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SEMO TO SWING TO BIG BAND SOUNDS
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Southeast Missouri State University will swing to Big Band sounds Saturday night. For the second year in a row, the University Jazz Band will perform Big Band music as part of the university's homecoming celebration. The evening of music and dancing begins at 8 p.m. in the Show Me Center...
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OCTOBERFEST: BLACK FOREST VILLAGES WILL HOST SEVENTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
The seventh annual Octoberfest will be held Saturday and Sunday at Black Forest Villages. The weekend will offer demonstrations such as basket weaving, broom making, pioneer furniture making , weaving, leathersmithing, quilting and wood carving, among other traditional crafts...
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UNION COUNTY FESTIVAL TO OFFER SPECIAL EVENTS IN MANY TOWNS
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
A chance to watch horseshoe champions in action, hear coon and goose calling and tour a goat farm are among the offerings this year at the Union County Colorfest. The annual festival will be held Saturday and Sunday throughout the county. Events are scheduled in Alto Pass, Anna, Cobden, Dongola, Lick Creek, Jonesboro and Wolf Lake...
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FRUITLAND-AREA SEWER MEETINGS SET
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
FRUITLAND -- Residents of the Fruitland-Pocahontas area have a chance at two meetings to ask questions and voice opinions about whether to form a sewer district. Voters in the two Cape Girardeau County precincts will decide Nov. 4 the fate of the sewer district...
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RUPTURED BLOOD VESSEL TAKES LIFE OF 14-YEAR-OLD
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Summary: Family and friends learning to cope with death of Jackson girl. JACKSON -- Lindsey Reedy was the teen-ager everybody knew, and for all the right reasons. But now her family, friends, classmates at R.O. Hawkins Junior High School and members of her church are trying to cope with her death...
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POLICE SEEK CLUES IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
GRAND TOWER, Ill. -- A Grand Tower teen-ager was killed when he was struck by a train near Grand Tower early Wednesday. Jesse C. Choate, 17, was struck by the train at the Big Muddy River Levee Road-Union Pacific Railroad crossing in Jackson County about 12:45 a.m...
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TWO PERISH IN FIRE; TEEN KILLED BY TRAIN
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Summary: A state fire marshal hasn't determine the origin or cause of the blaze. SCOTT CITY -- A 38-year-old Scott City woman and her 3-year-old son died Wednesday in a house fire. Norma and Adam Eads were found in the upstairs bedroom of their home at 110 E. Cherry. Adam was on a bed near the front window and Norma Eads was on the floor nearby...
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SOME KIDS ARE LUCKY AND SOME KIDS AREN'T LUCKY AT ALL
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Oct. 9, 1997 Dear Sally, The last time I saw Lily was July 1996. She was 7 months old. David and Chris' daughter is going on 2 now and knows me primarily as a stranger who's somehow connected to her "Man in the Moon" tea set. She is so beautiful, all glistening eyes and stampeding feet. "I'm in love," says David, whose first reaction to the idea of adopting and becoming a parent wasn't quite so unconditional...
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CONTEST WINNER GOES ON SHOPPING SPREE
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Adrian Liggins, 10, son of Dianna Liggins of Cape Girardeau, picked a Mega Mike toy as one of the items for his $50 shopping spree at Walmart Wednesday. Liggins won second place in a statewide drawing and coloring contest with the theme "These are a few of my Favorite Things." Two hundred children in three age groups entered the contest, which was sponsored by The Division of Child Support Enforcement, The Division of Family Services and the Missouri Child Support Enforcement Association. ...
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CITY DEBATES HALFWAY HOUSE REVISION: EXISTING ZONES PROHIBITS SUCH OPERATIONS ALMOST EVERYWHERE
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Supporters of a proposed halfway house program say they will wait and see how a revised zoning requirement affects their project. The Cape Girardeau City Council agreed this week to consider revising a zoning clause that would prohibit the residential treatment program for inmates in the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole from almost every area of the city...
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CITY DEBATES HALFWAY HOUSE REVISION: EXISTINGN ZONES PROHIBITS SUCH OPERATIONS ALMOST EVERYWHERE
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Supporters of a proposed halfway house program say they will wait and see how a revised zoning requirement affects their project. The Cape Girardeau City Council agreed this week to consider revising a zoning clause that would prohibit the residential treatment program for inmates in the Missouri Division of Probation and Parole from almost every area of the city...
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CAPE WILL SURVIVE LOSS OF RIVER CASINO
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Riverboat gambling will probably not be coming to Cape Girardeau anytime soon. In late September, Boyd Gaming Corp. offered for sale 10 parcels of land it owns in downtown Cape Girardeau. The move basically assured the fact that Boyd doesn't intend to bring a gambling boat to town...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 10/09/97)
Options to living in a growing town I JUST read the comment from the person who says he's tired of all the people moving to Jackson. I haven't lived in Jackson all my life, only for about 25 years, but when I moved here, I found Jackson to be very clanish, very small-town. I love the progress in this place. Time only moves forward. If you can't stand all the people in town, you have choices...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/09/97)
I-66 CONCEPT NEEDS LOCAL SUPPORT To the editor: In a recent Southeast Missouri front-page headline, one of the Cape Girardeau County commissioners said that our county isn't interested in Interstate 66. I would like to present a different point of view as to why we should be interested. Some of our local elected officials appear to continue to fiddle as the east-west road debate continues to burn...
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MAN ARRESTED FOR USING WEAPON IN CONFRONTATION
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Two men were arrested Wednesday after a weapon was allegedly displayed during a confrontation. According to the Cape Girardeau Police Department, David Fisher, 26, of F Street in Cape Girardeau County, got into an argument at approximately 4:25 p.m. with Mark Riola, 28, at Riola's apartment at 210 S. Hanover...
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ZONING BOARD APPROVES CHANGES TO SUBDIVISION REGS
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
The Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend approval of changes in the city's subdivision regulations Wednesday night. The changes, if approved by the city council, would require wider streets, new utility easement requirements and developer installation of street lights in new subdivisions...
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TIGERS ON TRAIL OF INJURED PREY TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Cape Girardeau Central football coach Jerry Dement has been around long enough to realize if something is too good to be true, it probably is. So when told of first-year Oakville coach Todd Winter's plans to sit eight starters out of tonight's game against Central at Houck field because of injuries, Dement's response was understandable...
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HEAVENLY BATTLE IN JEFFCO SHOULD DECIDE RUNNER-UP
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Oakville at Cape Central, 7:30 p.m. Friday's games (7:30 p.m. kickoffs) Belleville, Ill. Althoff at Jackson Waynesville at Poplar Bluff Caruthersville at Scott City Chaffee at East Prairie Portageville at Hayti Kennett at Malden Dexter at Charleston...
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EIU, MURRAY STATE MOVING UP IN DIVISION I-AA RANKINGS
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Lopsided victories over the weekend allowed Ohio Valley Conference members Eastern Illinois and Murray State to each move up five spots in the weekly NCAA Division I-AA football poll. Eastern Illinois, which rolled past Southeast Missouri State 32-7 to improve to 5-1, is now ranked 10th...
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CENTRAL, ND IN TITLE GAME
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Cape Central's Lady Tigers and Notre Dame's Lady Bulldogs won their respective pools and will battle for the championship of the Notre Dame Invitational Volleyball Tournament tonight in the final game of the varsity and junior varsity tourney. The championship game is scheduled for 9 p.m., with several other preliminary matches scheduled earlier in the evening...
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THERESA HOLZUM
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Theresa Holzum Funeral Mass for Theresa Holzum of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The Rev. Milton Ryan will officiate, with burial in St. John's Catholic Cemetery at Leopold. Friends may call at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel after 4 p.m. today, and after 8 a.m. Friday. Parish prayers will be at 7 tonight...
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BRENDA HAHN
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Brenda Hahn Funeral service for Brenda S. Hahn of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. today at Miller Family Funeral Home in Perryville. The Rev. Kevin Fausz will officiate, with burial in Home Cemetery at Perryville. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. until service time...
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AMANDA DALTON
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Amanda Dalton MAKANDA, Ill. -- Amanda Renee Dalton, 17, of Makanda died Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1997, in an automobile accident at the intersection of Highway 51 and Makanda Road. She was born June 24, 1980, in Murphysboro, daughter of Roger Dale and Janet S. Pearson Dalton. She was a junior at Carbondale Community High School...
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OSCAR HOPPER
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Oscar Hopper Funeral service for Oscar Crites Hopper of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel. The Rev. David Dissen will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. Friday...
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MARION PULLINS
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Marion Pullins CHARLESTON -- Marion Louise Pullins, 79, of Charleston died Monday, Oct. 6, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 20, 1917, in Columbus, Ky., daughter of William and Ruth Webster Knox. She married Freeman Pullins, who died Nov. 8, 1987...
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DORRIS BOST
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Dorris Bost KARNAK, Ill. -- Dorris Almus Bost, 79, of West Monroe, La., died Saturday, Oct. 4, 1997, at the VA Medical Center in Shreveport, La. He was born May 10, 1918, in Johnson County, son of James and Pearl Jamison Bost. Bost was retired from the U.S. Postal Service, and was a veteran of World War II...
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VERNON CARR
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
Vernon Carr CHARLESTON -- Vernon Carr, 68, of Florissant died Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1997, at Christian Northeast Hospital in Florissant. He was born Dec. 6, 1928, in Charleston, son of Thomas Wellington and Agnes Kettel Carr. He and Alma Hutcherson were married Feb. 24, 1951...
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GEORGE SCHAFER
(Obituary ~ 10/09/97)
George Schafer George Schafer, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1997, at his home. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 10/09/97)
Daughter to Antonio Fransisco Garcia and Madeline Jeanette Conrad, 1111 Themis, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:08 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, 1997. Name, Samantha Elise Payne. Weight, 5 pounds 1 ounce. Second daughter. Ms. Conrad is the daughter of Pete and Sandy Goodheart of Cape Girardeau and William and Betty Conrad of Fredericktown. Garcia is the son of Hector and Cindy Garcia of Cape Girardeau. He is employed at Ace Tree Service and Landscaping...
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BROADWAY PARKING RESTRICTED
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Broadway parking restricted Parking along Broadway will be restricted Saturday for Southeast Missouri State University's Homecoming Parade. Cape Girardeau police announced that beginning at 2 a.m. Saturday, parking will be prohibited on both sides of Broadway from West End Boulevard to Main Street; on Main Street from Broadway to William Street; on North West End Boulevard from Broadway to Parkview Drive; on the east side of Perry Avenue from Broadway to Parkview Drive; and on North Louisiana 500 feet south from Broadway.. ...
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RUSSELL SELECTED AS 1997-98 PROFESSOR-IN-RESIDENCE
(Local News ~ 10/09/97)
Dr. Keith Russell, professor of accounting, finance and business law at Southeast Missouri State University, has been chosen Distinguished Professor-In-Residence for the Institute of Management Accountants during the 1997-1998 academic year. He will help launch IMA's nationwide student and academic initiative...
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