Stories from Monday, September 1, 2014

By ALEX WEST Staff Writer Three Rivers College Interim President Dr. Wesley Payne uses the words "instrumental" and "an asset" to describe the college's groundskeeper Bud Pinner. Now, Pinner can also be labeled as the recipient of the 24th Annual Missouri Older Worker award for this region...

Scouts name district exec. By ALEX WEST Staff Writer In May, the Boy Scouts of America hired Mike Dineen of St. Charles as district executive for the Sioux District which covers Butler, Ripley, Carter, western Stoddard, Wayne and Reynolds Counties...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor The trails are being cleared for the 26th annual Trail Ride for Haven House Saturday, Sept. 27. Prizes are being collected, T-shirts printed and plans for barbecue are smoldering. Rain or shine, riders will gather at the Evans Farms north of Poplar Bluff, Mo. to ride and raise funds for the area domestic violence shelter, which provides shelter and services for battered women and their children...

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer Four area residents were injured in three separate accidents in Butler, Ripley and Stoddard counties at the beginning of the Labor Day holiday weekend. A Poplar Bluff, Mo., resident is charged with vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident following one crash, which involved a moped...

By BARBARA ANN HORTON News Editor Has a supervisor suggested you need to learn how to work the room or has your family strongly suggested you find a better balance between work and home? Does learning more about yoga or decorating and entertaining for the holidays both at work and home top your list of interests? You've checked work and family calendars and you might be able to squeeze in a day of fun, networking, good food, and learn something new...

Two shows that never fail to sell out will return to Three Rivers College as part of the new Patrons of the Arts season, which was announced last week. The group will also partner with local districts to offer free performances of children's programs at schools, according to a press release...

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is highly exercised about "inversion," the practice by which an American corporation acquires a foreign company and moves its headquarters out of the U.S. to benefit from lower tax rates abroad...

T-shirts, jeans? Oh, my goodness! Why is the SHO-ME Marching Band wearing blue T-shirts and blue jeans on the football field representing Poplar Bluff? It's the SHO-ME Marching Band. They are the pride of Poplar Bluff. At least "were" 35 years ago. Let's get back to maroon and white! They just played the song about our alma mater and maroon and white. What is the deal?!...

The international spotlight has recently been shining on Ferguson, Mo., after an 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white police officer. There was massive national and international media coverage, much of it engendered by the tantalizing thought that here was a clear-cut case of racism leading to police brutality and indicative of the evil inherent in American society. ...

PIGGOTT, Ark. - The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum & Educational Center (HPMEC) is sponsoring a trip to Paris, France, Sunday through Monday, March 22-30, during Arkansas State University's spring break. Friends of the Pfeiffers, the museum's membership program, invite the community to join them for "The Hemingways' Paris," a unique opportunity to see two sides of Paris--the artistic Left Bank of Ernest Hemingway and the glitzy Right Bank of Pauline Pfeiffer. ...

Joyce Aylward PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. -- Joyce Elaine Miller Aylward, 81, of Leawood, Kan., passed away Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Overland Park, Kan. Joyce was born April 26, 1933, in rural Ripley County, Mo., to Royce and Lucina (Luehrmann) Miller. She married Dennis Aylward on Jan. 27, 1954...

Mary Worley Mary Ruby Worley, 88, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Qulin, Mo., died Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Miss Worley was born Oct. 9, 1925, in Butler County to the late Clyde and Verna Alford Worley. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Qulin and was a homemaker. Miss Worley enjoyed spending time with her family, quilting, gardening and drawing...

Helen and Dudley Shaw of St. Charles, Mo. announces the engagement of their daughter, Carolyn Diane Shaw of St. Louis, Mo., and Matthew M. Elliott, also of St. Louis. The parents of the bridegroom-to-be are Sandra and Wendell Elliott of Poplar Bluff, M o...

Earl F. Huitt PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Earl F. Huitt, 88, of Patterson, Mo. died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont. Arrangements will be announced by Morrison-Worley Funeral Chapel, Piedmont

Beulah Summerfield DEXTER, Mo. -- Beulah Summerfield, 88, of Dexter died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at Golden Living Center in Dexter. Visitation will be from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with the funeral beginning at 1:30 p.m. with Rev. Jamie Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Rosewood Cemetery at Malden, Mo...

DEXTER -- Neither rain nor mud nor Dexter's defense could slow Kameron Misner and Poplar Bluff in the fourth quarter Friday night. Misner ran for two fourth-quarter touchdowns and 90 yards in a driving rain as the Mules surged past Dexter 30-20 at Charles Bland Stadium...

CARUTHERSVILLE -- When the Malden Green Wave left Hopke Field last November after a 42-point postseason loss to Caruthersville, there was probably a good amount of mixed emotions like anger and sadness. Nearly 10 months later, the Green Wave partied all over that same field and made their biggest statement as a program in a long time...

By CAROLYN SMITH Staff Writer Dean Clark, son of Jack and Laura Clark, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. recently completed a stint teaching in KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). When he taught in Hong Kong, Japan and Russia, Dean generously shared his experiences with our readers. ...

Poplar Bluff R-I Board of Education met in closed session Aug. 21, following an the regular monthly meeting. They acted on the following personnel matters...

Lonus Caudle DEXTER, Mo. -- Lonus E. Caudle, 87, of Bloomfield, Mo. died Saturday, Aug.30, 2014 at the Southeast Health Center of Stoddard County in Dexter. Visitation will be from 5 - 8 p.m. Sunday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the funeral chapel with Tom Horton and Dale Williams officiating. Burial will follow in the Dexter Cemetery...

BERNIE -- The Bloomfield Wildcats baseball team took two wins Saturday at the Bernie Wood Bat Tournament. Bloomfield won a tight game over Holcomb 3-0 before topping Bernie 11-3 to end the day. The host Mules won the opener over Holcomb, 10-0. Against Holcomb, Bloomfield sophomore Jacob Hector went five innings for the win on the mound. He allowed just one hit, struck eight and walked two. Noah Vandiver picked up the save with two innings worked, one hit and strikeout...