Timothy Tschram
News Briefs
Season’s first Cruise-In coming up The Cassville Cruisers will host a Cruise-In on May 14 from 5 p.m. to dusk at the Barry County Museum, south of Cassville on Highway 112.
2 injured in rear-end wreck
INJURY WRECK When: 2:55 p.m. Friday Where: Highway 37, one mile north of Butterfield Who: Michelle Foster, 18, of Purdy, and Nancy Gauss, 66, of Cassville Two people were injured on Friday in a wreck at 2:55 p.m.
Spring cleaning opportunities coming to locals
It’s that time of year again — yard sale season. Each spring, local communities set dates for city wide yard sales and city wide cleanup to aid in the spring cleaning activities.
Entrepreneurship Day winners named
Cassville FBLA students Avery Chappell, Ryan Knight, Jazmin Bradford, DJ Glidewell, Courtney Wall and Meadow Richardson recently earned first place in the Product-Commercial category at FBLA Entrepreneurship Day. Contributed photo
Cassville FBLA qualifies 24 to SLC
For the first time in two years, the Cassville FBLA Chapter traveled to the District V competition in Monett, where they had 48 medalists and 24 students qualify to attend the State Leadership Conference in April. Since the start of the COVID pandemic, the District V competition has been held online. Students moving on are: Jonathan Oliphant, Emerson Grossman, Sharayah Seymour, Ella Reuter, Samantha Sparkman, Cosmo Rhoads, Joey Burton, Reese Heiden, Jacob Martinez, Avery Chappell, Emma Berndt, Jaycie Ertel, Isabella Dunbar, Landry Parnell, Isabella Muise, Angela Cortez-Gonalzes, Jillian LeCompte, Annie Moore, Chaney Cox, Kyah Saffold, Macie Walker, Avery Crain, Maddock Roark and Marianne McCrackin. Contributed photo
Arning provides donation to CMS industrial arts students
Employees at Arning Companies recently made a donation of $500 to the Industrial Arts Program at Cassville Middle School. Funds were raised through Arning’s Casual Friday for Charity (CFFC) fund, which gives employees the opportunity to “dress-down” on Fridays by making contribution to the fund. Employees then select a local organization to donate funds raised through the CFFC program. Robbie Artherton, industrial arts teacher, plans to use the donation to purchase a new circular saw and a grinder for the shop. Front row, from left: Ashlyn Stringer, Jadyn Stewart, Julie Gregory, Riley Stumpff, Payton Ray and Kennedy Truman. Middle row, from left: Ethan Sizemore, Cayden Rohde, Tyra Sturgell, Gage Barnes and Colton Roark. Back row, from left: Artherton; Mark Speakman, director of production at Arning; Eric Bohmke, manufacturing manager at Arning; and Merlyn Johnson, Cassville superintendent. Contributed photo
History comes to life in Cassville
Kaiden Shellenberger tells Megan Cox’s kindergarten class about Ramses, whom he was portraying in the Cassville Middle School’s living wax museum on Thursday. Kyle Troutman/editor@cassville-democrat.com
It’s a pirate’s life for SKITS
In SKITS’ production of “Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen” on April 22, Sarah Huffington, played by Heather Andres, pines for a pirate husband instead of her likely fiancé, Roger Goodman, played by Andy Miller. Listening to her “love woes” were Kate and Belinda, played by Micah Keeton and JJ Hight. Kyle Troutman/editor@cassville-democrat.com
DAN NICKLE
Dan Nickle, age 80, passed away on April 28, 2022. Dan was born in Fresno, Calif., on September 14, 1941. He was raised in Southwest Missouri. He then served four years in the U.S. Army, stationed in Boston, Mass., and Teran, Iran (1964-1967). In 1973, he began his career with the City of Kansas City, Mo., where he worked as a Plan Examiner and Codes Administrator. In 1982, Dan then began a 25-year career with the City of Lakewood, Colo. Dan is fondly remembered for Co-Founding the Educational Institute in Denver and his years of work on the Board of Directors for Wilderness on Wheels, the Colorado Chapter of Building Officials, and the International Conference of Building Officials
JOHN HAROLD RAY
John Harold Ray, 66, of Eagle Rock, passed away Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. He was born Oct.
