90th birthday for Luella Phipps

Please join the family and friends of Miss Luella Phipps as we celebrate her 90th Birthday on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016 from 2  – 4 p.m. at the Church of God (Holiness) Family Life Center, 1607 South Park in El Dorado Springs. In lieu of gifts, please leave Luella a note or card.

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Optimist Club Costume Winners

   9 – 12 GROUP – (from left) 2nd place Piper Spencer, 3rd – Dillon Whitesell, 1st place Kiera Strouch. 4 – 8 GROUP – (from left) 1st place Lela and Paisley Brown, 3rd place Isabell Whitesell, 2nd place – Kaysen Strouch. 0-3 GROUP – (from left) 2nd place – Tinley Eck, 1st place –

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Gardening to distraction

Garlic Chives I don’t mean to brag but I thought I was familiar with most culinary herbs until I found these little bunches of onion-like plants in a neighbor’s garden. Without knowing what they were, I dug up as many as I could and moved them to my garden, planting them along flower borders so

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Congratulations to the new parents

by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Morning message at the Rockville United Methodist Church Sunday by Pastor Nick Van Dam was titled “Find fruit in a Tree.” We enjoyed the French horn accompaniment with our singing. Mt. Zion Bible study met in the home of Tom and Beverly Pelkey at 7 p.m. every Tuesday night;

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Cooler weather on the way

by Dora Jean McKinley Doug Wingate, Lil and J.D, Lil’s mother, Scott Fox, son, Scotty Fox, Tex McKinley and Dora Jean went to 3M’s 45th anniversary tour of the building. We saw the new department and had refreshments; a gift was given. Everyone was glad they went. Marilyn Entrikin got her flu shot. It takes

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Phillips to celebrate 40th

Bob and Julia Phillips will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary. Their family is hosting a celebration from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Stockton Community Building.  Family and friends are invited to join them for cake and punch. The couple requests no gifts. Bob and Julia were married at Moniteou Chapel in Fayette. They

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HOW SWEET

HOW SWEET – Cindy Wallentiny dug this 9 3⁄4 lb sweet potato out of a raised vegetable garden bed at her home near Blackjack. For her birthday this Saturday, she plans to cook it in a pit with whole chickens. The pit is three ft. deep. She puts coals from wood she has burned topped

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Be safe this Halloween

I would like to take a moment and remind everyone that Halloween is next week, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016.  There will be activities going on throughout our community and children will be partaking in “Trick or Treat” going door to door. This means there will be more vehicles than usual on the streets as will

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The Rock Wall

I missed our visit last week. I was on horizontal hold in the sick pen. I’ve never had blood poisoning before. Don’t particularly recommend it. At noon Friday I was editing copy at my desk. Just before Gwen walked in, I got cold, then I got sick. Stayed nauseated the rest of Friday and unsteady

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A visit with local folks

CHECKIN’ US OUT – U.S. Representative Vicky Hartzler was in town last Tuesday to visit  with businesses and individuals in the area. She stopped for a picture in the Park with El Dorado Spring Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jackson Tough, City Manager Bruce Rogers and Cedar County Director of Economic Development Marge Vance. Hartzler

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