COME TO “THE CAPE”

Mentally Retarded Citizens of Missouri
E-Mail: info@rcomo.org - Phone: (800) 417-8275
Note: The Cape “Crew” has traveled throughout the state this past decade bringing the meeting to you.
It’s time for you to reciprocate. COME TO “THE CAPE”!!

Annual Meeting
Drury Lodge
I55 and William St.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Phone No 1-800-325-8300 or 1-573-334-7151
Rate $74.00
Registration $60.00

September 17 – 18 – 19 
Friday – Saturday – Sunday

Schedule of Events

Friday Evening at Black Forest - 6 to 9 pm “Boots and Jeans”

 Travel back in time for a fun filled evening in two 1880 era German Villages.  Great Food; Entertainment by "Coyote Creek"; Experience Craft Demonstrations of Basket Weaving-Wood Carving-Leather Art-Dulcimer Playing and Corn Husk Doll Making.  Just minutes from the Drury Lodge – Plan to arrive at Cape’s Drury Lodge (I-55) by 4 pm – relax, change into “comfy” clothes and be ready to be transported from the motel lobby to the villages at 6 pm sharp!

 
Saturday

 

District Fair

Kids Day at the Fair!
Sat 10-4

Morning Sessions - 8:30 am to Noon 
Drury Lodge 


8:30 am

 

10 am 

11 am

Noon

 Habilitation Center Crisis
Betty Coll, Bellefontaine Parent Association
Jean Barrett, Higginsville Parent Association
Natalie Woods, Nevada Parent Association
Zack Pollack, AFSCME Vice President

State School Curriculum & Progress
Dr. Gary Schroer, Superintendent
State Schools for the Severely Handicapped
Sheltered Workshops Marketing to Schools
Larry Young, Director Sheltered Workshops

Lunch - On Your Own


Residential Tour - 2 to 4 pm
Tour a 9 unit group home and a 20 unit “semi independent living” apartment building. See the first class residences for MR/DD clients here in Cape. See the possibilities for your sons and daughters in your communities.

Awards Banquet - 6 to 9 pm
Back at the Drury Lodge we will honor 2 giants in the MR/DD movement with the "Friend of MRC 2004" Award: former senator A.M. Spradling, Jr. (Cape) for his more than 40 years of “pro bono” legal work for MARC, The ARC, MARP and MRC of Mo and posthumously John Coll (St. Louis) who guided the Bellefontaine Parents Association for more than 40 years.  Jerry Ford’s 12-piece Orchestra will provide entertainment throughout the night. Don’t miss it! It will be a memorable evening.
Sunday Drury Lodge
8:30 am

 

 


11 am

 Autism Forum
Betty Hearnes, Former Member Mental Health
Commission
State Representative Roy Holand M.D.
Barbara Whitman PhD, St. Louis University
Lugene Clark, Parent


Board of Directors

 
Registration

Registration $60 per person-Sons & Daughters Free Except Black Forest
Black Forest $8.50 per person

Click Here for our Online Registration Form.

Make Check to: MRC of MO
P.O. Box 831
Cape Girardeau, MO 63702

For More Info call Jerry at: (800) 417-8275

For Drury Lodge Reservations Call:
800-325-8300 or 573-334-7151
Room Rate $74

Information 

The Drury Lodge has a complete “hot” complimentary breakfast buffet each morning from 6:30 am to 9:30 am.

Note:  You may want to come a day or two early, especially if you’ve never been to the Bootheel.  We can arrange tours including a bus ride through the Delta region if enough of you would participate.  All tours would require 10 to 12 minimum.

 
Tour #1 On Thursday the 16th from 2 - 5 pm, with supper at Sikeston’s famous Lamberts “Home of Throwed Rolls” restaurant, see first hand the Little River Drainage District that turned the swamps into the finest row crop acreage anywhere in the country.  By September you will drive through fields of rice, milo, corn, soybeans and cotton rows “as far as the eye can see” and tour a working cotton gin!  You’all Come!! 

 
Tour #2 Friday morning, relax or shop at West Park Mall across from Drury Lodge.  Then enjoy a one hour bus tour of Cape.  (1:30 – 2:30 pm).  We will depart from the lobby at 1:30 sharp.  See historic Old St. Vincent’s Church; The Glenn House (Restored River Boat Captain’s Home); The Red House (Don Louis Lorimier’s Replicated Home); River Heritage Museum; SEMO State University; Cape Rock (Over Looking the Mighty Mississippi River) and All Points in between.

 
Tour #3 For you golfers - Thursday 2:00 pm Tee Time – Cape Girardeau Country Club 18 Holes of Beautiful Golf perched atop the Mississippi River!  (10 to 12 minimum not necessary).

 Note:  If any of you are interested in these “extra” activities, please call Jerry at
1-800-325-8300 at your earliest convenience. 

 

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