May 2, 2024
The July Fourth holiday will not be a celebration for the 8,600 or so Americans likely to end up in hospital emergency rooms from injuries by fireworks. “National Fire Protection Association statistics in 2010 (latest year available) showed 57 percent of those injuries were to the arms and legs and 37 percent were to the
The ElDo High School graduating class of 1968 will celebrate their 50th reunion at 7 p.m. this Saturday, June 23, at the Eagles Club. Friends and acquaintances are welcome to come by and say hello to our class members. Darrell Martin, committee chairman, 296-3754.
Attention all golfers, the El Dorado Springs Picnic Committee is hosting a golf tournament on June 23 at the Gene Pray Memorial Golf Course. This will be a 3-person scramble, $150 per team (includes all prizes). Tee times are 8 a.m. and 1p.m.. 3 Flights, 4 places (with a full field of 40 teams). There
Members of the Three Rivers Amateur Radio Club will participate in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, June 23-24 at The Church of the Nazarene, 1 mile south of El Dorado Springs. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase
The Missouri Conservation Commission recently approved recommendations by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) for its fall and winter efforts to find cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) and help limit the spread of the deadly deer disease to more deer and more areas. MDC confirmed 33 new cases of CWD following the testing of
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is accepting online applications from June 25 through Aug. 5 for its next class of conservation agent trainees. To apply — and for more information including salary range, duties and responsibilities, degree requirements, qualifications, and special-ability requirements — visit the MDC website directly at short.mdc.mo.gov/ZcS. Applicants can also go
Thirty plus of the best bass anglers in the Ozarks are expected to converge on Stockton Lake Saturday morning, June 23, for the American Bass Anglers AFT qualifying tournament. Launch site is Hartley Ramp (Old State Park). Registration can be done at the ramp starting at 4:30 a.m. Weigh-in will be shortly after 2:30 p.m.
The Cedar County Library will hold the program of the month on Monday, June 25 at 2 p.m. at the Stockton branch and 4:30 p.m. at the El Dorado Springs branch. The Missouri Department of Conservation will present snakes. All ages are welcome.
You get to thinking you have seen everything in the outdoors when you get to my age, but this past week my daughter Christy and I were on the river when we saw something way out of the realm of reality. There was a doe and a newborn fawn along the shore, beneath a high
There is a common Ozarks observation that says this region is always two weeks away from drought during the summer time. According to Bob Schultheis, a natural resource engineering specialist with University of Missouri Extension, the saying has some accuracy. “Soils in the Ozarks store 1.5 to 2.5 inches of water per foot of soil
