Two thousand twenty-one will be our fourth year as a registered neighborhood. As an organizing member of Meador Park Neighborhood Association, I have to say that organizing has been a success. We have had excellent help and a lot of fun with our neighborhood cleanups and Bass Pro Marathon cheering sections. Our 2021 officers will be announced in the April edition of SGF Neighborhood News. Here are some highlights from 2020.
Left to right: Sara Stubbins, Lincoln Hopper, Wyatt Hopper and their mom Becky Sellers. Leaves can be good when two boys need Christmas money! Their mom knew just what to suggest: become an entrepreneur and see who in the neighborhood needed help with yard work. It is great to see two young people working so hard. With the warm weather and abundance of leaves to be raked it was a win-win. When Sara saw Becky’s Facebook post offering the boys’ services, she contacted them for help.
Like practically everything else, the NOVA Awards were different this year. Presented virtually by Community Partnership of the Ozarks and Air Services Heating and Cooling/All Service Professional Plumbing. This annual event is when we recognize outstanding participants from our own neighborhoods. This year’s recipient is Donna Clarkson. Donna is our treasurer, our Neighbors-Helping-Neighbors and involved in any other task that needs to be done. Donna is a charter member from 2017 that we are just plain lucky to have. Thank you, Donna, for all you do for MPNA.Dr. Cherie Norman, principal of Cowden Elementary School, with the food collected at our November meeting. Cowden is not able to maintain a pantry, but this event offered our group a chance to say thank you to our meeting location hosts and the help they give our neighborhood.
