Jon Wessel, president of Don Wessel Honda, presents a 2018 Honda Accord to Crowder College President Jennifer Methvin, center, and the college foundation’s advancement director, Cindy Branscum. Wessel Honda will pay the lease agreement on the car for the next three years, so the college can use it. The dealership previously donated a Honda Fit to the Crowder College Foundation, which was raffled off to raise scholarship funds.
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Big Hearts
Heart of the Ozarks Sertoma Club made two donations to local charities totaling $25,200. Above, $1,500 in proceeds from Oktoberfest is awarded to the Humane Society of Southwest Missouri.
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Big Hearts
Heart of the Ozarks Sertoma Club made two donations to local charities totaling $25,200. A check of $23,700 goes to Boys and Girls Club of Springfield Inc., above, to pay for the organization’s rent in 2018.
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Senator Tours
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, and his wife Abigail tour Ozarks Food Harvest on Dec. 29. He thanked the food bank’s volunteers for their work inspecting, sorting and packing food donations in preparation for the peak demand months of January and February. Later in the day, Blunt traveled to Joplin to visit the city’s Boys & Girls Club chapter.
Springfield event venue Belamour LLC gained new ownership; The Wok on West Bypass opened; and Hawk Barber & Shop closed on a business purchase that expanded its footprint to Ozark.