Siouxland Business Journal - October 2014

Vol. 23 No. 10 PO Box 118, Sioux City, Iowa 51102

October 2014

LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES ISSUE

100 years of accounting Sioux City firm traces roots to first income tax returns

INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE: Dedication of the first commercial cellulosic plant got royal treatment PAGE 4

A Denison, Iowa, manufacturer’s products are in demand worldwide PAGE 10

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BusinessJournal Ron Peterson, publisher Dave Dreeszen, editor Siouxland Business Journal is published monthly by Sioux City Newspapers Inc., in cooperation with the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce.

Requests for a free subscription or address changes should be sent to: Kevin McGarry Siouxland Business Journal Box 118 Sioux City, Iowa 51102

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Index Business Know How.........................................page 15

Home & Office...................................................page 21

Business People...........................................page 16, 17

On the move.................................................... page 7, 8

Chamber anniversaries................................... page 22

Ribbon cuttings...........................................page 18-20

Chamber investors.......................................... page 22

On the cover

Jim Lee, Business Journal

Howard Reinsch, managing partner of King, Reinsch, Prosser and Co., L.L.P., is shown in the front lobby of the accounting firm’s offices in downtown Sioux City. The firm is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

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Northwest Iowa home to first commercial cellulosic plant Monarch from Netherlands helps dedicate facility in Emmetsburg RUSS OECHSLIN

Business Journal correspondent‌

EMMETSBURG, Iowa | The dedication of the first commercial cellulosic plant was given royal treatment.

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands took part in the Sept. 4 opening ceremonies for the PoetDSM plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa.

The venture, dubbed Project Liberty, is a $250 million partnership between Royal DSM, a Dutch biotechnology company, and Poet, a Sioux Fallsbased ethanol maker. It is expected to produce 20 million gallons of ethanol in its first full year of production from corn stalks, leaves and other plant residue left on fields as waste.

The Neatherlands king spoke briefly in praise of Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma and his company’s efforts in enzyme research that make the process work.

More than 2,000 people watched as baling wire was cut during a ceremony to signify the opening of the new plant. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack were among those in attendance.

The state of Iowa invested about $20 million in the new plant for engineering and construction costs through tax credits and job training funds. The U.S. Department of Energy provided $100 million in

Russ Oechslin, Business Journal

Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, center in front, stops for interviews with Dutch media reporters on Sept. 3 while touring the new POET-DSM cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. DSM, headquartered in the Netherlands, is a partner with Sioux Fallsbased Poet in the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S.

grants over seven years.

Poet founder Jeff Broin told the audience that the effort took 27 years to come to fruition after he bought a bankrupt ethanol plant in Scotland, S.D. Assuming continued federal support with its renewable fuels program and other variables, Broin said Poet-DSM has the potential to see sales of about $250 million from bioethanol and licensing by the year 2020.

Sijbesma said licensing and continued government support were the keys to rapid growth, although he declined to say what companies or nations Poet-DSM might license its process to.

Sijbesma noted that the name Project Liberty was appropriate, as renewable fuels would build freedom from fossil fuels.

Poet-DSM Operations Engineer Beau Schmaltz, of Sioux Falls, said the refinery has been accumulating plant biomass for testing for several years but that the first production was just about a month ago.

“And it worked.”

Using cellulosic material from field residue, known as corn stover, provides a lower-cost alternative to making ethanol from corn kernels. In addition, it brings the process closer to using the entire plant product, making a nearly 100 percent renewable product, as even the by-products of distillation will be reused in another form.

Poet owns 27 ethanol plants, seven of which are in Iowa, including a traditional corn ethanol plant at the same site as the new cellulosic refinery.

Bancroft, Iowa, farmer

Mark Bolling has been selling biomass from about 240 acres to Poet-DSM for about a year. “They bring three or four balers in and take the bales when they need them. It reduces the residue and it’s used to produce ethanol,” he said.

“When it’s corn on corn, you want that trash removed anyway. You like your fields a little darker in the spring for putting corn back in.”

Farmers are paid $65 to $75 per dry ton. The plant will use 770 tons of biomass daily.

Michael Knotek, U.S. Department of Energy undersecretary for science and energy, said the nation needs another 1,000 plants like the Emmetsburg facility to be built within the next 25 years.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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CF expansion boon to local economy

“You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.”

While this quote actually appeared in the best-seller The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, it describes perfectly the investment, size, and local impact of the current CF Industries expansion at Port Neal.

Nick DeRoos, who serves as the project director for CF’s Port Neal Capacity Expansion, as well as the general manager for the Port Neal Nitrogen Complex, recently provided a comprehensive tour of their expansive and ongoing construction project.

After we arrived at the site and fulfilled the safety and security screening conditions required of all visitors, Nick emerged from one of several dozen temporary offices and offered a warm welcome and a firm handshake. He then presented us with a hard hat, eye protection, and a lime green colored safety vest that might

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very well be visible by galactic hitchhikers.

As we piled into the large SUV, I recalled that it was less than two years ago that Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad was joined by the CEO of CF Industries at a press conference in Sioux City to announce the $1.7 billion project. At the time of the announcement, Nov. 1, 2012, this was the single largest capital investment for an economic development project in Iowa history.

Without some perspective, the magnitude of this project is hard to comprehend. Let’s begin with the staggering $1.7 billion price

Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal

An aerial view of the CF Industries complex at Port Neal is shown June 20. The company is in the midst of a $1.7 billion expansion.

tag. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” One billion is a lot of zeroes, nine of them in fact, and that’s not counting the two that follow the decimal point!

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OnTheMove L&L Builders hires project manager SIOUX CITY | Evan Palsma has joined L&L Builders as a project manager/ estimator.

His duties include client relations, project management, estimating, project Palsma scheduling, and subcontractor and material purchases.

For the past eight years, Palsma held a similar position for a Siouxland mechanical contractor.

Palsma graduated with a BS degree in construction management and a minor in business from South Dakota State University. He is a member of the South Dakota Air National Guard, 114th Civil Engineering Squadron.

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Morningside names VP for advising SIOUX CITY | Morningside College has named Lillian Lopez as vice president for advising.

In her new role, she is responsible for the college’s holistic, academic and career Lopez advising programs, and she will coordinate retention efforts on campus. She also will oversee the Krone Advising Center, a new building being constructed on campus to house a team of full-time, professional, first-year advisers. It is scheduled to open this fall.

Lopez first came to Morningside in 1990, teaching in the history and political science department and the modern languages department. She has been

a full-time professor in the history and political science department since 1995. Administrative appointments over the years include advising mentor, interim associate dean for academic affairs and director of international student services.

Lopez has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. She has a master’s degree in political science from the University of South Dakota.

Siouxland law firm hires attorney SIOUX CITY | Crary Huff Law Firm has hired Andrew Twinamatsiko to work in its South Dakota office. He will work primarily in the areas of litigation, business support, and international law.

Twinamatsiko was born and raised in Kabale, Uganda,

where he obtained a bachelor of laws degree from Uganda Christian University in Twinamatsiko 2007.

He moved to the United States in 2009, and received his juris doctorate degree from the University of South Dakota in 2013, graduating with high honors. While at USD, he was an editor for Volume 58 of the South Dakota Law Review. He was also the secretary of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA).

Twinamatsiko was admitted to practice law in South Dakota in January 2014.

Prior to joining Crary Huff, he worked as an International Compliance Officer at USD, where he advised international students and exchange visitors on federal immigration compliance.

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SIOUX CITY | K ing, Reinsch, Prosser & Co. L.L.P. recently promoted four staff to management and supervisory positions for the regional certified public accounting firm.

Becky George, CPA has been promoted to manager for the firm. George is a native of Pomeroy, Iowa, and a graduate of Briar Cliff University. She began her career with KRP as a staff accountant in 2004. She was promoted to supervisor in July of 2007.

In her new position as manager, she is responsible for additional client services and consultation, as well as project management for KRP client audit and accounting programs.

Eric Gilbertson, CPA has also been promoted to manager for the firm.

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Gilbertson is a Yankton, S.D. native and a graduate of the University of South Dakota. He has also been with KRP as a staff accountant since 2004. He was promoted to supervisor in July of 2007.

In his new position, he will take on a larger role in client service and project management, particularly for audit services provided

by KRP. Seth Van Gorp, CPA has been promoted to Supervisor for the firm. Van Gorp is a Sioux Center, Iowa, native and a graduate of the University of Iowa. He began his career with KPR as a staff accountant in 2008.

He was promoted to senior tax accountant in July of 2012.

In his new position, he is responsible for technical in-house tax continuing education and tax research and reporting.

Alicia Lambert has been promoted to senior accountant. Lambert is a Sioux City native and a graduate of the University of South Dakota. She has been with KRP as a staff accountant since 2007.

In her new position, she is responsible for supervising audit engagements and project management for client accounting services.

City advances contract for Southbridge industrial rail T.J. FOWLER

Business Journal staff writer‌

SIOUX CITY | Plans to bring rail service to the Southbridge Business Park should have a positive economic impact on the city, according to officials.

The City Council recently approved a contract for the $4.8 million project, which would see tracks laid and a rail yard erected at the industrial site.

South Sioux City-based D.A. Davis Co. cast the winning bid.

Mayor Bob Scott predicts the addition will draw new businesses to the site, which currently serves as home only to Sabre Industries.

“I can tell you it’s going to have an economic impact

on the city,” Scott said. “In the very near future you’ll see that it has an impact, and I think down the road it’ll have a long-term impact on the community.”

City officials have paid special attention to Southbridge in recent years, developing the park’s infrastructure with the construction of new roads and a water treatment plant.

The site is south of Sioux Gateway Airport and covers hundreds of acres.

The new project would develop the area even further, granting quick access to rail shipping for industrial interests setting up shop there.

“Rail people like Union Pacific that will be servicing the site believe it will

have an impact,” Scott said.

“Those communities that have these rail yards show that industry surrounds them and gives them heavy use.”

Economic Development Director Marty Dougherty said by project’s end, the park will feature a threetrack yard on a spur connecting to Union Pacific tracks. That spur will connect to tracks leading into Port Neal that serve CF Industries.

“We’ve started to market that as an asset,” Dougherty said. “We think there’ll be a lot of interest in the use of this facility.

“This project has been years in the making,” he said. “A lot of thought has gone into this.”

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DENISON, Iowa | In the wake of terrorists piloting jumbo jets into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, governmental officials moved swiftly to protect citizens and critical infrastructure from further attacks.

The measures included putting concrete security barriers in front of buildings or driveways as a deterrent to would-be attackers deploying vehicles as a weapon.

A small family business in Denison, Iowa, was called on to manufacture scores of the rugged, precast concrete structures, reinforced with steel.

PETERSEN MANUFACTURING HISTORY: Founded in 1913 by L.T. Petersen as a manufacturer of concrete waterers for cattle. The company’s product mix has since expanded into other concrete products that include security barriers, planters, benches, tables.

HEADQUARTERS AND PLANT SITE: Denison, Iowa PRESIDENT AND CEO CHRIS PETERSEN, SON OF THE FOUNDER NO. OF EMPLOYEES: Around 75 ON THE WEB: petersenmfg.com

“It put huge demands on our production capacity,” recalls Paul Schumacher, sales manager for Petersen Manufacturing. “It really tested our ability to perform, and we did, obviously, and were able to supply a need for the government.”

Today, the small Northwest Iowa company’s products are used to protect government complexes throughout the Washington, D.C., area, as well as New York and a host of other U.S. cities.

Demand for the heavy-duty, decorative products, which include planters, benches, tables, drinking fountains and waste receptacles, have gone well beyond security purposes, however. They’re used in a variety of settings, from office complexes and shopping malls to parks and sports stadiums to schools and homes.

Petersen’s custom-made furnishings are shipped to every U.S. state and several foreign countries.

They’re found in such famous places as Disney World, Madison Square Garden and Circus Circus in Las Vegas.

Closer to home, Petersen Manufacturing has supplied products for a number of public projects in

President and CEO Chris Petersen, left, and Vice President Mike Siemer are shown with a pair of decorative concrete planters. The Denison, Iowa, company manufacturers concrete products, including security barriers, picnic tables and benches.

Sioux City, including the Trinity Transportation.

Heights Queen of Peace sanctuTo commemorate the 25th anary and, just recently, the Mid niversary of the United Airlines America Museum of Aviation and Flight 232 crash at Sioux Gateway

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Airport, local organizers last month unveiled a new memorial at the museum that features a series of decorative Petersen-made concrete products.

A tall, arched concrete marker identifies the nearby crash site.

Inside the marker is a colorful image, made from powder-coated metal and vinyl, that depicts the DC-9 and its route from Chicago to Denver.

Concrete benches overlooking the closed runway provide a private place to reflect on that day’s events.

Hundreds of Siouxland emergency responders helped save the lives of the 184 passengers who survived.

In a small garden outside the museum are 112 decorative concrete planters to honor each of the passengers who died.

AGRICULTURAL ROOTS The company has been doing business in Sioux City since its earliest days. L.T. Petersen, father of the firm’s current president and CEO, Chris Petersen, founded the company in 1913 in Storm Lake, Iowa,, and then moved it seven years later to nearby Denver, Iowa.

The elder Petersen invented an

Tim Hynds photos, Sioux City Journal

Daniel Harlston, of Denison, Iowa, works on part of a concrete planter July 10 at Petersen Manufacturing in Denison. The company sells its concrete products in all 50 states and some foreign countries.

automatic livestock waterer made of concrete. The waterers were shipped to farms and feedlots throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as major stockyards, including Sioux City’s, once the nation’s largest.

Chris Petersen joined his father and brother in the business in 1963 after a stint in the U.S. Navy, where he played the trombone in the Naval band. In 1975, after his father passed away, Chris took the helm

of the company.

Shortly afterward, sales of the company’s waterers started to dwindle as farmers and ranchers sold off or downsized their herds in the midst of the Farm Crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

To keep the company afloat, Petersen embarked on a strategy to diversify. At the time, the company was making some crude picnic tables and benches with leftover cement they poured.

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Petersen made some improvements to the forms for the tables and benches, and then painted them acorn brown. He took the finished product to an architectural trade show in San Francisco, where they received rave reviews from the convention delegates.

“They said, ‘We need this in the industry. We have to have this,’ “ Petersen recalled.

That spawned a whole new product line for the second-generation family business. Petersen’s daughters, Debra Dassow and Christy Siemer, help manage the office, while Christy’s husband, Mike Siemer, is the vice president and plant manager.

One key to the company’s growth was landing a contract with the General Services Administration, the independent agency that oversees the flow of products and services to U.S. government offices.

As a result, after Sept. 11, Petersen became the go-to supplier of concrete security products for a host of federal entities, from the Department of Homeland Security to the U.S. Marshals Service.

While the company still sells a lot of security barriers, today it makes

products that are more aesthetically-pleasing, Schumacher said.

“We have a lot of different designs that are beautiful,” he said.

Technology has changed the way the company does its work, Petersen said. The concrete forms, which originally were made by hand, are now computer designed and cut with an automated machine.

“It used to take weeks and months to build a form,” Petersen said. “Now, it’s done in days.”

During peak production, Petersen Manufacturing employs about 75 people at its 150,000-squarefoot facility. The company in 1990 moved from downtown to its current site on the southeast edge of Denison, along Highway 30.

For years afterward, the business built a series of additions to help keep pace with its rapidly growing orders.

Sales slowed after the most recent national recession but are steadily bouncing back, Petersen said.

In recent years, the company’s original product line has made a major comeback.

“We sell more cattle waterers now than we ever did,” Petersen said.

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Firm has helped taxpayers file returns for a century Technology has changed how KRP does its work

DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

SIOUX CITY | The 16th Amendment, ratified in February 1913, gave Congress the legal right to levy a tax on incomes. Later that year, on Oct. 3, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Revenue Act of 1913, which established March 1, 1914, as the deadline for filing the first federal income tax returns.

The filing date, later changed to

March 15 and finally April 15, gave the then-Bureau of Internal Revenue just months to prepare for an onslaught of returns. As the deadline drew near, the BIR offices were overwhelmed with inquiries from anxious filers. Taxpayers found the laws confusing. Many discovered they were running out of time to comply.

A young accountant toiling in Minneapolis sensed an opportunity.

In 1914, William Guthrie moved to Sioux City to set up an accounting practice, where he was soon flooded with clients.

Guthrie’s firm gave rise to today’s King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co. LLP, or KRP. The Sioux City-based firm is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

The oldest accounting firm in the region, a well as one of the largest, KRP serves individual and business

clients in several states within a roughly 90-mile radius of Sioux City.

KRP has numerous long-term clients, several of whom date back to the earliest days of the firm. Those clients include: Sand Seed Service of Marcus, Iowa; Simonsen Companies of Quimby, Iowa; Graves Company of Spencer, Iowa; and L&L Builders, Bomgaars Cos. and American Pop Corn Co. of Sioux

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Downtown Sioux City is shown circa 1914, the year that William Guthrie opened an accounting practice in the Frances Building. Guthrie’s firm evolved into today’s King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co., L.L.P., which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

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King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co. LLP HISTORY: Founded in 1914 by William Guthrie in downtown Sioux City OFFICES: Second floor of the Central Bank Building at 522 4th St. CURRENT PARTNERS: Howard Reinsch, Michael Prosser, David Schmit, Leon Jessen, Joseph Mohrhauser, Patricia Blankenship and Kevin Anderson NO. OF EMPLOYEES: 26 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Accounting, audit, bank services, income tax, business consulting, employee benefit plans, estate and gift plans, personal financial plans, estate plans and wealth management.

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City and the Sioux City Country Club.

Howard Reinsch, KRP’s managing partner, said the loyalty shown by clients over the years is a testament to the quality, personalized service the firm provides.

“We try to take client relations to friendship,” said Reinsch, who joined the firm in 1975 and was made partner in 1977.

Michael Prosser, who joined KRP in 1977 and was made partner in 1981, said the firm serves a diverse cross-section of businesses and industries in the tristate area.

In a number of cases, the firm acts as a quasi-controller for smaller companies that do not have their own high-powered financial executives on staff.

“We try to get to the point where clients see us as a partner of their firms – an adviser for everything they need from taxation to accounting,” Prosser said.

The firm offers professional services in accounting, audit, bank services, income tax, business consulting, employee benefit plans, estate and gift plans, personal financial plans, estate plans and wealth management.

KRP’s seven partners are Reinsch, Prosser, David Schmit, Leon Jessen, Joseph Mohrhauser, Patricia Blankenship and Kevin Anderson.

The firm has a total of 26 personnel.

William Guthrie, above, opened an accounting practice in Sioux City in 1914. Guthrie’s firm evolved into what is today King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co., L.L.P. in Sioux City.

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Jim Lee, Business Journal

Howard Reinsch, managing partner of King, Reinsch, Prosser and Co., L.L.P., or KRP, is shown in the firm’s downtown Sioux City offices. KRP, which traces its roots to 1914, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

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For the past d o z e n yea rs, KRP’s offices have been on the second floor of the Central Bank Building Schmit at 522 4th St. The firm has experienced a number of relocations and name changes throughout its history.

The first offices for William Guthrie & Co. in 1914 were in the Frances Building, a downtown Sioux City office building

at Sixth and Pierce streets.

Guthrie, born in Dennistown, Scotland, became a chartered accountant there and was admitted to the International Association of Accountants in 1908, according to historical records. He then immigrated to the Gold Coast of West Africa, where he worked as a mining accountant for two years.

In 1911, he immigrated to the U.S. to work for an accounting firm in Minneapolis.

In Sioux City, his firm had seven accountants on staff, according to historical records. He was a charter member of the Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants in 1915.

In 1920, he became a member of the Iowa State Board of Public Accountancy and chaired the board until 1926.

After Guthrie retired in 1931, Louis H. Keightley took over the firm. Keightley was also appointed by Iowa’s governor to the state Board of Accountancy in 1935.

The firm was known as L.H. Keightley & Co. from 1931 to 1944. Through additions and retirements of partners and various mergers and acquisitions, the firm operated under the following names. l Keightley, Pederson & Palmer, 1944-1947 l Keightley & Pederson, 19471965 l Pederson & Co., 1965-1969 l Peterson, Roeper & King, 1969-1974 l Peterson, King & Co., 19741985 l King, Reinsch, Prosser & Co., L.L.P., 1985 – Present Over the years, the federal tax code steadily grew more complex, and federal regulations multiplied.

In 1913, the federal income tax started as four pages of forms and instructions, according to the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.based think tank.

By 2012, the tax code had mushroomed to more than

70,000 pages that influence virtually every decision individuals or businesses make. The Internal Revenue Service’s power and influence also has continued to expand.

“The tax laws have become extraordinarily complex to comply with,” Reinsch said.

The passage of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led to a whole new set of tax and regulation implications for individuals and businesses, Reinsch said.

Rapid advances in technology also have dramatically changed the way accounting firms like KRP do their job.

When Prosser and Reinsch first joined the firm, accountants were still crunching numbers on adding machines with tape, and filling out tax returns manually.

Nowadays, tax returns are routinely prepared with computer software and filed electronically, a far cry from William Guthrie’s day.

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Hard Rock has neighbors that rock EARL HORLYK

Business Journal staff writer‌

SIOUX CITY | Forget about memorabilia like Michael Jackson’s dancing shoes or a 1980s era outfit from Mick Jagger. The weirdest thing about the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino may be its neighbors to the north.

Along Fourth Street between Pearl and Water and across the street from the Hard Rock are an eclectic assortment of businesses that includes a sausage shop, a church-inspired bar and a tattoo parlor with an electric chair in its front window.

The electric chair is the creation of Carlie Long, coowner of the Electric Chair Tattoo Company, who is equally as adept at creating fine art as he is at creating tattoo art.

“I know this is going to sound strange but the business’ name came to me in a dream,” Long said inside a

Hard Rock neighbors Electric Chair Tattoo Company, 207 Fourth St. Richardson’s Southern Style Sausages, 213 Fourth St. Work & Church Booze Parlor, 215 Fourth St.

shop located at 207 Fourth St. “Having an electric chair in our front window is a great way to attract people into the store.”

Among other things, the Electric Chair Tattoo Company sells T-shirts, jewelry, sunglasses and tattoo accessories.

Yet for Long, ink’s the thing in his small shop.

A veteran tattoo artist, he specializes in ink, both tranquil and terrifying.

“My all-time favorite tattoo was one that looked like (actor) Heath Ledger as ‘The

Joker,’” Long said. “But I’ve also done Jack Nicholson in ‘The Shining’ as well as Frankenstein’s monster.”

While Long creates permanent art, his neighbor to the east makes his money through meat.

A mainstay at 213 Fourth St., Richardson’s Southern Style Sausage is best known for its brats, patties, links and ground sausage, according to owner Terry Richardson.

“I began making sausages at a shop at the KD Station nearly 20 years ago,” he said inside his tiny storefront. “I moved over here more than eight years ago.”

Richardson said his new prime location across the street from Hard Rock will mean increased visibility and, in time, more business.

“I’m not seeing it yet,” he said confidently. “But I’m sure it will come.”

On the other hand, Work & Church Booze Parlor (215

Fourth St.) has already seen business from customers of both the Hard Rock as well as the nearby Tyson Events Center.

Opened mere days before Hard Rock, Work & Church was the result of a partnership between newcomer Chad Ferris and veteran bar owner Mac Dolan.

“On nights when there’s a big show at Hard Rock, we’re swamped,” Dolan explained.

“As soon as a show lets out, people will come over here.”

Dolan, the longtime owner of Mac Behrs, said the crowds at Work & Church are quite different from the ones he had at his opposite-end-ofFourth-Street bar.

“It depends on who’s playing at Hard Rock but we see older customers earlier in the evening and younger people as the night progresses,” he noted. “we get a very good mix and a fun vibe.”

Although he opens from 6

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A muralist as well as a tattoo artist, Electric Chair Tattoo Company’s Carlie Long poses by one of his original art pieces inside his 207 Fourth Street store.

a.m. until 2 a.m., Dolan said early morning imbibers are more likely to be Hard Rock employees and other third shift workers than brighteyed gamblers.

But, um ... why is there a church motif in what looks like a typical sports bar?

“It came from an expression my dad always used,” Dolan said. “People would dad what he’s been up to?

And he say, work and church,

work and church. I’ve always wanted a bar called Work & Church because it reminded me of my dad.”

Although Electric Chair Tattoo Company’s Long hasn’t seen any halo effect from Hard Rock customers, he has a few tricks up his sleeve to draw in traffic.

“I’d love to get an actual person to sit on my electric chair and scare people on Halloween!” he suggested.

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Putting ergonomic principles into practice at computer workstations means less pain How many of you would like more energy throughout your workday? How about less joint stiffness or pain in your lower back, neck, shoulders, wrists or knees?

If you answered yes to these questions, stay tuned because this article will empower you, your co-workers, and family how to set up a computer workstation following WorkingSmart ergonomic principles. At the same time, this article will help you stay away from the most common mistakes leading to many of the signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.

Workers who received an ergonomic adjustable chair and office ergonomics training had significantly reduced musculoskeletal pain and discomfort over the workday and improved productivity compared with workers who received only ergonomics training. What this research means for you?

When you put the principles for computer workstation and laptop ergonomics

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instructed in this article into action, you will improve your daily energy level and reduce muscle and joint stiffness and pain.

Key WorkSmart Ergonomic Principles for Computer Workstations: • Keep feet flat on the floor and keep your sitting posture upright and hips square for most of the workday, instead of crossing your legs, sitting on your feet, pulling your legs back underneath your chair or slouching with your knees and hips spread wide apart.

• Make sure you know how to adjust all parts of your chair. The backrest height and angle and seat pan angle should vary between neutral and slightly tipped forward.

Have it adjusted correctly

(hips slightly higher than knees) and vary this slightly throughout the day for posture variety. Slightly tipped forward to neutral is best for your body.

• Use upper extremity weight bearing support when typing or using the mouse. Use the tabletop, keyboard tray or armrests of your chair to accomplish this WorkSmart posture.

• Know how to properly adjust your keyboard tray.

It should be positioned in neutral to slightly tip away from you, helping to keep your wrists in a more neutral WorkSmart posture. This reduces awkward postures to your wrists and forearms when using your mouse or typing.

• Keep elbows close to

your sides when typing or using the mouse. It is highly recommended to use an external mouse when using a laptop and not using your fingertips (pinch postures) for prolonged periods of time or greater than two to four hours per day.

• Have your monitor directly in front of you and the top line of your monitor at or just below eye level and approximately one armslength away from your body.

You will need to have your monitor much lower and likely closer if you use bi or tri-focals to avoid the awkward posture habit of having to frequently extend and flex your head.

• Have you monitor angle tipped slightly back away from you as this makes it easier to read and less stressful to your eyes • Use a document holder to avoid awkward trunk or lower back, neck, and shoulder postures.

• Avoid awkward “pinching” postures (flexed thumb and pinky with extended fingers and wrist) to operate

your mouse. WorkSmart and allow your whole hand to rest over the top of your mouse. Make sure mouse is correct size for your hand.

• When texting, WorkSmarter and use both hands and thumbs instead of holding phone with only hand and thumb. This will greatly reduce muscle fatigue and MSD risks to your elbows, wrists, and thumbs.

• Use a two to three inch three ring binder with your work propped back towards you to keep your body more upright and in a better posture when working. You also need to take more frequent breaks, every 30 to 60 minutes, when using a laptop to stretch, walk around, and breathe. Perform one to three WorkSmart stretches to reduce stiffness and pain, improve energy level and improve quality of life.

• If you use a laptop for most of your computer work, I highly recommend purchasing a monitor riser and an external keyboard and mouse along with a document holder to keep

your paperwork between your keyboard and monitor.

• Avoid propping the phone between your neck and shoulder. This is a key contributor to headaches, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand pain. Use the speaker phone, purchase a headset or use a hands free device for cell phone.

When using a Sit to Stand Workstation, I recommend spending at least five to 15 minutes standing for every hour of work you perform daily. Slowly work to increase your duration of standing every couple weeks, until you find the best ratio of sitting to standing variability throughout each workday. This will greatly improve your heart health, energy level and quality of life!

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BusinessPeople Leadership Siouxland names officers, board SIOUX CITY | Leadership Siouxland announces its 2014-2015 board of directors: Officers include: P re s i d e n t , T o n y a Va k u l s kas, United Real Estate Vakulskas So l u t i o n s ; Curriculum Chair, Brenda Noll-Norvell, Eckerd; Secretary, April Mahr, Prime Bank; Treasurer, Brad Thelander, Tyson Fresh Meats, 185th Air Refueling Wing; Immediate Past President, Kathy Perret, Northwest Area Education Agency; and Executive Director, Amanda Beller.

Additional Board members include: Linnea Fletcher, Jackson Recovery; Carrie Radloff, City of Sioux

Richard S i tz m a n n as the 2014 recipient of the Dr. George G. Spellman Annual Ser- Sitzmann vice Award.

Father Sitzmann was nominated by several physicians and former colleagues at Mercy Medical Center.

The Foundation established the award in 2002 to recognize those who not only exemplify the values of Mercy but those whose actions contribute to the betterment of the community.

The award will be presented to Sitzmann at the Foundation’s Fall Gala on Nov. 1 at the Marina Inn in South Mercy honors retired Sioux City. The 2014 Gala will be chaired by Mike and hospital chaplain Julie Maas of Dakota Dunes.

SIOUX CITY | The Mercy A native of the rural HinMedical Center Founda- ton area, Sitzmann was ortion has chosen The Rev. dained as a priest on May City-Environmental Advisory Board; Angie Schneiderman, Bernstein and Moore Law Firm; Shawn Fick, Western Iowa Tech Community College; Joe Maffit, Jackson Recovery; Charlotte Nelson, Goodwill of the Plains), and Alex Watters (Morningside College).

Leadership Siouxland is a nine month program with monthly sessions focusing on different aspects of Siouxland. Any local business or organization may register employees to participate in the program.

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26, 1962, at the Cathedral of Epiphany in Sioux City.

After 21 years of service, Sitzmann retired as the chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in 2013, with residence at St. Boniface Parish of Sioux City.

Sitzmann had 30 years of service at a number of Catholic parishes and schools in Northwest Iowa.

Downtown Partners names new board SIOUX CITY | Downtown Partners announces the election of new officers for 2014-15 and the addition of three new board of directors.

New off i c e rs a re President Daby Darin Daby, U.S. Bank and Downtown market rate condo owner;

Vice President Ryan Ross, Vriezelaar, Tigges, Edgington, Bottaro, Boden & Ross, LLP; Treasurer Mark Hinds, Hinds and Associates, PLLC. New board members elected to serve threeyear terms include: Frank Forneris, Mercy Medical Center and Todd Moyer, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City.

Elected to serve a second, three-year term is Ben Knoepfler, Knoepfler Chevrolet.

They join continuing board members: Ryan Avery, Avery Brothers; Daby; Terry Glade, Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates; Annette Hamilton, Ho-Chunk, Inc.; Hinds; Larry Jensen, Holiday Inn Downtown; Dan Moore, City Council representative; Keith Radig, City Council representative; Ross; Sam Wagner, Siouxland

Chamber of Commerce staff representative); and Anne Westra, Sioux City Economic Development Department staff representative.

Red Cross chapter announces board S I OUX C I T Y | T h e Siouxland Chapter of the American Red Cross has added three new members to its board of directors.

They include: Kelli Tuttle, Sioux City Community School District – Sioux City, IA Peggy La, Hong Kong Supermarket – Sioux City, IA David Welch, Midwest Pain Clinic – Dakota Dunes, SD They join the following continuing board members: John Wockenfuss, J & L Enterprises, Inc., who will serve a two-year term as board chairman.

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BusinessPeople M i k e Ko o i s t ra , past chair, Wells Enterprises L a r r y C h r i s t e n s e n , Wockenfuss 185th Air Refueling Wing David Harris, 5 Star Monuments & Memorials Brad Newton, Arthur J. Gallagher Matt Robins, Mercy Medical Center – Sioux City Dale Seguin, Great West Casualty Co. Joe Strub, Primebank Breezy Struthers Drake, Modern Kitchen Design

Boys and Girls Home names honorary chairs SIOUX CITY | Steve and Linda Stouffer served as honorary chairs for Boys and Girls Home and Family Services Inc.’s 15th annual fundraising event, “Tailgating for Our Kids” on Sept. 19.

The designation is a tradition established to recognize outstanding individuals in the community who have illustrated incredible commitment and generosity through both volunteer efforts and support.

The Stouffers’ involvement with the Boys and Girls Home began nearly twenty years ago when Steve was asked to serve as a board member for the agency’s Nebraska Board.

Both have remained active; serving in leadership roles for several of the agency’s boards, volunteering for committee work, donating countless hours of volunteer service including providing food stuffs, organizing agency supplies, fulfilling agency wish lists, and providing hours of musical entertainment for adolescents in the agency’s Residential Treatment Program.

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Steve and Linda Stouffer are the honorary co-chairs of the Boys and Girls Home and Family Services Inc.’s 15th annual fundraising event, “Tailgating for Our Kids” on Sept. 19.

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They’ve raised two children, Adam (Jessie) Stouffer and Emily (Chad) Bosse, who are all currently residing in the area.

Billing recertified as specialist fellow SIOUX CITY | Richard L. Billings, president of Billings and C o m p a n y, Inc., has been recertified as a fellow of the International Society of Billings Certified Employee Benefits Specialist.

Fellowship is awarded for a two-year period to those holding the CEBS designation who pass a national administered continuing examination. The exam curriculum is jointly administered by the society and the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania.

Billings is also a Certified

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Financial advisor earns distinction DAKOTA DUNES | Steven Ballard, financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial in Dakota D u n e s, qualified for and attended the 2014 Ballard National Conference, which was held recently in Boston.

Only a select number of high-performing advisors earn this distinction, achieved by consistently demonstrating exceptional commitment to financial planning and superior client service.

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Guaranteed Rate staff are shown cutting the ribbon for the company’s new branch office in Sioux City on Aug. 27. Pictured are Roxanne Bobolz and Mark Roos, vice presidents of mortgage lending and Laurie Beardsley, loan closer. Founded in 2000, the Chicago-based Guaranteed Rate has grown into one of the 10 largest retail mortgage companies in the United States.

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Waterbury Funeral Service of Sioux City owners Roger and Saundra Waterbury are shown Sept. 9 cutting the ribbon for their new Sioux City funeral home at 4125 Orleans Ave. Also shown are staff members Dana Goodell, Julie Lamoureux and Mary Lou Waterbury. Janet Kellogg is not pictured. The Waterburys also operate a funeral home in Sergeant Bluff.

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Officials with Mod House Interiors cut the ribbon on Sept. 9 for the newly opened modern furniture and home store at 255 Fifth St. in the Historical Pearl District. From left are: Allie Norby (visual merchandiser), Katie Knudsen (interior designer), Lisa Kalaher (owner), and Donna Behrens (store manager). The store is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday and by appointment Monday.

Loess Hills Elementary School students cut the ribbon on Aug. 20 to celebrate the opening of the new Sioux City school. Paul Gausman, superintendent of schools, and several school board members were in attendance. All students received a free Loess Hills School T-shirt provided by the school business partnership, Morningside Assembly of God, with help from Kim and Russ Wauhab.

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An apple – and pumpkin – a day can keep the doctor away

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Eating seasonally and locally is a great concept and apples to pumpkins are a great way to start. Seasonal local foods are fresher, tend to be tastier and more nutritious, and what a great way to support the local economy.

Interesting apple facts Apples started getting popular during the 18th century. John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, planted apple orchards across 10,000 square miles of North America.

Maria Smith cultivated the first Granny Smith apple in her garden.

The game bobbing for apples began as a Celtic New Year’s tradition for trying to determine one’s future spouse.

There are over 7,000 named varieties of apples.

Apples are a member of the rose family.

The typical mouthful of American food travels 1,200 miles from farmer to consumer.

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great source of fiber and pectin, and fair source of Vitamin C and A. Buying and storage: Choose apples with undamaged skins. Apples continue to ripen after picked. Store in refrigerator.

Fun pumpkin facts: Don’t over look the Jack O’ Lanterns as a good source of nutrition. Pumpkins are high in fiber, potassium, and Vitamin A. Pumpkin seeds are a good source of omega-3 fats. When selecting a pumpkin to eat, look for “pie pumpkin” or “sweet pumpkin” which are sweeter and less watery than jack-o’lantern pumpkins.

The heaviest pumpkin weighed in at 1,469 pounds.

Pumpkin comes from the Greek word “pepon,” meaning big melon.

There are two categories of pumpkins: canning and carving.

Pilgrims served the pumpkin with the heads and seeds removed and filled the cavity with milk, honey, and spices and baked until tender.

Canned pumpkin is very easy to use anytime during the year.

Pumpkins are the most famous of the winter squash family.

Try pumpkin muffins, pumpkin ravioli or pumpkin soup.

Roast seeds by first rinsing well, spread on cookie sheet, roast at 375 for 30 minutes, cool and servesprinkle with salt if desired.

The pumpkin capital of the world is Morton, Ill., where Libby’s pumpkin processing plant is located.

Pumpkin colors can also come in white, blue and red.

Fall is peak harvest season in Iowa for apples and pumpkins. Pack the family and head to a nearby orchard or pumpkin patch. Not only will you enjoy the fruits of your labor but you and your family are sure to have a great day!

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At the Palmer Candy Company we’ve been “Making Life Sweeter Since 1878.” Believe it or not, the Siouxland Chamber has been around even longer than we have! For over 140 years, the Chamber has been working to help businesses grow and thrive.

All Siouxland businesses should join the Chamber to help ensure their own growth and longevity.

I’m Marty Palmer, President of the Palmer Candy Company, and the Siouxland Chamber is making a positive difference in our community each and every day.

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TSI Report: About 700 indirect jobs FROM PAGE 6 on this project. So what does$1,700,000,000 divided by 1,095 equal? Just over $1.5 million a day!

That’s right, CF is investing an average of just north of $1.5 million a day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, for three years, in their Port Neal facility.

In addition to investing an astounding amount of capital, this project will also require thousands of workers to construct the state-of-the-art nitrogen fertilizer plant, which includes production, storage and transportation facilities. Performance Contractors, Inc., of Baton Rouge, La., which has been retained by CF to serve as the general contractor for the project, initially anticipated hiring approximately 1,500 workers to complete the expansion. Revised estimates now forecast that they will need as many as 2,000 workers to get the job done.

The impact of this infusion of both capital and personnel is inestimable, but suffice it to say that the growing demand for housing, which is driving up residential property values, is going to be with us for quite some time. With less than 1,000 of the required personnel now on site, and 300 electrical and instrument workers still needed, the employment impact will double before it reaches its peak and subsequently subsides.

While many of these workers will come from right here in Siouxland, there is no doubt that others will continue to come from outside the area, but that too is good news because these visitors are living and working in Siouxland and contributing significantly to our local economy.

Additionally, CF is more

than doubling their preproject workforce, growing from 110 to approximately 240 employees on their direct payroll. According to the CF press release dated Nov. 1, 2012 and distributed on the occasion of the project announcement, these jobs will have “an average starting salary of $55,000 increasing to $85,000 per year when employees become fully certified.”

Furthermore, it is worth noting that the same CF release estimated that the Port Neal expansion would create “approximately 700 indirect jobs” or jobs that are, in fact, permanent positions, and support the plant, but are not directly on CF’s payroll.

While touring the massive construction project, which will more than triple the nitrogen capacity of the complex and increase the footprint from 110 acres to 435 acres, we counted no less than 20 Siouxland contractors and vendors providing equipment and/ or services on site. By noting the company names painted on their trucks and/or equipment, we observed local firms that are providing everything from concrete and rebar to wheelbarrows and portable toilets; local people, local trucks, local rental equipment and much, much more. The fact that so many Siouxland companies and regional personnel are involved, coupled with the fact that much of the $1.5 million daily average expenditure is being spent right here at home, is news worth celebrating.

As approximately a dozen cranes dot the morning skyline at Port Neal, DeRoos summarizes a few of the project’s milestones.

He explains that barges are coming up the Missouri River to Sioux City for the

first time in over a decade and underscores that there are still a dozen or so barge loads to be delivered. The largest concrete pour in Iowa history has now been completed at CF’s Port Neal expansion. One of the biggest granular urea warehouses in North America, greater than six football fields under one roof, is now under construction at the site. Perhaps most importantly, the project has completed over 1 million man-hours of work without a single OSHA recordable injury.

With well over a year of construction remaining, other companies are also investing in the Port Neal area as a direct result of this project. For example, MidAmerican Energy is nearing completion of a new electrical substation that will provide 45 to 50 megawatts of electricity to power the CF expansion.

Finally, the tax revenue that will be generated by this project will flood into our public sector coffers to the tune of millions and millions of dollars each year to support local priorities like education, economic development, investment in infrastructure, tax relief, etc., and this will occur for the next several decades.

CF’s local expansion at Port Neal is creating good jobs, putting local contractors and companies to work, and generating major capital investment. This is incredibly good news for our community, and with the lion’s share of the project still ahead of us, we are only beginning to feel the extraordinarily positive impact it will have on the entire Siouxland region for many, many years to come.

Chris McGowan is the president of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce and The Siouxland Initiative.

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Computerized Random Selection

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Random Pool Consortiums

For more information, call Mike Schmidt 712-490-3352.

The point of unity is you.

unitypoint.org/occmed

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3915 Floyd Blvd

1658 & 1660 Riverside Blvd.

CongRATS Lot 8, Sioux Point Rd., North Sioux City

MBA, CCIM

President

Congratulations to River Valley, LLP on the sale of this property to River Valley Apartments, LLC which will be building new apartments.

This transaction was brokered by Dick Salem.

Vice President

CCIM

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2,781 s/f of retail space w/ high ceilings, storefront glass, parking at the door and sees 7,400 VPD. new furnace and A/C capacitors in 2014.

2 warehouse bldgs (7,500 s/f insulated & 12,220 noninsulated) sitting on over 5 acres of land. Discrete location just off Riverside Blvd.

nEW

REDuCED

REDuCED

1918 Pierce Street

401 W 29th St, South Sioux City

Colonel Krage

712-251-1451

nathan Connelly

712-203-1620

Tune into KSCJ 1360 Talk Radio Saturday mornings from 8:10 to 8:30 a.m. to hear interviews with the “movers & shakers” of Siouxland or go to www.kscj.com for streaming live broadcast.

302 1/2 1st Street, Sgt. Bluff 1,410 sf nice retail space adjacent to Sgt. Bluff C-Store. open floor plan. good signage & parking at the door. Attractive lease rate.

Internal retail/office in older neighborhood strip w/ mixed use - coffee shop, beauty salon, laundromat, etc. Presently a barber shop, nicely decorated with open area & 4 stations

3206 Singing Hills Blvd

700 4th St., Ste 204

14,227 sf strip center now has space available. 1,441 sf.

Anchored by Taco John’s and AT&T.

Former optical clinic has 3,026 sf space on skywalk level of the Stifel nicolaus bldg w/access to new Heritage parking ramp.

Private restrooms & lots of plumbing in exam rooms.

Standalone retail building w/parking at door. Former Carousel of Flowers is newly painted w/new dropped ceiling & ready to move in. Rear storage has overhead door.

5500 Sergeant Road Ideal site for restaurant or office.

Just downhill from & directly connected to “restaurant row” in Lakeport Commons.

302 Jones, suIte 100, sIoux CIty

1411 - 15 Jackson PRICE REDuCED!! Las Aguilas consists of grocery store, restaurant, clothing store, C-Store, money wiring, wireless & rentals.

Price consists of the business, real estate, inventory, fixtures & signs.

522 14th Street nEWLY REMoDELED. 4,190 sf space can be split into 1,750 & 2,440 sf or combined. Very nice 2nd floor office space with off-street parking, center city location and a great lease price.

712-224-2727