[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nick Schmidt: "A goose management service came to get rid of the geese. They didn't stay gone." Last week, the Loveland office’s favorite all‑season attraction, the neighboring pond, reached its most dramatic chapter yet. Known for previous window‑side spectating and at...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nick Selhorst: "A heads-up would've been nice." At last week’s annual Sidney Charity Cup, clients and friends of Choice One gathered for a mini-golf competition in support of a great cause. Teams navigated a delightfully chaotic course while raising...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kaye Borchers: "You will certainly have plenty to choose from." It’s National Surveyors Week, and we’re celebrating with a quick‑fire “highlight reel” of our survey crew’s most unforgettable Mindset moments—aka the funniest, wildest, and most forehead‑slapping stories they’ve gifted...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nora Schwartz: "Messages come in many forms, including mint-flavored." In Choice One’s Sidney office, there is a highly sophisticated communication system operating behind the scenes—and by that, we mean Nora Schwartz and Jeff Puthoff leaving peppermints on each other’s...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Craig Frilling: "Feel the burn!" Last week, the Winter Olympics returned to Sidney and Loveland via Choice One’s own Office Olympics. Fifteen teams battled through tabletop curling, a typing speed skate, a breakroom luge, and a snow shovel relay involving a spoon that...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Isaiah Winhoven: "I just want to use the microwave." In the new Sidney office, the silverware has been almost as busy as the staff, having been moved three times in a single week as Choice Oners search for its...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ryan Lefeld: "Next!" Not long after we settled into our new Sidney office, Funding Specialist Kaye Borchers noticed a steady stream of “patrons” gathering around the pod where Project Manager Ryan Lefeld had somehow become the unofficial main attraction. To bring...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Nick Selhorst: "Do you think it’s bad luck to step on the carpet logo?" Superstition may be nothing new to Choice One, but the logo on our Sidney office carpet is. Installed just a couple of weeks ago, it was...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lilly Barhorst: “If I sounded bossy, it’s because I was channeling my inner Barney.” If you missed it, our Sidney office moved locations last Friday. Lilly, who is Brian “Barney” Barhorst’s super awesome daughter, oversaw moving day with the...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jeff Puthoff: “There is only one Christmas song outside the traditional carols that matters: Elvis’s ‘Blue Christmas.’” If you’ve seen our holiday card this year, you know it’s not your average piece of folded paper. It’s got flaps, elves,...