June 2021

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Damon Ashworth might add to his wrestling medals collection over the next few years. Ashworth, who graduated in May from Excelsior Springs High School, recently signed a letter of intent to continue his education and wrestling career at Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Worthington.

Need to learn how to unclog a shower drain, jump-start a car, shave your face without bleeding to death or successfully address dozens of other practical adult daily activities? Rob Kenney offers this kind of basic “dad advice,” and millions are tuning into his YouTube channel “Dad, How Do I?” to hear it. Kenney, who promises his subscribers he’ll do “my best to provide useful, practical content to many basic tasks that everyone should know how to do,” told Buzzfeed he began making YouTube videos after his 27-year-old daughter would call him “with countless ‘adulting’ questions.” “Every day she was calling me and … I thought, ‘What do other people do when they don’t have that resource?’ ” Kenney was painfully aware of what it was like to lack a fatherly resource.

JEFFERSON CITY – Each year, an estimated 5 million older adults are abused, neglected, bullied or exploited, Department of Health and Senior Services information states. Launched in 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is meant to serve as a means to unite communities around the world and raise awareness about elder abuse.