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POSTAL RESIDENT
ECRWSS US POSTAGE PAID QUINCY, IL PERMIT #108
Wednesday,April June 30, 19, 2013 Wednesday, 2013
Macon Head Start Celebrates Week of The Young Child
USPS-299800 Vol. 138 No. 18 La Plata, MO, 63549 • 16 Pages • 2 Sections
Subscribers to the Home Press are the nicest people! This week we salute
Ray Moyer Macon, MO Golf: La Plata vs. Macon
On beautiful sunny and 65 degree Tuesday, April 22nd, the La Plata Golf Team went head to head against Macon’s Golf Team. Here are the results for La Plata: Grant Gregory 40, Baylon Belt 41, Ben Bolden 41, Logan Smith 44 and Spencer Wrye 51. Macon team scores as follows: Medalist Gavin Arnold 37, Runner-up Nate Hilker 37 + 1, Jacob Orbin 39, Eron Gresham 40 and Aaron Brown 46. Macon won 153 to 166.
La Plata City Wide Yard Sales
Got something to sell? Looking for something to buy? The La Plata City Wide Yard Sales will be held on June 14, 2014 starting at 7AM. The event is once again being coordinated by La Plata Ladies Sorority. To get your name and address on the map, please send $2.00 to 402 North East St, La Plata, MO 63549 or drop it by the La Plata Pharmacy to Abbie Lene by June 6th. Your $2.00 pays for map printing and advertisements, like the ones you see in The Home Press! Maps will be available June 12 at these La Plata retailers: La Plata Pharmacy, C&R, and Casey’s.
Attention Local Sports Fans! The Home Press is holding a contest for all of our great local sports fans! We will feature a school mascot handmade wreath each month until we cover all of the schools in Macon County! We are continuing our La Plata Bulldogs contest until May 7th, as well as introducing the Atlanta Hornets contest. See Page 2 for details.
During the week of April 7-April 11, Macon Head Start celebrated The Week of the Young Child™. It is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The purpose of the Week of the Young Child™ is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs (http://www.naeyc.org/woyc).
Karen Armstrong with the MO Department of Conservation joined us to celebrate with a Family Activity night on April 10, 2014, she did a demonstration/ presentation on Missouri Snakes. Staff conducted an Art Show, were the children’s artwork was on display at the center before the snake presentation. Children recreated famous pieces by, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Peit Mondrain as well as some original pieces of their own.
Macon R-1 Elementary Track Meet May 15
Farmers’ Almanac Predicts “Oppressive” Summer Weather
This years Elementary Track Meet will be held on Thursday May 15th. Forms will be distributed on Monday the 5th of May should collect completed forms the following Monday, May 12. The meet will be consistent to last year’s award trophies to the 5th, 4th and 3rd grade classroom champs. Competition is county wide. All schools in the county are invited to attend.Any questions or comments please contact Dan Halley at dhalley@ macon.k12.mo.us “This meet is run by the Macon Tigerette Basketball girls, parents and coaching staff. We have a great time putting on this event and the participants have a great time.”
After an exceptionally long, cold winter and a wet start to spring for most of the country, many are now yearning for summer. They may want to retract that wish, though; the 2014 edition of the Farmers’ Almanac says the coming summer will be exceptionally hot across much of North America, with “oppressive” humidity throughout the eastern half of the United States. Only the Pacific Northwest is predicted to be “comfortably warm and dray.” Continued on Page 2A
22nd Annual Letter Carriers’ Food Drive It’s simple. It’s easy. It’s helping millions of Americans! On Saturday, May 10, the National Association of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive will once again spread out across America to help provide assistance to Americans who are struggling with hunger. Now in its 22nd year, the Food Drive effort is the nation’s largest single-day drive. In 2013, 74.4 million pounds of food was collected, which brought the grand total of donations to just under 1.3 billion pounds of food collected over the history of the drive. Put your non-perishable food donation in a bag by your mailbox. Your carrier will pick it up and deliver it to the local food bank. “It’s such an easy way for our customers to help people in their own communities,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said. “All they have to do is leave a non-perishable food donation in a bag by their mailboxes. And that’s it! Then, just like we do every Saturday of the year, letter carriers
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will swing by—only on Saturday, May 10, we’ll be ready to pick up the food donations and make sure they get to a local food bank or other charity within that community.” Food banks and shelters usually benefit from an upswing in charitable donations during the winter holiday season. By springtime, however, their stocks tend to dwindle to critically low levels. “Helping local support organizations deal with this postholiday lull in donations is the main reason we hold our national drive on the second Saturday in May,” Rolando said, adding that since many school meal programs are suspended during summer months, millions of children are left scrambling to find alternate sources of nutrition. “We’re grateful for the helping hand we get from family members and friends, from other postal employees, and from groups like local National Guard units, the Boy and Girl Scouts—not to mention food bank workers.”
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