Around and about in local business

• Audrey M. Odermann, certified public accountant at the local office of Mize Houser & Co., has been admitted as a shareholder in the practice.

• Dr. Neal Lintecum of OrthoKansas, Lawrence, attended the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons conference. He also attended a program focusing on trauma and arthritis in upper extremities by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand & American Association for Hand Surgery. Both events were in San Francisco.

• Mike Everett of Life Success & Legacy, Baldwin City, was an exhibitor at the Nebraska Chiropractic Physicians Association meeting in Omaha.

• Frank Norman, president and senior ecologist of Norman Ecological Consulting, rural Lawrence, has passed coursework and a pack test during firefighter training at Crisis City on the Kansas Army National Guard Training Facility near Salina.

• Barbara J. Braa, a registered representative with PrimeVest at CornerBank, Lawrence, attend the three-day Cetera Financial Group’s Wealth Management University in Irvine, Calif.