Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri – A fundraiser will be held for Gaige Willems who continues to battle leukemia. The “Gold 4 Gaige” will be held on Saturday, May 17th at the Dexter Fairgrounds.
Admission from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. is only $3.00. After 5 p.m., admission will be $5.00 that will include live musical performances by Jesse C. Hammock of Powder Mill and Ryan Davis.
Craft fair, face painting, raffles, food, games, auctions and even a dunking booth will be featured at the event.
There will also be a Benefit Pageant sponsored by Smiling Faces Pageants. Boys will be in categories of 0-2 years, 3-5 years, and 6 years and up. Girls will be in categories of 0-11months, 12-23 months, 2-3 years, 4-6 years, 7-8 years, 9-12 years, and 13 years and up. This event will be held at the Stoddard County Fair Grounds. Please contact Brandi Long at 573-625-3818 or Shena Benton at 573-421-6157 for pageant information.
All proceeds from Gold 4 Gaige will be donated to the Willems family to help defer the cost of medical and travel expenses for Gaige.
For more information about the Gold 4 Gaige Event, contact Kayce Mullins at 573-820-6868 or Ashlee Jackson at 573-421-1274. You may also e-mail these wonderful volunteers at kaycemullins@gmail.com or ashleeEj6@gmail.com.
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Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri – Alexis May has been chosen as the May Calendar Girl.
Alexis is the 15-year-old daughter of Perry May and Patty May. She is a freshman at Dexter Senior High School.
She is involved in FCA, FLC, Teenage Republican Club (TARS), and Student Council (STUCO). Alexis participates in sports such as tennis and track. She also enjoys volunteering at summer church camp as a counselor.
Miss Alexis May is an attendant to Miss Dexter 2013, which is sponsored annually by the Dexter Senior High School Music Department. Each year the attendants are chosen as Calendar Girls throughout the year.
Congratulations Alexis!
Photo provided by Mrs. Shannon Putnam.
Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri - The American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in communities large and small. Thursday, May 8th is World Red Cross Day, and communities are encouraged to support the humanitarian mission of the Red Cross by donating lifesaving blood for patients in need this May.
Thank you for your support in making people aware of these opportunities to help save lives.
Don’t forget the Red Cross Blood Drive in Dexter on Monday, May 5th from 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. in honor of Riley Rickman. We’re In This Together.
Please drop by and give today!
Written by
Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri - Take Me Back Tuesday - All the way back to 1935 in Dexter, Missouri for the annual Dexter High School May Day Court.
Shown in the photo are 1st row: Burnell Lewis, class president, Hazel Corts, Inez Huston, Ruth Pruett, Helen Marie Thrower, Edna Vaught, Effie Parrott, Wilena Sielert – Queen, Estelee Pool, Virginia Vernon, Helen Wright, Ruth Culbertson, Mary Ruth Coy, Virginia McKan.
2nd row: Sr. Maids of Honor Geny Roberts and Winnifred Noell.
3rd row: Jr. attendants – Lottie Skelton, Thelma Stevens.
4th row Jacki Leaffler – flower girl. Sophomore attendant – Lucy Lynn Moore, Freshman attendant – Sue Mae Allen, Crown Bearer – Lewis Mothersbaugh, Freshman attendant – Genia Dale Vaughn, Sophomore attendant – Marion Minton, flower girl (unknown), Marry Ottis Trammell – flower girl.
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Dee Loflin, SMT Manager/Editor
Dexter, Missouri – Riley Rickman is a sweet, energetic, teenager about to graduate from high school; however her life changed forever in February when she was diagnosed with APL a type of leukemia that affects the white blood cells. With less then three months of her high school career left, she began her battle with cancer and spent over a month at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.
Now in remission, but not out of the woods just yet, Riley travels to Cape Girardeau every day to receive chemotherapy. She will do this every other month for the next eight months putting her college career on hold until next year.
Riley received blood and platelets just as many leukemia patients do when they are hospitalized. The American Red Cross urges people to donate blood for a good reason, to save lives! Riley knows that receiving donated blood saved her life.
According to the Red Cross each blood donation can save three lives! The need is constant. The gratification is instant. Donate your blood in honor of Riley and save a life on Monday, May 5th from 1 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Parish Hall, 102 East Castor in Dexter, Missouri.
The Dexter Rotary Club and Rotary student Interact Club host blood drives four times each year and they have chosen to host a dedicated blood drive in Riley’s honor.
Anyone wishing to donate may contact Dee Loflin, Dexter Rotarian at 573-614-4804 to schedule an appointment; however walk-ins are welcome.
There will be many other fundraising activities that day as well. Tables of delicious home baked goodies will be sold with all the proceeds going to the Rally for Riley fund. T-shirts and bracelets will also be available for purchase as well as a donation jar for any monetary contributions. Theresa Wright will also be on hand with an Origami Owl display. She will be donating a portion of the proceeds from selling her very popular jewelry. The living lockets and charms make great Mother’s Day gifts.
The Dexter High School also hosts a blood drive annually for students and this year’s event was cancelled due to snow and ice. Students typically can earn scholarship money from the Red Cross based on the number of units collected. The Red Cross has graciously offered to use this blood drive as a replacement drive and all the units collected will be applied to the Dexter High School. Dexter High School students come out and donate after school!!!!
So please come out and donate blood for a worthwhile cause and help DHS raise scholarship money.
The Dexter Rotary has set a goal of 100 units to be collected at the dedicated blood drive in honor of Riley. This can be done! Extra Red Cross workers will be on staff and many other people have graciously volunteered to help with the event and other fundraising activities. If anyone would like to help or host a fundraiser that day, please contact Dee Loflin via Facebook or 614-4804.
The Red Cross need platelet donors as well as blood donors with the most in-demand blood types — O positive and negative, A negative and B negative — are urgently needed to give blood in the days and weeks ahead to offset the shortfall.
Platelets, a key-clotting component of blood often needed by cancer patients, must be transfused within five days of donation, so donations are constantly needed. Red blood cells, the oxygen-carrying component of blood, are the most widely transfused blood product and must be transfused within 42 days.
How to donate blood
You may contact Dee Loflin, Dexter Rotarian at 573-614-4804 or simply call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or for more information. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Individuals who are 17 years of age (16 with parental consent in some states), weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
If you are unable to donate blood, but would love to donate financially to Rally for Riley, an account has been set-up at the First National Bank or you can stop by the blood drive and donate.
"WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER WITH RILEY!!"
