Stories from Friday, March 27, 2015

By DONNA FARLEY Staff Writer An iconic rock band with Southeast Missouri ties will return to the Black River Coliseum next month. Styx is scheduled to take the stage April 23. Tickets go on sale Friday, ranging from approximately $34-74. Styx performed a successful show in Poplar Bluff several years ago, appearing with group Journey, said coliseum Director Bobby Godwin...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Students interested in emergency medical services training will benefit from the use of new equipment approved by the Three Rivers College Board Wednesday. FAAC Incorporated of Ann Arbor, Mich., submitted the low quote of $102,500 for an EMS three-screen driving simulator package. The other quote was $126,000...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Three Rivers College hosted freshman girls from high schools in 10 counties as they participated in Tuesday's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Workshop. "We had 130 girls and 22 adults," said Becki Shrum, the Region VII college and career consultant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...

By PAT PRATT Staff Writer Two Greenville high school students will travel to the nation's capitol this summer after not just fighting, but waging an all-out war on hunger in the small community. Kayla Scherr, 17, and Autumn Scott, 16, participated in the FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) club's No Kid Hungry, National Outreach Program, placing in the top 15 overall in the U.S. and will compete this July in Washington D.C. at the club's national competition...

Teddy Kirkley Teddy Kirkley, 68, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Arrangements are pending with Fowler-Sullivan Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff.

Joyce "Ticka" Lawson NEELYVILLE, Mo. -- Joyce Ann "Ticka" Lawson, 59, of Neelyville, died Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Mrs. Lawson was born Nov. 24, 1955, in Neelyville. She worked as a cook for Taylor's Stateline Truck Stop and enjoyed crossword puzzles, and music. She was a lifelong resident of the area...

Tesson Trube Nelson Tesson Trube Nelson, 43, of Poplar Bluff died from smoke inhalation sustained at a house fire that occurred on Sunday, March 15, 2015, trying to save the lives of two sons. A memorial celebration will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday on Black River near the Black River Beauty Academy in Poplar Bluff...

Several vegetables can be planted as "early as the ground can be worked" and do better in the cooler temperatures. Potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots and radishes are some of the early season vegetables that resist frost. A favorite of mine is the delicious, crisp carrot. Carrots have been grown for thousands of years and originated in the Middle East and central Asia. The orange-colored carrot that we enjoy today was developed by French agronomists in the mid-19th century...

The University of Missouri Extension Center will be hosting for the fifth year a Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Conference on Friday, April 24, at the First United Methodist Church, 500 North Main St., Poplar Bluff. This conference is also for others who are raising children who are not their own. ...

To the Editor: This letter to the editor is to respond to Republican Rep. Steve Cookson's op-ed piece on the right to work laws. Here are a few questions I would like Mr. Cookson to answer for me: 1. If you could get rid of all unions public and private would you?...

Jimmy Dale Adams DEXTER, Mo. -- Jimmy Dale Adams, 73, of Bernie, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at his residence. Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter. The funeral will follow at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. James Lashley and the Rev. David Henderson officiating. Burial will be in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield...

Uriah Lee Nelson Uriah Lee Nelson, 25, of Poplar Bluff died from smoke inhalation sustained at a house fire that occurred on Sunday, March 15, 2015. A memorial celebration will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday on Black River near the Black River Beauty Academy in Poplar Bluff...

By MICHELLE MALKIN You've heard it from Big Government lobbyists. You've heard it from Big Business lackeys in both political parties. And you've heard it from journalists, pundits and think-tankers ad nauseam: The H-1B foreign guest worker program, they claim, requires American employers to first show that they searched for and tried to recruit American workers before tapping an ever-growing government-rigged pipeline of cheap foreign workers...

Katherine Louise Parker Katherine Louise Parker, 87, of Poplar Bluff, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at her residence. The arrangements are pending and will be announced by Cotrell Funeral Service in Poplar Bluff.

By GEORGE F. WILL COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ideas fly from Gov. John Kasich like sparks from a flint. While explaining his prison reforms, he interrupts himself midsentence -- his sentences, like some E. E. Cummings poems, are unpunctuated -- to praise a Delaware church that buys prom dresses for low-income high school girls. His spirit would add spice and his policies would add substance to the Republican presidential contest...

Melanie McKuin continued the Dexter Lady Bearcats' recent run of Bob Gray Award winners Wednesday night while Blake Reynolds became the first Jackson player since 1987 to win the John Gibbs Award. Both were among the honorees at the 57th annual Poplar Bluff Letter Club Basketball Banquet at the Black River Coliseum, which started off with a keynote address by University of Missouri men's basketball coach Kim Anderson...

Johnny M. Sauls QULIN, MO - Johnny M. Sauls, 71, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at Farmington, Mo. He was born Aug. 24, 1943 at Poplar Bluff, Mo. He is survived by three sons: Gary Sauls, Frankie Sauls, and Timmy Sauls; four daughters: Julie Lee, Christina King, Debbie Martin and Sarah Willard; five sisters: Mildred Whittington of Roseburg, Ore, Rosalie Teran of El Paso, Texas, Pearl Davis of Campbell, Mo., Opal Mowry of Billings, Mo., Betty Thompson (Joe) of Goodman, Mo.; one brother: Bobby Sauls (Robbie) of Poplar Bluff.. ...

Derrin and Stephanie Wineland of Paragould, Ark., have chosen the name Bradley Lane Wineland for their 6-pound, 5-ounce son born at 3:34 p.m., Sunday, March 15, 2015 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Ark. Grandparents are Steve and Becky Atwood, Kenny and Joyce Sullivan and Rick and Debbie Wineland...

WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. -- Naylor's Shayna Tharp hasn't had much trouble with the transition from basketball season to softball season. The 3-point shooting wing who played in the MSHSAA 1 State Championship on March 14 put on her pitching glove and has been dominant in her first two outings...