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On April 6, the Barry-Lawrence County held an open house at its new facility at Park Street and Chapell Drive. The celebration marked a new beginning for the 50-year-old organization serving bi-county children with developmental delays and disabilities and vastly expanded physical resources to help children grow and overcome.

Victor Nung, 14 and Ban Kung, 14, represent the Chin culture, of Burma, wearing traditional clothing of Chin culture during the Purdy Cultural Showcase on Thursday, March 14. The showcase featured displays highlighting the cultures of the Chin, Mexican, Hmong and Guatemalan people, who are all found in Purdy. The event also included fashion shows and traditional dances. Steve Chapman/timesreport-er71@ gmail.com

Sitting in a basement classroom in the building that houses the Drury University campus in Monett, two teams of business students each met with a local business owner on the evening of Thursday, March 28, engagedinback-and-forth discussions about the businesses and their owners’ goals for them. While it may have appeared that the students were simply engaged in friendly discussion with the business owners, they were actually collecting ideas for a marketing project in which they were going to promote the businesses to the public.

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The Monett Area Community Foundation (MACF) handed out almost $45,000 in grants to six area non-profit organizations at the Monett Historical Museum on Wednesday, April 3. Among the grants awardedbytheMACFwas $10,000 to the Monett High School Baseball and Softball Teams for the purchase of a new scoreboard.

Monett High School held their prom at the Monett Casino Building on Saturday, April 20. MHS students, many of whom will graduate in May, came to the right-ofpassage event for a fun-filled evening of music, dancing and more.

The death of Dr. John Forsyth has been declared a suicide.