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PERSONNEL: IN NEW POSITIONS AT BEVERLY HEALTH CARE
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Diane Coldwell and Kyla Evans have new positions at Beverly Health Care, 2852 Independence in Cape Girardeau. Caldwell, who started at the nursing facility as a certified nurse's aid a number of years ago, has returned to the facility as executive director...
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PERSONNEL: CERTIFIED DIPLOMATE FROM ORTHODONTICS BOARD
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Dr. David W. Feuerhahn has received Diplomate certification from the American Board of Orthodontics (ABO). Criteria for the certification includes a minimum of two years residency in orthodontics, passage of an extensive 8-hour written examination, and presentation of specific categories of cases treated by Feuerhahn to ABO directors...
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PERSONNEL: PROMOTIONS, NEW EMPLOYEE AT WESTFIELD
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Penny Tanner has received promotion to administrative assistant at Westfield Shoppingtown West Park. Tanner, who has worked at Westfield l14 months, will serve as properly liaison to the corporate accounting staff, handle all levels of accounting and bookkeeping for the center, and help with human resource duties...
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PERSONNEL: 'EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEER OF YEAR' NAMED
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Chris Bledsoe has been named "Employee Volunteer of the Year" at the Tamms Correctional Center at Tamms, Ill. Bledsoe, started his career as a correctional officer with the Illinois Department of Corrections in September of 1997. He has assumed various posts at the Tamms facility, and is now Minimum Security Unit Armory offices...
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MEMO: TG MISSOURI DONATES TO SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
TG Missouri Corp., a Perryville manufacturer of parts for Toyota Motors and for domestic automakers, has donated a total of $38,890 to seven different organizations in Perryville and Perry County for the eighth straight year. The unsolicited donations are the company's way of saying thanks for the community support, say company officials...
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PERSONNEL: PERRYVILLE MANAGER WINS RAY CROC AWARD
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Marcia Jokerst, manager of McDonnell's Restaurant at Perryville, has received the Ray Kroc Award. The Ray Kroc Awards, given to managers who most successful in achieving superior results in performance in operational excellence and business building, is one of only 127 McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. to receive the award...
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PERSONNEL: FORMER INSTRUCTOR JOINS BEAUTY BOUTIQUE
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Kay Seyer, a former instructor at Stage One The Hair School in Cape Girardeau, has joined Beauty Boutique, at 2820 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson. Seyer previously worked at Great Clips in Cape Girar-deau. She will be available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday...
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PERSONNEL: UPS ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE HONORED FOR SERVICE
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
John Cunningham, an account executive for United Parcel Service, was honored recently for completing 25 years with the company. Cunningham, of Cape Gir-ardeau, works out of the UPS facility at Cape Girardeau and was cited for his years for loyal service...
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PERSONNEL: MASSAGE THERAPIST JOINS CATT CHIROPRACTIC
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Chrissy Harrison of Freidheim has joined Catt Chiropractic offices at 212 S. Union Ave., in Jackson. Harrison, a certified massage therapist, completed massage training at Kaleidoscope School of Massage Therapy in St. Louis in March of 1999. Harrison offers a wide variety of techniques, including Swedish and shiatsu. She will be available in the office, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday...
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MEMO: RIVER REALTY MOVES TO NEW LOCATION IN CAPE
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
River Realty is moving into a new location at 517 N. Silver Springs Road in Cape Girardeau. "The new office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday," said Bradley J. Haertling, who has more than seven years of experience in the realty business...
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MEMO: SUNFLOWER MEETING SCHEDULED IN DEXTER
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Marketing opportunities for sunflowers in Southeast Missouri will be discussed during a sunflower production and marketing meeting, to be held at the Hickory House Restaurant in Dexter April 20. University Outreach and Extension, with cooperation from Thomas Jefferson Agriculture Institute, will host the 6:30 p.m. session...
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MEMO: TECHNOLOGY IN WORKPLACE SUBJECT OF SEMINAR
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
A "Communications Technology in the Workplace" seminar will be held at the Drury Inn in Cape Girardeau June 15. Francis E. Pennington III, who practices with the St. Louis office of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, will present the 9 a.m. to noon Cape Girardeau seminar...
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MEMO: NEW DRURY HOTEL OPENS IN MISSISSIPPI
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
The new Drury Inn & Suites hotel, located at I-55 & Goodman Road in Horn Lake, Mississippi, is now open. The hotel is owned and developed by Drury Development Corporation, and operated by Drury Inns, Inc. A Bob Evans restaurant under construction adjacent to the hotel is scheduled to open in April. Approximately 20 jobs were created in the Horn Lake community with the opening of this hotel...
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MEMO: NATIONAL JOBLESS RATE INCHES UP IN MARCH
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
The nation's unemployment rate inched up to a 20-month high of 4.3 percent in March as businesses cut the most jobs in a decade -- signs that churned fresh recession anxiety for Wall Street and the Bush administration. The government's latest snapshot of employment Friday underscored how the weakened economy is taking its toll on the labor market. In Washington, the administration continued its push for the president's tax plan, which it says is needed to deal with recession dangers...
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MEMO: CORPS OF ENGINEERS STUDYING NEW PORT
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
The Corps of Engineers is conducting a study for a Blytheville Slack Water Harbor projects. Larry Hellums, chairman of the Blytheville-Mississippi County (Ark.) Regional Intermodal Authority Board, said the study could be completed within a couple of months...
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MEMO: FRITO-LAY EXPANDING PLANT IN ARKANSAS
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
Frito-Lay Inc., of Dallas, Texas, is expanding its Jonesboro, Ark. plant by 100,000 square feet. The $35 million addition will create a room to manufacture a new single-serve snack product and will employ up to 100 new workers . Frito-Lay located a giant facility in Jonesboro in 1998, with a $400,000 square foot facility which employs about 700...
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CRITICAL CARE IN THE AIR: MEDICAL FLIGHT SERVICE HAS NEW QUARTERS AT REGIONAL AIRPORT
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
In just one day last week, ARCH Air Medical Services personnel cranked up the twin-engine helicopter at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport three times. Within minutes, the chopper was airborne, staffed with a flight nurse and flight paramedic. "We made three trips to emergency situations that day," said Marty Fowler, communications relations manager of ARCH Air's newest facility...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: LEGISLATION COULD OFFER SALES TAX BREAK ON CLOTHES
(Business ~ 04/16/01)
A new strip mall is in the planning for a location in front of the Jackson Wal-Mart. "We don't know just what stores will be there," said Ken Parrett, president of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce. "But land has already been acquired, and construction could be under way in the near future."...
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WORSHIPPERS GATHER BY THE RIVER; 'SON-RISE' SERVICE EMPHASIZES SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
A weekend of downtown Easter observances that began with Good Friday's Way of the Cross walk continued early Sunday as pastors and members of the Downtown Council of Churches gathered at Riverfront Park for their Easter Son-Rise Service. The lingering dampness from a late-night storm and overcast morning didn't seem to discourage the crowd of about 100 as representatives from the Cape Girardeau council's churches led a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. ...
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STALLED METH BILLS STARTING TO MOVE IN JEFF CITY
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
After weeks of going nowhere, new legislation to deal with Missouri's fastest growing narcotics problem is moving. A bill designed to limit access to ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamine in the Missouri Senate got initial approval last week, and could get final approval this week...
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GOVERNOR AND FIRST LADY TO ATTEND HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONFERENCE
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- Missouri's governor and first lady will attend when the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation holds its annual conference in Ste. Genevieve for the first time in decades. The Missouri Preservation Conference that begins Friday and continues through Sunday will announce the group's annual 10 Most Endangered Properties list. The list of threatened historic buildings will be made public Sunday morning during the general session...
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VINCENTIANS TOPIC OF HISTORY LECTURE
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
The Vincentians of St. Mary's of the Barrens will be the subject of the second annual Friend-Bollinger Regional History Lecture to be delivered in Perryville, Mo., and Cape Girardeau this week. Dr. Patrick Foley, a professor of history at Tarrant College in Fort Worth, Texas, will deliver the lectures at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Perryville Community Center Theater and at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the University Center Ballroom. Both are free and open to the public...
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SANDERS WINDS UP AS NATION'S BEST
(College Sports ~ 04/16/01)
When the regular season ended, Southeast Missouri State University basketball player Amory Sanders ranked as the nation's leading NCAA Division I 3-point shooter and there was good reason to believe he would wind up there when all the postseason play had been completed...
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SHELBY LONG
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. -- Shelby F. Long, 86, of Fredericktown died Saturday, April 14, 2001, at the Mineral Area Medical Center in Farmington, Mo. He was born Feb. 28, 1915, in Lutesville, Mo., son of Jess and Doshie Barnette Long. He married Lela Driskell on July 5, 1962. She died April 6, 1994...
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DELOIS FOUST
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
PROMISE LAND, Ark. -- DeLois E. "Wimpy" Foust, 67, of Promise Land died Friday, April 13, 2001, at his residence. He was born Oct. 5, 1933, in Peach Orchard, Ark., son of William and Beulah English Foust. He married Marcia Gossett on Feb. 4, 1975, in Rockford, Ill...
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IVA MAE PITMAN
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Iva Mae Pitman, 92, of Perryville died Sunday, April 15, 2001, in the Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Aug. 4, 1908, in Perry County, Missouri, daughter of Frank N. and Norah Belle Kennon Hand. She married Mitchel H. Pitman on April 10, 1926. He died July 23, 1984...
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JIMMIE MILLER
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Jimmie W. Miller, 51, of Dongola, died Saturday, April 14, 2001, at Union County Hospital in Anna, Ill. He was born Jan. 13, 1950, in Wetaug, Ill., son of Loren and Lizzie L. Phalin Miller. He married Gloria Lint on Aug. 25, 1998. He was a Baptist and a Vietnam veteran who had served with the U.S. Army. He was a member of the Laborers International Union of North America and a welder at Transcraft Corp...
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ROBERT CLUTTS
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- Robert Dean Clutts, 73, of Anna, died Saturday, April 14, 2001, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marion, Ill. He was born Sept. 1, 1927, in Alto Pass, Ill., son of Leonard D. and Gussie L. Hardin Clutts Sr. He married Crystal L. Craig on Jan. 7, 1951, in North Vernon, Ind...
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JACKSON AGENDA
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
Jackson Board of Aldermen 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 16 Public Hearings n Hearing to discuss city's submission of an application to the State of Missouri for the Community Block Grant Program and to obtain citizen input on community and economic development needs within the city...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
(Local News ~ 04/16/01)
Monday, April 16, at 7 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Consent ordinances (Second and third readings) n An ordinance amending Chapter 30 of the Code of Ordinances by changing the zoning of 2791 Lynwood Hills Drive from R-1 to R-3...
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REVA LUKEFAHR
(Obituary ~ 04/16/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Reva E. Lukefahr, 87, of Perryville died Tuesday, May 15, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 7, 1913, in Eminence, Mo., daughter of John and Cornelia Smith. She and Walter W. Meyer were married in 1934. He died in May 1959. She then married Barney Lukefahr in 1960. He died Sept. 30, 1988...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/16/01)
IN RESPONSE to your front-page article on "Road age," I agree completely. I was driving from Jackson to Cape, and a woman flew by me. She had to be 80 years old if she was a day. She was driving way too fast. If she would have run a light or had done something wrong, she could have caused an accident. I feel for the elderly people, but my parents are elderly, and they should not be driving...
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY CAN'T LEGISLATE SAFE DRIVING
(Editorial ~ 04/16/01)
The Missouri House is being asked to consider a measure that would bar Missouri drivers from using hand-held phones. Violations would constitute a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $500 fine, or a year in jail and $1,000 fine if use of the phone contributed to an accident...
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STATE'S DRUG TAX CREDIT MUST BE SCRAPPED
(Editorial ~ 04/16/01)
Both chambers of the Missouri General Assembly appear on track this session to replace a costly prescription-drug tax-credit program for low-income elderly Missourians that should never have been passed as it was in the first place. The legislature in 1998 adopted a tax-credit program that provided up to a $200 income-tax credit for people 65 and older. ...
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LETTERS: UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT NEEDS SUPPORT
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/16/01)
To the editor: The U.S. House of Representatives will vote April 25 on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. This bill would recognize unborn children as victims when they are injured or killed during the commission of federal crimes of violence. Nothing in the bill would allow prosecution relating to a consensual abortion. It also would exempt any legal or illegal action taken by a women that results in harm to her own unborn child...
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