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he Journalof <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong>L i fefor127 Years<br />
The <strong>Crane</strong><br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
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<strong>Chronicle</strong> <strong>Republican</strong><br />
Combining and Continuing The <strong>Crane</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong> and <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Republican</strong> • USPS #<strong>13</strong>6-740<br />
VOLUME 126 NUMBER 42 CRANE (STONE COUNTY), MISSOURI 65633-0401 Thursday, February <strong>28</strong>, 20<strong>13</strong> TWO SECTIONS- <strong>28</strong> PAGES PRICE 40¢ (TAX INCLUDED)<br />
7-Day Forecast<br />
Feb. <strong>28</strong>-March 6<br />
Thursday<br />
Chamber<br />
Chatter<br />
Folks don’t forget the Chamber<br />
of Commerce meeting on Thurs,<br />
Feb. <strong>28</strong>th 8 AM at First Home<br />
Savings Bank on Main Street. We<br />
will be nominating new officers<br />
for the year as well as discussing<br />
other things. Everyone is invited<br />
to attend.<br />
Reminder!!<br />
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Assesment List turned in by<br />
March 1, if you don’t get it in<br />
on time you could receive a penalty.<br />
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Partly Cloudy<br />
38/23<br />
Friday<br />
Partly Cloudy<br />
35/21<br />
Saturday<br />
Mostly Sunny<br />
36/20<br />
Patrick L. Prewitt retiring<br />
General Manager<br />
Mt. Vernon, MO. Ozark<br />
Electric Cooperative’s<br />
(OEC)General Manager<br />
Patrick L. Prewitt recently<br />
announced his retirement<br />
effective April 20<strong>13</strong>, after 37<br />
years (31 years at OEC) in the<br />
Rural Electric Cooperative<br />
system. Mr. Prewitt, a 1975<br />
graduate of Missouri State<br />
University, with a degree<br />
in Industrial Technology<br />
and Management, began<br />
his employment with Ozark<br />
Electric Cooperative on August<br />
20, 1982. During his career<br />
here, in addition to serving<br />
Sunday<br />
Mostly Sunny<br />
44/29<br />
Monday<br />
Partly Cloudy<br />
43/25<br />
Ozark Electric Cooperative General<br />
Manager To Retire In April<br />
Reeds Spring<br />
Teen Injured In Accident<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
A teenager from Reeds Spring<br />
was seriously injured in a crash<br />
just south of Abesville on<br />
Saturday night (<strong>02</strong>-23-<strong>13</strong>.)<br />
Trooper says Tyler Baker, 17,<br />
of Reeds Spring, failed to stop at<br />
a stop sign at Bass Hollow and<br />
Coon Ridge Roads and slammed<br />
into a tree about 11:50 p.m.<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
A man from Reeds Spring<br />
was charged with two counts of<br />
domestic assault after he allegedly<br />
choked his 15 year-old daughter<br />
until she lost consciousness on<br />
February 19th.<br />
According to the probable<br />
cause statement, when <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Deputy Tyler Clark<br />
arrived at 225 Armadillo Lane,<br />
a second victim told the officer<br />
that James Main “took her to the<br />
ground multiple times and tried<br />
hitting her.” After the woman<br />
Patrick Oehlschlager, will be replacing<br />
Prewitt as General Manager<br />
as General Manager, his job<br />
duties included: Assistant<br />
Manager, District Manager,<br />
District Engineer and Staking<br />
Engineer, and he served on the<br />
Missouri Electric Cooperative<br />
Employees Credit Union<br />
(MECECU) Board for 17<br />
years.<br />
When asked about his<br />
proudest accomplishment<br />
at Ozark Electric, Mr.<br />
Prewitt said, “Playing a<br />
part in improving OEC’s<br />
finances while providing rate<br />
stability for our members and<br />
Main Charged With<br />
Two Counts Domestic Assault<br />
Cont. on pg. 2<br />
A passenger in Baker’s 20<strong>02</strong><br />
Mustang, Aaron K. Willms,<br />
16, also of Reeds Spring,<br />
was transported to Cox South<br />
Hospital in Springfield.<br />
Neither boy was wearing a seat<br />
belt and the car was a total loss,<br />
according to the crash report.<br />
punched Main in the face to<br />
get him off her, he allegedly<br />
“slammed” her in a door and<br />
“kept squeezing her between the<br />
door and frame.”<br />
Main, who pleaded guilty to<br />
domestic assault in 2006, 2008<br />
and 2009 as well as drug charges<br />
in 2006, was placed on three<br />
years probation on February 1,<br />
20<strong>13</strong>, after he pleaded guilty to<br />
drug possession charges.<br />
He is being held in the <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> jail on $5,000 bond.<br />
Tuesday<br />
Mostly Cloudy<br />
39/<strong>28</strong><br />
Wednesday<br />
Partly Cloudy<br />
42/24<br />
Dicey road conditions led to a<br />
crash on Friday in which a sixty<br />
five year-old man from <strong>Crane</strong><br />
suffered minor injuries.<br />
The Missouri Highway Patrol<br />
report says that the cars, Michael<br />
Dean, 62, of Marionville was<br />
driving slid off the right side<br />
The preliminary hearing for<br />
a woman from Galena charged<br />
with four counts of distribution<br />
of drugs near public housing in<br />
<strong>Crane</strong> has been set for March<br />
26th.<br />
According to court documents,<br />
C.O.M.E.T. officers bought<br />
morphine and Xanax from<br />
Barbara Brenda Pike, 50, on<br />
several different occasions last<br />
Weather Trivia<br />
Could global warming cause entire<br />
nations to disappear?<br />
Answer: If sea levels rise, some island nations<br />
could submerge.<br />
Local Farmers And Ranchers<br />
Entitled To Federal Assistance<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
Farmers and ranchers in<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> and Barry counties are<br />
now entitled to receive federal<br />
assistance due to the severe<br />
drought last summer.<br />
Hickory and Lawrence<br />
counties were designated as<br />
“primary natural disaster areas,”<br />
however, farmers and ranchers<br />
in other counties are eligible<br />
for assistance because they are<br />
contiguous to those counties.<br />
In addition to <strong>Stone</strong> and Barry<br />
counties, Christian, Greene,<br />
Polk, Benton, Dade, Jasper,<br />
St. Clair, Camden, Dallas and<br />
Newton counties are included in<br />
the declaration.<br />
All counties listed above<br />
were designated natural disaster<br />
areas Feb. 20, 20<strong>13</strong>, making<br />
all qualified farm operators in<br />
the designated areas eligible<br />
for low interest emergency<br />
(EM) loans from USDA’s Farm<br />
Service Agency (FSA), provided<br />
eligibility requirements are met.<br />
Farmers in eligible counties<br />
have eight months from the date<br />
of the declaration to apply for<br />
loans to help cover part of their<br />
actual losses. FSA will consider<br />
<strong>Crane</strong> Man Injured<br />
After Accident On Icy Roads<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
Preliminary<br />
Hearing Date Set For Pike<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
?<br />
each loan application on its<br />
own merits, taking into account<br />
the extent of losses, security<br />
available and repayment ability.<br />
“Our hearts go out to those<br />
Missouri farmers and ranchers<br />
affected by recent natural<br />
disasters,” said Agriculture<br />
Secretary Tom Vilsack. “President<br />
Obama and I are committed to<br />
ensuring that agriculture remains<br />
a bright spot in our nation’s<br />
economy by sustaining the<br />
successes of America’s farmers,<br />
ranchers, and rural communities<br />
through these difficult times.<br />
We’re also telling Missouri<br />
producers that USDA stands<br />
with you and your communities<br />
when severe weather and natural<br />
disasters threaten to disrupt your<br />
livelihood.”<br />
For more information visit the<br />
following link http://www.fsa.<br />
usda.gov/FSA/newsReleases?a<br />
rea=newsroom&subject=landi<br />
ng&topic=edn&newstype=edn<br />
ewsrel&type=detail&item=ed<br />
_20<strong>13</strong><strong>02</strong>20_rel_0042.html, or<br />
contact the US Department of<br />
Agriculture at (800) 877-8339.<br />
of Route A, about four miles west<br />
of Hurley on Friday morning and<br />
flipped.<br />
The crash report says<br />
that Charles Peter, who was<br />
not wearing a seatbelt, was<br />
transported by ambulance to<br />
Mercy Hospital in Aurora.<br />
fall.<br />
During one of the controlled<br />
buys, Pike brokered a drug deal<br />
for another man with the officer<br />
for methamphetamine.<br />
Pike, who is also facing two<br />
additional charges of distribution<br />
and or delivery of a controlled<br />
substance, is being held in the<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> jail on $150,000<br />
bond.
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Ozark Electri<br />
Cont. from pg. 1<br />
developing a more efficient<br />
workforce without reducing<br />
our level of service.” His<br />
most memorable events at the<br />
Cooperative include “working<br />
the many ice storms and<br />
tornadoes and watching the<br />
lights come back on.”<br />
Mr. Prewitt said he<br />
will miss “the relationships<br />
with a great group of fellow<br />
employees and the many<br />
friends in the utility business.<br />
For me there has been a high<br />
level of fulfillment in my 37<br />
years in this business through<br />
the service we provide our<br />
members. I came to understand<br />
what it meant to work for and<br />
with rural people through my<br />
parents. My Mother is a retired<br />
school teacher, and I watched<br />
and noted her dedication to<br />
the children she taught, one of<br />
which is our new GM Patrick<br />
Oehlschlager.<br />
My Father is a retired<br />
Agronomist for the University<br />
of Missouri, formally known<br />
as a <strong>County</strong> Agent. When<br />
I was young, I occasionally<br />
traveled with him in the<br />
summer on his farm visits<br />
and grew to appreciate what<br />
he did for Rural America<br />
by helping the farming<br />
community. Additionally for<br />
me there was an attraction to<br />
serving the rural and urban<br />
community because I noted<br />
the strong relationships my<br />
parents built with the people<br />
they worked for and with. I<br />
believe their example led me<br />
to this career and it has been<br />
very rewarding.”<br />
Mr. Prewitt’s retirement<br />
gives him more time with<br />
family - “My wife, Jayne, and<br />
I will do lots of camping and<br />
traveling. I will be doing more<br />
trout fishing and possibly help<br />
my brother with his custom<br />
fly rod business. I will be<br />
attending more baseball<br />
games and intend to visit every<br />
nearby professional baseball<br />
park as I travel. Also, I will<br />
help my Dad on the farm and<br />
play with my Grandchildren”<br />
Mr. Prewitt’s family<br />
includes his wife Jayne;<br />
daughters and husbands:<br />
Sarah & Eric Johnson and their<br />
soon-to-be-born son Ethan<br />
Patrick; Rebecca & Nathan<br />
Schoen and their children<br />
Lucas & Nella; and Bethany<br />
& Justin Patterson and their<br />
son Drew. He includes his<br />
coworkers and church family<br />
in the group also.<br />
Ozark Electric Cooperative<br />
acknowledges with gratitude<br />
retiring General Manager<br />
Patrick L. Prewitt for his 31<br />
years of dedicated service to<br />
Ozark Electric Cooperative<br />
and its Board, Members, and<br />
Employees.<br />
New General Manager<br />
Announced<br />
With retirement of Mr.<br />
Prewitt, Ozark Electric<br />
announces the appointment of<br />
Patrick Oehlschlager as the<br />
Cooperative’s next General<br />
Manager. Mr. Oehlschlager<br />
has worked at Ozark Electric<br />
since August 1994. His<br />
previous positions include<br />
evening dispatcher, operations<br />
clerk, staking engineer/<br />
legislative coordinator, and<br />
his current position as division<br />
manager of Member Services.<br />
He is a 1989 Mt. Vernon High<br />
School graduate, and a 1993<br />
graduate of North Central<br />
College, Naperville, Illinois.<br />
Mr. Oehlschlager had the<br />
following comments about<br />
his appointment as General<br />
Manager:<br />
“Growing up in Mount<br />
Vernon, I had always heard<br />
that working for Ozark Electric<br />
was the best job around. Once<br />
I was given the opportunity<br />
to work here, I understood<br />
what people meant. It’s still<br />
true. I am so appreciative of<br />
the blessings that have been<br />
afforded to me in my time<br />
here. I get to be a part of a<br />
company that has a culture of<br />
service and sacrifice that is<br />
immeasurable. I look forward<br />
to continuing to promote<br />
the positive attributes of<br />
this company as its General<br />
Manager.<br />
I consider myself extremely<br />
fortunate to be a local guy<br />
that grew up here in a rural<br />
community on a small farm<br />
south of town. Hauling hay,<br />
clearing fence rows and<br />
tending livestock were a part<br />
of growing up for me. Now<br />
I get to work for a company<br />
that has rural folks as the<br />
centerpiece for how they do<br />
business, awesome.<br />
I am extremely thankful<br />
and humbled by the Board’s<br />
show of support. I am also<br />
fully aware of the shoes<br />
I’m being asked to fill. As<br />
General Manager, Pat Prewitt<br />
has exemplified what I aspire<br />
to be as his successor: loyal,<br />
trustworthy, honest, and<br />
dedicated just to name a few.<br />
I will also do as he has and<br />
realize the strength of this<br />
Cooperative is held in the<br />
hearts and characters of those<br />
we serve.” Mr. Oehlschlager<br />
said his most memorable event<br />
in his years at Ozark Electric<br />
was “working alongside our<br />
linemen and others from<br />
around the country for days on<br />
end in the 2007 ice storm.”<br />
Patrick’s family includes<br />
his wife of 19 years, Jessicca;<br />
son Payton 15, and daughters<br />
Sidney <strong>13</strong>, and Emma 12.<br />
A Word From.........<br />
Lana Gilbert<br />
Administrator Of<br />
Heritage Harmony<br />
House<br />
417-678-5383<br />
OLD MAN WINTER<br />
HAS FINALLY MADE HIS<br />
APPEARANCE! Snow, ice,<br />
sleet! Snow, snow, and cold! I<br />
personally prefer the sun and<br />
warmth. I’ve told my husband<br />
many times I would like to make<br />
like a bird and fly South for<br />
the Winter and come back in late<br />
Spring. For some reason he’s<br />
just not interested. Go figure!<br />
lol. Seriously, Winter is here<br />
with a vengence. Many Seniors<br />
suffer serious health issues<br />
during this season. Slipping<br />
on ice can be fatal to a Senior.<br />
Often a slip on ice can lead to<br />
broken legs, pelvis, hip, back, or<br />
arms, etc. These injuries consist<br />
of long term healing. Here<br />
at Heritage Harmony House,<br />
we’ve had the misfortune of<br />
losing Seniors suffering from<br />
such injuries, usually from<br />
other symptoms resulting from<br />
long bedridden convalesence,<br />
such as pneumonia. You can<br />
avoid such falls and injuries by<br />
being prepared. Keep salt on<br />
hand to sprinkle on your steps<br />
and sidewalks to break up any<br />
ice accumulation. Then sweep<br />
away the debris. Keep paths<br />
clear of snow. If you have golf<br />
shoes, wear them when ice is on<br />
the ground. An oldie but goodie,<br />
keep an old pair of nylons on<br />
hand and cut 2 strips out of the<br />
legs about 2 to 3 inches long.<br />
Slip these over the toe of your<br />
shoes covering the ball of your<br />
feet. This will give your shoes<br />
some much needed traction.<br />
And last but certainly not least,<br />
make arrangements to have a<br />
family member or neighbor to<br />
do the snow shoveling for you<br />
or run errands for you until the<br />
ground clears up. My motto is,<br />
“Better to be safe than sorry.”As<br />
you know tax season is in full<br />
swing here at HHH. I want to<br />
remind Seniors they can file a<br />
MO-PTC form if they rent and<br />
receive a percentage of their<br />
annual rent paid in return, if<br />
income guidelines are met. All<br />
you need to file this tax form is<br />
your 1099 from Social Security,<br />
Sassa Fras<br />
Salon & Boutique<br />
417-463-2000<br />
646 S. Hwy 60<br />
Marionville<br />
In Murfin Market Plaza<br />
Services Offered:<br />
*Full Hair Services*<br />
*Spa Pedicures*<br />
*Organic Spray Tans*<br />
*Tanning*<br />
*Waxing*<br />
“Come get your Sass on!”<br />
any W-2 you may have, any<br />
other proof of income, and a<br />
letter from your landlord, with<br />
their name, address, tax i.d.<br />
number (EIN or last 4 digits of<br />
their social security number) and<br />
you are set. If you are not sure<br />
you qualify, call me at HHH for<br />
more information. If you need<br />
assistance filing this form, call<br />
me to make an appointment.<br />
My number at HHH is 417-<br />
678-5383. You can also file<br />
a MO-PTC form if you own<br />
your home and pay real estate<br />
taxes. Again, you must have<br />
the same documentation listed<br />
above, but instead of a letter<br />
from a landlord, you need your<br />
real estate paid tax receipt(s). I<br />
can also assist you with filing this<br />
form. Just make an appointment.<br />
If you have any questions on the<br />
MO-PTC, don’t hesitate to give<br />
me a call. Heritage Harmony<br />
House is open Monday through<br />
Friday, 8:00am to 3:30pm. Our<br />
phone number is 417-678-5383.<br />
If you prefer to email, my email<br />
address is: lanag@swmoa.com.<br />
We are located in Aurora behind<br />
the hospital. I would love to<br />
hear from you and hope to see<br />
you soon. If you would like to<br />
know more about our programs<br />
and our schedules, please follow<br />
us on FaceBook or call me to<br />
mail you our monthly calendar<br />
and menu. I would be happy to<br />
do so. Be safe and stay warm<br />
my friends. P.S. Happy 50th<br />
anniversary to my parents, Eddie<br />
& Janice Brown, who have been<br />
married 50 years today! Until<br />
Kulhanek Asks<br />
For Change Of<br />
Venue<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
A man from Shell Knob charged<br />
with involuntary manslaughter<br />
in connection to a fatal crash last<br />
summer has asked to have his<br />
trial moved to another county.<br />
Nicholas Kulhanek, 27, is also<br />
facing charges of leaving the<br />
scene of an accident and DWI.<br />
Barry <strong>County</strong> Prosecutor Johnnie<br />
Cox has indicated that he plans<br />
to charge Kulhanek, who has<br />
multiple convictions, as a prior<br />
and persistent offender.<br />
Forty nine year-old Aaron<br />
Poston was killed when Kulhanek<br />
attempted to make a turn and<br />
pulled into the path of Poston’s<br />
motorcycle on Highway 39 last<br />
July.<br />
Judge Jack Goodman will rule<br />
of the change of venue motion<br />
on March 19th. The change<br />
will automatically be granted<br />
because Barry <strong>County</strong> has less<br />
than 75,000 residents.<br />
Kulhanek, who has pleaded<br />
not guilty to all of the charges,<br />
remains jailed in Barry <strong>County</strong><br />
Jail on a quarter million dollar<br />
bond.
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<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Sixty Years Ago-1953 (Taken<br />
from the <strong>Crane</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong>:<br />
Volume 49): The Red Cross<br />
bloodmobile visited <strong>Crane</strong> and<br />
fell short of their quota for 120<br />
pints of blood, when only 30<br />
people donated.<br />
The <strong>Crane</strong> City Council<br />
accepted Cannady Construction<br />
Company’s bid for construction<br />
of a sewer system and disposal<br />
plant in town. Their bid was<br />
$116,909.<br />
FIFTY YEARS AGO-<br />
1963 (Taken from the <strong>Crane</strong><br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>: Volume 78): Glen<br />
McNeely, manager, Cooperative<br />
Association, <strong>Crane</strong>, was<br />
presented with a 10-year service<br />
award in special ceremonies at<br />
the annual managers meeting of<br />
the Missouri Farmers Association<br />
in Columbia.<br />
Juniors at Hurley High School<br />
presented a play titled “A Feudin’<br />
Over yonder”. It consisted of 3<br />
acts containing hillbilly comedy.<br />
The public was invited to attend,<br />
and admission was 35-60 cents.<br />
FORTY YEARS AGO-1973<br />
(Taken from The <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
<strong>Republican</strong>: Volume 16): Donna<br />
Gamble of Hurley, Jane Hilton of<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>, and Linda Watts of Galena<br />
were named 1973 Betty Crocker<br />
Homemaker of Tomorrow for<br />
their respective schools. They<br />
received a specially designed<br />
award from General Mills,<br />
sponsor of the annual Betty<br />
Crocker Search for American<br />
Homemakers of Tomorrow. All<br />
three ladies were also eligible for<br />
State and National Honors.<br />
Governor Kit Bond announced<br />
the appointment of Robert<br />
S. Wiley of <strong>Crane</strong> to the<br />
Missouri Law Enforcement<br />
Assistance Council, which is<br />
headed by Missouri Attorney<br />
General John C. Danforth as<br />
chairman. State Senator, Emory<br />
Melton, informed Wiley of the<br />
appointment via telephone call<br />
and arranged for Wiley to appear<br />
before the Senate Committee on<br />
Gubernatorial Appointments for<br />
confirmation.<br />
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS<br />
AGO-1988 (Taken from the<br />
<strong>Crane</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong>/<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
<strong>Republican</strong>: Volume 101); The<br />
Galena Park Board sponsored<br />
a Gala Sadie Hawkins Party<br />
and Dance in the Galena High<br />
School Cafeteria. The agenda<br />
included live bands, dancing,<br />
door prizes, costume contests,<br />
and prizes, refreshments, and<br />
some fun surprises. The purpose<br />
of the event was to raise funds<br />
for bathroom facilities and<br />
equipment for the new Y-Bridge<br />
Park.<br />
Tamara Howard was named the<br />
Galena FFA chapter sweetheart.<br />
She was a Galena High School<br />
Sophomore at the time.<br />
TEN YEARS AGO-<br />
2003 (Taken from the <strong>Crane</strong><br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong>/<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
<strong>Republican</strong>: Volume 116) Reeds<br />
Spring Intermediate school Fifth<br />
grade students participated in<br />
the first All-District Choir Day.<br />
The group included director<br />
Norma May, Tabitha Brown,<br />
Jordan Mason, Tim Stumpff,<br />
Ryan Booth, Elizabeth Row, and<br />
Ashleigh Upton.<br />
A woman in the Las Vegas,<br />
Nevada area called <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> police and stated that<br />
her 20<strong>02</strong> Jeep had been stolen<br />
in Las Vegas, and was possibly<br />
in route to her home in Lampe.<br />
Upon inspection of the Lampe<br />
address, police found the stolen<br />
Jeep, but no suspect. Two days<br />
later, a deputy made traffic stop<br />
and found it was pulling a trailer<br />
that had just been stolen from the<br />
Kimberling Inn. When the deputy<br />
checked the vehicle pulling the<br />
stolen trailer he found drugs,<br />
drug paraphernalia, and weapons.<br />
Officers returned to the Lampe<br />
residence and found another<br />
subject who was then arrested<br />
on warrants. Investigating the<br />
property in Lampe, officers found<br />
another stolen vehicle, stolen out<br />
of Nevada, a stolen watercraft,<br />
trailer, and an A.T.V. Those<br />
placed under arrest consisted of<br />
an 18-year-old male, and a 20-<br />
year-old male.<br />
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PEYTON EDWARDS<br />
BENEFIT BUDDY BASS<br />
TOURNAMENT MARCH<br />
30, 20<strong>13</strong>. Starts 7:00 a.m. with<br />
weigh-in 3:00 p.m. Entry fee<br />
$70.00 per boat. Payback 60/40<br />
will be one place for every four<br />
boats entered with a maximum<br />
of 10 places paid, plus $10.00<br />
per boat for big bass pot.<br />
I would like to introduce you<br />
to someone very special; this<br />
beautiful <strong>13</strong>-year-old is Peyton<br />
Edwards. She is a happy, kind,<br />
loving, and smart little girl. She<br />
has been hindered with Dyslexia,<br />
which causes multiple learning<br />
disabilities that has made it nearly<br />
impossible to have success in the<br />
public school system. She would<br />
be entering 7 th grade at a public<br />
school, but in fact most of her<br />
testing/retained knowledge is<br />
at a 4 th grade level. The public<br />
schools do not have the resources<br />
or funding to get her the help she<br />
needs so she just gets passed<br />
onto the next grade without the<br />
knowledge she desperately needs<br />
and wants. Peyton attended<br />
Rivendale Learning Institute<br />
for 18 months and she has made<br />
great improvements while there.<br />
She now attends The Summit<br />
Prep a private school and place<br />
where Peyton can get the one-onone<br />
attention, oral testing, books<br />
on tape, and our individualized<br />
learning plan she needs to be a<br />
successful student. Peyton is in<br />
a classroom with a very limited<br />
number of students that will<br />
help in her development. Peyton<br />
has a hunger for learning, and<br />
desperately wants to have the<br />
chance to reach her full potential.<br />
She also requires tutoring with<br />
a Dyslexic Specialist. It is very<br />
costly to send her to the private<br />
school and her tutoring fees; but<br />
the return will be well worth<br />
it with the amazing progress<br />
we know she will make in her<br />
reading, writing, and confidence<br />
in herself. We ask for your<br />
support in sending Peyton to<br />
the Summit Prep, it is a taxdeductible<br />
donation to the school<br />
in Peyton’s name. Any donation<br />
is appreciated more than you<br />
know. Help us help Peyton and<br />
give this little girl the chance to<br />
shine! Thank you so much for<br />
any of your generous donations<br />
and prayers for Peyton’s struggle<br />
and future.<br />
MARCH 2, 20<strong>13</strong>---<br />
REEDS SPRING PROJECT<br />
GRADUATION BUDDY<br />
BASS TOURNAMENT. Take<br />
off time: 7:00 a.m., weigh-in<br />
time 3:00 p.m. $40.00 entry fee<br />
per boat, 60% payback, paying<br />
one in every 4 boats entered up<br />
to 10 places. $10.00 optional big<br />
bass 100% payback. Contact:<br />
Cape Fair Marina 417-538-4163,<br />
Stan White 417-255-3774, and<br />
Amanda Rogers 417-239-5858.<br />
MARCH 3, 20<strong>13</strong> thru June<br />
30, 20<strong>13</strong>---SUNDAY OPEN<br />
SPRING BUDDY BASS<br />
TOURNAMENTS. Open<br />
tournament starting March 3,<br />
20<strong>13</strong> through June 30, 20<strong>13</strong>.<br />
Starts 7:00 a.m., weigh-in<br />
@2:P30 p.m. Limit to 5 bass<br />
tournament/1 lb. penalty for<br />
every dead bass weighed in per<br />
boat. Entry fee $40.00 per team<br />
boat/one person can fish as a<br />
team. Paying one place for every<br />
four boats entered. Accepting<br />
registration on day of tournament<br />
until 6:50 a.m. Call Cape Fair<br />
Marina @ 417-538-4163 or Stan<br />
@ 417-255-3774.<br />
MARCH 6, 20<strong>13</strong> thru JUNE<br />
26, 20<strong>13</strong>---WEDNESDAY<br />
AMATEUR SPRING BUDDY<br />
BASS TOURNAMENT.<br />
(Amateur defined as any<br />
fishermen who has earned less<br />
than $3,000.00 last year). June<br />
26, 20<strong>13</strong> will be the fish-off<br />
date. To qualify for the fish-off,<br />
teams or individuals must fish<br />
a minimum of 6 Wednesday<br />
tournaments, and the fish-off date<br />
cannot be used. The Cape Fair<br />
Marina Bass Club requires a onetime<br />
membership fee of $5.00<br />
for handicapped and individuals<br />
over 55 yrs. of age, and $10.00<br />
for fishermen under 55 yrs. old.<br />
Starts @ 7:00 a.m. and weigh-in<br />
will be at 2:00 p.m. This will be<br />
a 4 bass limit tournament with a<br />
1 lb. penalty for every dead bass<br />
weighed in per boat. Entry fee<br />
$40.00 per team and one person<br />
can fish as a team. Registration<br />
accepted on and up to the day<br />
of each tournament until 6:50<br />
a.m. Call Cape Fair Marina @<br />
417-538-4163, Stan @ 417-255-<br />
3774.<br />
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Mu Extension To Offer Stay Strong,<br />
Stay Healthy Exercise Program<br />
Higgins<br />
Preliminary<br />
Trial Date Set<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
The preliminary hearing<br />
for a man who was allegedly<br />
burglarizing a house full of stolen<br />
stuff is scheduled to be held on<br />
March 7th.<br />
Authorities were investigating<br />
a meth lab and the alleged stolen<br />
property when they left a home<br />
in Galena to talk to the suspects;<br />
when they returned, they found<br />
Dan William Baker, 53, of<br />
Galena burglarizing the home.<br />
Drug charges were filed<br />
against Dustin Charles Gan, 26,<br />
and Randy Len Higgins, 37.<br />
They are each jailed on $75,000<br />
bond and due back in court next<br />
month.<br />
Higgins girlfriend, Nicole<br />
Moreen Jennings, 30, who is<br />
facing similar charges, waived<br />
her preliminary hearing and<br />
was released on her own<br />
recognizance.<br />
University of Missouri Extension<br />
will again be offering<br />
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy, a<br />
10-week exercise program<br />
designed for men and women<br />
over 50 starting on February<br />
25, 20<strong>13</strong> from 9:30 to 11 AM<br />
at the Cape Fair Community<br />
Building. The first class is 90<br />
minutes long to allow time<br />
for an orientation to the program<br />
and health assessments.<br />
The nine remaining classes<br />
start at 10 AM and last an<br />
hour. Classes will be held on<br />
Mondays, Feb. 25, March<br />
4,11, 18, and 25, and April 1,<br />
8, 15, 22, and 29.<br />
The program, developed<br />
by Tufts University, is designed<br />
to help older adults<br />
improve strength, flexibility<br />
and balance. According to<br />
research conducted by Tufts,<br />
strength training improves<br />
bone density, can help reduce<br />
falls, improve arthritis symptoms,<br />
increase flexibility in<br />
older adults and can lead to a<br />
healthier, more active lifestyle.<br />
The program is limited to<br />
20 participants. The cost of<br />
the 10 week program is $25.<br />
Adults in a defined income<br />
bracket may be eligible to receive<br />
a fee reduction/waiver.<br />
Some participants may have<br />
to obtain their physician’s<br />
permission before taking<br />
part in the class. For more<br />
details, contact Renette at the<br />
University of Missouri Extension<br />
Center, 417-581-3558<br />
or call JoEtta Bowling at the<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> University of<br />
Missouri Extension Center,<br />
417-357-6812.
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Billy D. Raymond<br />
Billy D. Raymond, 71, Hurley,<br />
was born March <strong>13</strong>, 1941 in Elsey,<br />
to Dave and Mable Tucker Raymond<br />
and departed this life February 21,<br />
20<strong>13</strong> in his home.<br />
Billy had been a lifelong resident<br />
of the area and was a retired factory<br />
worker. He loved to fish, garden and<br />
canning the things that he had grown.<br />
Billy attended the Community<br />
Baptist Church in Hurley. He would<br />
lend a helping hand to anyone that<br />
needed it and enjoyed living the<br />
country life.<br />
Billy was one of seventeen<br />
children and was preceded by his<br />
parents; eleven siblings, Reitha<br />
Pendergrass, Eula Raymond,<br />
twin still born boys, Iva Tichenor<br />
Ragain, John Raymond, Katherine<br />
Raymond, Junior Raymond, Jessie<br />
Raymond, Dennis Raymond and<br />
Clifford Raymond.<br />
Survivors include his wife<br />
Phyllis; special heart adopted<br />
kids, Alicia Ralston, Bryceton and<br />
Collin, Jessica and Landon Flood,<br />
Juretta Tichenor and Austin Henry,<br />
they were his pride and joy; a<br />
brother, Leo Raymond of Burns,<br />
Oregon; four sisters, Gladys Reavis<br />
of <strong>Crane</strong>, Lela Bowling of Oroville,<br />
California, Betty Henry of <strong>Crane</strong><br />
and Barbara Holliday of Clever.<br />
Graveside funeral services were<br />
Sunday, February 24, 20<strong>13</strong> at 2:00<br />
p.m. in Short Cemetery Hurley,<br />
under the care of Westrip Funeral<br />
Home, <strong>Crane</strong>.<br />
Ryan A. Blankenship<br />
Ryan A. Blankenship, Branson<br />
West, son of Kennith and Cathy<br />
(Wilson) Blankenship, was born on<br />
April 08, 1980 in Belleville, IL and<br />
departed this life on February 18,<br />
20<strong>13</strong>, at the age of 32.<br />
Ryan was a carpenter and had<br />
lived in the area for the past twenty<br />
one years coming from Shiloh, IL.<br />
Survivors include: brother,<br />
Aaron Blankenship of Branson<br />
West; paternal grandmother, Elaine<br />
Blankenship of Hecker, IL; four<br />
uncles; three aunts and a host of<br />
other friends.<br />
A funeral service was held at<br />
8:00 p.m. Friday, February 22, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
in Stumpff Funeral Home-South,<br />
Kimberling City, with Bill Rogers<br />
officiating. Cremation will be under<br />
the direction of Stumpff Funeral<br />
Home-South, Kimberling City,<br />
MO.<br />
A visitation was held from 6:00 to<br />
8:00 p.m. Friday, February 22, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
in Stumpff Funeral Home-South,<br />
Kimberling City.<br />
Garry Lafferty<br />
Garry W. Lafferty, Galena, son<br />
of Robert and Doris (Fitzgerald)<br />
Lafferty, was born on September<br />
<strong>13</strong>, 1951 in Ozark, and departed this<br />
life on February 24, 20<strong>13</strong> in Mercy<br />
Hospital, Springfield, at the age of<br />
61.<br />
Garry married Anne Scott on<br />
December 21, 1985 and they have<br />
celebrated twenty seven years<br />
together. He was a salesman and a<br />
lifelong resident of the area.<br />
Garry was preceded in death by<br />
his father and one sister.<br />
Survivors include: his mother,<br />
Doris Wood of Marshfield; wife,<br />
Anne Lafferty of Galena; one son,<br />
Brandon Lafferty of Nixa; one stepson,<br />
David Myers of Oldfield; two<br />
brothers Rick Lafferty of Ava, and<br />
Terry Lafferty of Marshfield; two<br />
sisters, Susie Clarke of Strafford,<br />
and Sheila Hatfield of California;<br />
two grandsons and a host of other<br />
relatives and friends.<br />
No services are planned.<br />
Cremation was under the direction<br />
of Stumpff Funeral Home-South,<br />
Kimberling City.<br />
Jimmie J. “Bud”<br />
Hammonds<br />
Jimmie J. “Bud” Hammonds,<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>, son of Earl and<br />
Millie(Breckenridge) Hammonds,<br />
was born on May 11, 1938, in Barry<br />
<strong>County</strong>, and departed this life on<br />
February 20, 20<strong>13</strong>, in his home, at<br />
the age of 74.<br />
Bud was a lifelong resident and a<br />
retired farmer. He also owned and<br />
operated Hammonds Grocery in<br />
Wheelerville, for seventeen years.<br />
Bud’s family was the most important<br />
thing in his life. He was never too<br />
busy to stop and watch cartoons or<br />
to play with his grandchildren. Bud<br />
worshiped the ground that his wife<br />
Patsy walked on. It was stated that<br />
up till the day Bud stopped driving,<br />
his wife, Patsy always sat in the<br />
center of the truck next to him, just<br />
like teenagers.<br />
Survivors include: wife, Patsy<br />
Hammonds of <strong>Crane</strong>; four daughters,<br />
Sandy “Gail” Ellingsworth and<br />
husband, Dean of Aurora, Brenda<br />
Foster and husband, Joel of<br />
Kimberling City, Pam Payne and<br />
husband Tony of <strong>Crane</strong>, and Kim<br />
Payne and husband, Larry of <strong>Crane</strong>;<br />
one sister, Lillian Thomas of <strong>Crane</strong>;<br />
nine grandchildren; thirteen great<br />
grandchildren and a host of other<br />
relatives and friends.<br />
A funeral service was held at<br />
10:00 a.m. Saturday, February<br />
23, 20<strong>13</strong> in Manlove-Stumpff<br />
Funeral Home, <strong>Crane</strong>, with Hospice<br />
Compassus Chaplain Larry Kackley<br />
officiating. Burial was in Mars Hill<br />
Cemetery, <strong>Crane</strong>, under the direction<br />
of Manlove-Stumpff Funeral Home,<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>, MO.<br />
Fay Morris<br />
Fay Morris, Mt. Vernon, daughter<br />
of Carl and Mary (Jones) Corwin, was<br />
born on September 16, 1939 in Turney,<br />
and departed this life on February 22,<br />
20<strong>13</strong> in Lawrence <strong>County</strong> Manor, Mt.<br />
Vernon, at the age of 73.<br />
Fay was a homemaker who had<br />
lived in Mt. Vernon for the past 25<br />
years coming from Reavisville. She<br />
was of the Baptist faith.<br />
Fay was preceded in death by her<br />
parents; husband, Harold Morris and<br />
brother, Vincel Corwin.<br />
Survivors include: two sons, Robert<br />
Wayne Helvey of Fort Smith, AR and<br />
Richard Lee Morris of Galena, KS;<br />
one daughter, Rebecca Norvell of<br />
Galena, KS; three brothers, Donnie<br />
Corwin of Buffalo, Raymond Corwin<br />
of Springfield, and Harold Corwin<br />
of Wheatland; one sister, Fern Heard<br />
of Miller; seven grandchildren; four<br />
great grandchildren; several nieces<br />
and nephews and a host of other<br />
relatives and friends.<br />
A memorial service will be held<br />
at 2:00 p.m. Friday, March 1, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
in Manlove-Stumpff Funeral Home,<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>, MO with Ryan Morris and Jay<br />
Hill officiating. Cremation was under<br />
the direction of Manlove-Stumpff<br />
Funeral Home, <strong>Crane</strong>.<br />
Obituaries<br />
Gail F. Stephenson<br />
Gail F. Stephenson, Branson West,<br />
son of Fred D and Veta B (Kent)<br />
Stephenson, was born on December<br />
<strong>02</strong>, 1922, in Keokuk <strong>County</strong>, Iowa,<br />
and departed this life on February<br />
19, 20<strong>13</strong> in Cox Branson, Branson,<br />
at the age of 90.<br />
Gail was a retired salesman who<br />
had lived in the area for the past<br />
two years coming from Las Cruces,<br />
NM.<br />
Survivors include: his wife,<br />
Marilyn Stephenson of Branson<br />
West; two daughters, Lisa Healy of<br />
Auburn Hills, MI and Sheri Emery<br />
of Brighton, MI; one step-daughter,<br />
Nicole Rantz of Branson; seven<br />
grandchildren and a host of other<br />
relatives and friends.<br />
No services are planned.<br />
Cremation was under the direction<br />
of Stumpff Funeral Home-South,<br />
Kimberling City.<br />
Ola May Merritt<br />
Smithwick<br />
Ola May Merritt Smithwick,<br />
87, <strong>Crane</strong>, was born February 26,<br />
1926 in Hurley, to Raymond and<br />
Alice Merritt and departed this<br />
life Tuesday, February 26, 20<strong>13</strong> in<br />
Springfield.<br />
Ola May had been a lifelong<br />
resident of the area and a member of<br />
the First Baptist Church <strong>Crane</strong>. She<br />
had worked as a waitress and in the<br />
garment factory. Ola May enjoyed<br />
social activities and visiting with all<br />
her friends.<br />
She was preceded in death by<br />
her parents; two brothers, Bethel<br />
and Donald Merritt; three sisters,<br />
Virginia Metcalf, Ruth Martin<br />
and Joann DeWitt; and a great<br />
grandaughter Ally Michele Smith.<br />
Survivors include two daughters,<br />
Shirley Hilton and husband Bill<br />
of Springfield, Alice Johnson<br />
and husband Doug of <strong>Crane</strong>; a<br />
brother Junior Merritt of <strong>Crane</strong>; six<br />
grandchildren, Bryant Smith and<br />
wife Shana of Marionville, Leslie<br />
Hilton of Springfield, Michele<br />
Cook and husband Brad of <strong>Crane</strong>,<br />
Jason Hilton and wife Amanda<br />
of Springfield, Jessica Johnson<br />
of <strong>Crane</strong> and Jenny Garner and<br />
husband Scott of <strong>Crane</strong>; 15 great<br />
grandchildren; a special friend Stan<br />
McDonald of Monett, and a host of<br />
nieces, nephews and many friends.<br />
Funeral services will be Friday,<br />
March 1, 20<strong>13</strong> at 10:00 a.m. at<br />
the First Baptist Church in <strong>Crane</strong>.<br />
Burial will be in <strong>Crane</strong> Community<br />
Cemetery under the care of Westrip<br />
Funeral Home, <strong>Crane</strong>. Visitation<br />
will be Thursday, February <strong>28</strong>,<br />
20<strong>13</strong> from 6 to 8 p.m. in the funeral<br />
home.<br />
Joyce Henderson<br />
Joyce Henderson, Kimberling<br />
City, daughter of James and<br />
Lucille (Hughes) Wyant, was born<br />
on November 7, 1934, in Kansas<br />
City, KS and departed this life on<br />
February 24, 20<strong>13</strong> in Tablerock<br />
Healthcare, Kimberling City, at the<br />
age of 78.<br />
Joyce was a Realtor who had<br />
lived in the area since 1987. She<br />
was a member of the Kiwanis and<br />
was of the Methodist faith.<br />
Joyce was preceded in death by<br />
her parents and two brothers, James<br />
Perry Wyant and Donald Wyant.<br />
Survivors include: three daughters,<br />
Brenda Henderson of Mabank, TX,<br />
Janice Holloway of Waco, TX and<br />
Cheryl McConnell and husband,<br />
Steve of Lebanon; three brothers,<br />
Ronnie Wyant of Gladstone,<br />
Wayne Grazier of Loveland, CO<br />
and Harold Holt of Lebanon; two<br />
sisters, Ellen Wyant of Prescott, AZ<br />
and Dorothy Phillippie of Kansas<br />
City, KS; six grandchildren; six<br />
great grandchildren and a host of<br />
other relatives and friends.<br />
A graveside service will be held<br />
at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February<br />
<strong>28</strong>, 20<strong>13</strong> in Yocum Pond Cemetery,<br />
Reeds Spring, with Reverend Clif<br />
Crockett officiating. Burial will<br />
be under the direction of Stumpff<br />
Funeral Home-South, Kimberling<br />
City.<br />
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A benefit auction for Webb<br />
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funeral expenses will be March<br />
29, 20<strong>13</strong> at the <strong>Crane</strong> Christian<br />
Community Center beginning<br />
at 5:00 p.m. BBQ pork/beef<br />
sandwiches and Coney’s will<br />
be served by donation only.<br />
Auction will begin at 7:00 p.m.<br />
Gospel music will be provided<br />
by different groups before the<br />
auction begins.<br />
If you would like to make a<br />
donation for the benefit to help<br />
the family it would be greatly<br />
appreciated.<br />
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Thursday, February <strong>28</strong>, 20<strong>13</strong> THE CRANE CHRONICLE/STONE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Page 5<br />
Historical<br />
Society Meeting<br />
THE OLD TIME DOCTOR<br />
On Sunday, March 3, 20<strong>13</strong>,<br />
the <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Historical<br />
and Genealogical Society will<br />
meet at 1:30 at the Landmarks<br />
Apostolic Church, 212 W. 5 th<br />
Street, Galena.<br />
Mrs. Jo Scott, a Registered<br />
Nurse anesthetist, has collected<br />
many old time medical<br />
instruments and records. The<br />
instruments and treatments that<br />
a doctor used 100 years ago will<br />
be explained and shown. For<br />
those of you who wish for the<br />
good old days, this may change<br />
your minds.<br />
Anyone interested in the<br />
history of the area is welcome<br />
to attend. Our focus is not only<br />
on historical events, places and<br />
things; but also on family history.<br />
Many members have spent hours<br />
tracing their lineage and are<br />
happy to share tips and hints.<br />
We are always happy to receive<br />
pictures, local memorabilia, and<br />
hear stories. Come join us and<br />
share!<br />
March’s menu includes the<br />
Smart Box which contains over<br />
10 pounds of protein, for the low<br />
cost of $36. This month’s box<br />
includes 3 lb. boneless/skinless<br />
chicken breasts, 2 lb. chicken<br />
tenders, 4 X 5 oz. Chicken<br />
Kiev, 1 lb. ground beef, 1 lb.<br />
ground turkey, 14 oz. Totino’s<br />
Pizza Stuffers, 16 oz. frozen<br />
cavatelli, 4.5 lb French fries, 1<br />
lb. diced carrots or squash, 12<br />
oz. Steam Supreme broccoli and<br />
cheese, 12 oz. Steam Supreme<br />
mixed vegetables, 12 oz. Steam<br />
Supreme broccoli, rice and<br />
cheese, 12 oz. Steam Supreme<br />
broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots,<br />
7.25 oz. box mac and cheese, and<br />
a 32 oz. cherry cobbler.<br />
Looking for a value to feed<br />
10-12 people at your Easter<br />
feast or know a family in need?<br />
Value #1 is the Easter Dinner<br />
Box for $35. The box includes<br />
4 lb. average fully cooked<br />
whole ham, 4-5 lb. average<br />
fully cooked turkey breast, 2<br />
lb. Italian blend vegetables, 16<br />
oz. dry garlic mashed potatoes,<br />
24 oz. mac and cheese, 2 lb.<br />
broccoli and cauliflower, 32 oz.<br />
Paul Jones of Galena will be<br />
releasing his 6 th CD at the <strong>Crane</strong><br />
Fundamental Church on March<br />
3 at 6:30 p.m. Paul, a country<br />
gospel artist, has written all of<br />
the songs on this latest CD. The<br />
title of the new album is “Stars,<br />
Stripes, and Eagles.” The lyrics<br />
of the songs speak of the greatest<br />
story ever told and the greatest<br />
country on earth---USA. Jamie<br />
Haage in Branson recorded all of<br />
8th Annual<br />
Running Of The<br />
Squirrels 5k And<br />
Kids Fun Run<br />
The 8th Annual Running<br />
of The Squirrels will be held<br />
Saturday, May 18 th , 20<strong>13</strong>. 5K at<br />
8 a.m., Fun Run at 7:30 a.m. at<br />
Marionville Elementary School.<br />
Runners may register online at<br />
active.com, or at Ridge Runner<br />
Sports (both locations).<br />
Sponsors are also needed.<br />
Cost for sponsorhip is $125<br />
and includes advertisement on<br />
official race shirts. Sponsors<br />
may mail checks to Marionville<br />
Band Boosters, PO Box 476,<br />
Marionville MO 65705. Deadline<br />
for sponsorship is April 10th.<br />
For more information, contact<br />
Tina Cook at (417) 732-7704 or<br />
visit www.squirrel5k.org<br />
All proceeds of the race go to<br />
benefit the Marionville Comet<br />
Pride Marching Band.<br />
Smart Choice<br />
Food March Menu Now Available<br />
cherry cobbler and 60 oz. whole<br />
chocolate truffle pie or 6-8 in.<br />
caramel apple cheesecake.<br />
Smart Choice also offers other<br />
money saving food items. The<br />
Convenience Meals include ten<br />
heat and serve, diabetic friendly<br />
meals for $31. Also offered this<br />
month are five Value boxes:<br />
Value #2—Breakfast Box for<br />
$25, Value #3—Lunch Box for<br />
$24, Value #4—10 lb. Breaded<br />
Fish Sticks Box for $24 and<br />
Value #5—5 lb. Steak Burgers<br />
Box for $<strong>28</strong>.<br />
The complete monthly menu<br />
is available on-line at www.<br />
smartchoicefood.com or can<br />
be obtained by calling Jill at<br />
357-6055. Patrons can order in<br />
person at the Community Center<br />
on Saturday, March 9, from 9-<br />
11 AM. Payment must be made<br />
at the time of order in the form<br />
of cash or money orders made<br />
payable to <strong>Crane</strong> Christian<br />
Church. Online orders must be<br />
completed by 6 PM on March<br />
<strong>13</strong>. The food will be distributed<br />
Saturday, March 23, at 11 AM<br />
in the <strong>Crane</strong> Christian Church<br />
Community Building.<br />
Paul Jones To<br />
Release Sixth CD On March 3<br />
his music.<br />
Paul is a member of the Country<br />
Gospel Music Association;<br />
and he has received numerous<br />
awards from CGMA. He and his<br />
wife are Chapter Directors of the<br />
Branson Chapter of CGMA. All<br />
of the albums will be available<br />
at discounted prices. Everyone<br />
is welcome. If you need more<br />
information, contact Paul at 417-<br />
224-5322 or 417-224-4811.<br />
Morning<br />
Star Baptist<br />
(Revelations 22:16)<br />
All are welcome to Worship<br />
Jesus with us!<br />
Bible Study at 9:30am<br />
Worship at 10:30am & 5pm<br />
69 Butterfield Trail Rd.<br />
State Highway 4<strong>13</strong><br />
Pastor Gary Stewart<br />
(417) 744-2901 (H)<br />
(417) 723-0315<br />
Church<br />
Southern Baptist Church<br />
Established in 1997<br />
Faith Fellowship<br />
P e n t e c o s t a l<br />
Church<br />
S P E C I A L<br />
SPEAKER,REVIVAL, With<br />
Wanda and Brother Dewayne<br />
Johnston, March 2 nd @ 7 p.m.,<br />
and March 3 @ 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.,<br />
at Faith Fellowship Pentecostal<br />
Church, Downtown Reeds Spring<br />
in the old Hagals Building,<br />
Pastor Mary Ann Keeland and<br />
Congregation welcomes all, for<br />
information 417-527-3512.<br />
Marionville First<br />
Baptist Church<br />
Marionville First Baptist<br />
Church will be showing the new<br />
Veggie Tales movie, “The Little<br />
House That Stood” Saturday,<br />
March 2 @ 10:00 a.m. Snacks<br />
afterwards. For more information<br />
call 258-22<strong>02</strong>.<br />
Sunday, March 10 th at 6:00<br />
p.m., “Jews for Jesus” will<br />
present a Model Seder (a Passover<br />
Ceremony) at Marionville<br />
First Baptist Church. For more<br />
information call 258-22<strong>02</strong>.<br />
Pleasant Grove<br />
Baptist Church<br />
Sons of the Silver Dollar will<br />
be performing on Sunday, March<br />
3 rd at Pleasant Grove Baptist<br />
Church, located 2 ¼ miles down<br />
Hwy O, Highlandville at 6:00<br />
p.m. with food and fellowship at<br />
7:00 p.m.<br />
Church Directory<br />
<strong>Crane</strong> Presbyterian Church<br />
“A Church On The Grow”<br />
39322 Hwy 4<strong>13</strong>, <strong>Crane</strong>, Missouri<br />
9:00 am............Fellowship w/ coffee & donuts<br />
9:30 am.....................................Sunday School<br />
10:30 am..................................Worship Service<br />
Pastor- Melana Scruggs<br />
<strong>Crane</strong><br />
Office: 417-723-5596<br />
Fundamental Methodist Church<br />
Sunday School...............................10:00 am<br />
Sunday Morning Worship..............11:00 am<br />
Sunday Evening Service..................6:30 pm<br />
Wednesday Evening Service............7:00 pm<br />
Pastor: Wayne Blades<br />
Church Phone: 417-723-5821 • Home: 417-840-3833<br />
Small town church with a country heart!<br />
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH<br />
S. Hwy <strong>13</strong>, <strong>Crane</strong> (417)723-5273 fbccrane.net<br />
Classes for all ages:<br />
Sunday 9:30-10:15 am<br />
6:00-7:00 pm<br />
Wednesday 7:00-8:00 pm<br />
For more details go to: fbccrane.net<br />
Worship Services:<br />
Sundays 10:30 am & 5:00 pm<br />
Fellowship times:<br />
Sunday 9:00 am donuts & coffee<br />
Wednesday Meal 6:00-6:50 pm<br />
Pastor - Gregg Boll<br />
“A Southern Baptist Church Serving God & the community since 1906 “<br />
Lighthouse Tab-United<br />
Pentecostal Church<br />
36203 State Hwy 4<strong>13</strong><br />
Elsey, MO.<br />
Come join us For a Good Ole Time<br />
-Modern Pentecostal Service<br />
New Service Times<br />
Saturday Night 7:00 p.m.<br />
Sunday Morning 10:00 a.m.<br />
Sunday Night 6:00 p.m.<br />
Lots of Fellowship-Fun & Sometimes Food<br />
If you would like to have<br />
your Church listed in our<br />
Church Directory please<br />
call 417-723-5248
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Comments & Notes from...<br />
Mary Kuyper<br />
P.O. Box 208<br />
Reeds Spring MO 65737 • 417-272-3527<br />
Greetings Readerville:<br />
This fine spring day, I can<br />
almost hear the peepers waking<br />
up. OK – next day woke to snow<br />
on the ground. Spring had been<br />
stolen. We had gone from the<br />
60’s to <strong>28</strong> degrees. I guess that<br />
is ok because we do not want<br />
things blooming out for several<br />
months yet. We are however,<br />
very thankful for moisture of any<br />
kind. especially rain. since we<br />
can’t predict the weather and the<br />
weather-man can’t either – we<br />
will move on.<br />
Birthday<br />
Now we have a hearty wish for<br />
a whole lot of you folks. Travis<br />
Isaacs (my nephew-in-law), my<br />
grandson –in-law Wade Carey,<br />
sisters-in-law Linda Quick and<br />
Barbara Youngblood and Donna<br />
Sparks (need bread lady), my<br />
mean ole daughter-in-law Sherrie<br />
Kuyper, a little fellow named<br />
Riley Isaacs (nana’s pal) and a<br />
special young lady who happens<br />
to be nana’s granddaughter<br />
Kamilla Miller.<br />
Now if that is not a bunch of<br />
rascals to report on – good or<br />
bad. Hope you all had a great<br />
day and many more to come.<br />
May God be with you all. If I<br />
don’t have your name – sorry<br />
– let me know.<br />
Sick Bay<br />
Lori Trueblood is still taking<br />
her chemo. Rosemary and Bill<br />
Youngblood are in need of prayer.<br />
My sister, Edna Ruth Kessinger<br />
took a terrible fall while caring<br />
for me. She has been in extreme<br />
pain. Please keep her in prayer<br />
and deed. Bert told me that her<br />
fellow helper (coach really) of<br />
the youth bowling league needs<br />
our prayers as well. He has<br />
many serious decisions to make<br />
regarding his health. There are<br />
many around us who are sick, in<br />
need of a kind word, a helping<br />
hand, etc. etc. Help where you<br />
can, we can all pray, but someone<br />
once said, we need to put legs on<br />
our prayers. Lets do something!<br />
I was wrong<br />
Today we wait to find out if<br />
Boy Scouts will be Boy Scouts<br />
or Girl-Boy Scouts. Which they<br />
have never been. But, one or the<br />
other, thanks to the president,<br />
same sex marriage, abortion,<br />
lewd pictures not needed to<br />
be shown, foul language on<br />
radio and TV, in homes, on the<br />
streets – just one little example<br />
of the many ways we have let<br />
morals slip out of our fingers and<br />
everything else folks are allowing<br />
to occur. The earth seems angry<br />
with us – perhaps it is one way<br />
God is speaking to us and we<br />
are not listening. Earthquakes,<br />
fires, floods, volcanoes, severe<br />
droughts, what more do we<br />
need?<br />
And, gun control being an<br />
Reeds Spring Jct.<br />
issue- isn’t that what Hitler did,<br />
did we not learn anything from<br />
the past. Does history have<br />
to repeat itself because of our<br />
stupidity? Anger can run deep &<br />
we have lost control of any decent<br />
response to it. All this takes me<br />
back to a time when Madeline<br />
O’Hare had prayer taken out of<br />
the schools. I heard that she was<br />
to speak at the Shrine Mosque<br />
in Springfield, I felt that since I<br />
had written so many derogatory<br />
things about her that I owed it<br />
to my readers to go and hear her<br />
speak. I expected to see a well<br />
dressed lady speaking sixteen<br />
syllable words. What I got<br />
instead was the use of four letter<br />
words coming from a frumpy foul<br />
mouthed woman. She shouted,<br />
ripped pages from the Bible and<br />
when she finished her charade,<br />
she asked if anyone had anything<br />
to say. The audience was quiet,<br />
then she called us yellowbellied<br />
cowards, before I thought I was<br />
on my feet, holding little Mary<br />
Jr. by the hand and walking<br />
towards the stage. Halfway<br />
down my knees turned to putty,<br />
and I thought to myself, “What<br />
am I doing, this lady has argued<br />
and won her case before the US<br />
Supreme Court. But, it was to<br />
late to turn back. There were only<br />
3 people that went down. When<br />
I got before her, I addressed her<br />
as Dr. O’Hare and said we would<br />
like to know why you fight so<br />
hard against God since you say<br />
He does not exist. It would be<br />
like us people who live at Table<br />
Rock Lake trying to rid the lake<br />
of whales, since there are none<br />
what is the point? At which time<br />
she said in a very ugly voice<br />
“I’ll tell you why, you Christians<br />
have come out of your closets<br />
and are invading everything.”<br />
And my reply was, “I’ll tell you<br />
something – you and your hand<br />
full of followers will not dictate<br />
to America where we can pray<br />
or anything else we want to do.”<br />
The audience exploded and she<br />
never got to say anything else.<br />
Then I realized something, had<br />
I known I would be speaking to<br />
her, I would have stayed up all<br />
night, looking up eloquent things<br />
to say, but God used a simple<br />
Reeds Spring graduate and a<br />
whale to make a point. People<br />
who had been there told me later<br />
that they thought God had His<br />
say without the help of anyone.<br />
That was a long time ago, but all<br />
these years I’ve fought for what<br />
I believed, which was America<br />
would stand tall, that she would<br />
not follow whims, or tilt to every<br />
wind that blew. But, today as I<br />
look around and am reminded of<br />
Bible teaching of how evil would<br />
become worse and worse and we<br />
can see & know the truth and<br />
still yield. That what was once<br />
called good would now be called<br />
evil. (It tells us that this would<br />
occur in the Bible – read it folks).<br />
Those years ago, I said not in<br />
America would all these things<br />
happen. “I WAS WRONG!”<br />
We can still change things, but<br />
the window of time may not be<br />
long. We should join together<br />
with the Rutherford Ins, Rev. Bill<br />
Grahams, and others to make our<br />
voice heard. As my mom use to<br />
say, with your little bit and my<br />
little bit we can become a mighty<br />
bit. Yes, 30 years ago when I<br />
made that statement to Miss<br />
O’Hare, “Not in America!” I did<br />
not believe the government would<br />
lose sight of this – “Government<br />
by the people and for the people”<br />
with a conscious thought about<br />
the people and that is why I said<br />
I was wrong.<br />
I am going to let this be my<br />
closing, hoping some of my<br />
concerns for our Holy God,<br />
our country, our children, our<br />
grandchildren, and other family<br />
members, our friends, and our<br />
churches will touch you heart<br />
strings and we will stand together<br />
again and that is my “Food For<br />
Thought.”<br />
Till Next Time:<br />
Matata!<br />
Ha Kuna<br />
4 Calvary<br />
Southern Gospel<br />
Quartet<br />
4 Calvary Southern Gospel<br />
Quartet will be performing at<br />
Keystone Assembly of God,<br />
Sunday, March 3, 20<strong>13</strong> at 10:45<br />
a.m.<br />
The Church is located at 2731<br />
East State Highway 248 Reeds<br />
Spring, MO.<br />
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New Arrival<br />
First time Grandparents Kevin and Sarah Wray from <strong>Crane</strong> and first<br />
time Aunt Molly Wray announce the birth of their granddaughter<br />
(and niece)……Riley Kay. Born February 10 th , 20<strong>13</strong>.<br />
Parents are Adam and Jacque Wray of Tacoma Washington where<br />
Adam serves in the U.S. Air Force at McChord AFB.<br />
Maternal Grandparents are Tony and Tammy Taylor of Republic.<br />
Great Grandma Louise Short of Springfield.<br />
Welcome to our world Riley Kay.<br />
Jones Celebrating 65th<br />
Anniverary<br />
Archie Jones and Peggy (Short) Jones will<br />
be celebrating their 65th wedding<br />
anniversary on March 6, 20<strong>13</strong>. Friends and<br />
relatives are invited to attend a celebration<br />
hosted by their children, grandchildren,<br />
and great grandchildren in honor of this<br />
milestone on Saturday, March 2, 20<strong>13</strong>, at the<br />
Community Center, 104 E. Edgewood, <strong>Crane</strong>,<br />
MO, from 2 PM – 5 PM. Archie and Peggy<br />
were married on March 6, 1948 by Reverend<br />
Gilbert<br />
Clevenger in Galena, MO. They would<br />
enjoy receiving cards at 42<strong>28</strong>9 State Hwy<br />
4<strong>13</strong>,<strong>Crane</strong>, MO 65633.<br />
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A Message From<br />
Represenative Don Phillips<br />
Old Man Winter was predicted<br />
to drop snow and ice on a good<br />
portion of our state so the House<br />
leadership cancelled the regular<br />
session for Thursday and the<br />
technical session for Friday and<br />
sent us home early. It proved<br />
to be a good decision. (The<br />
“technical session” is a session<br />
requiring attendance only if<br />
legislators have obligations such<br />
as committee meetings, hearings,<br />
etc).<br />
Hall of Famous Missourians<br />
I submitted the name of Rose<br />
O’Neill to the Speaker of the<br />
House for his consideration<br />
for inducting her into the Hall<br />
of Famous Missourians. I<br />
personally remember her<br />
mostly for her Kewpie Dolls,<br />
however, that’s only a fraction<br />
of what this remarkable woman<br />
accomplished! She would be a<br />
great choice for The Hall and<br />
would leave a positive legacy for<br />
the Speaker as this selection is a<br />
privilege of his office.<br />
Senator Blunt Visits the<br />
Capitol<br />
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt spoke<br />
to the members of the House of<br />
Representatives during session<br />
on Thursday morning. He<br />
also visited privately with the<br />
<strong>Republican</strong> caucus and gave us<br />
some insight into what’s going<br />
on at the federal level.<br />
Legislation HB 462: This<br />
is my sex offender registry bill<br />
and I’ll be presenting it before<br />
the Crime Prevention and Public<br />
Safety Committee at a public<br />
hearing on Monday at one<br />
o’clock; it should be interesting.<br />
HB 87: Sponsored by Rep.<br />
Eric Burlison, Springfield, reestablishes<br />
the benevolent tax<br />
credits and has an emergency<br />
clause. It passed the House<br />
overwhelmingly and is now<br />
in the Senate. I expect this<br />
important bill to be on the fast<br />
track and get to the Governor’s<br />
desk quicker than most!<br />
HB 545: I reported on this<br />
bill last week. I have received<br />
hundreds of emails and dozens of<br />
phone calls from constituents on<br />
this gun bill. I’ll make this very<br />
clear it WILL NOT pass! I hope<br />
to see it come to the House floor<br />
and be brought up for discussion.<br />
I think that’s a good possibility.<br />
Then after a public execution of<br />
the bill and a verbal flogging of<br />
the bill’s sponsor, vote on it and<br />
send him, his party, and all of<br />
Missouri a loud message about<br />
our commitment to protecting<br />
our law-abiding citizens gun<br />
rights!<br />
HJR 23: Is a House Joint<br />
Resolution for a one-cent sales<br />
tax for transportation. This bill<br />
was heard in the Transportation<br />
Committee on Tuesday. The<br />
tax would apply to everything<br />
except medicine and food.<br />
It would require a vote of<br />
the people if HJR 23 passes.<br />
Nobody likes additional taxes<br />
but good highways are a key to<br />
economic development in our<br />
state. There aren’t too many<br />
other options for funding out<br />
there. The AAA conducted a<br />
survey and two-thirds of their<br />
members nationwide preferred a<br />
sales tax over any other method<br />
of funding for transportation. If<br />
the language in HJR 23 reaches<br />
the ballot, the voters will make<br />
the decision as to whether or not<br />
to approve this tax.<br />
HB 388: Sponsored by<br />
Kathy Swan is an education<br />
bill that if passed would require<br />
schools to be assigned a letter<br />
grade as to their performance.<br />
To me, the letter grade seems<br />
unnecessary. There’s already<br />
a percentage applied based<br />
on performance. I believe the<br />
school administrators in District<br />
<strong>13</strong>8 agree the percentage placed<br />
on performance is better than a<br />
letter grade.<br />
Note: Any of these bills can be<br />
reviewed by going to the House<br />
website and choosing “bill<br />
tracking.”<br />
Medicaid Expansion<br />
This is a much visited topic<br />
of discussion. I don’t believe<br />
Medicaid expansion is going<br />
to happen in Missouri anytime<br />
soon (as Medicaid is currently<br />
structured) and here’s why:<br />
Medicaid expansion is a product<br />
of the Patient Protection and<br />
Affordable Care Act, aka; Obama<br />
Care. Missourians soundly voted<br />
in opposition of the national<br />
health care plan. And, the<br />
Supreme Court ruled that states<br />
may opt out of the Medicaid<br />
expansion aspect of Obama Care<br />
without suffering loss of federal<br />
funding for Medicaid services<br />
that’s already in place.<br />
Medicaid has not proven to<br />
be an especially effective way<br />
to provide quality healthcare<br />
although it does provide<br />
healthcare to those that absolutely<br />
can’t afford it. It’s certainly not<br />
cost effective for our state and<br />
with our federal deficit growing<br />
out of control, why should<br />
we add to our woes by taking<br />
billions of additional dollars in<br />
federal Medicaid money? Just<br />
because, under the new proposal,<br />
it doesn’t cost our state anything<br />
to get started with expansion,<br />
that doesn’t mean its free<br />
money. We are paying for it one<br />
way or the other and ultimately<br />
Missourians may get stuck with<br />
quite a funding challenge as the<br />
percentage of federal monies<br />
decrease. There are just way too<br />
many uncertainties concerning<br />
Medicaid expansion to expand<br />
it as it currently operates. And,<br />
once those expansions are made,<br />
there’s no turning back by taking<br />
it away, as it has been suggested<br />
by supporters of the expansion.<br />
Another requirement of<br />
Obama Care is the establishment<br />
of health insurance exchanges<br />
(HIX). The HIX is scheduled<br />
to open on Oct. 1, 20<strong>13</strong>. It will<br />
be an online marketplace for<br />
those above the poverty level to<br />
shop for insurance from private<br />
insurance companies. One of the<br />
primary factors of the HIX is<br />
income! There will be a number<br />
of options available and to get<br />
the best coverage you will have<br />
to pony up for the most costly<br />
premium, probably at a much<br />
higher rate for the same coverage<br />
you may currently have. Lower<br />
cost premiums will come<br />
with much higher deductibles.<br />
Supposedly you can keep your<br />
current coverage however that<br />
remains to be seen. Lower<br />
income participants that make<br />
too much to qualify for Medicaid<br />
will be eligible for tax credits and<br />
shared costs; the rest of us are on<br />
our own. There’s also the option<br />
of paying a fine for not obtaining<br />
health insurance at all.<br />
When it comes to HIX, there<br />
were three options available<br />
for states and none of them<br />
were appealing. Missouri has<br />
chosen to pass on option one;<br />
establishing our own insurance<br />
exchange. We also passed on<br />
option two; partnering with the<br />
federal government. We are<br />
accepting option three which is<br />
to let the feds run an exchange<br />
for us. That puts the monkey<br />
on their backs, not ours and if<br />
we’re stuck with the HIX, this<br />
is viewed as the best option. The<br />
feds were so sure states would<br />
choose option one (state managed<br />
exchanges) that they didn’t plan<br />
on a majority of states choosing<br />
NOT to play along with the<br />
first two options of the national<br />
healthcare plan; Missouri being<br />
one of them. Thus far, option<br />
two and three have been the most<br />
popular with option three being<br />
slightly ahead. The partnering<br />
idea for creating exchanges has<br />
very little participation.<br />
The federal government has<br />
demonstrated it can’t protect<br />
our borders, it can’t protect our<br />
money, it can’t properly manage<br />
our social security, and it can’t<br />
be trusted to efficiently operate<br />
the most powerful military this<br />
world has ever known! And,<br />
they want us to trust them with<br />
our healthcare under the rules<br />
of the Patient Protection and<br />
Affordable Care Act?<br />
It’s like the bully on the<br />
playground that says, “I’ll give<br />
you all my marbles if you play<br />
by my rules.” Then he starts<br />
changing the rules because he<br />
thinks he can and before long<br />
he becomes the holder of all the<br />
marbles, including yours!<br />
There are reasons healthcare<br />
is so expensive and unaffordable<br />
for many people. That’s a whole<br />
other topic of discussion but most<br />
Missourians recognize what the<br />
real problems are.<br />
Final Thoughts:<br />
I don’t claim to be the smartest<br />
guy in the room but I know this<br />
much; the constitution was not<br />
established so the government<br />
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could control the people; it<br />
was established so the people<br />
could control the government.<br />
The people of the United States<br />
should be in charge of our<br />
governmental decisions. We, as<br />
states, should also respect the<br />
government of our county and<br />
cities, those closest to the issues.<br />
And, those of us elected by the<br />
people, should do our best, every<br />
day, to be a reflection of the<br />
people we represent and to honor<br />
our oath of office!<br />
Thanks for your many emails<br />
and phone calls in support of<br />
what I do on your behalf at the<br />
capitol.<br />
Email: don.phillips@house.<br />
mo.gov Phone: 573-751-3851.<br />
Address: Rep. Don Phillips,<br />
House Post Office, Room <strong>13</strong>5,<br />
201 W. Capitol Ave., Jefferson<br />
City, MO 65101.<br />
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<strong>Stone</strong> Ridge News<br />
Oma White<br />
241 Yocum Pond Road, Galena, Missouri 65656<br />
Hello folks, we have had some<br />
bad weather, rain, sleet, and<br />
snow. Thunder and lightning.<br />
Ice covered in some places, but<br />
thank the Lord, Jesus our electric<br />
power is still on. The electric<br />
goes off we have no heat. We<br />
only have a propane furnace for<br />
our heat. Some folks have said<br />
you have a flu why don’t you put<br />
up a wood stove. Well our flu is<br />
not safe, it needs to be torn down<br />
and a new one put up. You know<br />
it takes money to do that.<br />
My brother, Orie Foster was<br />
taken back to the hospital by<br />
ambulance last Wednesday. I<br />
called to talk to him, but his wife,<br />
Mildred answered and said they<br />
were giving Orie his breathing<br />
test.<br />
I went with my nephew,<br />
Monti Foster last Saturday to<br />
see his Dad, my brother Oliver<br />
Foster, Monti drove all the way<br />
to Fayetteville, Ark Veterans<br />
Hospital, only to find out he had<br />
been moved to Shiloh Health<br />
and Rehab in Springdale, Ark.<br />
So we went back there to see<br />
Oliver. Oliver wasn’t doing so<br />
well. I think he was more lonely<br />
than anything else. Another<br />
thing, his teeth got lost somehow<br />
when he was sent to Fayetteville<br />
for the hospital in Springfield.<br />
Anyone can go see Oliver. And<br />
I am sure my other two brothers;<br />
Orie and Johnny would like a<br />
Words from the Past for Now<br />
and the Future<br />
Part of the legacy that parents<br />
can leave for their children is<br />
words of advice or sayings that<br />
can be brought to mind and used<br />
whenever circumstances call for<br />
the need. Many of us can quickly<br />
call to mind words of advice our<br />
parents used with us as we were<br />
growing up. Not only parents,<br />
but people through the ages have<br />
left a legacy of advice for use<br />
in various occasions. Often I<br />
have thought of my mom saying,<br />
“Where there’s a will, there’s a<br />
way!” This has spurred me on<br />
many times when I was tempted<br />
to give up.<br />
Following are some sayings<br />
that would be helpful to use<br />
with children now to help them<br />
develop good character:<br />
“A man is known by the<br />
company he keeps,” or as my<br />
mom used to say, “Birds of a<br />
feather flock together!”<br />
Another of my mom’s was,<br />
“Pretty is as pretty does.”<br />
From my dad came, “Be a<br />
leader of what is right, not a<br />
follower of what is wrong.” He<br />
also said, “It is the truth that<br />
visit too. Johnny said he was<br />
feeling better. He’s in the Table<br />
rock Health Care at Kimberling<br />
City. Brothers get better, God<br />
bless you with love and prayers.<br />
Allen Cunningham said his wife,<br />
Connie, wasn’t feeling very<br />
good last weekend. You know<br />
she is taking chemo. Get better<br />
Connie. Had prayer for you and<br />
several others last Sunday. It<br />
was good to have Elmer Carr<br />
in church last Sunday, and Rev.<br />
Jack Keithley and another Rev.<br />
and his wife, sorry folks I don’t<br />
have your names. Anyway come<br />
again. Was good to have Sharon<br />
and Murl Mills back in church<br />
Sunday. Jack sang two beautiful<br />
songs. We are still missing<br />
several of you at church.<br />
Had a nice letter from an<br />
old friend, Olive Haynes from<br />
Cassville. We were close<br />
neighbors years ago. She said<br />
she reads my news in the paper.<br />
She has four daughters, Edna,<br />
Ellen, Ilene, and Alene, and said<br />
they lived close to her.<br />
Had a nice call from my cousin,<br />
Evelyn Fullerton tonight. She<br />
was asking about my brothers.<br />
Well it’s time to get this in<br />
the mail, so keep us and all the<br />
others in our prayers; folks in<br />
the nursing homes, in hospitals,<br />
at home, and all our service men<br />
and women.<br />
“Train up a Child...”<br />
By: Pat Lamb<br />
Phone: 417-338-0959<br />
Questions or Comments: e-mail - patlee@centurytel.net<br />
hurts.”<br />
When I went to college, my<br />
youth leader at church wrote<br />
some sayings in a little brown<br />
notebook and gave it to me. One<br />
saying was, “An industrious man<br />
can do more with a rusty wrench<br />
than a lazy man with all the tools<br />
in the shop.” Another was, “If<br />
you never stick your neck out,<br />
you’ll never get your head above<br />
the ground.”<br />
I remember seeing in my<br />
doctor’s office when I was a<br />
child, “A teakettle sings when it<br />
lets off steam. Why don’t we do<br />
the same.<br />
In a pastor’s office I saw, “If<br />
the truth can’t stand the light, it<br />
isn’t the truth.”<br />
My father-in-law used to tell<br />
my husband, “Work never hurt<br />
anyone.”<br />
A restaurant owner once told<br />
a cook, “There’s dignity in hard<br />
work.”<br />
George Washington said, “Be<br />
courteous to all, but intimate<br />
with few, and let those few be<br />
well tried before you give them<br />
your confidence.”<br />
He also said, “Associate with<br />
men of good quality if you<br />
esteem your own reputation; for<br />
it is better to be alone than in bad<br />
company.”<br />
Abraham Lincoln said, “You<br />
can fool all the people some of<br />
the time and some of the people<br />
all of the time, but you can’t fool<br />
all the people all the time.”<br />
A heading to a chapter in my<br />
eighth grade science book was as<br />
follows:<br />
He who knows not and knows<br />
not he knows not is a fool; shun<br />
him.<br />
He who knows not and knows<br />
he knows not is simple; teach<br />
him.<br />
He who knows and knows not<br />
he knows is asleep; wake him.<br />
He who knows and knows he<br />
knows is wise; follow him.<br />
Sayings such as the ones<br />
mentioned can help guide<br />
children to right living. If we<br />
use these and the many others<br />
similar, we can give a legacy to<br />
our children that will stay with<br />
them forever.<br />
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GROWING UP ON WILSON<br />
RUN CREEK<br />
We had just finished the last<br />
load of hay when my uncle and<br />
aunt (Floyd and Christle Morris)<br />
came by. They came to tell my<br />
mom that my Grandma Laura<br />
Audrey O’Boil Morris was very<br />
ill. She had appendicitis and was<br />
in the Burge Hospital (now Cox)<br />
in Springfield.<br />
I don’t know all the details. I was<br />
around eight years old when this<br />
happened. I know my Uncle Jim<br />
Morris, who is my mom’s older<br />
brother he always had a truck. He<br />
always visited my Grandparents,<br />
Laure and Henry Clay Morris<br />
often visited my Grandparents,<br />
Laure and Henry Clay Morris<br />
often. They lived west of Cape<br />
Fair. Uncle Jim and his wife<br />
Mamie lived in Reeds Spring. I<br />
don’t know who took her to the<br />
doctor; I think it was Dr. Shumate<br />
of Reeds Spring. Uncle Floyd<br />
who was my mom’s baby brother<br />
told her Grandma was having an<br />
appendectomy the next morning.<br />
Mom and Dad asked them to go<br />
by our dads parents farm and tell<br />
them us four children would be<br />
driving the wagon and team to<br />
their house to spend the day. Dad<br />
had no truck, but my Uncle Floyd<br />
said they could walk through the<br />
woods at the back of the barn<br />
and it would bring them out near<br />
his road. That night before we<br />
went to bed, everything had been<br />
explained on what the four of us<br />
were to do the next day.<br />
The morning dawned warm and<br />
clean. We all got up early. Mom<br />
fixed a big breakfast as usual;<br />
biscuits, gravy, bacon and canned<br />
fruit of some kind. We had on of<br />
these, wild blackberries, peaches,<br />
apples or pears. They milked the<br />
cows and feed the horses, I helped<br />
Edna and Ella get dressed. Dad<br />
harnessed the team of horses and<br />
hooked them to the rubber-tired<br />
wagon. Efton was eleven years<br />
old. He could handle the team very<br />
well. They were very gentle and<br />
well trained. Dad had them before<br />
I can remember. You just had to<br />
say, “get up,” guide them and they<br />
drove their selves at a fast walk. I<br />
set beside Efton in the spring seat<br />
and held my baby sister, Ella. She<br />
was about sixteen months old.<br />
Edna who would soon be seven,<br />
held on to the back of the spring<br />
seat as she stood up. I was just 8<br />
years old. We watched our Dad<br />
and Mom walk up the hill at the<br />
back of the barn and disappear<br />
in the timber. We were on our<br />
way going up the road. We knew<br />
everyone who lived in each house.<br />
Our first neighbor was Will and<br />
Sarah Epley, after their farm was<br />
Dewey and Vinie Mease. Here at<br />
their house the road forked. The left<br />
fork went to highway <strong>13</strong>, but we<br />
wanted to take the right fork. We<br />
were following Wilson Run Creek<br />
most of the way. The next farm<br />
was Arthur and Gladis Patrick;<br />
the next one was John Tolbert.<br />
We were at Sack and All City, a<br />
crossroad. It was the location of<br />
a Grist Mill when our Dad grew<br />
up. The people who lived near<br />
there had the last name of Jackson,<br />
here we turned right. We were on<br />
the farm to market road. This road<br />
turned off Hwy <strong>13</strong> and ended at the<br />
George L. <strong>Stone</strong> Farm on James<br />
River. On the left was the Smyth<br />
Farm where my aunt Hazel Smyth<br />
Blair grew up. She was married to<br />
my Great Uncle Boon. In a small<br />
house were Mr. and Mrs. Starkey.<br />
Next was John Tolbert’s son, Fred.<br />
After these folks there was a road<br />
turned off to the left where the<br />
Carver family lived. We stayed<br />
on the main road. The road went<br />
up a steep winding hill. After we<br />
reached the top there was Grandma<br />
and Grandpa Allen’s. We had made<br />
our journey without meeting a car<br />
or truck. Grandpa took charge of<br />
the team of horses and we walked<br />
to the back of the wagon bed and<br />
jumped to the ground. I helped<br />
Ella down and carried her into the<br />
house. It was made of logs. It had a<br />
big front room with a smaller room<br />
that had been added on the back.<br />
It was the kitchen and had a bed<br />
behind the kitchen table. Grandma<br />
had a good dinner of beans and<br />
ham, cornbread and fried potatoes.<br />
We helped Grandma, however we<br />
could. We rested and played on the<br />
front porch. The Allen Church was<br />
located beyond the peach orchard.<br />
Our Grandparents gave the land<br />
for the church many years ago.<br />
Before sundown, Grandma and<br />
Grandpa said it was time for us to<br />
start home. Grandpa was blind up<br />
close, but could see out there. He<br />
turned the wagon around and we<br />
loaded up. But, not before each of<br />
us got a hug and a kiss from our<br />
Grandparents. They warned us to<br />
be careful and told us if we met<br />
a car, to pullover and stop until<br />
it passed by. We arrived home<br />
without incident. Efton unhooked<br />
the team from the wagon and tied<br />
each in the barn and fed them. A<br />
set of harnesses was heavy to lift.<br />
Dad and Mom expected not to be<br />
late. When dark came, Dad and<br />
Mom were not home yet. Efton<br />
and I both were trained how to<br />
light the coal oil lamp. It set on the<br />
kitchen table. Efton took off the<br />
glass chimney and struck a match<br />
on the matchbox and lit the lamp<br />
and blew out the match. Placed<br />
the glass chimney back on. Mom<br />
and Dad were now home. They<br />
told us Grandma Morris had come<br />
through her surgery all right. For<br />
our supper they brought home two<br />
cans of pork and beans. I never<br />
had this before. It tasted good.<br />
According to my cousin, Ernestine,<br />
Grandma went to Uncle Jim and<br />
Aunt Mamie’s until she recovered.<br />
Grandpa Henry Clay stayed on the<br />
farm at Cape Fair in a few weeks<br />
she was able to go home.
Authors Give Books To Library<br />
Many of the authors who<br />
participated in the recent Author<br />
Book Signing Day at Kimberling<br />
Area Library donated their books<br />
to the library. A total of 25 new<br />
books by regional authors have<br />
been added to the library’s<br />
collection.<br />
Radine Trees Nehring has<br />
written mysteries that are set in<br />
the lovely city of Eureka Springs,<br />
Arkansas. She generously<br />
provided her mysteries “A<br />
Wedding To Die For”, “A River<br />
to Die For” and “A Treasure to<br />
Die For”.<br />
“The Happy Accident” by<br />
Monett writer, Laurence Stoll,<br />
begins with a young soldier in<br />
World War II. Upon his return<br />
from military service, he finds<br />
everything in his life has changed<br />
and he needs to search for his<br />
new destiny.<br />
Another inspirational novel<br />
“Buffalo Gal” was given to the<br />
library by Perry Posey. The<br />
book is based on the life of a<br />
city boy from Buffalo, NY, and<br />
a Native American girl whose<br />
lives would be intertwined in<br />
spite of their social differences<br />
and backgrounds. Mr. Posey<br />
hopes that all readers will enjoy<br />
Absentee Voting<br />
Title: <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Clerk,<br />
Judy Berkstresser, Reminds<br />
Absentee Voters<br />
Absentee voting for the April<br />
2, 20<strong>13</strong> General Municipal<br />
Election has begun at the<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Clerk’s Office<br />
on the third floor of the historic<br />
courthouse in Galena.<br />
You may vote absentee at the<br />
courthouse Monday-Friday<br />
between the hours of 8:00 am<br />
to 4:00 pm.<br />
If you are unable to vote in<br />
person, you may send a written<br />
request to the county clerk.<br />
Please send this information:<br />
Name<br />
Physical address<br />
Mailing address<br />
Date of Birth<br />
Last four (4) digits of social<br />
security number<br />
Reason for voting absentee<br />
Signature<br />
The request should be sent<br />
“A wonderful journey with my<br />
Buffalo Gal”.<br />
Cynthia Collins writes for<br />
teen readers. She provided her<br />
book “The Unicorn Tree” which<br />
features the story of seventeenyear-old<br />
Lisa Duncan. Lisa’s<br />
brother is lost at sea and Lisa<br />
is determined to discover what<br />
happened to him.<br />
For readers who prefer<br />
non-fiction, the popular book<br />
“Buried by Table Rock Lake”<br />
by Tom Koob will provide great<br />
history of the area. “I Choose<br />
this Day” by Sharon Fieker<br />
discusses the life story of an<br />
adoption. Highlandville author,<br />
June Barnhart, gave the book<br />
“Diabetes, One Step at a Time”<br />
which chronicles her decades<br />
of experience living with that<br />
disease.<br />
All of the 25 donated books<br />
are now available for patrons.<br />
They will be sporting<br />
special ribbons and placed on<br />
shelf near the new Large Print<br />
books. Thanks to each of the<br />
authors for their generous<br />
gifts to the library.<br />
Kathryn Kufahl<br />
DAR Holds February Meeting<br />
Hostesses, Lola Clark and Cindy Spalding<br />
Speaker, Mrs. Kitty Crider<br />
KAL volunteer The Elk Horn Prairie<br />
Chapter of The Daughters of<br />
the American Revolution held<br />
their February meeting at the<br />
Aurora Library on February 7,<br />
to:<br />
Judy Berkstresser<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Clerk<br />
PO Box 45<br />
Galena, Missouri 65656<br />
Or fax your request to 417-<br />
357-6861<br />
You can also find an absentee<br />
ballot application on the<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> web page at<br />
www.stoneco-mo.us by linking<br />
to the <strong>County</strong> Clerk. For<br />
your convenience, the <strong>County</strong><br />
Clerk office will be open for<br />
absentee voting on Saturday,<br />
March 30th from 8:00-12:00<br />
and extended hours on Monday,<br />
April 1st to 5:00pm. If<br />
you have any questions or<br />
need more information please<br />
call: <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Clerk,<br />
Judy Berkstresser, at 417-<br />
357-6127 or email stoneclerk@yahoo.com<br />
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Weddings, Births & Anniversaries<br />
Are you getting married? Have a new<br />
baby? Or have an<br />
anniversary coming up?<br />
Send it to us!<br />
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20<strong>13</strong> at 1 p.m. Chaplain Lola<br />
Clark opened the meeting with<br />
the DAR Ritual and Barbara<br />
Cohu, Regent, led the singing of<br />
the The Star Spangled Banner,<br />
Pledge of Allegiance to the US<br />
Flag, The American’s Creed, The<br />
Daughters’ Pledge to the Flag,<br />
and The Preamble.<br />
Business Meeting began with<br />
Roll Call and the reading of the<br />
minutes by Secretary Carol Ann<br />
Pilkenton. Treasurers’ Report was<br />
given Margaret Kane, Treasurer.<br />
President General Report and<br />
Defense Report was given by<br />
Regent Cohu. She informed us that<br />
a new song for the National Guard<br />
is being worked on. American<br />
Flag Report was given by Myrna<br />
Fischer and The Constition<br />
Minute by Cindy Spalding. Indian<br />
Minute and Women’s Issues was<br />
given by Charlotte Cole. Old<br />
Business reports were given by<br />
Regent Cohu and Myrna Fischer<br />
regarding scholarship, essay,<br />
and Good Citizen contests. Kitty<br />
Crider chairing the Patriot Project<br />
updated us with her interview of<br />
the Patriot of the Month.<br />
New Business was the honoring<br />
of Past Regent Ruth Toby (99)<br />
who recently passed with a gift to<br />
the College of the Ozarks.<br />
Member Kitty Crider presented<br />
the educational program,<br />
“Historical Parallels with<br />
Australia and New Zealand”<br />
as she has travel there several<br />
times. Although the parallels are<br />
numerous-the Japanese bombed<br />
Brisbane, Australia; New Zealand<br />
experiences the Civil Rights<br />
Movements of the 60’s; New<br />
Zealand was having a civil war<br />
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about the same time as the US,<br />
Kitty concentrated on three. The<br />
three countries have been Allies<br />
for years. All were in the Korean<br />
Conflict because the UN Security<br />
Council asked for help. New<br />
Zealand and Australia participated<br />
alongside Great Britain in the<br />
Commonwealth Division of<br />
Troops. After the conflict both<br />
Australia and New Zealand<br />
signed the ANZUS Treaty with<br />
the U.S. Both entered Vietnam as<br />
a result of that treaty. Countries<br />
on the North American continent<br />
benefited from God Rushes, as did<br />
both New Zealand and Australia.<br />
Miners traveled from the U.S. to<br />
Australia then on to New Zealand<br />
in hopes of finding their fortune.<br />
In doing so, the areas that sold<br />
supplies to the prospectors, and<br />
areas near the mines were settled.<br />
The economy of these areas were<br />
kick-started as people, investment<br />
and shipping were attracted. The<br />
third parallel was “transportation”.<br />
Criminals in England and Ireland<br />
would receive a sentence of<br />
“transportation” for both major<br />
and petty crimes. Early sentences<br />
sent convicts to the US and<br />
Canada. This practice ended with<br />
the Revolutionary War. After that<br />
convicts were sent to Australia-<br />
Sydney, Tasmania, Queensland,<br />
and later Western Australia. This<br />
practice ended in 1868.<br />
Delicious refreshments<br />
were served by Hostesses Lola<br />
Clark and Cynthia Spalding as<br />
members and guest enjoyed the<br />
many books and photo albums<br />
Mrs. Crider brought for “Show<br />
and Tell.”<br />
Next meeting will be at the<br />
Aurora Library March 7, 20<strong>13</strong> at 1<br />
p.m. Guest Speaker will be JoAnne<br />
ith an educational book review.<br />
She is a reviewer for Connection<br />
Magazine.<br />
Conservatives<br />
Unite!<br />
Announcing the Conservative<br />
Fair and BBQ get together<br />
March 30, 20<strong>13</strong> on Saturday<br />
10 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Christian<br />
Church Community Center on<br />
Hwy 4<strong>13</strong>. We are inviting all<br />
Conservatives, all churches, all<br />
law-enforcement, veterans and<br />
anyone that respects Old Glory<br />
and what she represents. Guest<br />
speakers needed! Conservative<br />
musicians appreciated!<br />
Booths are available for<br />
$15.00. Have a product or idea<br />
you would like to share? Please<br />
call 417-723-1040 to reserve<br />
your booth or if you would like<br />
to volunteer to speak. See you<br />
there<br />
SSCFPD<br />
Looses Tanker<br />
In Accident<br />
The Southern <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Fire Protection District is looking<br />
for a tanker to borrow after theirs<br />
was totaled in a crash Friday<br />
night.<br />
The tanker, which had 2,000<br />
gallons of water in it when it<br />
crashed, was on its way back<br />
to the station after responding<br />
to a house fire on Bread Tray<br />
Mountain Road in Lampe when<br />
it blew out a tire. The driver<br />
overcorrected and the tanker<br />
flipped on its side.<br />
No one was injured in the<br />
crash, according to SSCFPD<br />
spokesman Eric Nielsen.<br />
Chief David Gyger says the fire<br />
district is reaching out to other<br />
departments for a replacement<br />
tanker until a permanent one can<br />
be purchased.<br />
Have a Fundraiser,<br />
Special Event<br />
or Opening a New Store<br />
and want to see it in our<br />
paper?<br />
Send us your<br />
information.
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<strong>Crane</strong> Parks<br />
Baseball Sign<br />
Up<br />
<strong>Crane</strong> Parks & Recreation<br />
Department<br />
Youth Baseball & Softball<br />
Registration Deadline April<br />
04, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
Baseball League/Age<br />
Divisions<br />
4 yr olds –Tiny Tot T-Ball<br />
(must be 4 by May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
5-6yr olds – Coed T-Ball (must<br />
be 5 or 6 as of May1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
7-8 Boys – Coach Pitch (Must<br />
be 7 or 8 as of May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
9-10 Boys – Kid Pitch (Must<br />
be 9 or 10 as of May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
11-12 Boys – Kid Pitch (Must<br />
be11 or 12 as of May 1,<br />
20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
Girls Softball League Age<br />
Divisions<br />
7-8 – Coach Pitch (Must be 7<br />
or 8 as of May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
9-10 Girls – Kid Pitch (Must<br />
be 7 or 8 as of May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
11-<strong>13</strong> Girls – Kid Pitch (Must<br />
be11-<strong>13</strong> as of May 1, 20<strong>13</strong>)<br />
Registration Forms at www.<br />
crane-mo.com or <strong>Crane</strong> City<br />
Hall<br />
**We need coaches. If<br />
interested, call Bob at 417-<br />
723-5511.**<br />
Happy 18 Happy 18th<br />
Birthday Birthday Shea! Shea!<br />
Love, Love,<br />
Dad & MomDad & Mom<br />
50th Wedding<br />
Anniversary<br />
The 50 th Wedding Anniversary reception<br />
for Eddie and Janice Brown will be at the<br />
Tabernacle of God Church on Olive St.<br />
in <strong>Crane</strong> from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on Sunday<br />
March 3, 20<strong>13</strong>.<br />
Polar Bear Plunge<br />
Happy Sweet 16 Olivia!<br />
Love,<br />
Mom, Dad & Sis<br />
www.cranefamilydentistry.com<br />
Zack Smentana, Haleigh Sanders and Dallas Dodson<br />
On<br />
Feb.16, Rock Lake. All proceeds benefit<br />
CHANCES supporters Zack Southwest Missouri Special<br />
Smentana, Haleigh Sanders Olympics. CHANCES has<br />
and Dallas Dodson took a<br />
plunge in Table Rock Lake in<br />
the Southwest Missouri Polar<br />
several members that participate<br />
in Special Olympics and we feel<br />
it is important to support this<br />
Bear Plunge in support of great organization. CHANCES<br />
Special Olympics. The water<br />
temperature was most likely<br />
warmer than the air temperature<br />
this cold day in the dead of<br />
is a non for profit organization in<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> that is designed to<br />
help citizens with developmental<br />
disabilities. For more information<br />
winter but that did not stop any on CHANCES visit www.<br />
of the plungers to don their best chancesofstonecounty.org<br />
costumes and splash head first<br />
into the frigid waters of Table<br />
Are you getting married? Have a new<br />
baby? Or have an anniversary coming<br />
up? Send it to us!<br />
Give us a call for the<br />
details 417-723-5248!
THE COUNTY COMMIS-<br />
SION<br />
OF<br />
STONE COUNTY, MIS-<br />
SOURI<br />
February 14, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
STATE OF MISSOURI |<br />
COUNTY OF STONE |<br />
Be it remembered that a session<br />
of the <strong>County</strong> Commission<br />
of <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> was held<br />
in the courthouse at Galena,<br />
on February 14, 20<strong>13</strong>. Those<br />
in attendance today were Presiding<br />
Commissioner Dennis<br />
Wood, Southern Commissioner<br />
Jerry Dodd and Northern<br />
Commissioner Mark Maples.<br />
Morning Session:<br />
9:00 AM<br />
Presiding Commissioner<br />
Dennis Wood opened the<br />
meeting with the pledge of allegiance<br />
to the flag.<br />
Those present for this meeting<br />
today are as follows:<br />
Brad Hudson, Assessor; Stan<br />
Potter, Southern Road Commissioner;<br />
Richard Fredrick,<br />
South R&B Foreman; Carl<br />
Freeman, South R&B Administrative<br />
Assistant; Dennis<br />
Carr, Central R&B Foreman;<br />
Tom Hudson, Northern R&B<br />
Foreman; Captain Tim Gideon;<br />
Sheriff Doug Rader; Liz<br />
Jones, PA office; Vicki May,<br />
Collector; Wendy Metcalf,<br />
Public Administrator; Deb Scobee,<br />
Circuit Clerk; Amy Larson,<br />
Recorder of Deeds; Judy<br />
Berkstresser, <strong>County</strong> Clerk;<br />
Joy Wilson, P&Z Director;<br />
Sue Tichenor, Treasurer’s office;<br />
Tim Schnakenberg, Extension;<br />
Dave Abner, <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Gazette; Jenny Farenbaugh,<br />
US Forest Service;<br />
Darlen Rein, US Forest Service;<br />
Earl Johnson, IT; Denise<br />
Dickens, Commission Secretary,<br />
and Kathy Hass, <strong>County</strong><br />
Clerk’s office.<br />
Approval of Commission<br />
Minutes<br />
The matter to approve the<br />
minutes for <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Commission meeting dated<br />
February 12, 20<strong>13</strong> was<br />
brought to decision by a roll<br />
call vote: Dodd – yes; Maples<br />
– yes; Wood – yes. Minutes<br />
ordered approved.<br />
Schedule of Bills - 1<br />
Presiding Commissioner<br />
Dennis Wood presented a<br />
schedule of bills that have<br />
been submitted to him from<br />
the <strong>County</strong> Clerk’s office in<br />
the amount of $46,888.35.<br />
This matter to accept the bills<br />
for payment was brought to<br />
decision by a roll call vote:<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Commission<br />
Dodd – yes; Maples – yes;<br />
Wood - yes. Order to pay carried.<br />
Schedule of Bills - 2<br />
Presiding Commissioner<br />
Dennis Wood presented a<br />
schedule of bills that have<br />
been submitted to him from<br />
the <strong>County</strong> Clerk’s office in<br />
the amount of $5,768.06. This<br />
matter to accept the bills for<br />
payment was brought to decision<br />
by a roll call vote: Dodd<br />
– yes; Maples – yes; Wood -<br />
yes. Order to pay carried.<br />
Elected Officials / Department<br />
Heads Monthly Meeting<br />
Tim Schnakenberg, Program<br />
Director of the <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> Extension Center presented<br />
an overview of duties,<br />
programs and responsibilities<br />
of the Extension Center and<br />
answered questions at the end<br />
of his presentation.<br />
Stan Potter, Southern Road<br />
Commissioner, is scheduled<br />
to give a presentation regarding<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Road and<br />
Bridge in March and Vicki<br />
May, Collector, will give a<br />
presentation regarding her office<br />
in April.<br />
The monthly sales tax report<br />
showed General Revenue<br />
up 23.92% for the month<br />
and up 12.31% for the year.<br />
Law Enforcement and Capital<br />
Improvement were each<br />
up 23.07% for the month and<br />
each up 12.<strong>13</strong>% for the year.<br />
<strong>County</strong> Clerk Judy Berkstresser<br />
noted that the Local<br />
Use Tax is also up substantially<br />
so far this year.<br />
Expenditure lines were reviewed<br />
and found within budget<br />
guidelines.<br />
Vicki May, Collector, came<br />
before the Commission as<br />
spokesperson for a committee<br />
of elected officials. Ms. May<br />
asked that a request regarding<br />
giving employees a personal<br />
day be reconsidered. Vicki<br />
May stated that she and the<br />
committee feel that a personal<br />
day would be a morale booster,<br />
adding that the elected officials<br />
would oversee granting<br />
use of the personal day and<br />
that a personal day would be<br />
used in the calendar year and<br />
not be allowed to be carried<br />
over.<br />
Vicki May stated that the<br />
next committee meeting will<br />
be on February 27, 20<strong>13</strong> at<br />
9:00 AM. The Committee<br />
will be looking at minimum<br />
wages for employees with<br />
10 and 20 years of service to<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong>.<br />
Southern Commissioner<br />
Jerry Dodd asked that all departments<br />
conserve electricity<br />
by turning off lights whenever<br />
possible.<br />
Presiding Commissioner<br />
Dennis Wood reported that he<br />
has arranged for motivational<br />
speaker Terri Tucker to address<br />
approximately 50 employees<br />
on Monday April 8,<br />
20<strong>13</strong> from 9:00 AM to 12:00<br />
noon. Presiding Commissioner<br />
Wood asked that each<br />
department’s elected official<br />
and deputy attend and that the<br />
remaining seats be filled with<br />
volunteers. The cost will be<br />
$1500.00. Denise Dickens<br />
will have a sign-up sheet for<br />
those wishing to attend.<br />
TIF Payment<br />
The matter to sign an order<br />
directing TIF payment to Herschend<br />
Family Entertainment<br />
Corporation in the amount of<br />
$2,207.99 and directing bookkeeping<br />
entries of $1,471.98<br />
concerning Branson/Lakes<br />
Area Tourism Community<br />
Enhancement District was<br />
brought to decision by a roll<br />
call vote: Dodd – yes; Maples<br />
– yes; Wood – yes. Matter<br />
carried, order signed.<br />
EEZ Board Appointment<br />
The matter to accept Ken<br />
Smith’s resignation and to<br />
appoint Dave Liebenow as a<br />
replacement for the unexpired<br />
term on the Enhanced Enterprise<br />
Zone (EEZ) Board was<br />
brought to decision by a roll<br />
call vote: Dodd – yes; Maples<br />
– yes; Wood – yes. Matter<br />
carried.<br />
Big Bay Campground Update<br />
Jenny Farenbaugh, District<br />
Forest Ranger, came before<br />
the Commission to report that<br />
due to low attendance, and<br />
condition of water and sewer<br />
facilities, the campground at<br />
Big Bay will be closed. The<br />
day use area, picnic and boat<br />
launch will remain open. The<br />
county will receive an official<br />
letter of notification.<br />
<strong>County</strong> Computer Anti-Virus<br />
Earl Johnson, IT, came before<br />
the Commission to discuss<br />
options and solutions<br />
for virus protection on the<br />
county’s computer system,<br />
suggesting that one anti-virus<br />
program be installed, allowing<br />
the county to be uniform<br />
in protection.<br />
The matter to approve the<br />
<strong>County</strong>’s IT department to<br />
install and monitor one antivirus<br />
protection program on<br />
all county computers was<br />
brought to decision by a roll<br />
call vote: Dodd – yes; Maples<br />
– yes; Wood – yes. Matter<br />
carried.<br />
Earl Johnson suggested that<br />
due to updates and backups,<br />
county computers should remain<br />
on. Each system will<br />
enter into a mode to conserve<br />
energy when not in use and<br />
turning a computer on and<br />
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off can be more harmful and<br />
costly.<br />
Public Time:<br />
Time was extended to anyone<br />
who wanted to speak to<br />
the commission at this time.<br />
Adjournment:<br />
The adjournment of the<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Commission<br />
meeting was brought to decision<br />
by roll call vote: Dodd<br />
– yes; Maples – yes; Wood<br />
– yes. Meeting adjourned.<br />
Two More Suspects<br />
In Porter<br />
Case Granted<br />
Change Of Venue<br />
By: Kathee Sanchez-Baird<br />
Two more suspects in<br />
the murders of Rusty and<br />
Becky Porter have been granted<br />
changes of venue.<br />
Judge Mark Orr ruled that the<br />
trials of Tony Friend, 44, and his<br />
uncle Robert Campbell, 67, will<br />
try the case in Taney <strong>County</strong><br />
but import a jury from a county<br />
from outside the region.<br />
Dusty Hicks and Phillip Friend,<br />
who are also facing murder<br />
charges connected to the double<br />
homicide, have already been<br />
granted similar motions. Tony<br />
Friends wife, Windy, is facing<br />
charges of conspiracy to commit<br />
murder. All five of the suspects<br />
were indicted by a grand jury.<br />
The Porters went missing<br />
from their home near Willard in<br />
April of 2011 and their skeletal<br />
remains were found in rural<br />
Taney <strong>County</strong> three months later.<br />
Prior to her marriage to Rusty<br />
Porter, Becky had lived in <strong>Stone</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>.<br />
STONE COUNTY COMMISSION AGENDA<br />
Mondays<br />
The <strong>County</strong> Commission meets on Mondays to conduct routine county business,<br />
informally holds meetings and discussions with officeholders, employees, the general<br />
public, and others.<br />
Tuesdays and Thursdays<br />
The <strong>County</strong> Commission conducts public hearings and receives public input on<br />
Tuesdays and Thursdays, usually beginning at 9:00 a.m. and, after a lunch recess,<br />
reconvening at 1:00 p.m. At the conclusion of the scheduled agenda, the public is<br />
offered an opportunity to address the <strong>County</strong> Commission.<br />
On Tuesdays and Thursdays the <strong>County</strong> Commission also considers and approves<br />
accounts payable, conducts routine county business, informally holds meetings and<br />
discussions with officeholders, employees, the general public, and others.<br />
The following is the tentative agenda for the <strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Commission<br />
Monday March 4, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
Routine <strong>County</strong> Business<br />
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Tuesday March 5, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
Routine <strong>County</strong> Business, Approve Accounts Payable and Approve Minutes<br />
9:00 Agenda<br />
a. Approve Minutes<br />
b. Open sealed bid on the 2001 Jeep Cherokee<br />
Thursday March 7, 20<strong>13</strong><br />
Routine <strong>County</strong> Business, Approve Accounts Payable and Approve Minutes<br />
9:00 Agenda<br />
a. Approve Minutes<br />
b. Elected Officials/Department Head monthly meeting<br />
12:00 Road & Bridge Meeting<br />
a. Approve Minutes<br />
b. Burt Pitchford-MoDot discuss county bridge inspections<br />
c. Set date for Road and Bridge materials/supplies bid openings<br />
d. Blevins Asphalt-discuss the 2012 chip and seal bid<br />
e. LaDonna Hausdorf to discuss Secret Valley Road improvements<br />
1:30 Commission and Highway Commission to meet on Marble road to review<br />
road<br />
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<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong> Agriculture<br />
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Critter Of<br />
The Week For Feb. <strong>28</strong>: Opossum<br />
Species: Opossum<br />
Scientific name: Didelphis<br />
marsupialis<br />
Nicknames: ’Possum<br />
Claim to fame: To most<br />
Ozarkers, opossums are known<br />
for their less-than appealing sneer,<br />
a lumbering gait and a frequency<br />
for getting hit by automobiles.<br />
Opossums are classified as a<br />
game animal in Missouri and are<br />
included in the state’s furbearer<br />
season which is from November<br />
15 through January 31. The fur is<br />
used chiefly to trim inexpensive<br />
cloth coats, although choice skins<br />
may be made into whole coats.<br />
Opossums have the lesser-known<br />
distinction of being one of the<br />
world’s oldest mammals. They<br />
date back more than 70 million<br />
years to the Upper Cretaceous<br />
Period when dinosaurs still<br />
walked the earth.<br />
Species status: Opossums are<br />
found throughout Missouri.<br />
First discovered: Opossums<br />
were known to Native Americans<br />
and to early pioneers. The<br />
creature’s name comes from<br />
the Algonquin Indian word<br />
“apasum,” which means white<br />
animal.<br />
Family matters: Opossums<br />
belong to the mammal family<br />
Didelphidae. There are more<br />
than 60 species of opossums in<br />
the new world, but Didelphis<br />
marsupialis is the only one that<br />
resides in the United States. The<br />
opossum is also North America’s<br />
only marsupial. Although they<br />
bear little outward resemblance to<br />
close marsupial relatives such as<br />
kangaroos, koalas and Tasmanian<br />
devils; opossums possess the<br />
defining trait of all mammals<br />
in the order Marsupialia; they<br />
have a pouch (a marsupium) in<br />
which young are carried as they<br />
continue to grow and develop.<br />
Length: 24 to 34 inches<br />
Weight: 4 to 15 pounds<br />
Diet: Opossums eat a wide<br />
variety of food, but they prefer<br />
animal matter. Insects such as<br />
grasshoppers, crickets, beetles<br />
and ants are among the most<br />
common food items. Eggs,<br />
snails, crayfish, fruits and grains<br />
also are often eaten if available.<br />
D i s t i n g u i s h i n g<br />
characteristics: An opossum’s<br />
fur is predominantly grayish<br />
white, with the front and<br />
hindquarters darker than the<br />
belly. Easily recognizable is the<br />
animal’s virtually hairless long<br />
prehensile tail. If a tree branch is<br />
strong enough, an opossum can<br />
hang for short periods of time<br />
by its tail. A common method<br />
of defense, “playing ’possum,”<br />
is one of the animal’s claims to<br />
fame. An opossum feigns death<br />
by rolling on its side, becoming<br />
limp, shutting its eyes and<br />
hanging its tongue out of its open<br />
mouth. The animal’s heartbeat<br />
also slows down.<br />
Life span: In the wild, most<br />
opossums don’t live longer than<br />
two years.<br />
Habitat: Opossums prefer<br />
wooded areas, ideally sites that<br />
are near streams. Timbered areas<br />
near ponds, lakes and swamps<br />
also provide habitat. Opossums<br />
are becoming common in urban<br />
and suburban areas, which is a<br />
credit to their adaptability skills.<br />
Life cycle: In Missouri,<br />
opossums begin breeding in<br />
early February. An opossum’s<br />
pregnancy lasts only <strong>13</strong> days.<br />
Many opossums mate a second<br />
time, usually in May. The<br />
average number in a litter is nine.<br />
After birth, the young climb up<br />
the female’s fur to the opening<br />
of the mother’s pouch. As the<br />
young grow, the female opens<br />
and closes its pouch, permitting<br />
the offspring to sun themselves.<br />
After the young become too large<br />
for all to fit in the pouch together,<br />
some ride on the female’s back.<br />
The young stay with their<br />
mother for approximately 100<br />
days. After weaning, the young<br />
become increasingly susceptible<br />
to predation as they begin to<br />
forage away from their mother.<br />
Juveniles do not disperse from<br />
their parental den until the winter<br />
mating period.<br />
“How Are They<br />
Bitin’?”<br />
By Francis Skalicky<br />
Missouri Department of<br />
Conservation<br />
“How are they bitin’?”<br />
That’s a frequently asked<br />
question in the Ozarks each year.<br />
Area anglers will cast their eyes<br />
and/or ears on any type of fishing<br />
report that provides information<br />
about the status of their favorite<br />
fishing location. Most fishing<br />
reports won’t start until later<br />
in the spring, but there is a<br />
book available now for people<br />
who want to get a head start on<br />
angling information.<br />
The 20<strong>13</strong> Fishing Prospects<br />
At Selected Missouri Lakes and<br />
Streams book is a good read for<br />
those who plan to fish Ozarks<br />
waters this spring and summer.<br />
This 57-page free Missouri<br />
Department of Conservation<br />
publication is exactly what the<br />
title says it is; a compilation<br />
of reports detailing the fishing<br />
prospects at many of the larger<br />
lakes and streams around the<br />
state.<br />
Keep in mind that just because<br />
you read that a particular species<br />
is doing well at a location doesn’t<br />
mean you’ll have a 100 percent<br />
chance of catching that species<br />
when you go there. No fishing<br />
book or report has that kind of<br />
certainty. Fishing success varies<br />
with the experience of the angler,<br />
the gear and methods used, the<br />
weather and a number of other<br />
variables.<br />
However, as long as fishing has<br />
been around, anglers have been<br />
curious about what exactly was<br />
swimming beneath the water’s<br />
surface at their favorite fishing<br />
location. This is where the<br />
Fishing Prospects book can be a<br />
valuable informational resource.<br />
The reports contained in the book<br />
were written by the Missouri<br />
Department of Conservation<br />
fisheries biologists who manage<br />
those sites.<br />
Each lake or river report is<br />
a modification of monitoring<br />
surveys that are conducted<br />
each year. The information in<br />
those reports was gleaned from<br />
sampling fish populations, creel<br />
surveys and other methods of<br />
fisheries research. Very likely,<br />
<strong>Stone</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
Publishing<br />
(114 Main Street)<br />
Po Box 401<br />
<strong>Crane</strong>, MO 65633<br />
Phone: 417-723-5248<br />
Fax: 417-723-8490<br />
it’s the most scientifically<br />
detailed report of that lake or<br />
stream you’ll find.<br />
The Fishing Prospects book<br />
contains reports on 82 lakes, 47<br />
river locations and the four trout<br />
parks. If a particular body of<br />
water is not mentioned, do not<br />
assume that location is a poor<br />
place to fish. Many streams and<br />
small impoundments were not<br />
included due to insufficient data.<br />
There are far too many bodies of<br />
water in Missouri for Department<br />
of Conservation biologists to do<br />
a detailed sampling of each one.<br />
If your favorite fishing spot is not<br />
listed in Fishing Prospects, don’t<br />
be discouraged, it could still be a<br />
great spot for fishing. In addition<br />
to information on lakes and<br />
streams, the book also contains a<br />
Best Bets section that lists some<br />
of the more commonly fished-for<br />
species in the state. Under each<br />
species is a list of spots where<br />
those species are commonly<br />
found.<br />
If you wish to have a copy<br />
of the 20<strong>13</strong> Fishing Prospects,<br />
this publication is available<br />
at most Missouri Department<br />
of Conservation offices. The<br />
information contained in the<br />
book is also available at www.<br />
missouriconservation.org<br />
Francis Skalicky is the media<br />
specialist for the Missouri<br />
Department of Conservation’s<br />
Southwest Region. For more<br />
information about conservation<br />
issues, call 417-895-6880.<br />
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