BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Tim Bonno, manager of national security preparedness for Southwest Bell Telephone, St. Louis, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee Friday.

Bonno, a certified business continuity planner, will discuss emergency planning.

A Rhodes 101 Stop Convenience Store in Cape Girardeau has been named the "Best in the USA."

The Rhodes facility at 1036 N. Sprigg is the national winner of the Orion Food Systems Inc. Mystery Shopper Challenge.

The store was judged best among more than 1,000 entries nationally, on food quality, store appearance, merchandising execution, cleanliness and staff appearance, among other criteria.

Vivian Barlow is the store's property manager and Kim Propst its food service manager. Other food service employees are Carrie Crandall, Jeff Wheeler and Amy Roush.

The local store was among 13 district winners selected last month. The top five scoring stores were revisited by a different Mystery Shopper and Rhodes 101 achieved the best score.

The Rhodes 101 store has demonstrated consistent quality and excellence, said Jeff Okerlund, Orion president. "Their management and staff deserve this national award."

Rhodes 101 Convenience Stores have 15 stores in Southeast Missouri. Seven of the Rhodes operations serve Hot Stuff Pizza and Smash Hit Subs, part of the Orion Food System, headquartered in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Terry Godwin has been named store manager for the Carbondale Wal-Mart.

He has been with Wal-Mart since 1973. He previously served as manager of the Cape Girardeau Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Skip Tinney, former manager of the Carbondale Wal-Mart Supercenter, has been promoted to district manager and will oversee supercenters at Carbondale, Mount Vernon, Sparta and Waterloo in Illinois and at Paducah, Ky.

Thomas M. Meyer, of Thomas L. Meyer Realtors, attended the first of five international courses at St. Louis recently.

The courses, designed to introduce realtors to the concepts of the global economy, will lead to a special certified international property specialist designation.

Meyer's interests in the international real estate market involve recent communication with Japanese business executives during a recent Midwest Japan/U.S. Conference at Kansas City, with plans for another conference to be held in Tokyo next spring.

Meyer, as chairman of the MAR Economic Development Council, is working on a possible trade mission trip to Mexico, along with other representatives in the association.

Birdie Rader, sales associated with Century 21 Key Realty, recently attended the 1997 Master Club Retreat, held at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.

To participate in the retreat, a sales associate must be at the Emerald level in the Century 21 Masters Club. Rader is at the Hall of Fame level in the club. She was inducted into the Century 21 International Hall of Fame earlier this year.

Radar is a top producer in the area. She was named No. 1 in production by the Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors for 1996.

W.L. "Barry" Orscheln, president of Orscheln Industries, headquartered in Moberly, has been elected chairman of the board of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce.

Orscheln, who has served on the Missouri Chamber board since 1992, will serve a two-year term as chairman. He became president of Orscheln in 1990.

Orscheln is a graduate of Central Methodist College. Orscheln Industries has major investments in 12 companies, partnerships and joint ventures with sales exceeding $700 million. The company employs 6,000 in 25 manufacturing facilities throughout the world and 84 retail outlets in the Midwestern United States, including Cape Girardeau.

Laura Jo Ice of Miller City, Ill., was winner of the $750 Big Bertha golf driver during a special promotion held at Hutson Furniture Store, 43 S. Main, Cape Girardeau.

The promotion, "Keller Solid Wood Open," was sponsored by the furniture store and Keller Furniture, a furniture manufacturer and supplier to Hutson Furniture.

Laura Avakian, formerly of Jackson, is recipient of the American Society for Healthcare Human Resource Administration's Distinguished Service Award for 1997, for outstanding service and contributions to the society and the field of health care human resources.

Avakian was specifically cited for her testimony given to Congress as the human resource professions' voice on issues relating to the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Avakian is the senior vice president of human resources at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The center is founding member of CareGroup and a major clinical, teaching and research affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

Marvin Enderle, a Kelso native, has been named publisher of the Monroe, N.C., Enquirer-Journal, a 13,000 circulation daily newspaper owned by Paxton Media Group Inc., headquartered at Paducah, Ky.

Enderle, a 1970 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau, has served eight years as general manager of the Richmond County Daily Journal in Rockingham, N.C.

Enderle joined Springfield, Mo., Newspaper Inc., a Gannett publication in 1979, following college and military service. He worked at Gannett publication at Coffeyville, Kan., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., before joining Park Newspapers at Norwich, N.Y. Park later transferred Enderle to Rockingham.