Friends of Miami, Inc.

Friends of Miami, Inc.	Missouri River Township
NEWSLETTER FROM PRESIDENT ELIZABETH ELSON
If you have not received your copy of the 2023 newsletter, please contact President Elson at 660.852.3305.

NEWSLETTER FROM PRESIDENT ELIZABETH ELSON, JUNE 2006

NEWSLETTER FROM SECRETARY SHIRLEY S. MALAN, JUNE 2005

FRIENDS OF MIAMI, INC. NEWSLETTER JUNE 30, 2005
DEAR FRIENDS, MARK THIS DATE, TIME AND PLACE ON YOUR CALENDARS FOR OUR ANNUAL MEETING:
ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY, JULY 17 2005 1:00 PM MIAMI COMMUNITY CENTER CARRY IN DINNER MEAT, DRINK & UTENSILS WILL BE FURNISHED
WE WILL HAVE ELECTION OF OFFICERS AT THIS MEETING. THERE IS NOT MUCH NEWS TO REPORT AT THIS TIME. WE HAD SOME VANDALISM AT THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH IN DECEMBER 2004. OUR INSURANCE HAS A $250 DEDUCTIBLE CLAUSE. AT THE PRESENT TIME WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT THE COST TO CLEAN AND INSTALL SOME NEW WINDOWS WILL BE AND JUST WHAT THE INSURANCE COMPANY IS GOING TO PAY. WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY DONATIONS TOWARDS THE COST OF REPAIRS AND CLEAN UP. WE NEED MEMBERS. MEMBERSHIP DUES ARE DUE EACH YEAR IN JULY.
DUES ARE AS FOLLOWS: ANNUAL INDIVIDUAL DUES: $5.00 ANNUAL DUES FOR INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS: $100.00 ANNUAL DUES FOR SUSTAINING MEMBERS: $25.00 LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP: $500.00 HONORARY MEMBERSHIP WILL BE WAIVED. WE WISH TO HONOR AND THANK THOSE WHO SUPPORT US THROUGH MEMBERSHIP IN OUR ORGANIZATION.
AT OUR MEETING IN JUNE, 2005 WE HAD SEVERAL NEW PEOPLE ATTEND AND THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. WE HOPE THEY WILL JOIN THE FRIENDS OF MIAMI. WE ARE PRESENTLY WORKING ON GETTING THE 2006 MEDALLION READY. THIS ONE WILL BE THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. WE MISS ROBERT NELSON'S WORK ON THIS PROJECT. HE ALWAYS DONATED MONEY TO COVER THE COST OF MAKING THE MEDALLION AND WAS SUPPORTIVE IN MANY OTHER WAYS. ROBERT DIED IN APRIL, 2004. WE ALL MISS HIM. JOE FOOTE, LARRY AND AGNES COTT DONATED SOME OLD MIAMI NEWSPAPERS TO US. WE WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR DONATIONS. WE ARE HOPING TO APPLY FOR A STATE HISTORICAL GRANT. STACIE ARENDS IS GOING TO HEAD THIS PROJECT AND WITH THE HELP OF LIZ ELSON, SIDNEY SULLIVAN, LARRY COTT AND CHRIS TALYOR, MAYBE WE WILL GET A GRANT. ALSO STACIE ARENDS IS GOING TO APPLY FOR A $500.00 WAL-MART GRANT. WE STILL HAVE SEVERAL ITEMS FOR SALE. IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE ANY OF THE BELOW MENTIONED ITEMS, PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE WILL MAIL THEM TO YOU. (COST OR POSTAGE WILL HAVE TO BE ADDED TO THE PRICE.) YOU CAN CONTACT US AT:
FRIENDS OF MIAMI, INC. P O BOX 26 MIAMI MO 65344 OR YOU CAN LOOK US UP ON THE INTERNET AT www.sullivansfarms.net/friendsofmiami
SIDNEY SULLIVAN HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB ON GETTING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MIAMI COMMUNITY. THE MIAMI CEMETERIES ARE ALSO LISTED. THANKS, SIDNEY.
LIST OF ITEMS FOR SALE
ITEM	PRICE	# OF ITEMS REMAINING IN INVENTORY
COOK BOOKS	$10.00	60
2000 MEDALLIONS (BANDSTAND)	$10.00	35
2001 MEDALLIONS (BANDSTAND)	$10.00	17
2002 MEDALLIONS (1st BAPTIST CHURCH)	$10.00	56
2003 MEDALLIONS (METHODIST CHURCH)	$10.00	48
2004 MEDALLIONS (2nd BAPTIST CHURCH)	$10.00	0
2005 MEDALLIONS (PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)	$10.00	4
SWEATSHIRTS	$20.00	12
LONG SL. T-SHIRTS	$15.00	6
SHORT SL. T-SHIRTS	$12.00	19
CROCKS	$25.00	2
MUGS	$12.00	5
WE HOPE YOU CAN ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING AND BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FRIENDS OF MIAMI AND TAKE AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE ORGANIZATION.
SEE YOU SUNDAY, JULY 17, 2005, 1 PM AT THE MIAMI COMMMUNITY CENTER.
SINCERELY, SHIRLEY S. MALAN, SECRETARY FRIENDS OF MIAMI, INC. MIAMI MO 65344 P.S. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE MAIL YOUR DONATIONS, DUES OR MONEY TO PURCHASE ANY OF THE LISTED INVENTORY ITEMS TO:
FRIENDS OF MIAMI, INC P O BOX 26 MIAMI MO 65344

NEWSLETTER FROM PRESIDENT HISLE, DECEMBER 2004

NEWSLETTER, June 2004

NEWSLETTER, June 2003

Dear Friends of Miami Members,

Through the cooperation of teacher Peggy Page and the 8th grade students at Miami R-1 School, we are happy to be sending you the first Friends of Miami brochure. We hope you are pleased with the students' work. We approached the school to give students a challenge and prizes for the first, second and third brochures to be judged by the Friends of Miami: $20 first place to Melissa Jennings, $10 second place to Linzi Bledsoe, and $5 third place to Ashley Morrow. The Friends are very pleased with the brochure but if you, as a member of our organization, have questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us. We appreciate all the work the students put into this project.

Sunday, July 20, is our annual Friends of Miami meeting to be held at Miami's St. Cloud Restaurant, owned by Billy Joe Narron. No carry ins, buffet at 12:30 pm, and business meeting follows. Connie Winfrey, Director at Van Meter Park, and Don Riddle will be our guest speakers. See below. Come join us and bring a friend.

We have recently done rearranging at the Museum to accommodate our mini schoolroom which includes pictures of Miami High School graduates and 8th grade students from Miami R-1 School and two old desks. Florine Hisle donated all the pictures and Miami High School Year Books; we would like to obtain books for 1939, 1941, 1945, 1946 and 1948 so as to have all the year books. If anyone should have one lying around collecting dust, please remember the Friends of Miami.

I would like to thank all individuals for the work keeping the Museum active.

Lucille Hisle, President, Friends of Miami, Inc.

The staff at Van Meter State Park wish to thank the school children and parents of Miami R-1 School for helping launch a series of programs on American Indians in April. You might have missed Rose Drake's program on Cherokee baskets in May. Yet you can still come to the visitor center to view her collection of baskets on display. In May we also saw, heard and felt the vibrations of Iron Horse, a drum group. These Native American youth demonstrated their cultural knowledge through traditional dance, singing and drumming.

See you on July 20 for the annual Friends of Miami meeting. Guest speakers will be Don Riddle and Connie Winfrey with the Manitou Bluffs Mid-Missouri Chapter of Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. In order for "all voices" to be heard about the Lewis & Clark expedition, Connie will be telling about the Native American experience. It should be a lively discussion and great show and tell with a replica of the Lewis & Clark keelboat (table size of course).

Connie Winfrey, Director, Van Meter State Park

www.sullivansfarms.net/friendsofmiami is a site to visit. We carry current events and news and an up-to-date membership list. Our most ambitious project right now is building a web record of cemeteries in the Miami vicinity. Our site draws out-of-area visitors interested in history and genealogy and other unusual matters. For example, email communication from a Los Angeles writer for the summer film release, Bad Boys II (Saline County Sheriff Wally George's web site uses the theme from Bad Boys II as background music), proposed a storyline comparing Miami, Missouri and Miami, Florida. Florine Hisle and Shirley Malan got together great material as requested and the writer was delighted but latest news says the director hates the story. Maybe the zero crime rate in Miami, Missouri was a problem. Disappointing but exciting. Still, if you plug "friends of miami" into any internet search engine, the first choice will be our web site. We're proud of this achievement as the first choice used to be friends of Miami in Florida. Shows you what hard work and perseverance in the heartland can do. If you visit us on the web and have comments or suggestions for additions to the site, please email Sidney Sullivan, webmaster, at s1dney@cdsinet.net. She'd like to hear from you. For those interested, Secretary Shirley Malan keeps a fine hardcopy notebook with the website material at the Miami Post Office.

Sidney Sullivan, Webmaster, Sullivans Farms

NEWSLETTER, December 2002

NEWSLETTER, June 2002

NEWSLETTER, December 2001

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