YEAR LATER, PERRY COUNTY WORKSHOP HAS CHANGED

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Saturday, March 24, 2001

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Grabbing a lint brush for a microphone, Michael Kassel hopped and spun around the floor of the Perry County Sheltered Workshop Friday afternoon. Several of the other disabled workshop employees danced around him as he moved his lips to Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love."

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