniforms purchased by the
South Harrison school board.
South Harrison to buy
new uniforms for band
South Harrison’s band will be
marching out onto the football field
wearing new purple of white uniforms
after the school board voted to re-equip
the band in the 2015-16 budget.
The school board voted unanimously last Thursday to purchase 135
band uniforms and other equipment for
the Marching Bulldogs. The cost of the
uniforms will be $55,000.
Superintendent Dennis Eastin said
the instrumental music department
does not currently have enough uniforms to dress the entire band. In order
to compensate for the shortage, the percussion section does not wear uniforms
during field performances.
The uniform situation was expected
to get worse next year when the band
will grow to more than 100 members.
The present uniforms were purchased
14 years ago and have been showing
signs of wear.
Next year’s band will have an
entirely new look with a bold “SH”
logo emblazoned on the shoulder and a
plumed purple hat.
The school board, in other business, approved the sale of $4 million
lease certificates of participation for the
new middle school to municipal bond
underwriter, L.J. Hart & Company of
St. Louis.
Larry J. Hart, president of L.J. Hart,
took part in the sale of the bonds during
the school board’s regular meeting.
“We appreciate the effort that had in
getting the issue approved,” Hart told
the school board.
The certificates are to fund the site
development, construction, equipping
and furnishing of the middle school
addition. The revenue source will be
from a tax levy of 46 cents per $100
assessed valuation approved by the
voters in the Nov. 4, 2014 election,
which contains a sunset clause after the
tax year 2034.
According to Hart, the certificates
were offered to local institutional and
individual investors with good results.
The BTC Bank purchased $500,000
and the Farmers Bank of Northern
Missouri bought $275,000 of the certificates.
Edward Jones & Company, represented by the meeting by investment
representative Mike Rogers, assumed
responsibility for $950,000 of the certificates that were sold to local investors. Additional certificates are still
available for purchase.
Eastin said he was pleased that
efforts were made to accommodate
investors within the Bethany community and surrounding area.
“It is nice that our marketing procedures facilitate this local involvement
while still receiving attractive interest
rates,” Eastin said.
See school on page 3.
Hundreds of members of martial arts schools from the region
will be taking part in the sixth
annual Tae Kwon Do Invitational
Tournament on Saturday, March
21, at the South Harrison High
School.
The tournament will be sponsored by the Heritage Tae Kwon
Do school in Bethany. Last year,
more than 150 participants and
their families from Missouri, Iowa
and Kansas viewed demonstrations and competitions in Bethany.
Black belt demonstrations start
at 10:30. They will be displaying
their expertise in in floor exercises
of kicks, punches, blocks and self
defense.
They will also display forms
showing the first white belt form
and the more difficult colored
and black belt forms. There will
be examples of sparring and selfdefense.
Finally, the demo will conclude
with board breaking, ice breaking
and the crowd favorite—breaking
one, two, three, four and five concrete blocks.
Following the demonstrations,
the eliminations will start. The
participants will be judged in the
three areas of forms, board breaking and sparring.
Participants range in age from
5 to 65 and are judged according
to age and belt level.
There will be competition in
eight rings at the same time. Along
with earning ring medals for first,
second and third place, there will
be a grand champion of youth colored belt forms, a grand champion
of adult colored belt forms and
a grand champion of black belt
forms.
The last contest of the day will
be the men’s and women’s grand
championship in sparring.
The public is invited to observe
students participating in the Tae
Kwon Do tenets of courtesy integrity, perseverance, self control and
indomitable spirit. General admission is $3 for adults and $1 for
children.
Food will be provided by area
4-H clubs.
“When he was gone, I crawled up on
a rock and saw a house,” she recalled.
“It was getting cold and I could hear
coyotes.”
Bonnie crawled to the empty farm
house where she spent the rest of the
night. By morning, she decided that she
had to get back to the road so someone
could find her.
“By morning I could kind of stagger along,” she said. “A ‘little gal’ came
along and she took me for help.”
Bonnie at first didn’t realize that
she had been shot and thought that she
had been bludgeoned in the back of the
head. It wasn’t until she was examined
at the Bethany hospital that medical
personnel discovered that she had been
shot.
Bonnie spent 12 days in a Kansas
City hospital where she was treated and
was then released with the bullet still
lodged in her head.
Larry Dean Fielding, who was 30
years old at the time, was a lifelong
criminal wanted for numerous other
crimes in Iowa and Minnesota. The
One-Stop robbery prompted a multistate search for Fielding. He was
arrested in the northern Arkansas town
of Marshall following a brief scuffle
with officers.
Because of the widespread local
news coverage of Fielding’s crime, his
March 18, 2015
Women’s Expo
this weekend
Area women and fans of
beauty, wellness, shopping and
fashion are set to descend on the
Bethany Community Gym this
Saturday, 1-4 p.m. for the annual
Women’s Expo and Style Show,
presented by the Bethany Area
Chamber of Commerce.
This year’s shopping opportunities will include clothing,
accessories, health products, bath
and body products, jewelry, home
décor and personal health and
finance solutions.
This year’s fashion show will
feature spring styles presented
by Fosters for the Family at 1:30
p.m., and a special occasion style
show presented by Fosters and
Richard’s Menswear at 3:30 p.m.
Throughout the day, raffles
will be held for prizes donated
by chamber member businesses,
with a grand finale drawing taking
place at 4 p.m.
The event is free to the public
with more information and a full
lineup of vendors and presenters
located on the Chamber’s Facebok page at facebook.com/bethanymochamber.
See abduction on page 3.
Bethany hires consulting firm
for economic development
The city of Bethany has hired
Axiom Strategies, a consulting firm
with offices in Kansas City, to assist the
city with economic development.
In answer to a question at the close
of the open session of the Board of
Aldermen on Monday night, Mayor
Patrick Miller confirmed that the city
had awarded a contract with Axiom
to serve as a consultant on economic
development.
Retired state Representative Casey
Guernsey works for Axiom and expects
to be involved in the process of promoting business growth in the community.
Miller said he and the city council
came to the conclusion that contracting a company, with expertise in several areas, should be hired to assist the
community with economic development rather than hiring an individual.
The city has been without an economic
development coordinator since Sabra
Hamilton left to take a job with an
insurance company.
The city will pay Axiom about
$35,000 a year for its consulting services.
In other business, the city council
authorized the mayor to sign an agreement with the state Highway Commission for maintenance on new street
lights being installed this summer with
the electric department.
City Administrator Jan Hagler
reported to the council that she had
recently attended a meeting of the Missouri Public Utility Alliance, which
supplies electricity to the city. She said
the city may be able to qualify for a
$34,000 modernization grant that could
be used to purchase LED lights or new
circuit breakers.
The city is in the process of establishing a Facebook page that will keep
residents informed about city projects.
Hagler said the city plans to use Facebook to promote the half-cent street
improvement tax in the April 7 election.
Hagler also reported that the city
still is withholding a final payment to
the consulting company that provided
assistance to the city in installing the
new smart utility meters. The city has
not been satisfied with the company’s
work.
Code Enforcement Officer Jacob
Doll has been sending out notices
to local residents who have allowed
litter to accumulate on their property.
Hagler said he has been working with
a property owner on East Main Street,
near the Wye, to remove an abandoned
house trailer.
The Missouri Department of Health
and Senior Services has awarded the
city a $1,800 grant to assist in fluoridation in the city’s water supply.
The city reports that sales tax revenue has increased by about $13,500
compared to the same time last year.
Collections stand at a total of $114,000
so far in 2015. The sales tax for the
Parks and Recreation Department has
brought in about $5,000 more this year.
Republican-Clipper photo
Fun run: These girls were enjoying the afternoon taking part in the Mitchelville
4-H Shamrock Shuffle Sunday afternoon at the South Harrison High School.
They are, from the left, Alexis Hunter, Alivia Eivins and Ambrey Hunter. Winner
of the youth division was Quinn Taylor, 9 years old.
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Bethany Republican-Clipper
March 18, 2015
Looking at our history puts future in new frame
Things change. We are not the
people we were last year, nor 100
years ago. A centennial gives time
to look back.
I’ve had triple look-back times
this past year. Extension is 100
years old. Farm Bureau organized
100 years ago to help bring Farm
Advisors to each county. Also, I
delved into mule history.
Looking back isn’t bad as
some old things are worth keeping. The world turns and we make
progress -- some days.
While 100 years seems like a
long time, it’s not.
When I first thought of Extension at 100, I realized the shortness of that time. When I joined
4-H, Extension was only 35 years
old. That’s young! Back then, 4-H was something
we did. I didn’t know it was an
“extending arm” of the University of Missouri, our land-grant
university. I just took part and
let it change my life. Education
does that.
I continue a life of learning.
My career has been to write for
readers of farm publications and
local newspapers.
While I was into mule history,
Hometown
boy
Duane Dailey
Professor emeritus, MU
a reader chided that I was being
nostalgic. Well, I can be in my
weekly column. Every Sunday
morning I look back a week, or
a century. When first writing this
column, I said I’d share what I
learned this week. I must keep
learning, or wither on the vine.
I’ll look back in this column
but in most other stories, I peer
ahead. I tell farmers and consumers ideas from MU scientists,
teachers, and specialists.
I thought I was done with Centennials. Then the Missouri Farm
Bureau asked me to speak this
week at a couple of their meetings
to honor their start.
So, I went back into 100-yearold books at the State Historical
Society in the MU Library a block
from my office. My assignment:
Report on farming in 1915, their
start-up year.
I found an insightful article by
Prof. D. Howard Doane. (Maybe
some have heard of him.) He was
looking ahead, based on the passage of the Smith-Lever Act the
federal start of Extension.
He told how there’d be a farm
advisor in every county to help
farmers apply science. To get an
advisor local farmers would form
a bureau and join for three years,
paying a dollar a year. That would
help pay the advisor.
Then, I found a story from the
state corn growers association
meeting. In their yield contest, a
farmer finally topped 100 bushels
per acre. In 1914 at MU Sanborn
Field, a research plot on campus,
corn yields were state of the art.
Yields on continuous corn with
no management were 10 bushels.
With crop rotation yields jumped
to 50 bushels per acre. If tons of
manure were applied to the field,
yields topped 75 bushels.
We remember when . . .
A look back at the history of Harrison County from
the pages of the Bethany Republican-Clipper.
120 Years Ago
March 14, 1895
While Will Arthurs, son of
Adolph Arthurs and George Selby
Jr., living south of town, were
coming to town Friday evening,
their team became frightened at
some dogs near Cuddy’s farm and
ran away throwing them both out
and completely demolishing the
buggy and bruising the boys up
considerably.
Charley Epperson took hogs to
Pattonsburg Saturday. On returning an attempt to hold him up was
made near hawk’s graveyard but
didn’t succeed. Epperson came
to town Monday and swore out a
warrant for the man’s arrest.
70 Years Ago
March 14, 1945
The buildings and site of the
old Bethany Mill & Elevator Co.
in the west part of town are being
purchased by Fred Millemon of
Princeton to be made the location
of a hog buying market.
60 Years Ago
March 16, 1955
Had it not been that his timing
chanced to be off, a man accused
of robbing an Afton, Iowa, bank
Friday afternoon may have gotten
away with $25,000 in currency.
Because the man drove out from
the Virgil Blake farm east of Hatfield that night in the Blake car,
which he had stolen, at the exact
time two Iowa troopers and an
Iowa sheriff happened along in
their search for the bandit, he was
nabbed on the spot and the stolen
money recovered.
40 Years Ago
March 12, 1975
Harrison countians awoke
Monday morning with a pretty
full day’s work ahead just getting
out from under a five-inch snow
which struck the county over the
weekend.
20 Years Ago
March 15, 1995
South Harrison Superinten-
dent Lyle Oliver and members
of the school board took several
topics under consideration at the
monthly school board meeting last
Monday night.
Plans to submit an application
for an energy grant to upgrade
heating and air conditioning
systems at the high school and
vo-tech were again discussed
after information received from
Representative Phil Tate’s office.
After years of uncertainty over
boundary lines, the seven fire
departments serving Harrison
County have come to an agreement on their service.
Harrison County’ exemplary
response to two recent natural
calamities—the floods of 1993
and the ice storm this winter—has
made state Red Cross disaster
officials stand up and take notice.
After 14 years serving in the
number two position at the high
school, Dick Smith will be moving
to principal’s job at South Harrison next year.
The farmer outdid the scientist. With help from his farm
advisor he grew 104 bushels.
He did the right things plus used
new “crossed corn” which later
became known as hybrid corn that
is used today.
What a difference education
and science makes.
I’ll be nostalgic, but looking
forward I wish legislators would
invest in more “farm advisors.”
Today’s technology is more complex than hybrid corn. Farmers
need advice on the value of
genomics in soybeans, cows and
more. Genomics determines the
future of farming.
Every farmer must learn that
genetic potential. They don’t need
to know how to find a gene that
boosts healthier soy oil or more
flavorful beef. But they should
know the MU research findings
and then apply the results.
That can be as simple as a farm
boy learning to stand up in 4-H
club and give a demonstration.
More people should learn to use
their Extension voice. Project out,
no murmur with a mousey kid
voice. Speak up and sound off.
Send your historic story to
Letter to Editor:
Prairie chicken population
To the editor:
Last week’s edition of the
Republican-Clipper contained an
article about the supposed decline
of the prairie chicken population
at The Nature Conservancy’s
Dunn Ranch Prairie located east
of Eagleville. Unfortunately,
there was some misinformation
presented in this article.
During the past three years, the
staff at Dunn Ranch have been
working with multiple partners in
the region including the Missouri
Department of Conservation,
the Iowa Department of Natural
Resources, the Blank Park Zoo
in Des Moines, and Iowa State
University to translocate more
than 250 prairie chickens from
Nebraska to the Grand River
Grasslands, a 70,000-acre area
located in northern Harrison
County, Mo., and southern Ringgold County, Iowa.
Approximately 40% of the
birds were released at Dunn Ranch
and 60% at or near the Kellerton
Bird Conservation Area (BCA)
near Kellerton, Iowa. Although
the prairie chicken population at
Dunn Ranch had declined after
poor reproduction during the
extremely wet nesting seasons of
2008 and 2009, in contrast to what
was reported, the population has
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The Missouri Senate spent a
significant amount of time this
past week discussing our civil
judicial system, with much of the
debate centered on tort reform and
the need to restore balance to our
state’s legal system.
Our judicial system was
primarily founded on the principles of fairness and that a person
is innocent until proven guilty.
Unfortunately, over the years, a
number of court decisions have
created a system where all too
often someone is presumed guilty
until proven innocent.
It’s the employers and
small business owners throughout
Missouri who have been most
affected by these decisions and the
resulting imbalance. They are the
ones being dragged into costly and
frivolous litigation, which only
serves to drive up the cost of doing
business. This, in turn, discourages companies already located
in Missouri from growing their
business and deters companies
based in other states from choosing to expand into Missouri, with
them often opting instead for one
of our neighbors that can offer a
more balanced legal climate.
Another very unfortunate
side effect, as we have seen in the
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medical profession, is the recent
exodus of health care professionals and providers from Missouri
to other states that have caps
on non-economic damages for
medical malpractice lawsuits. The
Supreme Court of Missouri has
ruled these types of caps unconstitutional, effectively eliminating
them. This has led to Missouri
having much higher malpractice
insurance rates than neighboring
states, prompting providers and
physicians alike to take their business and practice elsewhere.
It’s critical that we work
to restore a reasonable balance
to our state’s judicial system, as
well as get back to the idea that
a person is innocent until proven
guilty. I’m very pleased the Senate
has begun having these sensitive,
yet important conversations, and I
look forward to seeing where they
take us in the weeks and months
ahead.
As always, please feel
free to call, email, or write with
your ideas or concerns. My Capitol office number is (573) 7511415, my email is dan.hegeman@
senate.mo.gov and my mailing
address is Room 332, State Capitol Building, Jefferson City, MO
65101.
now rebounded.
Due to the translocation efforts,
more birds have been showing
up at our leks (spring mating
grounds) than we’ve seen since
2007. In fact, this spring we have
been consistently seeing up to 20
males on our lek at Dunn Ranch.
Just as encouraging, two flocks
totaling nearly 40 birds were
recently flushed at Dunn Ranch
as well.
In Iowa, on and around the
Kellerton BCA, 98 male prairie
chickens were counted on four
different leks in a single morning.
This is more birds than they have
ever had. Thankfully, the prairie
chicken population in the Grand
River Grasslands is not declining,
but on the increase. With this,
we hope to once again offer public
viewings of our prairie chickens at
Dunn Ranch starting next spring.
I appreciate the opportunity to
set the record straight.—Randy
Arndt, Grand River Grasslands
site manager, The Nature Conservancy
Letter to the
district
by J Eggleston,
State Rep., 2nd District
I don’t know that I’m happy
about “springing forward” for
daylight savings time since it is
now still dark as I drive into work
each day. But I am happy about
the warmer temperatures. Soon
crops will be planted, baseball will
be played, and the cold of winter
will be a distant memory.
This week at the capital, the
prime focus was the budget. I was
visiting with a fellow representative in her office when I noticed
a stack of papers about three feet
high.
“I’m on the budget committee,” she said, “and that’s the
budget.” The budget is an incredible undertaking with many, many
hours of effort across multiple
committees just to get it presentable for debate on the House
floor. On the floor, the budget was
divided into 13 separate bills ranging in topics from social services
to transportation to education. It
took about 9-10 hours of floor
debate and discussion to hammer
out the final budget details.
The following items will be of
particular concern to our district.
Local libraries, which were a
victim of governor withholdings
last year, have received a $3 million allocation from the House.
The budget for the promotion of
agriculture has received a $3.5
million increase (the Governor
wanted only $600,000). And our
local K-12 schools are allocated
an extra $486 million above the
prior school year’s expenditures,
which is $22 million more than
what the Governor wanted to allocate. The House budget will now
be reconciled with any differences
it has with the Senate budget, and
then be sent to the Governor’s
desk for his approval.
Capitol Perspectives:
Improving the legislature
Legislative plans to use part of
a $75 million bond issue to expand
their statehouse space has led me
to think about less expensive ways
to improve the legislative process.
What follows are ideas I’ve
heard floating around the Capitol
for decades along with a couple
of my own.
Reconsider Term Limits:
The lifetime limit on how long a
lawmaker can serve has had a devastating impact on the legislative
process. The constant turnover has
crippled the legislature’s ability to
undertake long-term planning. It’s
also undercut the depth of legislative knowledge to craft solutions
to complicated state problems and
to develop outside sources of trust.
Some argue term limits has
helped bring fresh ideas into the
legislature. But there have been so
many unexpected consequences
that maybe it is time to let Missouri voters reconsider the idea.
Cut the Size of the House: At
163 members, Missouri has one of
the largest legislative chambers in
the country. About four decades
ago, the national organization of
state legislatures recommended
cutting the size to about 100
members.
Currently, there are so many
lawmakers wanting to have influence that House rules must give
legislative leaders tremendous
powers to shut off debate and
restrict the flood of bills.
Shrinking the House also could
cut Capitol remodeling costs
involving legislative offices that
are inaccessible for the disabled.
Those offices simply could be
Capitol
perspectives
by Phill Brooks
eliminated. On the other side,
opponents of reducing the House
size argue that a small district with
a small number of constituents
enhances the public’s access to
legislators.
Expand Legislative Training:
More than a few times, I’ve heard
beginning legislators express frustrations at not knowing the history
about subjects like school funding,
highways and health care. Broader
subjects include constitutional history, race relations, government
financing, administrative rule
making and consensus-building
skills.
The University of Missouri
once had a “Legislative Academy”
for new legislators to address
legislative training needs. Maybe
it’s time to reconsider a more
intensive training opportunity for
incoming legislators.
Limit the Number of Bills:
In any given year, more than
1,500 bills are introduced. Most
go nowhere. In some years, just
five percent of the bills get passed.
Most die from being cast aside
without a vote.
It’s an open legislative secret
that some bills are sponsored just
to please a lobbyist, special interest, constituent or voters with no
intention of seeking passage.
M i s s o u r i ’s C o n s t i t u t i o n
already sets a deadline for legislators to introduce non-emergency
bills. Maybe there should be an
even earlier deadline or a limit on
how many bills a lawmaker can
sponsor in a year.
Give Committees More
Time: Several years ago, the
House leadership prevented committees from approving bills for
the first month of the session.
The objective was to give committee chairs more time to figure
out priorities and more time for
committees to put together bills
that were accurately worded and
effective. It seemed to me that
approach worked well.
Expand Interim Committees: Legislative committees once
undertook extensive work during
the summer and fall preparing
bills on major state issues for the
upcoming session.
Besides helping lawmakers
learn about an issue, it also provided more time to forge compromises before the frantic pace
of a legislative session. In an era
of term limits, it strikes me that
there’s a far greater need for legislators to spend more time learning
about the issues upon which they
will be legislating.
Bethany Republican-Clipper
Cable tower
to be taken
down
Mediacom’s unused antenna
tower, a landmark on Bethany’s skyline for more than 45
years, will be torn down within
the next few weeks.
Randy Flint, a longtime
technician for Mediacom, said
the tower has been out of service since the company began
receiving its signals through a
fiber optics cable from Excelsior Springs.
The 600-foot tower, located
along Route W west of Miriam
Cemetery, was erected about
1970 by Bethany CATV, the
community’s former cable television provider that was bought
out years ago by Mediacom.
The tower originally had an
array of antennas that picked
up signals from distant television stations in Kansas City,
Des Moines and Kirksville.
Satellite antennas were placed
at the site to pick up HBO
and other premium services
for cable TV subscribers in
Bethany.
The antennas were removed
when Mediacom made its transition to fiber optics.
Flint said a crew had
planned to topple the antenna
last week, but decided that it
would have to be removed in
sections because of its height.
The crew will return to Bethany within the next two weeks
to begin removing the tower.
Republican-Clipper photo
Tower to disappear: Soaring
nearly 600 feet above a hill
northwest of Bethany, this former
cable television tower, pictured to
tthe left, will be torn down within
the next two weeks. The tower
has been a landmark here for
more than four decades but no
longer is used by the local cable
company, Mediacom.
under order of support
State of Missouri vs. Michael A.
Bunch, possession of up to 35 grams
marijuana; unlawful use of drug
paraphernalia
State of Missouri vs. Tyler F.
Pickren, possession of controlled
substance
State of Missouri vs. Tyler F.
Pickren, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia
State of Missouri vs. Anthony J.
Harper, DWI-alcohol; operate a motor
vehicle in a careless and imprudent
manner
State of Missouri vs. Cheyenne B.
Gillespie, minor visibly intoxicated
State of Missouri vs. Damion L.
Sturdevant, minor visibly intoxicated
State of Missouri vs. James D.
Wilson, leaving scene of motor
vehicle accident
State of Missouri vs. Naquaya
D. Curtis, possession of controlled
substance except 35 grams of less of
marijuana
State of Missouri vs. Jimmy D.
Ballard, operate a motor vehicle in
a careless and imprudent manner
involving an accident
State of Missouri vs. Dakoda D.
Myers, owner/possessor’s dog bites
person/domestic animal
State of Missouri vs. Anthony C.
Kinsey, DWI/alcohol
State of Missouri vs. Rohenah
R. Francom, driving while revoked/
suspended
State of Missouri vs. Terry
Graham, supplying liquor to a minor
or intoxicated person
Circuit Court
Division II
Exceeded posted speed limit:
fined $60.50, Randel Eugene Fuller,
Des Moines, IA; fined $80.50, Chad
E. Hill, Lamoni, IA; fined $51.50,
Autumn Marie Jamail, Tyler, TX;
fined $55.50, Joshua J. King, Shawnee, KS; fined $245.50, Clinton
Elwood McLain, Cainsville, Mo.;
56.50, Jonathan E. Gonzales, Phoenix,
AZ; fined $51.50, Sean M. Brown,
Lenexa, KS; 55.50, William Andreas,
Chicago, IL; fined $55.50, Reuben
Gingerich, Jamesport, MO; fined
$55.50, Doris Keating, Lenexa, KS;
Abduction
School to purchase band uniforms
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L. J. Hart & Company sold $1.7
million of the certificates with a
reoffering premium that produces
$244,035 of additional funds for
the project.
The certificates carry an “A-”
rating from Standard & Poor’s,
and the district has an “A” credit
rating from S&P based on evaluation of its overall credit worthiness.
The financing proceeds are
expected to be available to the
district by March 25, 2015. The
trustee will be UMB Bank of
Kansas City which will pay vendors as bills come due.
Eastin presented a construction update on the middle school
to the board members. The building architect, Ellison & Auxier,
will be conferring with the city
on moving the electrical lines
which are in the way of the new
building. It has been determined
that bringing fiber optics service
from the career center to the
new building would be the least
expensive option.
The school had a pre-construction meeting with the contractor
on the parking lot project at the
career center. He expects to start
the project on March 21.
The school board approved a
resolution to hold summer school
for elementary and high school
students.
In further business, the school
board received a retirement letter
from veteran elementary teacher
Brenda Bugbee. The board also
accepted the resignation of Jennifer King as elementary teacher.
Contracts were issued to Pam
Fry as an elementary teacher and
Colleen McCutcheon and Leslie
Neibaur as certificated substitute
teachers.
Bethany blood
drive set for
March 31
Republican-Clipper photo
Road closed: Road equipment blocks the approach to a bridge on
Route F, northwest of Bethany, which has been closed for a deck
replacement project. The route was closed last week to through traffic
while the contractor prepares to begin work on the bridge. The route
will be closed until the end of July.
Band to hold fundraiser
The South Harrison band will
hold a soup supper and labor auction at 6 p.m. on Monday, March
23, at the high school.
The event will be held as a
fundraiser to purchase new band
uniforms and equipment.
Band members will offer
themselves up for bid to do eight
hours of labor.
Music will be provided during
the soup supper.
103 South 15th St. Bethany, MO
www.bigtimecinema.com
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tually received three concurrent
life terms for robbery in the first
degree, armed criminal action
and assault with serious injury.
He was later transferred from
the Missouri Department of Corrections to Iowa to face additional charges.
Mrs. Thompson had a later
encounter with Fielding while he
was being held in Iowa. According to Iowa newspapers, Fielding
strangled a young inmate who
was being held for car theft.
Richard Vargas, 18, of Alden,
Minn., was incarcerated along
with other inmates in the cell of
Fielding, where they were playing cards. According to a newspaper account, Fielding said he
wanted to talk privately with
Vargas. Vargas was found unconscious in Fielding’s cell and died
of asphyxiation a few hours later
in a Rochester, Minn., hospital.
The Community Blood Center
will hold a blood drive on Tuesday, March 31, at the Bethany
Community Center.
The blood center is the primary supplier of blood and blood
components to more than 70 hospitals and medical centers in the
Kansas City region. The blood
drive will be from 11:30 a.m. to
6 p.m.
To make an appointment
online, visit savealifenow.org and
click the “schedule an appointment” icon and enter sponsor
code bethanyarea. For additional
details, contact Rita McCall at
660-425-8354.
“When individuals normally
think of essential community
services, they think about the fire
and police departments,” said Jay
Menitove, M.D. former president/CEO and medical director
with Community Blood Center.
“Community Blood Center and
its donors are very similar to
police officers and fire fighters.
We make up a life-saving team
that is here to meet the needs
of local patients. Our volunteer
donors roll up their sleeves and
do so without hesitation.”
Mrs. Thompson was called to
testify in Fielding’s case in Iowa.
She told the court about her
ordeal during the robbery.
“I sat across the table from
him,” Bonnie recalled, “but he
never once looked at my face.”
Fielding was convicted of
first-degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole for
the murder of Vargas.
Fielding’s name resurfaced a
couple of weeks ago in a “cold
case” involving the recovery of
the body of an unidentified “Jane
Doe” in Clay County, Mo., about
the time of the One-Stop robbery.
An investigator contacted retired
Highway Patrol officer Dave
Eads to ask about the Harrison
County case. Police Chief Brian
Groom said the local department
provided the investigator with
information about Fielding, but
he has not heard back whether
there is a connection.
Dr. Tammy Hart  Tammy Maxwell, PA-C  Adam Jester, FNP-C
Department of Transportation
Physicals
Bethany Medical Clinic
3202 Miller St.  Bethany, Mo.
(660) 425-3154
Princeton Medical Clinic
400 N. Fullerton St.  Princeton, Mo.
(660) 748-4040
When you need your DOT physical,
trust your local health providers!
You are Invited to the Harrison County
Lincoln Days Dinner & Auction
Hosted by the Harrison County Republican Central Committee
6:00 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2015
Bethany Community Center
Harrison County Weekly Report
Marriage License
Jacob Wayne Yeigh, 33, Bethany,
Mo. and Shara-Sharee Marie Berry,
26, Bethany, Mo.
Dissolution
Kevin Joshua Adcock and Sara
Maria Adcock
Randall Lee Claycomb and Karen
Kay Claycomb
Jennifer Renea Sims and Shawn
Dewayne Sims
Barbara Batson and Tyson Batson
Real Estate Transfers
Richard M. Helton successor
trustee, Benjamin Lloyd Helton Trust,
Kathryn Marie Helton Trust to Robert
Louis Helton
Richard M. Helton successor
trustee, Benjamin Lloyd Helton
Trust, Kathryn Marie Helton Trust
to Lemuel Mark Helton, Tracy Lynn
Helton
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Miriam Lodge #129, Jerry D.
Smith to The Grand Lodge of Missouri of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows
Rodney Dean Hutton, Paula Hutton
to Brandon Fordyce, Melody Fordyce
Kent King, Leiann King to David
Frame, Mary Charlene Frame
Kathryn Wendt to Kathryn Wendt,
John Wendt
Alan M. Freemire, Mary L.
Freemire to Jackie Borntreger, Martha
Borntreger
Jackie Borntreger, Martha Borntreger to David Ginergerich, Saloma
Gingerich
Suits Filed
Nina L. Adkison vs. Bobbie Jo
Shipers, landlord complaint
Young’s Garage and Towing vs.
DOR, declaratory judgment
National Collegiate Student vs.
Anne B. Morgan et al, promissory
note
National Collegiate Student vs.
Anne B. Morgan et al, promissory
note
Brandon Jay Holcomb et al vs.
Matthew J. Thomson, suit on account
Capital One Bank (USA) N.A. vs.
Gary M. Coots, suit on account
State of Missouri vs. Jason G.
Brogan, non-support, total arrears in
excess of 12 monthly payment due
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March 18, 2015
fined $155.50, Shantel Mathews,
Kansas City, MO; fined $55.50, David
Mattern, Olathe, KS; fined $30.50,
Rex Randall, Wolcottville, IN; fined
$55.50, Anh Truong, Des Moines, IA;
No seat belt: fined $10.00, Harold
Beckett, New Hampton, MO
Failed to display plates on motor
vehicle/trailer: fined $30.50, Stephanie Bailey, Newton, IA; fined $30.50,
Troy Gibson, Scranton, IA
Operate motorcycle when driver’s
license not validated for such operation: fined $80.50, Randell Eugene
Fuller, Des Moines, IA
Building Permits
March 11- Jeff and Joyce Ellis,
1515 Bella Vista, repair; Pauline
Trask, 2103 Central, roofing; Tim
Slaughter, 605 S. 18th, roofing
March 16- Dick Smith, 1305
Walnut, repair sewer
Speakers: Representative Paul
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Bethany Assembly of God
Located at Jct. RT. A & I-35 (Northwest Corner of Exit #99) Ridgeway, MO
Rev. Richard Birdsong, pastor
22311 East Hwy. 136
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9:45 am Sunday school;
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Richard Jackel, pastor
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Bethany First Baptist
660-893-5631 • 1500 Washington St. • Cainsville, MO.
Bro. Ryan Kunce, Senior Pastor
Stephen Chichester, Assoc. Pastor
9:30 am Sunday school;
10:30 am worship;
Human nature is such that most of us aren't seduced by what is completely beyond our
6:30 p.m. worship
reach, but by the thing that is just out of reach. Employees who pilfer from their companies
425-7045
Wed. 6:30 p.m. Awana/Youth
are often just trying to live a slightly more lavish lifestyle than they can afford. We see the
1201 N 25th St. Bethany, MO
Wheelchair accessible; Nursery provided
same thing in matters of romance. Most of us know that the beauty queen or the captain of
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the football team is “out of our league” and we don't even try for them, but we are drawn to
Bethany First Christian
Farmer Owned Co-Operative
the attractive boy or girl who sits next to us in class and who kindly helps us with our
Brad Clark, Pastor
homework, even if we know she's not interested in us. Wanting what we can't quite have isn't
9:30 am church school;
necessarily a bad thing. It's good to aim high in life, but desiring things we can't have is also
10:30 am worship;
a source of considerable pain and frustration. Keeping up with the Jones's and pining after
Wed. 5:30-6:30 p.m. W.I.L.D. Youth
someone who isn't interested in you is unsatisfying in the short run and in the long run it can
Group, 6 p.m. Chancel choir
lead to a sense of deep disappointment and even resentment. We start to have a sense that
life is unfair and we envy those who appear to have the things we want, and moreover appear
Handicapped accessible
40 Years of Experience
to have achieved those things so effortlessly. Appearances can be deceiving, however, and
Bethany United
Residential to Commercial Electrical Contracting
you might be surprised to find that Mr. Jones down the street isn't so happy with his big
Methodist
house or his beautiful wife. Strive to be content with what you have, and thank God every day
2703 Crestview, Bethany
for the blessings he has bestowed on you.
Michael Dunlap, pastor
9:30 a.m. Worship
– Christopher Simon
10:40 am Sunday School
Wheelchair accessible.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing
Bible Baptist
into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and
clothing, we will be content with that.
Matt Deardorff, pastor,
• Comfortable • Quiet • Spacious Queen & King Rooms
1 Timothy 6:6-8
12th & Miller, 425-7775
10 a.m. Sunday school;
•Continental Breakfast • High Speed Wireless Internet • Meeting Room
11 a.m. Worship;
660-425-7915 •4014 Miller Street • Bethany, MO 64424
2 p.m. afternoon service Sunday;
Tuesday, 7 p.m., bible study,
prayer time, Kids Club
1104 S. 25th
OPEN
Blessed Sacrament Catholic
6 A.M. - 11 P.M.
660-425-6353
1208 S 25th St., Bethany
Seven Days A Week
Bethany, MO
5 pm Saturday Mass;
8:30 am Sunday Mass
Great Everyday Service, Prices, Friendly Smiles
Blue Ridge Christian Union
Pharmacy 660-425-8171
Trent Willhite, pastor
9:30 am Sunday school;
10:45 am Worship
Wednesday 7 pm Youth
Blythedale Christian
Charlie McKinny, pastor
9:45 am Sunday school;
•867-5218 Blythedale •867-5202 Eagleville
Lenten Friday Fish Fry
10:30 am worship
•872-6686 Ridgeway •Brookfield • Kearney
Lenten season dinner, Fish Fry will be served each Friday from 5:00 to
Cainsville Assembly of God
Member F.D.I.C.
7:00 p.m., at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 1208 S. 25th St.,
William Dowd, pastor;
Bethany. ($8.00 adults; $3.00 children). Everyone Welcome.
10 am Sunday school; 10:50 worship
Wednesday 7 pm Children/Youth program
Cainsville First Christian
If you have news about special church events, send your items before noon on Monday.
Rich Piper, pastor
to the Bethany Republican-Clipper, P.O. Box 351, Bethany, MO., Or
10
am
Sunday
school;
11
am
worship
660-425-2211
e-mail us at [email protected].
Cainsville First Baptist
2600 Miller Street
10:30 a.m. Sunday school;
Bethany, Missouri
9:30 a.m. Worship;
7 p.m. Evening Worship
7 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting
10 a.m. Sunday Bible Study
11 a.m. Worship
Coffey Baptist
US 69 Spur & I-35 Exit #93
Bro. Eldon Francis 533-2355
• Bethany, Mo 64424
10 a.m. Bible study;
Immanuel Baptist
New Hampton Christian
11 a.m. & 6 pm worship;
Bruce Williams, Pastor
Paul Drummond
660-425-7665 or 1-888-425-7665
6 p.m. Wed. Bible Study
Trevor Darr, Youth Pastor
9:30 am Sunday school;
Calvary Chapel Bethany
8:30 a.m. prayer time;
10:45 am worship;
Scott Jones, Pastor
9:00 Sunday school 10:15 am, worship;
Wednesday 6:30 pm Bible study
Rev. Noel T. Adams Ambulance District
1706 Main, Bethany
5:30 Youth;6:30 p.m. worship;
New Hampton Methodist
660-425-4494
Wed. 6:15 Youth; 6-7:30 p.m. Team Kid;
Rev. Paul Zimmerman
www.calvarybethany.org
6:30-7:30 p.m. Adult Bible study
Serving Since 1975
9:30 am worship;
10 a.m. Sunday Worship
Jehovah’s Witness
10:30 am Sunday school
Wed. 7 p.m.
Emergency
10 am public talk;
New Hope Baptist Church
Church of Christ
Business 425-6319
11 am watchtower study;
Rural McFall
17th & Central, Bethany
Tuesday 7 pm Bible study
Jason Crowley, Pastor
10 a.m. Sunday Bible Study
Thurs. 7:30 p.m. school & service meeting Sunday school 10 a.m., worship 11 a.m.
11 a.m. Worship
Kirkley Chapel
3rd Wed Business Meeting
Eagleville Baptist Church
Tom Hogan, pastor
Supper 6 p.m. Meeting 7 p.m.
9:30 am Sunday Bible class;
9:30 am Sunday school;
Otterbein Gospel
10:30 am & 7 pm worship
10:30 am worship;
of Bethany
Pastors Frank & Jan Mueller;
Eagleville Church of Christ
Wed. 7:00 p.m.
660-867-5165
10 am Sunday Bible classes;
425-7515
Martinsville Christian
4 miles N. on Hwy. 69, 1/2 miles west
10:45 am & 6 pm worship
Kenny Groves or Fred Flesher
Sunday school 10 a.m.;
Eagleville First Christian
9:30 am Sunday school;
worship 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.
Jason Laxton, Pastor
10:30 am worship each Sunday
Wednesday worship 7 p.m.
18387 US Hwy 69
Martinsville United Methodist
Prairie Chapel
9:30 am Sunday school; 10:30 worship
Rev. Paul Zimmerman
Pastor Joe Hendren
Handicapped accessible
10 am Sunday school;
9:30 a.m. Sunday School;
Eagleville United Methodist
11 am worship, 2nd & 4th Sundays
10:30 a.m. worship
Gina Lucas, pastor
Melbourne Baptist
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Ridgeway Assembly of God
9:30 am Sunday school;
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Alvin Trusty, pastor
10 am Sunday school;
10:30 am worship
10 am Sunday school;
11 am & 6 pm worship
Wed. 7 pm Bible Study
11 am & 6 pm worship;
Ridgeway United Methodist
Fairview Community Church
Discipleship training 6 pm;
Gina Lucas, pastor; 9 am worship;
Rev. Wayne Caulkins, pastor
Wed. 6:30 p.m. prayer & Bible study
9:45 am Sunday school
4 miles S. on Hwy 146 east of Bethany
L.L.C.
Mitchelville Methodist
Ridgeway Baptist
10:30 am Service
AND RIVER ROCK
Rev. Paul Zimmerman
9:45 am Sunday school;
Faith Community Christian
33463 East 250th St., Ridgeway, MO
10 am Sunday school;
10:45 am worship
602 South 15th St., Bethany
worship 1st & 3rd Sundays
7:00 p.m. Team Kid/evening worship
Rev. Olin Slaughter, pastor
Morris Chapel
Wed. 5:30 RA & GA
9:45 a.m. Sunday school;
Cristy Clark, pastor
7:00 Bible Study
10:45 a.m. worship
9 am worship, 2nd & 4th Sundays
Seventh Day Adventist
5 p.m. Supper; 6:30 p.m. Bible Study
Sunday school each Sunday
1207 Clay, Gallatin
Tuesday 6 pm Women’s meeting
Mt. Moriah Baptist
Sabbath study 9:15 am; 11 am worship
7 p.m. Bible study
Rev. Victor Buntin, pastor
Shady Grove Christian Bible
Gilman City First Baptist
9:30 am Sunday school;
10 am Sunday school;
Tim Wilson, pastor
• 908 Main
10:30 am & 8 pm worship;
11 am & 6:30 pm worship.
8 a.m. early service 9:30 praise & worship;
• Cainsville, MO
Discipleship training 6:30 pm;
Wednesday 6:30 pm Bible study
9:45 am Sunday school;
• 660-893-5611
Wednesday 7 pm worship
10:45 am & 6 pm worship;
Wesley Chapel Methodist
Mt. Pleasant No. 2
Wed 6:15 meal 6:45 pm worship & praise
Cristy Clark, pastor
Rev. Robert Skeens, pastor
7 pm. Bible study - All Ages
9 am worship;
9:30 am Sunday school;
Nursery available - All services
10 am Sunday school;
10:30 am & 6:30 pm worship;
Gilman City United Methodist
1st & 3rd Sundays
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Wed. 7 pm prayer & Bible study
Pastor Kobey Puls
Willow Row United
204 N. 16th • Bethany, MO 64424
Mt. Pleasant No. 1
10 am S. School; 10:45 am worship
David Hilsabech, lay minister
CALL (660) 425-6325
Chuck Ramsey, pastor
Kids Group 2nd & 4th Sundays 5:30 p.m.
9 am Sunday school;
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Highway Christian
10 am worship,
10 am Sunday school; 11 am worship
Tom Reynolds, minister
1st & 3rd Sundays
Mt. Zion
I-35 exit 88, 1/2 mile S. on Hwy. 13
Word of Life
New Hampton
10 am Sunday school;
Christian Fellowship
10 am Sunday school;
11 am worship
Rev. Clyde Hulet, minister;
11 am worship
Hope Lutheran
Pattonsburg
Rev. Walter Peckman, pastor
9:15 am Sunday school;
Tom & Debbie O’Neil - Owners
9:00 a.m. worship
10 am worship
702 N. 41st Street • Bethany, MO 64424 • 660-425-7200
10:15 am Bible Study
Conveniently Located 1/2 mile N. of McDonald’s on I-35 E. outer road
Wed. 6 pm Dinner; 7 pm Lenten service
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Margaret Gibson 878-6118
Well, the weather has been
steadily improving the last few
days and the weather forecast for
the next few days predicts there is
more of the same good weather in
store for us. Instead of snow and
cold, it is dry and warm. Be careful of the dry, though, lots of grass
fires and fire hazards because it
is dry. Always something to be
concerned about with the weather.
Norman and Cathy Nelson
enjoyed visits from family and
friends this week. Those visiting
were Nancy and Brian Short, Ken,
Jean, and Sariah Schmidt, Bob
Nelson, Jim and Linda Barber,
Diane Anderson, Lynda Rolfe,
Linda Fisher and Lucy Baxter.
Wallace and Doris Lane met
Larry Lane and Steve and Marcia
Bohall in Bethany at noon Friday
to celebrate Wallace’s birthday. His age is 4 score and 4 years. (Hint: a score is 20 years.)
Liz Carpenter met her friend,
Julie Elliott in Des Moines on
Sunday afternoon for some shopping and dinner before returning
home.
Tim and Carrie Richardson
visited her parents Ivan and Beth
Lane on Sunday afternoon. Ivan Lane, Shelby Lane and
Ethan stopped by Liz Carpenter’s
on Saturday afternoon. They were
there to help Liz get her ATV
running again. Looks like a new
battery may be in order. It is sure
great to have good neighbors.
Have a good week, be kind to
each other, and it won’t be long
before the landscape starts turning green!
Cainsville News
Walker and Kay Thomas
stopped by for a short visit Sunday
morning at Christy Chandlers.
Ronnie, Joe, Grady Mclain and
John Wendt came by for Sunday
dinner. Joe McLain, Dixie Waddle
and Christy Chandler went to
Trenton after dropping Lauryn
Waddle off to watch movies with
her friend Blane.
Some young people played ball
Saturday afternoon at the ball field
and had a good time.
Several people from around the
area enjoyed a few days in Vegas
over the weekend.
Ethan Cornelison wrote an
essay on responsibility for the
Missouri Association for Family
and Community Education. Ethan
and Penny Cornelison and Sandy
Willis went to North Harrison
Melanie Chaney 893-5375
Elementary School for the awards
ceremony. Ethan received a certificate, a medal, and a journal
for his essay. They also got to
eat lunch at Subway before the
ceremony.
Sandy Willis’ dad, Harold
Schoonover, and her sister, Sherri
Parkhurst came to visit Sandy one
afternoon at school last week.
She got to show her Dad some
of the technology they use in the
classroom. He thought that times
had changed a great deal since he
was in school.
Stephanie and Joe Snyder came
over and visited Kelly Brieg, and
Paul Mouzakis on Saturday. Paul
took Cheyanne and Kelly Brieg
out for Sunday supper.
The Cainsville boys’ elementary team got second in the tour-
nament held at Cainsville school
on Saturday.
D i x i e Wa d d l e , L a u r y n
Waddle, Koda Wright and Keely
Waddle all went to St. Joe Sunday. They shopped, ate, and had a
great time.
Please keep Kathy Wendt in
your thoughts and prayers she is
in the hospital in St. Joe.
The annual Cainsville P.T.O.
carnival will be March 21. There
will be a chili cook off, games,
cake walk, raffles, and door prizes. Fun for everyone. Supper starts at
5:30 p.m. and the games start at
6:30 p.m. Come out and enjoy a
fun filled family evening.
The Cainsville Health Fair and
blood drive will be March 26. Please call the school for more
information.
South Harrison celebrates success at area contest
South Harrison FFA members
participated in the area contest
Thursday, March 12.
Emma Fordyce was named the
new Area II Parliamentarian. She
is one of ten students from Area
II to be chosen for the area officer
team.
Wyatt Creasey’s secretary’s
book and Victor Babinski’s completed ownership record book
advanced to the state competition.
Tanner Daugherty received
second place and a gold rating on
his treasurer’s book.
Gold ratings also went to Grant
Taylor for his beginning ownership record book and to Sydney
Nichols for her completed placement record book.
Tanner Daugherty and Kinslee
Vandiver served as the Area II
Delegates.
Submitted photo
Area contest success: Pictured here are area book contest gold
rating winners Tanner Daugherty and Kinslee Vandiver with new Area
II parliamentarian Emma Fordyce.
North Harrison News
Everyone is invited to attend
the celebration honoring Bill and
Sandra Heyle on March 22 at the
Eagleville Christian Church. The
celebration will begin during the
regular 10:30 a.m. church service, followed by a carry-in lunch. Noah Breshears and Kendall
Kimbrough were the candle lighters and Ed Parman’s children’s
sermon was about “We Need
God’s Help” last Sunday. Pastor
Laxton used Luke 5:12-16 for his
message and Jason Gibson sang
a solo for the special.
Services at the Eagleville UM
Church on Sunday, 3-15 opened
with “God of the Ages”. We were
pleased to welcome the leaders
and Girl Scouts who came to
worship with us for Girl Scout
Sunday. Pastor Gina, Sara and
Brian had brought a young friend
also. We enjoyed having the
New Hampton News
First off, congratulations to the
Winston High School boys for
their winning season and going
to the state basketball finals. They
lost a close game and took second
place in the state in their division. It was the first team from their
school to play in state finals. The
whole area is proud of you and the
other teams who played in state
competition.
A week ago Friday, Shirley
Gray and her daughter, Diann
Jones, went to St. Joseph to visit
Shirley’s sister and her daughter,
Mabel and Annette Thornton. Diann got to see Mabel’s new
home. Later, they visited a brother
and uncle, Bill Starmer, and took
him out to eat to celebrate his
birthday. They enjoyed good
visits with both of Shirley’s siblings before returning home.
Thursday, Margie Warner visited Charlie and Shirley McKinny
and Toby Wright.
Pat and Tom Lambert took her
mother, Maudine Bennum, to St.
Joseph Thursday for a pacemaker
diagnostic check, with a good
report.
Maria McKinny came Friday
afternoon and brought her dog,
Henry, to visit her MeMa, Margie
Warner and then spent the weekend with her parents, Shirley and
young people in attendance.
Pastor Gina announced that she
would be taking Sara and other
students to the FCCLA state contests soon. Good luck to Sara with
her project. The United Methodist
annual conference will be June 5th
to the 8th. Gina and Mary Cook
will be attending and any others
who would like to go should see
Gina for more information.
Maudine Bennum 439-2363<[email protected]>
Charlie McKinny. She returned to
her home in Kansas City Sunday
afternoon.
Alberta and Mark VanVactor,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, came Friday
evening and spent the weekend
with her mother, Bonnie Magee. Tamara Jenkins and her daughter,
Ava, Omaha, Neb., joined them on
Saturday. They returned to their
homes Sunday afternoon.
Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Jones and Shirley Gray met with
Dorothy Vulgamott in Maryville
and they and Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Vulgamott and Mr. and Mrs. Ryan
Vulgamott and two children,
Wyatt and Noel celebrated Noel’s
sixth birthday. Mathew Jones and
friend, Michelle and Sierra Jones
were also present and all enjoyed
a good visit. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan
Vulgamott also attended their
classes while their children were
well entertained by all of these
good baby sitters.
Cole Wright celebrated his 20th
birthday Sunday. MeMa, Margie
Warner called him Sunday evening. He and his brother, Logen
Wright, played golf together
Sunday afternoon. He said it was a
beautiful day at St. Charles, where
they both live.
Sunday evening, Tasha and
Keira Hillyard and Maudine
Bennum joined Pat and Tom
Lambert at the home of Charity
and Billy Mitchell in old Pattonsburg for belated celebration
of birthdays of Tasha, Pat and
Maudine in January and Charity
in March. Between sickness and
weather, they had not been able
to get together. It was an enjoyable time and you can celebrate
any time.
I understand there is a burning
ban in effect now for Harrison
County. Until we get some good
rains, things are pretty dry and a
little wind can create a very serious problem in a hurry, so be very
careful.
Happy birthdays to Dilon
Glenn, Joshua Tucker on March
19; Marcell Davis on the 22nd;
Stacey Karns on the 23rd; Camelle
Ward on the 24th; Marilyn Hurt
on the 25th.
Happy anniversaries to Mr. and
Mrs. David Bridger on March 19
and anyone else celebrating their
big day this week.
Have a good week everyone.
Enjoy the nice weather, but for
our area, pray for some good
rains. Take care of yourselves and
remember our ailing and sorrowing friends.
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4-H team competes in
judging in Columbia
The Harrison County Livestock Judging Team traveled to
Columbia March 7th for the 2015
Livestock Judging & Grading
Workshop Contest sponsored by
the Missouri Department of Agriculture and the University of Missouri Animal Science Department.
The Harrison County team
members competing in the contest
were Tanner Daugherty, Grant
Taylor, Kinslee Vandiver, Keagan
Madison, Mardee Sadowsky and
Jared Milligan.They judged traditional classes, graded feeder and
slaughter cattle, had a questions
class and gave one set of reasons.
The top 4 scored as the champion fourth team. These top scores
after 12 classes belong to Grant
Taylor, Jared Milligan, Mardee
Sadowsky and Kinslee Vandiver
and they are the Champion 4-H
team. Grant Taylor was the rsv
champion overall 4-H individual
in the contest.
Three of the newest members,
Cole Taylor and Kade Hodge
and Kaycee Vandiver attended
the workshop where they learned
about grading feeder cattle and
finished cattle. They also had the
opportunity to see carcasses in the
meats lab and see how the grading
looks on the rail. The grading part
of this contest helps the team stay
close to the grassroots side of the
cattle business and provides anopportunity to better understand the
sale and marketing reports.. The
next contest will be at Iowa State
University in April.
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Deaths
Ruby Bernice Smith
Ruby Bernice Smith, 99, Bethany, MO., (formerly of Kansas
City, Mo.) departed this life on
March 14, 2015 in Bethany, Mo.
Ruby was born on October
27, 1915 in Rhodes, Iowa, the
daughter of Edward and Maud
(Pyle) Beye. She and her two
older sisters were named after
precious gems: Pearl, Opal, and
Ruby.
Ruby was baptized at a young
age by her father, an elder in
the RLDS church. She was a
lifetime member of that church,
attending various congregations
as life took her to other towns.
Some of her happiest years were
spent with the Andover country
church congregation.
She attended school in Rhodes
until 1931 when her father sold
his telephone office there and
moved the family to Blythedale,
Mo., where he purchased the local
grocery store. Ruby graduated
from Blythedale High School in
1933. That spring, members of
her class started the first Blythedale Alumni Banquet. She
was very proud of that accomplishment and rarely missed an
Alumni Banquet, attending most
of the 82 alumni gatherings held
in her lifetime.
Rex Smith, a classmate and
school friend, dated Ruby following graduation. They were
married August 29, 1936 in
Tulsa, Okla., where they had
gone to watch Ruby’s brotherin-law, Tom Seats, play baseball.
Ruby’s father married the couple.
They made their home in Blythedale.
To this union five children
were born: Larry, Don, Lynden,
Randy, and Jane. Rex and Ruby
had children in school a total of
27 years, 1943-1970. While Rex
worked to support the family.
Ruby was a homemaker, an
exceptionally good cook, and
a mother always available for
her children. Her life revolved
around her faith in God, her
family, and her many friends.
She was a willing servant in
church
activities,
choosing
behind-the-scenes jobs such as
cleaning the church or washing
the dishes. One of her ministries
was sending cards to people who
were ill or had lost a loved one.
Ruby was a worrier, fretting
over her children’s and grandchildren’s lives, her friends’ illnesses and losses, even over
catastrophes that struck strangers. She had compassion for all
people. She said worrying was
not a lack of faith, but what kept
her close to God as she prayed
for others.
She kept up on world and
national news through TV and
newspapers.
Until the last
months of her life, she read the
daily paper and the RepublicanClipper thoroughly—and without glasses! She was a weather
watcher and feared thunderstorms
and tornadoes for the havoc they
could bring. Watching baseball
and basketball games on TV
with her son, Don, turned her
into a sports fan. She especially
cheered for the Roy Williams and
Bill Self Kansas Jayhawk teams
much to the dismay of her Missouri family.
Following her husband’s
stroke, the family moved to
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March 18, 2015
Kansas City in 1980 to be nearer
medical facilities. Rex died in
1997. She continued living in
Kansas City until the death of
her son, Don, in 2001, when she
moved back to Bethany, living in
Crestview apartments until the
past two years when she transferred to the nursing home side.
Ruby was preceded in death
by her parents; her husband; her
two sisters and their husbands,
Pearl and Hugh VanHoozer and
Opal and Tom Seats; two sons,
Lynden Smith and Don Smith;
a daughter-in-law, Janell Smith;
and a great-great granddaughter,
Aurora Nicole Smith.
Those left to mourn her passing are two sons, Larry (Jane)
Smith, Bethany, and Randy
Smith, Ridgeway; a daughter,
Jane Jamis and Lee Richardson
of Liberty; eight grandchildren,
Steve (Cindy) Smith, St. Joseph,
Mark (Lori) Smith, Kearney,
Susan (Don) Edwards, Lawson,
Zachary Smith, Bethany, Strausie (Tim) Stephens, Malta,
N.Y., Robbie Smith, Eagleville,
Morgan Smith, Ridgeway and
Amanda (Steve) Pankau, Pattonsburg; 10 great grandchildren;
two great-great grandchildren,
plus nieces, nephews and friends.
Funeral dervices will be held at
11:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 18,
at Roberson Funeral Home, Eagleville, Mo. Burial will follow
in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Blythedale, Mo. The family will receive
friends from 10:00 to 11:00
Wednesday at the funeral home,
where friends may call after 9:00
a.m. Wednesday.
Memorials
may be made to the Blythedale
Alumni Association in care of
Roberson Funeral Home, P.O.
box 46, Eagleville, MO 64442.
Online condolences may be
left at www.robersonfuneralhome.com.
Dorothy N. Craig
Pitts
Dorothy N. Craig Pitts, 87,
Ridgeway, Mo., passed away,
Saturday, March 14, 2015 at an
Independence, Mo., care center.
She was born February 6, 1928
in Eagleville, Mo., the daughter
of George W. and Helen (Evans)
Craig. They preceded her in
death. She was also preceded in
death by her husband, George Ivan
Pitts; son, George R. Pitts; brothers, Dennis E. Craig, Harold Rex
Craig and James “Bert” Craig and
grandsons, Chuck Pitts and Erik
Zimmerman.
Survivors include her children,
Susan Corum, Patricia Denney,
Thomas (Kelly) Pitts, Michele
(Leroy) Bates and Ramona Polley
all of Independence, Mo.; daughter-in-law, Beverly Pitts, Ridgeway, Mo.; 20 grandchildren; 18
great grandchildren; brothers,
Robert (Marion) Craig, Independence, Mo., Donald (Betty)
Craig, Bethany, Mo., and George
Alan (Donna) Craig, Ridgeway,
Mo.; sisters-in-law, Jan Craig,
Glendale, Calif., and Karen Craig,
Hatfield, Mo.; several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at the
Baptist Church, Ridgeway, Mo.
Burial in Masonic Cemetery,
Eagleville, Mo. Memorials may
be made to Alzheimer’s Association in care of Roberson Funeral
Home, P.O. Box 46, Bethany, MO
64424.
Online condolences may be left
at www.robersonfuneralhome.
com.
John David Ford
John David Ford, 59, Bethany,
Mo., (formerly of Plattsburg,
Mo.) passed away Friday, March
13, 2015 at a Bethany, Mo., hospital.
He was born January 11, 1956
in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of
Garland and Shirley (Russell)
Ford. They preceded him in
death along with his sister, Janey
Aubuchon.
Survivors include his daughter, Jennifer (Aaron) McDaniel;
son, Jeff (Adrienne) Ford; grandchildren, Kaylee Jane and Breanna Joe Bowen, Ashley, Averie,
Aubrie and Jordan Ford and
Taylor John Ford; brother, Wayne
Ford; niece and nephews, Jessica
Carnie and J.D. and Chris Ford;
six great nieces and nephews;
step-parents, Mike Russell and
Nancy Streeler and girl-friend,
Adrienne Jones.
John has been cremated by
Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany, Mo. A memorial graveside
service and inurnment will be
held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March
28 in Calvary Cemetery, Plattsburg, Mo. Memorials may be
made to Noel T. Adams Memorial Ambulance District and/or
Missouri Rehabilitation Center,
Mt. Vernon, Mo., in care of Roberson Funeral Home, P.O. Box
46, Bethany, MO 64424.
Online condolences may be
left at www.robersonfuneralhome.com.
Carolyn Ann
Andersen
Carolyn Ann Andersen, 77,
Bethany, Mo., died Friday, March
13, 2015.
She was born January 18, 1938
in Spickard, Mo., to Talbert “Bert”
and Effie (Fair) King.
On November 24, 1960, she
married John Andersen in Polk
County, Iowa. He preceded her
in death in February 1998. She
was also preceded in death by her
parents; brothers, Donald, Hubert,
Rex and Harold King and sister,
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The Senior Life Solutions program has been providing group
counseling for elderly residents
who may be having trouble with
the challenges of growing older.
The program was established
a few years ago at the Harrison
County Community Hospital.
Julie Nichols, director of the
program, said the counseling
sessions held three days a week
assist senior citizens with problems that they may be having
with depression and anxiety.
“It is a myth that depression is
a normal process of aging,” she
told the Rotary Club at its meeting Thursday.
Nichols was introduced to
the Rotarians by Kelly Pottorff,
administrator of HCCH. Pottorff
had served as director of Senior
Life Solutions before he was
appointed hospital administrator.
Ruth Pettigrew.
Survivors: children, Marvin
(Wendy) Andersen, Gilman City,
Mo., and Martin Andersen, Des
Moines, Iowa; Gina Crawford,
Des Moines, Iowa; eight grandchildren; five great grandchildren;
sister, Arlene (Jack) Holtzclaw,
Excelsior Springs and brother, Ed
King, Cainsville.
Carolyn has been cremated by
Roberson Funeral Home, Bethany.
Inurnment will be at a later date in
the Orange Township Cemetery,
Waterloo, IA.
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with traditional Medicare, which
pays for their sessions. The hospital provides a van for persons
who are unable to come to the
sessions in their own vehicles.
Nichols said outcome studies
have shown a marked increase in
the “level of functioning” by persons taking part in the program.
“Each person has access to our
nursing staff,” she said.
Insects are adept at surviving harsh winters
University of Missouri Extension
Growers often ask “If we have
a bad winter, will it reduce our
pest problems?” Insects have the
ability to survive cold weather
by a couple of mechanisms. One,
they can seek shelter from the cold
and secondly, they can produce
compounds in their body similar
to antifreeze. These compounds
keep the insect from freezing solid
which would kill the insect.
Insects seek shelter and as an
example, snow can be an insulator. Snow moderates temperature
change. This provides a more
constant temperature than a severe
arctic blast that drops temperatures dramatically.
Also, water can impact survival during winter. Research indicates that insects that remain dry
can survive colder temperatures
than if they are touching a frozen
water crystal.
The population of the insect
and the conditions during its
survival in spring has a larger
impact than winter conditions.
Populations can explode and
crash depending on its environ-
ment. This makes for a difficult
challenge in predicting insect
outbreaks. Given these challenges, the
best way to manage pests is to
scout and carefully watch fields.
Know the conditions and environments that insect pests thrive and
know the biology of the insect
pest.
For more information, contact
Wayne Flanary at 660-446-3724,
Heather Benedict at 660-425-6434
or Wyatt Miller at 816-776-6961,
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Michele Hickman, 50, of Trenton, Mo., died Monday, March
9, 2015.
Michele, born September 22,
1964 to Douglas Clark Squibb
and Janice Kaye Stangl in Carroll, Iowa. She married Cecil W.
Hickman, September 8, 2003
in Fort Dodge, Iowa and was a
homemaker.
Michele was preceded in death
by her parents and her husband.
Survivors include her three children, Britney and Breana Evans,
and Douglas Hickman; two brothers, Dave and Mike Squibb.
Cremation by Roberson Funeral
Home in Bethany. A memorial
service was held Tuesday, March
17th, at Faith Community Christian Center, Bethany. Inurnment:
Lloyd Cemetery, Mount Moriah.
Memorials: Michele Hickman
Memorial Fund in care of Roberson Funeral Home, P.O. Box
46, Bethany, MO, 64424. www.
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“The generation that we are
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Many of the participants in
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Wanda Findley
Barbara Osmon
80th Birthday
Wanda L. Findley “Grandma
Fat” will be celebrating her 80th
birthday on March 22, 2015.
Her family is requesting a card
shower for her. Cards may be
mailed to Wanda Findley, 29116
E State Highway Y, Ridgeway,
MO 64481.
Wanda is the daughter of the
late Bill and Gladys Geyer of
Washington Center and the wife
of the late Vernon (Fat) Findley.
Her children are John Findley,
Becky Adkins and Jodi Stephens.
80th Birthday
The family of Barbara Osmon
will be holding a reception for her
on March 28, 2015 at the Community Building in Cainsville,
Mo. The reception will be held
from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Barbara
was born on March 28, 1935.
The event is hosted by her
children, Perry and Eva Stark,
Maurice and Mary Decker, Roger
and Pat Bourne, Cecilia DeVore
and Roger, Melissa and David Gilbertson, Doug and Felicia Bourne,
Billy and Charlotte Osmon, Janet
and Larry Morgan, Kathy and
Rodney Rumley.
All relatives and friends are
invited. No gifts please.
Clubs
American Association for
Family and Community
The American Association
for Family and Community is
delighted to announce the names
of the winners of the Harrison
County 4th grade essay/artwork
project on “responsibility”.
First place went to Jayliegh
Robins of North Harrison School.
Second place was Trendi Johnson
of North Harrison and the third
place winner was Ethan Cornelison of Cainsville School.
Bethany T.O.P.S.
Bethany T.O.P.S. (take off
pounds sensibly), #1146, meets
every Tuesday evening from
5:15 to 6:30 at the First Christian
Church basement. For information
call June Ann Lewis at 425-3857.
Book Club
The book club that meets at the
Bethany Public Library meets on
the third Thursday of the month
and will be meeting at 6:00 p.m.
Fraternal Order of Eagles #2534
The auxiliary will be holding
their 2nd meeting of every month
on the third Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
at 104 S. 16th Street. The auxiliary
welcomes all women 18 and over
to join them for snacks and refresh-
ments one hour prior to the meeting.
Harrison County Alzheimer’s
Support Group
Harrison County Alzheimer’s/
Dementia Support Group now
meets at 1:00 p.m. the first Friday
of every month at Bethany Care
Center, 1305 South 7th Street in
Bethany. Everyone is welcome!
Please come give your support
or get support. New update each
meeting.
Missouri Association for
NA-AA Meetings
AA meets on Thursday 7-8 p.m.
at the Faith Community Christian
Center, 602 S. 15th St, Bethany
(the old Methodist Church building). Call Alan 660-868-0594.
Ridgeway PEO Chapter CQ
Ridgeway PEO Chapter CQ
will meet Tuesday evening, March
24th at 6:00 p.m. at the home of
Ramona Williams. Co-hostess
will be Beverly Schmille
Beta Beta
Beta Beta Chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi will meet at 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 24 for a salad
supper at Blessed Sacrament Fellowship Hall. Co-hostesses are
Carla Alley and Dorothy Sheets.
The HDC Conference released
the all-conference teams at the
close of the basketball season.
Tim Harding, coach of the
Winston Redbirds who advanced
to the state final four, was the
coach of the year for the boys.
Dan Owens of North Mercer,
which was undefeated in the conference, was selected as the girls’
coach of the year.
The all-conference teams were
as follow:
Girls
team—Unanimous,
First
Bailey Owens, sophomore, North
Mercer; Nicole Kost, sophomore,
North Mercer; Lindsay Wyatt,
sophomore,
North
Mercer;
Mikayla Toombs, senior, Gilman
City; Haley Craig, junior, North
Harrison; Kelly Warford, senior,
Pattonsburg; Haleigh Plymell,
junior, Pattonsburg, Kaytlyn
Barnes, junior, Winston, and
Abby Wells, junior, NewtownHarris. Saige Holmes, junior,
Gilman City, was also named to
the first team.
Honorable mention—Cooper
Sadowsky, senior, North Harrison; Payton Craig, freshman,
North Harrison; Bailey Curtis,
senior, Winston; Emily Milazzo,
junior, Grundy; Matana Munday,
sophomore, Grundy, and Harlee
Ellsworth, sophomore, East Harrison.
Boys
team—Unanimous,
First
Jordan Leonard, junior, Winston;
Chevy Calhoon, senior, Winston;
Craig Lewis, sophomore, Winston; Cashman Hartley, sophomore, North Mercer; Jared Teel,
senior, Pattonsburg; Reed Hallock, senior, North Harrison;
Mason Radcliff, junior, Grundy,
South Harrison will be hosting
another alumni basketball tournament this year, with a day of
games on Saturday, March 28 at
the high school.
Cost of entry is $20 per person
and includes a t-shirt.
This year, teams will be determined by graduating class and
not formed prior to the event,
making signing up for the event
easier and more appealing to
individuals.
Registration for the tournament is due March 20 to Caleb
Obert at 3400 Bulldog Avenue,
Bethany, Mo. Registration can
be completed by sending Coach
Obert the $20 registration fee,
along with player contact information, graduation year and shirt
size.
Tip-off for the first game is
scheduled for 8 a.m. on Saturday, with official scheduling and
brackets to be announced after all
players have registered.
Money raised during the tournament will support the South
Harrison athletics weight room.
Details on the tournament can
be found on Facebook by searching “SHHS Alumni Basketball
Tournament.”
Alumni basketball tournament
scheduled last weekend in March
Gym hosts third and fourth
grade basketball tournament
Six girls’ teams participated in
the Bethany Community gym’s
third and fourth grade basketball
tournament last week: Mount
Ayr, Bethany Bulldogs, Gilman
City, Bethany Blue, Winston and
Princeton. Mount Ayr placed first
and Princeton placed second.
Four boys’ teams partici-
pated in the tournament: Bethany
purple, Albany, Bethany Black
and Pattonsburg. Pattonsburg
won first place and Albany came
in second.
Kindergarten-second grade
and third-fifth grade cheerleaders
also performed during the tournament.
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Smith wins free throw contest: Ellie Smith, sixth grader of Lawson,
won the girls 11 year old division of the Knights of Columbus Free
Throw Contest on March 8, 2015 at Father Tolton High School in
Columbia, Mo.
Ellie swished 22 out of 25 free throws, under the pressure of
being the last girl to shoot in her division, to earn the title of State
Champion. Ellie completed 3 levels to earn the right to compete in
the state competition.
Ellie is the daughter of Brad and Michelle Smith of Lawson,
Mo., formerly of Bethany. Ellie is the granddaughter of Lowell and
Marlene Littrell and Gerald and Sharon Smith, both of Bethany.
Football players set sights
on Haiti missionary trip
South Harrison senior football
players have announced plans to
make a mission trip to Haiti the
last week of May, 2015.
By way of Mission of Hope
outreach, the six senior boys,
along with coaches Caleb Obert
and Vince Wiederholt, will travel
to serve the people of Haiti
together later this spring.
Teammates planning to make
the trip include Kasey McFall,
Bryce Kirk, Gabe Webb, Conner
Hammond, Chris Spence, and JD
Johnson.
For this to happen, however,
the players are looking for some
financial support from their community. The group is in the process of raising $5,200 to cover the
cost of travel and other expenses
related to the trip.
A fundraising page has been
created for supporters to donate
money at gofundme.com/bulldogs2haiti.
and Dillon Cook, junior, TriCounty. Others named to the first
team were Galt Porter, junior,
North Mercer; Trey Wilson,
junior, North Mercer; Adam Sullivan, junior, Pattonsburg, and
Joe Rinehart, junior, East Harrison.
Honorable mention—Waylen
Carlson, junior, East Harrison;
Blake McBroom, senior, North
Harrison, and Cornelius Peery,
freshman, Gilman City.
HDC Conference
2014-2015
Girls basketball
North Mercer
Gilman City
North Harrison
Pattonsburg
Winston
Grundy County
East Harrison
Newtown-Harris
Tri-County
Conf
8-0
6-2
5-3
5-3
5-3
4-4
2-6
1-7
0-8
Overall
29-1
15-10
19-8
20-8
17-10
13-12
5-18
7-16
1-22
Conference Tournament
First place - Mercer
Second place - Pattonsburg
Third place - North Harrison
Fourth place - Gilman City
District Champions
North Mercer
Boys basketball
Winston
North Mercer
Pattonsburg
East Harrison
North Harrison
Grundy County
Tri-County
Gilman City
Newtown-Harris
Conf
8-0
7-1
6-2
5-3
4-4
3-5
2-6
1-7
0-8
Overall
29-3
17-8
15-11
9-15
8-16
5-19
6-17
3-18
0-21
Conference Tournament
First place - Winston
Second place - Mercer
Third place - Pattonsburg
Fourth place - Grundy County
District Champions
Winston
State Final-Four
Winston - second place
Track team preparing for spring competitions
South Harrison’s track teams
have been taking advantage of
ideal spring weather to prepare
for the opening of the track
season next week.
The track squads will compete
in the Chillicothe time trials at 4
p.m. on Tuesday, March 24. The
season opens on the local track
on March 30 when South Harrison hosts a quadrangular.
The South Harrison men will
return several top performers
from last year’s team. Three of
four members of last year’s state
qualifying relay team will be
back including Stanton Blake,
Tyler Preston and Corby Clark.
Preston also qualified in the 110meter hurdles and Clark was a
state qualifier in the 200.
“I look for those guys along
with J.D. Johnson, Kinser Corbett and Bryce Kirk to fill the
sprinting events,” said Bulldog
Coach Caleb Obert.
Obert said he also expects good
things from middle distance runners Chris Spence and distance
runner Derek McClure. Jacob
Nyhagen and Dereck Bowman
also will run the middle distance
races. Tanner Daughterty will be
running the mile and two-mile
events.
The top jumpers will include
Bryce Kirk, long, high and triple,
and Trevor Baker, triple and long.
Mason Doll will be working on
pole vault. Wyatt Thomas, a state
qualifier, is recovering from a
knee injury during the wrestling
season and may be back late in
the season.
South Harrison lost state discus
medalist Justin Fry to graduation.
But Kasey McFall was close to
qualifying for sectionals last year
in the shot put.
“Shelby Vanhorne also has
been throwing the shot well early
in the season,” Obert said. Other
contenders for discus are Wyatt
Starmer, Kasey McFall, Dillon
Glenn and Marshall Norris.
The South Harrison women
will have a larger team this year
with an influx of several freshmen. The girls will be led by state
pole vault medalist Mariah Sunderland, who finished fifth.
South Harrison has 18 girls out
for track this season, an improvement over last year when only 11
finished the season.
Kiana Bennett, a junior who
made it to sectionals last year
in the pole vault, will also be
running the hurdles and triple
jumping. Returning sophomores
are Georgie Johnson, who will
be running sprints and the long
jump; Neiley Karns who will
be participating in the throwing
events, and Ashton Farmer in the
sprint and jumping events.
Seniors joining the team
this year include Hannah Williams, Madison Hemenway and
Sydney Peterson. Juniors include
Maddie Osborn and Heather
Miller, sophomore Max Jennings
and freshmen Emily Creasey,
Kali Forbach, Maddie Lathrum, Bailey Mehrhoff, Brittney
Myers, Jaiden Sunderman and
Morganne Sweat.
“Since it is so early in the
season I am still trying to find the
events where the athletes will be
the most successful,” said Coach
Sara Knorr.
South Harrison will host the
Bulldog Relays on April 30, the
Grand River Conference meet on
May 4 and the district meet on
May 9.
Missouri’s season comes to an end
Missouri’s basketball season
mercifully came to an end last
Wednesday night in Nashville
with a 63-54 loss to South Carolina in the SEC Tournament.
Missouri (9-23, 3-15 in SEC
play) set the school record for
losses in a season, with 23. The
team showed progress in late
December and early January,
losing close games with Illinois
and Oklahoma State and then
beating LSU in overtime. But then
the team went on a school-record
losing streak, and most fans were
ready for the season to be over
long before March’s finality actually brought the end.
The loss to South Carolina (1716) was one last grinding microcosm of the season. Missouri
played hard but not well enough.
The Tigers did claw to within
three with 5:58 to go, playing an
opponent that was very beatable,
but then Missouri didn’t score
again until Johnathan Williams
III hit a meaningless three-pointer
with 10 seconds left. Williams, a
good player probably worn down
at the end of a long night and a
long season, simply turned his
palms upward after the last shot
went in, as if asking, “Now it
goes it?”
As first-year coach Kim Anderson put it when he addressed fans
at Mizzou Arena after the last
home game of the season, a win
over Auburn, “I know it’s not the
year you wanted. It’s not the year
I wanted, not the year anybody
wanted.”
Fans figured Anderson would
struggle trying to rebuild the
disordered program after Frank
Haith left to coach Tulsa. I heard
an interesting question late in
season, about how Anderson’s
first year compared to the first
season of Missouri football coach
Gary Pinkel.
Like Anderson, Pinkel was
trying to build a program that
had fallen on hard times after
some success. It took Pinkel some
time, but he eventually got the
football team going as a successful program.
Pinkel went 4-7 in his first
season, including 3-5 in conference play. He slipped to 2-6 in
conference play in year two (5-7
overall), but then had an 8-5
season in year three that included
a bowl appearance. Pinkel didn’t
finish a season with his team
Benjamin Herrold
A look at Mizzou football.
ranked until year seven, that
special Cotton Bowl champion,
12-win 2007 team. But he has
now finished ranked in the top 20
in five of the last eight seasons.
I wouldn’t say Anderson will
make that kind of improvement,
and his first season was noticeably worse than Pinkel’s. But
Anderson is working to build from
the ground up, suspending players
plenty this season when needed to
make his expectations clear.
Of course, Pinkel’s program
growth was helped immensely
when he found Brad Smith as his
quarterback. Anderson will need
to recruit well this offseason and
have his players on hand make
major progress. The shame of
this season could be a powerful
motivator. Next season needs to
show major progress, and then
maybe we can start talking about
at least contending for an NCAA
Tournament bid in Anderson’s
third season.
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USA wrestlers: Bethany USA wrestlers qualified for the regionals
during competitions on March 14 at Staley High School. They are
Koltyn Smith, Gavin Johns, Holden Hager, Briar Frame, Cayden
Eckerson, Jarrett Eivins, Rodell Sperry and Crae Coffey.
Harrison County School Events
March 18-25
South Harrison
March 18: Brilliant Bulldogs 3:30;
area FFA contest
March 19: after school choir 3:30;
Trenton FFA contest;
ACT registration
March 20: K-2 awards 1:00;
3-5 awards 2:00;
PTO BB Marathon 5:30;
PTO gym
March 21: Ti-Kwon Do tournament
March 23: Brilliant Bulldogs 3:30;
Academic Bowl @ Braymer;
Lathrop FFA contest;
band labor auction /soup
supper 6:00
March 24: SWCD Awards;
varsity track @ Chillicothe
March 25: Brilliant Bulldogs 3:30;
KAAN Basketball All-Star
Banquet
North Harrison
March 16-20 spring break;
Savannah CDE;
varsity academic meet @
Tri-County
March 22-24 FCCLA State Conference
@ Columbia
March 18: Area 2 FFA contest @ Gallatin
March 19: NCMC FFA CDE Day;
5th/6th BB @ North Mercer
March 23- Lathrop FFA CDE Day; varsity
academic meet @ home;
board meeting 7:00
March 24: joint music concert with
Winston High School @
Winston;
district FFA contest @ Cameron
March 25: KAAN Radio all-Star Basketball Banquet
Cainsville
March 20-21 EBB tournament @ Gilman City
March 24-27 elementary BB tournament at North Daviess
March 19: FFA to NCMC contest;
monthly board meeting
7:00
March 21: PTO chili cookoff/carnival
March 23: Varsity Academic Bowl @
Ridgeway;
FFA contest @ Lathrop
March 24: HDC conference meeting @
Cainsville 6:00
Gilman City
March 20-21 Gilman City elementary
BB tournament
March 24-27 elementary BB tournament at North Daviess
March 18: Area 2 FFA LDE;
book fair begins
March 19: NCMC contest
March 20: Technology Day
March 23: Lathrop FFA contest;
HS Academic Meet @ Ridgeway
March 24: District FFA LDE @ Cameron
Ridgeway
March 24-28 5th/6th grade BB North
Daviess tournament
March 18: spring pictures
March 19: NCMC Ag contest @ Trenton
March 20: 5th/6th grade BB tournament @ Gilman City
March 23: AG Judging Day @ Lathrop;
H.S. Academic Meet @
Ridgeway
Bethany
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February 18, 2015
Public Notices
SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE’S NOTICE
OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST
For default in payment of the debt
and performance of the obligations
secured by deed of trust executed by
Chris Illg and Renante Illg, as husband and wife, dated July 16, 2008,
recorded in Book 658, Page 209, in
the office of the Recorder of Deeds for
Harrison County, Missouri at Bethany,
the undersigned Successor Trustee
will at the request of the legal holder
of said debt, on the 23rd day of March,
2015, between the hours of 9:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m., particularly 3:00 p.m.,
at the South front door of the Harrison
County Courthouse in Harrison County,
Missouri, at Bethany, sell at public
venue to the highest bidder for cash
the real property described in the Deed
of Trust, to-wit:
All of Lots Three (3) and Four (4)
in Block Three (3), except 32 feet off
of the East side of said Lots Three
(3) and Four (4); the East 32 feet of
Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3) and
Four (4), all in Block Three (3) and
all of Lot Nine (9) in Block Three
(3) of Woodward’s Survey to the
City of Cainsville, Harrison County,
Missouri
to satisfy said debt and costs.
Jay Hemenway, Successor Trustee
(4-4tc)
IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI
PROBATE DIVISION
In the Matter of:
The Miriam Cemetery Trust Association
Case Number: 15AH-PR00012
Motion for AcNature of Suit:
knowledgement of Succession and
Appointment of Trustees
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
The State of Missouri to: All parties
interested in the Miriam Cemetery
Trust Association
You are notified that an action has been
commenced in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, Missouri, the object and
general nature of which is Motion for
Acknowledgement of Succession
and Appointment of Trustees. The
names of all parties in the action are
stated in the caption above, and the
name and address of the attorney for
the movant is Johnathan L Meyer,
Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 468, Bethany, Missouri 64424
You are further notified that, unless
you file an answer or other pleading or
otherwise appear and defend this action within 45 days after March 4, 2015,
judgment by default will be entered.
Dated: February 24, 2015
Greta Bottcher,
Clerk
Probate Division
(5-4tc)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI
PROBATE DIVISION
In the Estate of
ROBERT G. PLYMELL, DECEASED Estate No. 14AHPR00003
NOTICE OF FILING OF FINAL
SETTLEMENT AND PETITION FOR
DISTRIBUTION
TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED
IN THE ESTATE OF ROBERT G.
PLYMELL, DECEASED:
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned Personal Representative
will file a Final Settlement and Petition
for determination of the persons who
are the successors in interest to the
personal/real property of the decedent
and of the extent and character of their
interest therein and for distribution of
such property, in the Probate Division
of the Circuit Court of Harrison County,
Missouri, on March 20, 2015, or as
may be continued by the Court, and
that any objections or exceptions to
such Final Settlement or Petition or
any item thereof must be in writing and
filed within twenty days after the filing
of such Final Settlement.
David B. Parman, #40947
108 West Wood
P.O. Box 187
Albany, MO 64402
(660) 726-5500
Robert Clark Plymell,
Personal Representative
810 NW 600th Road
Centerview MO 64019
Dates of Publication: February 25,
March 4, 11 and 18, 2015
(4-4tc)
In Re: Brent J. Binkley and Christina L. Johnston Binkley, husband
and wife
TRUSTEE’S SALE – Under the terms
of the Deed of Trust executed by
Brent J. Binkley and Christina L.
Johnston Binkley, husband and wife
dated 05/09/2007, and recorded on
05/11/2007 Book 647 Page 189, as
modified by affidavit recorded February 19, 2013 in Book 685 Page 234
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
for Harrison County, MISSOURI, the
undersigned Successor Trustee, will on
03/26/2015 at 9:00 AM at the South
Front Door of the Harrison County
Courthouse,1515 Main St. Bethany
MO 64424, sell at public venue to the
highest bidder for cash subject to the
terms announced at the sale, the realty
described in said deed of trust, to wit:
THE SOUTH ONE-HALF (S 1/2) OF
THE NORTH ONE-HALF (N 1/2) OF
THE SOUTHWEST FOURTH OF
THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF
SECTION TWENTY-FIVE, TOWNSHIP
SIXTY-THREE, RANGE TWENTY-SIX,
HARRISON COUNTY, MISSOURI.
THE NORTH ONE-HALF (N 1/2) OF
THE NORTH ONE-HALF (N 1/2) OF
THE SOUTHWEST FOURTH OF
THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF
SECTION TWENTY-FIVE, TOWNSHIP
SIXTY-THREE, RANGE TWENTYSIX, ALL IN HARRISON COUNTY,
MISSOURI..
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SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE
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File #: BINBRNO1
First publication date 03/04/2015
(5-4tc)
IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
COURT, HARRISON COUNTY,
MISSOURI
Judge or Division:
PROBATE
Case Number: 15AHPR00014
In the Estate of Dean McCoy, Deceased
Notice of Letters Testamentary
Granted
(Independent Administration - NonResident Fiduciary)
To All Persons Interested in the Estate of Dean McCoy, Decedent:
On March 9, 2015, the last will of
the decedent having been admitted
to probate, Max D. McCoy was appointed the personal representative of
the estate of Dean McCoy, decedent,
by the Probate Division of the Circuit
Court of Harrison County, Missouri. The
personal representative may administer the estate independently without
adjudication, order, or direction of the
Probate Division of the Circuit Court,
unless a petition for supervised administration is made to and granted by the
court. The personal representative’s
business address is: 11099 Cleveland
Trail, Norwalk, Iowa 50211
The personal representative’s attorney’s name, business address and
phone number is: Jay Hemenway,
Attorney at Law, 1503 Miller Street,
P.O. Box 146, Bethany, Missouri 64424
(660) 425-4422
The non-resident personal representative’s designated agent’s name,
business address, and phone number
is: Jay Hemenway, 1503 Miller Street,
Bethany, Missouri 64424 (660) 4254422
All creditors of said decedent are
notified to file claims in court within
six months from the date of the first
publication of this notice or if a copy
of this notice was mailed to, or served
upon, such creditor by the personal
representative, then within two months
from the date it was mailed or served,
whichever is later, or be forever barred
to the fullest extent permissible by
law. Such six-month period and such
two-month period do not extend the
limitation period that would bar claims
one year after the decedent’s death, as
provided in Section 473.444, RSMo, or
any other applicable limitation periods.
Nothing in Section 473.033, RSMo,
shall be construed to bar any action
against a decedent’s liability insurance
carrier through a defendant ad litem
pursuant to Section 537.021, RSMo.
Date of the decedent’s death: February 8, 2015
Date of first publication: March 18,
Greta Bottcher, Division
2015
Clerk
(7-4tc)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that a public
hearing will be held by the Director of
OATS, Inc. Northwest Region on April
16, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. to consider a
project partially funded by the Missouri Department of Transportation,
pursuant to Section 5311 of Title 49,
United States Code.
1. Purchase of fourteen (14) buses.
The vehicles will be lift equipped and
will have communication devices and
safety features such as backing and
surveillance cameras. These vehicles
will serve rural DeKalb, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan and
Worth Counties.
2. Requesting financial assistance
in an amount necessary to complete
funding and operate in OATS’ Northwest service region.
3. The location of the project will be
to serve residents in OATS Northwest
Region, comprised of 17 counties in
Missouri. The total project will be 87
counties in Missouri.
4. The total estimated cost of the project is $3,515,047 (capital and operating)
Federal Funds $1,670,038
Local Funds $1,845,009
5. The source of the local match will
be from privately generated local
funds (capital); unrestricted federal
funds, local cash, donations and inkind match (operating).
6. At the hearing, OATS will afford
an opportunity for interested persons
or agencies to be heard regarding
social, economic, environmental aspects of the project and the needs
of limited English proficient persons.
Interested persons may submit orally,
or in writing, evidence and recommendations with respect to said project. If no person(s) request to give
either oral or written statements three
days prior to the public hearing, the
applicant is not required to hold the
public hearing.
7. Organizations interested in the proposed service may request information concerning the project from the
applicant.
9. Any person requesting information
or requiring special accommodations
to attend the hearing may contact Beth
Langley, Northwest Region OATS Office, 1306 S. 58th St., St. Joseph, MO
64507, (816)279-3131.
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Road and Bridge Fund
Bond Fund
Intangible (From State)
Receipts From:
County (excluding taxes)
as CART
Towns
Sales-Services-Refunds
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Bonds Sold
Total Receipts
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Disbursements
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between November 1, 2013 and
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(1) Administration
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Bethany Republican-Clipper
Area firefighters busy with red flag warning
The Bethany Fire Department
responded to a large grass fire
near Gilman City Monday, assisting several area fire departments,
and continuing a 10-day stretch
of fires caused by burning grass
in high winds and low humidity.
“We responded with mutual
aid last Saturday in New Hampton,” says Fire Chief Jacob
Denum. “And we have responded
to at least one fire a day since.”
Denum says all of the fires
in the last week and a half have
been grass fires that have gotten
out of control. Whether the main
cause of the fires has been a controlled burn that got away from
the landowner or an ember that
got away from burning trash or
a cigarette butt is impossible to
determine.
“In that case, all the evidence has been destroyed,” says
Denum.
While conditions remain
dry and windy, the only way to
prevent these types of fires is to
abstain from burning altogether,
advises Denum. As long as the
grasses are dry and the wind is
blowing, any fire can easily get
out of hand, and that keeps area
volunteer firefighters stretched
beyond their capacity, fighting
preventable blazes outside city
limits and being less available for
residential calls.
Additionally, the increased
fire threat puts volunteers at
increased risk, as recognized
Monday when veteran firefighter
Richard Russell was taken to
the emergency room at Harrison
County Community Hospital
after becoming ill while fighting
the fire in Gilman City. He was
treated and released the same
day.
“This won’t slow down until
we get some rain,” says Denum.
And according to stjoechannel.com, that might not happen
until Monday, when a chance of
a light mix of snow and rain is in
the forecast.
In the meantime, the National
Weather Service has issued a red
flag warning for the area surrounding Bethany, strongly discouraging outdoor burning.
Denum explained until an area
of severe drought is announced, a
burn ban cannot be declared.
Mayor Patrick Miller and the
Harrison County Commissioners met Monday to discuss the
volume of fires and weather conditions, and issued a burn advisory to residents of Bethany and
Harrison County.
“We wanted to let citizens
know that the city and the county
talked about it and we are asking
everyone not to burn anything,”
says Miller.
The Bethany Public Library
will celebrate National Library
Week on April 12-18.
Librarian Teresa Kinnison told
the Library Board at its monthly
meeting on Wednesday that the
staff will be handing out bookmarks during the week. There
also will be a raffle and a drawing for books.
The Library Board also
decided to hold activities in celebration of National Jelly Bean
day on April 22.
The Friends of the Library
plan to hold a book sale on the
last Saturday of April at Walmart.
City employees will assist in
taking the books to the sale.
Access to books stored in the
basement of the library has been
discussed during recent meetings
between the Library Board and
the Friends of the Library. The
two groups have been looking
for an easier method to retrieve
the books from the basement for
sales.
Mayor Patrick Miller, who
attended last week’s meeting,
said it would cost about $65,000
to install an elevator at the library
which would probably wouldn’t
be feasible. However, he said
that an engineer will be asked to
study the possibility of installing
a ramp at the southwest corner of
the library.
In other business, Kinnison
reported that about 45 persons
attended the recent Dr. Seuss
party at the library.
Public library to celebrate National Library Week
Conservation district annual meeting
scheduled for next week in Bethany
The Harrison County Soil and
Water Conservation District will
hold its annual meeting Tuesday,
March 24 at the South Harrison
High School.
The night will begin at 6:45
p.m. with a carry-in dinner. The
soil district will provide meat,
bread, drink and service. Attendees are asked to bring one large
South Harrison Band
SOUP SUPPER
& Labor Auction
MONDAY, March 23
6:00 p.m. Soup Supper
Free Will Donation- Live Music During Meal
6:30 p.m. AUCTION
Band members will be auctioned off for eight hours of labor.
Come help the South Harrison band members earn
their new uniforms and equipment.
South Harrison R-II High School
3400 Bulldog Ave. Bethany, MO
dish per family. Suggestions
include vegetables, salads or desserts.
There will be entertainment
following the meal, as well as
presentation of awards for conservations poster, essay and
farmer.
Attendees are encouraged to
arrive early to view the posters
made by Harrison County fourth
fifth and sixth graders, which will
be on display.
Correction
In a story in last week’s newspaper about the April 7 election,
we inadvertently left off the first
name of Randy Brejnik who is
running for the Bethany Board of
Aldermen from the West Ward.
We regret the error.
Photo by Hunter LeRette
Guarding his prey: An eagle
was observed sitting on the
ground Saturday morning near
the Harrison County Health
Department. Hunter LeRette,
9, of Kearney, grandson of Jim
and Sherry LeRette, recorded
a video of the bird while riding
with his grandparents. Another
eagle was seen in the tree
above the bird on the ground.
At first it appeared that the eagle
had been injured or had been
tangled in something. A closer
look at the video found that the
bird actually was struggling to
drag away a large rabbit.
Tae Kwon Do Tournament
Saturday, March 21, 2015
South Harrison High School
3400 Bulldog Avenue, Bethany, MO
Areas of participation include:
Forms, Board Breaking & Sparring
Black Belt Demonstration at 10:30
Board, Ice, & Concrete Breaking
First White Belt Form, and more difficult
colored and black belt forms
Eliminations - 11:00
free goody bags to the first 100 attendees,
healthy lifestyle presentations,
spring fashion show at 1:30 p.m.,
special occasion show at 3:30 p.m.,
door prizes all afternoon + BIG raffle at 4 p.m.,
plus great shopping from area vendors:
31 Bags
Body Bronze 24/7 Tanning
BTC Bank
Cameron Regional Medical Center
Clever Container
Eagle Rocks Jewelry & Accessories
East Hills Shopping Center
Fosters for the Family
Green Hills Women’s Shelter
GRM Networks
Harrison County
Community Hospital
Harrison County Health Department
Initials Inc.
Isagenix
Jamberry Nails
Little Clara’s Garden
Lula Roe Dresses and Clothing
Marilyn Coulter’s Bakery
Mary and Martha
McCall Family Dentistry
Nerium International
Nighthart’s dōTERRA Essential Oils
Pampered and Polished Salon
Premier Designs Jewelry
Richard’s Menswear
Scentsy
Silpada
Stella and Dot Jewelry
Tastefully Simple
The Breezy Room Clothing and
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Spectator General Admission
Adults $300 Children under 12 $100
Lunch provided by Harrison County 4-H Clubs
Republican-Clipper photos
Producers visit Bethany:
Shane Kinne, director
of public policy for the
Missouri Corn Growers
Association, speaks during
a joint meeting of the
district Corn Growers and
Missouri Soybean Growers last Tuesday at the
farm of Richard and Renee
Fordyce, east of Bethany.
Those attending the meeting enjoyed a fish fry at
noon.
Corn, soybean producers hold
district meetings in Bethany
Members of the Missouri Corn
Growers Association and the
Missouri Soybean Association
discussed farm legislation and
other production issues during a
joint district meeting last Tuesday on the farm of Richard and
Renee Fordyce.
Richard Fordyce, the state
agriculture director, welcomed
the corn and soybean producers
to his farm. Those attending the
district meeting enjoyed a fish
fry for lunch.
Shane Kinne, an Eagleville
native who serves as the public
policy director for the Corn
Growers
Association,
said
renewable fuel continues to be a
big issue for his association.
He also spoke about the fight
to gain acceptance for genetically modified crops (GMOs).
“We have a lot of challenges
with GMO acceptance in the
European markets,” he said.
He added that the producers
also are facing a “state-by-state
battle on GMOs.”
He said the arguments against
modified crops have been “based
on fear and not science.”
Representatives of the Missouri Soybean Association and
the Soybean Merchandising
Council also spoke at the meeting.
Fordyce was active in both
groups at the time he was selected
by Governor Jay Nixon as the
state agriculture director.
Trooper talk
Being involved in a traffic accident
by Sergeant Jacob P. Angle
No one wakes up and says, “I
think I will be involved in a traffic
crash today.” Yet, in 2013, there
were 139,294 crashes reported in
the state of Missouri. There were
757 people killed and 49,532
people injured in 2013. Even
with these crash numbers, most
people still don’t think they can be
involved in a traffic crash. Typically, after someone is involved
in a crash the question they ask
is, “Now, what do I do?”
The traffic crash needs to
be reported as soon as possible
for several reasons. Responding
emergency personnel need know
the location, number of vehicles
involved, type of damage, and
the extent of any injuries. This
information is vital to insure the
proper equipment and personnel
are sent to the scene. Other helpful information would include
whether there is anyone trapped
in the vehicle or the presence of
power lines; report that information as well.
Missouri law requires persons
involved in traffic crashes to make
a reasonable effort to move their
vehicles, so they do not block the
flow of traffic. However, if there
are injuries or a fatality involved
in the crash the vehicles should
not be moved. In traffic crashes
involving injury or a fatality a reasonable effort should be made to
keep the scene from becoming any
worse. When traffic is obstructed
and begins to backup there is the
risk of secondary crashes at the
same location.
When there are injuries
involved in a traffic crash the
occupants should not be moved
as this could cause further injury.
It is better to leave injured occupants in their vehicles and let
responding emergency personnel
deal handle the situation as they
have the proper equipment. Only
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sider efforts to act on your own.
If you choose to do so make sure
you consider your own safety. Do
you have rubber gloves or a CPR
mask? The “Good Samaritan”
laws will protect a person as long
as they do not exceed their level
of training.
The scene of a traffic crash
poses other dangers to those
involved and those rendering
assistance. Passing motorists
often are paying attention to the
traffic crash and can put those
involved with the scene at risk
of being struck. The presence of
hazardous materials, the terrain,
and weather conditions are additional dangers.
When law enforcement officers arrive they will need to see
involved parties’ driver’s licenses,
registration, and proof of insurance. It is also a good idea for
the involved parties to exchange
information in order to help them
when reporting the crash to their
insurance companies. Remember:
A report must be made if there
is property damage in excess of
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