January - Warren Zdan
Warren is one of our first volunteers, cataloging games back in 2012, and was our first volunteer of the year - so you’ve seen his name on our walls. He continues to help provide game demos, catalog games, and be an important part of our volunteer community and after ~3 years of not formally having volunteers recognized, we were grateful to reboot our wall of volunteer honorees with his mug.
February - Laura Morse
Laura lives in Council Bluffs and is an Underwriting Assistant at Lincoln Financial Group. She spends free time gardening and reading - her back yard is full of vegetable garden beds, fruit trees, and native flowers. She and her husband Travis have three dogs. Patchwork and other polyomino games are her favorites, as well as anything with a great theme. Laura volunteers cataloging games and demonstrating games with Travis.
March - Travis Mock
Travis Mock is originally from small town Nebraska but now lives in Council bluffs IA
He has worked at FedEx since 9/2015. He got into board games early in his life the game that really got him into the hobby was Hero Quest. He believes that the best part of teaching games is seeing the joy on the other players' faces when they really start to understand the game.
He loves that he gets to share the hobby with his wife Laura who also enjoys board games. Some other hobbies he enjoys are gardening, traveling and cooking.
And introducing for April - Ben Hollowell
Ben has been a volunteer at Spielbound for over 8 years. He often spends his volunteer time repairing and restoring the broken games that need the most love, which is always very appreciated by all of us here! An avid Retro and PC gamer first and foremost, he still enjoys playing various board games, such as Terraforming Mars. Ben is a bit of an animal whisperer, and is loved by pretty much every pet that encounters him. He and his wife live with two seriously good-looking cats, Hup and Laszlo, who both fit and sit inside the lid of the Isle of Cats box..