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Dec 26, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
GRUNDY CENTER — Dr. Eric Neverman, 38, may be as close as one could come to the old-fashioned country doctor. He might not make house calls but – just as an example – he’s ridden in an ambulance in a hospital transfer with a woman experiencing a difficult pregnancy. He’ll also pitch in to provide support for trauma and “code blue” calls when a patient is in a critical situation. Neverman is among The Courier’s 20 Under 40 honorees for 2024.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
WATERLOO — Samantha Gutknecht can see the future from her offices at Cedar Valley United Way in the U.S. Bank building downtown. She sees the Mark’s Park youth splash pad/aquatic play feature. She sees the RiverLoop Amphitheatre. She sees riverfront housing. She sees a viable downtown business district that has been the site of large downtown celebrations that draw visitors from near and far, like Iowa Irish Fest.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
DUNKERTON — They met at the station – and took the station with them. A host of preservationists and volunteers moved an 1883 train depot from a site a mile north of the city into town recently, on what is a growing history campus just north of Dunkerton High School and City Hall.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
mtnweekly.com | Pat Kinney
Ride Snowboards has been in the game since the onset of the snowboard revolution. I can remember...
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
WATERLOO -- A great force for social and racial justice in the Cedar Valley has passed away. Longtime Waterloo civil right activist Anna Mae Weems died at the age of 98 on Sept. 22, family members announced. A public memorial service is pending and will be announced at a later date. Weems is perhaps best known locally for bringing the Rev.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
WATERLOO — A career educator from Waterloo has been appointed director of the second-largest school district in the state of Oklahoma. Jamie C. Harrington Polk, a 1980 graduate of Waterloo West High School, has been named superintendent of schools in Oklahoma City, the state capital. The district has 33,000 students, surpassed only by the Tulsa school district in size in the Sooner State.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Matthew Wilde |Teresa Dahlgren |Mike Jennings |Tim Jamison |Michelle Van Dorn |Tina Hinz | +8 more
They held a garden party. I didn’t go. Not because I did not want to see old friends, but I wasn’t invited. I could have gone anyway, and I would have been welcomed. I, however, would have felt like the kid who showed up for the first two practices for football, dropped out and then wanted to sit up front at the victory celebration. I did not attend because I hadn’t earned my letter.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
WATERLOO — Ron Steele is all about the job. He’s also all about family. That’s why he’s been at KWWL-TV in Waterloo 50 years. He’s been that good that long and found balance and dedication to his work and his family staying in a relatively small TV market. “The reason I’ve stayed, without question, is my family and the people I’ve worked with,” Steele said. He’s now the dean of Iowa news anchors. He was hired at NBC-affiliate KWWL as sports director and began work April 1, 1974.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
WATERLOO — Artificial intelligence has been part of John Deere’s Waterloo operations since the dawn of the internet. The first robotics went into operation on the production line more than 30 years ago. But as Deere vice president and Waterloo operations factory manager Becky Guinn says, it takes a village to build a tractor. “It’s always going to be a people business,” Guinn said. Like a torque wrench, technology is a tool, a means to an end.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
wcfcourier.com | Pat Kinney
Artificial intelligence is creating a whole new ballgame for many in the local financial industry. It’s like a much-heralded rookie baseball prospect with power to drive home a grand slam of enhanced, finely-honed and successful cyber security, marketing, investment forecasts and solid, robust loan activity. However, “We are only in the top of the second inning of this ‘new’ technology,” according to Bob Moore, a financial adviser with Lee Wealth Management in Waterloo.
