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PERSONNEL: NEW SALES MANAGER NAMED AT FOX 23, WB 49
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Wanda Evans has been named the new local sales manager for Fox 23 and WB 49 television stations, which serve the Cape Girardeau/Paducah, Ky., market. The announcement came Wednesday from General Sales Manager Jennifer Chronister. Evans began her media career as local sales manager for WJPS. She was an account executive for KFVS from 1989 to 1994. She then joined the Fox 23 staff as regional manager. She has been director of sales in Southern Illinois for Zimmer Radio Group since 1997...
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PERSONNEL: FINANCIAL PRACTICES COMBINED INTO NEW FIRM
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Phil R. Ivers and Thomas J. Harold have combined their financial planning practices into the firm Pathfinder Financial Advisers LLC. Both are affiliated with First Financial Planners, a nationwide organization. The new office is at 720 Forest Avenue in Cape Girardeau...
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PERSONNEL: AREA MANAGER HONORED AS ONE OF NATION'S BEST
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Lonnie Griggs of Jackson, Mo., was honored recently as one of the best managers by Red Lobster restaurants. Only 36 managers receive the award. Griggs received the Diamond Club award in 1998, 1999 and 2000, making him one of few repeat winners for the company...
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PERSONNEL: NEW DENTAL PRACTICE TO OPEN IN JACKSON
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Dr. Garrett Sparks is opening a new dentistry practice in Jackson, Mo. Sparks is a 1995 graduate of Jackson High School and a 2001 graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City program in dentistry. The dental clinic is accepting new patients and will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and some later hours by appointment. The office is at 1166 Greenway Plaza, Suite A-1...
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MEMO: WATER COMPANY RECEIVES STATE HONOR
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Alliance Water Resources, the company that runs Cape Girardeau's water system, is the winner of a Missouri Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence and Pollution Prevention. The award honors Alliance for its education and outreach efforts. The honor recognizes a Cameron, Mo., program that teaches middle school science students about water treatment and water conservation...
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MEMO: PUBLISHER VISITS WITH U.S. POSTMASTER
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Publisher Jerry L. Reppert of Anna, Ill., was in Washington, D.C., recently for a meeting with the U.S. Postmaster General. Reppert is chairman of the National Newspaper Association's government affairs committee. He and Postmaster Jack Potter discussed ways to resolve the postal service's financial woes. Projections indicate that the postal service could lose more than $1.5 billion and that a postal hike will "come sooner than later," Potter said...
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MEMO: OLD TOWN CAPE RECEIVES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Old Town Cape, Inc., the Missouri Main Street Community in Cape Girardeau, will receive $22,000 in technical assistance from the state Department of Economic Development. The money will include funding for workshops focused on downtown revitalization efforts. Old Town Cape includes parts of Broadway, the downtown shopping district and the Haarig district along Good Hope...
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MEMO: WORKFORCE BOARD AIDS AREA FIRMS
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
The Workforce Investment Board of Southeast Missouri recently awarded $59,000 to Cap America of Fredricktown, Mo. The firm manufactures headwear. The money will be used to train 30 new employees on machinery. Other training amounts awarded: The Workforce Investment Board includes members from the private sector in a 13-county area. Cape Girardeau County Representatives are J.J. Williamson and Johnny Ray Conklin...
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MEMO: CENTURY 21 DUTCH REALTY LAUNCHES NEW DIVISION
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Century 21 Dutch Realty has opened a new property management division that specializes in property management and investment and rental properties for Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Scott and Perry counties. The new offices are at 635 Blanch St., behind the Century 21 Real Estate building...
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MEMO: KFVS EARNS FOUR EMMY NOMINATIONS
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
KFVS 12 has received four Emmy nominations from the Mid-America chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The nominations were announced recently in St. Louis. The nominations were: Emmy winners will be announced Sept. 15...
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MEMO: SALON INCREASES STAFF TO SERVE CUSTOMERS
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Eclipse Beauty Salon at 38 N. Spanish St. has recently expanded its staff. New staff Amy Coleman, Madra Meystedt and Linda Pietreface previously worked at Elan. Sharon Polito had experience at the Clip Shop. Pietreface specializes in hair color and texture services. Polito offers service in hair styling, color and cuts...
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PERSONNEL: MARY KAY SALES DIRECTOR RECOGNIZED FOR WORK
(Business ~ 08/27/01)
Wilma Dooley of Jackson, Mo., recently was recognized in the National Queens Court of Sales by Mary Kay. Dooley, who is a sales director, attended the national seminary in Dallas, Texas. She received a 14-karat gold ring with blue topaz and diamonds as part of her award recognition...
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AMAZEMENT IN A CORNFIELD: WILD WEST ATTRACTION TAKING SHAPE NEAR BLODGETT
(Local News ~ 08/27/01)
BLODGETT, Mo. -- Driving through Missouri on a vacation to the West, Dave Phillips and his family stopped by Donnie and Sheila Beggs' farm last week to see a cowboy he named Bronco Billy. Bronco Billy is a maze taking shape in a green 12-acre cornfield on the Beggs family farm. Phillips is the graphic artist who designed the maze for the Pennsylvania company Maize Quest USA. Bronco Billy will be the largest among the 25 or so mazes he has designed for cornfields across the East and Midwest...
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PLANT WOULD BENEFIT SCHOOL MOST
(Local News ~ 08/27/01)
CRUMP, Mo. -- The Delta School District would benefit most from a proposed power plant that a Colorado company wants to build in the rolling farmland south of Crump, say those involved with the project. Cape Girardeau County's industrial recruiter, Mitch Robinson, said the proposed plant could generate $800,000 to $1 million a year in taxes. The Delta School District would get 75 to 80 percent of that money, said Robinson, who directs the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association...
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SEVEN FILE FOR OPEN SEAT ON CAPE SCHOOL BOARD
(Local News ~ 08/27/01)
Seven people who represent a variety of community interests -- including a former board member, retired school administrator, two university instructors and an engineer -- are vying to fill one open seat on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. The school board will interview the prospective candidates during its 6 p.m. meeting today at the Central Junior High School cafeteria...
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SPORTS DIGEST: EX-SEMO STANDOUT WITCZAK IS WAIVED
(College Sports ~ 08/27/01)
Jason Witczak, who earned NCAA Division I-AA All-American honors as a punter for Southeast Missouri State University's football team last season, was waived over the weekend by the Tennessee Titans. Witczak was not selected in this year's NFL draft but he signed a free agent contract with the Titans right before training camp...
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JOHN TANNER
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- John Douglas Tanner, 37, of Jackson died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2001, in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 7, 1964, in Cape Girardeau, son of Norman Earl and Barbara Sue Beggs Tanner. Tanner was a painter for Robert Boitnott Painting. Survivors include his mother of Jackson; two sons, Jonathon and Stephen Tanner, both of Jackson; four brothers, Mike Tanner of Marshall, Texas, and Norman, Jimmy and Keith Tanner, all of Cape Girardeau...
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GEORGE HEUER
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
George R. Heuer, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 29, 1916, in Cape Girardeau, son of August A. and Lena A. Meyer Heuer. He and Pauline Anderson were married June 30, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...
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JIMMIE GARDNER
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Jimmie L. Gardner, 66, of Jonesboro died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2001, at his home. He was born Jan. 26, 1935, in Jonesboro, son of Wendel W. and Wanda Sauerbrunn Gardner. He married Scheron Rider June 29, 1974, at Jonesboro. Gardner was an employee of the city of Jonesboro for 33 years. He was a member of Salem Lutheran Church and was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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VIVIAN EAKENS
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
Vivian Ardell Eakens, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2001, at Southeast Hospital. She was born June 2, 1922, at Mascoutah, Ill., daughter of Edward and Ida Freivogel Klein. She married Burel Warren Phillips Oct. 2, 1940, at Union, Mo., who is deceased. She and David J. Eakens were married May 12, 1973, at Colorado Springs, Colo...
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LOWELL ROBERTS
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Lowell William Roberts, 71, of St. Louis, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2001, at Christian Northeast Hospital. Roberts was born July 20, 1930, in Lutesville, Mo., son of the Rev. William C. and Elizabeth Richards Roberts. He had worked as a steel cutter for Nooter Corp. for many years...
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MARGARET HURLEY
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
Margaret Ruth Hurley, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 26, 2001, at her home. Arrangements are pending at Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home.
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CLARENCE COATS
(Obituary ~ 08/27/01)
ZALMA, Mo. -- Clarence Coats, 92, of Zalma died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2001, at Three Rivers South Medical Center at Poplar Bluff. He was born Nov. 22, 1908, in Bollinger County, the son of William H. and Hattie Trafford Coats. Coats was a retired farmer...
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EAST PRIAIRE MAN DROWNS; WRECK KILLS BLUFF RESIDENT
(Local News ~ 08/27/01)
An East Prairie, Mo., man drowned in the Current River and a Poplar Bluff man was killed in a traffic accident over the weekend. The Missouri State Water Patrol reported that Jerry Wayne Taylor, 35, of East Prairie had been swimming Saturday afternoon in the Current River about 50 yards from a bridge near Doniphan, Mo., when he was swept into the current and was unable to swim out of it...
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MAN KILLED BY TRAIN IDENTIFIED
(Local News ~ 08/27/01)
Cape Girardeau County Coroner Mike Hurst has released the name of a man killed by a train over the weekend. John D. Tanner, 37, of Jackson, Mo., was apparently walking on the tracks near County Road 654 when he was struck Saturday afternoon. Hurst said that the death appeared accidental but that the investigation was continuing, pending toxicology reports...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/27/01)
REGARDING THE article "Corporate farms benefit from bailout": The American farmer, once a proud, independent occupation we all considered to be the backbone of America, is quickly becoming with very few exceptions just as much a leech on American society as the welfare system. ...
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HARD FACTS ABOUT SOFT MONEY
(Column ~ 08/27/01)
KENNETT, Mo. -- Just about every Missourian knows that so-called soft money is the cash contributed to specially created political campaign funds to hide donations from the glare of publicity and any existing laws and rules governing election spending...
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POWER PLANT NEIGHBORS NEED TO BE KEPT INFORMED
(Editorial ~ 08/27/01)
Kinder Morgan Power Co.'s plan to build a power plant in southwest Cape Girardeau County has a lot of people who live in the quiet, undisturbed rural area up in arms. That was evident during a recent meeting between residents of the area, others interested in the proposal and representatives of the company...
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PADUCAH'S PROGRAM FOR ARTISTS IS ONE TO COPY
(Editorial ~ 08/27/01)
The Ohio River community of Paducah, Ky., which has a long history of accentuating the arts, is generating interest in an innovative program it hopes will bring more artists to town and help clean up housing in its downtrodden Lowertown area. Paducah's Artist Relocation Program offers many incentives to artists who are drawn by the program or already live there if they situate in Lowertown adjacent to Paducah's downtown...
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