September 27, 2023
By Helen Ellerman Several from the area attended the annual fall festival at Schell City Friday, Sept. 9 and Saturday, Sept. 10. They were celebrating their 145th year. They are hoping to celebrate their 150th year in five years. John and Lucille Hoagland were the Grand Marshals and Ruth Ijams was the queen for the
THEY’RE TOPS WITH SENIORS – The El Dorado Springs TOPS Chapter presented the El Dorado Springs Senior Center with a $600 check earlier this month to help with their meals programs form home-bound Seniors. The check was presented to Senior Center Coordinator Jeri Bobbett (second row on right).
What’s In Your Garden? It’s been a busy time for calls about bees, hummingbirds and rabbits. We may think our gardens are places to grow food and flowers, and develop a green mantle of a lawn, but to some wild animals gardens are home. Several recent calls centered around bumblebees stinging. Bumblebees, like many other
TOPS Chapter 319 El Dorado Springs (Take Off pounds Sensibly) met in the Church of Christ meeting room on Thursday, Sept. 8. Judy K. had the program today. This was a “Tasting Party.” Everyone brought a low calorie and or a low fat dish to “taste” along with the recipe. Judy will then type up
The Julian-Sumner family reunion was held Sept. 11 in the El Dorado Springs Civic Center. The following people were honored: the youngest – 3 year old – Josephine Lee, daughter of Doug Lee; the oldest – Pauline Hlavacek, 91, and John Janes, 89; married the longest – Jack and Mary Lady, 59 years; married the
Joe Kutina and Roni Clark, Milo, are proud to announce the birth of a daughter, Loretta Joela Kutina. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and was 20 1/4 inches long. Jim and Suzannah Phillips would like to announce the birth of daughter, Margaret Kae Phillips (“Maggie”), on Aug. 20, 2016 at 10:10 a.m.. She weighted
I had a new experience last night at the JV football game against Ash Grove. I wasn’t crowding the three-foot mark on the sideline when a play kept coming toward me. I appreciated the closer look and kept my eye glued to the viewfinder and finger pressing the trigger button. Too late I realized the
ELDO COUPLE CLAIMS $25,000 A YEAR FOR LIFE PRIZE – An El Dorado Springs couple is now “lucky for life” after claiming a $25,000 a year for life second-tier prize in the Missouri Lottery Draw Game. Robert, 53, and Kathryn, 60, Foley claimed their prize at the Lottery’s Springfield regional office on Aug. 26 after
A wanted fugitive has been taken into custody after a four-day manhunt and a fight that sent one Vernon County deputy to the hospital. According to Vernon County Sheriff’s office officials, deputies pursued a vehicle Tuesday afternoon that ended with the vehicle crashing in a ditch on 2350 Rd. in rural Vernon County. The driver
by Johaness Brann Nevada Daily Mail Circuit Judge James Bickel, at a hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 30, in Nevada, sentenced Logan Ellison, 19, to 22 years in prison for the murder of his grandparents, Herman and Rosie Ellison, on Oct. 9, 2014, in their Vernon County home southwest of El Dorado Springs where Logan lived
