Downtown Marceline (DM) is a 501c3 non-profit (not a part of city government) dedicated to the support and improvement of our downtown district. 2021 has been a momentous year with the conclusion of several major projects supporting and protecting our downtown. We would like to share with you some of these successes, 100% funded by donations and fundraising efforts.
Recently the Marceline Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Oasis Tutoring at Father McCartan Memorial School. Shown is Sister Catherine and Jane Frizzell cutting the ribbon on the Oasis Tutoring Program. Chamber members pictured include Daren Dowell, Donna Bell, Brenda Moore, Jane Spencer and Chris Ankeney. Jane Frizzell is the RSVP Tutoring Coordinator for Linn County. Contact the chamber office for more information.
Recently, Sammie Coe and Emma Cathey were named Marceline Middle and High School Students of the Week. Coe’s activities include Science Club and band. In her spare time, she enjoys drawing and spending time with friends and family. Cathey’s activities include softball, wrestling, SADD and FCCLA. During her spare time, she enjoys playing travel softball and spending time with friends and family.
On Jan. 30 a modern-day cattle drive was held on Missouri Highway 5 in Marceline.
The National March for Life took place in Washington D.C. and despite the bitter cold, well over 50,000 people turned out to show their support for the sanctity of life. This event is held every year around the same time to remember all the innocent lives that have been lost to abortion since Roe V. Wade.
Ongoing Sewing Class at the Brookfield YMCA. Free sewing class on Mondays and Thursdays at 10 a.m.
GRM Networks is promoting consumer awareness about the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new program from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This benefit will help lower the cost of broadband Internet service for eligible households. The $14 billion Affordable Connectivity Program provides a discount of $30 per month toward broadband Internet service for eligible households.
Most area beef producers are getting ready to or have already started calving. If you are not already doing so, this would be a great year to start tagging all your calves at birth with individual tags that can be matched back to their mothers. The table below shows a handy way to use the international letter codes and incorporate them into your tagging system to keep track of birth year. This is especially useful for producers that raise and keep their own replacement heifers back in the herd. As the years pass by, producers that use these letter codes are able to know the ages of their cows by simply looking at their ear tags. Additional information that should be recorded at birth would be birth date, sex of calf and whether or not assistance was provided at delivery. One area that I think northwest Missouri cow-calf producers could certainly improve on is record keeping and a great place to start would be this calving season.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A loss of manufacturing jobs combined with other factors to slow growth in the regional economy of nine Midwest and Plains states, according to a new monthly report released Tuesday.
If your farm has been in your family since Dec. 31, 1922, you can apply to have it recognized as a Missouri Century Farm.