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Mike Fox
While Mike Fox was born in Peoria, he considers Springfield home. He’s been in the area since kindergarten, graduated from Southeast High School and attended Lincoln Land Community College before he got his first job in 1982. “I started working my first job at MicroPOWER Computer (owned by his parents, Bob and Elsie).” It was at that job that Fox initially earned a number of certifications through technical training at specialized technical schools on hardware and operating systems. Plus, the fact that he was the boss’s son, with the expectations that come from that title, gave him a good business sense, which he now realizes. 

 

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Beth and Shane Luttrell
Shane Luttrell’s dream of owning his own store came to fruition three years ago after the store he was working in went out of business. Having grown up apprenticing in his grandfather and uncle’s jewelry stores since the age of 13, jewelry sales and repair are second nature to him. “It’s what I’ve always done. It just comes natural to me,” he says. Opening Luttrell Jewelers was a new experience altogether. “It’s been my dream since I was a teenager, so it’s something I always wanted to do.” Now entering its third year, Luttrell Jewelers is home away from home for Shane and his family. Shane’s wife Beth is a certified diamondtologist. In fact, the two met each other while working together in another jewelry store.  

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