Celebrating a New & Old Chapters

It’s nothing new to say that Covid has affected a lot of areas in our “usual” lives, but we’ve all made sacrifices and compromises in order to keep society moving as well as our lives and businesses. Mid-States Utility has been no stranger to these changes and sacrifices. Normally, at the end of the year, in December, each of our locations would gather their respective team together for a Christmas celebration full of fun, family, and food. Unfortunately, as Covid continued to manifest into 2020, and grow worse, we saw need to postpone our celebration until a later date.

Jumping forward to the spring of 2021 where we find ourselves currently, our wonderful safety and HR staff were able to bring in the Covid-vaccination for our employees who chose to receive the shot. Now, we had the safety net needed to allow for us to gather together to a limited extent.

Although we were unable to have family join us for this “Christmas in Spring” party (as we named it), we were still able to have an enjoyable celebration between us employees at each locations with a number of activities and incredible food to be enjoyed at each one.

Stacy Retiring

In addition to the employee celebration we had a bittersweet announcement for each location in that our co-owner Stacy Bricker was retiring as of the end of April 2021 and would be moving off to Florida. Although we’re sad to see her go, we’re all incredibly excited for her new direction she’s taking and wish her all the best out in sunny Florida. We included a goodbye video which was shown at each of the parties thanking her for everything she’s done for the company and its employees over the years. There were tears, their were goodbyes, and even gifts given as she said a few words thanking everyone for everything they’ve done to keep the company moving forward.

During each party Shane, the owner of Keizer Companies, wanted to make this particular celebration extra special and put together a number of plans with some of the HR office staff. These plans included:

Decoration/Theme

Our Omaha location always knows how to party, so when we arrived and they had set things up as a beach-theme we were so inspired and had so much fun with it that we brought that theme and all the decorations with us to all the following locations!

Food

Extravagant food available at each of the locations. We love our cookouts and grilling up some brats and burgers, but Shane wanted to go all-out with steaks, filet mignon, chicken filets and baked potatoes along with a number of sides options and drinks. Needless to say, every employee ate incredibly well during the party.

Music

During our meals, we enjoyed the incredible talent of our very own Omaha Service Manager Mark Golden as he played live music stemming from his band “Almost Good” which you can see more of by going to his Facebook Page using the link below.
Almost Good Facebook Page

Giveaways/Prizes/Gifts

After the food and entertainment Shane had gifts to give out the the employees, but he wanted to add to the fun of it by turning it into a game! We went with a “Let’s Make a Deal” style game where each employee came up to the front and had three doors to choose from. Behind each door was a different prize including: outdoors items like lawn games and tents, cooking items like grills and cooking sets, and more random high-ticket items like Roombas or tablets! Needless to say, the employees had a great time and walked away with some incredible items.

Mark Golden MC’d the gameshow, while our HR manager Erica Vickery ran the “doors” and handed out the prizes.

Wishing you could have been at the festivities? Love seeing the pictures and wish you could be a part of it? Well perhaps you can. We’re always looking for more team members as our company continues to grow! Check out our careers page at the link below and fill out an application, or fill out the form on the page to be notified whenever we add new positions!

Mid-States Utility Careers Page