• A ribbon-cutting with the St. Charles Chamber of Commerce and open house is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4. Food will be catered by Cindy’s Custom Catering. Frank’s Employment is a full-service staffing firm, filling the needs of business and industry since 1957. The company is the oldest and largest staffing firm in the Fox Valley area. It’s at 700 E. Main St., Suite B, St. Charles. For further information, call (630) 584-0820 or visit www.franksemployment.com.

• In-home parent coaching and education now is just a phone call away for residents of the suburbs. Parents in need of guidance and support have a local “supernanny” resource in ABC Moms Inc. From behavioral and scheduling issues to family transitions and weekly allowances, ABC Moms Inc. provides customized, hands-on teaching, strategies, tools and feedback to help parents and their children in everyday situations. For further information, contact Jennifer Schuler at (630) 299-4909 or visit www.abcmomsinc.com.

• St. Charles Bank & Trust is celebrating the groundbreaking of its permanent St. Charles location at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 425 W. Main St. The bank is housed in a temporary location at 311 N. Second St. Scheduled to open in early 2009, the new facility will have two drive-through lanes and safe deposit boxes.

• Vince Pagone of The Variety Club of Illinois Children’s Charities and Michelle Baert of Sherman Consulting received a check in the amount of $16,143.31 from Classic Cinemas Marketing Manager Mark Mazrimas. The theaters that raised money by selling gold heart pins to support the Illinois sector of the international Gold Heart campaign to help children in need were the Charlestowne 18 in St. Charles, the Elk Grove Theatre in Elk Grove Village, the Fox Lake Theatre in Fox Lake, the Lake Theatre in Oak Park, the Ogden 6 Theatre in Naperville, the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove and the York Theatre in Elmhurst. For further information on Classic Cinemas and its anniversary special events and contests, visit www.classiccinemas.com.

• Robert Lorenz has joined with William O. Morrison Jr., CPA. Both are registered representatives and investment adviser representatives. Previously, Robert worked as an investment executive with Fifth Third Securities and as a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial. Morrison’s practice includes approximately 600 clients, $73,000,000 in assets and focuses on assisting clients in developing broad-based financial strategies to meet all of their financial life needs. Their office is at 440 S. Third St., Suite 202, St. Charles. For further information, call (630) 762-8600.

• Matt Crawford of Batavia is the newly elected local secretary of Chicago Area Mensa. Crawford, who works at Fermilab, has been a member of Mensa since 1990. His wife and children also are members. Other members of the Chicago Area Mensa executive committee elected at the April meeting are Drew Bolda of Downers Grove and Heather Booton of Lisle for general representatives.

• Coldwater Creek in Geneva recently helped raise $2,840 to benefit the Chicagoland affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and their vision of a world without breast cancer. The fundraiser took place through Coldwater Creek’s Try It On for the Cure event April 20. Coldwater Creek’s fundraising program donated $1 to the Chicagoland Affiliate of Komen for the Cure for every shopper who tried on their clothes in the dressing room at Coldwater Creek’s Geneva Commons store. In addition, for individuals who made a purchase, the company donated 10 percent of the entire day’s sales to Komen. The company as a whole raised more than $100,000 for the cause and plans to repeat the event again this year on September 21.
Backing the Chicagoland Affiliate is nothing new for Coldwater Creek. Their programs focus on raising funds that stay right here in the community. In 2007, Coldwater Creek donated more than $316,000 to local affiliates. Whether it is participating in the local Race for the Cure or hosting benefit fashion events in their stores, like Try It On for the Cure, the purpose always is to give back to the community.