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The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in three areas this month.

The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available April 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions, about an hour long, are free. Call (314)-335-3312 for appointment.

He will conduct sessions at the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce April 25, from 9 to 11 a.m. Appointments are available by calling (314)-471-2498. He will hold sessions at the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning office in Perryville April 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments are available by calling (314)-547-8357.

Sessions will be held April 20 at the Malden Chamber of Commerce office, from 9 to 11 a.m. Appointments are available by calling (314)-276-4519.

The Small Business Development Center represents a "Partnership for Economic Development" between Southeast Missouri State University, the U.S. Small Business Administration, local financial institutions, area utility companies and Southeast Missouri municipalities. The goal of the center is to stimulate diversity and growth in small business by assisting new and existing businesses to become more productive and more profitable.

A vacant, concrete block, one-story, 2,408-square-foot structure at Perryville is one of 25 commercial properties for sale by the Resolution Trust Corp.

More than $9 million in real estate assets will be offered in a dozen states in a sealed bid sale conducted by Kennedy-Wilson International, an auction marketing company from Santa Monica, Calif. The deadline is April 27.

The property at Perryville is the Perry Industries Building, 209 Kiefner, situated on a 33,940-square-foot site. The property is zoned light industrial and has a suggested list price of $13,000.

One of the most expensive buildings offered is the Minnesota Business & Technology building, just south of the Metrodome in Minneapolis. The four-story, multi-tenant building on five acres has a suggested list price of $4 million.

A free sales brochure of all properties is available by calling 1-800-522-6664.

TG (U.S.A.), a plastic and resin auto components supplier at Perryville, has received an "Excellence Performance Award" from Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A. Inc. for value engineering-value analysis activity.

TG products include steering wheels, airbag covers, horn pads, assembled airbag modules, painted sidemolding and mudguards and plastic injection molded interior components.

TG, which was established in Perryville in mid-1986 with 50 employees now employs 700. The company sells to a number of auto manufacturers, including Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, The Big Three (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler), Saturn and others.

Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. of St. Louis has announced it has completed the acquisition of West Side Bancshares Inc., in San Angelo, Texas,. with assets of about $245 million. Boatmen's exchanged about 600,000 shares of its common stock for West Side.

Boatmen's, with assets of $28.3 billion, is one of the 30 largest U.S. bank holding companies, operating at more than 500 sites in nine states, including Cape Girardeau County in Missouri.

The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS -- Anheuser-Busch has sold Cypress Gardens, an entertainment park in central Florida, to a management group led by park president Bill Reynolds.

The 200-acre Cypress Gardens, in Winter Haven, Fla., is home to 8,000 plant varieties from 90 countries and is known as the water-ski capital of the world.

Busch Entertainment now has nine theme parks: Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., and Williamsburg, Va.; Sea World marine life parks in Orlando, Fla., San Diego, San Antonio and Cleveland; Adventure Island in Tampa Bay; Water Country USA in Williamsburg; and Sesame Place near Philadelphia.

TNT Dugan, a regional carrier of TNT Freightways of Wichita, Kan., has expanded its network of terminals.

A new terminal opened at Shreveport, La., last week, and has moved into larger facilities in Dallas and Denver to accommodate increased market demands.

The company, said Charles Eggleton, president and chief operating officer of TNT Dugan, has opened 10 new terminals in the past year.

TNT Dugan provides trucking service within a 15-state region, including Cape Girardeau. TNT Freightways operates a group of general motor carriers throughout the country.

Both companies focus on overnight and second-day delivery.