Point of View

🖤If Christmas is hard, 🖤If you’ve lost someone dear. 🖤Just look in your heart, 🖤And you’ll know they’re still here. 🖤The star in the sky, 🖤The light falling snow. 🖤The robin outside, 🖤It seems like they know. 🖤If this is a time, 🖤When you’re struggling through. 🖤Just do what you can, 🖤For what matters, is you. 🖤There’s no need to be merry, 🖤There’s no need to be bright. 🖤Just do what you can, 🖤It will all be alright. 🖤 Written by Lorna Gibson, http://www.tootsdesign.co.uk

CCPHC Order - Masks are required indoors until further notice. 50% occupancy, groups limited to 10

Monday 6:00 PM - City Council Meeting (ZOOM)

Thursday 6:00 PM - It's Christmas Eve, come outside onto your doorsteps & ring a bell for 2 minutes to spread Christmas spirit & help Santa fly his sleigh. Create a bit of Magic, hope & togetherness! It would be an amazing memory as we bring 2020 to a close. (From Taran's Facebook Post)

Friday - Christmas Day - City offices are closed

Agenda Items include: Resolution of Support for wearing masks; Cares Grant to Good Samaritan Center, Agreement with Polsinelli to form For Profit Entity to seek Historic Tax Credits for Hall of Waters improvements and appropriations.

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Excelsiorites are very generous. Generous with their time & money. I am not even going to try and list all the ways they support community improvements & people or risk leaving someone out. This week I want to congratulate the Community Center's Giving Tree, Police Department's Shop with a Cop & the Eagles' donation of $1,000 to assist people behind in their water/sewer bills. $100 was applied to 10 accounts with payment plans. Parks & Rec made arrangements for Santa to call 14 children who asked to receive a call from Santa. Merry Christmas!

• Community Center Corporate Partnership focus is working with local businesses to create wellness programs for their employees. Excelsior Springs School District has signed on to provide their employees access to Community Center's Wellness Programs.
• Heart to Heart is planning to continue COVID testing during January - March; will announce an indoor location soon.
• Local Cemetery database comparison with Archives in Liberty to confirm accuracy; found 100 names of individuals buried in the Crownhill Abbey, which had been a gap in local records.
• Hillcrest Cemetery has 22 dead Ash trees, four have been removed so far.
• Visible progress made on two building projects; Miller Cabinets & Cornerstone Elementary have walls & pavement is going down. Ready to focus on interior work over the winter.

The Elms was absolutely stunning. It retains it's historical charm & high-end polish throughout the space, with high end finishes, intricate tilework, & beautiful wainscot on many of the surfaces. If you get a chance to take the Paranormal tour you should, as you get a brief glimpse of the 5th floor parlor that overlooks the front drive & fountains. The room is stunning. The restaurant was beautiful & the food was truly great- perhaps the best calamari I have ever had. Jennifer L. Dec. 14 on Trip Advisor

Email: mmcgovern@excelsiorsprings.com
Website: cityofesmo.com
Location: Hall of Waters, 201 E. Broadway, Excelsior Springs, MO 64024
Phone: (816) 630-0752