More than 4,500 locations will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan’s Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 14 - 21.
Missouri State University- West Plains (MSU-WP) students and area residents alike can learn more about digital photography in Introduction to Digital Photography (ART 210) this spring. The course will be available as a three-credit-hour option for students enrolled at MSU-WP during the 2023 spring semester and as a non-credit continuing education/ personal enrichment class for area residents through MSU-WP’s workforce development office.
The West Plains High School Zizzer Pride Band will perform a variety of patriotic music at the annual “A Musical Salute to Veterans” event at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the West Plains Civic Center theater.
Fall is in the air and Halloween is in the park! Come on out to Echo Bluff State Park Saturday, Oct. 29, for a fun-filled afternoon and night of spooky, exciting activities.
In observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Ozarks Healthcare Foundation is bringing back its mum sale to benefit the Foundation’s initiative to purchase a mobile mammography unit in 2022 to help make routine screenings more accessible for women who might not otherwise have access to this service.
Brittany Hirsch of Thayer, Mo., has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Jim and Betty Sloan Scholarship in the College of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. As she explained to the scholarship selection committee, she has a 'lifelong career goal' of becoming a large animal veterinarian and returning to her hometown to open her own practice.
Strawberry River Chapter DAR met Saturday, Oct. 1. Regent Jan Lusk called the meeting to order with 16 members and a prospective member in attendance. Following the opening ritual and approval of minutes and the treasurer’s report, projects for Service to America, Literacy Promotion, Women’s Issues, and Veterans were discussed.
United Country Real Estate in Thayer, Mo. has recently expanded.
The ASCEND Program will be the topic of the Friends of the Garnett Library meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Oct.