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Brad Sperfslage and Dan Weber prepare a tractor for testing in the new expansion at the John Deere Product Engineering Center.

Engineering growth Deere powering growth in the Cedar Valley

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‌CEDAR FALLS — Walking into the new addition to the John Deere Product Engineering Center is like having the sun come out.

“Our employees think so too, after 35 years,” said Chris Myers, global director of tractor platform engineering for Deere at the PEC. The bright, spacious $28 million addition, anticipated to be fully completed later this year, is the most significant addition to the PEC since the present building was completed in 1981. It is on the approximate location of what many longtime Waterloo-Cedar Falls residents would refer to as the John Deere Experimental Farm, established in 1955.

The expansion nearly doubled the square footage of the PEC, now with about 765,000 square feet under roof on an 800-acre site, expanded over the years from the original 600,000 acres.

About 1,500 employees work there — more than a fourth of the 5,500-member workforce of Deere’s entire Cedar Valley operations.

The PEC is Deere’s largest product research and development center worldwide. It also has research operations in Germany, India, Augusta, Ga., and Mexico with “country engineering centers” tailored for specific local markets such as in China and Brazil.

While Deere’s R&D has ex-

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A 9R 4WD tractor undergoes an accelerated design verification test at PEC. panded from the PEC to those multiple locations over about the past 15 years, the PEC itself has expanded as well. “It’s not as if we have forsaken here for the growth in the rest of the world.

Our employment here has had double-digit growth, even during this period of global expansion,” Myers said. “And, of course, the skills we need from our engineers has also increased. We have some

very talented engineers and technicians here,” he said.

Deere is committed to product research and development, even in down periods for ag equipment sales like the current one.

“In 2014, the last publicly reported numbers, Deere spent $1.45 billion in R&D expenses — nearly $4 million per day,” Myers said. “We don’t report out R&D by location.” But the fact the Cedar

Falls PEC remains the company’s largest research and development facility worldwide speaks for itself.

Deere’s R&D commitment means maintaining employment in those operations, even adding jobs despite cutbacks in other areas. The expansion was supported by state financial incentives through the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

“With the original investment and in support of the grant we received from the state, we intended to maintain jobs with the ability to support future products,” said Josh Wittenburg, global manager of tractor platform engineering operations at the PEC. “ However, we have added several positions to the assembly operations already due to this expansion. As discussed earlier, even in a down market we continue to improve current and develop new products.”

The PEC is hiring, Myers said.

“The Baby Boomers are going into retirement and we are, absolutely, backfilling those positions. Our goal is to maintain our employment levels right now.”

“We (at PEC) have not been impacted in the same way you’ve seen the factories,” Wittenburg said, where layoffs have occurred.

“We continue to invest in our products in all market conditions.”

“It takes anywhere from 2 1/2 to four years to develop a new tractor, or a major upgrade,” Myers said. “You can’t react and take money out of the Please see DEERE, Page D2

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Eric Orman, PEC Technician, works on a tractor in the new expansion at John Deere PEC.

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engineering operations only to miss the next upswing in sales. That’s not good business.” That work has to continue to be on top of improving conditions when they occur. Significant investment also was required to meet new emissions requirements for off-road equipment worldwide. “It’s quality of life in all parts of the world,” Myers said. “Those are very significant investments.”

Of the engineering and supply management employees at the PEC, “more than 70 percent are degreed engineers, 35 percent plus have advanced degrees and they come from more than 15 countries. We have some very talented engineers and technicians here.”

Myers, Wittenburg and PEC facility services and test lab operations manager Kris Dunkin also indicated there’s another pretty simple reason for the expansion: Tractors are a lot bigger than they were in 1955 or even 1981. The various test bays, even the wash bays, required higher and wider clearance.

The Cedar Falls PEC is responsible for the worldwide product development for Deere’s large tractors and engines. Unlike the open shop floor of many of Deere’s assembly operations in Waterloo, the PEC has a myriad of testing bays.

“Our tractor design work

includes transmissions, axles, cooling systems, operator stations, hydraulic systems, braking/steering systems, hitch systems, embedded control systems and the integrated overall tractor,” Myers said.

“We have very complex and advanced engineering analysis and test capabilities, including those for advanced drivetrains, embedded controls and engine/after-treatment systems.” The company increasingly relies on advanced virtual analysis and lab tests as opposed to field testing. That’s the reason for the investment in the expansion.

But it’s more than physical facilities. “As with any investment, the people here are what make it work,” Wittenburg said. “The investments here continue to help us attract, retain and develop the best people. We believe we have that today. This investment was really about continuing that tradition.

“The majority of the project is complete,” he said.

“The last major project in process is a state-of-the art building and test cell supporting overall vehicle efficiency.” That is anticipated to be completed in about June.

“The technology here is amazing,” Wittenburg said.

“The engineers and technicians we have are highly skilled. We partner with Hawkeye (Community College), and we have programs where we’re really focused on training and develop-

Brad Johnson in the PEC drivetrain test lab.

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Amanda Owen shows Stan Huhman, Shawn Simons and Will Conrad her latest cab design concept. She is utilizing the new “stand up” area which promotes collaboration and information exchange with co-located engineering teams. ment of our technicians. It’s humbling to go out there and understand some of the work they can do.”

Their “hobbies” range from building race cars to restoring tractors to radio and television repair. They also participate in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities with local schools. There’s even a car and tractor show held on the PEC grounds.

“Our employees are great.

There’s no other way to say it,” Myers said.

Joe Carlson of Cedar Falls, a 14-year employee, said, “It’s a great place to work.

If you’re a good employee, they’re a good employer. It’s different every day.” In addition to his Deere job, he’s a Janesville firefighter and farms — with John Deere equipment.

“It takes a while to wear all this stuff out so I can afford it,” he quipped, working in a test lab.

Dunkin noted Brad Johnson, an eight-year Deere employee, and other co-workers in his axle testing work area came forward and proposed improvements to make that area more efficient.

“Everything keeps getting bigger in the product lines, and we had to do something to keep up with that,” Johnson said. “We were getting to where our equipment was undersized and we needed to do somethings to make it more ergonomic, a little safer and a better work area.”

It was a simple as putting blueprints up on a flat video screen for everyone in the work area to see.

“I really enjoy working here,” said Johnson, of Waverly, a member of United Auto Workers Local 838 who attended Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar. “Everybody’s pretty decent about meeting your needs and changing with the times.”

Dave DeVault, general manager of Deere’s Waterloo operations, said the PEC expansion is part of the company’s overall effort to meet c u s to m e r needs, stay ahead of the market and be on top of it when it reDave bounds.

DeVault “Deere remains well positioned to serve its customers while continuing to make investments in quality and innovation that are designed to drive growth in the future,” DeVault said. “John Deere continues to invest in R&D and continue to enhance the internal operational effectiveness between our factories and with suppliers/ logistics for each factory. “ He also noted Deere

Overview of the new building expansion at the Product Engineering Center. workers remain involved, engaged and invested in the Waterloo community in many ways, ranging from United Way contributions to packaging meals for the Northeast Iowa Food Bank to assisting and promoting STEM education and Leader in Me activities in local schools.

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Heavy Equipment Manufacturing bounces back DENNIS MAGEE dennis.magee@wcfcourier.com‌

GRUNDY CENTER — ‌ Running a large, national business is difficult. Rebuilding after a major fire with everything that entails, including insurance settlements and contractors, represents a major headache.

Doing both at the same time, well, that takes the definition of difficult to a new level.

“It’s been very challenging,” CEO Roger Bockes said.

Heavy Equipment Manufacturing started in 1996, designing and building machinery for the concrete paving industry. In December 2014, though, a severe fire swept through the company’s Roger plant and Bockes headquarters in Grundy Center, easily causing more than $1.5 million in damage.

Grundy Center Fire Chief Jeff Latwesen at the time estimated a quarter of the building burned and smoke and water infiltrated most of the rest of the space.

Even so, despite a major disruption to every aspect of its operation, Heavy Equipment barely skipped a beat after that historic Saturday.

“We never stopped. We were up and running in temporary facilities by the Monday after the fire,” Bockes said.

“Man and management stepped up to the plate and kept it going,” he added.

The former main building is at 601 E. First St. Heavy Equipment’s new primary digs are across the street in what was formerly a ware-

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Heavy Equipment Manufacturing barely missed a day of business after a fire severely damaged its plant in Grundy Center. Construction and remodeling on the company’s new headquarters is nearing completion and should be wrapped up early this year, according to CEO Roger Bockes.

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The company officially took possession of the building in August, according to Bockes.

“We’ve been trying to get in the remodeled building as fast as possible,” Bockes said.

While hardly the way Bockes would have planned such an expansion or move, the fire did provide an opportunity. Heavy Equipment picked up more space in the process and will be able to streamline produc-

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A fire in December 2014 severely damaged Heavy Equipment Manufacturing in Grundy Center but the business kept going. The company’s new headquarters will officially open early this year. tion.

“Like you say, that’s the silver lining,” he added.

“We were full — pretty tight quarters.”

The new location and building also provides what Bockes calls a “nicer highway presence” along G Avenue. The city street is part

of Iowa Highway 175 on Grundy Center’s east side.

Heavy Equipment before the fire had 18 employees.

During the transition, the

company actually added a few more.

“And they will stay on,” Bockes said.

Besides employees, Bockes also thanked Grundy Center city administrators and its utility workers. He said the officials helped facilitate reconstruction, which kept Heavy Equipment moving forward.

The remodel and construction at the end of January was nearing completion. Bockes expects the entire project will wrap up early this year, though he’s not yet ready to announce a date for an official grand re-opening.

Bockes and the Heavy Equipment crew are, however, looking forward to the end.

“Oh, boy, we are. It’ll be nice to have everything under one roof,” he added.

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From left, Armando Silva, Justin Cowell and Cole Brandt load an ion-nitriding vessel at Advanced Heat Treat in Waterloo.

Advanced Heat Treat marks 35th anniversary JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌WATERLOO — The oil boom of the last couple of years provided a lot of fuel for growth at Advanced Heat Treat, but the company wasn’t betting its future on it.

Diversification, indeed, is how the company has reached is 35th anniversary this year, said Mike Woods, senior vice president of sales and marketing and a 10-year employee.

“We’re not tagged to one specific product line and market,” he said. “We play in aerorspace, ag, natural gas, oil. Historically, we’ve been able to handle some of the ups and downs as a result, and that’s been a good thing, Starting on Day 1, it’s something you hope you can accomplish one day, and I think we have.”

With success has come growth. Gary Sharp opened the company in 1981 on Burton Avenue. Since then, the company has opened two more locations in Waterloo, plus branches in Cullman, Ala.; and Monroe, Mich.

Over the last two years, the company has added equipment and space and increased surface treatment capabilities at each of its locations.

At the end of 2014, the

A pressure valve for a power plant is “under glow” in the original ion nitriding vessel at Advanced Heat Treat.

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Rollers that are used in the ag industry undergo ion nitriding at Advanced Heat Treat.

Burton Avenue facility got two new batch integral quench furnaces, along with support equipment, such as temper units, washers, transfer carts and endogenerator, all of which allowed it to increase capacity of its carburizing, carbonitriding and quench and temper projects by more than 40 percent.

The processes are designed to harden and smooth surfaces and increase material strength in tools, gears, crankshafts and other heavy-equipment parts, the company

said.

“We’ve added quite a bit of capital equipment – new and used and expanded capacities to capture more of the nitride and heat treating market,” Woods said. “We added 65 percent on the nitriding side and 50 percent on conventional side.

The growth came partially in response to demand, but it also was proactive, Woods said.

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Advanced Heat Treat provides equipment for hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in the production of oil. Fracking technology is seen by many supporters as a key to the U.S.’s re-emergence as a major oil producer.

Advanced Heat Treat also is involved in a growing aerospace field, Woods said.

The company numbers Halliburton, one of the world’s largest oil field services companies, among its clients, Woods said. On the aerospace side, Advanced Heat Treat does business with General Electric and counts John Deere and all three major U.S. automakers among its clients.

The company currently employs about 160 workers locally.

Woods said Advanced Heat Treat has maintained steady growth over the years – with exception of 2007 and 2008, when the U.S. economy took a turn downward.

“It’s been probably 45-degree angle straight line until ‘07-‘08 then a 45-degree line the other way,” Woods said. “Then

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As the oil boom has slowed and the agriculture economy has dived, Advanced Heat Treat has felt the effects. However, the company’s other business segments have compensated, Woods said.

“Now, we’re seeing the defense center come back,” he said. “We’d like to see steady 7-10 percent annual growth.”

The company has maintained that trajectory, more or less throughout its history, Woods said.

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Randy Lawson and Bonnie Vesper assemble wiring harnesses at the Winnebago facility in Waverly.

Winnebago is rolling in Waverly JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

WAVERLY — The new ‌ Winnebago plant in Waverly is rolling.

Work at the new plant got going in July, but there is more to come, officials said.

The building offers 33,400 square feet, 30,000 of which is production space, said Daryl Krieger, vice president of manufacturing.

The new Waverly facility is used for wire loom assembly activities for the company’s motor homes.

Wire loom assemblies are a motor home’s 12-volt wiring system. Operations moved from Forest City.

The building required weeks of retrofitting to Winnebago’s specifications, Krieger said.

“We purchased the property last spring, and we had some renovations we wanted to do,” he said. “We removed offices and added a truck dock and made it more a manufacturing setup.”

The building, in Waverly’s Southwest Business Park, had served as a call center, so Winnebago had to remove a lot of wiring and upgrade fiber to accommodate its computer systems, he said.

“During that time, we

started hiring, and by midJuly, we had 15 employees hired,” Krieger said. “Every day, they’d drive and train here in Forest City. They were the seed to start the knowledge base in Waverly.

We had to start some new wire cutting and crimping equipment, and that arrived in mid-September.

Since then, the company has added 10 more workers, Krieger said.

The plant manager is Brad Kuntz, who had been an assembly line supervisor in Forest City.

“Before that, he was a supervisor in the wire prep, wire harness part of our business,” Krieger said.

“He was one of our supervisors being groomed for advancement. It so happens, he has family in the area and was anxious to move there.

He’s doing a great job so far.”

The Waverly production facility is expected to employ 70 full-time workers with a capital investment of $1.5 to $2 million, Winnebago reported when it announced its decision to go to Waverly.

“We are very excited that Winnebago Industries has chosen Waverly as the site for their new sub-assembly facility,” Bill Werger, community development direc-

Tape outlines mark the placement of additional equipment at the Winnebago facility in Waverly. tor with Waverly Economic Development said when Winnebago announced it had chosen Waverly. “The addition of a quality employer like Winnebago to Waverly and the Cedar Valley will have a positive impact on the entire region.”

Hiring has lagged behind the original plan, but not by much, Krieger said.

“We’re a little behind where we wanted to be,” he said. “Our hiring plan all along was to hire three

people per week.”

Some hires couldn’t start until the first of the year, which caused some of the delay, Krieger said.

The plan calls the 70 fulltime employees to be hired and on the job by March, Krieger said.

“As we do that, there’s an offset,” he said. “Our ultimate goal was to free people in Forest City. Our labor base in Forest City — I don’t want to say it’s tapped out, but we wanted to tap into a

different labor base.”

There has been plenty of interest in the Waverly-area labor base, Krieger said.

“Applicant flow has been good,” he said. “We’ve had good candidates and have had good success with the hiring plan.”

The training process is detailed, Krieger noted.

“It’s a process of bringing the folks in and training them specifically on different skill sets,” he said.

“Everything from operat-

ing the automated cutting machine, that cuts wire to length for different jobs.

Every wire in our looms is printed with the circuit, the part number.”

With three new trainees arriving each week, it keeps managers busy, he said.

“We are bringing some people to Forest City to get training,” he said.

Waverly offered the best combination of attributes needed for a new Winnebago facility, Krieger said.

“The first thing we were looking for is a good facility, and we looked at many,” he said. “The Waverly building came up. Economic development sent some properties to our president and one resonated with our president. The price was good, we thought, for location in the industrial park. We’ve had pretty good luck with our Charles City campus, as for hiring and retaining workers, and that’s only a half-hour from Waverly.”

Another clincher for Waverly was its proximity to Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Krieger said.

“We were just convinced we wouldn’t have a problem obtaining workers for jobs we needed to fill,” he said.

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Michael Caraway talks with the group as part of a check-in during the Startup Weekend Cedar Valley at Tech Works in Waterloo.

Entrepreneurial ‘idea farm’ awaits at Startup Weekend TIM JAMISON tim.jamison@wcfcourier.com

WATERLOO — Dozens of young entrepreneurs descended on the Cedar Valley TechWorks last fall to run their ideas around a test track.

While many of the business models crashed and burned under the scrutiny of colleagues and market studies, the Startup Weekend Cedar Valley may have helped accelerate the area’s next great business venture.

“It completely changes the way you think about starting a business,” said Keevin O’Rourke. “It takes the traditional methods of writing a business plan and later validating it with customers and throws it out the window. It’s a more agile way to create a business.”

O’Rourke, a University of Northern Iowa marketing major from Maquoketa, was one of those participating in the second annual event which took place Nov. 2022.

He joined others in pitching ideas for startup businesses. Teams then form around the best ideas and work to create and test a simplified business plan with area business leaders serving as mentors. Judges pick a winning team.

“The Cedar Valley is really trying to build this innovation ecosystem, entrepreneurial ecosystem, where entrepreneurs and creatives are all supported by all the resources we have here in the Cedar Valley,”

said Michael Caraway.

Caraway, O’Rourke and other young entrepreneurs Cody Caraway, Patrick Luensmann, Valyn Reinig and Bart Schmitz organized last fall’s Startup Weekend event.

Paul Kinghorn, director of UNI’s Center for Business Growth and Innovation and a Startup Weekend judge, said the program helps encourage and prepare entrepreneurs in a low-stress environment.

“We all have an idea,” Kinghorn said. “This empowers and encourages people to bring those forward as opposed to sitting idle on the sidelines.

“You get people that are free to then add their experience, their knowledge, their own special way to approach a problem,” he added. “They realize we all can contribute to varying degrees in vetting, developing and researching an idea. …we see it as seeds that get planted.”

That was the case for O’Rourke, whose idea for a business that helps gym users interact with exercise equipment via their smart phones — and also gathers data on usage for gym owners — was the winning idea last year.

“At the time, this was just an idea in my head,” he said. “I don’t have a technical background, I can’t build applications, and I’m not the kind of person that writes code. That’s not my forte.”

Gathered with a team

of others around a white board, laptops, Red Bull cans and carryout food, O’Rourke was able to vet his idea more thoroughly using everyone’s suggestions.

“You can say the stupidest stuff and it all works out OK because you’re probably going to change your idea in the next three hours anyway,” he said.

By winning, O’Rourke gets six weeks tuition at UNI Venture School and gets to pitch his idea at the Young Entrepreneurs Convention in late April in Des Moines. Venture School adds the customer discovery piece of the business plan by meeting with those who may buy it.

“I will be graduating in May,” O’Rourke said. “I’d love to see this continue to grow and show promise over the next month or two so I can say this is what I’ll be doing after I graduate.”

Randy Pilkington, director of UNI Business and Community Services, said Startup Weekend is one of many key initiatives that have helped build an entrepreneurial culture across the Cedar Valley.

“What is exciting to me is to see the entrepreneurial community stepping up to take ownership of programs like Startup Weekend, One Million Cups, Whiskey Fridays and other meet-ups,” Pilkington said.

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TechWorks picking up steam in 2016 JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌WATERLOO — The Cedar Valley TechWorks project will take its biggest jump off the drawing board into tangible reality in 2016, organizers say.

Early in January, TechWorks executives, announced the sale of the Tech2 building to Financial District Properties and the start of construction of the Green@TechWorks mixeduse project.

Tech2, an 88-year-old former John Deere tractor manufacturing building, is described as the “starting point” of the Green@ TechWorks redevelopment project.

The 180,000-squarefoot, six-story building will house a 191-room Courtyard

by Marriott hotel; thirdparty restaurant; John Deere Regional Training Center; and conference center. The Green is a principal feature of the overall $74 million TechWorks Campus riverfront redevelopment.

“It is gratifying to see The Green @ TechWorks become reality,” said Steve Dust, CEO of the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber and president of TechWorks.

“Combined with the industrial 3D printing and design center, labs and shop in Tech 1, and the fantastic new John Deere Tractor and Engine Museum, the opportunities for the TechWorks building sites and the marina become clear,” Dust said. “These new operations complement the downtown Waterloo revitalization and anchors new Cedar Valley developments along the river from Waverly through Cedar Falls to Waterloo. This is a very exciting time in the Cedar Valley.”

Since the Green@TechWorks project was announced in 2012, Davenport-based developer Financial District Partners LLC, along with TechWorks, has secured federal, state and local redevelopment financing and brokered agreements among the developer, the city of Waterloo and others, Dust said.

“Despite the inevitable bumps in the road and some unexpected big challenges, creativity, commitment and a lot of patience tied all the pieces of the financing puzzle together,” FDP principal Rodney Blackwell said. “We are eager to start construction and look forward to delivering a venue that will complement the campus and delight the community.”

Helping to finance the project is $12 million from the Waterloo Reinvestment District.

A portion of the TechWorks campus also has become the first designated Iowa Reinvestment District.

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Cedar Valley TechWorks The district, established by the city of Waterloo, will provide up to $12 million in new state hotel/motel and sales tax revenues generated within the district for capital projects.

Eight million dollars will be used to pay off bonds financing The Green@TechWorks. Another $3 million will go to the development of the Tech1 building, with $1 million designated for a proposed marina development.

The projected economic impact of the district is “significant,” Dust said, noting as many as 562 new permanent jobs will be created to accommodate the anticipated 275,000 annual BRANDON POLLOCK / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌ visitors to the campus. VisCedar Valley Makers work space takes shape in the Tech Works building in Waterloo.

Cedar Valley Makers, a group of young itors are expected to generate entrepreneurs associated with Cedar Valley TechWorks, has received a grant from the McElroy Trust to equip the space. $2.9 million in annual food, retail and other sales generated on campus or in the news release. will be an new concept for and museum districts and a with the Greater Cedar vicinity, Dust said.

CRO, consistent with cam- variety of Riverloop District Valley Alliance & Chamber 191-room hotel‌ pus clienteles’ require- amenities. development team to help Four sites are available on companies understand the Construction set Hospitality Specialists ments,” Dust said. the campus for light indus- tremendous value of loInterior pre-construc- Inc., based in Grand Raptrial, research and develop- cating on the TechWorks tion will begin in March ids, Mich., will operate a Space available‌ with mobilization expected 191-room Courtyard hotel The TechWorks Campus ment and retail. Approxi- campus. in mid-April. The target at TechWorks. site and buildings, donated mately 100,000 square feet “With access to univeropening date for the projThe John Deere Regional by John Deere to TechWorks remain in the six-floor Tech sity research and training, a ect is May 2017. The Dav- Training Center will be con- in 2006, is located at the 1 building for build-to-suit wealth of resources, opporenport office of contractor structed on the second floor gateway to Downtown Wa- space ideal for light manu- tunities to make the right Ryan Cos. US Inc. has been to address a range of skills terloo at Highway 218 and facturing and R&D tenants, connections and create synmanagers said. named to complete the proj- upgrades for John Deere West Commercial Street. ergies, the amenities of The ect. Ryan’s Greg Lundgren, employees across its operThe 30 acre TechWorks Six laboratories also are Green right outside their Campus is currently home available. Plans for a marina door, the campus location Midwest President, is senior ations. project executive officer.

Consolidated Restaurant to University of Northern and a riverfront restaurant shouldn’t be hard to sell,” An estimated 130 people Operations, Inc. of Dallas Iowa Metal Casting Addi- along the Cedar River are she said. will be employed during will expand its footprint to tive Manufacturing Center part of the overall $74.1 milMore information can be the one-year construction Iowa for the first time with a and Design Lab, Hawkeye lion Campus development found at www.techworkperiod. FDP said it is using property in the Tech 2 build- Community College Design plan. scampus.com or by contactlocal workers and subcon- ing. CRO operates more than Lab, the Iowa Advanced “Identifying and at- ing Dust by email at sdust@ tractors “to the greatest ex- 91 full-service and 24 fran- Manufacturing Network tracting the right tenant cedarvalleyalliance.com; tent possible.” chise restaurants in 17 states Hub, John Deere Tractor and and development is the Darrah, at cdarrah@cedar“Only when faced with and globally. CRO manages Engine Museum, and Cedar next priority for Tech- valleyalliance.com; or Wes a skill, schedule, or major brands ranging from the Valley Makers space. Tech- Works,” said Cary Darrah, James, facilities manager, price constraint outside traditional steak house to Works Campus is just steps vice president and general at wjames@cedarvalleyaltrades would be sought,” the Tex-Mex. to the Cedar Valley Recre- manager of TechWorks. liance.com, or by calling Alliance & Chamber said in a “The Green’s restaurant ation Trails, entertainment “My job now is to work 232-1156.

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Waverly-based Doerfer Cos. continues its global approach to growth JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

WAVERLY — Doerfer ‌ Cos., a Waverly-based designer, manufacturer and integrator of factory automation systems and related equipment, has gone global, and the company structure is starting to look that way.

David Takes, who purchased the company in 1995, has seen to that. Just in the last few months, he has altered much of the company’s leadership. Newcomers include Kathryn Nuss, chief human resources officer; Megan Anderson, corporate human resource es manager; Kyle Henderson, chief financial officer; and Troy Miller, vice president of operations.

“We’re definitely amping it up,” Takes said.

The change in approach to personnel issues is a sign of that change, he said.

“We were looking for a new chief human resources officer, and I wanted somebody who could really help us make sure we had our act together, starting with U.S. coverage first.”

Nuss came from Donaldson Co. Inc. in Bloomington, Minn., and Anderon arrived from several HR roles at the University of Northern Iowa.

“When Kathryn came in, I asked her to take a look at what we needed, and we created a position for Megan because we thought it would be cool to have a team in place to hit the ground running.”

HR evolves with company‌ The team approach to HR fits a global corporate structure, Takes said.

“Prior to this, we were doing HR on a locational basis,” he said. “We had an HR director, but it was really one step down from the CHRO. I’ve been telling everybody for years where we were going to go and where we were were two different places. Where we were was an American company that worked internationally; now, we’re an international company that is based in America.”

Indeed, Doerfer Cos. — the parent of TDS Automation in Waverly, Waterloo and Cedar Falls, and six other branded companies in 12 locations worldwide — has been thinking globally for some time, Takes said.

“All our customers are multi-national companies, and you need a multinational team that deploys pretty seamlessly, and we need an HR program that facilitates that, and we couldn’t do that before,” he said.

Most recently, Doerfer acquired a majority interest in Fabricom Systemes D’Assemblage, a France-based firm in April from GDF Suez SES. FSA is a provider of custom-designed automation equipment for a variety of industries in Europe and beyond and maintains business locations and factories

in Paris, Besancon and Valence, France, as well as Cluj, Romania; Pune, India; and Beijing.

The acquisition fit Doerfer’s goal to grow globally and established “a significant European presence and adds to the group’s multinational resources and presence in response to continued demand from its global customer base,” Takes said.

Keeping busy‌

The company’s global reach may be longer than ever, but it also has tangible benefits to the home base, Takes said.

“We’ve got a lot of working going on in France, and they’ve been asked to ramp up efforts on behalf of several customers, but they don’t have capacity to do it,” he said. “So, we’re likely going to be building some equipment for Europe right here in Iowa, because their customer base has reacted really favorably to the fact that they’re now part of this large multinational corporation that does this same thing.”

A bigger Doerfer is an advantage for everyone, Takes noted.

“To be honest, the customers like being part of a large organization, but they knew that organization didn’t have additional resources; now, they know they have both — a larger organization and technological resources to back up them up and expand their

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Terry Deutmeyer, a tool and die maker, builds a part for a pharmaceutical dispenser at TDS Automation in Waverly. activities,” he said.

Nuss said the company’s breadth keeps work flow steady everywhere.

If the workload lightens in any of the Cedar Valley, she said, there might be tasks that can be shifted from plants in Nashville, Tenn.; or Greenville, S.C., for example, she said.

“We can move that work back and forth and therefore retain a really talented workforce by keeping that work in front of them,” she said.

Doerfer has gained attention in recent years with its work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has contracted the company’s Wheelift transporters that can carry objects as heavy as 150 tons – such as rocket boosters that NASA uses.

NASA bets on Doerfer success‌ Takes said Doerfer’s relationship with NASA is a sign of its strength – not just now, but for the long term.

“NASA wants to know that you’re making money,” Takes said. “The reason is that program is supposed to be multi-decades, so they don’t want us to provide all this hardware and not be here 20 years from now, because they’re going to need us 2040 years from now.”

Diversification also is a key to the company’s success, Takes said, noting that the company has a hand in agriculture, aeronautics, phar-

“We’re really going to be exploring how to get creative about not only recruiting that talent but retaining that talent through new ideas of how the workplace looks and how it functions.”

Kathryn Nuss, chief human resources officer maceuticals and other fields.

“Nobody can be recession-proof, but because of our flexibility and our mixand-match capability, we’re very recession-resistant, and that’s a big deal when you need to employ the talent pool that we need to employ,” he said.

Enhancing that portfolio was the acquisition two years ago of SteelMation in Del Rio, Texas, and Acuna, Mexico.

It was Doerfer’s entry into the oil and gas industry.

SteelMation uses Doerfer-developed proprietary business systems and technology to manufacture cylindrical and wellhead process equipment for the oil and gas markets.

“That’s a whole new business segment; in fact, TDS is doing a bunch of work for that operation,” Takes said.

The company is even resistant to the current slump in the oil/gas business, since its designs are focused on cost efficiencies, Takes said.

“There’s a huge oppor-

tunity for companies like us to bring new technical approaches to what they do because they’re now in the mode to be more efficient and cut costs to do what they do,” Takes said. “We try to follow an opportunity that presents itself because of a change in conditions. Much of what we do is because of changing conditions in all these different diverse markets.”

The company, which employs 1,000 people in all 12 locations, is working toward a new generation of workers, Nuss aid.

“Our first challenge is how to replace that aging workforce,” she said.

Doerfer has developed a four-year apprenticeship program and already is training some of its future workforce, Nuss said.

“We’re really going to be exploring how to get creative about not only recruiting that talent but retaining that talent through new ideas of how the workplace looks and how it functions.”

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Cayde Lee, an apprentice with Doerfer Cos.’ TDS Automation in Waverly, de-burrs a part for a die, a process that involves taking the sharp edges off the metal after machining. Lee, a student at Hawkeye Community College and a graduate of Waverly-Shell Rock High School, is working on associate’s degree in CNC and tooling technology. He said he expects to graduate in June 2017.

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HowFactory finds its niche quickly App to simplify worker training is on a fast track JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌CEDAR FALLS — Trace Steffen and Kenny Stevenson are building a startup based on telling their customers what to do.

Their software and service company HowFactory, helps corporate clients — often manufacturers — streamline the way they document their standard operating procedures and employee training guides.

HowFactory saw a market for such streamlining procedures after Steffen and Stevenson noticed binders and filing cabinets bulging with procedural guides.

The pair developed a cloudbased application that could eliminate the stacks of paper documents.

HowFactory came out of the Iowa Startup Accelerator — a 90-day program that matches tech startups with funding and guidance and propels them toward launch — in the fall of 2014 and incorporated a short time later.

The company launched formally at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, one of the world’s major technology conferences for startups, in May in New York.

The company’s primary service is a web app that allows companies to document standard operating procedures, work instructions and training.

At TechCrunch, it qualified for the event’s Startup Battlefield, pitching against other new enterprises from around the world.

Past winners at TechCrunch include Dropbox, Mint and Yammer.

“Pretty clearly, we were doing things right,” Steffen said.

The company attracted instant attention, Stevenson said.

That attention has not decreased since TechCrunch, the founders said. Their company’s current workspace, Mill Race co-working space, formerly housed the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber’s Cedar Falls branch office and was originally the Cedar Falls Chamber of Commerce headquarters prior to con-

solidation with the Waterloo chamber under the Alliance umbrella.

Lots of models ‌

The Cedar Valley is full of successful startup stories, so there has been plenty of inspiration for HowFactory’s founders.

At the end of January, HowFactory was asked to become an Iowa Startup Accelerator Portfolio company and take part in the accelerator’s new 10X Level UP program.

“Like the 90-day program, 10x Level Up is intensive,” Steffen said.

The program’s objective is to show “dramatic” improvement in a startup in one year, Steffen said.

“For 2014-15 teams, this is aimed at getting your startup to an annual run rate of $1 million in 2016,” Steffen said. “Unlike the 90-day program, however, this progress is much less curated by ISA staff, and the frequency and structure of 10x Level Up is much more fluid and dependent upon your leadership skills and the capabilities of your team to execute.”

A participating company defines a starting point and commits to an end target.

“I’d suggest for most it is top-line revenue, ideally approaching that $1 million run rate, but if there’s a better objective, that’s fine, too,” he said. “The point is we are seeking to provide support for startups aiming for exponential improvement in 2016.”

Stevenson and Steffen combine years of expertise in the field. Both have experience training employees across an array of sectors.

Stevenson was in industrial training for a manufacturing company. Steffen was with the University of Northern Iowa doing virtual reality training.

“We met at a trade show in Atlanta, and we just kind of hit it off,” Stevenson said.

Stevenson moved to Iowa from Florida in 2014 to work with Steffen on the nascent HowFactory idea.

HowFactory notes many manufacturers train employees on the job, but the nature of the work often calls for visual learning tools such as videos and schematics that are annotated with instructions.

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John Tudor, Kenny Stevenson and Trace Steffen with HowFactory talk about the startup in Cedar Falls.

HowFactory’s web app is interactive. It allows workers to add input into the system and features technologies like speech-to-text and drag-and-drop. It also lets employees collaborate on procedures. It provides management with a frontline view of workers’ actual experience with specific equipment, Steffen said.

The software also allows users to upload PDFs, user manuals, blueprints and other schematics to add to the documentation.

Experience at the Iowa Startup Accelerator in Cedar Rapids filled in a lot of gaps the pair’s business experience hadn’t already plugged, Steffen said.

The company has added some personnel during its initial growth phase. Alyx Sandbothe, who finished a graphic technology degree with a minor in marketing and studio art at University of Northern Iowa in 2013, interned with Steffen for about six months and then joined the company full time.

“I started doing a lot of video work at first and worked on some WordPress and things like that.

Then I turned into the user experience designer, and I’m learning code now and doing all kinds of stuff like that, keeping our website

up to date.”

John Tudor, organizer of the Cedar Valley Product Management Group and product manager with HowFactory, joined the company in November to help market the company.

“I started taking a look at what he had going on and offered some input,” Tudor said. “Based on my experience in working with large companies, this is the type of thing that would attract them. So Trace has an excellent engine to start it.”

“We knew what we wanted, but John took us through some of the thinking of how we do it,” Steffen said. “John helped us how

to position HowFactory so it would make sense — the solution to these things that have been killing companies the last 10 years.”

Programming‌

Another leader in the company is David Rhinehart, lead developer.

“Dave is one of the most respected Ruby developers in the Midwest,” Steffen said, referring to program coding and language. “Dave is an expert in Ruby and Ruby on Rails API development.”

Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby under MIT license.

Rails is a model-view-controller framework, providing default structures for a data-

base, a web service and web pages.

Rhinehart has worked for the Healthcare Startup Radiology Protocols of Iowa City, where he was senior software engineer, Steffen said.

HowFactory still is in growth mode, the partners said.

“We’re still in the early stages, so we just actually started to make money toward the end of last year,” Steffen said. “We have about 60 organizations; I’m not sure how many users — several hundred. What’s neat is bigger and bigger companies have been attracted to us to see some pretty unique uses inside their organizations.”

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Jeffrey Wyant works on the assembly line at Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing in Waterloo.

Things are cruising again at Bertch

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‌WATERLOO — Things are looking up at Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing.

So much so, about a year from now, one may be able to look up at the sky and see Bertch employees flying out of town en route to a Caribbean cruise.

For the first time since 2005, Bertch called its employees together for a “state of the company” meeting and offered the cruise to its entire work force as an incentive if it met some very ambitious production goals.

The company has seen a rebound and is in a position to be able to offer that incentive, company president Gary Bertch said.

“We need people to feel good about themselves.

And also, it’s the visibility.

We are coming back,” Bertch said.

Company employment had dipped below 600 in 2011 after hitting an apex of well more than 1,000 workers. Now, total employment at Bertch tops 800 — the most in five years — and “we’re hiring,” Bertch said.

“We’ve been slowly coming back each year,” he said.

“The housing recovery has been slow — you have pockets across the country maybe doing pretty well, but on a national basis, it’s still lagging. It’s been a battle, but we’re coming back.

We expect this year to grow a bit more and, of course, we’ll need some additional associates to be able to accommodate that growth.”

Much of Bertch’s business is driven by the home construction industry, which collapsed in 2009, about a year after the 2008 recession. All that time, though, Bertch has continued to try new ways to stay competitive in the market.

“It’s just continuing to expand the cabinet lines — the styles, the colors.

Everyone’s fighting limited sales opportunities. You do what you can to get new stuff out, and the big thing for us is tying it to great customer service and reliable delivery of goods with our dealer base.” Bertch also has picked up business from the furnishing of hotel and motel construction projects.

Hauns Nelsen sands a cabinet door at Bertch Cabinet Manufacturing in Waterloo.

Cabinet companies like Bertch continue developing new products in slow times, much the same way Deere does in the ag equipment industry. “That’s a good comparison,” Bertch said. “When we were way

down on sales, we were busier than ever in some areas because we were working on new products, trying to get some traction with something people would want to buy,” Bertch said. “We had a number of years there where

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Renovations and capital expenditures to produce those new products also are ongoing, Bertch said, noting

the company probably over a recent period spent about $2.5 million on new equipment. “Again, just trying to keep competitive, we’ve constantly been undergoing new (manufacturing) layouts and change within the facility,” he said.

“We’re expecting to see sales increase this year around 10 percent,” Bertch said. “We know there’s pent-up demand in housing. We know that. So, sooner or later, I think we’re going to see some stronger increases. We plan on continuing to grow, at least single-digit increases, and expect to see around 8 to 10 percent.

Bertch’s success depends on its work force, and he and co-founder and wife, Becky, and company officials felt renewing the cruise incentive might renew a sense of belonging.

“You need something, create a reason outside of money, to be, to find a home” in a workplace. “And that’s a big part of the reason for doing it. We had a great reaction to the goals.

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Building a Better Iowa UNI paves the way for entrepreneurs across the state, especially in the Cedar Valley Entrepreneurship is a way of life. Deep inside, almost all entrepreneurs march to the beat of their own drum and have aspirations that may seem out of reach to most others. But they know if the right things fall into place achieving these aspirations can be done. As they say, “It takes a village.” Luckily, Business and Community Services at the University of Northern Iowa has a proven track record of building these villages across Iowa.

UNI has been able to reach out to regions throughout the state through its designation as a University Center by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. This presents a needed opportunity for areas experiencing economic distress to develop an entrepreneurial

ecosystem. Additionally, entrepreneurs know they can reach out to Iowa SourceLink’s Business Concierge for their business questions. In fact, 1,500 entrepreneurs took advantage of this free service in 2015 to get their questions answered immediately.

UNI’s Business and Community Services may build the villages, but the path to providing such needed and beneficial services for Iowa’s entrepreneurs would not be possible without the village’s main street, the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. JPEC serves as the hub that keeps UNI’s entrepreneurial spirit going through education as well as incubation giving students the opportunity to turn their aspirations into businesses.

Recent graduate Russel Karim, founder/owner of 4axiz IT Solutions USA receives the prestigious LUX award from UNI President, Bill Ruud. 4axis IT Solutions USA provided customized apps and websites for the local and global market while operating out of the R.J. McElroy Student Business Incubator at the UNI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

Taking Charge of Cedar Valley Entrepreneurship For brothers Michael and Cody Caraway, it’s more than just brotherly love, it’s developing the Caraway name to become synonymous with Cedar Valley entrepreneurship.

As tenants of the R.J. McElroy Student Business Incubator at UNI, the Caraway’s have already launched two businesses - Monday Creations, a digital marketing company and Vybe Clothing, a custom college apparel clothing company. Further cementing their name in the area, they also play a large role in organizing StartUp Weekend Cedar Valley, UNI Entrepreneurs and 1 Million Cups.

Bringing the Cedar Valley Together Through Music August 2016 has the potential to be big for Cedar Valley if R.J. McElroy Student Business Incubator tenant and UNI senior Soren Hultman has anything to say about it.

Hultman, along with a group of planners, is working to bring a major music festival to the area. He recently told the Cedar Valley Business Monthly he hopes it will allow residents to “come together and learn about each other culturally, have a good time together and hopefully go away and bring a little more peace to the Cedar Valley.” His hope is to kick off the inaugural event with 5,000 in the crowd.

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A Spark(le) of Entrepreneurship Brittany Hawthorne may have started creating custom products as a hobby, but with the help of the R.J. McElroy Student Business Incubator at UNI, she has turned it into a business.

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PHOTOS BY BRANDON POLLOCK / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌

Chris Fink, with Cardinal Construction, measures closet shelving for an apartment for renovations for JSA Development in buildings in the 200 block of West Fourth Street in Waterloo on Jan. 20.

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Kevin Vohsman, with Cardinal Construction, works on renovations for JSA Development in buildings in the 200 block of West Fourth Street in Waterloo.

WATERLOO — If you told ‌ someone there are 50 new apartments in downtown Waterloo, a cynic might ask if someone tore another building down.

Quite the contrary. Same in Cedar Falls.

Sure, there’s new construction, in many cases on lots that have been vacant for years. And many buildings are being restored.

Neither downtown is giving up the ghost. Instead, developers are stepping on the gas.

Take a look down West Fourth Street, right across from the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center, where several buildings that made up the old Walden photo storefront are being restored to their vintage flower with refinished, restored, appliance-fitted upper-level apartments.

In Cedar Falls, new construction is taking place along State Street. Developer Mark Kittrell’s River Place project was recently recognized by the Des Moinesbased nonprofit land use advocacy group 1000 Friends of Iowa for its residential-commercial building at 300 State St. on the approximate location of the former Standard Golf Co. site, destroyed by fire more than 15 years ago. It had been undeveloped since the firm relocated and rebuilt at the Cedar Falls Industrial Park.

So both downtowns are making

Decorative features such as this metal corner post were incorporated into the renovation of buildings by JSA Development on the 200 block of West Fourth Street in Waterloo. use of space and buildings that had been unused for years.

Such is the case in the 200 block of West Fourth in downtown Waterloo, across from the convention center, where JSA Development, the firm of VGM Group executive and Waterloo attorney Jim Walsh, is restoring some of the oldest existing buildings downtown.

“There are four total buildings here that were built anywhere from early 1880s to late 1890s. So these are some of the oldest ones still standing downtown, and cer-

tainly on this side of the river,” said David Deeds of JSA Development.

“It’s been a long process for us,” Deeds said, after more than two years of work. But apartment tenants began taking occupancy last month and restoration of the final building is anticipated to be completed in a few weeks.

“There’s a total of six apartments in this project, four commercial spaces,” Deeds said. “As you look at these four buildings, you’ve got three different eras represented,” he said. The 1880s and 1890s are there, as well as a 1930s art deco style storefront and the 1950s.The storefronts are in a designated national historic district on the west side of downtown and the renovation work is in part being aided by historic preservation tax credits.

“They’re all significant in their own rights,” Deeds said. “We like the eras that are represented. It kind of shows a transition” from one era to another.

Feature inside the building include restored tin ceilings and other architectural features. “I love it,” Deeds said.

A pizza restaurant is planned Please see HOUSING, Page E2

Vandewalle plan created downtown momentum TIM JAMISON tim.jamison@wcfcourier.com‌

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‌WATERLOO — It’s been 16 years since Brian Vandewalle first laid eyes on Waterloo.

But the man whose urban planning firm would eventually design a colossal downtown makeover remembers a patchwork of industrial buildings and blight once visible from the elevated section of U.S. Highway 218.

“I was taken aback,” Vandewalle said. “The shocking thing was you had such a beautiful river, a beautiful Main Street and nice facilities, but no one could see it. It was like driving through the bowels of the city instead of the front door.”

The view is dramatically different today with the Cedar Valley SportsPlex, a RiverLoop Expo Plaza providing an open view of the Waterloo Public Library and iconic amphitheater, and far fewer vacant buildings.

Vandewalle and Associates, based in Madison, Wis., created the original conceptual plan for

Waterloo’s downtown riverfront renaissance in 2000 and has been providing consulting services as the city and Waterloo Development Corp. continue to implement its features.

“They’ve brought a consistent focus that’s necessary when you look at the type of projects that needed to be done and the time it takes to do them,” said WDC president Dan Watters.

Waterloo has had four mayors and eight city councils since the original downtown plan was developed. Turnover has also occurred on the WDC, a nonprofit group of local business leaders created to work in partnership with the city on downtown development.

“You have to keep everybody moving in the same direction,” Watters said. “The expertise (Vandewalle) brings to the table and the ability to maintain that focus from one administration to the next has been invaluable.”

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TIFFANY RUSHING / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌

Brian Vandewalle, left, and Marta Purdy, right, stand at the RiverLoop Amphitheater on Jan. 25 in Waterloo.

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Housing From E1

for one renovated storefront when completed, anticipated to open sometime in March.

“We’re really happy with how these turned out,” Deeds said of the completed apartments, of varying bedroom sizes and with generous bathroom and closet space.

JSA has renovated more than 50 upper-level apartments, roughly 20 of them in the past year. “We’ll see how the market absorbs them, and we’ll decide where to go from there.

“There’s a lot of people that don’t believe it,” Deeds said of that number of apartments. “You don’t see them; they’re all on the upper floors.

“There’s plenty of vacant land in the world.

There’s not plenty of historic buildings. Nobody ever went somewhere just because they could park.

It’s fun to work on them.”

They complement other renovated and new residences downtown, including those in the Black’s Building operated by Nelson Properties, as well as new housing being developed by Brent Dahlstrom on the old Grand Hotel site.

While the projects take time, Deeds said, they must be taken in perspective, in comparison to the numerous empty storefronts and upper-level spaces in the 1970s and 1980s. “It’s good sometimes to remember where we came from before we get too depressed about how long it takes,” Deeds said.

Likewise in Cedar Falls, Kittrell’s River Place project is taking place on land where the city had been hoping for years for redevelopment. It’s one of multiple similar initiatives in downtown Cedar Falls.

“We’ve got the first two buildings completed,” Kittrell said. The residential units are being occupied. “So it’s great saying

Vandewalle From E1

Vandewalle’s firm, which employs 25 people in a variety of disciplines such as real estate, economic impact, grant writing, design, architecture and communications, was invited to the Waterloo project through its connection with Deere and Co. Vandewalle was hired three decades ago in Moline, Ill., where a similar public-private partnership known as Renew Moline was developed to revitalize the downtown riverfront where Deere’s factories were located.

“Deere saw what we were

PHOTOS BY BRANDON POLLOCK / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌

A nearly finished JSA Development apartment in the 200 block of West Fourth Street in Waterloo.

“We’re starting to see this whole kind of ‘live, work and play’ concept. That’s what millenials are looking for. That generation has a very different view of what they’re looking for.”

Mark Kittrell, developer of River Place project people are interested in living downtown.”

Kittell’s second building, at 200 State St., includes development of “co-working” space. “Really it’s a wide-open space for entrepreneurs and small business people, consultants,” Kittrell said. Some of them might eventually take up residence in other units in Kittrell’s buildings.

He’s also planning a third building in the area at 250 E. Third St., with 42 oneand two-bedroom units along the Cedar River. A

plan is being submitted to the city for approval.

He hopes entertainment activities in an adjacent plaza area will complement existing activities like the annual Sturgis Falls Celebration.

“We’re starting to see this whole kind of ‘live, work and play’ concept.

That’s what millenials are looking for,” Kittrell said.

“That generation has a very different view of what they’re looking for.”

They don’t just want to live near their job. They are

looking for activities and attractive living space. A diversified economy, with major manufacturers like Deere and an emerging base of young entrepreneurs, aids in that development and will all combine to bolster the Cedar Valley’s A finished JSA Development apartment in the 200 block of West Fourth Street in Waterloo. future, Kittrell said.

able to do,” Vandewalle said.

“We’re sort of the conductor of how you rebuild and how you create markets where markets don’t exist.”

Vandewalle’s first downtown master plan, unveiled in October 2000, was designed to take advantage of the Cedar River and bring a downtown “cool factor” to attract the new workforce employers, including Deere, were having trouble recruiting.

“We need to attract the top talent to the businesses,” Vandewalle said.

“If you don’t have the amenities these young people in particular aren’t going to come, and the baby boomers are going to move to Arizona.”

The original focus of the plan was to eliminate the inappropriate land uses and blight in the area between U.S. 218 and the river. A Vision Iowa grant, landfill money and revenue from the new Isle Casino Hotel Waterloo helped erect the major public projects and riverfront trails.

“We went through a recession during this time,” Vandewalle said. “To try to do financing of these things in an urban setting was difficult.”

While investors like Jim Walsh and Donna Nelson were working diligently fixing up downtown buildings, Vandewalle said it took larger improvements like the SportsPlex, am-

phitheater, river projects and now the Cedar Valley TechWorks to begin attracting new entrepreneurs.

Marta Purdy, the Vandewalle planner assigned to Waterloo, said more investors are now taking notice of what’s happening downtown. Brent Dahlstrom is constructing new housing at the former Grand Hotel site, and Single Speed Brewing Co. is working to open a brew pub in the former Hostess Wonder Bread bakery.

“They seem to be more interested about doing something downtown than maybe they were about five years ago,” Purdy said of potential investors. “The

A skylight brightens a JSA Development renovated apartment.

hard work and all of these people working behind the scenes together to accomplish the same goals is the real key.”

Vandewalle said the Single Speed project will be catalytic.

“The brewery is really cool from a use point of view,” he said. “It’s going to change a lot of the young people’s view of Waterloo.

It’s going to put bikes on our streets and on our bikeways.”

A number of projects from the original master plan and many added along the way still need to be completed, including a marina, white-water course, a possible competition pool at the SportsPlex

and another sheet of ice at Young Arena.

But Vandewalle said a prime focus now is building another 500 to 600 new housing units downtown, which will appeal to a broad range of tenants — entrepreneurs, young professionals, retiring boomers — wanting to enjoy a downtown lifestyle.

More downtown residents will drive more downtown retail activity and traffic so “eventually it all works,” Vandewalle said.

“What you’ve got is a whole lot of momentum right now,” he said.

“The biggest thing you’ve got to fear is if you don’t continue to do things high quality.”

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Lofty ambitions Waverly raising the bar for downtown living JOHN MOLSEED john.molseed@wcfcourier.com‌

WAVERLY — Waverly ‌ residents are going to have more options for living it up in downtown.

Renovations to several historic downtown buildings have made way for 18 new loft-style apartments.

Most are only a couple of finishing touches away from being put on the market for tenants. It took more than two years and nearly $4 million to complete the work.

Overruns on time and costs were expected due to the nature of the project, said Ann Seggerman, who owns 118 E. Bremer Ave., home to the Waverly Chamber of Commerce on the ground floor. The building formerly housed a Masonic Temple meeting room that is now upper floor loft space.

Initially, the chamber applied for a $2.5 million grant through the Iowa Economic Development Authority to help renovate 26 downtown apartment spaces. Bids for the projects were more than $2 million above estimates.

Eight of the planned apartments were ultimately cut from the project and the IEDA eventually pledged $3 million to the project. That doesn’t mean there weren’t other surprises during renovations spread across six historic downtown buildings.

“They’re old, old buildings,” Seggerman said. “At least once a month something would come up or an architect would say, ‘We need a support beam here,’ or something like that.”

The building owners came together and formed the Waverly Downtown Development LLC to coordinate the projects. Seggerman’s spaces include two upstairs spaces, a basement apartment at 118 E. Bremer Ave. and another basement space at 104 E. Bremer Ave. “This used to look like a dungeon,” Seggerman said standing in the near-complete apartment at 104 E. Bremer. Now the space is a comfortable apartment complete with natural light from street-level windows.

Paula Stevenson, a member of the LLC, is a downtown property owner who initially had six apartments in the renovation plans. She bowed out of the project after the increased cost was discovered but stayed on board the LLC to help coordinate the projects.

The project could only shed eight apartments and

PHOTOS BY MATTHEW PUTNEY / COURIER PHOTO EDITOR‌

From left, Rich Seggerman, Tiffany Schrage, Travis Toliver, Emily Neue and Ann Seggerman tour Ann’s basement apartment at 104 E. Bremer Ave.

A photo of the original wall shows the progress in the basement apartment at 104 E. Bremer Ave., just one of many new downtown lofts that will be finished up soon.

Ann Seggerman shows photos of the basement apartment at 104 E. Bremer Ave.

Brian Snyder, owner of 106 W. Bremer Ave., has seven apartments on the second level. still qualify for grant funding. One building owner with two units bowed out.

Stevenson’s project planned for six.

“It was the logical thing to do,” Stevenson said, adding she and the community will still benefit.

“I’m still a property

owner downtown,” she said.

“So it’s still an advantage to me to have people living here.”

The project comes as downtown Waverly is seeing an upswing. A new hotel on Bremer Avenue opened last year, and other businesses have followed.

“We’ve seen a growth in interest in businesses wanting to be located in downtown,” said Travis Toliver, executive director of the Waverly Chamber of Commerce.

The 18 new apartments might be the start of a trend, owners said.

“There’s still a lot of space down here,” Seggerman said.

The grants also comes with the condition that more than half of the apartments will go to low- or moderate-income renters for 10 years.

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Each space is different, and where possible unique features of each historic space are emphasized. At 118 E. Bremer Ave., the Masonic Temple windows facing the main street are original. In the basement, a stone wall gives the apartment a distinct look. At 112 and 114 E. Bremer, the windows facing Bremer Avenue have arches. The front apartment of three at 98 E. Bremer Ave. features a corner window atop the historic bank building.

For Brian Snyder, owner

of 106 W. Bremer Ave., the project was an opportunity to tap more of the potential of his historic building. The sole project on the west side of the Cedar River, Snyder’s building will have seven apartments on the second floor.

“I had dreamed of apartments, but I knew I couldn’t afford it,” he said.

The grant gave Snyder and the other building owners the catalyst they needed.

“This wouldn’t be feasible without the grants,” Seggerman said.

Most of the new apartments will be ready for residents sometime in April.

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Single Speed ahead!

The old Wonder Bread building, photographed on Jan. 25.

Brewpub and brewery on schedule despite snags AMIE STEFFENEICHER amie.steffeneicher@wcfcourier.com‌

Conveyor rollers are among many items to be saved and repurposed in the renovation of the old Wonder Bread building.

‌WATERLOO — There are reasons Dave Morgan is optimistic about the progress at the former Hostess building in downtown Waterloo.

There are also things that frustrate him.

As his construction crew tears through one wall, they find possibly historic mission brick, which alters plans for a restroom.

As they remove one layer of flooring, they find the hardwood layer below isn’t in a condition they’re ready to work with.

“Last week, we found termite damage, more asbestos and the beer garden’s footings aren’t appropriate for outdoor use,” Morgan said, walking past electricians and construction crews demolishing walls in late January. “I’m sure we’ll find three more things this

PHOTOS BY BRANDON POLLOCK / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌

Dave Morgan, owner of Single Speed Brewing Co., and Jed Vander Zanden, owner of Sidecar Coffee, look over the inside of the old Wonder Bread building in Waterloo. week.”

But Morgan, the owner of Single Speed who is turning the building into a historic, environmentally friendly production brewery and restaurant/pub, remained determined, even upbeat, despite these setbacks.

And he has plenty of reason to be.

The Waterloo City Council recently endorsed Morgan’s project as worthy of a national historic designation, an important step in getting the building on the National Register of Historic Places and freeing up federal and state restoration money for the remodel in the process.

The city also finished up what it could of asbestos removal — Morgan said they revised their plan to tackle the roof asbestos in the spring — so he now has the deed to the building.

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Whitewater all the rage in Waterloo, Cedar Falls JOHN MOLSEED john.molseed@wcfcourier.com‌

‌CEDAR FALLS — Cedar Falls is finally taking the plunge toward building a whitewater course on the Cedar River.

Neighboring Waterloo is also moving forward with plans for its own course.

Charles City sits upstream of both communities and set the whitewater course trend. The community opened the state’s first whitewater course in 2011 and has seen success in drawing people and community members to the river.

“It certainly has had a positive effect and it seems to be growing and growing each year,” said Steve Diers, Charles City administrator. “It’s really a neat attribute to the community.”

The Charles City project started with public support and an Iowa Department of Natural Resources low head dam removal grant.

Cedar Falls is following the same path. The city secured a $50,000 grant for low head dam removal study and designs for the whitewater course. This is the biggest step toward constructing a park since discussion began years ago.

“I’ve never been more optimistic,” said Nick Taiber, Cedar Falls City Council member. “I think it’s going to be a defining project for the city.”

Cedar Falls initially asked the DNR for more than $700,000 toward the project, but the DNR was only able to disburse $150,000 — a small portion of the estimated $1.45 million cost.

The city will reapply for more funds this year. The project is being designed

by McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group of Denver, Colo., assisted

by HBK Engineering of Chicago.

Waterloo’s project is moving along rapidly as well. Waterloo firefighters and whitewater advocate Ty Graham from Recreation Engineering and Planning of Boulder, Colo., went onto the water in downtown Waterloo in December along with other company representatives to topographically map the river bed.

The plan is to build a course along the east bank of the river from north of the Park Avenue bridge

to about the Fifth Street bridge.

While REP designs the course for the shape and hydrology of the river, the city is looking at options for improvements further downstream at a low-head dam near Sixth Street.

The city is exploring three options — removing the dam, enhancing the area for fishing or designing features for whitewater boating and fishing, said Paul Huting, Waterloo leisure services director.

Funding is still uncertain for the estimated $2.6 million project. Waterloo’s request for $400,000 in grants through the DNR for federal trail money in September was rejected, but the project qualified for the funds and the city will likely pursue them again this year.

Black Hawk County Gaming Association and Waterloo Development Corp., which both get proceeds from gaming funds to disburse as grants, have voiced support.

“I think there’s still a lot of funding to be found,” said Tim Hurley, president of the BHCGA board.

“There’s a lot of excitement about it.”

Excitement around Northeast Iowa for whitewater recreation has been building. Manchester opened a course last year, and Elkader opened a whitewater course on the Turkey River in 2014.

Manchester’s effort started in the same way — a grant to help remove a dangerous low-head dam in the Maquoketa River.

REP designed the course, which opened in June last year. Use of the course was heavy in its first year, said Timothy Vick, Manchester city manager. Business at nearby Water Shed, which rents kayaks and tubes, more than tripled last year, Vick said.

“I estimate we had between 6,000 to 7,000 users of the park,” Vick said.

Franklin Street Brewing Co. held a cardboard regatta that attracted dozens of teams with hand-made vessels and hundreds of spectators. Owners of the brewery chose the location in part because of the proposed park, Vick said.

“It’s been a huge asset for our downtown,” Vick said.

Vick said outdoor enthu-

siasts camping at nearby Backbone State Park have visited the course after learning it was a short drive away.

“It’s usually something they hadn’t planned on doing,” he said.

Manchester has teamed with Elkader and Charles City to promote Northeast Iowa for outdoor enthusiasts. Diers said the partnership helps promote the entire region and encourages people to visit more than one of the unique

whitewater courses.

“There are different aspects to each one that makes them unique,” Diers said.

Vick and Diers said they don’t necessarily see the Waterloo and Cedar Falls plans as competition. Additional parks in Northeast Iowa will only strengthen the case for the area as a destination BRANDON POLLOCK / COURIER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER‌ for outdoor enthusiasts, Ryan McGrath confers with Ty Graham, on steps, while Diers said.

“I hope they go forward,” gathering GPS data on the river bottom below the Fourth Street dam in downtown Waterloo Saturday.

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‌CEDAR FALLS — If you’re apt to take a stiff drink after finishing up a long week of work, Whiskey Friday may not be your cup of tea.

In fact, the purpose of the weekly get-together at Mill Race, the local shared workspace for startups, is to think harder about work.

Trace Steffen, co-founder of HowFactory, a Cedar Falls-based technology startup, borrowed the concept from David Tominsky, who oversees The Vault, a Cedar Rapids co-working space for startups.

“David Tominsky is probably the most passionate startup champion in Iowa,” Steffen said. “He has a gong that he hits when somebody does something he likes.”

One of Tominsky’s ideas that rang a bell, of a sort, for Steffen was Whiskey Friday.

“On Fridays, Dave would bring a bottle of whiskey and some mason jars and set it down, and people would stop what they were doing and walk over and start talking,” Steffen said. “So, you’d have to engage with another human being. It was a really neat event.”

The idea seemed ideal for

the Cedar Valley’s startup community, which already had a number of networking events, including Startup Drinks, 1 Million Cups and TechBrew, among others, Steffen said.

“Why we brought it here was because we needed to create and manufacturer collisions, what we call ‘information spillover,’” Steffen said.

The idea is to pull anyone who might have an idea for a business — at whatever stage — into one place and have them “collide” with other like-minded entrepreneurs, Steffen said.The idea goes back to Venice, Italy, in the 1500s, when glassblowing was the new technology.

The need to “create those collisions” is just as great today, so Whiskey Friday was launched late in 2015, Steffen said.

“It’s just one of a number of events that we call the Innovation Ecosystem, and it’s not just startups,” he said.

“We created this opportunity for these people to come together and be able to learn — we call it ‘information spillover.’”

The event generally gets underway around 3:30 p.m. when the first guests file in and fix themselves a drink in a kitchen area of the main floor of the Mill Race, which used to house the Cedar Falls office of the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber.

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It’s informal as well as informative, Steffen said.

“Maybe 10 people will show up in one week and maybe 30 another week; you just don’t know,” he said.

On this particular day in mid-January, attendees picked up tips on how to

torical designation in March or April, he said.

“If we get approval, we think we can get the brewing facility open by the third quarter of this year still,” Morgan said.

The entire project — from taking an existing, aging building full of baking equipment, removing some and repurposing others, while remodeling the inside to be a functional, aesthetically pleasing and LEED-certified production brewery and restaurant — is expected to cost about $6 million.

That’s not factoring in that termite damage, the extra asbestos, the flooring that will likely have to be torn out and replaced or the footings that were appropriate for indoor use but not for temperature-extreme outdoor use.

“It’s been quite a bit more than I was thinking or planning,” he said. “I’ve never done this before.”

It’s worth it to Morgan, however, to return the building to its glory days — the period of time between 1920 and 1970 — because his customers will likely appreciate the work being done.

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“We’ll ask some questions as a conversation starter,” Steffen said.

One never knows what topics might come up at a Whiskey Friday.

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Nate Clayberg, director of business retention and expansion with the Alliance & Chamber, wandered into the mid-January Whiskey Friday just before it started.

Clayberg said he liked the concept.

“You’ll get people from college students and startups to existing businesses to retirees and politicians,” he said.

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Cedar Falls Mayor Jim Brown stopped by at least one Whiskey Friday, Steffen said.

“He’s an old startup guy, and we ended up learning

lockers, which he plans to use as intended; lumber that can’t otherwise be used for flooring; and as many original light fixtures as possible.

“The point being, you would have this story that you reclaimed it; there’s no cost savings,” Morgan said.

In an era where business owners look only at the bottom line, Morgan and his business partners — including Sidecar Coffee’s

Jed Vander Zanden — have emphasized historical value and environmental value.

With the Hostess building, they’re putting their money where their mouth is.

“People have a lot of pride in this building,” Morgan said, surveying the space as Peters Construction and Stickfort Electric crews moved about. “If we can help bring those memories back, it’s worth it.”

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‘The best downtown in Iowa’ Cedar Falls keeps adding businesses and developments HOLLY HUDSON holly.hudson@wcfcourier.com‌

dar River with more than 40 residential units is scheduled for this year, and another mixed-use building at State and East Second streets is anticipated.

River Place Plaza, expected to be built in 2017 at State and East Second, will feature brick work, lighting, electricity, landscaping, public restrooms and a “grand staircase.”

When completed, the development figures to roughly double the downtown property tax base and create new jobs and commerce downtown. It will create nearly 100 new residences Kittrell hopes will be occupied by everyone from young professionals to retirees.

“We are excited to see that progress and continued growth and the added vibrancy it brings along the State Street corridor,” Lilly said.

While the downtown continues to thrive, many of those responsible are expanding efforts to build and enhance the business district.

Community Main Street is working with the city of

Cedar Falls to implement a Master Streetscape Plan, which will bring some of the features from the Main Street corridor — such as decorative light poles — to side and parallel streets to increase connectivity and walkability, Lilly said.

“It’s a big accomplishment from a planning perspective.”

Community Main Street also is updating a market analysis study from 2009 to help identify what types of businesses and product lines residents would like to see downtown.

“It’s an extensive project,” Lilly said. “It will also identify things we can do to help existing businesses be successful.”

While Lilly, who has been with Community Main Street since 2008, credits the organization with some of the downtown’s success, “It has been an accumulation of many years of work that has brought us to the point where the downtown is so strong and vibrant,” she said.

Key to that success are the many volunteers who have contributed their time.

“Our community donated

a huge amount of volunteer hours — 6,066 — to Community Main Street projects last year,” Lilly said.

One of downtown’s newest businesses, Mill Race — an offshoot of HowFactory — also may become a factor in the growth and enhancement of downtown Cedar Falls. Mill Race offers cooperative working space, a place for meetings, remote workers, etc.

“We have four or five different companies in here right now,” said Trace Steffen, a co-founder of HowFactory. “We work with partners in the Cedar Valley — such as Cedar Falls Utilities, Mark Kittrell with River Place, Western Home and the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber — to create a better innovation ecosystem for start-up businesses, existing technology businesses, etc.”

In theory, those businesses may one day fill downtown storefronts.

“And not just in Cedar Falls, but downtown Waterloo and throughout the Cedar Valley,” Steffen said.

Mill Race itself is expected to move into one of Kittrell’s

CEDAR FALLS — Ac‌ cording to Carol Lilly, executive director of Cedar Falls Community Main Street, downtown Cedar Falls had a pretty good year, and she has the numbers to prove it.

“We’ve had 15 new businesses open,” she said, ranging from Chocolaterie Stam and The Sheep Baatique to State Street Yoga Co-op and Café Due. “There is still a nice mix (of businesses),” Lilly said. “It is not overly heavy in restaurants and bars.”

Those new businesses, all of which opened in 2015, have created 66 new jobs, Lilly said.

Additionally, 38 building rehabilitation projects were completed in 2015, which reflect a private investment of $6,689,051, and four buildings sold for a total of $1,614,500.

Community Main Street alone hosted 49 events in 2015, including debuting the Gran Fondo bike ride, which brings awareness to the local trail system, Lilly said.

“We hope to expand that event.”

“The standing events (Holiday Hoopla, Movies Under the Moon, etc.) are growing, but it’s manageable growth,” Lilly said. “People are still having a good experience, and we get great community support, not just in attendance, but community sponsorship.”

And one can’t discuss progress in the area without the River Place project entering the conversation.

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The comforts of home Cedar Valley sees paradigm shift in senior living

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‌WATERLOO — Gone are the long, sterile hallways and drab dining areas where everyone eats the same thing. Gone are the institutional living quarters and regimented days.

To be sure, this ain’t your grandma’s nursing home.

“Things have changed,” said Lisa Gates, executive director of Friendship Village. “People coming in want a home that’s comfortable, attractive, provides good care and good community. It’s warm.

It’s home.”

The same goes for the Western Home Communities, NewAldaya and other area senior living organizations.

“All people want the same things,” said Wendy Ager, Western Home Communities’ senior director of skilled nursing. “They want to be treated with dignity and respect and make choices about their lives and care. They want Wi-Fi so they can get on Facebook and see pictures of their grandkids. They want to know where do we charge our iPads. They want to be autonomous as much as possible, to makes choices for themselves.”

The desire for the comforts of home and the health outcomes of residents when those comforts are met have caused a paradigm shift in senior living and care. Over the last two or so decades, the idea nursing homes are for the end of one’s life has been turned on its head.

“People come here to live,” said Shelli Pint, Friendship Village director of marketing.

And live they do. The Friendship Village dining room is buffet style, allowing residents to choose from the chef-prepared options. There are in-house bridge marathons, movie nights, outdoor movies in summer, game nights and karaoke.

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A salad bar within the spacious dining room is just one of many features of senior living at Friendship Village in Waterloo. campus pond is stocked for resident anglers.

Residents have taken group trips to Ireland and England.

“People love the socialization,” Pint said. “We have so many active, fun people here.”

Socialization was the impetus for The Cottages at the Western Home in Cedar Falls. Construction finished last summer on Iowa’s first freestanding household nursing homes. Designed like Craftsman-style homes, the buildings feature large, private bedrooms and bathrooms for each resident.

There’s a den, dining room, living area and kitchen. Residents dine family-style in the home.

“The Cottages are designed in the household model of care,” Ager said. “We want residents to feel like at home. In the traditional nursing home model we stripped

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Pastries made from scratch by staff enhance the dining options for seniors at Friendship Village in Waterloo.

Lavonne Zimmerman and other residents enjoy piano music before lunch at the Western Home’s Nation Cottage in Cedar Falls on Jan. 26. people of their choices. Here, they Residents are allowed to cook and can make choices what and when clean and do their own laundry if they eat, when they want to get up, they choose.” when they want to go for a walk.

Research shows plenty of health benefits from the new model of care. In the 1990s, Bill Thomas, professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s Erickson School of Aging, pioneered

an approach he called the Eden Alternative. The approach called for nursing homes that were more like home. Residents tended gardens, pets and children. That sense of purpose resulted in a more engaged community, less need for medication and a reduced death rate.

“We definitely see better health outcomes,” Ager said. “People are gaining weight; people who live with dementia tend to lose weight over time. People are experiencing fewer falls, are sleeping better at night. A lot of this can be attributed to the smaller environment. There are 16 people in each cottage. They have the same caregivers every day.

All of that together has just created this sense of family.”

CNA Samantha Gaede and resident Marge Reisner spread clean tablecloths before lunch at the Western Home’s Nation Cottage in Cedar Falls on Jan. 26.

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Highly effective Leader in Me helps students develop soft skills ANDREW WIND andrew.wind@wcfcourier.com‌

WATERLOO — Leader ‌ in Me has taken hold in public and parochial schools across the Cedar Valley during the past six years.

But the business community first made the case for implementing the leadership development initiative and provides funding to ensure it continues growing.

That effort was started and has been coordinated through the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber, a regional economic development organization. It has since created an educational arm called Leader Valley that oversees work with educators and schools.

“It was born out of a concern we’re not prepared with the necessary soft skills that the businesses needed,” said Melissa Reade, Leader Valley director. Business and industry officials had found new employees lacking when it came to being on time, interpersonal relations, effective communication and a wide range of other skills that may not be specifically taught in high school or college classes.

“They weren’t taking care of the basic responsibilities they had as an employee,” said Reade.

Leader in Me, created

by Utah-based FranklinCovey, introduces students and teachers to the principles of Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and helps to put them into practice.

A group of Alliance executives and board members advocated for the initiative’s introduction to the area.

Reade said that happened after Steve Dust, the Alliance’s chief executive officer, Bob Justis, retired vice president of community development, and CBE Companies CEO Tom Penaluna, a former board member, visited the first Leader in Me school.

The first two Cedar Valley schools to implement the initiative started in 2010. “Now we’re up to 19 schools, 17 schools very actively,” said Reade. In addition, an important milestone was reached

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Tawnie Lavalee, corporate spa director for La James International College in Cedar Falls, helps Hoover Middle School student student Emily Gage determine facial shapes during the after-school Cosmo Club. when Orange Elementary was designated a lighthouse school last spring by FranklinCovey, honoring the attainment of a wellrounded leadership model.

“It’s an awesome honor, the second in the state to achieve that,” said Reade.

“They have been really shining their light on others and leading the way.”

That’s not the only way the local effort has been recognized. Last spring, a Leader in Me symposium was hosted in the Cedar Valley, drawing attendees from across the Midwest. It was an unexpected choice for one of their symposiums.

“They don’t typically do symposiums in communities of our size,” said Reade, suggesting the community-wide approach caught FranklinCovey’s attention. Eventually, Leader Valley hopes to introduce the initiative into all of the Waterloo and Cedar Falls public schools and Cedar Valley Catholic Schools.

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unusual, as is the plan to get Leader in Me in so many schools across a region. Tens of thousands of dollars have been donated by a number of businesses and foundations to help implement and sustain the initiative.

“I think it’s safe to say that we wouldn’t be able to bring these programs to schools if it wasn’t for those generous business leaders,” said Reade.

Most of the money is needed for initial staff training.

Afterwards, $5,000 to $8,000 is needed to maintain it in a school each year. Only about 5 to 10 percent of the costs are picked up by the schools.

“FranklinCovey definitely recognizes a unique approach we have here,” said Reade. “They refer us to folks all the time to share our motto, how it’s working.”

Leadership, as understood through the initiative, isn’t based on having a title or position.

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Everyone can choose to be a leader,” said Reade. “It’s really authentic learning opportunities in, I think, the most pivotal years.”

Students work to become leaders in various ways at Orchard Hill Elementary School in Cedar Falls.

Children talk about progress towards goals they set in student-led parent conferences. And, on a weekly basis, students track their activities so they can write reflections on how they were leaders.

“This year, our goal is that 100 percent of students and staff have leadership roles,” said Principal Andrea Christopher.

The school’s data showed that about half of students and staff had taken on such roles in the past.

The emphasis is on becoming leaders “in ways that they’re gifted,” she explained.

Christopher believes the initiative is “absolutely” laying the groundwork for life after school or college as students learn how to collaborate, problem solve

and think critically. But she thinks of these skills as “foundational” rather than “soft.”

“There’s nothing soft about it,” she said. “It’s really difficult, even adults struggle with how do we get along even when we have different ideas.”

That preparation continues in middle school.

Teacher Kayla Irwin introduces Hoover Middle School students to Leader in Me during an exploratory class everyone takes each year.

The school has also instituted Hawk Time, a 40-minute period that was held each week in the fall where students could explore their interests and passions. It is expected to be offered again in the spring.

In addition, some after-school clubs are offered at different points in the year. In all of these situations, the aim is connect students to vocational interests and develop employability skills.

“I think a lot of it in

middle school is planting the seed,” said Irwin.

“That they have that innate power to choose, I think, is huge in middle school.”

Among the leadership efforts at Blessed Maria Assunta Pallotta Middle School are an ambassador program and a service club.

In the ambassador program, visitors are “greeted at the door by one of the students and the student takes them around” the school, said Carol Luce, service learning and leadership teacher. The service club “offers different opportunities for kids to give back.”

Eighth-grader Cannon Butler said using the 7 Habits have helped him do well in school. And he believes Leader in Me will have a lasting impact.

What Butler has put into practice will help him “with a job or with certain situations later in life or with college,” he said.

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Golden anniversary Hawkeye celebrates 50 years, looks to the future

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WATERLOO — When ‌ Hawkeye first opened, there was no campus.

The programs that made up the newly established Hawkeye Institute of Technology in 1966 were spread across the community. A total of 227 students enrolled that fall in programs like nursing, mechanical and electronic engineering, auto mechanics and body repair, machine specialist and welding.

“We started with rented facilities,” said Linda Allen, current president of what became Hawkeye Community College in 1993. Those initial programs were transferred from the Waterloo School District’s vocational-technical school, which had been operating for nearly a decade.

That same fall, voters in Hawkeye’s 10-county service area approved a tax levy that raised $1.75 million over five years. Those funds, along with a $1.25 million state appropriation, allowed Hawkeye’s board to purchase land along East Orange Road and begin planning the first buildings on its main campus, which opened in 1969.

As Hawkeye’s 50th anniversary approaches, the college has grown a lot from those early days.

About 5,400 students are enrolled in more than 45 technical and liberal arts credit programs.

Some of those are high school juniors and seniors earning college credit.

Many thousands more are served through community education courses and a wide variety of specialized training for business and industry.

The campus now has 13 buildings along with other centers throughout the Cedar Valley and across the region. More program and building expansion is planned after voters approved a $25 million bond issue a year ago. Credit programs for high school and college students will benefit from the additions, as will Hawkeye’s adult education programs.

Allen said the college’s training work with businesses and those who have been laid off from their jobs has grown over the decades, as well, and been equally important to the community.

“I think our role is to continue training and retraining,” she said. “We

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“This facility is going to allow us to train students in a way that we haven’t been able to before.When you enter this facility, it will feel and look like a hospital, which is pretty amazing.”

intend to continue to meet those needs and expand on those needs.”

And there is plenty of need right now. During the past year, 1,400 people have been laid off from John Deere and Ocwen Financial in Waterloo and Unverferth Manufacturing in Shell Rock.

Hawkeye reached out to the affected workers through its Rapid Response Team with information about training programs, tuition assistance and services. In August, the Dislocated Worker Transition Center opened on the main campus to help displaced Deere workers.

Various training opportunities are available through the college for these and other workers.

Diana Staver of Evansdale was laid off in April from her job as a forklift driver at John Deere after nearly four years with the company. Now enrolled in Hawkeye’s industrial maintenance program, she has been taking classes in subjects such as industrial

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“It really was interesting to me,” said Staver. “I’ve always liked to work with my hands, something to challenge the brain a little bit. Something’s always breaking, someone always needs to fix it.”

Allen said that career opportunities won’t be in short supply during the next decade. Job growth is expected in fields such as health care, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, construction and more.

The college’s plans for the future will help address those needs. In the first phase, officials are looking for an off-campus location for a new Adult Education Center.

This will replace the aging Metro and Martin Luther King Jr. centers, providing more space for program expansion.

“Right now, we serve about 2,000 people there annually (in the existing buildings),” said Allen, with everything from adult basic education to high school completion and English as a second language services. Hawkeye has also begun to add some technical programs for those students.

“We want to serve as many people who need our help,” said Allen. “We see our adult education center as critical to the future of the community and our college going forward.”

Hawkeye will also expand its high school career academies, which provide concurrent college credit for certain liberal arts and technical courses to stu-

dents in districts across the region.

“Career academies are extremely important for kids,” said Allen. It’s “the opportunity to take college courses that lead to a career” and can save money on college costs for parents.

Construction will be happening on campus during the second and third phases of the plans.

A Health Sciences Technology Center will allow for expansion of health care programs and simulation technology in one building. Renovations of Grundy Hall will allow for an updated and expanded space for liberal arts courses.

Allen said the health sciences building will help related programs move forward.

“This facility is going to allow us to train students in a way that we haven’t been able to before,” she noted. “When you enter this facility, it will feel and look like a hospital, which is pretty amazing,” said Allen.

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Credit unions grow, banks seek parity JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

WATERLOO — Credit ‌ unions and community banks share some of the same concerns, share similar roles and often work together on investments in the state and Cedar Valley.

There are some differences, though, none more notable than the credit unions’ nonprofit status.

“We’re owned by all our members; they all have one vote in our boards of directors, who are volunteers,” said Justin Hupfer, senior vice president of the Iowa Credit Union League. “That ownership structure is obviously different from the banking industry. It’s not that one’s better than the other, but they’re certainly distinct and different.”

There are 103 credit unions in Iowa, with more than 1 million members, or account holders, Hupfer said. Assets in 2015 totaled $13.4 billion.

Credit unions account for about 13 percent of the assets in Iowa, compared to a national figure of about 6 percent, Hupfer said.

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“More and more Iowans are deciding to join credit unions, but it’s still dominated by the banks here, as it is around the country,” Hupfer said.

The roster of credit unions in the Cedar Valley includes Waterloo-based

Veridian Credit Union, which is the largest in the state. Other major players locally are the University of Iowa Credit Union and Dupaco Community Credit Union, the latter of which acquired Iowa Community Credit Union in the last couple of years.

“It’s a very vibrant community in terms of credit union activity,” said Monte Berg, CEO of Veridian, which originated in 1934 for seven John Deere employees in Wa t e r l o o Monte Berg and remained connected to Deere for 50 years.

Cedar Rapids-based Collins Community Credit Union had a ground-breaking ceremony Oct. 14 for a new full-service branch located at East Viking Road and Winterberry Drive in Cedar Falls. Collins had opened a home loan center in 2013. That location prompted the plan for a full-service branch, president and CEO Rick Benhart said at the dedication ceremony.

The branch is scheduled to open in the spring.

Credit unions, like banks, are consolidating, expanding and diversifying, Berg said. “It’s consolidation, awareness,” he said. “We can meet the needs of

members. It’s about convenience, technology, products and services.”

Membership in credit unions is growing.

As of June 2015, credit unions reported 13 percent year-over-year loan growth, a bit above the national average of 11 percent, Hupfer said.

He noted that through the first half of 2015 Iowa credit unions originated about $1.9 billion in consumer loans — up about 47 percent over 2014. Mortgage lending in particular was up about 32 percent through June 2015.

“So, our credit unions are in good shape,” he said. “Iowans are taking advantage of the opportunity to find competitive rates and help with their financial needs.”

Loans on the rise‌

On the business side, Iowa credit unions have only about 3.5 percent of the outstanding business loans in the state, Hupfer said.

“Commercial banks are still a large majority of that business, but it’s important to note that the average size of business loans for Iowa credit unions is about $193,000.”

Credit unions, therefore, are “connecting” with small businesses, Hupfer said.

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that’s a real positive for the state of Iowa and positive for small businesses that our credit unions are engaged in business lending,” Hupfer said.

There are other differences between the two models, not the least of which is regulatory, said Jon Murphy, director of government affairs with the credit union league.

“The difference between banks and credit unions is we are capped at 12.25 percent of assets for your member business loans,” he said. “We have worked nationally to try and raise that to 27.5 percent.”

Banks, as for-profit institutions, also are taxed more heavily than credit unions.

“We think that difference is earned because of the not-for-profit tax status that credit unions practice every day, but the difference is not nearly as great as the banks would tell you,” Hupfer said.

Were credit unions to operate on the same tax plane as banks, a $100 million benefit to credit union account holders likely would disappear, Murphy said.

“It’s the same reason electric co-ops are taxed differently than investor-owned utilities,” he said. “If we weren’t able to show that $100 million of savings that go back to Iowans, there wouldn’t be any reason to tax us

differently.”

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John Sorensen, president and CEO of the Johnston-based Iowa Bankers Association, said c r e d i t unions in some cases aren’t living up to their mission. “ T h e John facts are Sorensen clear on this issue: Large, complex credit unions have lost their way,” Sorensen said. “They have cast aside service to Iowans with modest means in favor of commercial lending, shiny new office buildings and executive compensation. Despite a tax exemption linked to service to Iowans in need, only two of the last 15 new branches opened by Iowa credit unions were in low-income areas. And, less than 1 percent of credit union (HMDA reporting) home loans were made to low-income Iowans during 2014.”

In the fall of 2015, legislative tax-writing committees held a joint financial institution tax hearing at the Capitol, which exposed the lack of parity on the tax front between banks and credit unions, Sorensen said.

“At one point in the hearing, after credit union representatives provided a

litany of benevolent things they do for their communities, a lawmaker said, ‘Paying tax is another important way to give back to your community … by funding education, infrastructure and health services,’” Sorensen said.

He also said taxpayers should know more about “this growing subsidy.”

Complex credit unions should report information on executive compensation and taxes paid to the state of Iowa, he said.

Charles Funk, president and CEO of MidWestOne Bank, based in Iowa City with branches in the Cedar Valley, agreed banks are looking for tax parity with credit unions.

“The organization for which I work paid nearly $8 million in income taxes last year,” Funk said. “A large similar-sized credit union with which we compete paid none. This is a very good example of crony capitalism and should be changed.”

That aside, banks and credit unions work in cooperation with one another, Funk noted.

“Given that banks and credit unions offer similar products to our customers, there is no question that our industries cooperate in many efforts to lobby our elected officials for reasonable regulation,” he said.

“It’s fair to say that there are many such issues on which we agree.”

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UNI aiming for future growth, collaboration CHRISTINIA CRIPPES christinia.crippes@wcfcourier.com‌

CEDAR FALLS — The ‌ University of Northern Iowa works with partners throughout the state, holds regional events and conferences, puts on top-notch performances and sporting events and welcomes presidential contenders. Most importantly, it educates thousands of Iowans each year.

To say UNI President Bill Ruud will continue those objectives understates his mission in coming years to grow enrollment and expand collaborations across the state.

“We con- Bill Ruud tinue to want to make sure that the Cedar Falls-Waterloo community sees us as a fully and 100 percent partner in everything we do, not just in education, but in campus opportunities, community opportunities, community events, celebrations,” Ruud said.

While it’s 10 years off, Ruud’s forward-thinking vision includes collaborating with the community on UNI’s own sesquicentennial celebration.

“We will be working with the community of Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Black Hawk County and UNI to have the most wonderful celebration in 2026,” Ruud said.

Not only will 2026 be the university’s 150th year of operation, but there will be

many other significant celebrations that year. The campus’ Campanile will be 100 years old; the UNI-Dome will be 50 years old; and Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center will be 25 years old. It will also be the 250th anniversary of the United States.

In the nearer term, too, the focus is on growing enrollment and partnering with organizations across the state.

The university had a total enrollment of 11,981 for fall semester.

Ruud said the university wants to increase enrollment in the College of Education and across-the-board — in person, online, hybrid, graduate, undergraduate, off-campus and on-campus. UNI also plans to make it easier for people who have some college credits to complete their degrees.

“Our dream is to grow enrollment back to 14,000, to where we were about 10 years ago,” Ruud said. “We can do that with no new bricks and mortar, OK. So, we don’t have to build any new buildings. We don’t have to build any new parking spaces, none of that stuff.”

But construction projects will continue to improve current facilities. A project to renovate the Schindler Education Center is underway and expected to be complete by 2017.

“We will work with open arms to make sure the community has an opportunity to see, feel and touch the new College of Education,

see what the effect of it is, see how it can interface with all the 360 school districts in the state, see what beautiful collaboration space, what a beautiful new education space,” Ruud said.

Work also continues to upgrade residence halls. Improvements to Lawther Hall should be complete in the fall of 2017, followed by work on Campbell Hall.

And a renovation of Rod Library is just getting started.

“I think we’ll begin to have conversations about more interface between the library and the student union, as social living and learning space and academic living and learning space,” Ruud said.

He said power delivery systems will also be upgraded, including steam, electricity, infrastructure, cable and computers. And UNI will continue with efficiency measures recommended in a study by the Iowa Board of Regents.

Growth beyond that will come from expanding partnerships or finding new ones. The university already collaborates with UNI’s Center for Urban Education, Hawkeye Community College, other community colleges, UnityPoint-Allen Hospital, community school districts and TechWorks.

“We envision the partnership that we would have with TechWorks probably to be unlimited,” Ruud said.

He said future collaborations may have the university working more with the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.

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Restaurant owner Thu An Nguyen sees dreams come true with hard work, community support MELODY PARKER melody.parker@wcfcourier.com ‌

‌WATERLOO — Tokyo Bay restaurant is a crisp fusion of Asian and contemporary design. Tall, frosted doors open into a spacious, casual bar area with a multiscreen TV and multi-level counter. To the right, tables and booths are set up for sushi dining, and to the left, hibachi grills can seat up to 95 diners.

For Thu An Nguyen — Anna to her family, employees and the community, the newly opened restaurant is a dream come true. It’s also symbolic of the support from the Cedar Valley and her faithful customers that gave her the motivation to build Tokyo Bay at Crossing Point near San Marnan Drive.

“The people who came and dined at the old Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse on Ridgeway Avenue were so supportive and loyal. They kept the doors open and kept me alive. It was hard because the building was deteriorating. I knew I wanted to do something like this, to bring a restaurant for sushi and Asian cuisine that you’d find in a bigger city. I’m very proud,” Nguyen says.

She also owns Asian Fusion and Sakura Japanese Steak House and Sushi Bar, both in Cedar Falls, and Chilito’s Mexican Bar and Grill, located near Lowe’s Home Improvement.

Owning a restaurant — let alone four — is a demanding job. The cost of overhead — food, labor and keeping the

lights on and doors open — is high and hours are long.

Menus have to be created, new dishes and specialties developed, kitchen and wait staff must be trained so the public is happy and keeps coming back.

Recently, the restaurant was closed for a week after a kitchen fire to repair the sprinkler system and clean up smoke damage. The owner expressed her thanks to the fire department and for the public’s patience.

Nguyen started as a server in a Texas restaurant at 18.

She and her chef, husband Le, moved to Waterloo to assist his parents at a restaurant. They fell in love with the community and decided to put down roots here.

Le develops the recipes, including Tokyo’s yum-yum sauce, and teaches chefs how to prepare and properly season the Asian dishes and to work the grills. “They start in the kitchen first because a chef has to learn the flavors first and how to cook and season for one or for a large party. Then comes working on showmanship for entertaining customers at the grills,” she explains.

Mother to children ages 10 to 21, the energetic Nguyen balances the demands of being a busy mom with owning and managing the restaurants. In addition to her husband, she’s assisted by her sister, Victoria, and brother-in-law, Binh Vuong, who followed from Texas.

It’s all been rewarding, she says. “Yes, there is so

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Anna Nguyen, owner of Tokyo Bay Restaurant, as well as three other restaurants in Waterloo and Cedar Falls.

Tokyo Bay much time and effort. I like that, I don’t mind that because that’s who I am. This isn’t just a work place. It’s

younger employees, providing encouragement, support and motivation along with the occasional second chance. Her goal is to put them on track toward successful lives.

“Restaurants can be a revolving door for employees, but if they are treated like family and feel like they have a stake in it, they are like a home for me.” willing to invest themselves In addition to being the in it and stay. They can see boss, Nguyen serves as a a future,” says Binh Vuong. stern mother hen with her “We promote from within.

One of our head chefs started here as a busboy.”

Employees are treated like family “because they are my family. I’m proud of them and appreciate them.

We’re here every day because it makes us happy.

It’s very personal for me,” Nguyen says, adding, “I love when customers come in and say they’ve been craving our food. I wanted to bring something nice for my city, something they can be proud of,” she adds.

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Our company and our team members are active in the community, donating food, time and financial support to many Cedar Valley nonprofit organizations and events. We partner with the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, United Way and the Salvation Army by raising funds annually through Tyson’s philanthropic effort, Powering the Spirit, which aims to end childhood hunger.

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Risk takers

Cedar Valley entrepreneurs describe making the jump to business owner

Bike Tech owner puts Environmental services his mettle to the pedals company still growing JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌Brent Johnson is owner of Bike Tech in Cedar Falls and is known across the Cedar Valley and Iowa as a longtime advocate for cycling.

Give a brief history of your company: Bike Tech was started in 1996 as Advantage Cyclery was going out of business downtown. We kind of took its place. That was started and run for 10 years by the previous owner. I kind of thought about starting something from scratch, and one of the people I spoke with 10, 15 years ago, suggested I ask an existing business if they wanted to sell. It would be easier than starting from scratch.

What was the hardest part about going off on your own?

The hardest part is the hours. Starting with limited staff and budget for payroll required a lot of extra hours put in by myself. It meant and still does mean limited time with extended family — parents, siblings, that kind of thing. When you work retail there are retail hours, and they’re not conducive to vacations and travel. That’s one thing I’ve definitely had to re-examine; we have a year-and-a-half-old child.

I’ve had to make sure I can spend quality time at home with my wife.

When I bought the busi-

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Brent Johnson is owner of Bike Tech in Cedar Falls. ness I had two employees — one high school student and one college student.

Tell us a brief story that illustrates the hardship and risk you faced.

I guess the hardest part for me personally is sharing or transferring responsibility.

Very specific things I have in mind that I want done a certain way. So, making sure it gets done the way I want it done. Kind of micromanaging would be a different way of putting it. It pretty much boils down to what part of those decisions are based on me alone or those that affect the customer and employees, to an extent. If a wall got painted wrong in the basement where no one ever sees it, it would bug me even if it doesn’t bug anyone else. So, you need to prioritize what’s

important with where you put your efforts and what’s important to your customers.

What’s the best part about being your own boss?

Probably(that) you have the most control over where you want to go and where you’re at in terms of goals for the company or yourself. I’m ultimately responsible for success or failure and maybe to a certain degree cleaning up the mess. If we’re having problems, the owner at a certain point is the one who has to put in extra time or effort or dollars. There are things you can’t ask of employees — like putting in 80 hours a week — but you can ask of yourself. I’m ultimately responsible for everything that might not go according to plan.

What would you say to someone looking to become a risk-taker in business?

I’d say have your homework done. Speak with qualified people — accountant, lawyer, real estate person, small-business developer.

They’re people who have many times been through what you’re going through already or they have clients who have. You can learn anonymously from their mistakes, hopefully. So, having an experienced accountant who has seen a business sale or attorney when they expanded the business.

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‌Brian Hoyer is founder of Rite Environmental, a waste desposal and recycling service in Cedar Falls.

Give a brief history of your company.

The city of Cedar Falls decided they were not going to provide curbside re cyc l i n g as a city service.

There were many residents who wanted the service Brian Hoyer provided.

I had a pickup truck, a little space in my parents’ garage and I bought 16 recycling cans to get started. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier did a nice article, along with KWWL, about the business I was starting.

After that, we started getting requests for service. I have continued to bootstrap and grow the business to what it is today, which is much more than just a small curbside recycling service. Now we are a small environmental services company offering many different recycling services, refuse collection services and municipal street sweeping.

What was the hardest

part about going off on your own?

For me, the hardest part has been seeing my friends and girlfriend graduate with degrees and start successful careers in the business world while, at 26, I am still grinding out my degree and growing a business that may or may not pay off in the long run. As enticing as a nice career, consistent paycheck and work that you can leave in the office would be, I know I am much happier building something of my own.

Tell a brief story that illustrates the hardship and risk you faced.

I could tell many stories of times in the past five years that I have asked myself why am I doing this. I think my “favorite” day ever was a few years ago in March. I was sick. The route driver also called in sick. So, I get to go to work now. It was cold and rainy and I was miserable. The truck we used at the time to pull the recycling collection trailer broke down. I went to get our backup truck, which then got a flat tire. I got that replaced, only to see that an hour later, the recycling trailer had a flat tire. I have to replace that now. All the while, it was about 40 degrees, raining,

windy and I was miserable. At the end of the day, we got the job done and it wouldn’t surprise me if I cried myself to sleep that night.

What’s the best part about being your own boss?

There are many things I enjoy about being my own boss. Whether that is having my dog with me all day, working with great people you employ or taking off early from the office to get a beer with friends who are in town. Having the ability to develop your own culture in the workplace and surrounding yourself with people who thrive in a similar culture where they enjoy coming to work is a great feeling.

What would you say to someone looking to become a risk-taker in business?

There is no better time than now. The longer you wait, in my opinion, the more risk you take on. You may have a spouse and children to support, a house payment, a nice-paying job that is hard to leave. So, as a younger person who didn’t have much to lose it was a great time to venture out into the world of entrepreneurship.

Zach Everman, multimedia storyteller JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌Zach Everman founded Pixel Labs, a multi-platform media company that focuses on audio and video production, web content and and commercial advertising.

Give a brief history of your company.

We started the business in 2009, but it was part time while I went through a transition. In January 2014 we were officially full-time. I left other full-time jobs and turned my part-time passion into a full-time job.

The biggest thing is we like to create stories and help build brands with digital media people can be engaged by. People don’t like to be told what to do; they like to be told stories. ... It’s about storytelling with video as the medium.

What was the hardest part about going off on your own?

Probably the hardest part is you leave the 40-hour-a-week job and guaranteed paycheck for a 60-plus-hour-a-week job, and you get paid only when the client decides to pay their invoice.

There’s a gap between getting it

started and getting those regular invoices.

I had worked part time with another company and had a non-compete, so I couldn’t do a non-compete with a lot of stuff I wanted to do with my business.

So, I worked for a company that was completely unrelated so I could cover that period to build my business. I wasn’t ready to take a big small business loan at the time. I wanted to make sure I could get through that transitional period.

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Clint Rowe is broker/owner of Huff Home & Land Co.‌

Real estate broker gets out what he puts in JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

Clint Rowe is broker/ owner of Huff Home & Land Co., a 3-year-old real estate firm in Cedar Falls that specializes in residential and land sales, including recreational hunting land.

Give a brief history of your company.

I have a business partner, Jake Huff. He actually was at Inspired Real Estate, and I learned from him. He moved to White Tail properties, where they sell recreational hunting land. I was at Inspired Real Estate and was picking up residential he would’ve had. So, I was doing residential and he was selling hunting land through White Tail, which is actually through Illinois.

After a couple of years, he thought maybe we should create a company to where we specialize in residential and land sales. A company like Sulentic Fischels does residential and commercial; our idea was to do residential and land. So, there’s a lot of crossover, and White Tail Properties wasn’t addressing it that well. A lot of people need both residential and land services.

Our intention is to be a 50-50 company, where we have half residential and half land. Right now, we’re probably more residential, but our intention is to grow land sales.

What was the hardest part about going off on

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Tell a brief story that illustrates the hardship and risk you faced.

The first six months of us being full-time was pretty slow and a little discouraging. We met with clients

“I would just say it all comes down to hard work.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.” your own?

Being a real estate agent, you’re kind of self-employed from the get-go of it. I don’t really have a boss hammering on you that you’ve got to be here 8 to 5 and make so many sales.

You eat what you kill, I guess you’d say. As hard as you work is what you get out of it. That kind of came easy to me. I’m kind of self-motivated. It pains me to take a day off. You just have to stay self-motivated.

Tell a story that illustrates the hardship and risk you faced.

There’s always something. In business, there’s just always some negative that’s trying to take your attention away at every turn, financially or otherwise. I’m responsible for other people, too. Jake and I have four other agents, and we’re responsible for what they do and oversee and make sure they’re doing right by their clients and that their paperwork

is in order. We don’t have an office person. Other offices have an office person to do the day-to-day stuff, like paperwork and accounting. Jake and I split all those duties. That’s something down the road that you build and get more agents and build on your success. Maybe you can hire somebody, but we’re just not at that point right now.

What’s the best part about being your own boss?

Being self-motivated and getting out there.

There’s also days where if I have something come up — a sick child, vacation, anything of that nature — even during the day, I can do whatever I want. I can wear what I want; there’s no dress code. There is a lot of freedom with it. I guess it’s a give and take — you’ve got a lot more financially on the hook, but on the flip side, if I want to take an afternoon off, I can certainly do that.

What would you say to someone looking to become a risk-taker in business?

I would just say it all comes down to hard work.

The harder you work, the luckier you get. I’ve always said that. You create your own luck. If you think you want to take a risk and you take a risk and do nothing, it’s not going to work out.

You have to work hard; that’s the key.

that sounded optimistic but we never heard from them. Those kinds of responses are they’re trying to let you down easy but you ask yourself what you’re doing wrong. You try to find a couple of clients that are new. When you start off, you don’t have a lot of examples of

your work; you don’t have any of your own stuff. You have to make that initial jump. We needed to get that content. You get through those times of no work coming in and no content to work with. Then, you start to get some bigger projects and start getting noticed. Then, the phone

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Natalie Brown is owner of Scratch Cupcakery.‌

Natalie Brown finds her icing on the cupcake JIM OFFNER jim.offner@wcfcourier.com‌

‌Natalie Brown is owner of Scratch Cupcakery, which has locations in Cedar Falls, Waterloo, West Des Moines and Coralville.

Give a brief history of your company.

I opened Scratch on June 18, 2010, just off Main Street in Cedar Falls. That first store opened as Scratch Bakery & Cafe, and we served all sorts of desserts, partnered with Johnson’s Bakery to provide doughnuts and pastries, and also served to-go lunch options. Just a few weeks after we opened, it was clear I should have stuck to the original business plan and focused just on cupcakes, so we closed for a few days, rebranded ourselves and reopened as Scratch Cupcakery … busier than ever.

Scratch started as a little bakery, where I thought if I had just a few customers each day, we could break even — maybe even make a little money — and I would be happy. That plan was scrapped the day we opened, and we’ve never looked back! ... We opened six retail stores in 40 months.

What was the hardest part about going off on your own?

I’ve never looked at being a risk-taker as hard. I think being a risk-taker is easy — you either are one or you’re starts ringing more.

What’s the best part about being your own boss?

For me, it’s the freedom of the projects and the freedom of the clients you work with. For me, it’s nice to not have to get it OK’d by a boss. You’re kind of in control on your own, as long as

not. Neither is wrong; they just both have their own set of challenges. Going into business independently means the risk is all yours, whether you succeed or fail.

Failure wasn’t an option for me, so I took on a lot before I asked for help. I didn’t have a business background, and we have consistently learned as we opened stores. The hours are hard, the challenges are hard, having employees is hard, not being taken seriously is hard. But the risk — that’s not hard.

Taking risks is part of the fun of opening a business.

Tell a brief story that illustrates the hardship and risk you faced.

Hardship for me came in the form watching those around me sacrifice so I could live my dream. Convincing my family it was OK to give up my full-time job with benefits and jump into something completely foreign to us — retail stores — took a lot of conversation and planning, knowing it might not work out and me intentionally not having a plan B. My brother left his job in Oklahoma to come help us rebuild the first store.

My dad left his work in Colorado to do the same. Mom took on a second full-time job as our CFO. Watching the people I love take risks on behalf of my business and my dream was overwhelmyou’re responsible for it.

What would you say to someone looking to become a risk-taker in business?

If you’re looking to become a risk taker in business, be ready for any challenge that’s going to come at you. ... You have to be prepared for slumps. ... Do

ing.

What’s the best part about being your own boss?

Everything I do — right or wrong — is on me. I don’t have anyone to blame but myself when things go wrong, but I also have only myself to answer to at the end of the day. Did I work hard enough? Did I do enough? Did I personally take another step forward for my business and the people working for me? There are a lot of hard parts about being your own boss. There’s no stability. All of your hours are working hours. The word paycheck ends in a question mark. There’s no such thing as a weekend or day off. All of the feedback stops with you.

What would you say to someone looking to become a risk-taker in business?

Enjoy the journey and take time to actively remember to live in the moment. Tread carefully and trust your gut. Don’t give up on your dream because someone else doesn’t understand your vision. Ask questions and don’t be the smartest person in the room.

Surround yourself with people who are supportive and challenge you as a human. Be prepared to ask for help and give up some control, even when it’s hard. the math, make an educated decision rather than spontaneous.

If you’re looking to start your own business, one of the best things you can do is find a good mentor.

They’re the ones who have the knowledge to get you through some of those initial growing pains.

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Kaiser Corson Funeral Home

Locally Owned Since 1916

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Silver Spur Saddle Shop

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48 YEARS Ready Rooms Storage Co.

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HyPro Inc.

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Decisions Group

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Don Gardner Construction, Company

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Jewell’s Body Shop

210 Beck Ave., W’loo 233-6113

Dunkerton Co-op

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Changing communities together.

For good. For ever.

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“Your Choice for Comfort”

Jones Electric Co. Inc.

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829 Sycamore Street, Waterloo 232-4444

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55 YEARS

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58 YEARS

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235-0080

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“More Than You Can Imagine”

64 YEARS

Iowa’s Oldest UL Listed Burglar Alarm Company

Rapid Reproductions, Holmes Welding and Fabrication Ltd. Inc.

62 YEARS

Manpower Services

Hawkeye Alarm and Signal Co.

“Our business works so people can.”

16 W. Commercial, W’loo 232-0490

68 YEARS

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Overhead Door Company of Waterloo

50 YEARS

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Frickson Bros.

Excavating

59 YEARS

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Goodwill Industries Hawkeye of Northeast Iowa Community College

Taking care of your furry friends for 59 years.

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Concrete Steps Custom Steel Handrails Septic Tanks

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82 YEARS

Pawsitive Pet Care

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Iowa Wall Systems, Inc.

71 YEARS

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121 YEARS 105 YEARS 86 YEARS National Cigar Store

Stoner Radiator

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Meyers Nursery

66 YEARS

Where your wishes have governed for four generations.

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Black Hawk Mutual Fereday Heating and UnityPoint Health Insurance Air Conditioning Allen Hospital Association

Providing Farm and Home Always Dependable, Insurance for Black Hawk Honest Service & Fair Prices and adjoining counties.

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Murphy’s Auto Service, L.L.C. Since 1969

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414 East 7th Street Waterloo 319-234-9752

47 YEARS RC Systems

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AAA Insurance and Travel

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156 YEARS

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The Courier WATERLOO CEDAR FALLS

45 YEARS 100 E. 4th Cedar Valley Corp., LLC

Power Engineering Manufacturing LTD 110YEARS

277-3802 Automatic Amusements, Inc.

82 YEARS

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Chiropractic Clinic

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35 YEARS

Anderson 81Collision YEARS

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44 YEARS

144 YEARS Insurance Association

3822 W. Airline Northland 232-4807

Products, Co.

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Northeast Iowa 1000 Rainbow Dr., W’loo Family Practice 319-234-5585 Center

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www.dandeerymotor.com 277-4500 233-5000 266-5500 Cedar Falls Waterloo

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Allen Hospital

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1111 Center Street, C.F. 319-266-2616 www.thebrownbottle.com

35 YEARS

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78 YEARS

Iowa Custom 43 YEARS Machine Aspro, Inc. General Machine Work 206 Edwards, Waterloo Asphalt Paving Contractors 233-3918 3613 TEXAS ST. WATERLOO, IOWA 319-232-6537

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65 YEARS

33 YEARS Business and Personal Printing Embroidery Schuerman

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Serving Automotive Needs Since 1945 1505 Auto West 1st, C.F. Lichty Repair 277-5343 European Car Specialist

33 YEARS

70 YEARS 7735 Ansborough Ave. Huff Waterloo, IA 50701 (319)296-2994 Contracting, Inc.

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70 YEARS

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33 YEARS

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Tim & Mike’s Auto Repair

216 7th St., Janesville 319-987-2271 24 hr. towing Benton’s Tim Ward Mike Paul Ready Mixed 319-231-4459 Concrete, Inc.

68 YEARS

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725 Center, C. F. 266-2641

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Storage, Inc.

Wilber Auto Body Waterloo & Salvage

34 YEARS

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77 Years

101 BMC Dr., Elk Run Heights, IA 50707 www.bmcaggregates.com 319-235-6583

Waterloo Lions Club We Serve

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VJ Engineering

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80 YEARS

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107 YEARS

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Varsity Cleaners

76 YEARS

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68 YEARS Dalton Plumbing and Heating

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32Family YEARS Owned

Bob Frickson, Gray owner Specializing in sewers, Transportation, waters, basements and Inc. demolition.

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67 YEARS

Manpower 32Services YEARS

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105 E. 9th, Waterloo 67 YEARS 235-9200

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59 YEARS Iowa Wall Systems, Inc.

SINCE 1950.

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Bowers Masonry, 1107 San Marnan Dr. Inc. 888-828-5928

27 YEARS

Harting & 59Hunemuller YEARS

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Overhead Door Complete service from Company of Design to Finish.

516Waterloo Bluff, Cedar Falls

VGMgroup.com Waterloo, Iowa 63 Years in Business Concrete, paving brick, block.

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65 YEARS

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Oelwein, IA 50662 Hawkeye Alarm 319-283-2393

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Iowa’s Oldest UL Listed Burglar Alarm Company

26 YEARS

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Construction, Inc.

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Holmes Welding All Reproductions, Major Brands Rapid New Construction and Fabrication Ltd. Inc. 1416 W. 4th St., Waterloo

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Dierks Tree Transplant, INC.

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Emerson Crane Rental 55 YEARS 24 Hrs Service

Jones Electric 7 days a week 3488 Co.Wagner Inc. Rd.

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Harrison Family Ownership Freightliner Truck Dealer LaPorte City Sales-Service-PartsCollision Specialty Care 101 Plaza Dr., Elk Run Heights, IA 50707

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54 YEARS

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J.C.’s Mobile Home & Transport.

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319-268-9850 K&S Wheel Alignment 17Service YEARS

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Ready Rooms 17 YEARS Storage Co. Montage

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Full Service Estate 2705 University Ave., W’loo Auctions.

319-235-6294 For Non-obligatory consultations Call 234-0051

Placing Light Industrial Accurate Gear and Clerical Positions apply online Inc. &ToMachine www.remedystaff.com CNC Machining and or call 319-236-2330 GearPlaza, Cutting 1034 Alabar W’loo www.Accurategear.com www.remedyintelligent 2864staffing.com Burton Ave., W’loo 319-233-1997

Precision WrageMachined Realty Components From Farms, Residential Concept to Completion and Acreages

711 Enterprise David J. Wrage,Drive Broker Cedar Falls, 315 Main St., IA Dysart www.hypro.com 319-476-7070 1-800-796-8488

56 YEARS 51 YEARS 47 YEARS 17 YEARS 22Financial YEARS TrueNorth-Kimble 19 YEARS Murphy’s Auto

Evansdale Pharmacy Carl Luze Real Estate Decisions Group K Properties Cedar RiverCo., Tower Equipment Inc. Specializing Acreages, “For allinyour Trust, Dependability, Residential and New andApartments Used Forklifts, Senior healthcare needs.”

721Experience Timber Oak Rd.

66 YEARS YEARS 60 82 YEARS 34 YEARS 72YEARS YEARS 31 27 YEARS Grout Museum of Don Gardner Dunkerton Co-op

35 YEARS Petersen & Tietz

21 YEARS

2650 Falls Ave. Waterloo 234-4626

2701 Midport Blvd.

Waterloo, IA 155 E. Ridgeway Ave. Helping People Succeed Waterloo 3014 Rownd St. Makers of Snack Pack Scheels Town & Country Jewell’s Body Shop Cedar Riddles 319-272-2622 Falls Jewelry 277-6603 Pudding and David Seeds Ethel, Steve Home Improvement Family Owned w/57 Stores www.expresscedarfalls.com and Jim Jewell Crossroads Mall Upper Level 402 Viking Rd. Trail 305 N. Evans Rd., Evansdale 5 4920 Dubuque Rd and College Square. One Cedar Falls Waterloo, IA 50703 (next to City Hall) 233-4407 of the largest selections of 319-277-3033 LJ’s Welding & City Builders East Iowa Plastics, Kvale 319-235-9565 Locally owned by jewelry inInsurance Eastern Iowa www.scheels.com Fabrication www.TCHomeImprovement.com Inc. Dwight Wielenga and www.riddlesjewelry.com Dennis Wieldeboer.

141 Center St 1425 West 5th Street Patio rooms, 601 17th Street S.E. Waterloo, IA 50703 Waterloo replacement windows, Independence, IA 50644 319-833-9428 319-236-2844 luxury bath systems.

319-334-2552 Allen Glass Co., Inc. A.L. Buseman Municipal Pipe NewAldaya 277-4000 www.eastiowaplastics.com Owner: Matt Nolting www.citybuilders.com Industries Tool Co., LLC Lifescapes Commercial Doors/Windows ALSO Sewer Maintenance and 7511 University Avenue Glass Replacement Kesley Welding & Rehabilitation Contractors Cedar Falls, IA 50613 1620 JEFFERSON Farm Equipment Northside Curran L & 319-268-0401 N Transportation 515 5th St.,Freed Hudson, IA 232-0461 Kesley, IA www.newaldaya.org Construction, Inc. Auto Salvage Plumbing, 50643 Services, Inc. Serving Farmers for 50Inc. Years Rod Curran, Owner 319-988-4205 319-347-6282 and Repair Since 1996 Transportation Brokerage 319-239-0514 “The Plumber Your Friends 821 Dearborn Ave. 209 Main St. Cedar Falls Call” Waterloo, IA 50703 Art Carter and Proshield Fire Cedar Falls Elliott-Hartman 319-266-2845 233-0353 234-1595

New ImagetoHair We are committed products and service which exceed our Designs Family and Operated Family Hair Care customers expectations.

1850Owned Ridgeway Ave Thanks for236-5074 Your Patronage Tom Petersen, Owner Waterloo, IA 50701 Visit 320 Janet, W. 18th,Karen, W’loo 520 Main St. 319-232-3979 and Barb www.stetsons.com 988-3231

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“More Than You Can Imagine”

26 YEARS

64 YEARS

Waterloo Golf & Heating Headquarters

76 YEARS 67 YEARS Lister Concrete Warren 31 YEARS 34 YEARS

Auction Co. Diamonds • Pandora It’s you the customer Quail’sProducts Auto Salvage Ridgeway True who Dennis Eslick Mudd Advertising Concrete Steps makes us successful, • Swarovski 151 combined years of We love it when you Value Hardware Eslick Financial Custom Handrails Thank you.

“WhySteel Buy New succeed! family auctioneering.

229 E. 5th Street, 2130 Kimball Ave Group WhenSeptic Used Tanks Will Do” “Since 1914” Waterloo 234-7537 Waterloo, IA 50702 915Downtown TechnologyWaterloo Parkway

www.palaceclothiers.com www.truevalue.net/ridgewa ytv

“Our business works so people can.”

Operated Since 1960 Plumping, Heating 334-2868 Fred J. Harris Make Your Mouth Dance!

One call does it all!!

MainFalls St., La& Porte City Independence Sheet Metal Fabrication 322 Dr. Robert Ebert, D.C. Truck Repair Center.

Cedar Waterloo CAREER SOLUTIONS La Porte City 342-2207 Brian - Tim -Residential Ronda Commercial, 406Dr. Viking Cedar Falls 342-2693 ChadRd., J. Buss 319-233-5152 & Used Truck Dealer.

221 E. 4th, Waterloo 3356 Kimball Ave., Suite 1000 Waterloo, IA 235-6647 222 Main Street, C.F. 3261 W. Airline Hwy, W’loo www.KramerSausage.com 4435 296-3050 319-266-5100 www.martinsnet.com 1445 Ansborough Ave., NewTEXAS TruckSt. Equipment.

232-6641 319-234-6201 319-268-7222 233-4157 www.pretigeqdc.com W’loo 955 W. Airline Hwy. 800-283-2756 www.montage-cf.com 319-232-9436 Waterloo 233-2286 www.byrnesandrupkey.com

Quality Auto Repair Cover-All See us for your block, brick, Plant Embroidery, INC. Repair Auto Stainless Stone, and landscaping

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60 Years of Delivering 319-342-3534 232-7113 “Knowledge and experience 3836 W. 4th St., Waterloo Innovation to Design 833-1973. make the difference.”

Professionals Toll 21 Free 1-800-500-3694 YEARS 6201 Chancellor Dr., C.F. J.C.’s Enterprises, Inc./ Rydell Chevrolet Hudson Earth’s319-988-3727 Beauty eichelbergerandassociates.

319-277-5538 retirex.com Syhlman Properties www.holmeswelding.com Home of Bottom www.rapidsrepro.com Supply

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Petersen Hudson International Paper Michael Painting Midland Concrete 34 YEARS Western Home Morg’s Diner 22 YEARS 31 YEARS 27.5YEARS YEARS 39 YEARS 36 43 Prod., Inc. andYears Decorating Products Waterloo Container Hdwe. Plumbing Communities

Black Hawk Co. Gymnastics Painting and Decorating

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Goodwill Industries Hawkeye of Northeast Iowa Community College

Evansdale, 3013 GreyhoundIADr. Waterloo, IA 50701 319-231-6795 319-233-8476 Real Estate Leasing www.FDG.net Self Storage

Bob’s Guitars Insurance Group

Mon.-Fri. 10-7; Sat. 10-5 2265911 MainUniversity St., Cedar Ave. Falls 319-268-2034 Cedar Falls 319-277-8863 www.truenorthcompanies.com

Aspire Therapeutic

Service, L.L.C. Horseback Riding

“Where the dreams Since 1969 of children and the magic of horses come 414 East 7th Street together to create memories of a lifetime” Waterloo 8100 Kimball Ave. 296-0964 319-234-9752 www.aspiretrp.org

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Black Hawk&Hearing Trinkets Togs, A Division Aid Centers

of The Larrabee Center, INC HEARING UNLIMITED Visit Our Biggest Little Thrift Sound Advice andFeet Store 8,000 Square Sound 114 10thProducts Street SW 3138 Waverly, Kimball Ave., Waterloo IA 50677 319-352-8029 234-4360 www.larrabeecenter.com

McLaughlin Gulbranson’s radio communications Sales & Service AINVESTMENT SERVICES company. Telephone Appliance Service Casey McLaughlin, The Business Service Built

Systems Fast professional service Registered Prinicipal• Motor Homes • Travel - Video Since 1984- Surveillance full service brokerage. on all major brands.

Trailers • 5th Wheels - Access Controls 621 Grant Ave, Waterloo, IA 2509 Valley Park Dr., C.F. We Service All50702 Major Brands www.painesrv.com 266-1437 or 231-0765 287-5080 877-811-5080 190 Plaza Dr. 234-3039 1657 Falls Ave. 234-3511 233-5023

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HELP US SELECT 8 SENIOR RESIdENTS WHO ARE OVER 80 YEARS OLd. NOMINATE SOMEONE YOU FEEL MEETS THE FOLLOWINg CRITERIA:

8 OVER 80 NOMINATION FORM One nominee per form. Please attach a short description of why your nomination meets the criteria above.

Please be sure to include your address and phone number in the event further information is required.

v Demonstrates leadership.

Occupation/retired from:

v Contributes now and in the past to the betterment of the community, often behind the scenes.

Phone:

v Continues to be a success in their vocation.

Address:

v Has been a role model/mentor for others.

Nominee:

Age:

City:

State:

Zip:

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY BY MAIL, FAX OR ONLINE:

Submitted by: Phone:

MAIL: 8 over 80, P.O. Box 540, Waterloo, IA 50704 FAX: Attn: 8 over 80, (319)-234-3297 ONLINE: www.WCFCourier.com/8over80

Address: City:

State:

Zip:

NOMINATIONS dUE: FRIdAY, MARCH 25, 2016

Winners will be selected by a committee and featured in the July issue of Cedar Valley Business Monthly.A special reception will be held honoring the 8 selected leaders.

EvEnt sponsorEd by

15 YEARS Blue Sky Disposal, Inc.

OPEN TOP DUMPSTERS FOR CLEANUPS “Fast, Courteous Service, Rain or Shine!”

319-226-4665

15 YEARS Cetek, Inc.

Industrial Controls Integration• Microprocessor • Based Control Systems • Circuit Board Design • Passenger Elevator • Controller Manufacturing Cedar Falls 290-3910

15 YEARS Chapman Electric, Inc.

319-232-5228 www.chapmanelectricinc.com

15 YEARS Mike’s Archery

Bow Tech, Diamond and Bear Authorized Dealer 1904 Falls Ave., Waterloo 319-233-7443

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Wapsie Pine Lawn Schmitt Telecom Jennifer’s on Main Partners Inc. Care & Landscaping 303 Main St 618 State Street Cedar Falls , IA 50613 319-277-9400 www.wapsiepines.com

14 YEARS

Shoff Consulting Engineers, L.C. Civil Environmental • Wastewater • Municipal • Industrial• Structural 5106 Nordic Drive, C.F. 319-266-0258 Fax: 319-266-1515

13 YEARS

Pump Haus Pub & Grill

311 Main Street Downtown Cedar Falls, IA 50613 319-277-8111 www.thepumphaus.com

Full telecommunication Cedar Falls, IA 50613 services; telephone/voice319-277-4880 mail systems thru Avaya.

Voice and data networking www.jennifersonmain.com thru Qwest.

232-3701

12 YEARS

12 YEARS

B&B Lock Key

“A Better Locksmith” 2200 Falls Ave. Waterloo, IA 50701 319-234-5397

10 YEARS

Herman’s Kitchen Kimball & Beecher Awards, Gifts, & Family Dentistry Engraving & Bath Design 130 W. Fayette, Denver 984-5262 hermanskitchens.com

12 YEARS K9 Playhouse Where K9 kids come to play 5222 Weiden Rd., Waterloo 319-296-2553

We love to make the sales@awardsgiftsengraving.com Cedar Valley smile!

319-266-3907 Cedar Falls, Waterloo, www.AwardsGiftsEngraving.com Marshalltown www.Cedarvalleysmiles.net

11 YEARS New Creation Salon

140 Brookeridge Waterloo, IA 50702 319-234-8644

13 YEARS

12 YEARS

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105 Industrial Drive Evansdale 319-232-0094 800-500-0199

3015 Greyhound Dr. Waterloo, IA 50701 (319) 232-4242

4006 Johnathan Street Waterloo, IA 50701 319.236.2700 www.adiofiowa.com

ABC Embroider and Screen Printing

10 YEARS

Turnkey Associates

Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

10 YEARS

9 YEARS

Lockard Realty

8 YEARS Double Lung Archery

Under new ownership 4501 Prairie Pkwy Cedar Opening 15th We carry carpet, vinyl, Falls, IA 50613 2nd Location in wood, ceramic, laminate Mason City, IA 319-277-8000 Sales & Installation 422 501 Main St., La Porte City http://www.lockardhomes.com Washington St. 319-342-4550 doublelungarcheryinc.com Hudson 988-3587

“Outdoor Living at it’s Best!”

Over 15 years experience.

319-240-9565

Electrical Contractor 2353 W. Airline Hwy., Waterloo 235-2445 www.nelsonelectric.biz

2746 University Ave. Waterloo, IA 50702 319-505-2610

7 YEARS

4.5 YEARS

3 YEARS

2398 Midway Ave Denver, IA 50622 319-238-3467

9 YEARS

Fleming’s Landscaping and More

Nelson Electric of Black Hawk County

D&L Subways

Think N Think

2213 La Porte Road Waterloo, IA 50702 319-229-7420 www.aireserv.com/cedar-valley

1237 Ansborough Ave Waterloo, IA 50701 319-232-1700

3614 Beaver Ridge Cir, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 319-277-7000

8 YEARS

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10 YEARS

319-234-1248 Thank you to our loyal customers!

411 Tremont St. Cedar Falls, IA 50613 319-242-7088 www.budgetBlinds.com/WaterlooIA

3 YEARS

8 YEARS

Dolphin Gymnastics LLC

4 YEARS

Budget Blinds

5 YEARS

9 YEARS

Aire Serve

Cedar Industry Corp

5 YEARS

D&W Floor Covering

Blessed Hair Boutique

CJ’s Trophies and More

Corky’s Car Care

4 YEARS

2 YEARS

14 4th Street NW Oelwein, IA 319-283-7470 cjtrophies@gmail.com

319-232-0450

Protective Benjamin F. Edwards ProtectiveMatting Matti Full Count Sports Waterloo Dental Open Locally Systems Systemsng Associates, Academy Christopher Since 2013 Dura Deck 3561 University Ave Aldrich DDS Sales-Rentals 116 East 4th Street Waterloo, IA 50703 2102 Kimball Ave Temporary FloorWaterloo, IA 500703 319-232-6548 Waterloo, IA 50702 Portable Access Roads 319-233-3297 319-233-3506 319-987-2070 www.FullCourtSportsAcademy.com www.benjamineedwards.com Questions@bwcontractors.com www.waterloodentalassociates.com

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WHEN PUBLIC NOTICES

REACH THE PUBLIC, EVERYONE BENEFITS SOME GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WANT TO TAKE OFFICIAL NOTICES OUT OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND BURY THEM ON GOVERNMENT-RUN WEBSITES. THIS IS LIKE PUTTING THE FOX IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE.

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Great things are happening to business in the Cedar Valley – and Impact Marketing is proud to be a part of that!

More clients are discovering our innovative and affordable marketing solutions are a perfect fit for achieving their goals … INCREASING SALES THROUGH: CREATIVE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS ON-POINT WEB, DIGITAL, SOCIAL MEDIA AND E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS IMAGE-ENHANCING PR, BRANDING AND REPUTATION MANAGEMENT

We’re on THE MOVE Helping our clients grow has helped us grow!

We’re moving into our NEW office in March – nearly tripling our office space! We will be located in Technology Park in Cedar Falls (Next to PIPAC/Park Place Event Center at 1501 Technology Parkway). Our staff has grown to include employees specializing in marketing strategy, social media, web/digital and more. Our commitment to growth demonstrates our commitment to Cedar Valley businesses – we are ready to help you grow!

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BARBER & SALON GUIDE 2016

Celebrating 5 Years!

FREE MODifications March 4th 6-9pm • Make-Up Touch-Ups • Brow Enhancements Also Many Door Prizes • Styling Tips and Specials to be Had! • And MorE!

ALL REGULAR PRICED ITEMS March 4th 6-9pm

4507 Algonquin Dr. Ste B *with this coupon Cedar Falls, Iowa 50613 www.ModSalonBeautyStore.com .ModSalonBeautyStor 319-553-1080

River’s EdgeWe’re Hair Studio worth the drive!!

Please join us in welcoming our 2 new stylists:

Abbey Jaquith & Taylor Hoskyn Teresa Shepherd - Stylist/Owner Stephanie Rygel - Stylist Nancy Sires & Michelle Kirchoff - Guest Reservations 100 N. Canfield Road Dunkerton, Iowa 50626

Call for your appointment today!! 319-822-2554 Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-7:00 I Saturday 8:00-Noon or by appointment

Duane’s Barber Shop

103 East Main St., Denver 319-984-5582 Come on in and check us out, be sure to bring the family. We have hair care needs for men, women, and children! Stop in!

Open at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday thru Saturday

RESTAURANT Guide STEAKHOUSE

good food. great price.

Visit www.otisandhenrys.com/waterloo for reservations.

777 Isle of Capri Boulevard | Waterloo, IA 50701 1-800-THE-ISLE | www.theislewaterloo.com © 2015 Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Isle and Otis & Henry’s are registered trademarks of Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Gambling problem? There is help. And hope. Call 1-800-BETS-OFF.

Comfort food at a the wild Carrot arrot

• Quiche • Chicken & Crab Salad • Chicken Pot Pies • • Truffles • Coconut Cake • Carrot Cake • • Hot Beef Sandwich •

215 e Bremer ave, waverly tuesday - friday 8am - 4Pm saturday 8am - 3Pm

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ANITA RUSSELL, RAYMOND The winner of our Logo Contest and the recipient of a year’s subscription to the Waterloo Courier.

The following businesses participated in out contest in December.

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Child Care direCtory

2-5 year olds Regular Program Sept-May

Call to Enroll for Summer and Fall

319-277-1094

A non-profit, parent supported, Christian-based, farm preschool.

Accepting Enrollment for Summer Camp and Fall ∙ Toddler 2 day ∙ Preschool 3 and 5 day

Stephanie Hansen, Director 3603 Skyview Dr., Cedar Falls farmsteadpreschool.org farmstead@cfu.net

Where every day is a field trip!

The Farmstead Preschool does not discriminat on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational and adminission policies.

Looking for child care?

Help is just a call or click away.

Iowa Child Care Resource & Referral

Free Services: • • • •

Child care provider referrals Tips to choose a quality provider Cost & options consultation Assistance information for income eligible households

OPEN HOUSE

Call Today!

(855) 299-0499 www.iowaccrr.org

Sunday, Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

p.m.

Classes for ages 3-5 Child care 6:45 a.m. 5:30 p.m.

CCR&R of Northeast Iowa is a program of Exceptional Persons, Inc. (EPI). Funding provided by the Iowa Department of Human Services through the Child Care Development Fund.

802 Main Street, Cedar Falls www.cfCatholicSchool.org Child care also available to St. Patrick School students at 615 Washington Street (K-8)

Call for a tour (319)277-6781

Quality Year-Round Child Care and Preschool Since 1943

and Preschool

Infant and Pre-School Age Child Care

AVAILABLE AT 2 LOCATIONS 1407 Independence Ave., Pinecrest Bldg.

608 West 4th, Waterloo

291-2424 236-2063

“Helping children grow in a nurturing environment that promotes a lifelong relationship with Jesus.”

Phone 277-0564 for further details 2014-2015 Registration 2016-2016 Tuition RatesNight • 3-4House year old is 2 day program27th ($110/month) Open January 5:00-7:00 ••4-5 year old 3olds: day program 3-4 year 2 day($130/month) program • 4-5 yearolds: old 4 day program • 4-5 year 3 day or 5($160/month) day program

Scholarship funds and State Voluntary Pre-School available QRS rating 4 out of 5 stars

2016

FARMSTEAD PRESCHOOL

Contact Director, 319-277-0564 319-277-0564 ContactChristie JennieRoberts, Knapp, Director, croberts@orchardhillchurch.org jknapp@orchardhillchurch.org

Community United Child Care Centers, Inc. Valley Park 277-7303 • Nordic 266-4477 Westridge 234-5920 WWW.CUCCC.org • 3 locations to better serve you .

“Partnering with families to nurture and educate tomorrow’s leaders.”

Apply Today!

Have FUN with the FUNdamentals!  Specially designed classes for 3, 4 and 5 year olds  Bible-based curriculum  Nurturing Christian staff and learning environment  Lots of smiles!

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Before and after preschool daycare available!

(319)235-9309 ▪ 1307 W. Ridgeway Ave., Waterloo, IA ▪ www.waterloochristian.com

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Pre-School 3 Day or 5 Day Pre-School 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

6:30 Certified Teachers - State Licensed

277-8121

215 W. 9th St., Cedar Falls casamontessori@cfu.net Non profit and non-sectarian

Cedar Valley PresChool and ChIld Care CeNTer

• Ongoing assessments • Health and nutrition • Family services • Positive outcomes

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235-0383

• Preparing children for school • Free to income-eligible families • Kids with special needs welcome

State Licensed • Limited Scholarship Options Providingquality quality childcare months through years for 44 42 Providing childcareforforages ages18 18 months to 1111years 43Years years.

(319) 268-1944 - www.cvpccc.com With Support from Cedar Valley Promise and United Way

www.tricountychildandfamily.org