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Sophia King of Godfrey Selected to Global Business Symposium in Poland

2 years 5 months ago
CARLINVILLE - Every spring, Blackburn's International Business course offers students the opportunity to participate in a global business competition called X-Culture. Students from around the world from international teams meet initially online and, finally, in person to finalize their work on solving a real business problem for real companies. In 2022, more than 11,000 students representing 120 countries across more than 300 colleges and universities graduated from the program. This year, Sophia King, a rising senior marketing major of Godfrey was among five Blackburn students invited to attend the annual X-Culture Global Business Symposium, which brings participants together and chooses from the best of the best. Dr. Christina Langwell McCurley, professor of business and coordinator of the program for Blackburn, believes this competition is critical to helping students understand international business strategy comprehensively. "The project challenges students academically,

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Becky 'Queen of Carpet' Rothman Has Died

2 years 5 months ago
A beloved St. Louis icon has gone to the great carpet store in the Sky. Becky "Queen of Carpet" Rothman died yesterday at age 67. Her legendary commercials for Becky's Carpet & Tile Superstore imprinted on generations of St. Louisans, who saw her as a local legend as famous as John Goodman or Jon Hamm.
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Mayor Morrow, Retired Colonel, Keynote Speaker: Grafton Again Has Annual Memorial Day Ceremony

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GRAFTON - Whalen-Hill American Legion Post #648 hosted Grafton’s Third Annual Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony at noon on Monday, May 29, 2023, at the Post’s WWI Monument overlooking the cemetery and it was once again a captivating experience with Mike Morrow, a retired Army Colonel, as the keynote speaker. Post Commander John Hughes introduced CW4 (Ret.) Terry Day who emceed the ceremony. Father Marty Smith, a former member of the 82 nd Airborne Division and an Iraqi Freedom Veteran gave the invocation. This was Mayor Morrow's Memorial Day Speech: “On Memorial Day we remember those who lost their lives in the service of our nation. It is a day set aside to honor those military men and women who paid for our freedom with their lives. The Honor Guard of this post, the Whalen-Hill American Legion Post #648 assembled early this morning, put on their uniforms, gathered their gear, and traveled to each of the local cemeteries in our region. At each stop

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