Hometown Matters

If you love dessert, you need to pay attention to what is happening over at the Tri-County senior center. A group of cooks are vying for bragging rights in a dessert competition to provide the dessert that earns the greatest raves from the lunch crowd. In the past six weeks they’ve baked up gourmet pies, sheet cakes, fruit cobblers, fruit tarts, decadent chocolate chip cookies, and the Magnolia Restaurant, Manhattan’s creamy banana cream pudding – and delivered it to the … Continue reading “Dessert Lovers Are In for a Treat This Wednesday / Julie Jones Killer Coconut Cake at the Senior Center”

Chad Neal the man known in Pacific for doing things he should not have been doing has ended up in prison for activities that he perpetrated far beyond our borders. In 2017, Chad Neal, operating Orchid Development Company, promised to build a huge commercial development on Hogan Road, on the hillside north of West Osage and I-44. Neal spent 18 days – in clear view of City Hall and to the horror of observing Pacific citizens – knocking down trees … Continue reading “Contractor Who Excavated Pacific Hillside Without a Permit Goes to Prison For Defrauding Businesses In 24 States, Using the Mail”

The Olympic games in Japan seem to dominate the news and the world wide web, but Olympic fever got it start in our town in 1928 when Pacific High School high jumper Catherine Maguire was on the U.S. track and field team for the Olympic games in Amsterdam. It was the first Olympics that women were allowed to compete in track and field. Six years earlier the Amateur Athletic Union opened track and field events to women. Catherine and her … Continue reading “High Jumper Catherine Maguire Brought Olympic Fever to Pacific in 1928”

On one of the hottest days of the year, 150 motorcycle riders took off at 12:00 p.m from American Legion Post 320 in Pacific to ride 101 miles, to four cities, to raise money to complete restoration of the flood damaged Historic First Baptist Church in Pacific. The July 24 event was the second annual Turtle Johnson poker run to benefit the historic church that was heavily damaged in the flood of 2016. Danny “Turtle” Johnson was a constant supporter … Continue reading “Bikers Rev Up for Poker Run to Benefit Historic First Baptist and Honor the Late Turtle Johnson”

Some 180 Pacific boosters and avid baseball fans turned out for a ball game Thursday evening July 22 to see the St. Louis Cardinals play the fourth and final game of their series against the Chicago Cubs. The Cardinal’s won the game three to two but a couple of innings scrunched into Casey at the Bat nail biters. Pacific fans groaned in unison when Cubs landed two hits and two runs in the fourth inning. The game halted briefly when … Continue reading “Pacific Turns Out for Cardinal’s Game to Benefit Historic First Baptist Church Restoration Project”

In two separate actions, aldermen approved a 45-home subdivision known as The Manors at Brush Creek to be located on Lamar Parkway, extending from Old Gray Summit Road to the railroad overpass at the June 20 meeting. Approved were an ordinance changing the zoning of the subdivision site from R1-C to R1-B PUD-PDR and a preliminary plan with amendments that described the project. The action came after neighbors of the project had launched a campaign to derail the development. They … Continue reading “Subdivision Gets Nod After Changes Promised But One Alderman Wants Proof of Changes Before Final Approval”