HELPING NEIGHBORS CONNECT
Excelsior Springs was selected as one of Missouri’s Most Neighborly Cities!
The Missouri Good Neighbor Week 2024 ended with over 31,000 documented acts of neighboring and five cities worthy of the title ‘most neighborly city’ in Missouri. Residents are encouraged to keep the spirit of MO Good Neighbor Week alive by continuing to track and document acts of kindness at missourigoodneighborweek.com. It is not a surprise to hear Excelsior Springs is neighborly, we see examples of kindness all the time!
Join The Neighborhood Engagement Team
The Neighborhood Engagement Team is a group of Excelsior Springs residents who wish to promote neighboring, engagement, and connection in Excelsior Springs. Anyone is invited to come share ideas about how to help neighbors connect. Neighborhoods with neighbors who are connected with each other tend to be cleaner, safer and friendlier neighborhoods. The Neighborhood Engagement Team assists the Neighborhood Specialist in planning events designed to bring neighbors and the community together and we encourage each other as we practice good neighboring. Please complete the contact form to request our next meeting time and location.
Special Guest David Burton
Neighborhood Specialist David Burton from the MU Extension will be visit with the Neighborhood Engagement Team on March 25 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Excelsior Springs Mid-Continent Public Library. Learn more.
The Surgeon General has declared isolation and loneliness to be epidemics in the United States. Connecting with our neighbors is an effective strategy in combatting isolation and loneliness. 
When I was a kid, my family celebrated May Day. May Day is a celebration of the beginning of Spring and is remembered on the 1st day of May. It is customary on May Day to anonymously leave a small basket of flowers on a neighbor’s doorknob. We had a couple of widows who lived on our street that we often remembered on holidays. My mother helped me prepare the small paper woven gift baskets with flowers.