Stories from Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Three Rivers College will host Trauma-Informed training from 2-4 p.m. on May 4, in room 108 of the Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center on the Poplar Bluff campus.  The training will be conducted by Licensed Clinical Social Worker Carol Williams, who currently serves as the Quality Improvement Officer for FCC Behavioral Health. The training will assist participants in learning how to recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma in patients, families, professionals, and a community. ...

Brenda Elaine Hildrich, 75, of Poplar Bluff passed away Friday, April 8, 2022, at Saint Louis University Hospital. She graduated from Poplar Bluff Senior High School in 1965. She dedicated herself to helping others by serving in nursing homes and in home care for most of her life. She was loved by many as a sister, mother, grandmother, aunt, and friend. She loved the music of Elvis Presley, the taste of sweet drinks, and the companionship of her white Pekinese, Emmy Lou...

Jacquetta “Hook” Peterson passed away with her loving pet, Bella, Dec. 21, 2021 in Delta Junction, Alaska. Jacquetta was born Nov. 27, 1929 to Clarence Hooker and Maymie Hillin Hooker of Wardell, Missouri. She married William James “Dub” Peterson April 12, 1947 in Pocahontas, Arkansas. The Petersons settled in Neelyville, Missouri in 1960...

The 11th annual UCAN Sarah Jarboe White Walk will be Saturday, April 30, and organizers are planning to walk even if it rains. Funds from the event help support cancer patients in Butler, Stoddard, Wayne and Ripley counties. “We go ahead, cancer doesn’t stop for the rain,” said UCAN Executive Director Melody Chailland...

The Neelyville R-IV School board reorganized Thursday, April 14, swearing in newly elected members and electing officers. Incumbent Jill McGruder and new member Vernon Barker were sworn in while Paul Petty was re-elected as president and Bobby Burgett as vice president...

Poplar Bluffian Isaac Laseter is collecting data while working with the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as accumulating honors for competitive work at his university. Laseter is one of 60 people worldwide to be accepted to attend the IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa Advanced School on Galaxy Evolution. It will be held May 23-27 in Spain...