All Roads Lead Home by Kim McCully-Mobley
The Ozarks is a region with a rich history, colorful people and a tenacity in spirit that remains unmatched. This platform will be used to help preserve, promote and protect our stories, our traditions, our passions and the personalities of the people we serve. We all know, at the end of the day, All Roads Lead Home.
Episodes
147 episodes
That Famous Jefferson Avenue Wave
We are blessed to have a gentleman living in our community by the name of Darrell Hastings.He received state honors earlier this month for Good Neighbor Week. To add to his honors, Shannon Walker of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce and I m...
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Celebrate Good Neighbor Week In Aurora
How can you be a good neighbor?Wave.Smile.Bake a pan of cookies.Invite people over for a cookout.Pickup some trash.Mow someone's yard.Help them with a project.Hold a door open. Go visit so...
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You Get The Best of Me When....
I attended a leadership retreat a few weeks ago with some new colleagues. I have been on fire about it ever since.I have used it for writing prompts, columns and lesson plans.I have used it to revamp and recharge my to do list and...
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1965 Football Team Is Now In The Houn' Dawg Hall of Fame
Scott Pettit read the script Friday night as the undefeated Aurora 1965 Football Team made a special appearance at Kelley Field. If you were there, watching online or even listening--you were part of history.This is the stuff dreams are ...
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Enjoying Nature With Intention & Grace
Last weekend found me on a quick trip to the lake with my family. We were visiting with friends from Alabama and enjoying some much-needed down time. We ate, we played, we laughed, we slept. We watched the Houn' Dawgs and the Chiefs...
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One Good Road Is Enough
Exploring the backroads and byways of the Ozarks has been a passion of mine for decades. Roads connect people. They have a personality all of their own.Labor Day Weekend found me rediscovering some places, people and things in northwest ...
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Go Go Boots & The Back To School Blues
These boots were made for walkin'----I sang that song on the way home from school one day after my first taste of kindergarten. I had enjoyed the opening round of school--for the most part. I did not enjoy the Back To School spank...
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The Power of Holding Someone's Hand
A celebration of life will be held this week for Shari Carmichael of Aurora.Shari was a prayer warrior, a champion for underdogs and a powerful role model for women of faith.Her final moments were full of love, grace and mercy. Sh...
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AHS 1965 Football Team To Enter Hall of Fame Class For 2025
Has it really been 60 years?Time flies when you are having fun; that's for sure.Aurora Houn' Dawgs were ranked first in state in 1965. Those players will be having a reunion of sorts next month.They were surprised recently ...
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Remembering Gale Pate's Legacy
I grew up knowing the Pate name.Juvenile Shoe Factory is what brought my mom to Aurora from northwest Arkansas after World War II.The Pate girls were pretty, fun and out-going.Linda was in my class at school.Later in...
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Pondering "Just One More"
All Roads Lead Home Mural Number 5 is finished.America's Muralist Raine Clotfelter has worked his magic once again.I have enjoyed having his presence in the old armory, aka Aurora Houn' Dawg Alumni & Outreach Center during the...
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Wearing A New Hat...Devoted To You
I have been on a new journey this summer.I have spent a few hours each week diving into all things related to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.Well-known Aurora Graduate Brian Fogle and former CFO president once told me that...
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I Can't Say Goodbye
This life.It is full of joys, highs, lows, surprises and quite often--some hard knocks.One of my greatest joys is the friendships I have made along the way of my lengthy journey. God always seems to put people in my path just when...
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Chasing My Roots Along The Backroads
I took some time out last week for a working retreat of sorts with my ride or die travel buddy, Ravae Lewis. We have been through a lot together and we have put the miles in, too. (That's not to say we are high mileage. That's not the case, at ...
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Patriotism and Civility--Celebrate Your Independence!
This week's podcast talks about a few Presidential things. We especially focus on a young George Washington--who painstakingly copied down his rules of civility to live by when he was a young man.He would later become a Revolutionary War...
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Glad To Be Part Of The Pack
I attended a MAACE (Missouri Association for Adult Continuing and Community Education) Conference earlier this month at Lake of the Ozarks.Crowder College sent a team of us who with in the Adult Education Literacy program. The sessions w...
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Conjuring Up Those Stan Estes Traits
Yes. Since 2021--I have been working hard on the nicer, kinder, gentler version of Jennifer Kim Estes McCully-Mobley. (My son once told me my name was not going to fit on a tombstone!)With Father's Day occurring just last weekend, I had ...
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1961 Was A Banner Year
It was a chaotic Sunday morning at Aurora Community Hospital on June 11th, 1961. My mom had a belly-ache and came home with me.My brother, Randy, said things would never be the same.My journey has been a fun one, full of skinned k...
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AHS Leaders Award Six Mini Grants
Six local educators have received $150 mini-grants for the coming school year. Their applications were screened and scored by the members of the Aurora High School Leadership classes (also known as A-Tech I and A-Tech II).The grants are ...
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We Can't Wait To See What's Next!
Aurora High School Graduate Hannah (Isaacson) Rader earned the All Roads Lead Home Award at this year's Chamber Banquet in behalf of her family and crew at The Garden Exchange. They are always busy making the Summit City look and fe...
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A Leader Shows The Way
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Those are words we should all learn to live by.Several community members took the time to honor Chuck Burbridge last week as our most recent Loyd R. Ellis honoree....
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The Ed Cook Legacy Lives On
Aurora Administrator Ed Cook has been gone for over 35 years.His legacy lives on today with scholarships, projects and activities designed to encourage leadership, ethics and sense of place in the rural Ozarks--a place he loved.Ed...
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There's No Place Like Home
With last week's storms and tornado outbreaks, my husband made a bad joke about pulling over to the side of the road and seeing the old lady go by on a bicycle. It took me a minute--while he stifled a nervous chuckle. I told him I got the refer...
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