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Businesses to take part in
Speed Pitch” in the Oct. 14
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server, Brixius Jewelers was
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Honest food, like grandma used to make
Hadley hopes old-school approach, local ingredients will attract customers
By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
MONMOUTH — Step-
ping into Hadley’s Radio
Bakery, it doesn’t seem like
much. It’s still a work in
progress, with signs being
made, art yet to be hung on
the walls.
The display case isn’t
packed full of goodies like
you might see in a commer-
cial bakery. Instead, Hadley’s
displays a smaller assort-
ment of delicacies.
Be glad. Hadley, 47, takes
a small-batch approach,
hoping customers will ap-
preciate the attentiveness to
his use of local ingredients
and baking throughout the
day.
It means the likelihood of
grabbing a cookie fresh out
of the oven is high.
“I do everything old-
school,” Hadley said. “I
brush everything with butter
or real cream, use local in-
gredients. They’re not the
prettiest things in the world,
but they taste wonderful.”
He’s not exaggerating. The
texture and flavor of his dark
chocolate fig cookies are de-
lightful and interesting. His
caramel apple coffee cake is
moist with plenty of crunchy
strudel topping.
Hadley had spent 27 years
in other people’s kitchens.
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EMILY MENTZER/Itemizer-Observer
Hadley’s Radio Bakery offers a variety of treats.
Honest food
What: Hadley’s Radio Bakery.
When: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Where: 165 Broad St., Monmouth.
Of note: Come early for the best selection. Also, Hadley will
stream radio shows from the 1940s to customers’ tables and is
developing a back patio seating and herb garden.
EMILY MENTZER/Itemizer-Observer
Mark Hadley rolls out dough for his chocolate peanut
butter hand pies.
While he said he enjoyed the
work — for the most part —
it began to wear on him as
restaurants he worked at be-
came more and more fo-
cused on money and less fo-
cused on food.
“I’m really burned out —
everybody is, I think,” he
said. “The food industry in
this country has been in the
midst of a hostile takeover
by corporations. They don’t
know anything about food;
all they know is money.”
Of course Hadley wants to
make a profit, but he wants
to do it honestly, in his way
— or rather, in the way your
grandmother might.
“I want to be successful
making food I’m proud of,”
he said. If he wouldn’t serve
it to his mom or girlfriend,
he won’t serve it to his cus-
tomers, he added.
Hadley encourages cus-
tomers to bring in old
recipes, things they haven’t
had since they were a child.
“I want to be a communi-
ty food place where every-
body feels they had a hand
in it,” he said. “I want peo-
ple to feel comfortable
bringing me a recipe and
saying, ‘My mom made this
for me when I was little; I
haven’t had this since I was
a kid.’”
Hadley will play around
with it and make it. If it’s
popular, he may even add it
into his rotation.
“If you give the customers
a chance to have some
input, they appreciate that,”
he said.
Monmouth closes on land for power and light
City manager said the move is part of city’s plan to improve government facilities
By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • October 21, 2015 3A
MONMOUTH — Mon-
mouth Power and Light is
one step closer to getting a
new building. The city has
closed on a parcel of land
on South Ecols Street close
to the substation for
$350,573.
The building is a long way
from being built, City Man-
ager Scott McClure said. The
earliest the city will likely
start looking for an architect
is in a few months, with con-
struction beginning mid to
late next year.
The move is part of the
city’s plan to improve gov-
ernment facilities, McClure
said.
“We did a facilities plan
for all our buildings,” he
said. “Aside from the library,
they’re all bad.”
The police station was the
first to get new digs. Moving
Power and Light to a new lo-
cation will help two city de-
partments at once, McClure
said.
While the utility will get
much needed space for of-
fices and storage, Public
Works will gain the space
now used by Power and
Light.
“We are just overcrowded
with existing facilities,” said
Chuck Thurman, Power and
Light manager. “The area
that we are vacating will
allow public works to spread
out. That’s one of the big
perks.”
The new building, though
just a thought right now,
should fit the long piece of
property, and will have to
account for existing wet-
lands somehow, McClure
said.
Also, Thurman said he
would like to make use of in-
novative and renewable
power.
“We’ll be conservative,
but maybe do a solar proj-
ect,” he said. “I’d like people
to walk out there and say,
‘Oh, that’s what solar power
is all about,’ and maybe be a
hands-on solar opportuni-
ty.”
Thurman said he is al-
ways conservative when it
comes to spending taxpayer
dollars.
McClure said it is too
early to estimate how much
the new building will cost,
but said it is likely in the $1
million to $1.5 million range.