Springfield police and firefighters raise $9,000 with hockey match
Springfield police officers and firefighters faced off on the ice for bragging rights and to raise money for a cause that is close to their hearts.
On March 23, the Springfield Police Department and the Springfield Fire Department played a charity hockey game at the Jordan Valley Ice Park to raise money for the Greene County 100 Club.
With more than 800 supporters cheering on their team, the event raised $9,000 through ticket sales, making it the most successful event to date.
The Springfield Police Department took home the win in this year's match with a 4-3 victory over the Springfield Fire Department, a first in the five years the teams have faced off.
Both departments' teams are comprised of current employees who volunteer their time and skills, and play for the love of the game.
The Greene County 100 Club is a charitable organization whose purpose is to help the surviving families of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The support from the Police vs. Fire Charity Hockey Game helps the organization provide support to 11 Greene County law enforcement departments and 15 fire departments.
Any current police or fire employee can volunteer to play. Both the police and fire department are actively recruiting now.
Fashion show Beyond Labels
The Threadbare Collective will present its Beyond Labels Fashion Show 4-7 p.m. Sunday at the Fairbanks Community Center.
The gender-inclusive fashion show will celebrate inclusivity in fashion. The show will include LGBTQIA+ and ally designers and models.
Tickets at the door are $15, with proceeds benefiting the GLO Center. GLO Center serves the LGBTQIA community in the Ozarks through support, resources, education and advocacy. To learn more, visit glocenter.org.
The Fairbanks is located at 1126 N. Broadway Ave.
Wilson’s Creek battlefield ready for season
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield for Park Day April 6, sponsored by the American Battlefield Trust, offered a chance for local community groups and individual volunteers to make a difference in honoring and protecting our nation's battlefields.
Volunteer projects included a variety of activity levels from making and preparing junior ranger booklets and rolling paper cartridges to painting benches to the annual stream clean and more. Planned activities included a stream clean-up of Wilson's Creek, preparing the visitor center and picnic area for the spring and summer.
Visit the park's social media or website at http://www.nps.gov/wicr for more information about the park, or call 417-732-2662.
Linda Leicht Special to the News-Leader
Get a deal at Elevate Thrift Store
Elevate Branson's thrift store is holding a spring sale through April 13 when everything in the store will be sold at 25% off.
Store hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays.
The store is located at 310 Gretna Road in Branson.
For more information, call 417-9861188.
Local attorney shares Ukraine experience
Springfield attorney Tim Hayes will be featured speaker at the April 13 meeting of the Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks. The meeting is at 10 a.m.
Hayes will provide a view of history as it happens, as he has taken several mission trips to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia and is set to go on another trip within the month.
Hayes felt his call to duty on 9/11, when he was already well established in his legal career, and enlisted to be a JAG in the U.S. Army Reserve JAG Corps. He was deployed to Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007-08.
When Russia attacked Ukraine, Hayes enlisted the help of a Springfield businessman to supply warm clothing to Ukrainian soldiers, took the clothing to Ukraine himself and began his subsequent missions to the war-torn country.
AMMO meetings are free and open to the public. The museum is located at 2305 E. Kearney St.
For more information, call Sarah Keen at 417-323-1026.
Mullins-Taylor Farm exhibit opens April 24
Beginning April 24, the Christian County Museum will have a new exhibit on display “Stories of the Mullins-Taylor Farm 1840-2022,” sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council, Impact 100 Ozark, Community Foundation of the Ozarks, and Ozark Chevrolet.
The exhibit reflects eras of area history 1840-2020 and brings this history to life with stories of farm residents through the years. The farm site represents a wide range of topics relevant locally as well as regionally, including early settlers, a widow of a frontier sheriff, a Southern tobacco tycoon, enslaved and formerly enslaved African Americans, a Civil War hero, a progressive rural settlement during Reconstruction, and a prominent contributor to the “Missouri Mule” tradition.
Kevin Cupka Head, director of the Bernice Warren Center for Archaeological Research at Missouri State University, conducted archaeological research at the farm site prior to its 2022 demolition. Bricks from a likely slave quarters and other artifacts recovered at the farm site were donated to the