COUPLE DONATES PROPERTY TO UNIVERSITY

A Sikeston couple has donated a former convenience store and property near Houck Stadium to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

Robert and Dana Jenkins donated the building and site at 1116 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The gift is valued at $170,000.

"We express our heartfelt thanks to the Jenkins for their generous gift-in-kind," said Southeast President Dr. Kenneth Dobbins. "This property will help the university in enhancing the look of Houck Stadium and Field House. We will use this site to landscape around the entrance to Houck and to showcase the stadium and its south entrance."

Plans call for razing the former convenience store next fall and converting the site into a landscaped parking area.