January 2015

chamber waukon

A Monthly Waukon Chamber of Commerce Newsletter

Working Together Is

Winning Together !

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.

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.

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.

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.

Transportation Alternatives

Program (TAP) Applications

due 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.

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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, multi-

family, and/or industrial sectors.

• Resources to promote energy

improvements in the transportation

sector (as scored by the ACEEE

scorecard, available on the IowaGrants

Funding Opportunity).

• Efforts that will lessen the

impacts of propane shortages in the

state.

• Collaborative projects developed

through the federal E3 (Economy,

Energy, and Environment) program.

• 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

www.iowagrants.gov, funding

opportunity #100450 “Iowa Energy

Office Funding Opportunity: Call for

Proposals and Guidelines”, https://

www.iowagrants.gov/

insideLinkOpps.jsp?

documentPk=1416848326734 .

IEDA will consider proposals submitted

by any individual or organization. This

includes governmental

organizations, non-profit organizations,

educational institutions and private

entities. Please forward to other

entities that may be interested in

applying.

The deadline to apply is February 2,

2015.

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Happy New Year!!!

~*~ WELCOME ~*~ The Waukon Chamber of Commerce extends a special welcome to our new and returning members!

-Allamakee Community Education Association

-Allamakee Community School District

-Allamakee County Extension

-Allamakee Music Boosters

-Allamakee Substance Abuse Prevention

-Benjegerdes Machine, Inc.

-Black Hills Energy

-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

-Howards Home Furnishings

-Impro Products

-Jacobson, Bristol, Garrett & Swartz

-James U. Mellick, Attorney at Law

-Joe Cunningham

-Kelly Concrete

-Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank

-Key-Stone Real Estate

-KVIK-KNEI Wennes Communications Stations

-Kwik Star

-Martin Funeral Home

-Mosaic in Northeast Iowa

-Ness Pumping Service and Porta Potty Rentals

-Northeast Iowa Community College

-Northeast Iowa Printers Inc.

-Pepsi-Cola of Decorah

-Revelyn Lonning

-Rusty Berger Masonry

-Shafer & Shafer Law Office

-Subway

-TASC Inc.

-Torkelson Motors-Waukon

-Upper Iowa Insurance Services Corp dba/Leschensky Insurance Agency

-Waukon Dental

-Waukon Greenhouse Flowers & Gifts

-Waukon Harley-Davidson/Waukon Power Sports

-Waukon State Bank

-Waukon Tire Center Inc.

-Waukon Wellness Center

101 West Main Street

Waukon, IA 52172

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mission... our 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.

Contact us at 563-568-4110 www.waukon.org

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

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 waukoncc@mchsi.com.