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What’s InsideConstruction of the new Indepen-

dence Bank location in the 3000 block of Broadway remained on schedule through February, said Danny Evitts, McCracken County president of the Owensboro-based bank. Steel frame-work towers above the intersection of Broadway and LaBelle Avenue where the planned 20,000 square-foot model of In-dependence Hall in Philadelphia will sit.

Evitts said the building should be complete by early September. The work on the new branch may coincide with the bank’s Independence Park in the Wal-lace Park neighborhood. Some trees and brush have been removed at Lone Oak Road and Alben Barkley Drive near Han-nan Plaza to make way for the park that the city will maintain once it’s built.

“Our goal is to have the park done be-fore the building,” Evitts said. “I’d like to have it (the park) done in early spring.”

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John Williams Sr. spoke to the March 7 Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Power in Partnership break-fast about the state’s Blue Ribbon Tax Commission report and its impact on the business community.

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Construction of the shell of a commer-cial strip at 4965 Village Square Drive is near completion. Westwind of Pa-ducah, co-owned by Brian Womble, owns the land and building going up off Village Square Drive. Womble said he is looking for businesses to set up shop inside the strip.

Womble said the building is 6,500 square feet with three units available, and if tenants fi ll up the building, he has plans to build another 6,500-square-foot commercial building beside the existing one.

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The Ice Cream Factory reopened on March 15 in the 100 block of Broadway, according to owner Sue Clark.

The downtown seasonal shop shuts down each winter to await warmer temperatures, and more outdoor events, before opening again.

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TQ Thrift Store, 3333 Irvin Cobb Drive, announced new store hours in a company release.

Since Feb. 4, the thrift shop has been open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and closed Sundays.

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The average price of gasoline per gallon in Paducah was $3.72 from Feb. 1 to Feb. 26, according to a release from AAA’s east central offi ce.

Across Kentucky, the average price was $3.73 per gallon in late February. Paducah’s price in February compared to other Kentucky cities: Bowling Green recorded $3.76, Owensboro was $3.66 and Louisville was $3.81.

Paducah recorded some of the lowest average prices of unleaded self-serve gas prices in Kentucky in early March, ac-cording to Roger Boyd, director of public affairs for AAA East Central in Louisville.

As of March 12, Boyd reported that unleaded gas in Paducah averaged $3.45, lower than in Owensboro, Louisville, Elizabethtown and Bowling Green. Of those cities, Bowling Green averaged the highest prices at $3.61. Paducah also ranked lower than the national average of $3.70.

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The partners of HollandStivers & Associates moved their offi ces to a new location on Olivet Church Road, and have about 2,500 square feet of newly built

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Biz Buzz3 Biz Buzz News nuggets and coffeeshop chatter from Paducah and the area

4 People & BusinessHirings, promotions, awards and honors

5 Financial Planning Beyond the debt snowball: Practical tips for asset protection

5 Sales The secret of lousy service and how to fix it

6 Your Business Courtesy is not so common anymore, and other stuff about customer service

7 Human Resources The Obamacare Prologue

7 Government Legislators collaborate to improve education in the commonwealth

8 Law Limiting liability when breaking up with a business partner

9 Wave of the future WAVE 4 Act pushes for change to river construction projects

10 A look back Key points in USEC’s history

11 Triangulating business development Triangle Enterprises president seeks incentives for development plan

18 Fine Print

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

The former Paducah Sheet Metal building is shown on March 14 at 930 Monroe St. Triangle Enterprises of Paducah announced its acquisition of Paducah Sheet Metal on March 4, and J.P. Kelly, Triangle president and CEO, plans to continue op-erations at the metal fabrication shop.

The city of Mayfi eld hired Joe Dunn in its central dispatch department. A 1982 Lowes High School graduate, Dunn formerly worked as a painting con-tractor for a family-owned business with his brother and uncle.

The city of Mayfi eld announced its employee of the month for January: Jim Winslow. A Mayfi eld na-tive, Winslow is a captain/paramedic in the Mayfi eld Fire Department and has taken on the role of depart-ment chaplain.

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Stacey Swift joined Easter Seals Child Develop-ment Center as the vice president of children and medical services. Swift will help implement the new Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care program that will be offered by Easter Seals West Kentucky to serve medically fragile children in late 2013.

Swift graduated from Murray State University with a bachelor’s degree in early child development. She comes to the center with 20 years of experience in child development. Swift was most recently a pre-school teacher for 4-year-olds at St. Mary Elementary School.

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Lourdes welcomed David E. Simmons as the di-rector of marketing and communications. Simmons brings extensive marketing and promotions experi-ence from the outdoor sports and marine industry, including FLW Outdoors and Yamaha Motor Corp. Simmons will be responsible for the brand, market-ing and communications functions for Lourdes and Mercy Medical Associates.

Simmons earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee at Martin.

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Murray Medical Associates added Ginger Greene, APRN, to its staff of medical profession-als as a family nurse practitioner. Greene started her professional career in agriculture after earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in the fi eld, but quickly realized medical care was her true calling while working as offi ce manager for Dr. H.S. Jack-son’s Urology Associates. She returned to school to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing.

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Gov. Steve Beshear appointed several from around the region to Kentucky boards and commissions:

Betty Brockway, of Murray, was appointed to the Kentucky Board of Licensed Professional Coun-selors. Brockway is retired and represents citizens at large. Her appointment replaces Marian S. Davis, whose term expired. Brockway will serve a term end-ing Sept. 23, 2015.

Mary Sue Hubbard, of Murray, was reap-

pointed to the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service to serve a term expiring Jan. 3, 2016. Hubbard is a nurse, performance im-provement coordinator and risk manager at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.

Casey L. Allen, of Paducah, was appointed to the Kentucky State Advisory Panel for Exceptional Children to serve for the remainder of the unexpired term ending Aug. 8, 2015. Allen is superintendent of Ballard County Schools. He represents parents for the panel, and he succeeds Constance L. Hardesty, who resigned.

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Kurt Sutton, fi nancial adviser for Edward Jones in Paducah, earned an invitation to the company’s annual Managing Partners Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Sutton was recognized for his job performance and outstanding customer service. The conference pools Edward Jones’ most successful advisors to discuss is-sues that investors face in today’s changing fi nancial services industry, and how to leverage superior client service.

Sutton and his Paducah offi ce ranked in the top 3 percent of the more than 11,000 branches in the fi rm. A Murray State University graduate, Sutton began his career with Edward Jones in 2000.

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The Associated General Contractors of Western Kentucky doled out chapter safety awards to 17 local fi rms. Companies were recognized for achieving a zero lost-time incident rate with the highest man-hours worked during 2012.

Beltline Electric Co. of Paducah and Triangle Enter-prises in Paducah were awarded for having worked 250,000-plus hours without a lost-time incident.

Awarded in the general contrac-tor division: Artisan Contrac-tors of Kentucky (Mayfi eld), Ray Black & Sons (Paducah), Harper Construction (Pa-ducah) and Morsey Construc-tors (Calvert City).

Specialty contractor division winners: Stahler’s Welding (Murray), G.H. Mechanical Insulation Contractors (Paducah), McGee Pest Control(Murray), Murray Paving (Murray), Premier Fire Protection (Paducah) and Murtco Inc.(Paducah).

Awarded in the service provider division: Dis-tinctive Building Products (Paducah), Ronald Johnson & Associates (Madisonville), Hultman(Paducah) and Whayne Supply Co. (Paducah). Residential division winner was Providence Homes of Bowling Green.

All are members of the AGC of Western Kentucky.■ ■ ■

Jeff Schinabeck joined Systems Solutions as a network engineer. Systems Solutions is a provider of managed technical services for small and medium businesses in the region.

Schinabeck comes to the fi rm with a degree in computer information systems specializing in systems analysis and design. He has experience in developing, assessing and implementing policies and procedures for information security.

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After nearly 22 years of service at Murray-Calloway County Hospital, Faye Guthrie retired. Guthrie worked in the surgical unit as a nursing assistant.

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Bethany W. Jones, of Paducah, earned the professional credential of Certifi ed Professional in


People & Business

Lovett

Conner

Wilson Guthrie

DuPerrieuWinslow SwiftGreene Dunn

Simmons

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How does lousy service occur, and how do you fi x it?

The answer revolves around four words you already know: positive at-titude and personal pride.

Let’s start with a little background.Here are the reasons or feelings

that negatively affect your attitude, and reduce or eliminate the power of your ability to serve at a superior level:

■ My boss is a jerk.■ I hate my job.■ I hate my coworkers.■ I’m too good for this.■ They don’t pay me enough.■ They don’t understand me.■ Benefi ts stink here.■ I have my resume in fi ve other

places.■ I can’t wait to get out of here.

ANSWER ONE: There’s a two-word secret to service response: posi-tive attitude.

■ Positive attitude, defi ned as the way you dedicated yourself to the way you think, is the beginning point of service.

■ Positive attitude is not what hap-pens to you. It’s what you do, and how you respond to what happens to you. That is the essence of service.

■ Positive attitude must be the fi rst part of any training program, or the rest of training will fall on deaf ears – or worse – existing negative attitudes.

ANSWER TWO: There’s a two-word secret to the service process: personal pride.

■ It’s not how you feel about the customer, it’s not how do you feel

about the circumstance. It’s all about how you feel about yourself. Your personal pride.

■ Personal pride should give you the incentive to be at your best, re-spond at your best, and serve at your best at all times.

■ You’re not doing this for other people, you’re doing it for yourself. Once you understand that, great service not only becomes easy, it actually becomes fun.

A few guidelines to make personal pride more easily understood:

■ Personal pride must be more powerful than feelings about boss or company.

■ Personal pride must be more powerful than pay.

■ Personal pride must be more powerful than existing job.

REALITY: If positive attitude and personal pride are present, then ser-vice, even great service, is possible. And vice versa.

MAJOR POINT OF UNDER-STANDING: It’s not a job, it’s an opportunity. And your attitude, combined with your personal pride, will determine your short-term and long-term fate.

Yes, I realize there may be extenu-ating, outside circumstances that af-fect attitude, pride, and even perfor-mance. There are too many possible


Financial Planning

Editor’s note: This is the fi rst of a two-part series about how to protect your assets.

A woman proudly told her friend, “I’m responsible for making my hus-band a millionaire.” “Well what was he before he married you?” the friend asked. “A billionaire.”

When you think of “asset protec-tion,” creditors often pop up in your mind — but that’s usually the least of your worries. Financial planning is taking stock of your life, fi guring out what you want to accomplish, and developing a plan to reach your

goals, while monitoring and adjust-ing your progress over time. Your plan is to protect what you already have from the curveballs that life throws your way.

Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball has helped many people, but planning is about more than debt reduction. No matter what stage of life you’re in, it’s important to be vigilant about pro-tecting your assets. This month and next, I’m passing along recommen-dations that we share with clients.

Protect your earning power■ Disability insurance: The risk of

disability is greater than the risk of death at all ages between 20 and 65. Group disability insurance is a start, but you should really bump it up with an individual “own occupation” policy.

■ Health insurance: Health insur-ance too expensive? Having a heart attack without coverage would bank-rupt most middle income house-holds. A Health Savings Account is like an IRAs for medical bills and we’re fi nally seeing it trend into the mainstream. Go to HSAcenter.com to learn more or ask your fi nancial

advisor.■ Your health: The only asset God

provides is your body and you treat it as expendable at your peril. Improve your chances of living a better life by exercising both body and mind, eating right, and living a healthy lifestyle (don’t smoke, don ‘t ride a motorcycle without a helmet, yada, yada, yada). In 2011, scientists pre-dicted the fi rst person to live to 150 had already been born. Take care of your moving parts you’ll enjoy life longer and be more productive. Pro-

Beyond the debt snowball: Practical tips for asset protection Johanna Fox Turner

Please see ASSETS | 16

Sales

Jeffrey Gitomer

The secret of lousy service and how to fix it

Please see SERVICE | 16

This year’s series of articles has to date focused on the work of the dentist Dr. Paddi Lund (paddilund.com), an Australian dentist, whose use of some unconventional meth-ods of customer service has resulted in great service for his patients and increased business for himself.

The details of his customer service strategy and tactics can be applied to any business.

Reading and analyzing Lund’s work has made me think about why I like his approach so much. I think I have fi gured it out. In the past I have written about how I learned so much from my grandfather and aunt. Their common sense approach to things resonates even today when I give advice and counsel to my clients.

Well, Lund also offers some pretty good common sense advice and courtesy is at the top of his list. Lund accurately assesses and writes in his ebook “Paddi in Las Vegas” that, “The more time people spend togeth-er, the more important it becomes to practice courteous behavior. Unfor-tunately, the opposite usually occurs. Familiarity breeds impoliteness.”

I started thinking about places I had worked where the working and interpersonal atmosphere was relaxed, calm, cool, collected, and ev-eryone got along famously — places where I did not have to adopt new approaches and habits.

I could not recall a single one. It has been said either by Rita May or Albert Einstein that the defi nition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Yet, how many of us have worked in businesses where we see the same behaviors over and over.

Certainly I have, and I have asked myself many times when I worked for the Federal government if it made any sense to continue behaviors

that were not producing the desired results.

Self resoundingly, always an-swered, “No!” “The way that we be-have towards other people is deeply ingrained ... so deeply ingrained that it takes quite an effort to change that behavior,” Lund writes in “Paddi in Las Vegas Special Edition.” Lund has designed an approach called “The Courtesy System” which makes change easier by establishing a set of well-defi ned performance standards that can be assessed by all parties.

When performance standards are well-defi ned, observable and measur-able, behavioral change can and will occur. I have long had a practice of rewarding good behavior in pub-lic, and redirecting and correcting bad behavior in private. However, I would suggest that simply trying to be nice to others is not an easy task. We must not try — we must do.

Although some folks can be polite and courteous for short periods of times, it is not easy to change deep-set habits of interpersonal relationships and communication. Both Lund and I would agree that only if the employer introduces a set of well-defi ned and observable performance standards into the workplace — where performance is

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Your Business

Darryl Armstrong

Courtesy is not so common, and other stuff about customer service

Please see COURTESY | 17

I have been asked when I am going to write in this Human Resources column about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) and its effects on local employers.

The truth is, it’s way too early in the game to write such an article. So I offer this month’s column as strictly prologue, and in about six months, enough should have transpired that I can write Chapter One. My guess is that over the next several years, I will need to pen additional chapters.

Please don’t expect to fi nd here recommendations about your per-sonal options under Obamacare. I am writing this for publication in the Business Journal, so I will be writing from the standpoint of the employer.

The fi rst thing the employer must do is to determine whether they are a large employer or not. Typical of the government, this is not necessarily an easy task. Obviously, the likes of Microsoft, Walmart and Ford Motor Company know they are large.

However, any employer who has less than about 150 people on staff really has to check the fi ne print

to fi gure out on which side of the critical threshold they are. And it is truly critical, for in the fi nal analy-sis having more than fi fty employees can be the difference between having to comply in full or perhaps not hav-ing to bother at all.

The reason the fi ne print is impor-tant is in the defi nitions; specifi cally the defi nition of the term “employ-ee,” Here, the lawmakers included a detailed explanation which I won’t even try to explain, other than saying you add all of your staff who work more than 30 hours per week to the calculated total of the full-time equivalents of your part-time staff. Maybe you’re still with me, but the defi nitions also then list a series of exceptions, for example seasonal employees such as holiday staffers at the mall.

Oh, and then there’s the look-back rule that says your employment count is at all times to be an aver-age of the past year, except in the fi rst year of Obamacare which itself gets a special exception. The end result is that calculating the exact number of employees you have for the purposes

of the law is quite detailed.Did I mention that these same law-

makers also decided that some parts of the law should apply to large em-ployers only if they have more than 100 employees, rather than 50? It turns out that different parts of the law have different defi nitions of what constitutes large.

Seriously?But what are we going to see next

here in the Purchase area?Kentucky is one of the states that

has decided to implement the buy-ing cooperative, or “exchange,” on its own, rather than defaulting to let the federal government do it. To date, about half the states have decided to do this. I’m sorry to say that this deci-sion seems to have become very politi-cal around the country, but I’m going to stay out of that arena in this article.

What this does mean, is that by October, Kentucky will have an In-ternet-based system available online for its citizens to search out different options for the buying of medical insurance prior to Jan. 1, 2014. The Supreme Court has already said it’s legal to require all U.S. citizens to

buy insurance.The end result, though, is that the

word “all” doesn’t really mean every person. Those pesky defi nitions are coming back into play again. It seems there are exceptions to the manda-tory language such that, in actual-ity, there will be millions of people around the U.S. who do not have to buy insurance.

You can see why I have labeled this article as no more than prologue. The law is what it is, but most of the details are being written during 2013. Hold onto your hats (and wallets), my friends. This is going to be an interesting year.

Randy Fox, SPHR, is the founder and senior partner of Capstone HR Services, Inc., an HR consulting fi rm dedicated to serving the needs of the small employer in the greater western Kentucky region, includ-ing Evansville, Ind. and Clarksville, Tenn. Contact him at 270-703-9352.


Human Resources

Randy Fox

The Obamacare Prologue

Government

Dave Adkisson

It was a short legislative session fi lled with tough issues for Kentucky, but legislators did fi nd time to collab-orate on a number of bills designed to improve education attainment in the commonwealth.

It wasn’t the fi rst time bills were

introduced to address the increasing number of students who drop out of high school or to create a uniform evaluation system for teachers. But it was the fi rst time lawmakers were able to reach compromises on these issues, ultimately making Kentucky’s

students the top priority. Important bills that won legislative approval include:

Raising the dropout ageNearly 25 percent of adults in Ken-

tucky have less than a high school

education, and the dropout rate continues to rise. That’s a startling fact when you consider that most jobs require at least a high school diploma. For many years, the Cham-

Legislators collaborate to improve education in the commonwealth

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Law

Robert Goff

Sometimes, like a marriage, a busi-ness partnership (whether conducted as a partnership, limited liability com-pany or corporation) deteriorates to the point where it is simply irretriev-ably broken and there is no alternative but to divide the assets and send the owners on their own paths.

The easiest way of doing so is for one owner to buy out the other.

This requires that both owners have realistic ideas of the value of the business, and that at least one owner have the fi nancial ability to buy out the other, or the ability to get fi nanc-ing to do so. Another option is for the owners to both sell the business to a third party. Once again this requires both owners to have realistic ideas of the value of the business.

A sale to a third party also requires a third party buyer who is interested in the business. If a sale is impracti-cable, a disgruntled business partner can seek dissolution of the busi-ness or simply walk away from the business. Dissolving the business is usually the last resort in the event of a business dispute.

Dissolution requires that the busi-ness assets be sold, the business credi-tors be paid in order of preference, and the excess proceeds be distributed to the owners. Generally, dissolution of a corporation requires a vote of a majority of the Board of Directors and the shareholders of the corporation.

Dissolution of a limited liability company generally requires unani-mous consent of the members. A court can also dissolve a corporation or a limited liability company in rare circumstances.

Whether a business owner seeks dissolution of the business, or simply walks away, there are certain steps the owner can take to limit potential li-

ability to the other business owner(s). Owners of most businesses are also members of the Board of Directors or offi cers of the business. If a busi-ness owner plans to walk away from the business and go into a competing business for himself, he should pro-vide notice to the other owners that he plans to go into a competing business and that any information they provide to him may be used in furtherance of such competing business.

Furthermore, he should resign from any positions on the Board of Directors or as offi cer of the business he is leaving. If he plans to solicit em-ployment from any employees of the business he is leaving, he should wait to do so until he has provided the notice described above and resigned from his positions with the business.

The business owner who is respon-sible for selling the business assets, paying the debts and distributing the excess proceeds to the owners certainly can’t resign and at the same time perform such tasks. He should avoid undertaking any steps toward competing with the business until he has completed such tasks. He should then send the same notice and resig-nations discussed earlier. Neither the business owner who walks away nor the owner who participates in selling the business assets can use any busi-ness assets for his personal gain.

Thus, one business owner can’t take the business equipment and start using it for his own compet-ing business. Likewise, one business owner can’t take the customer data-base that belongs to the business for use in a competing business. The best approach is to attempt to fi nd third party buyers for the business assets. If this isn’t practicable, an auction using a reputable auctioneer can

provide an assurance of fairness. In determining how to proceed, a busi-ness owner should always remember that just because his business partner is a jerk, that doesn’t mean that he isn’t entitled to be treated fairly.

Robert Goff is an associate with Paducah’s Denton & Keuler law fi rm. His areas of practice include estate planning wills, trusts, estates and probate, contracts, business corpo-rations and partnerships, and elder law. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. He can be contacted at 270-443-8253.

Limiting liability when breaking up with a business partner

If a sale is impracticable, a

disgruntled business partner can seek dissolution of the business or simply walk away from the business. Dissolving

the business is usually the last resort in the event of a business

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Legislators and river industry advocates hope the WAVE 4 Act, proposed on March 14, will help modernize the lock and dam system on America’s inland waterways.

U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfi eld co-sponsored H.R. 1149, the Waterways are Vital for the Economy, Energy, Effi ciency, and Environment Act of 2013, a.k.a. the WAVE 4 Act.

The legislation incorporates the elements of the Inland Waterways Capital Development Plan, and seeks to apply objective criteria to prioritize essen-

tial construction and major rehabilitation projects on the nation’s inland waterways.

It also calls for revising benefi ciaries’ cost-sharing for major projects, reforms to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ internal project delivery process, and a revenue enhancement (a 30 to 45 percent increase in the existing user fee the navi-gation industry pays) to fund vital infrastructure investments.

“WAVE 4 will modernize the inland navigation system’s infrastructure to the benefi t of the U.S. agricultural sector, construction and labor indus-

try,” said Michael J. Toohey, president and chief executive offi cer of the Waterways Council, Inc., a policy group based in Washington, D.C., in a release.

The country’s aging infrastructure jeopardizes effi cient waterborne commerce and highlights the need for the WAVE 4 legislation, said Whitfi eld, in a release.

River industry executives and the WCI have cited a nearby construction project as one example

Journal files

A towboat hitched to a barge sits along the banks of the Ohio River near Paducah in this file photo. River transportation, and the ability for dam and lock construction projects to be completed on budget and on time, is the focus of new legislation in Washington, D.C.

WAVE 4 Act pushes for change to river projectsJournal staff report

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As of March 19, the United States Enrichment Corp. had made no decision on its future beyond May 31 in Paducah, according to Georgann Lookofsky, USEC spokeswoman. May 31 is the day when various agreements secured by USEC to extend operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant are set to expire, threatening the 1,200 local jobs at the plant site. The Four Rivers Business Journal looks back over the history of USEC and uranium enrich-ment in Paducah:

■ 1976: Department of Energy breaks ground at Piketon, Ohio, on a $4.4 billion gas centrifuge technology plant to replace the gaseous diffusion process of enriching uranium.

■ 1985: DOE briefl y tests, then abandons $1.5 billion in centrifuge work in favor of the more promising atomic vapor laser isotope separation process, or AVLIS. Uranium enrich-ment operations cease at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

■ 1992: Congress creates govern-ment-owned U.S. Enrichment Corp.

■ 1998: Government sells USEC for $1.9 billion in a public stock offering.

■ 1999: USEC abandons $100 million in AVLIS research as not cost-effi cient. Research turns to gas centrifuge and separation of isotopes by laser excitation, or SILEX.

■ 2001: USEC closes Piketon enrichment plant and merges work with Paducah, the only plant of its type left running in the nation.

■ 2002: USEC says a test gas cen-trifuge plant will be built in Piketon by 2005.

■ 2003: USEC stops funding re-search into SILEX.

■ 2003: USEC competitor Loui-siana Energy Services seeks regula-tory approval for a $1.2 billion gas centrifuge plant in New Mexico and signs contracts with several nuclear utilities to buy half the plant’s fi rst 10 years of production. LES includes Urenco, a European fi rm using gas centrifuge for decades, and Exelon, USEC’s biggest customer and the

largest nuclear utility in the nation.n 2004: USEC picks Piketon over

Paducah for a 500-job commercial gas centrifuge plant to replace the outdated Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant starting in 2010. Rationale: Piketon already has centrifuge build-ings and lacks Paducah’s earthquake hazards. (USEC intends to apply in August for a plant license.)

■ 2006-07: USEC must pay $500 million in federal debt from priva-tization and fi nd a partner to share the $1.5 billion plant cost to begin construction.

■ 2009: DOE delays approving a $2 billion loan guarantee for USEC, claiming USEC had not met fi nan-cial and regulatory standards for gas centrifuge technology. (On March 8, Paul Jacobson, USEC’s vice presi-dent of communications, said USEC remains on time and on budget to complete a two-year research, devel-

opment and demonstration program by the end of this year.)

■ 2010: USEC takes a step closer to deploying its centrifuge plant in Piketon after announcing that Toshiba Corp. and Babcock & Wilcox Investment Co. each will invest $100 million in USEC in three phases. USEC hopes the investment will help convince DOE to approve the $2 bil-lion loan guarantee.

■ 2012: USEC secures agreement with multiple parties to re-enrich high-assay depleted uranium hexa-fl uoride into low-enriched uranium at the Paducah plant through May 2013, thus saving 1,200 local jobs.

■ 2013: DOE posts an expression of interest, or EOI, asking for propos-als to lease or purchase the Paducah plant, its uranium hexafl uoride inventory or some combination of both scenarios. Silex Systems Ltd. is one company to respond and pro-

pose a SILEX laser enrichment plant in Paducah.

■ 2013: USEC continues to re-search, develop and demonstrate its centrifuge operation in Piketon and plans to update its loan guarantee request at the end of the year. The corporation hasn’t announced a decision about its operations at the Paducah plant beyond its contracts expiring at the end of May.

■ Gaseous diffusion: Used by the Paducah plant for more than 60 years, at peak it requires 2 billion watts of electricity daily, more than the state of Texas and twice that of St. Louis. The massive power — cost-ing hundreds of millions of dollars annually and accounting for 55 percent of the plant’s production expenses — is needed to run huge machinery in more than 300 acres of

Key developments in USEC’s historyJournal staff report

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The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site sits 15 miles west of Paducah and is where the United States Enrich-ment Corp. employs about 1,200 people enriching uranium for use in nuclear fuel. The plant has a long and wind-ing history in Paducah, and within uranium enrichment in the United States.

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It isn’t only art galleries and retail operations seeking to revamp Paducah’s Lower Town and downtown areas.

Owners of industrial sites want to play their part, too, said J.P. Kelly, president and chief executive offi cer of Triangle Enterprises in Pa-ducah.

Kelly hopes to land city incentives to revamp and keep jobs alive at the former Paducah Sheet Metal shop at 930 Monroe St. The shop is op-erational, but dated, and has a new owner, Kelly said.

Triangle announced its acquisition of the shop on March 4, a move that brought together two long-running homegrown Paducah businesses.

Triangle, launched in 1954, employs around 385 workers as an insulation contractor that also works on residential and industrial HVAC systems. In purchasing Paducah Sheet Metal, established in 1955, Triangle added sheet metal contracting to its services with the 29,000 square-foot building at its disposal to produce carbon steel, stainless steel and exotic plate met-al forming and rolling up to 1 inch in thickness. Kelly said he hopes to employ some of Paduah Sheet Metal’s workers, and the extent to which he can do that may hinge on help from the city.

Kelly had set a meeting for March 19 with Pa-ducah Mayor Gayle Kaler and City Manager Jeff Pederson to discuss any help the city can give to Triangle’s operations at the shop on Monroe Street.

“The revitalization of Paducah should also in-clude industrial and manufacturing areas,” Kelly said before the March 19 meeting.

“It would provide a larger payroll tax for the city with higher wages (of the sheet metal shop jobs). That renovation model has proven true with Lower Town and Triangle would like to be one of those success stories.”

Kelly said the average salary for the sheet metal shop employees is around $60,000 to $75,000 per year.

Kaler said she looked forward to meeting with Kelly, and that she wanted to learn more about his plans for the site.

“We certainly want to help our local businesses

Triangulating business developmentTriangle Enterprises president seeks incentives for development plan

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A cutting machine operating in the building at 930 Mon-roe St. shows some of the new equipment and servic-es offered at Triangle Enterprises in Paducah after the company’s acquisition of Paducah Sheet Metal. Triangle President J.P. Kelly hopes to hire as many of the former Paducah Sheet Metal workers as possible.

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grow,” Kaler said. “We’ll make every endeavor to help him out with his expansion. If it adds more jobs and brings more jobs into Paducah, that’s what it’s all about. It’s all about job creation to us and to the City Com-mission.”

Cash incentives, tax cuts and loan forgiveness incentives have all been used in Paducah and McCracken County with success stories, and some fl ops.

The city’s Artist Relocation Pro-gram — which included residential properties being sold for as little as $1 with renovation commitments — is credited for rebuilding a depressed neighborhood and creating a stron-ger local arts community.

Incentives are working for Hoop-er’s Outdoor Center, a locally-grown retail operation that received hefty loans from the city to move from a thriving business location near In-terstate 24’s Exit 4 to downtown on Broadway in November 2008.

The $370,000 in loans provided to Hooper’s from the city are forgiven as long as Hooper’s met criteria

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New metal fabrication abilities were part of the deal when in March Triangle Enterprises acquired Paducah Sheet Metal. Triangle President J.P. Kelly hopes to hire as many of the former Paducah Sheet Metal workers as possible.Please see TRIANGLE | 14

“We certainly want to help our local

businesses grow. We’ll make every endeavor to help him out with his expansion. If it

adds more jobs and brings more jobs into Paducah, that’s what it’s all about. It’s all about job creation

to us and to the City Commission.”

Gayle KalerMayor


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through November this year: employ at least three people full-time and keep certain hours, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The outdoor clothing and recreational equipment retailer celebrates its 20th anniver-sary this year.

The city has also seen its incentives fail to produce the desired results. Infi niti Media failed to produce the number of jobs required to receive Paducah and McCracken County-granted incentives.

In a deal going back to 2004, the city and county agreed to provide monthly cash payments equivalent to three years of lease payments on the Infi niti building inside the I-24 Park at 5400 Commerce Drive.

Infi niti’s end of the deal required the company to employ 106 people at the plant and invest $47 million in manufacturing machinery by 2009.

After the city and county had spent $240,000 for a railroad spur and $30,000 for travel incentives for the company, it failed to employ the required 106 jobs.

Kelly said he hopes his company’s long history in Paducah, and his commitment to the sheet metal shop adjacent to Lower Town, will help convince the city his idea is a worthy project.

Kelly’s grandfather, R.M. Robin-son, launched Triangle in 1954 after coming to western Kentucky to work at the Shawnee steam plant.

“I know the history of the (Paducah Sheet Metal) building,” Kelly said. “It once was a Sears, Roebuck stor-age warehouse, and prior to that it was a hub of the tobacco industry in Paducah, a tobacco leaf handling and mixing building.

“If we could take that half of a block and revitilize it, I’m excited.”

Contact Adam Shull, Journal editor, at 270-575-8653 or follow @ad-amshull on Twitter.


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A wall in the conference room of Triangle Enterprise’s Paducah headquarters shows the company’s family lineage. J.P. Kelly, Triangle president, sits in front of the photos of (from left) Jess Conkwright, co-founder, R.M. Robinson, Kelly’s grandfather and business co-founder, and Robert F. Pirtle, chairman of the board. Kelly is hoping to move the company, and a building near Paducah’s Lower Town neighborhood, forward with help from city government.

“I know the history of the (Paducah Sheet Metal) building. It once was a Sears, Roebuck storage warehouse, and prior to that it was a hub of the tobacco industry in Paducah, a tobacco leaf handling and

mixing building. If we could take that half of a block and revitilize it, I’m excited.”

J.P. KellyTriangle Enterprises president


offi ce space available for lease.Partner Jeff Holland said the fi rm added three employees after it moved to Olivet Church Road just off Hinkleville Road and near the West Park Village apartments on Feb. 25.

The new building has about 2,500 square feet of adjacent offi ce space available. Holland said because the building is new, whoever may want to rent the space can have some con-trol over the design and layout.

Anyone interested can call 270-554-5535 or email [email protected].

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Lourdes held an open house cer-emony on March 12 for its new North Plaza. Lourdes North Plaza is home to Catholic Health Partners Informa-tion Technology; Lourdes account-ing; Lourdes fi nancial planning and reimbursement; Lourdes HomeCare and Hospice; Lourdes Rescue Alert, and Mercy Medical Associates Busi-ness and Pre-Service Center.

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Systems Solutions of Paducah was honored in Nine Lives Media’s MSPmentor 200, North American edition, identifying both North America’s top 200 managed services providers and the top 500 managed IT service providers globally.

This is the second listing for Sys-tems Solutions in the North Ameri-can edition, and the fi rst in the global edition. The distinction is based on data from MSPmentor’s global sur-vey, conducted from October through December. The North America and global editions recognize top man-aged service providers based on a range of metrics, including the port-folio of managed services offerings, annual managed services revenue growth, revenue per employee, and client devices managed.

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Site Selection, a magazine focus-ing on corporate real estate strategy and economic development, ranked Paducah and Metropolis, Ill., at 30th in its Top Micropolitans of 2012 list.

The U.S. Census Bureau defi nes a

micropolitan area as a rural county whose largest city does not exceed a population of 50,000. The U.S. has 576 micropolitan areas.

Other Kentucky micropolitan areas that made the list: Frankfort (tied at 23rd); Glasgow (tied at 23rd); Richmond (tied at 30th); Union City, Tenn.,/southwestern Kentucky (tied at 30th); Campbellsville, Maysville and Somerset all tied at 45th; Dan-ville and Murray tied for 86th.

The magazine’s list compared micropolitan areas by the number of corporate facility projects in 2012.

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J.P. Kelly, president and chief executive offi cer of Triangle Enter-prises of Paducah, said his company acquired Paducah Sheet Metal during the fi rst week of March. The move gives Triangle, an insulation contrac-tor that also works on residential and industrial HVAC systems, an entry into sheet metal contracting.

Kelly said he hopes to employ most of the Paducah Sheet Metal employ-ees at Triangle as Kelly’s company uses the 29,000 square-foot building at 930 Monroe St. to produce carbon steel, stainless steel and exotic plate metal forming and rolling up to 1 inch in thickness. Both companies have deep roots in Paducah. Paducah Sheet Metal opened in Paducah in 1955, and Triangle did the same in 1954.

“Combining the expertise of the employees of Paducah Sheet Metal and Triangle Enterprises gives our company 117 years of experience in the custom metals fabrication business,” Kelly said in a statement. “With a comprehensive portfolio of products and services, we offer our clients the convenience of a single contact for all of their metal fabrica-tion needs.”

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Boyd Funeral Directors of Salem was included in a national profi le piece for the Aurora Casket Company.

Aurora Casket Company is under-going a campaign this year focused on the 10th anniversary of its arrang-er training program, Lifetimes. Boyd

Funeral Directors was recognized as one of the three most success-ful funeral homes that completed Lifetimes.

Founded by F.M. Boyd and sons in 1902, the facility is now operated by the father-son duo of Charles and Andrew Fox. Since 2001 the team has strived to provide the families they serve in the community bal-anced funeral arrangements custom designed to meet the needs of the individual family, their budgets and their wishes.

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Unemployment rates fell in 83 Kentucky counties between Janu-

ary 2012 and January 2013, accord-ing to the Kentucky Offi ce of Employ-ment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

Fulton County’s January fi gure of 15.2 percent was fi fth highest in the state.

How other counties in the region fared with unemployment rates in January: Ballard County (9.2 percent); Caldwell (7.8); Calloway (7.9); Carlisle (8.3); Crittenden (8.5); Graves (9.5); Marshall (10); McCracken (8.2); Trigg (10.8). The unemployment rate for Kentucky in January was 7.9 percent.

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issues to deal with in this short piece, but I do want to acknowledge it’s not always work related.

KEY POINT OF UNDERSTAND-ING: It’s likely that most people read-ing this will not be in the same job fi ve years from today. But between now and then, the thoughts you have, the personal pride you build and display, and your level of performance will dictate the quality of job, or advance-ment, you’re likely to secure.

Why would you risk lousy perfor-mance at your present job, thinking you’re going to get a better job based

on resume or desire? It doesn’t make sense. And it’s a fantasy with an un-happy ending.

KEY POINT OF UNDERSTAND-ING: Once you understand that you’re serving for yourself, once you understand that your attitude will determine your communication excellence, and once you understand your personal pride will dictate your actions — at once you see your pos-sibilities, and will have the ability to better improve your performance.

Don’t be mad at the world, don’t be mad at your customers, don’t be mad at your boss, don’t be mad at your co-workers — be happy about yourself.

NOTE WELL: If you’re the boss, or you’re in HR, or you’re the trainer, stop training a bunch a crap about your company and how to fi ll out the silly papers, stop telling me all about how great the company is, how you have a great reputation, and that I should be happy to work here. That’s a bunch of baloney! You can email me that.

START YOUR TRAINING SES-SIONS LIKE THIS: Here are two things most people don’t know about themselves AND their success.

HR REALITY: Train me about me. My attitude, my personal pride, my happiness, my opportunity. Infor-

mation I can use NOW and LATER. Information that applies to ME.

BIGGER HR REALITY: Most employees disdain training, they just want a paycheck.

BIGGEST HR REALITY: The more you help the employee succeed, the more they will set the standard you’re hoping for. They will have a better attitude and serve with pride because you helped them.

That’s not just a challenge, HR — that’s YOUR opportunity.

Jeffrey Gitomer is an author and president of Charlotte, N.C.-based Buy Gitomer. Email Jeffrey at [email protected].

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tect your family.n Money training: Giving

shelter to your children doesn’t mean they should be sheltered from money skills and a good work ethic, but it happens. A lot. Personally, I believe this is why we see so many kids in their 20s and 30s still at home, not because of the economy. Even a bird knows to kick the baby out of the nest and let it fend for its own. (If you’ll permit one brief soapbox comment: Parents, please quit supporting your teenagers’ cell phone habits. This causes problems on so many levels.) Teaching your children es-sential life skills will not only help them move up and out, it will save you thousands of dol-lars when you sever the umbili-cal cord once and for all.

n Life insurance: In our busi-ness, we hear horror stories about moms being left behind to go to work to raise their kids because insurance cost too much. Or of dads struggling to work and run the house and pay for daycare because the non-breadwinner wife didn’t

“need” insurance. If you have minor children, you need at least $250,000 of term life insurance per parent. While that’s still not enough, it’s a good start. If you are having trouble convincing your agent to sell you term instead of whole life, call us for providers who are National Association of Personal Financial Advi-sors members (napfa.org).

Of course, any of these topics could easily fi ll an entire col-umn. Use these ideas to start a conversation with your fi nan-cial planner or CPA. Have you managed to save some money and you’re not sure of the next step? Check out our super-practical priorities list in May’s column, along with more ideas to protect your assets.

Johanna Fox Turner, CPA, CFP, RLP, is CEO of Milestones Finanical Plan-ning, LLC in Mayfi eld. She is president of Johanna Fox, CPA and publishes a free monthly fi nancial newsletter (email [email protected] to subscribe). Contact Turner at [email protected], 270-247-0555, 800-991-2721, or at www.milestonesfp.com.

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of a broken system for river nagivation maintenance and construction.

The corps continues to replace anti-quated Dams 52 and 53 near Olmsted, Ill., where some 90 million tons of cargo travels along the Ohio River each year, making it one of the busiest stretches for commercial shipping.

First authorized at $775 million in 1998 dollars, the Olmsted project was expected to take seven years to fi nish. If funded at $150 million per year, the

project would fi nish in 2024 at a cost of $2.9 billion.

Half of the money for lock-and-dam work comes from congressional appro-priations. The other half fl ows from the roughly $85 million that barge compa-nies pay annually in diesel fuel taxes.

At an Inland Waterways Users Board meeting on Dec. 19 at the Julian Carroll Convention Center, Steve Little, presi-dent of Paducah’s Crounse Corp., said the Olmsted project has already cost $1.5 billion, with $750 million coming from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund.

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cavernous buildings to separate the use-ful and non-useful isotopes of uranium hexafl uoride gas (UF6) for nuclear fuel. The gas is pushed through miles of pip-ing containing billions of holes smaller than two-millionths of an inch.

■ Gas centrifuge: Used in Europe for several decades, the process enriches UF6 by spinning it at high speeds in hundreds of tall cylinders. The Energy Department spent nine years building a centrifuge plant at Piketon, then aban-doned it in 1985 after brief testing. Cen-trifuge uses about 5 percent of the power gaseous diffusion requires and produces

much less waste.■ Laser enrichment: Researched and

abandoned by USEC in the 1990s and early 2000s, laser enrichment tech-nologies AVLIS and SILEX can enrich uranium using less electricity than through gaseous diffusion. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a license in September giving the go-ahead for a SILEX-backed laser enrichment plant in Wilmington, N.C. DOE began negotiating in November with GE-Hitachi subsidiary Global Laser Enrichment to evaluate the possibility of building a laser enrichment plant at the Paducah site to enrich its stockpiles of high-assay depleted ura-nium tails.

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easily measured by all concerned and will be a central part of the perfor-mance evaluation of an employee — can change occur. Lund says, “Let’s face it, we have all been in situations where, for whatever reasons, we have been slighted, or someone has been discourteous or even impolite to us. When this happens, and it is a natural reaction, we pay attention to the slight and forget about what the other per-son is attempting to communicate or do because of their behavior.”

Lund says that courtesy can and will produce more effi cient commu-nication in such situations.

Courtesy increases cooperation

My Aunt Anzie used to raise veg-etables and sell them.

She was one of the fi rst entrepre-neurs I knew, next to my Grandfa-ther, and she was probably the best one I ever knew. It was her business acumen that led me to develop some of my own thinking about courtesy and politeness in the business world.

You see, her customers would come to the front porch of her little shotgun house and often times spend

an hour just “kicking rocks” before getting down to business, if they ever did. My Aunt was always courteous, respectful and patient with every customer, even if they didn’t buy anything that day.

She had developed a philosophy over the years that served her well. Treat others just as you want to be treated. A good Christian woman, who read her Bible daily, she lived the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Her business thrived. She was a good listener. She provided “listening therapy” along with fresh tomatoes, delicious cucumbers and hearty beets and potatoes. “People sometimes just need to talk and they need someone that remembers that God gave us two ears and one mouth,” she told me one time when I asked her about why she would spend 30-minutes “listening” and 10-minutes providing service to her customer.

Customers like doing business with people who are respectful and polite because such behavior fos-ters cooperation and reduces stress. Customers like doing business with people who take the time to listen to them. Most of us want to deal with people who treat us like we want to

be treated. Sadly, for several years I worked in a government agency where stress was simply the way of life. To get away from the stress, you literally had to leave your offi ce and not be available.

In many ways, the stress in this offi ce was directly related to the dis-respect and contentious nature of the employees and managers who didn’t seem to understand that they were public servants and that their fellow employees were as much a customer as was a member of the public.

Did you understand what I just said? Employees that you work with are just as important a customer to you as is the external customer! My Aunt and Grandfather were always quick to remind me and all the grandchildren that what we chose to “give out in our life; we got back ten-fold. “Well, I spent a number of years listening to the concerns, complaints and issues that this government agency created for the people they were supposed to be serving. When I voluntarily left the agency there was a “roast” given to me by more than 50 people in the community and region.

One of the things I remember the most from the speakers was the theme, “you can always say that

Armstrong listened and was respect-ful and explained things as often as needed.” I was always proud of that sentiment. I suspect my Aunt and Grandfather were too.

Courtesy gives you ‘nicer’ people for your business

Lund says that when a business adopts the Courtesy System and a polite, co-operative atmosphere is created, the number of ‘nice’ people in the business increases in two ways. The people in that business behave in a more socially constructive way — they become “nicer.” Also, pro-spective employees who already have good social skills are attracted by this sort of atmosphere. I concur with Dr. Paddi Lund’s summary, “Being cour-teous means more effi ciency, less stress, improved communication and nicer people for your business — this has to be magic. If it could be bottled, Courtesy would surely be hailed as the new business wonder drug — eas-ily worth $1000 an ounce.”

Dr. L. Darryl Armstrong, Arm-strong and Associates, is a consultant and counselor. He can be reached at [email protected] or 1-888-340-2006 or www.armstrongassociates.org.

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ber has supported raising the com-pulsory school attendance age from 16 to 18 while providing alternative learning tracks to keep students engaged in school.

Leaders in Frankfort have been working toward a solution on this issue for several years. First Lady Jane Beshear has been a long-time champion of raising the dropout age as has Rep. Jeff Greer.

This session, Sen. David Giv-ens sponsored Senate Bill 97 to give local districts the ability to raise the dropout age from 16 to 18 in the 2014-2015 school year. When 55 percent of all local school districts have adopted the policy, the com-

pulsory attendance requirement will take effect statewide.

Early graduationKentucky law states that all

students must attend high school for four years. Unfortunately, that means some of our brightest students are forced to stay in high school, de-spite their drive and ability to move on to a postsecondary institution. In an effort to reward these students for their hard work and move them into the workforce at a quicker pace, Sen. Mike Wilson introduced Senate Bill 61 — a bill to allow high school juniors, who meet specifi c academic criteria, to graduate from high school early. The House later amended the bill by adding a provision that allows

state funding distributed through the SEEK formula to be split between the school district and the student.

The student can then use that money as a one-year scholarship to attend a college/university or trade/technical school.

Teacher evaluationTeachers play a defi ning role in

shaping a child’s education — often the most important. That’s why it is critical the Commonwealth main-tains a statewide standard of excel-lence and accountability among its teachers. House Bill 180, introduced by Rep. Carl Rollins, seeks to accom-plish that by requiring the Kentucky Board of Education to establish an evaluation system for all certifi ed

personnel. The Kentucky Depart-ment of Education, along with teacher and principal steering com-mittees, will develop a system prior to the 2014-2015 school year that takes into account student progress, administrator and peer observations and parent surveys.

The Chamber applauds the biparti-san effort legislators made in work-ing to improve Kentucky’s educa-tion system. While several education issues remain unresolved following the legislative session, we are con-fi dent that Kentucky can continue making progress in education if lawmakers maintain this spirit of col-laboration.

Dave Adkisson is president of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.

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Business Calendar

BentonMayfieldMurrayPaducah

Dec. ’12

120

22

11

49

Feb. ’13

20

58

18

40

Jan. ’13

N/A

27

20

38

Business Licenses

February Building Permits

Barkley Regional Airport statisticsThru Oct. ’12 Thru Oct. ’11 Change

Outbound passengers 2,652 2,337 13.5%Average dailyoutbound passengers 44.9 39.6 13.5%

Departing flights 112 118 -5.1%Average percentof seats occupied 47.4% 39.6% 19.6%

Site Plans

PaducahLocationName

Jackson Purchase Energy 5801 Commerce Drive

Fine Print

fourriversbusiness.com

PaducahCity of Paducah, 2801 Park Ave.,

commercial repair/remodel.Drury Development Corp., 3961

Hinkleville Road, commercial repair/remodel.

Falconite-Hipp LLC, 4611 Partridge Lane, residential single family-de-tached.

B.A. and Frances Hamilton, 1034 Walter Jetton Blvd., commercial re-pair/remodel.

Kristi Casey, 1414 Monroe St., resi-dential electric.

Ducmall LLC, 292F James-Sanders Blvd., commercial mechanical.

Housing Authority of Paducah, 2330 Ohio St., residential repair/re-model.

E.F. Leasing Inc., 136 Stuart Nelson Park Road, signs.

Alice F. Crider, 203 Forest Circle, residential repair/remodel.

Dippin’ Dots LLC, 5101 Charter Oak Drive, commercial addition.

Gasada Inc., 2540 Lone Oak Road, signs.

William T. and Betty Lofton, 924-

928 Broadway, signs.Charles and Peggy Cole, 606 S. 17th

St., residential electric.Kentucky Oaks Mall, 5101 Hin-

kleville Road, commercial repair/re-model.

Midtown Market, 3000 Broadway, signs.

Stephen G. Gabany, trustee, 335 N. Sixth St., reroof.

Danesh Inc., 516 Lone Oak Road, commercial electric.

D&B Manufacturing Properties, 1001 Madison St., commercial elec-tric.

Warehouse Inc., 911 Joe Clifton Drive, commercial electric.

Betty Jean Bella, 2623 Goodman St., residential garage.

Richard Skelton, 812 Leiberman St., residential electric.

Janice Ann Brandstetter, 320-334 Harrison St., commercial electric.

Melvin and Tracy Hefl in, 251 Ches-ter Hack Drive, signs.

Falconite Development Inc., 451 Jordan Drive, signs.

Alden Haydel, 1703 Broad St., resi-

Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Power in Partner-ship Breakfast, 7:30 a.m. April 11, Paducah-McCracken County Convention Center. Cost: $14 members, $25 non-members. RSVP by calling 443-1746 or [email protected].

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Rotary Club of Paducah for service-oriented business/profession-al leaders, noon each Wednesday, Carson Four Rivers Center. For more information call 270-442-3418.

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Paducah Toastmasters Sam Sloan Chapter, noon each Thurs-day, The Pasta House. Develop better speaking and presentation skills. Information: Clay Campbell, 554-0093; Ricky Greenwell, 442-7179.

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Rotaract Club for service-driven professionals 18-30, 6 p.m. fi rst Monday of each month, Yeiser Art Center. Information: email [email protected].

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Paducah/River City Busi-ness and Professional Wom-en, noon second Tuesday of each month, Country Club of Paducah. For more information, email [email protected] or fi nd us on Facebook at facebook.com/PaducahRiverCityBPW.

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Paducah Business and Pro-

fessional Women dinner meet-ing, 6 p.m. second Tuesday of each month, Grace Episcopal Church, 820 Broadway. For more informa-tion call 270-442-7636.

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Zonta Club of Paducah, 6 p.m. second Tuesday, Whaler’s Catch, 123 N. Second St. Informa-tion: President Linda Carroll, [email protected].

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Paducah-Kentucky Lake Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals, 5:30 p.m. third Tuesday of each month. Informa-tion: Milinda Harnice, 575-8614.

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Murray State University In-novation and Small Business Development Center, Com-merce Center, 401 Kentucky Ave. 443-2783.

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Regional Center for Emerg-ing Technology, 926 N. 16th St., Murray, 270-809-6073.

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Regional Business and In-novation Center, 2800 Fort Campbell Blvd., Hopkinsville, 270-886-8666.

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Business & Industry Train-ing Center on the Shawnee Community College campus, 8364 Shawnee College Road in Ullin, Ill. 618-634-3254.


dential repair/remodel.Sam’s Real Estate Bus. Trust,

3550 James-Sanders Blvd., com-mercial repair/remodel.

James Malone, 1912 Jefferson St., residential repair/remodel.

Lansden and Holly King, 323 N. 38th St., generator.

Novella Jewell, 517 Harahan Blvd., residential repair/remodel.

Strawberry Hill LLC, 4570 Pe-can Drive, signs.

Riviera Apartments LLC, 3028 Clay St., residential electric.

Mora Mi Apartments LLC, 2991 Clay St., residential electric.

Richard and Carolin Roberts, 402 Cardinal Lane, residential electric.

Joseph Askew, 806 Bachman St., residential repair/remodel.

Warehouse Inc., 911 Joe Clif-ton Drive, commercial electric.

Babita Mallick, 230 Mohawk Drive, residential electric.

Pilot Travel Centers, 5353 Cai-ro Road, signs.

Phil and Marguerite Beans, 130 Market House Square, commer-cial repair/remodel.

Murphy Oil USA, 5132 Hin-kleville Road, commercial elec-tric.

Sam’s Real Estate Bus. Trust, 3550 James-Sanders Blvd., signs.

Falconite Properties, 156 Ble-ich Road, commercial electric.

Ronnie Brown, et al, 2400 Ir-vin Cobb Drive, commercial elec-tric.

James and Savannah Adams, 1217 Hampton Ave., residential repair/remodel.

Harrison Street Missionary, 1126 Harrison St., commercial accessory building.

Thomas M. and Nancy Olsen, 3000 Park Ave., commercial electric.

Wal-Mart Properties, 5130 Hinkleville Road, commercial re-pair/remodel.

Keith Davis, 1920 N. 13th St., commercial electric.

Kristi Casey, 1414 Monroe St., residential electric.

Marzie Miller, 4100 Buckner Lane, residential electric.

Jacobs Living Trust, 1170 N. 12th St., commercial repair/re-model.

Andrew and Gayle Kaler, 531 N. Seventh St., mechanical.

Hananoki, 5004 Hinkleville Road, signs.

Warehouse Inc., 911 Joe Clif-ton Drive, signs.

Shirley Bunch, 1311 Burnett St., residential repair/remodel.

Sam’s Real Estate Bus. Trust, 3550 James-Sanders Blvd., com-mercial repair/remodel.

Lois and Mary Riley, 1511 N. 10th St., residential repair/re-model.

D&B Manufacturing Proper-ties, 1001 Madison St., commer-cial electric.

John B. Carroll Estate, 1602 Ir-vin Cobb Drive, commercial raze.

Fernwood Homes Ltd. Part-nership, 700-710 Lone Oak Road, commercial electric.

Mid-South Energy Properties, 1616 Irvin Cobb Drive, commer-cial raze.

Rodney Pantone, 2033 Broad St., residential portable accessory structure.

Speedwash America LLC, 3201 Irvin Cobb Drive, commercial re-pair/remodel.

Brandon and Nicole Allen, 211-215 Kentucky Ave., commercial repair/remodel.

U.S. Agrium, 110 Locust Drive, commercial electric.

John D. and Beverly Terry,

1623 Harrison St., residential re-pair/remodel.

McCracken CountyGregg Farmer, 785 Starr Hill

Road, single family residence.Ron Froedge, 335 Blair Road,

accessory building.Joe Sledd, 150 Jason Drive, ac-

cessory building.Chris Sims, 6465 Meadowview

Court, accessory building.Matthew Rudesill, 115 Schmidt

Road, single family residence.Reidland Christian Church,

5300 Kentucky Dam Road, com-mercial building.

Brandon Strenge, 2150 Olivet Church Road, single family resi-dence.

MayfieldCostello Properties, 311 N.

Eighth St., schools/educational.Kenneth Crouch, 123 Kings

Drive, store.Davita Mayfi eld Shell, 121 &

Links Lane, service station.Jose Murillo, 222 N. Sixth St.,

repairs.Sam Perry, 433 S. Eighth St.,

repairs.Mayfi eld Grain, 622 Allen St.,

offi ces/banks/professional.

Massac County, Ill.Kelly Parmer, 2197 Belgrade

Road, mobile home.James and Reakie Dunn, 70

Bullock Lane, storage buildings.Wallace Mittendorf, 25 Coun-

try View Lane, pole barn.

Metropolis, Ill.Lucian Solution Inc., 209 Sixth

St., commercial repair/remodel.Metropolis Fire Station, 217

Seventh St., commercial demoli-tion.

February Building Permits cont.

Healthcare and Management Systems from the Health Information and Management Systems Society at its annual conference in New Orleans on March 4.

Jones works as implementation specialist for the Kentucky Regional Extension Center, housed at the University of Kentucky’s College of Medi-cine.

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U.S. Bank Regional President Scott Powell announced that Blake Vandermuelen and Andrew DuPerrieu joined U.S. Bank’s com-mercial lending department at the Paducah downtown location as commercial banking as-sistant relationship managers.

Vandermuelen and DuPerrieu will assist the commercial relationship managers with analyti-cal and underwriting support to assure quality customer service.

Vandermeulen is an 11-year veteran of the fi nancial services industry. The Lone Oak native is a 2002 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in fi nance.

DuPerrieu is a 2011 University of Kentucky graduate with a degree in fi nance. A Paducah na-tive, Duperrieu is returning home after 15 months in Nashville, Tenn., where he gained credit analy-sis and commercial banking experience.

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J.P. Lovett with CFI Inc. of Calvert City earned a trip to Washington, D.C., for being one of the top Exmark dealers in a six-state region. R.W. Distributors Inc., the Exmark Distributor, awarded this trip for outstanding sales of Exmark mowers. Lovett was honored with an Exmark plaque during an awards banquet.

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After 24 years of service to Murray-Calloway County Hospital in various departments, Mary Conner retired in February.

Conner most recently worked as a nursing as-sistant in postpartum and in the 2-West Unit.

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Lourdes hired Emily Wilson as a physician recruiter. Wilson, a Murray State University graduate, has worked at Lourdes for fi ve years as a physician liaison.

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