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MISSOURI’S BEST SMALL-TOWN WEEKLY NEWSPAPER 75¢ Four-time Gold Cup winner, Missouri Press Association, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 PURDY CITY COUNCIL PONDERING MOVING CITY HALL — PAGE 8 LADY WILDCATS THIS CLOSE TO UPSET >>> Cassville drops heartbreaker at Monett’s senior night. — PAGE 3 CASSVILLE emocrat DFEBRUARY 6, 2019 | CASSVILLE-DEMOCRAT.COM ACCESS CLINIC Who: Wheaton School District, Access Family Care clinics What: Clinic on Wheaton campus $1 million gift to fund Why: Mental health access, easier access to healthcare Access Cassville scholarships er in southwest Cassville students who go to a Cassville graduate, SCHOLARSHIP TRUST Missouri. Missouri college or universi- teacher leaves trust Who: Cassville school district Richard Asbill, ty for education and teach at a plans to What: Received a $1 million trust Cassville super- Missouri primary or secondary to school district for scholarships for Cassville intendent, said school. students going to college for in December, Asbill announced the news to partner with BY KYLE TROUTMAN education Riddle’s attorney teachers in the district during a More: First scholarships hope to [email protected] contacted the dis- staff meeting on Jan. 30, getting be awarded in 2020 RIDDLE Students in the Cassville trict to inform offi- emotional at times as he read school school district who aim to become cials that Riddle portions of Riddle’s obituary and teachers may soon benefit from “J.D.” Riddle, a 1942 Cassville left a $1 million trust to Cassville, comments left on his obituary Douglas: ‘There is the generosity of James Doyle graduate and agriculture teach- to be used for scholarships for CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 no question that mental health is a GOING AWAY PARTY HELD FOR LOCAL DOCTOR real concern’ BY JORDAN PRIVETT [email protected] The Wheaton school district and Access Family Care Clinic are considering the possibility of opening a clinic on the Wheaton school campus. Lance Massey, Wheaton superintendent, said the conver- sation to this point has been one of him asking the board if they think the idea of a clinic on cam- pus is something they would like to entertain. “I have heard from Access medical that they have a board of directors that have discussed partnering with Wheaton schools for a clinic,” he said. “At this point, both entities have said, ‘Yes, we would like to explore that possibility.’” According to Massey, the school is at a point now of look- ing into what that partnership would look like. “They have sent someone During the going away party for Dr. Jamie Zengotita on Thursday, Karen Gohr dished out cake and Nicki Gamet poured punch for down to draw up some plans, as co-workers, patients and friends who came to say goodbye to their beloved doctor. Jordan Privett/[email protected] far as, what kind of renovation we may have to do to bring this into reality,” he said. “The entire discussion is still very prelimi- Mercy Clinic bids farewell to loved co-worker nary in talk.” BY JORDAN PRIVETT 14-plus years here.” Massey said the project would [email protected] FAREWELL DOCTOR Weaver said Zengotita is a great be a large one. r. Jamie Zengotita, at Mercy Who: Dr. Zengotita influence to people and is a great pillar “Even if everything went per- Clinic Cassville, is moving on What: Going away party, people describe in the community. fectly, that timeline wouldn’t with an administrative promo- working with Dr. Z “We put on a video to surprise him D Why: Administrative promotion in GoHealth even be the start of the next tion, and the hospital and its patients with from patients to staff where they school year,” he said. “I believe threw him a going away party on all said thank you and gave well-wish- that their vision is to have a clin- Thursday to show their support. but he can see anybody. es,” she said. “We put that together as ic on campus.” Taylor Weaver, practice manager at “It was open to the public because a keepsake for him.” According to Massey, the Mercy Clinic Cassville, said Zengotita he has a patient base of a little over Weaver said Zengotita has been with Wheaton school district has not is a family medicine doctor and typi- 3,000 people,” she said. “He has Mercy Clinic Cassville for more than 14 CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 cally sees the more chronic patients, impacted the community in his CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 New owners take over Four State Stockyard in Exeter interested in this type of work, and probably the biggest one being that Family operated STOCKYARD the opportunity to buy the stock- we do the sale day on Tuesdays business hope to offer Who: Chris Hammen, Chris Keeling yard became available.” now, instead of Saturdays,” he said. co-owners Hammen said he and Co-Owner “The main reason for that is that good market What: Four State Stockyard Chris Keeling came up with Four maybe having the sale day on a Where: Exeter State Stockyard together, and they weekday will bring in more buy- BY JORDAN PRIVETT have known each other closely for ers. Also, everyone likes to have a [email protected] Purdy, and his father was a dairy a long time. Saturday off.” Barry County Regional farmer. “I married his oldest sister,” he According to Hammen, there is Stockyards in Exeter was recent- “I was raised on a dairy farm,” said. “To get back at me, he married also going to be an evening replace- ly purchased by the Hammen and Hammen said. “We ran and fed a my youngest sister.” ment cow sale now, so that people Keeling families, and the new own- calf operation.” Hammen said the last sale for who work day jobs can come in ers have changed the name to Four Hammen said he has nine chil- the previous owners was on Jan. 19, during the evening. State Stockyard. dren and the first six were all boys. and the first sale for the new owners “We are trying to run things sim- Chris Hammen, Four State “The boys grew up around farm- was on Jan. 22. ilar,” he said. “The main goal is to Stockyard co-owner, grew up in ing in this area,” he said. “We were “We did make some changes, CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 Providing family, internal medicine and OB care Extended hours and accepting new patients 7 39292 00068 8 Vol. 149, No. 3 CoxHealth Center Cassville ❘ 417-847-3500 ©2015 Cassville Democrat COVERING BARRY COUNTY, MO., LIKE THE MORNING DEW SINCE 1871. Page 2 • Wednesday, February 6, 2019 Cassville Democrat NEWS BRIEFS Quilt Guild hosting fundraiser Library System looks back at history The Table Rock Quilt Guild, based in Kimberling City, is app to checkout online Milburn said there is Libraries LIBRARY books, movies, audio, mag- power in having the col- hosting a Hawaiian-themed fundraiser for the Kimberling Who: Area Library on National Quilt Day. It will be March 16, offer more to Barry-Lawerence azines and music,” she said. lective. Regional Library Milburn said for her, “What a small branch at the Library from 10 a.m. to 2 pm. Angela Walters, the What: Missouri’s first ‘Midnight Quilter,’ will be the guest speaker. The tickets community by one of the benefits of can provide is vastly dif- consolidated library district being a consolidated ferent from what a larger at the door are $10. In addition to the speaker, the Guild coming together More: Holds one of the will have a unique boutique, grab bags, a drawing for an state’s largest public library library is that everything branch can provide,” she opportunity quilt, two vendors and a lunch will be served. BY JORDAN PRIVETT collections of books and runs smoothly from the said. “The advantage there regional office located in to the public is having [email protected] other media Shell Knob VFW Memorial Post 2203 hosting The Barry-Lawerence the Monett branch. access to everything and Regional Library System that we are allowed to col- “We have a delivery sys- many more services.” Veterans Breakfast and Outreach consolidated from the lect by vote from the two tem that is a huge advan- According to Milburn, On Saturday, and the second Saturday of nearly every two-county library sys- counties.” tage to the public,” she the Barry-Lawrence month, the VFW Memorial Post 2203 on Highway 39 tem in 1973, and was the Milburn said the library said. “If someone wanted Regional Library even North of Shell Knob hosts a veterans’ breakfast. Any vet- first district in the state of district currently consists a book from Cassville but offers homebound deliv- eran of the U.S. armed services, regardless of where they of 10 branches, but the didn’t want to drive down eries. served, and their families are invited to meet at the Post Missouri to do so. Gina Milburn, direc- Purdy branch will be clos- there, then three times a “If someone can’t get between the hours of 8-10 a.m. Saturday for a breakfast ing on March 1. week we have deliveries out, we will bring books to of pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, coffee and juice; all at tor of library systems at Barry-Lawerence Regional “We have a large col- and the driver will pick them,” she said. “Libraries no cost. The Post would also like to reach out in particular up the book and take it are awesome, and we offer to all veterans who’ve served in Southeast Asia during the Library, said being a con- lection of items in our solidated library district system,” she said.