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PERSONNEL: NEW COORDINATOR FOR MAIN STREET PROGRAM
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Donna Ann Harris has been named acting state coordinator for the Illinois Main Street program. Harris has been with the Illinois Main Street program since 1998, serving as manager of the Chicago office and as suburban coordinator. Before joining Main Street, Harris was executive director with Landmarks Preservation council of Illinois...
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PERSONNEL: JOINS ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Maria Swan has joined the staff at St. Francis Medical Center as public relations coordinator. Swan, of Cape Girardeau, is a graduate of University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she received her bachelor of science degree. She previously worked at Johnson Communications Service Inc., of Cape Girardeau, where she served as a consultant. Swan also previously worked as marketing director for Palmerston and Reed Publishing Co. in St. Louis, and as a television reporter at Columbia, Mo...
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PERSONNEL: TECHNICIAN HONORED AT PRESTO X CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Matt Morgan of Jackson, service technician at Presto X, has been named "Technician of the Year." He received his honor at the Presto X Company Technical Conference. Morgan also received a safe-driving award.
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PERSONNEL: IN NEW POSITION AT BLUE CROSS, BLUE SHIELD
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Karen Brobeck has been promoted to vice president of client services for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri. Brobeck has served as site manager for the Cape Girar-deau office the past three years. In her new role, Brobeck will be responsible for the company's enrollment services, membership and billing. ...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: A MEETING OF MINDS AND A NEW USE FOR TREES
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
At a bend in the Mississippi River, just above the confluence with the Ohio River, the stream flows in a broad sweeping reverse curve. This large meander has created an agriculturally rich 10,000-acre peninsula-like area known as Dry Bayou/Thompson Bend...
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PERSONNEL: SOYBEAN BOARD HANDS OUT SERVICE AWARD
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
A University of Missouri scientist has been selected by the United Soybean Board as the winner of its Meritorious Service Award for Production Research. Grover Shannon, project leader of the soybean breeding program at MU Delta Research Center in Portageville, Mo., received the honor during the Commodity Classic, a national meeting of soybean and corn farmers in San Antonio, Texas...
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MEMO: NEW BRANCH BANK OPENS IN JACKSON
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Capaha Bank recently opened its new branch at Jackson. The new branch is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and has a 24-hour drive-up ATM in the parking lot. Capaha Bank has locations at Cape Girardeau and Jackson in Missouri and at Cairo and Tamms in Southern Illinois...
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MEMO: CHAFFEE WOMAN THIRD IN CORN CONTEST
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Nancy Reiminger finished third place the National Ridge-Till/Irrigated class of the 2000 National Corn Yield Contest, sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association. Reiminger was among the 3,500 farmers entered in the nine-class competition, considered the "Super Bowl of Corn Production."...
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MEMO: DOCTORS' COMMITTEE WINS WELLNESS AWARD
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
The Morale Committee of Cape Girardeau Physician Associates has received the Governor's Fitness and Health Leadership Platinum Worksite Wellness Award, for an outstanding example in promoting fitness and health. The Cape Girardeau group received the 2001 Platinum Award at ceremonies, held at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis...
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MEMO: SUNFLOWERS SUBJECT OF AG WORKSHOP
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Production and marketing of sunflowers was discussed recently during a special sunflower workshop, held in Columbia. John Gardner, associate dean for extension at the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, discussed growing sunflowers in Missouri, and a panel of sunflower growers -- Linus Rothermich, Auxvasse, Mo.; Rick Hilgedick, Hartsburg, Mo.; Fred Atkinson, Kingdom City, Mo.; and Larry Callis, Sedalia, Mo., talked about marketing the sunflower...
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MEMO: OPPORTUNITY SUBJECT OF RURAL CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
"Seizing Opportunities in Rural America" is the theme of the annual Quinstate Economic Development Conference, to be held at the University of Missouri Delta Center's Southern Telecommunications Community Resource Center (TCRC) in Portageville, Mo., Thursday and Friday...
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PERSONNEL: JOINS INSURANCE COMPANY AFTER SELLING GIFT SHOP
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Judith Lang of Cape Girardeau has joined Heartland Insurance as an agent. Lang, a downtown merchant until last week when she sold her business, Judith Anne's, a gift shop, to Bob and Patricia Ann Blade, who will reopen the business Apr. 3. Lang, who previously served as Downtown Merchants Association president, and headed a group to get Cape Girardeau named as a Main Street participant, is president of Old Cape Town, which operates the Main Street program...
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NEW BUSINESSES: GARDEN'S EDGE NURSERY HOLDS GRAND OPENING
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
KELSO, Mo. -- Garden's Edge, a new nursery, held its grand opening last weekend. The new nursery, which offers unique plants, shrubs and plants, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The new business is owned by Marvin Wormington and his son, Matthew Wormington. The Wormingtons also operate a lawn service, which includes a landscaping service...
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NEW BUSINESSES: JUDITH ANNE'S WILL BECOME PATRICIA ANN'S
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Judith Anne's will become Patricia Ann's in downtown Cape Girardeau. Judith Anna Lang, who opened Judith Ann's gift shop more than six years ago at 130 N. Main, has sold her operation to Bob and Patricia Blades. The Blades will reopen the store April 3, as Patricia Ann's...
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MEMO: TWO FIRMS ANNOUNCE MORE JOB CUTS
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Two companies recently announced large jobs cuts. Compaq Computer Corp. will cut 5,000 jobs, about 7 percent of its work force. Compaq, which has 67,000 employees worldwide, reduced its first-quarter earnings outlook to 12 cents to 14 cents per share, down from the expected 18 cents per share for the three months ended March 31...
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PROFITABLE POULTRY: NATION'S CHICKEN CHAINS FEED PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
(Local News ~ 03/19/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- It used to be that the chicks were in the mail, but today's poultry farmers have a much more advanced and elaborate plan for raising chickens. Several area poultry farmers raise chickens for the Tyson Foods plant at Dexter, Mo., where the meat is processed, packaged and shipped to grocers...
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NEW BUSINESSES: NEW STYLING SALON OPENS IN DOWNTOWN CAPE
(Business ~ 03/19/01)
Attitudes Styling Salon has opened at 208 Independence in downtown Cape Girardeau. Brandy Brady, a graduate of Stage One The Hair School in Cape Girardeau, has been in the beauty business more than three years, and is owner of the new two-station shop...
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REDISTRICTING COULD EXPAND 158TH HOUSE DISTRICT
(Local News ~ 03/19/01)
State Rep. Jason Crowell figures he'll have to campaign in all of Cape Girardeau next year. Crowell says redistricting likely will expand the boundaries of his 158th House District while shrinking state Rep. David Schwab's 157th District, whose population soared by 30 percent in the last decade...
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'LIKE A RELIGIOUS CALLING': FORMER CAPE POLICE OFFICER NOW A DEA AGENT
(Local News ~ 03/19/01)
A flag-draped coffin coming out of the old Lorberg's Funeral Home on Sprigg Street was enough to stop 8-year-old Michael Braun from riding past on his bicycle. It was March 13, 1961, three days after Cape Girardeau auxiliary police officer Herbert Goss died in a shootout...
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RED CROSS BEHIND IN FUNDING
(Local News ~ 03/19/01)
The economic lethargy currently infecting the stock markets and showing up in layoffs here and there across the country may be starting to show up in charitable giving. The Southeast Missouri chapter of the American Red Cross is about $47,500 behind in funding this year compared to 2000. ...
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CAPE CITY COUNCIL TO REVIEW TASTE'S LIQUOR LICENSE AGAIN
(Local News ~ 03/19/01)
Michael Pryor, owner of Cape Girardeau's The Taste Lounge, said he plans to let his business' recent record speak for itself when his liquor license is reviewed again at tonight's Cape Girardeau City Council meeting. Tonight will mark the third time in 10 months Pryor has appeared before the city council to defend his license...
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FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: WITH ARMSTRONG GRADUATING, ND RATES AS 2002 FAVORITE
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/01)
I don't know if she did that kind of thing every game, but Stockton senior Jenna Armstrong had the best single-game performance I've ever seen by a girls high school player Saturday night. She ended up with 30 points in Stockton's 61-42 win over Notre Dame in the Class 2A state championship game at the Hearnes Center in Columbia, Mo...
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LADY BULLDOGS FIGURE TO USE LOSS AS SOURCE OF MOTIVATION
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/01)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- With about two minutes left in Notre Dame's 61-42 Class 2A state championship loss to Stockton late Saturday night, the Lady Bulldog crowd started chanting "We'll be back, we'll be back." There's no doubt that before they left the Hearnes Center, the Lady Bulldogs were already thinking about next year...
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INDIANS RIDE PENNINGTON'S ARM TO WIN OVER MOREHEAD
(College Sports ~ 03/19/01)
The Southeast Missouri State University baseball Indians captured the rubber game of their opening Ohio Valley Conference series with a 5-1 win over Morehead State at Capaha Field Sunday afternoon. In more baseball-like weather conditions -- a doubleheader Saturday was played in chilly temperatures with strong winds howling -- Southeast rode a fine pitching performance by Todd Pennington to improve to 11-7 on the season and 2-1 in the OVC...
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SPORTS DIGEST: CAPE CENTRAL SWIMMERS SUFFER LOSS IN DUAL MEET
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/01)
The Cape Girardeau Central High girls swimming team fell to 0-3 in dual meets Saturday with a 127-63 home loss to Ft. Zumwalt South. Central's lone event winner was Terra Herzberger in the 100 freestyle. She was also second in the 200 IM. Other second-place individual finishers for the Lady Tigers were Marci Kester (100 breaststroke), Cassie Kipper (500 freestyle) and Casey Brennan (200 freestyle)...
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LARRY HANEY
(Obituary ~ 03/19/01)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Larry Gene Haney, 56, died at his home north of Cobden Saturday. Haney was born June 7, 1944, in Dexter, Mo., the son of Herbert and Lucille Haney. He was a truck driver and a laborer. Haney is survived by two brothers, Donald and Gary Haney of Cobden; and three sisters, Mary Moore of Bloomfield, Mo., and Joyce Haney and Lois James, both of Bernie, Mo...
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FLORA ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 03/19/01)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Flora Belle Allen, 87, of Mounds died March 15, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Allen was born on March 12, 1914, in Ullin, Ill., the daughter of the late John and Flora Shifley Adkins. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mounds...
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BILL BENNETT
(Obituary ~ 03/19/01)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Bill J. Bennett, 71, of Bloomfield died at the Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter, Mo., March 18, 2001. Bennett was born in Sikeston, Mo., Feb. 18, 1930. He was a retired truck driver and had worked as a maintenance man for the Bloomfield School District for several years...
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REINHOLD SCHIRMER
(Obituary ~ 03/19/01)
ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Reinhold M. Schirmer, 92, of Altenburg, Mo., died March 16, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Schirmer was born in Altenburg on Dec. 5, 1908, the son of Martin and Emma Schirmer. Schirmer, a farmer and carpenter, married Irene Schilling on Sept. 21, 1941. He was a lifetime member of Trinity Lutheran Church and a past member of the Golden Age Club of Altenburg...
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ROY STATEN
(Obituary ~ 03/19/01)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Roy W. Staten, 69, formerly of Carbondale, Ill., died Tuesday, March 13, 2001, at Meridian Manor Nursing Home of Mounds. Staten was born on Nov. 2, 1931, in Mounds, the son of Henry Midland and Eula Staten. He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 03/19/01)
IT'S ENTERTAINING to see that David Limbaugh has been spending his time preoccupied with the corruption of the Clinton White House. To be corruption consistent, he should now give equal time to the vastly greater depths of corruption and conspiracy behind the bloodless coup that put George W. Bush in the White House. This is an evil beyond anything Bill Clinton ever dreamed of...
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TIME HAS COME FOR STATES TO CONTROL SPENDING
(Editorial ~ 03/19/01)
Missouri isn't the only state that faces a fiscal crunch this year. As of late February, 31 states reported they were spending more than they budgeted. As many as 23 states may cut budgets or reach into rainy day funds for the first time in years. Missouri lawmakers are considering an $18.5 billion budget, continuing the annual upward spiral of spending. Lawmakers complain favorite projects won't get funded, and state employees may not get pay raises...
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STADIUM PROPOSALS RAISE FISCAL CONCERNS
(Editorial ~ 03/19/01)
The Missouri General Assembly this year has been asked to help fund construction of two athletic stadiums and help maintain a third in a year that Gov. Bob Holden has called the tightest budget year in recent memory. Nevertheless before the Legislature are these proposals:...
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LETTERS: WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP SCHOOL SHOOTINGS?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/19/01)
To the editor: I think school violence is a tragedy not only to the students and their families that have been directly impacted, but also our society as a whole. Where have our values for life gone? When did a bunch of teen-agers decide it was OK to be armed and dangerous at school? Have our youths gone completely mad? Do they not want to see their own futures unravel? These are very tough questions that we as educators, parents and role models must start addressing. ...
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