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BEST WISHES TO SISTER MARY ANN FISCHER
(Editorial ~ 03/09/99)
When the Notre Dame Regional High School opened last fall at its new campus just west of Cape Girardeau, it had to be a matter of great pride for the school's principal, Sister Mary Ann Fischer. In a way, the new school is a capstone in her administrative career at the school, which she will be leaving soon to pursue other goals as a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame...
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AREA SCHOOL BOARD AGENDAS
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Jackson School District Board of Education meeting Tuesday, March 9, 7:30 p.m. Jackson Board of Education office Action Items: -- Consider school calendar for 1999-2000. -- Consider amending weather makeup day schedule. -- Consider authorizing administration to bid summer capital projects...
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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: NEED SOME ADVICE? INTERNET ADVICE COMES IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES (COLUMN 130)
(Column ~ 03/09/99)
Need some advice? We're full of it -- advice that is. But the Internet has even more advice than two mothers put together. One site we touched on before, we will return to today. "Ask Jeeves" was mentioned before as a good search engine, but it's also a great place to ask questions and get answers. You can find "Ask Jeeves" at...
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POLYTECHNIC DESIGN AT SEMO IS CITED
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
The design of the Otto and Della Seabaugh Polytechnic Building to be constructed at Southeast Missouri State University has received an award from American School and University, a national magazine. The citation appeared in the November 1998 issue, which spotlighted winners of the publication's annual architectural portfolio...
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CANADIAN CONULTANT ON NIE WILL SPEAK AT SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
David Golden, an educational consultant and Canada's Newspapers In Education coordinator, will share his ideas this week with area elementary school children and students at Southeast Missouri State University. Golden will speak at Jackson South Elementary School today, Jackson North Elementary School on Wednesday and Nell Holcomb School on Thursday...
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EMERSON PUSHES FOR FEDERAL 'DIRECT CHECK' FUNDING FOR EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson wants to return federal education dollars directly to the nation's schools. Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, has introduced legislation to provide a "direct check for education." The bill is patterned after one introduced on the Senate side by Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Mo...
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SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES DEBATE TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Candidates for the Cape Girardeau Board of Education will discuss issues during a voters forum at 7 tonight in Glenn Auditorium of Dempster Hall at Southeast Missouri State University. Six of the eight Cape Girardeau school board candidates have agreed to participate in the forum, co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Southeast Missouri State University political science department. Dr. Peter Bergerson, chairman of the political science department, will be moderator...
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ROCKWELL DONATES EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Rockwell Automation-Allen-Bradley of St. Louis has donated equipment and software to Southeast Missouri State University's industrial technology department. In addition to software, Rockwell donated a two-horsepower motor and variable speed controller...
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SOUND BENEFITS: SEMO'S SPEECH AND HEARING CLINIC SEES ABOUT 150 CLIENTS DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Tabitha Elfrink, left, worked with graduate clinician Rholanda Cleveland with grammar exercises as well as language therapy. Japanese students discussed slang phrases and practiced English pronunciation at the University Speech and Hearing Clinic. From left are graduate clinician Ann Lumsden, Kyoko Taliguchi, Ryoichi Hagimoto, Satoshi Kuroki and student clinician Regina Ruebel...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: JACKSON SPEECH PATHOLOGIST TEACHES COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR A LIFETIME
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
JACKSON -- After working in a variety of medical and education areas, speech and language pathologist Diana Felker has found her niche at West Lane Elementary School. Felker, who has worked in the district since 1992, said public school therapy has been the most rewarding because of the children's enthusiasm. She said the challenging atmosphere helps her to do her best for each child she works with...
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HONOR ROLLS
(Honor Roll ~ 03/09/99)
The following names were not included with second quarter honor roll listings which ran Feb. 27 in the Southeast Missourian Franklin Elementary School A Honor Roll 5th Grade: Sarah Goeke, Allyson Herbst, John Kipper, Carman Scholl. 6th Grade: Kara Beckett, Elizabeth Day, Erin Herbst, Drew Lincoln...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 03/09/99)
THE IDEA of Proposition B is to enable a person to carry a concealed weapon anywhere. Naturally, you would have to get a license to carry. That would let school kids out. No guns in schools. No guns for ex-cons. Banks can breathe easier too. There is one thing to consider, though, and that is road rage. If everyone packed their gun in their car, there could be a lot of shootings on the highways...
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PROPOSED BANK REGULATIONS GO TOO FAR
(Editorial ~ 03/09/99)
Why is it that when government officials don't get their way with legislators or voters, they go ahead and do what they want to do anyway? This is the case with several federal agencies that want to monitor private bank accounts in order to crack down on money laundering. ...
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MAIN STREET: CAPE HOPES TO QUALIFY FOR PROGRAM (LAST OF TWO PARTS)
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Becoming a Main Street America participant doesn't happen overnight. Cape Girardeau, like many communities its size, is well ahead of the Main Street concept in the development and revitalization of downtown commercial districts, said Mike Miller, Cape Girardeau city manager...
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POOR FARM RECORDS REVEAL HISTORY
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
A new book documenting records from Cape Girardeau County's poor farm reveals a piece of local history from early this century. The "County Home for the Friendless" was situated where the Cape County parks are now. From 1874 through 1956, the farm accepted the poor, indigent and those with nowhere else to turn...
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WINTER HASN'T GIVEN UP JUST YET
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
Old Man Winter isn't giving up on the region. Winter weather, with cold rain and scattered snow showers, greeted people on their way to work Monday morning. The brief snow, which quickly turned to sleet and then rain, was caused because temperatures were above freezing and the air dry. Once the rain began, the air temperature cooled and could support snow, said Jeff Hovis, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Paducah, Ky...
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TO SOME, ANY POETRY IS 'GREAT'
(Local News ~ 03/09/99)
If you've ever considered entering one of the poetry contests announced through the media, Ken Lipps has a few words of wisdom for you. "A friend is not a fellow who is taken in by sham. A friend is one who knows our faults and doesn't give a damn."...
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BETWEEN THE LINES: CRITIQUING MOVIES, TICKET PRICES AND THEATERS
(Column ~ 03/09/99)
It doesn't seem like I get to the movie theater as often now as I once did. There was once a time when I'd see a movie both Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. But nowadays a trip to the movie theater is sort of a luxury. And in my last few visits I've seen some excellent films...
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JUDGE SHOOTS DOWN PROPOSITION 16
(College Sports ~ 03/09/99)
PHILADELPHIA -- A federal judge ruled Monday that the NCAA may not use a minimum test score to eliminate student-athletes from eligibility to play college sports because the practice is unfair to blacks. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter cited the National Collegiate Athletic Association's own research showing that the practice harmed black students' chances of being declared academically eligible. ...
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ORAN EAGLES SOAR INTO 1A SECTIONALS
(High School Sports ~ 03/09/99)
SIKESTON -- For the Cooter boys basketball team, it was something of a dream to win a district championship. But the Wildcats' outing against Oran Monday night was more like a nightmare. Oran, shaking off something of a slow start, routed Cooter 60-32 in a Class 1A regional game at the Sikeston High School Field House...
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SCOTT CENTRAL GIRLS STORM PAST NAYLOR
(High School Sports ~ 03/09/99)
SIKESTON -- It didn't take long for the Scott County Central girls basketball team to remove all the suspense from Monday night's Class 1A regional game. The Bravettes scored the first 16 points of the contest and went on to post a fairly routine 60-47 victory over Naylor at the Sikeston High School Field House...
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CHS SWIM TEAM RETURNS 4 ALL-STATERS
(High School Sports ~ 03/09/99)
Cape Girardeau Central High swimming coach Dayna Powell is always an optimistic sort anyway. But Powell has perhaps even more than the normal reasons to be excited about Central's 1999 girls team, which opens the season today with a meet at Parkway Central...
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ANNETTE FRENCH
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
SIKESTON -- Annette French, 92, of Sikeston died Saturday, March 6, 1999, at her home. She was born Jan. 27, 1907, in Sikeston, daughter of Frank Hardin and Alice Barnes Smith. She married Charles H. "Puffy" French, who preceded her in death. French attended Sikeston Public Schools, Lindenwood College at St. Charles, and received a bachelor of science degree in education from Southeast Missouri State University...
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JAMES MCINTOSH JR.
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
James Arthur McIntosh Jr., 76, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 8, 1999, at Heartland Care Rehab Center. He was born Jan. 2, 1923, at Blodgett, son of James A. and Nellie Masterson McIntosh Sr. He and Jessie Mae Morris were married Oct. 17, 1945, in Piggott, Ark...
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HARRY REESE
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
ORAN -- Harry A. Reese, 85, of Oran died Sunday, March 7, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 5, 1914, in Cape Girardeau County, son of John F. and Virginia E. Tanner Reese. He first married Dorothy Brown in 1935. She died in 1978. He and Norma Lovellette were married April 11, 1980, in Cape Girardeau...
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VERNON VERCHER
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Vernon Vercher, 83, of Tamms died Sunday, March 7, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 1, 1916, in Merryville, La., son of Willie and Mary Vercher. He first married Jennie, then Alberta, and also Geraldine, all of whom preceded him in death...
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BERNIECE MERCER
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
Berniece Mercer, 80, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, March 1, 1999, at Azalia Trace in Pensacola, Fla. She was born July 26, 1918, daughter of W.G. and Jennie Wallace. She and Byron W. Mercer were married Oct. 19, 1947, in Cape Girardeau. He died Sept. 16, 1998...
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VIOLET RIXLEBEN
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
ANNA, Ill. -- Violet Rixleben, 95, of Anna died Monday, March 8, 1999, at City Care Center. She was born Dec. 20, 1903, in Jonesboro, daughter of Charles A. and Effie Crowell Rixleben. Rixleben was a retired bookkeeper. There are no known survivors...
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VESTA L. WESTBROOKS
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Vesta L. Westbrooks, 76, of Cobden died Monday, March 8, 1999, at the Jackson County Nursing Home in Murphysboro. She was born March 31, 1922, at Anna, daughter of Charles and Mamie Taylor Campbell. She married Floyd A. Westbrooks on March 31, 1940, at Cape Girardeau. He died Dec. 18, 1995...
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MARGARET STOUT
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Margaret June Stout, 81, of Metropolis and formerly of Mound City died Monday, March 8, 1999, at Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Mound City.
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/09/99)
Son to Brett and Casmira Brunkhorst of O'Fallon, Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Peters, 9:37 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, 1998. Name, Zachary Brett. Weight, 7 pounds 9 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Brunkhorst is the former Casmira Sandlin, daughter of Jim and Casmira Hudson of Virginia Beach, Va. She is load coordinator at Hogan Transport. Brunkhorst is the son of Gene and Betty Brunkhorst of Cape Girardeau. He is operations manager at Wells Fargo Equipment Leasing...
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GLADYS LEMASTER
(Obituary ~ 03/09/99)
ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Gladys Lemaster of Anna will be held at 11 a.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. Glenn Webb will officiate. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery. Lemaster, 88, died Saturday, March 6, 1999, in Union County Hospital at Anna...
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