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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: REPPERT BROTHERS HAVE KEY ROLE IN NNA MEETING
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Brothers John Reppert and Jerry Reppert played key roles the recent National Newspaper Association (NNA) Government Affairs Conference, which featured addresses by President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other legislators and cabinet members. The conference was held in Washington, D.C...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: RIVERBOAT CASINOS A BIG DRAW FOR TOURISM
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
The chartered bus from Nashville was one of more than 60 a week that roll onto the parking lot of Players Riverboat Casino at Metropolis, Ill. The passengers disembark and make their way down the steps to the facility's receptions desks. In most instances, the crowd, many of them senior citizens, stop at the counters to cash in "special" coupons for $5, $10 or more, for tokens to insert into the more than 1,000 slot machines at the facility, ranging from nickel slots to $5...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: OPTOMETRIST ATTENDS ATLANTA CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Beverly Cleair, a doctor of optometry at Regional Eyecare Center Inc., 1749 Independence, in Cape Girardeau recently attended the SECO International 2001 Congress, the world's largest gathering of optometrists, held in Atlanta, Ga. Professionals from virtually every state and six to eight countries make this their No. 1 venue for quality education seminars...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: RIGDON RECEIVES NEW JOB TITLE
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Karen Rigdon has been awarded the corporate title of assistant vice president in consumer real estate at Bank of America. Rigdon joined NationsBanc Mortgage Corp. in 1998 as an account executive. Prior to that, she had served as a branch manager at Farm and Home Savings Association, and as vice president at First National Bank of the Mid-South in Cape Girardeau...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: LOCAL PHYSICIANS HONORED BY MSMA
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Dr. Melvin C. Kasten and Dr. Earl W. Johnson, both of Cape Girardeau, have received the Missouri State Medical Association's (MSMA) "50-Year Physician" pins. The pin is presented to physicians who have been practicing medicine for 50 years. The MSMA pins were presented recently during the group's recent annual convention held in St. Louis...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INSURANCE COMPANY NAMED 'KEY PRODUCER'
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
W. E. Walker Company, Cape Girardeau, has been named as a "key producer" for the member companies of Ohio Casualty Group. The award is presented to agencies that represent 20 percent of the group's overall agent force. W. E. Walker services commercial, fleets, workers compensation, marine and personal insurance lines, including homeowners and personal auto in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: SENIOR WORKER HONOR AT MUSEUM/LIBRARY
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Winona Griffin, a part-time worker at Stars and Stripes Museum/Library at Bloomfield, Mo., has been named the state's outstanding senior workers for 2001. Griffin, 75, was recently honored by her co-workers, and received resolutions in her honor from Missouri state Sen. Bill Foster, R-Poplar Bluff, and Missouri Rep. Rob Mayer, R-Dexter...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: SALES RECOGNITION FOR MARY KAY CONSULTANT
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Mary Kay Cosmetics consultants Kristie Carner of Cape Girardeau was recently honored for her sales records. Jana Jateff, senior sales director for Mary Kay in the area, announced the quarterly production honors during a special meeting at Sikeston, Mo...
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BUSINESS MEMO: COUNSELING OFFERED FOR SMALL BUSINESSES
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Malden, Sikeston and Perryville during April. Counselor Gil Degenhardt will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 18, at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions, which last about one hour are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW CAJUN RESTAURANT TO OPEN ON BROADWAY
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Mardi Gras Cajun Cookin' will open on Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The new Cajun-style restaurant will feature New Orleans flair, complete with jazz music, unique cuisine and plenty of beads. Mardi Gras, owned by Zeffelin Wrice, will offer Cajun favorites such as crawfish etoufee and jambalaya. It will also provide a menu with steak, and mojos...
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BUSINESS MEMO: LEAN MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP SET
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
A lean manufacturing workshop will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. May 10 at the Manufacturing Technology Resource Center on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Joe Bullinger, Missouri Enterprise field engineer, will be guest speaker. The workshop will discuss principles of lean manufacturing to production...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FAMILY BUSINESS SEMINAR PLANNED
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
The second part of the Family Business Seminar on Estate Planning will be held May 1 at Glenn Auditorium in Robert A. Dempster Hall. Seminar topics include tax saving strategies for the family business, the optional new 401K rules and IRS rules that can save in taxes, trusts, and how to avoid the 13 points of failure in trust planning...
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BUSINESS MEMO: VNA OF ALTON ACQUIRES HOME HEALTH SERVICE
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
VNA HomeCare of Alton, Ill., has acquired the operating assets of TIP Home Health Services, TIP Hospice, and TIP Private Duty from Southern Illinois Healthcare. TIP, which provides services to patients in 12 counties, including Alexander, Pulaski, Union and Massac, will continue to provide services as a division of VNA...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED TO STUDENTS
(Business ~ 04/09/01)
Agents of RE/MAX Achievers of Cape Girardeau will provide a $500 scholarship to a high school senior in either Cape Girardeau County or Scott County. Achievers is using the opportunity to highlight and reward an area youth who has contributed his or her time and efforts to the betterment of the community...
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TAXING TIMES: MORE THAN 50 MILLION TAX RETURNS ARE STILL TO BE FILED
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
If you haven't filed your 2000 income tax reports yet, you have plenty of company. With only a week left -- taxes must be mailed by midnight April 16 -- as many as 56 million returns are missing nationally, a million of these from the Show Me State...
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TREASURE HUNT: BUYERS, SELLERS HOPE FOR BUSY YARD SALES
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
Spring has sprung! The official date was March 21, and during the past couple of weeks the signs are in the air. People are cleaning attics, basements, closets and kids toy chests. It's yard sale time! It only takes a quick trip through the Southeast Missourian classified section to see that yard sales are a popular means to get at least some return on items that would eventually wind up in the trash...
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CHURCHES TO JOIN 'WAY OF THE CROSS' JOURNEY
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
Regardless of their denomination or church affiliation, Christians can gather around the cross, and plan to do just that for a community service Friday. The "Way of the Cross" is a devotional journey through the downtown area on Good Friday. It begins at noon at Old St. Vincent's Church and makes 14 stops along its route...
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TROOPERS NOTE RISE IN SUSPICIOUS DEATHS
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
Investigations of suspicious deaths in Missouri have never been higher than last year, and Southeast Missouri led the state, Missouri State Highway Patrol officers said. Including three homicides that led the patrol into Oklahoma and Tennessee, troopers in the region assisted in a record 55 death investigations for 13 Southeast Missouri counties, Capt. James Keathley said...
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KIDS START HOLY WEEK WITH PALMS
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
With palm branches waving, area children ushered in Holy Week on Sunday with the observance of Palm Sunday. "It's probably the most important week in the world in terms of what the church is doing," said the Rev. Barry Pfanstiel, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church...
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P&Z AGENDA
(Local News ~ 04/09/01)
Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Hearings Discussion and voting on applications. Subdivision plats Other...
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SANTA NOT IN A GIVING MOOD AS EKU ROLLS PAST SOUTHEAST 9-2
(College Sports ~ 04/09/01)
It was just one of those days. The Southeast Missouri State University baseball Indians couldn't get untracked as they dropped a 9-2 decision to the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in front of 706 fans at Capaha Field Sunday afternoon. All elements of the game; offense, defense and pitching, fell short of recent Southeast performances...
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DEXTER SLIPS PAST KELLY IN TOUGH MOUND BATTLE
(High School Sports ~ 04/09/01)
BENTON, Mo. -- The high school baseball teams from Kelly and Dexter hooked up in quite a pitcher's duel Saturday. The squads ended the regulation seven innings tied 1-1 and might have kept on going for a long time. But visiting Dexter took advantage of three Kelly errors in the top of the ninth inning to score three unearned runs as the Bearcats squeezed out a 4-1 victory...
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CAPE CENTRAL HOPES TO FIND NEW BASKETBALL COACY BY END OF MAY
(High School Sports ~ 04/09/01)
Cape Girardeau Central High School athletic director Terry Kitchen said he hopes to have a new boys basketball coach by the end of May. The vacancy was left after Brett Reutzel accepted a position as head coach and coordinator of the A+ Program at Fredericktown High School...
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NORBERT ZAHNER
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Norbert P. Zahner, 79, of Perryville died Sunday, April 8, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 27, 1921, at Silver Lake, Mo., son of Henry and Viola Maddock Zahner. He and Iva Nobus were married Sept. 12, 1943...
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FLOY PFEIFFER
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Floy G. Pfeiffer, 86, of Jackson died Sunday, April 8, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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JEAN WELCH
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Jean Welch, 76, of Tazewell, Tenn., died Saturday, April 7, 2001, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Tazewell. She was born Nov. 3, 1924, at Lutesville, Mo., daughter of Chauncey and Alpha Ricketts. She and Bryan L. Welch were married in 1947...
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WILLIAM STONE
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
William Fred Stone, 81, of Bonne Terre, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, April 5, 2001, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. He had been in ill health for some time. He was born April 1, 1920, in St. Louis, son of George E. and Rose A. Youngman Stone...
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OPAL WIDDOWS
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
PADUCAH, Ky. -- Opal R. Widdows, 78, of Paducah died Sunday, April 8, 2001, at Parkview Convalescent Home in Paducah. She was born Dec. 22, 1922, at Matthews, Mo., daughter of Louis B. Franklin and Minnie Mae Hodge Wren. She and Frank R. Widdows were married. He preceded her in death...
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CHARLES DECKER
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
DEXTER, Mo. -- Charles Decker, 79, died Saturday, April 7, 2001, at Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott, Ark. He was born Oct. 22, 1921, at Tiptonville, Tenn., son of Neeley and Nell Calbert Decker. He and Verna Marie Durham were married Jan. 12, 1941, at Portageville, Mo. She died April 1, 1994...
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EDNA WALTON
(Obituary ~ 04/09/01)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Edna Le Walton, 66, of Chaffee died Sunday, April 8, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 12, 1935, at Benton, Mo., daughter of Capt. Joe B. and Mary Elizabeth Kirby Smith. She and Toledo F. Walton were married July 6, 1960...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/09/01)
I NOW know the answer to the riddle of how many Cape Girardeau city workers it takes to install a sign. It takes five. One to dig the hole. One to stand there while the other guy holds the sign. Then the original guy puts the dirt back in. So you have two guys doing the work. ...
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MERGER OF TOWNS WILL PROVE BENEFICIAL
(Editorial ~ 04/09/01)
With little fanfare but sound margins, voters in the east Perry County communities of Altenburg and Frohna decided last Tuesday to come together into one yet-to-be named town of about 500 people. The merger question had been defeated almost 30 years ago because many residents were concerned more about having to change the name of their town than about the economic benefits of joining forces...
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LEGISLATURE SHOULD KEEP TABS ON GROWING DEBT
(Editorial ~ 04/09/01)
The $20 billion in bonded indebtedness carried by Missouri and its various agencies seems a staggering amount. While the amount shouldn't trigger an alarm, the Missouri General Assembly should take note of how much the St. Louis football stadium is already costing taxpayers while it debates the merits of a new St. Louis baseball stadium...
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KYOTO: THERE ARE GOOD OPTIONS
(Editorial ~ 04/09/01)
In his book, "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore, when discussing possible opposition to a global environmental body, wrote: "Opposition to change is therefore strong, but this transition can and must occur both in the developed and the developing world. And when it does it will likely be within the framework of global agreements that obligate all nations to act in concert."...
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