• D&D; Management hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 25 in the front parking lot at 651 Springhill Road.
D&D; is a fully insured and bonded cleaning company. It specializes in commercial and residential cleaning, as well as housekeeping, with a range of cleaning from shampooing and waxing floors, to window cleaning, to spring cleaning that clients can’t find time for.
Contact Sylvia Bault at s.bault@yahoo.com for more details.
• William Fields Jr., Erik Steffen and Jeff Higgs, all linemen at Norris Electric Cooperative in Newton, Ill., participated Oct. 24 in the statewide Lineman’s Safety Rodeo at Springfield, Ill.
The 11th annual event in Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield coincided with a series of courses designed to help electric line personnel improve their work skills in safe and efficient ways. Several electric suppliers joined the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives and LLCC in co-sponsoring the event.
Line personnel from 12 Illinois electric cooperatives competed in five team events and two individual events. Team events included hurt man rescue, egg climb (linemen climbing a 30-foot pole with a raw egg in their mouths), Cutout Change, Transformer Banking and Practical Knot Tying.
• Four wines at White Owl Winery at Birds, Ill., recently received wine ratings and medals in the 2008 World Value Wine Challenge hosted by the Beverage Tasting Institute in Chicago. WOW’s Cherry Pie also was voted Best U.S. Sweet Fruit Wine. This wine received a 90-point rating, classified as “truly excellent in style and distinction” and a gold medal.
Other wines to receive awards in this competition included Sweet Liberty with an 88 point rating and silver medal. Spiced Pear received a rating of 85 points and a silver medal. And Snowy White received a rating of 84 points and a bronze medal.
The Beverage Tasting Institute is one of best-known international wine rating agencies in the world. The institute was founded in 1981 with the objective of producing fair and impartial wine reviews to assist consumers in their search for a quality wine.
White Owl, in southern Crawford County, Ill., also won two silver medals in the AWC Vienna International Wine Challenge in Vienna, Austria.
The two wines to win medals were Persimmon Solera, a sherry crafted completely from wild harvested Midwestern persimmons; and Grapefruit Spumante’, a sparking wine made from pink grapefruit.
The contest is the largest in Austria, with 300 wine experts and enologists this year judging nearly 8,000 wines from throughout the world.
The awards were presented Oct. 30 in Austria.
White Owl Winery is 10 miles north of Vincennes on the Illinois side of the Wabash River. For more details, visit whiteowlwinery.com.
• Regional Hospital has announced the appointment of Carolyn Hamilton as chief nursing officer. Hamilton has served as interim CNO since Oct. 1.
Hamilton brings more than 35 years of experience in nursing. She returned to Regional Hospital in 2005 as director of case management and educational services. Hamilton has progressed her career from receiving her licensed practical nurse designation in 1970, registered nurse license in 1988, BSN in 1999 and a master’s degree in business management in 2002.
Hamilton earned certification in case management from the ANCC and health care quality from the Health Care Quality Certification Board. Her clinical experience includes medical surgical, emergency, surgical nursing and physician office management. As director of cooperative project operations at Health Care Excel, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Indiana and Kentucky, she was awarded the designation of Kentucky Colonel by the governor of Kentucky for her efforts to improve the quality of health care for Medicare beneficiaries in the Commonwealth.
Business
Newsmakers: Nov. 11, 2008
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Magnolia gives in on rezoning
A potential $20-million investment in Terre Haute’s east side has been blocked by public opposition.
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Magnolia drops retirement complex plans for Ohio Boulevard
The company that had been hoping to build a new senior living complex along Ohio Boulevard has canceled its plans.
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Pfizer recalls 1M birth control packs after mix-up
Birth control pills are known to be nearly 100 percent effective when taken properly, but a recall of the drugs could send a shudder through women of childbearing age.
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Status update: Facebook to go public, raise $5B
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public in a stock offering that could value it at as much as $100 billion, eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
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Greene County General Hospital announces expansion, renovations
Construction is expected to start in early spring on a new $6.5 million expansion-renovation of the Greene County General Hospital.
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Ethics in business: SmartMoney magazine editor to speak at ISU
James B. Stewart, author and editor-at-large of SmartMoney magazine, will take the stage Feb. 2 in Indiana State University’s Tilson Auditorium in conjunction with the University Speakers Series.
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Meeting to discuss Internet development
The University of Illinois Extension, Illinois Century Network and Broadband Illinois are hosting a meeting to discuss high speed Internet development at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Edgar County Extension office, 210 W. Washington St., in Paris.
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Local foods workshop planned
Ready, Set, GROW!
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SOCIAL SECURITY: Earn (and keep) more Social Security money
You probably already know that there was an increase in Social Security and Supplemental Security Income monthly payments at the beginning of the year.
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Hospital nurse anesthetists celebrate 150 years
Paris Community Hospital/Family Medical Center recognized the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist profession by celebrating the 13th annual National Nurse Anesthetists Week, Jan. 22-28, with this year’s theme of “Quality and Excellence in Anesthesia Care.”
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Terre Haute facility contributes to record year for GE Aviation
For CFM International, the joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s Snecma, 2011 was a record year with 1,500 orders for the CFM56 engine and 3,056 commitments for LEAP engines.
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Downtown bookstore announces final day is Saturday
BookNation will stay open late on Feb. 3 for one more First Friday downtown, with a blow-out, 48 hour Beer Box Sale planned to begin that morning.
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Event set on employing people with disabilities
Wabash Valley Business Leadership Network presents Facilitate the Employment Process for persons with disabilities, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 15 in second floor meeting room at Clabber Girl, at 900 Wabash Ave.
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BUSINESS CENTS: Are your business books in a shoe box?
The 2012 tax season is here and deadlines are quickly approaching.
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NEWSMAKERS: Jan. 29, 2012
• Kemper CPA Group LLP
• Williams Randall
• Spencer A. Skorupski
• Scott Teffeteller
• Terrie Franklin
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MORTON MARCUS: Trying to provide explanations based on what we understand
“It’s simple,” Harry the Hipster tells me.
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Dorsett Auto Sales buys Terre Haute Hyundai-Nissan
Romain Automotive Group announced the sale of its Terre Haute Hyundai-Nissan business to Dorsett Auto Sales Inc. of Terre Haute in an email release today from Romain Automotive General Manager Bill Lutes.
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Lilly brand acquiring Terre Haute manufacturer
Eli Lilly and Co. is acquiring an animal health company with manufacturing operations in Terre Haute.
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Chamber plans workshops on management, environment
Two upcoming workshops presented by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce will offer attendees the chance to learn about supervising and managing employees. . .
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ON THE MOVE: Jan. 22, 2012
Downtown Terre Haute Inc. has added six new members to its board of directors and begins the year with new executive leadership.
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Clinton Chamber plans annual dinner
The Greater Clinton Chamber of Commerce annual dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the B & K Castle Restaurant, 1600 N. 7th St., in Clinton.
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Students debate contentious topics in new course
As the Occupy Wall Street movement began to spread across the national scene, Indiana State professor William Wilhelm probed students in his Ethics in Organizations class about their knowledge of the movement.
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A&E Salvage opens second location
John and Tammy Arroyo built A&E Salvage and Recycling in Sullivan by taking other people’s throwaways and converting them into products that can be recycled.
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Last Will and Testimony program set
The free educational program “Last Will and Testimony” for special needs will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Vigo County Public Library in lower level classrooms B and C at 1 Library Square.
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MORTON MARCUS: The opportunity to make old cities more livable
In case you did not notice, the major problem in the economy is weakness in the construction industry.
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Veterans Expo of Terre Haute set for March
The 2012 Veterans Expo of Terre Haute aims to provide veterans and transitioning service members with the resources and services to succeed in the 21st century workforce.
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Parke Chamber’s annual dinner coming up
The Parke County Chamber of Commerce will stage its annual dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Turkey Run Inn Lusk Room at Turkey Run State Park.
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SOCIAL SECURITY: Benefits await most at retirement age
Social Security is as American as baseball and apple pie.
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ThyssenKrupp expansion could add 70 jobs
A proposed expansion for ThyssenKrupp Presta could add at least 70 new jobs by late summer to the company’s manufacturing facility in the Vigo County Industrial Park, south of Terre Haute.
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'Second' space: Indiana State, IUPUI students meet on virtual island to negotiate sales deal
A team of Indiana State University students locked eyes with a student team from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.
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