Deb is a Hawk-Eye

Thanks to my efforts as one of the 99 field editors for the Our Iowa magazine, two wonderful cooks from Northwood have been featured on the glossy pages of this new bi-monthly publication with their pictures and recipes. I have submitted various other story ideas and pictures to the magazine since becoming part of the team nearly a year ago, but have yet to see any of my other submissions due to the phenomenal amount of wonderful attributes the great state of Iowa has to offer. The staff has the difficult task of sorting through all the pictures, facts, tidbits, and interesting story ideas from all the field reps for every edition.

June 29, all 99 of us "Hawk-Eyes" (as the field reps are called) were invited to a picnic at the Reiman Gardens in Ames. Roy Reiman and Jerry Wiebel along with the rest of the Our Iowa Magazine staff treated us to a delicious lunch and Barbershop quartet entertainment after we had leisurely strolled through the gardens and the butterfly wing. It was a fun opportunity to meet other field reps as well as the staff and put faces with names.


If you get a chance, definitely check out the website and find out what it's all about. In a nutshell, it's a magazine just about Iowa written by Iowans. And while it has the professional look and feel of all the colorful publications like Country, Country Extra, Taste of Home, Reminisce, Farm & Ranch, and Birds & Blooms, there is actually no relationship. Roy Reiman sold his company a number of years ago, and the company has been sold a couple of times since. In fact, it is no longer known as Reiman Publications, but is now RDA-Milwaukee. Our Iowa is the only current Reiman Publication.