Beth Tankersley-Bankhead, director of postsecondary initiatives for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, located in Kansas City, has been named the keynote speaker for UCM's 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Scholarship Dinner, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Elliott Union ballroom. For more information, go to: https://www.ucmo.edu/news/tankersley.mlk2017.cfm

The American Legion will be hosting a breakfast fundraiser to support local youth baseball teams from 7-10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at 733 E. Young St., Warrensburg, Missouri. Cost is $6 and includes your choice combination of biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, waffles, orange juice, and coffee. To go meals are available.... Read more »

The Community Blood Center is scheduled to host the winter blood drive on Monday, Jan. 23, and Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. in the Elliott Union Ballroom. This is considered an emergency blood shortage drive. "Be the Match" will also be present to inform donors about the bone marrow registry. All blood donors... Read more »

The University of Central Missouri is scheduled to host a public reading by two established non-fiction writers, Alexander Weinstein and Whitney Terrell, at 2 p.m., Jan. 25. in the UCM Gallery of Art & Design. Alexander Weinstein is an author whose debut book, "Children of the New World", was published by Picador in 2016. Weinstein debut book then... Read more »