Business Stories for February 2010
Stories for Saturday, February 6
Retailer earns top designation
Play It Again Sports, 1608 Upper Valley Pike, has earned a Gold Standard designation for its business practices as evaluated by the store’s franchisor, Winmark Corp.The Springfield location is owned and operated by Steven Schumacher.This is the third year the Springfield store has won the award, which was given for ...
Springfield native gets military affairs post
Wesley A. Smith of Springfield has been named regional director of military affairs for National College. He will direct the college’s military affairs for seven campuses in Akron area, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton area, Youngstown and Indianapolis.Smith served 31 years on active duty with the Ohio Air National Guard, retiring ...
Leadership group to host networking event
Leadership Clark County will host a networking event at the Springfield Museum of Art at 5 p.m. Feb. 18.Tickets, $30 per person, include a museum tour, hors d’oeuvres, beverages, a one-year membership to the museum (or renewals for existing members) and a $10 discount to the museum’s Primo event on ...
Safety Council to feature personal protective items
The Springfield-Clark County Safety Council will host Mike Ammons of Safety Solutions at its Tuesday, Feb. 9, meeting.Ammons will speak on personal protective equipment.The meeting will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott with breakfast beginning at 7 a.m. Cost is $15 if preregistered or $18 at the door. To ...
Intern from Witt joins Wilt PR
Anna List, a student at Wittenberg University, has been hired as public relations intern at Wilt Public Relations,A Columbus native, List is currently a senior working toward a degree in communication and journalism. She has been an intern for the Center for Civic and Urban Engagement and Event Co. in ...
TAC Enterprises receives 3-year accreditation
TAC Enterprises has received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for a period of three years for its Community Integration and Organizational Employment Services programs.This is the first accreditation TAC has received since it began operating independently in 2007.This accreditation represents the highest level that can be ...
Greater Springfield Chamber to hold annual meeting
The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting Feb. 25 at the Clark State Community College Performing Arts Center.New to the event this year is a business expo, featuring 32 local companies that will present information and answer questions about their goods and services.Edward W. (Ned) Hill, ...
Guebert: Farmers, give the consumers what they want
Talk is cheap but words have meaning.In a mid-January speech to the 400 or so farmers, vendors and state officials at the 10th annual Minnesota Organic Conference in St. Cloud, I spent most of my hour talking about words like “elitist,” “educate,” “farmer,” “producer,” “customer” and even “mule.”I thought the ...
Stories for Friday, February 5
Code Blue to begin hiring
Code Blue, a Wisconsin-based insurance claims processing company, announced today, Feb. 5, it will begin hiring to staff its new claims processing center to be located in downtown Springfield.“We have only a couple of loose ends to tie up, and we are proceeding as if everything is a go,” said ...
Stories for Thursday, February 4
Wright-Patterson to build additional religious education space
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Base officials are to break ground on Friday, Feb. 5, for a religious education center that is to be built in the Prairies housing area.The $680,000 project is to renovate and add about 2,000 square feet of space to the Chapel Family Life Center. It ...
Own a Toyota? Here’s what you should know
If you have a recalled Toyota, here’s what you need to know.• You can continue driving the vehicle, but you should get it fixed as soon as possible.U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood inadvertently created confusion Wednesday, Feb. 3, by saying, first, that owners of recalled Toyotas shouldn’t drive them. Then ...
Stories for Tuesday, February 2
New initiative to handle consumer complaints for small businesses
COLUMBUS — There’s just one way to describe the hassle office manager Laura Dickinson went through when Dickinson tried to return the new cell phones ordered for the Spurlock Insurance Group in West Chester. “It was a nightmare,” Dickinson said on Tuesday, Feb. 2. The phones were supposed to save ...
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