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Tonight is the seventh Fridays on the Promenade concert of the 2008 summer season. The show starts at 6 pm, and is done by 8 pm, and is held in front of the Promenade Theater, around the Roth Fountain at 4^th and Virginia. Concerts will continue every-other Friday night through September. A different musical act is brought in for each show, with musical styles ranging from rock, to blues, to bluegrass. Admission is only $2, and there is a cash bar and food available with part of the proceeds going to a local charity. The shows are a lot of fun, and don’t take up your entire night. There is limited seating, so you may want to bring a lawn chair with you.

Check out the website at www.fridaysonthepromenade.com.

Future Shows
Sept 19	Les Exodus

The musical guest for the evening is Watermelon Slim and the Workers. Listen to him at www.watermelonslim.com.

Saturday Evening -

Kicks on Route 66 - Join the Journey

Dinner, dance to the Embers - - Rock & Roll Revival; car show; auction.  Fun, Fun Fun!  Tickets are $35 each or 2 for $60.

5:30 - 12:00 at Marina Inn & Conference Center

Benefit for Siouxland FACE and Siouxland Center for Active Generation, co-located at 313 Cook Street, Sioux City. 

Satellite Central and Clear Channel Radio want to recruit YOU to collect spare change donations from TODAY through October 1st to benefit St. Luke's Children's Miracle Network!  Call in to sign up to be a Change Angel today to support your favorite radio stations:

    KG 95 - Z98     KISS 107.1

    FOX SPORTS 620 AM      LA PRECIOSA

The stations need YOUR help as they are competing to see who can raise the most money for St. Luke's Children's Miracle Network.

How do you sign up?

    1.  Stop by Satellite Central today, September 5th from 1-3 pm

    2.  Call us at 258-5595 to request your Change Angel kit

    3.  Click Here for the link.

Help us make a difference in the lives of Siouxland children!

The Sioux City Economic Development Department, in conjunction with the Sioux City Argosy Casino, will be hosting a Business for Breakfast event on Friday, September 12 at 7:30 am in the Sioux City Convention Center.  Internet marketing expert, Dana VanDen Heuvel, will present new marketing and media technologies with his topic "Marketech ' 08:  Using Emerging Media in Marketing" and will address how changing technology affects how you do business.  Dana is widely recognized for his expertise on blogging, podcasting, RSS, Internet communities and interactive marketing trends and is a frequent speaker at American Marketing ASsociation events.  He has received the Marketing Sherpa "Best Blog" award for authoring a leading business to business marketing weblog at www.danavan.net.

Business for Breakfast is geared toward area empmloyers and rofessionals interested in emerging business trends and topics.  RSVP by calling 712-224-5500 by Friday, September 5th.

Here is a report that shows the year-to-date number of building permits requested for single family units in the Siouxland community.

The 15th Annual Artsplash

Saturday, August 30th from 10 am - 7 pm

Sunday, August 31st from 10 am - 5 pm

$3 for those 12 and over, free for children 11 and younger

ArtSplash is a project of the Sioux City Art Center. The “prequel” to ArtSplash was the Sioux City Art Fair, which was held over the course of an afternoon in the parking lot of the previous Art Center building. Artsplash, a festival of the arts, has grown into a family event.

Jim Trucano, Feng Shui expert with Pro-Link Realty, recently added another article entitled "Simplicity" to his website. 

Feng Shui is an example of a philosophy or methodology that has received quite a bit of recent attention and has the potential to help move a home through the sales cycle and expedite a closed transaction. And, although we know it’s anchored in ancient Chinese traditions, it promises very modern benefits from simple activities like furniture and other personal item placement.

Feng shui practitioners advocate that adherence to their principles will channel positive energy and deflect negative energy. If this is true then one can realistically expect a decrease in the anxiety level in our buyer clients and a corresponding increase in our seller’s satisfaction.

Jim Trucano

cell:  712-301-2300

e-mail:  Jim@jimtrucano.com

website:  www.jimtrucano.com

Staged homes tend to sell much faster and often for substantially higher prices than comparable homes that have not been similarly prepared for sale.

According to the San Jose Mercury News in 2000, “Good staging is effective because when potential buyers walk into a house, they carry with them all their hopes for their new life in the new place…how they feel in the home ultimately gets reflected in the sales price and the number of offers….prestige, love, dreams, all the common denominators we all ave as human beings, are at work in the home purchase…the staging maximizes, intensifies all those feelings.”

The following is a summary of the results of HomeGain.com’s 2007 national survey, based on 10 areas of home improvement identified by 2000 real estate agents in HomeGain’s original survey in 2003.

Typical cost of staging: $403-$584

Price increase (of home staged vs. non-staged): $1,938-$2,431

Return on investment: 343%

Percent of agents recommending staging: 93%

An interesting note – the return on investment in the initial 2003 survey was around 169%. Five years later, that number has climbed by 174 points!

Our agents exclusively use Erika Newton, owner of ReArranged Interior & Redesign Services as our home stager.  Check out the links on the left hand side of our website to learn more about Home Staging.

It’s a great weekend for live music in Sioux City this weekend.  Tonight is Fridays on the Promenade, and Saturday night is the 2^nd Annual Big Sioux Bash. Please read below for info on both.

Tonight is the sixth Fridays on the Promenade concert of the 2008 summer season. The show starts at 6 pm, and is done by 8 pm, and is held in front of the Promenade Theater, around the Roth Fountain at 4^th and Virginia. Concerts will continue every-other Friday night through September. A different musical act is brought in for each show, with musical styles ranging from rock, to blues, to bluegrass. Admission is only $2, and there is a cash bar and food available with part of the proceeds going to a local charity. The shows are a lot of fun, and don’t take up your entire night. There is limited seating, so you may want to bring a lawn chair with you.

Check out the website at www.fridaysonthepromenade.com.

The musical guest for the evening is T. Wilson King.

The Sioux City Community Theatre and the Tom Peterson Memorial Foundation team-up for the 2nd Annual Big Sioux Bash set for August 23rd.  A rocking line-up of 5 regional bands has been set for the Big Sioux Bash.  Scheduled to perform on the Tom Peterson Stage include: Wavelength, 35 South, Quartus, 3D, and The Magnificent Board of Directors.

Gates open at 11:00 am, bands will begin performing at 12:00 noon. The Magnificent Board of Directors are the headliners of the Big Sioux Bash for the 2nd year and will perform 10:00 pm - 12:00 midnight. Food vendors and a beer garden will be available in addition to the 12 hours of music from The Tom Peterson Stage.

Tickets are on sale now for $10.00 and are available at the Sioux City Community Theatre Box Office. Tickets the day of the event are $12.00 and will be available at the entry gates. Parking will be available in lots near the theatre and shuttle service will be available to the concert site, which is in the south parking lot at 1401 Riverside Blvd.

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Bureau of Economic Analysis at the United States Department of Commerce has just released the federal government's annual report of income growth for 2007. Of the 363 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the United States, Siouxland cracked the top-ten tying for sixth most improved in percentage of income growth over the previous year.