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Pop Culture Happenings: July (7/13/24)July from 50, 40 and 25 years ago saw Cardinals rise and fall, the first female VP candidate, and another Kennedy tragedy. 1974 50 years ago July 1974 was a big month of records and record breakers for the St. Louis Cardinals. On July 17, Bob Gibson became the second Major League Baseball pitcher to throw 3,000 career strikeouts. ...
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Meet the Experts: The benefits of playing pickleball with Jeff Brune, vice-president of The Pickleball Factory (7/13/24)Get ready for The Pickleball Factory, the go-to pickleball place opening in Cape Girardeau in late summer to early fall. The name gives a nod to the fact the Thorngate building where it will be housed used to be a factory. The 34,000-square-foot facility dedicated solely to pickleball will have 14 climate-controlled, fenced-in, USA Pickleball-approved cushion courts made from 10 layers of acrylic and cushioned technology to best support players’ backs, hips and knees. ...
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Rennie Phillips: When is it time? (7/13/24)My Grandpa was somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 or so when I came along. Heck he might have been closer to 75. He lived right below one of the biggest hills in the Sandhills in Nebraska and it was sandy clear to the top. I remember Grandpa had to walk up that hill to check on the cattle where the pasture was over the hill. I’m in my 70s, and there is no way I could walk up that hill. No way! There came a day, though, when Grandpa called it quits and moved to town. The hill along with feeding cattle in the winter became too much, but, sadly, Grandpa didn’t live that long living in town. I always thought the place and the cattle and even the hill kept him going.
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Ellen Shuck: Respecting the dignity of others (7/13/24)What makes us deserving of our human dignity? Are we always cognizant of the vulnerably and value of everyone, or do we gauge our measure of people’s worth on external things? What determines the criterion on which we place our evaluation of someone?
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Ramblewood Garden Club award goes to Phil and Phyllis Pincosy (7/13/24)Ramblewood Garden Club has awarded the July Yard of the Month to Phil and Phyllis Pincosy who live and garden at 139 S. Spanish St. The Pincosys moved to Missouri from California to be near their son and his wife and family six years ago. The house is part of the Pincosy compound, with the front yard being a wonderful example of all-season beauty paired with low maintenance plantings.
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Aaron Horrell: A dirty little bug (7/13/24)While working in my garden Sunday, June 23, I found this cicada nymph coming out of a hole in the ground. The cicada was climbing very slowly out of the hole it had created. This cicada nymph will take several hours to as long as possibly three days to climb a tree and shed its exoskeleton.
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Senior Center Menus for July 15-19 (7/13/24)__Cape Girardeau/Scott City__ Monday: Chicken Parmesan with pasta and sauce or Reuben casserole with mashed potatoes, Italian-blend veggies, garden salad, garlic bread and chilled pears or pudding and cookie. Tuesday: Pepper steak with peppers and onions or hot chicken salad, brown rice, Lima beans, mixed veggies, whole-grain hot roll and spiced peaches or strawberry shortcake.
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Adopt Toni 7-13-24 (7/13/24)
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Marybeth Niederkorn: The allure of a mystery box (7/13/24)At the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson, we never know who will walk through the door with an intriguing document or item — and in this case, it was Doris Dace, a friend who is on the board at Old McKendree Church in Jackson and is generally very knowledgeable about local history. On this particular Monday, Doris brought us a small, lightweight wooden box, kidney shaped, roughly 6 by 3 inches, with a small drawer. “Cape Girardeau MO” was drawn across the top, with a sketch of three yellow roses in the middle. Then, Doris showed me, under the drawer was an inscription reading “From Noah to Cassa, 9-1-41.”
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Rebecca LaClair: Barbacoa paradise finally found right here at Seis Express (7/11/24)1Six years ago, I watched an episode of "Chef’s Table" on Netflix that had me a little obsessed. It was about Cristina Martinez, and she made barbacoa tacos. A traditional Mexican dish, barbacoa is made with lamb or beef and spiced with citrus. The preparation of barbacoa is lengthy and not easy. I have been trying to find some since. ...
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Susan McClanahan: Cool summer desserts perfect for hot summer days (7/11/24)Cool summer desserts seem perfect for hot summer days. Once Independence Day is over it seems like the rest of summer goes by so quickly, so we better get in a few of these cold dessert recipes while we can. Fresh fruit, ice cream, cakes, layered desserts and so many more recipes are wonderful desserts perfect for this time of year. ...
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Meet the Experts: Enjoy music in the park with Scott Vangilder, Jackson Municipal Band director (7/9/24)For the past 104 years since its formation in 1920, the Jackson Municipal Band has been a summer tradition for the people of Jackson and surrounding areas. Yet, the music they play is new every week: Director Scott Vangilder selects a variety of music for each concert, ranging from Broadway tunes to John Philip Sousa marches to chart-topping pop and rock ‘n’ roll hits, so there’s something for everyone...
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Robert Hurtgen: Cup or saucer (7/6/24)The repeated line in a poem by John Moore is, “I’m drinking from my saucer, ‘Cause my cup has overflowed.” The poem’s narrator is reflecting on the richness of their life as a cup filled with family, friends and faith. Holding their wealth in a cup has caused such an overflow that they must drink from the saucer.
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Shawn Wasson: Seven statements of Jesus (7/6/24)In Exodus Chapter 3, Moses encounters the burning bush near the mountain of Horeb, known as the mountain of God. As Moses focuses on the burning bush, he is met with a divine revelation. God speaks to him about his mission to lead Israel out of captivity from Egypt, identifying himself as the God of his forefathers. When Moses asks for God’s name to tell the people, God responds, “I am who I am.”
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Rennie Phillips: I wish (7/6/24)Back when I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8 or 9 years old, Dad, Mom, Mick and I and Grandpa would fish down at Lake McConahey from shore. Dad and Grandpa would use Pleuger level wind reels filled with about 100 yards of 25-pound black braided line. Both of them used a fairly heavy lead weight on the end of the line with a snelled #4 hook and a #6 snelled hook. Usually they baited the hooks with minnows with a larger one on the #4 and a smaller on the #6. On a good day I could cast out 30 to 40 yards of line. We were fishing from shore, and now and then a boat would come by trolling several lines. Man, how I wished I was them, fishing from their boat. My hope and dream was to own a boat.
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Adopt Salt and Pepper (7/6/24)Salt, front, is a female and Pepper, back, is a male who are brother and sister and approximately 8 to 9 weeks old. If you have room in your heart and home for these kittens or any other pet, visit us at 359 Cree Lane near Jackson any weekday or weekend from 8 a.m. to noon. Visitors are always welcome to play with our pets.
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Learning Briefs 7-6-24 (7/6/24)__Area students named to dean's lists__ Aaron Zoellner of Frohna was named to the Spring semester dean's list at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. The following students were named to the Spring semester President's list at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.
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Ramblewood Garden Club holds flower show (7/6/24)Ramblewood Gardn Club presented a Small Standard Flower Show Saturday and Sunday, June 29 and 30, at Cape Girardeau Public Library. Classes in both horticulture and design divisions were filled with entries by the garden club members. Horticulture sections consisted of annuals, perenials, cacti and succulents, container grown/blooming plants, house plants/trocpial and arboreal. Trays, table for two, exhibition table type II and creative line-mass designs were the classes in the design division.
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Aaron Horrell: Not in distress (7/6/24)This is a damselfly. There are nearly 3,000 documented species of damselflies across the world and on every continent except Antarctica. Damselflies are smaller than dragonflies and, if you see one sitting on a blade of grass like the one I photographed here, it will be at rest with its wings folded above its back.
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Senior Center Menus for July 8-12 (7/6/24)__Cape Girardeau/Scott City__ Monday: Sweet and sour meatballs or rice pineapple chicken, eggroll, seasoned carrots, almond broccoli, whole-grain hot roll and chilled pineapple or blonde brownie.
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Bill Eddleman: Online resources for genealogy III (7/6/24)Comprehensive websites go beyond a focus on specific types of records. Most require a fee for full usage — either an annual subscription or for use during a set time. Genealogists should check local libraries to see if they have a subscription and/or provide an access code for patrons.
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David Dickey: Bataan Death March (Part 2) (7/6/24)2Southeast Missouri State University professor of military history Art Mattingly, retired, had the opportunity to interview several of the survivors of the Bataan Death March. He said he found two consistent comments from those interviewed. All said they were captured, and they didn’t surrender. And the other comment was they believed the U.S. Army let them down by not sending reinforcements and supplies.
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Create and Maintain a Pollinator-Friendly Yard: Five tips from the Department of Conservation (7/5/24)A beautiful outdoor area for personal enjoyment and entertaining that requires less work and money to establish and maintain while being safe for humans, pets and plants may sound like the stuff dreams are made of. Yet all of that and more is possible when an outdoor area is created with the goal of attracting and protecting pollinators such as ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, flies, hummingbirds, moths and wasps...
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Meet the Experts: How to choose olive oil with the most health benefits with Georgia and Todd Lowman, owners of Water & William Olive Oil Co. (7/5/24)Georgia and Todd Lowman, owners of Water & William Olive Oil Co., believe you are what you eat. That’s why they opened Water & William Olive Oil Co. in the historic River & Rails building in downtown Cape Girardeau in December 2022, to bring the health benefits of quality olive oils and balsamic vinegars to Southeast Missouri...
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Meet the Experts: Tips for getting your best sleep from Patrick Furniture Owners Pat Young and Mike Young and Fourth-Generation Mallory Ansberry (7/5/24)In true family business fashion, Patrick Furniture has offered hometown service to the Southeast Missouri region since Peyton “Pat” Patrick founded the business in Cape Girardeau in 1946. “We have a huge connection going back four generations to this community, from our Grandpa Pat, then to our parents Tim and Carolyn,” says Patrick Furniture Owner Mike Young...
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The Right Time to Move: First residents of 55+ active adult community Ramsay’s Run share experience of downsizing (7/5/24)Living outside of city limits, Charles and Judy Wiles had a lot of property to maintain. As the owners and developers of acreage including a tree farm and three ponds, they were responsible for the roads and landscaping. And they no longer wanted to spend their time taking care of it...
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Spirituality Column: Finding more funny bones (7/5/24)Moving fast through the garage in one of the frenzies of our whole-house remodel, I thought, “I really ought to either slow down or force better order on my workspace,” just before I whacked the top of one foot against the lower jaw of Great-Grandpa Fulford’s blacksmith vise. “Ah-ha-ha,” I moaned and laughed at the same time, because it felt just like hitting my elbow’s funny bone. I didn’t know I had a funny bone in my foot!...
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Conservation Column: Cultivating your yard for pollinators (7/5/24)As a recent transplant to Missouri, I can say this: Y’all do fireworks big here! My first year living in Jackson, we walked approximately 12 blocks from our home to the park to watch the main show. Little did we know the revelry of color we would witness in every driveway along that mile stroll. What a sight!...
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The Best Books Club Column: "The Lonely Hearts Book Club," by Lucy Gilmore (7/5/24)For our July book club selection, I wanted something light, but not too light. Or, as I tend to think of it, “light with depth.” Several people suggested “The Lonely Hearts Book Club” (2023); intrigued, I checked it out at the library. The cover looks light, the title sounds light, and the first chapter or so was somewhat light. But unlike the proverbial duck, the novel isn’t light. Not at first glance, at least...
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Faces of Southeast Missouri: Theresa Taylor (7/5/24)Theresa Taylor’s experiences with food insecurity started at a young age. Growing up in Bernie, Mo., she remembers her family getting assistance from local food banks and churches. Her dad was on Social Security, and her mom worked part-time as a waitress. Their combined income for a family of six wasn’t enough to make ends meet. Taylor married at 18, but after her husband Michael lost his job, they moved to Tennessee to stay with family. Within two years, they were living out of their car...
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Six years ago, I watched an episode of "Chef’s Table" on Netflix that had me a little obsessed. It...
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“How are you?” I overheard one person’s question followed by another person’s quick response. “I’m...
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I have had pleasant surprise after pleasant surprise with my restaurant visits recently, and this...