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Business Notes: Feb. 28, 2021
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@thgazette.com, or on our site at thegazette.com/businessnotes.
New Hires
Sheryl Becker
joined His Hands Free Clinic as an administrative coordinator.
Heath Geiman
joined Skogman Realty as a Realtor.
Grand Living hired Katie Dostal as regional director of sales in Cedar Rapids and Coralville, Emily Shebetka as business office manager in Indian Creek and Kelly Bumpus
as director of luminations in Indian Creek.
Stamats hired Bill Barthel as technical integration manager and James Vineburgh
as associate vice president of strategic initiatives.
Promotion
Brooks Burkhart
was promoted to battalion chief with the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
Board Members
Joella Gerber
with Tanager Place was named to the Johnson County Juvenile Justice and Youth Development Board.
His Hands Free Clinic announced new members of its board of directors executive committee: Phil Hershner
, president; Jill Helling, vice president; Alan Bensema, treasurer; and Lori Soppe, secretary.
Kudos
Stacie Eastman,
director of development and communications at His Hands Free Clinic, was recognized on Feb. 25 with Waypoint's Tribute to Women of Achievement award for her service to the community.
Business panel
The Gazette's first interactive Business Breakfast panel for 2021, 'How Do We Rebuild: Workforce Hiring and Retention,” will be live online starting at 9 a.m. March 16.
Panelists will be Jason Glass, Glass People Solutions; Claudia Schabel, Schabel Solutions; John Sorensen, Iowa Bankers Association and Iowa Business Council; Ryan West, Iowa Workforce Development; and Bethany Wilcoxin, McClure.
The event will be free with registration at thegazette.com/special-events/business-breakfast.
Bill Barthel
Sheryl Becker
Kelly Bumpus
Brooks Burkhart
Katie Dostal
Stacie Eastman
Heath Geiman
Joella Gerber
Phil Hershner
Emily Shebetka
James Vineburgh