Helping People When They’re Down
By Vicki Wright Mound City, Kan. – Al Hurt says that he made one of the best decisions of his life when he chose to get into the insurance business in 1976. “My father-in-law got me in the business, ” explained Hurt. “I’m a second-generation agent in Mound City, and my kids make a third [...]
Time, effort and heart make the Littlest Computer Shop shine
By Vanessa Lee Chanute, Kan. – Wendell Vest, owner and master technician at the Littlest Computer Shop in Chanute has paid his dues in the industry. He became interested in computers in middle school and has never altered his focus. He went to DeVry Institute and finished his degrees on line at American InterContinental University. [...]
Real Estate is Rewarding
by Vicki Wright Independence, Kan. - Tim White knows real estate. He should; he’s been working in the family real estate business for nearly 30 years. Getting his start in 1983, he joined his father’s business, Bill White Real Estate, which had its start in 1978 when Bill opened the firm. Real estate in Independence [...]
Apex Sets the Stage for Success
By Dave Lindsey Pittsburg, Kan. – Entrepreneurs are alive and well in America, despite difficult economic times. Todd Allison and his family of Progressive Products, Inc. are proof of that. For thirty-two years they have been producing a variety of products, starting with abrasion-resistant line fittings for pneumatic conveying — moving solid material by air. [...]
Fry Environmental Technology is revolutionizing going green
Chanute, Kan. – Fry Environmental Technology, LLC is seeking to build a facility in Chanute, Kansas that will manufacture all the necessary equipment to convert waste tires and industrial rubber into usable by-products such as fuel oil, carbon black, steel and a synthetic vaporous gas which will additionally fuel the system. Heat produced as a [...]
Great Plains Industrial Park development is underway
by Vanessa Lee SEKBJ Correspondent Parsons, Kansas, June 27, 2011 – The Great Plains Development Authority is currently in the process of acquiring the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant from the U. S. Army. It will be renamed the Great Plains Industrial Park. A multi-use facility, it contains approximately 13,700 acres. The Kansas Department of Wildlife [...]
How Would the Area Economy Benefit from a Character Culture?
Round-up at the OK Correll by Jim Correll What would it mean for our area economy if all, or 50 percent or even 25 percent of our companies and organizations could grow and expand, even when the rest of the country is in recession? The affect would be amazing. A character culture in our companies [...]
Entrepreneur stitches business collage
By Olive L. Sullivan HUMBOLDT, Kan. — Is it a quilt shop that offers massage, or a massage studio that sells quilting supplies? Or is it a custom quilting business that sells yarn? Or — you get the idea. In fact, Heavenly Threads and Kneads is a little bit of everything, and owner Carolyn Zellner [...]
Foodservice Packaging Sales Expected to Increase
Southeast Kansas Business Journal Posted 11/1/2010 Billions of single-use foodservice packaging products are used by consumers in this country every year, making them America’s most universal consumer product. In one of several recent surveys done by the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI), 82 percent of foodservice packaging manufacturers in North America expect their sales volumes to [...]
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