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2017 GLOBE ALL -AREA ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE TEAM: 1C
State budget winners, losers finalized
NEW LIFE
BY CRYSTAL THOMAS cthomas@joplinglobe.com
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After a belabored run, the Missouri Legislature passed the baton to the governor on the state’s $27.8 billion budget by the Friday deadline, only leaving behind the IN HIS RECOM- question of MENDATION to whether all start the budget those who process, Gov. currently Eric Greitens had receive state advised cutting assistance almost 20,000 for in-home Medicaid patients medical receiving in-home care will health care assis- still do so tance to save $50 next year. million in a year Unless the where there’s a Legislature projected $456 passes a million revenue bill within shortfall. Facing the week, backlash, the during the governor later last days backtracked on of session, the proposal about 8,300 and suggested patients will lawmakers use be kicked the $50 million off of Medthe state was icaid rolls awarded in a case for in-home settled against to- and nursing bacco companies. home health Budget leaders care. immediately After passadvised against ing all of the the move, saying budget bills the money still Thursday, could be lost on the Senate appeal. worked late into the night and devised a way to procure the necessary money. Originally, the Senate deliberated a House bill that would repeal a tax credit used by 100,000 elderly renters and would save the $50 million needed for health care.
Aaron Garcia, president of S.O.S. Ministries, poses on Tuesday at Washington Education Center in Joplin.
Greitens’ plan
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Joplin ministry reviving Washington Education Center Plans for former school could also help revitalize East Town BY EMILY YOUNKER eyounker@joplinglobe.com
ts hallways and classrooms, filled for dozens of years with bright young minds learning to read and write, had become lifeless and dusty, and it had been targeted for sale — or worse, demolition. But new life is about to be breathed into the Washington Education Center, a former Joplin school that is nearly a century old. The Joplin-based nonprofit S.O.S. Ministries purchased the old building from the Joplin School District in March and plans to convert it into a community center that could help revitalize the S.O.S. Ministries, a Joplin-based nonprofit, has purchased the Washington East Town neighborhood that surEducation Center, located at 1112 E. Second St., from the Joplin School rounds it. GLOBE | ROGER NOMER “The building will be an epicenter” District and plans to convert it into a community center. for the ministry, co-founder Aaron Garcia said. “And there’s something during a church service about three years ago. The voice told him he that needs to be here in East Town.” needed to serve outside the church’s A SPIRITUAL CALLING TO SIGN UP as a volunteer or sponsor of S.O.S. four walls. He mulled the message S.O.S. (Serving on the Streets) Min- for a few weeks and then responded Ministries’ programming, visit the organization’s istries was developed by Garcia after Facebook page, S.O.S. Ministries Inc., or its he heard a voice speaking to him SEE LIFE, 7A website, serveoutpoursacrifice.com.
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