AREA NEWS

Shiloh Christian Children’s Ranch will hold an Open House at Shiloh’s Clarence, MO site on Saturday, September 22, 2007.  The Open House will begin with a luncheon at 12:00 noon. The event will continue through the afternoon with special programs and tours.

One of the best-known traditions of the annual Nauvoo Grape Festival is the Grape Fest Pageant, which portrays the history of Nauvoo from the Native Americans to the present day.  The script for this historical pageant is based upon the timeline of Nauvoo history. It has been presented each year since 1939 during the Grape Festival in the natural amphitheater, called the Sod Stage in the Nauvoo State Park. This is just a stone’s throw from the Rheinberger Museum and it’s 156-year-old vineyard where Nauvoo’s wine industry began.

The Kirksville USDA, Rural Development personnel recently attended a training session on the Community Facility Guaranteed Loan program given by Clark Thomas, Business & Community Programs Director and Nathan Chitwood, Business & Community Programs Specialist. Both are located in the Missouri State Office in Columbia, MO

 The Northeast Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its 90th Annual Meeting and Volunteer Recognition Banquet at 6:30 PM on Thursday, August 23, 2007.  The meeting will be held in Hannibal at the Star Theatre on 215 South Main Street.  Anyone who has donated blood, time or financial support to the Northeast Missouri Chapter or is interested in the work of the American Red Cross is invited to attend.

 First-year students aren’t the only ones making a special effort to begin feeling at home on the QU campus.  Seven new faculty members are attending full days of orientation on August 13 and 14 in addition to participating in the slate of informational meetings that greet all faculty and staff at the beginning of each year.

The members of the Lewis County Rural Electric Cooperative gathered for an evening meeting under the big top tent on the Knox County School Grounds on August 2, 2007 to celebrate the 70th Annual Meeting.  The evening meeting was a change for the REC, which traditionally held daytime meetings., rotates between Knox, Lewis and Clark Counties.

This is Alyssa reporting the news from Dancing Rabbit for the past week.

Blessing Hospital’s Rehabilitation Services Department has earned a fourth consecutive three-year accreditation of its inpatient unit from CARF, The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

The Canton Area Arts Council and Culver-Stockton College
announce the cast of their summer youth theatre production, "Alice in

Wonderland," which will be performed for the public at 7 p.m. Friday,

August 10 and 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11.