DREXEL FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION

The Drexel Lion’s Club presents the 54^th Annual Day in the Park in Drexel. There will be many activities including breakfast, lunch and dinner in the community building, Pee Wee Motorcycle Races, Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest, Motorcycle Race in the Park, live entertainment throughout the day, pony rides and face painting, hotdog and watermelon eating contest, and a live magic show. There will also be a drawing and silent auction. For tickets to drawing auction see any Drexel Lions Club Member or Participating Drexel Business. All of the activities will be held on July 4^th in the Drexel Park, except for the Fourth of July Parade. The Parade will be down Main Street.  There will be more information involving the parade at a later date. 



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BATES COUNTY HEALTH CENTER “SAFE SITTER” CLASS

The best sitter is a “Safe Sitter.” The Bates Country Health Center will offer a one day Safe Sitter class for perspective babysitters. Safe Sitter is a medically accurate hands-on class that teaches boys and girls ages 11 to 13 how to handle emergenies when caring for children as well as business skills, safety, child development and much more. The class will be held Monday, July 29 from 8:30am to 4:30pm. There is limited space to those who wish to attend the class must preregister. Preregister must happen by the middle of July if possible as space is limited. The class is $30 per student. For more information call the Bates County Health Center at 660-679-6108.

LOCAL NEWS-BUTLER CITY COUNCIL-JUNE 4, 2013

The Butler City Council had a routine meeting this week…however one action will be very helpful to not only city employees, but also to the public.

Bud Hayes of the TextCaster Company told the Council that they offer a cellphone service by which all the city employee cell phones can have unlimited texting. The City’s cost will be $1300 dollars a year, and the general public also can subscribe for the service at no extra charge. The council voted to subscribe to this service.

Improvements need to be done to the skateboard park. Trent Diehl, our Public Works Director and Butler’s city engineer have looked it over and the Council decided to have the Parks and recreation Commission to study it and report back.

MC Power asked for an extension to its purchase agreement for the city property it will build on, to allow them to submit an Enhanced Enterprise Zone tax abatement application to Bates County for approval.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development approved the Zone for Bates County in November of 2012, and the city of Butler agreed to participate in the program so the Butler Industrial Park would be eligible. The time extension was agreed to by the Council.

KBRPC submitted a proposal to identify all available commercial and industrial properties within the city and provide management of location services for Butler, at a yearly fee of 42-hundred dollars. However 
Butler has already committed over 14-thousand dollars for the Bates County Economic Development position, so the Council decided not to go with this proposal.

The Police Department will be buying three new vehicles as funds are available…

And the city told City Administrator Mark Arbuthnot to go ahead with proceedings to sell off some city properties in East Butler that are not needed.


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RELAY FOR LIFE RESULTS

The Annual American Cancer Society, Relay for Life was held on the Butler Square Saturday June 1^st. Butler and Bates County Teams raised $45,314.37 dollars to be donated to the American Cancer Society.

14 local teams worked all year to generate these funds, The Sponsors and the purchase of Luminaries helped reach this goal.

There were 656 regular luminaries were purchased and 14 lantern luminaries. The Luminary readers were Ron Dunlap, Gary and Jessie Schowengerdt and Carol Ann Winburn.

Team Hope was the recognized as the, “ Most Spirit Winner”. Team “Christians Conquering Cancer” was recognized with the best campsite.

The 2013 Relay for Life Corporate sponsors generated $9,800.00 dollars. The donations from the Live Auction generated $2818.50 dollars and the Silent auction generated $780.00. The 2013 Relay for life would like to thank Perry Heckadon Auctioneer, Don  Ghere and Herman Shubert  Clerk for the donation  their time for the success of the auction.

Persons walking the longest was:  

Kelly Close 20 miles, Rachel Oliver 20 miles and Penny Sullins walking 10 miles, all were member of Team Lifesavers.

The 2013 Relay for Life Grand Prize winners were;

Missy McCoy winning the $500.00 dollar cash prize, donated by Heartland Hospice , Missy donated $400.00 dollars of her winnings back to Relay for Life . The handmade quilt donated by Sharon Cumpton was won by Keith Fleischer, the $125.00 gift card donated by Country Mart was won by Ray Kimminau.

A special thank you to those with booth, team members, participants and sponsors...

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Huge Multi-Family Garage Sale

Huge multi-family garage sale This Thursday and Friday The 6th & 7th. This will be at 414 W. Pine here in Butler. Boys clothes, girls clothes 4-14, plus size women's, men's, shoes, toys, purses, books, etc. Open 8-2

Mini go-Kart Racers meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Bears Field House.‏

 Anyone one wanting to race in the mini go-kart race on June 22^nd for the bear backers that there will be a Racers meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Bears Field House. We will be taking entry forms and answer questions.

Weather Update: Possible Storms This Afternoon For Bates County

It Feels like the movie Groundhog Day where things just keep repeating over and over. Today will start a lot like yesterday...showers and thunderstorms moving in this morning. We may see a little redevelopment this afternoon or evening, but storms are not expected to be severe. We'll then dry out for the remainder of the work week before we see a return of storms for the weekend. Yep, we said it. Rain this weekend. If you don't like the forecast, remember, we're in the business of prediction, not production.

Weather Update: Slight Risk For Severe Weather This Evening

While scattered showers and thunderstorms have prevented much in the way of a warmup today, skies have slowly cleared over portions of northern Kansas and northwestern Missouri this afternoon ahead of a cold front moving in from the northwest. A few scattered thunderstorms may redevelop along this boundary late this afternoon and early this evening. While widespread severe weather is not expected, a few stronger storms capable of hail and gusty winds will be possible. Additional thunderstorms may be possible over western Kansas this evening, and this activity may track across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma overnight.