January 2021

Willard Ross “Bubba” Ridenour. 69, of Lawson, passed away on Jan.

Joan Marie Martin, 65, of Trimble, passed away Dec. 28, 2020.

It is with great sadness the family of William “Bill” Lay of Excelsior Springs announces his passing on Dec. 21, 2020 at age 75.

Franklin Carroll Bollinger, 92, passed away on Dec. 28, 2020, at North Kansas City Hospital from pneumonia complications.

Nursing homes across the nation, and here in Ray and Clay counties, have endured the COVID-19 pandemic with varying degrees of success. Without a doubt, success would have been far greater if nursing home leaders had been warned early on by those in the know – as revealed in tapes from the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward – about the threat to life the virus represented.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – A shopping spree to raise scholarship funds also helps a family in need. Rotary President Melinda Mehaffy says the charitable organization sold 322 raffle tickets worth $3,220 to fund two $750 scholarships and pay expenses.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The 130-member Excelsior Springs Baptist Church congregation, with help from a Richmond couple, celebrated the end of a major debt, with Pastor John Dearing ceremonially burning the church mortgage in the sanctuary.

HIGGINSVILLE – The Tigers avenged a loss before their holiday break. On Dec.

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reminds the public the state’s minimum wage rate will rise to $10.30 per hour, effective Friday. Pursuant to Proposition B – which a majority of Missouri voters approved Nov.

RICHMOND – For those who have lived through – • The Cold War, while learning to hide under classroom desks as protection against atomic bombs; • The Civil Rights Movement with protests, beatings and murders, and the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; • The Vietnam War, protests and beatings, fear of being drafted, Richard Nixon’s disgrace and the humiliating desertion of the nation’s Vietnamese allies; • The Iranian hostage crisis and Arab oil embargo; • AIDS and dread about how the disease could spread, with even schoolchildren being villainized and ostracized, • Sept. 11, 2001, the longest war in U.S.