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Two decades after its closing, Kellogg School still remembered fondly

KELLOGG — One year shy of the 20th an-niversary of its closing, residents, former stu-dents and teachers and historians are still talking about the Kellogg School — and are still disap-pointed in the decision to close it.

“I very much under-stand, and I hated when they had to close the school and go to Newton. From a practical stand-point I get it, but I think we lose — that school was just an important part of the community,” said Dennis Stevenson.

As a fellow elected official, he said he can understand the logical and practical reasons the members of the New-ton Community School Board of Education had when they voted to close the school; however, as a Kellogg native it still hurts.

“I just enjoyed those years at school. I was go-ing to school with kids that I hung out, it was just kind of that close knit thing. It wasn’t too far to walk to school, and they used to have the fun nights to raise money and we used to have sock hops up there,” Steven-son said.

The Kellogg and Newton school districts began merging in 1957 under the Iowa Reorga-nization plan for schools. Under the terms of the merger, the district was to be called the Newton-Kellogg School District, all of Kellogg’s secondary students would be bused to Newton, and the Kel-logg School — it served both elementary and secondary students in its history — would remain operational.

The last passage of the Kellogg chapter in

the history book, “Histo-ry of the Schools of Jas-per County, Iowa,” shows that Kellogg residents weren’t exactly overjoyed by the forced merger, but they remained hopeful.

“It is a radical change, but we hope it will work out to the advantage and satisfaction of both schools,” it reads.

Since then, the Kel-logg portion of the name has been dropped and the old school has become an apartment complex.

Before the merger, Kellogg had a school in some form or fashion dating back to 1867, and the Independent Dis-trict of Jasper City (Kel-logg’s original name) was formed in 1868. Portions of the old brick building date back to 1924, which

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was a year after a $45,000 bond was passed by citizens to build it.

Over the years, the facility was well main-tained and had even undergone an addition to its east side in 1975. As a single section K-6 school, the ideal stu-dent population was 150 students according to a 1989 population/facilities study.

However, in the late ‘90s Kellogg’s popula-tion was declining and it was straying further away from that num-ber. In the 1993-1994 school year, 23 kin-dergarten and first-grade students had to be bused to Newton because there weren’t enough students to hold class in Kellogg. It was predicted that for the 1994-1995 school year, second graders would also have had to been bused to Newton.

Logically, it made sense for the board to close the school; yet, what if another factor helped influence that decision? What if this factor made no practi-cal sense but somehow made perfect sense in why the board made the call it made?

The only other ex-planation could be one teacher, Barbara Hack-worth. Hackworth has taught in the Newton Community School District for more than 30 years. She began her career at Lincoln Elementary, which was closed and torn

down. Next, she spent four years at the Kel-logg School, which was closed.

Back in 2009, Hackworth was teach-ing at Woodrow Wil-son Elementary School and the school board was again research-ing another school to close down. The de-cision came down to Woodrow Wilson and Emerson Hough El-ementary School. After a 5-2 vote, Woodrow was spared and Hack-worth’s string of school closings seemingly came to an end.

Newton’s school board is currently talk-ing about school reor-ganization again, and Hackworth is now at Thomas Jefferson El-ementary School, but that’s a story for an-other time. Right now, Hackworth wants to relive her magical time in Kellogg.

“It was truly one of the best teaching expe-riences I’ve ever had. It was wonderful,” Hack-worth said.

Hackworth said the way that commu-nity rallied around that school and how in-volved the parents were is what helped make her time their special. The folks involved with that building were a tight knit bunch — Hackworth was one of Kiel Stevenson’s teach-ers — and still remi-nisce about the good old days when they see each other.

Gary Cleaver, vice-president of the Kel-logg Historical Society, said the school was so important to Kellogg

because it gave the people in town a point of pride and a com-munity hub. He said amazing people have come out of that school and it was important just so they could have hometown people that attended there and later prospered.

With the assort-ment of barbecue grills, screen doors, satel-lite dishes and potted

plants, you can clearly see on the outside that the old brick building is more residential than educational facility these days. Despite this, its former occupants will never stop think-ing of it as the Kellogg School or forget their memories of it.

“They know me, I still know their par-ents,” Hackworth said of her former students.

“It’s kind of sad in a way. We all reminisce over at the Kellogg American Legion … so I still stay in touch with people through that.”

“I enjoy living in Kellogg, I enjoyed go-ing to school there. I don’t think there were any negatives to it,” Ste-venson said. “I’m glad my son got to experi-ence it, and I wish my grandkids would’ve.”

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The home was finished in 2001 and is around 2,500 square feet, smaller than their original house. It’s a story-and-a-half with three bedrooms on the top floor and two bathrooms as well as a finished basement. There is no attic, but designed with loft space instead.

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“The kitchen is set up with lots of windows so we can look out and people gather in there as well,” Colette said.

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Magg said losing the clin-ic is just another reason for residents to take their busi-ness out of town. He calls it a

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“I had a good friend say, I saw the most interesting show on last night on IPTV, the public news chan-nel. It was Bill Gates and several successful business people in a round table discus-sion. They were try-ing to figure out, what did these people do to become successful and if there is a common trait, can we replicate it. And the answer was find something you love to do. If you love what you are do-ing you’re going to be passionate about it, if you’re passionate about it, it will lead to success.”

That talk led Craig Light, executive di-rector of the Greater Newton Area Cham-ber of Commerce, to

think about if there was anything in the world he could do what would it be. The path he started then eventually led him to the Newton Cham-ber of Commerce not once, but twice as in-terim executive direc-tor and now as acting executive director.

Light grew up in Urbandale, playing football during his high school years as well as in junior col-lege.

“We lost our first game at Ankeny in eighth grade. That next practice, our coach worked us so hard that in the locker room after practice, I’m looking around at my teammates and I’m saying, ‘Man, I don’t want to lose again because I don’t want to ever go through a

practice like w e just had,’” Light said. “So that year we end-ed up 8-1. As juniors we were 12-1 and won class 3A state. And as seniors we were 9-2, so in five years of foot-ball at Urbandale, I only lost four games.”

After graduat-ing from high school, Light attended junior college at Iowa Cen-tral Community Col-lege in Fort Dodge where he continued playing football.

“I went to Iowa Central and started two years as offensive guard. The first year we were there, I think was my coaches first losing season ever. It gave me a whole new appreciation for win-ning,” Light said. “In junior college, I re-alized that winning is an honor, some-

thing you really have to work hard for. It’s not something that is guaranteed.

“That following summer I closed out every one of my work outs with listening to ‘We Are the Champi-ons’ by Queen. Every night after my work-out, I’d lay down and turn off the lights and listen to that song and think about it. That following football sea-son we won the na-tional championship. It was just incredible, like a story book.”

Light graduated with an associates of arts degree, then en-rolled at Iowa State University where he received his bachelor’s of business adminis-tration.

“When I was go-ing to both of those schools, I worked part

time in the summer for the Urbandale Water Department. When I graduated from Iowa State, since I had field experience and the ed-ucational background, they hired me as as-sistant superintendent at the water depart-ment. That gave me working knowledge of how a city works, how a municipality works,” Light said. That was the beginning of Light’s long career working in the public sector. While working at the water depart-ment, Light attended Drake University parttime, eventually earning his master’s of business administra-tion degree.

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Mandi Lamb/Daily NewsHalloween came a bit early for the fifth and final installment of this year’s Thunder Nites. South-east Iowa band Rukkus (below) performed during Friday’s event, and Thunder Nites Treasurer Lib-bie Marshall said between 600 and 1,000 motorcycles come to downtown Newton for each event.

Thunder Nites concludes second successful year

Thunder Nites Treasurer Libbie Mar-shall enthusiastically describes the second series of Thunder Nites in Newton “a huge success.”

“We were very, very happy with the turnout. It’s just getting bigger and bet-ter all the time,” Marshall said. “We learn things every year, so there’s probably go-ing to be some changes, but we just ex-pect it to get bigger and better.”

During the fifth and final Thunder Ni-tes event of the year Friday night, Mar-shall announced next year’s band lineup, which will feature, in no particular or-der, Standing Hampton, Mr. Fugly, In-sane Jane, Small Town Superheroes and Gimikk.

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Hog confinement hearing on Tuesday

Tuesday should be a short day of work for the Jasper County Board of Supervisors as only two items are list-ed on the agenda.

County Sanitarian Kevin Luetters will hold his second public hearing in as many weeks on hog confinements. This week, Gregg and Larry Pleima are seeking to expand their operation in Elk Creek Township from 4,000 finished market hog heads to 6,800.

Last week’s request for approval was unanimously approved by the board and Joe Brock expressed his gratitude towards Judson Vos who was present.

“Sounds like you are bringing an-other generation in and the hogs make that a possibility,” Brock said. “I’ve been driving around the county the last couple of weeks... (and) I do no-tice the farm construction, the big si-los, the hog buildings, machine sheds. There is a lot of building going on.”

“… Guys like you who are willing to take the risk and make the invest-ment and then put work into it — it’s not easy. I just wanted to thank you,” he continued. “You’re on the right track, and that’s what we need in this county.”

The second item on the agenda is a transfer order request from County Treasurer Doug Bishop. Bishop is seeking to transfer $88,773.06 from the county’s general basic fund into the secondary roads fund.

Staff writer Ty Rushing may be contacted at (641) 792-3121, ext. 426, or at [email protected].

United Way kicks off 2013 fundraising campaign

United Way of Jas-per County kicked off its annual fall fundrais-ing campaign Friday with a luncheon for employee contribution coordinators, board members and part-ner nonprofit organizations at the DMACC Confer-ence Center in Newton.

Board chairman Brad Magg first addressed those in attendance, thanking them for their involvement in United Way. He was followed by executive di-rector Travis Padget, who expressed his excitement for the year ahead.

“Last year, when I stood here in front of you, I had only been with United Way for about two months, so I still had a learning curve

ahead of me,” he said. “The past year was very rewarding. I’m confident for the year ahead.”

This year’s fundrais-ing campaign has a goal of $363,000, which is a 10-percent increase over last year’s fundraising to-tal. The $330,000 raised last year constituted a 10-percent increase over 2011 fundraising levels.

Padget said he’d love to reach $400,000, though.

“At that level, we would be close enough that we could fund all of our partner organizations’ re-quests,” he said. “Anyone who has sat in on those meetings knows, it’s really hard to say, ‘We’re going to give you 50 percent of what you need, but we re-ally want you to continue that program.’”

Local law enforcement agencies involved in

stand-off over weekend

According to the Jasper County Sheriff ’s Office, multiple local law enforcement agencies were involved in a stand-off that started early Sat-urday morning with a man who was threatening suicide and in possession of a handgun.

The incident took place at a resi-dence on Highway F36 West, and

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2013 Freedom Flight DVDs available

On Sunday, Newton Senior High School served as the host for the premier of the 2013 Jasper County Freedom Flight DVD. FF Organizer Doug Bishop said that SouthSiders-Prodcution Studios had more than 70 hours of footage, which they trans-formed into two one-hour DVDs and a separate photo DVD, which consist of 2,500 photos.

SSPS producer Mike Kieler said they had 10 videographers, three pho-tographers, eight editors, 11 video cameras, four still cameras and more than 100 hours of editing to put to-gether the final project.

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With spirit week ahead, things

are about to get lively in Prairie City

and Monroe as the communities and

schools gear up to celebrate homecom-

ing.Each day of the week will bring a

different dress-up theme for students at

the high school.

Monday will be generation day, in

which students are able to dress up

as members of different generations.

Tuesday is class color, Wednesday is

twin day, Thursday is the crowd-favor-

ite costume day and Friday is spirit

day.“We release for a few hours on

Thursday to do the street painting,”

said high school principal Scott

Bridges. The painting of the road to

the school is an annual tradition, and

one that the kids get excited for.

“We want to get people pumped for

the school,” Bridges said.

7 p.m. Thursday night is “Spirit

Night” at the high school. According

to organizer and teacher Tara Wil-

liams, spirit night includes the coro-

nation ceremony in which the king

and queen will be announced, perfor-

mances by the dance and cheerleading

squads, class skits and a speech by

Coach Bonnett to get the students and

community pumped up.

The assembly festivities will be

followed up by a powder puff football

tournament. The senior girls will face

off against the freshmen, and the ju-

niors against the sophomores before

the winning teams square off.

“The community is proud of our

school and all of our students,” or-

ganizer and teacher Sam Pohl said.

“Homecoming is a special time for all

of us to support the district and show

our school spirit.”

The school will be shortened Friday,

with students dismissed to take part

in the parade at 1:30 p.m. in Mon-

roe. A pep rally follows on the town

square. The evening’s game against

Albia will be followed by the home-

coming dance in Monroe.

The Prairie City farmer’s

market has come to a close

for the year, and organizers

are examining lessons learned

and how to approach the event

in the future.

The weekly market, held

on Saturdays from 8:30 until

11:30, was originally planned

to run through Oct. 12, but

due to the alternative obliga-

tions of several vendors, it

was decided to coincide the

final farmers market with the

city-wide garage sale days.

“We think in the future that

we’re going to start it on the

spring garage sale day and run

it through to the fall garage

sale day,” Sheryl Kain, market

manager for the Prairie City

farmer’s market said.

The number of vendors

fluctuated throughout the sea-

son depending on what was in

season at the time, and how

many people turned out for

the event.“The vendors seemed hap-

py with the turnout … We

had larger participation as

first, but we hope to get more

people coming all through the

season” Kain said.

Many members of the

crowd were faithful attendees,

coming out each and every

week to see what some of their

favorite community farmers

had in stock, and Kain hopes

to see more of that loyalty in

the future.“We were averaging 50 to

80 participants,” Kain said.

“I’d like to see a larger per-

centage of the town showing

up.”She explained that more at-

tendees means more vendors,

Mustang cross country teams ready

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Homecoming ahead, Spirit Week starts Monday

PC farmer’s market comes to a close

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cause he wanted to get off the farm and see the

world. It was important to him that he experience

more of what it had to of-fer, and he’d already had

a taste.In 1959, the year he

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had the opportunity to travel with his family to

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Boy Scout Troop 346, a troop com-

prising boys from Mingo, Ira, Baxter,

Colfax and Newton, came together

over the weekend to camp out, have

a good time and raise funds for their

troop.The scouts camped from Friday

night through Sunday just ouside of

the Ira community center, making use

of the large covered patio to do their

cooking and socializing.While the boys camped, tractors be-

gan to filter into Ira from the surround-

ing countryside. From recent models to

designs from the 1920’s and from John

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erything was represented in the roughly

30 tractors that came out for the show.

Each tractor owner paid a registra-

tion fee of $20, which entered him or

her into the show, as well as providing

a meal at the Saturday night pork chop

dinner. It also secured each owner a

spot on Sunday morning’s tractor ride

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The Colfax-Mingo band is going to

be attending Oktemberfest, a fall fes-

tival held each year in Marshalltown.

The festival, which will run from Sept.

26 through 29, will feature a number

of events from the classic car show

and the grand parade to a barbecue and

chili contest as well as a motorcycle

rodeo.The marching band will take part in

the grand parade, which will follow a

carnival theme this year.Cindy Brodin, the board member re-

sponsible for the parade, said that she

already has over 100 float entries and 9

bands and she expects to get roughly 20

more entries before registration closes.

Gates for the parade will open at 8:30

a.m., floats will be in place by 9:30 and

the parade will kick off at 10:00 a.m.

Brodin said that the parade usu-

ally takes around two hours, and with

as many bands as they have this year,

along with another 15 to 20 musical

entries, she is hoping to space some

of the floats out more so their music

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back in 1959. Bucklin brought the old tractor out as part of the Boy Scout Troop

346 fund raiser.

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Murray Moening, the director of Colfax-Mingo’s band program, conducts a

spring-semester concert last school year. Moening is taking the band to Mar-

shalltown’s Oktemberfest to march in the parade.

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The decor of the res-taurant isn’t fancy but it’s welcoming. The color scheme of maroon

and yellow pays trib-ute to the diner’s name-sake — the Mustangs of Prairie City-Monroe High School. Even the art on the wall features the great athletes from the school’s various ath-letic program.

Although the restau-rant offers booth seating, the best place to be in the loop is at the counter where a cup of Joe never runs empty and you can see the comings and go-ings of everyone in the diner.

Mustang Diner: homemade food at low prices

Although it’s only been around since 2010, the Mustang Diner in Monroe feels like a throwback to yesteryear and the quintessential place to get a fulfilling meal for a low price in southern Jasper County. The family owned establishment offers diners made to order homemade style dishes that are served in heaping portions and with a smile.

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The Mustang Diner is located at 108 West Sherman Street in Monroe. Operating hours are Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday-Tuesday 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday-Thursday 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday-Saturday 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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The menu at Mustang Diner offers a vast array of standard diner fare, however, breakfast — which is served all day long — is what you will write home about. Every day the diner offers a differ-ent lunch and breakfast specials. One special has stood above the rest in popularity is the stuffed ham and cheese omelette.

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On any given weekend from May to October, you can find hundreds of youth playing organized sports on the softball and soccer fields.

The park is home to the Newton Girls Softball Association and Boys Little League throughout the sum-mer as well as NASA soccer during the spring and fall months.

Newton Administrative Parks Su-perintendent Nathan Unsworth be-lieves the openness of the park along with the security are two features that appeal to locals who recreate at the facilities whether alone or with friends or family.

The facility is also home to the Newton Fourth of July Fireworks celebration which has been held there for two years now. The Parks department is beginning to organize for the upcoming 2015 festivity.

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In 2000, Daniel Krumm donated money for the Daniel Krumm Learning Center which is now the home to the Newton Parks and Recreation depart-ment. But the city shares the facility with the public by offering it up as a venue to host parties or small gatherings.

The Arboretum occupies six acres of land in the southeast portion of Agnes Patterson Memorial Park. More than 185 individual trees of 150 species cover the grounds and is filled with demonstra-tion beds including annual beds, a mixed perennial bed, an ornamental grass bed, a rose bed, two woody shrub beds, a shade garden, a tulip bed, a hybrid rose bed, a butterfly garden, a water garden and a native praire.

“It’s been spectauclar to see the trees mature and change over time. The park has developed before our eyes,” Un-sworth said.

The park also has more than 3,000 feet of hard surface trails. Other focal points include the Betty Allen Gazebo, the Smith Garden Arbor, the Swanger Bow Bridge, and numerous sculptures.

“It’s amazing, even on a cold winter day, people are out on walking the trails,” Unsworth said.

For those interested in outdoor exer-cise, the Arboretum hosts two run and walk events each year.

The Birds and the Bees 5K fun run and 2.5K walk takes place early each summer with proceeds going to the maintance of the Newton Arboertum. Participants are encouraged to wear costumes, and awards are given to those who look most like a gardener, backyard animal or flower.

The Fast and the Furri-est 1.5 mile run and walk takes place each Sep-tember with proceeds going to the Newton Dog Park, located Westwood Park. The 1.5 acre park provides dogs and owners a safe place to recreate and features an area for large and small dogs and includes a water fountain for both dogs and owners.

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Newton Arboretum & Botanical Gardens

Daniel J. Krumm Horticulture Center

The Daniel J. Krumm Horticulture Center is located at the Newton Arboretum and Botanical Gardens and is owned and operated by Project AWAKE (a winning answer to a kept environment).

Project AWAKE was formed in 1981 to preserve open spaces and encourage the community to maintain properties. It is a nonprofit organization that is funded solely on private donations as well as conservation grants, and it’s managed by a volunteer board of directors.

The Krumm Center is available for meetings, graduations, weddings and various events. There is a full kitchen available for serving catered or carry-in food and has a capacity of 70. The building as well as the gazebo may be rented any day during the week, weekend and holidays.



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ripple effect. Residents leaving for medical treat-ment, he believes, will not shop at the local grocery store, purchase gas at the local fuel stations or patron-ize the local restaurants.

“Could Colfax survive the loss of a clinic? Yeah, sure. But when you start losing those basic services, would they come back to Weirick’s to get their pre-scription filled? We don’t want to give residents any more excuses to do com-merce out of town,” he said.

Melissa Pearson is a nurse practitioner who re-opened a small-town clinic in Baxter in September. The Baxter facility was also a victim of the NewCare closures, and was originally operated by Skiff Medical

Center.Pearson was the practi-

tioner when the Newton hospital maintained own-ership, and developed a good relationship with her patients prior to its closure. Now, Family First Medi-cal operates general prac-tice and urgent care hours. Pearson also gives house calls by appointment for el-derly and patients unable to travel. She believes small-town health facilities are all about convenience for resi-dents.

“It improves quality of living because they get the care faster. Many times peo-ple will put off (treatment) for lack of transportation to get to the larger town or for financial reasons,” she said.

Frantum has seen this

trend anecdotally at work throughout her career — small town clinics are be-coming a “rarity” closing in favor or hospital system-owned clinics in nearby population centers.

But she said the conve-nience of the local clinic, and the time she and Ingle can spend with their pa-tients, allows private prac-tices an advantage over corporate clinics. And cost competitiveness has not yet been an issue for Colfax Medical Associates.

“It’s not something that I’ve had as an obstacle. It’s not something I’ve had pa-tients complain about,” she said. “It’s not something I’ve lost anything over. Pa-tients like that indepen-dence. People ask every day

‘What specialist do I have to go to?’ I’m able to tell them wherever you want. We don’t have allegiance with anyone. Giving them the freedom to make that choice is important.”

The Frantum said that extra time spent with pa-tients in a small town prac-tice is not only an advan-tage for patients, but the doctors and practitioners themselves.

“It’s probably my favorite part,” Frantum said. “Get-ting to know my patients better, getting to know their families, seeing them out and about through-out the community, even though I don’t live here in town. The close-knit family atmosphere in a small town (helps the practice.)”

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what I like to do. Ev-erything, my hob-bies, my interests all pointed me towards finance,” Light said.

He began working at Wells Fargo Finan-cial as a credit analyst before being pro-moted to senior credit analyst. After work-ing there for 11 years, he decided to make a change and began working at Pipar Jaf-fray as a financial ad-visor. He worked there for 10 years before becoming an indepen-dent advisor. During that time, Light also served on the Board of Directors of the Ur-bandale Chamber of Commerce. In 2009, he was named Presi-dent of the Chamber, which is also when he had his first brush with Newton.

“I met Bonnie Terpstra, who was the chair of the Newton Chamber of Com-

merce. We started kicking around ideas back and forth ... and developed a friend-ship,” Light said.

The conversation would eventually lead to Light being inter-viewed and becoming the interim executive director in 2010.

Light served as Interim executive di-rector from February through July of 2010 before a permanent director was named.

He returned to Urbandale where he became office man-ager for the Urbandale Chamber of Com-merce. After a year, Light took on a new roll at as sales man-ager at the Sheraton in West Des Moines. He worked at the Sheraton until his position was elimi-nated, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Less than five months later, the

Newton Chamber was once again looking for a new director and Light was available to help fill in as interim, eventually becoming the active executive director.

“Here is the cool part, if my experience in 2010 would have been a miserable expe-rience here and I get that phone call, I say, ‘No, I’m busy. I’m sor-ry.’ But it was such a great experience, that I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’d be very excited to do that,’” Light said.

“What is really cool now is seeing the Chamber, the city, the community as it was in 2010 versus 2014, what great strides this community has made, it is phenomenal. With all of the things in place right now, we are just geared for greater things in the future.”

Light was named

executive director on Aug. 18 and one of the first things he did was join the Newton Booster Club.

“My first invest-ment in the com-munity was investing in the future of the kids,” Light said. He also recently became a Rotarian as well as a member of the YMCA.

“The hopes and vision is that we con-tinue to expand mem-bership. That mem-bership is expanded beyond the borders of our city. We are called the Greater New-ton Area Chamber of Commerce and I would love to see busi-nesses from Colfax, Grinnell, Pella, sur-rounding communi-ties to be a part of our chamber, too.”

He would also like to really celebrate the businesses that are in Newton and the ac-

complishments they achieve.

“Ribbon cuttings and landmark cel-ebrations need to be broadcast because they are successes. I always call ribbon cut-tings ‘wedding day’ for the business owner, because they poured their finances, heart, mind, body and soul into this business. We are here to wish them well, support them and do everything we can so they are suc-cessful because if they are successful then we are all elevated,” Light said.

“Landmark anni-versaries, five, 10, 15 years, that’s a success story that needs to be shared. There are so many businesses that struggle and to have one that has either a business expansion or a land mark anniver-sary, we need to cel-ebrate that.”

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Jeff HolschuhCraig Light (far left) stands with other local professionals at the Fountain Hills Estates ground breaking ceremony in June.


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