By MICHELE BURRIS

R-III ranks 17th in the State for the 2010 Missouri Assessment Program

by Anna Lee James

The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Adrian Tuesday, September 7 from 1:00pm - 6:00pm at the Optimist Building. All donations of blood help patients in need. We cannot wait until the need arises to donate blood. All blood goes through 48 hours of testing before going on for transfusions. All this makes it important that we try to meet our goal of 50 units of blood to make sure blood is available when the need arises.

Beta Sigma Phi members kicked off the 2010 - 2011 sorority year with a door-to-door scavenger hunt for non-perishable items to be donated to the Bates County Food Pantry. Many Adrian residents donated items for the food pantry. Longtime Beta Sigma Phi member Karen Edmiston said, “Aren’t we fortunate to live in such a generous community!”

By SHARON KIESEL

“What’s most rewarding is just really the experience of seeing different people’s lives…part in town, part in the country and seeing how God works in people who have different backgrounds and cultures,” said Mike Bergman.

Mike is the new Pastor for the Adrian First Baptist Church, located on Main Street. He arrived in Adrian a few days before his first Sunday, on August 22. He is originally from Sedalia, Missouri, where he was last pastor of a church. He has been in the ministry for about six years.

By MIKE BURRIS

The Adrian Blackhawks traveled to El Dorado Springs to take on the host Bulldogs in their opening game of the 2010 football season Friday, August 27th. They entered the game with questions about how their offensive skill positions would perform. They would leave the field on the good side of a 41-6 thumping in a game many expected to be close. With that lopsided victory they put to rest any doubts people may have had about how their offense would perform.