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Johnson County crash kills one, injures four
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Illinois State Police announced Wednesday that a crash in Johnson County killed one and injured four Tuesday evening. According to a press release, at approximately 6:48 p.m. on July 31, a fatal crash occurred on Interstate 24 eastbound. Involved in the crash was a Penske rental truck towing a van. There were two occupants in the cab of the truck, and three in the cargo area of the truck. The truck experienced a blow-out and ran off the road...
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Koster switches to Democratic Party in likely bid for Missouri AG
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Sen. Chris Koster announced Wednesday that he was switching from the Republican to the Democratic Party, as he prepares for a likely run for attorney general. Koster said he has determined that he is more aligned with Democrats than Republicans on several issues, including stem cell research, workers' rights, minimum wage and leaving intact Missouri's current judiciary system...
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Suspect arrested in Brown Bag robbery
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Police arrested a suspect in the deadly armed robbery that took place early Tuesday morning at the Brown Bag Video II Store in McClure, Ill. Michael Fencil, 25, of Mounds, Ill., was arrested Tuesday night in Ottawa, Ill. Alexander County State District Attorney Jeff Ferris charged Fencil with aggravated assault with a firearm, armed robbery, and first-degree murder for the shooting of Charles A. Caldwell, a Brown Bag Video Store customer who was killed in the robbery...
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Arkansas man suspect in fatal Branson stabbing
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) -- Police on Wednesday asked prosecutors to charge a 52-year-old Little Rock, Ark., man with the July 19 stabbing death of another Arkansas man at a Branson motel. Dewayne Anthony Lynn, 48, of Harrison, Ark., was found outside the office of the Crescent Court Motel with a stab wound to his shoulder that severed a main artery. He died of the wound after being taken to a hospital...
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Mo. appeals court throws out $20M award against tobacco company
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A state appeals court has thrown out a $20 million jury award against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. but narrowly agreed there was enough evidence that the company had tried to hide the dangers of smoking from the public...
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High-kicking Rockettes get star on St. Louis Walk of Fame
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Radio City Rockettes returned to their roots Wednesday, honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Before the Rockettes were a New York City sensation, they were the Missouri Rockets, a 16-member dance line created by Russell Markert in 1925 that performed at a St. Louis theater before movies...
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Stolen Mo. registration stickers still can't be replaced free
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A bill signed in June by Gov. Matt Blunt was supposed to eliminate the cost of replacing a stolen vehicle registration sticker. But the measure only got rid of part of the $12 fee. Replacing a stolen sticker will still cost $3.50...
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Theft suspect dies in shootout with Independence police
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- A man killed in a shootout with police was a suspect in several jewelry store thefts in the Kansas City area, authorities said. The man was shot around noon Tuesday outside a Plantasia store at a busy shopping center. He died at a nearby hospital of multiple gunshot wounds...
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Arrest made in Bollinger County killing
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
The Bollinger County Sheriff's Department arrested Lisa Barlow in connection with the killing of her boyfriend, Michael Strong, who was found shot to death in his Bollinger County home Friday. Barlow is charged with armed criminal action and first-degree murder...
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Births 8/1/07
(Births ~ 08/01/07)
Miller; Brand; Jansen; Hoggard; Kluesner; Wallis; McBride; Phillips; Raffety
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Police report 8/1/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/01/07)
Arrests; Summons
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Fire report 8/1/07
(Police/Fire Report ~ 08/01/07)
n At 8:15 p.m., illegal burn in the unit block of West Benton Sttreet. n At 8:35 p.m. a fire alarm in the 800 block of Beaudean Street. n At 8 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1100 block of South Kingshighway. n At 9:34 p.m., emergency medical service in the unit block of South Sprigg Street...
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Speak Out 8/1/07
(Speak Out ~ 08/01/07)
Friendly dog; County marketing; Class schedules; Good for the country; Brain power; Government handout; Private club; Living on the street; Super performance; DeMolay ice cream; Bumpy roads; Faster and faster; Truck traffic
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Star Jones Reynolds says she had gastric bypass surgery
(Entertainment ~ 08/01/07)
NEW YORK -- Star Jones Reynolds skirted questions about her dramatic weight loss for years, saying only that she had undergone a medical intervention. That intervention, it turns out, was gastric bypass surgery. Reynolds, 45, says she was "intentionally evasive" when people asked how she'd dropped 160 pounds in three years. She had gastric bypass surgery in August 2003...
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Anna Martinez-Loza
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
ADVANCE, Mo. -- Anna Maria Martinez-Loza, 61, of Advance passed away Monday, July 30, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 4, 1946, in McAllen, Texas, daughter of the late Jesus and Manuela Guajardo Martinez. She and Patricio Loza were married July 22, 1962, in Sterling, Ill...
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Graceland heads plan overhaul for tourist complex
(Entertainment ~ 08/01/07)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The thousands of Elvis Presley fans descending on Memphis for the 30th anniversary of his death Aug. 16 won't see much sign of it, but plans are moving along for big-time changes at Graceland. Managers of Presley's famous home want to overhaul its tourist complex -- with a new visitors center bigger than a football field, a convention hotel and high-tech museum displays that can give a new, digital life to the King himself...
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Music lovers blast their iPods and irk those around them
(Entertainment ~ 08/01/07)
NEW YORK -- Dave Legeret silently fumed as the man seated beside him on the plane blasted techno music on his iPod at full volume. "It was kind of rude," recalled Legeret, 38, a jewelry designer from Sandy Hook, Conn., who was forced to listen while flying from New York City to Disney World with his wife and 8-year-old son. "Listen to it at a level that just you can hear it and everyone else doesn't have to be subject to it."...
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Edith Wells
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
ANNA, Ill. -- Edith Wells, 101, of Little Rock, Ark., formerly of Anna, died Monday, July 30, 2007, at St. Vincent's Hospital in Little Rock. Crain Funeral Home in Anna is in charge of arrangements.
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Joseph Stephens
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
Joseph B. Stephens, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born April 23, 1922, in Bell City, Mo., son of Matt and Jennie Nichelson Stephens. He and Rosybell Steward were married Nov. 11, 1939, in Benton, Mo...
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Ethel Bess
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
Ethel R. West Bess, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, July 30, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 16, 1918, to Jacob Eugene and Frances M. Settle West in St. Clair County, Mo. She married Earl C. Bess in 1953 and moved to the St. Louis area...
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Kierstie Williamson
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Kierstie LeeAnn Williamson, 21, of Sikeston died Sunday, July 29, 2007, near Morley, Mo. She was born July 30, 1985, at Fort Walton Beach, Fla., daughter of Kenneth and Janet Watkins. She married Kenneth Williamson. Survivors include her husband of Orlando, Fla.; a son, Daryinn Williamson; her father, Kenneth Watkins of Morley; her mother, Janet DuCoeur of Sikeston; a brother, DaKoda Watkins of Sikeston; six sisters, Angel Watkins and Amber Stallings of Sikeston, Heather Watkins of Missouri, Samantha Watkins of Cape Girardeau, Ashley Cook of Paducah, Ky., and Kaitlin Jolley of Morley.. ...
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Ruby Bono
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
Ruby "Vi" Bono, 97, of St. Louis died Thursday, July 26, 2007, in St. Louis. She was born Nov. 27, 1909, in Whitewater, daughter of George W. and Emma Hahn Gloth. She first married George W. Yount, who died Nov. 5, 1993. She then married Vito Bono, who died June 11, 1997...
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Charles Caldwell
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Charles Allen Caldwell, 30, of Cairo died Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 6, 1977, in Cairo, son of Charles and Vickie Hodges Caldwell. Caldwell was a florist at McGinness Flower Shop. He was a member of Mighty Rivers Regional Worship Center...
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Ida Watkins
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
Ida J. Watkins, 96, of Jackson, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 30, 2007, at Jackson Manor. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to service time Friday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home...
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Martha Smith
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
Martha L. Smith, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, July 29, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 20, 1929, in Charleston, Mo., daughter of Edward and Pearl Crawford Chappell. She and James Smith were married Feb. 25, 1950. He died April 17, 1992...
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Juanita Cox
(Obituary ~ 08/01/07)
THEBES, Ill. -- Juanita Maxine Cox, 87, of Thebes died Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Jones Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill., is in charge of arrangements.
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Fire guts vocation education building
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
PATTON, Mo. -- An electrical problem sparked the fire that gutted a vocational education building on the Meadow Heights School District campus, superintendent Rob Huff said late Tuesday afternoon. Investigators from the Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office ruled the blaze, which destroyed the interior of the classroom portions of the stand-alone metal building, an accident, Huff said...
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Developer hopes to open Comfort Suites by spring
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
The developer of a $2.2 million hotel project near Center Junction hopes to be open for business by the spring. Pete Patel, a Carbondale, Ill.-based hotel developer and operator, said he's waiting for the final approval for his building permit application from Jackson city officials before breaking ground. The application needs just a single additional piece of paperwork from Patel's architect to be complete and win approval, city planning director Janet Sanders said last week...
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Stabbing victim released from hospital
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
The 18-year-old Cape Girardeau man stabbed Sunday night was released Tuesday afternoon from Saint Francis Medical Center. He suffered a 4-inch gash in his left shoulder blade, one in the center of his back that doctors told him missed vital veins by a half a centimeter, and a 4-inch-deep, 6-inch-long stab wound down the nape of his neck...
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Cape, Jackson municipal bands winding down
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will hold its final concert of the season this week, while the Jackson Municipal Band will hold its final concert of the season at its regular venue, the Jackson City Park band shell. Ron Nall will direct the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band at 8 p.m. ...
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Man arrested on charges of statutory rape, sodomy
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
A 19-year-old Cape Girardeau man was in custody Tuesday evening on charges of statutory rape and sodomy of a 12-year-old girl. Levon D. Nunley of 807 Ranney Ave. was charged with a single count each of statutory rape and statutory sodomy. If convicted, he faces a possible life sentence...
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Briefly
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Woman reports man attacked her Sunday A Cape Girardeau woman reported that her boyfriend attacked her Sunday after the two had been drinking, Cape Girardeau police spokesman Cpl. Jason Selzer said. Devin L. Baugher, 41, East Cape Trailer Park Lot 58 in Cape Girardeau, was charged by Cape Girardeau County prosecutors with felony domestic assault as a result of the complaint. ...
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Expert: Computers essential for teaching
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
Low-performing schools need more computers and technology trained teachers to bring up student test scores, an education technology expert said Tuesday. "I would send as much technology to these schools as I could," said technology expert Tony Brewer, a former teacher...
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Suspect sought in Illinois shooting
(Local News ~ 08/01/07)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- The Illinois State Police continued to hunt for the suspect in a deadly armed robbery and shooting that occurred at Brown Bag Video in McClure early Tuesday. Around 1:30 a.m., police received a 911 call alerting them someone had been shot. They responded to the call to find Charles A. Caldwell, 30, of Cairo, Ill., had been shot twice with what police say was a long-barreled handgun...
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Chief Justice John Roberts leaves hospital a day after having seizure
(National News ~ 08/01/07)
WASHINGTON -- Waving and smiling, Chief Justice John Roberts walked briskly out of a hospital in Maine on Tuesday and resumed his vacation, returning to normalcy a day after he suffered his second seizure in 14 years. The Supreme Court was mum on whether Roberts would need anti-seizure medication. But specialists say his doctor would have raised that possibility because someone who has had two seizures is at high risk of having another...
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Composites make for low-maintenance decks
(Community ~ 08/01/07)
Over the last few years, composite building materials such as roofing, siding and decking have evolved as popular alternatives for people wanting to reduce or eliminate maintenance problems associated with traditional wood building materials. Bonus point: Composite building materials are a "green" alternative because they are composed of recycled materials...
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Holocaust survivors criticize new $20 Israeli government allowance
(International News ~ 08/01/07)
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli government offer of a new $20 monthly stipend for Holocaust survivors provoked outrage Tuesday, with survivors charging the meager allowance will do nothing to make up for years of neglect of the 240,000 Israelis who lived through Nazi horrors...
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The hottest chili is ready for the world
(Community ~ 08/01/07)
CHANGPOOL, India -- The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chili pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred them into sauces. His wife puts them out for dinner raw, blood-red morsels of pain to be nibbled -- carefully, very carefully -- with whatever she's serving...
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Khmer Rouge prison chief first of regime to face atrocity charges
(International News ~ 08/01/07)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Some 16,000 Cambodians passed through the S-21 torture center on their way to the killings fields. Only a dozen are thought to have survived. Three decades after the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, S-21 is now the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. And a former school teacher known as Duch, who presided over the chamber of horrors in Phnom Penh, has finally been charged with crimes against humanity...
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Castro marks first year out of public eye praising Cuba's PanAm games performance
(International News ~ 08/01/07)
HAVANA -- Cuba passed the one-year anniversary of Fidel Castro's withdrawal from power without official mention of the fact Tuesday -- but Castro published an essay proclaiming Cuba's victories at the Pan American Games were a triumph for the revolution...
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Archaeologists in Rome dig up large ancient tannery
(International News ~ 08/01/07)
ROME -- Archaeologists excavating an ancient tannery believed to be the largest ever found in Rome said Tuesday they might need to move the entire work site, which is being threatened by railroad construction. The 1,255-square-yard complex includes a tannery dating to the second or third century, as well as burial sites and part of a Roman road...
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Handwritten William Faulkner manuscript donated to SEMO
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
Most of the works of literary master William Faulkner chronicle a troubled, tortured South. But an original handwritten manuscript being donated to Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies shows his generous, funny side. The university announced the acquisition to its world-class collection of Faulkner letters, manuscripts and artifacts Tuesday. The six-paragraph, one-page manuscript, titled "Sorority," is not a serious, literary work...
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GOP argues against returning excess contributions
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Republican Party suggested Tuesday that the state Supreme Court's decision reinstating campaign contribution limits should apply only to donations made after the ruling. If the court agrees, that would mean candidates could keep any money raised above the contribution limits from January until the court ruled earlier this month...
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Dow Jones agrees to be sold
(National News ~ 08/01/07)
NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch is poised to win control of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. after the company's board approved his $5 billion buyout offer late Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said. Murdoch will be clinching one of the great trophies of U.S. journalism and a newspaper that is considered required daily reading among the business and power elite...
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New engineered soybeans set for release
(State News ~ 08/01/07)
ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Co. is set to release its first new strain of genetically engineered soybeans in more than a decade. The world's largest biotech seed producer won regulatory approval for its new strain of Roundup Ready beans in the United States and Canada, the company announced Tuesday...
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New postmaster
(Editorial ~ 08/01/07)
A new Cape Girardeau postmaster was sworn in recently, and so far Robert Fleming is saying what postal patrons want to hear. If you noticed that mail moved slowly in Cape Girardeau not so long ago, you might also be seeing some improvement now. To speed things up, postal employees have been pushing to get the mail sorted earlier each evening, Fleming said, meaning mail carriers can begin delivering at 6:30 a.m. instead of 8 a.m...
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Two children found dead in bags under S.C. apartment sink
(National News ~ 08/01/07)
HANAHAN, S.C. -- Two young children who had been left in a hot car while their mother was at work were later found dead, their bodies wrapped in trash bags under an apartment sink, authorities said Tuesday. Autopsies were scheduled Tuesday to determine what killed 1-year-old Triniti Campbell and her 4-year-old brother, Shawn Campbell Jr., Berkeley County Deputy Coroner George Oliver said...
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Host is at top of Jackson resume
(High School Sports ~ 08/01/07)
Mark Lewis is just happy his Jackson American Legion baseball team is playing this week. "Right now, were're one of 20 teams left in Missouri playing Legion baseball. To me, that's exciting," Lewis said. "It's a great opportunity for our program and our players."...
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Correct info for services for blind
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/01/07)
To the editor:I enjoyed reading Darin Stageberg's op-ed column in Sunday's Southeast Missourian. I appreciated his inclusion of my agency, Rehabilitation Services for the Blind. Unfortunately, the name and phone number given to contact are not the correct ones...
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Possibilities are endless with four ingredients
(Column ~ 08/01/07)
I have a cookbook on my shelves "The Four Ingredient Cookbook" that is so much fun to look through. The book has more than 1,500 recipes, all using four ingredients or less. I pulled it from the shelf and thought the possibilities are endless by just changing a few ingredients here and there. Many of the recipes use soups and items you already have in your pantry...
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Area digest
(Community Sports ~ 08/01/07)
Oberle, Loeffelmancapture scramble title Chris Oberle and Nick Loeffelman won the championship flight in the Cape Jaycees Two-Man Scramble golf tournament Saturday and Sunday at Cape Jaycees Municipal Golf Course. The tournament raised money for Toybox, Christmas for the Elderly and Catch and Release Day...
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Out of the past 8/1/07
(Out of the Past ~ 08/01/07)
Dr. and Mrs. Gary Miller of Cape Girardeau present a joint organ recital at Emanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson; the recital includes compositions by J.S. Bach, Franck, Saint-Saens, Vierne and Gigout. Officials from Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties have formed a steering committee to study the feasibility of establishing a regional port authority; one possible site for a port would be near the Chester, Ill., bridge in Perry County; other sites are in Ste. Genevieve County...
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Gifts for the impromptu invite
(Column ~ 08/01/07)
Between the summer party season and being introduced to a slew of friends and kin connected to my banjo player, I'm right in the middle of a mess of impressing. And every good Southern girl worth her weight in grits knows two things: 1. Never arrive to a house unless you've been specifically invited; and 2. Never arrive to a house empty-handed...
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