Bear Backer golf tournament set for May 29th

The Butler Bear Backers golf tournament is set for Sunday afternoon, May 29th at the Butler Country Club. This second annual golf tournament is open to all- bring a team, a friend or come by yourself and help raise money for Butler student athletes. To play, a team of four will donate a total of $300 ($75 each) or if you're not a player, you can sponsor a hole for just $100, with a sign for your name or business placed at the hole.

Donations may be mailed to:
Butler Bear Backer Golf Tournament
PO Box 120
Butler Mo. 64730

For additional info, contact any of the following:
Tyler Green
Bryan Tippie
Brad Davis
Misti Kauffman

Butler Bear Backers Facebook page
Butler Bear Backers web page

Bates County Live will be providing additional details about the tournament in the near future.

7th Annual Buddy Bass Tournament coming May 7th

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Butler Boys Results from El Dorado Springs Relays yesterday

Butler Boys Results from El Dorado Springs Relays Tues, April 12:

Chase Peters – 4^th in 300 meter hurdles

Tanner McGuire – 6^th in 100 meter dash

Butler Police Department weekly report

April 5 - Officers respond to the Flaming Lantern on a report of a child locked in a vehicle; suspicious person call at 411 Fran; 400 W. College, trespassing call; 400 block of South Mechanic, dogs running loose; theft report in the 400 block of North Water street.

April 6th - Disturbance call in the 300 block of West Ohio; traffic problems in the 400 block of South Fulton; suspicious vehicle at Casey's on Business 71 highway.

April 7th - Officers take a vandalism report in the 100 block of East Ohio street; investigated kids throwing trash in street in the 300 block of South Main; alarm call at Butler Elementary school.

April 8th - Subject caught breaking to in coin machine at My Car Wash. Subject apprehended at High and Fort Scott streets; keep the peace call on South Willow; child custody dispute on South Havana; animal at large call in the 400 block of South Mechanic; careless and imprudent driving call in the 100 block of South Havana.

April 9th - Subject requested animal control for snake; assault call at Boy Scout Park; possible prowler in the 500 block of West Nursery; suspicious vehicle on N. Business 71; possible stolen vehicle at Walmart; alarm call at Taco Bell; 911 hang up in the 300 block of North Orange; alarm call at Community First Bank; someone on roof on buildings on the square; abandoned vehicle at Nursery and Business 71; juvenile call in the 700 block of North Maple.

April 10th - Officers respond to What to Wear on alarm call; illegal dumping report taken; animal call in the 300 block of West Ohio; keep the peace call in the 300 block of N. Prospect; juveniles fighting at Fran Apartments; keep the peace at Super 8; animal call in the 400 block of North Fulton; report of a fight at Butler High School.

April 11th - Officers respond to 400 block of West St. animal control call; dog call at High School; arrested driver for driving while suspended at Havana and Fort Scott; theft report at Walmart; arrest subject for shoplifting at Walmart; animal control complaint in the 500 block of W. College; panic alarm at Citizen's Bank; vandalism report in the 400 block of West Pine; medical assist in the 800 block of West Dakota; alarm call at the post office; 911 call in the 500 block of N. Main street.

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.