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The Grand Island Independent (The Indepenent.com, Central City, NB)
June 17, 2000
Cabela’s To Hire 150 for Central City Center
Author: Kris Epley
CENTRAL CITY — Sporting goods giant Cabela's Inc. has announced plans to open a
temporary phone center and create 150 new jobs in Central City.
The company will launch the in-bound telemarketing center Aug. 1 and will cease operations on
Jan. 15. The center will be located in a building that housed S.A. Foster, a local lumber
company, that recently went out of business. Merrick County Development Corporation member
Cliff Mesner, who negotiated the deal with Cabela's, did not return telephone calls for
information Friday.
Central City Administrator Jack Helin said the center will field calls that begin coming in as the
company enters the pre-Christmas season and will employ 150 people on three shifts.
The center will operate seven days a week from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m., and starting pay will be
about $7 per hour. Helin said bonus and performance allowances could boost hourly wages to
$10.
Central City, with a population of about 2,400, may not be able to provide all the workers needed
to staff the center. But Helin said he does not foresee any problem in filling the positions. "We
believe that the large suburb to the west of us will help fill in those jobs," Helin said.
Job applications will be accepted at the Nebraska Job Service office in Grand Island and at the
center site in the Foster's building. After Cabela's vacates the building in January, it could be
purchased by Central City Central Scale, which is considering expanding its operations and has a
first option on the property.
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