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Happy Birthday Jesus
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
Cars enter the 4-H barn at Arena Park on Tuesday to celebrate Christmas in a drive through style. Hosted by La Croix Church and Lighthouse United, stations of family units gave out party hats, balloons, icing and more, and held signs wishing Jesus Happy Birthday.
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Effort brings Christmas joy to area's foster children
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
There are more than 4,300 children in foster care throughout Southeast Missouri, and Mary Haldeman has made it her life's mission to help as many of them as possible. Haldeman is the program director for the Southeast Missouri office of FosterAdopt Connect, and its mission is to bring stability and support to children and families with programs designed to fill gaps found in the child welfare system. According to Haldeman, it's a very big gap...
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Jackson aldermen consider financial contributions to new community college
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
Former Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center director Rich Payne pleaded his case to the Jackson Board of Aldermen during its study session Monday night, requesting help funding a new two-year technical community college in the Cape Girardeau area in the future...
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Smith selected as new Jackson superintendent
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
The Jackson R-2 Board of Education has unanimously selected Scott A. Smith as the district's next superintendent, succeeding John Link who announced his retirement in October. Smith's appointment was announced to the district's faculty and staff Tuesday morning...
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Saint Francis ramps up coronavirus vaccine program
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
After giving its first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine last week, Saint Francis Healthcare System has ramped up its program, innoculating hundreds of its staff each day. According to a release issued by Saint Francis, the organization has partnered with Broadway LTC Pharmacy and immunizations were planned to total more than 530 as of Tuesday. Its plan calls for personnel at medical partner clinics to begin today, starting in Sikeson and Poplar Bluff, Missouri...
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Building People: Missouri Vocational Enterprises transforms lives
(12/23/20)
When David Love speaks about the process of woodworking, it’s clear he loves what he does. Love, who is incarcerated at the Southeast Correctional Center (SECC) in Charleston, Missouri, has been employed through the U.S. Department of Labor at Missouri Vocational Enterprises (MVE) since 2015, working with a team to build and sell furniture to state agencies, not-for-profit entities and individuals employed by the state. ...
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COVID curtails Christmas Eve singing at Cape church
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
At St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau, there will be no congregational singing for the 7 p.m. candlelight service. Since September, the church at 1900 Cape LaCroix Road has been holding both virtual and in-person services because of the pandemic without people in the pews singing hymns...
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Three more catalytic converter thefts occur over the weekend
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
Three more locations in Cape Girardeau have been targeted in a recent string of catalytic converter thefts. According to Cape Girardeau Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Joey Hann, VIP Industries, Habitat for Humanity and Shawnee Park Center all reported catalytic converter thefts over the weekend. These thefts are in addition to many others that have occurred in Cape recently...
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Collecting Cape Girardeau: Collector Bonnie Kipper shares Old Town Cape ornaments
(12/23/20)
Bonnie Kipper says she isn’t quite sure what keeps her collecting. Maybe it’s the joy it brings her or the thrill of adding one more piece to the puzzle. She’s collected a piece of Cape Girardeau every year since 1996: a Christmas ornament, designed to represent a place significant to the town’s history. They’re part of the collection of ornaments Old Town Cape releases each year around the holidays to adorn locals’ and visitors’ trees...
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Transportation projects on deck
(B Magazine ~ 12/23/20)
Roads and bridges. Streets and sidewalks. Roundabouts and crosswalks. Most of us use them every day, and almost all of us take them for granted, rarely giving them a second thought except when an occasional pothole needs filling or when roadwork requires an inconvenient detour...
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Column: I love little kids and dogs
(Local News ~ 12/23/20)
I’ve always loved little kids, and I’ve always loved dogs, and they’ve almost always loved me back! It’s just those damned adults that I have problems with. Maybe I can explain why that is. Let’s start with the little kids. They’re almost always cheerful, at least when I see them. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 12/23/20)
Today is Wednesday, Dec. 23, the 358th day of 2020. There are eight days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 23, 1954, the first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick's twin brother, Richard...
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Prayer 12-23-20
(Prayer ~ 12/23/20)
O Lord Jesus, we celebrate your birth -- God's greatest gift to mankind. Amen.
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From A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Column ~ 12/23/20)
The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. ...
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No, Joe, we're not in a 'climate crisis'
(Column ~ 12/23/20)
Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's famous axiom is that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It's an even worse thing to manufacture. Although President-elect Joe Biden obviously disagrees. Creating an unwarranted sense of drama and urgency around climate change is central to his approach, in order to catalyze action unsupported by the facts or common sense...
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Cape Girardeau Fire report 12/23/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/23/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls. Dec. 21 n Medical assists were made at 4:07 p.m. on Linden Street; 4:29 p.m. on South Spring Avenue; 4:52 p.m. at New Madrid Street and North West End Boulevard; 4:52 p.m. on South West End Boulevard; 8:55 p.m. on Whitener Street...
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Area police report 12/23/20
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/23/20)
CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Assaults n Assault was reported on South West End Boulevard. n Assault was reported in the 3200 block of Percy Drive. n Assault was reported on Good Hope Street. n Assault was reported in the 2000 block of North Sprigg Street...
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Births 12/23/20
(Births ~ 12/23/20)
Son to Justin Dwayne Hardin and Blythe Breann Berry of Sikeston, Missouri, Saint Francis Medical Center, 6:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Name, Wyatt Blake. Weight, 5 pounds 7 ounces. First child. Berry is the daughter of Kim Berry of Sikeston and the late Michael Berry Jr. She is employed by White & Associates. Hardin is the son of Rhonda Hardin and Phillip Hardin of Sikeston. He works for Illing Co...
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Kelly Nixon
(Obituary ~ 12/23/20)
Kelly Dawn Tompkins Nixon, age 49, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Kelly was born June 2, 1971. On Nov. 9, 2019, she married Thomas "T.J." Nixon. He survives. She is also survived by her parents, Tommy Tompkins of Williamsville, Missouri, and Sharon (Jim) Doyle of Piedmont, Missouri; three children, Madison Renfroe of Bloomfield, Missouri; Natalie Renfroe of Blytheville, Arkansas; and Nicholas Renfroe of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; two brothers, Tracey (Marsha) Tompkins of Puxico, Missouri, and Shannon (Rebecca) Tompkins of Williamsville; and sister, Joy (Bryan) Ferguson of Patterson, Missouri.. ...
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Shirley McClard
(Obituary ~ 12/23/20)
Shirley A. McClard, 73, of Jackson passed away Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at her home. She was born Sept. 8, 1947, in Cape Girardeau to William and Audrey York Welker Sr. She and Gary McClard were married Jan. 25, 1975, in Jackson. Shirley was a 1965 graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School. For over 40 years, she owned and operated a home daycare, providing love to countless children...
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Biden: Trump 'failed' to shore up nation's cybersecurity
(National News ~ 12/23/20)
WILMINGTON, Del. -- President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday assailed the Trump administration for failing to fortify the nation's cyber defenses, and called on President Donald Trump to publicly identify the perpetrator of a massive breach of U.S. government agencies -- a hack some of Trump's top allies have blamed on Russia...
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California first: Latino appointed to U.S. Senate
(National News ~ 12/23/20)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom selected Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Tuesday to be a U.S. senator, a pick that sends a Latino to the Senate for the first time in the state's history. A video released by Newsom's office showed Padilla becoming emotional after Newsom, a close friend, offered him the job. Padilla reflected on the hard work of his parents, who came to the United States from Mexico and worked as a cook and a housekeeper...
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Dogs ease pandemic isolation at nursing homes
(Community ~ 12/23/20)
Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to visitors. Enter Zeus. "Zeus is a friendly little snowball, very happy," said Nagle, 79, after the peppy bichon frise paid a visit to her room at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, overlooking the Hudson River in the Bronx. ...
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Rare vaccine injury claims steered to obscure federal office
(National News ~ 12/23/20)
Though most people who protect themselves with a coronavirus vaccine will never develop serious side effects, such rare cases are barred from federal court and instead steered to an obscure program with a record of seldom paying claims. The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which was set up specifically to deal with vaccines under emergency authorization, has just four employees and few hallmarks of an ordinary court. ...
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No immediate ruling after hearing on fate of DACA program
(National News ~ 12/23/20)
HOUSTON -- A federal judge did not immediately issue a ruling following a court hearing Tuesday on the fate of a U.S. program shielding immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. During a nearly 3 1/2 hour hearing, Texas and eight other states asked U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which provides limited protections to about 650,000 people. The program was enacted by former President Barack Obama in 2012...
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Midwest Sterilization Helps Feed Families Facing Hunger
(Submitted Story ~ 12/23/20)
Midwest Sterilization in Jackson recently made a significant contribution that will help feed vulnerable families facing hunger in southeast Missouri. Operations Director Eric Sisk, left, and President & Chief Executive Officer Karen Fitzpatrick presented the donation to food bank CEO Joey Keys. This is the second year Midwest Sterilization has partnered with the food bank to help fight hunger...
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Out of the past: Dec. 23
(Out of the Past ~ 12/23/20)
Officials at Southeast Missouri State University hope to be able to award honorary doctoral and professional degrees as early as next spring; Dr. Bill Atchley, university interim president, proposed the addition, which was approved this week by the Board of Regents...
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