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Jackson Chamber presents R.A. Fulenwider Award, pays tribute to Gene Penzel
(Local News ~ 01/19/19)
Outstanding achievement in business and education within the Jackson community were recognized Friday during the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce annual Banquet at the Jackson Civic Center -- with the presentation of the R.A. Fulenwider Award, Woman of the Year Award and a special tribute to Gene Penzel...
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Perry County Commission puts hotel tax on April ballot
(Local News ~ 01/19/19)
Trish Erzfeld said a 6 percent hotel tax will boost Perry County tourism by providing a dedicated funding source. The Perry County Commission has voted to place the tax issue on the April ballot. A simple majority is needed for passage. Erzfeld serves as director of Perry County Heritage Tourism, an office serving as the convention and visitors bureau for the county...
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U.S. Rep. Jason Smith apologizes for 'go back to Puerto Rico' remark
(Local News ~ 01/19/19)
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith apologized to a Democratic colleague of Mexican descent hours after he shouted “go back to Puerto Rico” on the House floor. On Friday, the 8th District Congressman told the Southeast Missourian he was referring to Democrats who had traveled last week to Puerto Rico...
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Cape, Jackson to get more snow; MoDOT road crews out in full force
(Local News ~ 01/19/19)
Heavy rain and above-freezing temperatures gave way to several inches of snow and blustery winds Saturday in Southeast Missouri, with more precipitation expected through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. A winter storm warning was issued through Saturday evening for portions of Southeast Missouri, with the possibility of heavy snow...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
Today is Saturday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2019. There are 346 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 19, 1955, a presidential news conference was filmed for television and newsreels for the first time, with the permission of President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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Out of the past: Jan. 19
(Out of the Past ~ 01/19/19)
The Boyd Group is no longer the only game in town when it comes to which company will operate a riverboat casino in Cape Girardeau; Lady Luck Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas has unveiled a $58.3 million riverboat casino and resort proposal to compete with the project offered last year by the Boyd Group...
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Beussink - Maccarone
(Wedding ~ 01/19/19)
Brittney Beussink and Bryan Maccarone, both of Alamo, California, were married Sept. 1 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in San Francisco. The Rev. Anthony McGuire performed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Nadean Beussink of Marble Hill, Missouri, and the late Stanley Beussink. The groom is the son of John and Young Maccarone of Orinda, California...
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Cheeky chic: As a counterpoint to minimalism and neutrals, decor takes a playful turn
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
Dorothy Draper once said of her decorating projects, "I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk." The influential Manhattan interior decorator was known for her exuberant use of color and pattern, such as bold, black-and-white checkerboard, hot pink and crimson, lime green and blue. In her hands, stuffy chintz became flirty and vivacious...
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Fear leads to unfortunate results
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
Fear can push and prompt you to do what you would never have imagined. In Chapter 12 of Genesis Abram, fresh from receiving the promises of God to be made into a great nation and a blessing to the entire world, enter into the high and mighty land of Egypt. ...
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Misusing the Bible
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
One of the temptations we sometimes have in reading the Bible is to make a direct comparison between our own times and the narratives we find in the pages of scripture. Certainly, there are big-picture ideas and concepts that can help inform how we are to apply scripture, but we should be very careful when we try to cram the stories of the Bible into our 21st century context...
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Clippard Elementary School second quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Clippard Elementary School A Honor Roll 4th grade: Rawaf Alali, Alexsia Boyd, Collin Chastain, Aydiin Elston Payne, Simon Esparza, Gavin Feng , Lauryn Frank , Isaac Hampton , Elle Henson, Kanidryana Ivy, Alexander Rodriguez, Jeremiah Sloan, Ja'Taiveon Tompkins, Tobias Wade, Jason Zhang...
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Saxony Lutheran High School first semester
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Saxony Lutheran High School Honor Roll with High Distinction 9th grade: Noah Bockelman, Wade Eggemeyer, Rylea Lohmann, Savannah Spencer. 10th grade: Megan Benkendorf, Gavin Boehme, Savannah Cork, Brock Engert, Seth Sievers, Abigail Thomason, Sydney Turner, Carson Williams...
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Egyptian Elementary School second quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Egyptian Elementary School High Honor Roll 3rd grade: Dynastee Carthell. 4th grade: Gabina Dare, Lillyana Levins, Kairee White, Noah McHughs. 5th grade: Emma Cain, Madison Neal, Aubrey Schultz, Natalie Taylor, Landon Thompson. Honor Roll 3rd grade: Kialah Belll, Sky Burton, Braysen Dillow, Dayanna Peach...
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Egyptian Middle School 2nd quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Egyptian Middle School High Honor Roll 6th grade: Janie Riggs, Elijah Sitton. 7th grade: Elijah Price, Allison Turner, Peyton Vaughn. 8th grade: Charley Glaab, Makenzie Knupp, Ian Reynolds, Issac Turner. Honor Roll 6th grade: Chasidy Vaughn. 7th grade: Mary Cox, Raylyn Liggett...
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Egyptian High School second quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Egyptian High School High Honor Roll 9th grade: Anna McLaughlin, Jennifer McLaughlin, Breanna Plot, Sha'veh Price, Maisie Sitton. 10th grade: Daisha Carthell, Izabella Dillingham, Bryanna Pace, Mackenzie Williamson. 11th grade: Aubreigh Curtis, Dawson Essex, Kelcie Kobel, Lucas McLaughlin, Morgan Pace, Christian Trexler, Ryan VanDommelen, Joseph Warren...
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Blanchard Elementary School second quarter
(Honor Roll ~ 01/19/19)
Blanchard Elementary School A Honor Roll 4th grade: Layla Burgfeld, Jaidyn Close, Alena Copeland, Kolby Cunningham, Mason Easley, Pippa Felty, Gavin Garbett, Evan Hall, Addison Pate, Kaia Poole, Emilei Sterling, Cameron Watson, Raeden Woodring. 3rd grade: Rylee Anderson, Emery Armstrong, Landen Best, Ethan Busch, Nicholas Busch, Trenell Clemons, Malia Criddle, Jordan David, Lachlan Dow, Amris Ford, Tatum Frick, Alexis Gann, Maci Gray, Eriyanna Holleman, Carter Jones, Cassidy Kindle, Ashlyn Loyd,Kennedi McCray, Caelyn Medley, Lucy Mills, Lily Mohundro, Sulayman Moore, Lindsey Neumann, Isabella Newingham, Natalie Nicholson, Jalina Owens, Nikolai Patalano, Lilah Pattengill, DaShon Payton, Patricia Poley, Evie Rutledge, Lili Sadler, Addison Schwab, Dalyia Sides, Zai'Leigha Thomas, Caedi Vails, Noah Warfield, and Rylee Webb.. ...
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Adopt Tasha 1-20-19
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
Submitted by Safe Harbor Tasha is a 8-year-old female in need of a forever home. Many of our pets have had to be surrendered because of the owners' failing health! He is available for adoption at Safe Harbor; call (573) 243-9823.
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Learning briefs 1-20-19
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
BRISTOL, RI. -- The following student was named to the fall 2018 dean's list at Roger Williams University: Megan Peters fo Cape Girardeau The following students were named to Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences' fall 2018 president's and dean's lists...
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Senior Center Menus for Jan. 21-25
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
Monday: Closed for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tuesday: Glazed ham slice or chicken tetrazzini, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, whole-grain hot roll and sugar-free apples with raisins or apple pie. Wednesday: Chicken pot pie or tater tot bake, steamed broccoli, crunch coleslaw, whole-grain bread and pineapple tidbits or pumpkin bar...
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Mock rail fence
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, 1809. As a young man in the early 1800s, he and his friends hired themselves out to split logs into rails and built rail fences for his father and neighboring farmers in and around La Rue County, Kentucky. Lincoln's family moved to Decatur, Illinois, in 1830. Oak trees and cedar trees were preferred for making fence rails because of their durability, strength and straight grain of the wood. They used axes and wedges to split out the fence rails...
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Stay warm
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
We moved out where we now live going on 30 years ago. It is an old farm house which was built in the early 1900s so it has seen a lot of years. As far as we know there are very few walls that are insulated in the entire house. We have insulated a few of them as we have made improvements. ...
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FYI 1-20-19
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
Tickets are on sale for the 13th annual Penguin Party, to be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Drury Convention Center in Cape Girardeau. The event, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Public Schools Foundation, will feature entertainment by Awkward Timing and the Mic Larry Band. Reserve your table now by calling (573) 651-0555. For more information about the foundation or the party, go to foundation.capetigers.com...
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Club news 1-20-19
(Community News ~ 01/19/19)
The Town and Country FCE Club met Jan. 10 at the home of Linda Thompson, who gave the devotion "Daily prayers resolve your cares" by Helen Steiner Rice. Beverly Pender, treasurer, collected pennies for "Coins for Friendship." Mary Klaproth, secretary, read a thank-you note to the club from Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center for the donation of the Christmas treat sacks...
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Prayer 1-20-19
(Prayer ~ 01/19/19)
Lord Jesus, may the joy of knowing and loving you fill our hearts. Amen.
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No one is in jail over Flint's tainted water
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
DETROIT -- Michigan's attorney general in 2016 promised to investigate "without fear or favor" the scandal over Flint's lead-tainted drinking water and pledged state regulators would be locked up for fudging data and misleading the public. Yet three years later, no one is behind bars. Instead, seven of 15 defendants have pleaded no contest to misdemeanors, some as minor as disrupting a public meeting. Their records eventually will be scrubbed clean...
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Lawsuits up pressure on family owning opioid company
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
The legal pressure on the prominent family behind the company making OxyContin, the prescription painkiller fueling the nation's opioid epidemic, is likely to get more intense. The Sackler family came under heavy scrutiny this week when a legal filing in a Massachusetts case asserted family members and company executives sought to push prescriptions of the drug and downplay its risks. Those revelations are likely to be a preview of the claims in a series of expanding legal challenges...
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Pelosi cancels Afghan trip, citing 'leak'
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
WASHINGTON -- The allegation, if true, was extraordinary: The White House, in leaking the travel plans of members of Congress, put the safety of the speaker of the House in jeopardy. Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday canceled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying President Donald Trump had caused a security risk by talking about the trip. The White House said there was no such leak...
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Divers swim with giant great white shark off Hawaii
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
HONOLULU -- Divers monitoring a rotting whale carcass off the shores of Oahu this week found themselves face-to-face with a massive great white shark, prompting state officials to warn recreational divers and snorkelers to stay out of the water near the dead sperm whale amid reports some people have climbed onto the carcass to take its teeth as souvenirs...
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LA teacher strike passes fifth day
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
LOS ANGELES -- Teachers picketed and rallied Friday as a strike against the giant Los Angeles Unified School District extended to a fifth day with a new round of contract negotiations underway. Drums, whistles, shouts and honks from supportive motorists echoed through downtown as groups of teachers and backers walked to a rally drawing thousands to Grand Park near City Hall...
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'Internet shutdown' grips Zimbabwe
(International News ~ 01/19/19)
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe imposed a "total internet shutdown" for most of Friday in what critics called an attempt to hide growing reports of a violent crackdown on protests against a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured people streamed into a hospital in the capital, and rights groups said at least 12 people were killed this week...
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Workers wonder what Brexit will bring
(International News ~ 01/19/19)
LONDON -- It's an understatement to say Michael O'Brien is worried about Brexit. O'Brien is a supervisor at Clarity-The Soap Co., which employs visually impaired adults at a factory in east London. A tall man with a thatch of gray hair, O'Brien has a manner so easy it sounds as if he is talking about the weather rather than an issue bitterly dividing British society -- the country's looming departure from the European Union...
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China slump squeezes workers, hammers consumer spending
(International News ~ 01/19/19)
BEIJING -- Yu Mingang had a good job helping Chinese manufacturers prepare to sell shares to the public until the cooling economy derailed those plans. As demand for auditing services sank, the 25-year-old accountant in the eastern city of Hangzhou was laid off in December. Yu tightened his belt: No more movies or eating out. He put off buying a computer...
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Officer gets 7 years for killing teenager
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
CHICAGO -- The white Chicago police officer who gunned down a black teenager in 2014 was sentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison, bringing an end to a historic case centering on a shocking dashcam video and fueling national debates about race and policing and law enforcement's "code of silence."...
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Births 1/20/19
(Births ~ 01/19/19)
Daughter to Jeremy Thomas and Brittany Adams of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 12:09 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. Name, Ecko Janelle. Weight, 4 pounds. Daughter to Joshua and Brooke Gantt of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Hospital, 4:11 p.m. Friday, Jan. ...
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John Simmons
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
John Alexander Simmons, 57, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at Southeast Hospital in Cape. He was born June 8, 1961, in Chaffee, Missouri, son of Paul and Hermine Hodle Simmons. He and Shirley Richardson were married March 30, 2002, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee...
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Lily Reynolds
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Lily F. Reynolds, 90, of Cape Girardeau passed away peacefully Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born May 15, 1928, in Hiroshima, Japan, the daughter of Shigeo and Yurie Muranaka Shintani. A survivor of the Hiroshima bomb, she and Cline L. Reynolds were married Dec. 9, 1953, in Yokohama, Japan. He preceded her in death Sept. 25, 1997...
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Ford Phillips
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Ford R. Phillips, 73, of Cape Girardeau passed away Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, in hospice care at Ratliff Care Center, surrounded by his loving family. Ford was born in Cape Girardeau on Jan. 23, 1945, the third child of Ford and Venita Phillips of McClure, Illinois. He married Brenda Joyce Latham on Nov. 26, 1964, in Cape Girardeau. They celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary this year...
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Audrey James
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Audrey C. James, 77, of Jackson passed away Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. She was born Dec. 24, 1941, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Hansel L. and Velda E. Mitchell Gill. Audrey graduated from Delta High School. She worked 24 years at Walmart in Jackson...
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Evelyn Goodson
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Evelyn Goodson, 91, of Jackson passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 27, 1927, in Bisbee, Arizona, to A.O. and Pauline M. Sturgeon Pittenger. Evelyn and Raymond F. "R.F." Goodson were married June 15, 1946. They resided in Jackson and had been married 65 years when R.F. passed away Jan. 2, 2012...
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Charles Ford
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Charles Shelby Ford, 97, of Jackson died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. Visitation will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Jan. 26 at McCombs Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Jackson. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Jan. 26 at the funeral home, with the Rev. Randy Riley officiating...
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Mary Crites
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Mary Martha Brown Crites, 81, of Jackson passed away Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 24, 1937, in Cape Girardeau to George R. and Elsie Sebastian Brown. She and George Donald "Tom" Crites were married June 4, 1954, at the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson. Five children were born to their union, and they had been married nearly 22 years, when Tom passed away April 18, 1976...
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Nelda Bigham
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Nelda Grace Bigham, 74, of Olive Branch passed away at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Grace was born March 22, 1944, in Alexander County, Illinois, to the late James and Elma Gullett Hopkins. She worked at a shoe factory for 33 1/2 years...
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Mueller disputes report Trump directed lawyer to lie
(National News ~ 01/19/19)
WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller's office Friday issued a rare public statement disputing the accuracy of BuzzFeed News' report that said President Donald Trump's former attorney told Mueller the president directed him to lie to Congress...
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Shutdown prompts Missouri to issue food stamps early
(State News ~ 01/19/19)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missourians will get February food stamps early because of the federal government shutdown. The Department of Social Services announced participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will get payments by Sunday...
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Rescuing the wild: Watkins Wildlife Rehab helps injured animals recover and nurses them back to nature
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
Occupying farmland space in Sedgewickville, Missouri, is a different kind of rescue -- John and Carolyn Watkins rehabilitate wildlife species to help promote education and conservation through Watkins Wildlife Rehab. "I have a lot of people ask me how to get started with this, and I have to tell them I'm not really sure, because I was grandfathered in," Watkins said. "I was doing this before anybody had to have a license."...
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Fire report 1/20/19
(Police/Fire Report ~ 01/19/19)
CAPE GIRARDEAU The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Monday n Medical assists were made at 10:45 a.m. on Broadway, 12:16 p.m. on South Kingshighway, 12:47 p.m. on North Silver Springs Road and 2:16 p.m. on Gordonville Road...
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'If you want to know, you can know'
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
The first Sunday morning service of 2019 was not the normal lineup at Bethany Baptist Church. Instead of congregational singing and a message from the pulpit, the service featured the five-member Berry family singing Southern Gospel favorites. It was an inspiring way to worship God and honor the music group's father and grandfather, Ken Morgan, for his 90th birthday...
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Son offers special thank-you to father at graduation
(Community ~ 01/19/19)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Quinton Frederick West's recent graduation from nursing school left his father, Greg West of Poplar Bluff, speechless. Anyone who looked closely might have spotted a reflection of a tear in the elder West's eyes. As Quinton crossed the stage at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing in Columbia to accept his diploma, the dean read his dad's name. Quinton turned, opening his robe to show he was sporting his dad's favorite attire, overalls and a plaid shirt...
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Cape Girardeau's short-lived attempt to run a zoo
(Column ~ 01/19/19)
Controversy was brewing in 1915. The city of Cape Girardeau had the opportunity to buy the old fairgrounds for development as a city park. To make this happen, voters would need to approve a bond issue. Louis Houck came out in opposition to the plan, arguing that the city should develop other parks as well. ...
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Elizabeth Farmer
(Obituary ~ 01/19/19)
Elizabeth "Liz" Katherine Farmer, 73, of Cape Girardeau passed away Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, into the open arms of our Lord Jesus Christ. Above all she loved the Lord and served Him as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandma and great-grandmother "Gi-Gi."...
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Miinch - VanBooven
(Engagement ~ 01/19/19)
Patti Miinch and the late Steve Miinch of Cape Girardeau announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Miinch to Seth VanBooven, both of Jefferson City, Missouri. He is the son of John and Linda VanBooven of Hermann, Missouri. Jennifer is a 2008 graduate of Meadow Heights High School in Patton, Missouri. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in biology from Lindenwood University in 2013, a Master’s of Public Health in biosecurity and disaster preparedness and epidemiology from Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice in 2015, and a Master’s of Art in emergency management and homeland security from Arizona State University in 2017. She is employed by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services as the Bureau Chief for the Bureau of Immunizations in Jefferson City, Missouri. Seth is a 2008 graduate of Hermann High School in Hermann. He received his associate’s degree in network system technology from Linn State Technical College in 2014. He is employed by Shelter Mutual Insurance Company as a support center analyst in Columbia, Missouri Their wedding is planned for Feb. 16 at St. George Catholic Church in Hermann.
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