• Doug Vickers, regional sales and service representative for Hays Food Systems, a major distributor for Chester’s Chicken, was named the top performer for 2009. His territory includes Kansas and the Kansas City metropolitan area.

• Kyle Taylor at Golf USA in Lawrence has been honored as a 2009 PING Regional Club Fitter of the Year.

• Dr. James Otten, a Lawrence dentist, presented a course titled “Advanced Restorative and Esthetic Care” in November at the Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education in Key Biscayne, Fla., where he’s a lead visiting faculty member and provost.

• Mark Edgecomb, a career agent with Farm Bureau Financial Services, has received the Blue Vase Elite award for excellence and dedication in providing financial security to members of their community.

• Jamie Reese has joined J.C. Penney Styling Salon in Lawrence, 3311 Iowa, 331-0330.

• The Kansas Small Business Development Center will honor the 2009 Emerging and Existing Businesses of the Year with a 3 p.m. ceremony March 9 at the Dillon House in Topeka. Local businesses include Oliver Electric Construction, owned by Deidre and Robert Oliver, Lawrence; and Sweetlove Farm, LLC, owned by Phil Holman-Hebert, Oskaloosa.

• The Leavenworth-Jefferson Electric Cooperative general manager, Steve Foss, will discuss and answer questions members may have regarding cooperative business at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at Tonganoxie VFW, 122 E. Washington St., Tonganoxie. Additional meetings will be at other locations within the LJEC service territory. For more information, call Joe Heinen at 888-796-6111.

• The Kansas Board of Accountancy has announced 60 candidates who have successfully passed the computerized examination in the October/November 2009 exam window.

Area candidates include Raheema Sampson, De Soto; Garrett Hamm, Brittany Sacks, Adam Sipe, Randal Gerstner, Kristen Wehkamp and Laura Crowe, all of Lawrence.

• Custom Wood Products of Lawrence staff, Randy Warren, Lisa Fredrickson and Erin Walker, attended a National Kitchen and Bath Association seminar, “Artists in the Kitchen,” on Jan. 16 at Roth Distributing in Lenexa.

• LaDonna Stephens, with Stephens Real Estate Inc., has completed the Kansas Graduate Realtor Institute Program, earning the nationally recognized real estate designation GRI.

• Jim Blosser, of Lawrence, has been promoted to vice president of recruiting for VSR Financial Services, a national financial securities and investment adviser firm with headquarters in Overland Park.

• B.A. Green Construction Co. Inc., Lawrence, was honored with an Award of Excellence for the Westar -Lawrence Operations Center project during the Jan. 22 Associated General Contractors 76th annual convention in Wichita.