Helping out

Salvation Army serving 'Meals with Friends'

The Salvation Army at 701 Good Hope Street in Cape Girardeau will be serving "Meals with Friends" every day this week. Serving time is 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Anyone may enjoy a hot, nutritious meal in a cool, friendly atmosphere at no cost.

The menu includes:

Monday -- chili dogs with cheese, potato chips, applesauce, cake or pie.

Tuesday -- goulash, lettuce salad, buttered corn, bread and butter, cake or pie.

Wednesday -- Sloppy Joe on bun, tater tots, green beans, cake or pie.

Thursday -- turkey pot pie with vegetables, peaches, cake or pie.

Friday -- ham and beans or beef stew, coleslaw, cornbread and butter, cake or pie.

Dutchtown food sale to raise money for levee

The village of Dutchtown will hold its fifth annual Flood Levee Benefit Fund Raiser Friday and Saturday at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Cape Girardeau. Hot dogs, Polish sausages and drinks will be for sale beginning at 9 a.m. both days.

For more information, call Bud Obermann at 335-1106.

Trinity Lutheran to hold chicken, dumpling supper

Trinity Lutheran Church at Egypt Mills will be holding its annual fall festival and a chicken and dumpling supper on Saturday. The fall festival is scheduled from 1 to 7 p.m. with crafts, produce, apple butter, peach butter, home canned items and "This and That" items for sale.

Supper will be served buffet-style from 3 to 7 p.m. The cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children 3-12.

Notre Dame freshmen sponsor dinner, car wash

The freshman class at Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau will be sponsoring a kettle beef dinner and car wash from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday as part of the school's annual Activity Week.

Big Boston Butt Benefit to be held Tuesday

The Big Boston Butt Benefit to rebuild the retaining wall for the Downtown Merchants Association Scholarship Garden will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Riverfront Park on Water Street in Old Town Cape.

Orders will be taken by association members for Port Cape Girardeau's slow-smoked Boston butt (4-6 pound average) with pickup available at Port Cape Sept. 25 to 28 and Oct. 2 to 5 after 2 p.m.

A $20 donation will assist the merchants in buying materials to replace the collapsing straw bale perimeter of the Scholarship Garden located in the alley between Spanish, Lorimier, Independence and Merriwether streets. The Scholarship Garden to date has raised $1,174 for the scholarship at Southeast Missouri State University.

-- From staff reports