January 2008

Barry County Sheriff Posse held elections in their December meeting seating a new Executive Board. For 2008 the Executive consist of Captain Dennis McKelvey, 1st Lt. Paul Schilz, 2nd Lt. Bryan Dipp, and Warrant Officer Tim Allen. The 2008 Executive Board presided over their first meeting on January 3rd, 2008.

Barry County Sheriff Posse is looking forward to the 2008 year with a new command unit. Hopefully the Command Unit will make a debut at the Winterfest festivities on February 9th, 2008.

The Winter months is when the Posse do their training and details for Lakewood Basketball games.

2007 Fall Posse Campout Shoot

John Townsend & Don Tietz / 2 man team Division A, 1st in Bull’s-eye, 2nd in Combat.

Mike Leatherman & Tim Allen / 2 man team Division A, 3rd in Combat, 4th in Bull’s-eye.

Mike Leatherman / High point Bull’s-eye, High point combat, Overall combination.

April 2007

Lloyd Shepard, member since 1956, received the “Lifetime Achievement Award”.  Lloyd has served the Barry County Community with over 7558 logged hours of duty.  He received the award at a banquet held at Cedar Creek Pierce institute.  

February 2007

Each year the Posse members elect one person as the Posse member of the year. This is the individual that they feel has gone “above and beyond” their regular duties, have put in extra hours, and/or has conducted themselves in an outstanding manner.  The 2007 Posse Member of the Year is Orv Stevens.  Orv has been a member since 1975 as a Horse member.  He has served on the executive board as Warrant Officer, and Lieutenant, he also was the quartermaster for several years.  Congratulations Orv