BUSINESS MEMO

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Industrial Appreciation Dinner will be held Oct. 1 at the Show Me Center.

Highlight of the annual event is the presentation of the Commitment to Excellence award honoring the 1992 industry of the year.

More than 950 people attended the 1991 dinner.

This year's event marks the fifth year for the dinner, which is designed to honor area industries. Biokyowa was last year's industry of the year. Previous winners were Procter and Gamble in 1990, Lone Star Industries in 1989, and General Sign Co. in 1988.

Tickets for the dinner are $20 per person. Businesses may reserve tables of eight, with the company name displayed.

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CAIRO, Ill. Tip's Learning Tree observed its one-year anniversary this month.

Kim Naile, program director, reported that when the school opened a year ago it had 11 children. A year later the operation serves 65 children and has 13 full- and part-time employees.

Tip's Learning Tree, 1702 Washington in Cairo, is open year-round from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

It is licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and serves infants through age 12. Full- and part-time schedules are available. Through the Title XX Program, qualifying families receive reduced rates. The school recently was awarded a grant for a therapeutic day care program to serve special-needs children.

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Cape LaCroix Care Center will open its 24-bed Alzheimer's unit Sept. 1.

That brings the facility to a 102-bed capacity, said Mary Jo Hancock, administrator at Cape La Croix.

"The unit will be a Tender Loving Care unit for our special residents who are suffering from a form of dementia such as Alzheimer's," said Hancock.

The Tender Loving Care unit has just been completed as part of a major remodeling of the entire facility. The unit will feature a special wing for the residents, eliminating most of the confusion they may encounter. The residents will have a trained nursing staff serving them 24 hours a day.

Hancock said, "We plan for a grand open house in early October to celebrate our facility remodeling, the Tender Loving Care unit and to commemorate that we are now a state-approved Medicare-Medicaid facility.

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McElreath Realty & Insurance Co. has moved to the Eagle Peak Retail and Office Complex, 760 S. Kingshighway, Suite E.

"We opened in our new quarters Monday," said Mary McElreath Kistner, a partner in the firm. "Our telephone and fax numbers have not changed."

McElreath Realty and Insurance will continue to work together and share office space with Rock Finch and Doug Temples of Finch-Temples Insurance.

"Although we will each keep and serve our own customers, we'll be working together to cultivate new markets and areas of service for the benefit of each agency's customers," said Kistner. "The decision to move was out of need for additional office space."