Siouxland Business Journal - December 2014

Vol. 23 No. 12 PO Box 118, Sioux City, Iowa 51102

December 2014 Made in Siouxland Entrepreneurs issue

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INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE: Food processing prowess cited PAGE 13

Veteran hiring initiative promoted PAGE 4

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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 Chamber anniversaries .................................. page 23

On the move ......................................................page 11

Chamber investors.......................................... page 23

Ribbon cuttings ..........................................page 16-20

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Study: Pipeline to give big economic jolt to Iowa, S.D. $3.8B project would cut though Siouxland DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

If you go The Iowa Utility Board will hold a series of public meetings to seek input on the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. Below is a schedule of meetings in Northwest Iowa.

DEC. 1 1 p.m. at the Inwood Community Center, 103 S. Main St., Inwood 6 p.m. at the Terrace View Event Center, 230 St. Andrews Way, Sioux Center DEC. 2 9 a.m. at the Sheldon Community Services Center, 416 Ninth St., Sheldon 3 p.m. at the Cherokee Community Center, 530 W. Bluff St., Cherokee DEC. 3 9 a.m. at Buena Vista University Anderson Auditorium, 610 W. Fourth St., Storm Lake DEC. 15 1 p.m. at the Sac Community Center, 1015 W. Main St., Sac City 6 p.m. at the Calhoun County Expo Center, 322 High St., Rockwell City

SIOUX CITY | A Texas company would spend $1.1 billion and $820 million in Iowa and South Dakota, respectively, to build a crude oil pipeline across the two states, according to a new analysis of the project.

Energy Transfer Partners has asked state regulators in four states for permission to construct a 1,134-mile pipeline to move 570,000 barrels of crude daily from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to a major shipping depot in Patoka, Ill. In the four states, total project costs for the Dakota Access Pipeline are estimated at $3.8 billion. More than 32,700 construction workers would be hired at average annual salaries of $57,000.

In Iowa, the construction would keep 7,600 workers busy for a year, while in South Dakota, 7,100 workers would be on the payroll during that time.

Energy Transfer, based in Dallas, Texas, has pledged to hire at least half of the Iowa would reap $628 million in direct prepared for the company by Strategic construction workers from within the the skilled laborers, which would include economic benefits from the construction Economics Group of West Des Moines. states. The company also has reached an welders, pipe fitters, electricians, me- expenditures, while South Dakota would agreement with local unions to provide chanics and heavy equipment operators. rake in $486 million, according to a report PIPELINE, PAGE 15

Sioux City employers sought for veterans initiative DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

SIOUX CITY | A coalition of groups have banded together to recruit more employers for a state program that seeks to find private-sector jobs for military veterans.

Local leaders launched a campaign to certify Sioux City as one of the first Home Base Iowa communities.

To be eligible for the designation, at least 10 percent of the local businesses in a city, county or region must sign up. In Sioux City, the minimum number is 175.

So far, about 40 local employers have enrolled.

Mayor Bob Scott encouraged more businesses to sign up.

“Sioux City is a community that has long respected the sacrifice and commitment of the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces and this is one way that we can demonstrate our gratitude and

Airman 1st Class Hanna Henson, left, and Airman 1st Class Quinton Robinson, members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard, work to repair a light on a KC-135 tanker on May 7. A coalition of local groups are encouraging more employers to sign up for Home Base Iowa, a new state program that seeks to attract returning veterans to fill civilian jobs.

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appreciation,” Scott said.

The city, the Siouxland Chamber, The Siouxland Initiative, the 185th Air Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard, and Iowa Workforce Development are collaborating on the Home Scott Base Iowa initiative.

At a news conference on Veterans Day, a parade of speakers representing the partners promoted Home Base Iowa, a privatepublic partnership that aims to make the state a top destination for the tens of

Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal file

thousands of job-seeking veterans who will be discharged from active duty over the next several years.

“The Home Base Iowa program was designed to help the state of Iowa recognize how important our Durham veterans are to us,” Iowa Economic Development Director Debi Durham said. “It was created to welcome

our veterans back to Iowa, but it was specifically designed by the governor to invite veterans who are not Iowans to consider relocating to our great state, as well.”

Durham led the Siouxland Chamber from 1995 to 2011. Her precedessor, Siouxland Chamber President Chris McGowan said the organization is encouraging its more than 1,000 members to become involved

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$11.4M in upgrades planned for Interbake Foods plant Investment to result in higher pay for some employees

Cookies are made at Interbake Foods in North Sioux City in 2006.

The company recently announced it will invest $11.4 million in new equipment to increase plant efficiency.

DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

NORTH SIOUX CITY | Interbake Foods will invest $11.4 million to upgrade equipment at its North Sioux City factory, it was announced.

“Not only will the company be upgrading existing equipment and adding new machinery to retain its competitive edge, but a number of existing employees will also be elevated into higherpaying operator positions to run the new equipment,” said Gov. Dennis Daugaard, in a statement.

The plant, which Daugaard makes Girl Scout cookies and other baked goods, will continue to employ about 500.

About 24 operator positions will be upgraded once the equipment is

Jim Lee, Sioux City Journal file

installed, Interbake President Kevin McDonough said in a statement.

McDonough said funding from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development was a key factor in the company’s decision to make the capital investment in southeast South Dakota.

The state’s Board of Economic Development approved an undisclosed Reinvestment Payment for the project Wednesday.

Interbake Foods, through its ABC Bakers division, is the 10th company

approved for the reinvestment program.

Interbake is one of North Sioux City’s largest employers.

“This is a significant investment for the company, our com- Menken munity and our state,” said North Sioux City Economic Development Director Kory Menken. “We look forward to Interbake’s continued growth, and our ongoing partnership.”

More investments on the way The Interbake Foods expansion is part of $20 million in capital investments scheduled to be completed in North Sioux City over the next several months.

Goodwill of the Great Plains has begun renovations to a structure it recently acquired at 745 North Derby Lane, said Kory Menken, executive director of the North Sioux City Economic Development Corp.

The building will serve as a consolidated central warehouse/distribution center for the organization, Menken said. The company’s capital investment is about $700,000, he said.

The Sioux City-based Goodwill serves the largest territory of any Goodwill in the United States, from Mason City, Iowa, to the east; Rapid City, S.D. to the west; Norfolk, Neb., to the south, and parts of southwestern Minnesota to the north.

Also in North Sioux City, construction also has begun on Consumers’ Supply’s $8 million facility at 718 North Derby Lane, on land between Interbake and Royal Canin USA. The expansion is expected to create 20 new jobs.

The 30,000-square-foot facility will produce bagged pelleted or texturized feeds in half of the facility and vitamin premixes in the other half.

The project was announced this summer. The company originally planned to build in the city’s Flynn Business Park, but it was determined the North Derby Lane site better suited its needs, Menken said.

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Five common myths of hand washing How many times a day do you wash your hands and are you doing it correctly?

Think again. A 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Health showed that only 5 percent of people properly wash their hands on a daily basis.

Cintas Corporation and Henry the Hand Foundation have teamed up to dispel the five most common hand washing myths.

Keeping hands clean is one of the most important ways to avoid getting sick and spreading germs. Researchers at the NIH found that people touch their faces on average 3.6 times per hour. So hand washing is the answer. Test your knowledge about the best way to clean your hands.

1. It doesn’t matter how long I wash my

hands as long as I use soap—False The next time you are in the restroom and washing your hands, think of the chorus of your favorite song. Studies show that you should scrub your hands with soap a minimum of 15 to 30 seconds in order to effectively remove germs.

2. Hand sanitizers can replace washing your hands with soap and waDEB TWYFORD ter—False Washing hands with soap and water is the best and most effective way to reduce the number of microbes and germs on hands.

Although alcohol-based (at least 60 percent) hand sanitizers can quickly reduce the number of germs on hands in some situations, they are not as effective as soap and

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water when it comes to removing and inactivating dangerous gastrointestinal illnesscausing germs.

3. The hotter the water you use for hand washing, the better—False Studies show that water temperature does not affect germ removal. In fact, there is no research to prove that higher temperatures improve hand washing at all. Hotter water can also dry out skin, which leaves your skin more susceptible to germs and can make hand washing painful. It is best to wash your hands with the temperature that you find comfortable.

4. You don’t have to dry your hands after washing them—False Studies show that germs can be more easily transferred to and from wet hands, which is why drying hands is essential to staving off bacteria after hand washing.

5. Hand dryers are more hygienic that

paper towels—False Researchers found that paper towels are superior to air dryers and can help remove bacteria, unlike air dryers, which can increase bacteria counts. Because air dryers have been shown to spread bacteria between three and six feet from the device, paper towels are also far less likely to contaminate other restroom users.

Source: health-e-headlines November 2014 Hopefully you will stay healthy and happy during the cold and flu season this winter. Please keep in mind the importance of hand washing to protect yourself from unwanted germs.

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Study: Local hospitals deliver $31M in benefits million in charity care as well as $2.2 million in subsidized health and community services.

Mercy reported $5.8 million in charity care in addition to $7.6 million in subsidized health and community Wold services. “ S t .

Luke’s mission remains steadfast: to improve the health of the people and t h e c o m - FitzPatrick munities we serve. Through community benefit, we are able to provide vital programs and services that benefit our overall health. We are privileged to enhance life in the area with Siouxland’s

support now and into the future,” said Lynn Wold, interim president and COO of UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s.

“For almost 125 years Mercy has served Sioux City and the surrounding Siouxland communities with high quality healthcare”, said Jim FitzPatrick, CEO of Mercy Medical Center.

“Our mission of improving the quality of life of all we touch including the poor or the underserved and underinsured is as strong and focused than ever. We are collaborative in our approach and strategic in order to make as big a positive impact as we possibility can.”

Focused on improving health, community benefits address the healthrelated needs of Siouxland and improve access to health resources.

Journal file photo by Jerry Menenga

Mercy Medical Center is shown in downtown Sioux City in an undated photo. Mercy contributed $17.8 million in benefits to the community in 2013, according to a new report.

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Sunnybrook facility is shown Nov. 18, 2013.

UnityPoint contributed $13.2 million in community benefits in 2013, according to a new report.

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by Iowa Hospital Association (IHA).

The IHA report shows that Iowa hospitals provided community benefits in 2013 valued at nearly $1.6 billion. Community benefits include such services and programs as health screenings, support groups, immunizations, nutritional services and transportation programs.

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Transform your companies’ musculoskeletal well being Did you know that according to the Oct. 17 Gallup-Healthways “Well-Being Index” 86 percent of full-time US workers are now overweight or obese and have had recurring physical pain in their back, neck, knee, or leg in the last 12 months.

They also have at least one other chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, high blood cholesterol, asthma, or depression which leads to an estimated lost productivity cost of $153 billion annually! These employees miss an estimated 450 million additional days of work each year compared to healthy workers with a BMI less than 25, without a chronic disease and without physical complaints of pain.

The time is now, to take a holistic approach to the well-being, ergonomics and injury prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Chronic musculoskeletal pain, disability, obesity and chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer are largely preventable and reversible by transforming and improving our daily lifestyle habits at work, home, rest and play.

Take the first step to better health and vitality today by choosing to drink 40 or more ounces of water daily and slowing working towards half of your body weight in ounces.

The benefits include a reduction in high blood pressure, heart attack ERIK NIEUWENHUIS and stroke by 40 to 60 percent. Water also lubricates your joints, thus reducing osteoarthritis or joint stiffness and pain, the number one cause of disability in the United States. Water will also boost your energy level throughout the day and makes every cell in your body work and function more efficiently.

Occupational health problems of the modern workplace are complex and come with costs but employers should not be discouraged about tackling them. If they are willing to take a comprehensive, multifaceted approach, they can make significant improvements.

UnityPoint Health- St. Luke’s, a 160-bed regional medical center with 1,300 employees, implemented the IMPACC—the Industrial Athlete “WorkSmart” Ergonomics

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Reduction in days away from work claims (or lost time) by 80 percent and an 87 percent reduction in restricted duty claims and days. This past year we had days away from work and restricted duty DART rate of 1.3 which is outstanding for those in the health care field. Health care has the highest incidence rate for MSD injuries, more than any other industry.

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OnTheMove Agency hires web designer SIOUX CITY | JD Gordon Creative Labs of Sioux City recently hired Jess Anderson as a new Web Designer/ D e ve l o p e r where he will work on creating innova- Anderson tive websites for new and existing clients.

Anderson graduated from Morningside College in May 2014, where he received a bachelor of arts in graphic design with a minor in advertising.

Prior to graduation, he worked at Whitespace Creative as a graphic designer and also held an intern position there. He served as visual editor of Kiosk, an art and literary magazine at Morningside, and

was President of the AIGA degree and helps out with the Morningside Chapter from basketball program at West 2012-2014.

High School.

Andria Sivill joined the South Sioux insurance agency in February and received her personal and comagency adds agents mercial license in March. She SOUTH SIOUX CITY | has worked in sales for sevNortheast Nebraska Insur- eral years. ance Agency has added two Sivill lives in South Sioux agents in its South Sioux City City with her husband and office. daughter.

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serving in a dual role with our business office working with insurance billing.

She has nearly two years of office experience and translation in the medical field at the Crittenton Center and, most recently, Plains Area Mental Health.

Anguiano Garcia is currently working on her associate’s degree in general studies as she pursues her goal in social work.

She and her husband, Jesus Garcia, and two children live in Le Mars.

Catholic Charities names director SIOUX CITY | The Diocese of Sioux City recently named Amy Bloch the new executive director Bloch

of Catholic Charities.

Bloch comes to Catholic Charities from Jackson Recovery Centers in Sioux City, where she most recently served as the vice president of clinical services and chief clinical officer.

Originally from Minnesota, Bloch attended South Dakota State University for one year, before finishing her undergrad at Morningside College, graduating in 1995.

She earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1999.

At Jackson Recovery Centers, she also served as an outpatient therapist, connecting point clinician, program director of adolescent services and program director of outpatient services.

Bloch and her husband, Troy, have one daughter, Caitlyn, 6, who attends St. Michael School in South Sioux City.

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Some members of Springboard Coworking in downtown Sioux City are shown at their work stations on Nov. 18. Clockwide from left, Jeff LaFavor, of Chegg, Davidson Wissing, of Jackson Recovery, Austin Pierce, of Fascinatingly and Chris Norvell, of CD Norvell P.C.

Shared experience Sioux City coworking space attracts entrepreneurs DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

SIOUX CITY | After starting his own consulting business, Austin Pierce tried at first to work at home.

But he quickly grew tired of the secluded environment, putting in a day’s work at the dining room table.

“I like the freedom of working for myself, but I realized after a while that I missed the structure and interaction of actually having an office and place to go,” Pierce said.

Pierce, who describes his business, Fascinatingly, as “helping interesting people share interesting ideas,” found a home at Springboard Coworking.

Springboard, located on the second floor of the Fourth & Jackson building in downtown Sioux City, offers communal space to entrepreneurs, freelancers, mobile workers and other solo professionals.

Coworking space, which has been growing in popularity in many metro areas, offers startups a more affordable option than a traditional private office, but with many,

Springboard Coworking Type of venture: Shared office space Owner: Diane Daby Location: Second floor, 4th & Jackson Building, 700 Fourth St. On the web: springboardcoworking.com

if not all the same perks.

Springboard membership plans start at $20 per day, or $60 per month for a standard desk, and go up to $300 per month for a private office. Prices include the use of a desk, chairs, Wi-Fi access, printers, conference rooms, a kitchen, a reception area and even coffee in the morning.

The open office concept also provides intangible benefits for the dozen members.

“Those who are here, they love it,” Springboard Coworking owner Diane Daby said. “They enjoy being with like-minded people that kind of think like they think.

They enjoy the collaboration of bouncing ideas off of each other.”

John Doster, an environmental specialist, moved into Springboard Coworking after relocating from Des Moines to Sioux City last April.

Doster said he mingles with the other members whenever he gets a chance.

“Everybody’s pretty easy to get along with,” Doster said. “You meet a lot of people who do a lot of different things.”

Springboard also regularly hosts networking events, such as the monthly First Fridays Coffees, which allows Springboard members to exchange notes with other entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Daby said she learned about co-working while in Sioux Falls, where she was employed at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine. A co-working space, called Meso, rapidly grew from a part-time to full-time job for its owner, she said.

After coming to Sioux City, Daby and her Melanie Murphy Arnold, of Hancock husband, Darin, moved into a condo in the Agricultural Investment Group, works at her

computer at Springboard Coworking while her pugs Squishy, six, left, and Shumai, seven SPRINGBOARD, PAGE 21 months, right, stay nearby on Nov. 18.

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FOOD

POWERHOUSE Metro area makes variety of foods sold globally RIGHT: Blue Bunny Personals roll of the line at one of Wells Enterprises’ ice cream plants in Le Mars, Iowa.

DAVE DREESZEN

Business Journal editor

SIOUX CITY | In 2013, metro Sioux City ranked fifth in Business Facilities’ list of the nation’s top 10 cities for food processing.

The top-tier rating in the trade publication was no fluke. In 2009 and 2010, Sioux City was No. 1 on Business Facilities list.

The magazine cited the tri-state metro area for its “highly successful development of a huge, food-oriented, job-creating engine.’’

Local plants make a wide assortment of consumer foods, from beef and honey to popcorn and cookies to candy and ice cream.

Here’s a look at some of the manufacturers and their products.

JOLLY TIME POP CORN

The fifth-generation, family business this year is celebrating 100 years of packaging Jolly Time popcorn in Sioux City.

Jolly Time products are sold in all 50 states and 40 countries.

Three years ago, the business completed a $6 million expansion of its microwave popcorn manufacturing operations along 41st Street in Leeds.

Growing demand for Jolly Time’s Healthy Pop variety fueled the construction of the new 43,000-square-foot plant.

Sales of Healthy Pop, which is 94 percent fat free, took off following an endorsement from Weight Watchers.

Blue Bunny products are found in every state and several other countries. The family-owned dairy, founded in Le Mars in 1913, makes more than 70 ice cream flavors.

About 1.5 billion sticks are required annually for the company’s frozen novelties.

And, 8 tons of chocolate ice cream bar coating are used each year, enough to cover 47 football fields at a thickness of one inch.

SUE BEE HONEY

The Sioux Honey Association produces about 40 million pounds of honey at its plants in Sioux City, Anaheim, Calif.; and Elizabethtown, N.C. The products are sold across the United States and around the globe.

Besides Sue Bee, other honey brands bottled at the plants include Clover Maid, Aunt Sue, Natural Pure and North American.

The association, the world’s largest honey Jim Lee, Sioux City Journal file Girl Scout Cookies are made at Interbake Foods in North Sioux City in an undated photo. cooperative, was started 1921 by five beekeepers in the Sioux City area. Today, the TYSON BEEF box handling operations also were up- coop has more than 300 members, primarMore cuts of beef are packed in boxes dated. ily in Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Dakota City, Neb. plant than at any other site in BLUE BUNNY ICE CREAM GIRL SCOUT COOKIES the world.

Wells Enterprises churns out more than An estimated 100 million boxes of the The meat giant recently completed a 150 million gallons of ice cream and fro- famous cookies are baked each year at the $90 million expansion of the sprawling zen novelities per year at its two plants in Interbake Foods plant in North Sioux City. complex along Dakota Avenue. The proj- Le Mars, Iowa, the self-proclaimed “Ice An Interbake division, ABC Baking Co., is ect, which began in early 2012, replaced Cream Capital of the World.” one of only two commercial bakers licensed the plant’s aging slaughter floor – parts of Around 780 truckloads of ice cream leave to produce Girl Scout cookies, which young which dates to the plant’s opening in the the Plymouth County seat during the busi- girls have been selling since 1936.

1960s – with a larger, more efficient line. est weeks, the equivalent of 4.66 trailers The beef carcass cooler, rendering and an hour, or one trailer every 13 minutes.

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The South Dakota leg of the pipeline would travel 267.4 miles. It would cross the Big Sioux River into Iowa

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In Iowa, 343 miles of underground pipe would be laid through 17 counties.

Besides Lyon, the proposed route would pass through parts of five other Siouxland counties – Sioux, O’Brien, Cherokee, Buena Vista and Sac. The lengths would range from a third of a mile in Sac to 32.68 miles in Sioux.

In Iowa, the company estimates it will spend $200 million to acquire permanent easements for about 2,000 tracts of land. Payments for farmland would vary, depending on productivity. In Sioux County, home to some of the richest ground in the state, maximum payments are estimated at $21,000 per acre.

If the Iowa Utility Board gives the go-ahead to the project, the pipeline developer would have the power to acquire land from unwilling sellers through eminent domain. But Chuck Fry, vice president of engineering for Energy Transfer, said the company expects to reach voluntarily agreements in all but 2 to 3 percent of cases.

In addition to the 50-foot permanent easements, another 35 to 100 feet of adjacent space may be needed for workers to bury the 30inch diameter pipe, Fry said.

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The pipe will be buried at least 48 inches deep. To preserve the farmland’s productivity, contractors will segregate the topsoil so that it can be placed back on top of the trench at the end of construction, Fry said.

There also will be a minimum 24 inches of separation between the pipeline and field drainage tiles.

Economic benefits to the four states will continue long after the project is finished, he said. In Iowa, 25 permanent jobs would be created

to maintain the pipeline, according to the Siegelman report. In South Dakota, there would be 31 jobs.

The valuation of the pipeline would generate about $27 million in local property taxes annually in Iowa, and $13.5 million in additional property taxes in South Dakota.

A group of landowners and environmentalists oppose the project.

“This pipeline and others across the country have to fit in with a plan to reduce carbon pollution and not increase it,” said Jim Redmond, executive committee chairman of the Northwest Iowa Group of the Sierra Club.

“It’s a major cause of

climate change. I think any new proposal like this has to be looked at carefully.”

Fry said the pipeline would produce a more efficient, safer way to transport the Bakken crude to domestic markets. The product now is largely moved by trucks and rail.

The company wants to begin operation of the pipeline by the end of 2016. It already has held a series of town hall-like meetings with affected landowners in the Dakotas.

Starting next month, the Iowa Utilites Board will sponsor a series of more formal meetings on the pipeline project. The board requires the sessions before considering an application.

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To qualify, employers must be enrolled in the state’s Skilled Iowa Program.

Businesses also are asked to post their job listings on the

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Dr Robert Rasmus, chairman of the Western Iowa Tech Community College Bard, and WITCC President Terry Murrell conduct a ribbon cutting for the Northwest Iowa Regents Resource Center. The center, located on WITCC’s Sioux City campus, assists area residents in meeting their higher education needs by connecting with state universities.

Family Pet Hospital founder Dr. Ken Roach and Kerry Johnson, hospital manager, cut the ribbon on Oct. 24. Staff also pictured are: Dr. Michelle Bader, Dr. Abbie Krause, Tiffeny Neal and Sarah Keheler. Not pictured: Caiitlin Schnoor and Mary Johnson. Family Pet Hospital was formerly known as Roach Animal Hospital.

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Members of the Children’s Museum of Siouxland Board of Directors, their children, students from Sioux City Community Schools, and representatives from area Chambers of Commerce gathered on Oct. 22 to begin construction of the Children’s Museum building located on Pearl Street in downtown Sioux City.

Schramm Electric, a veteran owned business, hosted a ribbon cutting and open house at their new location on Line Drive on Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11. In honor of Veteran’s Day and as a way of saying thank you to the community that has helped them to grow, the business donated $500 to the organization, Enabled Veterans Outdoors.

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The Sioux City Community School District celebrated their first wall-to-wall high school classrooms in the Ho-Chunk Center as a part of their expanding career academies on Nov. 7.

In wall-to-wall classrooms, students take courses for a specific career academy, as well as core classes, such as math or language arts. The core classes are taught through the lens of the specific career.

Nueva Imagen owners Juan Ajpacaja and Hermelinda Lopez cut the ribbon on Nov. 6 for their business at 1418 W. 3rd St. The store is a great place to find a large variety of items, and offers embroidery and alterations.

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Springboard: Shared space offers benefits PLUMBING FROM PAGE 12 upper floors of the 4th & Jackson Building, which has been extensively renovated in recent years.

She opened the 1,466-square-foot coworking space about a year ago. Membership recruitment has been largely by word-of-mouth and through social media sites like Facebook.

Prospective members are encouraged to try out the space for free on Wednesdays.

On a wall in the reception area, Daby posted an image of a tree with the branches filled with business cards from the Springboard Coworking members.

The tenants include Blake Anderson and Sean Richardson, owners of a startup tech firm. Their mobile app marketed to convenience stores, called Pushlee, has won top prizes in a number of regional entrepreneurial competitions.

Daby rattles off the names and occupations of other Springboard members.

Some like Melanie Murphy Arnold, of Hancock Agricultural Investment Group, travel for work on a regular basis. When in town, Murphy Arnold regularly brings her pugs Squishy and Shumai into the office.

The husband and wife team of Chris Norvell and Brenda Noll-Norvell used to operate their tax preparation business, CD Norvell PC, out of their Sioux City home.

In the last tax season, they started meeting clients at Springboard because “I just didn’t want all of those people in our house,” Brenda said.

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Food: Metro Sioux City plants make variety of global products FROM PAGE 13 The North Sioux City plant bakes all varieties, from thin mints to peanut butter patties.

The plant along North Deby Lane also makes private-label cookies for various retailer chains.

TWIN BINGS

The Palmer Candy Co. makes an average of 40,000 Twin Bings at its Sioux City factory at 209 Douglas St. The double-hump, chocolate and nutty candy bars with a cherry middle are sold throughout the Midwest to the Rocky Mountains.

The roaring 1920s marked the birth of the Bing, which also originally came in vanilla, maple and pineapple flavors.

The cherry flavor endured, and in 1968 Palmer added an second hump to create the now regionally famous Twin Bing. A three-hump King Bing also is sold.

Besides the Bing line, the fourth-generation family-business packages a variety of other candy for sale to customers that include grocery and specialty stores.

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A line filling bottles of Dasani water is shown March 18, 2013, at Chesterman Co. in Sioux City.

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Coca-Cola bottling company, serves a sprawling territory that includes more than 900,000 people living in Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois.

Each year, the Sioux City facility at 4700 Lewis Blvd. fills more than 10 million units of bottles, cans, premix, and post mix syrups on four production lines.

The fifth-generation, family business has been bottling Coca Cola since 1904.

Cargill, an agribusiness giant, processes more than 150,000 bushels of soybean per day at its Sioux City complex at 18th and Steuben streets.

One plant crushes the oil from the beans, while a refinery turns it into soy oil.

Soy oil is the primary ingredient in food items such as salad dressing and ketchup, and is found in many major fast food chains worldwide.

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BusinessAfterHours The Siouxland Chamber of Commerce’s Business After Hours was held Oct. 21 at Bishop Heelan High School’s new Fine Arts Building. Heelan staff cut the ceremonial ribbon. From left are fine arts teachers Laurie Dougherty, Jake Delfs and Beth Dalton; Jim Tshcann, Heelan system president; Chris Bork, Heelan High principal; and teachers Rachel Wragge and James Kunz. The building, which includes a 634-seat fine arts auditorium, classrooms and commons, opened to students this fall.

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