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Volume 3, Number 45
| | Graves Menu Maker Foods: a growing family-owned business
VINITA, Okla. — Graves Menu Maker Foods, a family-owned grocery distribution company located in the industrial park north of the city, announced Oct. 28 that they would add another 60 jobs to the current workforce of 40 employees.
Local officials, employees, and guests joined business owner Dick Graves and representatives from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce for a special open house and cookout to celebrate the expansion news.
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|  | Karen Stolz
Karen Stolz, associate professor of English at Pittsburg State University, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Balkans Room in Overman Student Center. A reception will follow in the Heritage Room. The reception is free and open to the public.
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| | Laura Washburn
Laura Lee Washburn, director of creative writing at Pittsburg State University, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Balkans Room in Overman Student Center. A reception will follow in the Heritage Room. The reception is free and open to the public.
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| | PSU faculty members honored
Pittsburg State University faculty members have been honored for outstanding scholarly and creative works at the 25th Annual Faculty Author Reception.
| | | Building BEI with bonuses and benefits
Robert L. Roach, Journal Senior Staff Reporter
JOPLIN, Mo. — "I love paying bonuses – what I hate is not paying bonuses," said Dale Wilson, president of Bill's Electric Inc. "If I'm paying bonuses, then we're all making extra."
Wilson has helped build BEI into a thriving business doing "all types of electrical construction from the design work to the completed drawings to the actual work," Wilson said. "The whole nine yards."
Journal reporter Robert L. Roach spent some time with Dale Wilson taking about his business team, company growth, and the impact of the economy.
| | | Spirit of Women off to a good start
JOPLIN. MO. — Area women gathered for an evening of health awareness and fun as Freeman Health System held its first Spirit of Women's event "Freeman Spirit Girls' Night Out," Oct. 23 at the Freeman Business Center near 32nd Street and McClelland.
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| | EaglePicher Supplies Ni-H battery to GeoEye-1
Joplin Business Journal
JOPLIN, Mo. — EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, a leading producer of batteries and energetic devices for the defense, space and commercial industries, announced Nov. 11 it supplied the nickel hydrogen battery to General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in support of the GeoEye-1 imaging satellite.
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