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Craig Westfall, a dairy, beef and hay farmer in Halfway, was recommended by U.S. Sen. Kit Bond to serve on the Missouri Farm Service Agency Board, which is responsible for the direction and supervision of state FSA programs, as well as working with farmers to resolve appeals and complaints. |ret||ret||tab|

Bobby Campbell, head of the Springfield-Branson Regional Airport's maintenance division, recently was awarded for 15 years of service with the airport. |ret||ret||tab|

Drury University's Students in Free Enterprise team was named the SIFE World Cup Champion. The competition was held July 11-13 in London, and Drury's team was one of 21 national champion teams that competed in the event. |ret||ret||tab|

The Nixa Farmer's Market elected Daniel Dedman to serve as president and Kathy Bennett as vice president. Marsha Roberts will serve as the liaison between the market and the Nixa Area Chamber of Commerce. |ret||ret||tab|

John T . Piatchek, owner of Piatchek & Associates, received the 2001 Insurance and Financial Advisor of the Year Award from the Missouri Association of Insur-ance and Financial Advisors at a June banquet in Lake Ozark. |ret||ret||tab|

The Ozark Chapter of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters elected officers for the organization's 2001-2002 year. Elected individuals are Grant Hol-land, president; Claire Fenner and Doug Eaken, vice presidents; Susan Frank, secretary; Larry Jansen, treasurer; and Jack Hadsall, past president. |ret||ret||tab|

The National Association of Health Underwriters recently awarded Andrea Croley, of Croley Insurance and Finan-cial, the Eagle Award for showing production of at least 750 new individual or group health insurance applications in a calendar year.|ret||ret||tab|

National Enzyme Company in Forsyth was approved for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Star Vol-untary Protection Program, which is given to companies that have outstanding health and safety programs, and that have demonstrated the ability to improve and provide safe working conditions for employees. |ret||ret||tab|

Patrick Murney, owner and founder of Murney Associates, was one of the Top 100 Salespeople of this year, as ranked on a listing in the National Association of Realtors' Realtor magazine. Murney re-ported a sales volume of more than $252 million in 2000, and more than $197 million through July of this year.|ret||ret||tab|

Paul Kirk, vice president and senior portfolio manager for The Commerce Trust Company, a division of Commerce Bank, was appointed to serve on the Missouri Bankers Association's trust services committee. The committee works with the Kansas Bankers Association's trust services division to plan an annual MoKan Trust Conference for bankers in both states. |ret||ret||tab|

The Springfield Police Department's DWI Enforcement Unit received an award of recognition from Mothers Against Drunk Driving for its efforts. The unit was invited as the guest of honor at MADD's awards banquet during its annual training conference in July in Columbia.|ret||ret||tab|

St. John's Emergency Medical Ser-vices was chosen Aug. 1 as the Missouri EMS System of the Year at the Missouri Emergency Medical Association's annual conference at Tan-Tar-A resort in Osage Beach. Bob Page, director of St. John's emergency care education, received the Lyon Memorial Award, which is presented by the association each year to an outstanding emergency care instructor. |ret||ret||tab|

Vatterott College's Joplin campus is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Six of the school's employees have been with the school for the entire decade that it has been in operation. Those individuals are: Linda Lynch, co-director; Patty Shoemaker, co-director; Donna Gold-thwaite, financial services representative; Jean Carey, information specialist; Melinda Volsky, instructor; and Betty Jo Anthon, instructor. |ret||ret||tab|

MRI of Springfield in Castle Gate, 1420 E. Bradford Pkwy., received a three-year accreditation for its second magnet from the American College of Radiology. According to a news release from MRI of Springfield, the ACR awards accreditation to MRI practices for achieving high standards, which are determined during a voluntary evaluation by ACR. The evaluations are conducted by ACR-member radiologists and physicists who have special MRI expertise. Quality of work and personnel qualifications are examined during the evaluation. |ret||ret||tab|

Evangel University's student media received two awards at the 2001 Society for Collegiate Journalists National Contest. ECTV, the Evangel cable television station, won third place in the broadcast features category. "The Excalibur" yearbook won second place in the categories of concept of the book, reporting in words and display. The yearbook also received an honorable mention in the overall excellence-small schools category. |ret||ret||tab|

The partnership effort between the city of Springfield and Ralston-Purina Company's Canbrands Products Division received the 2001 Governor's Environ-mental Excellence and Pollution Preven-tion Award in the market development category. Between January 1999 and May of this year, Canbrands has manufactured about 17,200 tons of Yesterday's News cat litter and "Second Nature" dog litter, recycling about 12,400 tons of newspaper and mixed paper from Waste District O, a region comprised of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk and Webster counties. |ret||ret||tab|

Dr. Jeffrey R. Johnson, of St. John's Urology Surgical Associates, recently successfully completed the first Viadur implant in southwest Missouri. Viadur, a new treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer, is a tiny tube implanted in the upper arm. The tube time-releases a year's worth of treatment medicine and eliminates the need for quarterly visits to the doctor and frequent injections. |ret||ret||tab|

Anthony D. Lynn, certified public accountant and managing partner of Davis, Lynn & Moots PC, recently was a speaker at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' national conference, the Practitioners Symposium, in Orlando, Fla. He spoke about recent changes in AICPA's peer review program. |ret||ret||tab|

Boys & Girls Town of Missouri received a $10,000 grant from the Southwest Missouri Visiting Nurse Association Foundation. The money will be used to finish renovations to the West Cottage, which is the organization's only remaining original cottage, built in 1964 and still used for residential and emergency services for children. |ret||ret||tab|

Jack Stack, chief executive officer of Springfield Remanufacturing Corpora-tion, received the Sertoma Club of Springfield's Service to Mankind Award for his contributions to the community. The Sertoma Club of Springfield also elected the following officers: Sean Crayton, president; John Ford, president elect; Mike Rozell, secretary; Mark Specht, treasurer; Lewis Atwill, sergeant-at-arms; and Rick Carpenter, Blair Campmier, Lonnie Snodgrass, D.C. Dean, Tim Love and Casey Funkhouser, board members. Brian Heppner is now chairman of the organization. |ret||ret||tab|

Southwest Missouri State University's Iota Beta chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity received the Howard R. Alter Award for Chapter Excellence at the recent annual Chapter Leadership Conference at the University of Maryland. Theta Chi member Matt Frauenhoffer, a senior professional writing major from Florissant, was named a finalist for the Reginald F. Colley Award, the highest honor a Theta Chi undergraduate can receive. He was named second runner-up for the award. |ret||ret||tab|

The Rotary of Springfield Sunrise in August made a special donation to Wonderland Camp in Rocky Mount, which serves mentally and physically challenged children and adults. |ret||ret||tab|

The Victim Center received a $6,325 grant from the Visiting Nurses Association Foundation. The money will be used by the center for its children's services program, which aids children who are victims of abuse. [[In-content Ad]]