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Body Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative (PCEC) is accepting applications for its annual spring scholarship opportunities. Three $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to local undergraduate students pursuing a degree in the electric power industry.

Body North American Savings Bank (NASB) is bringing financial literacy education to students and residents in several Missouri counties.

Body Last week we looked at Dee Amos Ellet, who operated the Star Bath House in Excelsior Springs. However, Ellet’s bath house wasn’t the only black bath house in the city.

Body Over the past six years, an area runner has issued a challenge to help people get a jumpstart at the beginning of each year on improving their fitness. The runner is Russell Wenz.

Body On Feb. 3, another winning streak in Orrick varsity boys basketball ended.

Body Delta Dental of Missouri recently awarded $70,000 in oral health grant funding to Swope Health Services to purchase equipment for the new KidsCare dental, vision and medical clinic coming to the Excelsior Springs Early Childhood Center.

Body Trends and Unwanted Consequences in the Community was the theme of February’s Substance Abuse-Free Environments (SAFE) coalition meeting. Concerning data was presented by Missouri Poison Control Center’s Community Outreach Coordinator, Amanda Ruback.

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Body If asked to describe the favored foods of Valentine’s Day in a single word, “decadent” might prove the most apt descriptor.

Body The Immunization clinic is March 2 for high school and middle school students. Students entering twelth grade are due for second Meningococcal vaccine, students entering eighth grade are due for Tdap and first Meningococcal vaccine.