With the holiday season just around the corner, It is time to contemplate the big question, what should I get my special someone?

With a beautiful selection of high quality products, and wonderful customer care, Sam’s Fine Jew-elry will be your holiday hot spot. Sam’s offers exquisite diamonds, pearls, Pandora, custom jewelry design, and Jewelry repair.

Make your way to Sam’s Fine Jewelry During the Christmas open house November 8th & 9th, your only chance to get Pandora on sale! You can even shop

online in the convenience of your home. The website provides valuable knowledge about the products and gives a glimpse of what Sam’s has to offer.

when you leave Sam’s, you will have jewelry that is refined and elegant, just like your special some-one.

So, what are you waiting

for?

November Spirit Award:

Sam’s Fine Jewelry

Local Highlights Ribbon Cuttings

Congratulations to the fol-lowing businesses on the opening of their new facili-ties:

Health Facilities Rehab Aquatic Therapy Center, lo-cated at 103 Kennedy Dr.

Plies Dance Academy Dance Studio, located at 205 Roger St.

Key to the City

SRC is delighted to an-nounce the construction of the Retail Service Center for Do it Best Corp.

Jerry Pullen, Mayor of Sikeston, presented Do it Best Corp. with the key to the City in recognition of their investment to our com-munity.

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity is searching for candidates seeking a place to live. They are eager to build, not just a house but, a home.

Criteria and applications are now available at the SRC office.

Sikeston Regional Chamber

Celebrating 100 Years of Service!

STAY CONNECTED

In This Issue

2- Shop, Sell, &

Support Local

2- Calendar of

Events

3- SRC At-A-Glance

3– Member Luncheon

3– Say Good “Bye”

3– Business Buzz

3– 2013 Corporate

Sponsors

4– Board of Directors

& Staff

4– 2013 Newsletter

Sponsors

4- Welcome New

Members

November 2013

“Where

Southern

Hospitality

Begins”

Volume 2, Issue 11

Sam Thomas, Owner

www.samsjewelryonline.com

Sikeston Rehab, LLC is a locally-owned and fully equipped facil-

ity ready to take care of all of your outpatient physical therapy

and occupational therapy needs. In addition to traditional ther-

apy, Sikeston Rehab, LLC also offers Industrial Rehabilitation

services: Pre-Employment Screening, Work conditioning, Work

Site Ergonomic Evaluations and Safety Training, Certified Ergo

Science Functional Capacity Evaluation, Greenleaf Final Rating

Assessments, and Disability Hand Evaluations.

Shop, Sell, & Support Local: Sikeston Rehab, LLC.

Sikeston Area Calendar of Events

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November

2– Compost Site Open on Compress Rd. 8am

2– Wild Wild West Dinner Auction– Hosted by

Bootheel Counseling Services 5:30pm

4– Joint Council Meeting 4pm

4– Public Library Meeting 4pm

4– City Council Meeting 5pm

5– Jr. Trailblazers Walking club 6pm

7– Ribbon Cutting for Rock Care in Home Services

10am

8-Ribbon Cutting for Parengo Coffee 2pm

8 & 9- Downtown Holiday Open House

9– Rock the Night Away with Altrusa 6pm

11– Veterans Day

11– City Administrative Offices Closed

11– Park Board Meeting 5:15pm

12– Municipal Utilities Commission Meeting

12- The Trailblazers Walking Club 6pm

12– Department of Economic Development Meeting

11:30am

13– Housing Authority Commission Meeting 12pm

16– Compost site Open on Compress Rd. 8am

16– SRC TRIVIA NIGHT 5:30pm

18 –22- The City Leafs Collection Program

18– The Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority

Commission Meeting 11:30am

18– Public Safety Advisory Board Meeting 6pm

21– SRC LUNCHEON

21– Vision for Tomorrow Strategic Plan Commission

Meeting 11:30am

21- Taste of Home: Women’s Expo 3:30pm

25– City Council Work Session 11:30am

25– Board of Adjustments Meeting 4pm

26– VNA Hospice Grief Support Group 6pm

28– City Administrative Offices Closed –Thanksgiving

Visit www.Sikeston.net for more event details

Cortney Griffin & Terry Cole

November 7 10am Ribbon Cutting for Rock Care in Home Services @ 107 W. Center

November 8 2pm Ribbon Cutting for Parengo Coffee @ 109 W. Malone

November 11 SRC Closed– Veteran’s Day

November 16 5:30pm-8:30pm Trivia Night @ The Sikeston Elk’s Lodge

November 21 Noon– Member Luncheon @ The Concordia Lutheran Church

November 22 8:00am Final Friday Coffee @ Sam’s - Fine Jewelry

November 28-29 SRC Closed– Thanksgiving

December 19 5pm Member & 2014 Leadership Sikeston class “Ugly Sweater” Mixer Location: TBA

December 24-25 SRC Closed– Christ-mas

SRC At-A-Glance

Member Luncheon

Business Buzz use an entrepreneurial

approach to create com-

merce utilizing those as-

sets.

Making a community

grow can be difficult or

simple. Unlike popular

belief, it does not always

require large factories

and corporations. Some

of the smallest towns and

communities gained their

prosperity from utilizing

assets and resources

already available.

The FRB will be hosting

another seminar, Food

Entrepreneurship: A New

Way of Thinking About

Local Food and Jobs,

November 14, located in

Cape Girardeau.

Contact the Chamber

before November 11, if

you are interested in at-

tending.

Federal Reserve

Bank Seminar

Thursday October 24, the

Federal Reserve Bank

hosted an information

seminar targeting small

town economic develop-

ment.

The concept presented in

this seminar was to iden-

tify your community’s

assets. Once identified,

Corporate Sponsors

Join SRC for our bi-monthly member

luncheon at noon November 21,

located at the Concordia Lutheran

Church. The ladies of the

congregation will be preparing a

delicious Thanksgiving feast .

During this luncheon, SRC will be

hosting another learning seminar to

better prepare our members for

what’s to come in the new year.

Say Good “Bye”

After 38 Years of service to Us

Bank, Chamber member Teresa

Bye, will be saying good-bye.

She will be serving her last day, at

the Downtown Sikeston branch,

November 15.

SRC would like to thank Teresa for

the many years of dedication and

service, as we wish her the best of

luck in the future endeavors. You

will be missed.

Special Thanks to our 2013 Newsletter Sponsors

Board of Directors

Executive

Committee

President: Scott

Nichols, Health

Facilities Rehab

First Vice President:

Mike McReynolds

Mike Rentals

Second Vice

President: Justin

Taylor, Edward Jones

Investments

Secretary/Treasurer:

Lisa Heuring, Four

Oaks Hospice

At Large: Debbie

Glenn, Manpower

At Large: Rebecca

Steward, Attorney At

Law

At Large: Mackenzie

Scherer, Scherer

Shelter Insurance

SRC Staff

Executive Director:

Susan Glasgow

Lawrence

Program Director:

Kaitlin E. Ray

AgBioworks Biomass

Director:

573-471-2498

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Welcome New Members!

Karen Merideth Wade

Individual

Media Consultant

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