Kindness Unmasked
Michael Boyink/Herald A table of free facemasks showed up outside the Ava Art Guild last week courtesy of Jo Ann Hereford. According to Jo Ann’s comment on the Art Guild’s Facebook (facebook.com/AvaArtGuild), “If needed I will make more.”
Read MoreThrough a Glass, Darkly: Church Provides Easter Service, Communion to HOTO Residents Through Patio Windows
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV Across the nation, the story was the same. COVID-19 related shelter at home restrictions meant that traditional Easter…
Read MoreMore Than Meal Delivery
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] Meals and homework. That was the “Plan B”for the local bus drivers, unable to provide transportation for local students due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays buses gather by the school’s kitchen facilities, coolers and trays of meals are assembled and then loaded onto buses. Homework packets are…
Read MoreNo City Council Until 28th
The Ava City Council normally scheduled for Tuesday, April 14th was canceled. The Council will reconvene at its normally scheduled time on Tuesday, April 28th.
Read MoreMDC Announces Missouri’s First Elk-Hunting Season Coming This Fall
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces it will offer Missourians the state’s first elk-hunting season in modern history starting this fall. At its April 8 meeting, the Missouri Conservation Commission approved the issuance of five permits for hunting bull elk for the 2020 season. Four general permits will be for…
Read MoreSenator Roy Blunt
From the office of Senator Roy Blunt WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS), announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will begin distributing more than $618 million in coronavirus response funding to Missouri…
Read MoreApril 23, 1970
Cast In Ava High FHA Play Members of the cast which presented “A Ready Made Family,” a three act play by Ava High School students are (back row, left to right): David Emerson as Nicodemus; Rose Halstead as Begonia; Vanessa Davis as Doris; Steve Tallent as Sammie; Brenda Price as Aunt Lydia; Mr. Ted Bateman,…
Read MoreHunker Down – Barbara Daniel
Sometimes it is a release to our pent-up emotions to listen to the wisdom of a child. Kaden Jackson is the grandson of Doris and Eugene Everson, my neighbors. They told me this child is so full of life and enjoys life. They were all going to the park for an outing. Kaden heard the…
Read MoreLetter to the Editor
As I recall it was Ronald Reagan who once quipped, “The nine scariest words in the English language are – I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Well, here we go again. The government finds a problem, blows it up into a panic, then offers a solution as only a government can: More…
Read MoreThe Snoop
As the coronavirus threatens Americans, daily news reports continue to reference the pandemic as an invisible, dark shadow casting a net across the US. And many of the news reports refer to the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO lends a helping hand to countries all over the world. The organization strives to educate…
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