The national tour of “The Color Purple: The Musical about Love” will make a stop at Missouri University of Science and Technology at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on the university campus, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, as part of Missouri S&T’s Campus Performing Arts Series.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the film by Steve Spielberg, the musical was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, and its score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel and the blues was nominated for a Grammy.

Click here for this week’s St. Louis MoDOT Minute:
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Please see the list of daily interstate lane closures, weather permitting:

Monday, January 23
I-44, Franklin County, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., westbound, one lane closed from St. Clair rest area to Stanton.

Tuesday, January 24
I-44, Franklin County, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., westbound, one lane closed from St. Clair rest area to Stanton.

Bill Phelan
ngmo.pao@us.army.mil

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Missouri National Guardsmen who will make up the Region 7 Homeland Response Force are undergoing intensive training to meet a Department of Defense deadline to be fully operational by September.

The DOD is in the process of establishing 10 Homeland Response Forces that would react to terrorist attacks, industrial accidents or large-scale natural disasters within the U.S. Each Homeland Response unit will consist of 570 personnel from both the Army and Air National Guard, including medical units, search and extraction teams, decontamination units and security personnel.

Based on regions established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region 7 consists of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.