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POVERTY SUMMIT

Susan McLarty, coordinator for the Greenville Homeless Alliance in South Carolina, presents the keynote speech Feb. 21 during the 2020 Poverty Summit at College of the Ozarks. The event, attended by 475 businesspeople, educators and students, included a panel of area practitioners to address current poverty initiatives in Stone and Taney counties. “Know that if you wait for someone else to solve those problems in your community, they won’t get solved,” McLarty told the crowd.

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FIGHT CRC

Springfield resident Marijana Kotlaja is on a Times Square ad (middle row, second from left) that kicked off Feb. 26 ahead of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March. The national campaign aims to promote awareness of colon and rectal cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, according to officials with Springfield-based nonprofit Fight Colorectal Cancer. Kotlaja, an assistant professor of criminology at Missouri State University, is an awareness ambassador for Fight CRC and is caring for her father, who was diagnosed with colon cancer.

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YP ENCOURAGEMENT

Keynote speaker Rebecca Ryan encourages the crowd Feb. 21 at the Springfield Business Development Corp. annual meeting. The Wisconsin-based consultant credited the collective engagement of young professionals in Springfield: “It’s the best I’ve seen in the country,” she said.

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YP ENCOURAGEMENT

Justin Coyan of Ollis/Akers/Arney is among the crowd of almost 500 on Feb. 21 at the Springfield Business Development Corp. annual meeting.

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