St. Charles County Business Record, MO articles from October 2004

St. Charles County Business Record, MO archives from October 2004

Mayor York elected vice president of Municipal League.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff Mayor Patti York of St. Charles was elected vice president of the Missouri Municipal League during its 70th annual conference held Sept. 12 to 15 at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield. The Missouri Municipal League is...

BBB warns consumers about unsolicited e-mails.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff The Better Business Bureau urges consumers to use extreme caution before responding to unsolicited e-mails from financial institutions requesting credit or debit card numbers, checking account information, social security...

Commentary: Internet blocking prompts concern about what is not seen.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Mike Nixon Many parents use electronic blockers to protect their children from danger on the information highway. The Internet has quickly become a common part of everyday life. But responsible parents realize that along with the...

John R. Williams establishes surgical practice at Crossroads Regional.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff John R. Williams Jr., M.D., has established his surgical practice on the campus of Crossroads Regional Medical Center, a full-service medical center in Wentzville. Williams is a specialist who is board certified in general...

John Gannon joins Marketing Direct as senior application developer.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff John Gannon has joined Marketing Direct Inc. as senior application developer. He is responsible for programming and developing applications for clients. Gannon comes to MDI with 20 years of IT industry experience, and he...

Wayne Laramie appointed clinical director of emergency services for SSM hospitals.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff Wayne Laramie, RN, BSN, has been appointed clinical director of emergency services for SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake Saint Louis and SSM St. Joseph Urgent Care Center in Warrenton. Laramie, a resident of O'Fallon, has...

Vendor space at O'Fallon business expo has deadline.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff The deadline to obtain booth space at the first O'Fallon Community Expo is Friday, Oct. 8. The expo, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16, will showcase the products and services of area...

Doug Weber named VP of First State Bank.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff First State Bank of St. Charles, a full-service, independent, community bank, has promoted Doug Weber to vice president in the loan department. As vice president, Weber will specialize in real estate and commercial lending....

Pat Sullivan of Home Builders Assn. receives two national awards.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff Pat Sullivan, executive vice president of the Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis, received the National Association of Home Builders coveted Executive Office of the Year award and the President's Award at the...

St. Charles Community College begins to move ground for Phase 4 project.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Rachel Brown The start of construction on the $25 million phase 4 project at St. Charles Community College comes as the college starts its new fall semester with an all-time record enrollment of 6,856 students. Just six months...

Community Council to hold affordable housing report.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff The Housing Task Force, a program of the Community Council of St. Charles County, will release and present the Affordable Workforce Housing Report to the Community at the council's network luncheon at noon on Thursday, Oct....

Executive Personal Computers of St. Charles announces annual carfest.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff Executive Personal Computers in St. Charles, one of the nation's largest sellers of off-lease computer equipment, in partnership with Krieger's restaurant will hold their annual Classic Carfest on Saturday, Oct. 16. All...

Board of Governors seeks more comment on advertising issue.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter Lawyer advertising, and the rules that govern it, can be a contentious issue, and it certainly was so at The Missouri Bar Board of Governor's meeting on Wednesday. Other issues taken up by the board include rules...

Judicial circuits, legislators honored at annual meeting.
October 1, 2004... Byline: staff Supreme Court of Missouri Chief Justice Ronnie L. White on Thursday recognized three judicial circuits for efficiently managing and processing cases during fiscal 2003. The Daniel J. O'Toole awards were presented during a...

Affordable housing blocked by land prices, lot sizes.
October 1, 2004... Byline: James Monahan Increasing land prices and public opposition to smaller lot sizes have blocked developers' efforts to build affordable housing in St. Charles County in recent years. Several studies on affordable housing in the county...

Americare to build new assisted living facility in St. Peters.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Rachel Brown Within one year of purchasing and rehabbing the National Healthcare Corp.'s assisted living center in St. Peters, Americare Systems Inc. is getting ready to build a second assisted living facility to satisfy a growing...

Business coach helps clients with direction in wide range of areas.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Erin Conroy Patrick McCracken is a problem solver. McCracken's company, Coaching for Effectiveness, works with businesses that need assistance in a wide range of areas: business direction, strategic planning, personnel issues...

Wal-Mart plans to build superstore in St. Charles County.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask Word comes from Lake Saint Louis City Administrator Paul Markworth that Wal-Mart's first superstore in St. Charles County will be located in the Shoppes at Hawk Ridge development. There are a number of Wal-Mart stores in...

Home buyers must get on waiting list to buy property at Whittaker's New Town in St. Charles.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask Lisa Maull, marketing director for Whittaker Homes, said the prolific home builder is not charging prospective home buyers to get on a waiting list to buy property at Whittaker's New Town development in St. Charles, thus...

Retired Laborers official may be reappointed to St. Charles County Convention Authority.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask Retired Laborers union official Roger Pryor may not have completed his work on the St. Charles County Convention and Sports Facilities Authority, a five-member group appointed by the governor. Pryor, who attended...

St. Charles businesspeople may make an appearance at the St. Charles City Council meeting.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask There is a rumor going round town that a group of businesspeople will make an appearance Tuesday night at the St. Charles City Council meeting. What they will say to the council, if anything, is unclear at this point. At...

Chief Justice White of Supreme Court of Missouri addresses annual meeting attendees.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Judge Ronnie L. White Chief Justice Ronnie L. White, of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered the following address during the opening luncheon of The Missouri Bar/Judicial Conference annual meeting on Thursday. Before I get...

Missouri Bar Assn. panel explores Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
October 4, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter Harvey Goldschmid, a commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, painted an optimistic picture of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and how it has helped restore investor confidence in corporate America. Goldschmid...

MoBar meeting ends with ceremony.
October 5, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter The Missouri Bar Annual Meeting, held last week at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis, ended Friday night with an awards banquet and the passing of the gavel from St. Louis attorney William Corrigan Jr....

Sponsorships available for Kettles and Kegs Chili Cook Off.
October 5, 2004... Byline: staff Individuals and businesses are invited to sponsor Willows Way's fourth annual Kettles and Kegs Chili Cook Off and Beer Tasting event, to take place from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Heart of St. Charles...

SBA expands business matchmaking program.
October 5, 2004... Byline: staff An expanded version of the Business Matchmaking initiative, a public-private sector contracting initiative through the U.S. Small Business Administration and the HP Small Business Foundation, will be rolled out in three...

Women lawyers brainstorm on attaining leadership roles.
October 5, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter Women lawyers from St. Louis, Kansas City and outstate Missouri brainstormed Friday morning about ways to get more women in positions of influence both in The Missouri Bar and in state government. The breakfast...

Interview with owner of St. Charles Flying Service.
October 5, 2004... Byline: Wm. Stage Situated in the cornfields of northern St. Charles County, St. Charles Flying Service is both an airport, boasting some 40,000 takeoffs and landings per year, and a State Board of Education-approved flight school. The...

Mallinckrodt Inc. again looking to sublease MRP building.
October 5, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask By With 321 Studios no longer around, Mallinckrodt Inc. finds it has some empty space on its hands at the Missouri Research Park in St. Charles County. The 83,525-square-foot building was built in the research park...

Deck The Walls helps fight breast cancer.
October 5, 2004... Byline: staff Deck The Walls at Mid Rivers Mall in St. Peters will be holding an art-signing event from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9, at the mall. Deck The Walls will show three special-edition "giclee" prints by St. Louis artist...

Congress passes women business program bill.
October 6, 2004... Byline: staff Women Impacting Public Policy, a bi-partisan women's business group, announced that the U.S. Congress recently passed a bill that will establish funding for 53 Women's Business Centers, which have helped many of the 15.6...

Circuit court's judgment fails to meet definition of suppression.
October 6, 2004... Byline: Erin Suess In the war against methamphetamine, the Missouri Court of Appeal, Eastern District, made another distinction in how to preserve evidence in court by denying the state's plea for an interlocutory appeal following the...

Court halts inmate's 8th Amendment claims.
October 6, 2004... Byline: Emily Umbright A sick inmate's 8th Amendment violation claim failed on Friday because he fell short of showing his doctor acted with deliberate indifference when treating his Hepatitis C virus, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

Executive introduces students to business world.
October 6, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask David Schneider, president and chief operating officer at CitiMortgage, is a self-described people person. "I spend most of my time talking to people" and seeing that the right people are in the right jobs and doing...

Plans for LaFarge tract still up in air.
October 6, 2004... Byline: James Monahan Ashbury at Katy Trail was to be a multimillion dollar, high-density development consisting of a 382-unit apartment complex north of the St. Charles Family Arena, with a commercial strip bordering the Family Arena...

Sen. Bond endorsed by small business groups, receives award.
October 6, 2004... Byline: staff The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Federation of Independent Business announced their support for U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Mo., for re-election, stating that Bond has been one of the...

O'Fallon Community Expo canceled.
October 7, 2004... Byline: staff Due to lack of vendor response, the O'Fallon Community Expo has been canceled. The event was to be held on Saturday, Oct. 16, at the O'Fallon Municipal Centre. For more information, contact the O'Fallon Chamber of Commerce at...

Nursing organization seeks Nurse of the Year nominations.
October 7, 2004... Byline: staff Missouri Nurses Association, District 15, is seeking nominations for its annual Nurse of the Year award. The nominee must be a current member of the American Nurses Association and the Missouri Nurses Association. The main...

Check 21 makes check clearing instant for businesses.
October 7, 2004... Byline: Kathleen T. Brady The electronic age offers many things instantaneously - instant news, instant communication and instant information. Add to that instant check clearing. At the end of this month, a new law will change the way...

Health care costs, politics subject of conference.
October 7, 2004... Byline: Amy Amour The cost of employer-sponsored health premiums rose 11.2 percent in 2004, and since 2000 health premiums have risen 59 percent, while workers wages have increased only 12 percent, according to the 2004 Annual Employer...

Workshop to focus on writing a business plan.
October 7, 2004... Byline: staff A workshop designed for business owners and entrepreneurs who need to know how to create a business plan that can be a management tool will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at the University of...

Unequal contributions to joint tenancy negate equal distribution.
October 7, 2004... Byline: Erin Suess Estate planning nearly cost a family its property when a company tried to collect on a man's debt by taking his one-half interest in the property. Luckily, the man never contributed a cent toward the land, leaving the...

Legal plans becoming regular employee benefit.
October 7, 2004... Byline: Richard Slawsky For most people, a trip to see an attorney ranks right there with a trip to the dentist. According to an American Bar Association survey, the average person needs legal advice between four and six times per...

Support Services for Adults wins MACDDS award.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Support Services for Adults, a Community Living Inc. program for people with disabilities, has won one of the first Missouri Association of County Development Disabilities Services' 2004 Cutting Edge Award. The program...

Walk raises $20,000 for SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff More than $20,000 was raised Saturday, Oct. 2, during the third annual Walk to Remember at the St. Louis Riverfront. Proceeds from the walk will benefit SHARE Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Inc., a local and international...

Dr. F. Jay Ohmes receives fellowship award from AGD.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Dr. F. Jay Ohmes of Expressions Dental Group in St. Charles, formerly Today's Family Dental, has received the prestigious Fellowship Award from the Academy of General Dentistry. Ohmes is one of only 240 dentists from across...

Community health department receives award.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff St. Charles County Department of Community Health and the Environment recently received an award for its support of the KidPower SCC program. Marianne Adolf, health education supervisor for the division of public health,...

O'Fallon to conduct public hearing on grant program.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff The city of O'Fallon will conduct a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12, at Lindenwood University's O'Fallon campus, 106 N. Main St., in room 108. The hearing will concern the 2005 fiscal year plan for the O'Fallon...

Women's business association holds meeting.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Association of Home-Based Women Entrepreneurs monthly dinner meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12, at Spazios Westport, 12031 Lackland Road. This month's program is "The Power of Play: Are We Having Fun Yet?"...

O'Fallon Brewery wins gold medal.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff The O'Fallon Brewery recently claimed a gold medal at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival Competition, the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States today....

Executive says St. Charles County is not recession-proof.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask Officials used to think that St. Charles County was recession proof. When national recessions hit other parts of the country, this county kept growing, and residents kept spending money. "But this last recession hit...

Taxpayers should look for tax bills soon, says St. Charles County Collector.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff The St. Charles County Collector of Revenue released more than 266,900 tax bills on Friday, Oct. 8. These bills call for the collection of nearly $61 million in personal property and more than $302 million in real estate...

Auvi Technologies launches new MP3 product.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Auvi Technologies Inc., an incubator company in St. Charles, announced the release of its latest MP3 digital audio player, SA250. This new product, similar in size to a pack of gum, has 256 megabytes of memory, which allows...

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. offers employees loans for homes in downtown St. Louis.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Furthering the return of residents to the downtown area, Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. is offering qualified employees a $5,000 forgivable loan to encourage them to buy a home in the city. This offer is part of a...

O'Fallon resident found guilty of American Petroleum Promotion scam.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff O'Fallon resident Franklin David Comer will repay $460,000 to more than 400 consumers across the country after defrauding them in a scam involving discount gasoline cards. Comer pleaded guilty in St. Charles County Circuit...

Economist: All in all, economy is in good shape.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own," President Harry S. Truman once said. Local economist Joel L. Prakken may have had that quotation in mind when he told a...

Private Mortgage Insurance carriers issue warning.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Mike Nixon Many homeowners who have secured historically low interest rates on original purchases or refinancing during the past couple of years continue to look for ways to save money. And many lenders are happy to help them in an...

Paric on schedule to complete National Information Solutions Cooperative corporate campus.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Paric Corp. is on schedule to complete the new corporate campus of National Information Solutions Cooperative in Lake Saint Louis, Mo., in March 2005. The $18 million project will allow the software developer to consolidate...

Realty Executives International opens additional offices throughout eastern Missouri.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff Realty Executives International continues its Missouri expansion plans by opening additional offices in Saint Louis County and throughout eastern Missouri. Realty Executives, an international real estate franchise...

Funding for state and federal highway construction on stop and go path.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Mike Nixon State and federal highway funding offered mixed messages as September ended last week. With a fifth extension in a year, federal highway plans put the brakes on new road funding obligations by Congress, while at the same...

Associated General Contractors announces diverse group of Keystone Awards finalists.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff From 42 submissions, 34 projects representing numerous construction companies have been chosen as finalists for the 2004 Construction Keystone Awards, sponsored by the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis. The...

Renovation of Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School's historic building finished.
October 8, 2004... Byline: staff The Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill School renovation of its 75-year-old Main Building wrapped up early, with the preservation project completed in almost a quarter of the time allotted for the effort. Hensley Construction Inc....

Don G. Lents of St. Louis becomes Bryan Cave chairman.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Emily Umbright A career built on the practice of business law has reached its zenith as Bryan Cave partner Don G. Lents of St. Louis takes over the reins of the firm's chairman and chief executive officer from his successor, Walter...

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gives family second shot at political asylum.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Erin Suess A handful of violent acts against a woman and her family could amount to political persecution, found the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday. The panel noted inconsistencies in the family's testimonies,...

City of Hillsboro initiates process for developing master plan.
October 8, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter The city of Hillsboro took its first steps toward developing a master plan for growth at a meeting recently when a group of area residents brainstormed about what the city should be like in 10 years. The goal is to...

Search warrant included container found in cabinet.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Stephanie Mitchum Murphy Even though officers only had a warrant to search for methamphetamine and related materials, an officer did not exceed the scope of a search warrant when he opened a container containing marijuana, said the...

Indiana woman to head St. Charles parks system.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask Maralee Britton, the superintendent of the Terre Haute, Ind., Park and Recreation Department, agreed on Friday to become St. Charles City's next director of parks and recreation. The St. Charles Parks Board voted...

Task force tackles work force housing issue.
October 11, 2004... Byline: Amy Amour Housing costs in St. Charles County continue to rise as demand shows no sign of slowing down; home builders keep building, and people keep buying. Finding affordable housing in St. Charles County has been an issue...

Whittaker Homes opens row houses at New Town.
October 11, 2004... Byline: staff Leading St. Charles County home builder Whittaker Homes Inc. released 11 new row houses along civic green Oct. 9-10 at New Town Boulevard. The West Civic Green Row Houses, ranging from 1,024 square feet to 2,000 square feet,...

Gov. Holden presents Individual Achievement Awards.
October 11, 2004... Byline: staff Gov. Bob Holden presented Individual Achievement Awards to 14 work force system customers from each of the state's work force development regions on Oct. 6 at the 22nd annual Governor's Conference on Workforce Development....

Dierbergs 79 Crossing shopping center almost complete.
October 12, 2004... Byline: James Monahan The recent growth of St. Charles County has spurred retailers to move into St. Peters to meet growing market demands. Now several of those businesses are expanding into larger facilities at new locations within the...

St. Charles County Assn. of Realtors elects 2005 board of directors.
October 12, 2004... Byline: Amy Amour In the last year, the St. Charles County Association of Realtors took a giant step into the 21st century with a strategic plan to utilize the Internet and wireless communications to enhance membership benefits. Essential...

Dept. of Economic Development activates team to help Lear Corp.
October 12, 2004... Byline: staff On Friday, Missouri's Department of Economic Development activated its Rapid Response Team to help 141 employees who will be laid off in November as Lear Corporation, formerly known as Delta USA, closes its facility in...

SBC Communications announces new service.
October 12, 2004... Byline: staff Last week SBC Communications Inc. announced a new service called SBC Unified CommunicationsSM, which harnesses the power of Internet protocol to enable customers to gather all of their message services into one system. Voice...

MCI Inc. launches wireless service.
October 12, 2004... Byline: staff MCI Inc. announced the launch of the first wireless Internet protocol-relay communication service targeting deaf and hard-of-hearing business customers, making it possible for them to communicate using a BlackBerry Wireless...

Triad Development launches upgraded Web site.
October 13, 2004... Byline: Amy Amour The Internet is so much a part of our lives that businesses are using it more and more to reach customers. St. Peters-based Triad Development Inc., a residential and commercial property developer, recently launched a...

Reality Systems severs Goodwill Industries partnership.
October 13, 2004... Byline: staff Reality Systems announced Tuesday that it severed its partnership with MERS/Goodwill Industries after one year. Reality Systems cited concerns with quality and turnaround time of products as some reasons for breaking the...

GM sales up 20 percent in September.
October 13, 2004... Byline: staff GM's September sales were up 20 percent compared to year-ago levels. Truck sales were up 32.5 percent, and car sales improved 3 percent. Third-quarter sales rose 2 percent. GM achieved all-time industry truck sales in...

Law firm of Lathrop & Gage adds three to staff.
October 13, 2004... Byline: staff Continuing its two-year trend of pushing the envelope in size, the law firm of Lathrop & Gage L.C. announced Monday that it has added three former partners from the firm Gallop, Johnson & Neuman L.C. "In a market where...

Computerized minute entries no substitute.
October 13, 2004... Byline: Donna Walter Court minutes that can be accessed by computer are no substitute for complete court files, said the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, as it reversed a St. Louis Circuit Court's decision to sentence a...

St. Charles-area casinos report revenue increases.
October 13, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask After a lackluster August, Ameristar Casino-St. Charles bounced back in September to record a double-digit increase in revenues. However, Harrah's St. Louis Casino and Hotel in Maryland Heights realized the largest...

St. Charles-area casinos report revenue increases.
October 14, 2004... Byline: Mike Trask After a lackluster August, Ameristar Casino-St. Charles bounced back in September to record a double-digit increase in revenues. However, Harrah's St. Louis Casino and Hotel in Maryland Heights realized the largest...

SBC invests $2 million to make broadband available throughout St. Charles.
October 14, 2004... Byline: Kathleen T. Brady Having the necessary infrastructure in place is vital to attracting new industry to an area. That necessary infrastructure list includes broadband technology. Those were some of the comments offered during a...

Commerce Bank reports 14 percent increase.
October 14, 2004... Byline: staff Commerce Bancshares Inc. announced on Wednesday a net income of $62.5 million in the past three months ended Sept. 30, compared with $54.9 million for the same period last year, an increase of 14 percent. Earnings per share...