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Fair Queen Wrap-Up - July 25, 2010
Kimberli
Moore Named 2010 County Fair Queen Recent Waterloo High School graduate Kimberli Moore was crowned Sunday evening as the 2010 Monroe County Fair Queen. She was crowned by 2009 Queen Amanda Stumpf. Keagan Kristoff of Columbia was named first-runner-up and also Miss Congeniality. The second-runner-up was Melissa Vogt of Waterloo. Moore, 17, was sponsored by Progressive Family Care. In addition to her bouquet, sash, crown and trophy, the new queen was provided a 2010 Chevrolet Malibu provided by George Weber Chevrolet for use during fair week. The gas tank will be filled up by Wayne’s One Stop of Waterloo. Moore said she plans to attend Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville this fall and major in secondary education. While a student at WHS, Moore was a member of Renaissance, Trend, the Honor Roll and was named the MVP of the Bulldogs cheerleading squad.
Valmeyer
Grade School second grader Bailey Marie Felix was voted the 2010 Little
Miss. Felix, 7, is the daughter of Curtis and Ashley Felix. She has one
brother, Braiden, 1, a dog named Tink and a Belle is her cat. Bailey’s
hobbies are playing on trampolines, dancing, singing and gymnastics.
Weekend Wrap-Up - July 25, 2010
Eight-Day Monroe County Fair Begins Today
The annual Monroe County Fair begins today, Sunday, July 25 with the Fair Queen and Little Miss Pageant and runs through Sunday, Aug. 1, which will be capped off with the FFA Fun Night and HTC Fireworks Display. Sunday is a free admission night with the Little Miss Pageant taking place at 7 p.m., immediately followed by the Fair Queen Pageant. Admission Monday is $7 after 3 p.m. and features the Farmer’s Class Tractor Pull in the main arena at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday’s events include the tractor driving contest (2 p.m.), the Open Class Horse Show (6 p.m.) and 4x4 and Truck Pull and ISPA Tractor Pull (7 p.m.) Admission is $6 after 3 p.m. The Rooster Crowing Contest at 9:30 a.m. kicks off Wednesday’s activities. The Figure 8 Race is at 7:30 p.m. in the main arena. Admission on Wednesday is $10 after 3 p.m. Thursday is a free admission day and arm-band carnival ride night (6 p.m. – 11 p.m.). The Bud Light Brigade will perform from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the beer pavilion and the Senior Class Horse Show is at 6 p.m. The evening will be highlighted by a Memories of Elvis Show with Steve Davis in the main area beginning at 8 p.m. This musical entertainment is once again sponsored by Harrisonville Telephone Co. The demo derby returns this year to its normal Friday time slot at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15 after 3 p.m. Saturday’s admission is $14 after 3 p.m. Activities include the Heavy Horse and Mule Show (9:30 a.m.), Youth Pedal Tractor Pull (11 a.m.) and the ITPA Truck and Tractor Pull in the main arena at 6 p.m. Local rock band Dr. No will provide musical entertainment in the beer pavilion from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. This is expected to be the band’s last performance. The last day of the fair, Sunday, Aug. 1, is another free admission day / armband night. The Antique Tractor and Garden Tractor Pull is at 11 a.m., the Thunder and Lightning Cloggers will perform from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the FFA Fun Night will be in the main arena at 7 p.m. The night and the fair will then conclude with the HTC-sponsored fireworks display at 9 p.m. Information on season passes ($35) and other fair specifics is located on the website: http://www.monroecounty-fair.org. Doug Sparwasser of Burksville said he plans to attend several events at this year’s fair, and is especially looking forward to the many options of food to dine on. “I am still debating what food order I should try first – the taco salad, fish sandwich, rib-eye steak sandwich, bratwurst or cheeseburger,” said Sparwasser.
Millstadt – Waterloo Split A Saturday Afternoon Baseball Double-Header The Waterloo Millers and Millstadt VFW split a double-header Saturday at the SPPS Fields in Waterloo. In the first game, Millstadt ace pitcher Alex Kollack was in control, allowing only four hits during six innings. VFW slugger Rob Beatty went 2-3 with a home run and six RBIs to lead the team in a 12-2- short-game victory. Waterloo’s Corey Blackwell took the loss. The Millers rebounded in game two and took home a 9-6 victory. Waterloo pitcher Mark Mueller picked up the victory while Sam Wahlig led the way on offense, going 2-3 with a triple. Millstadt’s Spencer Litteker took the loss.
The local
Mon-Clair League Baseball schedule for Sunday is Valmeyer at Waterloo and
Columbia at Millstadt. All games are double headers beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Piranhas Win Conference Finals: The Waterloo Piranhas swim team rallied after falling behind by 60 points to win the Kaskaskia Conference Finals swim meet Saturday in Trenton. Head Coach Bart Jones and Assistant Andrew Dressel thanks all the swimmers along with their parents for helping the team have a successful season despite not having a home pool this year with the closing of the Waterloo Park District Pool.
New Athens
native and former Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog
was inducted today into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, NY. Several Monroe County friends traveled to upstate New York
to attend the event, including Craig and Brian Unger and their families,
along with their mother, Rhonda Unger and grandmother, Mary Kay Schmidt.
Longtime friend and fishing buddy of Whitey, Bill Schmidt of Waterloo, was
unable to attend and decided to hold down the fort back home. Whitey was in
Waterloo last week visiting Bill and Mary Kay prior to heading to
Cooperstown. Brian Unger still plays baseball as a pitcher with the Waterloo
Millers of the Mon-Clair League. His older brother Craig is employed in the
Cardinals’ marketing department.
Turner
Hall was packed Friday evening for the annual Rockin’ The Joints benefit.
Proceeds from the gathering, organized by Dan and Lori Brutton, are donated
to the Arthritis Foundation. Bands participating this year were Silverback,
Rockhoppers and Rock City Overpass.
Renault Church Picnic Is A Hot Happening
There
were hundreds of chicken dinners sold Saturday during the annual Our Lady of
Good Counsel Summer Picnic. Despite the heat and humidity, folks from all
over Monroe and Randolph Counties converged on the always-popular event. “We
went through countless to-go orders as well and bingo was still hopping when
I left at 10 p.m.” said Luann Walsh.
Jim
Doiron avoided serious injuries Saturday afternoon
when the lawn mower he was driving rolled down an embankment along Admiral
Parkway (Route 3) in Columbia across the highway from Shady Creek Nursery.
Doiron was transported by ambulance to St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St.
Louis with minor injuries.
A woman sustained minor injuries late Saturday night when she rolled a four-wheeler down a cliff in rural Red Bud in Monroe County. Red Bud and Hecker firefighters and first responders along with Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies assisted ambulance personnel in transporting the woman back to Beck Road. The woman, whose name has not been identified, was transported by ambulance to a hospital to be treated with a wrist injury and a sore back.
Ed-itor Wienhoff and his nephew, Gage, enjoyed a weekend last week to Springfield and Chicago. Stops included the President Lincoln Museum and the Lincoln Home in the state’s capitol. Highlights of their days in the Windy City were riding The L subway, the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, eating Vienna hot dogs from a street vender, the Adler Planetarium, walking the streets of downtown Chicago, the Navy Pier and attending a Chicago Cubs versus the Houston Astros game at Wrigley Field where the Ed-itor caught a foul ball. While at the Lincoln Museum, the Wienhoffs ran into Waterloo High School Auto Shop Teacher Tony Biffar and his family who were on the way to attending the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Recent Obituaries Roger D. Happy, 71, of Columbia, died July 24, 2010. He was born Dec. 26, 1938, in East St. Louis, the son of the late Curtis and Olive (Schroeder) Happy. He married Doris Mae (Nixon) Happy in 1962. In addition to his wife, Mr. Happy is survived by his daughters Denise (Michael) Byrd, Sharyl (David) Hakenewerth and Stacy (Greg) Mehrmann; grandchildren Jason Byrd, Jaime (Matthew) Ritzel, Emily (Eric) DuBois, Morgan Hakenewerth, Madison Mehrmann and Emma Mehrmann; great-grandchildren Maybelle, Everett and Henry Ritzel; a brother, Donald J. Happy; and an uncle, Claude James (Donna) Schroeder. Mr. Happy served in the U.S. Army – stationed in Germany in 1958 – 1960. He was employed as an accountant for 50 years, retiring from U.S. Bank in downtown St. Louis. Roger enjoyed his family, bowling, fishing and playing cards. Visitation is Monday, July 26, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lawlor Funeral Home in Columbia. Funeral is Tuesday, July 27, at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Columbia with Father Carl Scherrer officiating. Interment will follow in the Immaculate Conception Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Anthony's Charitable Foundation in St. Louis. Adele “Bubbles” Norman Fox, nee Daab, 84, died June 26, 2010 in Scarborough, Maine. She was born Oct. 24, 1925 in Columbia, the daughter of the late John Daab of Columbia and Adele Schein Daab of Waterloo. John Daab owned Daab’s Drug Store in downtown Columbia, the current location of Conrad Press / The Independent. He also raised chickens on a farm in rural Columbia. After their marriage, Adele Daab moved to Columbia and was employed as a schoolteacher and principal in the town. Mrs. Fox is survived by her children, Jonathan (Julia) Elbaum of Ottumwa Iowa and Burnsville, Minn., Danial Elbaum of Portland, Ore., Martha (Bill) Williamson of Falmouth, Maine; granddaughters Emma and Lily Elbaum and Charlotte Adele Williamson; a niece, Debbie Barber; and nephews David, Dirk and Dean Goldgar. She was preceded in death by a sisters, Vida Goldgar. Memorials may be made to the Southern Poverty law Center or Doctors Without Borders. Adele’s professional career included broadcasting, marketing and administration. Her career path began in the 1940s in St. Louis, where she was a producer, writer and on-air personality for KMOX radio. She later moved to New York City to accept a marketing position – traveling the country giving presentations on homemaking and entertaining. In the mid-1950s, she moved to Kokomo, Ind., to accept a position as a radio host. While there, she acted in the local theater guild where she met Ken Elbaum. They were married, had three children and moved to Dayton, Ohio. After the couple divorced in 1966, Adele took over ownership of the Gem City Employment Agency where she developed successful advertising campaigns for Stop And Go Stores. She then became the director of public relations for the community of Newfields, an experimental planned community intended to combat urban sprawl. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she directed a public housing office funded by a CETA grant to promote fair housing practices in Trotwood, Ohio. She went on to become the assistant director of the Ohio Masonic Home, a retirement home in Springfield. During that time, she met Dr. Dale Fox. They were married and moved to Dayton, Ohio. After Dale’s death in 1995, Adele attended classes at Xavier University and volunteered as a docent at the Contemporary Arts Center. She moved to Portland, Maine in 2005. At the time of her death, she was living at Piper Shores, a retirement community outside of Portland. Adele was a lifelong reader and aficionado of the arts. She loved modern painting, jazz and classical music. Ardell W.C. Huebner, nee Melching, of Waterloo, died July 22, 2010 in Waterloo. She was born June 20, 1919, the daughter of the late Henry and Anna (nee Lange) Melching. Mrs. Huebner is survived by her daughter, Sharon Huebner Goff; adopted grandchildren Amy and Zachary Eager; and neighbors, Steve and Carolyn Eagen; along with nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Harry H. Huebner; and a brother, Wyman Melching. Mrs. Huebner and her husband farmed land near St. Joe. Ardell was a lifetime member of Zion UCC of St. Joe. She was honored on this Mother’s Day as the oldest living member. Ardell loved the color red, rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals, hummingbirds, African violets, cooking, gardening, volunteering at church, telling jokes and quilting. Visitation is Saturday, July 24 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Quernheim Funeral Home. The service is Sunday, July 25, at 2 p.m. at the funeral home with Pastor Nancy Spier-Lee officiating. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois or the Zion UCC St. Joe Anniversary Fund. Mabel D. Kaestner, nee Hoffmann, 88, of Waterloo, died July 24, 2010 in St. Louis, Mo. She was born Oct. 16, 1921 in Renault, the daughter of the late Walter and Sophia (nee Offermann) Hoffmann. Mrs. Kaestner is survived by her daughter, Marianne May; grandchildren Allen (Sharon) May, Laura (Charles) Ford, Angie (Robert) Henshaw and Jeff (Jen) Carroll; great-grandchildren Amanda and Nicholas Henshaw, Allison and Andrew Ford, Ethan May and Jillian and Jared Carroll; sisters Anita (Milton) Wild and Ardell (Lee) Prange; and sisters-in-law Marlene Kaestner and Alice Kaestner; along with nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur H. Kaestner; a daughter, Janet Carroll; sister, Virginia Rodenberg; and sons-in-law Dennis May and Joe Carroll. Mrs. Kaestner was a member of the Holy Cross Lutheran Church of Renault’s Ladies Aid. Visitation is Monday, July 26, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Quernheim Funeral Home. Funeral is Tuesday, July 27 at 11 a.m., at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Renault with Pastor Ralph E. Laufer officiating. Mrs. Kaestner will be buried at the church’s cemetery. Memorials may be made to her church. |
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