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Rebecca LaClair: Fighting for your dollars: Where will you spend them? (7/25/24)It seems that we, the all-powerful consumers, have finally tired of the constant price increases everywhere. People are spending less money overall, and the places we are choosing to pinch our pennies most often are fast food restaurants. ...
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Susan McClanahan: Savor the season: Must-try recipes for summer’s bounty (7/25/24)Fresh produce is abundant in local gardens and at area farmer’s markets. There is almost anything you’d ever want at the markets right now, and we sure want to make use of it while it lasts. ...
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Robert Hurtgen: Rejoice that your name is written in heaven (7/20/24)There are so many things in this life worth rejoicing over. Holding a newborn baby. The smell and taste of your grandmother’s cookies. Holding your loved ones’ hands every day for over fifty years. So much in life that is worth celebrating. Jesus says, however, there is something greater than anything in this life worth rejoicing over.
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Shawn Wasson: God is in control (7/20/24)We were horrified by the recent assassination attempt on President Trump. Sadly, a good man lost his life, and others were injured. While extremists are openly lamenting the missed shot that failed to kill a president, many Christians believe that God spared President Trump for a reason.
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Senior Center Menus for July 22-26 (7/20/24)__Cape Girardeau/Scott City__ Monday: Scrambled eggs and sausage patty or chicken tenders, hashbrowns with onions, biscuit and gravy, orange juice, citrus fruit salad and bran muffin. Tuesday: Baked ziti or hot chicken salad, buttered corn, garden salad, garlic bread and pineapple or pineapple right-side-up cake.
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Rennie Phillips: From the ground up (7/20/24)Mom and Dad and Mick and I went to Ogallala, Nebraska, maybe every two to three weeks for groceries and shopping and maybe eat out. One place I almost insisted on going to was the Coast to Coast store to gawk at their guns. One time in particular, Dad went there for something and me: The guns! Come to find out they had a Remington 1903 in a 30-06. Man I had to have the gun. I was maybe in the seventh or eighth grade, so I think Dad had it put on layaway while I earned the money to buy it. So Dad bought some baby hogs and I fed and slopped them all summer. We sold some of them and I had the money for the 30-06. I was in heaven, so to speak. When we finally got the gun, one of the guys there talked Dad and me into buying a Lee hand loader and the supplies that I needed to load shells. Bought some shells but was going to rely on the shell loader for the next batch I shot. I literally started to learn from the ground up. I’d shot a BB gun and .22 and the like, but never a rifle. Did I make mistakes? Darn tooting I did! Lots of them. But at the same time, I learned a wealth of information when I was starting out from the ground up.
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Club news 7-20-24 (7/20/24)Kage FCE The Kage Family and Community Club met July 11 at Cape Girardeau Senior Center. Jobyna Daume, president, called the meeting to order. Devotion was lead by Barbara Marshall; a prayer recited by all regarding the upcoming primary and general election. We prayed to better understand the issues; to use our eyes to see the troubles in our country and ears to hear cries of people who are abused and neglected...
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Aaron Horrell: A strange looking insect (7/20/24)This unusual creature is a pelecinus wasp. Although it is scary looking, it presents no apparent danger to humans. I did not pick it up, but I did carefully encourage it to crawl onto a piece of white paper I took from my shirt pocket. It flew away after I took a few photos.
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Adopt Clementine 7-20-24 (7/20/24)Clementine is about 10 weeks old and absolutely loves adult cats and people. she was a bottle baby and grew up with adults. If you have room in your heart and home for Clementine or any other pet, visit us at 359 Cree Lane near Jackson any weekday or weekend from 8 a.m. to noon. Visitors are always welcome to play with our pets.
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Denise Lincoln: Pie prank leads to shots fired (7/20/24)9One hundred years ago, on a late Thursday night in July, the guys hanging around a small eatery on Good Hope Street had too much time on their hands. In idle mischief, they hassled Melvin Miller’s son, a Black youth, who came in, ordered a sandwich and a piece of pie. The pranksters hid Miller’s pie, and told him a patrolman had taken it. Oddly, the pie incident was reported in both the St. Louis Argus and the Southeast Missourian newspapers.
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Mary Ann Castillo: Goose & Gander: Reeling in the catch of the day (7/18/24)1Some people believe in luck while others describe moments when stars seem to align as serendipitous. The past couple of weeks I have been called to partake in what has been described as an oddity to some but an epicurean event to others: The Tinned Fish Summer. ...
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Tom Harte: Discover this timeless French dessert (7/18/24)Besides the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, tourists to Peru are often drawn to the floating islands of Puno, a man-made archipelago in Lake Titicaca with a thousand year history. They are impressive. But for my money, if you’re interested in dazzling floating islands, you don’t even need to leave home. You can concoct them in your kitchen. I refer, of course, to the culinary floating island, the French dessert Ile Flotante. ...
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Susan McClanahan: Savor summer with these fresh berry and peach recipes (7/18/24)We are half way through July and I want to try so many recipes I have found recently. While blueberries, blackberries and peaches are plentiful I hope to make many recipes using as many of them as I can. But we also need an entrée to go with them, so I have put together several recipes for entrees and ways to use fresh berries and peaches. In the mix of these recipes, I also added an upscale deviled egg recipe just for fun. ...
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Meet the Experts: How to choose olive oil with the most health benefits with Georgia and Todd Lowman, owners of Water & William Olive Oil Co. (7/15/24)Georgia and Todd Lowman, owners of Water & William Olive Oil Co., believe you are what you eat. That’s why they opened Water & William Olive Oil Co. in the historic River & Rails building in downtown Cape Girardeau in December 2022, to bring the health benefits of quality olive oils and balsamic vinegars to Southeast Missouri...
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Pop Culture Happenings: July (7/13/24)July from 50, 40 and 25 years ago saw Cardinals rise and fall, the first female VP candidate, and another Kennedy tragedy. 1974 50 years ago July 1974 was a big month of records and record breakers for the St. Louis Cardinals. On July 17, Bob Gibson became the second Major League Baseball pitcher to throw 3,000 career strikeouts. ...
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Meet the Experts: The benefits of playing pickleball with Jeff Brune, vice-president of The Pickleball Factory (7/13/24)Get ready for The Pickleball Factory, the go-to pickleball place opening in Cape Girardeau in late summer to early fall. The name gives a nod to the fact the Thorngate building where it will be housed used to be a factory. The 34,000-square-foot facility dedicated solely to pickleball will have 14 climate-controlled, fenced-in, USA Pickleball-approved cushion courts made from 10 layers of acrylic and cushioned technology to best support players’ backs, hips and knees. ...
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Rennie Phillips: When is it time? (7/13/24)My Grandpa was somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 or so when I came along. Heck he might have been closer to 75. He lived right below one of the biggest hills in the Sandhills in Nebraska and it was sandy clear to the top. I remember Grandpa had to walk up that hill to check on the cattle where the pasture was over the hill. I’m in my 70s, and there is no way I could walk up that hill. No way! There came a day, though, when Grandpa called it quits and moved to town. The hill along with feeding cattle in the winter became too much, but, sadly, Grandpa didn’t live that long living in town. I always thought the place and the cattle and even the hill kept him going.
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Ellen Shuck: Respecting the dignity of others (7/13/24)What makes us deserving of our human dignity? Are we always cognizant of the vulnerably and value of everyone, or do we gauge our measure of people’s worth on external things? What determines the criterion on which we place our evaluation of someone?
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Ramblewood Garden Club award goes to Phil and Phyllis Pincosy (7/13/24)Ramblewood Garden Club has awarded the July Yard of the Month to Phil and Phyllis Pincosy who live and garden at 139 S. Spanish St. The Pincosys moved to Missouri from California to be near their son and his wife and family six years ago. The house is part of the Pincosy compound, with the front yard being a wonderful example of all-season beauty paired with low maintenance plantings.
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Aaron Horrell: A dirty little bug (7/13/24)While working in my garden Sunday, June 23, I found this cicada nymph coming out of a hole in the ground. The cicada was climbing very slowly out of the hole it had created. This cicada nymph will take several hours to as long as possibly three days to climb a tree and shed its exoskeleton.
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Senior Center Menus for July 15-19 (7/13/24)__Cape Girardeau/Scott City__ Monday: Chicken Parmesan with pasta and sauce or Reuben casserole with mashed potatoes, Italian-blend veggies, garden salad, garlic bread and chilled pears or pudding and cookie. Tuesday: Pepper steak with peppers and onions or hot chicken salad, brown rice, Lima beans, mixed veggies, whole-grain hot roll and spiced peaches or strawberry shortcake.
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Adopt Toni 7-13-24 (7/13/24)
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Marybeth Niederkorn: The allure of a mystery box (7/13/24)At the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson, we never know who will walk through the door with an intriguing document or item — and in this case, it was Doris Dace, a friend who is on the board at Old McKendree Church in Jackson and is generally very knowledgeable about local history. On this particular Monday, Doris brought us a small, lightweight wooden box, kidney shaped, roughly 6 by 3 inches, with a small drawer. “Cape Girardeau MO” was drawn across the top, with a sketch of three yellow roses in the middle. Then, Doris showed me, under the drawer was an inscription reading “From Noah to Cassa, 9-1-41.”
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Rebecca LaClair: Barbacoa paradise finally found right here at Seis Express (7/11/24)1Six years ago, I watched an episode of "Chef’s Table" on Netflix that had me a little obsessed. It was about Cristina Martinez, and she made barbacoa tacos. A traditional Mexican dish, barbacoa is made with lamb or beef and spiced with citrus. The preparation of barbacoa is lengthy and not easy. I have been trying to find some since. ...
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Susan McClanahan: Cool summer desserts perfect for hot summer days (7/11/24)Cool summer desserts seem perfect for hot summer days. Once Independence Day is over it seems like the rest of summer goes by so quickly, so we better get in a few of these cold dessert recipes while we can. Fresh fruit, ice cream, cakes, layered desserts and so many more recipes are wonderful desserts perfect for this time of year. ...
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Meet the Experts: Enjoy music in the park with Scott Vangilder, Jackson Municipal Band director (7/9/24)For the past 104 years since its formation in 1920, the Jackson Municipal Band has been a summer tradition for the people of Jackson and surrounding areas. Yet, the music they play is new every week: Director Scott Vangilder selects a variety of music for each concert, ranging from Broadway tunes to John Philip Sousa marches to chart-topping pop and rock ‘n’ roll hits, so there’s something for everyone...
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Robert Hurtgen: Cup or saucer (7/6/24)The repeated line in a poem by John Moore is, “I’m drinking from my saucer, ‘Cause my cup has overflowed.” The poem’s narrator is reflecting on the richness of their life as a cup filled with family, friends and faith. Holding their wealth in a cup has caused such an overflow that they must drink from the saucer.
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Shawn Wasson: Seven statements of Jesus (7/6/24)In Exodus Chapter 3, Moses encounters the burning bush near the mountain of Horeb, known as the mountain of God. As Moses focuses on the burning bush, he is met with a divine revelation. God speaks to him about his mission to lead Israel out of captivity from Egypt, identifying himself as the God of his forefathers. When Moses asks for God’s name to tell the people, God responds, “I am who I am.”
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Rennie Phillips: I wish (7/6/24)Back when I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8 or 9 years old, Dad, Mom, Mick and I and Grandpa would fish down at Lake McConahey from shore. Dad and Grandpa would use Pleuger level wind reels filled with about 100 yards of 25-pound black braided line. Both of them used a fairly heavy lead weight on the end of the line with a snelled #4 hook and a #6 snelled hook. Usually they baited the hooks with minnows with a larger one on the #4 and a smaller on the #6. On a good day I could cast out 30 to 40 yards of line. We were fishing from shore, and now and then a boat would come by trolling several lines. Man, how I wished I was them, fishing from their boat. My hope and dream was to own a boat.
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Adopt Salt and Pepper (7/6/24)Salt, front, is a female and Pepper, back, is a male who are brother and sister and approximately 8 to 9 weeks old. If you have room in your heart and home for these kittens or any other pet, visit us at 359 Cree Lane near Jackson any weekday or weekend from 8 a.m. to noon. Visitors are always welcome to play with our pets.
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Susan McClanahanSavor the season: Must-try recipes for summer’s bounty
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Robert HurtgenRejoice that your name is written in heaven
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Shawn WassonGod is in control
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Rennie PhillipsFrom the ground up
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Aaron HorrellA strange looking insect
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Tom HarteDiscover this timeless French dessert
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Susan McClanahanSavor summer with these fresh berry and peach recipes