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Senator Dave Sires is a businessman from Cedar Falls where he and his wife own and operate Added Self Storage.

Senator Sires was born at Sartori Memorial Hospital in Cedar Falls in 1960. He attended Lincoln Elementary, Holmes Junior High, and graduated from Cedar Falls High School in 1979. He attended UNI in the early 1980s studying economics. After graduation from high school, he purchased an excavator and had his own excavating business which included building terraces, ponds and tiling. While operating the excavation business, Senator Sires always worked alongside his father in the manufactured housing business. Senator Sires and his wife bought out his parents in 1991 and operated the Cedar Village community until 2025.

He has been a Boy Scout, bow hunter, motorcycle racer, stock car racer, certified soccer referee for his daughter’s soccer teams, and parachute airplane pilot. Prior to being elected to the Senate, he served four years as the Councilman At-Large in Cedar Falls, the largest city in District 38. Senator Sires has been married to his wife, Lisa, for 43 years. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.