Linda Nerdig graduated from North Iowa Area Community College in 1982 upon
completing the College’s Mechanical Design Technology program. After NIACC,
Linda designed motor homes in the Concept Development Department for Winnebago
Industries of Forest City until 1989. Since then, Linda has dedicated herself to
enriching the lives of children and families in the Algona community. An
excellent seamstress, she has lent her time and talent on countless occasions to
numerous organizations. For example, she saved Kossuth Regional Health Center
thousands of dollars by sewing comforters, divider curtains and valences for the
Family Birthing Center; she has sewn hundreds of costumes since 1997 as a
costume designer for Algona’s Community Theatre; she has taken care of Pony
League baseball uniforms for the Algona Recreation Department; she has sewn new
uniforms for the flag line at Algona Middle School; and she made 100 costumes
for the Christmas program at her church last year. The Kossuth Regional Health
Center has also benefitted from her leadership as the volunteer director of the
hospital gift shop and as a key player in several fundraisers including the
Special Edition Collector Christmas Angels, the Auxiliary’s Festival of Trees,
and the first Legacy Ball. Using her skills as a 2nd Degree Black Belt, Linda
teaches Tae Kwon Do for the Tiny Tigers program at the Algona Family YMCA and is
instrumental in their annual Haunted House. She also helped launch the Algona
Alumni Basketball Tournament last year and is using her NIACC cheerleading
experience to coach the Algona High School cheerleaders. She is active with
Trinity Lutheran Church and the Clear Lake Yacht Club and is the Treasurer for
the River Road Ladies Golf Association. Linda and her husband, Roger, live in
Algona with Amber, their 14-year-old daughter, and Derek Kim, their 16-year-old
exchange student from Korea.
“I think North Iowa Area Community College is one of the finest colleges, and
not just in North Iowa,” she said. “The advances the College has made over the
years are great, and the programs NIACC offers are on the cutting edge. NIACC
gives students a great education and that is good for North Iowa and beyond.”
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