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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: JOINS LAW PRACTICE
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Bryan D. Greaser has joined Matthew Hill in private law practice in the Blattner Building at 1028 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. Their general practice includes criminal defense and civil matters. Greaser was previously assistant public defender for Cape Girardeau County. He is a graduate Southeast Missouri State University and received a juris doctorate from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1998...
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INVESTMENT RULES YOU WON'T WANT TO BREAK (FINANCIAL FOCUS)
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. To achieve financial security throughout life, you don't have to be born rich -- although that would help. And you don't have to be a financial genius -- although that would help, too. So what do you need? You need to avoid breaking some specific rules of investing. Let's examine a few of them...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: RESTAURANTS LOOKING AT CAPE MARKET
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Logan's Roadhouse, the "peanuts-on-the-floor" steakhouse, is looking at the Cape Girardeau market. Ditto the Lone Star Steak House. Plans are already under way for The Lion's Choice Restaurant and the Bob Evans Restaurant. By September, the Buckner Building micro-brewery and eatery may be in place in downtown Cape Girardeau...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NAMED PRESIDENT
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Tammie Goodson has been named president of Best Mortgage and Financial Group, Inc., in Cape Girardeau. Her previous experience includes 15 years in the banking industry with the last eight years in mortgage loans. As vice president for Boatmen's Bank and NationsBank in Springfield, she managed the mortgage divisions for all of the Southern Missouri offices of Boatmen's/NationsBank from Joplin to Cape Girardeau. ...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: JOINS PREMIER AIR
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Bob Williams has joined Premier Air Center, Inc., as a service representative responsible for airframe, engine, avionics and interior refurbishment sales and service. He previously worked for 25 years at Cessna, the last 20 years as a field service representative advising and servicing customer's aircraft and operational needs for the Citation 500 Series Jets, Bravo, Excel, Citation Jet and Citation X...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: DRIVING CHAMPION
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Steve Burns of St. Louis, a driver for Schnucks Markets Inc., has won the grand championship in the 2000 Missouri Truck Driving Championships. Burns received the "Grand Trophy" and the chance to compete in the American Trucking Association's National Truck Driving Championships in New Orleans in August...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: RECEIVES AWARD
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Sarah Jane Clarke of Olive Branch, Ill., is recipient of the Harry Ring annual service award from the Illinois Community Action Association. Clarke, past executive director of Shawnee Development Council Inc., headquartered at Karnak, Ill., was honored for volunteer services in Southern Illinois communities since her retirement in 1993...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: APPOINTED AGENT
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Brian Shelton, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been appointed a State Farm Insurance agent in the St. Robert/Waynesville/Fort Leonard Wood area in Missouri. Shelton, who has completed the State Farm agency training program and has met all the state licensing requirement, has been employed at State Farm six years...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: COMPLETE TRAINING
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Cheryl Morris, Nikki Wilson, and Mike Radake, CPAs with Schott & Van de Ven, Certified Public Accountants, recently completed a two-day school audit seminar, held at Columbia, and presented by the Missouri Society of CPAs. Topics covered include the latest issues in Missouri school district auditing, including performance procedures that comply with professional standards and state requirements...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: HONORED FOR SERVICE
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Bernetta Davis, director of nursing and Joyce Proffer, housekeeping supervisor, have been honored by the Lutheran Home on Bloomfield Road, in Cape Girardeau, for 25 years of service. A number employees were honored during the recent ceremony. Janice Unger, administrator, was recognized for 20 years service and Louise St. John, R.N.C., for 15 years service...
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GARAGE SALES OFFER SPATE OF ITEMS
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
Barbara Eagle looked over her accumulation of castoffs from the past year that she was selling at a garage sale for prices that ranged from 25 cents to several dollars. "It's a lot of work," said Eagle about the sale she had spent several weeks preparing for, "but you pay a lot of money for things, and it's nice if you can get something out of them."...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: JOIN HAIR STUDIO 227
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Monica Metzger and Valerie Cauble have joined the staff of Hair Studio 227. Metzger and Cauble specialize in a number of styles. Marcy Abernathy is owner of the beauty salon, at 227 S. Plaza Way in Cape Girardeau. The salon offers the latest in hair fashion,. including cuts, perms and body waves...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NEW ASSISTANT MANAGER
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Ruth Missey of Chaffee has been promoted to assistant manager of Mac's Smokehouse. Missey has been with the restaurant since November of 1998, when Mac's Smokehouse opened in the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. She has eight years experience in the restaurant industry...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: ATTENDS AUCTION PROGRAM
(Business ~ 06/19/00)
Bill Kasting of Kelso recently attended nine-day auctioneering and auction sales management program at the Missouri Auction School at St. Joseph. Kasting, who received his diploma and the honorary title of Colonel, participated in selling at numerous public auctions while in school. ...
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MODEL GIVES LIFE TO OLD STE. GENEVIEVE
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Lewis Pruneau and Jim Baker didn't know what they were taking on when Baker phoned the professional model-maker to ask if he could create a diorama depicting Ste. Genevieve as it was early in the 19th century. Baker, the historic site administrator at the Felix Valle House in Ste. ...
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SALVATION ARMY CADETS TRAIN IN CAPE; ARMY HAS PLENTY OF WORK TO GO AROUND
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
Unloading cases of donated meats and frozen foods, helping a boy's club bag groceries at a local store or chaperoning young girls to camp have all been part of the job for Michael and Amy Castillo. And that was only in their first week in town. What the remainder of the summer holds they aren't sure of, but they are excited about the possibilities...
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NEW DIRECTOR TELLS PLANS TO HELP VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
The Network Against Sexual Violence has accomplished many things as an all-volunteer agency, but its new paid executive director thinks it can accomplish even more with someone overseeing the organization full time. Tammy Gwaltney, who has served on the board of directors since the network was created in 1997, will become the agency's executive director July 1...
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$33 MILLION BUDGETS ON COUNCIL'S AGENDA
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
Cape Girardeau won't spend much more next year than it did in the past, but city employees and residents might notice some slight differences. Tonight the Cape Girardeau City Council will consider the final readings of an ordinance that gives approval to the 2000-2001 operating budget...
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CAPAHAS SALVAGE SPLIT WITH ST. LOUIS PRINTERS
(High School Sports ~ 06/19/00)
ST. LOUIS -- The McDowell Capahas salvaged a doubleheader split with the St. Louis Printers Sunday, winning the nightcap 7-4 after dropping the opener 6-5. Lanson Debrock pitched the first five innings of the second game to notch the victory. Chad Bogenpohl and Brent Self each hurled two innings of scoreless relief...
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FOUR HURT IN TWO ACCIDENTS OVER WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 06/19/00)
Four people were injured in two separate accidents this weekend in Southeast Missouri, according to reports from the Missouri Highway Patrol. Valerie McConnell, 42, of Sikeston was injured when her vehicle lost control and slid across the median on Interstate 55, two miles south of Scott City. McConnell's vehicle crossed the southbound lanes, ran down an embankment and struck a tree...
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MINNIE LEE THURMOND
(Obituary ~ 06/19/00)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Minnie Lee Thurmond, 51, of Charleston died Friday, June 16, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 9, 1949, at Pinhook, daughter of Hattie Wilson Simpkins Cross and the late George Simpkins. She and William Henderson were married. She then married Carl Michael Thurmond of Charleston...
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HAROLD H.L. MCDANIEL
(Obituary ~ 06/19/00)
DELTA, Mo. -- Visitation for Harold "H.L." McDaniel will be from 5-8 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel, with Jack Hargraves and Rick Crump officiating. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery in Perkins...
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ROY LYNN RAY
(Obituary ~ 06/19/00)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Roy Lynn Ray, 78, of Titusville, Fla., died Friday, June 16, 2000, at his home. He was born Dec. 6, 1921, at Zion, son of Benjamin H. and Minnie Whitener Ray. He and Doris Laird were married Dec. 6, 1975. Ray had lived in Titusville for the past 18 months. He was formerly of St. Louis...
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IDA IRENE ENGLAND
(Obituary ~ 06/19/00)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Ida Irene England, 89, of Arbor, died Saturday, June 17, 2000, at Advance Nursing Center. She was born Feb. 13, 1911, at Arbor, daughter of Raleigh A. and Mary S. Kidd Hitt. She was a factory worker. Survivors include two sons, Robert England of Advance and Charles England of Arbor; a brother, Raleigh Hitt of Cape Girardeau; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...
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IVA S. MOREY
(Obituary ~ 06/19/00)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Iva S. Morey, 95, of Lithium died Sunday, June 18, 2000, at her home. She was born May 18, 1905, at McBride, daughter of Thomas B. and Louisiana Erwin Sanders. She and Charles F. Morey were married Sept. 20, 1926. He died Aug. 23, 1987...
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PANEL FOCUSES ON MISSOURI'S TIMBER, NOT CHIP MILLS
(Editorial ~ 06/19/00)
A special committee that studied chip mills in Missouri and their effect on the environment took a sensible approach by focusing more on broader forestry issues than chip mills themselves. In fact, Gov. Mel Carnahan's advisory committee on chip mills went to the trouble to point out that the mills weren't frequently mentioned in its report because broader forestry issues come into play when discussing the protection of Missouri's forests. ...
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HUNGER STRIKERS AT TAMMS PRISON HAVE LEARNED A LESSON: THEY ARE BEING PUNISHED, NOT CODDLED
(Editorial ~ 06/19/00)
A hunger strike by more than half of the prisoners at the new Tamms, Ill., maximum-security prison has finally ended with the final three prisoners giving in to a liquid diet 36 days after the protest began. Although a group in Chicago called the Uptown People's Law Center, which represented the prisoners, claims the three inmates believe their strike had an effect, there was no evidence of it at the prison. Nothing has changed, and prison officials said nothing will...
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LETTERS: OBSESSIVE GOP CAUGHT IN ITS WEB
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/19/00)
To the editor: What is this terrible, single-minded obsession the Republicans have to get President Clinton? It can't be just doing their duty, as Henry Hyde and his equally well-experienced gang of shooters say. So what is the Republicans' uncontrollable driving force to get Clinton at any and all cost?...
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LETTERS: TRAIN USES DIESEL, NOT STEAM ENGINE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/19/00)
To the editor: We saw a steam-engine train ride in Jackson advertised, so we drove 100 miles out of our way while on vacation to ride the train, which ended up being a diesel. We rode the diesel-engine train to Gordonville. The scenery and the rider were such a joke that we got off at Gordonville and called for a taxis back to Jackson. ...
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