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Rollers salon brings cuts to homebound clients

Owner plans to launch as franchiser in January, to patent portable sink

July 16, 2009

Patty Stiffler has combined her knack for doing hair with an affinity for working with the elderly. Even as a child in Norco, Calif., she liked helping her elderly neighbors, with a pony express service she and other children in the rural community

Elder care is expensive, so to plan is key

Evaluate senior relative's finances, locate documents, and research care options

July 16, 2009

Financial Planning Association

Each day, millions of Americans discover an aging relative or friend needs help. It can mean planning for more services and assistance to get them through their daily lives, or it can mean dealing with a sudden and serious health crisis.The of

Retirement centers find they're not immune

Market uncertainty makes it harder for facilities to fill units quickly

July 16, 2009

Kim Crompton

Retirement facility administrators here say the real estate market malaise and economic slump that have taken a heavy toll on most other market sectors also have crimped their sales of living units and in some cases have caused apartment rentals to

Real estate closer moves to bigger space

July 16, 2009

Chuck Horne Real Estate Closings Inc., of Spokane, has moved to the Longbotham Building, at 22 W. Main, downtown.Chuck Horne, owner of the real estate closing service, says he has leased 3,000 square feet of floor space, and has moved his there

Business park secures three more tenants

Wine supplier, office-panel maker open new centers; hydraulic vendor moves

July 16, 2009

Mike McLean

The Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in Spokane Valley, says it has landed three new tenants that have leased a combined 25,600 square feet of floor space in its big complex at 3808 N. Sullivan.One tenant, Young's-Columbia of Washington LLC,

Cd'A starts Fourth Street makeover - Art only

July 16, 2009

A $2.9 million repaving and beautification project is under way on Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene from Lakeside Avenue downtown northward to Harrison Avenue. Safco Excavating & Construction Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, is the contractor on the project,

Eller Corp. wins $8.9 million Spokane County sewer job

Newman Lake concern will construct piping for planned new facility

July 16, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Spokane County has awarded an $8.9 million contract to Eller Corp., of Newman Lake, to construct the pipelines, called force mains, that will carry wastewater to the county's planned new wastewater treatment plant in east Spokane and will carry the

Spokane patent law firm grows office, adds attorney

July 16, 2009

David Cole

Rainier Patents PS, a patent and intellectual property law firm here, has tripled its leased space at the Fernwell Building downtown and has added a second attorney, says owner Paul Mitchell.Mitchell says the firm has moved from two small suites

PFD gets portion of Main for 'south block' parking lot

$1.6 million project to include regrading, redeveloping surface lot

July 16, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

The Spokane Public Facilities District plans to begin reconstruction of a block-long parking lot just south from its convention center complex, after the Spokane City Council approved its request to take 20 feet of the Main Avenue right of way for

Spokane United Methodist to construct senior housing

KOP Construction gets $3.4 million contract; facility to be in Valley

July 16, 2009

David Cole

Spokane United Methodist Homes, which does business as Rockwood Retirement Communities, has contracted with KOP Construction Co., of Spokane, to build a 38-unit low-income senior housing facility in Spokane Valley. Rockwood operates two here, it