Chamber Connections · of November. heck out their Facebook page for more details! Tastefully Simple’s Holiday Open House! Thursday, November 6 4-7 pm and Saturday November 8 9am-1pm

Sioux Center Chamber of Commerce l 303 North Main Ave l Sioux Center, IA 51250

www.siouxcenterchamber.com l [email protected] l [email protected]

November Chamber Meeting

S I O U X C E N T E R C H A M B E R O F C O M M E R C E

November 2014

Chamber Connections

Christmas Cash will be

on sale, Thursday,

November 13 in the Centre

Mall from 11:00am until they are gone!

See page 6 of the newsletter

for more information!

CHAMBER MEETING

“3 Million Bushels of Corn in Smoke...Now What?” Presented by Sioux Center Fire Department

Wednesday, November 12 12-1 pm

Sioux Center Public Library Cost: $8.00

Meal catered by Pizza Hut

**free gift from ViBella to the first 20 women who arrive at the meeting**

What a fun job we have work-

ing with our community! This

week we recovered from the

Women’s Expo, reflecting on

the many ways we were blessed

by this event.

Watching vendors working

hours to prepare their booths

and displays, seeing love and

compassion in those who

worked with our makeover gals,

being truly inspired by these

two women’s stories of survival

and love for this community,

being thankful for people who

step-up and say “sure, I can

help!” (this is a shout-out to our

phenomenal expo commit-

tee….we couldn’t do it without

you!), seeing super-happy faces

of our door prize winners, feel-

ing grateful for the generosity of

our many sponsors who, with-

out you, this event wouldn’t be

possible. But best of all, look-

ing over the crowd and seeing

women from age 1 to age 87

thoroughly enjoying themselves

shopping, learning things at our

breakout sessions, enjoying a

style show, and being blessed by

Bep’s message. That is what

this event is all about.

A heart felt thank you to each

of you who attended or helped

in some way to make this event

possible. We are humbly grate-

ful.

Barb and Heather

Musings from the Editor’s Desk



Our Membership is Growing!

Here’s a warm welcome to our new members!

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Connecting our Community

Interested in

hosting a

Business After

Hours? It’s a

great way to

tell our mem-

bers what’s

happening in

your business!

January 22,

2015 (think hot

cocoa) and

November 19,

2015 are still

up for grabs.

Contact our

office if

interested!

We value our members!

A Touch of Class

Hair Salon and Tanning

Contact: Leah Schoonhoven

24 2nd Street NE

Sioux Center, IA 51250

712-722-3400

Business Card

Bring your business card to our next

chamber meeting to be entered into a

drawing for a free lunch.

Congratulations, Jennifer, on your free

lunch at our next Chamber meeting!

Blue Mountain

Smokehouse Grille

Contact: Cheryl Hall

814 Lincoln Place SE

Orange City, IA 51041

712-737-3153

[email protected]

Upcoming Chamber Events

Peoples Bank invites the membership as they host Business after Hours in honor of their 20th anniversary

Thursday, November 20 4-5:30 pm 1701 South Main Sioux Center, IA

Appetizers and drinks will be served with a short presentation given at 4:30



Thank you to our members for telling us about the happenings within your business. Please read below to see “what’s up!” ~Welcome to:

Sioux Center Health is pleased to announce that Anne Hooyer, ARNP is joining their medical pro-viders, beginning November 1st. Anne will be working in the Sioux Center Health Medical Clinic as well as their Urgent Care Clinic.

Primebank welcomes Tim Gesink, to their team as Vice-President. Gesink joins Primebank with a number of years of expe-rience in commercial and agricultural lending. He will focus on the manage-ment and development of a commercial and agri-cultural lending portfolio.

~ Congratulations to Peoples Bank on being recognized as a Leading Lender by the Iowa Finance Authority for promoting affordable home-ownership opportuni-ties. Peoples Bank was one of 24 banks in the State of Iowa that received this award for helping customers utilize Iowa’s First Time Homebuyer Program which offers low rates and zero down payment options to borrowers.

~Congratulations to Stephen Roseberry, The Ridge Golf Club, on being recognized as the 2014 Superintendent of the year by the Iowa Golf As-sociation.

~Congratulations to Becky Bilby, Ruth Mahaffy, and oth-er staff at the Sioux Center Public Library for winning the 2014 Mora Award for their library's celebration of El día de los niños, El día de los libros/Children's Day, Book Day. This is a national award given by REFORMA, the Na-tional Association to Promote Library & Information Ser-vices to Latinos and the Span-ish Speaking. ~Congratulations to Premier Communications, the leader in voice, video and data ser-vices in Northwest Iowa, on behalf of the 22 Northwest Iowa towns it serves. They are honored to receive the Smart Rural Community Showcase Award by NTCA-The Rural Broadband Associa-tion. The Smart Rural Commu-nity Showcase Award is an annual award given to tele-communications companies that serve rural communities that innovatively utilize broadband from a local tele-communications provider. Premier’s service areas were one of 13 communities across the United States and Canada to receive this prestigious award. ~Congratulations to Larry Den Herder, Interstates Com-panies Chairman of the Board, on being presented

with the Beyond Expecta-tions Economic Develop-ment Support Award at the Fourth Annual North-west Iowa Develop-ment (NWID) Partners Meeting at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, IA on October 13, 2014. Den Herder is the first recipient of the award. ~Congratulations to Promise Community Health as Oct. 21 marked their Six Year Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser Featuring Dueling Pianos and Awarding of the Addink Community Service Award.

Congratulations to: ~Chad and Tara (American State Bank) Raman had a baby boy on October 12. They named him Carsen Henry Raman and he was 8 lb 4 oz. Grandma Marcia Raman (ASB) also very excit-ed!

Our Sympathy to: ~To the employees at Peo-

ples Bank and the family of Lisa Opheim. ~Corlin Feikema (Trans Ova ) and his children and to Mick Visser (Sioux Automation) on the recent loss of their wife and sister Rachel Feikema.

~The NCC family and to our membership on the loss of one of our members, Lori Punt, Pampered Chef.

News and Fascinating Facts about our Members Upcoming Events:

Christmas at Ground Effects! They have many fun Christmas events planned throughout the month of November. Check out their Facebook page for more details!

Tastefully Simple’s Holiday Open House! Thursday, November 6 4-7 pm and Saturday November 8 9am-1pm Come, see and taste new ideas for holiday entertaining and gifts! 873 16th Street SE Many Specials!

Sioux Center Health Events: ~The Weight of the Nation.” Four-part series hosted by SC Health and Fuss Fitness and lead by health experts about the current status of our nation’s obesity epidemic starting on Thursday, Nov 6, Nov 13, Nov 20 and Dec 4 from 6:30 – 8 pm at Fuss Fitness in Hull. To register for this event, call Amanda at 722-8167. ~They will celebrate the retirement of Janet Groff, on November 13 from 2-3:30 pm in the Sioux Center Health’s Garden Café. Come and help thank Janet for her 25 years of service.

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Decorate Your Life~2014 Women’s Expo

A few members of our hard-working committee taking a

much needed break!

Make-Over Team! Main Stage Presenter:

Bep Bousema Reeves



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Thanks for Your Investment Dues Payment!

With active Chamber of Commerce members, we offer a chance to make a

difference by working together to improve the quality of life and the

economic climate of Sioux Center.

Dues received between 10/1/2014 to 10/31/14

A Touch of Class

Blue Mountain

Bomgaars

Casey’s General Store

Fareway Grocery Store

Fuss Fitness

GCC Alliance Concrete

How-to Store

Lewis Family Drug

Linden Enterprises

Pizza Hut

Pro-Lawn Landscaping

Siouxland Inspection

Thirty-One Gifts-Leah Schoonho-

ven

If you paid your investment dur-

ing the time frame specified

above, and you do not see your

name listed, please contact the

Chamber Office to verify that we

have received your payment.

If you haven’t yet picked up your

chamber coupons, please stop in

or give us a call and we’d be hap-

py to drop them off at your place

of business!

EDA Open House-Celebrating 30 years!

We recently enjoyed celebrating 30

years in business with EDA and their

employees. We also congratulate

Dean Pfeil on his upcoming retirement.

Thank you, EDA, for hosting such a

great event for our members!



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