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Celebrating small business owners in the Western Treasure Valley.
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Editor’s column................................................3
Weiser Classic Candy ................................4-6
Greif’s Music Center..................................7-8
TLC hair design .....................................10-11
Cheekys......................................................12-13
Olsen Lumber..........................................14-15
Luzetta’s Flowers...................................16, 18
Apple Bin.........................................................19
Northwest Specialty Painting...........20-21
Family Eye Center ........................................23
Guitar Solutions .....................................24-25
Riverside Orthopedics.........................26-27
Family Books & Bargains .................28, 30
Second Hand Rose ................................31-33
Ashley Furniture ....................................34-35
Farmers Supply Co-op..........................36-37
Starlite Café..............................................38-39
All About Sports....................................40-41
Meechan’s..................................................42-43
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Mind your own business
When my wife and I pur-chased our own newspaperin 2006, we read a book ti-
tled, “Minding Our Own Business,”about a young couple who moved fromChicago with their two young boys towestern Washington state to own andrun their own weekly newspaper inthe 1950s.
It proved to be an inspirational bookfor me and Nicola, as neither one of ushad ever been a small business ownerbefore. Like the protagonists in thebook, Nicola and I had two small boys,ages 4 and 1 at the time, and the ideaof quitting my well-paying job andleaving behind a 401(k), health bene-fits and a never-fail paycheck seems lu-dicrous to me today. But strike out onour own we did, and on Sept. 29, 2006,Nicola and I signed the papers thatmade us small business owners.
One of the lines from the book thatstill sticks with me today has to dowith a comment that a friend of the au-thor made. The author’s friend saidthat it must be great working for your-self, because now you don’t have a bossany more. To the contrary, the authornoted, with about 1,700 subscribers,“we now have 1,700 bosses.”
That always stuck with me, and foryou small business owners, you knowhow true that is. Your customers areyour bosses, and if you don’t do whatthey tell you to do, the consequencesare worse than just getting a scoldingor a note put in your personnel file.
For us, we started with800 “bosses.” By thetime we were done, wehad nearly triple thatmany — 2,200 sub-scribers — and we werepulled in a millionplaces. We were expect-ed to be at the schoolboard meeting and thegirls basketball game —
even if they were at the same time. Wewere expected to be at the CityCouncil meeting, which lasted until 1a.m. sometimes, but were still expect-ed to get the website updated at 8 a.m.the next day before driving to theprinter’s to pick up the papers anddrive them back to put them on thenewsracks.
Our presence was requested at FFAdinners, farmers markets, birthdayparties, ribbon cuttings, open houses,town hall meetings, football games,bazaars, parades and auctions.
We usually said yes because we knewwhere our paycheck came from. Wewere constantly trying to improve ourcustomer service because we knewthat if we lost a customer, we would belosing a part of our paycheck. Yousmall business owners out there knowwhat I’m talking about. It’s not easy.
That’s why we are celebrating smallbusiness owners with this year’sCrossroads special section.
The hours are long, the margins areusually slim and the demands aremany. So accept this year’s issue as asmall token of appreciation for all ofyou small businesses out there tryingto make a living and trying to please allof your bosses.
Small business ownersdon’t lose a boss — theygain a whole bunch more
EDITOR’SNOTEBOOK
Scott McIntosh
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JESSICA KELLERARGUS OBSERVER
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Hanging on the wall ofWeiser Classic Candy is a plac-ard that reads, “Chocolate isproof that granola was meantas a joke,” and chocolate issomething co-owners PatrickNauman and Keith Bryantknow very well.
Nauman and Bryant haveowned Weiser Classic Candy,449 State St., for six years thisJune, but it was open under aprevious name, Fawn’s ClassicCandies, for 24 years beforethey bought it.
Nauman grew up in Weiser.He has a background in thehospitality industry, and hav-ing worked for a number ofyears in the cruise industry.That’s where he met Bryant,who is an executive chef butwho wanted to come back tothe area. Nauman said, as itturns out, Bryant told him hewould be willing to work withhim if Nauman ever plannedto open a restaurant.
“So we jumped at the oppor-tunity to buy the business,”Nauman said.
Along with the business, they
also purchased Fawn’s originalrecipes, and Nauman said theyhave added only a couple of ad-ditional items to the business.
Bryant does most of the can-dy production, althoughNauman said he occasionallycooks some of the items fromthe menu and helps out upfront during busy times.
Bryant and Nauman employ15 people at Weiser ClassicCandies, which also servessome meals from the deli in ad-dition to ice cream and candy.The pair also offer a cateringservice, which Nauman said
was just a natural fit.“For us, catering is just like
getting up and cooking — it’sno big deal, and it lets us be cre-ative too,” Nauman said. “Sowe like it.”
Candy, however, makesup the majority of their busi-ness, Nauman said. They selltheir candy wholesale to otherbusinesses, and their candycan be found in 150 stores inseven states and two countries.
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Weiser Classic Candy co-owners Patrick Nauman, left, and Keith Bryant stand be-hind the counter of the business. Bryant is the executive chef, while Nauman is pri-marily responsible for the business end. The pair also run a catering service. Right: Weiser Classic Candy employees make chocolate delights, like this Easter Bunny, atthe business, 449 State St., Weiser.
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‘Never,’” Nauman said.He said staying local is im-
portant to him and Bryant,and they would prefer to addon to the business or hire moreemployees than to automate.
“Our goal is to provide us asource of income and to pro-vide jobs for the community,”Nauman said.
The business is open from 10a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday and from 10a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Shifts begin at 6 a.m., and afew days a week a shift runs aslate as 10 p.m., Nauman said.
“During the holidays it’s pret-ty much a 20-hour operationevery day,” he said, adding thatChristmas, Valentine’s Dayand Weiser Fiddle Festivalweek are the busiest times of
year. He said he thinks thatduring last year’s FiddleFestival week, the businesssold 100 gallons of ice cream.
Nauman said he and Bryantare community-conscious andtry to do things that benefit thecommunity, including buyinglocally. He said while they can’tbuy the cocoa locally, they dobuy their sugar and nuts local-ly, as well as the bread they usein the restaurant. They alsohelp support local activitiesand fundraisers. The commu-nity involvement and beingable to interact with customerson a daily basis are the two bestthings about owning the busi-ness, Nauman said.
“We’re very community-ori-ented,” Nauman said. “Seeingthat direct result is a wonder-ful thing.”
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John Greif grew up in themusic business — his parents’,and now his, to be specific.
Greif, co-owner of Greif’sMusic Center in Ontario withhis wife, Sue, is a second-gener-ation music store owner. Hisparents opened Greif’s MusicCenter in Payette in 1948. In1974, he and his brother, Dave,became partners and took overthe store in January. In 1985,they opened Greif’s MusicCenter in Ontario and contin-ued their partnership until2002 when Dave Greif retired.In 2005, the Payette storeclosed, but the Greif MusicCenter legacy continues at theOntario store.
Not surprisingly, John Greifsaid he considers himself apretty musical person, havinggrown up visiting his parents’store, playing the cornet in
high school, and then, while at-tending the University ofIdaho for business and finance,joining the school’s choir. Histransition into the music storebusiness, he said, was easy forhim, and he feels stronglyabout the importance of music.
“I feel like music is just a hugebenefit to anyone who partici-pates in it,” Greif said. “Itmeets needs in a lot of ways.”
His store helps meets thoseneeds, as well.
“I think this area is verystrong musically,” Greif said.“We’re just one little factor inthe think. It’s been historicallyan area where music has beenpromoted, and it’s just carriedon.”
Greif’s Music Center rentsand sells instruments, offers in-strument repair, sells musicand instrument accessoriesand offers guitar instruction.The store also does a lot of re-
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ferrals to private instruction with teach-ers who give lessons out of their homes.
The band instruments at Greif’s are pri-marily rental, Greif said, although thestore offers a rent-to-own plan, which alsoallows musicians to upgrade the instru-ment along the way. Greif said the storeworks closely with school districts in thearea as well to find out what the needs arefor their music programs.
The majority of business is for band in-strument rental and sale and then guitarrental and sales, Greif said. Next is musicand small goods sales, and the store alsoperforms special orders. Last is the instru-ment repair area, Greif said, adding thestore has two staff members qualified forinstrument repair, although others on theeight-person staff can do guitar repairs.The store outsources piano repairs.
Greif said the best part of owningGreif’s Music Center is getting to workwith musical people and doing somethingthat benefits people in the community.
He said one problem people have whenthey purchase an instrument, especiallywhen it is used, is they don’t know if theyare buying a good-quality instrument orone that is a “piece of junk.”
“We feel that one of our jobs is taking outa lot of the guesswork for someone gettinginvolved in music,” Greif said, adding heand his staff screen all of the instrumentsthey carry, and if they are not satisfiedwith the quality or if they find an instru-ment that has problems, it will never goout on the floor. “We don’t carry anythingwe don’t feel good about.
“We try to make the musical experienceas successful as possible,” he said.
Greif’s Music Center, 45 S. Oregon St.,Ontario, is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.Monday through Saturday.Left, G ary Rogers repairs a keyboard at Greif’sMusic Center in Ontario. Rogers is one of twopeople on staff qualified to do instrument repair. JESSICA KELLER | ARGUS OBSERVER
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Steve Hahn gives a guitar lesson to two young musicians at Greif’s Music Center in Ontario. A sectionof the store is dedicated to guitars, which can be purchased or rented.
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Tucked away in a small cor-ner of a tiny building with ahandful of other businesses isa beauty salon that has turnedthe nearly 13-year owner intoan entrepreneurial success sto-ry.
Patricia Thompson, whoowns TLC Hair Design, 411Main St., has been a hair stylistfor 20 years and purchasedTLC in 2000.
“I didn’t want to go to col-lege,” Thompson said bluntly.“My mom was a hairdresser,and ever since I was little, Iknew I would do this. I went tobeauty school straight out ofhigh school.”
For Thompson, the decisionto forgo traditional college andgo to beauty school was theright one, she said. She nowhas a full clientele roster andsees individuals only by ap-pointment due to her seeming-
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ly non-stop string of cus-tomers.
The freedom that comeswith owning a successful busi-ness is a perk in itself,Thompson said. Due to beingable to operate on an appoint-ment-only schedule, she canset her own hours and taketime for vacations when shewants.
“For being in a small townand not having gone to college,I do pretty well,” Thompsonsaid.
In the same way thatThompson followed in hermother’s footsteps, her owndaughter is now doing thesame.
Thompson’s 19-year-olddaughter, Shelby Cleaver, isnow a recent graduate of beau-ty school herself and began
working at her mother’s salonas a cosmetologist in February.
“It’s great having her here,”Thompson said. “She’s bring-ing in new people because I’venever provided the types ofservices she does, such as wax-ing, spray tanning in additionto cutting hair.”
Despite being so new to thejob, Cleaver said that this is al-ready a job that she enjoys im-mensely. She said that she issurprised at how busy she hasbeen already.
Cleaver may be busy, but sheis still far off from having a fulllist of clientele and is hoping tobuild that up in the comingmonths.
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CHERISE KAECHELEARGUS OBSERVER
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Jessi Roberts, “boss lady” ofCheekys Boutique in NewPlymouth, was interested inopening a business in NewPlymouth for her family to set-tle down. New Plymouth, shehad been told, needed a laun-
dromat or something for girls,Roberts said, and she wasn’tinterested in laundry.
Now, Cheekys is looking toexpand its store and open anew store location in Nampa.
Cheeky’s is a farm girl chicboutique, Roberts said. Farmgirls like to work hard, but theyalso want to look nice, too, shesaid.
The store sells purses,clothes, jewelry, shoes andmore but is focused on womenand girls of all ages who wantaffordable clothing.
Roberts said the belts shesells can be found for under$50, and the jeans are too. Theprice range for her items can beanywhere from less than a dol-lar to $100.
A western Texas native,Roberts gets most of the store’sstock in Texas during the mar-ket that she goes down to twicea year. And people love it,Roberts said.
The store sells leather pursesand has the full Farm Girl andFarm Boy brands and will be-gin carrying 100 percentleather cowboy boots soon.Roberts is also successfully sell-ing concealed carry handgunpurses at the store.
“We’re bringing bling toIdaho, one customer at a time,”
she said.Roberts sells some locally
made items as well and hasbeen so successful that thestore is planning on moving toa bigger location in NewPlymouth soon, as well asopening another location inNampa to get the Boise crowdto the store.
The store has a full-servicesalon with hairstylists, tan-ning, manicures and pedicuresoffered as well.
Cheekys Facebook page hasmore than 3,400 followers so
far, and Roberts posts salesand giveaways to those wholike her page. Along withFacebook, the store has a web-site that offers the items foundin the store. Roberts has ship-ments coming in and going outevery day.
“We’ve been so blessed by thecommunity and their sup-port,” Roberts said. “We neverwould’ve dreamed it would be-come so successful.”
Roberts has begun selling adiscount card for $40 that doesnot expire. Customers will be
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LARRY MEYERARGUS OBSERVER
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If there is one word to de-fine the ongoing success ofOlsen Lumber, a True ValueHardware dealer, in Vale, itwould be service. The staffhas a lot of knowledge amongthem to provide informationor point people to the rightproducts, and if they don’tknow the answer they willfind out who does and con-
nect them with the cus-tomers.
“I’ve been in differenttrades,” said owner TobyCummings, a journeymanplumber who has also workedas an electrician. “I was in thebuilding maintenance busi-ness for 10 years.”
Some of his employees werealso in the trades before work-ing at the store, he said.
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ness in an era of big-box stores. “We havea lot of loyal customers.”
People from the Vale area and to thewest shop Olsen Lumber rather thandriving to Ontario and that includes peo-ple from Burns.
“Our local area is pretty big,”Cummings said. “We work closely with allthe small businesses. The more we worktogether the better off we will be.”
Cummings will be starting his fourthyear at the store in June, having pur-chased the store from Mike and DonitaOlsen and Derrell and Sue Keller.
“Mike (Olsen) approached me,”Cummings said. “They were looking toretire,” and Cummings was looking to gointo business himself, Cummings said.
As its name implies, the store carries
building supplies and lumber.“We also sell concrete and landscape
rock,” Cummings said. “We also carry alot of farm and ranch supplies, too.” Thatincludes vet supplies and fencing. He has10 full-time and part-time employees.
Winter is the slow time of the year,Cummings said, but “we sold a lot of heat-ing stuff, and the busy season is coming.We’re busy all summer.”
The business also gives back to the com-munity. “We really try to support the com-munity and try to support everything,”Cummings said. One way is throughOlsen Lumber’s affiliation with RedBrand fence company which has a pro-gram to support the FFA. Called “HomeGrown,” the program supports partici-pating FFA chapters by providing $1 pernew roll of fencing sold by their local RedBrand dealer.
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Above, Olsen Lumberowner Toby Cummingsrings up a customer athis store in Vale.Employees of the TrueValue Hardware storehave a variety of expe-riences and knowledgein the trades, some-thing that Cummingssaid sets his businessapart from the others.
We work closelywith allthe smallbusiness-es. Themore we work to-gether the better offwe will be.
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Although she hadn’tplanned on it at the time, aWork Experience job SarahRodriguez took while attend-ing Vale High School led to acareer as a business ownerand florist.
Rodriguez is now the own-er of Luzetta’s Flowers, 168A St. E. in Vale, where shehas worked for the past 13years, the last six as the own-er.
The store has a long historyin Vale. It opened more than50 years ago by original own-er Luzetta Fuhriman.Rodriguez bought the busi-ness from the next ownerwhen she was 25, right aftershe had her first child.
“Everything kind ofworked together and made itavailable to buy it at thattime,” she said.
As a result, everythingRodriguez has learned aboutbeing a business owner camethrough first-hand experi-ence. One thing she haslearned, however, is that shedoesn’t get to celebrate holi-
days like other people.“Your job is to make other
people’s holidays be better orbe the best, and I’m Ok withthat,” Rodriguez said, addingshe doesn’t know how herfamily feels about that some-times.
Her family, however, ishighly involved in her busi-ness. Her mother and threehigh school WorkExperience students makeup her regular staff, althoughher extended family oftenhelps out with floral deliver-ies or watching her childrenwhen she can’t bring them towork.
Otherwise, Rodriguez said,she is blessed being able tobring to bring her children towork, and, fortunately, noneof her customers seem tomind.
Another luxury, she said, isshe owns the only flowershop in town. She said thecommunity is also very sup-portive of her and her busi-ness, and she loves that, insmall town, everybody helpseach other out, so, at somepoint in time, everybody gets
helped.“Eighty-five percent of the
time I’m making people hap-py,” she said.
Luzetta’s Flowers providesfloral arrangements or bou-quets for all occasions — fu-nerals, weddings, local cham-ber events, birthdays, holi-days, dances and “just be-cause,” Rodriguez said. Thestore also sells balloons forparties, and she also makescorsages for events.
She said the only drawbackto being the owner of aflower and gift shop is that, asthe only floral arranger,when flower orders are busy,the rest of the store, whichfeatures home décor and giftitems, tends to get neglected.
Having wrapped up theValentine’s Day rush inFebruary, Rodriguez said she
is now busy getting ready forspring and summer events,such as weddings and gradu-ations — by setting budgets,placing orders and more. Shesaid she also gets requests forMemorial Day arrangements.
“As florists, we all have ourdistinctive way of designing,”Rodriguez said, stating notwo florists’ arrangementslook the same.
She said her style includesusing a lot of color.
“In fresh flower (arrange-ments), I believe all colors gotogether,” she said.
She said she also enjoys cre-ating mixed bouquets and us-ing flowers beyond the stan-dard rose, carnation anddaisies popular with her cus-tomers.
“I think the toughest part
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Sarah Rodriguez, owner of Luzetta’s Flowers in Vale, takes an order overthe phone while finishing up a bouquet at her business in February.
Rodriguez enjoysflower arranging
igh school job leads to full-time careerH
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for me is knowing what thepeople want — whether it’sgifts or f lowers,” Rodriguezsaid, adding anticipating whatkind of flowers or what kind ofgift items will be popular withher customers and how largeto make orders is a challenge.
She said while she receivesfresh flower orders Mondays,Wednesdays and Fridays, shesometimes encounters a last-minute shopper requesting aflower she does not have instock. Otherwise, however, shecan place special orders for cer-tain flora. She said will also or-der flowers for customers whowant to do their own arrange-ments, something she doesn’tmind doing at all.
“I love the people — the per-sonal contact with each per-
son,” she said. She said being aflorist in a small town meansshe also sometimes createsflower arrangements for peo-ple she knows, something thatis sad and touching at the sametime, especially when they arepeople she knew well.
Rodriguez said her twobusiest months are May andDecember, and in the fall andat Christmas she has an openhouse, which she said she en-joys.
She said she also makes apoint of trying to get to knowcustomer’s personal styles forflowers and having pricepoints to fit any budget.
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FRUITLAND
Fruitland’s Apple Bin is thewelcoming mom-and-poprestaurant someone would ex-pect to find in a small town.
Marsha Strange, owner andoperator of the Apple Bin, wasborn and raised in Fruitlandand has been in the restaurantbusiness since she was in highschool.
It’s a small restaurant, but italso has only two employees —Strange and Mike Ketchu, whois the cook, and it seems towork well for the two.
The Apple Bin serves break-fast and lunch Monday
through Saturday. Most of theitems on the menu are cookedfrom scratch, Strange said.
“We make our own gravy,”Strange said. “The chickenfried steak is made fromscratch, as well. The restaurantserves omelets, pancakes andother traditional breakfastitems as well as an assorted va-riety of hamburgers, sand-wiches and pies.”
A lunch buffet with salad bar
is served Monday throughFriday, and on Saturday abreakfast buffet is served.
Strange said owning herown restaurant has been adream of hers since she hadworked with her aunt and un-cle who owned a restaurant.
Strange will be offering somenew services soon. She hopesto offer prime rib on Fridaynight once spring gets here.The Apple Bin had startedserving it once before but thetiming was wrong.
Strange also wants to giveback to the community andserve free soup and breadevery third Tuesday of themonth. This was set to beginon March 19 from 5 p.m. to 7p.m. or until the soup runs out.If it’s successful, then it will be-come a regular occurrence,
Strange said.Chicken and noodle soup
and pinto beans with hamhock will be served, and every-one is welcome to come and en-joy, Strange said.
The Fruitland basketballteam and football team areserved a meal provided by theApple Bin every season, andStrange promises another freemeal if they win state.
The Apple Bin also has aback room available to specialgroups of up to 30 people. Thisservice is available any time ofthe day for those interested.
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Before he was out of school,Kenneth Enders, owner ofNorthwest Specialty Painting,Nyssa, knew he wanted to gointo business, and upon leav-ing high school, he discoveredthe business he would go into— one he continues buildingupon today with a firm visionof what he wants and how togo about it.
“I read business book afterbusiness book. That was mypassion.” he said.
Enders started his companyabout 10 years ago, but it didnot just happen overnight.Right out of high school, he be-gan working for a craftsmanpainter, who was meticulousabout his work.
“He was an awesometeacher,” Enders said.
That ended when the olderman retired due to his health.Enders then went to work fora person who did volume workduring the construction boom.
“I painted a lot of houses,” hesaid. “I learned both sides.”
But, the desire to start a busi-ness was never far away, andwhile employed as a painter in
Idaho, Enders was gettingstarted on working for himself.He considered painting hous-es as a path to starting hisdream business.
“I got licensed in Oregon soit wasn’t a conflict of interest,”he said of working for an em-ployer in Idaho while he builtup his business. “I was working24/7, working for him andworking for myself.”
Enders built his business byfilling in the gaps — findingjobs that other painters weretoo busy to do.
“What I was striving for wasto have great, great quality butat a great price so I could be
competitive and be availablewhen people needed it done,he said.
To do that, Enders has fo-cused on finding quality em-ployees that have the same pas-sion for quality work.
“I’ve learned to hire good
painters,” he said,which has allowed him to go af-ter more jobs.
“In a small community refer-rals are everything,” Enderssaid, adding that has helpedhim grow as satisfied cus-tomers have told other people
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Part of the crew ofNorthwest SpecialtyPainting gather infront of their van.From left are CurtisDeCaney, KennethEnders, owner, JeffDickinson and ClintFeldner.
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his own company was he didn’twant to work for someone else,Ender said, and it also himgives freedom to coach youthathletic teams. While he doeshelp his crew sometimes,Ender said his main focus isscheduling and bidding.
“My job is to keep us all busy.I really focus on keeping every-one working,” he said, addinghe was able to keep everyoneon the job this winter.
He has at least four or fivejobs going all the time and thevolume of jobs is increasing allthe time as there is more con-struction, Enders said.
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With the goal of providingquality care to the people ofOntario and surrounding com-munities, Family Eye Center,1257 S.W. Fourth Ave., hasquickly built a successful busi-ness with high-caliber businesspractices.
Owned by business partnersDr. Randy Norris and Dr. BenJudson, they began their prac-tice in a small building on FirstStreet before moving to theirnew location in July 2012.
Their wide array of servicesincludes regular checkups, eyeexams, assisting with medicalissues that stem from cataractsor diabetes and even infantservices, said Leah Norris, themarketing director and wife ofRandy Norris.
“Infant services, that’s some-thing that a lot of people don’tthink about,” Leah Norrissaid. “But we do offer freescreening for 6- to 12-month-olds.”
Leah Norris said that there’sa somewhat common problemthat can develop later in a
child’s life, typically aroundearly teens or pre-teen years,that can be spotted and con-trolled early on if checkedwhen the patient is still an in-fant.
That service is an example ofwhat makes this job so reward-ing, Leah Norris said. On afairly regular basis, doctorsperform checkups and havediscovered potential medicalissues, ranging from diabetes-related problems to potentialtumors. In keeping with thetradition of superior customerservice, Family Eye Center typ-ically accepts the majority ofinsurance from customers,Leah Norris said.
“What we want to do is takecare of people in the communi-ty,” Leah Norris said. “So tak-ing these insurances that tendto not be as common is an im-portant part of that.”
This customer satisfaction-based model has done well for
the business, Leah Norris said.Aside from the Ontario loca-tion, they now own anothereye-care facility in Payette,which provides the same careand services to the community.
“The Ontario and Payettecommunities have both beengood to us,” Leah Norris said.
Family Eye Center also has asense of style and caters coststo demand.
“We have about a thousandframes, plus contact lenses andour warranties are unbeatablehere,” Leah Norris said.
They take style and prices in-to account with their lensesand frames, Leah Norris said,and tend to offer high-endproducts at more affordableprices than other places.
This sense of style and hav-ing reasonable prices simplyfits the business’ overall modelof caring for the patients andthe community in which theylive, Leah Norris said.
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Holly Keller and Estrella Pedroza work at the desk near the front entranceat the Family Eye Center.
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Jose Salas, 10, Ontario, has his eyes examined by one of the clinic’s four doc-tors.
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There are a few folks outthere lucky enough to haveheld only one type of job thatalso happens to fall directly inline with their passion. BillConnelly, owner of GuitarSolutions, 661 S.W. FourthAve., is one of those individu-als.
Connelly has operated hisown business since May 2005,but he has been involved insome facet of the music indus-try most of his life.
Prior to owning GuitarSolutions, he taught guitar les-
sons and repaired guitars butwas eventually convinced toopen his own guitar shop, hesaid.
“The idea was to discountprices and do a structure simi-lar to a store that you find inBoise, online or mail order,”Connelly said. “At the sametime, however, we also offerservices that those places can’t,primarily with a strong ethicson proper customer servicesand practices.”
Aside from selling guitarsand other instruments,
Connelly offers a multitude ofservices including guitar andinstrument repair, tuning, in-strument rentals and guitarlessons, he said.
Operating a small business,especially during the tougheconomic times, is no easytask, Connelly said, but he’shad quite a bit of help thesepast three years from a specialindividual.
Connelly’s wife of threeyears, DeAnna Connelly, tookon several responsibilities forthe business, such as managingthe books. However, her pri-mary tasks go beyond simplyhandling the books or helpingwith a quick sale.
“When we got married,everybody knew who Bill was,but that crowd has now movedon,” DeAnna Connelly said.“So, I asked myself, how do Ihelp introduce this guy to anew generation?”
One of the answers was toform a Saturday morning jam
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Bill and DeAnna Connelly stand in front of a wall-display of their guitars.Bill Connelly opened Guitar Solutions in 2005 and provides a various serv-ices other than guitar sales.
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session. On the first Saturdayof each month, the floors arecleared, chairs are set up andfrom 10 a.m. until noon, BillConnelly plays his guitar, buthe’s not alone, DeAnnaConnelly said.
“Whoever wants to comeand play is more than welcometo,” DeAnna Connelly said.“Bill leads the session. He playseasy songs so that people canfollow, and if they don’t knowthe songs, he takes the time toshow them.”
The age group that attendsthese sessions varies from pre-teens to senior citizens,DeAnna Connelly said, andpeople play more than guitars,either. People play percussion,banjos and harmonicas, as well.
Another business aspect thatGuitar Solutions offers that
the Connellys said a lot of peo-ple tend to overlook whenshopping for musical needs isproper tuning and prepara-tions of their instruments aswell as their prices, which areequal to chain-style stores, ifnot cheaper in some cases.
“One of the things that oftenhappens is parents buy theirkid a guitar in a box to savemoney and the kid stops play-ing it soon after because ithurts their fingers,” BillConnelly said. “What theydon’t realize is that it’s not sup-posed to hurt, but all guitarsneed to be properly set beforea person can play, and that’ssomething we do with eachand every guitar here. Plus, ourprices are not what people ex-pect them to be since we’re aprivately owned business.”
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Foote said. “We decided toform our own practice.”
After medical school, Footejoined the Navy and spent fouryears working as an orthope-dic surgeon. Davis essentiallydid the same thing after med-ical school but instead joinedthe Air Force and deployedtwice, once to Iraq and once toAfghanistan.
After both doctors left themilitary, each one attended asports fellowship to improveupon his specialties before go-ing into private practice.
The two doctors eventuallymet and opened up their prac-tice with only two other em-ployees.
For both, opening up an or-thopedic practice in Ontariomade sense because of thehigh need locally for excellent
orthopedic care. Now, theyhave a total of 10 employees in-cluding two physician assis-tants and a separate practice inCaldwell.
“We’re both board certified,fellowship trained in sportsmedicine and take excellentcare of our patients,” Davissaid. “We like to say that theera of traveling to Boise for ex-cellent healthcare is gone.”
Davis explained that there isa large population drawaround Ontario due to thenumber of smaller communi-ties that surround it. Havingdoctors with their qualifica-tions and training so close tosmaller communities is not on-ly vital to save traveling time
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Both Foote and Davis wantthe community to know andunderstand that outstandingorthopedic care is availablefrom two highly trained sur-geons, along with a team of ex-perienced professionals.
“We’re offering cutting-edgeorthopedic care that’s notavailable anywhere else nearhere,” Davis said.
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Family Books & Bargainsowner Marlena Davis neverhad a long-term goal of owningher own business, but she waslooking for a retirement proj-ect when the opportunityarose and decided to take achance on a new venture.
On March 1, Davis celebrat-ed her 12th anniversary as abookstore owner.
The store, however, has beenin the area for the last 30 years,Davis said, and seven years agothis coming August, the storemoved from its former loca-tion near Airport Corner to itscurrent location at 415 S.Oregon St., in downtownOntario.
The store is a book exchange,Davis said, explaining that cus-tomers can bring in books and,if accepted, earn credit towardfuture purchases.
“We have new and usedbooks, every genre there is,pretty much,” Davis said,adding that the store has be-tween 25,000 and 30,000books, and she keeps dupli-cates of popular books in herback room to replace titles
when they are purchased.She said staff also cleans and
repairs every book the store re-ceives before they are put onthe floor, where they are organ-ized by genre, author and title.
“So things are easy to find,pretty much,” Davis said.
Davis said that, although shehas always enjoyed reading,she never considered owningher own bookstore until herhusband read an adthat the store was forsale and asked her ifshe was interested. Shesaid that, at the time,she was feeling unsatis-fied in her job and wasat a crossroads in herlife, but staying athome wasn’t an optionfor her. Her motherowned a thrift shopwhen Davis was a girlgrowing up in Council,so Davis knew the ba-sics of owning a store.
“We decided to give ita try, and we just loveit,” Davis said. “So, thisis my retirement proj-ect.”
Her retirement proj-ect, however, keeps herworking seven days a
week. She said she went froma job with paid vacations andholidays to a job with neither.The store is open from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. Monday throughFriday and from 12 p.m. to 5p.m. Saturday. It is closedSundays, but that is whenDavis said she comes in to“play catch-up.”
Davis said her previous workin the Lifeways medical recorddepartment and at the AdamsCounty Clerk’s Office, whereshe worked for 23 years, hashelped her as a bookstore own-er. She said she is very organ-ized and keeps things color-coded.
“Clean and organized is whatI like,” Davis said.
Davis said that, while the
store has a range of customers,many are elderly and on a fixedincome, and she likes that sheis able to serve their needs.
“We can help them out by giv-ing them reduced-rate booksand just being a service to thelow-income people,” she said.
Davis said the store is con-venient for the elderly becauseafter they read a book they canbring it back and receive creditfor future purchases. Thathelps them because many don’thave a lot of extra room wherethey live.
“Pretty soon books pile up,and you just don’t have roomfor them anymore,” she said.
It helps the bookstore be-cause her business depends oncustomers bringing their
amily Books & Bargainsowner has been at it for 12
years in OntarioFRetirement project
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Family Books & Bargains owner Marlena Davis straightens books in the front roomof her business, 415 S. Oregon St., in downtown Ontario.
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books back, Davis said, whichhelps keep the cost down.While the bookstore dealslargely in used books, Davissaid, she does special orderbooks on request and also sellssome new books.
“We have very, very fewbooks that are full price,” shesaid.
Romance books are the mostpopular among the women,and the Westerns are popularamong men. Currently, para-normal genre authors are alsovery popular, as well, in addi-tion to the “old stand-bys”Nora Roberts and JohnGrisham.
If, for some reason, the storecan’t use the book because it istoo old or the store already has
that title in stock, Davis saidshe donates the extras to otherlocal organizations, like thesenior citizens center, MSTIand the veterans hall.
“If it’s something we can’tuse ourselves, we find a goodhome for it,” Davis said. “Beinga local business, we like to sup-port local businesses.”
Davis said that helping peo-ple is one of the best thingsabout having her own store,and she and her husband try tohelp the community as muchas possible through the store,either by donating extra booksor by supporting other activi-ties or fundraisers.
“It’s just a good feeling to dothings like that and just to bean asset to the community andcontributing,” Davis said.
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Owning a second-hand storehad always been a dream of2nd Hand Rose owner JudyGallant. It opened in June of2011 and was named after theZiegfeld Follies song in the ear-ly 1900s and made popular byBarbra Streisand in FunnyGirl. Gallant said she pickedout the name 10 years ago.
2nd Hand Rose is a store thatdoes not offer antiques, neces-sarily, but rather unique,everyday decor and furniture.
Gallant looks for items thatare out of the ordinary. Shegoes to auctions, garage salesand often when she sees a piece of furniture, she envi-
sions a repurposed project.The basement of the store isfilled with projects Gallant hasand is making a dent in themas often as she can.
Consignment is a possibility,and she is also interested inbuying items outright.
Gallant wanted her store tobe affordable. For those whoenjoy going to garage sales and
second hand shopping, theprices at 2nd Hand Rose arecompetitive and items in thestore move quickly.
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Joyce Fontana, owner Judy Gallant and Ann Sautner have been preparingthe store for the busy season by giving it a bit of an uplift. Gallant wantedto make sure her store never had a dark corner and buys light fixtures tobrighten up every part of the store. She also enjoys purchasing mirrors,something simple but has their own uniqueness to it.
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Gallant said she has cus-tomers who come every weekor every other week to seewhat new treasures are in the
store. The store has had any-thing from piles of lumber anda playhouse to cars. It also hasmany light fixtures and mir-rors in stock.
2nd Hand Rose has threeemployees, Joyce Fontana andAnn Sautner who are general-ly at the store because Gallant
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Currently the store is gettinga bit of an uplift. The floorshave been newly painted, and
the store is looking a little bare,Gallant said. However, theywill soon be extending theirhours once the weather im-proves and begin to move in
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Second Hand Rose owner Judy Gallant said she has customers who comeevery week or every other week to see what new treasures are in the store.The shop also has many light fixtures and mirrors in stock.
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Any sales that are happeningat the store will be displayed inthe front so drivers can see it.
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Many people might defineAshley Furniture HomeStoresas a national corporationrather than a “local” business.A subsidiary of AshleyFurniture Industries, AshleyFurniture HomeStores is cur-rently the number one furni-ture chain in the United Stateswith over 400 locations na-tionwide, upwards of 4,000
employees, and an operatingrevenue of over $3 billion.
And that business relation-ship is key contributor to thesuccess Ashley’s Ontario loca-tion has seen over the last 14years.
“The Ontario store has beenin business since 1999, andsince then we’ve been verylucky to be here in the area,”store owner and managerRichard Fitzsimonds said.“Despite some of the ups and
shley Furniture in Ontariois locally owned and
independently operatedALocally owned,
downs economically, we havemanaged to remain very con-sistent. Part of that is we havegreat, highly knowledgeableemployees who have managedto stick with the company. Wedon’t have the high rate ofturnover that other peoplemay struggle with.”
That highly knowledgeablestaff has allowed Ashley to stayon the cutting edge with theirproducts, keeping up with newtrends and contemporarystyles. Ashley offers an ensem-ble, everything from tradition-al sofas and couches to flatscreens and contemporary art-work and accessories.
“Most people don’t knowjust how big our store is and
how many different selectionswe offer when they walk in,”Fitzsimonds said. “But we’vealways strived to offer some-thing for everyone from themore traditional to the mod-ern designs.”
What sets Ashley Furnitureapart from just another corpo-rate entity is that each store islocally owned and independ-ently operated, often fosteringa relationship within the com-munity that most chain storesdo not, something Fitzsimondsdoes not take lightly.
“We definitely know it’s ourcommunity that keeps us inbusiness,” he said. “So we al-ways strive to build those rela-tionships between us and the
community, so when customerswalk in they personally knowus, and our employees and havea great foundational trust.”
And Ashley by no meansrests on its laurels, sponsoringa number of worthy causesand attempting to give back tothe community whenever pos-sible. “It always makes us feelgood when we can donate andgive back because most of usand our families live in thearea and are tied to the com-munity in many different
ways,” he said.Ashley Furniture makes a
number of charitable dona-tions in support of the localschools, as well as being a ma-jor sponsor of TVCCAthletics. They also sponsor anumber of little league baseballteams every year and donate alarge number of trees for theOntario’s annual Festival ofTrees event.
Ashley Furniture is at 410 S.Oregon St., Ontario.
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When most of us think of abusiness model, we think ofthe traditional, autocratic, ver-tical style model with a boardof directors or an owner, fol-lowed down the ladder by amanager, and so on. However,cooperative businesses presentan alternative model, some-thing that Farmers SupplyCooperatives have proven canbe quite successful.
According to ClaudiaSanchez Bajo and BrunoRoelants and their researchstudy, “Capital and the Debt
Trap,” cooperatives tend tolast longer than traditional en-terprises in terms of sustain-ability. Cooperative rate of sur-vival after three years was 75percent, compared with 48percent for other enterprises,and 44 percent after 10 yearswhile just 20 percent of tradi-tional business had survived.
Farmers Supply is currentlythe only cooperative inOntario and has been in busi-ness for 78 years.
“It all started back in 1935with about 10 to 12 peoplewho really just wanted to builda business based on workingtogether with each other aswell as developing the commu-nity,” manager Steve Mendiolasaid. Since then, that seeming-ly basic idea has grown into anetwork of around 1,250 ac-tive members, around another1,250 retired members, and lo-cations in Vale, Weiser,Cambridge and Council.
But in spite of their tremen-
dous growth and success, theirbasic principles have remainedintact.
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“That sense of community andcollective feel makes us as em-ployees feel much more person-ally involved than we may oth-erwise.”
According to Mendiola, thatsocial and community aspectof the enterprise is what setsthe cooperative apart fromother box chains and givesthem something of an advan-tage.
“It seems like with the big boxstores, you get in and get out,”he said. “It’s not like that here;there is a much greater effortfrom our employees to be in-volved with our customers be-cause they are also tied to thecommunity. It’s really a grass-roots effort.”
Their large membership andemployee base, coupled withtheir strong social ties, allows
Farmer’s Supply to be diversi-fied in terms of the servicesthey provide.
“We try hard to keep every-thing local,” store managerConnie Cisneros said. “Whichis something we take pride in.”
Farmer’s offers services fromagricultural development andconsultation to gas/oil deliv-ery to groceries and conven-ience store operations.
“We really do have expertisein all areas,” Smith said.“When someone comes inwith a question or a problemwe have someone that can pro-vide them with what theyneed.”
The future of the coopera-tive movement is very bright,and Farmer’s Supply is certain-ly no different, even with theuncertain economic future.
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In a world increasingly domi-nated by homogenized foodproduction and assembly linerestaurants, the Starlite Café inVale provides patrons and thecommunity an alternative din-ing experience.
In an era where food qualityis increasingly lacking, theStarlite Café, 152 Clark St. S.,
has never wavered from thecrucial core principle of pro-viding quality food and serv-ice, owner Sharon Bannonsaid. While the evidence isabundant, one need look nofurther than the menu.
“Almost everything we makeis homemade,” Bannon said.“We try to offer meals that peo-ple grew up with, meals likemeatloaf, spaghetti, chicken
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ale’s Starlite Café differentfrom other restaurantsV
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fried steak, etc. We also offer asmany specials as we can, mealsthat aren’t on the menu tomaintain as much variety aspossible.”
Bannon said, however, whatthe Starlite is most famous foris its pies, and it is the menuitem of which she is mostproud.
“There is really no compari-son to our pies anywhere inthe area,” Bannon said. “Wehave so many varieties, andour bakers our extremely tal-ented with what they can cre-ate. It doesn’t matter how fullpeople get when they come in,they always seem to have roomfor a piece of pie.”
At the Starlite, customerswon’t find much store-bought,mass-produced ingredients.Rather, Bannon said, she takes
a great amount of pride in pro-viding the freshest meals possi-ble, all at the best possible value.
“We want to have somethingworth coming in for,” Bannonsaid. “We buy local, fresh in-gredients as much as possible.We get a lot of our producefrom local farmers and up-wards of 90 percent of ourmeat comes from local produc-ers.”
Bannon said what sets theStarlite Cafe apart is it is muchmore than a restaurant to thepatrons. Rather, it is a placewhere friends and family cancongregate and converse onany number of topics withtheir meal. It has a family at-mosphere that has been fos-tered over the 40 years in thearea.
“This is definitely a social
hub,” Bannon said. “It’s a meet-ing place for people. Mostlyeveryone knows one another,and it’s just a place where peo-ple can come together andhave conversation about what-ever they want.”
That family atmosphere ex-tends not just to communitymembers and patrons, but theemployees and staff as well.
“We have people workinghere now whose grandparentsbrought them here and workedhere,” Bannon said. “We hire
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For the past eight years, AllAbout Sports has been the go-to store in Ontario to get out-fitted for sports.
It is owned and operated bySalvador Sanchez and his fam-ily, which is the same familythat runs the FiestaGuadalajara just down theroad.
All About Sports attributestheir success to their great cus-tomer service and familiarityin the area.
“We are a locally owned busi-ness and that alone helps bringin customers,” said ChristianSanchez, who is the son of
Salvador Sanchez. ChristianSanchez handles many of themanagerial duties of the store.“We have good customer serv-ice and we are friendly andknowledgeable. We knowwhat we are talking aboutwhen it comes to our products,and which will best suit yourneeds.”
All About Sports recentlymoved from its original loca-tion to a new location just a fewblocks down on Main Street.The new location providesmore space, which in turn willallow them to bring in morenew product.
The owners are planning agrand re-opening sale, which
will feature the majority oftheir merchandise at a dis-count. A date for the sale hasnot yet been determined, asthey are bringing new featuresto their store that they want to
have up and running first.All About Sports will soon
be able to put embroidery onclothes, as well as engravewatches and necklaces.Customers will also be able to
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All About Sports recently moved to its new bigger location on Main Street,and customers have welcomed the move.
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get trophies engraved.The biggest challenge All
About Sports faces is keepingup to date and competing withthe bigger stores.
“As a small business, thereare certain things we aren’table to get, such as Converseand Jordan brand shoes,”Sanchez said. “We really workto make sure we keep up withthe newest trends and technol-ogy though. That way we givepeople a reason to keep com-ing back.
“We really have to attributeour success as a store to hardwork and having a great loyalclientele,” Sanchez added. Thiswas apparent with howsmoothly the transition wentduring the move, he said. “Thecommunity’s reception of the
new store has been very posi-tive. Everything really wentpretty smoothly. The newbuilding is great, the signagecame out perfect, and the newparking situation is awesome.That was probably the biggestdownfall of the old store; it waspretty tough to pull in and outof our old parking lot, especial-ly if you drove a big truck.”
Salvador and his family arestriving to continue to im-prove the store and encourageeveryone to stop in and checkout their new location.
“We are very happy with thecommunity support,” Salvadorsaid. “The customers are greatand are the reason that wehave been able to be as success-ful as we have been, so I wantto say thank you to them.”
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PAYETTE
Few things in life are betterthan a home-style cookedmeal. On Main Street inPayette, Meechan’s provides agood meal and treats its cus-tomers like family.
“We’re locally owned andrun. All the employees are lo-cal, as well,” owner LyndaPollock said of what separates
Meechan’s apart from the com-petition. “The customers areloyal, it’s a ma-and-pa-typeclientele. It’s truly a family-runbusiness, so we make a point tomake the customers feel likefamily.”
While Pollock and her hus-band, Allan, of Payette, cur-rently own Meechan’s, therestaurant’s storied historygoes much deeper.
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bought andopened thebusiness. It wasan offshoot ofthe town tav-ern that start-ed in 1945.Meechan ranthe businessuntil the1960s, whenhe sold it to Boyd Hopkins andhis wife. Eventually Meechantook over the business againuntil he sold it to Bob Trosterand his wife. After a few years,Meechan once again took overthe business. He continued torun the restaurant until he wasshot and killed in front of therestaurant after cutting off acustomer who had drunk toomuch.
After the murder of her hus-
band, Ruby Lee Meechan soldthe bar to Roger Bowling andhis wife. In 1974, whenMeechan’s was on the verge ofbeing shut down, Vee Clubowner Morris Hartung tookover and did an extensive re-model and revamping of thebusiness. In 1981, he broughtin Dar Long to manage thebusiness with the promise thatafter five successful years, sheand her husband could buy the
bar from him. Hartung heldtrue to his promise, and soldthe bar to Long.
Dar and Wayne Long operat-ed Meechan’s until 2000,when she sold the bar to herdaughter and son-in-law, Allanand Linda Pollock. The workthat the Pollocks have put intoMeechan’s hasn’t gone unno-ticed in the community be-cause the restaurant has main-tained a loyal clientele in thepoor economic climate.
“The economy is definitelythe biggest challenge we face,”Allan Pollock said. “We have
had to cut down staff, workmore hours and cut back to be-ing open 24/7 on onlyThursday through Saturday.”“We’re just treading waterright now along with all theother small businesses,” LindaPollock said. “We aren’t a bigchain, though, and that keepsour customers coming back.”
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Meechan’s owners pride themselves on providing a home-like atmosphereand treating customers like family.
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ONTARIO
If you live in Ontario thenyou have undoubtedly heardabout the new coffee shop thatrecently opened in town.Dutch Bros. Coffee puts a dif-ferent spin on the average cof-fee shop. When you pull up,you might notice the musicblaring from their shop andyou will be greeted with a bigsmile.
“Our creed is to see the bestin people, work for the best,and put a smile on everyone’s
face,” owner Danielle Flecksaid. “Our employees are gen-uine people. They aren’t put-ting on an act when they talkto customers. They genuinelylike people.”
It’s not hard to believe, whenthe employees were askedwhat their favorite part ofworking for Dutch was, theoverwhelming answer was thatthey get to be themselves andtalk to people.
One server said that when hehas a night off, he is bored andwould rather be at work be-
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Dutch Bros. opened for busi-ness Nov. 30 and has enjoyedsuccess right from the start.
“I feel like it has gonesmoothly. The communitywelcomed us with open arms,”Fleck said. “We are very excit-ed to be a part of Ontario and
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Mason Barto, a Fruitland High School graduate, blends a fruit smoothie re-cently at the Dutch Bros., Ontario, location.
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Dutch Bros. makes it a pointto make sure they are con-tributing to their communitywith the various deals andfundraisers throughout theyear. In May, Dutch Bros. do-nates their profits to theMuscular DystrophyAssociation. In June they willwork with Relay For Life inOntario, and are planning ongetting involved with theschools in the area to help
raise money.“Throughout the year we
honor many different dealsand coupons, such as one dol-lar coffee days and buy one getone free,” Fleck said.
“It’s more than just coffee forus,” Fleck added. “We make ita point to know the regulars byname and to know theirdrinks and to have them madewhen they pull up to the win-dow. We want the customersto feel like family.”
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The Purple Couch offers awarm atmosphere and invitescoffee lovers to come in and sitfor a while.
Hannah Adams, owner ofthe Purple Couch, had previ-ously been a nurse but had got-
ten “burnt out” in that profes-sion. During college, she hadbeen a manager at Tully’s, acoffee shop, and had addition-al barista experience beforethat. When Adams moved toNew Plymouth with her familyless than two years ago, Adamsdecided to open a coffee shop.
“(The Purple Couch is a)classy coffee shop with a backcountry feel,” Adams said.
Adams sells coffee, tea,smoothies and homemade pas-tries and cinnamon rolls.
Adams also brings in local,family friendly bands forHappy Hour and is involvedwith the New PlymouthSchool District. She offers stu-
dent discounts and is part ofthe Teacher Wellness Programthat awards gift certificates toteachers who walk a certaindistance.
The Purple Couch, 101-199
Plymouth Ave. in NewPlymouth, is open from 6:30a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday, from 8 a.m. to4 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m.to 10 a.m. on Sundays.
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Purple Couch owner Hannah Adams prepares four drink orders for a cus-tomer who called-in the order. Adams offers a variety of different drinksincluding italian sodas and smoothies as well as homemade pastries.
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VALE
Two things Kat Hill wantspeople to know about herrestaurant and bar are that itoffers fine-dining and wel-comes families.
Hill, and her husband, DaveHill, opened the SagebrushSaloon & Barbecue FamilyDining in 2008 in the old ValeElectric building, which hashoused several businessessince it was built in 1956.
“There was a need for a fine-dining restaurant, and therewas only one bar in town,” Hillsaid, explaining her reasonsfor starting the business. “Weoffer something different.”
The menu includes certifiedAngus beef steaks, gourmethamburgers and barbecuepork ribs and chicken, and thefull menu is served all day —from 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.
“We keep it simple,” Hill said. She said the business also
does lots of catering, includingbanquets, and she has plentyof room for parties and similarevents, especially during warmweather, out on the spaciouspatio. In June, there is the an-nual “Beach Party andSandcastle Building Contest,”which raises money for non-profits. This year, all proceedswill go toward the ValeAthletics Association. Fundsare raised through ticket sales
and sponsorships.Hill will also be holding a
fundraiser for the Vale MuralSociety in June.
“We’re trying to be knownfor fine-dining — that we arekid-friendly,” Hill said.
Since opening, Hill said shehas been building a presence inthe community.
“We are holding our own,”she said, adding that is all aperson can do in this economy.
She said the business is“swamped” during the Fourthof July Rodeo, and her staff oftwo full-time and three part-time employees doubles duringthe summer, swelling to 20
people when the beer garden isopen.
Some of her employees havebeen with her since sheopened or shortly after, Hillsaid. Hill came to own the busi-ness with a lot of experience,having operated the TracksideCafe at Le Bois Park at theWestern Idaho Fair Groundsfor 10 years.
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Sagebrush Saloon &Barbecue FamilyDining owner Kat Hill,left, waiting on cus-tomers, opened herrestaurant in 2008with her husband,Dave, because theywanted to offer some-thing different in Vale.
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