Region briefs 11/15/07

Former meteorologist works to spread science

Former KFVS12 meteorologist Jason Lindsey has been named the Outreach Science Educator at the Bootheel Youth Museum in Malden, Mo. Lindsey also took a position as Teen Reach coordinator for the Delta Center in Cairo, Ill. Teen Reach is a program that brings students in after school and gives them a meal and help with homework. "It kind of fits right down my alley as far as what I wanted to do," Lindsey said. He wanted a way to combine education and working with children. He will be the Outreach Science Educator for the Bootheel Youth Museum one day a week and make trips to area schools to spread his love of science. Lindsey has been educating children about science for seven years through after school programs, his "Hooked on Science" show and in the weekly science experiment printed in the Southeast Missourian. He recently attempted to break the world record for most Mentos fountains simultaneously launched in the air on Science Day. The group launched slightly fewer than 1,000 Mentos fountains. "We beat the 850 record," Lindsey said, but he is awaiting official confirmation from Guinness at the end of November.

University choirs present first concert at Bedell

The Southeast Missouri State University Choir, Chamber Choir and Cantus Choralis will perform Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art" during the groups' first concert at the Bedell Performance Hall, at 7:30 p.m. today. The choral groups will join the university's percussion ensemble for John Burge's "Winter Son" and will be accompanied by brass on Bruckner's "Kyrie." For more information, call the River Campus box office at 651-2265.

-- From staff reports