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Newsmakers: May 8-14, 2023

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Architecture
H Design Group LLC hired Kaleb Mann as an architectural designer. He’s studied at Missouri University of Science and Technology and Drury University.

Banking & Finance
New York Life Insurance Co. agent Ryan Hurn earned the financial services certified professional designation from The American College of Financial Services. With NYLife Securities LLC since 2020, he is in life insurance, investments, long-term care and annuities.

Arvest Bank’s Home4Me mortgage app received a Capstone Enterprise Award at the 2023 Nexus Awards. SimpleNexus, which provides the technology for the app, created the Nexus Awards to recognize its customers and partners for outstanding achievements using homeownership technology.

Brett Magers, president of Legacy Bank & Trust Co. and CEO of Legacy Capital Mortgage LLC, was appointed to the Community Development Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The CDAC serves as an advisory body for the Fed to identify opportunities for economic growth and community development across the region. Members are selected for their expertise in community development, financial services and other related fields, and they represent nonprofit organizations, financial institutions, universities, government agencies and foundations.

Education
College of the Ozarks student newscast The Point received 10 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association in the 2023 College Media Competition. Its first-place awards were for scriptwriting news and the documentary short film, “A Chef’s Story.”

Health Care
Tina Mottl, a hearing instrument specialist and owner of Springfield Hearing Center LLC, received the Platinum Award for Outstanding Educational Achievement from the Missouri Hearing Society. She completed 36 hours of continuing education to earn the award.

Citizens Memorial Hospital recognized auxiliary volunteers Henry and Beverly Bonner and Rosanne Martin with the 2023 Lillian Hutcheson Award. The Bonners have volunteered with CMH since 2013, donating 15,862 hours, helping to run the Tremain Family Hospitality House, Gift Garden, Senior Health Center and Douglas Medical Center, as well as serving on the CMH Auxiliary Board. Martin has volunteered at the Tremain House and has given 4,320 hours as a volunteer since 2017.

CMH appointed Janieca Hancock to its board, and the CMH Foundation board added Dr. K. Ronald Smith. Hancock, the Bolivar community president for Mid-Missouri Bank, succeeds Joan Wood for a term through April 2028. Smith, an orthopedic surgeon on the CMH medical staff for 32 years, fills the seat of Dr. William Donnell.

Nonprofit
The Ozark Trails Council of Boy Scouts of America honored scout leader Jim Finley with the Building Faith in Youth Award for his service to the organization. The PRAY Award recognizes youth faith development through Programs of Religious Activities with Youth, a nonprofit organization aimed at fostering the Christian growth of children, youth, and families.

The Springfield Art Museum received a $2.75 million grant from the Local Tourism Asset Development American Rescue Plan Act program, part of $30 million issued statewide. The program supports public-private partnerships to further the statewide recovery of the tourism, travel and hospitality industries.

Madison Yohn, content coordinator at the Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc., was selected as a 2023 30 Under 30 recipient by Destinations International, a nonprofit organization to empower destination professionals by providing research, advocacy and leadership development. The award recognizes upcoming tourism professionals who are excelling in their roles through promoting local tourism. Yohn, a four-year employee of the CVB, manages the CVB’s social media accounts.

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