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25th annual Women in Business

To all the women of Clarinda Academy: Thank you for your service and dedication.

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Candy is a Speech Communications graduate and has also earned her Master’s in Management. She runs and owns SBG Services Training and Consulting, and some of her clients include Turner Broadcasting Systems, GE, Hallmark Cards, Wal-Mart and Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

She has authored several books and CDs which are avail-

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note speaker Candy Whirley.

The program will be based on the theme “Celebrating Silver…

Going for the Gold!”

Candy is an interactive and energizing speaker who has spoken from the Hawaiian Islands to London, England to Seoul, Korea and has motivated and inspired thousands of people with her dynamic and interactive style for over 20 years.

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Elaine Farwell Clarinda Chamber of Commerce Executive Director The 25th Annual Women in Business Luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 23, at Wibholm Hall. The cost is $10 per person.

The Clarinda Chamber of Commerce encourages business professionals to come enjoy lunch and program featuring key-

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Guest speaker: Candy Whirley

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She has authored several books and CDs which are available at the luncheon, including her newest book “It Takes 4 to Tango.�

So‌ Buckle Up! Your adventure is about to begin with Candy!

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As a humorous keynote speaker, she combines light-hearted training techniques with more than 20 years of experience helping professionals improve their job performance and achieve their personal goals.

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or as a model for the Kansas City Star Magazine. She graduated Cum Laude from Missouri Western State College with a B.S. Degree in Speech Communications, with a Human Relations Emphasis. She earned Candy is a past President her Masters in Management from and former Board Member of the University of Phoenix where the Kansas City Chapter of the she was selected by the faculty National Speakers Association. to present the commencement You may recognize Candy as address. a former Kansas City Chiefs From the Hawaiian Islands to Chiefette, as a performer at London, England, and Seoul, Starlight Theater in Kansas City Korea, Candy Whirley is famous

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“Be prepared for a roller coaster ride with me‌climbing uphill with knowledge-based work and rolling downhill into playful and fun activities that help you apply and retain what you have learned.â€? – Candy Whirley

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Bank official strives to find service five locations. “The marketing role has grown since having five branches,�

Working with the generations she said from an office at the may be the best phrase to headquarter location on the describe Cynthia Alvarez and Clarinda square.

Marketing banks and the her responsibilities at PCSB, the expansion of technology are acronym for Page County State becoming even more hand-inBank in Clarinda.

Since September 2008, the hand. Finding the right fit for the Clarinda High and Iowa State bank’s customers is key. “When we roll out a new proUniversity graduate has worked gram that involves a computer, her way up to assistant vice president and deals heavily with the younger generation seems the marketing of the institution’s fine with it since they are familiar

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with computers,� she said. “But we still have some older customers who still like paper.�

At 32, Alvarez fits in with the younger generation, but remembers when paper was the dominate medium and transitioning to computers. “I remember when we were starting to transfer information from cards into a computer and typing all of that, and coming in to stuff envelopes with statements – and shredding paper,� she laughed.

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Even PCSB’s technology has changed. Alvarez said the bank’s telephone banking is still active, but just to a different phone.

PCSB ended landline telephone banking service, where customers could just use their telephone to find out basic information about their accounts. PCSB switched that for customers to use their smartphones to know their accounts’ status. “But I don’t think paper will completely go away,� she said.

PCSB became the first bank

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for customers in Iowa to use Interactive Teller technology with the installation of two drive-up units at its branch location on South 16th Street in November 2013.

Interactive Teller is the combination of a video screen and tube system. The customer’s transaction goes into the ITM for the teller. Tellers operating the ITMs are all located in the ITM Contact Center at the bank’s location on the Clarinda square.

Customers do not need an ATM or debit card to use Interactive Teller. Customers are instantly connected with a live PCSB

teller. The teller can assist with the transaction and answer any questions a customer might have about their account including balance inquiries and transaction history.

Making a routine deposit won’t be treated like all other banking functions. Alvarez said PCSB won’t take away the human interaction when it comes to major decisions.

“We know when people are PCSB Assistant Vice President Cynthia Alvarez works extensively making a major decision about their life, like buying a home, we with marketing the financial institution and keeps up with the changes know they will want to come in in technology and how to best reach its customers. and talk to someone,” she said.

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Desire to return to Clarinda home to her hometown of Clarinda to serve as the new director of marketing at Clarinda Regional Health Center. She is also the director of the Clarinda Medical Foundation.

After graduating from Clarinda High School in 1991, Finch attended Drake University and earned a degree in education.

She later received a master’s degree from Bowling Green State University in organization development.

While living near Toledo, Ohio, Finch served as the educational programs director for the Metropolitan Park

By KENT DINNEBIER Editor Throughout her life Beckie Finch has seen the important role women play in the business world. Now, she is proudly following in their footsteps.

“I have been very fortunate to have several female friends and family members that were very strong role models in my life. They showed me to set the bar high and strive to achieve my goals in my career. They continue to inspire me every day,” Finch said.

In February, Finch returned

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District of Toledo Area. She was responsible for coordinating the various educational, historical and environmental programs at the parks as well as any other special events.

Meanwhile, Finch said her husband, Rick, served as the director of a War of 1812 fort that had been converted into a history museum.

“My husband and I missed Iowa tremendously. We always intended to move back, so I was very excited when I had the opportunity to come back and work at Clarinda Regional Health Center. Working for the

Clarinda Medical Foundation was just the icing on the cake. It is a great organization that does some great work to support the hospital. I have really enjoyed it and fully support its mission,” Finch said.

Returning to Clarinda also allowed Finch to be near her mother, Merrily Tunnicliff, and her brother, Joe Tunnicliff. “It’s great to be home,” she said.

Finch said her educational background and her experience with the park district have helped prepare her for her new duties at CRHC. Her degree in organization development

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“The women in this community continue to be very strong. This is a great opportunity for the Chamber to congratulate the women who make Clarinda a better place to work, raise a family and make the community better as a whole,” Finch said.

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very supportive businesses.

They encouraged career growth by allowing men and women the opportunity to develop the tools they needed to succeed. I feel very fortunate about that.”

That same support for women in the business community, Finch said, is also clearly evident in Clarinda. Therefore, Finch said she is looking forward to attending the annual Women In Business Luncheon sponsored by the Clarinda Chamber of Commerce.

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CRHC has also recently adopted a lean culture intended to enhance the efficiency of services provided at the hospital. Finch said her prior business background supports that culture and will allow her to continue the good work already being done by the Clarinda Medical Foundation.

“It gives me more business awareness and a better understanding of how the business runs,” Finch said. “My previous employers were also

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focused on behavioral points of view as well as human resources and strategic planning.

Meanwhile, while working at the park district, Finch said she worked with various volunteer boards.

“Working with the Clarinda Medical Foundation Board of Directors goes hand in hand with that prior experience. I know some of the people on the board already, so I am looking forward to working with them again,” Finch said.

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Accountant balances new career,

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Kimberly Herzberg is a classic example of having an interest and getting the education in school to turn it into a career.

The 23-year-old from Allendale, Mo., opened her accounting office last fall in Clarinda.

“I took accounting in high school and I liked it,” she said from her office at 114 W. Main St. in the Raymond James Financial Services building. “And I declared accounting as a major in college when I learned there were scholarships for those who

wanted to get into accounting.”

She attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville and those accounting classes confirmed to her she made the right choice.

“I knew this was it,” she said.

Even though she was learning about knowing what numbers to look for and how to add and subtract them, she wasn’t yet certain about what to do after she earned the degree.

“Accounting can go in so many different ways so I put off that decision for a while,” she said.

During her senior year of college, she landed an internship

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at an accounting firm in Maryville that gave her a real-world experience of working with other people’s financial lives.

The internship turned into a job and she graduated from Northwest in spring 2012.

But Herzberg continued to do the math when she was trying to figure out the most effective way to use her accounting skills.

“My goal was to somehow do this by myself,” she said.

After getting married and living on a farm, the commute to the Maryville job was a bit longer as she lived closer to Clarinda.

So finding the best place to

open her own office was high on the priority list.

“You drive through New Market and other towns and think, ‘Is this the best place,’” she asked.

But her answer came from an unexpected place. An acquaintance who also works in the same building told her there was a vacant space in the building.

“It was a God thing,” she smiled. She knew the Clarinda location was it.

She opened her office last fall, weeks before the typical tax season starts every January.

Her list of clients is growing

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and her work branches out into other needs when tax season is done. Beyond the traditional April 15 date, Herzberg works with business client’s year-round accounting and payroll needs.

Herzberg said she has enough work to justify the operation, but doesn’t call her self full time.

She even may limit herself from calling herself full time.

“I’m not full time all the time,” she explained. “I don’t want this to take away from family time. I’ll try to find the balance.”

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Woman combines her time among From delivering newspapers as a young girl to now owning her own business, Lisa Hull of Clarinda has learned the importance of being flexible.

Hull serves as the president and owner of CL Fabrication, Inc. She has also been a consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics for 19 years.

Hull and her husband, Curtis, were married in August of 1997.

They have two children, Jacob and Anna.

In May of 2010, the couple

opened CL Fabrication. The company manufactures its own line of skid loader attachments as well as component parts for other companies. Hull oversees the accounting and maintenance of the inventory reports for the company.

“When you work for yourself, you must be disciplined. You have to plan your work and still be flexible in case your children are sick or something else comes up. Your day doesn’t always go like you planned,” Hull said.

Born and raised in Clarinda, Hull said she started working

in the fourth grade when she got a paper route. After graduating from Clarinda High School in 1989, she attended the University of Northern Iowa and in 1993 graduated with a degree in finance.

After returning to her hometown, Hull went to work in the accounting department at Page County State Bank. Hull also earned her certification to become a registered representative selling stocks, bonds and mutual funds.

“I learned a lot at the bank.

I especially learned a lot from Floyd Whitmore,” Hull said.

However, in the fall of 1995, Hull left the bank to join the accounting department at Lisle Corporation. Hull said what she knows about manufacturing she learned during her time at Lisle Corporation.

Meanwhile, Hull was also serving as a consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics. When her son was born in 1998, Hull became a stay at home mother and focused more of her time on her cosmetic business. Then, after her daughter was born in 2000, Hull said she would often take her children with her to parties or business meetings.

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businesses and community help By exposing her children to her work at a young age, Hull said they quickly learned good manners as well as how to be quiet and behave around other people.

“I believe it is good to involve your kids because it teaches them about the importance of work. There is a saying that, in a home, a lot more is caught than is taught,” Hull said. “I see my kids as the reason to do the things I do rather than as an excuse not to do something. I

want to be a good role model for them.”

After having been around the cosmetic business when they were young, Hull said now that the children are older they are interested in the operation of the fabrication company.

“They come and are actively involved in the business. It has shown them the importance of responsibility and having a good work ethic,” Hull said.

Through her personal experience and seeing how

other women have taken a leadership role in the Clarinda business community, Hull said she appreciates the important role women play in any type of business. She said she especially admires the single mothers who have managed to balance work and family to be successful in the business world.

“I really respect the single working moms. My hat is off to them because I know it is not easy to try to do all those

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things. I have several friends and relatives that are single moms and I know it is not easy to balance family and work,” Hull said.

Despite already having a busy schedule, Hull said she is always looking for new challenges. The first of those opportunities came in 2012 when she took office as a member of the Clarinda City Council.

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HULL from page 1a on the council has been a good experience. She said she has learned a great deal about how municipal government functions.

Hull was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Clarinda Foundation.

“The Clarinda Foundation interested me. I didn’t know a lot about it, so this has been an opportunity to learn about its role in the community and how important it is to give back to your local community,” Hull said.

Giving back to the community is also the role Hull sees the Clarinda Chamber of Commerce serving by sponsoring the annual Women In Business Luncheon.

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Hull said the Women In Business Luncheon reinforces the importance of persistence and maintaining a positive attitude not only in your professional life, but also in your personal life.

“I have always been an optimist. I try to think positive because life goes on and we have to press on to overcome whatever challenges come our way,” Hull said. “The best advice I could give someone is to take God as your business partner and your best friend. Let Him guide you in your decisions and in life’s journey because it can be quite a ride.”

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By John Van Nostrand Publisher When Ayn Taylor saw the front window of the building she wanted to open her quilt shop in, she knew she was in the right place.

“I’ve always wanted a shop,” she said surrounded by an array of quilt colors and accessories at Handcart Quilts.

Her interest in having a retail store comes from her father who had a store in Omaha. The enticement to his store was the big, impressive displays in the front window.

“People were talking about Ayn Taylor with dog Gizmo near the front window of Handcart his window,” she said. “I have Quilts.

always wanted a shop with a big window in it.”

After stints of selling cars and for AccuQuilt in Omaha, a quilt supply store, she couldn’t fend off the urge anymore to have her own store.

“I left AccuQuilt not sure what I wanted to do,” she said – until she visited Clarinda last fall and saw the big window in the store front at the corner of Washington and 16th on the square.

“And the building was for rent,” she smiled.

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saw her window of opportunity “I’ve had years of ideas for a quilt store.”

Handcart Quilts provides supplies and sewing machines for people who quilt and those who knit. Part of her offerings, which are rare in Southwest Iowa, are sewing machine sales and services. The name of the store is in honor of the Mormon Trail which members pulled handcarts through Southwest Iowa.

She thinks the timing for the store was ideal as some social-

media sites have been strong with sewing in general, let alone quilting.

“That DIY (do it yourself) movement, Pintrest and social media have built up quilting,” she said.

The social media frenzy may also have broken the stereotype for the hobby that ends up on beds and hung on walls.

“It’s not just for older women anymore,” she said. “Since we’ve opened we have had classes and had kids, some younger than 10,

and we have had teenage girls.”

Some of those youth have gone to Handcart for assistance with their 4-H sewing project.

And, yes, there have been men of all ages stop by and ask about needles and colors of threads.

“I call them my closet quilters,” she laughed.

Since the end product of quilting is usually on display at a home, Taylor wants her shop to have a feeling of home.

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