June 2021

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Volleyball and softball programs have experienced an action-packed June in Excelsior Springs. Varsity volleyball coach Kathryn Beile and varsity softball coach Megan Rawie have had their respective teams prepping for the fall season.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Three Tigers have teamed up this summer to play for the 16-and-under Old School Ducks baseball club. Mason Danner, Micah Danner and Colson Moore, who completed high school baseball for Excelsior Springs in May, will play for the Ducks through the end of the summer.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Tigers’ home baseball field will have a new look for the 2022 season. This month, the Excelsior Springs Board of Education approved the implementation of synthetic turf for the field.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Last Friday afternoon’s thunderstorms played havoc with trees and limbs, caused power outages and damaged roofs in Excelsior Springs. No injuries resulted.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The city tweaked the bus schedule to end the 4-7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday routes.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Damon Ashworth might add to his wrestling medals collection over the next few years. Ashworth, who graduated in May from Excelsior Springs High School, recently signed a letter of intent to continue his education and wrestling career at Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Worthington.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The team slots for the Gregg Williams Tiger Golf Classic are getting filled for the morning round. As of Tuesday afternoon, 22 foursomes had signed up for the morning session of the tournament, slated for July 9 at Excelsior Springs Golf Course, Gregg Williams Foundation Inc.

Need to learn how to unclog a shower drain, jump-start a car, shave your face without bleeding to death or successfully address dozens of other practical adult daily activities? Rob Kenney offers this kind of basic “dad advice,” and millions are tuning into his YouTube channel “Dad, How Do I?” to hear it. Kenney, who promises his subscribers he’ll do “my best to provide useful, practical content to many basic tasks that everyone should know how to do,” told Buzzfeed he began making YouTube videos after his 27-year-old daughter would call him “with countless ‘adulting’ questions.” “Every day she was calling me and … I thought, ‘What do other people do when they don’t have that resource?’ ” Kenney was painfully aware of what it was like to lack a fatherly resource.

JEFFERSON CITY – Each year, an estimated 5 million older adults are abused, neglected, bullied or exploited, Department of Health and Senior Services information states. Launched in 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is meant to serve as a means to unite communities around the world and raise awareness about elder abuse.