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Bank of Missouri provides sponsorship for JA program expansion

Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis announced Jan. 10 that it has received a lead gift from The Bank of Missouri. This school year, Junior Achievement programs will be taught to 140,000 students in 20 counties in Missouri and 18 counties in southwestern Illinois, reaching more than 7,500 students in Cape Girardeau, Perry and Bollinger counties. The programs, taught by volunteers, engage students in hands-on learning activities focusing on entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy.

Bank donates $2,000 to SoutheastHEALTH Founation

Terry Tuschhoff, left, president of Bank of America, Southeast Missouri market, presents Mary Burton-Hitt, SoutheastHEALTH Foundation executive director, with a $2,000 grant from Bank of America to help fund SoutheastHEALTH's children's health and wellness programs.

Local teacher gives back to Saint Francis NICU

Brandi Maddox, a 10th-grade teacher at Sikeston High School, and her students donated short- and long-term items for families with infants in Saint Francis Medical Center's Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The gifts included toiletries, handmade blankets, infant socks and snacks. Maddox's son, Mason, was a patient in the center, and she and her students wanted to give back to Saint Francis to help other families in the same situation. This is the third year Maddox and her students have donated to the Level III NICU. Maddox said the students start working on the gifts in November, spending one day a week on them. In December, they work two days a week at school and some even work on the blankets at home. The total value of the donation was $1,300.