POPLAR BLUFF - City Manager Heath Kaplan released the first "newsletter" to the citizens of Poplar Bluff in an effort to help citizens better understand the decisions his administration is making. Here is the newsletter in full: City Manager Newsletter - 14-11-04
Poplar Bluff High School senior Darian Sales won a PlayStation Vita on Thursday, Oct. 30, for being named Ambassador of the Week in the national Graduate for Mas program, sponsored by the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Sales won the challenge by encouraging classmates to take the online pledge to graduate and also by participating in online activities that are college and career based, according to PBHS guidance counselor Tamara Day. As of the end of last week, Poplar Bluff Schools was No. 2 out of 1,200 schools in the United States—just below a district out of Huntington Beach, Calif.—for having had over 30 percent of high school students sign the pledge.
The fire chief and mayor honored a 6-year-old boy of the Poplar Bluff Kindergarten Center on Thursday, Oct. 23, for recently saving the lives of his family during a house fire. Hunter Schmidt reportedly saw smoke coming from a wall one Friday evening last month and awoke the adult of the house, who got the rest of the children out of the structure. Poplar Bluff Fire Chief Ralph Stucker and Hunter’s family attributed his quick thinking to an emergency presentation the boy was previously given during fire prevention week at the Early Childhood Center, according to the Daily American Republic.
POPLAR BLUFF - Monday night’s meeting of the Poplar Bluff City Council was largely a house-keeping session, other than an announcement at the end of the meeting by City Manager Heath Kaplan that he intends to begin publication of a newsletter from his office in order to get accurate information to the people of Poplar Bluff. He said the purpose of the newsletter will be to “line out all the information regarding financial decisions” he has made, addressing each of the issues raised in a recent editorial published by the Daily American Republic. “There are 11 items that I will address that were concerns of the DAR. I hope they will also publish this information,” said Kaplan. If not, he
CPR training was recently extended to the entire Poplar Bluff R-I staff after Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital medical professionals credited our athletic trainer and coaching staff this summer for saving the life of a student athlete by using mouth to mouth. About 85 district employees representing all buildings and numerous departments participated in the voluntary training offered by R-I Health & Drug Free Coordinator Sheryl Talkington and her school nursing staff after business hours in the Missouri Room. “CPR saves lives every day,” Talkington stated. “We certainly have witnessed that firsthand this year.”
