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DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ENDS SUNDAY; HALLOWEEN IS TUESDAY Ozark COunTy ¢ Times 75 GAINESVILLE, Mo. www.ozArkcouNtytimes.coM wEdNESdAy, octobEr 25, 2017 Gainesville man charged with parking lot stabbing incident Kevin Robinson, 28, of Gainesville is being held in the Ozark County Jail on a $25,000 cash- only bond, charged in connection with the Oct. 21 stabbing of 24-year-old Robert Chambers in Gainesville’s Town & Country Super- market parking lot. Robinson Robinson, who was arraigned Tuesday before Associate Judge Cynthia MacPherson, is scheduled to return to court for a criminal set- ting on Nov. 14. If convicted, he could face 10 to 30 years in prison for the class A felony assault charge. Robinson was arrested Monday night; how- ever, Monday morning, Ozark County Sheriff Darrin Reed told the Times that Chambers, the victim, was not cooperative with officers, mak- Darla Sullivan and her grandkids, from left Jese Landry, Claire Turner, Jayce Turner and Jack ing the investigation challenging. Landry, enjoyed the 2016 Ozark County Trunk-or-Treat event on the Gainesville square. This “We’re still investigating, but it’s kind of year’s event is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31. hard to put a case together in a situation like this without cooperation from the victim,” Reed said Monday. However, according to a probable cause statement filed in the case, another wit- ness at Town & Country spoke with Ozark County Deputy Nick Jones and told the officer More fun Halloween events and he saw Robinson stab Chambers. Reed said Jones was dispatched to Town & Country at 5:16 p.m. Saturday after someone fall fests planned in this area reported that a stabbing had occurred in the parking lot. When the officer arrived on the scene, he was told that Chambers had been Halloween is Tuesday, and Ozark County residents may is hosting its Colorama fall festival Friday and Saturday, given a ride to the square. choose from a wide array of area activities to join in on the Oct. 27-28, at the Roy Danuser City Park in Bull Shoals. A Jones drove to the square, where he found fun. From trunk-or-treat events across the county to costume 5K run/walk will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday. Vendors will be Chambers with multiple stab wounds to the contests and Halloween parties, there’s no shortage of places operating, and outhouse races and a haunted hayride are neck, chest and back. Chambers reportedly told to celebrate the spooky and family-fun-filled holiday. In planned. For more information visit www.bullshoals.org. the officer that a fight broke out between him addition, several fall festivals are planned throughout the and a man he knew. He said he had ongoing area. Fall fest at Carl Wayne’s Nursery, issues with the other man. He also said that Mountain Home, Arkansas while the two men were fighting, the suspect This weekend Carl Wayne’s Nursery is hosting a fall fest from 2 to 4 pulled out a knife and began stabbing him. p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, at the nursery on Ninth Street in At 11:28 p.m. Monday, an Ozark County Colorama fall festival, Bull Shoals, Arkansas Mountain Home. The event will feature free 4x6 photos for dispatcher informed Chief Deputy Winston The Bull Shoals Lake-White River Chamber of Commerce Collins that Robinson was at a residence in See HALLOWEEN EVENTS, Page 15 Gainesville. When Collins arrived at the house, he observed an individual on the phone with someone, and that person motioned for the offi- cer to come inside. Robinson was also inside, and the officer placed him under arrest, accord- ing to the probable cause statement. The report says Robinson began making Area churches this week hosting incriminating statements regarding the where- abouts of the knife he used to stab Chambers. Collins read Robinson his Miranda rights, and ‘Unite to Worship’ revival services Robinson told the officer he discarded the knife on the Gainesville square. He directed the offi- cer to a drainage ditch near Highway 160; how- ever, Collins was not able to find the weapon. Robinson was escorted to the Ozark County Sheriff’s office, where he was interviewed. During the course of the interview, he reportedly told the officer that Chambers approached him while he was walking toward the front door of Town & County. Robinson said Chambers swung at him but missed, and Robinson then began swinging “wildly” with his knife in hand. He described stabbing Chambers with a pocket knife three times, once in the neck and two other times in the stomach area. Robinson reportedly said he then threw the knife in the drainage ditch. The victim was taken by air ambulance to a Cox South Hospital in S p r i n g f i e l d , where he was Times photo / Norene Prososki listed in stable Gainesville Church of Christ minister Halbert Smith welcomes a large crowd to the church Monday condition. It’s night for the first of a series of worship services being held this week in area churches. The services believed he has continue Thursday-Saturday with the theme, “Unity and Maturity in Christ – Ephesians 4:1-16.” since been dis- Copyright Ozark County Times charged. The 2017 Ozark County Christians Unite to Worship Each night’s service begins at 7 p.m. and includes a revival continues this week in area churches. The theme is welcome, an opening prayer, two songs and a sermon, fol- “Unity and Maturity in Christ – Ephesians 4:1-16,” and lowed by another two songs and a second sermon. Each nightly services that began Monday and Tuesday will con- service concludes with an invitation song and closing tinue at area churches Thursday through Saturday, Oct. prayer, followed by refreshments and fellowship. 26-28. Many churches hold their own regular Wednesday Although some residents have voiced criticism about the evening services, so the series does not include a service series that is being held at different denominations around tonight. the area, with two ministers from those different denomina- See REVIVAL, Page 16 Page 2 • OZARK COUNTY TIMES • Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Elijah Church of Christ celebrates 100th anniversary on current site This photo shows the current appearance of the Elijah Church of Christ building on V Highway west of Bakersfield. Editor’s note: This arti- Although the church is Thompson, I.W. Essex and cle about Elijah Church of celebrating its 100th anni- J.B. Harden, agreed that the Christ has been adapted by versary on the current site, land would be used for a Carol Pendergrass from a the Elijah Church of Christ church building and that the Feb. 13, 1975, story by actually got its start more cemetery would be a public Thelma Killion and Joyce than 130 years ago, on Nov. burial ground for all the Essex that was published in 23, 1885, when Peter and community. the Ozark County Times. Frances Spoon donated After the land was reac- approximately one and a quired for church purposes, Elijah Church of Christ half acres of land for school, a frame structure was built, will celebrate the 100th church and cemetery pur- and late in 1917, the congre- anniversary of its move to poses in an area where, 20 gation, which had been its current site on Sunday, years later, George S. meeting in the Fairview Nov. 5, with a homecoming Harden would establish a schoolhouse, returned service and other activities. post office named for his “home.” Everyone is welcome to join young son, Elijah. On the The Spoon log structure Elijah Church of Christ minister Cody Mayberry, right, stands at the front door of the the congregation in celebrat- land donated by the Spoon had served as a school for church with members, from left, Doug Bean and Donald Joice. ing this landmark event. family, a log building was only a brief time, followed Church service will begin at erected, and here a Church by the Fairview school- 10 a.m. with a potluck lunch of Christ congregation first house, which became the and refreshments following met in 1885. The congrega- only school in the commu- the service. tion continued to hold ser- nity. After the new church At 1:30 p.m., an assem- vices in the log structure building was completed, the Tommy Spoon is bly will be held to present until it burned sometime Spoon Cemetery became shown working on the the history of the church, around 1916. During these known as the Elijah Elijah church’s with time for visiting and years, the congregation Cemetery. native-rock building recalling the past. At 3 p.m., became known as the Elijah In the late 1930s, work sometime in the late the evening church service Church of Christ. began on a building to 1930s or early 1940s. will begin. After the fire, the land replace the old frame church The church will host a reverted back to the Spoon building that had been built gospel meeting Nov. 5-8 heirs. Then, in 1917, the in 1917. The old structure with Joel Carey as speaker. Spoon heirs C. A. and was torn down by Charles After the 3 p.m. Nov. 5 ser- Maude Beach and Ed and Boswell, who bought the vice, evening services will Sara Stewart sold the land to lumber from the dismantled be held at 7 p.m. through the elders of the church for building and took it to his Wednesday. $10. The church elders, J.A. farm, where it had originally been cut from trees on his land.