After leading a successful appraisal business with her husband, Rick, in Owatonna for nearly 50 years, Debra Gnemi has joined the Steele County Times in a volunteer role as community outreach coordinator focusing on the Report Local nonprofit campaign.

Though she is mostly retired from Gnemi Appraisal Service, which has been going since 1977, she still co-owns the business with her husband who continues to do appraisal commercial work.