GIRLS BASKETBALL AWARDS

GIRLS BASKETBALL AWARDS – Recently the El Dorado Springs Girls Basketball team honored several team members at their dinner and awards celebration. Pictured )from left) Taylor Robison – All Conference Second Team; Tevi Gurley – Defensive Player, Rising Star, All Conference Second Team and All district: Keylie Steward – Bulldog Award; Morgan Mitchell – Most

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Big Fish, Big Risk

In my new book “Recollections of an Old-Fashioned Angler” I begin by writing about going trotlining on the river with my dad. I was only 6 or 7 years old and I sat there in the old wooden johnboat watching him run that line, which was lunging in his hands. Then I caught a glimpse

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Rambling by an old Lady

by Jane Hutchison Have you ever been in Dederick? If not forget it, you’re too late. Dederick used to be a booming little town, especially to a bunch of smaller kids. It had a one room school house teacher, Blanch VanHorn. Some of the big kids would bring in a bucket of water in the

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Paddlefish, snagging report for March 20

by Trish Yasger. MDC For Truman Lake, Lake of the Ozarks and the Osage River (below Bagnell Dam). The snagging season got off to a good start despite colder than normal water temperatures and high flows. Snaggers did really good opening day on Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Lake and the Osage River. Snagging slowed

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News from Harwood and Schell City

by Helen Ellerman Madalyn’s Kitchen, south of Schell City, will be closed Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, march 31. She will reopen at her regular time on Monday, April 1. Jon and Judith Caudle Sr., of Harwood, are happy to have daughter and family, Karen, Paul and David Lim home from Korea. When they leave

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BULLDOG SCHOLAR BOWL TEAM TAKES 4TH

BULLDOG SCHOLAR BOWL TEAM TAKES 4TH – A Scholar Bowl team from El Dorado Springs competed in the Branson Freshmen/Sophomore Tournament on March 21. The team consisting of freshman James King and sophomores Wraith Leyva, Megan Griffin, Tevis Edmiston and Lydia Eason finished the night with a record of 3-1.  Out of 14 teams at

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Twentieth Century Club news

by Lana Sue Jones Our March 11 meeting was hosted by Sandi Eaves and co-hosted by Georgia Detwiler. The meeting was called to order by president Jean Wernel. The treasurers report was the only one given. Evelyn Boyle provided the opinion. Her concern was about people in the medical field that are not good with

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Missouri youth make moves in game of leadership

Leadership and independence were the name of the game for two Cedar County youth, Avery Schiereck (Missouri 4-H Council Representative), wearing light colored slacks, and Macy Stauffer, to her left, who attended Missouri’s 4-H Teen Conference at MU last weekend. Both attended the statewide 4-H function for leadership development, Teen Conference.  They joined 255 youth

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NEVC attends state leadership conference

NEVC FCCLA GOES TO STATE – Pictured left to right front row – Ashley Hilvert, Hannah Rogers and Elisa Duras; Second Row – Nikol Konkus, Brooklyn Sanderson, Alexis Amick, Alexus George and Crae Hutchison; Third Row – Kylie Alexander and Charity Middleton; Back Row – Abbey Sumptner.  Students from Northeast Vernon County attended the annual

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VFW honors Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy winners

The local VFW honored their Patriot’s Pen and Voice of Democracy Winners at the Post Home on Monday, March 25. This year’s Patriot’s Pen essay was titled “Why I honor the American Flag” and the Voice of Democracy essay was titled “Why My Vote Matters.” Patriot’s Pen writers were from the 6 – 8th grades

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