Memo 9/2/08

Business health summit scheduled for Sept. 16

Saint Francis Medical Center's Services to Businesses will hold a one-day Business Health Summit on Sept. 16. Held at Saint Francis Conference Center, 211 Saint Francis Drive in Cape Girardeau, the seminar will feature national health and fitness expert Dr. Joe Quatrochi. He will share his insight of self-responsibility as the key to promoting well-being. Preregistration is preferred but not required. Participants can register by phone or at 7:30 a.m. on the day of the event. The summit will take place from 8:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will include a continental breakfast and lunch. To register or for more information, call 331-5825.

Ribbon-cutting scheduled for Thursday

The city of Jackson, Jackson Chamber of Commerce and the Missouri Department of Transportation will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to celebrate the completion of the Oak Street Recreation Trail Project, marking the end of another project completed under the city's Comprehensive Recreation Trails Plan. The ceremony will be at 11 a.m. on the surface of the new trail next to West Lane Elementary School, 388 N. West Lane in Jackson. In February, Fronabarger Concreters Inc. of Oak Ridge, Mo., was awarded the contract in the amount of $179,222. The project consisted of installing about 5,500 feet of new 6-foot-wide, 4-inch-thick concrete sidewalk extending from the intersection of Whetstone Way east along Oak Street to Jackson City Park. Handicapped-accessible ramps were also included in the improvements at all affected intersections. Seventy percent of the total project costs was paid for by the Missouri Department of Transportation through its Transportation Enhancement Program. The city provided the remaining 30 percent.

— From staff reports