Laura Wax

Laura Wax

  • Joined: October 24, 2023
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Bunceton students show off their art skills

The Show Me Central Conference recently held their Art Show. Bunceton students did very well receiving the following ribbons. In the middle school division, 6th grader, Kumanii Price earned 1st place in the ink/marker category with her entry “Lion Heart.” Taylor Krafft earned two ribbons: 1st place in mixed media with “Ice Queen” and 3rd place in ceramics with “Tic-Tac-Toe Waffle.” 7th grader Reigan Thompson’s entry, “Cut the Hurt Out” in the mixed media category received 2nd place. Addalie Saylor, 7th grade, earned 2nd place with her entry in the Other Category with her “Paper Lantern.” Addalie Saylor and Evelyn Bishop teamed up to get an Honorable Mention on “Stalactite Heights” in the mixed media category. Evelyn Bishop, 7th grade, received two 3rd place ribbons for her entries in mixed media category “Song Lyrics” and in the chalk/oil pastels category with “Strawberry.” 8th graders, Levi Ray and Zeke Lyons, did a group project for sculptures with their entry of a pick-up, gooseneck trailer, and dirt bike earning an honorable mention ribbon. Five ribbons were won in the high school students division. Senior Brooklyn Davis won two of these ribbons. In the chalk/oil pastels category, she won 1st place with her drawing of “Dragon Eye.” Her colored media category entry, “City & Farm” earned 3rd place. Freshman Emma Knipp earned 3rd place for her entry “I See You” in the “Other” category. Sophomore Aaydin Zimmerman received two honorable mention ribbons with “Abstraction” (colored pencil) and “Duality” (Printmaking). Honorable mention ribbon was awarded to Senior Riley Shadwick’s Paper Mache mask.

Critical incident stress management training takes place at Turner Hall

On Tuesday, April 29, the Mid-Missouri Peer Support Group, founded by the Cooper County Fire Protection District, spent the second of three days at Turner Hall with Oklahoma’s Warriers Rest instructors Juli Johnson and Craig Smith as they trained in GRIN (Group Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention). The 26 students were members of the police, sheriff’s department, 911, Department of Juvenile Corrections, New Franklin and Black Water fire departments, and one Missouri State Park Ranger. This state-wide critical incident stress management training program was paid for by a grant from the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

Library Card Renewal Now Available Online

Rather than making a trip to your local branch of Boonslick Regional Library (BRL) to have your library card renewed, it can now be done remotely online for patrons, ages 18+, whose cards are ready to expire, are expired, or are inactive. The BRL system requires patrons to renew their library cards annually so that contact information that is on file can be verified as correct. “Our system technicians have been working on the software for months to enable all four libraries in the system—Boonville, Cole Camp, Sedalia, and Warsaw—to be able to have library cards renewed online,” explained Cathy Birk, BRL Cooper County Branch Supervisor. “For many, it is a welcomed expansion of our services, especially with everyone’s busy schedules,” she added.