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Pastor’s note By MARK TURNBOUGH Lamar United Methodist Church
An actual ad in the New York Times read: For sale by owner complete set of Encyclopedia Brittanica. 45 volumes. Excellent condition. $1000 or best offer. No longer needed. Got married last weekend. Husband knows everything. We don’t see many ads like that in our Lamar paper. The things we see here are far more important to us! In small towns and large, our newspapers are absolutely essential to the community. Most of us firmly believe the Bible has salvation, morality and motivation by which great people live. But it’s the local newspaper that keeps the score as to how well we’re living the morality and who is being motivated by what! Whether it’s contracts between a county and a road construction team, a budget for the water department, city zoning issues, how our “kiddos” are doing in school and college, the local press informs us about the important things closest to us. Bigger city papers seem to have more interesting stories, but their kind of news generally depict someone in agony, a family lost a member to murder, house burglarized, fires set or pain inflicted. While news closest to Lamar isn’t always of a sensational name, it’s more vital, of more consequence and probably kinder to us small town folk! When Jesus said, “my peace I leave to you”, he knew that’s what we really need!
You are never alone
Good Samaritan receives matching grant from Ozarks Food Harvest Good Samaritan was recently awarded a matching grant from Ozarks Food Harvest to help provide emergency food assistance to community members in need in Barton County. The fundraising period began October 1, 2013. The Good Samaritan raised $5,000, which was matched dollar-fordollar, bringing the total funds raised to $10,000. Ozarks Food Harvest received a total of 47 grant requests from its nonprofit member organizations, totaling nearly $160,000. While the food bank could not fund every agency’s full request, OFH was able to fund every agency that applied for the match, totaling $125,000. The $125,000 match was donated to Ozarks Food Harvest from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program last year. It is the fourth gift of this kind from Walmart. The money is for the sole purpose of feed-
ing people in need in the communities Ozarks Food Harvest serves across southwest Missouri. “As the only food bank in our region, we do more than provide food for pantries and hunger relief programs,” said Bart Brown, OFH president/ CEO. “We offer food safety training and educational tools, warehousing, distribution, food sourcing and more. We’re very proud to offer financial assistance as well. Over the past three years we’ve awarded more than $300,000 that we’ve received from Walmart to our member agencies to help meet the demand for emergency food assistance.” Pat Neely, manager of the Good Samaritan, states that the number of people grows daily that needs assistance with food. She adds, “With the recent cuts to the farm bill, the amount of food stamps allotted to families has been either cut drastically or cut completely.”
By MELODY METZGER Lamar Democrat
The Lamar Democrat is extremely fortunate this semester to acquire the services of Ben Bunton, a senior Print Journalism major at Missouri State University in Springfield. Bunton will be interning during the spring semester and will be as-
sisting the paper with various endeavors, including writing articles and photography. Ben, a 2009 Lamar High School graduate, is the son of Matt and Laura Bunton. He will be graduating from MSU this spring. Plans are to keep Ben busy, especially helping out with the paper’s upcoming Progress
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SECTION B Area News ................................. 2 Records ...................................... 3 Records/Legals .......................... 4 Legals/Classifieds...................... 5 Area News ................................. 6
edition. He will be calling on area businesses to offer his assistance in composing articles pertaining to their success in 2013 and will also be available to those needing pictures to go along with the articles. We are really excited about his contributions to the paper and appreciate the opportunity to hopefully help him with his
future undertakings. If you see Ben around town be sure to extend him a warm welcome and anyone needing him to take a picture to accompany their Progress article may get in touch with him through the paper at 417-682-5529, ext. 60 and I will be sure he gets the message.
The area walking club with European roots
It was May 22, 2011 and hundreds of people suddenly faced their worst nightmare. The Joplin tornado hit in the early evening hours, leaving death, injuries and utter destruction in its wake. Families everywhere were jolted out of everyday living and the comfort and security of their homes and the community they once knew. They suddenly found themselves in total darkness, despair and loss. The world found itself watching, another tragedy that affected lives everywhere.
SECTION A Correspondents ........................ 2 Valentine Sweeties .................... 3 Valentine Sweeties .................... 4 School......................................... 5 Sports ......................................... 6
Lamar Democrat/Richard Cooper Give Kids a Smile Day is an annual event in which the nation’s dentists provide free oral health care services to thousands of children from low income families. On February 7, Dr. Jeffrey Moyer and his staff volunteered their time and services in providing dental examinations, cleaning, and treatment to area children.
Bunton to intern for The Lamar Democrat
By JACK SLADE Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church
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The Dogwood Trailblazers is a chapter of the American Volkssport Association (AVA). “What is volkssporting you ask?” Volkssporting translates from the German, as “the sport of the people”, and it originated in the mid-1960’s in Europe. It actually evolved from running races in Germany and when those events became too competitive the clubs changed those events to be noncompetitive so everyone could become a winner. Many members of the American Armed Forces serving in Germany became interested in the sport and when they returned to the U.S. brought the sport home with them.
Today, the AVA has about 2000 walks around the U.S. and the Trailblazers have 15 different year around walks in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas stretching from Nevada
on the north and Neosho on the south, Branson on the east and Baxter Springs, Columbus and Pittsburg, Kan. on the west. The Dogwood Trailblazers walks are noncompetitive and the group walks are offered in three different cities each month. Their walks are usually the same distance at each location, either 5 kilometers (3.1) miles or the longer 10 K walk (6.2) miles. Anyone can come to a Trailblazers walk and walk for free, but those who join the club
receive a monthly newsletter and attend club social events. Those who choose to have a record kept by the national organization, a fee of $3 is paid. The club encourages people of all ages, individual or family to participate and leashed pets are allowed. Any adult may join the Dogwood Trailblazers club and the dues amount to a dollar a month. The club motto is Fun, Fitness, Fellowship and unofficially Food. Club meetings are held monthly except in July on the second Thursday of the month at 5:30 pm. Meetings are held at St Paul’s United Methodist Church, 2423 W.26th Street, Joplin. MO 64804. For more information phone 417-291-4432, 782-7826 or 649-6404. The Dogwood Trailblazers walk in Lamar on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Register at 1 p.m. at the Super 8 Motel, northeast corner of US 71/I49 and US 160. For more information phone 417-291-4432.
Trudell being held for various offenses Beginning on January 21, the Barton County Sheriff ’s Office started an investigation, referencing the crime of Statutory Sodomy 2nd Degree. The crime involved a 14 year old female. Through a thorough investigation worked in tandem with the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office, a suspect was identi-
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fied and arrested. The suspect, Frank Everett Trudell, 41, Golden City, is being held in the Jasper County Detention Center on a $10,000 bond for one count of Statutory Sodomy 2nd Degree for Jasper County Courts and a $150,000 bond on two counts of Statutory Sodomy 2nd Degree for Barton County Courts.
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P.O. Box 458 | 100 East 11 Street We want to know what progress your business made this past year. Lamar, Missouri 64759-0458 Phone: 417-682-5529 | Fax: 417-682-5595 Mail, email or fax your information and photos to be included in our special edition! info@lamardemocrat.com www.lamardemocrat.com Our progress form can be found on page 2B, as well as, at our office or you can just submit information on your business’ highlights over the past year. th