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Welcome To Lebanon 22-23 Resized
welcome to
Missouri
Our Town, Your Town 2022-2023
Lebanon, Mo
INSIDE
New to the city? Remembering the Mother Road Lebanon's crown jewel
We've compiled a list of important Lebanon's Route 66 Museum attracts The Cowan Civic Center hosts several
phone numbers for you. visitors from around the world. events each year.
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WELCOME TO
LEBANON L i ve
Live, Work & Play
Lebanon is home to almost
15,000 residents.
The average home is $140,000
Cost of living is 15.3% below the
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national average.
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Conveniently located on
Interstate 44, 43 miles to Lake
Ozark, 47 miles to Springfield and
only 36 miles to Fort Leonard Wood.
Work Play
Lebanon Regional Economic 8 City Parks over 100 Acres!
Development is constantly Boswell Aquatic Center • YMCA
looking for businesses to move Race Tracks • Rt. 66 Museum
to Lebanon.
Lebanon is the “hub” for
industrial manufacturing.
Right in the Heart of Downtown next to the Post Office – 109 E. Commercial St. • Lebanon MO, 65536
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Additional FEMA
storm shelters
in Lebanon:
When inclement weather strikes, Leb-
anon has two additional FEMA certified
storm shelters already available to the
public.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
storm shelters are available to the public
outside of school hours. Current shelters Construction was completed on the new FEMA certified storm shelter at Maplecrest
include Lebanon Middle School and Ma- Elementary during the summer of 2021.
plecrest Elementary School, as well as the
shelter at Boswell Elementary, scheduled
Lebanon Middle School: Maplecrest Elementary School:
for completion in 2024.
2700 Buzz Pride Drive 901 Maple Lane
Follow the City of Lebanon on Facebook
Please enter the south entrance Please enter the new gym at the
and watch to social media for updates as to
(behind the school) during inclement school. Shelters will be opened when a
when the shelters are open. Residents are
weather. Shelters will be opened when tornado warning has been issued or if
also encouraged to sign up for emergency
a tornado warning has been issued or if local officials feel the need is warranted.
alerts by texting LEBANONMO and/or
local officials feel the need is warranted.
LACLEDEMO to 888-777.
Closed Sunday
City Hall
The City of Lebanon hosts a slew
417-588-0279 of resources under one roof at the
town's City Hall. Located at 401 South
M.-Th. 11am-10pm // Fri.-Sat. 11am-10pm // Sun. 11am-9pm
Inside the Lexington Square Mall // 1801 W. Elm, Lebanon • Off Exit 127 Je f fe rs o n , t h e Po l i ce De p a r t m e n t ,
E c o n c o m i c D e v e l o p m e n t , Pa r k s &
Recreation as well as Utilities are all
operative out of the location.
City Government meetings are held
here –including Lebanon City Council
meetings, Planning and Zoning Com-
mission meetings, Park Board Meet-
ings and various public information
workshops.
A full schedule of upcoming events
and meetings held at City Hall can
be found at lebanonmissouri.org by
scrolling down to the calendar fea-
ture.
T he C ity of L ebanon also makes
p u b l i c i t s M ayo r a n d C i t y C o u n c i l
Agendas and Minutes via this website
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Some key areas that REDI remains program known as “Leadership Lebanon,”
focused on are workforce development, that will help the community enhance
partnerships, and leadership enhancement. future leaders to help grow Lebanon and
In July 2019, REDI became the admin- Laclede County for years to come. The pro-
istrative partner for the Greater Ozarks gram is in its second year and is the result
Centers for Advanced Professional Studies of a collaboration between REDI and the
(GOCAPS) Lake Region program. Juniors University of Missouri Extension Service
and seniors from participating high schools (MU Extension)
can “test drive” careers in the fields of The REDI office is located inside Lebanon
manufacturing, engineering, business, City Hall at 401 South Jefferson Ave. For
entrepreneurship, and health care as part more information on the organization,
of the program. GOCAPS allows students contact Thompson at (417) 533-5627, by
to leave the traditional classroom setting sity. REDI also works with state economic e-mail at brian@lebanonredi.com or visit
and work directly with area businesses in development partners on programming to www.LebanonREDI.com.
a variety of ways to earn first-hand experi- support local businesses and industries.
ences that they otherwise would not have “We do our best to help companies in
access to. Thompson said that this approach
is developing the future workforce.
whatever capacity is needed,” said Thomp-
son. “Sometimes it is as simple as helping
Lebanon REDI
REDI has also been involved in other obtain letters of support for a new project. Inside Lebanon City Hall
workforce development initiatives includ- In other cases, we may help companies go
ing career fairs at Lebanon Technology and through process of receiving incentives and 401 South Jefferson Ave.
Career Center (LTCC); active engagement working with the City of Lebanon and other
with students at Hillcrest Education Center
Lebanon, Mo 65536
partners in those instances. It really is a
and the Jobs For America’s Graduates (JAG) case-by-case and need-by-need approach. Phone: 417-533-5627
program; and support of new programming We want to do what we can to remove the
at Lebanon’s higher education institutions barriers to success for those we work with.” brian@lebanonredi.com
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ost people know enough to vi-
sualize neon and chrome at the
mention of Route 66, but if you
really want the lowdown on the Mother
Road, then Lebanon’s Route 66 Muse-
um is a must-see.
Located in the Lebanon-L aclede
County Library, 915 S. Jefferson Ave.,
the museum was one of the first mu-
seums in Missouri that is dedicated
entirely to Route 66.
“You won’t find just a ton of these
out there,” said former museum curator
Mark Spangler said of the museum.
“Some communities celebrate their
Route 66 connection, and others do
not. Some are catching on and actively
developing that; we started that pro-
cess a dozen years ago when we had the
idea to do the museum, so we’re kind
of ahead of the curve.”
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Although Route 66 probably wasn’t much different from
other interstate highways in its day, a series of circumstances
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To begin with, promotors were exceptionally active in MAPD
trying to draw attention to the road for economic purposes.
A more specific event that helped launch Route 66 to its
current fame was the publication of John Steinbeck’s “The HMO
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fictitious Joad family as they head toward California in an
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Fighting Fires for 30 years
Meet Sam Schneider
Lebanon Fire Chief
L ebanon Fire Department Chief Sam Schneider has spent
most of his professional life in the fire service. It is a
career choice that has given him a lot of satisfaction.
“I very much enjoy the job. I am appreciative of the chal-
lenges that it provides and the brotherhood of the emergency
services and the fire service. Here in my own community, I
hope to improve and build a department that responds to the
needs of the community, citizens and visitors coming through
here. It takes a lot of work, a lot of time, a lot of dedication,
and I truly enjoy all that,” Schneider said.
He spent years rising through the ranks of the fire service
on his way to become the chief.
Following his 1988 graduation from Lebanon High School,
he began his career in the fire service in October 1989 when
he joined the Lebanon Rural Fire Department as a volunteer.
His reasons were twofold.
“I was, in all honesty, in a word, bored,” Schneider said.
Schneider was working as a computer aided drafter after
graduation and wanted something interesting to do on nights
and weekends. Plus, he was looking for a way to give back to
the community where he was raised. He left Lebanon in December of 1995 for a job in the
By the time he left Lebanon Rural in 1995, he had risen to Kansas City metropolitan area as a firefighter-paramedic
the rank of assistant chief, an unpaid position at that time. for the Fort Osage Fire Protection District outside of Inde-
He became a licensed EMT through a program at Breech pendence, Mo.
Medical Center. He left his drafting job for an EMT job with He also worked part-time for the Sni Valley Fire Protection
Breech Paramedics and began training to become a paramedic, District in Oak Grove.
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DOWNTOWN
Established in the early 1900s to bring
commercial activity closer to the railroad,
Downtown Lebanon offers a variety of
unique shops, restaurants, financial insti-
tutions, and historical buildings. The Down-
town area has wide sidewalks and large store
fronts that make it perfect for pedestrian
window shopping. There is also ample park-
ing either in our large commercial parking
lots, or directly in the Downtown area.
Downtown Business District:
In 1976, the merchants of Downtown
Lebanon came together and formed the
Lebanon Downtown Business District. The
District serves to promote businesses and
events, provide and maintain landscaping,
coordinate closing streets and the use of
sidewalk space within the District, and
more. The DTBD is governed by a nine-mem-
ber Board of Directors, appointed by the
Mayor, and made up of owners or managers
of businesses in the District. Board appoint-
ments run three years and members are
eligible for re-appointment.
Advisory Board:
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BALANCING CEO AND MAYOR
Carr runs family business while serving community
Lebanon’s mayor is balancing the de-
mands of a full-time job with the duties
required of the city’s top elected official.
Jared Carr said he has gotten better
at juggling the private workplace and
city hall.
“Sometimes you get pulled in a lot
of different directions,” he said. “One
of the best things I’ve learned is when
to say “no or I can’t do that right now.’
That’s helped balance out time between
work, being mayor, and of course, fam-
ily,” he said.
Carr was first appointed by the City
Council to fill the vacancy created when
former mayor Josh Ray resigned in
2017. Carr was elected to the position
for the first time in 2020.
While serving as mayor, Carr contin-
ues to work at Carmeco, Inc., a metal
fabricating company in Lebanon. He
had a quick response when asked to de-
scribe a typical week juggling his public Lebanon Mayor Jared Carr is seen at work at his other job as chief financial officer
and private roles. of Carmeco.
“Late nights, early mornings and
ever ything in between,” he replied. private job. handle mayoral duties.
"Being in a small business, you never “I had to run parts last night, I’ve “If Carmeco needs me for something,
know what you’re going to get when still got grease under my fingernails in I can leave here and if I need more time
you walk in the door and that’s the fun fact from last night, but it was fun, it here, I can leave Carmeco as well,” he
thing about it.” breaks it up,” he said. said. “Of course that makes it so some
Carr performs a variety of duties and He typically spends 9 a.m. until noon nights I have to work a little later after
sometimes helps out filling orders at his Tuesdays and Thursdays at City Hall to I come up here and work later.”
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Lebanon’s second newest park was the
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Medical Center after a new hospital re-
placed Wallace Hospital on Harwood Av-
enue. The land from the old hospital was
given to the city, and most of the building
was demolished. Wallace Park also has
beautiful new playground equipment and
a small gazebo for picknicking. The Leba-
non Community Band and Choir perform
at the park.
Nelson Park
Nelson Park is Lebanon's newest park.
The new park was constructed after the
old park's land was sold.
Phase one of the project was com-
pleted in the spring of 2020. More work
is yet to be finished, including a new
playground.
The park is located by the Lebanon
Middle School and contains multiple ball
fields. It is also connected to the walking
trails at Coleman Memorial Conserva-
tion Area on Evergreen Parkway.
Palmer Park
A green space located on the south-
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County Fair Board brings a week
of excitement to Lebanon.
The fair includes livestock ex-
hibits, a carnival and other events
throughout the day at the L aclede
County fairgrounds in Lebanon with the
carnival opening up each night.
In 2018, the fair was able to begin
using the Agriculture Legacy Building.
The new building has long be a dream
of the fair board.
“I don’t know of any other county fair
in the state that has a facility like this,”
said Fair Board President Glen Raef.
“It’s always been a dream of the
whole fair board to get another facility
down here because our fair was just der the new pavilion so that will open will be showing animals that they have
growing so fast, we ran out of room,” up space for more cattle, we’ll have a raised from cows to rabbits. The week
Raef said. “We worked and worked on little more room, it won’t be quite so culminates with a big sale of champions
it and finally we got it going and here cramped and tight,” Raef said. “”It will , where people can bid on the winning
we are today." be lot nicer showing the hogs and lambs livestock.
He said at previous fairs, the live- over in that facility, it’s air-conditioned. The week of the fair is also host
stock has aways been housed in the fair It’s a lot easier on the hogs, heat really to nightly events. One of the newest
barn, which had become crowded. hurts hogs, it hurts all livestock.” events at the fair is the Ranch
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Just a few miles west of Lebanon wade in the spring’s waters in search of Brice) was one of many areas considered
is Bennett Spring State Park, one of lunker-sized trout, and those looking by state planners to be preserved as a
Missouri’s first and most popular state for adventures in camping and canoeing state park.
parks, which attracts a growing number come in droves each year, but there was A Dec. 12, 1924, article in the Laclede
of tourists every year. once a time when Bennett Spring State County Republican stated that Leba-
The third largest natural spring in Park was simply known as Brice, Mo. non Chamber of Commerce President
the state of Missouri pumps 100 mil- During the 1920s when America was O.A. Mayfield requested that the state
lion gallons of water each and every enjoying prosperity following World consider Bennett Spring as a
day. Anglers from around the nation War I, Bennett Spring (then known as possible state park site.
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Come &
er years were J.E. Kelly, Mr. Runge and
B.J. Usery. The mill stood as a landmark
at Bennett Spring for sightseers and
tradesmen alike. The Civilian Conser-
experienCe
vation Corps, which worked in the area
during the 1930s, improved the mill.
god’s
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However, it later was destroyed by fire.
•Sunday Morning Coffee, The CCC also constructed a log dam,
Doughnuts, Fellowship ..................................10:00 ish
•Sunday Morning Worship ...............................10:30 am foot trails, a new bridge and many other
love &
•Wednesday Night Bible Study..........................6:30 pm buildings at the park.
•Youth Services ...............................................6:30 pm The spring valley already had become
•Children’s Services .........................................6:30 pm a popular camping site in the late 1800s
graCe with us. •Monthly Family Fun as an area where farmers waited their
Night, First Sunday Night ...............................5:30 pm turns at the mill. According to a Mis-
souri Department of Natural Resources
(DNR) brochure, campers would fish,
hunt or visit with local townspeople to
pass the time.
By the turn of the century, recreation
was gaining in importance at Brice.
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1900 the Missouri fish commissioner
introduced 40,000 mountain trout
into the spring, and a privately owned
fish hatchery was built in 1923, the
year before the state bought the spring
and some of the surrounding area for a
state park.
The Brice Post Office origi-
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finally was discontinued in 1965. Arlie in the cold waters, attracting many while he lived in Lebanon.
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Camping,
Spring is the Bennett Spring Church of God, organized in
1917 through the influence of William Sherman and Louie
Boles Bennett, who donated land for the church site. In the
1950s, stone veneer was applied over the wooden structure.
It is the only original building that was in old Brice.
Floating
“Aunt Louie’’ Bennett was pastor of the church for many
years. Today, Bennett Spring Church of God is a very active
church and is visited by many fishermen staying at the park
each trout season.
In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the
Works Project Administration (WPA) were two new programs
implemented by the U.S. government to put people to work
during the Great Depression.
Much work was done at Bennett Spring starting in No-
& Much More!
vember of that year. The crews’ first tasks were to build
barracks for themselves.
They built a new dam, a bridge, a dining lodge, six cabins,
a store and post office building, shelters, houses, roads and
trails. They also renovated the old Atchley Mill.
The men also constructed a second set of gravel-bottomed
hatchery rearing pools and in 1935 built a new section onto
the hatchery building. After the men left in 1938, they dis-
mantled all but one of their barracks.
Through the years most of the development at the park
has taken place outside of the park’s boundaries as private in-
dividuals built cabins, hotels, campgrounds and many other
businesses. In 1969, Arlie Bramwell sold his wood and stone
cabins to the state. Ralph Usery’s cabins were razed. Splan’s
Resort was once a very busy place there. Vogel’s Resort was
acquired by the state in 1980. - 45 YEARS OF SERVICE!
In 1969, the Nature Interpretive Center opened at the NOW SERVING
park with George Kastler as the first naturalist, and in 1982 - OVER 60 ACRES OF
the park dedicated a new office and store building close to
the dining lodge on the site of the original Brice. CAMPGROUNDS ON
Later the park’s Niangua entrance was renamed the Bram- THE NIANGUA RIVER
well Entrance in honor of Arlie Bramwell.
An additional 1,650 acres of land to the south of the cur-
rent state boundary was purchased in November 1988 to pro-
vide watershed protection for Bennett Spring itself as well
as the park area. Each year has brought more improvements.
Now, at 3,216 acres, the state park that arose around Peter
Bennett’s spring continues to delight all comers.
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Spawning season at the hatchery typ- the hatchery’s pools for the next
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a saltwater solution is added as two test After an hour in a distilled water bath,
tubes of milt are poured in. The eggs and the eggs are then moved into a large tube
milt are then mixed by hand. to await hatching. The tube simulates the
“Fertilization is almost instantaneous,” movement of a current in a stream.
Goss explains as he stirs the eggs, milt and The eggs remain moving in the tubes
water. “They are fertilized within about 30 for about 21 days. Exactly when the tiny
seconds.” fish emerge from their shells depends on
the temperature of the water. Each tube
has about 67,000 eggs, and after about
10 days the eyes of the fish begin to be
seen. Not every egg will produce a trout.
Actually, only about 15 to 20 percent of
the eggs collected turn into sac fry, which
Perry said is much higher than the survival
rate of those trout spawned in a stream.
“We’re looking at about 450,000 to
500,000 fish from this spawn,” Perry said.
After hatching, the sac fry are moved
into troughs, where they will remain un-
der the watchful eye of staff through the WITH HEARTFELT
“float up” stage and until they are about 3 APPRECIATION
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