May 2020

JEFFERSON CITY – At the start of this year’s General Assembly session, Missouri remained the only state without a prescription drug monitoring program, or PDMP.

JEFFERSON CITY – State Sen. Denny Hoskins got another dog bill through the General Assembly.

RICHMOND – Rancher Janet Aldrich of Aldrich Quarter Horses in Excelsior Springs brought her horse Gus for an equine meet-and-greet in the Ray County Library’s parking lot.

RICHMOND – For the Ray County Museum, operations during the coronavirus pandemic have differed little from operations before the pandemic.

“THANK YOU to the Ray County Senior Center for feeding the home-bound seniors during this pandemic,” donor Keith Ross of Shelter Insurance, Richmond, states in making his donation to the Ray County Senior Center. The help from the Shelter Insurance Foundation “matched my $1,000 donation to the center,” he states. At the check-passing event are, from left, Ross, Senior Center Director Pat Mills, volunteer Sandy Burns, staff member Jacque Oddink.

ON BEHALF of the city, Richmond City Administrator Tonya Willim, left, receives an $8,750 check from from Richmond Rotary Club President Becky Treccariche. The money is for the new pocket park being built in the business district on the Richmond Square. The check is passed by these masked women following COVID-19 social distancing requirements.