-
2018 Newsmakers: Dr. Chelsea Grigery (8/23/18)When Dr. Chelsea Grigery, MD was in sixth grade at Sikeston Middle School, she entered the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair. Six years later as a senior in high school, her project about lyme disease that she completed as a mentee of Dr. Ed Masters, world-renowned lyme disease researcher, won third place at the International Science Fair in Phoenix, Arizona...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Andrea Roseman (8/23/18)When Andrea Roseman began substitute teaching for a Sunday school class for people with special needs at Lynwood Baptist Church five and a half years ago, she never dreamed she would found Access Ministry, a ministry that provides community and Bible teaching to people with disabilities...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Heather Couch (8/23/18)Farming in the bootheel of Missouri is big business. Think $1.2 billion annually. Heather Couch has played a large role in helping make this possible in Scott, New Madrid and Cape Girardeau counties since 2015, when she became the vice president and branch manager of Farm Credit of Southeast Missouri in Sikeston, Missouri. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Kendra Eads (8/23/18)Due to mismanagement issues, the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence (SEMO-NASV) was on the brink of disintegration. Then, in 2016, Kendra Eads stepped in as the director. Eads secured new funding to get the program back on its feet, which allowed the organization to reinstate its counseling program. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Jeremy Ferguson (8/23/18)Jeremy Ferguson says he and his wife Raelenna Ferguson began having a stirring in their hearts for people, service opportunities and community nearly a decade ago. Through overseas mission work, being foster parents and participating in other community endeavors, they began to notice racial, socioeconomic and geographic divides in their Cape Girardeau community. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Tyler Cuba (8/23/18)When Tyler Cuba joined Cuba Financial Group, a comprehensive financial planning and wealth management firm, he says the industry was changing rapidly. Cuba realized being an early adopter of technology would help the firm stay relevant and expand.Now, nine years later, the business has nearly tripled, and its geographic reach has significantly expanded to serve clients in 15 states. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Bob Nations (8/23/18)Thirty-two years ago, Bob Nations realized the gravity of the issues facing high school students. He wanted to do something to help guide students to make positive choices, but wasn’t sure how he could help. That was when a man from Sports World drove into Cape Girardeau needing directions. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Laura Coalter Parker (8/23/18)Coalter Insurance Group has been located in the Old Town Cape District since it first opened its doors in 1985; Laura Coalter Parker has been working in the family business for the past 13 years and took over the business as president and partner after her father passed away six years ago. ...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Dr. Kenneth L. Stilson (8/23/18)There were more than 210 entries from all over the world for the 2018 New York Musical Festival, which is the largest musical festival in the world. From these entries, 11 were chosen to be produced at the Off-Broadway Acorn Theater on 42nd Street, July 9 through August 5...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Jessica Hill (8/23/18)Jessica Hill, executive director of Safe House for Women, says she has always wanted to help others through working in the nonprofit community. Her job at Safe House, she says, is to ensure the administration and finances behind the scenes run as smoothly as possible so her staff is set up for success when working in their client-centered organization...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Bob Miller (8/23/18)The evidence was clear: for one, there was no physical evidence. For two, another man confessed to the murder and then committed suicide. For three, the two witnesses who had testified recanted. Yet Sikeston man David Robinson was held in jail for 18 years, for a crime he didn’t commit...
-
2018 Newsmakers: LaKrisha Moore (8/23/18)During college, LaKrisha Moore, founder of On Cue Performing Arts Studio in Cape Girardeau, created the business model behind the performing arts school she wanted to own someday. Then she put the project away in a box and forgot about it. Nearly a decade later, she found the plans her former self had made, and the timing to create the performing arts school was right. In 2015, she opened On Cue Performing Arts Studio in downtown Cape...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Crissy Mayberry (8/23/18)Four hundred. That’s the approximate number of children in foster care in Cape Girardeau, Perry and Bollinger counties. Sixty-nine. That’s the number of foster parents in these three counties. The deficit is large. Enter Crissy Mayberry, executive director of Hope for One More, a nonprofit foster care support agency in Cape Girardeau that was added to the services of Hope Children’s Home in 2014. The program’s mission is to find all children in foster care a home...
-
2018 Newsmakers: Dawn Dauer (8/23/18)Dawn Dauer, chief banking officer at The Bank of Missouri, is all about partnerships. Willing to spend her SBA lending experience in the service of Old Town Cape, she has created a relationship beneficial to both parties, as well as to the community of Cape Girardeau...