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EU FINISHES THIRD

STATE FAIR RESULTS

East Union’s Gabrielle Valencia led the Eagles to a third-place team finish Thursday at the AC/GC meet. For more on the Eagle cross country team, see SPORTS, page 1S. >>

A number of area residents competed in various events at the Iowa State Fair. To see how area residents placed at the Iowa State Fair, see pages 5A and 6A. >>

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Rental business open in Creston

Traveling salesperson not associated with SWCC Southwestern Community College received several calls Thursday from concerned citizens in the Creston and Greenfield areas regarding a female salesperson traveling door to door selling education-related products on the college’s

behalf. Southwestern Community College is in no way affiliated with the company, which is called Southwestern Advantage. According to Southwestern Advantage’s website, the company is based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Apple gets $208M in tax breaks to build Iowa data center CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMAN

Doug, left, and Kim Harms of Creston smile for the camera Thursday while sitting in chairs they offer for rent through their new business, DK Events. The couple started the business in March and since then has rented the chairs, banquet and round tables and tents for various things, such as birthdays and seating for the Little Green Trailer.

By BAILEY POOLMAN this was an opportunity for stuff to get started,” Kim loaded in the trailer as she CNA staff reporter bpoolman@crestonnews.com

us to do it, in a community that probably needed it.”

Now, there are more options for those special occasions. Kim and Doug Harms are offering chair and table rentals in Creston, the only business in the Union County area with special occasion seating. Kim and Doug, formerly of Nebraska, moved to Creston about three years ago. Doug, who works as a locomotive engineer with the railroad, moved a little earlier. The couple has been contemplating starting the business for some time. “A couple years ago, we had a son graduate, and we had a hard time finding tables and chairs,” Kim, 43, said. “We decided maybe

“WE DECIDED maybe this was an opportunity for us to do it, in a community that probably needed it.”

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KIM HARMS

Co-owner of DK Events

“Finally, I told her, ‘Just do it,’” Doug, 42, said with a laugh about eventually starting the process in March. “We got our LLC in March, and right after that we started doing ads and

said. Research into a business and if there was demand in the area was done at the Small Business Development Center at Southwestern Community College. Doug also has some experience in business, and both he and SWCC personnel moved the process along. They purchased the tables and chairs in Des Moines and transported them back to Creston. “I had to go to Sam’s Club to get some chairs,” Kim said of one trip. “When we started this business was the first time I ever drove with the trailer behind me, and it was before we got sides on our trailer.” There were several pallets of chairs and tables

was driving home. “It took me stopping on the side of the road five times and driving about 40 miles an hour to get home,” Kim said with a laugh. “I got it about to Winterset and realized my best option was to put the tables on top of the pallets and then strap it down. “It was quite an experience,” Kim said. “We’re learning,” Doug added. Since then, the couple has 125 comfortable white chairs, 10 6-foot banquet tables, 20 8-foot banquet tables, 10 60-inch round tables, six 6-foot picnic tables and two 10-foot-by-10-foot tents available for rent by EVENTS | 2A

• WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM? I like the fact that it’s a ladder program, so you get your LPN one year and you actually get your certification through the Board of Nursing, and then you can come back the next year and get your RN.

• WHAT ARE YOU

GOING TO COLLEGE FOR CURRENTLY? My RN

• IF YOUR HOUSE WAS ON FIRE, WHAT

DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa approved a deal Thursday to give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to build two data storage centers near Des Moines and to create at least 50 jobs — a pact that critics quickly panned. The deal approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority includes a refund of $19.6 million in state sale taxes for Apple Inc. and a $188 million break on property taxes from Waukee, a booming suburb bordering Des Moines. In addition to the promised 50 jobs, Apple has agreed to buy 2,000 acres of land for the $1.4 billion project, enough to allow for future development, said Debi Durham, the state’s economic development director. At an event with Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds outside the Capitol building, Apple CEO Tim Cook credited Iowa’s “world-class

power grid” and what he called the state’s culture of developing computer programmers who have created applications ranging from education to entertainment. “At Apple we admire what you guys have accomplished and we want to be a part of it,” Cook told cheering supporters. N e i t h e r Cook he nor the governor took questions at the event. Cook promised to invest $100 million to a newly created public improvement fund to be used for community development, including the revitalization of streets, libraries and parks. The first project will be a youth sports campus that can host community and high school APPLE | 8A

• FAMILY: My mom, Barbara

Sampson, and my son, Calvin Hudson

• WHERE DO YOU WORK? I work at Greater Regional Medical Center on the med/surg floor as an LPN.

• HOBBIES AND

EXTRACURRICULARS: President of Phi Theta Kappa (honor society) on campus, president of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) on campus, Creston volunteer firefighter, superintendent of small animal committee for Union County 4-H, breeding and showing dogs, fishing and riding horses

CNA photo by SCOTT VICKER

Standing watch:

• HOMETOWN: Creston

A lone heron stands in the shallow waters at the north end of McKinley Lake in Creston Wednesday afternoon, searching for food. The heron was undeterred by cars passing by on West Adams Street and Lake Shore Drive.

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