BUSINESS MEMO

The Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University will conduct sessions for area small-business persons and individuals planning business ventures. Sessions will be held at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Dexter, Malden and Perryville.

Gil Degenhardt will conduct the counseling sessions, which will last for approximately one hour each. There is no charge.

The Cape Girardeau sessions will be held at the Chamber of Commerce office, 601 N. Kingshighway, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 25. Persons may call 335-3312 for appointments.

Sikeston sessions are scheduled March 24 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce, 1 Industrial Drive. Call 471-2498 for appointments.

Dexter sessions will be held at the Dexter Chamber of Commerce, located in the Southern Savings and Loan Building, Highway 60, March 19 from 1 to 5 p.m. Call 624-7458 for appointments.

Perryville sessions will be held March 26 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Southeast Missouri Regional Planning, 1 West St. Joseph. Appointments are available by calling 547-8357.

Malden sessions will be held March 18 at the Malden Community Center, 607 N. Douglas, from 9 a.m. to noon. Appointments are available by calling 276-4519.

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"Santa Dollars," which were sold at Schnucks Markets during the Christmas holiday season, provided a total of $1,315 to the Cape Girardeau Salvation Army.

The amount raised by the promotion for the entire Schnucks chain was $27,137. This includes proceeds from sales at Schucks stores in the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas, Columbia, and Cape Girardeau; Evansville, Ind.; and Champaign and Bloomington, Ill.

Santa Dollars are crisp, new one-dollar bills with a smiling Santa face sticker placed over George Washington. They come with their own gift cards and envelopes ready to address. Santa dollars sell for $2, which includes the cost of the dollar, the gift card, envelope and processing fees. All proceeds are donated to charity.

The project was first implemented in 1990.

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ST. LOUIS The Drury Inn Hotel in Evansville, Ind., will be rebuilt and reopened in the near future.

Plans are to rebuild the existing structure, which was damaged Feb. 6, 1992, in the crash of a C-130 military cargo plane.

"After careful consideration, and on the advice of our engineers that the hotel incurred no significant structural damage, we have decided to reopen our hotel in Evansville as soon as possible," said Chuck Drury, president of Drury Inns Inc. "It is important to us to remain a part of the Evansville business community, and we look forward to reopening in a short period of time," he said.

Drury Inns Inc., a Missouri-based corporation, operates 59 hotels in 11 states.

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ST. LOUIS Ways to bolster the state and local economies through tourism development will be discussed at the National Association of State Development Agencies' National Conference on Tourism Development April 13-14 at the Adam's Mark Hotel here.

Additional information on the conference is available by calling Denise Bosmans at NASDA, 202-898-1302.

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The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours session will be held Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Show Me Center.

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Melody Hutson, Mrs. Missouri of 1991, was guest speaker during the Jana Jateff Unit Mary Kay Cosmetics Model Night held recently.

Winners of the night's makeup contests were Mary Fortner, Dixie Jones, Jennifer Steffen and LaDonia Beggs.

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ST. LOUIS Drury Inn hotels have extended a special promotion aimed for the frequent traveler.

"It's A Perfect 10," which was initiated last summer, has been extended through Dec. 31.

When a member of Drury's Preferred Customer Program has stayed 10 nights at any Drury Inn, he or she will be entitled to the 11th night free.

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Curt Long, president of Associated Industries of Missouri, and Chris Wrigley, vice president of the organization, will discuss workers' compensation legislation during a series of meetings across the state, including a session at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau April 10.

The local session will be a noon luncheon roundtable, with registration at 11:30 a.m. Additional information is available by contacting the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, 335-3312. Cost of the session is $15 per person.

Others session will be held at St. Louis March 23; Springfield March 27; Joplin March 27; Sedalia, March 30; and Kansas City, April 3.

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Coins, stamps, jewelry, and baseball cards are among the items to be exhibited at the Quality Collectors Shows Inc. show to be held March 20-22 at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau.

The show will open at noon Friday and at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Additional information is available by calling Quality Shows in Memphis, Tenn., at 901-763-4891.

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POPLAR BLUFF Three Rivers Community College Small Business Development Center and the Ozarks Foothills Regional Planning Commission will co-sponsor two workshops here Tuesday and Wednesday.

"Understanding and Analysis of financial Statement" is the topic of the Tuesday session and "Use of Financial Statements in Business Decisions" is the topic of the Wednesday session. Both will be held at the Poplar Bluff Business Incubator Building from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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ULLIN, Ill. Jan Grayson, director of the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs in Illinois, will be speaker for a Business and Industry Appreciation Day at Shawnee Community College Thursday.

The event is sponsored in conjunction with the college's IBM PC Fair. The fair starts at 10:30 a.m., and will feature business and industry software applications. Grayson will speak during a 12:15 luncheon.

Reservations and additional information are available by contacting the college's Small Business Development Center at 618-634-2242.

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The Cape Girardeau Association of Life Underwriters will hold its monthly bonus hour and meeting at the Holiday Inn Friday.

John E. Pulker, branch manager of Provident Life and Accident Insurance, will discus "Marketing DI in the 1990s" during the bonus hour session, which will count for one hour of life credit for continuing education.

Skip Brown of Brown Associates will discuss "CLU, A Step Beyond" during the regular meeting, which follows the bonus hour.