Metropolitan National Bank partners with LPD

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015 2 SECTIONS, 12 PAGESServing Lamar, Golden City, Lockwood, Jasper, Sheldon, Mindenmines and Liberal for 145 years. Incorporating The Daily Democrat, Golden City Herald & Lockwood Luminary.

SECTION ACorrespondents ........................ 2Friends & Family ...................... 3Friends & Family ...................... 4School ......................................... 5School/Sports ............................ 6

SECTION BRecords ...................................... 2Records ...................................... 3Legals .......................................... 4Classifieds .................................. 5Area News ................................. 6

Lamar Democrat/Richard CooperRepresentatives from potential digital mapping users in Barton County met, March 26, in Thiebaud Auditorium for a demonstration by Intrinsicorp of Kirbyville, one of the bidders to supply a Geographical Information System (GIS). Attending the demonstration were representatives from the county commission, assessor’s office, the city of Lamar, the Lamar Police Department, and the Lamar and Liberal school districts. Company owner Ed Fisher explained how costs could be shared by multiple entities. Presiding Commission Mike Davis has said he hoped a decision on selection of a supplier could be reached by early April.

Spring cleanup dates

announcedLamar city crews will be-

gin spring cleanup the week after the city-wide yard sale, scheduled for April 24 and 25. Items will be picked up at the curbside and should be in place before the scheduled date. They will not return to a ward once that ward has been com-

Lamar High School Choir members are cur-rently selling tickets to their 7th Annual Dinner Cabaret, to be held Saturday, April 11. A “caba-ret” is a simple form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance and theater in the same show. The entertainment, however, will begin shortly after the students serve a quality meal to their patrons. The menu will feature quality food such as pulled pork, roll, twice baked potatoes, green beans and a cupcake.

These days it's hard to find excellent dining and entertainment within a reasonable driving distance. The students of Lamar hope to provide that in one location, as they will be wearing tuxedos and treating their guests like royalty, while they serve the meal to each guest at each table. Following the dinner, the entertainment will begin. The theme this year is, “An Evening of Billy Joel” and will feature the LHS Concert Choir, several solos, a few comedy sketches and Rhapsody, the LHS Show Choir.

The dinner cabaret will take place on Saturday, April 11, in the

Lamar High School gymnasium this year, with patrons being able to choose between a lunch show beginning at 1 p.m. and a dinner show to begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 each.

The cabaret has become a very popular event at LHS, so please contact them to reserve a spot today!

For more information or ticket reservations contact Brian Har-grave by phone at 417-682-3548, ext. 130, or email bhargrave@lamar.k12.mo.us.

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Lamar Democrat saturation scheduled

for April 15By MELODY METZGER

Lamar Democrat

Although April 15 is not a very good day for some, especially those who have to pay into the Internal Revenue Service, the La-mar Democrat is striving to give the day a more positive image by providing Barton County and surrounding areas, once again, with our saturation issue.

The Lamar Democrat offers this saturation ev-ery other month or so, in

Barton County farmer directs funds toHope Valley Ranch

LAMAR-Hope Valley Ranch has received a $2500 donation from Barton County farmer Randy and Regina Sprenkle and America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The dona-tion will help the organization

continue building their eques-trian therapy center, which will be a resource for counseling foster children.

“The Hope Valley Ranch is a work in progress. When com-pleted, the ranch will serve 30 children and give them a safe

environment and home to live,” said founder Randy Sprenkle. “The equestrian therapy center will help the children realize that they can succeed and have control in life.”

“There is a very high need in the community for a foster care

system. There are over 10,000 children that need a home to live in,” he added. “We are very focused on the forgotten age of four to 14 year olds, who don’t regularly get as much attention

Metropolitan National Bank

presented a check for $295 to support the

Lamar Police Department. Pictured are, left to right,

Mary Ann Leivan, AVP,

consumer loan officer and Ron Hager,

chief of police, Lamar Police Department.

Metropolitan National Bank recently partnered with the Lamar Police Department in support of the annual Shop with a Cop program. This is a fundraiser that the Lamar Police Department has every year to raise funds for the underprivileged children in the community.

“Together, we’re helping young people develop posi-tive relationships with the officers who work hard ev-ery day to keep them safe!” said Mary Ann Leivan, AVP consumer loan officer for Metropolitan National Bank.

Metropolitan teammates raised money through fun-draising activities. A total of $295 was donated by the Metropolitan team and given to the Lamar Police De-partment. The donation helped allow the police officers to accompany children on a Walmart shopping spree, where they received gift cards to spend on presents.

Metropolitan looks forward to continuing a tradition of giving back through ongoing acts of service in Bar-ton County and especially in support of the Shop with a Cop program.

For more information about the Shop for Cop pro-gram visit www.cityoflamar.org.

see RANCH, page 4Asee CLEANUP, page 4A

see SATURATION, page 4A

Above, Lamar High School seniors, Jordan

Finney (left) and Tre McAfee (right) film Lamar

Democrat's spectacular sales representative,

Melissa Little, as she lip syncs to Katy Perry's song

"Roar" for a project.

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2015

CLUB NOTES

“We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors

to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”

(Personal letter to a friend, 1913)

LAMAR COUNTRY CLUB

LADIES ASSOCIATION

Margaret Wattenbarger was the hostess Tuesday,

March 31, for Bridge. The winners were Betty Gilkey, first and Dorothy Roberts, second.

The hostess for April 7 is scheduled to be Doro-thy Roberts, with Sondra Riegel to be the hostess on Tuesday, April 14.

Coonfoot & Vicinity

By LOUISE OTT

Peeking out this early Monday morning I see we had showers in the

night and it is windy now. Our dear Lord is blessing us with clouds and part sunshine.

Gary and Judy Nelson, Michael Nelson and Ella Mae Turpen all enjoy dinner at a restaurant on Sunday.

Arbry Winans, Ray

and Tristan, Ray and Ni-cole Winans and Elvin Winans, Jr. and Durella were visitors of Marie Winans.

John and Daine Enlow were visitors of Louise Ott on Saturday.

Regina, Genesis and Faithllyn Shanks and Ty-

ler, Grason and Emma Everitt were visitors of Louise Ott on Wednes-day.

Mike and Gay Straw, Columbia, and Mathew and Margaret were din-ner guests of George Straw.

Bea Roncovitts and Mildred Link, Lock-wood, were visitors of Louise Ott on Wednes-day.

Vanessa and Nathaniel Hudson stayed Thursday night with George Straw.

Louise Ott's drive is so pretty with those white flowers and Louise also visited Richard and Lin-da Ott Thursday evening.

Hope everyone had a safe Easter weekend.

Watch for the skunks and squirrels.

SheldonBy DARLENE

SHERIDAN

The weather contin-ues to fluctuate, but we are enjoying some warm spring days.

Sheldon did not have school on Friday, April 3, Monday, April 6 and Tuesday, April 7.

Kindergarten screening will be April 15. Parents should call the school to set up an appointment.

The Sheldon Elementa-ry School is still collect-ing Box Tops, Campbell Soup labels, Best Choice UPC’s and Coke caps.

Sheldon Prom was held March 28, at the school.

Another new business opened in Sheldon over the weekend. Headz Up Raceway opened March 28.

The Sheldon Lions Club served their monthly breakfast on April 4, at

their building on Main Street.

Terry Logan and her grandson, Bronson Dal-ton, spent the weekend at Ft. Leonard Wood, where Bronson partici-pated in the state Special Olympics. Bronson came home with a Gold medal and lots of great memo-ries. They enjoyed a tour of the base and were very impressed.

Charlotte Danley re-ceived word of the death of her brother, Bud Ar-buckle. Sympathy is ex-tended to his family.

Don and Roberta Bi-gelow, Judy Cole and Louise Holland enjoyed a trip to KC to the dinner theater.

Easter Sunrise Service for the community was held at the Sheldon Bap-tist Church, with Wayne Coble, pastor at the Unit-ed Methodist Church.

Reservations are be-ing taken for the annual Sheldon Alumni Ban-quet. The meeting will be Saturday, May 23, at the school. The meal will cost $10 and payment can be sent to Darlene Sheridan, PO Box 502, Sheldon, Mo. 64784. The class of 1965 will be host-ing the event.

Maxine's Musings

By MAXINE MORIN

As Donna Wescott was taking me to an ap-pointment at Barton County Memorial Hos-pital, we had a good view of the Tulip Tree on the corner of Walnut and First Street. The lovely purple blossoms had just opened up. The tree

looks like a tulip bed all wrapped up in a circle. I look forward to watch-ing for it to bloom each Spring.

Dorothy Faubion was telling me that she had 50 persons attend her annual Easter dinner celebration. Dorothy or-dered fried chicken with all the trimmings from Chicken Mary's. Every-thing went well, as each family member carried out a certain task for the day. Sounds like a great idea. The ladies present brought home-cooked desserts, which includ-ed carrot cake, cook-ies, fruit bowl and other delicacies. Everyone had a great time visiting and eating. After it was over, the ladies cleaned up, which was a great help to Dorothy. I am sure there were many fantastic get togethers on Easter Sun-day.

Last week Sondra Rie-gel called to see if I want-ed a dinner from the an-nual fish fry sponsored by St. Mary's Catholic Church. Of course my answer was “sure”. The fish was especially tasty, with chocolate cake for dessert. Very good. Son-dra knows that I like to eat. Thanks!

I wanted to plant seeds, but did not make it. The weather turned cold, so I believe the package was the best place for the seeds until it warms up. (Found a good ex-cuse for that). By the way, my Irish potatoes that Betty Gideon and Donna Wescott planted are up and looking good. Thanks, girls!

Remember our mili-tary persons. Until next time...

MRTA president visits Barton County retired teachers

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

LAMAR-The Missouri Retired Teachers Asso-ciation (MRTA) presi-dent, Jack Poston, was the guest and featured speak-er at the April 1 meeting of Barton County Re-tired Teachers. He urged

community service as a means of benefiting both the local community and MRTA. The better MRTA is known, the more lever-age it has in protecting the Public School Retirement System/Public Education Employee Retirement System (PSRS/PEERS). Poston noted that MRTA

is nonpartisan, but wields immense power in lobby-ing for or against legisla-tion in the General As-sembly that MRTA deems vital to retired teacher in-terests. He urged retirees to refrain from just being observers. “Get involved,” he said.

He noted that June 30 is the deadline for nominat-ing candidates for Mis-souri Retired Educator of the Year, and urged that Region 9, of which Bar-ton County is a part, sub-mit a nominee.

Poston and his wife reside in Desloge in St. Francois County, and that community is almost ex-actly the size of Lamar. They had never been in this part of the state be-fore, and Poston said they were impressed with the general area and the city of Lamar in particular.

A report on legislation

pertaining to retirement currently pending in the General Assembly found no bills harmful to PSRS/PEERS.

The annual Region 9 meeting will be held in Aurora on April 9. Ten members from the Bar-ton County Unit will be attending.

An MRTA fund raising campaign will commence April 15 with the mail-ing of address labels to members. Monies raised

will go toward funding $500 classroom grants to active teachers. Several awards have been made in the past to teachers in this area, including La-mar R-I.

The final meeting of Barton County Retired Teachers for the current school year will be May 6 in the fellowship hall of Lamar First Christian Church. Breakfast will be at 8:30 with the business session beginning at 9:00.

Lamar Democrat/Richard CooperJack Poston of Desloge, current MRTA

president, was guest speaker at the April 1 meeting of Barton County Retired Teachers. Also, Poston is president of the Desloge Board of Education.

Among area counties, only Jasper County adds jobs in February

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

JEFFERSON CITY-Jasper Coun-ty’s job numbers expanded by 474 in February, but as 630 more job seekers joined the labor force, the unemployment rate inched upward to 4.9 percent. That was two-tenths of a per-cent higher than in January.

All of the other four counties that the Democrat tracks lost jobs in February, but the rise in their un-employment rates were softened by lower numbers in their labor forces. Vernon County lost 61 jobs while at the same time 35 job seekers dropped out of its labor force. The result was an increase in its unem-ployment rate from 5.3 percent in January to 5.6 percent in February.

Cedar County had 57 fewer jobs in February and a drop in its la-bor force of 36. Consequently, its unemployment rate went from 5.5 percent in January to 5.9 in Febru-ary.

Dade County inched upward half a percent to 6.0 percent unemploy-ment. It lost 35 jobs, and its labor

force declined by 20.Barton County continues to have

the highest unemployment rate of the five counties with 6.6 percent. Its job losses came to 58 while its labor force shrank by 25. However, when you run the numbers, Barton County is not doing so badly in the

long term. The to-tal number of jobs in January, 2015, came to 5,249. That was the greatest number of jobs produced in the county since December, 2007, when 5,407 were working.

Missouri’s un-employment rate

in February was 5.5 percent, the same as January’s revised figure. The national rate was the same, fol-lowing a year-end revised rate of 5.5 percent.

In neighboring Kansas, the state-wide unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent for the fourth consec-utive month. Specific figures for the three Kansas counties bordering the state line nearest Barton County are running a month behind their normal release date. January figures show Crawford and Bourbon coun-ties at 5.5 percent, and Cherokee at 4.7 percent.

Barton Countycontinues to

have the highestunemployment rateof the five counties

Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO www.lamardemocrat.com Wednesday, April 8, 2015 • 3A

FRIENDS & FAMILYMemories of days gone by to be included in new book

Hometown Memories Publishing is saving a big slice of local history in a book that will con-tain tales of bygone years, from people who actu-ally lived them. The 20th century saw tremendous change, from horses and buggies to space travel. Never before in his-tory has such profound change occurred during so short a period. Home-town Memories’ mission is to save and share these stories before they are lost forever.

The following is an ex-cerpt to be included in the book by Lamar au-thor Barbara Winning-ham. Barbara was a city girl, born in 1953.

I was a city girl. When I was 12 everything changed. My step grand-pa developed Hodgkin's Lymphoma disease. He died. We ended up on a family farm east of Shel-don. On this farm was no running water, no in-door toilet and no WHB radio. And if that wasn't bad enough, there was no bathtub. The biggest town was 12 miles away.

What a mess I found myself in. I had two brothers and a sister, but soon after I had a baby

sister born November 1966.

I was petrified when I had to go to the outhouse at night. I heard the coy-otes howling. There were cows and we had to learn to milk. It's funny how kids adjust so easily.

It wasn't long and dad had a well dug. But I re-member my grandpa came over (my mom’s dad). He took a forked twig of a tree. He walked around all over the yard, the stick pointed down. That's where the well was dug. Sure enough, there was water. It was iron water, but my parents got a water softener. The in-door plumbing was nice.

The farmhouse only consisted of a kitchen, living room and two bed-rooms. They heated with a tiny little wood stove. My grandparents had no TV; however, they loved to listen to base-ball games. We had to sit on the couch and look at Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs when we visited. But it wasn't very long before dad added onto the farmhouse. I had a room of my own. He let me pick out my wall color (pinkish orange). I was so

proud of my room.I had so many adven-

tures. We learned to mushroom hunt and had many a good meal. On the farm was three fields in the bottoms. Dad planted corn down by the creek. We had a black lab and one time he got bit by a snake on his nose. His nose swelled up so huge, but he did survive.

Dad had a new pond built. Oh my goodness, my siblings and me learned to swim there. And I liked to go frog gigging. I’d get a shiny hook and oh-so-patiently would tempt any frog I saw. And one day I gigged the largest frog I ever saw. I went running to the farmhouse and my dad was napping. I held that big ol’ frog right in front of my dad’s face. The frog was dangling and I was so happy. I don't remember what I did with the frog. My dad was good-na-tured about it. I was just proud.

After my dad would plow up the middle of Ford Field, us kids would love to go down in the bottoms after a fresh rain. And where the rain-washed the dirt off of the arrowheads we

would find them. That field was full of arrow-heads. I had quite the collection. We went to ar-rowhead hunt quite a bit. We later learned there was an Indian dwelling in the bluffs, just about a quarter of a mile from the house. I can't remem-ber which tribe, but they sure had made a lot of ar-rowheads.

We had chickens. So we learned to pick up eggs and water and feed them. Mom raised capons and we had butchering days. My mom could really cook fried chicken so de-licious. Sunday dinners were yummy with green beans we picked out of the garden. And yes, we pulled weeds, but also fresh corn, tomatoes and peas. I learned to garden and cook. The summers were hot and no AC.

We considered our-

selves very poor. But we were happy. I can milk a cow, clean a chicken and fry it for your dinner with homemade bread.

My parents did not take us to church in the city. But, when we moved to the country my grandma invited me to church. Back then women and girls did not wear pants to church. The preacher preached on Jesus rid-ing on the white horse, crown of thorns on his head and his purple robe in Revelation. When he was done preaching I went up to the altar and asked Jesus in my heart. That was March 13. I raised my children in the church, still love my Sav-ior and am so glad I had a praying grandma.

I raised seven children. I was a foster mom, adopt-ed three children. I also did the AFS program for

China and Chile. I had a handicapped child, am a 30-year hairdresser, have three children's books published and manage an apartment complex in NLR for seniors.

Over 135 people from southwest Missouri have already contributed sto-ries for the book. Karen Garvey, senior editor at Hometown Memories, says “We are really excit-ed about this collection of stories from southwest Missouri. The submis-sions we have received are wonderful and we expect many more lo-cal stories to come in.” She invites anyone who might want to contrib-ute to call her toll free at (877) 239-1602, or go to the web site www.home-townmemoriesonline.com to contribute a story. The deadline for story submission is April 15.

Frank, Maxine and David Rader left for Florida at 7 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 23, flying on Allegiant Airlines out of the Springfield Branson Regional Airport in Springfield. After arriving at the Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla., they rented a red Jeep Cherokee from Alamo for three weeks. The Mystic Dunes Resort and Golf Club in Celebration, Fla. was their home for the three weeks they were there.

The Raders ate at the Sizzler on Wednesday, Feb. 25, and the Black Angus Steakhouse on Friday, Feb. 27. Wednes-day, March 4, they ate at Smokey Bones Bar and Fire Grill and Thursday, March 5, they dined at Ponderosa.

Friday, March 6, they traveled to ESPN Wide World of Sports for Spring Training Baseball, where they got to see the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves, 9-8. Tuesday, March 10, they returned to see the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets, 3-2.

Rosalie and Richard Waskow and their dog Bo, from Vian, Okla., came to visit the Raders at their hotel and on Wednesday, March 11, the Raders returned to the ESPN Wide World of Sports to see the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves, 6-2.

Golden Corral was their destination to eat on Friday, March 13 and on Sunday, March 15, they ate at Denny's.

The Raders left the Orlando Sanford International Air-port in Sanford, Fla., on Monday, March 16, fly-ing on Allegiant Airlines to the Springfield Branson Airport in Springfield. They ar-rived home at 2:17 p.m. on Monday, March 16.

Melody Metzger/Lamar DemocratA large crowd gathered for St. Mary's Catholic Church's annual fish fry

held Friday, March 27, at Memorial Hall in Lamar. Diners enjoyed a meal of fish, fried potatoes and onions, pinto beans, macaroni and cheese,

coleslaw, hush puppies, cornbread, a drink and dessert. Call-in orders were also taken, with walk-in takeouts available as well. Due to extenuating circumstances the annual fish fry was not able to be held last year and by the looks of it, it was definitely missed as many took advantage of the delicious meal. Proceeds will go to St. Mary's Summer Camp for youth, as well as other activities that may need funding.

St. Mary's Catholic Church holds successful fish fry

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Letter to editorDear Editor:Enclosed is a check

for $65. I was in the hospital and rehab, the cause pneumonia, when it needed to be paid.

I started to take the Lamar Democrat the summer of 1947 under the name Miss Flor-ence Smith, employed by Frank Horton & Company. I moved to Greenfield in May of 1950 when I married Glenn Siders. I've re-ceived it consecutively since then.

Yes, I knew your grandfather when em-ployed at Frank Hor-ton & Co.

Sorry I'm late.Florence Siders

(a good Republican taking the Democrat

all these years)

Dear Editor:I, Carolyn Carrier,

would like to address the issue of Lockwood R1 School Board elimi-nating the Family and Consumer Science Curriculum (FACS) and FCCLA in the high school.

As a former FACS teacher at Lockwood teaching FACS was a passion of mine. Along with my predecessor, Renee Meents, it has taken many years and hours of hard work to build a program that is very beneficial to the students. It is very dis-couraging to see this program eliminated.

The FACS classes are listed under Practi-cal Arts because they focus on family and careers and the knowl-edge gained from these classes will be useful for the student’s entire life. Plus they can be counted as electives for graduation.

The courses include Family Relationships, Child Development, Foods and Nutrition, Housing and Interior Design, Fashion De-sign and Leadership and Careers. FACS teachers can also teach Health and Personal Finance, which are re-quired classes. For a few years while teaching FACS, the eighth grade students were brought over to the high school for a class. So there is not a lack of courses to teach. Health enrolls half of the sophomore class each semester and when you add stu-dents each semester in the FACS classes, that should be a large enough percentage of the total enrollment of the high school to verify the program. If

eliminated, this would definitely limit the cours-es students would have available besides their core subjects.

The Department of Career and Technical Education under the Missouri Department of Elementary and Second-ary Education (DESE) has been advising school districts to promote ca-reer education and here Lockwood is cutting out the FACS classes, which would prepare students to meet one of the state’s program objective of bal-ancing personal, home, family and work lives. The FACS, Ag and Busi-ness Departments are approved by the Career and Technical Education Department.

Several grants have been written and ap-proved by the state for the FACS Department. The state has shared half of the cost with the school for equipment such as ranges, refrigera-tor, dishwasher, storage units, computers, print-ers, cameras, kitchen ap-pliances, plus curriculum guides, leadership train-ing conferences and vari-ous teaching aids. In the last couple of years the school has refinished the floor and cabinets. What is going to happen to the

room and equipment? Is it going to end up like the Industrial Education De-partment?

So now for FCCLA, which is another passion of mine. The FCCLA Chapter cannot exist without a FACS program since the adviser has to be a FACS teacher.

I witnessed so many students gain confidence, leadership skills, and public speaking abil-ity by participating in STAR events through community service proj-ects, career opportuni-ties, personal growth and projects working with children to list a few. They competed and won awards at the regional, state and national level.

Lockwood has had sev-eral regional and state officers. In fact voting delegates from other schools in Region 11 had confidence in a Lock-wood student’s leader-ship ability to vote her as next year’s regional president. Without the FACS program she will have to relinquish this

position or transfer to a different school in the re-gion with an FCCLA and pay tuition. Plus the local officers will not be able to fulfill their leadership ability. Do we really want to deprive these students of this opportunity? While being an adviser for this extra-curricular activity I never had a stu-dent injure their knees, shoulders or had a con-cussion.

The Lockwood com-munity has always been very supportive of the FACS Program, so it doesn’t surprise me that many phone calls and social media messages have been sent to express their desire to keep the program and why it is so necessary for the stu-dents.

It is my sincere plea that the school board recon-sider and allow the FACS Program to continue at Lockwood High School for the best interest of the students.

Carolyn CarrierLockwood

FRIENDS & FAMILYMETZGER’S MUTTERINGS

as the younger children in the foster care system.”

For five years America’s Farmers Grow Commu-nities has collaborated with farmers to donate over $16.5 million to over 7,300 community orga-nizations across rural America. This year win-ning farmers will direct another $3.3 million to nonprofits to help fight rural hunger, purchase life saving fire and EMS equipment, support ag youth leadership pro-grams, buy much needed classroom resources and so much more.

America’s Farmers Grow Communities is part of the America’s Farmers initiative. Since 2010 the America’s Farm-

ers campaign and pro-grams have advocated on behalf of farmers and their efforts to meet soci-ety’s needs through agri-culture. Today, consum-ers are more interested than ever in agriculture and how food is grown. Consider joining the con-versation and helping to raise awareness about ag-riculture. Learn more at FoodDialogues.com.

A sister program in the America’s Farmers effort, Grow Rural Education, is currently in its farmer nomination phase. Farm-ers interested in support-ing math and science education in their com-munities should visit www.GrowRuralEduca-tion.com to learn how.

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pleted. The brush crew may be working ahead or behind the rubbish crew.

Criteria for the cleanup is that items must be able to be picked up by two men and items that are small and can be easily scattered must be put in bags. Separate piles must be made of the follow-ing: Brush and limbs (no leaves will be picked up at this time and as always, you may drop these off at

a brush pile southwest of the park); rubbish or dis-card items; regular trash picked up by sanitation trucks; tires and appli-ances (to be accepted from residences only).

Scheduled times for the spring cleanup are: Ward 3, April 27, 28 and 29; Ward 4, April 30 and May 1 and 4; Ward I, May 5, 6 and 7 and Ward 2, May 11, 12 and 13.

Saturation, continued from page 1A

order to introduce our improved publication to the public. We have been providing this service since December of 2013 and our intention is to saturate the area at least every other month, or six times a year.

The saturation issue has proven to be a huge success, with many ad-vertisers taking this op-portunity to promote their businesses. Anyone that is interested in ad-vertising in the April 15 edition should contact Melissa Little at 417-682-5529, ext. 62, or e-mail her at melissa@la-mardemocrat.com. The deadline is 10 a.m. Mon-

day, April 13.This is a prime oppor-

tunity to promote local businesses, as the Lamar Democrat will literally go out to several thou-sand households that otherwise might not re-ceive the paper.

If for any reason sub-scribers do not receive a paper on this date, please feel free to call me (Mel-ody) at 417-682-5529, ext. 60 and I will person-ally make sure that you receive one.

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By MELODY METZGERLamar Democrat

As I get older it seems that more of my friends and acquaintances are slipping away. I know this is a natural progression that happens as we age, but that doesn't make it any easier to loose people that have played a vital role in our life. This past week I have had a double whammy, that has made me feel that my child-hood is slipping away. I related this fact to one of my best friends and she informed me that my childhood would never slip away, as long as I kept that “little girl” inside of me. She is a very wise friend.

As some may know I grew up in Richardson, Texas, and still consider it my hometown, even though I was born in Lamar and have resided

here most of my life. Richardson was a won-derful place to be back in the 1960's, when my dad was transferred there. At the time the population was around 10,000; now it is a little over 100,000.

We moved to our house on Belt Line when I was eight and soon af-ter a family with 10 kids moved two doors down. There were two girls about my age, and two boys near brother Mar-tin's age and we soon became close friends. Margaret was, and still is, my best friend. Even now, 50 years later we still have that connec-tion that close friends develop over the years. She now resides in Mon-tana, while I'm here, so we don't get to see each other as much as we'd like, but her mom (who is like my second mom) is still alive and living in

East Texas, not too far from where we go when we visit. I was blessed a few years back to spend time with Margaret and her mom, and it was as if we had just seen each other the day before, in-stead of years.

One of Margaret's older brother's, Joe, was a few years older than me and I remember having a huge crush on him even at the age of eight. I spoke to Margaret a couple of days ago after learning that he had finally succumbed to a long, hard battle with

cancer. I know he's in a much better place, but it has left a hole in my heart where my childhood memories dwell.

Then today, while home at lunch, I learned that David Kaplan, owner of Sun Rexall Drug in Rich-ardson, had passed at the age of 93. My stepdad, mom, brother-in-law, myself and many close friends worked at one time or another for the drug store. At the time it was like we are here at the Democrat, just one big happy family.

The Kaplan family was Jewish and the drug store was opened 365 days a year, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. At Christmastime they would let the work-ers have the day off, while the family kept the store open. The soda shop, complete with a Mina bird named Jo Jo, was the favorite hangout for many. Sun Rexall's motto was, “If we don't have it, just ask, and we'll find it for you” and they would. In fact, in later years there were problems with the fire inspectors as the

store had stuff crammed in every nook, as far as the eye could see. If Sun Rexall didn't have it, it didn't exist!

So here's to you Joe Shafer and David Kaplan, may you live forever in my memories and re-mind me of what a won-derful childhood I had, growing up in the perfect town, at the perfect time. I will forever relish the memories that these two special men played in my youth. May their spirit live on forever...

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SCHOOL

Case Tucker, son of Jenny and Jeff Tucker, is the sixth grade Student of the Week at Lamar Middle School. Case likes to play football, baseball and basketball. In his spare time he likes to hang out with friends and family. He wants to play college baseball when he's older.

Greggory Mather, son of Jeremy and Shan Mather, is the seventh grade Student of the Week at Lamar Middle School. Greggory enjoys track and basketball, but cross-country is his favorite. Math Counts is something that he enjoys in his spare time. Math is his favorite subject in school.

Siarra McCarthy, daughter of Christ and Patricia McCarthy, is the eighth grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. Siarra likes to hang out with her friends and family. She loves to play basketball, track and cheerleading. She is always a little random at times.

Jasper High School posts thirdquarter honor roll

JASPER-The third quar-ter honor roll has been released by Jasper High School.

A Honor RollSENIORS- Curtis An-

drews, Larissa Atnip, Hal-ey Bennett, Bailey Bettes, Rebecca Carney, Kenedey Chaligoj, Chet Corle, Re-becca Darrow, Katlyn Fonger, Addison Gastle, Kyle Ghumm, Austin Gloodt, Chandra How-ard, Sabrina Kannmore, Marissa Leivan, Robert McNeely, Ashley Porter, Monica Steeves, Kamryn Stump, Matt Stump, An-nie Wright.

JUNIORS- Andrew Adams, Nicolas Adkins,

Anne-Marie Anibal, Park-er Athey, Harold Bechtle, Brianna Cawyer, Shelby Dockery, MaKensey Dumm, Audra Etcheson, Kortlin Garvin, Shelbie Gill, Leslie Grijalva, Blake Jeffries, Elizabeth Mane-val, Keylee McCutcheon, Elizabeth Medrano, Isaac Oliphant, Jenna Rector, Regan Smith.

SOPHOMORES- Levi Brown, Keegan Cho-rum, Rylee Ervin, Grace Gazaway, Ryan Harshaw, Ian Henderson, Hayden Howard, Alina Krolivets, Daylan Leivan, Mason Olinger, Drew Penning-ton, Emily Peterson, Hai-ley Reynolds, Dorothea

Wenderoth.FRESHMEN- Kait-

lyn Adams, Blake Bet-tes, Terra Bowman, Tyler Brawley, Josiah Brinkhoff, Avery Brouillard, Ra-chel Crazybear, Reagan Dumm, Seth Jensen, Er-ica Rinkenberger, Garde-nia Rivera.

B Honor RollSENIORS- Jared Ball,

Hayden Davis, Jonathan Davis, Layne Gossett, Jonathan Nally, Austin Rose, Isaac Spry, Talon Stump.

JUNIORS- Braiden Da-vis, Kori Harper, Alysha Harr, Taelor Hildebrand, Jacob Martin, Ashley Mc-Carthy, Jacob Oliphant,

Matthew Potter, Morgan Winchester.

SOPHOMORES- Birgit Anzjon, Joey Baker, Na-than Bechtle, Alex Bei-er, Jonathan Brinkhoff, Nicholas Chartier, Ste-phen Grimmett, Joshua Losinger, Bailey Masters, Kenneth Moua, Hector Rivera, TK Roeber, Byron Stevens, Joy Waldbuesser, Lane Webb, Christine Zimmerling.

FRESHMEN- Makayla Blevins, Isis Castro, Alex Corle, Andrew Corle, Ste-vie Galiani, Preston Harr, Olivia Maneval, McGuire Rice, Tad Sisseck, Lo-gan Winchester, Sophia Xiong.

Third quarter honor roll released byJasper Junior High

JASPER-Jasper Junior High School has released its third quarter honor roll.

A Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE-

Hadley Atnip, Chris-topher Barker, Caleb Brown, William Chaffin, Katelyn Dockery, Kelly Dockery, Kaylee Jo Fly-

nn, Laura Huber, Kier-stin Johnston, Salvador Loyola, Nancy Medrano, Aden Sisseck, Brianna Willet.

SEVENTH GRADE- Annika Anzjon, Levi Braker, Wyatt Braker, Hallie Corle, Alyssa Dunfield, Madelyn Gas-tel, Kristy Hollidays, Pat-

en Neher, Jared Rinken-berger, Kathryn Smith, Nickolas Stark, Sydney Webb, Alora Wilkie.

B Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE-

Brittany Ball, Bailey Danner, Jacob Giurbino, Jonathan Kohley, Mason Lillard, Perry Maddison, Kolby Rutledge, Destiny

Stewart, Krystal Swear-ingin, Skyla Vailes, Leeah Walker, Darian York.

SEVENTH GRADE- Erin Atnip, Jesse Chavez, Jr., Nicholas Colley, Colton Crews, Rebecca Gaskins, Alexis Lank-ford, Kayne McNeely, Tristin Potts, Nichelle Ziler.

Lockwood EMS releases third quarter honor roll

LOCKWOOD-The third quarter honor roll has been released by Lockwood Elementary and Middle School:

A Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE-

Heather Byrnes, Kourt-ney Mein, Breez Smith, Abriel Vaughn.

SEVENTH GRADE- Joe Cota, Lakin Neill.

SIXTH GRADE- Makinley Neill.

FIFTH GRADE- Alyssa Pierce.

FOURTH GRADE- Justin Aldridge, Don Borchardt, Christine Clemons, Blake Cossins, Kolton Gulick, Brooke Hull, Owen Neely, Adrien Neill, Claud Trent, Joel Trolinder and Nick Xiong.

THIRD GRADE- An-gelea Brewer, Gerry Law-man, Ethan Bowman, Clair VanVolkanburgh.

A/B Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE-

Sammantha Bayless, Hope Dunagan, Jailyn Foster, Makenzie Pu-rinton, Roy Snider.

SEVENTH GRADE-

Brittany Chenault, Gaege Queen, Kyler Routledge, Hunter Stump.

SIXTH GRADE- Da-kota Bayless, Tucker Berry, Sid Budimir, Ty-ler Dubs, Hannah Du-nagan, Blaine Garver, Tarryn Glenn, Quinton Raymond.

FIFTH GRADE- Payton Berona, Bryar Brummett, Jacob Daigh, Alex Goodwin, Elijah Pettengill, Haid-en Queen, Braxton Routledge.

FOURTH GRADE- Gracie Boyd, Breckyn Brummett, Kamon Cooper, Cheryl Dan-ner, Breanna Dotson, Nathan England, Elijah Kerr, Tristan Osterdyk, Jayden Stephens.

THIRD GRADE- Ki-ley Brookshire, Kona Daniel, Gabrielle Dan-ner, Emma Goodwin, Kayden Lafon, Macy McElroy, Faith Obert, Dayla Routledge, Han-nah Steeley, Izaac Tay-lor, Autumn Trolinder, Skyler Weimer.

Lockwood High School releases third quarter honor roll

LOCKWOOD-The third quarter honor roll has been released by Lockwood High School.

All A Honor RollSENIORS-Emily Backs,

Grace Beerly, Alexis By-rnes, Thomas Eggerman, Olivia Finley, Christian Foster, Maria Garibaldo, Jolean Hackney, Ariel Hagemaster, Jessica Ne-ntrup, Ashley Rorman, Noah Sowell.

JUNIORS-Lauren Al-len, Morgan Brewer, Ramsey Divine, Tessa Dunfield, Grace Keith, Kelsey Mein, Kaylee Os-terdyk, Samantha Pat-ton, Ben Schnelle, Ellen Schnelle, Shelby Single-ton, Kristina Weaver, Shi-nez Wilkinison.

SOPHOMORES-Noble Foster, Olivia Nentrup, Meredith Robinson, Hayden Vaughn.

FRESHMEN-Roxsanna Allen, Kallie Caldwell, Drew Cerrone, Cade Hol-

man, Rylee Neill, Luke Nentrup, Daisy Patton, Sydney Rice.

A/B Honor RollSENIORS-Heidi

Hicks, Abby Julian.JUNIORS-Levi Ben-

nett, Jake Byrnes, Emma Coose, Jonathon Cossins, Brittany McEl-roy, Chandler Moen-ning, Eric Oetljen, Lindsey Potter, Robert Raymond, Sam Sconce.

SOPHOMORES-Will Beerly, Kyle Bouldin, Karson Bruner, Robert Foster, Stoney Jackson, Leigh Mundy, Noah Schnelle, William Ste-fan, Brady Waters.

FRESHMEN-Kaleb Bouldin, Zach Brewer, Moriah Coose, Eliza-beth Cossins, Zach Keith, Kaylee Ken-non, Jayd Forst, Brady Oeltjen, Josh Osterdyk, Dakota Reynolds-Coo-per, Rachel Schnelle, Logan Sparkman.

Luthi is one of 37 selected for PSU fall honors college

PITTSBURG, Kan.-Pittsburg State Univer-sity has announced that Caleb Luthi is one of 37 students selected for its 2015 Fall Honors Col-lege freshman class.

Luthi is a senior at La-mar High School and while at PSU he will ma-jor in plastics engineer-ing technology.

Craig Fuchs, director of the honors college, said the quality of the in-coming freshman class is outstanding.

“These are some ex-ceptional young men and women,” Fuchs said. “They have demonstrat-ed not only high aca-demic success, but also strong character. We are pleased that they are now part of the Pittsburg

State University family.”The PSU Honors Col-

lege was established to attract and retain high-achieving students to the campus and to provide them with an education-ally enriched university experience. Applica-tion to the honors col-lege is open to incoming freshmen with an ACT composite score of 28 or higher or an SAT com-posite score of 1240 or higher. In addition, they must have completed a pre-college curriculum and have a high-school GPA of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

Students selected for the honors college are eligible to receive schol-arship assistance rang-ing from $2,200 a year

for Crimson and Gold members to $9,500 a year for the Presiden-tial Award. Presidential and university award re-cipients are also eligible to receive a one-time $2,000 study-abroad sti-

pend.For more information

about the PSU Honors College visit their web-site at www.pittstate.edu/academics/honors or call Craig Fuchs at 620-235-4176.

PSU awards scholarship to McArthur

PITTSBURG, Kan.-Logan McArthur, an incom-ing freshman at Pittsburg State University, has been awarded the Wayne and Dorothea B. Vonier Schol-arship for the 2014-15 academic semesters.

Logan, who is the son of JD and Cheryl McArthur, Lamar, will be majoring in Wood Technology.

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Two Sheldon R-VIII students did extremely well at Skills USA, through Lamar Vo-Tech. Micah Swanson, son of Jim and Lisa Swanson, placed first in Districts and fifth at State in Welding Fabrications. Ashley Baxter, daughter of Brenda Baxter and Melvin Baxter, placed second in Districts and first at State in Precision Machining Technology Information. For her first place rating, Ashley was awarded a $2000 scholarship for her District placement and a $10,000 scholarship for her State first place to Lincoln College of Technology in Indiana. Sheldon schools are very proud of their student's accomplishments.

Ten students from Lamar Career and Technical Center traveled to Lake of the Ozarks on March 15-17, to compete at the Missouri DECA State Career Development Conference. DECA is an organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in the fields of marketing, finance, hospitality and man-agement.

Students competing at the conference were juniors Kynlee Lehman and Kinley Roth and seniors Land-on Maberry, Emily Kremp, Caleb Luthi, Anastasiya Ponomarenko, Zane Hull, Alycia Cole, Isabella Hagen and Callie Burgess.

Ponomarenko competed in Principles of Marketing

and placed fourth; Lehman and Maberry competed in Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making and placed fifth and Kremp competed in Re-tail Merchandising and was announced as one of the top 10 competitors in her event.

Both Ponomarenko and Kremp will travel to Or-lando, Fla. in April, to attend the International Career

Development Conference. Ponomarenko will contin-ue to compete in her event on the international level and Kremp will fulfill her duties as Missouri DECA District 10 vice president.

On average, 17,000 students from the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Guam, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico and Puerto Rico compete at ICDC every year.

SCHOOL/SPORTS

Winners from the 2015 Missouri State SkillsUSA Championships, held March 26-28, at State Technical College in Linn were front row, Ashley Baxter, first place - Precision Machining Technical Information; Kathy Pierce, second place - Graphic Communications Technical Information; Avery Rosenthal, first place - Graphic Communications; back row, Grace Keith, Tanner Darrow and Josie Kaderly, first place - Vinyl Sign Making (second year in a row for Lamar to participate in and win this contest, Josie was on last year's team, too) and Johnathan Schroeder, second place - Advertising Design Technical Information. Kaderly also placed first in the Advertising Design Technical Information contest. Not pictured is Caleb Luthi, third place - Precision Machining Technical Information; second place - Technical Math and first place - CNC Technician. This first place finish qualifies Caleb to attend the National SkillsUSA contest in Louisville, Ky. this summer.

LHS finishes sixth overall in Spring 2015 Mind Games

The Lamar High School Academic Team finished sixth overall at the con-clusion of the Spring 2015 Mind Games. Eighteen high schools competed, with a total of 28 teams

playing in prelim sessions at LHS and at College Heights Christian School.

Neosho finished as champion; Branson placed second and College Heights took third.

In the individual scor-ing competition, Car-men Miller, from Lamar High School, finished as the third-highest in-dividual scorer for the tournament.

Area DECA students travel to compete

Pictured are, left to right, Landon Maberry, Kynlee Lehman and Anastasiya Ponomarenko.

Students from Lamar Career and Technical Center that traveled to the state career development conference were, left to right, Zane Hull, Anastasiya Ponomarenko, Kynlee Leman, Kinley Roth, Callie Burgess, Alycia Cole, Isabella Hagen, Caleb Luthi and Landon Maberry.

Area students participate in state Skills USA Championships

Lamar students participating included, back row, left to right, Jasper Messner and Grace Dunlap; second row, Jazlyn Griffitt, Jasmin Messner, Ethan McAfee, Brianna Miller and Carmen Miller; front row, Kelli Sheat, Geoffrey Hargrave, Bethany Swartz and Megan Schlichting.

Sheldon Vo-Tech studentsplace at Skills USATigers off

to terrific startThe Lamar Tigers are off to a hot

start to their 2015 campaign, win-ning their first six games following a 9-3 thumping of Rich Hill last week.

A five run third inning sparked the Tigers who got three and a third in-nings out of Tanner Phipps, who re-corded the victory striking out seven and allowing only one hit. He didn't walk a batter. Colton Divine finished the game on the hill. Only two of the three runs he allowed were earned.

Offensively, Derek Henderson led the way going 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI. Todd Morrow also had two hits and an RBI. As a team the Ti-gers had six hits and drew six walks.

The win over Rich Hill comes on the heels of a no-hitter dealt by se-

nior right-hander Tripp Tucker, who fanned nine in five innings in a 10-0 victory over Butler. He didn't allow a base runner, dominating the Bears. He struck out the side, facing the top of their order in the fourth inning. He was almost as hard on the visit-ing Bears at the plate where he went 2-for-3 with three runs batted in. Di-vine and Morrow each had two hits. Divine's double in the fourth was the Tigers only extra base hit.

The victory was the Tigers second over Butler. They defeated the Bears in the season opener in their tourna-ment, which the Tigers won after Jas-per 15-0 and East Newton 3-2.

Thad Lundine's team will will host the Liberal Bulldogs Friday.

“Starry Night” was theme for Sheldon prom“Starry Night” was the theme for the Sheldon High School

Prom, held Saturday, March 28, at the high school. Music was provided by Platinum Entertainment. Royalty crowned were Prom Queen Beth Spencer, daughter of Joe and Audra Spencer, and Prom King was C.J. Curry, son of Sunshine Merry.

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Calling all Barton County area ladies

Gorgeous by Design, a wom-en's day for all ladies in the Barton County area, will be held Saturday, May 2, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the First Christian Church, 1208 Walnut, Lamar.

This free event is sponsored by a combined effort of area churches and individuals, to offer hope and encouragement from the heart of the Creator.

A light breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., with the program to begin

at 9 a.m. Speaker and author Laura Mullenix, a former La-mar native now residing in Plano, Texas, along with Nancy Hughes, a local speaker and au-thor, will be sharing and Teresa Little will lead a worship team of singers and musicians from area churches.

Lunch will be catered free of charge. Preregistration is need-ed by April 13. Please sign up at area churches or call Nancy Hughes at 417-262-0080.

National Public Health Week recognizedBarton County Health Department

recognizes National Public Health Week by promoting this year’s theme, “Public Health: Better Health. Bet-ter Missouri.” National Public Health Week is celebrated the first week of April each year. Public health is in all the places you trust like child care fa-cilities, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

Public health works by:* Protecting and improving health

of communities through identifica-

tion of health risks such as smoking, high blood pressure, poor nutrition, high cholesterol, physical inactivity and overweight/obesity, education and promotion of healthy lifestyles aimed at disease and injury prevention.

* With partners to improve health status and evaluate efforts using MAPP – Mobilizing for Action through Plan-ning Partnership.

* Helping prevent health problems before they occur through immuniza-tions, safer and healthier foods, injury

prevention, safer work places, prevent-ing falls and safeguarding recreational water.

* Ensuring healthy development for at-risk populations through the WIC – Women, Infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, safe sleeping guidelines and lead poisoning prevention.

* In preventing, detecting and diag-nosing health issues such as chronic diseases, newborn health issues and animal and vector-borne diseases. Sur-

veillance and monitoring for diseases and outbreaks is part of early detec-tion.

* Informing and empowering com-munities to make better health choices.

* Anticipating community and indi-vidual health needs during emergency events.

Good personal health is made easier through good public health.

For more information contact the Barton County Health Department at 417-682-3363.

Melody Metzger/Lamar DemocratDespite the cooler weather, several gathered at the Lamar Saddle Club grounds on

Saturday, March 28. An appreciation lunch serving hotdogs and chips was featured, along with a Coggins Clinic and farrier service by Cody Scheets. The Lamar Saddle Club is presently accepting memberships at $10 per year, or $20 per family.

American Red Cross is at work in the communityThe American Red Cross

shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters, supplies about 40 percent of the nation’s blood, teaches skills that save lives, provides international hu-manitarian aid and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a not-for-profit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American

public to perform its mission.Locally, The American Red

Cross of Southern Missouri assisted at least 16 people in Vernon County during Febru-ary alone. Five of those helped were under 18 years of age. Two people were age 60 or old-er. They opened seven cases in the county. Families in Schell City, Moundville and Nevada received assistance that in-cluded food, clothing, lodging

and helping replace glasses. Not only does The American Red Cross help at the time of a disaster such as a fire, their volunteers continue to provide support to these families go-ing forward, by doing follow up work to ensure all needs are met and the individuals have a clear path to recovery from this personal disaster. Barton County is in the south-west response area that also

includes Cedar, St. Clair, Ver-non, Jasper, Newton, McDon-ald, Dade, Lawrence and Barry counties.

Anyone that would like to become a Red Cross volun-teer, helping local friends and neighbors, please go to red-cross.org or call 866-221-8238, or the Joplin office at 417-624-4411. The local contact is Joyce Wallace at 417-465-2655. They will be glad to help volunteers

find an area they can help in. The American Red Cross has also scheduled a new volunteer orientation on Thursday, April 9, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Pine Street Baptist Church in Nevada. Let them know if you would be interested in signing up.

Red Cross volunteers help by touching others with under-standing, mercy and compas-sion when it is needed most.

Edward Jones recognized by Forbes MagazineIn its first-ever ranking of best

employers, Forbes magazine rated Edward Jones the high-est-ranking financial-services firm out of the list of 500 com-panies spanning 27 industries in the magazine's "America's Best Employers 2015" edition, according to Pat Barr.

The firm's overall ranking

was No. 24 out of the 500 com-panies on the list.

More than 20,000 American workers at 3,500 large compa-nies and non-profit institutions were polled online and asked how likely they would recom-mend their employers to oth-ers and how likely they would recommend other employers

within their industries."We are proud of our asso-

ciates and honored that their feedback has ranked us on the Forbes list of 500 best employ-ers as highest among financial services firms," said Edward Jones Managing Partner Jim Weddle. "Edward Jones strives to be a best place for our associ-

ates to work and for our clients to receive help accomplishing their life-long financial goals. Our work is extremely satisfy-ing - working together in part-nership to make a difference to our clients and each other."

This is the second prestigious ranking Edward Jones recently received. Earlier in March, For-

tune magazine named the firm No. 6 on its "100 Best Com-panies to Work For 2015" list. That was Edward Jones' 16th appearance on the list.

Edward Jones also appears on Forbes magazine's largest private companies list, which

Buchanan steps downfrom hospital board;Brett Boice to take over asnew chief of staff

The Barton County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees was called to order on March 23, by Chairperson Karen Wegener. Other board members pres-ent were Tom Shaw and Mike Vaughan. Also in attendance were CEO Wendy Duvall, Di-rector of Nursing Marlys Buck-ner, Director Quality/Risk Management Eden Ogden and Director of Human Resources Sheila Heckmaster. Guests were Chief of Medical Staff Dr. Hopkins, Dr. Brett Boice, Eva Davis and Susan Whittle.

The February 23 minutes were read and unanimously approved as written. Duvall stated that the hospital had re-served a table for eight at the Barton County Chamber of Commerce annual banquet, and was needing to know who was planning to attend. She

also introduced Susan Whittle from Golden City, who was at-tending and auditing the meet-ing as a possible candidate to take the place of Mike Buchan-an.

In statistics, Duvall reported that February was a busier month than January, with the gross revenue being slightly higher. A loss of $140,000 was reported for the month, bringing a year to date loss of $171,000. Duvall stated that a combined method to calcu-late the Medicare and Medic-aid contractuals were still be-ing used, based on the gross accounts receivable at the month's end. She added that the 340B program at the Med Station has begun processing and that the hospital is wait-ing to receive their money. The projection for Walmart is about

60 days out, and processing should start soon after.

The clinics were reported as doing very well, with 500 more visits this year than at the same time last year. It was also mentioned that two CDs had matured and they were both renewed at the same 0.4 percent rate as before.

Ogden reported that the hospital continues to pro-vide blood pressure checks at the senior center on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month and Dr. Brett Boice and Dr. Michelle Boice have both started offering after hours appointments until 6:30 p.m., one evening a week. The Caregiver Sup-port Group was scheduled for April 8 and the chamber

Lamar Saddle Club holds appreciation lunch

Can’t file by April 15? Get an extension

By CHRISTOPHER A. RENION, CPA

April 15, the tax filing dead-line for 2014 federal income tax returns, will be here before you know it. If you won’t be able to file your income tax re-turn by then, be sure to file for an extension using Form 4868. The extension is automatically granted and gives you until October 15, 2015, to file your return.

Be aware that an extension of time to file does not extend the due date for payment. Instead, you must estimate how much you’ll owe and pay that amount with the extension request. The IRS will assess interest on any unpaid balance. In addition, unless you pay at least 90 per-cent of your estimated tax lia-bility by April 15, you may owe

a late-payment penalty.Even if you can submit your

tax return by the April 15 dead-line, in some circumstances getting an extension might still be a good idea.

For example, say you can’t pay all of the tax you owe by April 15. An extension will allow you to defer paying part of the bal-ance until October 15. As long as you meet the prior-year safe harbor rule or pay 90 percent of your total current tax liabil-ity by April 15, you should not be subject to penalties on the balance due. And even though you’ll owe interest on the short-fall, the interest rate charged by the IRS may be less than the cost of borrowing elsewhere.

Are you self-employed? If you need a few extra months to fund your retirement plan fully, you might benefit by filing for an extension. To be deductible, retirement plan contributions must be made prior to the due date of your tax return, includ-ing extensions. By filing Form 4868, you have up to six ad-ditional months to fund your plan. Another benefit of filing for an extension: If you don’t already have a retirement plan, you can use the extra time to establish a SEP-IRA.

The information contained in this column is of a general nature and should not be acted upon in your specific situation without further details and/or professional assistance.

see HOSPITAL, page 6B

see JONES, page 6B

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THE LAMAR HEIGHTS BOARD WILL MEET Thursday, April 9, 5:45 p.m., at the office of Vicki Pugh, CPA.LIBRARY FRIENDS WILL HOLD A BOOK Sale now through April 15, at Lamar Memorial Hall.THE BARTON COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD of Trustees will meet Tuesday, April 14, 9:30 a.m., at the Mary K. Finley Library in Lamar. The tentative agenda will include (1) financial report review in-cluding approval of bills paid; (2) minutes and (3) director’s report.A GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP, OFFERED by Hos-pice Compassus and Daniel Funeral Home of Lamar will begin a new four week session on Monday nights, April 27 and May 4, 11 and 18, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Lamar United Methodist Church, 9th and Poplar. For information or to register call Hos-pice Compassus at 417-682-3809 or Daniel Funeral Home, 417-682-5518.THE AMERICAN RED CROSS WILL HOLD a blood drive on Monday, April 27, 12 noon to 6 p.m., at the First Baptist Church, 1301 E. 6th St., Lamar.COOKING WITH APPLES, PRESENTED by Mary Kuhn, will be presented free to the public on Wednesday, April 15, 3:30 p.m., at the Mary K. Finley Library in Lamar. Everyone who attends will receive a free cookbook and a free piece of her apple cake.THE BARTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY will meet Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m., at the Lamar United Methodist Church. Ed Keltner will give the story of Mrs. Sarah McCoy Crank, who was a wom-an preacher at the Christian Church in Liberal and in several other churches around the area.FIBER ART GUILD WILL MEET THURSDAY, April 16, 9 a.m., at the Food Station in Lamar. Roll call will be answered with a spring memory from childhood.GORGEOUS BY DESIGN, A DAY OF HOPE and encouragement for area ladies, will be held Saturday, May 2, at the First Christian Church in Lamar. Regis-tration will be from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. A program, with speakers Laura Mullenix and Nancy Hughes, will be-gin at 9 a.m. and the event will end at 2 p.m. Coffee, donuts and juice will be served, as well as a free lunch to be catered by Party Oasis. For pre-registration or information contact Nancy Hughes at 417-262-0080. The deadline to pre-register is April 13. All ladies are invited to join in for this day of testimonies, words of hope and lots of love.THE NIGH CEMETERY MEETING WLL BE held Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m., at the Cochran home, 1201 Crestwood Dr., in Lamar. For information call 417-884-2836.DINING TO DONATE, A MONTHLY event to support AOK, will be served Wednesday, April 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Nathan’s Place, 1005 Gulf St., La-mar. The April menu will include fried turkey, cheesy mashed potatoes, baked beans, garlic biscuit, choc-olate sheet cake and tea, lemonade or water for $6. Meals are available for dine in or carry out.BARTON COUNTY LIBRARY WILL HOLD training classes for Windows 8 Basics on Friday, April 17, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Trent Roby is the instruc-tor. To sign-up visit the Lamar branch or call 417-682-5355.LAMAR COMMUNITY BETTERMENT WILL meet Wednesday, April 8, 12 noon, at the Wolf Cen-ter. Bring your lunch and meet with others who are interested in making things happen in Lamar.THE BARTON COUNTY SINGING CONVEN-TION will be held Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m., at the Iantha Methodist Church. This is a quarterly non-denominational fellowship and all are welcome to join. Participation with song or spoken specials is welcome, but not required.

DEATHS & PAID MEMORIALS

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State V Jeremy A Gullick, written guilty plea.

State V Deaudra R Kel-ley, written guilty plea.

State V Charles Marion Wass, written guilty plea.

Discover Bank V Su-

sanne Shackelford, con-sent judgment.

Ally Financial Inc V Gary Hughes, default judgment.

State V Lisa Doyle, writ-ten guilty plea.

Jamie Agee V Hailley Shumake, consent judg-ment.

Barton County Memo-rial Hospital V Angela K Berryhill, default judg-ment.

Lisa J Timmons V Charles S Timmons, con-sent judgment.

Curless Farms V Stepha-nie Fisk, default judgment.

State V Justin Shawn Bashor, written guilty plea.

BARTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER LUNCH MENU: April 13-17

MONDAY- Cook's choice, entree, vegetable, fruit, bread, dessert, cof-fee/tea/milk.

TUESDAY- Sausage patties with gravy, oven hash browns, orange juice, biscuit, grapes, cof-fee/tea/milk.

WEDNESDAY- Cubed steak with rice and brown gravy, green beans, to-mato juice, hot roll, sliced apricots, coffee/tea/milk.

THURSDAY- Birth-day dinner, oven fried chicken, cheesy mashed potatoes, peas and car-rots, wheat roll, birth-day cake with strawber-ries, coffee/tea/milk.

FRIDAY- Chicken salad sandwich on wheat bread, tomato juice, frito chips, rosy applesauce, cottage cheese, pudding, cof-fee/tea/milk.

COURT MISCELLANEOUS

Special Warranty Deed, filed March 27, 2015. City of Lamar to Higgins Pallet Co., Inc.: A tract located in the northeast quarter of section 31, township 32, range 30, City of Lamar, Barton

County, Missouri.Warranty Deed, filed

March 27, 2015. Wil-liam John Harmsen and Penny Harmsen of Bar-ton County, Missouri to John M. Robinson and Susan Robinson of Bar-

ton County, Missouri: A tract commencing at the southwest cor-ner of lot 8 in block 9 of Parry's Addition to the Town of Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, and running thence east 70

feet, thence north 70 feet, thence west 70 feet, thence south 70 feet to the place of beginning, being a part of lots 7 and 8 in said block 9.

General Warrant Deed, filed March 30, 2015. Ja-

son Loren Hopgood and Ashlie Brook Hopgood to MS2 Investments, LLC: All of lot 7 in block 1 of Wyatt's Second Ad-dition to the Town of Golden City, Barton County, Missouri.

The time has come!By JACK SLADE

Cornerstone Baptist Church

Were it not for Chris-tians, there would be no America. Our people (generations) here and still coming, who braved the elements of the ocean, dry lands, wilder-ness and hostile environ-ments, who established who we are; if not for them, we would not remain. It was those courageous Christian men and women who made the USA the greatest nation on the planet, based on Bib-lical principles.

Those who wrote the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States were mostly profess-ing Christians, of every denomination or faith, and declared it openly. Seems now they fade into the shadows of the unknown. These individ-uals guaranteed us, then and now, the right based on the freedoms to vote with Judeo-Christian values, to elect those in-dividuals to any and all public offices.

Today, so much of what has been fought for has been taken away slowly. The evil religions of secular humanism promoted by anti-Chris-tian groups are bent on removing God, Jesus Christ from what got those who desire to take every good thing, pret-ty much to where they are today. The degrad-ing and tearing away of our religious freedoms, from the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with cer-tain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We once knew what was real hap-piness, without evading or infringing on others.

The American family, public school systems, local, state and national

government. The rise in immorality among nine to 13 year old children without parental con-sent. I can go on, but you get the picture. My call on life is to win souls for God's kingdom and to inform my congregates of the issues facing them and their lives. Abortion, marriage between a man and woman, for Chris-

tians to vote to preserve human life, to protect our rights, our country, marriage, family and so much more.

In the recent elections, may Christians have voted the conscience of God. To fight against those that are so deemed on taking away those rights that our forefa-thers in every battle bled and died for, for you and me to live right where we are and to keep it so. I don't know if this makes any sense, I just won-dered if anyone agreed that Christian' need to stand up and keep and make America strong again.

We Christian's num-ber more than over 70 million citizens. If more than 50 percent get to the polls, on any issue before us, this country and this government could be put back in the hands of morally committed lead-ers. Our children and grandchildren and more deserve no less!

Friends, as a pastor and a gospel minister for over 37 years and a writer, I urge you to pray and consider joining those concerned and help La-mar, Barton County and America from becoming

the last thing our fore-fathers intended - the United States of a secu-lar (godless) nation. In Steve Greens' hit song, "God Bless the USA” was a line I pray from time to time...."Don't take that away!”

The Bible tells us, "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when

the wicked rule, the people mourn." (Proverbs 29:2) KJV. “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any peo-ple." (Proverbs 14:34) NKJV.

We as a nation are struggling with many more issues than some can even imagine. I believe the church can help.

Yours and mine. Things like illegal immigra-tion to global warming, global terror, cultural wars, health care crises, life-style changing, trans this and that, sexual ori-entations and laws, mar-riages, broken homes, di-vorce, living in a setting that ruins our children for generations to come, are some things that challenge our country's moral integrity.

I don't make a claim to have super intellect or position, or have an intent to judge others of those who agree or not. I just know we need prayer warriors from all ages to help, to take and make our cities, towns and country great again. I hope to please God, that He likes what I say and do in my contribu-tions for His work here on earth.

My prayer is that churches rise up Godly men and women, to motivate its followers to practice their faith in all areas of the world where they live. To unite under His banner, along with even those who do not attend the local church, but are God-fearing citi-zens, and create a move-ment for the sake of our

beloved country. The time is now, enough is enough. God bless the USA.

The article you have read is not my usual thing, but I have wanted to voice my heart for the country I love. I hope it does not offend anyone, but just maybe someone can join me in praying for a change that is so needed, before they that don't understand and don't see it coming. To not allow it to be taken by those here and abroad for secular and ungodly means. May we bridge the gap... may those who are idle move.

DAVE TUVELLLAMAR-A memo-

rial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Daniel Funeral Home for David Harold Tuvell, 72, Lamar, who died Thurs-day evening, April 2, 2015, at his home. Dr. Mark Turnbough will officiate.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the Lamar Untied Methodist Church.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

Survivors include a sister and brother-in-law, Polly and Bob Runke, Prairie Village, Kan.; a daughter, Shelly Hammen, Rockwell

City, Iowa; two grandchil-dren, Keeley and Justin Hammen, Rockwell City, Iowa; a special compan-ion, Teresa Hall, Lamar, and neighbors and friends he considered family.

Mr. Tuvell was born Jan. 11, 1943, in Fort Dodge, Iowa to Harold and Retha (Doyle) Tuvell. He gradu-ated from Lake City High School and enjoyed a long career as a telephone maintenance technician. He had worked for Iowa Telecom and GTE for 24 years, retiring in 1998. In 2002 he moved to Lamar where he married Mary Jane Snider on March 17, 2003. Together they en-joyed his favorite pastime

of fishing and appreci-ating nature. He was a member of Lamar United Methodist Church and was especially grateful for the fellowship of the JOY gatherings after his wife's death on Dec. 21, 2008.

SANDRA K. WIMER

LAMAR-A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Daniel Funeral Home for San-dra K. Wimer, 69, Lamar, who died Saturday, April 4, 2015, at her son’s home in Joplin. Burial will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Fri-

day, at Fort Scott (Kan.) National Cemetery.

The complete obituary will appear in the next edition of the Lamar Democrat.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

LORETTA JONESLAMAR-Arrangements

are pending at Daniel Fu-neral Home for Loretta Jones, Lamar, who died Saturday, April 4, 2015, at her home.

Service times will be posted and condolences may be left at www.dan-ielfuneralhome.net.

PROPERTY TRANSFERS

“...stand up andkeep and

make Americastrong again.”

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* Officers were involved in the service of a nar-cotics search warrant on February 1, in the 1100 block of Truman St. Pres-ent at the residence at the time of the service, and arrested on other non-re-lated charges was Robert Eugene Jones, 41, Lamar. Jones active warrant was a Lamar municipal war-rant issued on a charge of failure to appear. Once the search was competed and evidence was collect-ed officers left the scene. Several pieces of evidence were processed to be sent to the Missouri State Highway Patrol Crime lab for identification. Pending the outcome of those tests, charges may be pending.

* The Joplin Police De-partment notified Lamar on February 1 that they had contact with Johna-than Paul Plummer, 33, Joplin. Plummer had an active Lamar municipal warrant. The warrant was confirmed and Plummer was arrested. He later posted bond and was re-leased to await a pending court date.

* Officers were dis-patched February 2 to the intersection of 19th and Lexington St. on the report of a tractor trailer unit who was attempt-ing to make a turn off of Lexington and the road width was not sufficient enough for the truck and it got stuck in the ditch. It took approximately one hour to get the truck towed out of the ditch.

* A bicycle was found February 2 in the 400 block of E. 14th St. It ap-pears to be an older bike that has been used as a yard ornament. It can be claimed on its identifica-

tion at the police station.* Officers responded

February 2 to a traffic crash in the 1800 block of Jackson St. On their ar-rival they found that a ve-hicle that had been back-ing from a driveway had backed across the street into another parked ve-hicle. On further investi-gation it was determined that the driver of the first vehicle was intoxicated and after the officer ad-ministered some field sobriety tests she was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and for improper back-ing. The subject, Lisa Jane Timmons, 50, Lamar, was taken to the Barton County jail where she was processed and incar-cerated.

* A 15-year old male subject was contacted February 3 and referred to the juvenile office for assault.

* Arrested February 3 on a probation violation warrant in the 1800 block of Jackson St. was Johna-thon Anthony Rickman, 32, Lamar. Rickman was taken to the Barton County jail where he was turned over to jail staff for processing.

* Officers investigated a two vehicle crash on Feb-ruary 3, in the parking lot of the Plaza Apartments in the 600 block of E. 20th St. This crash occurred as one vehicle was pulling in to park and the other ve-hicle was backing for its parking space. There were no injuries at the time of this crash, but one of the subjects, Donald Joe Dice, 47, Lamar, received two traffic summonses. One of the summonses was issued on a charge of driving while his license

was under suspension and the other was for not providing the officer with proof of finical responsi-bility, no insurance.

* Officers were dis-patched February 4 to Barton County Memorial Hospital on the report of a male subject that needed to be placed on a 96 hour committal. The 31 year old was medically cleared and then transported to New Beginnings in Ne-vada for evaluation.

* An officer was dis-patched February 5 to the intersection of 13th and Maple for a traffic crash. No one was injured in this crash and according to statements taken at the scene this crash occurred as one of the vehicle was traveling southbound on Maple St. The other ve-hicle was entering traffic off of 13th St. and when she tried to stop her ve-hicle slid on the snow and ice. There was very minor damage done to both ve-hicles.

* Officers were called February 5 to the 700 block of Maple St. on the report of a domestic disturbance in progress. When officers arrived they found only the re-porting party. The caller had indicated that the other person involved in the disturbance had thrown a cat against the wall and had killed it. While officers were talk-ing with the reporting party they noticed two cats in the room. The re-porter said that they were her cats and that she must have been mistaken about what he had thrown. The caller decided to leave the residence for the evening and the officers waited until she left. The other party was located later and found to be in an ex-tremely intoxicated con-dition and was placed on a 12 hour protective hold due to his intoxication level.

* The Cedar County Sheriff ’s Department no-tified Lamar on February 6 that they had contact with a person who had an active Lamar munici-pal warrant. The warrant was confirmed and the individual, Pamela Jean Hattery, 25, El Dorado Springs, was taken into custody. Hattery was tak-en into custody and later bonded out to await a pending court date.

* Officers investigated a reported domestic distur-bance on February 7 in the 300 block of E. 10th St. No arrests were made at the time of this contact.

* Officers were dis-patched February 8 to the 1400 block of Heagon St. on the report of woman who needed medical at-tention. A 46 year old fe-male subject was found in the floor on their arrival and she was transported to Barton County Memo-

rial Hospital. Through the follow-up investigation an arrest was made. Ar-rested on a domestic as-sault charge was Timothy Allen Mitts, 45, Lamar. Mitts was transported to the Barton County jail where he was processed and incarcerated. The fe-male was later transport-ed for an emergency 96 hour committal.

* Officers were dis-patched February 8 to Walmart on the report of a shoplifting in progress. Through the follow-up investigation an arrest was made. Arrested on a shoplifting charge, a charge of being a minor in possession of alcohol, driving while his license was under revocation and failing to produce proof of financial responsibility was Caleb Daniel Shaffer, 19, Lamar. Shaffer was transported to the Barton County jail where he was processed and incarcer-ated.

* An act of vandalism was reported February 9 in the city park. Person(s) had damaged shelter number 6. They had ripped off shelving in the shelter and then used the picnic tables to get on the roof to tear off the small cupola.

* The loss prevention employee at Walmart notified the department on February 9 that he had found someone who had been shoplifting in the store when he was watching security video. The person, Caleb Dan-iel Shaffer, 19, Lamar, was already incarcerated on similar charges. He was contacted at the Barton County jail where he was issued summonses for driving while his license was under suspension and for shoplifting.

* A theft report was taken February 9 in the 400 block of E. 6th St. A 15 foot aluminum exten-sion ladder was reported-ly stolen. The victim said that the ladder was taken sometime in December of last year.

* The Carthage Police Department notified La-mar on February 10 that they had contact with Adam Joseph Crockett, 27, Lamar. Crockett had an active Lamar munici-pal warrant issued on a charge of failure to ap-pear. The warrant was confirmed and Crockett was taken into custody. Crockett also had an ac-tive Barton County war-rant and was returned to Lamar by Barton County deputies.

* Officers were dis-patched February 10 to the Barton County Me-morial Hospital on the report that there was a woman there that needed to be placed on an emer-gency 96 hour committal. The woman was 29 years of age and was from Ne-vada. She was medically cleared and then trans-ported to New Begin-nings in Nevada for her mental evaluation.

* Officers responded February 10 to a domes-tic disturbance in the 1400 block of Grand St. After talking with all par-ties involved an arrest was made. Arrested on two domestic assault charges was David Allen Carter, 53, Lamar. Carter was transported to the Barton County jail where he was processed, posted bond and was released to await his court hearing date.

* A 16 year old male, a 15 year old male and a 13 year old subject were re-ferred to juvenile on Feb-ruary 10, by the school resource officer for tru-ancy. A 12 year old male was referred for theft and a 15 year old male was re-ferred for being in posses-sion of tobacco products.

* Officers were dis-patched February 11 to the Dollar General store on the report of a shop-lifting that had been caught on security video. Contact with the suspect was made and a summons was issued to Heather Lynn Lasiter, 36, Lamar. Lasiter awaits a municipal court appearance.

* Issued a summons on February 11 for a shop-lifting charge during an incident that was caught on security video at the Dollar General store was Christopher D. Furr, 39 and Elizabeth Onolia Ir-win, 30, both of Lamar. Both subjects were given a court appearance date.

* A case of animal aban-donment was investi-gated February 12 in the 1800 block of Jackson St. Receiving a summons on the charge was Hiran Christopher Ruth, 34, La-mar. Ruth awaits a court appearance date.

* A two vehicle none injury traffic crash was investigated February 12, on 12th St., in front of the Dollar General store. According to statements taken at the scene, this crash occurred as both vehicles were traveling down 12th St. One of the drivers said that he looked down momentarily to re-trieve something that he had dropped on the floor and when he looked back up he saw that he was too close to the vehicle in front of him and struck it. There were no injuries re-ported at the time of this crash.

* A vehicle crash was in-vestigated February 17 in the 800 block of Cherry St. The owner of the only vehicle on the scene said that when she came out that morning to get in her vehicle she found it had been hit some time dur-ing the night. The inves-tigation into this matter will continue.

* Officers were doing a well-being check in the 1100 block of Hagny St. on February 18, when it was determined that one of the adults had an ac-tive Cedar County war-rant issued on a charge of failure to appear on a bad check charge. The subject was Johnathon Wayne Stevens, 26, Lamar. While Stevens was being taken into custody marijuana was found on his person. He was transported to the Barton County jail where he was turned over to jail staff for processing on both charges.

* A report of an attempt-ed theft was made Febru-ary 19 in the 200 block of W. 14th St. Someone had tried to remove a large tool box from the back of a pickup truck. The box was moved, but not re-moved.

* A leaving without pay-ing for fuel was reported February 19 at the Casey’s Store in the 400 block of E. 12th St. Stolen was ap-proximately 12 gallons of fuel valued at $25.22. The vehicle was a late 90’s model Ford Tau-rus or Escort. The driver was a white male, 50 to 60 years of age. Once the

male pumped the gas he sat in his vehicle for sev-eral minutes. One of the clerks went out to see if she could help him and he accelerated very quickly, almost striking another vehicle on the lot, travel-ing to the east on 12th St.

* The Dade County Sheriff ’s Department no-tified Lamar on February 20 that they had contact with Joshua Robert Rob-inson and he had an active Lamar municipal warrant issued on a charge of fail-ure to appear. The war-rant was confirmed and Robinson was incarcer-ated in the Dade County jail on charges that he has in Dade County. When he finishes his charges there, he will be allowed to bond on the Lamar charge.

* An attempted fraud was reported February 20 in the 300 block of W. 11th St. The victim reported that she received a call from a company called Medisure, who wanted to charge her money so that she could get her Part B card. The caller reported that she did indeed give the information that the caller was requesting. The number that she was giv-en to call was an Air Med Care membership. The complainant closed her original bank accounts and opened new ones.

* A theft was reported February 21 in the 500 block of Grand St. Wire and other recyclables were stolen from the property valued at $100. Security video was avail-able and the case investi-gation continues to iden-tify the persons in the video.

* A backpack was found February 22 on the Lamar square, that contained several articles of cloth-ing and can be claimed at the police station on its identification.

* The theft of medica-tion from a mail box was reported February 23 in the 400 block of E. 14th St.

* A local business re-quested an officer come by to view some security video on February 23. An individual was seen steal-ing a socket set from the store valued at $40. The business just wanted the police to make contact, to see if the individual want-ed to come back and pay for the merchandise. He did and after paying was banned from the store.

* Officers were dis-patched February 23 to Barton County Memorial Hospital on the report of an individual there who needed to be placed on an emergency 96 hour committal. The 33 year old male subject was spo-ken with and after being medically cleared was transported to Rolla for the mental evaluation.

* During a routine traf-fic stop on February 23, an officer noticed the strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. The driver was found to be suspended and was placed under arrest. Dur-ing the follow-up con-versation with both the driver and the passenger, permission was given to search the vehicle. Both the driver and the pas-senger were arrested on possession charges. They were Mercedes Markae Hoffa, 21, Lamar and Sha-nade Ladawn Davis, 24, also of Lamar. The pair were taken to the Bar-ton County jail and were processed and incarcer-ated. State charges were filed against the two and they eventually bonded to await court appearance dates.

* An animal bite was investigated February 24 at the Barton County Me-morial Hospital.

* An off-duty Joplin po-

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lice officer notified the dispatcher on February 24 that he was behind who he thought was a drunk driver. He fol-lowed the vehicle to the 1700 block of Lexing-ton and made contact with the driver as of-ficers arrived on scene. Arrested on charges of driving while in-toxicated and driving while his license was under suspension was Anthony William Biby, 44, Lamar. Biby was transported to the Bar-ton County jail where he was processed and incarcerated to await the filing of the charg-es through the Circuit Court.

* Arrested February 26 in the 1200 block of Hagny St. on a La-mar municipal warrant was Christina Gail Mc-Cullouch, 36, Carthage. McCulloch was trans-ported to the Barton County jail where she was processed, posted bond and was released.

* A two vehicle crash was investigated Febru-ary 28 at the intersec-tion of 11th and Gulf St. Minor damage was done to both vehicles. Road conditions at the time were snow and ice covered. There were no injuries reported at the time of this crash.

* A complaint of ha-rassing text messages was taken on March 1.

* Officers were called March 1 to the 1300 block of Grand St. on the report of tracks in their yard. On look-ing at the tracks they seemed to have been made by the mailman. The reporter in this case also directed offi-cers to an easel that was sitting in her backyard that did not belong to them. If someone is missing an easel it can be claimed on its iden-tification at the police station.

* Officers were called March 1 to the Lamar Bank and Trust on the re-port that there was a man there who was trying to cash a forged check. Con-tact with the suspect was made. He was arrested on a forgery charge. His name is Hiram Chris-topher Ruth, 34, Lamar. Ruth was taken to the Barton County Jail where he was processed and in-carcerated while a war-rant was applied for.

* An attempted theft of a bicycle was reported March 2 in the 400 block of E. 14th St. The suspect tried to open the lock that secured the bike, but was unable to get it open. This incident was seen by another neighbor. No charges were requested at this time.

* While on a routine traffic stop on March 3 for a vehicle that had failed to stop at a stop sign, an ar-rest was made. The driver of the vehicle was iden-tified as Natasha Hope Hodges, 32, Joplin. Hodg-es was found to have a Lamar Municipal war-rant issued on a charge of failure to appear. She was also driving while her driver’s license was under revocation. Additionally, two other citations were issued to her, one for failing to provide proof of insurance and one for the stop sign violation. Hodges was taken to the Barton County Jail where she was processed and subsequently released from custody to await a pending court date.

* Officers were called March 3 to the Family Dollar store on the report of a shoplifting incident. When they arrived they made contact with Zach-ary Scott Townsend, 29, Jasper. Townsend alleg-edly stole a headlamp flashlight valued at just over $3. He was taken to

the Barton County Jail where he was processed, posted bond and was re-leased to await a pending court date.

* Officers were called March 3 to the 700 block of Parry St. on the report of an assault that had tak-en place. This assault was of a domestic nature and arrested for the assault was Christopher Dan-iel Furr, 39, Lamar. The victim of the assault was transported for medi-cal treatment at Barton County Memorial Hospi-tal. Furr was taken to the Barton County Jail and processed and incarcerat-ed to await a formal filing of a county charge.

* Arrested March 4 on an active warrant issued out of Wichita, Kan. on a charge of possession of a controlled substance was Justin Wayne Burris, 34, Lamar. Burris was the victim in the assault re-ported above and he was placed under arrest when he was discharged from the medical facility. Bur-ris was transported to the Barton County Jail where he was incarcerated.

* Officers were made aware on March 4 of a domestic assault that had taken place in the 1300 block of Broadway. An incident was investigated and an arrest on a charge of domestic assault was made. Arrested was Jus-tin Blake Rutledge, 23, Lamar. Rutledge was transported to the Barton County Jail where he was processed, posted bond and was released to await a pending court date.

* A 10 year old male was interviewed March 4 about his culpability in the theft of two back-packs from a school bus that he rides. He admitted to taking the backpacks. Information concerning

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURIPROBATE DIVISION

AT LAMARIN THE ESTATE OF:THOMAS WILSON MARTIN, Deceased.ESTATE NO 14B4-PR00054

SECOND AMENDEDNOTICE OF LETTERS

GRANTEDTo all persons interested

in the Estate of Thomas Wilson Martin decedent:

On the 29th day of October, 2014, Teresa Moore, Barton County Public Administrator was appointed Personal Representative of the Estate of Thomas Wilson Martin, decedent, by the Probate Division of Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri. The business address of the Personal Representative is Teresa Moore, Barton County Public Administrator, Barton County Courthouse, Lamar, Missouri and the attorney is Richard M. Scott of 100 W. 10th, Lamar, MO 64759.

All creditors of the decedent are notified to file claims in Court within six months from the date of 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.

Receipt of this notice by mail should not be construed by the recipient to indicate that the recipient necessarily has a beneficial interest in the estate. The nature and extent of any person’s interest, if any, can be determined from the files and records of this estate in the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Barton County, Missouri.

Date of decedent’s death was October 4, 2013.

Date of first publication is April 1, 2015.

s-Janet B. MaupinClerk of the Probate

DivisionOf the Circuit Court of

Barton County, Missouri4-1,8,15,22-4tc

LEGALS

816 W. 12th, Westview CenterLamar, Missouri 64759

417-682-6543 • www.realtor.com

Connee Forrester realty, llC

OWNER ANNOUNCES SPECIAL PRICING, MONTH OF APRIL ONLY on 3-4 Bd, newer roof, CH/A, 5 car garage, 2 shop bldgs on 1 acre.

APPROX 3000 SF LAMAR LAKE: Three Bdrm, 3 bath, exquisite KIT with abundant cabinets, granite, tile. Formal and informal dining, multiple living areas. Upper level suite includes office. Wonderfully landscaped. Storm shelter. 2c attd gar. 30x36 detd w/finished area.

ERWIN QUALITY CONSTRUCTION: 2200+ sq ft -Three Bdrm, 2.5 bath, partial bsmt, heat pump, hardwired generator. Built-in library/collectables display. Floor plan flexible for 4th bedrm, business or in-law apartment. 3c attd garage plus 40’ x 90’ detd garage/shop. 2.1 acres.UNDER CONTRACT

FOUR BEDROOM TRI-LEVEL: 2.5 bath on 1.18 acres just outside town. Spectacular open Kitchen- Living Rm-Dining Rm combi-nation. Two car attd garage plus 24' x 30' detd shop. Rural water. Has that country feeling, with close to everything convenience.

LOTS TO LOVE in this clean, well maintained 3 Bedroom, 2 bath home with detached garage close to Lamar schools. Built in 2009 boasting 1440 sqft of living space and popular open floor plan. Payments likely lower than rent.

CHARMING THREE Bdrm, 2 ba. Hard-woods in most rooms. KIT appliances stay. XL Utility rm. 2c attd garage, fenced back yard. Landscaped corner lot, north Lamar location.

SUPER COMFORTABLE: Recent addn, new carpets, fresh paint. Firepl, split 3 Bed, 2.5 ba plan. Walk-In Cl, office/crafts room, abundant storage. Hi-Eff CH/A, Newer roof. Covered porch, patio. All brick, 2500 SF +/- Handicap accessible.

YOUNG THREE - FOUR BEDROOM, 2 bath. Built 2001. 20́ living room. Library style built-ins in office/den/4th Bedrm. Plenty of storage. 2 car attached garage, deck. Corner lot, handicap accessible.

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Special Notices

Alcoholics Anony-mous meets every Sunday, 5 p.m., in the basement of Lamar Memorial Hall, 1104 Broadway. All meetings are nonsmoking.

Narcotics Anonymous Meetings - Wednes-days, 7:30 p.m., 1104 Broadway, Memorial Hall Basement.

Lost & Found

Jesika Hopes that who-ever borrowed her lit-tle red and yellow car at 404 W. 10th St., without her permission, is enjoy-ing riding in it because

she misses it. For infor-mation call Mary at 417-214-2244.

Services Offered

Looking To Have Your House Cleaned? Call me at 620-875-6043.

Garden Tilling – let me prepare your garden. Contact Lauren Dun-ford, 417-214-5775.

Lawn Mowing Season Is Approaching: Please call O'Neal Cutting Edge Lawn Care for All Your Lawn Care Needs: Free Estimates: Affordable Prices: Ful-ly Insured. Cell: 417-214-0256 or Home: 417-682-2909 After 7 Please. If no answer please leave

message. Chris O'Neal Owner/Operator 1103 E 18th St., Lamar, MO 64759.

Garden Tilling & Mow-ing and Light Yard Work. Reasonable rates. Courteous service, La-mar area. 417-681-1309.

Professional, Residen-tial and Business Clean-ing. Spots open. Call 417-214-3172.

Employment

Drivers, 65,000+, CDL-A, $2500 sign on, Bonus Pay out in 4mo. 1 month exp., Same Day Pay! Free Health Ins, No CDL? We have Free training! www.trailiner.com 800-769-3993.

Drivers, Solo, 3 or 6 day runs, $44 cents per mi, Free Health Ins. Same Day Pay. 800-769-3993 for Details, on line app www.trailiner.com.

Drivers: Great Home Time. Excellent Pay Package & Paid Driv-er Benefits. Dry Van and Flatbed Divisions. You Choose. Refresh-ers Welcome. 800-234-5710.

Overnight Floor Cleaner needed, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., 3 nights/24 hour week. Must be re-sponsible, have trans-portation and pass back-ground check. Contact Chris at 417-766-4490.Drivers: Company: Great Weekly Pay! Paid Health Insurance, Va-cation/Holidays! Own-

e r O p s : $1.03 All miles plus 100% FS. Paid tolls, scales & more @ St an d ard Transpor-tation Gets you home w e e k l y : 1-888-992-4038 x 133.

Drivers: $70,000 to 80,000 per yr., Exp driv-ers, Free health insur-ance, 2500 sign on bo-nus (pays out in 4 mons) Home weekly, Same day pay 2016 Freightlin-er Cascadia, APU, in-vertors. Automatic and Standard Transmission. www/trailiner.com or 800-769-3993.

Drivers: CDL-A. PTT Hiring OTR Earn .40 cpm base then bonus! Hard running Solos/Teams FT/PT available. 866-312-7919.

Drivers: Great Home Time. Excellent Pay Package & Paid Driv-er Benefits. Dry Van and Flatbed Divisions. You Choose. Refresh-ers Welcome. 800-234-5710.

Miscellaneous For Sale

Husky Mower 42” 18 HP B&S Twin, new belts upper and lower, new battery, new coil. Nice, $650. Excellent all over. 417-214-1829.

Golf Cart For Sale – 2008-09 Club Car. Load-

ed, lights, roof. Excellent shape, $3000. 417-537-8603.

"Publisher's notice: All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it il-legal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination be-cause of race, color, re-ligion, sex, handicap, familial status, or na-tional origin, or inten-tion to make any such preference limitation, or discrimination. We will not knowingly ac-cept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby in-formed that all dwell-ings advertised are available on an equal op-portunity basis".

Mobile Homes for Rent

Are You Ready To Move? We have 2 bed-room trailers and hous-es ready to rent. Two rental references a must. 682-2636.

Apartments for Rent

Vacancy - Scottsdale Apartments - Senior Citizens Housing. Call 682-3589. Mo. TDD 1-800-735-2966. Equal Opportunity Hous-ing. Handicapped units available. Located at 17th and Lexington.

1 Bedroom Apartment

nicely furnished or un-furnished. Pool, rec room and laundry. Free cable/HBO, water and trash. Short leases avail-able. $200 security de-posit. No pets! In Ne-vada. Starting at $365. 417-667-2633.

Sheldon Apartments - Nice 1 bedroom apart-ments, furnished or un-furnished. All utilities paid. Starting at $370 per month. Call 417-667-2633.

Homes For Rent

For Rent – 708 Grand. Large 1-bedroom du-plex. Central heat/air, refrigerator, stove. $325 month plus $275 depos-it. References. Call R&R Rentals, Rosalee Potter, 417-682-5668.

Homes For Sale

Home For Sale: 1907 Williams Court, Lamar. Very nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath home located on quiet cul-de-sac. This home is less than 20 years old and features a two car attached garage, central heat and air, walk in closets, mainte-nance free vinyl siding, fenced backyard, and a large back deck for en-tertaining. $84,000. (MLS#146093). Gary Doerge 417-388-0190 at Charles Burt Home-folks 417-358-6088.

this incident is to be for-warded on to the juvenile authorities.

* An officer was dis-patched March 4 to the intersection of 12th and Jefferson, on the report of a motor vehicle crash. According to statements taken at the scene this crash occurred as both vehicles were traveling down 12th St. The first vehicle had begun to slow for traffic in front of him when he was stuck in the rear by another vehicle.

No injuries were reported at the time of this crash.

* Referred to the juve-nile authorities on March 5 for educational neglect were a six year old female. Referred for truancy were two 15 year old females, four 15 year old males, two 16 year old females and a 14 year old female.

* A traffic crash was re-ported March 5 to have occurred in the Walmart parking lot. This crash occurred as one of the ve-hicles was traveling down

the traffic lane between the aisles and she was backed into by another vehicle. No injuries were reported at the time of this crash.

* A three vehicle crash was investigated March 6 on the square in front of Castle’s Shoe store. One of the vehicles had left the scene and had to be contacted and brought back. According to state-ments taken at the scene, this crash occurred when two vehicles came upon another who was stopped in the traffic lane talking with other individuals.

They would not move. The third vehicle indi-cated that they got tired of waiting and pulled out to pass on the right. As they came past the sec-ond vehicle, the driver of that vehicle decided to pass on the right. As he pulled out he struck the car that was passing him. Summonses were issued to the first vehicle for im-peding traffic flow and to one of the other vehicles for making an improper pass. The morale to this story is that if you want to talk with someone, pull over, it is much cheaper

in the long run.* Officers were dis-

patched March 7 to the 1700 block of Mill St. on the report of a careless and imprudent driver, driving in the yard and striking another vehicle. When officers arrived they found that the situ-ation was domestic in nature. The one vehicle which was being driven in the yard belonged to the resident. The other vehicle that it hit also be-longed to the people in-volved. After talking with both parties an arrest for a domestic assault was

made. Arrested was Terry Glen Harless, 46, Lamar. Harless was transported to the Barton County Jail where he was processed and incarcerated to await the filing of a formal county charge for assault.

* Officers were called March 8 to the 900 block of Oak St. on the report of an incident of prop-erty destruction. The vic-tim reported that he was watching television when his set lost its signal. He went out to check on his dish and found that someone had pushed it over.

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6B • Wednesday, April 8, 2015 www.lamardemocrat.com Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO

AREA NEWSMisperceptions keep kids from getting lifesaving treatment for tickborne diseases

Kids are five times more likely than adults to die from tickborne diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF). Doctors often avoid pre-scribing doxycycline, the most effective RMSF treatment, for young chil-dren because the drug’s warning label cautions that tooth staining may be a side effect in children younger than eight years. A new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics suggests that for patients with RMSF, this warning may be doing more harm than good.

The study led by experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Indian Health Service (IHS) found that short courses of the anti-biotic doxycycline can be used in children under eight years old without staining teeth or weaken-ing tooth enamel.

CDC and IHS research-ers reviewed medical records for more than 250 children who lived on an American Indian reservation with high rates of RMSF. Dentists inspected the permanent teeth of children who had received doxycycline for suspected RMSF be-fore their eighth birthday and those who had not, without knowing which children had received the drug. The dentists evaluated tooth color and looked for tooth staining and evidence of weakness in the tooth enamel of all children in the study. They found no differ-ences between the two groups in tooth color,

staining or enamel.Since 1970 all tetracy-

cline-class antibiotics, including doxycycline, have included a warning label from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advising against their use in children younger than eight because of the risk of tooth staining. Previ-ous studies of children who received older tetra-cyclines identified stain-ing or tooth problems in 23 to 92 percent of recipients. The current study is the largest con-ducted to date that exam-ines whether doxycycline negatively affects dental health and the first to use instruments to measure tooth color.

Treating RMSF is a race against time, and doctors must prescribe the drug early, before they have lab results confirming infection. “Many doc-tors readily use doxycy-cline to treat suspected RMSF in adults but won’t use the drug in children, because they’re wor-ried about tooth staining and hesitate to prescribe it for only a suspected case,” said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, CDC epi-demiologist and one of the study’s authors. “Our study shows definitively that this shouldn’t be a reason to avoid this life-saving drug. Changing the drug’s label may en-courage physicians to use doxycycline earlier to treat suspected RMSF in children, which will help save lives.”

CDC recommends starting doxycycline treatment as soon as a

doctor suspects RMSF or other rickettsial infec-tion. Delaying treatment after the start of the in-fection increases the pa-tient’s risk of hospitaliza-tion and death.

More than 13,500 cases of RMSF and related in-fections were reported in the United States be-tween 2008 and 2012. Children younger than 10 years represented only six percent of the report-ed cases but accounted for nearly a quarter of the RMSF deaths during that period, highlighting the importance of early pedi-atric treatment.

RMSF is a severe tick-borne disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii. RMSF begins with non-specific symp-toms such as fever and headache, vomiting, diar-rhea and sometimes rash. More than 20 percent of untreated cases are fatal; the average time from the beginning of symptoms to death is eight days.

In addition to improv-ing survival from RMSF, the news that short courses of doxycycline are not linked to dental concerns in kids might also improve treatment of other infections. Dox-ycycline is also effective against some bacteria that commonly cause community-acquired pneumonia.

To read the article, visit: http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(15)00135-3/fulltext

For more information about RMSF and other rickettsia, visit: www.cdc.gov/rmsf.

Sheep and goat workshop scheduled for April 18

STOCKTON-Uni-versity of Missouri Ex-tension and Lincoln University Coopera-tive Extension and Re-search are working to-gether to put on a sheep and goat workshop on Saturday, April 18, beginning at 10 a.m., at the Land O Lakes Youth Fairgrounds in El Dorado, Springs.

This six hour work-shop will include lec-ture, discussion,and hands on activity relat-ed to Body Condition

Scoring, FAMACHA© Scoring and Fecal Egg Counts.

Participants will be-come certified in the use of the FAMACHA© eye anemia system. The FAMACHA© system, along with the Five Point Check©, is used to de-termine when a sheep, goat or camelid requires deworming. The instruc-tor for the class will be Dr. Charlotte Clifford-Rathert, DVM, Associate Professor, State Extension Specialist – Small Rumi-

nant, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and Research.

The cost of the class is $35 per person and the limit on the class is 25 people. Cost will cover all material, refreshments and lunch. For more in-formation on the class or to register contact the Cedar County MU Ex-tension Center at 417-276-3313 or by email at cedarco@missouri.edu. Those wishing to partici-pate need to be registered and paid by April 15.

Aphids and powdery mildew scouted in wheat fields

LAMAR-Wheat is nearing joint stage and is 10 to 12 inches tall in most area fields. This is according to Jill Scheidt, agronomy spe-cialist with Univer-sity of Missouri Extension, who scouted fields in Arcola and near JJ Hwy, near Golden City on April 1.

"The joint stage has not begun yet, but should this week or next. Once the joint stage oc-curs it is the appropri-ate time to add nitro-gen in order to see the biggest yield benefit," said Scheidt. "Only add nitrogen before the joint stage if tiller population is below 80 tillers per square foot."

Scheidt observed bird cherry-oat (olive green in color) and greenbug aphids (pale green in color) in wheat fields.

"One to two bird cherry oat aphids were seen per linear foot, threshold levels are 12-

15 per linear foot. Five to six greenbug aphids per tiller were observed, threshold levels are 300-500 per linear foot," said Scheidt.

Scheidt recommends using 1.3 to 1.9oz/acre of Warrior or 3.2 to 4oz/acre of Mustang to con-trol aphids at threshold levels. Consult the MU Extension 2015 Pest Management Guide for specific pesticide instruc-tions.

Scheidt also observed a small amount of powdery mildew in lush grow-ing wheat. Powdery mil-dew occurs in prolonged cloudy weather with temperatures from 59-72 degrees Fahrenheit and is

also associated with high nitrogen applications.

Powdery mildew begins as light-green to yellow flecks on the leaf sur-face and develops into a

cottony white mold growth and small black fungal fruiting bodies may be visible within the patches of mildew growth.

"Powdery mildew is mainly a concern when the flag leaf is present and when the disease is moving up the plant, toward

the flag leaf or if it is very dense on plants," said Scheidt.

Caramba, Tilt or Quilt can be used to control powdery mildew.

The weekly field scout-ing report is sponsored by University of Missouri and Barton County Ex-tension. For more infor-mation on the scouting report, or to learn how to receive the information earlier by telephone, con-tact the Barton County Extension Center at (417) 682-3579.

“Powdery mildewis mainly a concernwhen the flag leaf

is present...”

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banquet is April 17. The Diabetes Support Group will meet Monday, April 20, 4 p.m., at the Bar-ton County Ambulance Barn. A caregiver sup-port group will meet May 7, at the hospital, with the topic to be Alzheimer's Dementia. A smoking cessation class is being held, with four partici-pants.

Other reports showed there were 14 eighth graders that job shad-owed for the day on March 12 and there were 2,693 Facebook followers for the month. The bus was down a little in miles, with 1,911 in February and 2,399 in January. There were 105 trips in February and 124 in Jan-uary. The ACCESS pro-gram assisted 14 patients with applications for Medicaid and Disability benefits. The Cover Mis-souri initiative was busy with 32 appointments, 12 enrollments and four Missouri Medicaid appli-cations.

Duvall reported that there was a copy of Mike Buchanan's letter of res-ignation in the packets that had been handed to board members and that this letter had been sent to inform the Barton

County Commission-ers. The commission is waiting to hear from the board members before making an appointment for his replacement.

In the medical staff re-port, Dr. Hopkins stated that Dr. Brett Boice will be taking over as chief of staff in April.

Following a discussion of the bills, a motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved for payment as submit-ted.

With no further busi-ness in the regular session the meeting adjourned to executive session for the purpose of peer review and re-appointment of the following staff: John Alden, DO, Active, Fam-ily Practice; Brett Boice, DO, Active, GYN; Erik Miller, DO, Active, In-ternal Medicine; Joseph Wilson, DO, Active, Family Practice; T. Brad Coy, DO, Associate, Gen-eral Surgery; Christopher Andrew, MD, Courtesy, Neurology; Russell R. Kemm, DO, Courtesy, Family Practice; Daniel Barnes, MD, Consulting, Endoscopy/Colonosco-py; Daniel Barnes, MD, Consulting, Emergency Medicine; Karl Kauff-man, Consulting, Emer-

gency Medicine; Talon Maningas, DO, Consult-ing, Emergency Medi-cine.

Ron Myers, DO, Con-sulting, Emergency Man-agement; Jim Pyron, DO, Consulting, Emergency Management; Charles Fielder, MD, Consulting, Radiology; Earl Maes, MD, Consulting, Tele-radiology; Carlin Rid-path, MD, Consulting, Teleradiology; Jeffrey Moyer, DDS, Consulting, Dentist; Edward Gwin, Consulting, Sleep Study Interpretations; Blake Little, MD, Consulting, Sleep Study Interpreta-tions; Chad Moore, OD, Allied Health Profes-sional, Optometry and Julia Yaryan, CRNA, Al-lied Health Professional, Anesthesia.

All reappointments were unanimously ap-proved.

At the end of the ses-sion, Vaughan made a motion that the board recommend to the coun-ty commission that Susan Whittle be appointed to fill Mike Buchanan’s va-cated position. This mo-tion was seconded by Shaw, with all in favor.

With no business be-fore the board the meet-ing adjourned.

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