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SKATING THROUGH LIFE Willow Grove Roller Rink rolls on in its second life
Abby Burton competes in a limbo contest Aug. 12 at Willow Grove Roller Rink in Chaffee, Missouri.
Weekend August 19, 2018 FRED LYNCH ~ flynch@semissourian.com
Juden stepping down as Missouri’s safety director ASSOCIATED PRESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri public safety director Drew Juden is stepping down at the end of the month, the first top holdover from former Gov. Eric Greitens’ staff to leave since Greitens resigned and Mike Parson took over as governor. Greitens picked Juden to lead the agency shortly before he took office in January 2017. It wasn’t immediately clear why Juden was leaving the position, which pays $116,000 annually. Kelli Jones, spokeswoman
KASSI JACKSON ~ kjackson@semissourian.com
Drew Juden, director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety, speaks May 24 after being presented the Roger Fields Award of Excellence during the Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony presented by Seniors and Lawmen Together (SALT) at Cape Bible Chapel in Cape Girardeau.
New Cape clinic to help opioid addicts BY MARYBETH NIEDERKORN
SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN A new clinic in Cape Girardeau aims to help patients battling an opioid addiction. Brightstone Medical, a medication-assisted therapy clinic, opened Aug. 6 at 36 Doctors’ Park, suite 2, according to a company news release. In 2017 alone, Missouri saw 951 deaths from opioid overdose, according to opioid.mo.gov. Six of those deaths were in Cape Girardeau County, according to earlier reporting by the Southeast Missourian. The need for opioid-related treatment options spurred the clinic’s open-
ing, company spokesman Robbie Spurlock said. “Just about every health-care provider is experiencing some aspect of the opioid problem,” Spurlock said. “People don’t know what to do, and there isn’t a lot available in our region.” The clinic’s founders saw an opportunity to help give back to the community by helping people fight back against dependence on opioid painkillers, Spurlock added. “We’re looking at a bigger picture [treatment] rather than focusing just on the addiction,” Tony Thompson, one of Brightstone’s founders, and CEO See CLINIC, Page 5A
for Parson, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the governor “was just looking for a different approach.” She declined to be more specific and did not immediately respond to Associated Press requests for comment Friday. The Southeast Missourian also sent questions to Jones regarding Juden’s departure. Answers to those questions were not returned as of 5 p.m. Friday. Parson in a statement called Juden a “well accomplished public servant” and wished him well. Juden did not immediately comment. Missouri State Highway
Patrol superintendent Col. Sandra Karsten will take on his responsibilities as acting public safety director on top of her work leading the patrol. Greitens, a Republican, resigned June 1 after months of legal and ethical investigations. He faced possible impeachment, a since-dismissed felony charge for invasion of privacy against a woman with whom he had an affair in 2015, and investigations over possible campaign fundraising irregularities. See JUDEN, Page 4A
CLIPPARD BOOTCAMP
KASSI JACKSON ~ kjackson@semissourian.com
Sgt. Joey Beard, right, does pushups with third-grader Jiaiyla Harris on Friday during Clippard Bootcamp at Clippard Elementary in Cape Girardeau.
Church picnic studied as salmonella outbreak hits 50 BY TYLER GRAEF
SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN Authorities are investigating a possible connection between an ongoing salmonella outbreak and a recent church picnic as the number of confirmed sick in Perry County has risen to 50. Sheila Hahs, Perry County Health Department communicable-disease coordinator, said Friday no cause has been determined. Hahs said the department continues to work with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), which has begun distributing a survey seeking in-depth information about the behavior of individuals who attended the St. Vincent de Paul Seminary Picnic Aug. 3, 4 and 5. The introduction to the 45-question online survey, titled “Church Picnic Salmonella Outbreak 2018,” states at least some of the reported ill attended the picnic. The survey asks participants to detail any symptoms, treatments, whether they brought or prepared food at the picnic and which foods, if any, they consumed while there. Hahs said the survey is a starting point, after which representatives from the Perry County Health Department See OUTBREAK, Page 4A
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