8 – McCook Daily Gazette
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Monday, Feb. 21, 2011
Ribbon-cutting welcomes insurance agency to McCook
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette
The McCook, Nebraska Area Chamber of Commerce, McCook Cordials, City of McCook and McCook banks and businesses welcomed the Lela D. Ladd Agency/American Family Insurance to the McCook business community with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 18, 2010, at the agency's new location in the Keystone Business Center at 402 Norris Avenue.
Lela Ladd, holding the ribbon on the left side, said that she and her husband, Jim, wielding the scissors, moved to McCook from Douglas, Wyoming, three years ago, to be closer to their daughter, Brandi, who is married to Tyler Schmick, of Schmick's Market. "McCook became home very quickly," Lela told those gathered for the ribbon cutting.
Lela owned an insurance company for 10 years in Wyoming, and took over American Family Insurance in McCook from Jim Dusatko on July 1, 2010. She moved into the Keystone on Aug. 1. Lela's customer service representative (CSR) is Lynn Rhods. With the move to McCook, Jim Ladd retired from the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy after 24 years; he is employed at Schmick's. Lela's motto for her new office is emblazoned on the wall above her desk: "May all who enter as clients leave as friends."
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Root beer for everyone
Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette
Tyler Loop of McCook, Nebraska, discussed his and his wife Tyler's new business venture, "The Loop Brewery Co.," while sharing his homemade root beer with a fairgoer in the merchants' building at the Red Willow County fair in McCook in July 2010. The new business — which won the first-place $25,000 investment award from the 2010 Hormel Business Plan Competition — will be a brew pub offering craft beers made on-site, as well as a restaurant.
Great Plains installs new equipment hut
Great Plains Communications
With the help of Hixsonʼs General Contractors, Inc. of McCook, Great Plains Communications recently installed a new hut that will house equipment that connects the fiber-optic network from McCook to company headquarters in Blair and on to Omaha. This network will carry HighDefinition television services and increase Internet speeds to McCook.