The Waukon Chamber Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card
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The Waukon Chamber Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card
January 2015 Working Together Is Winning Together ! A Monthly Waukon Chamber of Commerce Newsletter waukon Upcoming Events Nov 3- Jan 6 Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card Promotion (Waukon) Jan 3- Jan 31 (Sat, Sun, Mon) Winter Film Festival (Effigy Mounds National Monument) Tue Jan 6, 13, 20, 27 Tuesday Story Time (Robey Memorial Library) Tater Tuesday (Dave's Gus & Tony's Pizza & Steakhouse, Waukon) Fri Dec 9 Wine Tasting (Waukon Greenhouse) Tue Jan 13 Chamber Lunch Meeting (Dave's Gus & Tony's Pizza & Steakhouse, Waukon) Tue Jan 20 After School with Ross (Robey Memorial Library) Mon Jan 26 Free Waukon Community Meal (First Presbyterian Church) Effigy Mounds NM 52nd Film Festival The Effigy Mounds Winter Film Festival is celebrating its 52nd anniversary beginning Saturday, January 3, 2015. The free film festival has been in existence since January of 1963 and through the years there has been great support from the community. Great-grandparents, grandparents, parents and children have visited the monument and attended the films. The films are shown on Saturday and Sunday at 10:00, 11:00 a.m., 12 noon, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. There will also be a 1:00 p.m. showing on Monday. chamber The Waukon Chamber Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card Begins November 1 and runs through January 5th. The Waukon Chamber of Commerce is promoting the 3nd Annual Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card Promotion. Everyone is invited to play the rules are simple customers are asked to fill a card with purchases from at least three different participating merchants. Merchants will validate the card for the amount purchased in $5 increments. There is a limit of $90 that may be punched by one merchant for a purchase. Sign your name on the finished card and drop them off at any participating business. There is no limit on how many cards you can fill, but you can only win one prize. Prizewinners of Waukon Chamber bucks will be drawn at the Waukon Chamber Office Tuesday, January 6, 2014. Winners will be contacted by the Waukon Chamber. The more a customer shops locally, the more times they can be entered in the drawing. Participating merchants include: Clark Tire Center Inc., Cunningham Hardware & Rental, Dave, Gus & Tony’s Pizza & Steak House, Elliott Jewelers, Empty Nest Winery, Epic Wear, Floors Plus LLC, Hardees (Waukon), Hartig Drug (Waukon), Howards Home Furnishings, JaDecc’S, Jim’s Appliance/JW Kitchens, Kwik Star, Main Feature Theatre & Pizza Pub, Queen Jean Quilting, Shawver Well Company, ShopKo, Steel Cow, Stranded Memories, Vet’s Club, Westside Café, Village Farm & Home, Waukon City Club, Waukon Fareway, Waukon Greenhouse Flowers & Gifts, Waukon Harley-Davidson, Waukon Power Sports, Waukon Tire Center Inc., Waukon Wellness Center, West Side Waukon Lumber Inc. and WW Homestead Dairy. For additional information, call Stephanie Dugan at 563-568-4110. The Waukon Chamber of Commerce Announced the Winner of its Seconded Annual Holiday Window Decorating Contest "The Waukon Chamber of Commerce would like to congratulate all of the businesses that illuminated their windows with lights and decorations in time for our seconded annual Holiday Window Decorating Contest!" Three Community Members voted on Creativity, Originality and Appearance to determine the winner. The votes were very close again this year, but the Holiday Window Decorating Contest Winner is Queen Jean Quilting. The winning businesses received a beautiful holiday wreath from the Waukon Greenhouse. The Waukon Chamber of Commerce would also like to announce the Honorable Mentions. These two businesses didn't win our grand prize; but have been chosen by the judges as exceptional and deserve recognition. Honorable Mentions go to Howards Home Furnishings and Hartig Drug. The Waukon Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all of the following businesses for decorating their windows: A OK Well, Cunningham Hardware, Elliott Jewelers, Epic Wear, Hartig Drug, Howards Home Furnishing, JaDecc's, Jim's Appliance/JW Kitchens, Micah Lynn Photography, Queen Jean Quilting, Shawver Well Company, Inc., St. Patrick's Thrift Store, Steel Cow, Stranded Memories, Teslow's Formal Wear & Guesthouse, Waukon Greenhouse Floral & Gifts, Waukon Harley Davidson and Waukon State Bank. For more information about the Annual Holiday Window Decorating Contest winners or about The Waukon Chamber of Commerce, contact Stephanie Dugan at 563-568-4110. Start saving with a FREE Small Business Energy Assessment Alliant Energy’s skilled energy advisors will be in Waukon in the coming weeks to conduct free business energy assessments exclusively for small businesses. Find out where your business is wasting energy and money. During the assessment, your energy advisor will review: • Building construction • Heating and cooling systems • Insulation • Lighting • Water heating • Windows and doors When your assessment is complete, you will receive a customized report detailing your business’ energy performance. The report provides a list of recommended improvements, estimated costs and applicable rebates from Alliant Energy. You can schedule your energy assessment any time that is convenient for you. To learn more and schedule your assessment, call 1-888-267-7516 or visit alliantenergy.com/ start saving. Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Applications due February 27, 2015 RPA 1/Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission (UERPC) is now seeking applications from the region for Federal Funding for the Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2016-2019 through the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP). The MAP-21 transportation bill established this program to provide for a variety of alternative transportation projects, including Transportation Enhancements, Recreational Trails, Scenic Byways and Safe Routes to School programs. Eligible applicants include local governments; regional transportation authorities; transit agencies; natural resource or public land agencies; school districts, local education agencies, or schools; tribal governments; or any other local or regional governmental entity with responsibility for oversight of transportation or recreational trails. Under TAP, nonprofits are not eligible as direct grant recipients of the funds, but they are able to partner with any eligible entity on an eligible TAP project. RPA 1 expects to have at least $50,000 (total) available for distribution in Federal Fiscal Years 2016, 2017 and 2018, and at least $115,000 available for distribution in Federal Fiscal Year 2019. (The 2016 Federal Fiscal Year begins October 1, 2015). Applications are due on February 27, 2015. Surface Transportation Project (STP) Applications due February 27, 2015 RPA 1/Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission (UERPC) is seeking applications from cities and counties for Federal Funding for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2019 which begins October 1, 2018 and ends September 30, 2019. All incorporated cities and counties located in the five-county UERPC region that maintain federal aid routes are eligible to apply for the funds, as well as the DOT and the Regional Transit Authority. UERPC boundaries include the cities in and the counties of: Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek. STP funds can be used for road projects on federal-aid routes; bridge projects on any public road; provide funding for transit capital improvements; and provide funding for transportation planning activities. Applications will be sent to all city and county jurisdictions, the DOT and the Regional Transit Authority and will be available on the UERPC website. Applications are due on February 27, 2015.UERPC is partnering with the Howard County community to engage community members in asset mapping and action planning activities, which will help guide the community in choosing the project’s focus. ~*~ WELCOME ~*~ The Waukon Chamber of Commerce extends a special welcome to our new and returning members! -Allamakee Community Education Association -Kelly Concrete -Allamakee Community School District -Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank -Allamakee County Extension -Key-Stone Real Estate -Allamakee Music Boosters -KVIK-KNEI Wennes Communications Stations -Allamakee Substance Abuse Prevention -Kwik Star -Benjegerdes Machine, Inc. -Martin Funeral Home -Black Hills Energy -Mosaic in Northeast Iowa -Bruening Rock Products Inc -Cameron Ochsner, DDS, PC -Cook Insurance Agency -Cunningham Hardware & Rental -Dalaco -Dave, Gus & Tony's Pizza & Steak House -Empty Nest Winery -Fidelity Bank & Trust -G&S Machine -GFMutual Insurance Association -Good Samaritan Society- Waukon -Gre-Len Plastics, Inc. -Gundersen Lutheran Medical & Vison -Hacker, Nelson & CO., P.C. -Hardees -Ness Pumping Service and Porta Potty Rentals IEDA, Iowa Energy Office, Funding Opportunity Announcement IEDA, Iowa Energy Office, has released a funding opportunity and is seeking proposals that address the current priorities of the office or represent an innovative idea that addresses an important and timely energy challenge. The current Energy Office priorities include: • Energy management and energy efficiency projects in commercial, multifamily, and/or industrial sectors. • -Northeast Iowa Community College improvements in the transportation -Northeast Iowa Printers Inc. -Pepsi-Cola of Decorah sector (as scored by the ACEEE scorecard, available on the IowaGrants Funding Opportunity). -Revelyn Lonning • -Rusty Berger Masonry Efforts that will lessen the impacts of propane shortages in the state. -Shafer & Shafer Law Office -Subway Resources to promote energy • Collaborative projects developed through the federal E3 (Economy, -TASC Inc. Energy, and Environment) program. -Torkelson Motors-Waukon • -Upper Iowa Insurance Services Corp dba/ Leschensky Insurance Agency -Waukon Dental -Waukon Greenhouse Flowers & Gifts Projects aimed to improve the energy management and/or energy efficiency of wastewater treatment facilities. The funding opportunity information and proposal guidelines can be found at -Howards Home Furnishings -Waukon Harley-Davidson/Waukon Power Sports opportunity #100450 “Iowa Energy -Impro Products -Waukon State Bank Office Funding Opportunity: Call for -Jacobson, Bristol, Garrett & Swartz -Waukon Tire Center Inc. Proposals and Guidelines”, https:// -James U. Mellick, Attorney at Law -Waukon Wellness Center -Joe Cunningham www.iowagrants.gov, funding www.iowagrants.gov/ insideLinkOpps.jsp? documentPk=1416848326734 . Results For Which Phone Book You Advertise In IEDA will consider proposals submitted by any individual or organization. This -Northeast Iowa Regional -dex -Rivers & Bluffs -HomePages includes governmental organizations, non-profit organizations, educational institutions and private entities. Please forward to other entities that may be interested in These four phone books tied for the top picks to advertise in. applying. Happy New Year!!! The deadline to apply is February 2, 2015. 101 West Main Street Waukon, IA 52172 Waukon Chamber of COMM ERCE our mission... The Waukon Chamber of Commerce is a volunteer association of businesses, industries, professionals and individuals working together to enhance the general business climate of the Waukon area. Waukon Chamber Seeks Nominations The Waukon Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations from community residents for Waukon’s Years of Service, New Business of the Year, Business of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Person of the Year honor. The Chamber will bestow the honor upon more than one individual/group or local business fitting the award’s criteria. Nomination forms can be picked up at the Waukon Chamber of Commerce office, located at 101 West coming soon Main Street. Those nominating people for this award are reminded that it is the quality of the nomination that determines the award winner, not the quantity of letters in support of the nominee. The nominations and ensuing awards are intended to be a surprise to the deserving individuals, so it is encouraged that they are not informed of their nomination. Individuals/groups or local businesses with be honored at the Chamber’s annual meeting, which will be held Friday, February 27, 2015 at the Waukon Banquet Center. For more information, contact Waukon Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Stephanie Dugan at 563-568-4110 or email [email protected]. Contact us at 563-568-4110 Upcoming Chamber Events Holiday Merchant Madness Punch Card The Waukon Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet Easter Egg Hunt www.waukon.org