Butler Police Department weekly report

May 22

Threats 600 block of W Adams
Keep the peace 800 block of W Mill
Animal complaint 100 block of N Main
Walk in theft report taken

May 23

Prowler 300 block of W Lee
Medical assist 600 block of s Main
Disturbance 700 block of S High
Disturbance 300 block of W Ohio
Theft 700 block of Parkview
Accident Wal Mart parking lot
Disturbance Fran Ave
Theft 400 block of W Clark
Disturbance 300 block of W Harrison

May 24

911 hang up 300 block of S Orange
Medical assist 400 block of S Delaware
911 hang up Fran Ave
Disturbance 500 block of E Atkinson
Disturbance Water and Harrison
Leave without pay from The Filling Station
Theft report 600 block of S High
Animal complaint 700 block of Gregory
Disturbance 100 block of S Main
Theft report 400 block of E Jefferson
911 hang up Willow lane
Keep the peace 400 block of E Jefferson

May 25

Medical assist 200 block of S Wells
Dakota and Willow disturbance
Keep the peace 100 block of S Austin
Accident at Wal-Mart
Disturbance S Willow st
Disturbance 900 block Gale Lane
Keep the peace McDonalds

May 26

Keep the peace Bates Co Hospital
Disturbance Conoco
Disturbance 800 block of S Birch
Disturbance 300 block of W Dakota
Harassment 200 block of N Havannah
Disturbance 800 block of North St
Well Being check 800 block of S Birch

May 27

Disturbance 900 block of Gale Lane
Assault Super 8 Motel
Disturbance 500 block of W Ft Scott
Disturbance 200 block of Longsinger
Fight 800 block of W Ohio
Medical assist 600 block of W Nursery
Disturbance Wal-Mart parking lot

Optimists present Students of the Month...

The Adrian Optimist Club is pleased to honor Students of the Month from the Miami, Ballard, and Adrian schools. Criteria for this honor center on outstanding academic and civic achievement and school spirit. Staff at each of the schools make the selection, and their decision is based on expansion of these criteria. Selection is based on the criteria, but a student stepping up to a particular task will come to play in it. Each student is honored with a certificate of recognition from the Adrian Optimist Club and $20.00 in Adrian Chamber of Commerce “Chamber Bucks”.

Sheena Wainscott is the Ballard student for May. Sheena, the junior daughter of Roger and Lori Wainscott, is credited with being intelligent and conscientious and a hard worker completing any task given her. She is quick to volunteer and her leadership skills can be counted on. Sheena stepped up and took over as Junior Editor for the school newspaper, as well as continuing to complete her own assigned articles for the semester. All at Ballard look forward to Sheena as a senior next year.

Adrian Optimist member Jim Scott, Sheena Wainscott and Ballard Principal Jimmie Barton

Abby Johnston is the Miami student for May. Abby, a junior, is the daughter of Jeff and Becky Johnston. She is credited with being a great all around student, particularly in FFA, FCCLA, and basketball. Everyone at Miami is looking forward to Abby’s senior year.

Adrian Optimist member Mike Ragan, Abby Johnston and Miami Administration Brian Wood

Austin Pitts is the Adrian student for May. Austin, a junior, is the son of Jerry and Bobbie Pitts. His activities include Student Council Vice President, Spanish Club Treasurer, Junior Class Treasurer, FBLA member. He is also a member of the football, baseball, and basketball teams, and he works with the Little League teams in these sports. Staff at Adrian credits Austin with intelligence and ability to progress to studying biology at a four year university and then attending medical school.

Adrian Optimist Mike Ragan, Austin Pitts and Adrian Superintendent Kirk Eidson

More Relay for Life Events set for June 9th..

On June 9th, Butler will be buzzing with a full day of Relay for Life events- here's two more you can look forward to- it'll be a great day of family fun:

Remote Control Car Races 

Start your engines …….come out and race for a cure.
On June 9th, at the Bates County Relay for Life event, the Memories of Mom team will be holding remote control car races.

There will be several age categories:
 3 – 5 year olds
 6-12 year olds
 13-16 years
 17 and up

The races will start at 9:30. We are asking for pre-sign ups. Please call Karen Berry at 660-679-3796 to register.

Four cars will race at a time, with 3 runs per car. We are asking for a $2.00 donation per racer. The money will be used for cancer research.

The races will be held in the north parking lot of the Healthcare Center of Functional Medicine –Travis Kershner (formerly Butler City Hall), 101 N Lyons St. 

Hot Dog Eating Contest
Come join us at the Bates County Relay for Life Hot Dog Eating Contest.

The Contest will be held on June 9th at the Bates County Relay for Life Event, starting at 11:45 am. The event will take place on the Historic Butler Square. There are 2 age categories. Please sign up at Family Center Farm & Home.

Sponsored by Family Center Farm and Home and The Butler Sonic. A free will donation will be accepted.

GIS training session coming June 4th...

The Bates County Commission is hosting a free training session for the new gis platform, Integrity, which will be presented by Midland GIS Solutions. on June 4th at 1 p.m. in the meeting room of the Education Wing at the Bates County Memorial Hospital.

Open to current subscribers and interested persons. Call 660-679-3371 to reserve a space.

Car fire West of Passaic

Butler and Amsterdam fire departments are on the scene of a vehicle fire on F highway East of the Miami school. The driver reported that she did exit the vehicle without injury, then called for help.

Watch for emergency vehicles if traveling through the area.

Rich Hill Police Department Activity Report

Rich Hill Police Department Activity Report

May 21, 2012 to May 27, 2012

 

05-21-2012

NOISE

THEFT

HARASSMENT

SPEAK TO OFFICER

 

05-22-2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON

 

05-23-2012

THEFT

CHECK WELL BEING

MVA

CHECK WELL BEING

                                            

05-24-2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON

SPEAK TO OFFICER

 

05-25-2012

 

05-26-2012

CWB CHECK WELL BEING

 

05-27-2012

Bates County Sheriff’s Office Activity Report

Bates County Sheriff’s Office Activity Report

May 21, 2012 to May 27, 2012

05-21-2012

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON-Foster

ALARM-Adrian

MVA-Butler

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Butler

CIVIL STANDBY-Merwin

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY / VEHICLE / PERSON-Rich Hill

LEAVE WITHOUT PAYING-Adrian

MVA-Amoret

THEFT-Rich Hill Bates County Deputies responded to a theft that occurred in the Rich Hill area.

ANIMAL AT LARGE-Butler Deputies took a report of animals at large in rural Butler.

PROPERTY DAMAGE / VANDALISM-Foster Deputies were dispatched to the rural area of Foster in reference to property damage and theft of a generator from the property.

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Ballard

ANIMAL BITE-Butler Deputies responded to the Rural Route 2 area in the Butler on a call of animal neglect

STRANDED MOTORIST-71Hwy

THEFT-Rich Hill Deputies took a report of a burglary that occurred Rich Hill, MO

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Butler

AGENCY ASSIST-Adrian

SPEAK TO OFFICER-Butler

DEBRIS ON ROADWAY / SIDEWALK-Butler

THEFT-Rich Hill

FOUR WHEELER-Hume

Memorial Day: lest we forget those who died for our freedoms

For some, “Memorial Day” means “Fun Three-Day Weekend.” It comes in late May, when days are long and green, a preview of summer. Indeed, for lots of families, the holiday kicks off a glorious season of barbecues, swimming, and other outdoor fun.

But the true meaning of Memorial Day goes much deeper than this. It is a somber day of remembrance for the men and women who have died for our country.

How Memorial Day Began

The work of honoring dead soldiers goes back as far as our earliest civilizations. When ancient Athens was caught in its deadly Peloponnesian Wars, for example, Pericles encouraged citizens never to forget those who had died in battle. Their noble courage, he said, was “graven not [just] in stone but in the hearts of men.”

Centuries later, as the United States was just coming through the Civil War, Americans found themselves grieving as deeply as any of their ancient ancestors. Having expected a short skirmish, our nation instead fought a four-year war that remains the single most deadly in American history. Historians estimate that 620,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, a number that surpasses U.S. losses in World War I (115,000 dead) and World War II (318,000) combined. These losses were all the more heartbreaking because it was not uncommon for families to have sons or cousins fighting on opposite sides. And when they did fall on the battlefield, it could take weeks and months to locate the dead and bury them properly. And so, wrote General John A. Logan in 1868, by the end of the war, soldiers had been buried “in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land.” How would the nation grieve properly, and heal? A powerful custom arose among women and families in towns across the country: honoring the graves of the fallen. On April 25, 1866 in Columbus, Mississippi, for example, women visited a Confederate cemetery to place flowers on the graves of soldiers who had died in the Battle of Shiloh. While there, they noticed unkept graves of Northern soldiers—and the women decorated those graves as well, in respect. Similar commemorations happened across states, both North and South, with celebrations first known as “decoration days.” With his “Order Number 11,” issued in June of 1868, General John A. Logan made the first official national proclamation of a day “designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country.” Let “no ravages of time testify,” he wrote, “to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.”

National Memorial Day Observance came in 1971, as our National Holiday Act declared Memorial Day a federal holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday of May, making a three day weekend every year. This is an official day off work, but it is also a time of official ceremony. At Arlington Cemetery, for example, which began in 1864 and today holds more than 260,000 military graves, over a thousand 3rd US Infantry troops will place American flags on more than 260,000 graves, and will maintain a 24 hour honor patrol through the long weekend.

Their work will be echoed across the country. Since 1951, to name just one example, Boy Scouts in St. Louis, Missouri, have decorated military graves at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery; since 1998, more than 15,000 military graves at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania have been marked by candles, again thanks to the efforts of local boy and girl Scouts. 

Likewise, there our countless Memorial Day ceremonies held all across the country like those held in Adrian yesterday and in Butler tomorrow- remember, you and your family are always invited to participate.

So while you enjoy the time off, please take time to stop and remember those who fought so hard for our freedom. And thank you, America, for all the things we get to enjoy in our freedoms- like three day weekends.