Main Streets & Backroads with Carlene Hall

08/19/2026

08/19/2026

Congratulations to our newest business partner, Heather Crossley at Loess Hills Quilting Company. We enjoyed a very successful Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting Tuesday! (Thank you Mills County Chamber of Commerce and Gitzy Loder) LADIES, START YOUR SEWING MACHINES!!!

08/17/2026

Drake Roller of F-M Junk-It, is not just about junk removal. He is about making relationships and truly cares about his customers (and the things they decide to part with). People do business with people they KNOW and TRUST. Watch this interview and you will get to know Drake, you will see his trustworthy nature, the dedication to his customers and how empathetic support is the outcome of doing business with F-M Junk-It. Drake shares his pride and joy of life as he talks about his wife and children, his Marine Corp service and his dedication to the businesses he and his family run, Simper Shine (best carwash in Carson, IA), Private Pile (the ONLY vintage, thrift, and antique store in a car wash that we know of), and Full Metal Junk-It (a junk removal service whose name is a great play on words in reference to Drake's military experience). Thank you for your service, Drake!

08/15/2026

EXCITING NEWS!!! This is the first of a new Saturday feature on MS&BR. We think we'll call this TRAVEL COMPANIONS. Join us as we welcome our first guest, Donna Sandoval, a professional human resource teambuilding, and effective interpersonal communication coach utilizing the 'Enneagram' personality tool theory. Additionally, Donna is a trained spiritual formation coach, and leads a women's ministry group called 'Anchored Together'... BUT WAIT, there's more...as a musician and worship leader, she also developed a worship music service called 'Worship on Demand". Not to mention, she is a talented songwriter. Getting the picture? Donna really has a heart to serve others. We are excited she is joining us as a contributor here and we look forward to future podcasts FULL of encouragement and inspiration from Donna.

08/14/2026

THE FORD BUILDING in Malvern, IA is a classic Iowa story of “BUILD IT, AND THEY WILL COME”!
Main Streets & Back Roads is proud to have our podcast studio here in this beautifully restored and reinvented Ford Building…by Nick & Laura Sorensen.

08/07/2026

Today we are starting a new feature called Community Neighbors. Lewis VanFossen was willing to be our first guest. Thanks, Lewis! It gives a great sense of pride in our communities to hear about the wonderful people who make up the fabric of our communities. Lewis has been a store manager at Casey's, he serves as a volunteer fire fighter on the Malvern Fire Department as a second generation volunteer. We LOVE this for our towns. Lewis TOOK IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL as he also joined the Iowa Army Nation Guard where he serves as a medic. Since Lewis' days of managing Casey's, he has moved onto being a medic for construction sites. Always jumping right on the middle of the action where the highest risk exists. THANK YOU LEWIS! We are proud you are our Community Neighbor!

07/31/2026

Check out our
“Still Serving Iowa Veterans” sister podcast. We visited the Shenandoah Veterans Memorial Museum!