short writing example - for entrepreneurship magazine edition
We all dream about what we could do. The line between dreamer and entrepreneur is the doing.
Rebecca Svec
Zany. Musical. Gifted. Teacher.
Can music be funny? To Ben Kaye-Skinner, anything can be funny and a lot of things in this world can be music. Ben's a combination of that kid you remember from high school. He's that kid who took piano lessons (but at age 7 preferred to write his own music rather than practice someone else's.) The kid who lived for marching band and show choir. But he's also that kid who made everyone laugh...He's the first student conductor at Doane to ask if could put the pep band in kilts. And the one who created music of humor and whimsy, like Tuo Edisni (Inside Out), or Eucant (You Can't) March...
To Korea and Back - Honoring Tanny Reinsch | - Insurance & Real Estate, Geneva & Shickley, NE
**This Memorial Day, we honor Shickley veteran and longtime Fortify Group customer Francis Reinsch.
On Monday, Francis “Tanny” Reinsch and his wife, Marilyn, will travel to Shickley's Memorial Day Service, as they do every year possible.
They might gather in the community center afterward, sitting down to the table with other veterans and spouses and family members.
That’s what is visible on the surface; Tanny -- a vibrant force even as he nears 90 -- enjoying the camaraderie, a couple of hours to catch up over sandwiches and pie. He might turn his head to better hear the conversation on his left side, with the ear that came too close to a mortar round in Korea...
Colon cancer survivor and doctor, Tammy Schroeder
If you listen to stories of cancer survivors and try to gauge your own risk by comparison, then Tammy Schroeder's story will scare you.
Doane puts El Paso student on a new path
Go to college?
Ryan Rodriguez?
No one talked about college, least of all, Ryan.
Successful people go to college, he thought.
Not some kid from central El Paso who could see gangs and crime from his window...
Content example for a rebrand mailer.
Walter has left the building...
Grandma Wins the Harley
In retirement, some people take up cards. Paul Baumert took up motorcycles. "He was known far and wide for his motorcycle riding," his sister, Mildred, said. People seem to remember a senior citizen motorcycle devotee, especially if he wears a black leather jacket and gold chain, makes the trek to Sturgis, and likes to say "All I need is gas (for the motorcycle) and underwear."
Press release example
Walter has left the building. Walter Insurance and Real Estate, a longtime Fillmore County based insurance and real estate business, has a new name and look. On May 31st, it retired its name and signature colors, and unveiled its new name "Fortify Group", which is paired with a new logo and modern green and gray aesthetic. "Fortify better reflects how we serve our customers and communities,"...
Sports intro
We don't give sports enough credit when we call it play. Athletics teach patience and pecking orders. It's one of the first places we learn to try when all seems futile, and to win with grace and lose with enough humility to get better.
Grit before glory; life in theatre.
Before there is glamour, there is grit. A lucky few actors rise to stardom overnight. For the rest, the rise in incremental...
Introducing: the Doane College Society
This is the group who signs the first blank lines on a petition; the ones who attend those very first organizational meetings when no one knows how many chairs to put out...
Journeys Magazine | Spring 2018
For all of Lambert Zoubek's life, his brother, Leonard, had been there. The oldest of three brothers, Leonard looked out for Lambert as older siblings do, no matter their age. The brothers farmed together, lived together and spent much of their time together. That included Leonard's battle with lung cancer...
Bart Brinkman | - Insurance & Real Estate, Geneva & Shickley, NE
On fall Saturdays, as he readies for Husker football games, the little rituals remind Bart Brinkman of a day he would rather forget.
Just like that day, tickets go in his billfold.
He grabs a ballcap for sunny games; a stocking cap for the cold.
He gets behind the wheel and points his Chevy toward Memorial Stadium.
Two years ago a terrifying car accident on that same drive almost changed everything. He still carries a scar, a bit of nerve damage and hazy memories of the event...
About | - Insurance & Real Estate, Geneva & Shickley, NE
Our company’s roots go back more than 50 years. (We were a start-up before start-ups were a thing.)
Fortify Group began in Shickley in 1965 when original owner Bill Brinkman opened doors in a downtown storefront. It kicked off five decades of insurance services to Fillmore and Thayer counties as well as other parts of Nebraska.
Shickley businessman Richard Walter purchased the agency in 1979 and named it the Richard Walter Insurance Agency. The company grew steadily, evolving into a strong and
The Still
On a clear night in 1934, a 2 a.m. shotgun blast yanks a 9-year-old kid from slumber. The 9-year-old is 78 now, still living on the same farm south of Milligan, in a brick ranch that replaced the farmhouse of his youth. But Rudy Capek still remembers that sound, interrupting the stillness of rural Nebraska when it sleeps. He later learned the gunshot was a signal, an "all clear" for the supply trucks of a massive alcohol distilling plant operating secretly at a nearby farm.
Customer Spotlight - Brent Kassik
At that first race back in 2005, back in Hobby Stocks at the Beatrice Speedway, everyone was nervous -- the pit crew, the family, and certainly Brent Kassik, the driver. He was belted into his newly constructed car with no racing experience unless you count watching NASCAR. “We missed hot laps. We missed the heat race. I probably went five laps the whole night,” Brent said, shaking his head at the memory.
Embarrassed or not, when he was done, he could not wait to race again...
Sink or Swim
Do you have an inner-voice -- one that whispers in your ear when you most need it? Mine speaks softly, gently, like a child whispering a last good night. I have to be still to catch its quiet, breathy whisper. Usually, it's a word of advice, saying something's wrong with this picture, or that I should take a chance that it's right. This time it gave an order, louder than the water streaming in my ears at adult swim lessons...
Shickley Grocery | - Insurance & Real Estate, Geneva & Shickley, NE
The doors to Shickley’s only grocery store closed late in 2016.
For the first time, many residents could remember, there was an empty corner building downtown and trips out of town to buy milk.
Shickley mom Gladys Schlegel wanted to change that situation as much as anyone and let her son, Chris, in South Dakota, know it. “This is bad. We’re losing our store,” she told him in one phone call.
Then she planted a tiny seed of an idea. Why didn’t Chris and his wife, Cassie, buy the store?
Bear Creek Farms
Jeff Row doesn’t need charts or data to recall the highs and lows of his 36 years of farming. They are etched in his mind and his heart.
He joined the family farm operation in 1980, just in time for the worst agricultural crisis since the Great Depression.
Farm families who lived through it know the feeling. They understand exactly why Jeff remembers the chairs in the bank office at the time – with their green vinyl covers and wrap-around armrests...
