Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
This year should be exciting as well as challenging as there are new players and new coaches throughout the sports arena!
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We at ShowMe Times look forward to a partnership with you! Our joint initiative will make a huge difference and a lasting impression in the hearts and minds of our neighbors and will ensure a brighter future for all.
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Please contact us at 573-624-7469 or email us at news@showmetimes.com. Plenty of time to look over this weeks upcoming games. You won't want to miss out on the fun! Stay tuned for the season prizes and good luck!
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Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri – That's absolutely correct, "You don’t have to be a Veteran to support Veterans!" Dexter resident, Mr. Ben Worley is not a veteran, but has offered much of his valuable time this year to help out with the Disabled Veterans Outdoor Facility located just north of Dexter, Missouri.
The property has been dedicated to those who need some assistance to enjoy their favorite pastime, whether it’s hunting, fishing or just watching nature from a deer blind.
According to Tom Love, “without being asked, he volunteered to bring his tractor and drill to the Facility to help with the corn and bean wildlife food plots. Due to weather problems, the first planting did not do well, so again, without being asked, he returned to replant a large portion of what was done the first time.“
For many veterans who are confined to a wheelchair or whose mobility has been restricted as a result of serving their country or due to age, etc accessibility to their once favorite pastime is restricted, but not any more. With the Disabled Veterans Wildlife Facility, they can enjoy hunting, fishing, photography, or just getting out of the house and into the woods for a daytime adventure!
For more information please or to make a donation, please contact, Tom Love 573-820-0802 or Jim Adams 573-421-3660.
To mail in donations: D.V. Outdoor Fund
American Legion Post 59, P.O. Box 446, Dexter, Missouri 63841
They also have a Facebook page with lots of photographs of the facility, blinds, veterans who have used the facility and just God's creatures living on the land.
Go to the page: https://www.facebook.com/DisabledVeteransWildlifeFacility?ref=stream
Ben is also an avid duck hunter and like most duck hunters, he thinks about it all the time. This season he constructed a dove hunting blind on his property that can be used for individuals confined to wheelchairs.
"He has offered the use of this to Veterans that we are assisting at our Facility," stated Tom Love.
Ben’s efforts are greatly appreciated!
Submitted by Mark Reed
news@showmetimes.com
Missouri - As most hunters know, anyone born since January 1, 1967, who wishes to purchase a Missouri firearms hunting permit must obtain hunter education certification. What many folks do not know is that Missouri’s hunter education program has recently undergone major changes. The old hunter education course required folks to attend ten to twelve hours of classroom lecture and pass a fifty question test. The new program is divided into two portions, knowledge and skill. Students must complete the knowledge portion before attending a skills session.
The knowledge portion may be completed on-line at www.missouriconservation.org . Once you have completed the on-line study including all review questions you must print your Missouri Skills Session Qualifier Certificate. The company which administers the study course charges a $15 fee to print the certificate. None of that fee comes to the Conservation Department.
Another way to complete the knowledge portion is to pick up a Hunter Education Student Manual and complete the chapter review questions at the end of each chapter. Manuals can be picked up at the Cape Girardeau Regional Office or American Outdoors in Dexter. If students chose this method, they must bring their manual with completed review questions to be allowed to attend the skills session.
Later this fall, knowledge sessions will be offered which will allow students to attend a traditional style Hunter Education lecture but these will only be four hours in length and faster-paced than previous classes. Upon completion of the knowledge session, students will receive a Missouri Skills Session Qualifier Certificate. Knowledge sessions are not currently available due to printer delays of new manuals.
Students must register for a skills session at www.missouriconservation.org. Once registered, be sure to bring your Missouri Skills Session Qualifier Certificate or completed Hunter Education Student Manual or you will not be allowed to attend the session. At the skills session, students will be given the opportunity to demonstrate safe firearms handling skills and will be required to pass a thirty-five question multiple-choice exam. The skills session will last no longer than four hours.
We currently have a skills session scheduled for August 24, 8am until noon, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Dexter, MO. Students must register at www.missouriconservation.org . If you have questions regarding hunter education, please contact the Cape Girardeau Regional Office at 573-290-5730 or Mark Reed at 573-421-3240. Please do not call the church with questions as they will not be able to answer them. Remember, in order to attend the skills session you must first complete on-line study or obtain a student manual at the Cape Office or American Outdoors. You must bring the completed student manual or certificate obtained from on-line study to attend the skills session.
Changes to Missouri’s Hunter Education Program were brought about in response to citizen comment regarding the previous system. The new program allows students to study at their own pace, for as long as necessary to prepare for the skills session. The four hour skills session greatly reduces the amount of time required to attend a hunter education course. Fall hunting season are almost here so register now!
Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri – This Dexter Senior High School athlete has proven herself in tennis, basketball, soccer, track and field.
Now Sophomore, MaKayla Waldner, will make history when she steps on the field next Friday night, August 30th, at the first home game of the season for the Dexter Bearcats. She will become the first female Bearcat football athlete!
One would have to go back quite a few years to find the first ever female high school football player. Luverne Wise kicked six extra points for the Escambia County, Alabama High School football team way back in 1939. Since that time, many young ladies have worked hard to compete in a male dominated sport.
Katie Hnida was the first female to score in a NCAA Division 1-A college football game. She accomplished this as a placekicker for the University of New Mexico Lobos on August 30, 1983.
Now, exactly 20 years to that infamous date, MaKayla will enter the record books for the Dexter Bearcats.
Waldner who practices with the team daily says her male teammates have never made her feel uncomfortable. Actually on her first day of practice they had her “breakout” at the end of practice.
She has already proven herself in the sports arena. Not only has she broken school records, but state records as well. She hopes to travel to Greece in 2014 with the National PAO soccer team.
Her accomplishments so far are astounding!
2 time AAU Indoor National champion
55m hurdles
Pentathlon – National Record holder since 2010
Show Me State Games – track and field
6 state records - HJ, shot put, short hurdles, 400m and
2 long jump records
Long Jump record still holds she competed at 6 and
under, 2003
International European National track meet Berlin, Germany 2009
1st place 65m hurdles
4th Shot put
4th 800m Run
6th Long Jump
Freshman Year 2012 - 2013
Tennis – varsity letter
DHS team most single wins
DHA team most double wins
Basketball – varsity letter
4th in the State of Missouri
Sikeston Standard
Democrat newspaper:
Best Freshman Player
Best Spark Off the Bench
Track – varsity letter
Most Valuable Player
3rd place in state – 100m hurdles
8th place in state – 300m hurdles
State qualifier – LJ and 4x100 relay
2 school records in the 100m hurdles
and 300m hurdles
Sikeston Standard Democrat
Player of the Year in Track
Western Kentucky United Soccer team – Won KY State Cup 2013
Currently plays for West KY and Panathinaikos Soccer Team in St. Louis
National PAO Soccer Team still pending 2nd tryout in September – team will travel to Greece for 10 days next year
Her brother, Trevor Waldner, who is also plays for the Dexter Bearcat Football team, says, “Having my sister on the team is pretty cool and I am really proud of her." Trevor is extremely supportive of MaKayla and so are his teammates!
“I also have to get used to the helmet. That’s something new,” continued Waldner. “I hope the boys treat me like any other player as well.”
Coach Peden is delighted to have the first female kicker at Dexter High School. "I believe she will represent the Dexter Varsity Football Team well." Peden who is in his maided year as the Head Football Coach also encouraged her to try-out for the team and kick for the Bearcats!
“I am so excited about the first game. I have to get over my nervousness.” Waldner continued. And she will, as soon as her adrenalin kicks in and she steps onto the field Friday night.
Makayla said, “My sister Brittney inspired me. She was the first female DHS wrestler and when she went to State, people knew who she was.”
“I am not new to football, I played in little league. I even scored a touchdown. I just hope that I get the chance to kick and show people a girl can play football too. Little girls will have something to look forward too and someone like them to look up to."
Makayla may not be the first female to play high school football, but when she takes the field she will go down in the Dexter Senior High School history book!
Way to go MaKayla!
The Dexter Community is very proud of your athletic accomplishments! Kick one between the uprights! Go Bearcats!
