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Tickets are available now for Joplin Little Theatre’s production of “Elf The Musical” from Nov. 20 through Nov. 24.
The production is dedicated to the memory of Heather Haar Briley. It is directed and choreographed by Lisa Olliges Green, with additional choreography by Allyson Briley and Anne Marie Wright.
In the show, Buddy, a young orphan, mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported to the North Pole. The would-be elf is raised, unaware that he is actually a human until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father and discover his true identity. Faced with the harsh realities that his father is on the naughty list and his half-brother doesn’t even believe in Santa, Buddy is determined to win over his new family and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas.
Jim and Ann Grace Lile play Santa and Mrs. Claus, while Buddy is played by Jeff Phillips. Children are cast as elves.
Ticket prices are $18 for adults and $16 for senior citizens and students.
To purchase, call (417) 623-3638 or go online.
Eye care provider Vision Solutions is launching its Gratitude Challenge to support the Webb City CARES snack pack program for kids by inviting the community to donate essential food items to ensure children in need have access to nutritious snacks.
Through Nov. 21, donations can be dropped off at Vision Solutions, 121 W. Broadway, Webb City. Office hours 8:15 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
The Webb City CARES list includes:
• Fruit or pudding cups, Jif-to-Go peanut butter cups
• Peanut butter or cheese cracker packs, popcorn
• Granola bars, cereal or oatmeal packets, Pop Tarts
Special bonus: For every donation drop-off, participants will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win a stylish pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses!
“Together, we can show our gratitude by giving back and supporting the youngest members of our community,” says Dr. Erica Burton of Vision Solutions. “Let’s ensure every child has a little extra to be thankful for this season.”
While the roundabout is being constructed, the existing intersection at Hall and Zora streets is completely closed. Until Monday, east-west traffic was still allowed.
The roundabout is expected to be completed before spring.
Liberty Utilities announces it has filed a request with the Missouri Public Service Commission to increase electric base rates in the fall of 2025.
According to Tim Wilson, Liberty Central Region president-electric, the increase request reflects the company’s efforts to strengthen Liberty’s system against storms and extreme weather; upgrade and add facilities and install devices and technology to support grid resiliency and security, improve reliability, and shorten restoration times; and enhance capacity to meet energy demand and growth.
If approved by regulators, new rates would cost the average Liberty Missouri residential electric customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of usage per month about $31 per month.
Key projects and initiatives included in the request are:
• Increase capacity to support energy demand and protect reliability by upgrading or rebuilding 23 substations across Liberty’s electric service area and investing in improvements to the Ozark Beach hydroelectric and State Line Combined Cycle plants that help them to run more efficiently. This is to support increased energy generation at the plants and reliability during periods of extreme weather.
• Reduce transmission costs and improve reliability for customers across Liberty’s electric service area by upgrading more than 80 miles of transmission lines and doubling capacity with a new 25-mile transmission line between Riverton, Kan., and Neosho.
• Improve response to customers and reduce the duration of outages with new service centers in Aurora and Bolivar that serve as a base of operations for line and substation crews, construction planners and other Liberty personnel.
• Boost capacity and reliability in downtown Joplin by converting to a 12kV system from an outdated 4kV system and building a new distribution line in Branson to accommodate growth and increasing demand.
• Improve reliability by reinforcing or replacing approximately 2,300 poles to strengthen our infrastructure against extreme weather, along with installing approximately 5,100 wildlife guards that protect lines and substations against animal-related outages, and sectionalizing existing circuits to quickly and efficiently reduce the number of customers impacted by outages.
• Protect infrastructure and the grid by installing physical security and cybersecurity technology at substations.
• Transition to new information systems that allow for advances in customer service and utility planning and analysis to support operational efficiency.
• Help limited-income customers who have fallen behind on their electric bills with a new, proposed Fresh Start Program and continue support for other financial assistance programs.
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