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Chamber director completes program

Jeff Glenn, director of membership development for the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, recently completed a week-long professional development program with the Institute for Organization Management. The program was held Jan 3-8 at the University of Arizona.

Specifically, program participants build skills essential to address the challenges of increased competition, greater member demands, and tighter resources. Glenn has now completed two years of the four year program. He completed the first year of the institute at the University of Notre Dame. He has been with the chamber for 18 months.

Meyr issued CPA license for practice in Missouri

Harold W. Meyr has been issued an individual license by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy to practice as a Certified Public Accountant in the state. Meyr, a Cape Girardeau resident, has been working as a public accountant and as an enrolled agent for the past 25 years.

Southeast grad awarded President's Recognition

Southeast Missouri State University graduate Daryl Venable, a biologist at the Infectious Diseases Research Division of Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis, Ind., was recently awarded the prestigious Lilly Research Labs President's Recognition Award. Venable earned this honor because of his scientific achievements that have advanced Lilly's efforts to develop a treatment for hepatitis C virus. Venable, a scientist at Lilly since 1998, graduated from Southeast in 1990 with a bachelor's degree.

Select-A-Style adds new stylist to staff

Nancee Flowers has joined the staff of Select-A-Style. The salon is at 204 W. Washington in Jackson, Mo. Flowers will be available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. She provides styling services as well as manicures. Flowers has been a stylist for 14 years, most of the time at JCPenney Styling Salon in Cape Girar-deau.

Cape CPAs attend tax-planning training

CPAs Bill Schott and Harold Fallert with Schott & Van de Ven, Certified Public Accountants, have attended the Federal Tax Institute held in Hendersonville, Tenn. The Institute provides information on significant developments in federal taxation as well as guidance in the identification and solution of tax planning problems. The two-day training included 10 nationally acclaimed speakers from the industry. Schott & Van de Ven is a public accounting firm at 1020 N. Kingshighway, Suite D, Cape Girardeau. The firm has satellite offices in Marble Hill, Mo., and Marion, Ill.

Mary Kay recognizes top performers in area

Top producers in the Jana Jateff unit with Mary Kay Cosmetics were recently recognized at a Sikeston, Mo., workshop. "Queen of Wholesale" was Leslie Thresher of East Prairie, Mo. Also recognized were Julie Wehmeyer of Chicago, Ill., Amy Romack of Cape Girardeau, Becky Brown of Marble Hill, Mo., Sherry Campbell of Patton, Mo., and Vanessa Johnson of Sikeston.

Longtime Bootheel newsman retires

Former Portageville, Mo., newspaper publisher and editor Erwin Lloyd has announced his retirement after a 44-year journalism which included years of writing news, composing advertising layout and selling newspaper subscriptions. For the past 2 1/2 years, Lloyd had been an independent contractor with the Portageville Missourian-News, working out of his home writing news stories and selling advertising. His career began in 1958 when he became editor of the Portageville Review and the SEMO News in Lilbourn, Mo.

-- From staff reports