Brenneman Services

About Brenneman Services

Kalona's roads carry two kinds of traffic even in the coldest months — pickup trucks and the horse-drawn buggies that have always shared these flat Washington County section lines — and Brenneman Services clears for both. A driveway plowed here has to leave room at the edge for a buggy wheel as much as a truck tire, a detail this crew has learned street by street rather than from any manual. The town's downtown grid, home to quilt shops and a grocery that still keeps to older hours, sits still and pale under a fresh snow well before most of Kalona is awake for the day. Out past the edge of town, the black soil fields lie flat and open clear to the horizon, offering the wind nothing to slow it down, so the same storm that leaves an inch in town can drift three feet against a farmstead fence line. By the time buggies start moving along Kalona's roads again, the lanes are already broken open, snow banked evenly on either side.