SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Heather Weigel of Reynolds, Smith & Hills shot this icy view of construction at the Springfield-Branson National Airport.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Brent Beattie of Wildcat Materials captures a long view of the new bridge under construction on west State Highway EE, earning third-place honors in the Places category.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Brad Erwin of Creative Ink Architects earns second place in the Places category with this shot of demolition at the Missouri Crime Lab facility in downtown Springfield.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Jim Pickett of Springfield Underground receives top honors in the Places category with this photo, which shows crews at work in Building 10 for Kraft Foods in the Springfield Underground facility.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Nick Gillespie also takes the No. 3 spot in the Faces category, showing these workers preparing for a hard day's work at College Station in downtown Springfield.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Melissa Gates of Habitat for Humanity of Springfield garners second place in the Faces category with this shot, in which Caiaa shows off her Habitat T-shirt in front of her family's new home. The house was built during a seven-day blitz build at the Price Cutter Charity Championship Golf Tournament.

Wendy’s of Missouri franchisee Sam Hamra, left, and Rolla Wendy’s General Manager Ed Curran receive the company’s Silver Cup award during a Sept. 22 event at the Wendy’s International annual meeting in San Antonio. The Rolla store, which received the award for the second year in a row, was one of just 14 locations worldwide honored for service, quality, cleanliness, food safety, customer courtesy and leadership. Wendy’s of Missouri operates 26 restaurants in southwest and central Missouri.

SBJ features a gallery of this year's winners of the Salute to Construction Faces & Places photo contest. Construction industry professionals are asked to get behind the cameras and capture unique views of projects and people in the building industry. Nicki Gillespie of Gillespie Excavating Co. LLC nabs top honors in the Faces category with these workers at College Station in downtown Springfield.

Bank of America gave a $7,500 grant to the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks. On hand for the gift are, from left, BCFO founder Mary Beth O’Reilly, BCFO Executive Director Crystal Webster, Bank of America Senior Vice President and portfolio manager Steve Hutchinson, and Bank of America Market President Jamie Esch. The money will help fund BCFO’s general services and programs.

Five former Missouri State University faculty and staff members are honored during the school’s Oct. 10 Wall of Fame ceremony in Plaster Student Union. The honorees, from left, are: Robert Bradley, former theater and dance department head; John Province, former coordinator of technology and systems programming; Lois Tooley, former assistant vice president for student academic support services; Russell Keeling, former chief executive officer and former acting president; and Russell Rhodes, former biology department head. Faculty, staff and students can nominate anyone who worked for the university full time for at least 10 years and who has been retired from full-time employment for at least five years.