Leadership Clarinda, a Contractor Loan Idea Forward, and Share With Clarinda Campaign Funds Next Year’s Local Grants

Leadership Clarinda, a Contractor Loan Idea Forward, and Share With Clarinda Campaign Funds Next Year’s Local Grants

 

 

Leadership Clarinda Opens With 10 in Inaugural Class

Leadership Clarinda is off the page and in the room. Ten people from insurance, accounting, city hall and other local workplaces sat through orientation and the first session last week, Clarinda Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Amy McQueen told KCSI on Tuesday.

The class is closed. Organizers will run this nine-month cycle, take a year off to recast what worked, and then try to make the program annual if interest holds.

Sessions run all day on the third Thursday through May. Next up is October 15, Local Recreation. Weather permitting, the class will start at Schenck Lake — itself a Vision 35 recreation project — then move to the Clarinda Lied Center and the country club for a panel on how recreation helps towns this size keep and attract people.

 

 

Clarinda Moves Housing, Business Park, and a Contractor Loan Idea Forward

A five-house project on Clarinda’s west side has state workforce housing tax credits in hand, infrastructure is in the ground at the Hugh and Maxine Loudon Business Park, and the Clarinda Economic Development Corporation is sketching a revolving loan fund aimed at home builders.

CEDC Executive Director Amy McQueen laid out that list Tuesday on KCSI, two years into the community’s Vision 35 plan.

 

Share With Clarinda Campaign Funds Next Year’s Local Grants

The Clarinda Foundation’s Share with Clarinda campaign is open, and Executive Director of the Clarinda Economic Development Corporation Amy McQueen — who also sits on the Foundation board — is asking people to treat it as the source of next spring’s community grants.