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Joplin-area groups bring early holiday celebration to Missouri Veterans Home in Mount Vernon
MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — Groups from Joplin, Carthage and Webb City honored about 130 veterans at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mount Vernon with an early Christmas on Thursday. For the past three years, on July 25, Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and their elves from …