1. How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?
2. What is your New Year's resolution?
3. What was the biggest news story in 2013?
4. January is National Soup Month. What is your favorite kind?
Virginia Wiedefeld
Jackson, Mo.
Retired
1. "We went to the casino and ate at the buffet, which was wonderful. Then we went and gambled a little bit and I won enough to pay for my dinner. That was great, it was fun."
2. "I don't do the New Years resolutions, you just try to be better every year."
3. "I'd have to say the Waller story, I have a good friend who worked with her and knew her very well. Just seeing the people that she worked with and what they went through, it was sad thing. I'm glad they finally resolved it and got her back."
4. "It's got to be cabbage beef, because my girlfriend makes it so good."
Ryan May
Cape Girardeau
Student
1. "Had a bonfire with all of my friends."
2. "I didn't make any. They're good to aspire to but I didn't make any."
3. "I would guess the Waller thing."
4. "Probably Santa Fe soup, it's just what my mom always makes. It's what I grew up on so I really like it."
Bridget Trepasso
Cape Girardeau
Student
1. "I babysat last night, that's my exciting night."
2. "I think that most people don't follow their New Years resolution after the first couple of weeks. I didn't make any of my own."
3. "I guess the Clay Waller [story], I can't think of anything else."
4. "I like broccoli cheddar soup, I don't know, I get it every time I go to Panera, it's my favorite."
Kevin Moore
Cape Girardeau
Saint Francis Hospital
1. "I spent my New Years in St. Louis, I had quite a time, it was a good time."
2. "I think they're a good thing, resolutions, you should always have those, not just for New Years for anything. My New Years resolution is to be as successful as I was in 2013."
3. "The biggest in my opinion was the shooting that happened down on Hannover. Because of what happened with it, I feel that was a big part of everything that went on around here, letting people know that Hannover wasn't a good place to be."
4. "Probably bacon potato cheddar maybe, I don't know why. I thinks the only soup I ever [eat] beside chicken noodle and stuff like that.That's probably my favorite soup."
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