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United Way official discusses poverty during social service presentation
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
People in the social service field gathered at the United Way of Southeast Missouri on Tuesday to learn more about something called the invisible nation of poverty. They listened to a presentation by Melissa Stickel, titled "Poverty 101," to gain a deeper understanding of poverty in the community. Stickel is director of community development for the agency...
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Survey: Missourians feel less pain at pump
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
Missouri motorists have seen some relief the past week, with retail gas prices falling 6 cents to an average of $3.40 per gallon Monday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 3,940 Missouri gas outlets. The national average has dropped 1.4 cents per gallon in the past week to $3.64 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.com...
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Missouri Senate looks to curb union fee collection
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate is expected to debate legislation this week that would curb the ability of public employee unions to collect fees from workers' paychecks. Senate Republican leaders have called the measure a top priority this year. The bill passed the House previously and awaits action on the Senate calendar...
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Gov. Nixon names acting Missouri fire marshal
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's assistant state fire marshal has been chosen to serve as the acting state fire marshal. Gov. Jay Nixon elevated Greg Carrell to replace Randy Cole, who was fire marshal from 2005 until his retirement last week...
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Southeast Kansas still in storm radar blind spot
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
JOPLIN, Mo. -- A new radar system helped meteorologists in Oklahoma detect debris from a tornado just as it was hitting Quapaw last month, but a similar radar in Missouri failed to see debris from the same storm when the EF2 twister bore moments later through Baxter Springs, Kansas...
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Kansas City prohibits smoking in public housing beginning July 1
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Housing Authority is drawing both praise and anger for its decision to ban smoking in all public housing, beginning July 1. The policy, which will prohibit smoking indoors and in outdoor areas of the complexes, affects more than 1,700 residential units and about 5,000 adults and children, The Kansas City Star reported...
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Missouri lawmakers endorse March presidential primary
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri would hold presidential primary elections in March instead of February under a bill on its way to Gov. Jay Nixon. House members approved the legislation Monday on a vote of 101-47. The Senate passed it 25-7 in April...
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Man injured when car hits mayoral candidate's house
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
A motorist was taken to a hospital Monday with non-life-threatening injuries after the car he was driving crashed into a house on Mason Street. Chris Hendricks told officers he had a seizure, which caused him to accelerate through the intersection of Mason and Middle streets and crash into the house in a black 2010 Ford Taurus, Sgt. Jason Selzer of the Cape Girardeau Police Department said...
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Board of regents set to discuss tuition schedules, degree programs
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
New health-communication and health-sciences degrees will be considered at today's Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents meeting. Scheduled for 1:30 p.m. in the Board of Regents Room at Academic Hall, the meeting also includes approving incidental, online and special course fees and reports...
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Prodigy students tend neighborhood garden
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
LAURA SIMON ~ lsimon@semissourian.com Clayson Anderson shovels dirt from the perimeter of the neighborhood garden located off Merriwether Street on Monday to clear the way for a fence. ...
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Jackson board discusses water bond issue options
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
A majority of returned Jackson community survey results regarding a water improvements bond issue were in favor of upgrading the city's 2- and 4-inch water distribution pipes and not paying for softened water -- a luxury, not a necessity, many commented...
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Boone County judge grants divorce for gay couple
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A Boone County judge has granted what may be the first same-sex divorce in Missouri, which has a constitutional amendment against recognizing same-sex marriages. Boone County Circuit Judge Leslie Schneider granted a divorce last month for Dena and Samantha Latimer, who were married in Massachusetts in 2009 and lived in Columbia, The Columbia Daily Tribune reported. ...
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Man freed in Missouri delayed imprisonment case
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Cornealious "Mike" Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars when the mistake was caught. On Monday, he walked out of a Southeast Missouri courtroom a free man again -- this time with no need to look over his shoulder...
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Glen Scott Evans gets 25 years in fatal shooting
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
A Cape Girardeau County circuit judge sentenced a Dexter, Missouri, man to 25 years in prison Monday for his role in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Sean Crow of Bernie, Missouri. Under Missouri's truth-in-sentencing law, Glen Scott Evans, 46, will be more than 67 years old before he is eligible for parole...
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Missouri Senate votes to override gov.'s tax cut veto
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican House leaders were looking confidently toward a showdown Tuesday over whether to enact an income-tax cut, after the GOP-led Senate took the first step by voting to override the veto of Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon...
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Commander Premier expected to be out before air show
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
Commander Premier Aircraft Corp. has finally started moving out of its hangar at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, just in time for this year's air festival. The city of Cape Girardeau evicted the company in October 2011 after Commander failed to make lease payments going back to 2007. The company began business at the airport in 2005 with plans to establish a small plane production company and hire 100 people within three years, but never produced any aircraft...
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Scott City rides nine-run fifth into Class 1 softball quarterfinals
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/14)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- First-year Scott City softball coach Kaitlin Zink didn't have to say too much to her players when they were trailing by two runs in the fifth inning of their Class 1 sectional game against Leopold on Monday. But somebody else in the dugout did, and what followed was a nine-run inning for the Rams that led to a 12-5 victory over the Wildcats...
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Maintenance, upkeep growing issues for cemeteries near and far
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
Toppled headstones of a husband and wife long deceased. Ivy hiding the identities of babies who never reached age 1. Faded flowers left by a daughter who has since died herself. These scenes are becoming more common as the nation and its cemeteries age...
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Cape City Council selects temporary Ward 3 representative
(Local News ~ 05/06/14)
The temporary Ward 3 representative was appointed by the Cape Girardeau City Council at it's Monday night meeting. Four men turned in applications for the position, including two who also announced their intent to run for the elected position. The council ultimately selected Patrick Koetting during the regular session when Charles DiStefano announced during the study session his decision to step down...
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Girl Scout Bronze Awardees
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/06/14)
The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award a Girl Scout Junior can earn. Completed as a troop, girls learn teamwork and confidence as they have the kind of fun working with other Girl Scouts to make a difference. The Girl Scout Bronze Award demonstrates the leadership and planning skills required to follow through with a project that makes a positive difference in the community. Thirty six girls from Cape Girardeau received the Bronze Award on Monday May 5,2014...
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TNT Fitness's New Nutrition and Exercise Program
(Submitted Story ~ 05/06/14)
TNT Fitness is offering a new easy to follow exercise and nutrition program called "The TakeDown Challenge". This is a 28 Day support and supervised program that is made for men and women from the ages of 18-80 who want to lose weight, quickly, safely, and permanently...
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Butterfly
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/06/14)
Butterfly on a flower.
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Blue Angels
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/06/14)
The Blue Angels perform their aerial burst as part of the airshow at the Spirit of St Louis airport this past weekend in Chesterfield.
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Blue Angels
(Submitted Photo ~ 05/06/14)
The U.S. Navy flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels at the Spirit of St Louis airport in Chesterfield this past weekend as part of the airport's 50th anniversary celebration.
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Actress Spotlight/ Actress on the Rise
(Submitted Story ~ 05/06/14)
Former Missouri resident, Natasha Laws Mick is set to act in a variety of films and television productions this year. One of which will be the film Abattage Angels filming in St. Louis Missouri, by writer and director James Featherston and writer Ryan Tolleson. ...
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St. Louis researchers investigate value of fasting
(State News ~ 05/06/14)
ST. LOUIS -- Does periodic fasting offer greater value than counting calories daily? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis hope to find out. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the research will look at whether limited fasting for a few days a week is easier than limiting food intake on a daily basis. They also want to learn if fasting helps with weight loss and slows aging...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 05/06/14)
Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 126th day of 2014. There are 239 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On May 6, 1954, medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4...
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Thanks for tax-cut endorsement
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/06/14)
I would like to thank the editorial board for its objective consideration of SB 509 and the veto override. It is clear that you took the time to not only understand the legislation, but acknowledge the reality that talking points motivate both sides of an issue...
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The need for regulation
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/06/14)
Everyone in the United States agrees that the best government is that which governs the least. Today, an increasing number of conservative people believe that there is too much government in our lives. They remind me of juvenile delinquents who complain that their parents are too intrusive and controlling of them. They have no clue that it was their unruly behaviors that forced their parents to take charge...
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Affinity Gaming reports its payment system has been hacked
(National News ~ 05/06/14)
LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas company that owns casinos in Nevada, Missouri, Colorado and Iowa says its system for processing credit and debit card information has been hacked. Affinity Gaming issued a statement last week saying it has no evidence that credit card information is being stolen. Company officials said they've taken steps to secure the system, and the independent cybersecurity firm Mandiant was looking into the breach...
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Dorris Kester
(Obituary ~ 05/06/14)
Dorris Kester, 85, of Cape Girardeau passed away Sunday, May 4, 2014, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Dec. 14, 1928, in Chaffee, Missouri, daughter of Frank and Olivia Dumey Graser. She and John Kester were married July 29, 1947. He passed away Oct. 15, 1992...
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Jackie Miller
(Obituary ~ 05/06/14)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Jackie L. Miller, 65, of Olive Branch died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at Cobden Rehab and Nursing Center, surrounded by family and friends. He had resided there since February and the family is so grateful for the loving care he received by the staff in his last months of life...
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Luella Degenhardt
(Obituary ~ 05/06/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Luella M. Degenhardt, 87, of Perryville died Monday, May 5, 2014, at Independence Care Center of Perry County. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Thomas Handrick officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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Mary Penrod
(Obituary ~ 05/06/14)
Mary Evelyn Penrod, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 4, 2014, at her home. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Stan Hargis officiating. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park...
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Victoria Strong
(Obituary ~ 05/06/14)
Victoria S. Strong, 45, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, May 1, 2014, at Saint Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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Police: Singer McCreery victim of home invasion
(Entertainment ~ 05/06/14)
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Country music singer Scotty McCreery was the victim of an early morning home invasion near the campus of North Carolina State University, where he is a student. Raleigh Police spokesman Jim Sughrue says officers were called shortly before 2 a.m. Monday to an apartment about a mile from campus. People at the apartment told police that three suspects armed with guns robbed them of wallets, cash and electronic items...
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Settlement reached in guardianship of Ariel Winter
(Entertainment ~ 05/06/14)
LOS ANGELES -- The mother and sister of "Modern Family" star Ariel Winter have settled a guardianship dispute over who will care for the teenage actress. Winter's mother Chrisoula Workman and sister Shanelle Gray announced the accord on Monday in Los Angeles just before a guardianship trial was set to begin...
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Miranda Lambert leads CMT nominations
(Entertainment ~ 05/06/14)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Thanks to her friends in country music, Miranda Lambert leads the Country Music Television Award nominations by pairing with her husband Blake Shelton, her girl group Pistol Annies and good friend Keith Urban. She's up for two individual awards for her video "Automatic," two for collaborating with the Annies on Shelton's song "Boys 'Round Here" and two more for her duet with Urban on "We Were Us."...
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Jackson fire report 5/6/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/06/14)
*** JACKSON Firefighters responded to the following call Sunday. * Emergency medical service on South Shawnee Parkway.
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Jackson police report 5/6/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/06/14)
The Jackson Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWIs Arrests Summonses Thefts Property damage Miscellaneous...
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Cape Girardeau police report 5/6/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 05/06/14)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY The Department of Public Safety released the following items. DWIs...
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Experiment grows new muscle in men's injured legs
(Community ~ 05/06/14)
WASHINGTON -- Scientists implanted thin sheets of scaffolding-like material from pigs into a few young men with disabling leg injuries -- and say the experimental treatment coaxed the men's own stem cells to regrow new muscle. The research, funded by the Defense Department, included just five patients, a small first step in the complex quest for regenerative medicine...
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Calcium intake, exercise key in staving off osteoporosis
(Community ~ 05/06/14)
Editor's note: This story first appeared in the summer issue of Flourish magazine. To subscribe, call 388-2785. Bones break. But as women grow older, breaks become more common because of osteoporosis: a disease of the skeletal system identified by low-bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue, also called "porous bone." Bones become soft or brittle and break more easily...
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U.N.: Spread of polio now a world health emergency
(International News ~ 05/06/14)
LONDON -- For the first time ever, the World Health Organization on Monday declared the spread of polio an international public health emergency that could grow in the next few months and unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate the crippling disease...
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Nigeria group threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls
(International News ~ 05/06/14)
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday. Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, warning that his group plans to attack more schools and abduct more girls...
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Ukraine sends elite guard unit to Odessa
(International News ~ 05/06/14)
ODESSA, Ukraine -- Ukraine sent an elite national guard unit to its southern port of Odessa, desperate to halt a spread of the fighting between government troops and a pro-Russia militia in the east that killed combatants on both sides Monday. The government in Kiev intensified its attempts to bring both regions back under its control, but seemed particularly alarmed by the bloodshed in Odessa. ...
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Clip suspected in circus accident; two critical
(National News ~ 05/06/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Investigators suspect that a snapped clip sent eight aerial acrobats plummeting 20 feet or more during a daring act in which performers dangle from their hair. One injured performer told her father she didn't notice anything amiss before her "plunge into darkness."...
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U.S. to unleash IRS on Russian banks
(National News ~ 05/06/14)
WASHINGTON -- As the United States attempts to punish Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the Treasury Department is deploying an economic weapon that could prove more costly than sanctions: the Internal Revenue Service. This summer, the U.S. plans to start using a new law that will make it more expensive for Russian banks to do business in America...
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High court ruling favors prayer at council meeting
(National News ~ 05/06/14)
WASHINGTON -- A narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld decidedly Christian prayers at the start of local council meetings on Monday, declaring them in line with long national traditions though the country has grown more religiously diverse. The content of the prayers is not significant as long as they do not denigrate non-Christians or try to win converts, the court said in a 5-4 decision backed by its conservative majority...
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Cardinals extend Braves' losing streak
(Professional Sports ~ 05/06/14)
St. Louis took advantage of shaky defense in a 4-3 win
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Notre Dame falls in title game of SEMO Conference tournament
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/14)
Kennett's Bud Hilburn related an early season story after the Indians' 7-5 win over top-seeded Notre Dame in Monday's SEMO Conference tournament championship game at Capaha Field. "At the very beginning of the season there was two or three teams in the conference that were ranked in the state, and everybody was kind of looking at us, and as our coach said, 'We're kind of a like a snake in the grass,'" Hilburn said. "We showed we can play with everybody."...
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High school roundup: Notre Dame track teams sweep conference meet
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/14)
Host Notre Dame swept the boys and girls divisions at the six-team SEMO Central Conference track and field meet Monday. The Bulldogs won 12 of the 18 events in the boys division. Jordan Barber and Rudy McClellan each picked up a pair of first-place finishes for Notre Dame...
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Notre Dame's Dixon fires 69 at district golf meet
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/14)
Notre Dame senior Brady Dixon saved his best 18-hole high school round for the Class 3 District 1 tournament Monday at the Crowne Pointe Golf Club in Farmington, Missouri. Dixon fired a 3-under-par 69 to claim the medalist honor and lead the Bulldogs in their successful defense of their district title. Notre Dame totaled 308 and finished 21 shots ahead of runner-up Farmington...
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Pike helps Jackson golfers stake claim to district crown
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/14)
The junior shot 71 to tie Central's Simmons for the medalist honor
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Celebrating Jackson and 200 years of history
(Column ~ 05/06/14)
The city of Jackson was established in 1814 as a "seat of justice" for the newly formed Cape Girardeau County. That makes our city 200 years old, and we are really celebrating our bicentennial. We started in January with a reading of proclamations from the county commission, state Sen. Wayne Wallingford, state Rep. Donna Lichtenegger and me...
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Out of the past 5/6/14
(Out of the Past ~ 05/06/14)
Southeast Missouri State University's board of regents gives its approval for the establishment of a Center for Earthquake Studies in the College of Science and Technology; the center will engage in educational and research activities. About 30 people, including members of Vision 2000 and the Teen Challenge training center, plant 700 rose bushes on the northwest side of Interstate 55/Route K intersection; the roses are planted on a gentle slope in an area about 30 feet wide by 200 feet long...
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Leadership Cape projects can come to fruition
(Editorial ~ 05/06/14)
The 2014 Leadership Cape class presented five proposals during May's First Friday Coffee. The class believes the projects would add value to this area. Leadership Cape, a program offered through the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, offers participants an opportunity to hone leadership skills and learn more about the area. ...
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Prayer 5/6/14
(Prayer ~ 05/06/14)
O Lord Jesus, we praise you for you are the Son of the living God. Amen.
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