Butler Church of the Nazarene Trunk or Treat Oct. 31st...

The Butler Church of the Nazarene is having their annual Trunk or Treat event in the church parking lot on Halloween night (Oct. 31st) beginning at 6 p.m. and will run until they are out of candy or trick or treaters.  The Church of the Nazarene located on the corner of Nursery and Delaware streets in Butler. 

 All Trick or Treaters are welcome. For more information you can contact Pastor John Prichard at 679-6482.

Reminder- Butler Vision Team from Drury University to meet Nov. 2nd

The Butler-Vision Team from Drury University is planning to meet with Senior Citizens of Butler at the Senior Center on Wednesday, November 2 from 10:30 to 11:30 am. This is a great opportunity for Butler's large senior population to learn about the Butler-Vision project and also put forth their own ideas as part of forward visioning. 

Regular participants of the Senior Center and as well as other senior adults of the community are urged to be there by 10:30 on Wednesday morning.

-our thanks to Leonard Redding

A little more info about podcasts on Bates County Live...

We live in a busy world and in an effort to better serve you, Bates County Live is now recording certain events and making them available for you to listen to at your convenience. Podcasts are a popular method to do this with audio files.

For example, we will record the broadcast of a football game from FM 92.1 the Bullet, then place the recording on our web site in the form of a podcast...

If you're not familiar with podcasts, that's ok. A podcast is simply an mp3 type recording, like the music you may already have on your computer. There are two ways to play a podcast:

1. If your media player (Windows Media Player, VLC, iTunes, etc.) is set up correctly, you can simply click on the podcast link above and the media player will open and begin playing the program. Or:

2. You can download the program to listen later using your media player. Simply right click on the podcast link and select 'download linked file'. After the file download is complete, click on it and your media player will open and begin playing the program. Or if you like, transfer the file to your iPod, cell phone or other portable media device.

If you do not have a media player installed, we can recommend QuickTime player, it's free and can be downloaded here.

To see a list of our current and upcoming podcasts, click on the Podcasts link on the right side of our home page.

Objects falling from sky identified...

The small, round and wet things falling from the sky have been positively identified as rain. 


 Cooler temps are to be expected, too:

House fire in Butler this morning

This morning at approximately 3:53 A.M., the Butler Fire Department responded to 402 S. Main, Butler, on a report of a structure fire.

On arrival, fire was located in the northwest corner of a single story, wood frame residential structure.
An interior attack was initiated and the fire was extinguished with heavy fire damage to the area of origin and moderate to minor smoke and heat damage throughout the remainder of the structure.

Adrian Fire Department responded under automatic mutual aid. The fire was declared under control at 4:19 a.m., with the last unit leaving the scene at 5:38 a.m.

It is being reported that the home was unoccupied at the time of the fire.

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Medicare Part D enrollment deadline Dec. 7th

Miranda Parks Marketing Director for Medicalodge of Butler in now taking appointments during the open enrollment period of October 15th through December 7th. The enrollment will assist you in enrolling in a Medicare part D plan. If you are not sure you have the best plan for you, Miranda can quickly check it for you with no obligation to enroll.

The deadline has changed this year- you do not have until December 31st. The 2011 Medicare part D plan is open until December 7th. Make plans to enroll today deadline December 7th. 

Call Miranda 660-679-3179 to schedule an appointment.

-our thanks to FM 92 the Bullet

Rich Hill FCCLA sponsoring Powder Puff football game this Friday

The Rich Hill High School FCCLA is sponsoring a Powder Puff Football game on Friday night, Oct. 28. The game starts at 6 p.m. at the high school field. The Junior and Senior girls are opposing the Freshman and Sophomore girls, with the 8th grade girls playing where needed. Rich Hill football players and male FCCLA members will be the cheer squad. This game is dubbed "Fighting For the Cure". Shirts have been sold to help support the cause.

The Freshman/Sophomore coaches are Junior Josh Robb, son of Leon and Kelley Robb and Sophomore Trever Norbury, son of Douglas and Denise Norbury. Jr./Senior coaches are Senior Jarius Beckett, son of Reverend John and Alica Beckett and Senior Spencer Gould, son of Shaun and Michelle Gould. Coaching sponsors are Lynn Morgan, RHHS history instructor, Jr. High Boys and assistant High School boy coach with Brian Gillis, RHHS vocational AG instructor.

October is breast cancer awareness month. To honor members of Bates County who have dealt with this disease, all proceeds from this event will be donated to various cancer causes. $2.00 is the cost of admission for anyone over 4 years old. At halftime, cancer survivers from the audience will be lead to the field to participate in the show. All community members are welcome.

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