THANKS

Thank you Area Wide United Way, Southwestern Bell, Cape Girardeau Public Schools, Schnucks and VIP Industries for your continued leadership and commitment in supporting the community's quest for literacy.

Once again, Southwestern Bell has helped with volunteer appreication gifts and start-up funding. and VIP Industries has contributed the comic books and the incentive to better oneself and one's community.

Other special recognition goes to mercantile Bank, People's Bank of jackson, Union Planters of Scott City and Americtech for your continued dedication and good works in providing facility and refeshment support, adding the special touches to this YELL Day tri-community project!

Tanks to the Cape Girardeau City Council fo allowing us to "hawk" these special editions newspapers. Thanks to city government, community, school and church leaders in Cape, jackson, and Scott City for your endorsement and enterprise.

Thanks to all the service clubs, businesses, schools and organizations who step out on this bleary-eyed Septenber morning to Yell and Sell for the benefit of local literacy efforts.

Special thanks to all the businesses who appear in this newspaper. it is because of your leadership role that the Southeast Missourian is able to provide the thousands of newspapers it does to over 7,000 area school students free throughout the school year.

Thanks also to you, the Reader, of this publication. Your contribution is critical to our efforts. Thanks for joining the fight

PUBLICATION NOTES

YELL is a publication of the Southeast Missourian and Rust Communications. Project coordinator is Kim Kurka McDowell. Recognition goes to the staff of the Southeast Missourian news, advertising, creative services, composition, web and circulation departments, led respectively by Joe Sullivan, Pat Zellmer, Betty Adcock, Judy Arnold, John Renaud and Mark Kneer.

YELL was produced with assistance from the National Association of America Foundation. NAA Foundation is the educational and charitable arm of the Newspapers Association of America, a non-profit organization representing more than 1,700 newspapers in the United States and Canada. Thank you for providing newsprint for this special project.

All the money raised through YELL goes directly to area reading programs, literacy grants and the award-winning program Newspapers in Education (NIE) -- providing our local students with newspapers daily and weekly throughout the school year.

PUBLICATION DESIGNER

JoAnne Boettcher lends her creative talents to the design of this publication.

ABOUT THE COVER

The cofer art of "Read for Life" is a prize-winning original composition by Megan Myers, a student in Medford, Oregon. Myers is the grand prize winner of the nationwide Literacy Poster Contest sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America Foundation and this newspaper. She is a 13-year-old eighth grader at McLaughlin Middle School in Medord.

YELL AREA WIDE UNITED WAY COMMITTEE AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Sandy Hendricks, chairman, Tim Hahn, Tina McDowell, Dennis Marchi, Kim McDowell, Hilary Schmittzehe, Don Sherwood, Valerie Tuschhoff, Dr. Dan Cotner, Rev. Sam Roethemeyer, Nancy Jernigan, Ann Randolph, Linda Robert, Karen Green, Larry Hamm