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Weeks 20 • Jo Ann Bock 21 A Look Back 22 Out & About 23 PAGE 10 PAGE 18 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR FEATURES EDITOR ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVES Donna Denson Mia Pohlman Logan Clippard, Elizabeth Gooch, TBY [email protected] [email protected] Laura Hulcy, Glenda Mayberry, Don McConnell, Jody Seabaugh and THE BEST YEARS PUBLICATION DESIGN Debbie Stoverink is a Rust Communications publication published in Greg Dowdy June 2019 ©2019 Southeast Missourian, P.O. Box 699, [email protected] Cape Girardeau, MO 63702. Phone: 573-335-6611 TBY JUNE 2019 • 3 5 things to do this month June 8: Catch a Cape Catfish June 15: Attend an arts festival baseball game The Southeast River Campus will host a free arts festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will Head over to Capaha Field to witness Cape Catfish’s be live performances, vendor booths and arts programs for you to take advantage of at first-ever weekend home game against the Springfield this free day of entertainment that supports local artists. For more information, call (573) Sliders. A pregame live band starts at 5 p.m., with the 651-2265 or visit capearts.org/RCSummerArtsFestival. game at 6:30 p.m. For more information or to buy tickets, visit capecatfish.com. June 29: Buy fresh fruit June 25: Take a cooking and veggies at the class Riverfront Market June 12: Attend a Health & Awareness Fair The City of Cape Girardeau is hosting a The Cape Girardeau Riverfront Market is free cooking workshop on how to turn your a must for your summer bucket list! Every Head to Eisleben Lutheran Church at 432 Lutheran summer veggies into delicious, healthy Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon at 35 South Lane in Scott City from 10 a.m. to noon for this year’s meals. During this course, participants Spanish Street, a variety of vendors sell an Health & Awareness fair themed “Senior Awareness.” will learn how to cook, grill and serve array of farm goods and specialty items. 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But I am definitely a hovering, helicopter, never- stop, where Highways 25 and 61 cross and the police and fire let-them-out-of-your-sight grandpa. Near as I can figure, I am station are now. So off we went. When we got there, it was even channeling my late mother-in-law, Norma, who I used to make more impressive. We gathered on the north side of the high- fun of for hovering over my children when she watched them. way where the entrance to the police station is now, just a field My state of mind is her revenge from the beyond. And she was back then as I remember. In front of the pottery plant, Ceramo, right about telling all of us to watch out for bears, seeing as was a large tanker truck. It was burning with a vengeance, and one was sighted between Cape and Jackson! the entire tanker part of the truck had melted into a big blob. The point of the above paragraph is to say that my childhood Behind it were two or three fuel storage tanks, maybe 15 feet had little to no hovering by my parents. My sister did more boss- wide and 20 feet high. One had lost its top and was belching ing around than hovering — at least in our view — when she smoke. There was fire all around the other ones. Fire engines was in charge of watching us three younger kids during the were on that side of the street spraying water on the truck and summer. She was all of two and a half years older than me, so tanks. By this time, there were a lot of people — maybe 50 or so we all ignored her and did what we wanted. There were only adults and kids, I don’t really remember — on the north side six years between the four of us. of the highway. During the summer, we roamed Jackson at will on our bicy- We were all standing there watching things burn, only 50 cles. On weekends we went camping, and did the same things to 60 feet away. Now a days, the highway would be closed for there. Trails End, Sam A. Baker, Ferne Clyffe, Silver Mines hundreds of feet in each direction, with no cars or people — lots of stories there, as well. During the week, our favor- anywhere nearby. And for good reason, as you will see, but ite place was the Jackson City Park. It was much smaller, just things were different then, which is the point of this story.