Dexter, Missouri – The Regional Healthcare Foundation is planning their 2015 4-Person Golf Scramble at Hidden Trails Country Club in Dexter.
The event is slated for Friday, July 10th with a 1:00 p.m. shotgun start. A $75 player entry fee will include mulligans, green fees, and a meal following the scramble. Cart rental is not included in the entry fee.
Flights and pay-outs are to be determined on the day of the event.
Hole sponsorships are available at $100 each. If you would like to sponsor this event please call 573-624-1607 for additional information.
The Regional Healthcare Foundation supports the Prescription Drug Program, Mother-to-Mother, the Scholarship Program, GED/HSE Classes, First Thursday at Cox Corner, Annual Fitness Challenge, Walkers for Wellness and Special Assistance Programs.
Click HERE for Registration Form and Flyer.
Proceeds from the July 10th Golf Scramble will benefit the programs. Please join them for an awesome day of golf!!
Women Legislators of Missouri Congratulate
DeVerne Lee Calloway Award Nominee Dee Loflin
Jefferson City, Missouri - State Reps. Tila Hubrecht, Tracy McCreery and the members of the Women Legislators of Missouri offered their congratulations to Dee Loflin, who was recently honored at the Missouri State Capitol as one of the nominees for the 2015 DeVerne Lee Calloway Award. Name was one of many outstanding Missouri women who were nominated based on their contributions to equality and social justice for all Missourians.
“Dee Loflin is an incredibly bright, dedicated, accomplished woman who is part of this exceptional field of nominees who all were extremely deserving of this award. I hope with the award ceremony we drew attention to her accomplishments, and to the remarkable efforts of all the amazing women who were nominated,” said Hubrecht, R-Dexter.
McCreery, D-St. Louis, added, “I was so impressed with all of the nominees and the contributions they are making to move our state toward a brighter tomorrow. It was an honor to be able to read the nomination of Ms. Loflin. She is an outstanding public servant who has lived her life in a way I know would make DeVerne Lee Calloway proud.”
DeVerne Lee Calloway was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1962. There she made hard-fought gains for education, for children, and for the blind, the disabled and the elderly. She served nine terms in the legislature and before retiring in November of 1980. The DeVerne Lee Calloway Award is named in honor of her life in service to others.
Dee Loflin is very active in the community and an avid supporter of school children in her community. Ms. Loflin is reported to be in attendance at almost every school function for the many schools in her area. She posts pictures and articles recognizing the achievements of the young people on the ShowMe Times Facebook page as well as the ShowMe Times online newspaper. Ms. Loflin focuses on positive news reporting as well as works to promote local blood drives and is active in community organizations such as Rotary Club in which she currently serves as an elected officer. Ms. Loflin is a fine example of a community servant and services as a role model to all around her.
Ms. Loflin was honored along with the other nominees at the State Capitol during a ceremony in the House Chamber.
Dexter, Missouri – Who knew these folks could sing!!!! The Keller Public Library continued this week with the series of “Every Hero Has a Story”. This week included musical entertainment with our city officials and other local heroes.
This week’s presentation consisted of Fire Chief Don Seymore, Engineer Darryl Orr, Mayor Joe Weber, City Administrator Mark Stidham, Police Officer Lori O’Dell, Mary Ann Taylor, National Guard veterans Charles Cooper and Laura Cooper, and storyteller Kim Cook.
The Hero series continues each Wednesday morning at 11:00 a.m. until July 15th. On June 24th, live animals from Animal Tales will be on hand to present “Animal Avengers”. Should be an exciting story hour at Keller Public Library!!
Here are the Summer Reading Program dates for July and upcoming events the Library will host!
Summer Reading Program:
11:00 July 1 - "Super Magic Super Hero" with Super Reading Magician Marty Hahne
11:00 July 8 - "Heroes of the Wild!" - Agent Mark Reed, Missouri Department of Conservation
11:00 July 15 - "The Hero in You!" - Crafts and Ice Cream Sundaes
July 14 - 5:00 - 6:30 Chamber Business After Hours at the Keller Public Library
"Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library"
Sikeston, Missouri - SEMO Electric Cooperative recently announced the winners of the Youth and C.Y.C.L.E. Tour contests.
Winners for the Youth Tour are Adrianna Gensler, Daria Kern and Tyler Battles from Bloomfield High School and Daniel Posch of Jackson High School.
The Youth Tour sends high school juniors to Washington D.C. for a week, where participants see monuments, tour museums and hear speakers such as the National Rural Electric Cooperative Associations CEO, JoAnn Emerson. A few hundred students from Missouri go on the trip where they will meet other students from across the United States.
The C.Y.C.L.E. Tour is a three-day, two night trip to Jefferson City. There, high school sophomores tour the capital building, go to the Missouri Supreme Court and hear national speakers. Winners of the C.Y.C.L.E. Tour are McKayla Hunt, Cole Nichols and Erin McCoy of Bell City and Kirsten LaBorde of Bloomfield.
SEMO Electric sponsors the contest each year and the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives facilitates the programs. Both contests are open to any high school sophomore and juniors whose parents are members of SEMO Electric Cooperative.
Photos above - Left to Right: Tyler Battles, Adrianna Gensler, Daria Kern and Kirsten LaBorde of Bloomfield.Photo below - Left to Right: Erin McCoy, Cole Nichols and McKayla Hunt of Bell City.
Submitted by Glen Cantrell, SEMO Electric Cooperative.
Dexter, Missouri – Keller Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is well under way with a record crowd in attendance on Wednesday, June 10th. More than 120 children and seventy-four adults were on hand to hear special guest, Kim Cook, read “New York’s Bravest” keeping with the summer reading theme of “Every Hero Has a Story”.
The Dexter Fire Department made an appearance as “Heroes to the Rescue!” Fire Chief Don Seymore, along with Asst. Chief Dave Rowe, and Firefighter Todd O’Dell invited the children outside after the inside program to see the big red ladder firetruck.
Children were invited to dress in their favorite hero costume as well as enjoy a run through the spray of water that came from the aerial ladder on the firetruck.
Several photos can bee seen on the ShowMe Times Facebook page under the Album, Keller Library Summer Reading Program June 10, 2015.
On Wednesday, June 17th beginning at 11:00 a.m. “The Heroes Around Us” will be the theme for this week’s program.
The book, "New York's Bravest" is available at the Keller Public Library along with many other books about firefighters. Here is a short paragraph about the book.
"In the 1840s, there was a real volunteer firefighter named Mose Humphreys whose bravery was reknown throughout New York City. Plays about him began being performed on Broadway in 1848 and over the years his strength and heroics took on larger-than-life proportions, much like those of Paul Bunyan. Mary Pope Osborne has honed down the legends about him to a brief, dramatic, sometimes comical, but ultimately moving text of picture book length. Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher’s stunning paintings capture this 8-foot-tall superhero rushing into burning buildings, saving babies and bankers, and wolfing down the feasts bestowed upon him by the grateful citizens of old New York–until the one big hotel fire after which he was never seen again. The author has included a historical note about the origins of this tall tale, and the book is dedicated to the 343 New York City firefighters who gave their lives to save others on September 11, 2001."
