October 2023

Run wild with MDC Cape Nature Center events in November

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Discover nature in November with Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center’s free programs!   Aquatics: Riverfront Cleanup | 2 – 4 p.m. on Nov. 4 at Riverfront Park in Cape Girardeau | Register online at https://mdc-event-web.s3licensing.com/Event/EventDetails/195352   Let’s work together to keep our river clean! Lend a helping hand

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SIU School of Art and Design iron pour is Nov. 4

by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Art students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Art and Design will host their free, annual fall cast iron pour, beginning at noon Saturday, Nov. 4. Those attending will have the chance to create their own cast iron art pieces using scratch blocks, tiles comprising resin-bonded sand used in creating

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SIU student speakers forum on Nov. 2 to focus on media literacy, disinformation

by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Five undergraduate students will share their thoughts on media literacy and disinformation in a student speakers public forum on Thursday, Nov. 2, in the Student Center Auditorium. This semester’s topic is “Is that a Fact? Media Literacy and (M/Dis)information.” The free, public forum is from 7 to 8 p.m.

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SIU’s Tenney lecture to look at evolving communication, even with space aliens

by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Keeping an open mind and considering other possibilities, including communicating with space aliens, is the centerpiece of a Nov. 2 lecture hosted by Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s University Honors Program and the School of Languages and Linguistics. Sheri Wells-Jensen, an associate professor of linguistics at Bowling Green State University and a 1993 SIU Carbondale

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Young hunters harvest 11,118 deer during early youth portion of firearms deer season

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young hunters ages 6 through 15 harvested 11,118 deer during Missouri’s early youth portion of the 2023 deer hunting season, Oct. 28 and 29.   Top counties were Franklin with 258 deer harvested, Osage with 224, and Texas with 209. Of

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