Hospital asks public to create facemasks
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RICHMOND – Ray County Memorial Hospital is asking the public for direct assistance in fighting the coronavirus by making medical masks.
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Foundation for Health responds to COVID-19
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ST. LOUIS – “During this time of growing uncertainty, our commitment to improving the health and well-being of Missourians remains steadfast,” the Missouri Foundation for Health stated.
Money in mid-April, IRS says
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WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced the distribution of economic impact payments will begin in the next three weeks and will be distributed automatically, with no action required for most people. However, some seniors and others who typically do not file returns will need to submit a simple tax return to receive the stimulus payment.
Blunt urges Trump’s DHH director to give aid to rural health providers
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt – who chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies – joined a bipartisan, bicamera group of 121 members of Congress in sending a letter to the Trump administration calling for immediate assistance to rural hospitals and clinics.
Food service employees essential during crisis
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Missourians are flooding into their local grocery stores to stockpile cleaning supplies food and, of course, toilet paper. They pile into these stores because they are worried. They pile in because they want to protect their families, and because they want to feel safe.
After COVID-19 benches lawmakers, Sen. Hoskins evaluates his sports betting, gambling bills:
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JEFFERSON CITY – Gaming machines and sports betting would be allowed, regulated and taxed in Missouri if bills submitted in the Senate by Denny Hoskins pass.
District maintenance jobs continue
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RICHMOND – School district maintenance workers have plenty to do, starting with a “deep cleaning,” Buildings and Grounds Director Steve Minnick says while walking along a quiet hallway at Richmond High School.
In one of dozens of classrooms, custodian Scott Russell scrubs a mop across the tile floor. He has faced a couple of disasters in the past year. The first involved fighting the double-flood of 2019, as he worked with Hardin’s volunteer sandbag militia. Now, he does his part to prevent the spread of the coronavirus by cleaning classrooms.
Burglary at downtown store nets knives
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RICHMOND – One or more burglars struck overnight at This & That, a retail collectibles store at 215 W. Main St. in downtown Richmond.
Owner Mike Weber said Wednesday morning that, after he closed Tuesday, someone busted out the window to the front door of his business and climbed through.
“They came in the building,” he said, while talking through the broken door. “They got all the knives and stuff out of the display case that I’ve got on my counter.”
