Stories from Wednesday, January 20, 2021

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri National Guard will begin assisting the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and other state partners in establishing COVID-19 vaccination sites across the state. A mass vaccination team will be assigned to each of Missouri's nine Highway Patrol regions. ...

DENVER, Colo. — Anita L. (Cobb) Parker Key, age 92, passed away on Dec. 30, 2020, at Orchard Park Healthcare Center, in Denver. Born on Oct. 29, 1928, to the late Pauline S. and Tom N. Cobb of East Prairie, Missouri, she was a graduate of East Prairie High School and a longtime resident of East Prairie and Benton, Missouri, before moving to Denver in 2015 to be near her daughter, Debra L. Parker McKenzie, and son-in-law, Keith T. McKenzie, who survive her...

Dear Editors, Despite a global pandemic, residents throughout shared the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. At curbside drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child, generosity of donors across the U.S., resulted in more than 7.8 million shoebox gifts collected in 2020. Combined with those collected from partnering countries in 2020, the ministry is now sending more than 8.9 million shoebox gifts to children worldwide...

Over here in East Prairie, where’s the dog catcher at? Guess they don’t want to catch the dogs because they to take care of them and feed them and everything else. I’ve been staying over here with my mom on Helen Street and there’s about six dogs on Helen Street and a couple streets behind and a couple streets in front. Dogs have been running for a month. Mom says they’ve been doing this for three or four months. Same old dogs. Dog crap every where in your yard and you don’t even have a dog. I just want to know where the city of East Prairie done. I know city hall shut down. Why don’t they get the dog catcher out to catch some of these dogs and get them off of the street? Walk out to the mailbox and step in dog crap. Walk out in the back yard and step in dog crap. Only thing bad about is we don’t have no dogs. C’mon East Prairie, we pay a big ole water bill over here. Get the dog catcher working.

MATTHEWS, Mo. — Rebecca “Becky” Ruth Kelso, age 75, of Matthews passed away on Jan. 19, 2021, at Country Place Assisted Living in Kelso, Missouri. She was born Aug. 31, 1945, in Sikeston, to the late Bill and Bea Critchlow Depro. On Jan. 6, 1962, in Hernando, Mississippi, she married Harvey Kelso, who survives of the home...