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Cape Girardeau County agenda 6/3/19
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Approval of minutes n Minutes for the May 30 meeting Public comments n Items listed on the agenda Routine business n Purchase orders n Payroll change forms Appointments, possible action items...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda 6/3/19
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Approval of minutes n Minutes of regular meeting of 5/20/19 Financial affairs n Monthly bills Action items Power, Light and Water Committee Street, Sewer and Cemetery Committee n Consider a motion approving change order No. 1, in the amount of $14,968.50, to SAK Construction LLC of O'Fallon, Missouri, relative to the 2019 Sanitary Sewer Lining Program...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 6/3/19
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Study session Presentations n Beautiful Business Property of the Month Communications/reports n City Council n Staff Items for discussion n Old Town Cape update -- Marla Mills n Planning and Zoning Commission report...
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Business Notebook: Two prominent retirements; Vinson named to hospital board; dentistry news
(Business ~ 06/03/19)
This week's Business Notebook is slightly shorter than usual due to a short work week, but I would like to acknowledge the retirements of two well-known individuals that took effect last week, one of which was Maryann Gudermuth whose last day as executive director of the SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence (SADI) was May 31. The Southeast Missourian published a feature about the SADI founder May 17...
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SEMO students complete rigorous leadership program with TG Missouri
(Business ~ 06/03/19)
Two Southeast Missouri State University students and a recent Southeast graduate piloted a 16-week TG Missouri Leadership Program this spring at Toyoda Gosei (TG Missouri) in Perryville, Missouri, as part of the industry's TG University. Laura Gohn of Jackson, Hannah Seyer of Chaffee, Missouri, and Heath Pobst of Scott City earned Southeast credit after completing an internship and project during the spring semester. ...
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Historical concert in the park
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Addison Masters, 7, of Advance, Missouri, dances to the music of her grandfather, Randy Malone of Delta, during a free concert hosted by the Chaffee Historical Society on Sunday at Circle Park in Chaffee, Missouri. ...
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Bollinger Mill hosts first community event Saturday
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Sunshine dried the lingering mud puddles not a moment too soon for families eager to picnic and play football during the first outdoor Summer Fun Day sponsored by Missouri State Parks on Saturday at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in Burfordville...
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Cape, Jackson set Independence Day plans
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
Independence Day is a coast-to-coast time of celebrating the founding of the United States, and Cape Girardeau and Jackson are set to offer a variety of activities to observe the day. ...
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Outdoor concerts to begin soon in Cape, Jackson parks
(Local News ~ 06/03/19)
The cities of Cape Girardeau and Jackson are set to strike up the bands for summertime in less than a week, offering free outdoor musical performances with appearances by local and nationally touring musicians. ...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 06/03/19)
Today is Monday, June 3, the 154th day of 2019. There are 211 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On June 3, 1989, Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, died. On the same day, Chinese army troops began their sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations...
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Prayer 6-3-19
(Prayer ~ 06/03/19)
Hear our prayers, O God, for all those who are truly in need. Amen.
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City embraces history, preparing for Ivers Square ceremony Saturday
(Editorial ~ 06/03/19)
A new statue is in place at Ivers Square, and now the scenery of the park seems to better match the name. On Saturday, there will be an official unveiling and dedication ceremony from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Common Pleas Courthouse park, now known as Ivers Square...
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Burning Man waits for U.S. decision on big changes at festival
(Entertainment ~ 06/03/19)
RENO, Nev. -- With Burning Man three months away, organizers are still waiting for permits and decisions by U.S. land managers that could reshape the counterculture festival in northern Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is reviewing more than 2,000 public comments about a document released in April that assessed the risk of a terror attack and included proposals to conduct drug searches and add trash bins and concrete barriers at the festival in the vast and remote Black Rock Desert...
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Principal: I accidentally plagiarized Ashton Kutcher speech
(National News ~ 06/03/19)
PARKERSBURG, W.Va — A West Virginia principal accused of plagiarizing actor Ashton Kutcher in an address to his school’s graduating class says he didn’t mean to use someone else’s work. Parkersburg High School principal Kenny DeMoss has issued a statement saying he should have cited his sources in the May 23 speech, but asserted the ideas were his own. ...
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Pompeo says U.S. ready to talk to Iran with 'no preconditions'
(International News ~ 06/03/19)
BELLINZONA, Switzerland -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday the Trump administration is ready for unconditional discussions with Iran in an effort to ease rising tensions that have sparked fears of conflict. But the United States will not relent in trying to pressure the Islamic Republic to change its behavior in the Middle East, America's top diplomat said...
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Drugs make headway against lung, breast, prostate cancers
(National News ~ 06/03/19)
CHICAGO -- Newer drugs are substantially improving the chances of survival for some people with hard-to-treat forms of lung, breast and prostate cancer, doctors reported at the world's largest cancer conference. Among those who have benefited is Roszell Mack Jr., who at age 87 is still able to work at a Lexington, Kentucky, horse farm, nine years after being diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to his bones and lymph nodes...
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Virginia Beach attacker notified boss of plans to leave job
(National News ~ 06/03/19)
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The gunman who attacked his colleagues at a Virginia Beach government office building resigned by email hours before the shooting, a city official said Sunday as authorities sought a motive in the assault that killed 12 people...
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Oklahomans clean up after flood; Arkansans brace for crest
(National News ~ 06/03/19)
SAND SPRINGS, Okla. -- Storm-weary residents in Oklahoma were gutting waterlogged homes Sunday as the Arkansas River continued its slow crest rolling hundreds of miles downstream, even as many kept a cautious eye on this week's weather forecasts showing more rain...
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Joseph True
(Obituary ~ 06/03/19)
Joseph R. "JoeBob" True, 76, of the Dorena and East Prairie, Missouri, area, died Saturday, June, 1, 2019, at Cottonpoint Nursing Home in Matthews, Missouri. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Cape Girardeau...
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Cape Girardeau, Scott City fire reports 6/3/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 06/03/19)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Friday n Medical assists were made at 7:09 a.m. on Themis Street, 12:29 p.m. on South Kingshighway and 6:39 p.m. on North Fountain Street. n At 12:25 p.m., false alarm or false call on Towers Circle...
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NerdWallet: You got the new house! Now, how do you afford to furnish it?
(Business ~ 06/03/19)
Congrats on saving up for that down payment! And hats off for committing to mortgage payments, homeowners insurance and property taxes. Now for your reward: home sweet, sparsely furnished home. Furniture shopping may be the last thing you want to do, but it may be necessary if you moved into a bigger space or parted with unwanted goods in that process. Avoid overspending with these strategies...
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Small business cultures need to evolve along with work force
(Business ~ 06/03/19)
NEW YORK -- Meloney Perry once worked at a traditional big law firm with a formal, corporate atmosphere, and knew she wanted a different culture at her own firm. "I learned the 'old school' way, but it's changed," said Perry, founder of Perry Law in Dallas. "Nowadays, with the employees coming in younger, you do have to have more of a family feel."...
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Out of the past: June 3
(Out of the Past ~ 06/03/19)
The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department at Sikeston will open bids next week for the removal of asbestos in 11 houses and attached garages that are being demolished to make room for the relocated Highway 74 Mississippi River bridge route through Cape Girardeau; officials with the department say acquisition of all parcels of land needed for the highway right-of-way should be completed by the end of the year...
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Remembering the 1960s
(06/03/19)
As a bit of a preface, I am retired, in my 60s and married, with two children in their 30s and four grandchildren, ages 7 to 12. I have lived in Jackson all of my life, except for five years when I was in the Navy after high school. I was never a helicopter parent. ...
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Age Spots: Tough Love: Family Caregiving
(06/03/19)
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter once said, “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need a caregiver.” Caregiving is often referred to as the toughest job in the world. Many times, you are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no time off, no breaks and usually no pay...
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Listen, Discuss and Learn
(06/03/19)
Is it possible to have a civil conversation about foreign policy decisions in our often-contentious culture? The answer is yes, and it happens every week in Cape Girardeau. Between 25 and 50 locals meet Wednesday afternoons in the Oscar Hirsch Community Room at the Cape Girardeau Public Library to take part in a stimulating conversation about foreign policies. Over coffee and cookies, these men and women have a lively, respectful discussion based on assigned topics...
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Making Weighted Blankets
(06/03/19)
When Jo Ann Hahs was a child, her mother sewed with a sewing machine that used a treadle. Fascinated by this, Hahs began sewing doll dresses when she was 7. She continued sewing in 4-H where her mother was her leader, and at age 12, won a 4-H district dressmaking competition that moved her on to the state competition...
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Now Read This: “Still Life,” by Louise Penny
(06/03/19)
I grew up devouring mystery fiction, thanks to my father. I fondly recall rainy afternoons spent in the company of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. I struggled with the detective’s name, but I cobbled together a phonetic mispronunciation and made it through the books, despite my ignorance — it was the stories I was there for, after all. ...
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Avoid Summer Scams
(06/03/19)
Identity theft is dropping in Missouri as consumers become more vigilant about protecting their personal information. According to the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book, Missouri ranked 31st in the nation for ID theft complaints in 2018, down from 26th in 2017...
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Happy 200th Birthday, Missouri
(06/03/19)
Art unites people. It’s something Aaron Horrell and Barb Bailey, artists and owners of the Painted Wren Art Gallery in Cape Girardeau, are allowing Missourians to discover through the Missouri bicentennial communal mural project. They are heading the project as a commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of Missouri’s statehood happening August 10, 2021. ...
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Delicious Reading: Banana Beer Bread and How Sweet Eats
(06/03/19)
“All I ask is three beers a piece for each of my co-workers … I think a man workin’ outdoors feels more like a man if he can have a bottle of suds. That’s only my opinion.” — Andy Dufresne, “The Shawshank Redemption” I never liked beer when I was growing up, unless my mom was cooking bratwurst in it. ...
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Doing the Wave
(06/03/19)
Many of you remember the phenomenon of doing “the wave,” generally occurring at sporting events. Spectators would stand in groups as the (human) wave approached, then sit back down after it passed on by. Although it’s not known precisely when this began, it’s generally thought to have started in the late 1970s/early 1980s. A guy named Krazy George Henderson (really!) perfected the wave at National Hockey League games, according to Wikipedia...
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Beauty Parlors on Parade
(06/03/19)
Beauty shops (parlors, salons, boutiques, nooks — whatever their names,) have been a vital part of Cape Girardeau history. Many of them popped up in the mid-thirties in homes along quiet neighborhoods, as well as in business districts uptown, downtown and midtown. The local hairstyling business continues to flourish. Actually, the telephone directory lists some 90 shops to choose from for shampoos, cuts and curls...
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A Look Back
(06/03/19)
This 6-foot 100-pound alligator gar, taken by net Sunday morning in the Mississippi River. From the left, Arthur J. Burton, who caught the fish; Norman and Donnie Mae and Sam King. This huge fish can destroy a lot of other fish in a short while and Mississippi rivermen, warn, might even attack a child wading the stream's shallows. Published Monday, June 9, 1958. (Southeast Missourian Archive)...
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Sponsored: Saint Francis Healthcare System Distributes Baby Boxinettes
(Business ~ 06/03/19)
Saint Francis Healthcare System in partnership with the Community Caring Council are distributing baby “boxinettes” to encourage safe sleeping habits for newborns and their caregivers. These boxes are lined with a mattress and function like a bassinet. Accompanied with a consistent educational message about safe sleep options, they are meant to discourage parents from sleeping with their babies, which could lead to accidental suffocation...
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Your Place to Draw: Wednesday Night Drawing Group
(Community News ~ 06/03/19)
It's a Wednesday night at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri on Spanish Street in downtown Cape Girardeau, and local artist Craig Thomas is directing model Sarah Keith as she positions herself at the front of the room. Four other artists are taking out their drawing materials and getting situated at desks arranged in a semi-circle facing Keith. ...
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Intellect + Sport: Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Southeast Missouri
(Community News ~ 06/03/19)
Christi Foutz is a veterinarian in Cape Girardeau. She is also a mother that holds a black belt in taekwondo and a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. She has practiced Mixed Martial Arts for five years, and in August 2018, she took first place in her division at the Jiu-jitsu World Master Championship. To say she has been bitten by the jiu-jitsu bug would be an understatement. But it hasn't always been easy. She's just learned to stay on the mat...
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Making bread with Chuck McGinty
(Community News ~ 06/03/19)
I arrive at Chuck and Laura McGinty's home in Cape Girardeau with a notebook and pen, clothes slightly damp. It's raining outside. I am here because I've heard Chuck makes bread, and I want to learn, too. There is something about bread that resonates with me: it provides for basic, as well as deeper, needs. While I'm here, I find out Chuck doesn't sell any of his bread, only gives it away...
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