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Ava School Board Discusses COVID-19 Effects, Sets Elementary Summer School Schedule
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] The Ava R-1 School board met on April 14th. The meeting was broadcast online for attendance by the public. Consent Agenda In a 7-0 vote, the board approved: Regular meeting minutes from April 16th, 2020. Financial summary fund balances Authorization for payment of bills The proposed agenda Administration Reports Superintendent…
Read MoreLocal FFA Members Receive State’s Highest FFA Honor
Haley Herrera, Kennedy Meyer and Caitlin Welch of Ava have received the State FFA Degree, the highest degree members can receive at state level. The Ava FFA members are one of a record 988 degree recipients receiving the honor. Awarding of the degree is based on a member’s supervised agricultural experience program in agribusiness or…
Read MoreAva Head Start Now Accepting Applications
Even in these uncertain times, Head Start is working to provide services to preschoolers and their families, as every spring children are recruited for the coming school year and this year is no different. To apply, children must be 3 or 4 years old on or before July 31, 2020. Due to the COVID-19…
Read MoreAva PD Responds to Disturbance That Results in One Death
The Ava Police Department responded to a domestic disturbance call in the 500 block of Pennington Avenue, Ava, during early morning hours on Saturday, April 4. Upon arriving at the scene, Ava Police Officer Kaleb Brookshire and Corporal Dewayne Butterworth were met by an assailant brandishing a knife in a threatening manner, with two…
Read MoreKindness 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 MoreStay Home Order Now In Place –– Answers to Questions You May Have
Governor Parson’s edict is out: All non-essential businesses should be closed until April 24th. To further combat the spread of COVID-19 in Missouri, Governor Mike Parson directed Dr. Randall Williams, Director of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to issue a Stay at Home Order which was effective Monday, April 6, 2020. The Order…
Read MoreLocal Quilters Pivot to Facemasks
by Michael Boyink/[email protected] “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” The internet likes to attribute that quote to former US President Theodore Roosevelt. It sounds like something he’d have said. But it’s not. The quote does come from his autobiography, but Roosevelt attributes it to one Squire Bill Widener, a millwright…
Read MoreResearch Center Projects April 19th As Missouri’s Peak for COVID-19
by Michael Boyink / [email protected] According to its website, the The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) “is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. ” …
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