Returning home
Native Emporian Channon Farrell has accepted a management position with Cornerstone Residential in Emporia. Farrell most recently lived in Kansas City.
New location
Quik Cash has moved to a new location, 1703 W. Sixth Ave. The company, which provides payday loans, check cashing and Western Union transfers and money orders, has served Emporia and the surrounding area since 1998.
The new location gives the staff more room to serve customers with more parking. To mark the change, the company is offering chances to sign up for drawings.
The phone number remains 343-2222.
S&S earns recognition
S&S Oil & Propane Co. has achieved Top Tier Marketer status, the ConocoPhillips Co. announced recently. Top Tier status was introduced to lubricants distributors in 2005. It is open only to marketers who receive and distribute bulk oil.
Top Tier status is required for a marketer to be approved for blending oils, packaging grease and railroad engine oil handling, the company said in a press release.
S&S began distributing ConocoPhillips produces in 1960. It offers the Phillips, Conoco and Union 76 brands.
Donated food
Douglas Chiropractic of Emporia donated nearly 200 items of food to Resource Center for Independent Living of Emporia, the organization announced recently. Douglas Chiropractic’s clients collected the food items.
RCIL works with individuals, families and communities to promote independent living and individual choice for people with disabilities.
High marks
Former Emporian Jim Hanna has received high marks from his clients in the Ameriprise Financial advisor client satisfaction survey. Hanna ranked in the top 28 percent of 2,608 participating advisors who scored at least 95 out of 100 on a survey, the company announced.
Hanna, the son of Chuck and Doris Hanna of Emporia, is a personal advisor in the Topeka office.
Oil futures fall
NEW YORK — Oil futures fell Wednesday to their lowest level in six weeks after a mixed government inventory report failed to offset a belief that supplies are growing faster than demand.
Investors shrugged off OPEC’s decision to keep production levels steady, a possible sign prices have peaked for the year, analysts said.
In its weekly inventory report, the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration said crude supplies plunged by 8 million barrels last week, much more than the expected 700,000 barrel decline. That caused oil prices to jump briefly above $90 a barrel, but other aspects of the report weighed on prices as the day wore on.
Crude supplies grew at the closely watched Nymex delivery terminal in Cushing, Okla. Inventories of heating oil rose when analysts had expected a decline, and gasoline supplies rose more than expected.
Earlier Wednesday, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, said the cartel would leave output unchanged “for the time being” because the world was “well supplied” and crude reserves are at comfortable levels.