“When there’s so much damage and destruction, emergency response crews can’t get to you; you could be two weeks without power or water. If Wal-Mart has collapsed, you can’t get anything there, if you can even get there.”
– Camden County Emergency Management director Denise Russell
In what may be the single most important issue to face Lake of the Ozarks in the last decade, a unified group of community leaders have stepped forward to send the message to out-state Missouri and beyond that Lake of the Ozarks is healthy and vibrant - a wonderful place to visit and live.
Over the last several weeks the Citizens for the Preservation of Lake of the Ozarks has started to take shape. The catalyst is the ongoing discussion about water quality at Lake of the Ozarks.
With winter coming in and out of the lake area, sometimes a trip for a day isn’t enough of a getaway. Why not try a weekend trip to Chicago?
While Andy Rollheiser’s classmates were attending 4th grade classes at Camdenton’s Hawthorne Elementary School, he was taking part in an academic lesson of a different sort at the American Military Cemetery in Normandy, France.
