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One for All Missouri Public Health Campaign Launches #StopTheSpread of COVID-19

Statewide campaign providing clear, consistent, actionable information for Missourians in fight against coronavirus SPRINGFIELD –– In a unified effort to share information and empower Missourians to stop the spread of COVID-19, the One for All Missouri public health campaign launched statewide on Thursday, April 23.  A collaborative partnership led by Missouri Center for Public Health…

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Go Blue Committee Update

April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month As April is coming to a close, Go Blue committee members continue to urge the public to maintain a high level of awareness about child abuse and prevention.   Child abuse can and does still happen, and unfortunately, under the current stay at home orders, may go…

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Missouri Governor Grants Clemency to Dimetrious Woods, Business Owner

JEFFERSON CITY – On April 22, Governor Mike Parson granted clemency to Dimetrious Woods, a Columbia, Mo. business owner. In 2007, Mr. Woods was sentenced under a statute that was later repealed by the legislature. A circuit court ordered the repeal of the statute to be retroactively applied to Mr. Woods, thereby resulting in his…

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1934 DOCOMO Yearbook – Ava (MO) High School

Provided by Glenda Bunyard Konopka Team members are, first row (left to right): Cleon Estes, Cloine Pettit, Lyle Brown, Clifton Bunyard and Charles Yeoman. Second row (left to right): Sam Inman, Hershel Hobbs, Dale Stewart, Paul Cummins and Coach Norman. Mrs. Glenda Bunyard Konopka’s father, first row, 4th from the left, played on the team. He would have been…

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A Good Day’s Work

By Timber Jones There was a time in my life when I needed to get out of the work I had been doing for the past 18 years. It was no longer the job I felt I should be in and I wanted something new. This brought me to a place in the old Ozark…

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Douglas County Livestock Report

Jefferson City, MO, Friday, April 23, 2020, MO Dept of Ag/USDA Market News,  Ava – Douglas County Livestock Auction. Feeder Cattle Weighted Average Report for 04/23/2020. Total Receipts: This Week: 1,105  Last Reported 04/16/2020: 644 Year Ago Receipts: 1,175  Compared to last week, steer and heifer calves steady, no recent test of yearlings for a…

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What About This? By Wayne William Cipriano

Even if you have never heard of Reinforcement Theory (RT), you know what it is and probably exercise it every day. As a Psychological theory, RT states that any behavior paired with a pleasant experience has a higher probability of being rewarded.  Your mom asks you to clean your room. You, out of gratitude for…

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Hang in There

By Tom Salisbury, Region 7 SBA Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration Our will, along with the millions of small businesses we serve is being tested by the devastating impact of coronavirus (COVID-19.) I want to assure you we are working every day to make sure help is on the way.   Last week, nearly 500,000…

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