in oelwein, samantha myers, kcrg-tv9 news. olde tyme christmas will feature food, rides, arts and crafts, and, of course, visits with santa. the events are taking place at businesses all over downtown oelwein this friday. most of them run from 4:00 to 8:00 p-m. we have more information under this story on kcrg dot com. biotechology companies in eastern iowa have made progress the eastern iowa biotech spotlight tour stopped at places like cargill and dupont in cedar rapids. it also took people to the state hygienics lab in coralville. there, experts talked about advances in the biotech industries. the iowa biotechnolog y association says the tour does more than just help people learn about the fields. "we want some relationships ya know. we host this as a networking form to a degree and if people can take away do some business with one another then that's a good takeaway we want people to have as well." the biotech association plans to have more events like this in the future. turning back to weather, joe, we have a quiet night

last year, the oelwein chamber started a marketing campaign called "shop oelwein" to highlight the shops that make up chamber said she expected about 10 shops to join in. instead, 49 businesses decided to pool their money together for the marketing campaign. "19:49:53;14the shop oelwein is just a small piece of promoting our town we have new jobs we're going to be filling, we have a lot of expansion going on so we're gonna need a lot of workers a lot of existing people living in town, " there are several "shop oelwein" events coming up in december. the first one 8 this friday night. you can see a full list of these events under this story on kcrg.com biotechology companies in eastern iowa are hoping to show off all the progress they've made in recent years. and they plan to do that with tours of different companies. the first one of those events was yesterday. dozens of people stopped at places like cargill and dupont in cedar rapids. the eastern iowa biotech spotlight tour also went to the state hygenics lab in coralville. there, experts talked about biotechnolog y association says the

last year, the oelwein chamber started a marketing campaign called "shop oelwein" to highlight the shops that make up this downtown in fayette county. deb howard with the chamber said she expected about 10 shops to join in. instead, 49 businesses decided to pool their money together for the marketing campaign. "19:49:53;14the shop oelwein is just a small piece of promoting our town we have new jobs we're going to be filling, we have a lot of expansion going on so we're gonna need a lot of workers a lot of existing people living in town, " there are several "shop oelwein" events coming up in december. the first one is called olde tyme christmas and run from 4 to 8 this friday night. you can see a full list of these events under this story on kcrg.com known singers... plus, drawing praise for her role as the first lady of the 35th president... plus, a symbol of the season in midtown manhattan... the christmas tree at rockefeller center in new up in your first alert forecast. stay with tv9. meteorologist justin gehrts joins us now. welcome to the first day of meteorologic al winter! it sure

last year, the oelwein chamber started a marketing campaign called "shop oelwein" to highlight the shops that make up this downtown in fayette county chamber said she expected about 10 shops to join in. instead, 49 businesses decided to pool their money together for the marketing campaign. "19:49:53;14the shop oelwein is just a small piece of promoting our town we have new jobs we're going to be filling, we have a lot of expansion going on so we're gonna need a lot of workers a lot of existing people living in town, " there are several "shop oelwein" events coming up in december. the first one 8 this friday night. you can see a full list of these events under this story on kcrg.com a doctor lost his license for running a cash-only pill mill and prescribing addictive pain killers in 11 states, including iowa. the state of illinois took away dr. paul madison's license yesterday. according to documents from illinois, he prescribed one-point-six million doses of controlled substances from last year to this year. michigan barred him from practicing refusing to fill madison's prescriptions bec