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LUNCHES KIDS LIKE: SCHOOLS TRY TO OFFER LUNCHES APPEALING TO STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Megan Steimle looked over the computerized menu system at Jefferson Elementary School. How to prepare the meals, as well as nutritional value, is stored on the districtwide system. Megan Steimle stirred taco seasoning into 20 pounds of ground beef to make taco salad for lunch...
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BELL GRANT SPONSORS VO-TECH STUDY
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Southwestern Bell and the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School have joined to bring distance learning technology to students. The school has received a $2,500 technology grant from Southwestern Bell to conduct a feasibility study for a distance learning and videoconferencing center. The study will help administrators choose the best equipment and technology for the center in the new Vo-Tech school scheduled to begin construction later this year...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: TEACHER CONDUCTS CLASS FULL OF SURPRISES
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Second-year teacher Becky Stein relies on the element of surprise to keep her third-grade class at Franklin Elementary School awake and attentive. Third grade requires a lot of reading, she said, and the surprise element helps to keep young minds focused...
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JOE BERTLING BASEBALL SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED AT SOUTHEAST
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The Joe Bertling Baseball Endowed Scholarship has been established at Southeast Missouri State University. The scholarship will be given annually to a freshman baseball player. First preference will be given to players from Cape Girardeau Central High School. Second preference will be given to a player from a Cape Girardeau County school and final preference to a student from a Missouri high school...
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JERRY MCDOWELL NAMED WAL-MART TEACHER OF THE YEAR
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
CHARLESTON -- Charleston educator Jerry McDowell has been named the 1997 Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year for excellence in teaching. He was honored during a surprise ceremony on Aug. 16 at the Clara Drinkwater Newnam Auditorium in Charleston. In appreciation for his dedication, Wal-Mart presented a $500 grant to the school...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Being a sports writer, it's not surprising that my favorite reading material is sports oriented. I like to read other sports writers, and the best of the best can be found in Sports Illustrated. I've been a loyal reader of the magazine for a number of years...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but between a busy work schedule, a fondness for working out and playing sports, a fondness for socializing and an even greater fondness for sleep, I don't find the time to read many books. But that doesn't mean that I don't read at all. I really enjoy reading newspapers in addition to the Southeast Missourian -- and not just the sports section...
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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: WORLD WIDE WEB IS GREAT PLACE TO YELL FOR LITERACY AND BOOK SITES (COLUMN 53)
(Column ~ 09/09/97)
Cybertip: Check out our royal tribute to Princess Diana, which appeared in Sunday's edition. You can find it at www.semissourian.com/diana Today is YELL day, which stands for Youth, Education, Literacy and Learning. As such, we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the most popular book sites on the Internet...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I grew up on Sports Illustrated and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's sports' section in my young years. But it wasn't until I took a monthlong trip to Eastern Europe just before graduating from college that I actually read a book -- without a lot of pictures -- from beginning to end. (Makes you wonder how I graduated, huh?) My metamorphosis into a book reader happened while staying with my cousin, who was a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Ukraine...
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ADULT BASIC EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Know someone who can't read or can barely read? Free help is available. Anyone whose reading or math tests at lower than sixth-grade level can get a tutor from the folks at the Adult Basic Education office at the Cape Girardeau Vocational School or at Hawkins Junior High School or other outposts in a six-county area. A tutor like Dorothy Taylor...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
In the summer of 1968 I took a fiction writing class at the University of Montana. I attended summer school there to help gain my 24 credits so I could get a permanent teaching certificate in Pennsylvania. At the time I was a junior high school teacher...
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YELL: A POSITIVE REPUTATION
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
If you're reading this article, odds are you rolled down your car window and forked over $2 to a volunteer in the 1997 YELL campaign earlier this morning. Good for you. YELL is an acronym for Youth Education Literacy and Learning, a joint project to promote literacy sponsored by the Southeast Missourian and Area Wide United Way. This is the seventh year for the project...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
My reading preferences have evolved over the years -- fiction and fantasy have been supplanted by biographies and articles dealing with political and social issues. My parents were avid readers, mostly of newspapers and magazines, and my passion for the written word dates to the early 1960s...
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SCOTT CITY READY TO SELL YELL PAPERS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
SCOTT CITY -- The YELL chain is growing stronger and more diverse every year. St. Joseph Catholic School received its first Youth Education Literacy Learning grant in 1996 and used the $50 to buy reading material for a first- and second-grade class. Principal Darlene Leonard said Pat Haenni bought four sets of books with audiocassettes, "she's very frugal."...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Having taken up the game of golf only three years ago -- rather late in life, I might add -- I have been obsessed with reading anything and everything I can get my hands on that might make me a better golfer. I get two monthly golf magazines, and my golfing buddies -- having witnessed how poorly I often play -- eagerly lend me instructional materials, mostly in the form of books on golfing. ...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I like to read a variety of things -- a good old-fashioned love story, articles in Guidepost, magazines and brochures on interesting places. To me, reading is the greatest form of entertainment there is, whether it's sitting outside on a nice day, curled up on the sofa on a cold winter day, or in bed before I go to sleep...
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COUNTY ADDRESSES ARRAY OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gerald Jones couldn't believe that with all the vans and buses operated by various agencies in Cape Girardeau County, a handful of senior citizens in Delta had trouble getting to doctors' appointments in Cape Girardeau...
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SIMON SAYS PUT ASIDE PARTISAN POLITICS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Congress needs to put aside partisan politics and Americans need to reach out to one another to solve society's problems, says former U.S. senator Paul Simon. "We have party-line votes on just about everything in Washington these days," Simon told a crowd of more than 100 at a noon meeting Monday of the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club at the Holiday Inn...
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LIBRARIAN STRESSES TRAVEL THROUGH READING; YELL SALES BENEFIT SCHOOLS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
JACKSON -- Orchard Elementary School librarian Mary Hitt hopes telling students about her recent trip to Africa will inspire them to read about other countries. Hitt made several presentations to students Monday about her trip to Malawi, a small country in East Africa. She and her husband, Al Hitt, spent three weeks in June visiting their daughter Lisa Laffoon and her family, who have served for two and a half years as missionaries in Dedza, Malawi...
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SEMO FAIR IN FULL SWING; AGRICULTURE REMAINS BIG ATTRACTION
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The rain didn't stop the Future Farmers of America from setting up their exhibits Monday afternoon at the SEMO District Fair. And the water that lingered along the edge of Broadway didn't stop children from picking up the wrapped candy that the district fair parade participants threw at them later that day...
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CAR-BUS ACCIDENT KILLS AREA WOMAN
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- A Scott City, Mo., woman died after the car she was driving crashed head-on with a school bus near Olive Branch, authorities said. Dorothy Berbling, 38, was driving with her 10-year-old son, Charles, on the Olive Branch-Tamms Blacktop a half-mile east of Illinois Route 3 at 3:25 p.m. when her car crossed the middle of the road and struck the bus from the Egyptian School District, Illinois State Police reported...
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CORPS OF ENGINEERS CONSIDERS NEW LEVEE
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Hopes for a levee to protect Dutchtown from flooding have been rekindled by the Corps of Engineers. The Corps has received the go-ahead to do a feasibility study for a levee, but it needs $8,000 in local money to continue. Cost of the study, which would include examination of environmental and economic impacts, is $116,000. Federal regulations call for $8,000 from a local sponsor, which must have taxing authority and be able to provide maintenance of the completed flood-control structure...
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: DAYDREAMING OF VACATION AND HOME BY THE SEA
(Column ~ 09/09/97)
This is the day before I leave for a short vacation back home to sunny Florida. I would appreciate it if there were no distractions, no messy crimes to distract me from my plan-making. I don't need any fires to break me away from daydreaming, thank you, or spectacular car wrecks to bring me back to reality...
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ATHLETES AND READING
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The life of a college student-athlete is a busy one to be sure. Between attending classes, studying, practices, workouts and the actual games or events -- not to mention trying to have a social life -- student-athletes often barely find enough time to sleep...
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THANKS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Thank you Area Wide United Way, Southwestern Bell, Cape Girardeau Public Schools, Schnucks and VIP Industries for your continued leadership and commitment in supporting the community's quest for literacy. Once again, Southwestern Bell has helped with volunteer appreication gifts and start-up funding. and VIP Industries has contributed the comic books and the incentive to better oneself and one's community...
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GRADUATES CELEBRATE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, A FEW YEARS LATE
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Last month Dianna Eldridge applied for a job, the first she's tried for in many years. Eldridge of Advance says earning her GED gave her the confidence to look for a job. Eldridge, a welfare recipient for more years than she'd care to admit, celebrated her high school graduation along with 124 other people who earned their high school equivalency degree through the Adult Basic Education program at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School. ...
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AREA WIDE UNITED WAY PLANS TO TOP LAST YEAR'S GOAL
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The Area Wide United Way raised $534,022 last year, surpassing its $520,000 goal. This year, the charitable organization has set its goal even higher than the $534,000 level. The specific goal, however, won't be announced until this year's campaign kicks off Sept. 12 with a noon luncheon at the Holiday Inn Convention Center...
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A PLEASANT DAY WITH THE CUCUMBERS
(Column ~ 09/09/97)
The recent making of Bread and Butter pickles evoked such a curious joy in me, akin to stepping outside some early morning to unexpectedly feel a soft, fragrant, southern breeze caress my cheek, or hearing the watery footsteps of rain approaching after a lengthy drought. I tried to account for the joy. Was it the simplicity of it? An old familiar thing to do? The good green odor of the vegetables? The knowledge that I was going to have something I had made to give away?...
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YELL: THANKS FOR SUPPORTING LITERACY EFFORTS
(Editorial ~ 09/09/97)
Today is YELL Day, another annual episode in this newspaper's continuing effort to promote Youth, Education, Learning and Literacy. Hundreds of volunteers are out on street corners this morning, hawking special YELL editions of the Southeast Missourian that aim to foster these goals. These are your friends and neighbors, taking time out of busy schedules to join in this worthy cause...
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NATIONAL SCHOOL STANDARDS? NO THANKS!
(Editorial ~ 09/09/97)
Is there any field of endeavor in which fads come and go with more dependable regularity than in the business of schooling our children? Clothing and the fashion industry, you might answer. Perhaps, but we would put Big Education up against the rag trade any day...
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LETTERS: BETTER TO SAVE LIFE OF PREBORN CHILD
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/09/97)
To the editor: I never thought I would say this, but for once Gov. Mel Carnahan and I agree on something. In his open letter published in eight cities on Sunday, which cost his coffers $60,000 of other people's money, Carnahan stated the partial-birth abortion veto facing legislators this week is extremely difficult and complex. I agree. He also calls for the members to put aside party differences and do what is right. I agree with that also...
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LETTERS: NOW OPPOSES MAN AS FAMILY'S HEAD
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/09/97)
To the editor: On Sept. 5 the Southeast Missourian ran a three-panel cartoon on this page. All three panels depicted Patricia Ireland, a prominent functionary of the National Organization for Women. The text was a dialogue between Ireland and another person. ...
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PLANS UNVEILED FOR COMMUNICATIONS UNIT
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
PORTAGEVILLE -- Plans have been unveiled for a telecommunications resources center in Southeast Missouri. The new center, about 5,000 square feet, will have computer training classrooms, an interactive TV conference room including satellite downlink abilities and other facilities, said Janet Kline of the Delta Center and regional director of university outreach and extension programs...
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STATE LAW GROUP TAPS CAPE LAWYER
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The lawyers of Missouri, voting in districts across the state, have elected six new members to the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar and retained 12 incumbents. Among the new members is Richard G. Steele, a member of the Cape Girardeau law firm of Bradshaw, Steele, Cochrane & Berens. He will represent District 7, which encompasses the Southeast Missouri...
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JACKSON RECIPIENTS USE YELL GRANTS TO BOOST LITERACY
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The $3,700 the YELL campaign raised in Jackson last year went to a lot of good causes, the recipients say. YELL grants are helping make second-grade students at Immaculate Conception Catholic School comfortable with their first books organized by chapters. ...
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HAZING SUSPENSION APPEALED
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The local chapter of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity has appealed the three-year suspension handed down by Southeast Missouri State University for hazing. The fraternity will make its case in writing to Dr. SueAnn Strom, vice president of student affairs...
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THIS SUMMER RANKS AMONG COOLEST IN CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
This summer has been one of the coolest on record in Cape Girardeau, says a local climatologist. The average temperature for June, July and August was 75.4 degrees, 2.2 degrees below the average for those three months in the 52 years of temperature records for Cape Girardeau, said Al Robertson, climatologist at Southeast Missouri State University...
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PERRYVILLE SERVES UP QUICK LOSS TO LADY TIGER SPIKERS
(High School Sports ~ 09/09/97)
Perryville volleyball coach Tim Steffens, the area's veteran coach, has seen a few things in the past six years. So coach, ever seen about a player serve 15 straight points? Never -- until Monday night. After Cape Girardeau Central (0-2) began its home opener with a serve, Perryville's Jaimee Mueller served 15 consecutive points...
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WHY I READ: SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN COLUMNISTS TELL WHY THEY LIKE TO READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I like history, especially the era of the Civil War of the United States. My den (junk room) at home is filled with a variety of books with such titles as: -- Confederate Soldiers of the Civil War, a one-volume, 12-x-18, 500-page volume, vintage 1893...
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INDIANS EAGER TO JUMP BACK INTO ACTION
(College Sports ~ 09/09/97)
It's back to business as usual this week for Southeast Missouri State University's football team. The Indians, after kicking off the 1997 season with a 24-6 win over Lambuth on Aug. 30, had an open date over the weekend. They'll return to action Saturday when Illinois State visits Houck Stadium for a 7 p.m. matchup...
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WHY I READ: SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN COLUMNISTS TELL WHY THEY LIKE TO READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
There's nothing like a good book to pass the time. Reading is a way of life in my family. My parents' home in Kirkwood is crammed full of books, and my house also is filled with them. The library was a regular Saturday stop for our family, where we would browse the shelves and check out another stack of books...
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JOHNNY BENCH: BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER TO VISIT CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
"No runs, no drips, no errors," was a common phrase heard by baseball Hall-of-Famer Johnny Bench in the 1980s during his television commercials for a spray paint company. When Bench comes to Cape Girardeau next month, as guest speaker for Friends of the Cape Public Library Foundation, he could be saying, "No funds, no books, big error."...
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GOVS SHOOT INTO DRURY INTERCOLLEGIATE LEAD
(College Sports ~ 09/09/97)
JACKSON -- Austin Peay's Scott Niewland and John Swigart were among three golfers to shoot opening-round 69's in the 1997 Drury Intercollegiate Monday as the Governors jumped out to an eight-shot lead. The Governors, who shot a 283 team total, and Murray State, 291, were the only two teams in the 15-team field to shoot below 300 on the par-72 Bent Creek layout...
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WOODLAND WEATHERS BLOOMFIELD UPSET BID
(High School Sports ~ 09/09/97)
Woodland survived an upset bid by Bloomfield and advanced to the semifinals of its own Woodland Tournament Monday night. Woodland, seeded second, saw Bloomfield win the opener 15-8, but the Lady Cardinals outlasted the No. 7 seed with narrow 18-16 and 15-13 victories...
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WHATT EARNS 2ND LATE MODELS FEATURE AT MIR
(High School Sports ~ 09/09/97)
BENTON -- Johnny Wyatt of Scott City took home the $1,000 first-place money with a victory in the Limited Late Models feature race Saturday night at Missouri International Racepark. Wyatt held off Terry Johnson for the final 14 laps to earn his second victory of the season. Charles LaPlant ended a five-week absence at MIR to finish third. Ron Lacy placed fourth and Kent Bailey took fifth...
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CAPE YELL GRANTS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
There's a whole lot of reading going on in Cape Girardeau, thanks to YELL literacy grants awarded to schools, libraries and community agencies. The YELL project raised $14,000 in Cape Girardeau, half of which went to the Southeast Missourian for its Newspapers in Education program, and the other half of which was disbursed in grants to help schools and other groups encourage young people to read...
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CLEAT VANDEMARK
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
MOREHOUSE -- Graveside service for Cleat Donald Vandemark of Morehouse will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Matthews City Cemetery in Matthews. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Sikeston is in charge of arrangements. Vandemark, 80, died Sunday, Sept. 7, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...
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ED RENNER
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
SIKESTON -- Ed Dan Renner, 72, of Sikeston died Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997, at his home. He was born June 16, 1925, at Benton, son of A.J. "Pete" and Gladys E. Loud Renner. Renner was a graduate of Sikeston High School, and received a degree in agriculture from the University of Missouri in 1948...
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VIOLA COOK
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
Viola Webb Cook, 74, 105 Green Acres, died Monday, Sept. 8, 1997, at her home. She was born Aug. 11, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John C. and Laura Cole. She and William Floyd "Bill" Webb were married June 16, 1946. He died July 23, 1960. She later married Milford Cook Dec. 27, 1968. He died May 13, 1994...
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GENE LITTLETON
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
SIKESTON -- Gene Littleton, 80, of Sikeston died Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997, at Sikeston Health Care. She was born Jan. 31, 1917, at Marston, daughter of Merkle and Lucy Shaver Goyins. She married James Martin Littleton Sr., who died Dec. 31, 1971. Littleton was co-owner of Littleton Amusement Co. She attended Shady Acres Church of Christ...
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SEMO HORSE SHOW RESULTS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Here is a list of the winners of the Southeast Missouri District Fair horse show with the horse's name listed first, then owner, city, and rider. Gaited horse 1st: Pride's Noon Maid, Larry Hogard, St. Mary's, Kendra Hogard. 2nd: Color Key, Ronnie Asher, Jackson, Ronnie Asher...
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ANDREW MILLER
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
ORAN -- Andrew C. Miller, 92, of Oran died Monday, Sept. 8, 1997, at the Miner Nursing Center. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran, with parish prayers at 7. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Oran...
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SEMO FAIR PAGEANT WINNERS
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Listed below are the winners of the SEMO District Fair Pageant winners. Miss SEMO Fair (17-22 years old) Winner: Niki Laine Hoover, Dexter; 1st runner-up: Lesley Jenkins, Jackson; 2nd runner-up: Jessica Johnson, Cape Girardeau. Teen (14-16 years old)...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 09/09/97)
Daughter to Eddie S.T.E. and Debbie Lynn Hamblin of Chaffee, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:36 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1997. Name, Morgan Lynn. Weight, 8 pounds 11 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Hamblin is the former Debbie Wiggins, daughter of Lendy and Elizabeth Wiggins of Scott City. Hamblin is the son of Shirley Sauceda of Morley and Herman Hamblin of Hillsboro, Ill. He is a truck driver...
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HAROLD KNIGHT
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
FARMINGTON -- Memorial service for Harold Eugene "Hal" Knight of Winchester, Va., was held Sept. 2 at Jones Funeral Home. The Rev. John Robinson Jr. and Dr. Richard Reifsnyder officiated. Burial was Friday in Winchester. Knight, 74, died Saturday, Aug. 30, 1997, at his home...
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JACK ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 09/09/97)
CHARLESTON -- Jack Allen, 71, of Charleston died Sunday, Sept. 7, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 25, 1925, in Somerville, Tenn., son of Charlie and Emma Perry Allen. Allen had lived in Missouri more than 57 years, and was a retired farmer...
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READING RECOVERY PROGRAM: STUDENTS SHOW MORE CONFIDENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
The reading recovery program is designed to help first-graders having trouble reading catch up by using one-on-one sessions with trained reading recovery teachers. The program usually takes about 20 weeks to improve the student's reading skills to the level of their classmates...
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BUSINESSES SUPPORT YELL
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Reading is a critical skill. Two former teachers, now involved in marketing and public relations, agree that reading is needed in any industrial and commercial environments as well as everyday life. "Reading has always been the joy of my life," said Mary Spell, director of marketing at St. Francis Medical Center, and a former teacher. "It has been a part of my life so long I can't remember ever not reading."...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
As a mother of two young children, there is stark difference between what I like to read and what I usually read. But, hey, reading is still great fun. Since a young girl, I have always loved a good mystery. I sharpened my teeth on Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy mysteries, and Alfred Hitchcock Young Detective stories...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I would read it with a fox I would read it in a box I would read it here or there Say, I would read it anywhere It's true. My favorite author is Dr. Seuss, and it's a good thing, too, because I spend many, many, many hours reading the rhyming master to my four kiddos. I have memorized "Green Eggs and Ham." Yes, indeed, I can recite the whole book...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I know what I'll do when I get home from work tonight: I'll lie in bed reading The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer. With my wife two hours away in St. Louis, I'm alone. When I'm alone, I find comfort in fiction. And Singer is one of my favorites...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I am a word junkie. I will read anything, including package inserts, insurance mailers and the backs of cereal boxes. I really don't need to know what's in the Cocoa Puffs I'm having for breakfast, but something about the printed word is irresistible...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
In one way, what I like to read hasn't changed much since the day I was introduced to Dick and Jane. I grew up reading the Chip Hilton series of sports books by Clare Bee, a former coach. Chip Hilton was the all-American letterman in football, basketball and baseball who seemed to speak only when necessary, was shy around girls and usually, but not always, found a way to lead his high school team to the state championship...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I grew up reading everything I could put my hands on. I had the concentration of a chess master when reading, even when I was 6 or 7 years old. My favorite books to read then, and now, were adventure books. And since the books would play themselves out in my mind as if I were reliving an old memory, I would place myself in physical surroundings that would emphasize the experience...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
Like millions of Americans who started school in the years following World War II, I learned to read with Dick, Jane, Sally, Father and Mother, the ideal American family. From the first day in the one-room Shady Nook schoolhouse on Greenwood Valley in the Ozarks, printed words have been magic to me. ...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I can sum up what I like to read in one word: Anything! I enjoy reading cereal boxes, newspapers, junk mail, poetry, news magazines, comic books ... I'll read anything. Reading is fun for me because it's like being caught in a sudden rain shower, or being the lucky person who finds the dollar in the dryer. Everything I read leaves me feeling smarter, even if all I'm reading is the warning label on a bottle of aspirin...
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WHY I READ
(Local News ~ 09/09/97)
I like to read a number of things. I rarely sit down with just one book. I normally will be in the process of reading four or five books at a time as well as numerous magazines and newspapers. In general, I read history, sports and media-related books. ...
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