Butler Prom / Promenade

The 2013 Butler Prom/Promenade will be Saturday April 20, 2013 at the Butler High School Gym the doors will open at 3:15pm and the Promenade will begin at 4:00pm to 5:15pm.

State 4-H Conference Develops Local Young Leaders

Photo attached:  From left:  Ella Armentrout, Allison Jenkins, & Aubry Terry

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Bates County 4-H members Ella Armentrout (County Line 4-H), Allison Jenkins (Summit Go Getters 4-H) and Aubry Terry (County Line 4-H) were among the 360 people attending the largest state 4-H Teen Conference in Missouri history, March 29-30, at the University of Missouri, Columbia.  The delegates, ages 11-13, attended workshops to develop belonging, generosity andmastery of new skills, three of the 4-H program’s four “essential elements.”  The fourth is independence, and for many delegates Teen Conference is the first big overnight trip away from home.

 

Teen Conference is led by Missouri’s State 4-H Council, a group of older teens elected annually by their peers, who work for months to plan this annual event.  The experience develops the leadership skills of both groups,” said Alan J. Mundey, Bates County 4-H Youth Specialist for MU Extension.  “The older teens developing this event build as many leadership skills as the younger ones who attend.”   

 

Delegates attended workshops led by Council teens that focused on leadership skills, character education, and parliamentary procedure.   Participants also collected 485 lbs. of food for a local food bank and  developed materials for MU Extension 4-H LIFE, a program which extends the 4-H experience to families that include a qualified incarcerated parent.

 

Missouri 4-H is open to all children ages 8-18.  For more information, visit 4h.missouri.edu or contact your local MU Extension Center at 660-679-4167. 

Courtesy of Alan Mundey

 

SHOW ME GREEN SALES TAX WEEK APRIL 19TH -25TH

The Show-Me Green Sales Tax Holiday week is coming up. The State of Missouri has set the week of April 19th through the 25th for qualifying Energy Star certified new appliances, that will be exempt from state and local sales tax here in Butler. So you’ll be able to forget the state and local sales tax on appliances that qualify during that week. April 19th through the 25th.



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2013 Outlaw Bass Tournament results

 The results for the 2013 Outlaw Bass Tournament... They had 7 teams today and The results are as followed

• 1st place Dale Craft and Travis Brooks 20.3LBS
• 2nd place Troy Minor and Matty Ward 17.5 LBS
• The biggest Bass of the day went to Troy Minor 4.4LBS

We would like to thank everyone who came out and fished in this event. Bates County Live will keep you updated when there is another Tournament.

Butler School Board Meeting

The Butler R-5 School District will have a Board Meeting tomorrow Monday April 8, 2013 starting at 6pm in the Elementary School Library.

Obituary - Laura Mae Belle (Gillogly) Eggleston

Memorial Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Louisburg United Methodist Church, Louisburg, Kansas. Visitation to be held one hour prior to services beginning at 10:00 a.m. Pastor Donna Voteau officiating. Inurnment will be at Glenwild Cemetery at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Louisburg Library or Louisburg United Methodist Church. Messages of condolence may be left for the family athttp://www.mullinaxfuneralhome.com.

Laura Mae Belle (Gillogly) Eggleston, age 97, passed away on April 5, 2013 at her home near Louisburg, Kansas. Laura Mae was born April 25, 1915 to Oscar Calvert and Katherine Fidelia (Windisch) Gillogly, the second of seven children raised on the family farm in Middle Creek Township, southeast of Louisburg.

Laura Mae graduated from high school in Louisburg in 1933, attended Ursuline Academy in Paola and taught at several one-room schools in Miami County in the 1930’s and early 1940’s. She then focused her teaching talents on her own family after her 1941 marriage to James R. Eggleston, raising seven children who all graduated from college. Jim and Laura Mae operated a dairy farm in Wea Township for 30 years. Laura Mae was an active member of the Kuntry Klub Extension Homemakers Unit for its entire history of over 50 years and served as its president. She also served as a 4-H leader, teaching sewing and crochet to a generation of Ribbon Winners club members. Jim and Laura Mae were married 51 years. After their children were grown, they traveled frequently, visiting family, following good weather and birdwatching. After Jim’s death in 1992, Laura Mae lived with son Jim and his wife Mary Ann for many years in their home on the family farm.

Laura Mae was predeceased by her parents, husband, brothers Cecil and Joe Gillogly, sisters Ella Goss and Ruth Ellis, and daughter Pat Prevedel.
Laura Mae is survived by her sister Etta Snouffer of Paola, brother Everett and wife Geraldine Gillogly of Louisburg, son Jerry and wife Mary Ann Eggleston of Louisburg, son-in-law Al Prevedel of Ft. Collins, Colorado, daughter Cora and husband Deane Sargent of Ashland, Oregon, son Tim and wife Cindy Eggleston of West Line, Missouri, son Mark and wife Carmel Eggleston of County Limerick, Ireland, daughter Sara and husband Larry Booth of McLouth, Kansas, and daughter Barbara and husband Bradley Denton of Austin, Texas, plus thirteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Her family shares Laura Mae’s love of birds and wildflowers, literature and art, and family photos and stories.

The family wishes to thank Carole Belcher and Louiesa Owens of Preferred Care at Home for their assistance in recent months.

Photos from the Car Show in Butler

 The weather held off long enough to have the 6th annual " Show of Wheels" Car Show today in Butler. We would like to thank everyone who came out to the show. We hope everyone had a great time also was informed that there might be another car show before this year is over. Bates County Live will keep you updated.

Obituary - Wanda Jean Hembree

Wanda J. Hembree, 80, of Garden City, Missouri died Saturday, April 6, 2013 at Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, Missouri.Funeral services will be 11:00am Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville. Burial in Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville. The family will recieve friends Wednesday 10:00am-11:00am at the funeral home. 

Any Contributions can be made to the Harrisonville United Methodist Church Memorial Fund. Wanda is survived by a son, Selden Hembree, and wife Debbie, Garden City, Mo. A daughter, Dora May Becker, and husband Bob, Harrisonville. One sister, Jewell Wimsatt, Adrian, Missouri , six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.