BORN TO BE WILD—LOCAL EXECS TRADES SUITS AND TIES FOR CHAPS AND BOOTS . HONORING ENTREPRENEURS Small Business Week 2004; meet the winners from last month's Small Business Week. Earth City company improves homeland security—one bug at a time. Fifteen St. Louis stocks you should have invested in. THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER AND PLANNING CALENDAR OF THE ST. LOUIS REGION New RCGA members Calendar Garden water features make the world go away. OUTSOURCING: LONG-TERM BOOST OR SHORT-TERM DEATH? DICK FORD: A HALF CENTURY OF NEWS News Anchor, KTVI Channel 2 COMMERCE COMMENTS COMMERCE IN BRIEF MAKING HEADLINES INVESTING IN THE REGION ON THE TOWN TASTE OF THE REGION NEWSMAKERS TRENDS

June 2004 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meet William Thomas Scherer Jr. whose motto is: “computer repair, anywhere.” Don’t bug Jeff Golden and Robert Morgan. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.stlrcga.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - www.technologygateway.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Take stock in Ronald Fromm, CEO, Brown Shoe. In the Kitchen K with Pablo Weiss. In the Spotlight, DICK FORD. News Anchor, KTVI Channel 2