RE/MAX Lake of the Ozarks will be presenting the 3rd Annual Real Estate Symposium on September 9, 2010. The event will be held at Osage National from 3:00-5:00pm and a reception following with a cash bar. Several real estate agents, lenders, appraisers, developers and other professionals gathered together the prior two years for this event.

Anyone interested in attending is welcome, there is no charge, but seating is limited. Topics will include the mortgage industry, a national and local perspective on real estate, auctions at the lake, local real estate statistics comparing 2010 with previous years, and foreclosures and how they affect our market.

“This symposium is a must attend, for anyone interested in Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate. It is important to review our trends, and understand where our market is within the state and national scene” comments Frank Christensen, CEO of RE/MAX Lake of the Ozarks.

For more information and to RSVP to the symposium, please visit http://resymposium2010.eventbrite.com.

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
--- Pablo Picasso
One of the world’s preeminent artists and influencers of the 20th century, Picasso repeatedly broke down stylistic conventions and was undaunted by
the art world’s status quo. His irreverent spirit, captured in the quote above,
was unfettered as he pursued his calling and followed his muse – great art that answered to no one, yet inspired everyone.

During the collapse of the global economy, we can draw inspiration from Picasso’s words and choose not to listen to the conventional wisdom encouraging us to follow the pack and lower quality. Instead we see an opportunity to be liberated, abandoning our past to embrace the future, one that redefines the essence of who we are. We can be “curators” of the best design the world has to offer.

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy
in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
---Benjamin Franklin

These words encourage and support the mission of Symphony of the Lake to
inspire the community to make great choices and enjoy richer results through outstanding music, new and emerging musicians and excited audiences.

Please help as a musician, sponsor/donor, or as a board or committee member.
Call 573-365-1605 or e-mail Nancee @ info@designvues.com.

Beginning Sept. 4, Lake Regional Urgent Care will open earlier on Saturdays. The clinic, located in the Parkway Center across from Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, will be open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays for added convenience. It also is open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

“The new Saturday hours will allow area residents and visitors to be treated earlier so they can start their weekend plans sooner,” said Peter Rao, executive director of Lake Regional Medical Group. “Plus, the hours are similar to those of local pharmacies, like Lake Regional Pharmacy – Osage Beach, so patients can have their prescriptions filled nearby.”

Lake Regional Urgent Care is staffed by Randall C. Barnes, D.O., Ann Blackman, M.D., Janet Udelhofen, FNP, and other Lake Regional family practice physicians. These providers treat walk-in patients of all ages for minor injuries or illnesses, such as sprains, cold and flu symptoms, earaches, muscle aches and pains, and difficult or painful urination.

For more information, visit lakeregional.com/urgentcare, or call 573-302-3200.

In making the announcement, Robert Shively, managing principal of ProStar Auctions said, “According to reported real estate sales here in the Lake Area, this Grand Point Island home is the single largest transaction for a residential home in 2010 and we are very pleased to have had a role in the sale.

“ProStar Auction has sold over 40 properties and this is the second property over $2 million. We have established that real estate auctions are a proven method of real estate sales and we enjoy our working with the Realtors throughout the Lake Area. ProStar has already paid out more than $600,000 to Lake Area realtors either on the listing side or the buyer side,” concluded Shively.

“Real estate auctions are the growing ‘first choice’ method of selling homes, condos, land and commercial property,” according to Shively. “Sellers and buyers alike are enthusiastically flocking to auctions across the country, excited to be a part of the expedited process.”

“When a seller signs up with ProStar we begin the high profile marketing campaign for an upcoming auction in the distinctive style that has become synonymous with our company,” concluded Shively. Then the professionals at ProStar busy themselves as they go about their duties that will culminate in another successful home sale.

In the meantime the sellers wait with anticipation, looking forward to once again hearing that their property ‘Sold’ with the accelerated auction method of real estate sales.

ProStar Auctions is a Lake of the Ozarks based company with over 30 years of experience in selling real estate by auction throughout the United States. ProStar Auctions offices are located at Bus. Hwy. 54 and Crossing West Drive in Lake Ozark, Missouri 65049 and can be reached at 573-365-7272.

State Fair Community College has been named to the 2011 G.I. Jobs Military Friendly Schools list.

The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students. SFCC is one of 24 Missouri schools recognized.

Criteria for making the list included efforts to recruit and retain military and veteran students, results in recruiting military and veteran students and academic accreditations. Schools on the list also offer additional benefits to student veterans such as on-campus veterans programs, credit for service, military spouse programs and more.

The G.I. Jobs Web site called SFCC “an excellent choice for military members” because the college has an extended campus location at Whiteman Air Force Base and provides classes for students seeking associate of arts degrees. Classes can be taken online or in the classroom and are taught by professional practitioners highly qualified in their area of expertise.

Special certificate classes are also offered by SFCC on contract to the Air Force in specific military requirements areas. SFCC is also a General Education Mobile school for Community College of the Air Force and provides the online general education classes for Air Force members worldwide who are working on the AAS degree with CCAF.

Enlisted personnel receive the in-district tuition and fees rate, which is the lowest rate offered. Spouses and dependents of military personnel also can receive the in-district tuition and fees rate.

About 600 military or veteran students are enrolled at SFCC-WAFB. The graduation rate for veterans at SFCC-WAFB is 100 percent.

The tens of billions of dollars in tuition money now available with the passage of the Post-9/11 GI Bill last year has intensified an already strong desire by colleges to court veterans into their classrooms, said Rich McCormack, G.I. Jobs publisher.

“This list is especially important now because the Post-9/11 GI Bill has given veterans virtually unlimited financial means to go to school,” he said. “Veterans can now enroll in any school, provided they’re academically qualified … Veterans need a trusted friend to help them decide where to get educated. The Military Friendly Schools list is that trusted friend.”

Derek Blumke, president of Student Veterans of America and a member of the list’s Academic Advisory Board, agrees.

“The Military Friendly Schools list is the gold standard in letting veterans know which schools will offer them the greatest opportunity, flexibility and overall experience,” he said. “It’s especially important now with so many schools competing for military students.”
The list was compiled through exhaustive research starting last April during which G.I. Jobs polled more than 7,000 schools nationwide.

To see the complete 2011 list, go to www.militaryfriendlyschools.com/2011list.
G.I. Jobs (www.gijobs.com) is published by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business, which also publishes The Guide to Military Friendly Schools, Military Spouse and Vetrepreneur magazines and annually rates the nation’s “Military Friendly Employers,” “Military Spouse Friendly Employers” and “Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses.”