High-pressure job

How do the 33 members of the El Dorado Springs Volunteer Fire Department know with reasonable certainty that their fire fighting equipment will perform as expected when they respond to your fire? The answer is routine maintenance. This past Thursday evening after their weekly fire meeting and the previous Saturday, they pressure tested nearly a

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WINNING FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

WINNING FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP – As reported by Crappie Masters. In what some might call a minor shocker, the young gun team of Mathew Rogers and Baylor Mead outlasted a stellar 150 boat field and let them know they plan to be a force for years to come in claiming the 2018 Crappie Maters sponsored

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Absentee voting begins

Absentee voting for the General Election on Nov.6, 2018, has begun.  You may vote absentee in the County Clerk’s office, Room 3, of the Cedar County Courthouse, until the day before the election.

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Trick-or-treat at Community Springs Healthcare Facility

Trick-or-treaters age 12 and under are invited to visit Community Springs Healthcare Facility (CSHCF), a Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation (CMH) long-term care facility, on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 5 p.m. Residents will be handing out candy as a safer alternative to door-to-door trick-or-treating. “We are in need of donations of unopened, individually wrapped candy,”

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Senior Center Cinnamon Roll fundraiser

The El Dorado Springs Senior Center, located at 604 S. Forest, will hold its cinnamon roll fundraiser the second Friday of the month form 7-10 a.m., or until they run out. Cost is $1.50 each or $18 per dozen. Phone in your order for a dozen or more and receive free delivery. All proceeds benefit

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Square dance halfway Friday

On Friday, Oct. 5, the Mo-Kan Square Dancers will have a square dance with Jay Wright calling. This is our halfway dance for our dance students. The dance will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds. Admission is $5 for adult dancers and $3 for

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Pot Heads are back

Editor: Well the Pot Heads are back at it again with their never ending attempt to legalize marijuana so they can legally stay high all the time. To get this across they put a tax on it and all the money goes to help the disadvantaged poor and our military veterans and some of the

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Looking for class mates

Editor: Does anyone know what happened to: Jerry Cross, Betty Cord Woodfil, Cathrine Eason Holt, Ruth Cecil, Billy Bush, Olive Melinda Holmes Duncan, Betty Perdue, Leona Jucker or Maxine Connor? These are just a few of the boys and girls in grade school with me at the Old North School in the late 30’s. If

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Oh, the hypocrisy!

Editor: Without going into too much detail, I am sure that many of us have been following Brett Kavanaugh’s he said/she said circus. Many on the left have already dubbed him guilty, even without due process of the law and lack of evidence. While the mudstream media and Democrats remain focused on the Kavanaugh drama,

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Now Hear This!

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month Experience Hearing Center, LLC invites you to coffee and doughnuts while Nationally Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist, Richard Leroux (la-roo) explains the causes of hearing loss and how to prevent it, Friday October 19 at 8:30 a.m. at the El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, 1303 S. Missouri

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