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Raytown Chamber Celebrates 2014
Hy-Vee Store Director Marty Streit with the Business of the Year Award At the Raytown Chamber’s annual Chamber Celebration luncheon held on Wednesday, January 28, 2015, the 2014 Past Chair Loretha Hayden of Lutfi’s Fried Fish handed out awards to the following. Business of the Year – HyVee #1542 Small Business of the Year – Rok’it Advertising Chamber Person of the Year
Kaylie Baker, owner of (rok’it) Advertising Chamber Person of the Year - Rene - the 2014 Small Business of the Year Purtee
– Rene Purtee Volunteer of the Year – Charlotte Melson Loretha also recognized outgoing board members Patrick Searcy, Power On Technologies; Andy Powelson, PBI Industries; and At Large Members Meshelle Bishop, Cornerstone Home Improvement; Jeff Hirst, Holiday Inn CoCo Key Water Resort; and
Chris Payne, Monopoly Acquisitions. The 2015 Chair of the Board, Mark Smith of Dick Smith Ford talked about continuing with the current programs
Volunteer of the Year - Charlotte Melson
and events along with adding a Community Health Fair on August 8, 2015. CareSpot has reached out to the Chamber to partner with them on the health fair. It will be free to attend and open to the public. Be watching for more details to come out in the coming months. The Chamber will also research the possibility of having a young professionals group in Raytown.
The next luncheon is the State of the City Address which will be held on Wednesday, February 25 and will be held at First Baptist Church Raytown. Reservations are required before Monday, February 23 and can be obtained by calling the Chamber office at 816-3538500. The cost is $21.00 per person.
Doctor Receives Gift Of Life And Reopens His Practice
Chiropractor Dr. Gary Boring was slowly dying of heart failure and given a 2% chance of survival. Doctors told him they couldn’t do anything for him.
“Find a heart if you can,” then patted him on the back on his way out the door. “I was turning purple and gasping for air. When God
Dr Gary Boring relaxes in his waiting room
Dr Boring and his wife Sandy demonstrate the Atlas Orthogonal procedure that can alleviate neck pain
humbles you so you cannot take a breath without Him giving it to you then you’re ready,” recalled Gary. He traveled to the renowned Mayo clinic in Minnesota where the head cardiologist told him to go back to Kansas City. “You’ll never get one here. The public there is better educated about donating organs so your chances are greater at St. Luke’s.” Gary learned that hearts are very hard to come by on the east and west coast but Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute has performed 600 heart transplants since it began its program in
1985. Doctors there determined that Gary was a good transplant candidate and three compatible hearts were available in 2011. “I had surgery 21 days later and they kicked me out in ten days,” laughed Gary. “They even let you see your old heart and show you what went wrong.” Gary’s wife, Sandy, remarked, “They can’t give you the donor’s name but we think Gary has a woman’s heart because the doctors told me after surgery that he’ll probably be doing more shopping now.” Gary sold his 39 year-old
practice a year later figuring it was time to retire and savor whatever years he had left. He bicycled 300 miles that summer, worked up to 50 lapses in the pool and got stronger and healthier. Then one day he ran into a former patient who greeted him with a big hug. “I realized then what had always kept me going. Loving on my patients and them loving on me,” said Gary. “I decided then what I was going to do the rest of my life with my Gift of Life and that was to pass it on by helping people. I decided to
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