I hope the board will continue to use the document as a tool to keep the county moving forward.

We are focusing on high-wage types of jobs to create wealth in the county.

We've got 26 Wal-Mart divisions in the South. We've just about got all the accounts with Wal-Mart.

We are pleased to announce that Little Sioux Corn Processors, L.P., plans to construct an ethanol plant at a location south of Akron, Iowa, along Highway 12.

The things we're looking at are really the things constituents have been requesting for the future.

One of our biggest challenges is to find resources to fund some of the necessary steps we need to take.

In order to qualify for Vision Iowa grants, businesses will have to pay $20.32 an hour in Plymouth County. That's the only downside to it. We have pushed wage standards up in the county.

There were fouls everywhere not being called. Coach said just keep throwing it in the post and bang all night, and that's what we did.

We want to continue our vision of economic development. First and foremost, we need to establish a workable economic development plan.