by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jun 29, 2020 | Article Home 2, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift Jimmy Burgess envisioned a new style of team building and leadership training that would operate in a military style. It would be a place where veterans and others could discover strengths in themselves and do things they didn’t know were possible....
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jun 29, 2020 | Cover Story, Magazine News
Articles and photos by Amy Howe Fredric R. Wheeler II Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa Current Town: Joplin, Missouri Branch: Navy | Rank: LCDR (04) MOS: 8402 Independent Duty Submarine Corpsman as enlisted Physician’s assistant as a warrant officer and pediatrician as a...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jun 29, 2020 | Article Home 1, Magazine News
By Connor J. Ossowski, District Fisheries Biologist Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism It was the first day of what felt like summer without the consistency of the forecast showing a chance of rain. It was 5:30 in the morning, and I was heading out to...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift • Photo by Artistic Expressions Photography “I’d wanted to be a fire fighter since I was a kid,” said Jimmy Burgess, “but my friends were joining the military, and up to that point, I had no plans. I joined the Air Force reserves and eventually ended...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jun 1, 2020 | Article Home 2, Magazine News
By Sarah Gooding • Photos by Mandy Edmonson Rion Huffman’s journey into triathlons began with a dream, but he wasn’t sure it was a dream he could realize until a few years ago. “It’s something I had always wanted to do for some reason, but for some reason, I thought...
