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Company: MSA Professional Services, Inc.

Main Contact for the Chamber: Joe Samuel

Title: Senior Project Manager

How long has the company been in operation: Since 1962

Company’s mission statement:
“A trusted partner helping clients succeed”

What do you hope to gain from your Chamber membership:
Exposure in the Twin Cities market, stay connected with what’s happening along the Central Corridor, and networking opportunities

Accomplishments/Company Background Information:
MSA Professional Services, Inc. (MSA) is the “trusted partner” for many public and private clients throughout the Midwest. Incorporated in 1962, MSA is an employee- owned (ESOP) company. We are well known for providing comprehensive engineering, planning, architectural, and surveying services to both public and private clients. In addition, the company provides transportation, and environmental services.
MSA’s staff of approximately 300 employees are available at 14 locations throughout the Midwest: Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota; Adams, Baraboo, Beaver Dam, Madison, Marshfield, Rhinelander, and Rice Lake, Wisconsin; Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Dubuque and Des Moines, Iowa; and Galena, Illinois. The MSA team consists of engineers, architects, planners, surveyors, GIS specialists, and environmental scientists.

Here’s some good news on the Midway Chamber’s 2009 Business of the Year, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.:

While TV news folks are gearing up for the Upper Midwest Emmy Awards at the Pantages Theater on Saturday, KSTP-TV, Channel 5, had a reason to start the celebration early. On Monday, the Hubbard-owned station won a coveted national News and Documentary Emmy in the category of regional breaking news for its coverage of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse. It’s the first national Emmy for KSTP, said news director Lindsay Radford, who was assistant news director at the time of the collapse.

“Everyone was excited, and for those people who covered it, it was one of the biggest stories of their lives,” said Radford. “Everybody knows where they were when the bridge went down and everybody remembers that level of disbelief that something like that would happen. And then I think the next thought is, ‘Wow, we really put a lot of effort into that day. We were the only station on for 25 hours straight.’ Luckily, because we have local ownership, we had the freedom to do that. We weren’t tied to having to make corporate happy with commercials airing. So that made a difference.”

With tickets for the national Emmy gala — held at Lincoln Center in New York City — going for $500 a pop, no one from the KSTP newsroom attended the ceremony. The station would rather have that money going back into the newsroom, said Radford. But KSTP wasn’t without representation. Harold Crump, vice president of public relations for Hubbard Broadcasting, happened to be at the show because he’s a trustee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the group that presents the Emmys.

“I couldn’t believe we had beaten everyone in the country, including WNBC-TV in New York,” said Crump. “Wow, we won — it was just great. So I got it and brought it home.”

You can see some of KSTP’s 35W bridge coverage on their Web site at kstp.com/article/10975.

— Amy Carlson Gustafson

This was originally published in the Pioneer Press on September 23rd. You can read it here http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_13404470

Bob Hughes hands over the reins to Tom Whaley

At the Midway Chamber’s Annual Meeting, Bob Hughes stepped down as Chair of the Midway Chamber and Tom Whaley of the Saint Paul Saints took over. There were lots of other changes to the Midway Chamber Board of Directors.

2009-2010
Midway Chamber of Commerce
Leadership

Nominated Chamber Officers & Executive Committee
Chair                                     Tom Whaley, St Paul Saints Baseball
Vice Chair                            Julie Esch, Mortenson Construction
Treasurer                             Steve Johnson, Park Midway Bank
Secretary                              Kurt Daugherty, TDS Metrocom
Immediate Past Chair        Bob Hughes, Pioneer Press

Committee Chairs
Economic Development Co Chairs
Judd Fenlon, Wellington Management
B Kyle, Saint Paul Port Authority

Membership Development Co Chairs
David Dominick, Midway Family YMCA
Julie Novak, Anchor Bank

Communications
Mike Zipko, Goff & Howard

Continuing Chamber Board Members
Paul McGinley, Loucks Associates             2007-2010
Ted Davis, Davis Communications            2007-2010
Steve Johnson, Park Midway Bank            2007-2010
Jeff Warner, Warners’ Stellian                    2007-2010
B Kyle, St. Paul Port Authority                    2007-2010
Dave Stokes, Colliers                                     2004-2010
Brian Fulford, Judd Commercial Realty   2008-2011
Kurt Daugherty, TDS Metrocom                 2008-2011
John Bennett, Western Bank                       2008-2011
David Dominick, Midway YMCA                2008-2011
Julie Novak, Anchor Bank                           2008-2011
Kevin Sevcik, University Bank                    2008-2011

Board Members nominated for an additional 3 year term
Julie Esch, Mortenson Construction                2009-2012
Judd Fenlon, Wellington Management           2009-2012
Tom Whaley, Saint Paul Saints                         2009-2012
Mike Zipko, Goff and Howard                           2009-2012
Asst Chief Tom Smith, City of St Paul Police  2009-2012

Board Member nominated for 1 year term
Louis Henry, McDonalds                                            2002-2010
Bob Hughes, Pioneer Press                                         2003-2010
Lu Hang, Hmong Chamber of Commerce                2009-2010

Proposed for new 3 year term
Sharode Hayward, Walmart                    2009-2012
Marcia Kopp, Fastsigns                            2009-2012
John Marshall, Xcel Energy                    2009-2012

Retiring and Resigned Board Members
Nancy Haas, Messerli and Kramer                2006-2009
Dana Cottrell, Xcel Energy                              2003-2009

In support of the High Speed Rail Line from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois:

The Midway Chamber of Commerce agrees to support and participate in joint advocacy efforts on
behalf of the high speed rail line from Saint Paul, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois via Madison, and
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As an organization, we see the long-term economic benefits of this project to our region.  We strongly
urge elected leaders in all three states and Washington D.C. to pursue federal and local funding to
make this project reality. High speed rail creates immediate jobs and employment down the road,
creates improvements in freight shipping, increases the movement of people for work and leisure and
propels our economy into the 21st century.

Approved by the Midway Chamber Board of Directors, Friday, June 19th

Download MWChamber High Speed Rail Line final resolution