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Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce Celebrates their One-Year Renewing Members
The following businesses renewed their annual membership with the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce this month. Click on any linked businesses to visit their website, and take some time to visit one or two this month to celebrate their participation in the promotion and support of our city....
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The 365 Impact Award Winners
Stand up and take a bow! Go on, you deserve it. You’ve earned it. Despite a tough year in an economic sense, 2008 was filled with a number of achievements in a wide variety of fields ... and that’s where 365 comes in, with the return of the annual 365 Impact Awards, recognizing the individuals, companies and organizations that made the biggest impact in their given fields during the year....
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Concrete Reality of Darlington Named Successful Small Business of Fourth Quarter
The Southwest Wisconsin Small Business Development Center, located at UW-Platteville, has named Concrete Reality of Darlington, Wisconsin it’s Successful Small Business of the Fourth Quarter 2008. Businesses which have been SWSBDC clients for six months or longer, who are currently operating a successful business and who are meeting or exceeding business plan projections are eligible for this recognition. ...
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365 tours the new Hotel Julien Dubuque
| Anticipation for the reopening of the Hotel Julien Dubuque has been high ever since workers first started tearing the 1960s-era façade off the historic hotel formerly known as the Julien Inn back in the spring of 2007. But let’s get one thing straight right away: The more than 28 million dollar renovation and restoration project will not be complete until late spring or early summer of this year, so don’t start packing your overnight bag just yet. (Don’t worry; we’ll check back when grand opening time comes around.)
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Meet Sheila Samuelson: Dubuque's New Sustainability Coordinator
| Being the progressive city that it is, Dubuque recently announced the appointment of Sheila Samuelson to the new position of Sustainable Community Coordinator. In the new role, Samuelson will be responsible for “developing, implementing and maintaining the City’s sustainability plan and programs.”
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2008 in Review and 2009's Forecast
| It’s probably safe to say that 2008 will be one that history remembers, from the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the resulting market meltdown to Michael Phelps winning eight Olympic gold medals, from recession and record gas prices to the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African-American President. Whether we’re talking crisis or accomplishment, 2008 had some pretty big stories.
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Loras College Athletics and Wellness Center Goes Green
| Alliant Energy to present the school with $327,000 in energy efficiency rebates
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Alliant Energy Foundation 2008 Matching Gifts Program Provides Over $2 Million to Non-Profit Organizations
| In a year that brought tough economic times and extensive summer flooding across Iowa and Wisconsin, the employees, retirees and Directors of Alliant Energy Corporation and the Alliant Energy Foundation partnered in providing over $2 million through the Foundation’s 2008 Matching Gifts Program to non-profit organizations – a new record total for the program.
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Belmont's Remarkable Guardian Angels
| "Angels helping Angels"
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River Valley Capital Opens New Insurance Division
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Go Green Coprorate Challenge Pledges are In!
| 365 and the Diamond Jo teamed up launch the Go Green Corporate Pledge, a challenge for area business to do like individuals are doing across the Tri-States and GO GREEN! The Diamond Jo is proud to announce that 100% of their vendors working on the construction of the new Diamond Jo Casino are participating in the Go Green Pledge. 70 companies have taken the challenge, and each of them have three goals to work toward. Imagine what we can accomplish if everyone followed their lead! The next time you cross paths with any employees from these companies, give them a word of thanks and a handshake for their efforts, and ask how you can follow in their footsteps.
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Tastes of University Hill
| Back in the day (ancient times when Mike Ironside went to Loras), there were four bars on what can best be dubbed University Hill – Whiskey River, The Avenue Top (known to everyone as “The Ave”), Gomer’s, and the bar then known as the Barrel Tap and, later, Schrobie’s. Of course, this was before the drinking age changed to 21, so every weekend there were hordes of drunken college kids packing the bars and roaming the streets between them.
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