Ninety-eight children are going home with a beach towel that has their name on it.

Not a generic towel. Their name.

Laquita Angst made every single one. Richland Lodge covered the cost.

This month’s Kids’ Night Out take-home packs reached 29 families. That’s 145 people. And 98 of them are children. Because this community keeps showing up in ways that are specific and personal.

A child who has had very little that belonged only to them will pull a towel out of a bag and see their name on it.

In the Ozarks, this is what community looks like.

Partners

This community is built by the people and businesses who show up, not because they have to, but because they belong to something. These are the neighbors who make everything possible.

Meet our neighbors →