July 2013 Newsletter

July 2013
Newsletter
Chamber “Matters”
2013 Board of Directors
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 11th
Board Meeting
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
July 16th
Ribbon Cutting
Iowa Distilling Company
5:00 p.m.
July 18th
Ribbon Cutting
The Wright Storage
5:00 p.m.
July 22 - 26
Chamber Office Closed
President-Joe Desmond
Brooks & Lodden PC
223-7300
V. Pres.– Bill Pirkle
Echo Electric Supply
418-0140
Treasurer-David Lester
City State Bank
981-4234
Past President-Bryan Greiner
Fareway
981-4420
2nd V. Pres. - ??
Exec.Director-Deb Mineart
NACC
981-0619
Nicole Smith 14
Norwalk Physical Therapy
953-1310
Jon Niemeyer 15
EXIT Realty North Star
981-5131
Roy Michael 14
Echo Valley Country Club
285-0101
Joe Nguyen 15
Anytime Fitness
953-0004
Eric Simon 13
The Weitz Company
246-4700
Dr. David Elwood 14
Elwood Chiropractic PLLC
981-1003
Jan Sparks 15
City State Bank
981-4234
Ed Kuhl 13
City of Norwalk-P.D.
981-0666
Newton Standridge 14
Standridge Group
229-5310
Des Moines Truck Brokers
Ex-Officio’s:
Marketa Oliver
Josh Heggen
City of Norwalk
981-0228
Dr. Denny Wulf
Norwalk Community Schools
981-0676
John Marmon 13
Re/Max American
Dream Realty
490-0424
John Schmidt 13
McGowen, Hurst, Clark
& Smith
288-3279
Jimmy DeMatteis 15
"O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains majesty, Above thy fruited plain!
America! America! God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, From sea to shining sea!"
981-5115
Jason White
WCEDC
961-1067
2013 Chamber Champions
Platinum Members
City of Norwalk Mayor Doug Pierce, Marketa Oliver, Josh Heggren, Ed Kuhl
City State Bank Steve Albrecht, David Albrecht, David Lester, Holly Albrecht, Jan Sparks,
George Meinecke, Scott Griese, Amanda Reid-Raper, Mitch Nelson, Nicol Hoover, Cyndie Strawn & Dakota
Zeitler
McClure Engineering
Gold Members
Community Bank
Jeff Schug, Caleb Smith and Terry Lutz
Denny Morrow and Michelle Grismore
Silver Members
Capital City Fruit Brendan Comito
Des Moines Truck Brokers Jimmy DeMatteis
Bronze Members
City of Cumming Mayor Tom Becker
Echo Valley Golf Course Roy Michael
Fareway Bryan Greiner
Four Seasons Auto Wash Jim Watts
James Oil Company Scott James
Norwalk Community Schools Dr. Denny Wulf, Kate Baldwin and Mark Crady
Norwalk Family Dentistry Dr. Donna Grant and Dr. Maureen Winslow
Norwalk Family Physicians Ronda Montgomery, Dr. Lori Miller, Dr. Patricia Newland,
Dr. Andrea Silvers, Dr. Bill Chase and Dr. Jason Brehmer
Shive-Hattery Inc Mike Kammerer
Standridge Group Newton Standridge
Thank you for your Generous Support!
Don’t Forget! Norwalk Farmer’s Market is now Open!
June 7th - Sept. 27th
Dollar General Store Parking Lot/Hwy 28/Sunset Drive
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Flowers, Trees, Honey, Vegetables, Kettle Korn
Save the Date!
Tuesday, July
16th!
Join us for an Open House, Tasting
and
a Ribbon Cutting!
4349 Cumming Ave
Cumming, IA 50061
5:00 p.m.
Save the Date!
Thursday, July
18th!
Join us for an Open House,
Refreshments & a Ribbon Cutting!
150 W. Wright Road
Norwalk, IA 50211
5:00 p.m.
The 2013 King Midget Car Club Jamboree will take place August 8, 9 & 10, 2013. Our host
hotel which is our “base camp” is the Airport Holiday Inn on Fleur Drive. On August 8th we
will be touring the Water Works Treatment Plant @ 9:30 am, then we will have a picinic
lunch in Water Works park at the South Shelter from 11am-1pm. Some of the cars will be visiting Grays Lake and the Jasper Winery. We will be showing our cars at the Valley Junction
Farmers Market that same evening.
Friday, August 9th, we will be spending the day in the Norwalk Area. We will be at Harvey’s
Automotive at 9:30am. Then we will be eating lunch in Norwalk. We are letting people eat
wherever they choose in Norwalk, so this would be a great opportunity for the food businesses to provide discount tickets for us to include in the “goody bags” we give to each person.
And if they wanted to donate a gift certificate, we will present that as a prize at the Drivers
Meeting on Friday morning before we leave the hotel for the day. We will then proceed to
Ted Lare’s Gardens from 2pm-4pm, then back to Norwalk around 5pm for a car show at
Scotts Foods. We will also be eating dinner here in Norwalk, so this is a second opportunity
for our food businesses as well as other business to provide discount coupons and/or gift certificates to get people into their business.
Saturday, August 10th We will be touring the Governor’s Mansion and Fort Des Moines Museum. We already have more than 30 cars registered and we will be driving these cars to all of
our destinations. It is an AWESOME sight to see.
If you would like to donate something for their Goodie Bags, Please call Tammy Warren at
515-577-1562. She can answer any and all questions about the cars themselves or if someone
has discount coupons/ gift certificates, she will be glad to pick them up.
Golf Outing 2013
We had over 90 golfers at our golf outing that was
held at Echo Valley Country Club on Monday, June
24th.
Winners at the Golf outing were:
1st Place, 1st Flight: Roy Michael, Greg Thorson, Nic
Rizer & Jay Goeser.
2nd Place, 1st Flight: Al Lammers, Tim Geyer, Clark
Nelson & Scot Meuler.
1st Place, 2nd Flight: Bryan Greiner, Brian Baker,
George Meinecke & Mary Kennedy
2nd Place, 2nd Flight: David Albrecht, Dick Albrecht, Joe Albecht & Jack Bohlender.
Men’s Longest Drive: Heath Hill
Women’s Longest Drive: Nicole Smith
Closest to Pin: Nic Rizer
Molly Long & Amy Sue Hopkey take to the course!
Bryan Greiner drives the ball!
Lower Right-John
Broadbent waits for taste testers.
THANK YOU!
Thank you to the Following for their Sponsorships:
City of Norwalk, Capital City Fruit, Community Bank,
Des Moines Truck Brokers, Norwalk Family Dentistry,
Fareway, McClure Engineering, Broadbent Distillery,
John Phillips Insurance Agency, Consumer Credit of Des
Moines, Norwalk Living Magazine, Legacy Golf Course,
Jester Insurance, Foth Infrastructure & Environment LLC,
Norwalk Ready Mix, Unity Health-Norwalk, Echo Valley
Country Club, Accelerated Rehab-Norwalk & City State
Bank. Weitz Corporation & Holmes Chevrolet
Prizes provided by Fareway, Four Seasons Auto Wash,
City State Bank & Holmes Chevrolet
Picnic in the Park!
Save the Date and Join us to welcome new teachers/
faculty to the Norwalk area!
Tuesday, August 13th
Billy O Phillips Park-Starkweather Shelter
Located in the Legacy area
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
If interested, last year we welcomed the new teachers with Goodie Bags!
If you have something you would like to give to them,
Drop it off at the Chamber Office no later than Monday, Aug. 12th.
Enough for possibly 20 teachers
Thank you!
Party Before the Works! We had 450 people
attend our event. Thank you to the following
sponsors: Fareway, Scott’s Foods, Kelly
Cortum, Norwalk Family Dentistry, City
State Bank, Airport Signs & Graphics, Unity
Point Health-Norwalk, Community Bank,
McGowen, Hurst, Clark & Smith PC and
High Pointe Apartments. Thank you to the
many volunteers that helped at this event!
Volunteers: Blaine Buenger, Brad Hopkey & Dr.
Brent DeRocher
Klassy Krew BBQ provided the guests with
BBQ and Coleslaw!
Volunteers: Jan Padavic, Dr. Donna Grant, Stacy
Rosonke, April Buenger & Amy Sue Hopkey
Final Mix was the band for the Evening
Norwalk’s 4th of July Parade is always a
good time! The American Legion starts
off the parade followed by over 100 other
entries handing out candy, water bottles,
toothbrushes, lemonade, beads, etc.
Fareway’s float and some of their
employees push shopping carts on the
route!
Sunset Dental’s float is decorated for the
parade’s theme: Old Glory: Forever may
She Wave!
2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Board Meetings start at 11:45 and usually end by 1:00.
Membership Meetings-Lunches start at 11:30 - 1:00.
Membership Breakfasts start at 6:45 - 8:00.
Membership Meetings are FREE to Chamber Members. Non-Members, cost is $5.00 to attend.
Mark Your Calendars for these Events!
July 11th Board Meeting
July 16th Ribbon Cutting
@ Iowa Distillery
July 18th Ribbon Cutting
@ The Wright Storage
July 21st – 26th RAGBRAI-Chamber Closed
Aug. 8th Board Meeting
Aug. 13th Picnic in the Park
Aug. 21st First Day of School
Email: NorwalkChamber@msn.com
Www.NorwalkChamber.org
1043 Sunset Dr Ste 3
Norwalk, IA 50211
515-981-0619
Sept. 12th Board Meeting
Sept. 26th Membership Breakfast
Oct. 10th Board Meeting
Oct. 17th Membership Luncheon
Nov. 14th Board Meeting
Nov. 15th Fall Event
Nov. 19th Legislative Luncheon
(with Carlisle & Indianola)
Nov. 28th Thanksgiving
Dec. 1st Lighting of the Christmas Tree
Dec. 5th Board Meeting ** Moved 1 week ahead
Dec. 12th Holiday Luncheon
January 31st 2014 Awards Banquet
An Affiliate of
Change to Membership Luncheon
July Member Perks – Members Roundtable Do you have ideas on how Central Iowa can con nue to grow and prosper? The Greater Des Moines Partnership provides an opportunity for you to bring your ideas to the table. The Members Roundtable forum was created to give small to mid‐sized businesses an outlet where they could voice their opinions on the business climate, economic development op‐
portuni es, community issues, and how the Partnership can be er serve you. Members are welcome to join in the conversa on, or you can just come and listen to the exchange of ideas. This is a unique pla orm that encourages open discussion and open minds. Par cipants in‐
clude Greater Des Moines Partnership CEO, Jay Byers, Partnership President, Gene Meyer, and other community members. Upcoming Members Roundtables are scheduled for July 11, August 15, and August 22 at the Partnership offices located at 700 Locust St. Suite 100 in Downtown Des Moines. Register at www.desmoinesmetro.com.