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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

2011 Bates County Fair Schedule

SUNDAY, JULY 10

8:15 a.m. Church Service

9:00 a.m. 4-H Horse Show

(judging following show)

MONDAY, JULY 11

8:30 a.m. 4-H Evaluation Judging

8:30 a.m. Rabbit Show Check-in

9:00 a.m. Rabbit Show

9:30 a.m. Poultry Show Check-in

10:00 a.m. Poultry Show

5:30 p.m. Parade leaves fairgrounds

6:00 p.m. Bates Co. Bash

Food & Entertainment

6:30 p.m. Little Miss & Mr. Bates Co.

To follow Talent Show (no auditions),

Register now for Little Miss and Little Mr. Bates County

Candidates are needed for Little Miss and Mister Bates County...must be between the ages of 4 and 6 years old. Register at Bates County Farm Bureau or Sage's Animal Clinic in Butler. Registration deadline is June 30th. Fee to register is $5.

-courtesy FM 92 the Bullet

4-H’ers Compete at Fashion Revue

Thirteen young ladies took to the runway in the annual Bates County 4-H Fashion Revue and show held on June 13, 2011, at the First Christian Church in Butler. The 4-H members modeled fashions ranging from pajamas to formal wear.

According to Bates County 4-H Youth Specialist Alan J. Mundey, winners in the event will compete at the State Fashion Revue in Columbia in September. In the junior division (ages 8-10) of Clothes You Make, Aubrey Terry (County Line 4-H), received top honors. Ella Armentrout (County Line 4-H) will represent Bates County at the state event in the Clothes You Make intermediate division (ages 11-13) and Erin Armentrout (County Line 4-H) takes the state stage in the senior division (ages 14 and older) of Clothes You Make.

State qualifiers in the Clothes You Buy category are intermediate division winner Katie Kostuke (All American 4-H) and senior division winner Jaclyn Crawford (Amsterdam 4-H).

Brooklyn Popplewell (V-52 4-H) will model her outfit in the Crochet category at the state event.

Other blue ribbon winners participating were Bethanie Cole, Shaylee Terry, Katie Murrell, Tiffany Newkirk, Megan Sutcliffe, and Victoria Newkirk.

During the Fashion Revue show, Kris Jenkins, retiring Extension Specialist, was honored for her contributions to 4-H and Fashion Revue. Jenkins was presented with a lovely flower by each of the young ladies participating. Volunteer 4-H leaders Shannon Crawford and Carla Armentrout organized this year’s event.

Front row (left to right) Ella Armentrout, Jaclyn Crawford, Aubrey Terry;
back row (left to right) Katie Kostuke, Erin Armentrout, and Brooklyn Popplewell.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Obituary - Doris Guss

Doris Jean Guss, 86, Harrisonville, MO, died Monday, June 13, 2011 at Golden Years Care Center in Harrisonville. Funeral services 1:00 p.m. Thursday, June 16, 2011 at the Atkinson Chapel in Harrisonville. Burial in Morris Cemetery, Butler, MO. Friends may call from 6:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday at the chapel. The family requests memorial contributions be made to the American Diabetes Association or to the Antioch Baptist Church.

Doris was born May 9, 1925 in Butler, MO, the daughter of Fred Dalton and Merry C. (Chandler) Pahlman. She was a graduate of Rich Hill High School. She married Francis Guss on August 3, 1947. She had lived in Harrisonville since 1957. Doris was a charter member of Antioch Southern Baptist Church in Harrisonville.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Francis on June 13, 1998 and one grandchild. She is survived by one son, Fred Guss, Oakland, CA and two daughters, Meryline Kramer, Harrisonville, MO and Earlene McAnaw, Kansas City, MO.

Rich Hill PD activity report

Rich Hill Police Department

Activity report June 06, 2011 to June 12, 2011

06-06-11

06-07-11

06-08-11

06-09-11

06-10-11

06-11-11

06-12-11

THEFT

ANIMAL AT LARGE

LEAVE WITHOUT PAY

Weekly report from the Bates County Sheriff's Department

Bates County Sheriff’s Office

Activity report June 06, 2011 to June 12, 2011

06-06-11

CWB CHECK WELL BEING-Butler

CIVIL STANDBY-Drexel

DISORDERLY CONDUCT-Adrian

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Hume

THEFT-Ballard On 6-06-2011 I, SGT Rush responded to Rural Butler, Missouri reference to a theft.

HARASSMENT-Rockville

ANIMAL NEGLECT / ABUSE-Butler

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON-Rich Hill

ANIMAL NEGLECT / ABUSE-Butler*On 6-6-2011 I, Sgt. Rush was dispatched to the Spruce area in reference to animal neglect on a horse

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Butler

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Adrian

MVA J2 INJURIES-Butler

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Amoret

THEFT-Hume

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Appleton City

AGENCY ASSIST-Butler

AGENCY ASSIST – ROUTINE-Rich Hill

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Rich Hill

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON-Butler

WARRANT EXECUTION-Amoret *On 06-06-2011, at approximately 2000 hours, I, Deputy J. Lindsey responded to Amoret reference a warrant service

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON-Adrian

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Amoret

06-07-11

WANTED SUBJECT-On 06/06/2011 at approximately 21:30 hours I Deputy Shaffer was dispatched to assist Butler PD on a man hunt out in the county in reference to an escaped prisoner from Kansas

ALARM-BUTLER

THEFT-ADRIAN

AGENCY ASSIST-BUTLER

ANIMAL AT LARGE-RICH HILL

AGENCY ASSIST-BUTLER

AGENCY ASSIST-ADRIAN

06-08-11

AMBULANCE REQUEST-ADRIAN

AGENCY ASSIST-BUTLER

DEBRIS IN ROADWAY-BUTLER

AGENCY ASSIST-ADRIAN

CHECK WELL BEING-AMORET

STRANDED MOTORIST-RICH HILL

06-09-11

TRAFFIS STOP-HUME On 06-09-2011, at approximately 0050 hours, I, Deputy J. Lindsey conducted a vehicle stop in Hume for a traffic violation

AMBULANCE REQUEST-AMSTERDAM

THEFT-ADRIAN On 06/09/2011 at approximately 0714 hours, I, Deputy D Addleman was dispatched to Adrian, MO in reference to a stolen vehicle.

AGENCY ASSIST-ADRIAN

C&I-ADRIAN

MVA-PASAIC

CHECK WELL BEING-HUME

TRAFFIC HAZARD-RICH HILL

CHECK WELL BEING-RICH HILL

06-10-11

TRESPASSING-AMSTERDAM On 06-10-2011, I responded to the lobby of the Bates County Sheriff's Office in regards to a male subject wanting to make a report of trespassing.

ANIMAL AT LARGE-BUTLER

CONTROLLED BURN-RICH HILL

PROPERTY DAMAGE-HUME On 06-10-2011, I responded to Hume Mo. in regards to property damage and theft that occurred earlier

THEFT-ROCKVILLE

STRANDED MOTORIST-RICH HILL

CONTROLLED BURN-RICH HILL

STRANDED MOTORIST-BUTLER

STRANDED MOTORIST-RICH HILL

STRANDED MOTORIST-ADRIAN MVA-ADRIAN

06-11-11

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY-AMSTERDAM

AMBULANCE REQUEST-BUTLER

C&I-BUTLER

THEFT-AMSTERDAM

CONTROLLED BURN-RICH HILL

C&I-PASSAIC

DISTURBANCE-On 06/11/2011 I Deputy Stockdale responded to Urich in reference to a domestic disturbance.

06-12-11

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY-AMSTERDAM

THEFT-AMORET

CONTROLLED BURN-PASSAIC

FOLLOW UP-On 06/12/2011 I, Deputy Davis responded to the south east corner of Jefferson street in Amoret on a report of theft.

FIRE-BUTLER

AGENCY ASSIST-BUTLER

ALARM-AMSTERDAM

4 WHEELER-HUME

NOISE-RICH HILL

Large group attends robotics camp in Adrian

(BUTLER, MO – June 13, 2011) - Houston, we don’t have a problem. Not if the nineteen young robotics engineers gathered at the Adrian Optimist Building in Adrian, MO during the last two weeks have their way. The local youngsters, ranging in age from 9 to 14, sacrificed the first couple of weeks of their summer vacation to spend it learning about robotics, GPS/GIS, mapping and other geospatial topics.

Derrold Costigan of Adrian and Mason Hayes
of Butler construct their robot

Through a grant funded by GEAR-Tech 21 from the University of Nebraska, Alan J. Mundey, Bates County 4-H Youth Specialist, and Jerry Ferguson, 4-H volunteer and Extension Council president, organized the camp which ran from May 31 to June 10 from 8:00 a.m. until noon daily. Each day was focused on a specific topic relating to the technology of robotics and geospatial technology. With instruction from several other community volunteers, the students divided their time between classroom study and the hands-on building of robots. Obviously, the more creative, hands-on sessions were more exciting to the campers. Mundey states, “Once the kids started working on the robotics portion of the camp, it was hard to get them to stop when it was time to go home. The creativity that the kids have shown in designing and programming their robots is amazing! This isn’t just using a remote device to control a robot; the kids, using computers, actually have to program the robots to do specific tasks on their own.”

The campers attending were Zach Ball, Derrold Costigan, Duane Gaylord, Mason Hayes, Slate Hayes, Caleb Jett, Will McEvoy, Connor McGinnis, Lauren McGinnis, Levi Meade, Morgan Meade, Tristin Melton, Daniel Noe, Derek Noe, Dylon Piveral, Hayley Underwood, Zack Underwood, James Wood and Mary Wood.

In addition to Mundey and Ferguson, others helping with the camp included Al Decker, Carolyn Jett, Danny Ferguson, Matt McGinnis, Mackenzie O’Neill, John Cameron, Liz Wood, West Central AgriServices, Brad Brooks (Consultechs), and Eric Dirks (Record Harvest).

Special thanks to The Adrian Optimist Club for the use of its facility; Ruth Ann Ferguson for organizing and serving the daily snacks; Yoss Thriftway for donating snacks; and Casey’s of Adrian for donating pizza. Many others provided assistance in other ways.