AREA NEWS

 Syndi Peck has been appointed to the position of director of admissions at Quincy University.  Peck joined the QU staff in January of 2006 as coordinator of non-traditional and graduate student recruitment.  She was named interim director of admissions in January of 2007.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Golf courses are known as centers for human recreation, but if managed properly, they also could be important wildlife sanctuaries, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found.

When older drivers hit the road, some people visualize a little old lady peering over the steering wheel. Now, a group of University of Missouri-Columbia students is helping mature drivers find the perfect fit behind the wheel.

MFA Oil marked this Fourth of July by declaring Missouri motorists’ independence from foreign oil. In a continuing effort to help educate consumers about the benefits of E85, MFA Oil gave away a 2007 Ford F-150 Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) at ABC-17’s Fourth of July Fire in the Sky celebration in Columbia. E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline and is used in FFVs. Ethanol for E85 is made from corn grown by Missouri farmers, produced by Missouri ethanol plants and now available to Missouri motorists.

Colonel James F. Keathley, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway

Patrol, would like to highlight the Patrol’s Crime Laboratory Division.

Sgt. Cody Fields, 22, of Macon, was recently named the Area 8 Recruit Sustainment Program coordinator for the Missouri National Guard. 

The Missouri 4-H Foundation is pleased to announce that Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, donated $2,500 to the Missouri 4-H Community Service grant program. Missouri 4-H is the youth volunteer education program of University of Missouri Extension, University of Missouri and Lincoln University

The Missouri Veterans Commission recently unveiled its revised website. The new website www.mvc.dps.mo.gov , with its easy to use interface, provides Veterans, employees and the general public information on benefits, job opportunities, and information about the Missouri Veterans Commission and it’s programs: Service to Veterans, Homes, Cemeteries, Minority Veterans, Women Veterans, and Operation Outreach.

JULY 11, 2007 Nearly 90 percent of all babies born in the United States more than double the percentage in 2005 live in states that require screening for at least 21 serious disorders, according to the latest March of Dimes Newborn Screening Report Card.

Ewing First Baptist Church recently sent a mission team to Lerdo, Mexico. Randy Rayl organized the 25-member team and worked with Ed and Starlene Williamson (missionaries in Mexico for 31 years). The team constructed a 22 x 50 cement block church in 5 days.