Clarinda

We were talking about kids.

I worked at a clothing store, uh, like, Wheels Clothing in Clarinda, Iowa, and it w- and it...

I would measure people for tuxedos and order coveralls for the farmers, and it was, like, a fine clothing store in, on Main Street in Clarinda, Iowa, and a lot of those things are just don't exist anymore, right?

Right.

Because of the Amazons and whatever.

After I met the ownership family and some of the board members, it felt right, and it continues to feel right." Bank Iowa, which is headquartered in West Des Moines, is a family-owned community and agricultural bank with twenty-five locations in twenty-two Iowa communities.

The financial institution was founded by Donald Duncan, J. Robert Duncan, and Harry Barr when their families bought the former Citizens State Bank in Clarinda in nineteen seventy-six.

During its fifty-year history, Bank Iowa Corp has grown to be Iowa's eleventh largest community and independent bank, with two point three billion dollars in total assets and one point nine billion dollars in deposits, and that's according to Vista Banking, a financial data and business intelligence platform.

Bank Iowa and First Bank & Trust are very similar, Herboldt said.

When I visited a branch location, I could really feel that their town matters deeply to them.

That's important to know because when you're growing an organization, the question of scale comes up.

How do you do it in a way that you don't lose that local trust?" Over the past fifty years, Bank Iowa has grown from a single location in Clarinda to twenty-five locations across the state.

Herboldt said he expects that growth to continue through a combination of new branches and bank acquisitions.

I wanted to be just like him.

Um, he's a chiropractor now, and in his chiropractor office, he would have a picture of his team, [smacks lips] a summer ball team, the Clarinda A's.

They're out of, uh, Iowa.

Yeah.

Yep.

So he played for Clarinda A's.

Wow.

And years before, he played for them, Ozzie Smith played for them, and Ozzie Smith was kinda his idol.

Now we have made a $5 million federal investment into Des Moines Area Community College, number one.

Number two, Southwest, uh, Community College, which is down in southern Iowa, kind of over by Atlantic and Red Oak, uh, and Clarinda.

We've put together a skilled training program there.

So every high school in that part of Iowa, which we may not have a, you know, a shop teacher anymore, but the kid can go in there and they can learn, "Hey, I'm interested in this.

How about temperature?

Clarinda had 97 degrees on the 18th, and Mason City Municipal Airport had 42 degrees on the 23rd.

Oh, that's...

We gotta keep an eye on them 'cause that's getting down there.

Guys, over the weekend, a local meteorologist had some trouble with local town name pronunciations.

Please play c- play close attention to the end, how he tries to pronounce the town Clarinda.

Over and for gusts, wind speeds up to about 15 miles an hour.

Take a look right now.