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Are you confident your assets will go to your heirs the way you want them to? Have you taken steps to minimize family squabbles after you are gone? Do you know how to split the farm or business when only one child wants to return? Have you prepared your successor to take over and be

On Friday, Oct. 20, the Mo-Kan Square Dancers will host a dance with Mike Huddleston calling from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the Home Ec Building at the Vernon County Fairgrounds, Nevada. Admission is $5 per adult dancer and $3 per youth dancer. All square dancers and interested persons are invited. For more information, call

Law enforcement agencies throughout North America will engage in heightened traffic safety enforcement and educational outreach as part of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week, Oct. 15-21. Throughout the week, enforcement personnel will identify and issue warnings and/or citations to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and passenger-vehicle drivers exhibiting unsafe driving

Trick-or-treaters age 12 and under are invited to visit Community Springs Healthcare Facility, a Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation (CMH) long-term care facility, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Residents will hand out candy as a safer alternative to door-to-door trick-or-treating. Community Springs Healthcare Facility is located at 400 E. Hospital, El

The Tri-County Baptist Group will hold its regular Fifth Sunday service on Sunday, Oct 29, at Halfway Missionary Baptist Church in Polk County. After Sunday School at 10 a.m., the morning service will begin at 11 a.m. with preaching by Bro. Keith Irvin. After lunch on the grounds and a business meeting, the afternoon sermon

Five Loaves, a free life skills seminar hosted by the Dederick Christian Church, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24. This will be an evening to share information and to learn while having fun. The theme for the evening is You Are What You Eat and will feature foods that are good for those

If you haven’t already done so, now is the time to register for the 2017 Swine Institute at the Pork Place on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2. Missouri Pork Association In cooperation with the University of Missouri Commercial Ag/Extension,  a great program along with a mini

by Becky Groff Caplinger Mills Volunteer Fire Department will hold its fall chili supper from 4-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at station No. 1 in Caplinger Mills. Get a bowl of chili, a piece of pie or other dessert and a drink for $7. Proceeds from this fundraiser will be used for operating expenses for

The Stockton Class of 1965 will hold a reunion beginning at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 13, in the Boat House Restaurant in Stockton.

CMH invites nurses and other medical providers to interview for open positions Citizens Memorial Hospital (CMH) will host a Healthcare Hiring Fair on Friday, Oct. 20 from 1 – 7 p.m. at the CMH Community Rooms, 1500 N. Oakland, Bolivar. CMH is hiring for RNs, LPNs, CNAs (staff and long-term care), Medical Lab Technicians, Therapists,