STRICTLY BUSINESS: TARGET WILL ADD MORE THAN 100 JOBS IN LABOR MARKET

The wrong business column was inadvertently used in the Monday's business section. Below is the correct column.

Target Stores will add a 100-job boost to the Cape Girardeau area labor market.

The company hopes to open the store in July, a company spokesman said.

Carolyn Brookter of the company's public affairs department said The Cape Girardeau store will have about 90,000 square feet of retail space and will employ between 100 and 125 people."

Target stores range from about 80,000 to 135,000 square feet. The larger operations employ up to 200 people. Nationally, Target Stores provide employment for about 106,000 people.

Target, which opened its first store more than 30 years ago at Roseville, Minn., a suburb of St. Paul, is the largest division of Dayton Hudson Corp.

Although headquartered in Minneapolis, the company has regional offices in Los Angeles, Dallas and Indianapolis and distribution centers in Sacramento, Calif.; Little Rock, Ark.; Pueblo, Colo.; Tifton, Ga.; Oconomowoc, Wis.; Indianapolis; and Los Angeles.

California has 118 stores, Texas has 67 and Florida 46. Target operates 584 stores in 32 states, including eight stores in Missouri, 35 in Illinois and six in Kentucky.

The company has opened 30 stores this year and hopes to open 30 more.

The company is noted for its community service programs and events, including an annual "Special Assistance" holiday party for senior citizens and people with disabilities.

Last year, Dayton Hudson and its retail divisions, including Target, made grants of about $24 million to non-profit groups. Target employees last year pledged more than $5.2 million to their community United Way agencies.

Employees also volunteer in community projects such as paint-a-thons, adopt-a-family, school partnerships, Habitat for Humanity, environmental projects and other projects.

Target has experienced big growth during the past decade and a half, with 319 new stores during the 1980s and 172 thus far in the 1990s. The company opened 17 stores in the 1960s and 63 during the 1970s.

Target Stores offer a variety of merchandise, including apparel for men, women and children, jewelry and accessories, housewares, health and beauty aids, pet supplies, hardware, paint and wallpaper and many other items.

Sleepy Hollow "back home"

Sleepy Hollow Furniture Center is back at 1809 N. Kingshighway.

The Cape Girardeau company has been operating in the building at 360 S. Kingshighway for more than a year, following a fire that heavily damaged the North Kingshighway site in August 1993.

"It's great to be back," owner David Patrick said. "There's no place like home."

The business which was founded at 1809 N. Kingshighway in 1975.

Business hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The store also remains open until 8 p.m. each Thursday.

The building has been completely remodeled, and an expansion that will double the store's size is expected to be completed next month.

Fords and Sons Funeral Home and Monument Co. has announced plans to expand Memorial Park Cemetery Mausoleum.

It will be the second expansion since the mausoleum opened. Memorial Park Manager Kevin Ford said.

Plans call for adding a new wing to the mausoleum that will add about 250 new crypts to the more than 600 crypts at the mausoleum.

Ford and Sons acquired Cape County Memorial Park in 1984.

The company was founded as Ford-Young Funeral Home in 1949 and became Ford and Son in 1957. Walter Joe Ford is president of the business, which became Ford and Sons when his sons, Cliff and Kevin, joined the operation.

Boat Notes:

The Players International riverboat gambling casino averaged more than 4,100 visitors a day in August.

According to the Illinois Gaming Board's monthly riverboat casino report, the Metropolis-based facility had 118,892 visitors in August, for an average of 4,161 a day.

Metropolis received $426,606 in revenues from Players, and the state received $1,042,035.

The state received a total of $14.7 million in August as its share of revenues from the nine riverboat casinos in the state.

East St. Louis Casino Queen and Joliet Empress continue to rank Nos. 1 and 2 in attracting visitors. A total of 382,642 visitors boarded the Casino Queen, for an average of 12,834 a day, and 297,168 visited the Empress for an average of 9,867 per day. The Alton Belle attracted 7,819 visitors, for an average of 7.819.

Statewide, 1.9 million visitors boarded the nine riverboat casinos in August.

Blackjack and 25-cent or $1-slot machines are the favorite games on Illinois riverboat casinos, the Illinois Gaming Board reported.

Among the table games, blackjack accounts for 60 percent of revenue generated. A distant second is craps, at about 27 percent. Third is roulette, at about 10 percent.

Gamblers at slot machines prefer the 25-cent variety or the $1 machines. The two account for more than 80 percent of the revenue generated by slot machines.

Hollywood Casino has opened a 154-room hotel at its casino complex in booming Tunica County, Miss.

The gambling casino, owned by Hollywood Casino Corp., based in Dallas, opened Aug. 8, and is one only two casinos at Commerce Landing to offer hotel accommodations.

The Hollywood development will be completed this month with the opening of a steak house and a 50-space RV park.

Hollywood Casino also owns and operates a riverboat casino at Aurora, Ill., and the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J.

Business happenings elsewhere

MARION, Ill. -- The largest Kroger grocery center in Southern Illinois opened recently.

Kroger's "FutureMart," a 60,000-square-foot store, opened near the intersection of Illinois Route 13 and Carbon Street in Marion.

The store employs more than 200 people and is open 24 hours a day. Paul Mollet, who has been with Kroger at Marion since 1986, is manager.

COMMERCE -- RiverRidge Winery held its grand opening recently.

The winery, located in a 100-year-old farm house two miles north of Commerce on County Road 321, is near the Mississippi River.

The winery is four miles from RiverRidge Christmas Tree Farm, which will open Oct. 29.

The winery, operated by Jerry and Joannie Smith, is open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday and Wednesday from noon to 6 or by appointment by calling 264-3712.

Making wine has become an important agricultural industry in Missouri, contributing more than $15 million annually to the state's economy.

Statistics show almost 250,000 gallons of Missouri wine were sold in the state each of the past two years.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- McRoy Corp. has sold WCIL-AM and FM radio station to the station's general manager and his wife.

The sale to Dennis and Paula Lyle still needs Federal Communications Commission approval. Dennis Lyle has worked at WCIL for 22 years.

Lyle said no major changes were planned for the Carbondale station.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed pending FCC approval.

SULLIVAN, Mo. -- Glik's Stores has opened a store at Sullivan. It is the company's 44th store.

Glik's, recent winner of the Mississippi Valley Family Business of the Year award, is a family-owned clothing chain founded in 1897.

Glik's, headquartered in Granite City, Ill., has stores throughout Illinois and Missouri, including Cape Girardeau.

The company operates stores under the names of Glik's Ltd., Glik's for Guys, Glik Sports, Glik's Warehouse Store and $10 and Less.

JACKSON -- The Whistle Stop Restaurant, located in the St. Louis Iron Mountain depot near the intersection of Highways 61 and 25 at Jackson, has a new name and is under new ownership.

New Orleans native Nicky Accardo has purchased the restaurant, now named Nicky's Whistle Stop Cafe.

Accardo has been in the food industry 10 years, as a busboy, waiter and chef.

He managed a restaurant during the New Orleans World's Fair and was maitre d' at a restaurant following the World's Fair there.

He has attended cooking schools and has studied under chefs from France and Italy.

Accardo has added a Cajun menu to the regular menu.

The restaurant is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

PADUCAH, Ky. -- A new Kmart retail development for Paducah, Ky., has been shelved.

Kmart canceled plans for a super store along U.S. Highway 60, adjacent to the Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Earlier this month, Kmart announced that it will close 110 stores by February.

Five Missouri stores -- at Kennett, Fulton, Hannibal, Kirksville and in St. Charles County -- are among those to be shut down.

The closings will eliminate 233 jobs in Missouri.

Joy Corneliussen of the Kmart corporate offices in Troy, Mich., said the company plans to eliminate 6,000 jobs nationwide.