by pcantrell | Jan 27, 2021 | News, Rural Living, Transportation
West Central Missouri Community Action Agency (West Central) and the Missouri Rural Health Association (MRHA) seek volunteer drivers to help with healthcare rides in the region. Drivers receive a mileage reimbursement of $.80 per loaded mile, volunteer insurance coverage, flexible schedules, and training as HealthTran drivers.
by pcantrell | Nov 17, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Home Page Featured Post 3, Hometown Revival, Rural Living
Appleton City, Missouri, is a small town, quite far from any major highway, that is quietly and deliberately building new Main Street culture and commerce. It’s a great story about innovation and investment in our rural west central Missouri region. Now our...
by pcantrell | Sep 16, 2020 | News, Rural Living
There is power in making your place, your hometown, a wonderful place to live. This may be obvious, but quality of life is often an afterthought in the economic development work of growing jobs and businesses. That’s why the new Hometown Revival podcast focuses...
by pcantrell | Aug 24, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Home Page Featured Post 1, News, Rural Living
CAUTION: This article starts with a platitude, and then it hits you with reality. You’ll be glad you read it, because you will find a way to make a difference. Platitude (cliché truism): If you give someone a fish, you will feed them for the day. If you teach someone...
by pcantrell | Jun 17, 2020 | News, Rural Living, Transportation
Rides to Health and Wealth is a collaborative west central Missouri effort to build thriving people and places by increasing access to healthcare and community services using the HealthTran ride scheduling and resourcing platform. Rides to Health and Wealth...
by pcantrell | Mar 2, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, News, Rural Living
Driving 30 minutes for their daughter’s soccer practice used to be stop-and-go traffic stress for Shellie and Jonas Unell. It turned into rolling countryside and gorgeous sunsets when they moved back a few years ago to Shellie’s rural hometown of Appleton City,...
