Candidate questionnaire: Calvin Brown

NAME: Calvin Brown

AGE: 73

PLACE OF BIRTH: East Prairie, Mo.

SPOUSE, CHILDREN'S NAMES:

Wife: Barbara Brown

Children: Donna Nall, Tammy Staab, Mark Freeman

OCCUPATION: Minister

EMPLOYER:

United Methodist Church at Benton, Mo.

BUSINESSES OWNED, ALL OR PART: none

PREVIOUS OFFICES HELD OR SOUGHT:

This will be my first time in city government.

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING MORLEY?

Although Morley is a great place to live, and I chose it as a place to buy my home here, there is some houses that are vacant, and have become eyesores to our town. I would like for our city government to tackle this problem, and see what we could do about it. We need to bring in a store like Casey's where we could get gas and food items to our town.

WHAT IN YOUR BACKGROUND OR EDUCATION MAKES YOU QUALIFIED FOR THIS OFFICE?

I have spent many years in Southest Missouri in different retail employment, working in a factory, Brown Shoe Co., Potlatch at Sikeston and then answering a call to become a minister.

I have attended college at Hendrix College in Conway Ark. and St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo. And I love small communitities having grown up in Wyatt, Mo.