Business Notes for Oct. 16, 2022

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Information and photos can be submitted to Business Notes by email to businessnotes@thegazette.com, or on our site at thegazette.com/businessnotes.

New Hires

Prairie Rivers of Iowa named Jonathan Sherwood as Lincoln Highway National Heritage Byway coordinator.

Shirley Amthauer joined the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation as accountant.

Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman PLC has hired Zachary J. Parle for transactional practice; and Nicholas J. Wilson for litigation practice.

TrueNorth has hired Anne Parmley as director of community impact.

Marnie Schultz has joined the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival as events and marketing coordinator.

Appointments

Matt Dodds of Dupaco Credit Union has been elected to serve as chair on the Iowa Credit Union League (ICUL) board of directors for 2022-2023.

Armond Dawson, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative; Theresa Fettkether, Cedar Rapids Community School District; and Molly Smith, BAE Systems; have joined Summit Schools' board of trustees.

Insights and sessions

NewBoCo will hold its annual meeting on Nov. 15 at the Olympic South Side Theater, 1202 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids, from 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. More information at newbo.co/annualmeeting.

The Gazette Business Breakfast panel’s third-quarter discussion, “A Small Business’ Tool Kit for 2023: Lessons we’ve learned and challenges — and opportunities — for which we can be prepared,” now is online at https://bit.ly/3eD04Wv. Panelists are Paul Andreasen, founder and owner, Saucy Focaccia; Sydney Rieckhoff, CEO, Almost Famous Popcorn; and Kymberly Stevenson, Targeted Small Business Development Program manager, Iowa Economic Development Authority. The discussion series was sponsored by BerganKDV.

The next installment of the “Gazette Spotlight on …” series of recorded interviews also is available to view at business.thegazette.com. This group recognizes businesses and organizations for their focus on growth. Interviewed are Luke Bishop of BAE Systems; Matt Swift of Big Grove; Sarah Nelson of Comm-Unity Crisis Service; and Drew Martel of Foundation 2. Also, the Better Business Bureau Cedar Rapids office joined The Gazette in speaking with Marc Meyer of Inteconnex. The series was sponsored by TrueNorth Cos.

Monthly in-person networking and informative breakfasts sponsored by SCORE are held at Scott's Family Restaurant. The next breakfast will be 7:30 to 9 a.m., Oct. 27. Go to scorecr.org for more information.