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Cost of removing sewage sludge likely to change
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The Scott City Council heard some good, and bad news about the closing of the Old Illmo lagoon at its meeting Monday night. The good news: The removal of sludge from the lagoon is expected to come in below estimated costs. The bad news: Further requirements from the state Department of Natural Resources mean that restoring the lagoon area to its original state will cost more...
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1140th ordered to assist New Orleans cleanup
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The National Guard armory on Independence Street, normally a quiet place on a weekday, filled Tuesday with soldiers preparing to move out. The 1140th Engineer Battalion leaves for Louisiana Thursday. The soldiers from Cape Girardeau and the surrounding region will spend 14 to 30 days helping clear debris left by Hurricane Katrina...
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Bollinger County sheriff's mother dies in morning Arab fire
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
ARAB, Mo. -- The mother of Bollinger County Sheriff Terry Wiseman died Tuesday as a result of injuries sustained in a fire at her home near Arab. Marlene Wiseman, 71, received third-degree burns over most of her back and died while en route to a hospital, said Jim Bollinger, chief of the Marble Hill Fire Department...
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TRCC, Southeast tout higher enrollment
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
TRCC numbers fall at outlying centers following breakup with Southeast. Two feuding Bootheel colleges enrolled hundreds of students in competing higher education centers this fall. That has officials of the rival schools both celebrating victory even though overall enrollment dropped at one of the schools...
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Agencies try to reunite pets, owners separated by Katrina
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Hurricane Katrina flooded homes and separated families, not just human family members from each other, but from furry family members as well. The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri is asking for cash donations to help pay for vaccinations and deworming of any animals that come through its shelter, director Sue Sample said...
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Armstrong opens door for a possible return
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
AUSTIN, Texas -- After winning his seventh Tour de France title, Lance Armstrong stepped off the winner's podium in Paris and into retirement, declaring, "I'm finished." Six weeks later, he's already talking about a comeback. Recently engaged to rocker girlfriend Sheryl Crow, Armstrong issued a statement Tuesday confirming that he's contemplating a return to competitive cycling in part because he knows how much it would rankle French media who believe his record of seven straight Tour wins is tainted by drug use.. ...
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Cubs lefty befuddles Redbirds
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
Glendon Rusch was perfect for six innings in Chicago's 5-2 victory over St. Louis. ST. LOUIS -- After a winless drought that lasted nearly the entire summer, Glendon Rusch was at his best. Rusch was perfect for six innings and pitched into the eighth for his first victory since early June, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2 on Tuesday night...
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Central rolls on road vs. Hazelwood West
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/05)
The Tigers posted a 3-1 victory for their third straight win. The start of the 2005 soccer season has been a frustrating one at times for Central forward Lance Altenthal. The senior has had plenty of scoring chances but had converted just one goal prior to Tuesday's game at Hazelwood West...
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Saints owner backs plan to play at LSU
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
SAN ANTONIO -- Saints owner Tom Benson, who drew criticism for his silence concerning where the team should play home games in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, prefers to call Baton Rouge home. In a statement issued Tuesday, Benson echoed players and coaches who've said they prefer to play in Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus. Benson said he told the NFL he would like the Saints to play there "to the extent circumstances allow."...
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Adjusting to San Antonio
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
SAN ANTONIO -- Signs posted throughout the New Orleans Saints' hotel direct players to the place where they can get their ankles taped. Other signs guide them on a quarter-mile path to a foot bridge, over the Riverwalk and across a busy street to the building where team meetings are held...
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Last-place Pirates give pink slip to manager McClendon
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
PITTSBURGH -- Lloyd McClendon was the first Pittsburgh Pirates manager brought back after four consecutive losing seasons. One loss away from a fifth such season, the Pirates decided they wanted someone else running the club. McClendon, an aggressive former player known for his competitiveness and frequent run-ins with umpires, was fired Tuesday after averaging more than 90 losses since 2001 for a perennially non-contending team...
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Creamer displays youthful spirit, confidence for American team
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
CARMEL, Ind. -- Paula Creamer could have passed for a schoolgirl at a pep rally. Then again, that's what she was. She sat on the grass with her legs crossed, in the front row, with a red, white and blue ribbon tied around her blonde ponytail and tiny American flags painted on both cheeks. She clapped and cheered when the U.S. team walked by during the Solheim Cup matches two years ago in Sweden...
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President preparing request for more hurricane money
(National News ~ 09/07/05)
Republicans and Democrats alike heaped criticism on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. WASHINGTON -- President Bush intends to seek as much as $40 billion to cover the next phase of relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Tuesday as leading lawmakers and the White House pledged to investigate an initial federal response widely condemned as woefully inadequate...
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Nation/world digest 09/07/05
(National News ~ 09/07/05)
Saudi forces overrun villa where militants holed up DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia -- In a barrage of gunfire and explosions, Saudi special forces overran a seaside villa Tuesday where Islamic militants had been holed up, ending three days of heavy fighting that killed at least nine people. ...
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Autopsy reveals 49ers' Herrion had undetected heart condition
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Thomas Herrion had heart disease and evidence of previous heart trouble when he collapsed and died after a preseason game last month, an official in the Denver County coroner's office said Tuesday...
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Congress calls for investigations of price gouging
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
WASHINGTON -- In a sign of growing political anxiety over high gasoline prices, members of Congress on Tuesday issued a bipartisan call for authorities to investigate more aggressively whether there has been price gouging. Returning from their summer recess, lawmakers held the first of what is expected to be a spate of hearings on record-high gas prices and introduced a raft of legislation...
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Floyd Liley Sr.
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
Floyd W. Liley Sr., 93, formerly of Sikeston, Mo., died Sept. 6, 2005, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Born June 15, 1912, at Lutesville, Mo., he was the son of the late David and Lucretia (Eaker) Liley. He graduated from Lutesville High School in 1929, received a B.S. in education from Southeast Missouri State University and a master's in education from the University of Tennessee in Memphis...
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Speak Out 9/7/05
(Speak Out ~ 09/07/05)
Don't support them; Misusing gasoline; Prepared for the worst?; Church attire; Reacting to adversity; Heed the warning; Personal blessings; Ready for quake?; Two Americas; Fashion updates; Chimes joke; Time for progress; Total loss; Guns against guns; Understanding nature; Bigger problems; Unfounded rumor
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Where's the compassion?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/07/05)
To the editor: My letter addresses the recent Speak Out comment, "Rescue expenses." It sounds like someone needs to be set straight. Hurricanes are unpredictable. Forecasters can never tell exactly where a hurricane will hit until it's almost too late. For some people, it was...
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Jackson's additions
(Editorial ~ 09/07/05)
Jackson has a new soccer park and a new senior center, thanks to hard work by many volunteers along with donations and state grants. The soccer park has been three years in the making. Parents, the Jackson Soccer Park Association and the city of Jackson contributed thousands of volunteer hours to the project, which encompasses 13 new fields on Route PP over 27 acres donated by the Jackson Industrial Development Co. ...
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Self-sufficiency will be crucial
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/07/05)
To the editor: If any lesson is to be learned from the disaster that was New Orleans, it is this: You have to be self-sufficient to survive. You cannot depend on the government to save you. No, I do not blame President Bush or the Congress for lack of response. They are doing what they are capable of doing. Since when has government moved fast?...
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Betty Thrower
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
ANNA, Ill. -- Betty Jo Thrower, 83, of Anna died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, at South Gate Nursing Home in Metropolis, Ill. She was born March 24, 1922, daughter of Harvey and Lela Baker Nichols. She married Woodrow Thrower, who died in 1993. Thrower was a member of Mighty Rivers Regional Worship Center in Cairo, Ill. She was formerly of Olive Branch, Ill...
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Dorothy Shell
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Dorothy Shell, 97, of Advance died Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 30, 1908, in Rudolph, Ohio, daughter of James and Carrie Bratt Black. She and Doyle Shell were married March 12, 1925, in Oklahoma. He died in February 1981...
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Out of the past 9/7/05
(Out of the Past ~ 09/07/05)
25 years ago: Sept. 7, 1980 St. Mark Lutheran Church holds its Family Fellowship Day, with festivities beginning in the morning at Sunday school. Last fall, the Cape Girardeau City Council solicited bids for a disaster-warning siren system, awarded a contract and set April 15 of this year as the completion deadline; this fall, following the failure of the first system, the city will again seek bids for sirens and will likely set April 15 of next year as the new completion deadline...
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Efforts continue for pro-life bills
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/07/05)
To the editor: In response to the letter "Lawmakers to tackle abortion measures": Senate President Pro Tem Mike Gibbons made a statement that misrepresented Missouri Right to Life's position on pro-life legislation that was proceeding through the legislative process in the last legislative session. ...
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Club news 9/7/05
(Community News ~ 09/07/05)
Cape Girardeau County FCE...
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Michael Moylan
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Michael R. Moylan, 63, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City, Mo. He was born Aug. 14, 1942, at Hannibal, Mo., son of Henry Richard and Mildred Lucille Murphy Moylan. He and Marcia Beck were married Aug. 24, 1963...
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Dorothy O'Hara
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Dorothy C. O'Hara, 82, of San Diego, Calif., died Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, in San Diego. She was born March 12, 1923, in Leopold, daughter of Henry and Minnie Brummer Schmitt. O'Hara was a retired nurse. Survivors include a sister, Judy Beussink of Advance, Mo...
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Marlene Wiseman
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Marlene Wiseman, 71, of Advance died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, at Missouri Southern Healthcare in Dexter, from injuries received in a fire at her home. She was born Aug. 8, 1934, in Brownwood, Mo., daughter of Ben and Novella Dunivan Kirk. She and Odell Wiseman were married Nov. 10, 1951, in Piggott, Ark. He died Nov. 28, 2003...
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Gladys Shine
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
Gladys Verretta Shine, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, at Heartland Care Rehab Center. She was born Nov. 9, 1919, at Wellston, Mo., daughter of Ezra and Etta Cooper Beasley. Shine had been a laundry worker, worked at Woolworth's, Dollar Store and Leo Dry Goods and Apparel in Overland, Mo., and in a real estate office. She moved to Cape Girardeau in 1990 from St. Louis...
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Adelbert Louis
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
Adelbert "Debo" Louis, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, at his home. He was born Jan. 17, 1923, in Hammond, Ind., son of Fred Louis and Helen Bollinger. Louis had worked at Cape Cut-Rate, Kelley Transportation, and shined shoes at Holiday Inn...
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Josephine Fisher
(Obituary ~ 09/07/05)
Josephine C. Nenninger Fisher, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born Nov. 11, 1915, in Glennon, Mo., daughter of William J. and Bertha Lenderink Nenninger. She and Leonard J. Fisher were married April 24, 1946, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Glennon. He died Dec. 18, 2002...
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Be prepared for no assistance
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/07/05)
To the editor: It is hard for me to believe that my government was not ready for this. Officials knew the hurricane was coming. There should have been shelters, food and a mobile hospital set up right after the hurricane was over. The sick and the children should have been helped first...
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New twists bring back life to old recipes
(Column ~ 09/07/05)
The Labor Day holiday was a much-needed long weekend for our family. Although we did not do much of anything exciting, we did things as a family, which is always a lot of fun. Lexie, our 8-year-old daughter, found her daddy's pogo stick from his childhood days...
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Corrections 9/7/05
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The SEMO District Fair begins Saturday. The wrong day was published in Sunday's edition of the Southeast Missourian. KFVS-12 raised nearly $40,000 more than last year's total of $437,203. The information was incorrect in Tuesday's edition. The Southeast Missourian regrets the errors...
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Putting the goo in 'good': Gooey butter cake is a Midwest tradition
(Community ~ 09/07/05)
I know I'd be in big trouble if my copy of Roget's Thesaurus were ever stolen, pilfered, purloined, swiped or ripped off. Without it I'd have difficulty writing a sentence, let alone a whole paragraph. But as valuable to a writer as the good Dr. Roget's book is (some say it ranks right up there with the Bible as one of the most important works ever printed), you have to be careful when using it...
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Inching out of the nightmare
(National News ~ 09/07/05)
NEW ORLEANS -- Progress was measured in inches Tuesday, in the slow dropping of water levels outside New Orleans' buildings, as engineers struggled to drain this saucer of a city in a Herculean task that could take weeks -- if they are lucky. The Army Corps of Engineers said the timetable ranges from three weeks to nearly three months, depending on a string of variables, including rainfall, the still-unknown condition of the pumps abandoned to Hurricane Katrina, and whether the system can withstand the flotsam of broken buildings, trees, trash and corpses.. ...
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Ala. publisher urges donations at football games across nation
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Ben Shurett, the publisher of Alabama's Fort Payne Times-Journal, is asking every person who attends local high school and college football games to contribute one dollar to hurricane victims...
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Cape Girardeau City Council action 9/7/05
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Presentations ** n Mary Burton of the American Red Cross gave a presentation. * Assistant fire chief Mark Hasheider gave a presentation regarding 911 improvements. Public Hearings * Held a public hearing on an addition to the zoning ordinance. * Held a public hearing on the request of Sherman and Syvilla Swan and Frank and Rebecca Stinnett for a special-use permit for a day-care center at 1200 Ranney Ave...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen 9/6/05
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Public Hearings ** n Held a hearing to consider the voluntary annexation petition submitted by Carolyn Little for 76.2 acres of property along Zschille Road (known as future Cold Creek Estates and Brookside Estates Subdivisions.) * Held a hearing to consider the voluntary annexation petition submitted by JoBeth Little for 2.14 acres of property along Zschille Road...
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Ultimate truth: Creation science abuses the biblical worldview
(Column ~ 09/07/05)
I have dreaded writing this but am convinced that someone must stand up for the Bible. You see, creation science is not only bad science but it is also bad Bible. Creation science claims to champion a biblical worldview. In reality it assumes a mythic scientific metanarrative that even science does not advance, as Allen Gathman has shown so well in his recent op-ed column...
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Cape/Jackson police reports 9/7/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/07/05)
Cape Girardeau...
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Cape/Jackson fire report 9/06/05
(Police/Fire Report ~ 09/07/05)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday: * At 5:24 p.m., emergency medical service in the 200 block of Caruthers Avenue. * At 6:51 p.m., emergency medical service in the 400 block of North Frederick Street. * At 7:54 p.m., emergency medical service in the 100 block of Siemers Drive...
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Iraq president says Saddam has confessed to crimes of his regime
(International News ~ 09/07/05)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other "crimes" committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. President Jalal Talabani told Iraqi television that he had been informed by an investigating judge that "he was able to extract confessions from Saddam's mouth" about crimes "such as executions" which the ousted leader had personally ordered...
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Division I-AA Poll
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
The top 25 teams in The Sports Network Division I-AA football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 4 and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. James Madison (75) 1-0 2,571 1 2. Furman (19) 1-0 2,469 2 3. Montana (6) 1-0 2,384 3...
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Federer drops a set but advances
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
NEW YORK -- Roger Federer sneered, tossed his racket in disgust. Horror of horrors, he lost a set. For most of the U.S. Open, the defending champion and top seed had seemed to sleepwalk through his matches, playing only as well as necessary, waking up and painting lines when pressed...
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Area digest 9/7/05
(Community Sports ~ 09/07/05)
Southeast Missouri State goalie nets OVC honor Southeast Missouri State junior goalkeeper Lindsay Pickering was named the Ohio Valley Conference defensive player of the week for soccer on Tuesday. Pickering allowed just one goal in two matches over the past week. She stopped nine shots in Friday's 1-0 loss to St. Louis University, then made three saves to earn the shutout in Monday's 3-0 win over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville...
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New group says families displaced here need help
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
A new local Katrina relief committee requests that the community consider making donations to local displaced families instead of shipping them to the Gulf Coast. As scores of evacuees plant themselves, at least temporarily, in Cape Girardeau and the surrounding area, emergency response and civic officials are being overwhelmed with information and requests...
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Bulldogs avenge lone loss of season
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/05)
The Notre Dame softball team avenged its lone loss of the season with a 5-2 victory in nine innings Tuesday at Poplar Bluff. The Mules dealt the Bulldogs (8-1) their lone loss of the season Saturday night in the finals of the Notre Dame Softballfest...
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Nextel Cup's 2006 schedule virtual repeat of 2005
(Professional Sports ~ 09/07/05)
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR released the 2006 Nextel Cup Series schedule Tuesday, a 36-race slate that is virtually identical to this season. The only changes are a pair of race date swaps. Richmond International Raceway's spring race will move up to May 6 and Darlington Raceway's race will follow on May 13, again the night before Mother's Day. ...
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Jacksonville State's tough loss is seen as progress by OVC
(College Sports ~ 09/07/05)
As painful as it was for Jacksonville State to lose on the final play of the game Thursday, coach Jack Crowe said the Gamecocks' performance should still do its share to help the Ohio Valley Conference's tattered national image. After losing to Furman 49-7 in last year's NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, the Gamecocks nearly upset the nation's second-ranked team in their season opener --only to see Furman pull out a wild 37-35 victory in Jacksonville, Ala...
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Season over for Collins
(College Sports ~ 09/07/05)
What Southeast Missouri State football coach Tim Billings had originally feared was confirmed over the weekend. Austen Collins, a junior college transfer who Billings had hailed as perhaps the most talented running back at Southeast since he took over the program in 2000, will miss the rest of the season...
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St. Vincent falls from No. 3 to No. 10
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/05)
St. Vincent, the lone area team ranked in the Missouri high school football rankings, fell to No. 10 in Class 1 this week after an opening loss to Class 2 Priory. The Indians opened the season at No. 3, coming off a season in which they won their first state championship...
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Notre Dame hammers Hillsboro
(High School Sports ~ 09/07/05)
Frankie Ellis scored one goal and assisted on two goals to lead Notre Dame in a 4-0 victory against visiting Hillsboro on Tuesday night. Ellis, who assisted on the first and third goals, scored the second goal by completing a 40-yard run after Jordan Buchheit had won the ball at midfield for the Bulldogs...
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Redhawks land payday with Arkansas in 2006
(College Sports ~ 09/07/05)
Since Tim Billings became Southeast Missouri State's football coach in 2000, the Redhawks have played at least one Division I-A opponent every season in order to provide financial help to the university's athletic department. But Billings and athletic director Don Kaverman both wished that, instead of facing teams from what are considered mid-major Division I-A conferences -- such as Saturday's opponent, Kent State of the Mid-American Conference -- the Redhawks could line up a game against a squad from a BCS conference, where the financial windfall would be much more significant.. ...
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Post-Millennial Rock gets a makeover: Black Rebel
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Around the turn of the century, a subtle change overtook mainstream rock music: it stopped sucking. Well, at least some of it did. The backward-looking work of such bands as Interpol and The Hives helped to reinvigorate a genre that had become as bland and tasteless as the sonic oatmeal that flooded the airwaves with cheap imitations of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Faith No More, and Dave Matthews. ...
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The rough riders: About 100 cyclists compete in Cape Mountain Bike Challenge
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
The eight-year mountain bike racing silence in Southeast Missouri was broken on Sunday, August 31, as about 100 bikers participated in Cyclewerx's inaugural Cape Mountain Bike Challenge. Though the turnout at the event was less than expected, race directors Dustin Gross and John Dodd were content with the smaller crowd...
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Hundreds of Bicyclists to Invade Cape October 1
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Listed by Bicycling Magazine as the "Reader's Choice" ride in October for the state of Missouri, the sixth annual Tour de Cape is set to host hundreds of bicyclists from throughout the Midwest and Mid-South. The event will take place Saturday, October 1...
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A-list director and stars coming to Cape Girardeau
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Urgent bulletin for the celebrity-obsessed - Hollywood is coming to Cape Girardeau. For three days in December or January, a partial cast and crew will be in the city filming scenes for the upcoming film "Killshot," based on an Elmore Leonard book set partially in Cape...
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The Fair is coming to town
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Polish up your boots and dust off those old Allman Brothers records - the SEMO District Fair will provide entertainment for the cowboy and the southern rocker in everyone this month. Country music veteran Randy Travis will be headlining the entertainment events, while the Renegades of Southern Rock will satisfy the need for some wailing guitar to wash down the country twang...
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Visit from the folks: Family Weekend hits Sept. 23-25
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Parents longing to see their little sweety-pies will flood the Southeast Missouri campus Sept. 23-25 for Family Weekend. Since 1977 the weekend has been a chance for the parental units to see how much their kid has changed in a mere months time at college...
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An Unusual Combo: Running and Freedom
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
You may not associate 1st Amendment rights with running, but the third annual Free Speech Run does just that. Dr. Glen Williams, associate professor of communication studies and race coordinator, launched the event three years ago with one expressed goal: to celebrate freedom. "The purpose of the run is to celebrate first amendment rights & their role in erecting and maintaining our other freedoms," Williams says...
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Trojan Women to be performed at Rose Theatre
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Forget Brad Pitt. Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Theatre and Dance is getting Trojan. The department will open its 2005-2006 season with the classic Greek tragedy "The Trojan Women," written by Euripides and first performed in 415 B.C...
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Allison Krauss and Union Station coming for concert
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Bluegrass heavyweights Allison Krauss and Union Station will play the Show Me Center in October. Krauss's Oct. 5 appearance, which will feature opening act Jerry Douglas, will be the Show Me Center's first concert since Christian pop star Michael W. Smith's performed in May...
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These films will blow your mind
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Rarely when we see a film are we moved to think about our very existence, our place in the Universe, the purposes of Mankind, time and space, or the mind of God. But sometimes, films are made that do just that - rise above the level of being mere movies and excel to the height of cinematic art that moves the viewer to contemplate the Bigger Picture. A certain group of films, done in a unique documentary style, actually succeed in moving our minds and souls...
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Steve Ewing spills his guts on life after Urge
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
You might think that after fronting one of the most popular bands of the '90s, a tired rocker might be content to rest on his laurels. But St. Louis native Steve Ewing has never been one to slow down. After disbanding The Urge in 2001, Ewing barely took a breath before beginning his solo career with the aptly titled album "Here We Go Again." He's now on the verge of releasing his third album, "Pacific Standard Time," and touring the Midwest with fellow St. ...
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City of Roses Music Festival in full bloom
(Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
Downtown Cape Girardeau on a normal weekend is already a rocking place, with multiple bands often taking stages around the clubs downtown. For the Ninth Annual City of Roses Music Festival, taking place on Sept. 23 and 24, organizers hope to take the party atmosphere already in place and twist it up a couple of notches...
- Entertainment guide for Sept. 2005 (Entertainment ~ 09/07/05)
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Fairgoers hit the concession stands for unique fair food
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The minute you pay your admission to the SEMO District Fair and walk toward the carnival midway, it hits you like a pie in the face. That wonderful smell of hot grease, cooking up all that wonderful, fried fair food. Don't go looking for a green salad or an apple stand. Fair food is not healthy food. It just tastes good, and there's something about the atmosphere -- the lights, the noise, the excitement -- that makes it taste really good...
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Carnivals and the fair go together
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Traveling carnivals have long been a mainstay of the fair. In the late 1800s, innovations in transportation and technology helped transform carnivals into traveling whirls of sideshows and sticky food. The carnival as we know it is distinctly American. We invented cotton candy and the Ferris wheel took its first spin at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892...
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Crops and livestock have starring role in fairs over the years
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The United States was first an agricultural nation, and county fairs were originally started to promote and improve the quality of farm products by encouraging farmers to develop new and better techniques in producing agricultural crops and livestock...
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Entertainers at the fair draw big crowds
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The SEMO District Fair has been a main venue for national entertainers performing in the city for about 30 years. Although the fair had brought in musicians and other entertainers almost since its inception, it didn't start featuring nationally known acts until 1976 when Brenda Lee and Mel Tillis performed...
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Fair timeline
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
1855 - Missouri Legislature created South East Agriculture Society, appropriating $3,000 for the project. It was made up of all the counties in the congressional district. Cape Girardeau was chosen as the location for the fair, which was small that first year. President of the fair was Gen. Nathaniel Watkins...
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Fair board presidents
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
There have been at least 21 presidents of the Fair Board since the district fair opened in October 1855. Many presidents served more than one year. The names of all the Fair Board presidents can not be found. There were no presidents during the years that the fair was not held. ...
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SEMO District Fair has had three locations
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
Shortly after the U.S. Agriculture Society was formed in New York, Southeast Missouri joined other areas around the country in forming a district fair to promote agriculture. The Missouri Legislature passed an act creating the Southeast District Agricultural Society in 1855 and set aside $3,000 for the fair project...
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Early fairs promoted local livestock and agriculture
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
In 1851, the Singer sewing machine had been patented, and in 1854 the Republican Party was officially formed. And the year prior to the establishment of the Western Union telegraph and five years before the first Pony Express ride -- in 1855 -- the first Southeast Missouri District Fair was held...
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4-H dedicates new exhibit building at SEMO District Fair
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
This year a new addition at the SEMO District Fair is a 4,000-square-foot 4-H exhibit building, doubling the space for 4-H exhibitions from previous years. The building was built in time for the 150th anniversary of the fair through a collaboration among the Cape Girardeau County 4-H Council, the city of Cape Girardeau and the SEMO District Fair...
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Fair weather for the fair?
(Local News ~ 09/07/05)
The SEMO District Fair has long been the event of the year for farmers to track down a top tomato seed, ogle the newest tractor or check out a prize-winning pig. The annual rite of summer is alive and well. Early fairs were held in October, but changed to September to avoid the fall rain. It is usually hot and humid when the fair is held in September, although vists to the fair at night can feel just right. But if it rains -- there are problems...
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