Stories from Monday, August 13, 2001

Erik Sean has been named director of sports operations for the Zimmer Radio Group. Sean, who has been with Zimmer Radio since 1997, will succeed Mike Legg, who has accepted a new position at Western Kentucky University. Sean will serve as radio voice of the Southeast Missouri State University football, men basketball and baseball, in addition to overseeing all sports programming...

Cape Girardeau Police Lt. John "Buddy" Davis has been elected to the Missouri Law Enforcement Traffic Safety Advisory Council Board. Davis, a 15-year veteran of the Cape Girardeau Police Department, will serve a two-year term, representing Region E...

Elizabeth Heisserer, an attorney with the Cape Girar-deau firm of Wilson and Heisserer, L.C., recently attended a Missouri Bar training session at the Lake of the Ozarks. Heisserer will be serving as a volunteer facilitator in the Missouri Bar's Complaint Resolution program. Volunteers received training during the session...

Shannon Hunter of Michael Tanner Furnishings recently earned first place in the Lexington Furniture's National Sales Contest by selling more of Lexington's Southern Living Collection than any other designer or sales associate in the country. Hunter, who has been with Michael Tanner since it opened in 1998, won a deluxe Coleman stainless steel grill...

The Missouri Farm Bureau and Missouri Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a total of 18 Missouri Transportation Forums, to be held over the next two weeks. The Missouri Department of Transportation will participate in the forums. Two Southeast Missouri area forums will be held Aug. 21 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau at 10 a.m. and the American Legion Building in Kennett at 4 p.m...

Jana Jateff of Cape Girardeau, senior sales director of Mary Kay Cosmetics, and a number of the Jateff Unit recently attended the Pearl Seminar held at Dallas, Texas. Jateff was recognized in the National Queens Court of Sales, where she earned a diamond and blue topaz ring. ...

Marilyn Schnare, a registered nurse from the GI Lab at Southeast Missouri Hospital, has been awarded the Microvasive Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, Inc. (SGNA) $500 scholarship. The scholarship is one of 10 presented across the United States. It can be used toward an SGNA event, including the National SGNA meeting. Schnare will be recognized for winning the scholarships in the National SGNA Magazine...

Brenda Bono of Jackson, Mo., has been named branch manager of the Jackson facility of the First National Bank. Bono joined First National Bank as a branch operator administrator in December of 200. She has experience in banking. She previously held positions of teller, supervisor, mortgage loan originator and branch manager at Union Planters Bank. Prior to that, she was a teller at Boatmen's Bank and at Colonial Federal Savings and Loan...

William Gerry Keene of Keene Financial Group recently completed an eight-week master's level "Issues in Estate Planning" course. The course, offered by the College for Financial Planning in Colorado, is designed to study estate planning issues and is part of a program which will result in Keene receiving a Master's Degree in Financial Planning...

The Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission will hold a full membership meeting at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Airport-Industrial Park in Malden. The executive committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tyrone Thompson is executive director of the group...

The Marion, Ill., Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. has named its new fleet building in honor of two brothers who were long-time employees of the company. Ernie Burns retired recently after 37 years of service to the company. Burns' late brother, Loy Burns, was employed at Marion Pepsi 36 years, for a total of 73 combined years in sales and vending repair...

Mail Boxes Etc. has moved to a new location, 2128 William in Cape Girardeau. The company offers a number of mailing, copying, packing and shipping services. Hours at the new office will be 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday...

"Growth in the economy remains slow!" This is not a broken record, but it's a phrase that's been going around for a few months. And, as told during the entire first half of this year, the economy is not in a recession but continues to slow. It's a "wait and see" economy out there...

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. posted a fourth-quarter loss of $320 million due to a massive $1.16 billion restructuring charge. For the three months ended June 30, the company best known for Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and Pampers diapers lost 23 cents per share, compared with earnings of $516 million or 36 cents per share for the same period last year...

There's some big numbers and big opposition connected to the proposed Holnam Cement Plant in Ste. Genevieve County. The opposition could lead to delays in construction of the $550 million project along the Mississippi River. Opponents of the plant cite the destruction of forest land, wetlands and some endangered species in the area as problems related to construction...

Big Lots, a closeout retailer, will be opening a furniture department at its store on Southland Drive in Sikeston, Mo., this week. Living room suites, bedroom sets, entertainment centers, dining room sets and much more will be available at the Sikeston store, starting Thursday...

Consumers, worried about their jobs in the face of layoffs, cut back their borrowing in June, making credit use fall for the first time in nearly four years. Consumer credit declined by a seasonally adjusted $1.6 billion in June, or a 1.2 percent annual rate, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday. The pullback reflected a drop in nonrevolving credit, such as loans for new cars, vacations and other big-ticket items...

First State Community Bank (FSCB) will open a temporary banking facility at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Highway P in Potosi, Mo., today. The branch location will be open five days a week and from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday. Construction of a permanent facility is set to begin the final quarter of 2001...

Cape Girardeau is becoming a dining destination. Whether it's burgers or Brie cheese encrusted with pecans, food lovers will find it in downtown Cape's dozen diverse and delightful restaurants. "We have the entire mix," said restauranteur John Wyman...

JACKSON, Mo. -- During months of public meetings in 1998 to discuss nine bypass alternatives for Highway 34/72, Jackson city officials were non-committal while privately endorsing widening the existing highway. The widening project became the Missouri Department of Transportation's choice. But a major roadway looping through the southern part of the city remains a priority...

The text of the Dec. 18 letter sent by labor attorney Ronald C. Gladney to Julie Gibson, whom Bob Holden had named to be his chief of staff upon his Jan. 8 inauguration as Missouri governor: Dear Julie: Attached herewith is a proposed Executive Order for execution by the Governor and attestation by the then Secretary of State, Matt Blunt. In this regard, obviously the attestation signature line needs to be changed. The principal points of this Executive Order are as follows:...

Like most parents in the area, Janice Schario is getting her children ready for school, but their lessons will be taught at home. Schario is one of many home educators in Southeast Missouri who face challenges unlike those that arise in a public school...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- The Craftsman Union Capahas could not get much of anything going offensively late Saturday night. And as a result, their season is over. The Capahas managed just four hits and failed to push across a run as they were blanked by the Nevada (Mo.) Griffons 2-0 in an elimination game of the 67th annual National Baseball Congress World Series...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Matthew Todd Monroe Jr., an infant, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He is the son of Matthew and Jennifer Moore Monroe of Jackson. Survivors include his parents; a brother, Jordan Monroe of Jackson; paternal grandparents, Frank and Linda Monroe of Fruitland, Mo.; maternal grandmother, Peggy Moore of Chaffee, Mo.; maternal grandfather, Danny Brown of Scott City, Mo.; paternal great-grandparents, Bob and Sue Monroe of Pekin, Ill.; and maternal great-grandmother, Betty Koch of Jackson.. ...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Shirley M. Short, 72, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

WHITEWATER, Mo. -- Judith Ann Pender, 54, of Whitewater, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 14, 1946, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Lee and Pauline Miller Burlbaugh. She and Ralph Pender were married Dec. 16, 1998, at Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Myrtle Alaine Mayfield, 76, of Sikeston died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born July 27, 1925, at Illmo, Mo., daughter of Paul Casper and Hattie Elizabeth Bretzel Eiferd. She and Odell W. Mayfield were married Dec. 15, 1946, at Illmo...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Dorsie Mae Keesee, 84, of Olive Branch, formerly of Mound City, Ill., died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. She was born Jan. 31, 1917, at Mayfield, Ky., daughter of John and Mary Brady Hudson Davis. She and Johnnie D. Keesee were married. He died Feb. 13, 1968...

Ronald R. LaLumendiere, 67, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at his home in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 23, 1934, at Cape Girardeau, son of Raymond A. and Marie Sophie Bruening LaLumendiere. He and Bernice Bullock were married Oct. 12, 1957, at Paducah, Ky...

Flora Marie Rhodes, 96, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at The Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 26, 1905, at Uniontown, Mo., daughter of Louis and Juliana Ponder Schott. She and Marion S. Rhodes were married Oct. 1, 1938, at Perryville, Mo. He died in 1947...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- J.H. Buie, 84, of Olive Branch died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, at his home. He was born April 6, 1917, at Parma, Mo., son of Dee and Nellie Elizabeth Browning Buie. He and Laffetta Jean Durham were married Aug. 19, 1937. He worked for 30 years at Menard Correctional Center at Chester, Ill. He was a member of the Illinois State Police Association...

A Whitewater woman was killed in a one-car accident at 1:55 a.m. Sunday at routes U and A in Cape Girardeau County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that Judy Pender, 54, was killed when her vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign and ran into a ditch. She died at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

I AM a resident of Jackson. I am a senior citizen. My children are grown. I love football, particularly the Jackson, SEMO and Rams teams. I have seen them all play and love watching them. I voted for the tax increase which we must have to educate our young people. I have the solution for the money. We need to cut out Jackson football for one year and then vote for the money. Who on the school board is brave enough to solve this problem?...

The Cape Girardeau County Transit Authority is getting a $32,000 grant from the Missouri Department of Transportation and hopes to get into the public transportation business by merging with Jackson-based Cape County Transit Inc. The grant for a six-month period will pay for an administrative assistant, a transit consultant, legal expenses and miscellaneous costs to start up an office. ...

The nature center to be built in Cape Girardeau County North Park and the conservation-related exhibits both inside and out should offer something for everyone, but it will come at a price. The single-level, 20,000-square-foot building, which is being called a "conservation campus" that will serve as a learning center for youngsters and an interesting, fun place for adults to visit, will be a lovely addition to the county park. ...