Inflatable playground to open by year's end

Plans are underway for LeBounce Indoor Inflatable Play Centre to move into a portion of what is now the Rust & Martin building at 2502 Tanner Drive. Rust & Martin will soon move to the Regent's Parc building at 1610 N. Kingshighway. LeBounce will occupy the back third of the building, which was the Rust & Martin warehouse. LeBounce will have more than 6,000 square feet of inflatable play elements, a 400-square-foot toddler play area, a parents lounge and private party rooms. It is accepting party reservations for dates in 2011 and is scheduled to open before the end of this year. An inflatable triple slide more than 20 feet tall, a 50-foot-long inflatable obstacle course and several inflatable jumping areas are planned in addition to an interactive inflatable soccer game. Children will be monitored by trained, uniformed staff, but parents are encouraged to supervise their children while they play. More information is available at lebouncecape.com.

* Plak-Vac Suction Toothbrush marketed by Cape woman: Twenty-five years after patenting the Plak-Vac suction toothbrush for patients incapable of performing their own oral hygiene, Mary Prince of Cape Girardeau is now working to market her product. She sold the patent rights to Trademark Medical of St. Louis, which later developed an oral care system around the brush and marketed it to intensive care units in hospitals. Prince, who founded Prince Dental Inc., has now partnered with Trademark Medical to market and educate long-term care facilities about the Plak-Vac. At the time she developed the product, Prince was a certified expanded duty dental assistant for Dr. Michael Bennett.

n Jackson chamber kicks off membership drive: The Jackson Chamber of Commerce will have a membership drive from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at HealthPoint Fitness in Jackson. This year's theme is "The Price is Right."

* New look, products for salon: Concepts Styling Salon, 107 West Drive in Cape Girardeau, recently completed a makeover and now has a new look and several new product lines, according to owner Danea Johnson. The salon now carries Bumble and Bumble products and two members of the Concepts staff will attending Bumble and Bumble University in New York City in the coming months. The salon also now features Waxing Poetic and Lenny and Eva jewelry.

* Clinic donates bikes: Brain & NeuroSpine Clinic of Missouri in Cape Girardeau donated 10 bikes, backpacks and bike helmets to students at the Boys and Girls Club as part of an employee motivation and team building activity Friday at Capaha Park. Employees were split into teams and asked to assemble the bikes without knowing why until the children appeared to receive them.

* Mobile marketing seminar offered: Justin Pobst of Element 74 and Elizabeth Shelton of Write Results Marketing will offer a workshop to help local businesses understand the differences between mobile and traditional websites, determine whether developing a mobile site or application makes sense for their business or organization. The workshop will be at noon Oct. 27 at the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce. To register, call 332-7474 or e-mail marketing@element74.com. The cost is $25, which includes lunch. Attendance is limited to 25 people.

* New location for Jackson restaurant: Lil' Miss Muffin & Stuff has moved to 2480 E. Main St., in the Main Street Station building in Jackson.

* GameStop correction: GameStop's West Park Mall store will remain open in addition to its new store in the Lambert Plaza shopping center at 127 Siemers Drive, Suite 101 opening later this month. Information in last week's column was incorrect. The Southeast Missourian regrets the error.

Southeast Missourian business reporter Melissa Miller may be contacted at 388-3646 or mmillersemissourian. com.