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Voices for children: CASA seeks volunteers in New Madrid, Pemiscot counties
(Local News ~ 06/25/22)
NEW MADRID, Mo. - Bethany Fowler Dilts has witnessed the difference a Court Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, can make in the life of a child. Dilts recalls the young teen who was taken out of her home due to allegations of sexual abuse and placed in a foster home. Things were moving along through the court, the parents’ rights were terminated and the foster parents were seeking to adopt the girl...
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Full Circle: Blevins is new community development director
(Local News ~ 06/25/22)
SIKESTON — Growing up, Barry Blevins remembers going to the Bank of Sikeston with his pawpaw and seeing the murals. Now, Blevins has come full circle, returning to Sikeston to work at City Hall, across the street from the old Bank of Sikeston building...
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Pollinator habitat program showing rewards at Bootheel
(Local News ~ 06/25/22)
In 2021, Wetland Specialist Kelsey DeZalia partnered with Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities, Sikeston Parks and Recreation, Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Corteva Agriscience and Quail Forever to host a Pollinator Habitat Outreach Program at the Bootheel Golf Course. Now a year later, the rewards are being seen...
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Speakout
(Opinion ~ 06/25/22)
I’m reading the Saturday/Sunday June 22 newspaper in Speakout, the “NRA owns politicians.” This is not a Republican issue, this is an issue of mentally ill people. The guns don’t kill people, it’s the mentally ill people who pick them up. They steal them from their parents, they buy them illegally and some of them buy them legally. But this is a mental illness issue and if you can’t grasp that, maybe you fall in that category.
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