March 5, 2015

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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015

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MK5K Run for Mom

A 5K Run for Mom will held Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Lockwood at the high school. Benefiting The Mary Kay FoundationSM and Jan Johnson, registration begins at 9 a.m. with the 5K race beginning at 9:35 a.m and the 1 mile walk/fun run at 9:40 a.m. Jan Johnson is from Jasper and is currently battling breast cancer. Our past 2 queens will crown Jan the queen cancer kicker 2015! We also have a traveling “Pinked Out” award that will be given to the craziest pinked dressed person! AND…we have a raffle table with wonderful prizes on it! Bring your loose cash ready to purchase raffle tickets for some amazing prizes!!! Half of the proceeds go to Jan Johnson and the other half go to the Mary Kay Foundation, which supports cancers affecting women and domestic violence. For more information, contact Kara Gallup or go to MK5K Run for Mom on Facebook.

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Jones Benefit Exceeds Expectations By Bob Jackson Correspondent Photos by Cletis McConnell Vedette Reporter

On the snowiest night of the year in 2015, (February 28), The Dusty Jones Family Benefit Dinner and Auction sponsored by friends and family drew around 500 people at the Main Street Baptist Church in Greenfield. The outpouring of support for Dusty, who is Trivia Night Is battling cancer, was reComing Up markable with people Greenfield Area Cham- from Dade, Cedar, Barber of Commerce is again ton, Polk, Lawrence and hosting our sixth annual Greene counties in attenTRIVIA NIGHT on Satur- dance. day, March 7, 2015, at the Area volunteers coorGreenfield Junior High School Cafeteria: soup sup- dinated serving pulled per at 5:30 p.m. Games pork sandwiches and sides, silent auction begin at 6:30 p.m. Teams of eight - $10 per items, raffle on a rifle and team member. Soup supper big auction items ranging only $5.00 . from hay, firewood, log Come enjoy the fun, splitter, gravel, chain dinner and competition. saws, a border collie, a Last year's winners, 250 lb. hog, EZ Haul Hay Liberty Bank, are hoping to Feeder and much more. win again - let's see what Pies and cakes were happens!!! also part of the auction with one pie going for $400 and one cheesecake Greenfield FFA bringing $800. Chili Supper and The winner of the Labor/Pie Auction rifle raffle donated his win back to be auctioned Submitted by off. Cheyanne Melton Greenfield FFA Reporter Over 200 T-Shirts The Greenfield FFA an- marking the event were

nual chili supper and labor/pie auction has been rescheduled for Friday, March 6. The free chili supper will begin at 6pm. Need some windows washed, fence mended, brush piled, then you’re in luck. Following the chili supper, there will be a labor auction at 7 pm. You can purchase four hours of any number of our FFA members to help you around your home or farm. Got a sweet tooth? We will be selling pies and other desserts during the auction as well. Proceeds will help pay for our trip to State FFA Convention in April. Please join us to show your support of our Greenfield students. Contact Sarah Lohan at 637-5328 ext. 319 for any questions. Hope to see you there!

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Dusty and Melinda Jones

sold. Bidding on all auction items was spirited, helping to bring a preliminary total of money raised to $95,000.. Other funds are still coming in. The spirit of a neighbor helping a neighbor at this event shows that people in the area, young and old alike, care about their friends. Neighbors and family will take the time and effort, spend their own money to help out. Those attending this event, when they left, knew they were a part of something special.

A standing room only crowd, plus a few hang out in the balcony, bid at the benefit auction held for Dusty Jones.

Auctioneers busy collecting bids.

Lockwood FFA Tractor Day

Submitted by Brian Gillen Lockwood R-1 Vocational Education Instructor

On Wednesday, February 25, as part of the National FFA Week, the

Lockwood FFA held its annual Tractor and Chapter T-shirt Day. Twenty-seven members participated with 13 members driving everything from farm semis,

ATV’s, vintage, to modern 300 horsepower tractors. As mentioned earlier chapter members also wore their chapter tshirts to raise awareness

of the FFA in the high school. FFA week is celebrated annually during the month of February to celebrate the heritage and impact of the na-

tional organization.

Although they were never plentiful in the past, it seems reintroduction efforts are paying off. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, as of 2014 there have been 10-20 nesting pairs documented in recent summers.

Adult ospreys – sometimes mistaken for the larger bald eagle – are generally 21-26 inches long with a black upper body and mostly-white head, chest and underbelly. For more information regarding Empire, visit www.empiredistrict.com

The Lockwood chap-

ter is proud to have been

actively involved in this

organization since 1937.

Empire District Installs Osprey Platforms At Stockton Lake Submitted by Robin McAlester Corporate Communications Photos by  Cletis McConnell Vedette Reporter

The osprey-watch will soon begin at Stockton Lake as a new nesting platform was installed by Empire District Electric on Tuesday, February 24. Crews installed the platform at Ruark Bluff Road, at the Missouri Department of Conservation access. Ospreys, a bird of prey, nest near lakes, ponds, rivers and streams in large trees or on artificial structures, such as electric utility poles. Elevated platforms, like the one installed by Empire at Stockton Lake, have been used successfully by nesting osprey at a number of locations in the Midwest. Osprey will return to the same nesting site each year, typically in early March. The platform was built specifically for the pair who nested on the arms of the nearby transmission line last year. This nest caught fire by making a connection

The recovered osprey nest is lifted to the prepared platform. with the energized line burning not only their nest, but the transmission line and part of the pole. According to Brent Baker, general manager of Customer Service, Transmission and Engineering, “This is an important project for us to help the pair es-

tablish a safe nesting alternative and avoid any outages to our customers.” Ospreys are an uncommon migrant to Missouri. They are listed as an endangered species in our neighboring state, Illinois and are listed as a species of concern for Missouri.


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