April 2023
Lady Wildcats battle Springfield Parkview
Cassville’s Emma Berndt sprints past a Springfield Parkview defender during a 4-0 loss at home on Monday.
Donation to fund cheer safety mats
Security Bank of Southwest Missouri has made a $500 contribution to the Cassville High School cheerleading team. The funds will be used to purchase additional safety mats to be used when the cheer team is practicing and executing lifting stunts and tumbling passes during games and at cheerleading competitions. Front row, from left: Jillian LeCompte, Mikayla Manwarren, Zoie Coupland and Gracee Cornell. Middle row: Payton Ray, Caysee Stillings, Ava Hinson, Jadyn Stewart, Hailey Roberts and Coach Abby Voris. Back row: Coach Victoria Henbest, Jon Horner, President of Security Bank, Layla Bailey, Hailey Turben, Austin Rattigan, Violet Rillstone, and Isabella Dunbar. .
Jig On the Water
April 12, 2023 The river is at 103 CFS as of Sunday, so dry fly fishing is getting better. Fish were hitting elk hair caddis, blue wing olives, beetles, ants, stimulators, and para Adams.
Easter Egg Hunt Winners!
An Easter Egg Hunt was staged at six local businesses in the two weeks leading up to April 9, with three of the six eggs found by readers. The Grand Prize winner for the Cassville Democrat’s Easter Egg Hunt was Bavette Battern, above, who found the egg at Front Street Furniture Gallery in Exeter. On Tuesday, Battern accepted her prize of $25 in Cassville Cash and an Easter lily. Winners in each business included: top left, Rhett Artherton and Reese Artherton, children of Robbie and Mindi Artherton found the egg at Tomblin’s Jewelry; middle left, Bavette Battern found the egg at Front Street Furniture Gallery; and bottom left, Elmore found the egg at New-To-You-2.
Art in the Ozarks
The judged artwork of students in the Ozark 7 Conference is on display at the Barry County Museum in Cassville through April 22. Student entries were submitted in a range of mediums, and included, among others, wearable art, chalk pastels, graphite, mixed media, color ink, black ink and charcoal. This
Al Slavic: God is love
This devotional and directory is made possible by these businesses who encourage all to attend worship services. Do you believe in God? If you do, then there is plenty of evidence that God is there and He loves you.
Jon Horner: To refund, or not to refund
As we all know, it’s that dreaded time of the year. No, I’m not talking about the six-month dental checkup.
Janet Mills: Don’t judge me
Our lives don’t tend to follow a straight line. Forward-thinking high school dreamers rarely end up with the exact career or lifestyle forecast by the goals they formulated at the starting gate of their journey.
Trout Tales
I was at the historic Barry County Courthouse on election night a couple weeks ago and saw community service in action.
Coach V reaches 500 wins
Purdy and Cassville softball coach Lori Videmschek earned her 500th career high school softball coaching win, defeating Crane 11-1 on April 4. Videmschek was also inducted into the Missouri High School Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame this year.
