Butler varsity girls track meet results...

El Dorado Springs Track Meet Tuesday, April 12:

Varsity Girls Results

Top 6 place finishers

1600m run: Morgan Nelson 1^st place (5:34.20)

400m dash: Brytani Musick 6^th place

800m run: Morgan Nelson 1^st place (2:26.15)

Long Jump: Kayla Morris 5^th place

Pole Vault: Maggie Massey 4^th place

4x100m relay: 5^th place (Kayla Morris, Maggie Massey, Kassidy Hannah, Tenaya Williams)

4x200m relay: 4^th place (Kayla Morris, Maggie Massey, Kassidy Hannah, Tenaya Williams)

4x400m relay: 3^rd place (Kayla Morris, Morgan Nelson, Tenaya Williams, Brytani Musick)

The girls earned a 7^th place finish out of 18 teams

Summer shootout set for June 10th through 12th

Mark your calendar for June 10th through the 12th......the Summer Shootout is set to happen at both Butler schools as a fundraiser for the 5th & 6th grade Girls Travel Team. The shootout is open to boys and girls ages 3rd grade through high school. 

The cost is $100 per team with a multiple team discount- so bring your friends.

For more info call Brad Davis 660-229-4045 or Matt Berry 660-424-9181. You may also email Matt at matt_s_berry@yahoo.com.

-our thanks to Matt Berry

Special Spring Services at Fairview Baptist Church at Ballard

Fairview Baptist Church at Ballard will be hosting Church Starter/Pastor Lee Almendarez as a special speaker the week before Easter.


Numerous people from Bates County have gone on mission trips with Fairview to South Texas and Mexico over the past several years. They will remember meeting Brother Lee and worshipping at the church he founded on the south edge of Matamoros, Mexico.


Lee Almendarez has been a key figure in arranging mission activities in Mexico. Known to many of us as simply "Brother Lee", he has coordinated our building several one-room houses, distribution of food through the church which he helped establish in the Santa Maria Colonia and enabled children's ministries as well.


It is Fairview's privilege to host Brother Lee as a special speaker during the Sunday morning worship time on April 17. He will speak again on Sunday evening as a special emphasis for family night to which children and their parents are invited.

He will speak again on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
Tuesday evening will feature a pizza supper at 6:00 for Junior High & Senior High youth.
The community is invited to join us for any or all of these five services.

Fairview Church is located on the South side of Highway 18 approximately one mile west of the Ballard School.


Times for the five special services are:
Sunday morning at 11:00
followed by pot-luck fellowship dinner
Sunday evening at 6:30
Monday evening at 7:00
Tuesday evening Pizza for youth at 6:00
Speaker services at 7:00
Wednesday evening at 7:00

-our thanks to Len Redding

Obituary - Virginia McElwain

Funeral services for Virginia McElwain will be 2 p.m. Thursday, April 14, 2011 at Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler, Missouri with Pastor Tim Redding and Pastor Len Redding officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6-8 p.m. at Schowengerdt Chapel. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler, Missouri. Contributions to American Lung Association or American Heart Association.

Virginia Fern McElwain, age 89 of Ballard, Missouri died Monday, April 11, 2011 at Research Belton Hospital in Belton, Missouri. She was born October 6, 1921 to Herald and Ethel Floy Robinson Bitner in Bates County, Missouri.

Virginia is survived by four sons, Howard McElwain and wife Sherri of Garden City, Missouri, Glen McElwain and wife Linda of Butler, Missouri, Vern McElwain and wife Barbara of Adrian, Missouri and Bill McElwain and wife Sharon of Butler, Missouri; two daughters, Jean Christopher and husband Joe of Butler, Missouri and Connie Eidson and husband Danny of Urich, Missouri; one brother, Joe Bitner of Wichita, Kansas; one sister, Nina Rose Long and husband Dale of Springfield, Missouri; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Ellis McElwain; one granddaughter, Nichole Laughlin; and one great-granddaughter, Isabelle.

Obituary - Beverly Ellis

Beverly Ellis, 51, of Drexel, Missouri died Sunday, April 10, 2011 at her home in Drexel. Services are pending at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville.

Unwanted prescription drug take back program April 30th

Bates County – On April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Bates County People for People Coalition, Butler Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. No illegal drugs or syringes will be accepted. Bring your medications for disposal to the Bates County Health Center at 501 North Orange, Butler, MO. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

Last September, Americans turned in 242,000 pounds—121 tons—of prescription drugs at nearly 4,100 sites operated by the DEA and more than 3,000 state and local law enforcement partners.

This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S.are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.

If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Schaller at 660-679-4434
or Lt. Randy Beshore, Butler Police Department at 660-679-6131.

Harvey pre-trial conference set for Wednesday

Raymond Harvey is set to appear in the Bates County Circuit Court for pre-trial conference this Wednesday at 1 p.m. Harvey is charged with 2 counts of 1st degree murder, 2 counts of armed criminal action and 1 count of 2nd degree arson in connection with the murder of Brandee Bickleman and Bailey Bickleman on March 9th at their home near Virginia. 

Harvey is currently being held in the Vernon County jail. We will provide more information as it becomes available including the outcome of Wednesdays conference.

Rich Hill police department report

RICH HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT

ACTIVITY REPORT APRIL 4, 2011 TO APRIL 10, 2011

04/04/2011

PROPERTY DAMAGE

 

04/05/2011

THREATS

 

04/06/2011

C&I

CONTROLLED BURN

MVA