Police chief Rowland tabbed as Citizen of Year at Joplin chamber banquet
Joplin police Chief Sloan Rowland knew he was offering the invocation Thursday night at the 106th annual Joplin Chamber of Commerce banquet at Miss...
Joplin police Chief Sloan Rowland knew he was offering the invocation Thursday night at the 106th annual Joplin Chamber of Commerce banquet at Missouri Southern's Leggett & Platt Athletic Center. He didn't know he was there for an even more important reason until Mark Johnson, with Southwest Missouri Bank, started reading the biography of the person to be cited as the chamber's Outstanding Citizen of the Year. 'I was not expecting that,' Rowland said. 'It was kind of shocking. This is nice to see from your peers.