Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc. Adds Space
April 1998
| Diane Stout, Editor | April 1998 |
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Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc. Adds Space
The local businesses of Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc. and Halderman Real Estate Services, Inc. are expanding. Located on the north side of Wabash on SR 15, the current expansion work will nearly double the size of their original home office built in 1974.
The expansion will provide four new offices, an expanded central office, a larger meeting room and additional file storage. Local contractors providing services are: Marvin Metzger with MDM Construction, general contractor; Stan's Electric; Bartoo Plumbing; W.D. Hileman Heating & Cooling; Eads & Son Bulldozing; and Gaunt & Son Asphalt, Inc.
Since the return of the third generation (Howard in 1988; Richard & Kelli in 1992), a concentrated effort has been made to expand the services. There has been extensive growth in farm management, farm real estate sales & acquisitions, appraisals and consulting services provided to land owners throughout the eastern United States. This growth has necessitated the addition of staff not only at the Wabash office but also throughout Indiana and adjoining states. There currently are 28 area managers and real estate associates with an average length of employment of 18 years.
The Halderman companies' heritage is well anchored in Wabash County. Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc. was founded by Howard and Marie Halderman in 1930. Since they both were raised on Wabash County farms, they decided to keep the business here. Their son Robert Halderman joined the firm in 1958 and now lives on the family's farm located next to the business with his wife, Janet, who also was raised on a Wabash County far. Howard and Richard Halderman married sisters, Kari and Kelli Hipsher, whose parents are Jerry and Sandra of Hipsher Tool & Die, Inc.
Focused well into the future, the Halderman tradition of providing valuable services to farm owners, farmers, investors, banks, attorneys, accountants and many others is carrying on.
Chamber Member News
Brenda Ingraham, owner of Ad Connection, an advertising specialty company, has announced the opening of a new office in Fort Wayne, located at 9906 Teton Court.
Ad Connection, which opened in 1991, has been serving the Wabash community for 7 years. With this strong record of service behind her, Ms. Ingraham has expanded her market by moving the main office to Fort Wayne while maintaining an office in Wabash. The Wabash phone number remains the same (563-8987) and should be used for questions, information on existing orders or for placing new orders. Ms. Ingraham comes to Wabash weekly to service her Wabash customers with their advertising specialty needs.
Ad Connection offers all types of imprinted items and believes that this is the best way to communicate your message and to promote your image and business. They provide help with Trade Show handouts, safety and direct mail programs, incentive awards and offer items such as imprinted wearables and calendars, which advertise your company on a daily basis.
Ms. Ingraham can be reached in Wabash at (219) 563-8987, in Fort Wayne at (219) 432-8891, FAX (219) 436-5764 or by email <a href="mailto:brenda@netusa1.net">brenda@netusa1.net</a>.
Vernon Manor Children's Home has planned and scheduled a Benefit for their children. The Benefit will be held on May 17, 1998 with performances at 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Appearing at the Benefit will be JOE STAMPLEY & The Tennessee Fat Cats along with CHRIS ALLEN from WWKI & Chastened Heart.
The cost of tickets are as follows: $20 per family (includes 2 adults and any number of children); Free admission for Vernon Manor residents and families that attend with their child are also free. For tickets and other information, please call (219) 563-0511.
Helen Dials has joined Yohe Realty, Inc. Helen has nine years experience in real estate sales. She has a good network of contacts, likes to work with people and has the "tools" to help buyers and sellers. Helen can be reached at Yohe's office at (219) 563-8366.
Twenty top professional artisans in the country will have their work displayed in the Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery's "American Crafts Invitational until April 19.
The highest level of artistic and technical talent will be reflected in the premier exhibition featuring mixed media including sculpted, handcrafted clay, glass, fiber, metal and wood.
"American Crafts Invitational" allows visitors who have always asked "What was the artist thinking?" to actually have that questioned answered by one of the artists who has works displayed. Baltimore's Gary Schlappal's eye-catching ceramic sculptures have messages scribed in the artwork which allows the audience to understand the art and the artist better.
"The work tells who I am," says Schlappal, who has a bed in his studio so he can roll out of it in the mornings and begin work. "This gesture, of messages on the work, is a way to intertwine the components that make a work of art: the artist, the object and the collector."
California based quilter, Pamela Hill, as garnished a celebrity following. Her quilts adorn the homes of such clientele as Betty Ford, Al Jareau and Billy Dee Williams. Hill's work has also been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Interior Design, Town and Country and Traditional Home.
Many other artists' work will also be on display.
Helping fund "American Crafts Invitational" is a $2500 grant from the CINERGY Foundation to be used for 1998 exhibitions and educational programs.
Gallery hours are from noon to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays; and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. The IUK Art Gallery is located in the IUK library complex. For more information call (765) 455-9523.
Women Services, a division of Family Service Society, Inc. is sponsoring a golf scramble on Saturday, May 30 at Hart Golf Course in Marion. The golf scramble proceeds are used to fund the Flannery-Keal Home, a domestic violence shelter. This shelter is the one used by Wabash County women and children who are living in an unsafe environment.
We are trying to get Wabash County businesses and industries involved in this fundraising event. Your business can help in many ways. For $250, your business can sponsor a hole. For $350, your business is a hold sponsor and has a team of four. There are opportunities to sponsor the golf cards, the putting green and the golf balls. Another way to help is to donate a door prize that will be handed out during lunch.
If you would like to know more about golf scramble or would like to sponsor something, please contact Shelly Neal at Family Service Society, (219) 563-4407.
Board Member Spotlight
Retail Division Representative - Nancy Jacoby, Nancy J's Fabrics
Hoosier born and raised, Nancy has lived all her life in Wabash County. A graduate of Southwood High School, her activities as a 4-H member led to her career in textiles.
In April 1980, with the help of her mother, Miriam Peebles, Nancy J's fabrics opened. Originally the shop featured fashion fabrics, but that focus began slowly shifting in 1983. By 1990 the emphasis was centered on fabrics for quilting.
Nancy J's goes "on the road" as a vendor at Quilt Shows around the Midwest an average of six times per year.
Brings to mind visions of the old fashioned Peddlers Wagon!!
Committee Reports
Seminar Committee
by John Halley, Wabash County R.E.M.C., Committee Chair
The Brown Bag Seminar series will continue April 9 with "Back to the Basics of Supervision". Troy Cole, Ford Meter Box Company, will be the speaker.
In May the Indiana Department of Environmental Management will be here to discuss how they are trying to make Indiana a better place to live.
We have four other programs that will be of interest to everyone.
We hope to see you at 12 noon on the second Thursday of each month in the Chamber conference room!
Business Women's Council
by Kimberly Treska, Portraits by Kimberly, Council Chair
The Wabash Area Chamber of Commerce Business Women's Council recently held a luncheon seminar featuring Tony Pulley from Pulley Financial Services speaking on "Women in Investing". We were very pleased with this past luncheon. If you weren't able to attend, mark your calendar now for June 3rd. You won't want to miss another seminar.
June, the Business Women' Council will be presenting our annual Networking Luncheon. All who attend will have a great opportunity to meet and speak with many working women in and around our community. Please join us in the Honeywell Room at the Honeywell Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for this exciting opportunity to network with other women in business.
There are still a few spots open for Business Sponsors. There has been a change in price: $15 for Chamber members and $25 for non-members. This price does not include one lunch.
If you would like to be a part of the networking program, please contact the Chamber office at (219) 563-1168.
Hope to see you there!
Board Takes Position on Mandates Bill
With voters objecting to higher spending and taxes, how does a 'progressive' government fund new programs? Easy: design the programs and require someone else to implement and pay for them! It's happened so often that the first bill passed by the new Congress in 1995 was the unfunded Mandates Reform Act to protect state and local governments from federal mandates. However, the private sector was left mostly exposed.
Your Board of Directors agrees with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in that it thinks it should be harder for the federal government to impose costly decrees on business. Therefore, at its monthly meeting on March 13th, your Board voted to support the MANDATES INFORMATION ACT (S.389. & H.R. 1010), sponsored by Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) and Representatives Gary Condit (D-CA) and Rob Portman (R-OH). The Act would:
Require the Congressional Budget Office to provide and analysis that would determine a proposed mandate's effort on small business, jobs, worker wages and benefits and consumer prices.
Allow any Member of Congress to hold up any bill that mandates private sector costs of more than $100 million with a 'point of order.' A simple majority vote would allow the bill to proceed.
With the passage of this MANDATES INFORMATION ACT Congress would know how its decisions would affect business, workers and consumers before casting votes. Voters could hold Congress more accountable for its actions. This approach has worked well with the 1995 reform act, which has exposed unwarranted mandates and the cost imposed on state and local governments. American business deserves the same level of protection. Especially after last year's balanced budget victory squeezed government spending and created an even greater incentive to shift costs for favored programs to business.
Senator Coats was already a co-sponsor of S.389. A thank you letter was sent to him along with a request to encourage his colleagues to, also, become cosponsors. Letters were also sent to Senator Lugar and Congressman Buyer urging them to sign on as co-sponsors of the bill (in Congressman Buyer's case, it would be H.R. 1010)
For a copy of a summary of this bill, contact the Chamber office.
Welcome New Members
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