BUSINESS PERSONNEL: RECEIVES TWO AWARDS

Robert Janota, president of Inter-Rail Systems Inc., which provides management of commercial and industrial wastes and by-products -- hazardous and nonhazardous -- has received the "Excellence in Business Award" from the Missouri Small Business Development Center.

Janota of Cape Girardeau received the awards during a banquet at Jefferson City. He was nominated for the award by Buz Sutherland, director of the SBDC at Southeast Missouri State University.

Inter-Rail, which was founded in Cape Girardeau two years ago, recycles materials such as plastics, rubber, wood, paper, cardboard and textiles, received the SBDC's "Most Entrepreneurial"Award.

The Southeast SBDC has worked closely with Janota as his company negotiated agreements with several large manufacturers in Southeast Missouri to recycle rubber and plastic scrap. The SBDC and the Missouri Department of Economic Development is also helping Janota in find space for expansion.

Janota was previously employed as a Mid-American Manufacturing Technology Center project manager, serving as a MAMTC environmental expert in the Southeast Missouri area.