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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Commercial building permits
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
The City of Cape Girardeau's Development Services Office issued two commercial building permits from March 8 to 19: n A&K Construction for a McDonald's restaurant with dual drive throughs at 1701 N. Kingshighway at an estimated construction cost of $2,092,579...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Business license applications
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Gabriele Ruggieri of Cape Girardeau has submitted a business license application to operate Le Bistro at 117 Themis St. in Cape Girardeau. The application, dated March 9, indicated an opening date of March 20 for the new venture in the former location of The Bar on the southeast corner of the intersection of Themis and North Spanish streets...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Awards and Achievements
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Hanna Bohnert, employee benefits coordinator at Robinson Construction, has completed requirements to obtain the Society for Human Resource Management certified professional credential. The SHRM-CP certification is a pinnacle achievement and global standard for the human resources profession and focuses on several behavioral competencies and human resources knowledge areas critical to the success of those in the human resources field...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: People News
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Keith Holloway, founder and owner of Professional Packaging Inc. in Cape Girardeau, has been appointed to the University of Missouri Board of Curators. His appointment was announced Thursday by Gov. Mike Parson. Pending confirmation by the Missouri Senate, Holloway's six-year term as a curator will run until Jan. ...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Health care system offering free skin cancer screenings
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Saint Francis Healthcare System, in cooperation with the American Academy of Dermatology, will offer free skin cancer screenings from 8 a.m. until noon April 17. With about one in five Americans developing skin cancer during their lifetimes, it is considered the most common form of cancer in the United States, affecting millions of people annually...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Outdoor hiring event planned in Park Hills
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
PARK HILLS, Mo. — Mineral Area College, in cooperation with the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, will host an outdoor job fair from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. April 22 in the Quadrangle of the Mineral Area College campus...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: CW station begins rebranding campaign
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
WQWQ-TV, KFVS12's CW affiliate channel, has begun a relaunch with a new name and a new brand, according to KFVS12 vice president and general manager Chris Conroy. The rebranding campaign began Friday. "Since we broadcast the channel over-the-air on channel 12.2, we think 'KFVS TOO' is the perfect brand," he said...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Saint Francis offering paid training for patient care associates
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Are you or is someone you know considering a clinical career in health care? Then an offer from Saint Francis Healthcare System may interest you. Saint Francis is offering a paid educational opportunity for job seekers interested in becoming patient care associates, who are responsible for performing direct and indirect patient care tasks as delegated by appropriate nursing personnel. ...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Free business workshops scheduled in April
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Southeast Missouri State University has scheduled three free business and finance workshops in April, "one of which will explain the mysteries behind those magic numbers known as your credit score," according to SBDC director Jakob Pallesen...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Old Town Cape receives grant from state Ag. Department
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Old Town Cape is one of nearly two dozen organizations throughout the state to receive matching grants from the Missouri Agriculture Department. The grants of as much as $1,000 were announced last week and are part of the state agriculture department's Farmers' Market Promotion Matching Grant Program through the Missouri Growth program...
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Cape Girardeau Macy's closes for good
(Local News ~ 03/22/21)
A nearly empty Macy's is seen on the department store's final day of business Sunday at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau. ...
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Cape travel agent shares 'zero gravity' experience
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Children often dream of being an astronaut. In fact, the Harris Poll for Lego 2020 reported 11% of kids in the United States ages 8 to 12 aspire to be astronauts, with 86% of children saying they are interested in going to space. Career aspirations change with age, but for many, the fascination with space and its gravitational differences from Earth remains. Those wanting to experience zero gravity flight now have that option, with a Cape Girardeau travel agency offering the experience...
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Business Notebook: New study tracks online consumer trends
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
Nearly half of all Americans have shopped for groceries online in the past three months and almost 20% of U.S. consumers say they shop online at least once a day. Those are two of the findings of a new study released last week in the 2021 Consumer Trends Report published by Jungle Scout, an Amazon research and online marketing platform...
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Spring has sprung: Cape businesses gear up for blossoming of season
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
As the weather turns warmer and early spring blooms are beginning to sprout, area businesses are already experiencing a busy spring season. "We are very excited for this spring season," said Tina Thieret, general manager at Sunny Hill Gardens & Florist in Cape Girardeau...
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Cape Central grad Cairns seeks seat on school board
(Local News ~ 03/22/21)
Paul Cairns, a non-incumbent, is Medtronic's U.S. sales manager, targeted drug delivery. Medtronic is a medical technology company. ...
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Friends remember Grant Gillard as ‘Jackson’s pastor,’ inspiring
(Local News ~ 03/22/21)
As the Rev. Karen Dumey approached the podium at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson on Sunday morning, she said there was a "somber" feeling in the church as a "stunned" congregation lined the pews. The Rev. Grant Gillard, Dumey's predecessor who served as the pastor at First Presbyterian for 25 years, died at age 62 on Thursday in Holden, Missouri...
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Business Notebook 3/22/21: Chamber Notes
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
The Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday recognized recipients of the organization's 2021 awards during the chamber's March membership breakfast. All of the award recipients were announced in video presentations during the chamber's annual dinner March 3 at Rock 'N' Roll Drive-In, but Friday's breakfast was an opportunity for them to be recognized in person and receive their award plaques...
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Educator, physician, business owner plan retirements
(Business ~ 03/22/21)
In my column this week, I want to acknowledge several imminent retirements -- that of a long-time educator, a local physician and a businesswoman whose retail career spanned nearly 40 years. Speaking at the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce March membership breakfast Friday, Jackson School District superintendent John Link reflected on his 33-year career in education, 20 of which were as a school superintendent, including six as head of the Jackson district...
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Biden stays the course on some Trump policies
(Column ~ 03/22/21)
Several of my friends have expressed relief now that Joe Biden is president and Donald Trump is gone. They no longer have to watch the news constantly, declaring they know "the country is now in good hands." There's no way to defend Trump's poor behavior and insulting style. Yet, there is more to a president than his decorum. And on at least three signature Trump policies for which he'll be remembered the most, often with dread, the similarities between Biden and Trump are unsettling...
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Democrats would regret nuking the filibuster
(Column ~ 03/22/21)
There's nothing that ails Joe Biden's agenda, we are supposed to believe, that ending the filibuster wouldn't fix. President Biden showed a little leg on changing the filibuster in an ABC News interview, while almost every Senate Democrat wants to ditch it. Even Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who still supports the filibuster, said a couple of weeks ago that resorting to it should be more "painful."...
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Four area authors pen books
(Editorial ~ 03/22/21)
Local authors Elizabeth Armstrong, Mark Bliss, Jerry Ford and Frank Nickell recently published books in various genres, finding inspiration in diverse places. For Armstrong, inspiration for "Guardian of Her Heart," the first in a trilogy of historical romance novels, came while spending time in the hospital with her late husband...
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Facebook working on Instagram for kids younger than 13
(Community ~ 03/22/21)
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Facebook says it is working on a version of its Instagram app for children younger than 13, who are technically not allowed to use the app in its current form because of federal privacy regulations. The company confirmed an earlier report by Buzzfeed News on Friday, saying it is "exploring a parent-controlled experience" on Instagram...
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Maple celebrations return in some states, with precautions
(Community ~ 03/22/21)
Maple season is a time-honored tradition in the Northeast, when sap starts to flow in maple trees and is collected and boiled into syrup, with visitors coming to sugar houses to see the operations firsthand. But the pandemic forced some states to cancel or postpone their annual sweet celebrations last year, and now some producers are welcoming back the public with safety precautions in place...
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Philippine defense chief demands Chinese flotilla leave reef
(International News ~ 03/22/21)
MANILA, Philippines ---- The Philippine defense chief on Sunday demanded more than 200 Chinese vessels he said were manned by militias leave a South China Sea reef claimed by Manila, saying their presence was a "provocative action of militarizing the area."...
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Biden aims to prevent border crossings from swamping agenda
(National News ~ 03/22/21)
WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is scrambling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge at the U.S.-Mexico border threatening to overshadow its legislative agenda. With the number of migrants surging, administration officials say President Joe Biden inherited an untenable situation resulting from what they say was President Donald Trump's undermining and weakening of the immigration system...
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A rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout backfired in some U.S. states
(National News ~ 03/22/21)
Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. A new analysis found states such as South Carolina, Florida and Missouri that raced ahead of others to offer the vaccine to ever-larger groups of people have vaccinated smaller shares of their population than those that moved more slowly and methodically, such as Hawaii and Connecticut...
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Study finds low virus spread in schools; taxes due in May
(State News ~ 03/22/21)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A pilot study released Friday suggests low COVID-19 transmission among students and staff at some Springfield and St. Louis schools, and Missourians now have until mid-May to file state taxes. Gov. Mike Parson on Friday announced his administration pushed the deadline for individuals to file state tax returns from April 15 to May 17, days after the federal government did the same...
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Bernard Clifton
(Obituary ~ 03/22/21)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Bernard "Sonny" M. Clifton, 77, of Perryville died Friday at Independence Care Center. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Young Funeral Home in Perryville. Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville, with the Rev. Rich Wehrmeyer C.M. officiating. Burial will be at Mount Hope Cemetery in Perryville...
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Prayer 3/22/21
(Prayer ~ 03/22/21)
O Father God, guide our steps that we may honor you in all things. Amen.
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Speak Out 3/22/21
(Speak Out ~ 03/22/21)
The crisis at the border is getting worse by the hour. It's been reported that every illegal immigrant that crosses the border has to pay the cartels as much as $7,000 to $30,000. My question is, if all these people are poor, who is paying? Someone needs to find out and expose them and file charges for human trafficking and possibly more...
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Out of the past: March 22
(Out of the Past ~ 03/22/21)
The suspect in a Cape Girardeau County killing and abduction was captured late yesterday after a gun battle with a Missouri highway patrolman on Interstate 270 near St. Louis; Russell E. Bucklew, 27, is in critical condition in a St. Louis hospital after he was shot in the gun battle; the highway patrolman also was shot; the hostage, Stephanie Ray Pruitt, 22, also was shot in the leg, but it isn't clear when she was injured; Bucklew was sought in the killing of Michael Houston Sanders, 27, who was shot about 6 p.m. ...
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Walter Romanowski
(Obituary ~ 03/22/21)
Walter "Rick" Richard Romanowski, 55, died Monday, March 15, 2021, at Baylor Scott and White Hospital in Round Rock, Texas, surrounded by his wife and children. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Williamson County Cowboy Church in Liberty Hill, Texas...
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CFO accepting applications for Field-of-Interest grants
(Submitted Story ~ 03/22/21)
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks is accepting applications for a variety of specialty grants made possible by generous donors who chose to support specific areas of interest. Most of these “Field-of-Interest” grants are open now through May 13. For information, visit: cfozarks.org/applyforgrants. These applications are open to 501(c)3 nonprofits or IRS-equivalent groups, such as schools, civic and faith institutions:...
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