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Today's News - July
25, 2009
Figure
8 Provides Thrills And Spills
The grandstands at the Monroe County Fairgrounds
were packed Friday night for the always-popular Figure 8 Race during the annual
county fair. The cars sped around the looped-track to make their laps on the way
to the finish line.
The drivers thrilled the crowd with several big collisions and rollovers, which
brought standing ovations once the drivers gave the thumbs up that they were
uninjured.
One of the highlights occurred in the final championship heat when Leroy Reitz
rolled his car at one of the turns. With smoke and steam rolling out of the
upside down car, Leroy crawled out of the passenger side. He urged the firemen
to help him push the car back on its wheels and he soon hopped back in and
revved the engine. But to his disappointment, the crash killed the engine and
failed to re-start.
Firefighters work quickly to help Leroy Reitz
out of his car after it overturned during the Figure 8 Race.
- photo by Judy Brinkmann
Andrew Glessner gets the checkered flag
for finishing first place in an early heat of the Figure 8 Race.
Top finishers in
the compact class of the Figure 8 Race are,
left to right, Justin
Scheibe, third place; Scott Rohlfing, first place; and Andrew Robert, second
place. They are presented their trophies by Little Miss Ashley Osterhage and
Fair Queen Amanda Stumpf. -
photo by Gage Wienhoff
Fair Queen Amanda Stumpf and Little Ashley Osterhage
present the top awards to
large car class winners Sean Lloyd, left, first place; Tony Busch, right, second
place; and Jake Allscheid, (not pictured); third place. -
photo by Gage Wienhoff
Brian Eckart, 26, John Busch, 32, and Sean Lloyd, 05,
make their way around the track during the final heat of the Figure 8 Race.
Horse Shows
Continue At The Fair
Mary Sollberger and Savannah accept a trophy from Bev Meyer, right,
for first place in the stakes race Thursday evening at the Monroe County Fair.
Sollberger also competed atop her horse Whiskey during this week’s events.
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photo by Carol Floarke
Recent Obituary
Ralph
Riebeling,
62, of Waterloo, died July 24, 2009, in St. Louis. He was born Dec. 31, 1946 in
Red Bud, the son of the late Arthur Sr. and Lena (nee Korves) Riebeling. Mr.
Riebeling is survived by his wife, Ruth Ann (nee Kohler) Riebeling; children
Andrew Riebeling of Cape Girardeau and Catherine (Charles) Huffmann of Fenton,
Mo.; grandchildren Andrea, Olivia and Joslin Riebeling, and Samantha, Catherine
and Lindsey Huffmann; sisters Clara Sellers of Red Bud. Lenora (Tony) Painter of
Pacific, Mo., and Shirley Menke of Waterloo; a brother Arthur (Leona) Riebeling
Jr. of Waterloo; sisters-in-law Margaret Davis, Lorraine Novack, Bernadine Hoff,
Monica (Marvin) Hitzemann, Emiline Riebeling and Gladys Riebeling, all of
Waterloo; and brothers-in-law Paul (Mary Ann) Kohler of Waterloo and George
Bieber of Arcadia, Mo.; along with nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded
in death by a sister, two brothers, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law. Mr.
Riebeling was a member of the Maeystown Sportsman's Club, Operating Engineers
Local 520, SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church of Waterloo and was a former
supervisor at Tower Rock Stone Co. in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Visitation is Sunday,
July 26, from 12 noon to 8 p.m., at Quernheim Funeral Home. Funeral is Monday,
at 10 a.m., at SS. Peter and Paul Church in Waterloo with Father Stan Konieczny
officiating. Mr. Riebeling will be buried at the church’s cemetery.
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