Shoptalk: New home décor store opens - Post Register
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| Shoptalk: New home décor store opens - Post Register Posted: 23 Dec 2019 08:45 PM PST  Four women recently came together to open The WAREhouse Furniture on Dec. 5. This new home furniture and décor store combines four separate personal brands and talents into one store. Owners Kassie Traughber, Teresa Bush, Dawn Moldenhauer, and Audrey Henrie each seek to bring their unique style and taste to the company. "I love getting to use my creativity for dreaming up, painting up, and designing up the visions in my head. This career gives me the outlet for combining art and business," Traughber said on the business' website. Every week, the women find and recycle used furniture, take it home, and refinish it through fixing, painting, and distressing. "We get whatever we can get, wherever we can get it and we do it over," said part-owner Audrey Henrie. The owners regularly refresh The WAREhouse's merchandise by bringing in whatever they have been working on. "We add to our inventory every week, making it a fun experience to come see us regularly," Henrie said. In addition to furniture and décor, the store also sells jewelry and boutique clothing from local vendors. "We've really worked to make the building and atmosphere nicer," Traughber said. The WAREhouse Furniture is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at 1352 S. Holmes Ave. More information can be found at thewarehouseidaho.weebly.com. Fall River Electric Cooperative customers receive money backFall River Electric Cooperative is giving back $1,013,000 to its customers as a result of revenue exceeding operating costs. Nearly 6,500 customers will be receiving checks. Since Fall River Electric is a nonprofit cooperative owned by its customers, referred to as "owner-members" by the company, are the recipients of any profit. This system differs from investor-owned utility companies where stockholders are the beneficiaries of excess revenue. Fall River Electric pays customer this revenue in a 20-year cycle, meaning this year's payout is from the capital earned in 1998 and part of 1999. The amount per check is dependent on the customer's electricity use in those years. The cooperative only pays out capital when it believes it to be in the best interest to all its members, said Fall River Electric's CEO/General Manager Bryan Case. "Fortunately, our staff and management continue to do an outstanding job of managing our financial and physical resources, so our equity has dramatically improved in recent years, which is a significant contributing factor to the board's ability to retire patronage capital to our owner-members." Case said in a news release. Reed's Dairy offers more holiday flavorsReed's Dairy is releasing new holiday flavors. In addition to its annual offerings of Egg Nog and Chocolate Nog, customers now can buy Peppermint Chip, Christmas Time, Pumpkin, and Mint Cookie ice cream during the holidays. Reed's Dairy was founded in Idaho Falls in 1955 and continues to operate two locations here, one at 2660 W. Broadway St. and one in Ammon at 2523 E. Sunnyside Road. "Our customers are at the heart of our business," Reed's Dairy president Alan Reed said in a news release. "Families come out and know that the source of their ice cream or milk is fresh and cared for by a local family — and that makes us unique." I.F. Adventure Pass availableLocal community organizations offer Idaho Falls Adventure Pass with discounts to eight Idaho Falls area attractions. The pass will grant admission to the Idaho Falls Zoo, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, Idaho Falls Arts Council, and Museum of Idaho. Adventure Pass owners will also receive discounts to Joe Marmo/Wayne Lehto Ice Arena, The Edge Climbing, Bob's Indoor Golf, and the East Idaho Aquarium. The passes are a great value! Individual passes are $20, and family passes are $77. Unlike previous years, some pass offers will be valid throughout the entire year. The Idaho Falls Adventure Pass can be purchased at ifadventurepass.com or in person at the ARTitorium on W. Broadway St. Submit newsSubmit business news and story suggestions by emailing news@postregister.com. The Shoptalk column reports on business trends, acquisitions, contracts, openings and relocations. People in Business features news of promotions, certifications, awards and management-level hires. The Post Register accepts headshot photographs of people in business so long as those photos are of publishable quality. Emailed photos should be attached as jpegs and should be large format of at least several hundred kilobytes (k) in size. |
| Posted: 23 Dec 2019 07:19 AM PST   A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to ban the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits at New Hampshire pet shops. The move, they say, would help stamp out less reputable breeders known as 'puppy mills' where animals are potentially subjected to inhumane conditions. Pet shop owners, however, say the bill is unnecessary, and that the animals they sell are from regulated breeders. Under the proposed legislation, which will come up for debate sometime after the New Year, brick and mortar pet stores would be prohibited from selling dogs, cats or rabbits, or face a $500 fine for each violation. [You can read NHPR's previous coverage of animal cruelty here.] Pet stores would still be able to partner with non-profit animal rescue organizations to display adoptable pets, as long as the pet retailer doesn't receive a fee. "It's a much more humane way to do it: much better for the dog, and the person purchasing the dog," says Rep. Kathleen Rogers of Concord, a Democrat and lead sponsor of the measure, who has the term "pug lover" in her Twitter biography. Rogers says retail shops that acquire their animals from disreputable breeders are supporting an industry where dogs and cats are subjected to overbreeding, resulting in offspring with potential health and socialization issues. There are only a handful of retail pet stores in New Hampshire, including Bill's Pet & Aquarium in Manchester. The store's owner, Bill Sturgeon, says the legislation would effectively shutter his 30-year old business. He points out that his shop is regulated by the state's Department of Agriculture, which can and does inspect his facilities. "We're here, we are brick and mortar. You can see us, you can inspect us, you can come in and talk to us," says Sturgeon. Sturgeon says he obtains his puppies through commercial breeders that are required to hold a license from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nationwide, approximately 4% of all dogs are purchased through retail pet stores, according to the Humane Society of the United States. In New Hampshire, regulations surrounding the breeding and sale of dogs have been fiercely debated in recent years, stemming in part from the seizure of more than 75 Great Danes from a mansion in Wolfeboro. That case garnered international headlines, and resulted in a flurry of legislation. |
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