[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 Sanders: “Kinda think it makes sense to go out for Japanese food since we’re Team Japan.” The 2024 Choice One Office Olympics have concluded, and after fierce competition and some creative self-scoring, the team from Ireland was declared...
[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] Megan Bornhorst: “All I keep hearing are grunts and the occasional ‘ouch.’” Let the games begin: the Choice One Summer Office Olympics are back! As you can tell from Megan’s comment (and much like Choice One’s 2021 competition), there...
[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] Adam Gill (from bathroom): “Schmidty, you wanna bust up a toilet?” Brian Schmidt (from across the office): “YEP!” Brian “Schmidty” Schmidt is always up for good times: reviewing plans with vigor, eating (anytime, anything), and, apparently, busting up broken fixtures....
[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] Troy Niese: “We have so many multiple names here we have run out of nicknames.” Co-op Nick Schmidt is spending his summer semester in our Loveland office and keeps popping up when Loveland folks try to page a Sidney-office...
[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] Adam Siegel: “I want to get this necklace off. But my hands are sweating and cramping.” Engineering co-op Adam Siegel accompanied Matt Hoying on a fieldwalk and happened across a discarded “gold” costume necklace in the gutter that he...
[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] Andy Shuman: “Who would have thought it would be almost too cold in June for ice cream?” Like Brian Schmidt and chocolate chunk cookies, ice cream and summer just go together—there’s nothing like a double scoop on a hot...
[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] Inquiring Mindsets: What are you looking forward to this summer? Summer is upon us, and we at Choice One couldn't be happier. Sure, we have summer vacations planned, but we're REALLY excited that it's full-on construction season, blazing hot field survey season,...
[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] Mitch Thobe: ”Many kids dress up for Halloween as what they want to be when they grow up--some Batman, some an NFL football player. Justin had it figured out very early.” Eight years after the Halloween “costume” photo on...
[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] Link Thobe: “Daddy, I want to see the water drain!” Link is the 2-year-old son of one of Choice One’s stormwater engineer Tyler Thobe and wife Brittany. While out and about near his home with his parents (who were...
[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] Matt Lefeld: “I just want to note that I had nothing to do with this!” A likely story, Matt Lefeld. Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? Sounds like a Ryan Francis excuse. Administrative professional Abbey Swick, on...