You learn something every day

This is something I admit I did not know. The former director of "Renew Moline", Rick Anderson, was a "loaned" executive from Deere & Co.

Mr. Anderson was a loaned executive from Deere and Co. In addition to his job as a Deere human resources executive -- from which he retired in August 2004 -- and his time as president/CEO of Renew, Mr. Anderson was a Moline alderman for two terms, once in the mid-1970s and the other in the early 1990s.

That explains a lot.