Contact information:
President: Ashley Powell apowellwnba@att.net 870-353-8388
Vice President: Tawyna Elliot 766-3973
ninjamom303@hotmail.com
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UPCOMING EVENTS
April 19 Family Movie Night at Westport
April 28 Take Back drug event-Evangel and other locations
April 28 Adopt-A-Street cleanup Mt Vernon & Park
May 5 WNBA picnic-all invited
May 12 Caring Communities tire toss
May 22 Framing Hope-free Home Depot donations for paid members
June 2 Neighborhood Cleanup
August 7 Caring Communities National Night Out Event
Sept 15 Garage Sale
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Discount tickets and season passes are now available for Missouri theme parks through the Springfield-Greene County Park Board.
Ticket discounts range from about 5 to 40 percent, and are made available through a partnership with the Missouri Park and Recreation Association.
Silver Dollar City one-day passes are available through December. All other passes are available only through each theme park's regular summer season, including:
Theme Park Discount Ticket Prices Park Board Price Gate Price Discount
Silver Dollar City
Adult $53.00 $60.19 13.57%
Child $43.00 $49.44 14.98%
Season Pass Adult $79.00 $102.10 29.24%
Season Pass Child $69.00 $91.35 32.39%
Whitewater
Adult $36.00 $42.41 17.81%
Child $30.00 $35.71 19.03%
Silver Dollar City/Whitewater Combo
2-Park Combo Adult $123.00 $141.57 15.10%
2-Park Combo Child $113.00 $130.83 15.78%
Worlds of Fun
General Admission $33.00 $44.99 36.33%
Junior/Senior $19.00 $19.99 5.21%
Schlitterbahn
General Admission $32.00 $40.29 25.91%
Junior/Senior $27.00 $30.49 12.93%
Six Flags
General Admission $32.00 $44.99 40.59%
Discount theme park tickets may be purchased at the Mediacom Ice Park, 635 East Trafficway; Chesterfield Family Center, 2511 W. Republic Road; Doling Family Center, 301 E. Talmage St.; Jenny Lincoln Center, 300 E. Harrison St., or the Park Board Main Office, 1923 N. Weller Ave.
Tickets are available during normal facility hours of operation. For more information, contact the Park Board Offices at 417-864-1049.
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Your Neighborhood Needs Your Help
The primary purpose of our newsletter is to gather information relevant to our neighborhood in a format that can be easily distributed. There are over 2000 households within the WNBA boundaries. We would love to make sure that each and every household gets a newsletter every month, but we simply do not have the manpower to make that happen. We need your help to get that accomplished. If every block had someone who would be willing to deliver to 20 homes it would allow us to reach people who might not otherwise have access to this information. If your family is willing to make this small commitment to improving your neighborhood please contact Sandi Huston 831-1604. In the meantime, please enjoy this month’s newsletter.
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The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has launched a newly updated website. The site can be found at health.springfieldmo.gov.
The website includes a number of new or revamped features that citizens and partners may find useful. These include:
- A mobile version of the site fully compatible with iPhone, Android, Blackberry and other mobile devices. The same URL will take users to the mobile site on those devices.
- A photo gallery, updated daily, of animals that are currently housed in the City animal shelter. These animals are held for a minimum of five days to allow for owners to claim them, at which point they then become available for rescue agencies to claim. Each photo contains information such as breed, estimated age, weight, and when and where the animal was found. The gallery is a great tool not only for citizens, but also for the 17 partner rescue agencies that monitor the shelter for potentially adoptable dogs and cats. These partners have helped drastically reduce the euthanasia rate and boost the effective claim rate at the shelter over the last few years.
- An online service request page for citizens to log complaints about food establishments, mosquitoes, rodents, needles found on public property, hotels, motels, pools and animal control issues.
- Online payment capabilities for food establishments and vaccinations. Food establishments can renew their permit by paying the fees online. Citizens, international travelers, food establishment employees and others can pre-pay for eight types of vaccinations.
- Volunteer opportunities are outlined on the site's Community Heroes pages. Community Heroes is a public health volunteer initiative, which strives to engage the community in healthy behaviors. Volunteer opportunities with other partner agencies are listed as well.
Other features include an extensive list of FAQs, a directory of health department staff, and a directory of outside resources and partner agencies. These join other existing features from the department's previous site such as a restaurant inspections database and a dashboard page that tracks a wide variety of statistics monitored by the department.
For more information, contact: Mike Brothers, Public Information Administrator, Office: (417) 874-1205 Cell: (417) 894-9064
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Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, Springfield citizens wanting to report issues regarding tall weeds, trash or inoperable vehicles should call the City's Public Information Department at 864-1011. In the past, citizens have been able to call Public Information and the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to make these types of requests.
Starting in 2012, the primary responsibilities of nuisance code enforcement will shift from the Health Department to the City's Building Development Services Department (BDS). The move is essentially a re-alignment – the services themselves are not being changed.
The change means five city staffers will move from the Health Department to BDS. These employees' primary duties included investigating calls regarding weeds, trash, and inoperable vehicles. The change also means these five employees will be available to conduct other types of zoning and land development inspections done by BDS, such as reports of multiple unrelated people living in one residence or home business violations. The health department will continue to investigate calls regarding potential vectors of disease, including rodents and mosquitoes.
For more information, contact: Chris Straw, Director of Building Development Services, (417) 864-1059; or Kevin Gipson, Director of Health, (417) 864-1655.
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The Springfield Police Department would like to remind the general public about victim/witness assistance programs available to them if they are the victim in an abusive situation. Any of the below facilities offer a variety of services that can assist in a relationship with which the victim is having difficulty dealing.
- Family Violence Center, 837-7700
- Battered and Abused Assistance-Local, 864-7233
- Carol Jones Recovery Center, 862-3455
- Harbor House Men's Shelter, 831-7746
- Harmony House Hotline, 864-7233
- Salvation Army, 862-5509
- Victim Center, 863-7273
- Victory Misson-Women, 831-6387
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