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Safety Day marked Saturday
(Local News ~ 10/21/11)
Safety Day, one of three events sponsored annually to raise funds for the Stoddard County Shop With a Hero program, is slated for this Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Walmart parking lot in Dexter. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. and will include food and displays, including an ambulance, a fire truck, a police car and a seatbelt "convincer" for the public to experience. Concession items will include hot dogs, barbeque bologna, fries, mushrooms, fried Oreos, cookies and drinks...
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Shop With a Hero gearing up for holidays
(Local News ~ 10/21/11)
It is, perhaps, one of the most touching scenes during the holidays - witnessing children taking the hand of those who protect them every day as they are afforded an opportunity to "Shop With a Hero." The Shop With a Hero program began 11 years ago when several emergency responders from Stoddard County got together and decided to make the holiday season a little brighter for underprivileged children in the area...
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Local woman knits for children around the globe
(Local News ~ 10/21/11)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. - A local woman who has been knitting sweaters for children all around the globe is now reaching out for help. Hazel Williams, the recently retired city collector who served the city for more than 18 years, began knitting at eight years old as a young school girl in England...
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Big winner!
(Local News ~ 10/21/11)
Travis Waldner, a fourth grade student in Connie Heil's classroom at Central Elementary in Dexter, was the winner of a host of Halloween treats, courtesy of Walmart and Dexter McDonald's this week. Travis' name was pulled at random from names of students who reached 100 percent of their Accelerated Reader goal for the first quarter of school. The AR program at Central is under the direction of April Aldridge...
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Audry C. Fralick
(Obituary ~ 10/21/11)
Audry C. Fralick, son of the late Kelly O. and Alta Culan Mansfield Fralick, was born in Clarkton, Mo., on March 16, 1919, and died at his home in Dexter, Mo., on Oct. 19, 2011. He had lived in Dexter, Mo., most of his life. He had been co-owner of the Hickory Log Restaurant in Dexter until his retirement. He had served in the U. S. Air Force and was a member of the V.F.W., American Legion Post 59, the Elks Lodge and the Lion's Club...
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Lance Alan Espey
(Obituary ~ 10/21/11)
Lance Alan Espey, son of Beverly Webb Hunter, of Dexter, and Watt Espey, of St. Louis, Mo., was born on Aug. 12, 1960, in Poplar Bluff and died on Oct. 19, 2011, at his residence in Dexter, Mo., at the age of 51. He was a resident of Dexter, Mo., and worked on heating and air conditioning units in the area...
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Emma Lou Adams
(Obituary ~ 10/21/11)
Emma Lou Adams, daughter of the late Rev. T. W. Bland and Winnie Wilkerson Bland, was born on May 22, 1935, in Piggott, Ark., and died at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau on Oct. 20, 2011, at the age of 76. She was a member of Second General Baptist Church in Dexter, a home-maker and resident of Dexter...
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