Stories from Friday, November 4, 2011

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and City of Greenville were once again unable Thursday night to find common ground on a topic which leaves many residents there frustrated and concerned future flood events will endanger property and lives...

As the six-month anniversary of the May 9, 2011, presidential disaster declaration for Missouri approaches, federal disaster grants and loans in Butler County have reached $3,900,876, according to disaster recovery officials today. Nov. 9, 2011 marks six months since the declaration for disaster damages that occurred from April 19 through June 6...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Gov. Jay Nixon will be the main speaker during the Poplar Bluff Industrial Park Bypass groundbreaking ceremony at 2 p.m. Monday across Business 67 from Heartland Express. The Butler County Commission awarded a $3.6 million contract to R. L. Persons Construction Inc. of Poplar Bluff, Mo., for the 2.1-mile bypass from the Union Pacific Railroad Crossing at the industrial park to the new signal light at Business 67 South. Completion is expected in October 2012...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Seven-year-old Cy Worley of Broseley, Mo., has always told his mom some day he will be on the Golf Channel. That dream became a reality when a clip of Worley was featured Oct. 31 on the channel's "Golf's Amazing Videos" show...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) has awarded grants to two Butler County cities. Neelyville, Mo., has been approved for a $373,378 grant under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. City officials will utilize the grant for street improvements. Nine streets inside Neelyville's city limits are deteriorating and in disrepair. A total of 11,160 feet of roadway will be paved as part of this project...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Smart, well spoken, and hardworking, Margi Thompson was a teenager herself when she took over the care of seven brothers and sisters following the death of her mother from breast cancer. She is a fighter who won her own battle with the disease, a mother who raised three sons and has a 30-year work history...

By MONA CHAREN Kate Bolick stares out at the world from the cover of The Atlantic magazine. She's wearing a black lace evening dress. "What, Me Marry?" asks the headline. She isn't smiling. In fact, she isn't smiling in any of the photos that accompany her several thousand-word essay on singleness, marriage and the changing nature of dating and mating in America today. ...

AMVETS LadiesNo. 1 in Missouri To the Editor: In preparing for the upcoming Christmas and Valentine mail collections, Friends of Our Troops would like to extend special thanks to AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary 29 of Poplar Bluff, which participated in the most recent campaign. Led by Americanism Chairman Eva Stucker, they were the No. 1 AMVETS Auxiliary in Missouri...

Beware of Islamacare Obamacare is everywhere these days. I have not heard of nor seen very little discussion about Islamacare. You know, Sharia Law that tells Muslims how to live every day to the end of their lives. Muslims want to get Sharia Law as the law in America, so that all Americans will have to obey it or go to court or what. ...

By DAN K. THOMASSON Scripps Howard News Service Playing ostrich is a favorite pastime in this burg, especially on Capitol Hill when it comes to entitlements and the winners get to keep their, uh, "hard-earned" jobs. The rush to see who can bury his head deepest in the political sand pile is never more frantic than when an election year is fast approaching. ...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and "experts" in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the beginning of democracy in Libya. ...

Fisk honor roll Twin Rivers-Fisk Elementary School's first quarter honor and merit rolls are as follows: Honor Roll First Grade: Jaysa Austin, Dawson Belt, Jacob Chronister, Seth German, Taylor Hanley, Clara Honeycutt, Makayla Jackson, Gavin Jones, Skyler McClintock, Abigail McCollough, Richard McRoy, Colton Murray, Mason Parson, Dakota Pfaff, Kaitlyn Price, Josie Proctor, Sierra Rommel, Logan Smith, Sidney Talley, Price Thurman, Warren Thurman, Abby Thurner, Layne Trice, Briar Walton and Hunter Williams.. ...

Jannette Miller MALDEN, Mo. -- Virginia Jannette Miller, 63, of Malden, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Malden Nursing Center in Malden. She was born Aug. 17, 1948, and was a member of Bernie Church of Christ. Surviving are two sisters, Barbara Dollarhide of Oxford, Miss., and Shadow Thomason of Malden; and one nephew...

Charles Vardy VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Charles A. Vardy, 94, of Van Buren, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 in Riverways Manor Nursing Home in Van Buren. He was born July 25, 1917 in River Rouge, Mich. Mr. Vardy had lived in Van Buren since moving here in 1987 from Highland Park, Mich., a suburb of Detroit...

Winfred Whitley DEXTER, Mo. -- Winfred Whitley, 77, of Morehouse, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. He was born on Jan. 28, 1934, in Parma, Mo. He had lived in Piedmont, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., before moving to Morehouse in 1954. He was a member of the Pentecostal Church in Morehouse. He had worked at SEMO Motor Company in the Auto Body Repair Department...

Michael Patterson NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Michael H. Patterson, 68, of Naylor, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at his residence. He was born Feb. 19, 1943, in Pekin, Ill. He had lived in Naylor since June 1, 2000, and was a member of Shepherds Fold Church in Neelyville...

Kathleen Camden PIEDMONT, Mo. - Kathleen Camden, 64, of Patterson, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011 in Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was born May 27, 1947, in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Camden grew up in St. Louis on "The Hill" and attended and graduated from Catholic schools. She lived in Patterson for much of her adult life...

James Darron Atwood and Dusty Deon Austin of Qulin, Mo., have chosen the name, Lydia Kay Atwood, for their 7-pound, 4-ounce daughter born at 8:51 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Grandparents are: Delbert Austin, Linda Austin and Sarah Baney, all of Qulin, James Yandell and Ellea Yandell of Neelyville, Mo, and Steve Atwood and Janice Atwood of New Douglas, Ill...

Kendall Brooke Fuller is the name John and Patty Fuller of Poplar Bluff, Mo., have chosen for their 7-pound, 15-ounce daughter who was born at 12:59 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Grandparents are: Fred and Nora Davis of Poplar Bluff, Celia McNew and Don Perry of Wappapello, Mo...

Cathy Lee WILLIAMSVILLE, Mo. -- Cathy Louise Lee, 62, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff, Mo. She was born on Oct. 31, 1949 in St. Louis, Mo., to Virgil Osborn of Williamsville, Mo., and the late Elizabeth Greenwall Osborn. She spent her childhood in Williamsville...

Dorothy Nichols DEXTER, Mo. -- Dorothy Nichols, 92, of Dexter, Mo., died Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, at Gideon Care Center in Gideon, Mo. She was born on July 15, 1919, in Dexter. She had lived in Dexter all of her life where she was a member of the First Christian Church. She had worked as the secretary at the First Christian Church for many years. She was a member of the Hospital Auxiliary, the C.W.F. at the church and had been a member of the Dexter Civic and Study Club...

Elda Ryman Elda Eudora Ryman, 88, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Ryman was born Jan. 27, 1923, in Colby, Kan. She was a member of Fellowship General Baptist Church, and was a homemaker...

Lois Allen DEXTER, Mo. -- Lois Allen, 73, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, in Arkansas. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter.

Mainus Funk PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Mainus M. Funk, 87, of Vulcan, Mo., died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont, Mo.

Pearl Farmer DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Pearl Farmer, a longtime resident of Doniphan, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at her residence. Funeral arrangements are pending with Edward Funeral Home in Doniphan, Mo.

After having their last event outside, the K.O. Boxing team has moved the intensity inside. The team will be holding its final event of the year at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the ballroom of the Holiday Inn. "I am very excited about it, it being the last one of the year," K.O. Boxing team coach Marquis Adams said. "We have a few teams from Tennessee that have never been to Poplar Bluff before, we have a couple of teams from Arkansas that have been here before...

Donald Walker MALDEN, Mo. -- Donald Ray Walker, 77, of Malden, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mr. Walker was born April 11, 1934, at Risco, Mo. He was a member of the New Life Pentecostal Church. On May 5, 1952, he was married to Betty Jean Brown at Arcadia, Calif. She survives of the home...

Michael Conley NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Michael Conley, 44, of Columbia, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, in Allen Hospital in Waterloo, Iowa. Funeral arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Neelyville, Mo.

By MONA CHAREN Kate Bolick stares out at the world from the cover of The Atlantic magazine. She's wearing a black lace evening dress. "What, Me Marry?" asks the headline. She isn't smiling. In fact, she isn't smiling in any of the photos that accompany her several thousand-word essay on singleness, marriage and the changing nature of dating and mating in America today. ...

By DAN K. THOMASSON Scripps Howard News Service Playing ostrich is a favorite pastime in this burg, especially on Capitol Hill when it comes to entitlements and the winners get to keep their, uh, "hard-earned" jobs. The rush to see who can bury his head deepest in the political sand pile is never more frantic than when an election year is fast approaching. ...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and "experts" in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the beginning of democracy in Libya. ...

Winfred Whitley DEXTER, Mo. -- Winfred Whitley, 77, of Morehouse, Mo., died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. He was born on Jan. 28, 1934, in Parma, Mo. He had lived in Piedmont, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., before moving to Morehouse in 1954. He was a member of the Pentecostal Church in Morehouse. He had worked at SEMO Motor Company in the Auto Body Repair Department...

Mainus Funk PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Mainus M. Funk, 87, of Vulcan, Mo., died Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Arrangements are pending with Ruegg Funeral Home in Piedmont, Mo.