MEXICO, Mo. — Teens from across the state of Missouri, their pageant directors and families will travel to the heart of Missouri June 14 to kick off a week filled
PALMYRA, Mo. — The 2021 Committee on Nominations for Missouri Rural Electric Cooperative will meet at the headquarters office, 975 West Ross in Palmyra, Mo. at 7 pm. Thursday, June
But in 2021, the group will put its money toward a new and popular cause: equity.
Jody Demas, the treasurer, said the foundation raised $9,500 this year. It issued most of the money in giant check form to the Palmyra Board of Education at a May 12 public meeting.
Demas and her fellow residents asked school administrators to use the funds to add equity programs to the school community, and the administrators agreed.
Palmyra Principal Lisa Sabo will use it to pay the stipend for the staff advisor to a new Black student union, which has already started meeting. She also plans on paying for an expanded lineup of assembly speakers, both for the wider school community and for individual clubs and classrooms, who come from Black, LGBTQ plus and Latinx backgrounds.
Art Seelhorst
SOUTH SHORE Art Seelhorst Jr. likes a challenge. In fact, the centenarian attributes his lone and healthy life, at least in part, to meeting challenges, like staying active, physically and mentally.
âExercise is the key to longevity,â he said. âYou use it or you lose it.â
The South Shore resident marked his birthday Tuesday with a big seafood dinner, but friends will have the opportunity to wish him a happy, 100th birthday on Saturday, when there will be a drive-by from 1 to 4 p.m. at his house at 34 Banner Road in South Shore. His daughter, Susan Miller, said he will be seated in his driveway to greet visitors, who will stay in their cars but will be able to chat with him.