Dan Waitz vividly remembers the time a few years ago when he gave his oldest son Grant and his other children each a quarter at a restaurant so they could get a piece of candy out of a gumball machine. A few minutes later, I looked over at the kids and everybody was chewing gum except Grant, Waitz recounted. When I asked Grant why he didn t get a gumball, he said he put the quarter in the container on the counter they were using to raise money for kids with leukemia. That s the kind of person Grant was: the most caring, compassionate, kind kid you d ever want to meet.
Gov. Parson announces five appointments to boards and commissions; Columbian named to Mental Health Commission
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Gov. Mike Parson named a Columbian to the Mental Health Commission and four other appointments to various boards and commissions and filled one county office vacancy.
The governor appointed Brian Neuner to the Mental Health Commission.
The release states,
Neuner currently serves as the Chief Development and Marketing Officer for Special Olympics of Missouri. Prior to joining Special Olympics of Missouri, he served as Director of Business Development and Public Relations for Joe Machens Dealerships. Mr. Neuner is an Emmy award winning journalist for Outstanding Sports Reporting and a two-time winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Journalism. He is a board member of Safety Net, which supports law enforcement in Central Missouri, and the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing Advisory Council. He has supported the
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On this edition of Your Call, we are discussing mental health resources for those who are coping with depression, anxiety, isolation or grief.
According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of unemployed people who’ve lost their jobs due to the pandemic say they are feeling more stressed. The pandemic has also taken a huge mental health toll on many frontline health workers, children and young adults. How have you been coping and what resources would you like to share?
Guest:
Zack Snyder, the director of
Justice League, has never seen
Justice League. His name is in the credits as the filmmaker, but heâs never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. His wife, Deborah, who produced the movie, advised him not to.
In late 2017âmonths after the couple cut ties with the superhero epic amid an increasingly demoralizing battle with Warner Bros.âDeborah Snyder sat in a screening room on the studio lot alongside Christopher Nolan, one of the movieâs executive producers, as well as the director of the Dark Knight trilogy. She braced herself as the lights went down. âIt was justâ¦itâs a weird experience,â she says now. âI donât know how many people have that experience. Youâve worked on something for a long time, and then you leave, and then you see what happened to it.â
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