On September 19th at 3 pm, the Worth County Fire Protection District will host a golf tournament at the Grant City Golf Course. Registration is 2:20 pm, with tee time at 3 pm. Cost is $35 per person and will include 18 holes, a dinner meal, and two mulligans. Golf carts are not provided.
At dusk, there will be a four hole golf scramble. Cost is $5. Balls are not provided.
Proceeds will go towards the Worth County Fire protection District.
On Monday, a staff member of the North Harrison school district tested positive for the Coronavirus. The individual is self-isolating at home. Close contacts have been identified by the school district and the Harrison County Health Department. This is in addition to the positive case and the presumed positive case from last week.
Eagleville Church of Christ will be holding a Gospel Meeting from September 20th to 23rd. It is located across the street from the North Harrison School. Michael Clarke will be the speaker. The lessons will be as follows:
10:00 a.m. Sunday Bible Class - Godly Parents Rearing Godly Children.
11:00 a.m. Sunday Worship - Priorities, is God First?
5:00 p.m. Sunday - The Providence of God, does God work in our lives today?
7:00 p.m. Monday - Personal Responsibility, positive change begins with me.
7:00 p.m. Tuesday - Becoming a Leader Begins with Service.
7:00 p.m. Wednesday - Dealing with Death.
On Monday morning, Herb Petty of Atlanthus Grove (right) passed away. He was a hellraiser back during the tumultuous 1960’s, when the US was fighting in Vietnam despite rampant protests. But unlike many who went on to have normal lives, Herb never quit protesting against injustices. He served in Vietnam, yet became totally disillusioned with war and protested against it ever since.
In the 1970’s, he was instrumental in the food cooperative movement. His farm in Atlanthus Grove was the place to be for folks who still wanted to fight the system and rage against the machine.
In 1984, Petty was the target of a massive police raid against his home, with the cops alleging that he ran a marijuana manufacturing operation. The cops surrounded his place with sawed-off machine guns one morning, and Petty and his girlfriend woke up to a shouted, “You’re under arrest!”
Petty fought the charges, which could have brought him 20 years. He retained John Downs, a former state legislator, who accused the cops of Nazi brown shirt tactics. Finally, the prosecutor offered him an Alford plea, in which the defendant maintains his innocence, but admits the state can make a case against him. He was given probation.
Herb continued to live next to the land and offer hospitality to kindred spirits. He was one of the original supporters and boosters of the Sheridan Express in 2006 and sat on the board for a time.
In 2011, he stood nearly alone at the Ketcham Sports Complex in Trenton when a public hearing on a state lawsuit against Premium Standard (now Smithfield) turned into a massive pep rally demanding that the state allow them to keep operating. He was the one opponent of the operation out of around 3,000 people present. Even his opponents, however, respected his ability to show hospitality to other people, even when they were on the other side of the fence. He fought animal confinement operations wherever they sprung up in Northwest Missouri, forming many unlikely friendships along the way.
During the height of the Iraq War, people saw a totally unexpected side of him. He was driving friends to Washington, DC, to protest against another unpopular war. He and his friends were sleeping in their bus, when a burglar attempted to break in. Herb hit the window with a powerful right hook and the burglar fled. Nobody realized that Herb was a fighter in time of need. Later, he still found time to sightsee in DC even as he protested against the war.
Last week, someone ran over an armadillo in Grant City across the street from Hart’s Drive-In. The Missouri Department of Conservation says that armadillos have been moving north of the Missouri River since around 1980. They were first found in Texas in 1849, and they have been expanding their range north and east ever since. They are common in Missouri and are found statewide.
They typically eat insects and other invertebrates such as ants, beetles, flies, earthworms, and even small reptiles. They can also eat fungi and fruit. They locate food with their nose, which they hold close to the ground.
Worth County dropped Schuyler County Friday in a 60-0 breather as they get ready for their GRC showdown with Albany Friday. It wasn’t clear which Rams team would show up, the team that dismantled Keytesville 70-22, or the one that fell 68-8 the next week against Pattonsburg. It turned out to be the latter, as Worth County stopped them on defense and continued their momentum from the second half of their Doniphan West win. The Rams had 19 players listed in the program, but they were shorthanded, only dressing out 16 for Friday’s game.
Worth County continued to battle injuries as Andrew Alarcon (ankle) went down after they had built up a lead. It took Levi Cassavaugh a couple of series to get into the flow of the game, but once he did, Worth County picked up where they left off and put away the Rams by halftime. The Rams elected to play the second half, and the second stringers added score.
Dylan McIntyre ran back the opening kickoff to the Rams 28, and then Andrew Alarcon got a block from Auston Pride and moved a pile to the 16 for a first down. He then fumbled on his next play, but got a block from Austin Welch and recovered to take it to the four. Two plays later, he got into the end zone and took an option in to make it 8-0 with 9:48 left in the first quarter.
Schuyler County went three and out on their first series, as Justin Dye and Nate Adwell combined on a hit on quarterback Gavin Veatch, Dye blew up a fullback dive from Bronson Shaw, and Dawson Vore blew up a short pass to Shaw. It looked like the Rams would get a break, as a muffed punt gave them the ball back on the Tiger 25, but Vore got a sack, Chase Atkins had perfect pursuit on Kale Windy and dropped him for a loss, and then Vore and Welch combined to hurry Veatch into an incompletion. The ensuing kick was shanked, and Worth County got the ball back on its own 31. They only needed one play to take advantage as Braxton Hightshoe’s play action pass to Dylan McIntyre went for 49 yards and a score with 6:38 left. Andrew Alarcon got in on his final effort to make it 16-0.
Veatch picked up four yards, but then Jackson Runde dropped Windy for a loss, and Austin Welch dropped Veatch for a loss of four back to the 25. Dye rushed the punter, the kick was shanked again, and Worth County got the short field again at the Rams 31. The Tigers shot themselves in the foot with a holding penalty and were faced with fourth and five at the 26, but Andrew Alarcon caught a pass at the 7 despite being closely guarded, setting up first and goal. On the next play, Schuyler County set up a blitz, guessed right, but overran Andrew Alarcon, allowing him to walk in with 2:05 left in the first to make it 22-0.
Nate Adwell blew up a screen pass, and once again, Schuyler County shanked the punt, putting the Tigers on the 36. But this time, Schuyler County stopped Worth County, as Andrew Alarcon was hurt on the series when one of the maroon shirts made a shoestring tackle to stop him.
But Schuyler County fumbled the ball right back to Worth County as Chase Atkins got the hit and Jackson Runde recovered at the Rams 23. This time, Nate Adwell got four yards and a pair of keepers from Braxton Hightshoe got the Tigers a first down at the 6. Levi Cassavaugh picked up two to the four, and a play action pass from Hightshoe to Runde fooled everyone as the Tigers were on the board again. Braxton Hightshoe’s keeper fooled everyone, and Austin Welch knocked down his defender to pave the way for the extra points to make it 30-0 with 9:19 left in the second quarter.
Both teams exchanged stops on defense, as Worth County threw an interception, but Schuyler County was stopped twice on downs. Finally, Levi Cassavaugh started finding his stride as a runningback as he bounced one outside for 11 yards to the Rams 28 for a first down after the Tigers started on the 40. Cassavaugh weaved his way for 13 more after getting a block from Nate Adwell, picked up 14 more to the 1, and followed the blocking of Adwell into the end zone with 3:40 left to make it 36-0. On the next series, Worth County got a pick six as Dawson Vore blitzed and hurried Veatch into an interception, which Runde returned for a score with 3:32 left. Braxton Hightshoe’s counter fooled everyone and he got in to make it 44-0. Runde nearly picked off two more as the Rams threw some desperation passes to try to get back in the game.
Schuyler tried to go for it on fourth and long for some reason deep in their own territory, and that set up Worth County’s next score after Austin Welch hit Veatch as he was throwing on fourth and 12, and the Tigers got the ball back on the Rams 23. Levi Cassavaugh carried the team on his back and the Tigers overcame a holding penalty to score again with 12.6 seconds left. Dylan McIntyre caught a pass to make it 52-0 at the half.
The second string offense added a score in the third quarter when Tyler New threw a strike to Chance Jacobs and Grant McIntyre ran in the extra points to make it 60-0. Chance Jacobs added a sensational catch later in the game, and Colt Cameron ripped off a 10 yard gain for the Tigers.
Two more people have tested positive for the Coronavirus in Worth County, the Tri-County Health Department reported Friday. There are now 16 total cases in the county, of which 10 have recovered. There are now 107 total cases in Gentry County, of which 85 have recovered. There are now 99 cases in Harrison County. There are now 3,486 cases in Region H and 40 deaths. There are now 97,591 confirmed cases in Missouri and 1,691 deaths.
