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No injuries in Sunday morning fire in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 02/07/22)
Cape Girardeau Fire Department units responded to an apartment fire early Sunday morning in the 300 block of South Lorimier Street. An initial 911 call was for a police matter and police then alerted the fire department of the fire when they arrived at about 4:30 a.m., according to an incident report by Battalion Chief Norman Baker...
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Kunce raises most funds among U.S. Senate hopefuls in Missouri
(State News ~ 02/07/22)
ST. LOUIS — In a state that has moved decidedly Republican over the past two decades, it's a Democrat who has raised the most money so far in the 2022 U.S. Senate race. The Federal Election Commission website shows Marine veteran Lucas Kunce raised $2.48 million as of Dec. 31, slightly more than Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt's $2.44 million...
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State high court to hear challenge to Mo. gun law
(State News ~ 02/07/22)
ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on the constitutionality of a new state law forbidding local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws. A lower court judge rejected a challenge to the law brought by St. Louis city and county and Kansas City officials in August, so they appealed to the higher court...
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Sikeston set to get six outdoor pickleball courts
(Local News ~ 02/07/22)
SIKESTON, Mo. — Sikeston will soon be getting new outdoor pickleball courts. Early last week, the Sikeston City Council approved turning two tennis courts at the Sikeston Recreation Complex into six pickleball courts. Pickleball is a sport combining the elements of tennis, badminton and ping pong and has been gaining interest in the community in recent years...
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St. Paul Lutheran School to host virtual Night to Shine event
(Local News ~ 02/07/22)
Night to Shine will return to Jackson this year, but with another "virtual" event because of COVID concerns. St. Paul Lutheran Church and School, 223 West Adams St., will host the annual event from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday. The event was started by the Tim Tebow Foundation eight years ago and is hosted worldwide as an "unforgettable, prom night experience, centered on God's love, for people with special needs ages 14 and older," according to the foundation's website...
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Cape Girardeau VA Medical Center to open at month's end
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Cape Girardeau's new 45,000-square-foot Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, 711 S. Mount Auburn Road, is expecting to see its first patients Feb. 28. "We will close the community-based outpatient clinic (in Cape Girardeau) on Feb. 24 and 25 to do the moving," said Angela Smith, chief of communications and stakeholder relations for John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri...
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Officials: SEMO aviation program success after 1st semester
(Local News ~ 02/07/22)
Southeast Missouri State University's aviation program began its second semester Jan. 18, after completing what school officials consider a successful first semester in the fall of last year. The 120 hour, four-year bachelor of science program provides students with hands-on experience in aviation and the students begin their education in the air on their first day...
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Investing in employees by making fitness feasible at Bennett Family Dentistry
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Ross Bennett decided he wanted to do something different for the 33 employees of Bennett Family Dentistry in Cape Girardeau — something beyond compensation, beyond a safe and cordial working environment and beyond all the intangible comforts that tend to accrue in working for a stable business with long roots in the community...
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Governor's 'Christian values' statement questioned
(State News ~ 02/07/22)
Gov. Mike Parson has no "litmus test for appointments," his spokeswoman said Friday, despite a statement earlier in the week indicating he would only nominate a state health director who shared his "Christian values." The Republican governor, a Baptist, was angered after the Missouri Senate effectively ousted Donald Kauerauf as director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. ...
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Rescheduled Children's Arts Festival to exhibit work from 20 schools
(Local News ~ 02/07/22)
More than 200 student art pieces will be showcased during this year's Children's Arts Festival, beginning this weekend. Originally set for last Friday, the start of the exhibition put on by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri was postponed because of winter weather that hit the region, and will now be held from 4 to 8 p.m. this Friday...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 02/07/22)
Today is Monday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2022. There are 327 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 7, 1964, the Beatles arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to begin their first American tour. On this date:...
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Prayer 2-7-22
(Prayer ~ 02/07/22)
Lord Jesus, may we guard the words we say and honor you in all things. Amen.
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Price controls always backfire; today is no different
(Column ~ 02/07/22)
With some pundits advocating for price controls to fight inflation, it suddenly feels like the 1970s again. This type of overbearing intervention has never worked as marketed, something President Richard Nixon discovered in 1973 when he lifted the wage and price controls he had implemented two years earlier...
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Putin, not NATO, is to blame
(Column ~ 02/07/22)
Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progressives. The argument is Vladimir Putin is so afraid of NATO he has no choice but to menace neighboring countries and occasionally invade them, as he is threatening to do once again in Ukraine...
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Perry County hospital decision needs transparency
(Editorial ~ 02/07/22)
There is a battle brewing over the future of a community hospital in Perryville, Missouri, that has hospital leadership and board members at odds with some of the community's major employers. Late last year, Perry County Memorial Hospital sought proposals from SoutheastHEALTH, Saint Francis Healthcare and St. ...
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Fake poop helps evicted owls settle into new neighborhood
(National News ~ 02/07/22)
Settling into a new home can be tough for anyone. So scientists have come up with some tricks to make transplanted burrowing owls feel like they are not alone in their new digs, playing owl sounds and scattering fake poop. The owls' grassland homes are often prime real estate, and they've been losing ground to development in fast-growing regions such as Silicon Valley and Southern California. ...
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CNN exec Zucker's ouster shows peril of hiding work romance
(National News ~ 02/07/22)
NEW YORK -- For all the potential peril of a workplace romance, the most common source of trouble, experts say, is allowing it to remain a secret. A case in point was last week's abrupt ouster of longtime CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker, who said he was "wrong" in not being upfront with the network about a consensual relationship he was having with another executive...
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Thelma Vick
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
TAMMS, Ill. — Thelma L. Vick, 98, of Tamms died Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Interment will take place following the service at McCrite Cemetery...
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Jo Stovall
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
CHAFFEE, Mo. — Jo Ann Dudley Stovall, daughter of the late Robert Joe Dudley and Elizabeth Menz Dudley, was born Jan. 16, 1948, in Randles and departed this life Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, at her home, at the age of 74. She was united in marriage to Robert Canon Stovall on June 19, 1992. He preceded her in death...
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Vernon Schoen
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
Vernon Gale Schoen, 69, of Oak Ridge passed away Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, at his home. Vernon was born at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau to Vernon and Arylsse Lichtenegger Schoen on May 12, 1952. He went to school at Oak Ridge High School. He married Linda Haertling Schoen on July 15, 1972, in Altenburg, Missouri. He graduated from Lutheran Medical Center in 1974 and later received his BSN and CCRN...
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Jeff Powles
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
TAMMS, Ill. — Jeff Powles, 59, of Tamms died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, at Mulberry Manor in Anna, Illinois. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Brent Gordon officiating. Burial will follow at Beechwood Cemetery in Mounds, Illinois...
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Larry McKinney
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
William "Larry" McKinney, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, at his home. He was born Sept. 9, 1938, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to William and Lena Ruth Butler McKinney. He and Carole Ann Urhahn were married April 12, 1959, in Cape Girardeau...
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Kathyrn Jones
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
Kathryn Irene Jones, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, at her home. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Kenyon Cemetery near Delta...
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Christopher Haertling
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
NEW WELLS, Mo. — Christopher Todd Haertling, 51, of New Wells passed away Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, after a 43-day courageous battle with COVID. He was born Aug. 22, 1970, in Chaffee, Missouri, to Vernon and Norma Richter Haertling. He was baptized Sept. 6, 1970, and confirmed April 15, 1984, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. He was a 1988 graduate of Jackson High School...
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Loretta Brown
(Obituary ~ 02/07/22)
Loretta Fay Brown, 78, of Jackson passed away Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Missouri. She was born Nov. 19, 1943, in Morley, Missouri, to Harry Wilburn and Mazie "Marie" Moore Ervin. She and Paul Brown were married Feb. 10, 1962, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocahontas...
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Cape, Jackson chambers plan events, ribbon-cutting
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
n Cape Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its First Friday Coffee on Feb. 11, a week later than usual, because of the weekend snowstorm. Liz Haynes, executive director of Old Town Cape, is the featured speaker. Doors open at 7 a.m. at the Century Casino Cape Girardeau Event Center, with the program starting at 7:40 a.m. For those who cannot attend in person, the chamber plans to make it available via Facebook Live...
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Koehler to retire from Cape's Notre Dame Regional High School
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Mark Koehler will retire this year after 33 years of teaching at Notre Dame Regional High School in Cape Girardeau. Koehler currently teaches earth science, accounting, geography and psychology and coaches the junior varsity Scholar Bowl team...
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Eastridge, Sander hired by Jackson Parks & Rec
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Chris Eastridge and Spencer Sander have been hired by the City of Jackson's Parks and Recreation Department for full-time roles beginning today. Jason Lipe, Parks and Recreation director, announced Eastridge, currently a recreation supervisor for the City of Cape Girardeau working out of the Osage Centre, will become Jackson Civic Center manager. Eastridge holds an undergraduate degree in recreation from Southeast Missouri State University...
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Food bank receives new board member, elects officers
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Brian Crowe, senior manager of Tyson Foods' grow-out facilities in Dexter, Missouri, has been named to the Southeast Missouri Food Bank Board of Directors. The food bank's board also elected new officers: Roger Guilliams of Whitewater is chairman; Mark Avery of Dexter is vice-chairman; and Danielle Poyner of Cape Girardeau is secretary. ...
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Scott Kulla joins Saint Francis Healthcare
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Scott Kulla joined Saint Francis Healthcare System as manager of training and development last month, coming to Cape Girardeau from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he served as lead occupational therapist for his U.S. Army division. Certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Kulla holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and graduate degrees from California University of Pennsylvania and the University of Louisville in Kentucky...
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Kevin Bazemore joins Saint Francis
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Kevin Bazemore accepted the controller position last month with Accounting and Fiscal Services of Saint Francis Healthcare System. Bazemore, who holds CPA and CMA licenses, previously served as controller of University Hospital at UAB (University of Alabama-Birmingham)...
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Freedom Fit Zone to open in Jackson
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Freedom Fit Zone has filed the necessary articles of organization with the Missouri Secretary of State and took over ownership of Jackson's Simply Fitness on Feb. 1. Nathan and Heather Brown and Bill and Sheila King, the new owners, plan to move the gym from 2432 E. Main St. to a facility under construction with its new name at 2336 Old Orchard Road...
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Southeast Hospital-based food pantry to help food-insecure patients
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
SoutheastHEALTH announced it is partnering with Southeast Missouri Food Bank to open a food pantry at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau with a $25,000 seed grant from the Healthcare Services Group Charitable Foundation. The Patients Pantry, Heroes of Hope program will provide two weeks of food to patients who have identified food insecurity...
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SoutheastHEALTH vaccination clinic report, fundraiser upcoming
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
SoutheastHEALTH has administered more than 34,000 COVID-19 inoculations in its weekly clinics, reported the hospital system last week. The clinics are held from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Wednesdays by appointment only. Call (573) 519-4522. Additionally, the SoutheastHEALTH Red Wine and Chocolate Pairing is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. ...
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'Don't Weigh Me' cards available for purchase
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
WWW.more-love.org, an online resource empowering parents to raise children free of body hate and eating disorders, is marketing "Don't Weigh Me" cards, which can be handed to medical staff. The full message on the cards, which sell for $5 in packages of five, is, "Please don't weigh me unless it's (really) medically necessary. If you really need my weight, please tell me why so that I can give you my informed consent."...
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Ian Quinn, Missouri native, in Beijing Olympics
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Ian Quinn, originally from St. Louis, is among the 224 U.S. athletes from 31 states competing at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing through Feb. 20. Quinn, 28, a 2012 graduate of Lutheran South High School in St. Louis County, will compete in speed skating...
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Favorable jobs report in January
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Labor Department statistics released Friday showed U.S. employers added 467,000 jobs in January, a higher number than analysts expected, even as the unemployment rate inched up from 3.9% to 4.0% last month. The nation gained more jobs last year than in any year since 1978...
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Cape Girardeau County farm to receive federal grant
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Bangert Family Farmstead, 448 County Road 638 in Cape Girardeau County, has been notified it will receive a $36,000 Value Added Producer Grant (VAPG) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development program. The USDA, in an announcement Wednesday, said the money will be used to "evaluate the feasibility of processing and marketing packaged poultry derived from (Bangert's) diversified family farm in Cape Girardeau."...
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Cape Girardeau marketing legend Riley applauds new WFT name
(Business ~ 02/07/22)
Jim Riley of Cape Girardeau's Red Letter Communications thinks the Washington Football Team (WFT) made a good choice when it selected "Commanders" as its new nickname Wednesday. "My knee-jerk reaction is I like it. There is an axiom, a constant truth, in all of marketing that states, 'People respond to you the way you present yourself to them.' I suspect the team did a lot of research to find out what a commander symbolizes to people -- probably concepts such as trustworthy, authority, strength, high principles," said Riley, who founded Red Letter in 1981. ...
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Out of the past: Feb. 7
(Out of the Past ~ 02/07/22)
Almost 600 people attended a rally at Cape Girardeau Central High School Auditorium yesterday that kicked off a campaign to gain support for an April school election; voters will be asked to approve two ballot measures: sale of $14 million in bonds and waiver of the Proposition C rollback; the money would fund the first phase of the district's new master plan, including construction of a vocational-technical school and elementary school, and improvements at the district's other elementary schools.. ...
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Catholic Schools Week 2022
(Submitted Story ~ 02/07/22)
Guardian Angel School in Oran had a whole week of events planned for January 30-February 4, but just like many well made plans, it got knocked out half way through the week. The snow & ice on Wednesday, February 2 put a frozen damper on half of the events of Catholic Schools Week...
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