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The Excelsior Springs Parks and Recreation Department has received a scrap tire grant, allowing the department to replace picnic tables at Siloam Mountain Park. The grant, made available from Missouri Department of Natural Resources, will also provide for a handicap accessible picnic table to be placed at each gazabo in the park.

Residents living on Lakeview Drive and Ridgeview Drive in Wood Heights are receiving mail again after services were suspended since Wednesday, Feb. 8, due to a man wielding a BB gun.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor; Jean Harlow (1911-- 1937), actress; James Doohan (1920-2005), actor; James Merrill (1926-1995), poet; Perry Ellis (1940-1986), fashion designer; George Miller (1945- ), filmmaker; Ira Glass (1959- ), radio personality; Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962- ), athlete; Herschel Walker (1962- ), football player; Julie Bowen (1970- ), actress; Jessica Biel (1982- ), actress; Camila Cabello (1997- ), singer-songwriter; Jayson Tatum (1998- ), basketball player..

In 1845, Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

Celebrity Cipher cryptograms are created from quotations by famous people, past and present. Each letter in the cipher stands for another.

“The Star-Spangled Banner”is set to the tune of“To Anacreon in Heaven,” a piece originally composed around 1775 as the official song of the Anacreontic Society, an English musicians’ club..

In 1920, the Montreal Canadiens set the NHL record for goals in a single game with a 16-3 win over the Quebec Bulldogs..

“Always that same old story -- / Father Time and Mother Earth, / A marriage on the rocks.” -- James Merrill, “The Broken Home”.

For every dollar invested in the Downtown Excelsior Partnership Inc. (DEP) by the City of Excelsior Springs, an additional $8.41 was raised, according to a presentation made to the city council recently.

Compassion helps people connect with others, mend relationships and move forward while fostering emotional intelligence and well-being. According to www.mindful.org, compassion takes empathy one step further because it harbors a desire for all people to be free from suffering and it’s imbued with a desire to help.