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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: PROMOTED TO MANAGER
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Donna James of Cape Girardeau has been promoted as operations manager of Personnel Support, 618 Bellevue in Cape Girardeau. James, who joined the firm in 1984, previously served as administrative assistant.
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: RECEIVES PROMOTION
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Ted Williams has been named senior commercial officer at First National Bank of Cape Girardeau, 2027 Broadway. Bank president Jim Limbaugh announced Williams' appointment last week. Williams, a veteran financial services profession, Haas been involved in banking and financial services a number of years. ...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NAMED PROGRAM ASSISTANT
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Shelly Moore has been named program assistant by the Missouri Mentoring Partnership for Cape Girardeau and Scott counties. The mentoring program provides opportunities for employment with mentor support in the workforce. Moore serves as office manager, treasurer and music director of the House of Prayer Outreach Mission, and as been owner and manger of Kedars Fashion six years. She introduced and chaired the Teen Summit "Let Me Speak" 2000 Conference and has worked with young people 20 years...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: PROMOTED TO HEAD CHEF
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Mike Wands has been promoted to head chef and catering manager at the Pilot House BBQ Restaurant and Catering Service, 3532 Perryville Road. Jim Byrd, owner of the Pilot House, announced Wands' promotion recently. Wands move to Cape Girardeau from New York state and has been cooking professionally more than six years...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: ATTENDS WORKSHOP
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Michele Peters, a speech pathologist at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Outpatient Rehabilitation Services, recently attended a workshop on "Cochlear Implants in Children: Rehabilitative Techniques" at Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that provides hearing for adults and children with profound hearing loss...
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HIGH TECH CORNER: SPEED UP YOUR BOX WITHOUT SPENDING ANY MONEY
(Column ~ 06/05/00)
If your system seems like it is running slower the longer you have it, then I can help you speed up your box with out spending any money. This speed-up is only for Windows 98 users because Windows 95 does not offer this hidden utility. The program is entitled MSINFO32. ...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: OFFICER OF THE YEAR
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Bradley Shields has been named "Correctional Officer of the Year" at Tamms Correctional Center. Shields started employment with the Department of Corrections at Mend Correction Center in 1995. He transferred to Tamms in March of 1998, where is assigned to the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift in the Tactical Unit Block...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NEW CHAIRMAN
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Kmart Corp. named CVS executive Charles Conaway as its new chairman and CEO on Wednesday, immediately replacing Floyd Hall at the helm of the nation's third-largest retailer. Conaway, 39, signed a five-year contract with the Troy, Mich.-based discount store chain. The 61-year-old Hall had said in mid-May that he planned on retiring from the company within the next year...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: PRACTICE TO START
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Matthew Edward Hoffman and Courtney Allison Gardner Hoffman will start an optometry practice in Jackson, Tenn., July 1. Both earned doctorate degrees in optometry from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tenn., recently.
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PAY ATTENTION TO LONG-TERM CARE POLICY PROVISIONS (FINANCIAL FOCUS)
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
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. Over the past several months, Congress has started paying attention to an issue that's already on the minds of millions of Americans -- long-term care insurance. Some legislators have proposed ways in which the government could provide tax breaks for individuals purchasing long-term care policies...
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DIRECTIONS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
Bud McMillan doesn't have to stop and ask for directions when he's driving his Honda Odyssey minivan. His computerized navigational system, which makes use of global positioning satellite technology, will map out a route on a video monitor and provide voice directions. It will alert the driver when to turn onto another road...
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BUSINESS MEMO: HOME SALES DOWN
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
The United States Commerce Department reported in Washington that sales of new homes dropped 5.8 percent in April, the biggest decline since September and a reversal from March. Also, the median price of homes declined 2.2 percent to $161,400, the lowest level since last October...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AUTO SALES DOWN
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
The U.S. auto industry is facing its first monthly sales decline since August 1998, as interest rate hikes begin to steal some heat from a white-hot new car market. With a few automakers yet to report, U.S. sales of cars and light trucks were down 2 to 3 percent, led by a 18 percent drop in May sales from a year earlier by DaimlerChrysler AG and 5.8 percent drop by General Motors Corp...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPRING SALES DAMPENED
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Cool temperatures curbed shoppers' appetite for spring merchandise like shorts and garden supplies in May, dampening sales at many of the nation's biggest retailers. But analysts also said that the lackluster May figures released Thursday hinted of some slowing in consumer spending, resulting from the Federal Reserve's six interest rate increases over the past year...
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BRIEFLY: CAPE SENIOR BABE RUTH YANKEES SPLIT TWIN BILL
(High School Sports ~ 06/05/00)
POPLAR BLUFF -- The Cape Girardeau Senior Babe Ruth Yankees split a Sunday doubleheader with host Poplar Bluff, losing 4-2 and romping 13-0 in five innings. Cape (3-2) had just four hits in the opener, two by Ryan Essex. James Powell pitched all seven innings, allowing six hits...
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BUSINESS MEMO: COMING UP
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Wednesday Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, Membership Drive Victory Party, 4 p.m., Drury Lodge. Friday Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee, 7:30 a.m., Show Me Center. Wednesday Cape Girardeau workers compensation discussion group, Drury Lodge, noon, sponsored by Associated Industries of Missouri...
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BUSINESS MEMO: EXPLORER TO STOP AT CAPE
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
The R/B River Explorer, a floating hotel and touring vessel headquartered in New Orleans, will make its first Cape Girardeau stop of the summer season Tuesday. The Explorer, which will stop here seven times this year, will dock at 3 a.m. in the morning, and leave about 2 p.m. The Explorer will dock her overnight Sept. 15 and Sept. 30...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SARA LEE OVERHAUL
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Sara Lee Corp.'s new chief executive overhauled the company last week before even officially taking over. The streamlining will keep established brands like Sara Lee cheesecakes, Playtex bras and Jimmy Dean sausages but shed high-profile operations including Coach leather goods and Champion athletic wear...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AWARD LUNCHEON
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
The Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center's Recreation and Education Departments recently hosted an award luncheon at the facility to recognize the residents' scholastic and program achievements. Corporal Rick Schmidt and officer Tom Thompson of the Cape Girardeau Police Department, were special guests for the recognition for honor roll, attitude, best efforts and attendance. Instructors at the center were honored for teaching and guidance...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SHOPKO ACQUISITION
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
ShopKo Stores Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire P.M. Place Stores Company, in a transaction valued at $22 million. P.M. Place Stores Company, headquartered in Bethany, Mo., operates 49 discount stores in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas, and employs 750 people. The acquisition is expected to be finalized by early July...
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BUSINESS MEMO: GUEST SPEAKER
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Sen. Bill Kenney, a member of the Commerce & Environment, Education and Ethics Committee, former quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs and a candidate for lieutenant governor in Missouri, will be guest speaker at the Jackson Chamber of Commerce annual installation banquet, to be held June 19 at 6 p.m. at Knights of Columbus Hall in Jackson...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CHAMBER BREAKFAST
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
The "Chamber Means Business" breakfast, scheduled May 25, was canceled due to scheduling conflicts, but the program has been rescheduled for July's First Friday Coffee in July. Kelly Gellispie, from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, will be speaker July 7 at the First Friday program, to be held at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center...
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BUSINESS MEMO: 'TALLEST BUILDING'
(Business ~ 06/05/00)
Get your checkbook ready, Donald Trump. A developer who won city approval last fall to build the world's tallest building in downtown Chicago has run into financial problems that may allow someone else, possibly Trump, to take over the $500 million project...
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POLICE PATROLS ROUTINELY CHECK OUT AREA'S HOTSPOTS
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
I'd never even been inside a patrol car, but Thursday night for a portion of two shifts, I rode along with Cape Girardeau's police officers to get a glimpse of what their job is like. I looked at the city from different eyes -- not just as a reporter looking for stories or as a police insider, but as a person from another section of town trying to figure out why Good Hope Street has such a draw within the south Cape community and why it has problems...
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GORDONVILLE SEEKS SEWERS, CONNECTION TO OTHER SYSTEM
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
GORDONVILLE -- The town board is looking at bringing sewers to Gordonville and connecting them to the sewer system in either Cape Girardeau or Jackson. That way, Gordonville wouldn't have to set up a sewage lagoon. Everything from sewer billing to sewer maintenance might be handled by the public works department in Cape Girardeau or Jackson under a contractual arrangement, said Brad Burgess, who heads the town board...
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CITY TO HOLD LIQUOR LICENSE HEARING FOR TASTE LOUNGE
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
The complaints in and around the 400 block of Good Hope Street range from large crowds gathering on city streets until the wee hours of the morning, broken beer bottles littering yards and sidewalks, fights, assaults and drug possession. Finding the exact cause of the problem is like finding a needle in a haystack. But city officials have narrowed the search enough to consider denying a liquor license to Cape Girardeau's only rhythm and blues nightclub...
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JACKSON REZONING ISSUE MAY BE DECIDED TODAY
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
JACKSON -- The question of whether land on the north side of a new section of East Main Street should be rezoned for commercial use is scheduled to be answered Monday by the Jackson Board of Aldermen. The city's Planning & Zoning Commission has recommended that the parcel of land east of Shawnee Boulevard be rezoned from single-family residential and general residential to general commercial. ...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, at 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Public hearing n Hearing regarding the revocation of the alcoholic beverage license for the Taste Restaurant and Lounge, 402 Good Hope, Barbara Sue Treece (Simpson), managing officers...
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WOMAN DIES WHILE DRIVING, THREE INJURED IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS
(Local News ~ 06/05/00)
A Southeast Missouri woman died while driving and three people were injured in separate accidents Saturday. Maurice Smith, 63, of Fredericktown ran her vehicle off the road and into a fence and two trees after having a heart attack about three miles southeast of Marquand. The accident happened at 7:20 a.m. Saturday...
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CAPAHAS NET SWEEP OF POTENT MEMPHIS SQUAD
(High School Sports ~ 06/05/00)
The Memphis (Tenn.) Royals might not have brought a full roster to Cape Girardeau Sunday, but McDowell Capahas manager Jess Bolen was still mighty impressed by his team's doubleheader sweep. Facing the defending American Baseball Congress champions -- and a team that went a staggering 66-1 last year -- the Capahas rolled 7-2 in the opener and then staged a late rally to prevail 6-4 in the nightcap...
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BUFORD CHARLES FILER
(Obituary ~ 06/05/00)
Buford Charles Filer, age 72, of Jackson, went to be with the Lord on June 3, 2000, after an extended illness. Mr. Filer was born Dec. 20, 1927, to the late Charles and Stella Patton Filer of Marble Hill. He and Alice Hansen (daughter of Lee and Geneva Winchester Hansen) were married in Marble Hill on Sept. 30, 1949...
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JAYLEN HUGH JOHNSON
(Obituary ~ 06/05/00)
CHARLESTON -- Jaylen Hugh Johnson, an infant, died Friday, June 2, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born March 21, 2000, son of Elvis Hugh Johnson Jr., of Houston, Texas, and Wanda Octavia Watts of Charleston. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Tameka Danielle Watts of Charleston; two brothers, Joseph Hugh Watts of Charleston and Marquez Hugh Johnson of Memphis, Tenn.; a maternal grandmother, Marcella Watts of Charleston; paternal grandparents, Elvis Hugh and Linda Johnson Sr. ...
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PEARL LEWIS STAFFORD
(Obituary ~ 06/05/00)
SIKESTON -- Pearl Lewis Stafford, 84, of Sikeston, died Saturday, June 3, 2000. She was born Oct. 23, 1915, in Loretta, Tenn., daughter of William James and Martha Elizabeth Willis Hogue. She and O.C. Lewis were married Oct. 10, 1931. He died Oct. 9, 1977. She and Lester Stafford were married Nov. 26, 1979. He survives...
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DRUG COURT HAS POTENTIAL FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS
(Editorial ~ 06/05/00)
While judges of the 32nd Judicial Circuit remain deadlocked over whether a drug court should be established, the circuit immediately to the south has operated one with impressive success. Judge David Dolan in Scott County, which with Mississippi County makes up the 33rd Judicial Circuit, has operated a drug court for young offenders since 1996. Of the approximately 10 young people a year who go through the court, only one has been arrested a second time, but not on a drug charge...
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POW-MIA FLAG INCIDENT SHOWS WHY GOOD JUDGMENT IS IMPORTANT TO APPLYING ALL THE RULES
(Editorial ~ 06/05/00)
A fill-in postmaster ordered that the POW-MIA flag at the Cape Girardeau Area Mail Processing Center be taken down because it violated postal regulations. Fortunately, after learning all the facts about why the flag was flying there, he had a change of heart and permitted it to go back up...
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LETTERS: CHINA VOTE HELPS MISSOURI FARMERS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/05/00)
To the editor: U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson is to be commended for her support of permanent normal trade relations for China. Farmers and ranchers across the state are very pleased the House of Representatives voted for this. With the abysmal state of the farm economy, it is imperative our agricultural producers have access to this tremendous market...
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LETTERS: URGE CITY COUNCIL TO SEEK TV SURVEY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/05/00)
To the editor: Recently there has been much attention in the media about changes to the cable-TV system in this area. Initially, Charter Communications indicated it had plans to introduce new channels to some of its subscribers. Later it was reported that the Cape Girardeau's Cable TV Advisory Board had recommended to the City Council that it require Charter Communications to survey cable subscribers about a variety of matters including service quality, public-access channels and channel choices.. ...
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