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to hold open house

An open house will be held Thursday, April 17, 12 noon to 1 p.m., at the permanent location of the Lamar Dem-ocrat, 100 E. 11th St. A rib-bon cutting will take place at 12 noon, by the Barton County Chamber of Com-merce.

The public is invited to stop by and say hello and check out the new building.

Cake, cookies and punch will be served.

There's still time to

purchase Lamar Tiger Community Day tickets

Lamar Tiger Community Day will be held Saturday, April 19, when the Spring-field Cardinals take on the Arkansas Travelers, at 6:10 p.m. The Lamar High School Choir will sing the National Anthem and the state cham-pion cross country, track and football teams, as well as varsity cheerleaders, will be recognized on the field.

Tickets are $11 each and are on sale at the Lamar High School office, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Barton County Sheriff 's

Dept. urges individuals to lock their

vehiclesMany agencies, along with

the Barton County Sheriff ’s Office, have been taking re-ports of items being stolen from vehicles as of late. With the weather getting nice and the evenings longer, they are seeing more and more peo-

By RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

LAMAR-Two performances of La-mar High School’s dinner theatre on April 5 left large crowds pleasantly satisfied with the menu and wanting more of the entertainment. Called a Dinner Cabaret and billed as “Mu-sic from Around the World,” it was the sixth year for the event. Largely the creation of Choir Director Brian Hargrave, the program featured nu-merous solos, the high school con-

cert choir, the school’s show choir known as “Rhapsody,” and numerous routines that kept the audience laughing and applaud-ing. Virtually all of the musical participants had won honors in district music contests and will go on to state level competition in early May.

Masters of ceremonies were Chris Cheshire and Cody Rawl-ings, who kept the program moving with a pleasing informality.

In the last half of the program was a quirky two-man skit taken directly from the British comedy team known as Monty Python. The timing of the lines by the two participants was near perfect.

The entire program was performed by an immensely talented group of students varying from freshmen to seniors. It left the audience looking forward to the seventh dinner theatre next year.

Democrat photos by

Richard Cooper

Top, Choir Director Brian

Hargrave conducts the

Lamar High School Concert

Choir. Middle,

Jimmy Keutzer and Chris

Cheshire perform a routine on

“arguments,” taken from the British

comedy team Monty Python.

Right, one of two masters of

ceremonies, Chris Cheshire. The

other master of ceremonies was Cody Rawlings.

Liberal Booster Club to present donkey basketball LIBERAL-The Liberal Boost-

er Club will present a donkey basketball game at the Liberal High School gymnasium on Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Ad-vanced tickets are $8, with children four and under free. Advanced tickets are now on sale at the Bank of Minden in Liberal and Minden and at the elementary or high school of-fices in Liberal. Tickets are also available in Lamar at Lamar Bank & Trust and Heritage State Bank. Tickets will also be available at the door and will cost $10.

Free donkey rides will be available during intermission for all children 12 and under who are with a paying adult.

It should be a night of great fun, watching many local ce-lebrities taking their turn rid-ing the donkeys.

Team number one includes members of the 2000 Liberal High School state qualifying basketball team: Dan Bazal, Jason Eldredge, Byron McKay, Kyle Noyes, Chad Fast, Nick

Martin and Robbie Sullins.Team number two will in-

clude current faculty mem-bers from the Liberal school district: Bill Nicaise, Travis Walton, Jay Johnson, Pam Cle-mensen, Leticia Fry, Robert Williams, Candace Dyer and Phillip Vore.

Team number three includes community leaders, a state representative and several well known volunteers: Mike Kelley, John Simpson, Jimmy Smith, Matt Miller, Sam Meyers, Jason Banwart, Brent Hanshaw and Paul Stebbins.

Team number four will in-clude students from this year's senior class.

The Liberal Class of 2016 sophomores will be serving dinner that evening, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the high school. Their menu will con-sist of burgers, hot dogs, chili dogs, nachos and much more. They will also offer a conces-sion stand during the ball-game. Plan to come eat before the game!

Let's all help the Liberal Booster Club raise some money for local athletes, while having

a great night of fun cheering on your friends and neighbors as they ride those donkeys!

Look for the Lamar Democrat in your mailbox!

By MELODY METZGERLamar Democrat

The Lamar Democrat will appear in every mail box in Barton County, as well as Lockwood, on Wednes-day, April 23. This service is brought to you by the La-mar Democrat at least every couple of months or so and is our way of letting prospec-tive subscribers know what is now available in the paper.

Any subscriber that should receive a paper, but does not, can contact our office at 417-

682-5529, ext. 60. If anyone is interested in

advertising, now is a prime opportunity, especially with Spring being here and time for garage sales. The paper will lit-erally go to several thousand households on that day, to in-dividuals that otherwise might not get the paper. If anyone is interested in advertising in this issue please call Melissa at 417-682-5529, ext. 62, before 10 a.m. on Monday, April 21.

The Lamar Democrat is proud to be able to offer this service to the public.

Spring election has few surprises and a low voter turnoutBy RICHARD COOPERDemocrat staff writer

Barton County had races in three of its six incorporated communities in the municipal elections of April 8. Lamar was not one of them, and neither was Lamar Heights. In Lamar, incumbent councilmen Max Simmons, Steve Gilkey, Joey Bronson, and Harold Van-DeMark faced no opposition. In Lamar Heights, Jim Soma was returned to another term in Ward 1 and Erin Miller in Ward 2.

Golden City had a three-way race for mayor with incumbent

Henry Lopez winning another term with 49 percent of the vote. Dixie Taylor received 37 percent, and Lyle Brewer fin-ished a distant third with 14 percent. There was no contest in any of Golden City’s three wards. Incumbents to serve new terms were Sara Beerly in Ward 2 and Mark Palmer in Ward 3. Nina Hayden will be the new face on the board in Ward 1.

Incumbent mayor Jimmy Smith was easily re-elected to another term in Liberal. He garnered 74 percent of the vote, far ahead of Mike Strawmeyer and Dorothy Rose Walker.

There were races for both of the seats that had to be filled on the board of aldermen. In Ward 1, Kyle Wiles received 61 percent

support to unseat incumbent Patsy Yount. In Ward 2, Caro-

One vote means a lot, decides Mindenmines tax issue


MINDENMINES-The right to vote has stimulated impassioned discussions on the state and national levels for generations. Efforts have

been directed toward eliminat-ing fraud while removing as many barriers to voting as is absolutely possible. Still, there is a part of the population that holds to the view that their one vote is not that important. see VOTE, page 4A

see ELECTION, page 4A

see LOCK, page 4A

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Coonfoot & Vicinity

By LOUISE OTT

This early Monday morning our dear Lord is blessing us with some wind and clouds. I'm still wishing for some sunshine. There still isn't much sunshine and we may get more rain off and on all week. I hope not snow now.

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

Aubry Winans, Ray and Nicole Winans, Ray and Tristan and Elvin Winans Jr. and Durella were visi-tors of Marie Winans.

Marie Winans visited Louise Ott on Sunday af-ternoon.

Kenneth Dee and Es-ther Archer and Louise Ott were dinner guests of George Straw.

Remember, the bridge south of Alba is now open and it's so nice to go straight through to 96 Hwy., instead of having to hunt another road.

Louise Ott visited Rich-ard and Linda Ott on Sunday afternoon.

Remember, lots of tur-key are flying across the roads and if one doesn't watch closely, the turkeys are not flying very high and one could easily have a wreck.

Hope all remembered to go vote on Tuesday.

Peggy Hollenbeck, Pur-cell, moved here from California. She visited John and Sharon Lund.

SheldonBy DARLENE

SHERIDAN

I was saddened to re-ceive word today that my nephew, Ed Sheridan, passed away. Graveside services were held Sun-day afternoon. Ed was the youngest son of Eldon and Helen Sheridan and lived in Moundville.

The Vernon County Fireworks Committee is now accepting donations to provide a fireworks dis-play and program on June 28, at the Fairgrounds in Nevada. This is a nonpar-tisan effort and is made possible from donations from individuals and businesses in the Vernon County area. If you would like to make a donation, so we can continue this display, you can call 417-884-5103.

The Sheldon High School Alumni Reunion will be held on May 24, with dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium. The cost of the meal is $10 per per-son and reservations are due by May 17. You can call Darlene Sheridan, alumni secretary, at 417-884-2445 to make res-ervations, or if you have questions or mail reser-

vations to her at PO Box 502, Sheldon, MO 6478. Please help spread the word to all Sheldon grad-uates and those that at-tended Sheldon schools. The Sheldon Alumni now has a Facebook page that you can join. The Class of 1964 will be the host for this year’s reunion.

Vincent Sprenkle and son Noah visited his par-ents, Paul and Phyllis, last week. They returned to Richland, Wash. on Mon-day, April 7.

My daughter, Delores Honey, joined me for church Sunday morning and myself and Phyllis Sprenkle joined her for lunch at Bamboo Gar-dens in Carthage. We spent the afternoon at Delores’ home.

The City of Sheldon is conducted their clean up week April 7-11 and the city wide garage sales was April 12.

The April Vision meet-ing was Monday, April 7. The Drury students pre-sented their final project and received suggestions from the community at-tending. They will return on May 10, at 3 p.m., at the school, to complete the Vision project. Ev-eryone interested in the Sheldon community are encouraged to attend.

The Sheldon churches will observe Easter Sun-rise Service on April 20, at 6 a.m., at the Sheldon United Methodist Church with the Christian church pastor; Spencer Hahn, bringing the message.

The next Food Pantry for Sheldon and Bro-naugh residents will be April 24, at 10 a.m., in the City Park.

For-get-me-notsBy GAIL LEAMING

I think it is ironic that this nation now has more people on food stamps than working for a liv-ing and the government wants more people on food stamps. This is the same government that has signs in parks and forest that say not to feed the animals because they become dependent on free food.Why do we hear

about Social Security run-ning out of money, but not welfare. The Social Security people worked for theirs. Last, but not least, we are advised not to judge all Muslims by the acts of a few lunatics, but we are to judge all gun owners by the acts of a few lunatics.

The things I have learned about life by reading about Noah and the Ark.: 1. Don’t miss the boat. 2. Remember we are all in the same boat. 3. Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when he started building the ark. 4.Stay fit because when you are really old someone may ask you to do something really big. 5. Don’t lis-ten to the critics, just go ahead and get the job done. 6. Build your future on high ground. 7. For safety sake travel in pairs. 8. Speed isn’t important, remember snails were on the boat with cheetahs. 9. When stressed, just float awhile. 10. Remember the ark was built by ama-teurs and the Titanic was built by professionals. 11. It doesn't matter what the storm is because God is with you.

Had a very busy week, but so much fun. Friday night was Milford gospel singing and Saturday was Red Oak 2 in the evening, but at noon that day we met with the Manleys and Wagners in Jasper. We re-ally enjoyed ourselves and Ron got to catch up with which relative was which. Sorry Ruth Ann Cooper couldn’t be there, but after her husband's

fall he wasn’t up for the visit. Maybe next time we could see you and Carl Sheets would like to know these guys better too. As for the Manleys, Ron wants to find out more about the place they lived at across from the old Roy Uber place. We ran into Mariea Palmer and her husband at the Hun-gry House Cafe Sunday, after going to the Cowboy Church with the Craw-fords and going out to eat. She and her husband met us again at Cave Springs to give the Crawfords the rundown on the place for May 17, which is when they will be preforming. Bring your lawn chairs around 11 a.m. and stay all day for their music, as well as others. There will be food booths and craft booths around the school grounds.

While I worked at the polls I learned two more things. Just goes to prove you're never too old to learn. First, I learned to play Mexican Train and I had only played chicken foot before. Fun game. The second thing was if you happen to see some-one, or think of someone but can’t remember their name, then you just start saying the alphabet and by the time you get to the right letter the name will pop out of your brain. I am all for anything to pop out of my brain that is worthy of remember-ing, so I am going to try this little trick. I am glad to hear that Zelma Hooper is back out of the hospital and was well

enough to get to Milford Church. I also hear that Beth Spruce is doing bet-ter. Mark Leaming is in the hospital in Joplin for a triple bypass, so keep him in your prayers too. Don Leaming is having shoul-der surgery. Stopped by the Gary Wolfs to drop off a chainsaw so they can have as much fun as we are having sawing wood. Ron went by the Caseys to help them and all their trees were cleaned up. They had the yard look-ing good and the Mar-tens have their yard with broken limbs cleaned up. And here I sit with my dead limbs in the yard still there, but the fence line looks great. Wonder when Ron will think I need some help. Oh yes, we heard a funny story about you and a school outhouse when you were little. Can’t wait to see you, J.P.

Maxine's Musings

By MAXINE MORIN

It really is spring now. Although I read in an area newspaper where snow may fall in some areas due to the lunar eclipse. We will know by today (Wednesday), as the lunar eclipse was around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning.

The former Lamar BPW ladies gathered at Denny's for their monthly break-fast on Monday, April 7. Food orders were taken

at 9 a.m. and then it was time to exchange knowl-edge. Breakfast was served, then more chat-ting. That bunch has a good time. Present were Imogene Miller, Barbara Robertson, Betty Gide-on, Beula Miller, Maxine Morin, Donna Wescott, Juanita Schmitt and Lo-eta Thompson. All for-mer BPW members are welcome. Come on out to Denny's at 9 a.m. on the first Monday of the month.

The Monthly Breakfast Club met at the Pepper Mill, Tuesday, April 8. Fol-lowing prayer, all enjoyed breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Do-ris Woods presented the devotional, using Psalms. The next meeting will be at 9:15 a.m., May 13, at the Pepper Mill.

Marilyn R., I stayed home all day on Saturday and Sunday.

John and Sue Lockridge drove Eddie and myself to Barton County Memo-rial Hospital last week to get out toenails clipped. I grew up in a family of six kids and never heard of such a thing as paying someone to cut your toe-nails. I found out in later life, like when you have a hip replaced, bad knees and I hate to admit this, but there is too much gut keeping me from bending down or getting my feet up long enough to trim my toenails. Like one lady told me, “You got to do something when it gets to the place you can not reach your toenails any-

CLUB NOTESLAMAR

COUNTRY CLUB

LADIES ASSOCIATIONBetty Weston was the

hostess for Bridge on Tuesday, April 8. The winners were Ferne Roberts, first and Betty Gilkey, second.

Dorothy Roberts is scheduled to be the hostess on April 15 and

Margaret Wattenbarger to be the hostess on April 22.

CHANGE CLUBA few more healthy tips

from the Change Club,Dairy

Cream of tomato soup made with fat-free milk is a delicious way to get your vegetables and dairy.

Adding 8 oz. of low-fat or fat-free milk to your meal is one of the easiest ways to get dairy.

Replacing sour cream with low-fat yogurt in recipes will reduce the Calories and add calcium.

Instead of a donut, pick yogurt and fruit for breakfast!

Make your own cheese spread for crackers--try low-fat ricotta blended with herbs such as orega-no, dill, & chopped green onions.

Keep your bones strong! Make the Dairy Group part of your eating rou-tine to help maintain bone

mass throughout life.In the Dairy Group, 1

cup = 1 cup milk, yogurt, or fortified soymilk (soy beverage); 1 ½ oz. natural cheese; or 2 oz. processed cheese.

Fat-free milk has the same amount of calcium and other essential nutri-ents as whole milk, but less fat and Calories.

Don’t run out of milk. Keep low-fat evaporated milk handy. Add it to scrambled eggs or your morning coffee.

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“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society,

but only if they know when to stop raking the

muck.”

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FRIENDS & FAMILY

What’s so good about Good Friday?

By ROB WILSONLamar First

Christian Church

PARADISE, Calif.-The coffee joint opened at 5 a.m. Mark and I rolled in about 5:30 every Thurs-day morning. On this particular day three teen-agers and a twenty-some-thing were working the counter as baristas. All the workers knew who I was (a local preacher) and that I used their coffee shop as my second office; meeting people through-out the day, usually tak-ing the table the farthest away from the counter.

On one particular Thursday (the Thursday before Good Friday of that year), there was a lull between customers and we could hear (but not see) the teenagers talk-ing about the movie “The

Passion of the Christ”. They were trying to make sense of the movie, and they couldn’t figure out why, since Jesus was beat-en and crucified on that day, it was called Good Friday. What was so good about Jesus being beaten to an inch of His life and then hung on a cross to be asphyxiated?

As Mark and I listened to these young adults, I was amazed that between the four of them, they had never heard the “why” behind the suffering and death of Jesus. They were suggesting that it be called “Bad Friday” or “Black Friday”. They had heard a little about Jesus but not enough to con-nect the cross as payment for their personal sin. Holding back from be-ing the answer man, I let them wrestle with their

thoughts before chim-ing in. Finally I saw my chance.

“It’s called Good Fri-day, not because it was good for Jesus, but be-cause it is good for us.” And with that open-ing line I got to share the Gospel message from Isaiah 53. Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we our-selves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chasten-ing for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.

What’s so good about Good Friday? The for-giveness of your sin – the price has been paid. What’s so sad about Good Friday? That we have forgotten what made it so good. Let’s remember, and ask people, “Do you know why Good Friday is so good?” and tell them the good news!

AOK has successful week during spring break

Once again, spring break proved to be a successful week at AOK. During the week of March 17-21, campers at the Wolf Building (grades K-5) did a num-ber of things. St. Patrick's Day began the week and the campers dressed in green and created, painted and then delivered shamrocks and pots of gold to the resi-dents at Maple Senior Living to use as door decorations. After delivery, camp-ers enjoyed green snacks and relaxed in

their pj's for the rest of the day.Throughout the week the campers had

a great time playing with friends, as well as having some friendly competition on and off the basketball and dodgeball courts. The kids were also happy to get to go to the Plaza Theatre to watch Nut Job.

Campers now look forward to May 27, when school is out and summer camp begins!

During spring break, local Girl Scout Troop No. 70532 Cadette's Rae Crossley, Clara Buck, Erin Kremp, Jessica Baldridge and Zee Crossley prepared lasagna, butter and garlic French bread and brownies to serve to 80 local youth attending both AOK and Nathan's Place. Accepting the donation was AOK employee Elisha Morey, who does the majority of the cooking for both facilities. The troop also learned how to make adaptions to the recipes to serve those with gluten sensitivity. AOK youth Sophie and Molly Bronson, Taryn Torbeck and Ty Crossley are also pictured.

Lamar Masonic Lodge to hold Missouri CHIPNo one wants to think

that the unimaginable could happen to them, but according to statis-tics, nearly 2,000 children are reported missing or abducted each day in the United States. Gather-ing all the information law enforcement officials need after the fact can be a daunting task, especial-ly under duress.

With more than

179,000 children pro-cessed through the MO-CHIP Child ID program in six years, MOCHIP is clearly a presence in the community and vows to remain so! Taking place on Saturday, April 26, the Missouri Masonic Fam-ily will be on hand to further ensure the safety of area children, free of charge.

How does it work? The

program consists of five major components: Digi-tal photographs, digital fingerprints, child infor-mation and emergency contacts, dental bite impression and two (2) laminated ID cards.

Together these five measures provide a pow-erful identification and recovery tool. The digital photographs, digital fin-ger printings and Child

Information contacts are given to the parent or guardian of the child on a mini-CD computer disc. The information on the disc is compatible with the format required by the “Amber Alert” pro-gram. The dental bite wa-fer provides an impres-sion of the biting surface of the child's teeth, which like fingerprints are unique to each in-

dividual. The wafer also collects enough saliva to provide a DNA sample and a source for a scent for trained canine search and recovery teams.

The program will take place Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Lamar Masonic Lodge, 200 E. 11th St. and is be-ing sponsored by Lamar Lodge 292 A.F. & A.M. And Hermon Lodge 187

A.F. & A.M. For infor-mation call Red Wilkin-son, event coordinator, at 417-214-4971 or 417-682-2100 or Ron Wood, 417-529-5833.

The Masonic Children's Foundation retains no information concern-ing the children; only a signed permission form is retained by the founda-tion. This is not for a chip placed in the child!

Local Girl Scout Troop serves youth at AOK and Nathan's Place

Indian dance troupe to be part ofEarth Day celebrationBy MELODY METZGER

Lamar Democrat

The 10th Street Com-munity Farmers' Market will hold its third obser-vance of Earth Day on Saturday, April 26. All local growers, artisans, crafters, businesses and vendors are welcome to join them to showcase and celebrate the natural resources and their use within the community. As always, the market is set up under Moore Pa-

vilion at 10th and Poplar in Lamar, with regular Spring hours of 9 a.m. to 12 noon.

However, special events will be taking place on the 26th, along with extended hours, beginning with a Metro Club breakfast of biscuits and gravy served from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Local Cub Scouts will be selling soda and water during the day, with the Girl Scouts serving hot chocolate and providing children's activities. The Marketside Cafe will be serving lunch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. A silent auction will also be set up, with the tables to begin closing at 11:30 a.m.

The Mahnomen Dance Troupe, consisting of various tribal Indians throughout Oklahoma, will perform American Native Indian dance, with performances at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. They will also speak of their heritage and pro-vide educational activi-ties, as well as drumming

and will be serving native foods of corn soup, Indian tacos and fry blend. The troupe is being sponsored by Kevin Kingsley, LLC.

The day's activities will conclude at 2 p.m. For more information on any of the above, please con-tact Lesa Queen at 417-540-2071 or Lendi Davis, 417-262-0245.

Pastor’s noteBy MARK

TURNBOUGHLamar United

Methodist Church

In 1976 a hijacker got up from his airplane seat. He took out a gun

and held up a stewardess. "Take me to Detroit," he

said. "But we're going to Detroit already," said the stewardess.

"Oh, good," said the hi-jacker and sat back down. Everyone wants reassur-ance as to their destina-tion. Don’t you? Jesus said it, “I am the way.” Of what was he speaking? He was speaking of a road to the place where we live for-ever. Reassurance comes from Christ to you, direct-ly, no by-passes. Someone will be speaking of this at your church this Eas-ter Sunday. You will find there a great welcome!


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Well, I got my taxes done in the nick of time, finishing them up an entire 10 days before I had to! A good friend of mine has helped me do my taxes for probably the last 10 years, if not more, so Saturday afternoon I made a trip to her house, complete with all of my paperwork that would be needed for reference. We got down to busi-ness and about halfway

through we came to the part where I had to de-clare the sale of our fam-ily home on Gulf St. Most of my readers that have followed me for a while know how hard it was for me to sell the house, as it had been in our family since the 1940's. When we came to that part of the information I noticed that it was April 9, 2013 that the house changed hands.

So come Wednesday, I drove by the house and told it “Happy 1st Re-

birth Birthday”. If any-one knows of the house in which I speak, they know what I'm talking about as to how it looks now, compared to before. I have been extremely fortunate in that aspect; that the person who pur-chased the house really gave it a facelift and made a vast improvement in its appearance, both inside and out.

My great-grandmother, Della Sherman, bought that house and many generations (sometimes three at a time) resided there for several years. My grandfather, Gilford Sherman, and mother, Joanne Guy, both passed there and many celebra-tions and homecom-ings were held there. It's hard to believe that it has

been a year since papers were signed, ending the ownership of our fam-ily. When mom inherited the house back in 1980, she had to buy out my aunt and help my uncle with his share in order to keep it in the family. At the time mom had gone to an area bank in or-der to obtain a loan and even though she had ex-tremely good credit, was turned down. It was the best thing that ever hap-pened to her and she would agree with you if she was here today.

She then went to La-mar Bank & Trust in or-der to see about getting a loan and had no prob-lem at all. I remember her most trusted banker was Jim O'Neal, so when I moved up here a year

later in 1981, I kind of inherited him. He was a blessing many times over, definitely making my life easier when it came to financial mat-ters. When Jim decided to retire mom and I were both in a tither, but in stepped Jack Dimond, who we both felt com-fortable with since his father, Docky Dimond, was one of my fam-ily's best friends. Both of these men are now enjoy-ing their retirement, so in stepped Kevin Little. And it's not only the ones in the offices. All of the girls at the bank are fan-tastic too. I'm sure others feel this way about their banking institution and I feel blessed to have them to turn to when needed.

On a totally unrelated

note, Gary and I were blessed to have grandson Landon come stay with us several hours yester-day and it was a beautiful day for playing outside! He had several special visitors come by to see him and was quite the social butterfly, waving to every car that drove by. Forgot how exhaust-ing a 15 month old could be! With eight year old grandson Kobyn at least he understands when Ga and Pa need to take a break! Landon's mom-my Meghan came and picked him up when she got off work and Ga and Pa probably had the best night's sleep they've had in a long time! What a blessing to be grandpar-ents to two very awesome grandsons! God is good...

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lyn Mayfield defeated Connie King with 68 per-cent of the vote. Neither was an incumbent.

Mindenmines returned two incumbents to its at-large Board of Aldermen. Mike Gebelin received 47 percent and Jody Pryor 40 percent. The third can-didate, Robert Brumback, finished out of the run-ning with 13 percent. An attempt to establish a one percent sales tax came as close to approval as pos-sible without succeeding. Appearing on the ballot as Proposition 1, it fin-ished in a 23-23 tie.

The village of Milford returned incumbents Donna Holt, Cliff Haz-ard, and Joyce DeMent to new terms on its Board of Trustees. Gerald Peters was unopposed to com-plete one year of an unex-pired term on the board.

Sheldon elected Perry Fowler and Joshua Lamb to its at-large board of aldermen in a three-way race. Fowler received 48 percent, and Lamb 29 percent, nudging out in-cumbent Cheryl Bogart who polled 23 percent. Lamb was also an incum-bent.

Lockwood had only one

contest. Incumbent Russ Nentrup won a three-way race in the East Ward with 57 percent support. Dennis Bench was unop-posed in the West Ward.

Jasper had races in both wards. Rick Good re-ceived 60 percent to win the East Ward race, and incumbent Russell Selvey took the West Ward with 58 percent.

Greenfield will have a new mayor. Incumbent George Wynes was up-set by James Evans, who won 61 percent of the vote in a two-way race. In the North Ward, John Pugh bested Clara Mur-ray with 52 percent. Kelly Mayfield was unopposed in the South Ward, and incumbent Kathy Har-rington was unopposed for collector.

This was the year to elect three candidates to boards of education in Missouri. Candidates were plentiful through-out the immediate area. Lamar R-I had seven can-didates with Justin Og-den (22.1 percent), Eby Mooney (17.4 percent), and Arty Torbeck (16.1 percent) emerging as winners. Finishing fourth was Charles Winslow

with 15.9 percent. The ac-tual vote count was Tor-beck-314, Winslow-311. Both were incumbents.

Liberal R-II was the only area district without a large number of candi-dates. Just three were on the ballot, incumbents Christie Ulrich and Brian Williams. The third can-didate was Chris Morrow.

Golden City R-III had a crowded field of eight candidates. Winning can-didates were Brian Banta (20.3 percent), Sterling Moore (20.0 percent), and Ryan Seela (15.6 per-cent). Moore and Seela were incumbents.

Sheldon R-VIII fielded five candidates. Winners were Bill Nance (26.6 percent), Gene Leini-nger (26.6 percent), and Joanne Dedrick (18.2 percent). Nance and Le-ininger were incumbents.

Seven candidates sought seats on the Lock-wood R-I board. The top three were Adam White-sell (24.9 percent), Tina Schnelle (18.5 percent), and Lori Byrnes (18.4 percent). None were in-cumbents.

Jasper R-V district had a field of six candidates. Winning the three seats

on the board were Derek Maneval (27.8 percent), Larry Sisseck (23.0 per-cent), and Dale Adams (21.8 percent). Sisseck and Adams were incum-bents.

In Greenfield R-IV, sev-en candidates were on the ballot. The three winners were Renee Meents (27.2 percent), Adam Wilson (18.5 percent), and David Tankesley (14.7 percent).

The Greenfield vote was widely distributed among the candidates. Only one of the seven received less than 100 votes.

Vote, continued from page 1ADon’t tell that to the mayor and board of aldermen of Minden-mines. A badly needed, nay desperately needed, property tax issue went down to defeat by just one vote in the April 8 municipal election.

After canvassing the votes the following day in the Barton County Clerk’s office, a manual canvassing of the Min-denmines totals found one ballot that was not counted because the small squares to the left of the Yes/No responses were vacant. However, an X had been placed on the right side of the ballot on the Yes line. County Clerk Kristina Crockett said since the intent of the voter was clearly obvious, the ballot was counted as a Yes vote, resulting in a 23-23 tie. Still, the issue failed by one vote.

The proposed levy of $0.50 on each $100 as-sessed valuation would have given the city ap-proximately $7,000 an-nually to make some needed utility repairs. Currently, it is meet-ing those obligations through funds derived from payment of util-ity bills, and City Clerk Jason Higgins says that has stretched the city’s finances very thin. The only option remaining to continue meeting those obligations, he says, is raising utility

bills. There are 210 registered

voters in Mindenmines, Only 46 ventured to the polls, which is a disap-pointing 22 percent. Still, that is better than the rest of Barton County, which produced a turnout of only 17.7 percent.

The Democrat contact-ed a disappointed Mayor Jason Harris the morning after the election, and he said the votes were there to pass the measure, but when election day came, “they just didn’t show up.” He felt the public had been well informed since an insert had been in-

cluded in the last mailing of utility bills in March.

Harris said the prop-erty tax issue is likely to be presented to the voters again. When the board of aldermen meets on April 15, the tax will be the number one topic to be discussed, and Harris feels the board will ap-prove its resubmission to the voters. He said it will likely be on the Novem-ber ballot.

This was the first time a general property tax had been voted on in Min-denmines. A one percent sales tax was rejected in 2011.

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ple out walking both dur-ing the daytime and of an evening.

The sheriff 's depart-ment is trying to get in-formation out to indi-viduals that once they park their vehicle for the

evening, or if they go to a local business to do some shopping, once they leave their vehicle they should lock and secure it so they don’t become a victim.

If anyone sees some-thing suspicious, such as

someone looking inside a vehicle or someone who continues to approach maybe the same vehicle more than once, please call and report that to the local law enforcement agency.

more”. I will have to ad-mit, they do a good job at BCMH.

Welcome home to Juan-ita Schmitt. She spent the winter in southern Texas. Although she had a great time in Texas, Juanita said, “I sure am happy to be home in Lamar, Mis-souri”.

Last Thursday, the Unit-ed Methodist Church sponsored a bus for a trip to a Kansas City dinner theater. That was the Red Hat meeting date and sev-eral made the bus trip, so the meeting was canceled. At Tuesday breakfast, I said to one of the girls

that we should go eat on Wednesday. She noti-fied several and we en-joyed lunch at the Pepper Mill. Present were Doris Woods, Donna Wescott, Carol Branum, Juanita Schmitt, Maxine Morin, Loeta Thompson, Donna Letton, Maxine Chesnut and Anna Mae Hillsman.

The Rebekah Lodge ladies are having their Mother/Daughter Ban-quet on Friday, May 9, at Chicken Mary's. They are setting up a buffet with chicken and brisket, with vegetables and dessert of donut holes with ice cream. Members will be

contacted.May the Lord look over

our military troops, keep-ing them safe.

Until next time...

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Lamar Democrat, Lamar, MO www.lamardemocrat.com Wednesday, April 16, 2014 • 5A

SCHOOLBurgess honored at MVC Scholar Banquet

MARSHALL-Chase Burgess, Lamar, a Pub-lic Relations major, was honored by Dr. Sharon Weiser, Missouri Valley College vice president of academic affairs, as a 2014 academic scholar. A banquet was held April 2 to honor the students.

Scholars are chosen by MVC faculty members as individuals exem-

plifying outstanding scholarly and personal characteristics. To be eligible for the award the student must have a minimum 3.3cumulative gradepoint average, be a December or May graduate of the cur-rent academic year and may only be hon-ored for one major.

Golden City Character Students during the month of March for the trait of Perseverance are, back row, left to right, Trenton Evans, sixth grade; Chain Parrill, fifth grade; Jolee Rector, fourth grade; front row, Madison Brewer, kindergarten; Jessie Yardley, first grade; Dawson Baker, third grade and Ryan Kaus, second grade.

Cornell receives Outstanding Young Alumna award

Sarah Adams Cornell, wife of Dustin Cornell, Oklahoma City, Okla., re-ceived the award for Out-standing Young Alumna on Saturday, April 5, at the Cottey College Founder's Day luncheon.

Also attending were

their two daughters, Isabella and Gabrielle, Sarah's parents, Tami and Henry Adams, Yukon, Okla., Sarah's nephew, Riley Adams and Dustin's parents, Harold and Brenda Cornell, Lamar.

Golden City Character Students for Perseverance

Challenge program participates in competition

The Lamar Challenge program competed in the statewide Extempore competition in Marshall on April 5. Five teams were participants in this event, three middle school and two elemen-tary.

The Lamar Middle School teams worked hard, received great com-ments on their team work and have a plan to im-prove their performance next year! They were competing in the largest section of the event, with over 50 teams in their di-vision. Placing in the top 50 percent of teams were Team Emaciate, consist-ing of Autumn Shelton, Elise James, Ethan Has-son and Grett Smith; Team Embellish, with J.D. Bishop, Sam Mather, Wy-att Hull, Jessica Baldridge and Megan Pattison and Team Entertain, with An-drew Dunlap, Tre Greer, Jasmin Messer and Jazlyn Griffith.

The Lamar Elementary School teams competed in the engineering feats section. Bringing home first was Team Elicit, con-sisting of Roni Ogden, Andrew Shelton, Myles Collins, Ethan Reed and Brady Orahood. Run-

ning a close second was Team Elmer, with Cody O'Sullivan, Gabe Davis, Kara Morey, Jil-lian Gardner and Dar-cy McDonald). In the Thinkers Hall, where the competition was, individual in check-ers, chess or mancala, Ethan Reed, was the El-ementary Division first place winner in man-cala with a 7-0 record.

Special awards were made to outstanding teams and individu-als based on their per-formance and actions during the daylong competition. Lamar's Team Elicit featuring Andrew Shelton, Darcy McDonald and Team Entertain were all rec-ognized.

Thanks go to the vol-unteers that helped with judging: Laura Mc-Donald, Susan Medlin, Mary Dunlap, Heather Dunlap, Teresa Shelton and Andrew Fortner. Also, to the parents that helped keep the teams on track, Brian and Kori O'Sullivan, Kristin Bishop, Kelly Hull, Sar-ah Murphy, Brett Da-vis, Tommy Orahood, Denise James and Stacy Hasson.

Jasper High School's third quarter honor rollJASPER-The third quar-

ter honor roll has been released by Jasper High School.

A Honor RollSENIORS- Oguljan

Amannayeva, Chelsea Carter, Elizabeth Dick-

son, Adi Etcheson, Au-tumn Frickenschmidt, Karrington Garvin, Ri-cardo Grijalva, Kody Hartgrave, Grady Hodge, Jacob Holliday, Haley Hudson, Hannah Jensen, Logan Johnston, Brittany Mundy, Lane Myers, Lo-gan Pryer, Dakota Rusk, Halista Sloan, Payton Smith, Dallas Strickland,

Eliza Tidbll, Shealan Wells.

JUNIORS- Larissa Atnip, Haley Bennett, Bailey Bettes, Kenedey Chaligoj, Chet Corle, Re-becca Darrow, Addison Gastel, Cheyenne Harper, Chandra Howard, Austin Gloodt, Marissa Leivn, Ashley Porter, Michaela Schlichting, Kimberli

Solis, Maxine Steeves, Monica Steeves, Kamryn Stump, Matt Stump, Tal-on Stump, Sarah Taffner, Annie Wright.

SOPHOMORES- An-drew Adams, Nicolas Ad-kins, Parker Athey, Shelby Dockery, Leslie Grijalva, Blake Jeffries, Keylee Mc-Cutcheon, Jenna Rector, Regan Smith.

FRESHMEN- Levi Brown, Keegan Chorum,

Grace Gazaway, Hayden Howard, Daylan Leivan, Drew Pennington, Emily Peterson, Hailey Reyn-olds, Christine Zimmer-ling.

B Honor RollSENIORS- James Bald-

win, Whitney Davis, Julie Greer, Jerron Helms, Mi-chelle Johnson, Walker Natalini, Reese Oliphant, Joel Rivera, Logan Schil-ling, Colton Sweeney,

James Tabor, Miranda York.

JUNIORS- Curtis An-drews, Jared Ball, Rebec-ca Carney, Hayden Da-vis, Katlyn Fonger, Kyle Ghumm, Layne Gossett, Robert McNeely, Jona-than Nally, Jordan Rice, Isaac Spry.

SOPHOMORES- Beth-any Baugh, Brianna Caw-yer, MaKensey Dumm, Audra Etcheson, Kortlin Garvin, Shelbie Gill, Kori Harper, Alysha Harr, Taelor Hildebrand, Tom-my Lassiter, Elizabeth Maneval, Jacob Martin, Ashley McCarthy, Kelsey Mundy, Matthew Potter, Daniel Stanley, Morgan Winchester.

FRESHMEN- Birgit Anzjon, Joey Baker, Alex Beier, Rylee Ervin, Ste-phen Grimmett, Ryan Harshaw, Ian Henderson, Kenneth Moua, Mason Olinger, Hector Rivera, Tekoah Roeber, Byron Stevens.

Jasper Junior High School releases third quarter honor roll

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

A Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE- Kai-

tlyn Adams, Blake Bettes, Terra Bowman, Avery Brouillard, Andrew Corle, Rachel Crazybear, Reagan

Dumm, Seth Jensen, Mc-Guire Rice, Erica Rinken-berger, Gardenia Rivera.

SEVENTH GRADE- Hadley Atnip, Brittany Ball, Caleb Brown, Wil-liam Chaffin, Bailey Dan-ner, Katelyn Dockery, Kelly Dockery, Adam Eggemeyer, Kaylee Fly-

nn, Laura Huber, Kier-stin Johnston, Salvador Loyola, Kolby Rutledge, Aden Sisseck, Destiny Stewart.

B Honor RollEIGHTH GRADE- Ty-

ler Brawley, Isis Carto, Stevie Galiani, Lance Houston, Olivia Maneval,

Tad Sisseck, Logan Win-chester.

SEVENTH GRADE- Christopher Barker, Jadon Baugh, Jacob Giurbino, Jonathan Kohley, Tate Maneval, Maddison Per-ry, Destiny Stewart, Jesse Vance, Leeah Walker, Bri-anna Willet.

Branson Seaton, son of Charles and Christy Seaton, is the sixth grade Student of the Week at Lamar Middle School. Branson likes to play football, baseball and basketball. He has a cocker spaniel. He enjoys hanging out with friends.

Mandy Radspinner, daughter of Willy and Melissa Griffett, is the seventh grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. In her spare time Mandy enjoys reading. She has two cats and two dogs. She also loves turtles.

LCTC fourth quarter starsThe staff at Lamar Career and Technical Center has

announced the LCTC Stars for the fourth quarter. These students exemplify a strong work ethic, great attitude and cooperative spirit. Two students are cho-sen from each program.

The students are as follows: Agriculture – Jimmy Keutzer and Anna Andrews, Lamar; Auto Mechanics – Logan Morford, Stockton and Tristen Stilabower, Lamar; Business – Carmen Miller and Kelsey Taff-ner, Lamar; Carpentry – Ben Emery, Greenfield and Johnathan Seaton, Lamar; Drafting/Woods – Isaac

Gariss and Tristjyn Thompson, Lamar; English – Zach Enochs, Sheldon and Jared Ball, Jasper.

Also, Graphic Design – Avery Rosenthal, Golden City and Johnna Cato-Schwan, Lamar; Health Oc-cupations – Timbra Rummel, Stockton and Chloe Tally, Lamar; Machine Tool – Austin Hylton, Stock-ton and Ryan Luthi, Lamar; Marketing – Christopher Cheshire and Kenna Roland, Lamar; Welding – Mark Sutton, Stockton and Anna Andrews, Lamar.

The instructors are extremely proud of these stu-dents. Congratulations!

Kira Williams, daughter of Jason Williams and Helen Davis, is the eighth grade Lamar Middle School Student of the Week. In her spare time Kira plays basketball. The sports she plays are track and basketball. Her favorite subject in school is P.E.


SPORTS

Area club volleyball team having a successful season

Pictured from left to right are Coach Jamie Hillman (Lamar), No. 31 Olivia Nentrup (Lockwood), No. 5 Moriah Coose (Lockwood), No. 24 Katelyn Mooney (Lamar), No. 10 Sydnee Crain (Columbus, Kan.), No. 21 Carly Spencer (Liberal), No. 7 Noble Foster (Lockwood), No. 1 Lexi Gartman (Lamar), No. 11 Olivia Boice (Lamar), No. 14 Kaylee Daniels (Liberal) and Coach Eby Hardman Mooney (Lamar). Not pictured is Chelsea Schiltz, a practice player.

The above includes a sister club (another Midwest Xplosion team out of Nevada) and the Midwest Xplosion team, right after both teams took first and second place at the Ft. Scott Greyhound classic. Pictured are top row, left to right, Coach Jamie Hillman (Lamar), Coach Eby Hardman Mooney (Lamar), No. 5 Moriah Coose (Lockwood), No. 7 Noble Foster (Lockwood), No. 11 Olivia Boice (Lamar), No. 31 Olivia Nentrup (Lockwood), No. 1 Sydnee Crain (Columbus, Kan.), No. 21 Carly Spencer (Liberal), No. 24 Katelyn Mooney (Lamar), No. 20 Kaitlynn Johnmeyer (Nevada), No. 16 Liz Cassidy (Nevada), No. 8 Kayla Collins (El Dorado Springs); front row, No. 14 Kaylee Daniels (Liberal), No. 14 Ellie Smith (Nevada), No. 24 Margaret Cavener (Nevada), No. 10 Jaci Coleman (Liberal), No. 4 Elena Rodriguez (Nevada), No. 1 McKinley Ellis (Nevada) and the Nevada's 15-3 coach, Carol Bessinger, out of Ft. Scott, Kan.

The Midwest Xplosion volleyball team is having a very successful season. This team is made up of 14-15 year old girls from the area including La-mar, Liberal, Lockwood, Columbus, Kan. and Nevada. They are a club team that branched into this area out of Spring-field. The team has won four tournaments thus far, which include The Battle in the Junction tournament in Carl Junc-tion in February, the Blue Devils tournament in Kansas City on March 30, the Sunflower Slam tour-nament in Kansas City on

April 6 and they took first place in the silver bracket in The Friendly Cup in Springfield in January. This was their first tour-nament of the year.

Other accomplish-ments so far this year include two second place finishes; one at another Friendly Cup tournament in Springfield and the other at the Greyhound Classic tournament in Ft. Scott, Kan. The team also tied for third at a tourna-ment in Holden.

Their overall record so far this year is 61-21. Great job girls! Your parents and coaches are

very proud of them and their accomplishments. Keep the winning streak going! Most of the team are girls that moved up an age division. Accord-ing to Coach Hardman, “Five of the eight play-ers are eighth graders (14-years-old) that I moved up, which is a big deal to me because they are performing so well in an older league”.

The team will play at an-other Friendly Cup tour-nament in Springfield on April 19 and in the HOA Regionals tournament in Kansas City on April 26 and 27.

Lamar girls swim team finishes season strong

The Lamar High School Girls Swim Team fin-ished the season at the SWMO Championships in Springfield on Feb-ruary 13 and 15. The two-day meet featured preliminaries on Thurs-day and the qualifying swimmers advanced to the finals held on Satur-day. The SWMO Confer-ence has grown again this year, with the addition of Monett and Bolivar. Springfield's Glendale was the repeat cham-pion, with Kickapoo fin-ishing in second. Lamar placed 14th, outscoring the Parkview, Hillcrest, Seymour, Marshfield and Greenwood Academy teams. Other teams com-peting included Nixa, Summit Prep, Central, Logansville-Rogersville, Carthage, Webb City, Ne-vada, Ozark and Joplin.

Lamar had a successful showing, with two new school records and many improved times. All nine of Lamar's swimmers qualified for finals in at least one event.

The girls' relays did a great job, as they had all season. The 200 Free re-lay team of Kenna Ro-land, Nichole Sinnett, Carmen Miller and John-na Cato-Schwan placed ninth in the finals and scored eight points. The same swimmers finished 10th in the Medley relay, scoring six points. The 400 Freestyle relay team of Jenna Baslee, Brooklyn Davey, Anais Ronjat and Grace Compton placed 13th in the finals. All three relays swam their best times of the season.

Swimming her last meet as a Lamar Lady Tiger, Roland finished

her swim career with two more school records. She placed 11th in the 100 yard Butterfly, with a new record of 1:07.55 and 12th in the 100 yard Freestyle, with a new time of 58:05. Senior Cato-Schwan also fin-ished her season by mak-ing finals and best times in both of her individual events. She placed 19th in the 200 yard Freestyle and 21st in the 100 Free-style.

Freshman Miller earned points at her first conference meet, with a 12th place finish in the 100 yard Breaststroke. She also placed 20th in the 200 yard individual medley and earned a best time. Harley Hunt made finals and finished 22nd in the grueling 500 yard Freestyle. Nichole Sinnett placed 21st in

the 100 yard Backstroke and 23rd in the 50 Free, with best times in both events. Baslee swam her best time when she fin-ished 23rd in the 200 yard Freestyle. Compton also had a 23rd place fin-ish when she swam the 100 yard Breaststroke.

Compton additionally placed 24th in the 200 yard Individual Medley. Ronjat achieved a best time and a finals appear-ance, finishing 24th in the 100 yard Freestyle.

Coach Nancy Adams was very proud of the girls and their strong

finish to the season. The team will unfortunately lose three seniors, Ro-land, Cato-Schwan and Ronjat. Their leader-ship on the team will be missed, but the team ea-gerly looks forward to a great group of returning lettermen next year.

Lamar golf team has pivotal weekThe Lamar Tigers golf team sched-

ule experienced a pivotal week, April 7-11, with two tournaments, with very large fields including multiple Class 3 and 4 schools. This was a good test to see how the Tigers could score.

The team started at Silo Ridge in Bolivar on Monday. Silo is slated to host both Class 3 Districts and Class 2 State this year, so many teams were wanting to see how the course would play out in a competition environ-ment. Even though Lamar's “unde-feated” streak stopped, they posted a pretty solid day, taking second out of 21 schools. That was with a couple of individual scores coming in worse than their average, so the team could have fared better. The only school that beat Lamar (Springfield Catholic) also had a very good day, with many of their individual players scoring better than their averages. Catholic is in Lamar's district, so the post season will be very competitive for them this year. Top teams: Springfield Catholic, 321; Lamar, 339; Lebanon, 341 and Ava, 346.

Lamar scores: Landon Maberry, 82; Nathan McArthur, 84; Caleb Fischer, 86; Logan McArthur, 87; Peyton Wil-liams, 92.

On Tuesday they had a match at Aurora. Other teams present were Carl Junction and Cassville. The day ended up being Aurora vs. Lamar, as both teams played very well. Aurora got the win on their home course, which frustrated Lamar a little. As the season progresses it appears that Aurora and Lamar are the conference contenders. Lamar is going to have to step up their game a bit, since it is also Aurora's turn to host the conference championship this year.

Team scores: Aurora, 155, Lamar, 160, Cassville, 184, Carl Junction, 187.

Lamar scores: Caleb Fischer, 37, Lo-gan McArthur, 40, Landon Maberry, 41, Kip Roland, 42, Nathan McArthur 44.

Thursday, April 10, found Lamar in another large challenge. They played in one of the oldest high school golf tournaments in Missouri. The Mis-souri State Relays have been around since the mid 70’s. This tournament is so big that it has class divisions just like state. Lamar was able to defend their Class 2 win from last year with-out a problem and even managed to take down some the of big schools as well. Teams like Glendale and Rock-hurst were still able to hold off La-mar's challenge. Caleb Fischer had a great day, only missing being the overall individual champion by one stroke.

Teams (Class 1 and 2): Lamar, 316; Ava, 322; Mt. Vernon, 335; Thay-er, 355; Mountain Grove, 363; Ash Grove, 378; Willow Springs, 394; Greenwood, 395.

Lamar scores: Lamar: Landon Ma-berry, 76; Caleb Fischer, 72; Logan McArthur, 80; Kip Roland, 88; Na-than McArthur, 90.

In summary, it was a big week for varsity golf at Lamar. While not unde-feated anymore, they still have a pret-ty strong overall record (44-5). They also found a couple of good goals for the season. First, to be improved enough to be able to beat Springfield Catholic on their goods days as well as their bad. Second, to be able to win the Big 8 Conference title at Aurora’s course.

Next week Lamar will have the fi-nal conference match at Cassville on Tuesday. JV will see their first tradi-tional style tournament at Mt. Vernon on Wednesday. Varsity will also be at Aurora for a non conference tourna-ment Thursday.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 • SECTION B2014

A sales tax for statewide transportation improvements may be in the works


LAMAR-A joint resolution is pending in the Missouri House of Representatives (HJR 68) that would place a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot for a one cent sales tax for transporta-tion. If approved by the states voters, supporters of the mea-sure estimate it would raise $700 million annually. Of the amount raised, 90 percent would go to the Missouri De-partment of Transportation (MoDOT), five percent to cit-ies, and five percent to counties. A simple majority would be re-quired. The measure would last for 10 years, at which time it would have to be resubmitted to the state’s voters for renewal for another 10 years.

The joint resolution was re-ferred to the House Transpor-tation Committee where hear-ings were held. It was given a “Do Pass” recommendation and placed on the House cal-endar for perfection. At last report, it was scheduled for de-bate on the House floor where two more votes were needed to send it on to the Senate.

In committee testimony, sup-port for the resolution came from Associated General Con-tractors of Missouri, the Mis-souri Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and the Missouri Bicycle & Pedestrian Federa-tion, among others. Testifying against the resolution was the Missouri Municipal League and the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, among oth-

Local angler hits jackpot at Big Bass Bash

Local angler Jim Banks hit the jackpot at the Big Bass Bash held at Lake of the Ozarks. Most days you will find Jim at the Lamar John Deere Deal-ership, but April 5 and 6 he and his 13-year-old stepson, Michael Henderson, entered the Big Bass Bash, hoping to spend some time together and catch a few fish, hoping for a big one at the right time. Of course, the pressure was on Jim to find some fish, so Michael could have a good time catch-ing them.

Saturday proved to be pretty slow, with the two of them only catching shorts. Sunday, they went to a different part of the lake, pulled up to an area they had never fished before that

was near a channel swing with a gravel bank. That must have been the perfect spot because as soon as Jim cast in between two docks with a Strike King 3XD, there she was, probably in five to six feet of water. With netting help from Michael, they put her in the boat at straight up noon.

As it turned out, they were the big bass winners for the Sunday time slot of 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Then when everyone had weighed in, they were second big bass of the tournament. Their fish weighed 7.28 pounds and earned them a check for $20,000. First big bass was 7.96 and third and fourth big bass were 7.25 and 7.23 respectively. Wow! What a finish!

Jim Banks is pictured with his 7.28 pound bass that he caught with the help of stepson Michael Henderson during the Big Bass Bash.

Jim Banks and his stepson and fishing buddy Michael Henderson are shown with the trophy they won in the Big Bass Bash.

On May 21 we will publish a special Memorial Day page(s) in memory of deceased loved ones. To include your loved one,stop by the Lamar Democrat office at 100 East 11th Street and fill out the form. You will be able to select a graphic and tribute

message to go along with a photo of your loved one. Photos can also be emailed to [email protected].

Each memorial tribute ad is $15.00. Deadline is 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 14

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Lamar Democrat/Richard CooperA charred shell is virtually all that remains after a destructive fire, Friday afternoon, at

the Lonnie Stilabower home, 282 Northwest 36th Lane. Stilabower reported the blaze at 3:10 p.m. The Lamar Rural Fire Department received mutual aid assistance from the Liberal, Jasper, and Sheldon fire departments. The Barton County Ambulance Service, Barton County Sheriff’s Department, and the Red Cross were also on the scene to render any needed assistance. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire has been listed as under investigation.

Mounted Search and Rescue Team to fall under Lamar CB umbrella


Lamar Community Bet-terment Vice President Ron Hager conducted the CB meeting at 12 noon, Wednes-day, April 9, in the absence of President Elaine Davis. The meeting began with Barton County Search and Rescue member Jeff Boyd speak-ing to the group, relating the need to organize a mounted search and rescue equine team for the area. Boyd re-lated that he felt the need to formally conduct such an organization after the dis-appearance and subsequent search for Adriaunna Hor-ton last year. Individuals in-terested in joining the team are encouraged to contact Boyd or one of the members of Barton County Search and Rescue. Training is currently being held at the Lamar Sad-dle Club grounds.

The equine team would be working the four state area, in conjunction with other search teams including div-ers and dog teams.

Boyd stated that they are currently in the process of certification on how not to contaminate a crime scene and to protect the integrity of evidence. He stated that this should bring them up to the

level of being able to work with the Barton County Sheriff 's Department. It was mentioned that a benefit pancake breakfast would be held Saturday, April 19, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the As-sembly of God Church on Hwy. 160 in Lamar. Kathy Jenkins suggested that the organization should check into individual grants, naming a few possibili-ties that might be helpful. Also present was Dan Hayworth, who is also part of the search and rescue team. Following discussion, it was unanimously passed to accept the Mounted Search and Rescue Team un-der the CB umbrella, which the Barton County Search and Res-cue team already is.

A letter was read from Metro-politan Bank, stating that they had donated $2055 to the com-munity from Jeans Day at the bank. The employees pay a cer-tain amount on Fridays, in or-der to be able to wear blue jeans to work that day. The money raised goes towards area chari-ties and at the end of the quar-ter contributions are divided and offered to various local or-ganizations. The bank had con-tributed $340 to the search and rescue team.

Hager mentioned that in or-der to proceed with the demo-lition of the Gilkey building, asbestos removal would have to be verified. He also stated

that the demolition will include only some of the buildings; with the one attached to Fast Eddie's to remain under the ownership of the CB. Hager added, “We're well on the way to a vacant lot!”

The 2014 project book was discussed, with material need-ing to be in by June 1. Projects in the community section in-clude the Airport Expansion, which is now complete; 10th Street Community Farmers' Market, Power Team Extreme/Lamar Ministerial Alliance, the new Lamar City Dog Park, and Tools for Schools. Youth sec-tion projects include Growing with Community Gardens and From The Farm To You. The adult nominee for the 2014 leadership award will be Mari-lyn Selvey, with Tony Morgan to represent the youth.

It was announced that the MCB Regional meeting would be held April 15, at the Carl Junction Community Center.

Under individual project re-ports, Jerod Morey with AOK and Nathan's Place reported that summer camp begins May 27. He stated that they were still working with schools regard-ing a weight curriculum and still feeding around 60 a day at their facility. They are currently running strictly on donations only and are managing to get

Stilabower home destroyedsee RESCUE, page 2B

see TAX, page 6B

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FYISign-up date announced for disaster assistance

COLUMBIA, Mo.-U.S. Department of Agri-culture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Juan M. Garcia announced re-cently that farmers and ranchers can sign up for disaster assistance pro-grams, reestablished and strengthened by the 2014 Farm Bill, beginning Tuesday, April 15.

“President Obama and Secretary Vilsack made it a priority to begin en-rollment for these pro-grams,” said Garcia. “For farmers and ranchers who have been awaiting disaster assistance, help is on the way.”

The Livestock Indem-nity Program (LIP) and

the Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) will provide payments to eligible producers for livestock deaths and grazing losses that have occurred since the ex-piration of the livestock disaster assistance pro-grams in 2011, and in-cluding calendar years 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Enrollment also begins on April 15 for produc-ers with losses covered by the Emergency Assis-tance for Livestock, Hon-eybees and Farm Raised Fish Program (ELAP) and the Tree Assistance Program (TAP) in 2011, when the program ex-pired, through 2014.

“Missouri's producers

have encountered several extreme weather condi-tions over the past few years, from a historic drought, to flooding, to extreme cold and snow,” said Mark Cadle, state executive director for Missouri FSA. “These programs will help our producers recover from these disasters and help sustain Missouri's live-stock industry”.

LIP provides compen-sation to eligible live-stock producers who have suffered livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality due to adverse weather and at-tacks by animals reintro-duced into the wild by the federal government or

protected by federal law. LFP provides compensa-tion to eligible livestock producers who have suf-fered grazing losses due to drought or fire. ELAP provides emergency as-sistance to eligible pro-ducers of livestock, hon-eybees and farm raised fish who have losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other condi-tions such as wildfires. TAP provides financial assistance to qualifying orchardists and nursery tree growers to replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes and vines dam-aged by natural disasters.

“To expedite applica-tions, all producers who experienced losses are encouraged to bring records documenting those losses to their local FSA county office,” said Cadle.

Producers also are en-couraged to contact their county office ahead of time to schedule an ap-pointment.

For more information, producers are encour-aged to review the 2014 Farm Bill Fact Sheet, check out the LIP, LFP, ELAP and TAP fact

sheets online at www.fsa.usda.gov or visit any USDA Service Center.

Careless mowing and weed trimming can cause trees to die a slow death

SPRINGFIELD-Home-owners might be their trees’ worst enemy if they don’t take care when us-ing mowers and weed eat-ers around them.

“Trees don’t heal from cuts like we do, so a lawn mower scrape, or a trim-mer slash, creates a per-manent injury,” said Pat-rick Byers, horticulture specialist with University of Missouri Extension. “Once the underlying wood is exposed, you’ve put out a welcome sign for diseases and pests to attack your trees.”

Many an older tree has succumbed to internal rot that originated with dam-

age caused years earlier. According to Byers,

there is an easy way to avoid this kind of dam-age. Remove the grass and weeds from around the tree. Not only will it make it unnecessary to mow near the tree, the tree will not have to com-pete for the nutrients and water.

Spreading mulch of leaves, grass clippings or straw around trees will keep weeds and grass un-der control and will give the tree base an attractive appearance. Plus, these organic mulches will help conserve moisture, keep soil temperatures stable,

and add nutrients to the soil.

“Damage by mow-ers and weed trimmers isn’t a tree problem, it’s a people problem. That mighty oak may look invincible, but care-less mowing and weed trimming can cause it to die, slowly, from a thousand small cuts,” said Byers.

For more information on this and other lawn and garden questions, call the University of Missouri Master Gar-dener Helpline at the Greene County Exten-sion Center, (417) 881-8909.

Rescue, continued from page 1B

by with the help of many. Of course donations are always welcome and they are very thankful for the help the community has provided. Morey re-ported that a community wide open house would be held at AOK on Tues-day, May 13, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Donors will be rec-ognized at this time.

Jenkins reported that the Barco Drive-In is now open, with a new contract that has been signed for two years. The drive-in is still in need of a new roof for the refreshments cen-ter/movie booth.

Lynn Calton passed around the final report for the Dream Initiative, Lamar's downtown stra-tegic plan.

Leisa Blanchard with Barton County Memorial Hospital presented infor-mation regarding an eye screening to take place at the hospital on May 1, as well as chronic disease classes to be offered. She added that starting May 6, there would be a sup-port group starting up for caregivers of those with memory loss.

Ginnie Keatts stated that TATS was on course for providing 27,000 one way rides this year; 2,000 more than last year. She

also stated that there was currently almost enough to purchase a new van, as the old one is in need of replacement. TATS also received a $2500 do-nation from the Finley Foundation.

Barbara McDaniels re-ported that the 10th Street Community Farmers' Market was off to a good

start and that for the time being hours are Saturday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, at the Moore Pavilion. Another day will be added as the season progresses.

The meeting adjourned, to meet again at 12 noon on Wednesday, May 14. All are invited and en-couraged to attend!

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WILBUR R. JOYCE

LAMAR-Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Weng Funeral Cha-pel in Jasper for Wilbur R. Joyce, 94, Lamar, who died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at Barton County Memorial Hospital in La-mar. Burial was in Lake Cemetery in Lamar.

Memorial contributions may be made to Lottie Moon Foreign Missions or the Lamar Senior Cen-ter.

Online condolences may be made at www.wengfuneralchapel.com.

Survivors include a son, Bill Joyce, Jasper; two daughters, Patricia Gordon, Carthage and Martha Joyce, Jasper; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and two great-great-grand-children.

He was preceded in death by his a sister, Lu-cille Clow, and a great-grandson, Zeth Joyce.

Mr. Joyce was born Nov. 9, 1919, in Barton Coun-ty, to Estell and Ethel (Selvey) Joyce. He was a dairy farmer and a carrier for the Carthage Press for many years. He graduated from Lamar High School and was a member of the Victory Baptist Church of Carthage.

He married Ferne Schwartz on Jan. 17, 1942, at Greenfield. She died Oct. 21, 1988.

NORA LEE LOEWE

LAMAR-Services were held at 11 a.m. Friday at Daniel Funeral Home for Nora Lee Loewe, 88, La-mar, who died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at Barton County Memorial Hospi-tal. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the American Heart Associa-tion, in care of the funeral

home.Condolences may be

shared at www.danielfu-neralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband, Gene Loewe; two daughters, Lisa Riley and husband Tim and Linda Richardson and husband Terry, all of La-mar; four grandchildren, Chelsea Riley, Trevon Ri-ley, Melanie Richardson and Kurt Richardson; a sister, Carol Bellamy and husband Don, Scotts-dale, Ariz. and five sis-ters-in-law, Barbara Pis-tole, Pittsburg, Kan. and Velma Crockett, Nadine Mayfield and husband Deb and Wilma Braker, all of Lamar and Betty Gilmartin and husband Joe, Liberal.

She was preceded in death by her parents, J.E. And Grace Pistole and Art and Fern Cox; three brothers, Charles, Carl and Beryl Pistole and three sisters, Fran-ces Brady, Fern Berk and Betty Jo Kelso.

Mrs. Loewe was born Sept. 17, 1925, in Pitts-burg, Kan., to J.E. and Grace (Matzenbacher) Pistole. She grew up in the Golden City area, staying with Art and Fern Cox for most of her school years. After graduating from Golden City High School she launched a career in teaching that spanned more than 40 years. Beginning at Mt. Carmel, she taught at sev-eral rural schools, then in the Golden City and Lamar school systems. After teaching during the school year, she attended college in Pittsburg, Kan. and Springfield each summer, earning a bach-elor’s degree in education.

She was a member of Missouri State Teach-ers Association and af-ter retiring in 1987, she became a member of the Missouri Retired Teach-ers Association.

She married Gene Loewe on June 17, 1961, at Golden City.

ROBERTA ARLENE BOHRNLAMAR-Services were

held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Moriah & Freeman Chapel, 10507 Holmes, Kansas City, Mo., for Ro-berta A. Bohrn, 71, La-mar, who died Wednes-day, April 9, 2014.

ELLEN MARIE (HAWKINS)

ROGERSLEE’S SUMMIT-A

graveside service for the immediate family of Ellen M. Rogers, 93, Lee’s Sum-mit, who died Thursday, April 10, 2014, will be held at the Missouri Vet-erans Cemetery in Hig-ginsville.

Arrangements are under the direction of Langsford Funeral Home, 115 SW 3rd St., Lee’s Summit, MO 64063.

As a breast cancer sur-vivor, it is suggested that memorials be made to the American Cancer So-ciety.

Survivors include a son, William Rogers, and a daughter-in-law, Janet Rogers.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Rogers.

ELMER E. MITCHELL

LA RUSSELL-Services were held at 2 p.m. Mon-day, at the Main Street Baptist Church in Green-field for Elmer Emory Mitchell, 72, La Russell, who died Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at his home, with his family by his side. Burial followed at Pennsboro Cemetery.

Arrangements were un-der the direction of Dan-iel Funeral Home, Lamar.

Memorial contributions may be made to the fam-ily, to aid with funeral ex-penses.

Condolences may be left at www.danielfuner-alhome.net.

Survivors include his wife, Edna Jane Mitchell; two sons, Emory Dale Mitchell and wife Ruth, La Russell and Terry Don Mitchell and wife Tona, Golden City; two daughters, Sherry Lynn Mitchell and husband Royce, Walker and Shelly Crockett and husband Mike, Lamar; four broth-ers, Bob Mitchell, Marvin and Lois Mitchell, Tom and Rhonda Mitchell and Roy and Janice Mitch-ell; five sisters, Barbara Pridemore, Kay and Vern Ehrishman, Fay Barn-hart, Jean and John Mc-Donald and Juanita Ma-hurin; 10 grandchildren, Dewayne and Andrea Mitchell, Mikey and Sar-ah Hart, Brandon Hart, Terry Mitchell, Jr., Jeremy Mitchell, Katie Mitchell, Hunter and Kylor Crock-ett, Megan Estes and Jon Estes and 12 great-grand-children, Race Hart, Heavyn Hart, Michael Hart, Austin Hart, Ma-son Hart, Radyn Hart, Marissa Hart, Timothy Mitchell, Jasmine Mitch-ell, Xander Lewis, Emma Oliver and Riley Lee.

He was preceded in death by an infant son, John Mitchell; two sis-ters, Linda White and Elma Dean Mitchell; four brothers, J.A. Brown, Bud Mitchell, John Mitchell and Darrel Mitchell; an infant grandson, Kevin Mitchell and a son-in-law, Mike Hart.

Mr. Mitchell was born April 25, 1941, at Good-man, to Elmer Edgar and Flossie Evelyn (Brown) Mitchell. He was a self-employed logger and tree trimmer. He was a lov-ing husband, father and grandpa.

He married Edna Jane Laughlin at Goodman on

June 14, 1963.

BERNETTA GRIFFITT

LAMAR-Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Daniel Funeral Home for Bernetta Jean Griffitt, 80, Lamar, who died Sat-urday, April 12, 2014, at Freeman Hospital West. Burial will follow at Kiley Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m to 7 p.m. this evening (Wednesday) at the funeral home.

Memorial contribu-tions may be made to M.A.D.D., in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be left at www.danielfuneral-home.net.

Survivors include a son, Ricky Griffitt and wife Kathy, Lamar; two daugh-ters, Carol Nash and hus-band Phil, Kansas City, Kan. and Linda Nemeth and husband Jim, Ton-ganoxie, Kan.; her best friend of 18 years, Gene Compton; two broth-ers, Harlen Schick and wife Joan, Carterville and Gary Schick and wife Su-sie, Joplin; two sisters, Violet Houdyshell, Joplin and Bea Allen, Lamar; eight grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; six step-great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Vern Schick, Jim Schick and Bob Schick; two sis-ters, Elaine Tavares and an infant sister, Nancy Schick.

Mrs. Griffitt was born Feb. 10, 1934, at Marion, Kan., to Herbert and Cl-aira (Martin) Schick. She had worked in the camera department at Gill’s Stu-dio in Lenexa, Kan. and for Oxford Healthcare for 15 years, then as a private caregiver for 15 years. Af-ter living away, she moved back to Lamar in 1989.

She married John Griffitt Jr. on Nov. 4, 1950, in Jackson County. He preceded her in death.

GLENN JURGENSCURTIS, Neb.-Services

were held at 12 noon on Monday, at Curtis United Methodist Church, for Glenn John Jurgens, 92, Curtis, who died Fri-day, April 11, 2014, at his home, surrounded by his family. Burial was in Fort McPherson National Cemetery, near Maxwell.

Survivors include two sons, Randy Jurgens and wife Cheryl, Lincoln and Rod Jurgens and wife Jo, Lamar, Mo.; a daughter, Pam Jurgens, Curtis; a sis-ter, Francis Greenwood, Wellfleet, 12 grandchil-dren and 23 great-grand-children.

He was preceded in death by a son, John Chris and two brothers, Chris Jurgens and Porge Jurgens.

Mr. Jurgens was born Nov. 4, 1921, on a farm west of Moorefield, to George and Emma

(Waltemath) Jurgens. After graduating from Moorefield High School in 1939 he attended Ke-arney College for one year before serving in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. Returning home after the war he earned a BA from Hasting Col-lege in 1949 and began a 49 year career in teaching math, first at UNSA, then MVHS and UNSTA, im-pacting the lives of innu-merable students.

An active member of his community, he was a Boy Scout leader, served on the city council and the ambulance board, was instrumental in the Cur-tis Little Theater and the Methodist church choir. After retiring, he enjoyed traveling, woodworking, playing golf and, most importantly, the love of family and the fellowship of friends.

He married Beverly McDermott on Aug. 11, 1946. She died Jan. 9, 2008.

PRISCILLA MAE TUBAUGH

GOLDEN CITY-Ser-vices will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday) at the United Methodist Church in Golden City for Pris-cilla Mae Tubaugh, 80, Golden City, who died at 5:55 a.m. Saturday, April 12, 2014, at the Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Lockwood. Burial will follow in Dudenville Cemetery, south of Gold-en City.

Arrangements are un-der the direction of Pugh Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions

may be made to the Al-zheimer’s Association, in care of the funeral home.

Survivors include two sons, Robert Elliott and wife Rita, Golden City and Danny Young and wife Michelle, Deerfield; a daughter, Gloria Nel-son and husband Dale, Golden City; a stepson, Ricky Tubaugh and wife Sheila; a stepdaughter, Brenda Combs and hus-band Johnny, Kansas City, Mo.; grandchildren, Jennifer, Elliott, Danielle, Misty, Abigail, Joe, Ron-nie, Marcus, Mattie, Dil-lion, Dot, Dawn, Sheila, Christopher, Austin, Cassie, Candace, Carly and Shelly and many great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Tommy Elliott and a daughter, Laura Jane Dickerson.

Mrs. Tubaugh was born Aug. 6, 1933, in Barton County, to Joseph and Sylvia (Ohler) Webb. She grew up in the Gold-en City area and was a graduate of Golden City High School. She worked as a secretary and librar-ian for the Golden City Schools for 20 years. She also owned the Wayside Cafe in Golden City for 18 years with her hus-band, Kenneth.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Golden City. She loved to sew and made her own clothes, loved gardening and was a good cook. She will be known for never saying a cross word to anyone.

She married Billie Gene Elliott in 1953. He died in 1960. She married Ken-neth Tubaugh on May 5, 1979, in Golden City. He died Jan. 14, 2003.

RECORDSDEATHS & PAID MEMORIALS BRIEFS

All briefs are also posted on the calender at www.lamardemocrat.com.

LIBERAL BOOSTER CLUB WILL present donkey basketball at the Liberal High School gymnasium on Friday, April 18, 7 p.m. Advanced tickets are $8, with children four and under free. Advanced tickets are on sale at the Bank of Minden in Liberal and Minden and the Liberal elementary or high school offices, as well as in Lamar at Lamar Bank & Trust and Heritage State Bank. They will also be available at the door for $10.THE BARTON COUNTY SINGING Convention will be held Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m., at the Iantha Methodist Church. All are invited to attend for a time of singing and sharing in Christian fellowship. They welcome all specials, but just listening is another op-tion.THE LAMAR MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE will hold Good Friday services on April 18, 7 p.m., at the Lamar First Assembly, 1200 Mill St. The theme will be “The Incomparable Christ”. All are invited to attend.VFW POST 3691 AND LADIES Auxiliary will meet Monday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., in the basement of Lamar Memorial Hall. A potluck supper will be held before the meeting at 6:30 p.m. All veterans are welcome.THE BARTON COUNTY MEMORIAL Hospital Diabetes Education Support Group will not meet in April. Watch for their announcement of the May meeting scheduled for May 19.THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MT. Carmel Cemetery Association will be held Sunday, April 27, 3 p.m., at the home of Dale Huber, 694 SE 40th Lane.FIBER ARTS GUILD WILL MEET Thursday, April 17, 9 a.m., at Denny’s in Lamar. The Blue Top Quilt Shop will present a surprise program. Roll call can be answered with an Easter item.RICHLAND TOWNSHIP BOARD WILL meet Thursday, April 17, 10 a.m., at 694 SE 40th Lane.THE LIBERAL CLASS OF 2016 will serve dinner before the Liberal Booster Club donkey basketball game on Friday, April 18, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the high school. CROWDER COLLEGE IS NOW TAKING enroll-ment for Fall 2014 courses. An advisor will be at the Lamar Career and Technical Center on Wednesday, April 16, 9 a.m. To 2 p.m. Call 417-667-0518 for an appointment.LAMAR MASONIC LODGE WILL HOLD A Mis-souri Child Identification Program on Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 200 E. 11th St. The event is sponsored by Lamar Lodge 292 A.F. & A.M. and Hermon Lodge 187 A.F. & A.M. For information call Red Wilkinson, event coordinator at 417-214-4971 or 417-682-2100 or Ron Wood, 417-529-5833.THE DRUG TAKE BACK BOX IS available at the Lamar Police Department, 1106 Broadway, for those wishing to keep prescriptions out of the water sup-ply and out of the hands of youth. A special day has been set aside to take unused or expired medications, either prescription or over the counter, and will be held Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please put all medications in a plastic garbage bag, minus the bottles. This will help with packaging and transport to the incinerator. No needles or inhalers please.TICKETS FOR THE LAMAR TIGER football night to be held Saturday, April 19, 6:10 p.m., when the Springfield Cardinals take on the Arkansas Trav-elers are available at the Lamar High School office for $11 each. All seats are on the first base line. Pro-ceeds from ticket sales support Lamar athletics and activities.THE 2014 LAMAR FREE FAIR DATES have been set for August 16-23.

MENUBARTON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER LUNCH

MENU: April 21-25MONDAY- Sweet and

sour chicken, oriental vegetables, fried rice, egg roll, Mandarin oranges, coffee/tea/milk.

TUESDAY- Taco salad with meat, beans, cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, pineapple, tostitos, fro-zen sherbet, coffee/tea/milk.

WEDNESDAY- Beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans,

wheat roll, cantaloupe, coffee/tea/milk.

THURSDAY- Open faced turkey with gra-vy, parslied potatoes, spinach, wheat bread, vanilla wafer pudding with banana, coffee/tea/milk.

FRIDAY- Hot dogs with chili and cheese on bun, baked beans, french fries, apple juice, grapes, coffee/tea/milk.

Frank D Winkler V DNA Investments LLC, consent judgement.

State V Katie Lynn Mo-chel, written guilty plea.

State V Luis A Chevez, written guilty plea x2.

State V Joshua Cathey, written guilty plea.

COURT MISC.


NOTICE OFTRUSTEE’S SALE

WHEREAS, KAREN CARRANZA AND JOSEFINA ESPINOSA, by Deed of Trust dated February 23, 2005 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Barton County, Missouri, on February 24, 2005 as document # 2005-307, conveyed to the Trustee therein, the following described real estate, situated in the County of Barton, State of Missouri, to wit:ALL OF LOT 7 IN BLOCK 1 OF RICHARDS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAMAR, BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURIwhich conveyance was made to the Trustee therein in Trust, to secure the payment of a certain Note in said Deed of Trust described; and

WHEREAS, default was made and still continues in the payment of said note;

NOW, THEREFORE, at the request of the legal holder of said Note, and pursuant to the provisions of said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Successor Trustee will sell the property above described, at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, at the West front door of the Barton County Courthouse in the City of Lamar, Missouri, on Thursday, April 24, 2014 between the hours of 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon and 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon, specifically at 10:00 a.m. for the purpose of satisfying said indebtedness and the costs of executing this trust.

L. MITCHELL SHAWBARTON COUNTY

SHERIFFJAMES V. NICHOLS

206 WEST 10TH STREETLAMAR, MO 64759

4-2,9,16,23-4tc In Re: Doris A. Denny, a single personTRUSTEE’S SALE – Under the terms of the Deed of Trust executed by Doris A. Denny, a single person dated 06/23/2005, and recorded on 06/28/2005 Document 2005-1167 in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for Barton County, MISSOURI, the undersigned Successor Trustee, will on 05/12/2014 at 2:30 PM at the West Front Door of the Barton County Courthouse, 1007 Broadway, Lamar, Mo. 64759, sell at public venue to the highest bidder for cash subject to the terms announced at the sale, the realty described in said deed of trust, to wit:A TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED AS COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BLOCK THIRTY-NINE (39) IN PARRY`S THIRD ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAMAR, IN BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI, AND RUNNING THENCE WEST 100 FEET, THENCE NORTH 60 FEET, THENCE EAST 100 FEET, THENCE SOUTH 60 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF..Substitute Trustee CorporationPublished in the Lamar DemocratFile #: DORDESET

First publication date04/16/2-14

4-16,23,30,5-7-4tcNOTICE OF

TRUSTEE’S SALEDefault having been made in the payment of the note described in and secured by Deed of Trust dated December 4, 2008, executed by Nathan J. Hazard, and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Barton County, Missouri, on December 30, 2008, as instrument no. 2008-1754, and conveying to the undersigned trustee the following described property in Barton County, Missouri, to-wit:

All of Lot Four (4), in Block Three (3), of M. N. Wills Third Addition to the City of Lamar, in Barton County, Missouri except 50 feet off of the entire West side thereof,

at the request of the legal holder of said note who has elected to declare the entire indebtedness due and payable, and in accordance with the provisions of the said Deed of Trust, the undersigned trustee will on the 12th day of May, 2014, between the hours of 9:00 o’clock A.M. and 5:00 o’clock P.M., to-wit: at 1:00 P.M., sell said property at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the West front door of the Barton County Courthouse in the City of Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, to satisfy said note and costs.

By /s/ Steven H. Kaderly, Trustee

NOTICE:Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection

Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent

of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt

collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

4-16,23,30,5-7-4tc

LEGALSLEGALS

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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.Services Offered

Appliance Repair. Ap-pliance parts. Miller’s Country Corner. 417-884-2684.

Carpenter Wanted to

remodel small restau-rant building (former Sweet’s BBQ, 1607 Gulf, Lamar) into small rental home. Will trade rent for labor or share the invest-ment on sale of the re-modeled property. 417-355-3989.

Lawn Mowing Season is Approaching: Please call O'Neal Cutting Edge Lawn Care for All Your Lawn Care Needs. Residential & Commer-cial. Free Estimates, Af-fordable Prices, Fully Insured. Cell: 417-214-0256 or Home: 417-682-2909 after 7 pm Please. If no answer please leave message. Chris O'Neal, Owner/Operator. 1103 E 18th St, Lamar, MO 64759.

Employment

Drivers, Solo, 3 or 6 day runs, up to $0.44CPM, Free Health Ins. Same Day Pay. 800-769-3993 for Details, www.trailin-er.com.

Drivers, $60,000+, CDL-A, $2500 sign on, 1mo exp., Same Day Pay! Free Health Ins, No CDL? Free Train-ing! www.trailiner.com.

Help Wanted: Journey-man Electrician, work-ing for an Industrial Electrical Shop. Must know how to run con-duit and a small amount of control work. Wage based on knowledge.

(417) 682-6151.

Drivers: Excellent Home Time. Great Pay & Benefits, Dry Van, Flatbed and Intermodal Divisions, You Choose! Refreshers Welcome. $1,500 Sign On Bonus. CDL-A 1 yr Exp. 866-374-8487.Drivers: CDL-A Teams Get Home Every Week-end with Local Special-ty Transportation Com-pany. Must qualify for Hazmat Endorsement and Security Clearance. wwwRandRtruck.com, 1-866-204-8006.

Lamar Super 8 is now accepting applications for housekeeping posi-tions. Apply in person week day mornings.

Drivers: CDL-A Teams Get Home Every Week-end with Local Special-ty Transportation Com-pany. $100k + per year! 1-866-204-8006.

Bristol Manor of La-mar is hiring CMA, insulin certified. Call Rhonda at 417-682-6762.

Drivers: Growing Fleet! Earn $800 - $1000/wk, Weekly Weekend Home Time! Truck w/microwave & fridge Company Paid Health Ins, Vacation, Holidays & More! CDL-A, 2yrs Experience Required. 1-800-749-0149 ext 105.Drivers: Local Spring-field, MO company.

Earn up to .38+ w/In-centive Pay. Looking for Professional drivers to haul regional freight. Offering Good bene-fits, Sign on Bonus, and Home every 7-10 days. 866-374-8487, www.drivetransland.com.

Garage Sales

Garage Sale – Thurs-day, April 17, Friday, April 18, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Women's small – 2XL, Girl's in-fant – 7/8, Boys 6-10, Men's Med – 2XL, 2 oak tall bookshelves, wash-er/dryer, 42” Husqua-varna riding mower, books, toys, home décor, baskets. Pittsenbarger & Gariss. 440 SE 10th Rd., Lamar. Rain or Shine!

Garage Sale – CD's, size 16 and 18 jeans, purs-es, inspirational books, kitchenware and others. Friday, April 18, Satur-day, April 19, one mile south of McDonald's.

Miscellaneous For Sale

Appliances: Mostly new. Some used. Also appliance parts. Miller’s Country Corner. 417-884-2684.

Close Out Sale – All front load Washer/Dry-er pairs – Pedestals in-cluded. Regularly $1895 to $2695, now any pair $1495. Miller’s Country Corner, 417-884-2684.

Save On Heating Bills. Cabinet infrared heat-ers. Low price – top quality. Miller’s Country Corner, 417-884-2684.

"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 Sale

4BR/2Ba manufac-tured home on perma-nent block foundation with large LR and 1 car garage added on (in-cluding overhead stor-age w/stairs). 1337 sq.ft. Living space. Secluded and quiet w/circle drive on dead end street. New flooring in kitchen, BR, laundry and bath. Appli-ances stay. Lots of clos-et space. Close to shop-ping. $53,999. Potential buyer will need pre-ap-proval. 1106 E. 14th St., Susan Cheshire, 417-214-1388.

Acreages

For Sale – 13 Acres M/L outside of city limits of Greenfield. 417-682-2676.

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Cards of ThanksThe family of Donald Lee Doolin expresses a

word of thanks and gratitude to all the friends and family who gave support to us upon Don’s passing on March 26, 2014. Your acts of kind-ness are deeply appreciated and will not be for-gotten. Sincerely,

Darlene Doolin & Family

The family of Joe Brauburger would like to thank everyone for the prayers, cards, visits and food. Each word of sympathy meant so much to us during this time of sorrow. It was very en-couraging to know others cared.

Danna, Lyle and Emily BrauburgerVelma Brauburger

Scott & Rachael BrauburgerDanny & Carole Thomas

Guy, Stacey, Isaac, Rebekah Emma Emkoff

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends, family, co-workers and commu-nity who have called, visited, written, inquired, sent cards, sent prayers, gifts and good wishes, emails, facebook posts, helped in so many ways and “just been there” for us since Rick’s diagnosis with Acute Myeloid Leukemia last September. We are also truly thankful for the care that was provided by Dr. Erik Miller, Dr. Joe Wilson and the wonderful staff of Barton County Memorial Hospital before Rick’s transfer to KU Medical Center. Rick has been able to return home and is happy to be back in Lamar, but because of his comprised immune system, he must screen visitors and avoid crowds for several months to come. Again, thank you for all your support!

Rick & Rhonda Johnson


Domestic assault reported in Golden City

Barton County Sheriff 's Office deputies respond-ed to a residence outside of Golden City on Mon-day, April 7, in regards to a domestic disturbance. The caller advised that her son was breaking items in

the home and threatening to harm her. The caller then advised that she was afraid and scared for what he would do to her and she had locked herself in a room to get away from her son, who she reported

was out of control.When deputies arrived

in the area the woman had left from the proper-ty and met with deputies and explained what had transpired. Sheriff depu-ties went to the home and made contact with the suspect, Ricky D. Cooper Jr., age 29. Cooper was taken into custody on a 24 hour hold for inves-tigation for domestic as-sault and property dam-age.

Cooper had just re-cently been released from the department of cor-rections (prison) and is currently on parole out of Missouri for the crime of possession of a controlled substance and resisting arrest.

AREA NEWS

Liberal man arrested forabuse of child

The Barton County Sheriff 's Office was contacted on Monday, April 7, by the Missouri Department of Family Servic-es, on an allegation of child abuse which occurred in the Liberal area. A thorough investigation was conducted on the in-

cident and at the conclusion of the in-vestigation Dennis Lee Lake, 41, Liberal, was taken into custody by the sheriff ’s office. Lake was subsequently charged in criminal court on the charge of abuse of a child which is a Class C Felony.

Ricky D. Cooper Jr.

NEVADA-Members of the Missouri National Guard Military Police conducted training in ve-hicle stops last weekend with the help of the Ver-non County Sheriff ’s Of-fice. Sheriff Jason Mosher said Thursday that his office was asked for help with the use of patrol ve-hicles to help train the

1139th MP Company from Harrisonville during training at Camp Clark on Friday and Saturday.

The sheriff said two sheriff ’s office vehicles were used and Vernon County Patrol Lt. John Randall assisted in the su-pervision of the vehicles as well as giving some ad-vice to the group of MP’s.

“I’ve been in the Missouri National Guard for 29 years and in Law Enforce-ment for over 30 years, so it was nice to be able to help assist members of our military in their train-ing” said Lt. Randall.

The sheriff said Lt. Ran-dall is scheduled to retire from the National Guard this summer.

Williams arrested for domestic assault

Deputies from the Barton County Sher-iff 's Office responded on Thursday, April 10, to an assault allegation which was reported to have oc-curred on A Hwy., ap-proximately three miles north of 160 Highway in Barton County.

During the investiga-tion it was learned that a physical altercation took place between a couple who was currently in a relationship. At the con-clusion of the investiga-tion Daniel T. Williams, age 37, of Lamar was ar-rested and transported

back to the sheriff ’s office on a charge of Assault. Williams was placed on a twenty four hour hold for investigation, awaiting formal charges to be filed with the Barton County prosecutor.

Vernon County Sheriff ’s Office helps National Guard MP’s with training

Vernon County Sheriff 's Office conducts drug bust on three towns in one day

NEVADA-Vernon County Sheriff Ja-son Mosher said his office and mem-bers of the CNET Drug Task Force con-ducted multiple investigations on drug activity and recovered illegal drugs from three towns in Vernon County on Thursday, April 10. The sheriff said Brenden Moreland, 26, Nevada, was arrested in the north part of Nevada, while deputies and agents with the CNET Drug Task Force were conduct-ing surveillance. Moreland, who was currently on parole, was placed under arrest for possession of a substance be-lieved to be crystal meth and a loaded firearm. Vernon County Prosecutor Lynn Ewing III filed charges on More-land Friday, April 11, and a warrant was issued for felony possession of a con-trolled substance and felony possession

of a firearm. Moreland is being held in the Vernon County Jail on a $25,000 cash only bond.

The sheriff said his office also recov-ered suspected methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia from a house in Harwood and from a location in Schell City, just a few hours later. Although all three busts were conducted within a few hours of each other, the sheriff said he would not comment on whether or not the three incidents were related to the same case. The names from the cases in Harwood, and Schell City have not been released, pending the comple-tion of the investigation. “Every bag of meth we take off the street is a bag that doesn’t make it to someone who is go-ing to destroy their life with this stuff ” the sheriff said.

The Barton County Memorial Hospital Pet Therapy team presented a $455 check to Sandy Alexander from the City of Lamar. The monies were collected from the Pet Therapy team's annual Pet Calendar Contest calendar sales. The City of Lamar will use the donation to further the opening of a dog park located within the city park. Pictured, left to right, are Leisa Blanchard, Kelly Malle, Gretchen Denney, Sandra Dickey and Sandy Alexander.

BCMH Pet Therapy team presents check

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ers. To make preparations

in advance, in the event the joint resolution should be approved by voters, a delegation met with the Barton County Commission, April 7, to determine the trans-portation projects that would be undertaken in Barton County with whatever amount of money that would be-come available. The del-egation included Harry Rogers of the Harry S. Truman Coordinating Council, Frank Miller of MoDOT, and Spen-cer Jones of Great River Associates, consulting engineers of Spring-field. The 10 projects selected and their or-der of priority were, (1) widening of a bridge on U.S. 160, 2.5 miles north of Golden City, (2) replacement of a one-lane bridge on V Highway, 4.75 miles west of U.S. 71/Inter-state 49, (3) improve-

ment of the intersection of Highway 43 and U.S. 160, (4) improvement of the intersection of Highways 43 and 126, (5) lower the elevation of Highway 126 as it ap-proaches Highway J from the west, (6) improve Highway KK with shoul-ders and remove some of its curves; also pave 30th Road between KK and the interstate, (7) improve 11th Street between the Truman birthplace and Broadway, including ad-dition of a bicycle lane, (8) renovate Gulf Street between 12th Street and

19th Street, including ad-dition of a bicycle lane, (9) add shoulders to U.S. 160 throughout Barton County, and (10) elevate U.S. 160 two feet from 71/I49 east for one-half mile to prevent flooding.

In projects 3 and 4, the improvement of intersec-tions on Highway 43, the construction of round-abouts was discussed but not included in the list of priorities submitted.

Several other projects were discussed, includ-ing ones near Liberal and Golden City, but they did not make the list of 10.

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