Stories from Monday, May 24, 1999

The Missouri Riverboat Gaming Association (MRGA) has awarded a $500 scholarship to a Caruthersville student for a poster entitled "Underage Gambling is a Gamble on Your Life." Erin Bullington, a senior at Caruthersville High School, was one of eight students statewide who were honored wit scholarships from the MRGA, a trade association for the state's riverboat casinos...

D&J Glass and Art Clinic, a service providing repair of chipped, broken or discolored glassware, will be at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau June 17-20, during mall hours. Repairing glass is almost a lost art, says David Jasper owner of D&J Glass. Jasper represents four generation of experience in glassware and art restoration...

Liz Abernathy of Coldwell Banker Hamilton Realty has qualified for two sales performance awards -- Coldwell Banker's International President's Circle and the Missouri Association of Realtors' Pinnacle Level Award of Excellence. The Coldwell Banker honor is bestowed on only five percent of the more than 69,000 Coldwell Banker sales association world wide. ...

The Welcome Wagon is back in Cape Girardeau. The Welcome Wagon, a "new homeowner" welcoming program, was discontinued in Cape Girardeau during the early 1990s. The program, in business 70 years, is based in Westbury, New York, and is a division of GETKO Group Inc., a source of advertising/direct mail programs and database services for the new homeowner market...

"See the Trainer, The Sports Medicine Store," combines advice of experienced health care professionals with sports medicine products. The company employs licensed physical therapists and certified athletic trainings to help customers select and fit products, ranging from back, knee, ankle and wrist braces, to computer-designed, custom foot orthotics...

Marie Seesing has been appointed administrative assistant at Westfield Shoppingtown West park Mall in Cape Girardeau. Seesing, a Cape Girardeau native, recently returned to the area after six years in Waco, Tex. She is a graduate from Southeast Missouri State University, with a business degree in marketing. She also has experience as an administrative assistant...

Steven Fritzler of Cape Girardeau was honored recently during the Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL) national sales and education conference, held at Point Clear, Ala. Fritzler, an associate of the Jack Hollingsworth/Michael Mickelson Agency of AAL, Independence, was honored for sales and service and for his support of AAL local volunteer groups...

Victoria Crider, of Sikeston, and Renee Gambill, of Jackson, have joined the staff of Ford and Sons Funeral Home and Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery as pre-need consultants. Crider, who has been affiliated with the funeral home industry all her life, is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University at Richmond. She has been a registered nurse 16 years...

Donna J. Diebold has been listed as an "honored Professional" in the National Registry of Who's Who in Executives and Professionals Year 2000 Edition. Diebold is a partner in Appraisal Consultants Inc., in Scott City. The National Registry for Who's Who is a biographical publication for professionals in recognition of exemplary service, both to the community and to profession ...

John E. "Doc" Carpenter has been named an "Honorary State Trooper" by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Carpenter, Cape Girardeau County Coroner, received the designation recently from Cape. James F. Keathley. Carpenter was nominated for the honor by Troop E of the Division of Drug and Crime Control...

Carl Burger, Joe Hann and Joe Capps, all of Havco Wood Products, Inc., Cape Girardeau, and Mark Robert, Dennis Sneed and Richard Seyer, of S & W Cabinets Inc., located in Chaffee, recently attended the first of a four-part industrial maintenance series at Memphis Machinery & Supply Co., and State Technical Institute in Memphis, Tenn...

Sandra Quigley, of Gulliver's Travels in Jackson, recently toured Universal Studios Islands of Adventure and City Walk, new attractions in Universal Studios at Orlando, Fla. Over the past two years, Universal Studios has doubled the size of its theme park in Orlando, featuring the City Walk and its numerous restaurants and next-generation nightclubs, and the Island of Adventure, featuring five themed park attractions, including superheros, comic strip lane, and Jurassic Park, The Lost Continent and Seuss Landing.. ...

Dr. Bill Meyer, president of the Cape Girardeau County Outreach and Extension Council; and council members Donna Koenig and Val Tuschhoff of Jackson and Dale F. Kester of Cape Girardeau attended an education conference held recently in Cape Girardeau...

Glenda Nations was honored recently by the Oliver, Oliver & Waltz, P.C. Law Firm for 25 years of service. She was picked up at her home in Jackson by a limousine and taken to work, where she was presented with a dozen red roses. During a luncheon catered by Celebrations, she received a silver necklace and bracelet...

Bob Bolan, of Occupation Medical Services, LLC (OMS), in Cape Girardeau, has completed the first week of a four-week occupational training program at the University of Cincinnati. He will completed the remaining three weeks during this year. Bolan has a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from Vanderbilt University, and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society in nursing...

QTE Manufacturing Solutions will hold two computer seminars for manufacturing and engineering companies May 25, at the Serena Building at Southeast Missouri State University. Engineering companies will be able to "test drive" the Solidworks Solid Modeling systems and manufacturers can do the same with the Mastercam Programming system...

The Arvin Industry's Parts Improvement Team (PIT) from Dexter has received the 1998 President's Award from Arvin Industry Inc., as the best manufacturing team for exhaust regional equipment division facilities. The Dexter team was one of 90 competing teams from North America, including the United States, Canada and Mexico...

As midyear approaches, many students will trade textbooks for paychecks during the summer months. Almost a third of the businesses in Southeast Missouri expect to hire workers this summer, ranging from durable and non-durable goods manufacturing and retail/wholesale sales, to construction and services, say most industry and business surveys...

This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Think diapers are expensive? Just wait until you have to pay college tuition...

Corey Cantwell, a Manpower Inc. on-site team leader has been honored for his referral efforts. Cantwell, who has been employed by Manpower's On-Site operation since 1997, received a check for $600 for his referral efforts. Manpower Inc. has been helping with staffing needs in Cape Girardeau and other Southeast Missouri areas since 1990, and world-wide since 1948...

"How to meet the Y2K Challenge," one-day workshops, will be held at various locations throughout Missouri next month. A session will be held in Cape Girardeau June 7, and at Poplar Bluff June 8. The workshops, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature a number of topics on planning, assessing and actions to take to prepare for the Year 2000, and will be sponsored by outreach and extension, small business development centers, Missouri Enterprise, and Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center...

Sarah, a border collie mix, is ready for water sports with this canine flotation vest available at Sunny Hill Pet Center. Sam, a cocker spaniel, enjoyed a "day at the spa" with Bruce Masterson, owner of A-1 Dog Grooming and Kennels. Pet owners have a variety of ways to show their love for their pets, including buying a variety of toys, clothing and greeting cards...

D&K Healthcare Resources Inc., formerly D&K Wholesale Drug Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, has been named number one in the St. Louis Post Dispatch's 1999 "Top 50" public companies. D&K, a drug wholesaler providing supplies to customers from facilities at St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Lexington, Ky., and Minneapolis, Minn., registered a 350 percent profit increase last year...

Family and friends of the late Gene E. Huckstep, a presiding county commissioner, say naming the newest pavilion at Cape Girardeau County North Park in his honor is a fitting tribute. Some even suggested the entire park be named in his honor. About 100 people attended a dedication service Sunday afternoon for shelter No. 4, now officially known as the Gene E. Huckstep Pavilion...

Dr. Grant Lund painted a mural of Stephen Hawking which is displayed at the Rhodes Hall of Science at Southeast Missouri State University. A job he took as a young man gives a sense of how badly Dr. Grant Lund wanted to become an artist. To earn money for school, he mixed chicken guts, cow tripe, dried eggs and fresh horse meat into a concoction that became mink food...

Sarah Cron wants students to make better use of Kent Library. But Cron, the library director, says that won't happen until some changes are made inside. Cron is cheering for changes proposed in a renovation plan that was reviewed last week by the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents...

Cape Girardeau's Riverfest celebration is still on hold. Organizers put off any decision on possibly canceling the event until Wednesday night. Riverfest organizers said Friday that unless more financial backing was found, the event would be canceled. Nearly $20,000 is needed to make sure the event can continue...

Friends, parents, former students and teachers lined up inside the cafeteria at Notre Dame Regional High School Sunday afternoon to wish Sister Mary Ann Fischer a fond farewell. Fischer is retiring after 11 years as principal of the Catholic high school. Although she's leaving Notre Dame, she isn't leaving the world of education...

The Perry family of Cape Girardeau, from left, Candice, Robert and Christina, performed the gospel song, "Send it on Down" at Bavarian Halle at Fruitland Saturday. FRUITLAND -- Christian Ebner wants to know if a music career should be the path he chooses for his life...

Education and law enforcement officials at the state level are expanding efforts to help local schools that want to conduct criminal background checks on current or prospective employees, Gov. Mel Carnahan announced. For the past year the Missouri Highway Patrol and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education have worked together to assist schools by performing computerized background checks on all public-school employees who hold teaching certificates. ...

Even if you're not a one-world conspiracy theorist, you've got to admit that the current leaders of many major Western states -- the United States, Britain, Germany, etc. -- are philosophically joined at the hip with an internationalist mindset. This mindset is generally unsympathetic to the traditional nation state and its right to territorial and political sovereignty...

Not too long ago Cape Girardeau's downtown area appeared to be on the verge of collapse, a victim of retail expansion westward. The situation mimicked that which has occurred in cities all over this nation as shopping malls sprung up around busy highways and interstates and in convenient locations for populations that moved away from inner cities into nicely developed subdivisions...

Once again, the hard work and dedication of a Cape Girardeau County sheriff's deputy has been recognized through presentation of the Timothy J. Ruopp Award. This year's award, the 14th since it was established in 1984, went to Paul Wilson, a bailiff and paper server with the department since 1984. That was the same year that Timothy Ruopp, a former officer of the department, was killed in the line of duty as a member of the San Diego Police Department...

William James Chamberlain, 61, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 22, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Born Oct. 7, 1937, in Nashville, Tenn., he was the son of the late Louise Ridings Johnson and James Dee Chamberlain. He married Janet Louise Richeson on Aug. 19, 1963, in Nashville and had two children, Catherine Louise Chamberlain and William Creighton Chamberlain, and a grandchild, Samuel Chamberlain Graber...

JACKSON -- Edward Joseph Brugger, 83, of Jackson died Saturday, May 22, 1999, at the Missouri Veterans Home. He was born Sept. 25, 1915, at Gordonville, son of Charles A. and Helen T. Kirn Brugger. He was a veteran of World War II and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he moved back to Gordonville. He owned and operated Gordonville Machine for several years...

Bettie E. Dowdy Statler, 61, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, May 23, 1999, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born May 1, 1938, at Tamms, Ill., daughter of George and Ida Poole Vaughn. She and Larry Dowdy were married Oct. 19, 1955. He died March 3, 1985. She then married Richard L. Statler on May 31, 1998...

ANNA, Ill. -- Helen Marie Worsley McDaniel, 86, of Anna died Sunday, May 23, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna.