Vol. 26 No. 8 PO Box 118, Sioux City, Iowa 51102 July 2021 Hitting centurythe mark Kalin Indoor Comfort’s Bruce Kalin

INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE: Barge port Sioux Gateway opens on lands pilot Missouri training River academy PAGE 4 PAGE 6 2 | JULY BUSINESS JOURNAL

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PORT OF BLENCOE A barge loading area is shown June 2 at NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe barge terminal on the Missouri River west of Blencoe, Iowa. TIM HYNDS PHOTOS, SIOUX CITY JOURNAL

PLYING THE MISSOURI AGAIN

Iowa Governor Coop officially opens County town of Blencoe. The port Kim Reynolds is the northernmost port on the speaks during barge terminal nearly 760-mile span of the Mis- a ribbon souri from St. Louis to Sioux City. cutting near Blencoe A ribbon cutting held June 2 ceremony welcomed a variety of farmers, at the NEW politicians and members of agri- Cooperative’s CAITLIN YAMADA culture organizations. Port of Business Journal staff writer Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa Blencoe barge BLENCOE, Iowa — The Port of Secretary of Agriculture Mike terminal on Blencoe, which offi cially opened Naig, who spoke at the event, the Missouri June 2, has already seen a few praised the future of the barge and River west of barges in and out of that stretch its future in international trans- Blencoe, Iowa. of the upper Missouri River for the portation for Iowa farmers. At left is Mike fi rst time in over 15 years. Naig called the Missouri a “su- Naig, Iowa Western Iowa farmers now have perhighway to global trade,” point- Secretary of access to a lower-cost option to ing out the Port’s slogan, “gateway Agriculture. access fertilizer and export grains to the world market.” at the new “gateway to the world Reynolds called the port a his- market.” toric achievement. NEW Cooperative constructed “It’s a win for farmers, it’s a win a $11 million port along the Mis- for Monona County and it’s a win souri River, near the small Monona for Iowa,” she said. WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 | 5

The Republican governor said the port is just the beginning and it will have a huge impact on the region. She said businesses creating products such as wind blades and dried-distillers grains can use the terminal to transport products. The port can load and unload six to nine barges at a time. There have already been eight barges in and out within the last six weeks, NEW Coop- erative general manager Dan Dix said June 2. Two more were expected to ar- rive that night. Each barge has the capacity to haul 50,000 bushels of grain. Plying the river with 72 barges per year eliminates the need for 80,000 semi-trailer trucks of grain, Dix said. People tour a fertilizer shed during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig speaks during a ribbon The port gives the co-op direct access NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe barge terminal on the Missouri cutting ceremony on June 2 at the NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe to export markets and provides a third River west of Blencoe, Iowa. barge terminal on the Missouri River west of Blencoe. option for transporting grain, beyond the current rail and trucks. Because water navigation is more Online cost-eff ective than truck or rail, the barge terminal allows the co-op to re- Visit siouxcityjournal.com duce its freight expenses, Dix said. to view more photos and a While the festivities marked the for- video from the Port of Blen- mal opening of the port, there are still coe ribbon cutting June 2. a few related projects at the terminal to be completed. The Monona County Board of Super- visors successfully applied for a state RISE grant of over $1 million to pave a gravel road from Blencoe, pop. 224, to the port, which is west of Interstate 29. Dix said the road construction is ex- pected to begin this fall. Two other future projects include a scale and offi ce facility, and a new com- modity building. People tour a load out area on a deck barge during a ribbon cutting Dan Dix, NEW Cooperative general manager, speaks during a ribbon Proponents say barges are good for ceremony at the NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe barge terminal cutting ceremony June 2 at the NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe the environment and vehicular traffi c on the Missouri River west of Blencoe, Iowa. barge terminal on the Missouri River west of Blencoe, Iowa. safety because it takes more trucks off crowded highways like Interstate 80, reducing accidents and harmful emis- sions. With a few exceptions, barges have not traveled as far north as Blencoe in over 15 years. The once-thriving barge industry in Sioux City disappeared in the early 2000s after a combination of the degradation of the river bed, drought, economic recession, low com- modity prices and political infi ghting over management of the river led ship- pers to turn to rail and trucks. NEW Cooperative, which has over 5,500 members and 40 locations throughout western and northwestern Iowa, started planning its rural Monona County port two years ago, Dix said. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, back to camera, speaks to Dan Dix, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NEW Cooperative General Manager, and other members of the Dan Dix, NEW Cooperative general manager, speaks during a ribbon which manages the Missouri, has as- cooperative’s management team during a ribbon cutting ceremony cutting ceremony at the coop’s Port of Blencoe barge terminal on sured the co-op it will maintain a held June 2 at the NEW Cooperative’s Port of Blencoe barge terminal the Missouri River west of Blencoe, Iowa. Seated at left are Iowa 9-foot-deep, 300-foot-wide channel. on the Missouri River west of Blencoe, Iowa. Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig and Gov. Kim Reynolds. 6 | SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM

SkyWest flight 5110 takes off from on April 2. The city-owned airport is moving forward with construction of an aviation center and pilot academy. TIM HYNDS PHOTOS, SIOUX CITY JOURNAL

Council moves forward with aviation center

DOLLY A. BUTZ [email protected] The entrance to Sioux Gateway SIOUX CITY – The Sioux City Council Airport in Sioux City is shown. approved a resolution June 14 for the con- Oracle Aviation, LLC., an struction of an aviation center and acad- Omaha aviation company, emy for professional pilot training at Sioux plans to establish an aviation Gateway Airport. center at the city-owned The council voted unanimously as part airport. of its consent agenda to invite proposals for the lease of land and the construction of a new hangar facility for the fully accredited aviation program, which Oracle Aviation, LLC, plans to establish. The Omaha aviation company is part- nering with on the program, which will offer a bachelor of sci- ence degree in aviation-related fields. “Thanks for the opportunity. We’re very excited to become a valuable resource for the aviation community here in Sioux City,” Dave Poole, general manager of Or- acle Aviation, told the council. According to city documents, the proj- ect includes a 39,400-square-foot facility, with 20,400 square feet of hangar space and a two-level office/training space with an additional $295,500. agreement and lease agreement, Oracle approximately 100,000 square feet of land 5,000 square feet on two floors. Site im- The city was awarded a $1 million grant will commit to leasing the new structure for the project for $20,000 per year; invest provements are also planned to allow for from the U.S. Department of Commerce on a triple-net basis for an initial 20-year $1 million in furniture, fixtures and equip- ample parking, plane movements, storage Economic Development Administration period, with two 10-year renewal options. ment; and use its best efforts to create 42 and landscaping. to assist with the construction of the han- Lease payments will be on a graduated new jobs, including instructors in the new Proposed agreements with Oracle in- gar facility, offices and other site improve- scale, increasing from $15,000 to $33,000 flight school. clude a commitment by the city to invest ments. The project will also be funded per month. Oracle will also lease the ex- Oracle operates a similar training center $7 million for the construction of the new through approximately $6 million in gen- isting alert hangar for an initial seven-year at Millard Airport in Omaha with a part- hangar facility. The city will also fund site eral obligation bonds. term for $1,500 per month; complete all nership to offer a bachelor of science degree improvements, which are estimated to cost As part of the proposed development interior finishes within the facility; lease through the University of Nebraska Omaha. WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 | 7 Freedom Park center almost done Site to be named for Bud and Doris Day

MASON DOCKTER Business Journal staff writer Mike Newhouse, president of Siouxland Freedom Park, is shown Nov. 6, 2019, by the South Sioux City park’s half-scale, black SOUTH SIOUX CITY — The interior of The Siouxland Freedom Park Interpretive granite replica of the Vietnam Veterans the Siouxland Freedom Park’s interpre- Center’s interior is expected to be completed Memorial Wall in Washington. The wall bears tive center will be finished in the coming U.S. flags fly at the Siouxland Freedom Park in the coming months, and exhibits are the names of the over 58,000 soldiers who months and will begin hosting exhibits in South Sioux City on June 10. expected to begin there sometime next year. died in the . next year. The interpretive center will be named for the late Brig. Gen. Bud Day and his wife, its together will take six or eight months. Sioux City Scottish Rite and a $5,000 check Siouxland Freedom Park lead- Doris. ”It’s finally getting done!” he said, fol- from VFW Chapter 10753. Jebro, Inc. and ers have spent years trying to raise the Mike Newhouse, president of Siouxland lowed by a round of applause from the Knife River gave $25,000. roughly $350,000 needed to finish the Freedom Park, Inc., made the announce- crowd. A substantial donation was given to the 5,000-square-foot interpretive center. ment during a Memorial Day ceremony. Newhouse said the exhibits will be park by Eldon Roth, co-founder of Beef Construction on the building (with an un- Thunder on the Missouri, a motorcycle ride “traveling and static displays, interactive Products, Inc. (now empirical foods), one finished interior) was completed in early honoring veterans, was also held at the park electronics, wow-factor kind of stuff.” The of the largest food processors in the area. 2018. The park’s half-scale replica of the on May 30, with hundreds of people in at- exhibits will explore “all services, all con- Newhouse declined to say how much Roth Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, carved in tendance. flicts” going back to the Revolutionary War, had given, other than to describe him as black granite, was dedicated in 2014. Newhouse said an open house will be held Newhouse said. “our largest single donor” to the project. For years people asked ‘Well, when are at the interpretive center on Veterans Day A series of checks were presented to Roth suggested naming the interpretive you going to be done?’” Newhouse said. (Nov. 11), to show off the newly completed the Freedom Park during the ceremony, center after Bud and Doris Day. Bud Day, “And we’ve always said, ‘Well, there’s light interior. An exhibits consultant will visit in including a $2,000 check from American Sioux City’s only winner of the Medal of at the end of the tunnel.’ Now, we can actu- June, and Newhouse said putting the exhib- Legion Post 697, a $1,000 check from the Honor, died in 2013. ally see the end of the tunnel.” 8 | SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM

Kalin’s Heating & Air Conditioning, 1715 Fourth St., is shown here sometime after the company expanded the building in 1967. PROVIDED, KALIN’S

100 YEARS OF HEATING, COOLING

Bruce Kalin, third- Kalin family business more than 60 people across its three lo- generation owner of cations and installs roughly 700 furnaces Kalins Indoor Comfort, and air conditioners in the region each is shown with a service celebrates milestone year. They service thousands of systems truck at a customer’s each year. northside Sioux City in Siouxland Kalin’s is holding an employee party home where crews are and golf tournament on July 23 to cele- replacing a central air brate the milestone, with the office closed conditioning unit. The MASON DOCKTER down for half the day – for the first time heating and cooling Business Journal staff writer in memory. company is celebrating SIOUX CITY – Kalin’s Indoor Comfort, On Aug. 6, Kalin’s will hold a business its centennial this year. the Sioux City-based heating and air con- luncheon with a yet-to-be named dignitary TIM HYNDS, SIOUX CITY JOURNAL ditioning provider, hits the century mark and members of the local business commu- this year. nity. The following day, Kalin’s will host an “By the way, I’m not 100 years old,” joked open house with a “carnival atmosphere” Bruce Kalin, the third generation of the Ka- that’s open to customers and the commu- lin family to run the fi rm, which employs nity. WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 | 9

SIOUX CITY JOURNAL ARCHIVES The earliest known Kalin’s advertisement for Lennox air conditioning, appearing in the Sioux City Journal on May 22, 1954.

And in the three communities Kalin serves – Sioux City, Vermillion, South Da- kota and Yankton, – Kalin’s is holding “medallion hunts” with daily clues to find a 100-year commemorative medallion, hidden on public property in each of the communities. The lucky me- Jacob Kalin, who was born in Sid Kalin, who had been the dallion-finders get a free air conditioner Russia in July 1886 and came face of the company for much SIOUX CITY JOURNAL ARCHIVES from Kalin’s. to Sioux City in 1903, was of the latter half of the 20th Sid Kalin (middle), is shown with Lennox The Yankton medallion was found this engineer Tom Morton and Kalin’s employee spring by a man whose air conditioning had head of the Norfolk Furnace century, retired in 1999, when Jon Reed, displaying the then-new Pulse been broken down for some time. Company, a division of the his son Bruce Kalin took over. furnace in 1982. The Pulse represented a revolution in efficiency compared to earlier The Norfolk Furnace Company foundry. Sid died in 2009 at age 89. furnaces. Kalin’s traces its history back to 1921, when Bruce Kalin’s grandfather, Jacob Ka- lin, along with other businessmen (notably Jacob’s son, came into the business around Kalin’s was responding to back-to-back A.J. Galinsky, a patriarch of the Galinsky that same time. Among his claims to fame service calls for air conditioners. Tempera- family), took control of the Sioux City were local TV spots in which he was pushed tures in June soared well into the 90s, with Foundry and Boiler Company. The foundry, into a swimming pool. Later ads featured heat index values sometimes topping 100, among the oldest businesses in the city, had Sid pushing Bruce into a pool. and some residents who’d gotten behind on gone into receivership that year. Sid Kalin, who had been the face of the air-conditioner maintenance suffered the Jacob Kalin, who was born in Russia in company for much of the latter half of the consequences when the mercury went up July 1886 and came to Sioux City in 1903, 20th century, retired in 1999, when his son and stayed there. was head of the Norfolk Furnace Company, Bruce Kalin took over. Sid died in 2009 at On one very-hot day in mid-June, Bruce a division of the foundry. It’s unclear where age 89. Kalin and his crew responded to a house call the Norfolk name came from. Norfolk’s for an air conditioner purchased 38 years cast-iron furnaces, manufactured at the Air conditioning and new furnace earlier from Bruce’s father by the custom- Sioux City Foundry, were reportedly quite technology er’s grandmother. durable – Bruce Kalin said that some of “These days are kind of hectic right now,” them are still in service, albeit with major Air conditioning was not widely used Kalin said. “Which we’re grateful for – it’s modifications that enable them to run on until the years following the end of World been crazy busy.” natural gas rather than coal. Jacob Kalin War II, as the technology remained in its Disaster struck the Floyd River-adja- was also a pioneer in getting residential infancy until the middle of the century. It’s cent company in June 1953, when the river gas heat in Sioux City. not clear when exactly Kalin’s began selling flooded well beyond its banks. It was a mess “There’s still many of those out in the and servicing air conditioners – the earli- – the water was strong enough to sweep a community, they’ve been converted to gas est known mention of Kalin selling Lennox heavy iron safe out of the shop, depositing over the years,” Bruce Kalin said. “Some- air-conditioners appeared in an advertise- it many blocks away on the opposite end times they’re referred to as the ‘octopus ment in the Sioux City Journal in the spring of downtown, Bruce Kalin said, recalling furnace’ because they had these huge of 1954. stories told by his father of the flood. ducts, almost like arms, that came off of Where furnaces had always been a ne- The company did what they could to save the furnace.” cessity, residential air conditioning was their furnace inventory, putting them on Kalin’s Furnace & Supply Co., as it was adopted gradually by more and more fami- blocks in hopes of keeping their sup- then called, was spun off from the foundry lies during the 1950s and 1960s. The advent plies above the floodwaters, but it wasn’t in 1947 and moved to 1715 Fourth St., where of air conditioning was a boon for Kalin’s, enough. PROVIDED / KALIN’S it remain today. (The company expanded because to add central air conditioning, a “If you called us for an appointment, A circa 1921 Norfolk Improved Furnace the building in 1967.) home usually needed to have a forced-air prior to or during the flood, please call us model, shown to customers by salesmen Also in 1947, with forced-air furnaces furnace system to blow the cold air through again as many of our records were lost,” Ka- to demonstrate the furnace, is shown here. were becoming the new standard in heating the ductwork. Kalin’s could furnish and in- lin’s wrote in an ad in the Journal shortly Kalin’s Indoor Comfort, which began its life as and coal furnaces becoming obsolete, Kalin stall both. the Norfolk Furnace Company, is celebrating began selling Lennox furnaces. Sid Kalin, Flash forward to the summer of 2021, and Please see KALIN’S, Page 15 its 100th year this year. 10 | SIOUXLAND BUSINESS JOURNAL , JULY 2021 WWW.SIOUXLANDBUSINESSJOURNAL.COM MRHD to award economic development ChamberAnniversaries 35 YEARS – 1986 J Development Company grants between $250,000 and $1 million Girls Incorporated of Sioux City Ryan Spellman Mandy Engel-Cartie Omaha Sioux City Jackson Street Brewing BUSINESS JOURNAL STAFF committed to sig- development match grant areas of fo- Dave Winslow SIOUX CITY — Missouri River nificantly investing cus — creation and retention of jobs; 20 YEARS – 2001 Sioux City Kinetico of Siouxland Historical Development is inviting back in a way that development of a critical job force; a T-Mobile Zach Wyatt SeAnn Monroe tax-exempt organizations and local will foster a strong new project or service having a sub- Sioux City Sioux City governmental entities in Woodbury economic environ- stantial impact on the community; or Scooters Coffee House – Floyd County to apply for grants ranging ment for Woodbury an improved quality of life and com- 10 YEARS – 2011 Andrea Aubele from $250,000 to $1 million each. County.” munity development project. Peoples Bank – Hinton Branch Sioux City The new matching grant program is This is the first The project must also be sustain- Sterling Crim The Dentist at Hamilton designed to support economic devel- Harmelink time that MRHD, the able beyond the initial grant and not Hinton, Iowa Julie Burhoop Sioux City opment projects that require “higher nonprofit gaming require additional grants to maintain 5 YEARS – 2016 levels of funding and collaboration group that holds the state gaming the project over the long term, MRHD The Nature Conservancy Clydes Graham McGaffin with other matching donors to come license for the Hard Rock, has devel- said. Tim Blakely Sioux City together around a signature project,” oped an economic development grant Applicants are advised to carefully Sioux City Wiechman Pig Company Inc. MRHD said in a news release Monday. program on this scale to be publicly follow the steps set forth for apply- H&R Construction Clark Johnson “After the period of uncertainty opened and made available through ing for the MRHD Economic Devel- Nate Herbst Sioux City that we experienced last year, when a competitive process. opment Matching Grant opportunity South Sioux City the necessary COVID-19 restric- The program requires eligible proj- on MRHD’s website. tions shut down the Hard Rock Ho- ects to be completed within two years Applications must be requested tel & Casino Sioux City and limited so and matched dollar-for-dollar with by emailing [email protected]. much commercial activity through- cash or in-kind contributions. In- Proposals and supporting documents NewChamberInvestors out Siouxland, we now celebrate be- kind donations may be used for half are due by 5 p.m. on Sept. 1. For more ing in a position to give back to our of the match. info, visit: www.mrhdiowa.org. 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Kalin’s held a press conference to introduce the furnace to the public in September 1982. With efficiency rated at 91 to 96 percent, the Pulse furnace was reportedly the big- gest leap in furnace technology since the days when natural gas replaced coal. At the time, other furnaces were reportedly 55 to 60 percent efficient. Tom Morton, a Lennox engineer, described the Pulse as “the most revolutionary innovation in the industry” at the 1982 press conference. The Pulse furnace, which could save a customer as much as 40 percent on their heating bill, was a sensation. 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There are substitutes, but this The Pulse has since been retired, though Kalin said. frigerant found in nearly all air condi- usually requires the system to be thor- furnaces on the market today are, in a The air-conditioning industry, mean- tioners more than 10 or 15 years old, was oughly flushed out. sense, its descendants – modern furnaces while, has been in a state of almost non- phased out in recent years in favor of R- Kalin’s will do what the customer wants, can achieve efficiency as high as 98 or 99 stop flux since around the time when Bruce 410A. but sometimes replacing the system is the percent, and provide very even warmth Kalin came to the firm 45 years ago. A suc- “And now that’s changing again,” Bruce sensible thing to do. throughout the house. Like the old Nor- cession of different air-conditioner refrig- Kalin said. 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