JACKSON CHAMBER INSTALLATION BANQUET

The Annual Installation Banquet will be held on Monday, June 26 at Bent Creek Golf Club. The evening will begin with a social time beginning at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7. There will be a cash bar available during the social period. The Holiday Inn will be catering the evening's dinner at a cost of $15.00 per person.

The evening's guest speaker will be Pete Meyers, president of Adopt-A-Farm Family of America, Inc., which is a Christian outreach to farm and ranch families in the United States. He is also president of Myers Land Management Company of Sikeston, a professional farm management and consulting business for active and/or retired landowners and estates and trusts involving agricultural land.

Meyer does professional speaking in the agricultural, natural resource, environmental and rural development areas.

After farming in Southeast Missouri for 30 years, Meyer spent 10 years in Washington D.C. Seven of those years were in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Deputy Secretary, Assistant Secretary of National Resources and Environmental and as Chief of the Soil Conservation Service.

After his tour of duty at the USDA, he worked for the National Pork Producers Council as well as the Farm Credit System, before returning to Southeast Missouri. He and his wife Mary have five children and seven grandchildren.

Other items on the agenda will be the installation of the new Chamber officers and the awarding of the annual R.A. Fulenwider Meritorious Community Service Award. This award is given to to an individual who has displayed outstanding service to Jackson and is chosen each year by a committee of all the past recipients of this award.

The new officers for the 1995-96 year are Larry Hall, president; Jeff Moore, vice president; and Brent Wills, secretary.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling the Chamber office at 243-8131 by Tuesday, June 20.