Day to Day Activities - Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Tuesday morning the citizens head to breakfast with a big day ahead of them. Those citizens running for state offices were obtaining the final signatures on their nominating petitions which needed to be turned in by the end of the meal.

Additionally the MBS Courts would be in full swing upholding the laws passed in the city and state governments.

Each citizen is beginning to realize all they have accomplished in such a short amount of time.

The citizens would then split up and meet with their entire party for the first time during the session. The Federalist Party would head to Hendricks Hall while the Nationalist Party would head to the Morris Building.

Each party would listen and take notes from each citizens trying to represent the party in the fast-approaching state election. The party would also discuss their platform to decide what the party really stood for at this year’s Boys State session.

Following lunch, the citizens returned to their respective cities to hear the winners of the county elections.

After these announcements, there was no time to wait around; the newly elected county officials would dive right into work.

The citizens would then head to Hendricks Hall for a very special presentation. The Missouri Court of Appeals - Western District was in session acting on a real-world case involving the robbing of a gas station.

The citizens who were chosen to be the Supreme Court Justices would be announced and sworn by one of the Justices of the Missouri Supreme Court.

Following the Court of Appeals session, the newly appointed Supreme Court Justices would be excited to get into the courtroom and process through their case load. The Boy’s State Justices were Cameron Smith, Kyle Dillon, Chris Beck, Kyle Pyatt, Parker Summers, Jeremy Inman, and Charles Sherrod IV.

After the assembly, students reported to Schools of Instruction to get back to work.

On Tuesday evening, Director Mike Plunkett recognized Councilman Jermaine Reed, former Boys State citizen for his exceptional service to his community of Kansas City,

The citizens viewed excerpts from a film by the Missouri Press Association titled “Deadline In Disaster,” chronicling the Joplin Globe’s response to the horrific tornado that struck Joplin, MO in 2011.

The film centered around The Joplin Globe, the city’s major newspaper, and the ability for the newspaper to raise awareness of the disaster and to give the city hope after the catastrophic event that took place on May 22nd.

Thirty-three of the 117 employees of the Joplin Globe were affected directly by the F5 tornado. The 161 deaths and numerous injuries to the people of Joplin made the tornado the 7th most deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the deadliest in Missouri’s history.

Following the film presentation, a Q&A session was held with four people involved in the film and relief effort in Joplin: Executive Producer Doug Crews, Director of Cinematography Steve Hudnell, Reporter Wally Kennedy, and Nurse Ashley Blankenship (daughter of one of our own staff members, Alan Blankenship).

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