Growing chain to launch Moline Tractor Supply Co. next month
Kenda Burrows
Holly Katko, CEO of U-Connect Inc., talks with Dennis Pauley, a Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce ambassador, before a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the chamber office on Wednesday, May 22. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON
Holly Katko remembers growing up on the farm in Durant, Iowa. Her father wanted her to stay on the farm, so he offered her a big gift. She had other plans.
“He said ‘I will give you 300 acres to stay.’ But I wanted to see the world,”she said.
Shortly after that, she left Durant in 1979 and soon found herself in Manhattan, New…
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