We invite you to Booth 735 at IWCA '10 in Reno

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. is one of the exhibitors at this year's 2010 IWCA Convention and Trade Show. The Trade Show will be on Thursday and Friday at this year's convention.

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Next week: The IWCA 2010 Trade Show and Convention in Reno, Nevada

We invite everyone to our booth #735 at this year's IWCA Trade Show and Convention in Reno, Nevada.

We would be happy to discuss your waterfed questions, comments or observations at this year's convention.

The Silver Legacy Resort and Casino will host this year's annual convention and trade show. For more information on the the International Window Cleaning Association's Annual Convention and Trade Show, we invite you to go to the IWCA web site.

Waterfed Set Up:

• Do you have windows to clean?
• How are you currently cleaning your exterior windows?
• What is the right model or method of waterfed pole?
• Do we have the appropriate water pressure requirements?
• How do we resolve a water pressure problem?
• How can we benefit from a portable water system?
• Do you have questions about your water quality?
• How Pure is Your Water?
• What is your TDS level?
• How pure does water need to be to wash windows?
• What methods of waterfed pole are available?
• What are the water flow amounts?
• When can detergent tablets help in cleaning windows?
• Could you tell us more about your exterior maintenance system for clean awnings and other exterior surfaces?
• What is the difference between the X Method and the A, B, and C Method?
• What is the right awning product for cleaning vinyl and other types of surfaces?

Our products reach up to 22, 45 and 83 feet for various applications. For over fifty years Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. has been helping people with their waterfed needs. In 2010, our company will celebrate its 65Th of business. Thank you for your business and we look forward to helping you or someone you may know reach, wash and clean in the coming year!

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Be Careful Today Traveling in Eastern Iowa

Update: Our offices will be closing early today due to Weather Conditions.

Iowa Road Conditions - 511 Travel Info

Weather Coverage - KCRG-TV9

Power Outage Information & Safety Tips:

ALLIANT ENERGY:

Outage Summary Report An Outage Safety Tips

MIDAMERICAN ENERGY:

Outage Summary Report An Outage Preparation During An Outage

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It's January 18, 2010: Happy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday to all

Two events on Robin Tucker's calender today in our community.

The "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon" is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids and the United Way of East Central Iowa. This event will honor 20 area students at the annual Remembering Martin Luther King Luncheon. This event is at 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m on Monday, January 18, 2010.

A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration Event will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 18, 2010 at St. Paul's UMC at 1340 Third Avenue SE in Cedar Rapids, IA 52403. We invite everyone to attend this community event of music, our keynote speakers from our community, the teachings of Jesus and the words of Dr. King.

Who is my Neighbor?

We should be thankful for our neighbors in our community and get to know them as we work, learn and play ...

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The Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids meeting for January 11, 2010

Robin Tucker is scheduled to attend today's Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids meeting at Noon.
You can follow the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids on Twitter by following this link!

Monday, January 11, 2010

CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL

Senator Charles Grassley

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Future Rotary Programs for the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids:

• January 18, Martin Luther King Birthday Luncheon
• January 25, Dr. John Thomson, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University
• February 1, Ted Townsend, President & CEO, St. Luke's Hospital - Healthcare - National Update

Due to the Weather in Cedar Rapids and Memphis overnight: Here is a note from FedEx

Our Rep with FedEx sent us an update on Freight services through FedEx, due to weather in Cedar Rapids and expected weather in Memphis ...

To ALL:

Obviously with the snow last night, we ended up
getting out of Cedar Rapids a little late. Also, I left Memphis last night and
they were in PANIC mode about getting 2-4 inches of snow. Therefore, your
freight out of Memphis will be late as well.

In summary: Expect delays on ALL overnight service pkgs that left Cedar Rapids last night. This also includes Waterloo and north as everything feeds into Cedar
Rapids.

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Winter storm moves through per The Gazette
Get the latest details here:
Multiple crashes on reported as roads are slick
Cancellations
LIVE VIDEO: CityCam network
Eastern Iowa radar
Latest weather updates
Watches and warnings
Weather blog

Can we be of service to you are someone you know in the New Year?

waterfed questions?

1. What pole would be right for this job?

2. Do I have the right parts and accessories?

3. Do I need a different brush?

4. Can I have more hose without a problem with water pressure?

5. What is my TDS?

6. How should I best obtain "spot free" water?

We have been helping customers with waterfed questions over the past fifty years of service. Contact us today to visit about unlocking the benefits of the Tucker Pole and waterfed technology.

1-800-553-8131 or 1-319-363-3591 or by e-mail

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The Orange Bowl tonight and Iowa is an underdog and today's Wall Street Journal is projecting Georiga Tech to win

Opening up the Wall Street Journal to page D8 for Tuesday, January 5, 2010 ...

We may be conducting business today, but the big bowl game is on a lot of people's minds around Cedar Rapids for this evening ...

The (9) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 27, (10) Iowa 26 as a captioned photo reads "Josh Nesbitt, left, of Georgia Tech" as the QB is getting ready to pass vs. Clemson, who the Yellow Jackets beat twice, including a 39-34 win the ACC Title Game.

Iowa (10-2 in '09) hasn't won a BCS bowl before. Georgia Tech (11-2 in '09) has never played in one. Georgia Tech has played in major bowls before, with the last being the 1967 Orange Bowl (L, 12-27 vs. Florida). This is the sixth Orange Bowl overall for Georgia Tech (3-2), second for Iowa (0-1).

In the 2003 Orange Bowl, the Hawkeyes finished poorly in the second half and never looked better than the opening kickoff when CJ Jones took the kickoff 99 yards to give Iowa an early 7-0 lead. By the way, Iowa was tied at halftime 10-10 vs. Southern Cal, despite settling for only three points twice inside the five yard line in the second quarter.

How would the game have been had Iowa been able to capitalize on field position and gone in at half 21-10, rather than 10-10?

Note, in the 2010 Rose Bowl and 2010 Capital One bowls, both Big Ten teams, Ohio State and Penn State, respectively, settled for field goals throughout much of the ball game. Can Iowa follow the same mode of operation and defeat Georgia Tech? It would appear Iowa needs touchdowns and not

It's finally here: Tech vs. Iowa - AJC, the major source for news in Atlanta
Tony Barnhart looks at some of the key players on both sides of tonight's Orange Bowl.

Jackets hope game provides springboard
Keys
Tech practices
Iowa workout

Can Iowa pull off the upset in the 2010 Orange Bowl over #9 Georgia Tech?

There's an old saying ... that's why we play the games. It is the ACC Champion vs. the Big Ten runner-up in the final BCS bowl game before the BCS Title Game on Fox.

Interesting Stat: Both Georgia Tech and Iowa played there first bowl games in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech beat Cal 8-7 in the 1929 Rose Bowl. Iowa won their first Rose Bowl game defeating Oregon State 35-19 in 1957 and followed up in 1959 beating Cal 38-12.

Iowa is 2-3 in Rose Bowls and 2-4 in "Big Four" bowls heading into tonight's Orange Bowl. One of the ACJ story's is wrong, Iowa will move to 3-4 in "Big Four" bowls with a win over Tech. Further, an Iowa win will drop Tech to 3-3 lifetime in the Orange Bowl.

By the way, some Georgia Tech fans view the 1990 season's Citrus Bowl the biggest bowl game as the biggest bowl game in the modern era for Georgia Tech. The 2010 Orange Bowl is huge for the winner.

What impact will the win have on the final, but more importantly, the 2010 pre-season ranking for the winning team team?

A Top 6 or 7 pre-season ranking typically places a program into the BCS title picture. Iowa did experience a little of that talk in 2009, despite not being considered a Top 25 team by most people heading into the 2009 season.

The Hawkeyes started the season 9-0, until QB Ricky Stanzi's ankle went down in the tenth game vs. Northwestern. Iowa lost the Northwestern game, then freshman quarterback James Vandenberg lead Iowa to a 1-1 record, including a 24-27 OT loss at Ohio State.

When Iowa played USC in the 2003 Orange Bowl, the Trojans played as strong as any other team in the 2002-03 bowl schedule. At season's end, they may have been the better team, then even Ohio State and Miami-FL, who played in the 2003 BCS Title Game in the Fiesta Bowl. The following season, USC became the most dominant program in the FBS.

Could Georgia Tech be in similar role heading into the 2010 Orange Bowl that USC was in the 2003 game? Could the Yellow Jackets be ready to break out in the 2010 season as a FBS elite team? Could a win over Iowa be a springboard, similar to USC in 2003 Orange Bowl.

So, what's Iowa have to play for? While they may not be quite as young of team as Georgia Tech, they were a possession away from being in the Rose Bowl this season and champions of the Big Ten Conference. What would a win in the 2010 Orange Bowl do for Iowa in 2010?

This should be a great game in Miami: the 2010 Orange Bowl. Let's hope Iowa pulls off the upset! This is likely a bigger, better game than the 2003 game.

Iowa needs to score touchdowns tonight and the Hawkeyes need to win big (a/k/a see the 2009 Penn State game in Happy Valley). Iowa beat Penn State 21-10. The key element is Iowa won by more than a possession. Of course, Iowa beat LSU 30-25 in the exciting finish to the 2005 Capitial One Bowl, which is by far Iowa best win in the Kirk Ferentz era.

Prediction (10) Iowa 31, (9) Georgia Tech 25

For this to happen, Iowa must win the Special Teams phase of the game and dominate in the trenches (especially offensively and in run defense) vs. a high powered Yellow Jackets offense that is only in it's second season and is looking to make major noise in 2010 ...

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Happy New Year: Do you have a question about Waterfed in the New Year?

waterfed questions?

1. What pole would be right for this job?

2. Do I have the right parts and accessories?

3. Do I need a different brush?

4. Can I have more hose without a problem with water pressure?

5. What is my TDS?

6. How should I best obtain "spot free" water?

We have been helping customers with waterfed questions over the past fifty years of service. Contact us today to visit about unlocking the benefits of the Tucker Pole and waterfed technology.

1-800-553-8131 or 1-319-363-3591 or by e-mail

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Robin Tucker will be attending the Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids meeting at Noon as the Club resumes weekly meetings in the New Year

Rotary International is a worldwide organization of service clubs.

Rotary Club: a group of business people in a town organized as a service club and to promote world peace

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;


2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;


3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;


4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The Four-Way Test of things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the truth?

2. Is it fair to all concerned?

3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?

4. Will it be beneficial to all concerns?

The Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids normally meets at Noon on each Monday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Downtown Cedar Rapids. The nickname of our club is Downtown Rotary. The Cedar Rapids area now has Rotary Clubs meeting each and every weekday in our community. Robin Tucker has had the pleasure of being in Rotary International the past twenty years. He is a third generation member of the Downtown club. Robin's father, Tommy Tucker, is a member of Rotary International, as was the founder of Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc., I.L. "Irv" Tucker, Robin's grandfather.

Monday, January 4, 2010

CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL
Today's Speaker and Program:

Gail Naughton, President, CEO of

National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library

The Rotary Club of Cedar Rapids is in District 5970 of Rotary International.

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As Hawkeye Football Fans, we prefer Rose Bowl births, but as a Customer of FedEx, the Orange Bowl is always nice

Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. enjoys many relationships over the 65 years we celebrate in 2010. Two of those relationships are the University of Iowa and FedEx in our company's history. As we welcome in the New Year and our 65Th year of business in 2010, we get to see both the University of Iowa and the FedEx Orange Bowl enjoy a reunion of sorts, with the 2010 Orange Bowl.

Robin and Tommy Tucker enjoyed a trip to South Beach and the 2003 FedEx Orange Bowl Game. The University of Iowa plays a major role in the history of Waterfed. FedEx plays an important role in shipping of Tucker Poles to destinations throughout the USA and the over 25 countries that FedEx has assisted in getting our products door to door or door to airport.

Robin and Tommy Tucker have enjoyed being season ticket holders dating back to the 1950s for Tommy and LaVerne Tucker and the 1970s for Robin. While Tommy and LaVerne don't get to too many Hawkeye home games today, Robin and Carole have enjoyed the 2009 Iowa football season very much and look forward to the conclusion in the 2010 Orange Bowl vs. Georgia Tech.
We want to thank the University of Iowa for their first purchase in 1957 of the Tucker® High Level Window Washer, which was adapted from the home-car washer that Tucker Manufacturing Co., Inc. began manufacturing in the mid-1950s. Waterfed has grown ever since ...

With the January 5Th date of the Orange Bowl this year, we will not be attending the game. Our operations will resume normal operations on Monday, January 4Th. You can expect Robin, Tommy and many Hawkeye fans throughout the globe tuning into this year's game!

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It's January 1, 2010: Happy New Year to you!

The clocks in Eastern Iowa have hit 12 Midnight!

Happy New Year and we welcome your business in 2010!

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