Cedar County Missionary Baptist Fifth Sunday service

Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church and their pastor, Brother Billon Legan, at 22496 E. 480 Rd., in Humansville, will host Cedar County Fifth Sunday services. The schedule is as follows: Friday night, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m. the devotional will be given by Brother Haden Stevens and sermon by Brother Mike Owen with Brother Ron

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Pine Trees for Missouri Landscapes

During the winter months, it’s a great time to appreciate evergreen shrubs and trees. Pine trees are particularly impressive due to their large stature. Generally, pines tend to tolerate poor soil conditions and environmental stress better than fir and spruce. Although many species are available, five pines are recommended in Missouri. Eastern white pine (Pinus

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HISTORY BOWL TEAM COMPETES

HISTORY BOWL TEAM COMPETES – On Friday, Dec. 6, a History Bowl team from El Dorado Springs High School competed at the Marion C. Early Field House in Morrisville.  The competition was fierce with 40 Junior High and High School teams from across Southwest Missouri taking part.  Only four of those forty teams outscored our

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Boys basketball report

by Head Coach Joel Braden The El Dorado Springs Boys basketball team started a busy week with a trip to Buffalo to play in their first conference game of the season. The Bulldogs played a terrific first half and trailed 24-25 at halftime. Buffalo pulled away in the second half and won the game 65-41.

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Lady Bulldogs basketball report

by Head Coach Beau Swopes The Lady Bulldogs were in action, once again on Monday, December 9th against the Lady Bison of Buffalo. The Lady Bulldogs started out hot as they were able to hit from the outside and gain an early advantage 35-24.  The second half was a mirror image of the first and

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First Department Store Santa

Edward Pearson was in his 90s when he told a newspaper reporter about the most magical day of his childhood. “As long as I live,” he said, “and I’ve lived quite a few years, I’ll never forget that experience.” It was December 1890, and a young Pearson was wandering the aisles of the Boston Store,

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MDC sets deer and turkey hunting dates for upcoming seasons

The Missouri Conservation Commission approved recommendations by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) at the Commission’s Dec. 13 meeting for upcoming turkey-hunting and deer-hunting season dates. 2020 Spring and fall turkey hunting dates • Spring Youth Portion: April 4 and 5 • Regular Spring Turkey Season: April 20 through May 10 • Fall Firearms Turkey

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12 reasons people get depressed at holiday time

Prioritize to reduce stress For many people, “the most wonderful time of the year” is actually really difficult. There’s just something about the holidays that seems to tap into all our inner woes and stresses. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association (APA), almost half of all women (44 percent) and a third

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Cedar Trees for Christmas

I was probably only six or seven years old when I went on my first hunting trip. Dad and I were hunting a Christmas tree. I carried the axe. A Christmas tree at our home was always a cedar tree, and not just any cedar tree. It had to be just the right height, the

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Hospital delivers Healthy kids cookbooks to area students

DELIVERED AS PROMISED FOR HEALTHIER KIDS – Jenean Ehlers, RN, Community Services Manager of the Cedar County Health Department, a service of Cedar County Memorial Hospital, along with some help from Eric Carriker of our Maintenance Department, recently delivered “HEALTHY TO GO” cookbooks and FIT-TASTIC 12345 handouts – to area Cedar County schools – visiting

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