MAY 2014

Pasquales
Dreams really do come true

Sweetest Things
Sip & Tell... Hy-Vee Kitchen
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FEATURES
3 Pasquales
6 Out & About
8 Sip & Tell
14 Historically
Speaking
16 Dreams Really
Do Come True
20 Bakery is Their
Passion
25 Pet of the Month
26 Kids Works
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Pasquales
still going strong
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Matt and Jenny Brown celebrate owning
Pasquales Italian Restaurant for 10 years
this May. The third generation of the
family to own the restaurant are pictured
with their sons: Justyce, three; Mason,
seven; and Syler, six.
ince re-opening last fall after re
devastated the restaurant, business
really hasnt slowed down at
Pasquales Italian Restaurant, located on
Highway 169 in Humboldt.
The re happened on March 6, 2013. The
restaurant re-opened in August and while
doubling the number of pizza ovens has helped,
there are still times customers have to wait a
little bit for their pizzas.
Owners Matt and Jenny Brown said thats a
good problem to have.
We have the best customers in the world.
They are extremely loyal, Matt said. I think
with the economy people are spending a lot less
on steak and lobster and more on pizza. You
can feed an entire family pretty economically
with pizza.
Matt and Jenny celebrate their 10th
anniversary of owning the restaurant this
month. Matt was born in Fort Dodge and moved
to Humboldt at the age of seven. Hes a 1999
graduate of Humboldt High School. He was with
Hy-Vee for eight years both during high school
and after, then worked as a distributor for Hy-
Capacity for a year before the opportunity came
up to buy Pasquales from Randy and Sue Allen.
Randy and Sue (Jennys parents) had
approached us about buying the restaurant from
them. We had kind of put it on the backburner,
Brown said. But while enduring a blizzard
in North Dakota, where his territory was,
he started thinking it might be better to stay
grounded in Humboldt.
Matt and Jenny bought the restaurant on May
15, 2004, and got married after that.
Randy and Sue had owned and operated the
restaurant for eight years. They had purchased
it from the founders, Marlene and Marv
Stockdale (Sues parents). Randy stayed on for
a couple of months to help with the transition
and still helps as needed and every Friday night
making pizzas.
I knew nothing. I wasnt even a very
good cook. But I like being around people
and being challenged every day, Matt said.
Relying on family and friends to help, they kept
plugging away at the business. Matt and Jenny
remodeled some areas, bought new equipment
as the budget would allow and continued to
grow the business.
A new computer system was installed ve
years ago that helped them be able to take on
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more orders.
I think people like the atmosphere. They like that the owner/
manager is actually making the food and you can watch the
food being made. We have great managers who have been here
many years. We know our customers. Its a family atmosphere,
Brown said.
He said there are no televisions in the building.
Families are able to eat together and pay attention to what their
kids are saying. Eating pizza is a connection food, Brown said.
He said hes been blessed to have very low employee turnover.
We try to work around peoples schedules. After being closed
several months, the great majority of our employees came back to
work here, Brown said.
After the re, the restaurant was totally redone, along with
adding on to the structure for a larger party room and kitchen
area. Two new pizza ovens were added to increase their pizza
making capacity.
Its really helped increase our capacity. But one of the big
misconceptions is if the room is not full than why does it take a
while to get a pizza?
It just depends on the
number of people who
call in orders. We have
a very large call-in and
delivery business. Plus
each pizza is hand made and each fresh topping hand pinched on
to the pizza. Each pizza is carefully put together which creates a
more consistent product, Brown said.
The recipes used at Pasquales are all family secrets, from the
dough to the sauce to the sausage mixture.
After the re, the old dropped ceiling was removed and replaced
with exposed rafters that have been clear coated. The higher
ceiling gives the restaurant the feeling of more space.
One wall in the restaurant features rough sawn siding painted
green, the original color used in the restaurant when Marv and
Marlene had it. The green wall has a number of photos and other
memorabilia from the past.
The former party room was converted into more restaurant
Left: Matt Brown of Pasquales Italian
Restaurant looks on as his sons
experiment with tossing pizza crusts.
Below: Pizza makes Syler smile.
Some Pasquales art work.
A photo on the wall shows the
late founder of Pasquales, Marv
Stockdale, tossing a pizza crust.
After making pizzas for 10 years, Matt
Brown has become established at
tossing pizza crusts in the air.
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seating (the restaurant seats 110). The new party room seats 30.
The exterior of the restaurant was also renovated with new
concrete in the parking areas, new canopies, stone work and
new siding.
The restaurant employed 15 people before the re. They now
employ 27.
With Matt and Jenny being third generation owners of
Pasquales, will there be a fourth generation? The couple has three
boys: Mason, seven; Syler, six and Justyce, three.
Im ready to have more quality family time. Our kids are
young and you never get that time back, Matt said. Weve
started to look at an exit strategy that would allow us more time
to spend with our family.
The Browns arent sure what theyd do, but they are very
focused on enjoying more time with their family. Matt was a real
estate agent from 2001 to 2010.
Matt was asked about the possibility of selling the family
restaurant.
Im not sure what wed do. I know there would be opportunities
and Ill look at all of them. Instead of running a family restaurant,
Im looking forward to just running the family, Brown said.
The party
room seats
30 at Pasquales.
The Browns matched the green color of a wall in the
restaurant to the original Pasquales. The wall features a
variety of photos from the long history of the restaurant.
Above: After a fre in March of 2013, the interior of
Pasquales Italian Restaurant features open ceiling joists
instead of dropped ceiling. Below: Pizzas are made out in
the open view of the public at Pasquales.
The kitchen area is open to the public. Two pizza ovens are
located side by side.
Photos by Allison Christensen
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March 29, 2014
Out &
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Cashew Chicken,
Mongolian Beef, and
more. A one entre
meal was priced
at $5.99 and a two
entre meal at $6.59.
They also offer kids
meals, dinner for
two or dinner for
four options as well.
We all chose
the one meal entre
option, sampling the
Cashew Chicken, General
the Crab Rangoon. Service was great, the line moved quickly.
The food was excellent, similar to other Hy-Vee Kitchen
Chinese of ferings. The Cashew Chicken was very good, with
lots of cashews and vegetables. The chicken was tender and
tasted great. The Beef and Broccoli was also very tender and
flavorful. The General Tso Chicken was made with big chunks
of white meat chicken and it tasted very fresh and juicy. The
Crab Rangoon had a nice crispy outside and delicious creamy
filling. The fried rice was good as well and all the entrees were
good size se rvingsplenty to eat
for sure!
The Kitchen Manager,
Melissa Dornath, was
happy to answer a few
questions for us. She
said some of the menu
options will change
week to week as they
nd out which entrees
are more popular. She
said they will have Stir
Fried Vegetables available
most weeks in the future and that
by Humboldt NOW! Staff
fter taking some time away from the Sip & Tell article,
a group from our ofce decided it was time to get
together again and try Humboldt Hy-Vee Kitchens
new Chinese offerings. The Chinese menu is now available
every Sunday from 4-8pm. Offered the rst week was General
Tso, Sesame Chicken, Beef Broccoli, Sweet and Sour Chicken,
Tso and the Beef and Broccoli. Along with the entre, we had
the choice of Fried Rice or Lo Mein noodles and either a Crab
Rangoon or Chicken Egg Roll. We all chose the Fried Rice and
Broccoli Beef
General Tso Chicken
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option is gluten free. She shared that all of the meat comes pre-
cut and marinated, but everything else is prepared and cooked
fresh in their kitchen.
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hey call it the Land Down Under, and now Humboldts
Amber Danielson is, to use current vernacular, down with
everything that is Australian agriculture.
A fth year animal science major and agricultural business
minor at Iowa State University in Ames, Amber had a once in a
lifetime opportunity to see farming up close and personal in a
different country.
Through an ag business and agronomy travel abroad program at
the university, instead of soaking up sun on the beach, Amber and
about two dozen other Cyclone students spent spring break, March
13-24, learning about Australian agriculture.
The group ew into Sydney in the state of New South Wales, and
traveled along the Great Ocean Road into Melbourne, along the
Great Dividing
Range that
borders the
Tasman Sea.
While in
Wagga Wagga,
the group visited
with third-year
agricultural
students at
Charles Sturt
University.
We had
questions about
their production
systems and they
had questions
about ours,
Amber said.
They
denitely expressed some concerns about what they perceived
about American agriculture. Animal welfare is one of their concerns.
We told them despite what they may have seen or heard, Iowa
farmers use the best animal husbandry practices to ensure that their
animals are safe, healthy and happy. It is an economic loss if they
dont, Danielson said.
She said Australian farmers have been facing huge drought
issues.
They have no government subsidies or safety net. If they lose
their crop, they are out their growing expenses. They base their
farm production on the amount of rain they think they will receive.
It is the fall of their growing season right now, and some of
the ag students said they would be lucky to get a single crop this
year, Danielson said. She explained that because of the temperate
climate, Australian farmers can double crop their acres through the
course of a year.
The group visited a number of farms and agricultural enterprises.
They have a lot of sheep and dairy cattle and quite a few mixed
farming enterprises. They raise different crops than here. Unlike
Iowa, where we are mostly corn and beans, they raise cotton, canola,
soybeans and other crops. We visited a popcorn farm and another
farm where they raised rice. I hadnt seen a rice farm before,
Danielson said.
She also had a chance to pick a fresh orange from an orange farm.
The group had a chance to tour a sh market and stand on the
bidding oor where shermen and buyers dicker for prices.
It was interesting to see how they go about buying. It was
organized chaos, but it didnt last too long. It started about 5 a.m. and
was done by 8 or 9 in the morning, the ISU student said.
Most of the farms the Iowa State students visited were in the
Murray-Darling basin, in the interior of southeastern Australia. The
basin itself covers parts of four Australian states and encompasses
slightly more than 2,000 miles.
Iowa State student and Humboldt native
Amber Danielson was thrilled to be able
to pick an orange from a tree during
a trip to Leeton, Australia during her
recent ag studies trip.
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Being from the Midwest, it ware really crazy to be driving along
the Great Ocean Road and see the ocean on one side and cows on
pasture on the other, Danielson said.
As with the United Kingdom and the European Union, there are
no genetically-modied (GM) crops grown in Australia.
Attitudes may be slowly changing however. After a disastrous
growing season in 2012-13, a recent study is showing that farmers
and some government ofcials in the United Kingdom are favoring
allowing GM crops.
Also, most of their cattle and sheep production is done on pasture.
They raise some corn, but not a lot, so grain is really more of a
supplement to their forages, not the other way around, Amber said.
Most of their farms are family farms and dont seem to employ
many outside workers, she said. Labor costs are very high and the
cost of living and food is also high.
It was weird going to a fast food restaurant and paying $12 or $13
for a meal. We had a lamb dinner that was $40, and youd think with
all the sheep, lamb would be cheaper in restaurants.
The farms are passed down through the generations, but they
are seeing some of the younger generation leaving the farms and
going away from the coasts, so in that way, they are experiencing
some of the same issues the Midwest is, Danielson said.
The students were able to travel to a farm where new scientic
inventions are tested and tried out.
Just like U.S. farmers, they are constantly looking at ways that
they can incorporate technology to make farming better and easier,
the Humboldt student said.
In addition to visiting farms and agricultural businesses, the Iowa
State agriculture students also got a chance to do some sightseeing
on the trip.
In addition to getting to throw a boomerang with Aboriginal tribe
members and going on a treetop walk, Amber really relished a trip to
the Sydney Opera House.
It was really neat. We got to tour a couple of the rooms. They
had designers from all over the world come in to design it. The high
arches and arched roof are pretty spectacular. It took them 16 years
to build it, Danielson remarked.
It was a lot of fun and an eye-opening experience, Danielson
concluded.
It was nice to see how our agricultural systems are similar and
dissimilar to theirs, and it was cool to see how passionate they were
about an industry we all want to be a part of, Amber said.
To that end, Amber will be wrapping up her undergrad studies
this spring and hopes to attend graduate school at either Iowa State,
North Dakota State or South Dakota State.
Her eventual goal is to work in the swine industry, with a focus on
international operations or sales.
My trip and studies are teaching me that there are many different
ways to produce crops and livestock with the ultimate goal of creating
a high quality product that the consumer wants, she said.
Left: Humboldt High School graduate Amber Danielson
recently received a chance to take an agricultural study
trip to Australia, to learn about farming practices and
production systems in the land down under.
A hilly and rolling countryside
makes for a perfect landscape for
sheep and cattle production in Australia.
Below: Danielson never
thought she would be
photographed in the same
tree with a Koala Bear, but
it happened on her trip to
Australia. RIght: Just like
Iowa, only here its deer.
Watch out for kangaroos!
Above: The Humboldt High School music department
with some assistance from the speech department
and Melindas School of Dance, pulled of another
Soundsational variety show
on April 12. Slide trombonist
Brian Scholl showed his
chops on the high schools
jazz bands rendition of
Blues In The Closet.
Left: Sisters Acacia and
Alexa Reimers provided two-
part harmony on the song
Titanium.
Right: The running joke
during the Soundsations
musical/variety event was if
there would be any pie for
the performers. MC Jen Bentz
made sure she got some.
Members of the high school Concert Chorale provided the song and dance numbers for the fnale.
Master of ceremonies
for the evening Jon
Schafer (left) and Jen
Bentz (right) provided
some witty repartee and
humorous skits between
the musical numbers.
Soundsations
April 12, 2014
Photos by Kent Thompson
From left: Lindsey Curry,
Luke Yoakam and Nick
Ellis. They prove tooting
your own horn can be a
good thing.
Above: Andra Niles ofers a
smile during her performance,
taking in the spotlight
during her vocal solo. Below:
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Shay Saathof (left) and Kait Daisy (right) played mannequins in this pantomime
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of Dance ofered a
performance. Pictured
at front is Sophia Luu.
iss Anna Altman gave her 1927
freshman English class the
assignment to write biographies
of people in Humboldt. The class did a
good job, composing lengthy and detailed
biographies, including that of Maggie Jane
Johnston Duncan.
According to the biography, Maggie
was the rst white child born in Humboldt
County. The Johnston family was originally
from Pennsylvania, leaving Pittsburgh on a
train in the mid-1850s but coming overland
from Chicago where they had bought one
team, a cow, and household goods before
continuing on to Iowa.
Maggie was born on the 9th of May,
1859, in a log cabin on the land that is now
known as the Bicknell pasture. The Indian
trail along the river was her sidewalk to
school. The present (1927) Indian trail is
not the one on which she saw many Sioux
come through the country, for the old
Indian trail has caved into the river.
The log cabin where Maggie was born
was erected when Mr. Johnston rst
came, with the help of John Means, John
McKitrick, John Farney and Mr. McKnight.
The roof was of clapboard. It had only two
half windows and there was no oor. The
cabin was built with unhewn logs and in
by Carolyn Saul Logan
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all, very roughly constructed.
Maggie had three brothers and no
sisters. Her oldest brother, John, died just
after the typhoid fever epidemic at the age
of 21. He was six years older than Maggie.
Robert was the next oldest brother... He
received his education here and married
the present (1927) mayor of Humboldt,
Mrs. Robert Johnston. Maggies youngest
brother was William who, at the time the
biography was written, was managing his
farm west of Humboldt.
With a family of three sons and a
daughter, ...the need for a larger home
became apparent. Consequently a larger
cabin was built... This cabin contained one
room upstairs and one room downstairs.
There were three windows and two doors
in the new cabin which was of hewed logs
and niched (sic) at the corners to make it
secure. A spring house was erected just
over the brow of the hill covering a large
spring.
In her interview, Maggie reported that
Provisions at that time were hard to get
...a trip usually had to be made to Iowa
City or Des Moines on a lumber wagon
to purchase the required foodstuffs.
One incident early in her life was both
humorous and tragic. Her father had
just returned from a trip for supplies
and brought her a new annel dress.
Her brothers were breaking calves and
harnessed them to a sled on which a box
was mounted. Maggie sat in the box and
the result was a torn dress and a broken
sled.
There were many Indian scares. One
in particular she will never forget. The
rumor was about that all of her family had
been killed. As they lived away off up in the
woods, the rest of the population were too
frightened by the awful tragedy to go and
verify the massacre. Consequently to the
other settlers she and her family were dead
about a week.
Maggie started school when she was
about 4 years old. Miss Cruickshank
of Dakota City was her rst teacher
and boarded with the Johnstons. The
schoolhouse was situated southwest about
one half mile from the end of the pavement
that now (1927) extends out west of town.
She stated that six pupils were the most
that ever attended school at one time.
Maggie started to the town school when
she was about 14.
At about this time the family left the old
cabin and moved onto the farm that is now
known as the Johnston farm, just on the top
From cabin to All over the country
of the Johnston hill. When she was about
16, she, with her brothers, started to the
Humboldt College, where she nished her
education. This is the hill just above the
Sumner Avenue Bridge.
Maggie married Mr. A. H. Duncan
on March 11, 1885. Duncan arrived in
Humboldt ve years previously and was,
at rst, engaged in farming. Four years
later, the couple moved from the farm to
Humboldt, where Mr. Duncan bought an
interest in the furniture and undertaking
business with Mr. Combs. A year later, Mr.
Combs retired and Duncan became the
head of the oldest business of its kind in
the c ounty.
According to the freshman biography,
Their married life has progressed
uneventfully . . . they have seen quite a
bit of the country. They have been to two
World Fairs, Niagara Falls, and Washington
D. C. They have been out West, in Florida,
and in general, all over the country.
Left: This is the second cabin built for
the Johnston family. Note the second
story window and the hewn and
notched logs.
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Various doctors looked at the ve-year-old and said nothing was wrong. But on Valentines
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At Minneapolis, he was part of a test group that underwent super chemotherapy and full body
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The treatments left him with zero immunity. Even immunizations he received as an infant were no
longer in his system. The chemo was so toxic that it caused his bottom to bleed when hed go to the
bathroom. He had a pic line and a feeding tube. After spending from Valentines Day until August at
Blank, he spent from August until Dec. 9 in Minneapolis.two months short of a full year in a hospital.
During all of this, Logans grandparents, Paul and Susan Collins, adopted their grandson. Susan
had been employed at South Care Center, but had to take leave in order to stay with Logan. Paul
works at U.S. Gypsum and his employer let him work four, 10-hour days and he would drive to be
with Logan and Susan as soon as he was done with the work week. He did this every week from
September until December.
We did what we had to do. Our job was to get him better and get him home, Paul said.
Dreams Really Do Come True...
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By Jef Gargano
Mary Poppins visited with Logan for about a half hour one morning on his Make A Wish trip.
Left: During the daily parade at Disney World.
Below: Hugs were bountiful.
They stayed in the Ronald McDonald House both in Des
Moines and Minneapolis. On Aug. 30, 2011, Logan had the bone
marrow transplant and was in the hospital for 40 days. Once he was
discharged from the hospital, they still had to come back each day.
Eventually that became twice a week, then monthly and now they
are getting checkups yearly.
Logan had a tutor while in treatment. When he returned home, he
had to wear a mask and he was home schooled the rst year. Logan
really enjoyed Mrs. Lemmenes, who served as his tutor here.
His rst time at Taft Elementary was as a rst grader.
He walked into rst grade and had never been to school, Susan
said, noting that rst year he caught every illness there was.
This year, he is in Mrs. Boswells second grade class. And Susan
was able to get a job in the lunch program at Taft Elementary.
We are very grateful to the staff at Taft Elementary, to Mr.
Bruder and to Mrs. Boswell and all of Logans teachers for being
so understanding. Logan is trying to play catch up on learning
interaction and social skills, Susan said.
Logan continues to be monitored for long term effects of his
treatments. Some day, he will get cataracts. The treatments can
cause heart damage as well. They now go to Blank Childrens
Hospital for blood tests, as well as tests to look for the after affects of
the treatments.
When they rst got home from Minneapolis, Susan received a call
from the Make A Wish Foundation.
I turned them down. I thought it was for kids and their last wish.
Logan was going to make it. It wouldnt have worked then anyway.
Logan couldnt go to Disney World, he could hardly go to Fareway,
Susan said. His immune system was low and when Logan went out
in public he had to wear a mask.
Two years later, Make A Wish called again. This time, Susan
knew a little more about the organization and they agreed to the
interview process. Make A Wish interviewed Logan, Susan and Paul
and then submitted the request. Logan chose Disney World for his
trip. Logan, Susan and Paul headed to Disney World from Feb. 1-8,
staying at Give Kids the World Village.
The village was strictly kid oriented. It was a great service for
kids, Paul said.
The house Collins stayed in was painted white, green and purple.
Each day, the village celebrated a different holiday. The Collins spent
days at Disney World but had to be back for the village activities
each night by 6 p.m.
The rst morning there they ran into Mary Poppins at breakfast
and she spent a half hour with Logan. Because some kids couldnt
leave the village, Disney characters came to them.
Ice cream is available 24 hours a day and the village has a rule that
everyone has to have ice cream at breakfast at least one morning.
Paul noted the village has 175 units and 1,500 volunteers who
donate their time. Perkins Restaurants donates all of the food and
the people to prepare the food. When a family leaves, volunteers
clean the house from top to bottom in order to be able to house the
next family.
The Collins enjoyed meeting people from Iowa.the person who
helped them at the car rental place was originally from Bettendorf.
While at the village, they met a retired school teacher who was from
Des Moines. During one of the parades at Disney World, one of the
dancers was from Waterloo. When she found out Logan was from
Iowa, she made him part of the parade.
In addition to going to Disney World several days, the Collins
went to Sea World (he fed a dolphin and stingrays) and took a day to
see the Pacic Ocean.
It gave Logan a week of carefree, no worries. He just had fun,
Logan lost his hair and swelled up during his
chemotherapy treatments.
Susan,
Paul and
Logan
share a
fun time.
Below: Logan enjoyed interacting with the many characters
on his Make A Wish trip.
Logan and Susan are pictured in
front of their place at Give Kids
the World Village at Disney World.
Paul said. Once I left the house, I didnt think about work or home.
One day I smiled so much my face hurt, Susan said. I didnt
have to cook for a week. I liked it.
Any little kid who goes through something like Logan has.you
hope they get to experience Disney like Logan did. We received rst
class treatment always, Paul said.
While at Disney, Logan spotted a pizza parlor and wanted pizza.
They went through the line and placed their order and Logan sang a
song for the staff. Four people started dancing along. Logan did the
same thing with mimes.
He just had a blast, Susan said.
The Collins said it was a trip of a lifetime.
I feel a little humbled by it all, Paul said.
The Collins said they now take notice of the donation containers
at McDonalds for the Ronald McDonald House. Theyre appreciative
of Perkins Restaurants, knowing all they do to help at Give Kids the
World Village.
While in Humboldt, Logan has participated in the Relay for Life
the last two years (this years Humboldt County Relay for Life is
Saturday, June 27). The Collins said NFL star Dallas Clark made a
special point to come and talk to Logan.
Logan loves school, loves to read and really likes to play with his
cousin, Paul Olesen. Logan is a gamer and they say the strongest
part of his body are his thumbs from playing video games.
Logan has been through a lot. We want to thank all of Logans
doctors, and everyone for their prayers. Thats what got him through
this, Susan said.
Logan says when he grows up, he wants to be a doctor so he can
take care of children.
Logan had fun
to infnity and
beyond!
Logan in front of
the famous Disney
World castle.
Logan
especially
enjoyed the
carousel
at Disney
World.
endy Bean and Alyssa Hicks followed their passion, and
as a result, the two women are now celebrating the one-
year anniversary of when they opened Sweetest Things
Bakery at the corner of Sumner Avenue and 6th Street South in
downtown Humboldt.
Once you walk through the front door of the building built in
the 1880s, the aroma of sweet-smelling cookies and baked goodies
makes it too hard to pass up leaving without making a purchase.
Alyssa and I are following our passion. Each day we get to do
something that we love, Bean said.
I always knew that one day I wanted to become my own boss,
but I didnt know how it would take place, Bean said. Ive been
baking ever since I was young and this is something Ive always
wanted to do.
I grew up on an acreage near Otho and I spent a lot of time in
the kitchen with my mother baking goods, Bean said. When I was
bored, my mom let me have at it in the kitchen. So I always loved to
bake. I always remember waking up on those holiday mornings as
a young child and the house was lled with the smell of all kinds of
baked food.
The bakery is their passion!
Bean, Hicks celebrate 1st year with their new business
By Phil Monson
For Hicks, the story is similar.
I grew up with my mom and my grandma teaching me how
to bake. Opening a bakery was something I have wanted to do
for a long time. I guess Im fortunate that I moved to Humboldt
and ran into Wendy. So here I am today, Hicks said.
Bean, married to Jeremy Harvey, co-owner of Millers
Landing restaurant in Humboldt, has owned the building, one
of Humboldts oldest, for 10 years. For about a year, in 2010, she
ran a bakery out of the back of the building, but the workload
proved to be too much to continue on with a family of ve
children and also being employed at her husbands business.
It was a lot of work for me alone to do so I closed it down
after a year, Bean said. Once the bakery was shut down, I was
working fulltime at Millers Landing.
Enter Hicks, who soon found employment at Millers
Landing. The merger of the two women at the restaurant was a
prelude of bigger things to come.
Alyssa got hired and I trained her with how we ran things
up there. From that point on we talked and discovered we had
a lot in common when it came to baking, Bean said. I would
bring samples of my baking to work and Alyssa would bring
her samples.
I told her I had the business in the back of this building
previously. Over time I felt a strong desire to open the bakery back
up. It was something I loved to do so much and had a lot of passion
for, but it was a lot for one person to do, Bean said. I asked Alyssa if
she would be interested in being a partner and open up the business
with me. She agreed to be a partner with me.
Once they began their partnership, it took about a year for them
to prepare the building with plans to use the entire rst oor.
Her boyfriends father is a contractor and so we contracted
plumbing through him and I had a friend come and re-do the walls
and we had to re-paint inside. We had to tear down some interior
walls, Bean said.
Once inside the front interior of the building, a long glass display
counter holds fresh, baked goodies. Tables and chairs provide seating
for the public. Up front is a little private room for small groups.
The building has a lot of unique features and a lot of history with
the high ceilings and wood detail, Bean said. The front was built in
1881. It was known as Peoples Bank when it was built.
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Alyssa Hicks (left) and Wendy Bean in front
of their business in downtown Humboldt,
Sweetest Things Bakery.
Alyssa and I painted the inside of the building. We bought all of
our tables from Lana at the Revue here in town, Bean said. Its neat
to have people come in here and theyre captivated by it.
Theyll come in and say oh, I remember coming in here when I
was age 14 or I remember working in the back when I was young
and it was the Humboldt Reminder. A lot of people didnt know there
was a vault in here, Bean said.
Wendy and I both love things that are old and have history,
Hicks said. We both wanted to make sure we maintained the
personality of the building.
We know this building is part of Humboldt history and we want
to maintain it for that aspect as well, Hicks said. We want the
community to be proud that we have maintained it.
Bean and Hicks have created a small gift shop in the vault.
Its all homemade items in the gift shop, Hicks said. Gifts made
by ourselves, family or family friends.
People can come and sit and have a drink. We offer water, juice
and milk, Hicks said. By fall, we plan on adding a coffee machine
where customers can get coffee or hot chocolate. We are not going
to be a coffee shop with many avors to offer.
We dont want to compete with the Caribbean Coffee House here
in town. We love going up there for lunch and so we dont want to
compete with them, Hicks said.
Our focus is to remain as a bakery and not expand into soup and
sandwiches, as some people have requested. With graduations and
weddings coming up, we have to concentrate our time on producing
a good product, Hicks said.
Baking is very time-consuming and so we dont want to expand
into some things that would take us away from our work, Hicks
said. If we got busy serving food and drink up front, then the quality
of our work in the back room would suffer.
We focus on baked goods and thats what we want to put our
time into, from rolls, mufns to cookies. We do eventually plan to
add a pie cooler up front, hopefully by fall, Bean said. The health
inspector requires a cooler in order to sell pies. By adding a cooler,
well be able to sell pies and sheetcakes. Thats another addition we
think will benet the business.
Alyssa and I want to nish painting the outside. Its a big building
and theres so much maintenance that needs to be done, Bean said.
But to do it all takes money and time, so we cant do it all at once.
Hicks says she loves making anything and admits cookies are
her favorite item to bake, but she loves doing it all.
I love making rollout cookies. The recipe we have is the recipe
my family used every Christmas, Hicks said. Around Christmas
time, when I make about 90 dozen in one month, then its like okay,
now Im ready to make a cake or some cupcakes. I do enjoy making
it all but cookies are my favorite.
I love baking mufns and the pastries, Bean said. I love doing
it all, too. I also like baking bars because you can come up with so
many different things to bake.
The longer you do it, the more you do it yourself and you dont
have to have to read a book. We get ideas, but we like to change it
with our own ideas from our own experience, Bean said. We know
how our oven will perform and well know exactly how long certain
things will bake and at what temperature.
Every once in a while well have a bad day or a bad week where
things dont go our way, Bean said. Those are times when you feel
like you forgot how to bake. But it comes back.
When we rst started doing this it was a little stressful, especially
on Tuesday mornings when were really busy, Bean said. But
weve done it so much and so often that it is more relaxing. I love
coming down here after working up at the restaurant. I can put on
my apron and do something I really enjoy.
For Hicks, who was born in Cedar Falls and grew up in California,
where she lived from age six to 19 in the Los Angeles area, says the
slower-paced Midwest living suits her just ne.
I used to come back to Iowa for summer vacations and spend
time with my grandparents on the farm near Manson. I love the
wide open space, trees and nature. I love downtown Humboldt
where you see the old, original brick buildings, Hicks said. It is so
much better than having cement and roads
everywhere. In California I lived anywhere
from 30-60 minutes from downtown LA,
depending on the trafc on a given day.
Alyssa and Wendy shown in the back
kitchen where they work their baking
magic at Sweetest Things Bakery.
Alyssa Hicks (left) and Wendy Bean display fresh baked
rolls and cookies at their bakery in Humboldt.
I love being able to ride my bike to work in the summer. I also
like it that you can walk everywhere. I like it. Its relaxing, Hicks
said.
People in Iowa arent so focused on themselves like they are
in California. Everyone is friendlier here and polite. Humboldt
is also community-oriented. People want to help you out and see
you succeed, instead of competing against you, Hicks said.
I love Humboldt. I absolutely love it. I have loved the
community from day one when we rst moved here, Bean
said. I feel right at home here. The town and I clicked right
away when I rst started working at the country club and I got
to know a lot of people that way.
I love the town. Its very supportive. People have been so
wonderful and welcoming about our business. I couldnt ask
for a better place to live and work, Bean said. Humboldt is
denitely home.
Store hours are Tuesday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays are 8 a.m. to 12 noon. They are closed on Sunday
and Monday.
Alyssa Hicks
covers plates of
fresh cookies
for display.
Wendy Bean
places the
dough on the
sheet before
baking.
An interior view of Sweetest Things Bakery
in downtown Humboldt.
Alyssa Hicks (left) and
Wendy Bean utilize the old
bank vault as a small gift
shop at their business.

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n my growing up family we always had a dog around,
six over the years. The last one, Sparky, lived for 13 years.
We also had a cat, Timmy, but with his demise we never
had another. We had some chickens, hateful things, wouldnt get
off the nests, would peck me when I tried to reach for their eggs!
We also had a cow, which we named Maisy and two geese, Gus
and Gustave. They honked and strutted around, very importantly,
whenever anyone drove in. We would nd huge goose eggs in the
woods or outbuildings, long gone rotten! We would see how far
we could throw them. Not far enough! The smell could knock you
out! We always named our animals, but I cant account for the male
names of those two geese! I suppose at least one of them should
have been Gustella or Gustalene, or...
We also had pigs and that is where this story begins. The
sows had just had babies. It was a beautiful spring/summer day.
The mama sows were basking in the sun and I was watching
them. Really! I watched pigs! Remember, there were not
activities for kids then like there are today! No malls to visit!
No TV to watch. We stayed home a lot, doing our chores, like
mowing an acre yard.
One day when I was about 14-15 years old, I was sitting on the
Animals I have known
(not always pets)
By Vivien Aasland Hansen
fence rail, watching the cute little pink beings as they either had
lunch or tried to get into position. The mama sow was huge, lying
there with her piglets dancing around her. She was not paying
them much attention. Then she stirred, lumbered her big self up
and I SAW it!!! A little pink, very small, very at pig! It just lay
there, not moving!
I jumped down from the fence, plucked him up and out of
the pen, placed him on the cool grass and started articial
respiration! I pushed gently on his soft little tummy and blew
on his cute little face - - oh my, such long eye-lashes! I kept
up the routine - - gently push, let up, push, let up and began to
think Id have to give him mouth to mouth! Then he moved,
breathed and then squealed! And then I squealed! I gave articial
respiration to a pig and he LIVED!
My dad was very proud of me. I visited the pig daily after that,
but wasnt emotionally attached, especially when my dad said I
could have the money after marketing him. Farm kids know those
things! I bought shoe roller skates with the money, (which I still
have!) I spent the rest of my teen years enjoying roller skating
and thinking of Artithats what I named him, for ARTIcial
respiration.
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