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Check it out  AS PROMISED – Spring City Revitalization Group (SCRG) presented the City of El Dorado Springs with a check for $43,008, their portion of the brick and granite program in the new sidewalks, at Jack Tough’s birthday party at the Leeper Center on Tuesday, Feb. 2. Pictured are: (from left) ex-officio SCRG Member Tom Tough, SCRG Board Member Pam Fritts, former SCRG Board Member Dr. Sharon West Lansing, SCRG Events Coordinator Jackson Tough, SCRG Board Members Jennifer Bland, Harold Fugate, Jack Tough, Bob Burris and Bob Barlow, ex-officio Board Member and El Dorado Springs City Manager Bruce Rogers, El Dorado Springs Mayor Brad True and SCRG President Kimball Long. Tuesday evening was the first time all five of the new lights in front of Park were lighted.  | |
the rock wall
Rock Wall I was shocked Monday morning, as was the whole community, to learn of the death of Bryan Rabe. He was the nicest guy you could ever hope to meet. It was always a pleasure to have contact with him whether it was something about the Optimist Club or Rabe Furniture which is almost next door. -Jack Tough still attracts ‘em. An estimated‘200 came to his birthday party Tuesday evening at the Leeper Sinner. We helped him celebrate and he helped his SCRG (Spring City Revitalization Group) buddies give Mayor Brad True and City Manager Bruce Rogers a check for $43,000. The SCRG pres mentioned that the five lights by the Park were all shining brightly for the first time. From the looks of the sidewalk in the first block of South Main, more are on the way. SCRG is still selling bricks and granite if you want to get your name cut into stone while you can still enjoy it. (Give me my engraving while I live.) Call Jackson Tough at 876-3532 or 417/321-2000 or Brad True at 876-7536. -Rhonda has a couple of pet possums which she had named O-P (the dark one) and O-Pii (the white one). They are pets as long as Rhonda feeds them cat food. They continue eating in the car headlights when she comes home and will sit and watch her refill the food bowl. She thinks they may run for state office in 2010 and maybe national office in 2012. You know, a persimmon in every pot. Or was it: a possum in every pot? -The Partial Pix game, designed by Davis, is proving harder than we anticipated. No one even got close to the one last week so Kimball and Josh have made the photo bigger and are running it again. I intentionally did not let anyone tell me where it was. I found it on the first try. I couldn’t guess some of the mystery people we ran, except the ones I helped photograph, so you know it had to be easy. -If you want one of the DVDs of the 2009 Bulldog football season (between 850 and 900 pictures), come by the Sun office or send us $20 and I’ll burn a DVD for you. It has a folders for each game I photographed and one for homecoming royalty. -Kimball about had a kitten when she heard that the NFL was laying claim to Who Dat? She said that has been a jazz term forever in Louisiana. Sounded Monday morning like the NFL might have found that out and was backing down. Good thing. Those Cajuns will do anything for their friends and anything to their enemies. Bout like around here. KL  |
sports
Bulldogs tame tigers   Monday evening the Skyline Tigers came to town for a make-up game and left a W for the ElDo Bulldogs - 62-52. In the top photo, Nick Norval takes a shot for two of his 21 team leading points. Head Coach Joel Braden said the team played very well thoughout the game and everyone scored. In the bottom photo, Kanon Hoover, who scored his 1,000th point, slashes up the lane putting down the shot and a Skyline Tiger. Points scored by quarter were; ElDo - 17, 17, 23, 7; Skyline - 8, 15, 8, 21. Varsity boys take second in Clinton tourney The El Dorado Springs boys basketball team took second place in the Clinton tournament this past week. The Bulldogs came into the tournament as the No. 1 seed and opened the tournament Tuesday against the No. 8 seed, Holden Eagles. The Eagles started the game playing well while the Bulldogs came out lacking some energy. Holden led at halftime 28-22 and extended the lead to 13 in the third quarter before El Dorado came alive. The Bulldogs cut the lead to 5 by the end of the third and outscored Holden 25-13 in the fourth quarter for a 60-51 win. Head Coach Joel Braden said, “We lacked energy and excitement to start the game. It took us two and a half quarters to realize that we are not good enough to just show up and win any game.” Ace Whitesell had one offensive rebound and two steals. Jeremy Garrett had one defensive rebound. Trae Hall had one offensive rebound and one steal. Nick Norval had one offensive and six defensive rebounds and one block. Colt Whitesell had one offensive and two defensive rebounds and four steals. Dusty Hooper had seven defensive rebounds, one block and one steal. Luke McGee had one defensive rebound. Kanon Hoover had two defensive rebounds and two steals. Trevor Quinlan had one offensive and one defensive rebound and one steal. Cody Janes had two defensive rebounds and one steal. El Dorado then took on the fourth seeded Butler Bears. The game became a slower, grind it out game with the Bulldogs winning 44-37. The Bulldogs took a 26-14 lead into halftime and held off a late run by the Bears for the win. “Our defense was very good. We made it difficult for Butler to get good looks at the basket. Offensively we did not score a lot of points but were patient and took good shots throughout the game.” Braden said. Ace Whitesell had two offensive rebounds. Nick Norval had one offensive and six defensive rebounds and two steals. Colt Whitesell had one defensive rebound. Dusty Hooper had one defensive rebound and two steals. Luke McGee had one offensive and two defensive rebounds and one block. Kanon Hoover had three defensive rebounds and two steals. Trevor Quinlan had two each offensive and defensive rebounds and one block. Cody Janes had one offensive rebound and seven defensive rebounds. This set up a Saturday night championship game against the No. 3 seed, Clinton Cardinals. Clinton posed match up problems for El Dorado as they started 6’3 Logan Porta, 6’3 Collin Garvin, and 6’9 Aaron Hunt on their front line. The Bulldogs stayed close in the first but Clinton pulled away in the second quarter boasting a 29-14 half time lead. El Dorado could not cut into the halftime lead and lost the game 58-42. Coach Braden said, “We did some good things offensively but we could not get shots to fall. Our defense was also good but when you are having trouble making baskets you have to be almost perfect on defense to beat a good team. I am proud of the effort of our boys but tonight was not our night.” The Bulldogs finished second in the tournament and Kanon Hoover and Nick Norval were recognized on the all tournament team. Ace Whitesell had one offensive rebound and one defensive rebound and three steals. Trae Hall had one defensive rebound. Nick Norval had one offensive and six defensive rebounds and two steals. Colt Whitesell had two each offensive and defensive rebounds and one steal. Dusty Hooper had one offensive rebound. Luke McGee had one steal and Kanon Hoover and Trevor Quinlan each had one offensive rebound and one steal. Cody Janes had one offensive and two defensive rebounds and one steal. The Bulldogs continued their season with three home games this week. Monday they played a make up game against Skyline, Tuesday Seneca came to town, and they finish the week hosting Warsaw on Thursday at 6 p.m.  |
