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Believe in Buckner Believe in Buckner continues to take an active role in initiatives designed to attract more residents and businesses to the community. Plans are underway to make improvements to the City's parks. A local grant writer has been recruited to find funding that won't require tax dollars from citizens. Volunteers are needed and Believe in Buckner remains open to enlisting community input. To stay informed, find them on Facebook. Project Connect Additionally, save the date for Buckner Project Connect, Saturday, April 29, , 2017. The event is sponsored by the Health Care Collaborative (HCC) of Rural Missouri, which owns and operates the Live Well Community Health Center in Buckner. The program aims to connect underserved adults with needed resources. The one-day health clinic supports the uninsured and or underserved adults. All services are free. Project Connect will be held in the same location as last year at First Baptist Church and the United Methodist Church (road closures are planned to facilitate the event). It is not too late for a booth for those interested. Send an email to Bob Vickers, bob.vickers@hccnetwork for a Vendor Registration form. Anyone wanting to volunteer or help with event planning are encouraged to email Bob Vickers for details. As always, we will serve anyone from any county who shows up but want people around Buckner to know we are there to serve them! HCC is asking for churches and other community groups to help gather items for Exit Bags such as toilet paper, paper towels, deodorant, combs and brushes, as well as many other items. Downtown Buckner Renovations continue, while there is a strong potential for several new businesses to occupy space like the body shop, a pet groomer, and a deli and ice cream shop. Additionally, the old City Hall will be turned into an escape room. Just for fun, patrons will be locked inside and must figure out how to get out. Easter Celebration With the help of area schools the Shop with a Cop program is looking to help underserved children celebrate Easter. Additionally, a huge Easter celebration will be held in the park. This year, Easter is Sunday, April 16. Huge Surprise in Store for Buckner Although The Clarion cannot spill the beans, the City is planning a huge summer surprise for area residents. Our lips are sealed…Stay tuned. 6 | TheBucknerClarion.com April 2017 By Shayna Heathman, Contributing Writer Cerner Scholar Comes to Fort Osage The Career and Technology Center (CTC) at Fort Osage is proud to announce its selection as a Cerner Scholar partner. The Scholar program offers students from the CTC and several other schools the opportunity to apply skills learned in the classroom at Cerner Corporation. Students spend half the school day with Cerner and participate in the internship for one to four semesters. Cerner Scholars can participate in a variety of areas, including information technology, marketing and communications. Many students have continued on in paid summer internships. The program also offers students insight into a diverse range of careers available in information technology, business and healthcare. Students are selected by CTC instructors for program consideration. Students then complete a competitive interview with Cerner before being selected. Doug McIntosh and Tanner Kramer, Fort Osage High School seniors in the Advanced Computer Engineering program, were selected as the first Cerner Scholars. For more information, please contact Mike Pantleo, Director of the Career and Technology Center, at mpantleo@fortosage.net or 816-650-7184. Soccer Coach Hired Dr. Jason Snodgrass, Superintendent of Schools, is pleased to announce Michael Brown as head coach for the boys and girls soccer program. Brown will also be teaching social studies at Fort Osage High School. He has also taught for the past six years at Oak Grove High School and is currently teaching American History, World History and Psychology in addition to being the head coach for the Oak Grove High School boys and girls soccer programs. Brown earned his Bachelor's Degree in History, Secondary Education and ACT-IN from William Jewell College in 2010 and he completed his Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies from UMKC in 2013. In coaching, Brown holds a U.S. Soccer C License and a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma. Additionally, he is a coaching instructor for Missouri Youth Soccer Association. In his time with the Oak Grove boys' soccer program, they have earned a district championship and reached the state quarterfinal in 2011, which is the furthest any team has reached at Oak Grove. The girls' soccer program won their first ever district game as a program in 2015 and have reached district finals on multiple occasions. "I am very excited to step into an already successful Fort Osage soccer program. The work that is being done here is great and I hope to expand on the successes this program has found. I've heard many great things about this program and am excited to work with these talented players," said Brown. 660.259.3700 Buckner Positions for Park Renovations, Easter Celebration, Project Connect and Much More!