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In the coming weeks, high school seniors across Mid-Missouri will don their caps and gowns to walk proudly across the stage in the culmination of a 13-year goal to receive that coveted diploma.

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.

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.

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