Rock Wall

We’re sorry to learn of the death of Cheryl Carpenter. I didn’t even know she was sick. Back when she was still Cheryl Graves she worked with us in the Sun office She moved to Joplin and got a job at the newspaper there. They wouldn’t let her do the job she had handled so

Looking back through some of my recent emails, I realized I did not give credit last week where it is due: We had a revival in progress at our church which I didn’t want to miss so I called the assistant superintendent, Dr. Theresa Christian, and asked if she would take photos of the newly

Saturday afternoon I was guarding the home nest while Kimball was at the office. I answered the phone and it was Fern Barkley. Sheila Benham’s mother. She had seen my mention of Peggy Jones and wanted to know how to call her. I told her she is at Park View in Bolivar and gave her

Like you, probably, I’ve heard horror stories about the reaction some people had to their second  Covid shot. I got my first one while a resident at Park View Health Care Facility in Bolivar and had only minor soreness in my right arm, but I dreaded the second one. Cedar County Memorial Hospital Memorial Hospital

We will have services Easter Sunday morning at Concord Missionary Baptist Church with the pastor, Brother Howard Hamilton, preaching after Sunday School. He volunteered even though it is not a regular preaching Sunday. Then Sunday night at 7:30 we will start a revival meeting with Brother Alan Collins helping. Concord is located at Cedar Springs

I’m back…after a 10 week stay in various medical facilities. I don’t know what Kimball has told you because they didn’t forward me the paper. I do know that she, Davis and Gwen did a fine job of keeping the paper running while I was flat on my back. Kind of like my birthday, I

The ramp builders did put the orange dots on the new construction downtown. Not to insult anybody, but I liked the old ramps better. They just seemed to fit perfectly and were less likely to be run over by a vehicle. Well, I was surprised to learn from the fire report that the last house

I must have scared my crocus last week – or insulted them. They’re popping up all over the south yard. Mostly yellows and oranges and some purple. There are daffodils everywhere – or what are supposed to be daffodils and a bunch of hospital flowers I stuck in the yard seven years ago. I never

March 1st is the beginning of meteorological Spring. That sounds so much better than waiting until March 20. Besides, my faithful little crocus north of my house has bloomed. Just one tiny pale-yellow bloom. I’ve checked my south yard for the jumbo crocus, but they’re all scaredy cats down there. They’ll wait until later in

A big thank you to my neighborly neighbor, Cory Gayman, who dug out a foot path from the street to my door – twice. And thank goodness the sidewalk destruction/construction people are back to work on my little corner of El Dorado Springs. I know they didn’t deliberately dig a hole and walk away to