Josh Shull (left) and Matt Roundcount (Owner of Uptown Vintage Market is on the right)
The Adel Partners Chamber of Commerce held an annual event that handed out a couple of awards.
The chamber held the 2025 Celebrate Adel event on Thursday to recognize the Citizen and the Business of the Year for 2024. There were 13 local vendors from the Adel and DeSoto area that catered food. Chamber Chair Alicia Hadfield addressed the audience to welcome all the members as well as thanking the variety of restaurants that came. Newly elected President Erin Milroy then took the stage to express her excitement for her first event and said that she was happy to be the successor to former President Deb Bengston.
Milroy then took a moment to highlight the new Communications and Membership Engagement Coordinator Casey Wheeler, who couldn’t attend, on the work she does with handling the chamber’s newsletters, scheduling ribbon cuttings, and chatting with member organizations. Milroy mentioned that the chamber held five ribbon cutting ceremonies in 2024 and revealed that a new business named Valtero will be opening later this spring in Adel, which will be an all-women’s clothing store.
Keynote Speaker Doug Winkowitsch, who also serves as the Adel-DeSoto-Minburn High School Football Coach, gave a speech about leadership and how to develop a drive to accomplish a task.
“You have to align your mindset and purpose with an intention. A goal is like something tangible, you can get an outcome, but when you start thinking about intention, that’s what sets the whole thing in motion. Every journey starts with a destination in mind, the process is the most important to reach the outcome you want. If you set a goal, even if you’ve worked through that and you get halfway there and you don’t achieve the goal, you still got halfway there, so there’s still a success.”
In terms of the awards, Uptown Vintage Market won the 2024 Business of the Year and Josh Shull was given the Citizen of the Year for his work with the Adel Lions Club Flag Program. Hadfield concluded by emphasizing how proud she was of the community and can’t wait to see what surprises 2025 brings.
