EXCELSIOR SPRINGS - The Chamber of Commerce announced it is moving Waterfest to later in the year to distance it from the current COVID-19 quarantine.

Originally slated for late in June, this year's Waterfest will now be held Aug. 28-29, 2020, according to Chamber Director Elaina Lamley.

"Due to the current situation regarding COVID-19 and not knowing the immediate future of guidelines for social distancing, to be safe we decided to move Waterfest for the 2020 season," Lamley said.

Robert (Bob) McCrorey, 79, of Liberty, MO, died March 31, 2020.

Bob was born August 4, 1940 and raised in Excelsior Springs, MO and moved to Liberty two years ago. He graduated from Excelsior Springs High School in 1958 and graduated from CMSU in Warrensburg, MO in1962 with a B.S. in Business Administration. 

Deborah Leann Carpenter, 54, of Excelsior Springs died April 2, 2020. Private Family Services. Arrangements provided by Hidden Valley Funeral Home of Excelsior Springs (816) 637-3000

NEW YORK – In 1918, Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people.

Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people, who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, sick and dying patients infected by the Spanish flu filled every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals.