The Lake City Betterment Association is a non-profit organization incorporated in the 1990’s.
Our Mission is:
“To create opportunities for community enrichment & enjoyment.”
This is achieved through 3 major goals:
- Provide business development opportunities
- (Organization of collaborative business advertising opportunities, business education opportunities, community coffees, new & retiring business
support, small business loans, online advertisement through the Lake City website)
- (Organization of collaborative business advertising opportunities, business education opportunities, community coffees, new & retiring business
- Sponsor events to promote the Quality of Life
- (Western Days Celebration, Fall Festival & Dell Blair Memorial Chili Cook-off, Christmas Festival, Jazz Band in the Park, Progressive Dinner,
Crazy Day, Garage Sale Day, Community Coffees)
- (Western Days Celebration, Fall Festival & Dell Blair Memorial Chili Cook-off, Christmas Festival, Jazz Band in the Park, Progressive Dinner,
- Encourage City Beautification
- (Community Christmas decorations, community banners, downtown planter boxes)
We are have 11 active board members and 1 Student Representative from the local South Central Calhoun High School. We also have a part-time coordinator that is
located “On the Square” in downtown Lake City.
Our board members represent a variety of businesses and aspects of the community. They meet monthly on the second Thursday of the month at 6pm in the Lake City Library. Anyone is welcome to attend the monthly board meetings. We currently have 86 members, and growing, that support our organization.
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Betterment Board Members
Teresa Snyder, President
LC Graphic-Advocate
Lois Smith, Treasurer
United Bank of Iowa
Mary Ludwig
Stewart Memorial Community Hospital
Renee Stauter
Mid-Iowa Insurance Associates Inc. of Lake City
Cathy Lietz
Celebrations to Go!
Sherry Lampe
Local Citizen – Lampe Funeral Home
Nick Gorden
Gorden’s Tree Service – Gorden’s Greenhouse & Garden Center
Angela McCaulley
StruXture Architects
Jacob Mayer
Student Representative – Sophomore at South Central Calhoun
Tami Green
Tamela Green, CPA – City Representative




