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Multimedia gallery: Women of Distinction 2025

Lifetime Achievement Award winner Melodie Chrisman excitedly looks on in conversation with fellow Women of Distinction Award winner Charline Gray. Kristy Whitney of event sponsor St. Mary’s Medical Center announced Independence police officer Sgt. Emily Kennon as this year’s Woman of the Year. The Examiner’s Joe Liccar, the awards ceremony emcee, speaks with a guest…

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Items for the Community Calendar may be emailed to jeff.fox@examiner.net or sent to The Examiner, 12012 East U.S. 40, Independence, Mo., 64055. FRIDAY Total Body: 5:30 to 6:20 a.m., Fieldhouse, 425 NE Mock Ave., Blue…