Business News

DeKALB – The Illinois Department of Transportation’s Division of Aeronautics has selected DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport as the 2013 General Aviation-Public/Category A Airport of the Year. Criteria is based on, but not limited to, cooperation with the DOA and the FAA, safety record and maintenance of the facility.

DeKALB – Brett Korth has joined the team at Business-Resource Insurance, a department of Resource Bank, as the newest insurance adviser. Korth is serving the insurance needs of DeKalb, Genoa, Hampshire and Sycamore communities.

DeKALB – Three nurses received top honors at the KishHealth System Employee Recognition Banquet May 13.

GENOA – Becky Haag of Genoa has become an independent consultant with Tastefully Simple Inc., a national direct sales company featuring more than 60 delicious, easy-to-prepare foods.

GENOA – Parag Maniar sees a void of pharmaceutical options in Genoa, and he hopes to fix that in July.

Former Genoa resident Scott James is seeking crowdfunding to complete the second half of his graphic novel “The Case Files of Harlan Falk.”

GENOA – Downtown Genoa’s reputation as a good place for entrepreneurs was furthered at the end of April when an expert from the Small Business Development Center at Waubonsee Community College paid a visit.  Marcelo Alvarez was invited by Genoa Main Street to spend the day in town.

CHICAGO – John Rung was named president of Shaw Media and elected to its Board of Directors at the company’s annual meeting May 2.

GENOA – After a record number of vendors applied to be part of Genoa Main Street’s Open Air Markets last year, the organization has widened the boundaries of the market to include an adjacent block.

DeKALB – Todd Vanatta, physical therapist at Northern Rehab Physical Therapy Specialists, recently attended a course in Raleigh, N.C. on Visceral Functional Mobilization. This three-day, lab-intensive course focused on gaining mobility of all structures through the abdomen and pelvis to improve performance of everyday tasks or activities such as lifting, bending and breathing.

DeKALB – To her colleagues, Cindy Lofthouse comes from a place of compassion.

DeKALB – Northern Illinois University has named Dan Gebo in anthropology, Paul Kelter in literacy education and Zhili Xiao in physics as its 2013 Board of Trustees Professors – a top university honor that recognizes faculty members for international renown in their research and excellence in all facets of teaching.

Well-wishers for moms, dads and grads may have to find an alternative to giving helium balloons this year as a global helium shortage worsens.