Stories from Sunday, August 12, 2018

Three Rivers College and the Three Rivers Endowment Trust will host the third annual "Run 4 the Arts" four-mile run/walk or one-mile walk at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Three Rivers College Poplar Bluff Campus. All monies raised will continue to fund an endowed scholarship held by the Three Rivers Endowment Trust for Music and Art students attending Three Rivers College. Sponsorship opportunities are also currently available...

Evelyn Kay Smith and her husband Jeremy Allen Smith of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, are the parents of a daughter Emery Jean Smith born at 5:26 a.m. Monday, July 9, 2018, at Saint Francis Health Care Family Birthplace, The baby's birth weight was 7 pounds 3 ounces and she was 19 1/4 inches. She has one brother Elijah...

One student from Butler County Ross Dare of Poplar Bluff High School is among Missouri's brightest high school students who attended the Missouri Scholars Academy (MSA) in June at the University of Missouri. MSA began in 1985 and each summer provides 330 rising high-school juniors the opportunity to expand their educational and social skills. ...

SEDALIA, Mo. - University of Missouri's Art on the Move outreach program comes to the Missouri State Fair, Aug. 9-19 in Sedalia, with a photo exhibition featuring the work of MU alumna and Poplar Bluff native Kayla Huett. The exhibit, "We Catched Fish and Talked," is located at the MU Extension and Engagement booth at Mizzou Central, housed in the MO-Ag Theatre on MSF Blvd. just north of the Grandstand. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily...

Last Saturday, Pastor Jamie Jones of Divine Holiness Outreach Center of Caruthersville and Ricky Robinson, founder of the after school activity center of Hayti, Mo., hosted a welcome-back-to-school assembly and distributed school supplies to all students in attendance from several area schools at the Hayti school gymnasium. ...

FISK, Mo. -- Larry Joe Ward, 44, of Poplar Bluff went to meet his Heavenly Father and his earthly father (Larry Dale Ward who preceded him in death) Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, in Poplar Bluff. Mr. Ward was born Aug. 18, 1973, in Poplar Bluff. He was a barber at Valley Plaza Barber and Style Shop...

Darrell Dwayne Brown Jr., 23, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., passed away Friday, Aug. 10, 2018 at his residence. Darrell, beloved son of Tina Sieben Batton, was born Nov. 7, 1994 in Poplar Bluff. He enjoyed spending time with his family and was known for being quite a jokester. Darrell loved being with his dog Gemma and hunting, trapping, fishing and gardening...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive? Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business. Repeatedly denouncing Riyadh's arrest of women's rights advocate Samar Badawi, Freeland has driven the two countries close to a break in diplomatic relations...

By MARC A. THIESSEN WASHINGTON -- Imagine if it emerged that the Republican chairman of the House or Senate intelligence committee had a Russian spy working on their senate staff. Think it would cause a political firestorm? Well, this week we learned that Sen. ...

Alfred Ray Gipson, 57, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, at his residence. A celebration of life memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff. Family requests memorials be made to Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home...

Amid the festivities at Bellerive Country Club this week was a ceremony on Wednesday honoring Ozzie Smith as a PGA Championship Host City Champion. To celebrate, tournament organizers brought out just about everyone they could final locally, a who's who of St. Louis sports. Among the luminaries on hand to honor Smith was one active player: Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko...

Staff Reports Achieving balance in one's life is hard in today's rushed world, organizers of the Women Aware 31st annual conference Sept. 20 are offering breakout sessions to help. If you never evaluate what you are doing, how you are going to accomplish life's goals, and commit to a timeline you will always wish you had done life different, Davine Conover said...

DEXTER -- William (Bill) Barker, son of the late Lyman Barker and Maude Doris Barker was born June 20, 1933, in Sac City, Iowa, and departed this life Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, at John J. Pershing Medical Center in Poplar Bluff at the age of 85. Mr. Barker was a veteran of the Unites States Army and served during the Korean War. He worked as the plant manager for Brown Shoe Company. Mr. Barker was the recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow award through the Rotary Club...

Staff Reports A Harviell man had to be airlifted for medical care after he was attacked by two bulls Friday morning, according to information from Butler County Sheriff's Department. Bob Newcomb told sheriff deputies that he was attempting to load two bulls onto a trailer when they began to fight and knocked him onto the ground. The bulls then began to ram and stomp Newcomb, officials say...

A math teacher from Poplar Bluff High School recently traveled across the world to share her passion for teaching in Kathmandu. During the month of July, Brandi Compass lived in Nepal through a fellowship with Limited Resource Teacher Training, a social organization providing training for teachers in areas where people live on less than $5 a day. Compass, 33, applied for the 26-day service project because she believes in global education...

The Charleston Fighting Squirrels baseball program is used to winning. But this is something new. Charleston scored three runs in the fifth inning and dispatched Mobile (Ala.) 4-1 on Saturday afternoon at Russell E. Diethrick Jr. Park in Jameston, New York, claiming its first-ever Senior Babe Ruth World Series championship and staking its claim as the best Senior Babe Ruth team in the country...