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Enjoy these weekly insights from Steve Simonin, President & CEO.

Notes from Steve

Eleven years ago today - I was the first patient for the new bariatric sleeve service at the Belmond campus.  Life nowadays is just different.  At the time - I was tipping the scales at 300 pounds, my body hurt a lot, and I (personally) was miserable.* My clothes didn’t...
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Notes from Steve

Went on a ride with friends on Saturday.  There were massive thunderstorms and heavy rain in the area we were riding in, but somehow, we avoided all of them.  It was hot and humid, though, and dirty as well.  I looked like I showered in mud and mulberries at the end.  It was type...
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Notes from Steve

On Saturday night, I was at a backyard concert in a hoop-dee neighborhood in Des Moines.  My car was parked on a side street close to the concert, and my fob was in the side pocket of the cooler I brought.  After the concert, I went back to my car to go...
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Notes from Steve

My nephew, Dave, and his beautiful bride, Sophia, got married this past weekend (June 21st) in Clarion.  God somehow decided that hot, humid, and windy needed to be on the menu for the weather - it was fantastic, nevertheless.*  I asked Rob - Dave’s dad - earlier in the week what...
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Notes from Steve

There is this really cool little “farm” stand/shop outside of Story City on the west side of Highway 69.  “Slim” was the name of the last owner - he was a tall, thin farmer guy who’d always be excited to have you try a slice of peach.  The family who...
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Notes from Steve

I was all set to bike Saturday with a group - it was a planned 50-mile ride for a cause - and then we talked and saw that the chance of rain was at 100%.  (Literally, it said 100%.)  We changed it to Sunday.  It didn’t rain.  So … about 3:00 on Saturday afternoon,...
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Notes from Steve

A friend was “picking rocks” out of one of their fields yesterday because when they encounter a rock with a combine - the rock damages the farm equipment.  I thought … picking rocks sounds like a lot of work … hard, dirty work - definitely something I choose not to do.  Then...
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Notes from Steve

Personally, I think I’m thinking too much.  I have a lot of things on my plate. Instead of lining them up and applying the correct amount of anxiety and stress to each one - I’m clumping them all together and basically freaking out.  A friend asked how planning was going for RAGBRAI,...
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Notes from Steve

I’m not the greatest reader of books.  I sometimes have to trudge through the chapters, checking the page numbers and amount of time I’ve read.  And sometimes - I get a page-turner of a book, and I can’t put it down.  This weekend, my book was one of those -...
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