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Region IV Conference a Success — Region IV Vice President Pat Powell and our Boone County Unit hosted the MRTA Region IV conference at Our Lady of Lourdes fellowship hall on Oct. 24. Thanks to the hard work of our board and several members, attendees were treated to delicious brunch and luncheon, a great program, informative reports, and delightful door prizes and table decorations. Many pitched in to make this a great gathering. You can see a slideshow of photos from the meeting here. (Posted 01/06//12)
Boone County Unit to help with Buddy Packs—The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri just announced that they are almost out of backpacks for their Buddy Pack program! We're going to help out with a backpack drive. Please tell everyone you know and bring new or gently used backpacks to our September meeting. We need as many as we can get! You can read more about the "Be a Buddy! Backpack Drive" here. (Posted 09/01//11)
MRTA State Meeting—The Boone County Unit will be honored as Unit of the Year at MRTA's annual state meeting Sept. 13-14. You can get more information on MRTA's website or click here for the registration form. (Posted 06/24/11)
Links to Daniel Boone Regional Library—Bandy Sanchez, Regional Services Librarian at the Daniel Boone Regional Library distributed a flyer at the March meeting with links to many of their technological services. She ran short of the handouts, so here's the sheet of information she provided to us. (Posted 04/26/11)
MRTA members donate over $6 million in volunteer hours—The Missouri Retired Teachers Association and Public School Personnel (MRTA) presented a check representing $6,643,977.60 in volunteer community service hours donated in 2010 to Missouri's citizens at its annual Spring Leadership Conference in Jefferson City on March 15, 2011. Read more about this here. (Posted 03/23/11)
PSRS/PEERS wins national awards—The Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri (PSRS/PEERS) has received two prestigious national pension industry awards. PSRS/PEERS has been named 2011 Large Public Plan of the Year by Institutional Investor’s "Money Management Letter," and Plan Sponsor of the Year by "PLANSPONSOR" magazine. You can read more about the Institutional Investor's award here and PLANSPONSOR's award here. (Posted 03/19/11)