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April 14, 2023 • Vol. 4, Issue 15
Branson Veterans Memorial Garden adds new plaque
INSIDE: • Around Town.........................38 • Churches.................................46 • Classifieds...............................44 • Education Briefs...................34 • Entertainment......................... 5 • Opinion................................... 6 • Puzzles.....................................42 • Weather..................................43
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Linda Oeser, descendant of Civil War Veteran Pvt. William Morris Sr., stands near the plaque she donated. (Photo courtesy of Jana Evans, Veterans Memorial Garden)
By CYNTHIA J. THOMAS, Staff Writer On Thursday, April 6, a new plaque was placed on the veterans Honor Wall at Branson’s Veterans Memorial Garden in honor of Pvt. William Morris Sr. Morris is the first Civil War veteran to be honored with a plaque at the garden. Born in 1806 in Pennsylvania, Morris moved to Missouri in 1860 after spending time in Indiana and Illinois. In 1862, as a widower with grown children, he volunteered at age 56 to join the 6th Division, 1st Brigade, 21st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers
Infantry, Company I; he was one of the five oldest volunteers in the regiment. Although many of the volunteers were farmers who could handle a rifle well, they had little formal military experience. The regiment, under orders from Union leaders including Major General Ulysses S. Grant, was sent to Tennessee where, during the early hours of the Battle of Shiloh, Pvt. Morris took a Confederate bullet sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. on April 6, 1862; hence, the decision to add the plaque bearing his name to the Memorial Garden SEE MEMORIAL PLAQUE, PAGE 20
Mock crash demonstrates consequences of impaired driving
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By K.D. MICHAELS, Staff Writer Emergency personnel raced to the Hollister High School on Tuesday afternoon where two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision. Fortunately, those involved in the accident were actors, exhibiting what can happen when one happens to drive while impaired or distracted. Hollister juniors and seniors offered their undivided attention as
members of the school’s theater department demonstrated the very possible consequences of impaired driving, with the help of the Hollister Police Department, Taney County Ambulance District, Western Taney County Fire Department, Missouri Highway Patrol, Cox Health, the Taney County Coroner and other area officials. “This is a docudrama,” ex-
plained Luke Spain, Injury Prevention Coordinator for Cox Health. “Basically, what we do is set up a mock car crash. Typically, drinking and driving, texting, drugs, something like that. Today it is drinking and driving—a DUI crash, mock obviously, involving students at the school. We staged the crash and we partnered with SEE MOCK CRASH, PAGE 21
Emergency personnel work to help the victims. (Photo by K.D. Michaels)