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Thursday, January 9, 2020 • The Vedette • greenfieldvedette.com
COMMENTARY My Turn By Bob Jackson
Listen and silent are spelled with the same letters. CHURCH SIGN: Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are. I found that growing up in the 1960s was a lot more fun than being in my sixties. I am just mad. I waited my whole life for 2020. Not a single George Jetson car in sight. You have to be at least 50 years old to know the Jetsons. Too busy is a myth. People make time for things important to them. False friends are worse than bitter enemies. MORE COUNTRY WISDOM Some folks would say a lot more if they didn’t talk so much. Advice most needed is least heeded. An ounce of doing is
worth a pound of talk. Don’t try to hold a barn cat against his will. If wishes were horses, some folk would need a lot of hay. When you feel neighborly, dust a little sugar on your words and cookies. GREAT IDEA A man from Neodesha, Kansas, will provide free college tuition for families that move to the town and graduate from high school there. LOOKING BACK JANUARY 2000 Lockwood Tiger boys basketball team wins Golden City Tournament Doris Lillenkamp named director of Good Shepard Nursing Home. Gary Banta celebrates working 20 years at Coose Trailers.
Missouri State Representative Ronnie Miller (R) Stockton will run for third term. Nelle Hunt turns 112 years old. Fred’s Fish House opens in Ash Grove. Don Griger named new director Dade County Nursing Home. QUESTION OF WEEK Pat Kriesller of Greenfield won the malt at Red’s last week on the question about the cave east of Neola. It was Martin’s Cave or Emral Lake Cave. Question this week: What was the name of the Ford auto dealership on South Allison Street in Greenfield? Winner gets a malt at Red’s. Send answer to johncoffeecsa@gmail. com or call 417-8606656.
Royster 1-12-2012, Marlin Dodd 1-12-2008, Shorty Ennis 1-12-2000, Joan Emery 1-13-2011, Harold Ray Gayer 1-13-2017, Anna Marshall 1-13-2018, Guy Killingsworth 1-14-2006, Grandma Elizabeth Hargis 1-14-1998, Jennie Gilmore 1-14-1996, Marilyn Myers 1-15-2002, Macky Davis 1-15-2012, Larry Spain 1-15-2015 and Goober Estep 1-15-2019. Gone but never forgotten. I guess everyone made it through New Year’s Eve. I visited with Sherry Hargis that afternoon and then came home to babysit Bodhi Baker while his parents went out with Logan Baker and Cheyenne Clark. This was the first time in a long time that I made it till midnight. Chelsey Martin has really enjoyed her break from work for a week spoiling Bodhi. But all good things come to an end and back to work she went on Thursday. Without Bodhi at the store this past week, it seems like we have got a lot accomplished, too. But he was missed by our customers and we are all back to our routine now. New Year’s Day was quiet around my house and I got some cleaning done. Thursday was Mom’s 88th birthday and Janie and I treated her to Krispy Kreme donuts and lunch. She received lots of phone calls and had a good day. I understand some parents got an awesome Christmas present when they were told they were going to be grandparents.
Nathan and Karen Roby are delighted with the news from their son, Tyler and Stacey that they are expecting in July. Not only that but it will be twin boys. Congratulations to you all!! What a bag July will be! Also, Kelby Davis and Sierra Watson are happy to announce they will be having a baby in July, too. Nothing like little ones to bring a smile to our faces. Vi Davis is busy making quilts for all her little ones coming. I believe she has three new great-grand babies coming in 2020. Congratulations to the Greenfield third grade girls basketball team on their first game Saturday against Liberal. In a close game, they won 11-10. Those scoring for the Wildcats were: Khloe Niehoff, seven pts; Mia Thompson and Maliyah Mandley both added two. Jerry and Ann Glenn and their two children and two granddaughters are enjoying a wonderful vacation together on the beach. What a way to start the new year. Was sorry to see in the paper where June Richter, 98, of Ash Grove, passed away. My dad used to haul cattle for her and her dad, George Crussell. She leaves behind one son, David Richter and one daughter, Kathy Tipton and many grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren, in 1995; son, Danny Richter; and sisters, Jean Richter and Shirley Christian.
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Coach Jackson Named Mr. Irresistible 1969-70
The Vedette’s very own reporter Bob Jackson as “Mr. Irresistible.” Then Coach Jackson, he was named as Mr. Irreisistible for 1969-70 due to his great ankle wrapping ability. (Submitted photo, originally printed in the Greenfield High School ACTA of ‘70)
Backroads of So. Greenfield By Carmen Hargis Baker Birthdays: January 9th-Robin “Johnson”, twins-Emmett and Mikah Anderson 6, Paige Hargis 25, Molli Shaw 26, Sophia McDowell 28, Gerry Ruark 49 and Charles Kramer 79; 10th-Kinley Nash 5, Dylan Noad 23, Carrie Staudt 34, Grant Ruark 51, Tonia East 57 and Uncle Terry Myers 72; 11th-Charles Gass, Brittany Bean 27 and Michael Brown 66; 12th-Billy Judd, Jennifer Friend, Rylan Holman 5, Haylee Holland 5 and Janet Burns 69; 13th-Randy Feasel, Brennan Anderson 6, Colton Beckley 9, Caden Duke 17, Robbie Jackson 52, Bill McKinley 61, Donald Gillen the big 70, Jackie East 76, Howard Thieman 78 and Nelson Marlowe 86; 14th-Briar Wallen, Kim Kinder, Bodhi Gladden 1, Josiah Keene 16, Isabella Young 10, Colin McMasters 16, Jamie Baker 37 and Nikki Pickett 62; 15thLandon Wilmoth 10, Kya Meyers 12, Jennifer Essary 20, Kelby Davis 24, Grace McMasters 24 and Glenn Kramer 73. Wishing you all a wonderful birthday! Anniversaries: January 9th-Mark and Stephanie Davis 27 years; 10th-Junior and Becky Hurd 7 years; 12th-Nick and Renae Brown 25 years; 14th-Tyler and Stacey Roby 3 years. Wishing you many more years of happiness! In Memory: Mae Menzies 1-9-2009, Ruth Trost 1-9-2014, Rev. Bill Good 1-9-2016, Aunt Mary Frieze 1-10-2008, Joker Hall 1-11-2013, Sheila Newkirk 1-11-2017, Karen
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Her service was Monday at Center Baptist Church in Ash Grove. Also, long-time friend of my sister, Kaki Payne, lost her husband, Kenneth Payne, 73, to cancer on December 23, 2019. Kaki has been to every birthday party Tassy has had for her kids and to lots of ballgames, too. She is like part of our family. I want to extend sympathy out to all those who have lost a loved one. Bodhi spent a few hours with us on Saturday night while Stormy and Chelsey tried out the new restaurant in Dadeville. They reported it was very good. Tassy went back for her check-up last week and her leukemia is still in remission. They are still trying to wean her off of some of her medicine but decided to leave the dose where it is at for now. Every time they try to lower it she gets sick so decided this was best for now. She won’t have to report back for a whole month. She was thrilled to hear that; the weekly drive to Kansas City was getting old. Sunday Stormy, Chelsey and Bodhi went to visit Papa Baker in Ash Grove. Papa had a wagon re-done for Bodhi that has been in the family for 125 years. It is a real nice heirloom that should last thru several more generations. Rick Baker also visited with his dad Sunday, too. Can you believe this January weather we are having? I know it won’t last but it sure is nice for this
time of year. But I’d say come calving time in February and March we will be wishing for this nice weather. Steve and Tracy Lasater took advantage of the nice weather and went hiking at Roaring River State Park over the weekend. Wishing Dalson Meyer a speedy recovery from knee surgery he had over Christmas break. Congratulations to little Miss Sophia Wilmoth on going to Memphis for her first Blues & BBQ Gymnastics competition. She came home with a first and three seconds in her events and a First Place All Around. Sophia is the daughter of Chase and Chelsie Wilmoth and the granddaughter of Doug and Karen Sexton and Shirley “Jones” Wilmoth. Everyone have a great week.
Assumption By Frank Berry
Unless he specifies, never assume a writer is writing of you. You may know also the writer does not write of anyone else you have heard of. He writes words of life, surely so, events and places, if any word touches your heart, it is you - not he - who has arranged the touch. He merely draws your heart out - for you to hold and see - to act. Look at his words. He cobbles one at a time. We Know Though they have always carried us, we cannot take our heroes with us. If you’ve learned, you’ve learned. And you have won! God is the essence of all truth. We must learn what truth means. Love will always carry you. It is your buoy. It is your hope. See that star? It is for you. Go to it! Now! What is a whale but a great large fish? What is a thought but a great large universe? We know whales are not fishes. We know many things that are not! If your whole essence is pure love, you are winning the game! Do not blind yourself. Go look. See. And hear.
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