Your World Today – Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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NEWS:  Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

An accident occurred in Dent County early Sunday evening at 5:55 pm on Highway C about four miles south of Lenox on private property. According to the highway patrol report, a 2004 Polaris Ranger driven by 9-year old Elijah Lawson of Licking was traveling southbound and overturned ejecting Lawson. Lawson suffered serious injuries and flown by Air Evac to Children’s Hospital in St. Louis. He was not wearing a safety device at the time of the accident. The Polaris Ranger sustained minor damage and was removed by the family.

An accident occurred at 3:13 early Sunday morning in Texas County at the junction of Highway 32 and Plato Drive in Plato. According to the highway patrol report, a 1999 Chevrolet Suburban driven by 34-year old Derrick Wells of Licking was traveling eastbound, traveled off the right side of the roadway and overturned. Wells suffered moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Texas County Memorial Hospital. He was not wearing a safety device at the time of the accident. The Chevrolet was totaled and towed by Arrington’s of Plato.

An accident occurred Saturday night at 9:30 in Shannon County on county road 258 about 12 miles west of Bunker. According to the highway patrol report, a 2015 Can Am Commander driven by 42-year old Kevin Watson of Bunker was traveling southbound, swerved to miss an animal and struck a concrete retaining wall. An occupant, 24-year old Cami Call of Bunker, suffered moderate injuries and was taken by ambulance to the Salem Memorial Hospital. No one was wearing a safety device at the time of the accident. The Can Am Commander sustained moderate damage and was removed by the owner.

The Dent County Commissioners met Monday morning for their regular meeting at the courthouse. In the road report, District 1 Commissioner Dennis Purcell reported that portions of District 1 received over 2.8 inches of rain from Friday through Sunday morning. He said some limbs were down and crews were removing those and checking out the roads. He went on to say grading would be done on Dent County Roads 5220, 5630 and 6633, while materials would be added and grading done on county road 6500. Purcell did say a man went to Springfield to get a load of oil for chip and seal repair today. In District 2, Commissioner Gary Larson said workers would be patching roads that had some small washouts from the rains. He did state brush would be cut on Dent County Roads 3210 and 3280, and a man would be removing a tree from Dent County Road 3200. Larson reported that the backup generator at the Oak Grove Baptist Church worked fine during the city wide power outage on Sunday and there was still 53% of fuel left in the tank. Presiding Commissioner Darrell Skiles said he would be attending a Central region Workforce Investment Board Caucus in Jefferson City Tuesday. He also stated he and Commissioner Purcell attended the Naturally Meramec Program consortium meeting Friday at the ONCRC. The program moderator, Connie Willman, said the Dent County meeting was the largest of any of the eight counties. At the last meeting, Amanda Sapaugh with the SB40 board came in to recommend Stephanie Floyd be added to the board to replace Mary McFarland who resigned. The board approved her request. Sheriff Stallings and three members of the jail committee came in Thursday to discuss architects qualifications. The county received five qualification packets and the commission has narrowed it down to having three of the companies come in to meet and discuss the jail at a later date. The next meeting of the Dent County Commission will be Thursday morning at 9:00 and the meeting is open to the public.

A consortium to identify and bring together agriculture and tourism related business in Dent County along with the other seven county Meramec Region met Friday at the Ozark Natural and Cultural Resource Center. The idea behind the consortium is to find ways to use and market products and services from businesses within the consortium. Planning Manager Connie Willman from the Meramec Regional Planning Commission chaired the meeting to provide the history and background as to how this project came about. The MRPC used funding from the Missouri Department of Agriculture to develop a database in 2012, and then in 2014, the MRPC received funding from the USDA Rural Development Farmer’s Market Promotion Program and Delta Regional Authority to hold meetings and develop strategies to bring the different businesses together. Willman said regional meetings would be held next in October, but they will be different than the introductory meeting in that they will be organized in an attempt to bring producers and potential customers together. A number of different ideas from marketing to education were suggested by the attendees to be added to the information that had already been received by the other county meetings. Many of the ideas have been derived from the “Dig In Vermont” program which is very successful. Willman said this project will take time to organize and implement, but the key to the success of the consortium will be to get all the businesses on board with the program.

SPORTS   [TOP]

The Cardinals had the day off yesterday and will start a three game series with the Miami Marlins starting tonight. You can hear the pre-game on KSMO Radio starting at 5:15 with the game starting at 6:00. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1 and NOT on Fox Sports Midwest.

Joe Blanton allowed two hits over six-plus innings, Alcides Escobar had three hits with one RBI and the Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle Mariners 4-1 in the opener of a three-game series on Monday night. Blanton (2-0) gave up a solo home run to Robinson Cano with two outs in the first inning. He retired the next 16 batters before a leadoff double by Austin Jackson in the seventh ended his outing, which included seven strikeouts. Kelvin Herrera finished the seventh, stranding Jackson at third, Wade Davis pitched a perfect eighth and Greg Holland worked around a walk in the ninth to earn his 14th save. The Royals play the Mariners tonight at 9:10.

OBITUARIES     [TOP]

Graveside services for Mildred "Tootsie" Stricklin of Steelville, age 92, will be held today at 12:00 noon at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Leadington, Missouri. Interment will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Leadington. All arrangements are under direction of the Britton-Bennett Funeral Home in Steelville.

Funeral services for Euna Hogan of Salem, age 88, will be held Wednesday at 11:00 at the James and Gahr Mortuary in Salem. Visitation will be tonight from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Interment will be in the North Lawn Cemetery.

Funeral services for Emory Nash of Salem, age 87, will be held Wednesday at 1:00 at the Dent County Memorial Chapel with a Masonic service at 12:30. Visitation will be from 10:00 until service time. Interment will be in the Cedar Grove Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church.

Funeral services for Bettie Jane Stewart of Farmington, age 85, will be held Thursday at 3:00 at the Wilson Mortuary in Salem. Visitation will be from 2:00 until service time. There will be no interment. Memorials may be made to the ASPCA.

Funeral services for Harry Hayes of Salem, age 82, will be held Saturday morning at 11:00 at the Wilson Mortuary Salem Chapel. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 Friday night. Interment will be in the Cavanaugh Cemetery with full military hours. Memorials may be made to the charity of your choice.

WEATHER    [TOP]

Today..Partly cloudy, hot and humid with a 30% chance for showers and thunderstorms, high of 89 and heat index of 98.
Tonight..Partly cloudy, with a 20% chance for showers and thunderstorms, low near 70.
Wednesday..Mostly sunny, hot and humid, high of 92 with a heat index of 99.
Wednesday night..Mostly clear, low of 71.
Thursday..Sunny, high near 91.