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Allen Clark of Cape Girardeau Route 3 and Steven Fritzler of Cape Girardeau recently attended the Aid Association for Lutherans national sales and education conference at Kansas City.

Clark and Fritzler qualified to attend the conference through outstanding sales and service to AAL members during 1991.

Fritzler also recently attended a national sales and education conference sponsored the association.

Clark and Fritzler are associates of the Jack Hollingsworth Agency of AAL in Independence.

AAL provides Lutherans and their families with life, health, and disability income insurance and retirement plans.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. Thomas C. L'Hote, formerly of Perryville, was recently promoted to executive assistant in State Farm corporate headquarters in Bloomington.

L'Hote, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, joined State Farm in the Gainesville, Fla., claims office in 1971. He has worked in the Orlando, Fla., Bloomington, Ill, and New Orleans, La., areas.

L'Hote is the son of Leon and Helen L'Hote of Perryville.

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Sharon Houar of Jackson has received a Continuing Forestry Education certificate from the Missouri Chapter of American Foresters.

Houar is employed by the F orestry Division of the Missouri Department of Conservation.

The certificates are awarded to employees who attend training sessions and workshops designed to increase their forestry knowledge.

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Linda Heitman, Regional Heart Center c oordinator at Southeast Missouri Hospital, has been named to the Missouri Cardiovascular Health Task Force.

Heitman joins 26 other physicians, nurses, health educators and other professionals on the task force, which operates through the Missouri Department of Health's Division of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The task force also works with the Centers for Disease Control.

Heitman will serve a two-year term on the task force.

She is a graduate of Barnes Hospital School of Nursing. She holds a bachelor of science in nursing degree from Southeast Missouri State University and a master's in nursing with specialization in medical surgical nursing from St. Louis University. She has been employed by the hospital here 20 years, and has served as Regional Heart Center coordinator since 1991.

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Tarolyn Johnson, director of adult services for the Easter Seal Society of Southeast Missouri, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, to serve on a grant reviewing committee.

As a member of the committee she will review grant applications from all over the country that are submitted to request funding for projects to increase placements in occupations that reflect current and future employment trends and labor market needs.

Johnson is a certified rehabilitation administrator. She has been employed with the Easter Seal Society here five years.

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David J. Roth and Carol Ann Roth recently completed a weeklong course, "The Role of Environmental Audits and Site Assessments in Property Transfers," held at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Among topics discussed were the Clean Water Act, Clear Air Act, ground water contamination, PCBs, and other environmental problems. The Roths received certificates for passing a comprehensive, three-hour examination.

David Roth is general manger of Larron Laboratory, 400 Broadway, and vice president of Environmental Operations, the parent company. Carol Roth serves as asbestos specialist and site assessor for the firm.

Larron Laboratory is a full-service environmental analytical laboratory dealing with all aspects of identifying sources of contamination.

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Jim Haney of Cape Girardeau has been named Southeast Missouri district representative for Complete Music.

Haney has worked with Complete Music, a franchise mobile-disc-jockey service, two years.

Complete Music is headquartered in Omaha, Neb., and has 90 offices in the U.S.