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Business Expo hopes to offer capital gains Small-business owners to seek out loan sources at Business Financing Expo II 1 "1 and chief operating officer of Delray Beach-based Office Depot. Registration fees are due by Monday, Aug. 22, but people can register the day of the expo for $90. Florida Atlantic University's Small Business Development Center and the U.S. Small Business Administration are sponsoring the event.

Small Business Administration loans, alternatives to bank loans, nonconventional financing sources, bank lending and specialty state and local financing programs. Exhibitors will include area banks, financial and leasing companies, SBA lenders, factoring companies and some government agencies such as the SBA and the Senior Corp of Retired Executives, known as SCORE. "It's not really like a trade show. It's more of a networking day," said Rona Helman, the expo's coordinator. "The idea is to establish a rapport with a representative or several of them from finance corporations." Helman said the expo will provide a personal setting for businesses to meet one another.

"At other trade shows, you say hello and you keep moving, but we want people to know what avenues are available to them and which are not," she said. The expo costs $79 a person, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, seminars and materials. The keynote speaker will be Mark Begelman, the president By JODIE NEEDLE Staff Writer Small-business owners looking to raise capital for their ventures may find some answers at the Business Financing Expo II on Thursday, Aug. 25. Registration is being taken now for the day-long expo that includes seminars and about 40 exhibits.

The expo will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Marriott North, 6650 N. Andrews Fort Lauderdale. Seminar topics will include Compiled by Regina Kelly BROWARD COUNTY BANKING AND FINANCE: SunBankSouth Florida in Fort Lauderdale has hired the following: Wallace Legg as senior trust investment officer; Mark J.

Tho-mason as vice presidentsales manager of private banking; F. Eric Heinton as vice president-senior appraisal officer; and Heather Summers as assistant vice presidentbranch manager. SALES AND MARKETING: Coconut Code in Deerfield Beach has hired agent sales manager Adam Span-genthal Keyes Co. in Miami has hired the following sales associates in Broward Pnnntv Ron! Barshak, Spangenthal Luke Brown, Irene J. Dortch, Alejandro Gonzalez, Dan Henry Abercrombie and Nancy C.

Aber-crombie ERA Plantation Realty in Plantation has hired sales associate Shireen Puig Cypress Creek Guest Quarters Suites by Doubletree in Fort Lauderdale has chosen Tod Chambers director of sales and marketing. OTHER: The American Heart Association has promoted Eden FROM PAGE 16 ELECTRONIC POLLUTION. Take an honest look at the messages you send today. How many of them are necessary business? How many of them needn't be sent? How many should be han-dled in a face-to-face conversation? The cold fact is, the fewer messages you send, the less trouble you can get into. Sooner or later you will commit the universal e- J' iwr I iy i PEOPLE ON 9- 1 1 Carr Marceline Elaine Carr to assistant area executive director for Broward County HIP Health Plan of Florida in Fort Lauderdale has promoted James M.

Hogan to vice president for medical affairs Design Center of the Americas in Dania has hired the following employees: Janet Roda, director of communications; Erika Deutsch Rotbart, manager of public relations; Kate Lacusky, manager of designer referral; Vikki Reinitz, special events coordinator; and Tracy Hendricks, administrative assistant to the operations and communications departments and data control administrator the Association for Retarded Citizens Broward in Fort Lauderdale has hired Brian R. Rick as the coordinator of community relations and development. PALM BEACH COUNTY BANKING AND FINANCE: Palm Beaches Medical Center in Palm Beach County has chnsen -If" A NO POINTS. NO CLOSING COSTS NO KIDDING. Ft.

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Ft Lauderdale 305 467-7321 f.A 4, For more information or to obtain a registration form, call 407-362-5640 or 305-771-6520. West Palm Beach has hired Glenn Dombrowski, Lisa Mowell, Ken Pagoota and Nancy Petrol! O'Donnell, Naccarato Mig-nogna in West Palm Beach has hired project engineer Ahmad M. Zadeh. DADE COUNTY BANKING AND FINANCE: Capital Bank in Miami has hired Elsa Pelaez-Lopez as vice president and commercial, loan officer. SALES AND MARKETING: Keyes Co.

in Miami has hired the following sales associates for Dade County: Harvey Daniels, Andre Mancini, Kelly A. Parthen-ais, William T. Franklin Jr. and Rose D. King Promark Distributors in Miami has promoted Jerry Fernandez to vice president of sales and merchandising.

OTHER: Turnberry Associates in Aventura has chosen John R. Keef general manager and Susan Kisiel special events manager Dr. Philip Mirmelli has been chosen the assistant clinical professor of the Allergy and Immunology division at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Submit items for this column at least 10 days before publication date to PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, co Weekly Business, Sun-Sentinel, 200 E. Las Olas Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

33301-2293 or 3333 S. Congress Delray Beach, Fla. 33324 mail junkies: Why aren't you just talking to people? Next week: Where there's hope. Note to readers: The winner of the messy office contest will be announced in this space on Monday, Sept. 12.

If you have an idea, a question or a problem at work, write Lona O'Connor co Weekly Business, Sun-Sentinel, 200 E. Las Olas Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33301. THE MOVE Pelaez-Lopez Fernandez Alex Marceline chief operating officer of the Pavilion. SALES AND MARKETING: Century 21 Platinum Estates in Boca Raton has hired sales associate Rose Marie Elizabeth Edwards Ensec in Boca Raton has selected Alan Fields sales engineer and Oscar G.

Perez Latin America sales engineer Sun Financial Group in Palm Beach Gardens has hired sales associate Bill Goldman Boca Raton Resort Club in Boca Raton has chosen Candace Burton director of club sales and marketing. OTHER: Ensec in Boca Raton has selected Ed Morelli service director I.R.I.S. America in Boca Raton has chosen Matthew B. Beck president Palm Beach Polo and Country Club has chosen J. Mark Egloff director of polo operations Boca Raton Com-munity Hospital has chosen Kenna Holzen executive director for corporate managed care and marketing Gee Jenson Engineers-Architects-Planners in duction.

Figure out how many minutes of your work day you spend sending such stress-reducing or recreational messages. Then, instead of sending those messages, take that amount of time to get away from your desk. Stand up, stretch, walk to the cafeteria, read a book hey, you could even talk to someone. Analyze your business e-mail, too, and sort out which messages might better be accomplished in person. One final question for e- pjUMIIHIWf CAREER mail error: you will send a rude message about someone to the very person it was about Every long-time e-mail user will confess that this has happened.

By auditing your own messages and not sending the nonessential ones, you can also do your bit to decrease electronic pollution. Some will argue that dashing off a joke or a catty remark via e-mail is stress reduction for workers. No argument there. But there are other forms of stress rfr:.