Business jelly
set Aug. 28
INDEPENDENCE – Buchanan County Economic Development’s next business jelly will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 28 at Circle 8 Cyclery, 201 First St.
Guest speaker will be Andy Higgins, owner of Circle 8 Cyclery and developer of the Kaddy Rack, which is assembled and sold at Circle 8.
The Buchanan County Economic Development Commission encourages business growth in Buchanan County by hosting a series of business jellies, a casual co-working event where entrepreneurs, freelancers, home-workers and people running businesses meet in order to get out of their normal work space.
ISU Extension
gets grant
INDEPENDENCE — Employees from the Monsanto Research Center, Independence, recommended Buchanan County ISU Extension and Outreach to receive a $3,500 grant from the Monsanto Fund’s 2017 site grant initiative. Funds from the grant will be used to build a Tug-o-War grain bin which will be used for grain bin safety education.
The office hosts two Safety Days a year. One for all second-graders in Buchanan County schools, held at Heartland Acres Museum, and the other is a Rural School Safety Day for K-eighth grade Amish students, held at Fontana Park south of Hazleton.
This year, the Monsanto Fund awarded more than $1.4 million to nonprofit organizations through its site grant initiative to help address essential needs in rural communities. Nonprofit organizations across the U.S. have received more than $7.5 million through this program over the last five years.
HCC hosts 3-D
printer session
WATERLOO — Hawkeye Community College will host an information session Aug. 29 for local businesses and the public to unveil the new additive manufacturing program.
The event will take place during the monthly Advanced Manufacturing Sector Board meeting, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at Hawkeye Community College-Buchanan Hall, John Deere Computer Lab, 1501 E. Orange Road. The additive manufacturing portion of the meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m.
Program developer Jerome Amos will explain upcoming training opportunities, demo the new 3D printers and answer questions from attendees.
Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, refers to the process used to create three-dimensional objects in which layers of material are formed under computer control to create an object.
College to host
CDL session
CALMAR – Northeast Iowa Community College will host a free information session to invite community members to enroll in a Class A Commercial Driver’s License Career Pathway Certificate program.
The transportation industry in Northeast Iowa has in-demand employment need for individuals who have earned the CDL.
The information sessions will be at 6 p.m., Aug. 28 in Conference Center 1 at the Wilder Business Center at the Calmar campus.
Floyd County
ranks in wages
CHARLES CITY — For first quarter 2017, Floyd County was the third highest county in Iowa in average weekly manufacturing wage at $1,344, according to Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, published online by Iowa Workforce Development.
Only Linn County at $1,707 per week and Muscatine County at $1,373 per week eclipsed the Floyd County figure. The average weekly manufacturing wage for the state for the first quarter was $1,117.
Floyd County has witnessed a manufacturing renaissance in the past six years, officials said. From 2011 through 2016 it was fifth in Iowa in percentage of manufacturing job gains. The number of manufacturing jobs in the county has risen 66 percent from first quarter 2011 through first quarter 2017, while the state increase was 5 percent.
Fourteen percent of Iowa’s workforce is employed in manufacturing, compared with 27 percent in Floyd County.
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