Stories from Thursday, September 8, 2011

BY JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer Community Cares Corporation, a community-wide campaign to support local charaties that has been in the planning stages for about a year, will be rolled out Monday on two fronts. A publicity campaign to promote and explain the goals of the organization is set to begin. Representatives also will begin contacting larger employers, explained Matt Funke, one of the organizers and a board member...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Plans for the second annual Iron Horse Festival and All Grad Reunion on Oct. 1 were discussed during the Poplar Bluff City Council meeting Tuesday night. "Things are coming together. It is looking really good," said Tracy Frish, executive director of Downtown Poplar Bluff, Inc., which sponsors the event with the help of many local groups and volunteers, including DPB board members...

By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH Associate Editor BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A Stoddard County judge has ordered that a young boy allegedly sodomized by a Dudley, Mo., teenager will not have to face his accused attacker during upcoming court proceedings. Associate Circuit Judge Joe Satterfield issued his order after hearing testimony and evidence during an August hearing regarding the admission and use of certain out-of-court statements as "substantive evidence" in the case of Allen Blaine Heaton and the use of an "in-camera" videotaped deposition of the alleged victim at a preliminary hearing and trial.. ...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A sea of pink will descend on Poplar Bluff, Mo., Friday afternoon as almost 60 women compete in more than 100 tasks to raise money and awareness for one worthy cause, the United Cancer Assistance Network. The Amazing Race for Life scavenger hunt will run from 1-6 p.m. Friday and take participants, each wearing a pink shirt, to a new business or location around the city for every task...

BY JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer Community Cares Corporation, a community-wide campaign to support local charaties that has been in the planning stages for about a year, will be rolled out Monday on two fronts. A publicity campaign to promote and explain the goals of the organization is set to begin. Representatives also will begin contacting larger employers, explained Matt Funke, one of the organizers and a board member...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer A sea of pink will descend on Poplar Bluff, Mo., Friday afternoon as almost 60 women compete in more than 100 tasks to raise money and awareness for one worthy cause, the United Cancer Assistance Network. The Amazing Race for Life scavenger hunt will run from 1-6 p.m. Friday and take participants, each wearing a pink shirt, to a new business or location around the city for every task...

Holiday Inn will be jumping with more than just guests this weekend. The Poplar Bluff hotel will host "Boxing at the Holiday Inn" which is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. Saturday and run into early evening. There will be 15 fights on the day starting with younger ages and moving up to adults...

Play the fifth-ranked team in Class 4 after a four-plus hour drive with a 3 p.m. kickoff on Saturday? That's the test facing the Poplar Bluff football team this week as the Mules will play Savannah in Webb City. "It will be a good test for us," Mules coach Mark Barousse said. "Savannah executes real well on both sides of the ball. They're well coached...

Hwy. W project long overdue I was readin' in the paper in the Speak Out, concerning the W Hwy. Project. I'm sorry that they were disappointed in, but I have lived on this highway since it was, before it was black-top, when it was still a gravel road and this was a project long overdue. ...

ORAN -- Carrie Adams had three hits and an RBI as Clearwater beat Oran on Wednesday, 6-3. Lexi Morris also had two hits and Leigha McKinney had two RBIs. Clearwater (6-1) got four runs in the first inning. "The offense was rolling," Clearwater coach Shannon England said. "After that, we got people on base but couldn't drive them in."...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS At one of last month's Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored "job fairs," Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: "This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. ...

To the Editor, For who could hold more concern for the future of Poplar Bluff than those of us preparing to start our careers and families? As a university student nearing graduation, the question I face is whether or not to return to Poplar Bluff after graduation. ...

By PHYLLIS FLANIGAN University of Missouri Extension Food Safety When Packing School Lunches Now that school is back in session, many families will be packing back-to-school lunches. How can you be sure that your student will eat a nutritious and safe lunch? The USDA recommends that we start with clean hands, spotless food contact surfaces, scrubbed fruits and vegetables, and chilled perishable food...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Bowhunters who pursue deer in Missouri can look forward to a season similar to the last several, according to a deer biologist with the state's Conservation Department. "Deer numbers are slowly increasing" and that bodes well for hunters, said Resource Scientist Jason Sumners...

This is a busy weekend for bass tournament fishermen and women. The Current River Smallmouth Association has a club tournament, fished from Van Buren, Mo., on Sept. 10, and the Big "O" club has a tournament at Lake Wappapello, with take-off from Chaonia Landing...

By CANDICE DAVIS Mo. Dept. of Conservation CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Conservation welcomes a new private lands conservationist to Butler, Dunklin and Stoddard counties. Brandon Wirsig began his duties as private lands conservationist on Aug.1...

By JOHN PRATT Mo. Dept. of Conservation Archery deer and turkey hunting season is just one week away, with the opening on Sept. 15. The season starts during a time of the year we usually experience some very warm weather. The recent cold front that has moved through this area has moderated the temperature, but the warm weather is supposed to return. ...

Flora Hodge PUXICO, Mo. -- Flora Louise Hodge, 83, of Puxico, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at her residence. Mrs. Hodge was born on Jan. 17, 1928, in Puxico and was a lifelong resident of the Puxico area. She was a faithful member of the Egypt Community Church...

Leo Tibbs DEXTER, Mo. -- Leo Tibbs, 92, of Dexter, Mo., died Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Wilburn C. Hodo, Sr., 70, of Grandin, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, at his home. Mr. Hodo, son of Herbert and Irene (Gibson) Hodo, was born Aug. 9, 1941, in Ripley County, Mo., and was a graduate of Grandin High School...

Elizabeth Rice BERNIE, Mo. -- Elizabeth Rice, 94, of Malden, Mo., a former resident of Bernie, Mo., died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, at the Malden Nursing Center in Malden. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.

By JOHN PRATT Mo. Dept. of Conservation Archery deer and turkey hunting season is just one week away, with the opening on Sept. 15. The season starts during a time of the year we usually experience some very warm weather. The recent cold front that has moved through this area has moderated the temperature, but the warm weather is supposed to return. ...

By CANDICE DAVIS Mo. Dept. of Conservation CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Conservation welcomes a new private lands conservationist to Butler, Dunklin and Stoddard counties. Brandon Wirsig began his duties as private lands conservationist on Aug.1...

By PAUL DAVIS Outdoors Editor Bowhunters who pursue deer in Missouri can look forward to a season similar to the last several, according to a deer biologist with the state's Conservation Department. "Deer numbers are slowly increasing" and that bodes well for hunters, said Resource Scientist Jason Sumners...

By PHYLLIS FLANIGAN University of Missouri Extension Food Safety When Packing School Lunches Now that school is back in session, many families will be packing back-to-school lunches. How can you be sure that your student will eat a nutritious and safe lunch? The USDA recommends that we start with clean hands, spotless food contact surfaces, scrubbed fruits and vegetables, and chilled perishable food...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS At one of last month's Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored "job fairs," Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: "This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. ...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, 1939, 72 years ago, the German army crossed the Polish frontier. On Sept. 3, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, having received no reply to his ultimatum demanding a German withdrawal, declared that a state of war now existed between Great Britain and Germany...

Hwy. W project long overdue I was readin' in the paper in the Speak Out, concerning the W Hwy. Project. I'm sorry that they were disappointed in, but I have lived on this highway since it was, before it was black-top, when it was still a gravel road and this was a project long overdue. ...

Leo Tibbs DEXTER, Mo. -- Leo Tibbs, 92, of Dexter, Mo., died Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, at the Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.