Santosha opens in Plaza Shops
Women’s clothes of silks, cottons and linens are the specialty of Santosha, a new store in Suite 150 in the middle of The Coeur d’Alene Resort Plaza Shops downtown.
With another shop in Sandpoint, the store was born when Susan Wentz and daughter Lilly Hubbard were on a volunteer trip working with the blind in Vietnam and discovered the unique items sewn by family tailors in the villages. Each piece is sewn by hand, and no two are exactly alike. A portion of the profits goes to the Duc Son Pagoda Orphanage in Hue, Vietnam.
With Santosha meaning “peace and love” in India, store hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 to 5 Sundays. Daughter Chloe Hubbard also is an owner. Phone 877-566-0008. Check www.santoshaimports.com.
Rathdrum Trading Post Hardware in new place
The new building for Rathdrum Trading Post Hardware is open in front of Super 1 Foods at Highway 53 and N. Westwood Drive.
Items in the 12,200-square-foot place include supplies for plumbing, electrical, paint, lawn, garden, fasteners, rigging, lumber and rental equipment. With nine employees, the store is full-service, independent and locally owned. Matt Smith is manager.
The grand opening is Labor Day weekend with the ribbon cutting on Friday, Sept. 2. (check Facebook for details). Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9:30 to 5 Sundays. Phone 687-4730. Check www.tradingposthardware.com.
Jake’s Scuba Adventures relocates
All types of underwater adventure lessons, equipment, accessories, repair and tank inspections are offered at Jake’s Scuba Adventures at 1308 E. Best Ave. The location formerly was Diver’s West.
Jake Powlison, owner with his wife Vicky, started snorkeling at age 6 and offers lessons from beginner to professional and for the handicapped in skin-diving, scuba diving and snorkeling.
The business also puts travel-adventure trips together. Phone 818-2077. Check Facebook. A website is coming soon.
Now for the Tidbits
- Watch for news on Dickey’s Barbecue Pit outside Silver Lake Mall, Panera Bread on a Prairie Shopping Center pad, Hart Capital in the McEuen Terrace building and Sweet Lou’s Restaurant and Tap House in the Parkside building on Front Ave.
- Other new places coming include a Verizon store at Appleway and Fourth, Grabbagreen at Highway 95-Neider, Hayden Medical Plaza & Clinics in Hayden and gas station-convenience stores in the southwest corner of Highway 95 and Lancaster and the southeast corner of Ramsey Road and Prairie Avenue (Exxon).
- On Sherman Avenue watch for Baked-In Rustic restaurant at 309 Sherman (next to Clark’s Jewelry), Community First Bank loan production office at 504 Sherman (former KXLY location), Mountain Madness Soap at 310 Sherman (the former Everson Jewelry building) and a Starbucks where the gas-convenience store is at Sherman and Seventh.
- More places coming include Schini Family Dentistry building a new place in Riverstone and Sweeto Burrito near Winco. New places in Post Falls will be Popeyes, Green & Grounds Coffee Shop, Cricket Wireless, Silverlake Automotive, The Lean Bean and Dutch Bros. Coffee.
- Places evidently coming to the revised Post Falls Outlet Mall include 59:Escape Adventures, Ace Industrial Supply, SNR Costume Rental, Black-Ops Self Defense, My Big Fat Greek Deli, a comic book store and a coffee espresso store.
- Bitterroot Cutlery closed at 4055 Government Way. It was next to Blush, a spray-tanning business that opened in April. Phone 771-4515.
- Spirit of Halloween will open its seasonal store in Silverlake Mall. For info on jobs check www.spirithalloween.com.
- Legally, yard sale bucks should be reported as taxable income. This is especially interesting for the places that have yard sales every week and sell for $5 what they buy at other yard sales for $1.
- Noise in places such as restaurants is louder when the place has hard ceilings, floors and walls. Sometimes the music should be turned down or a different type of music chosen.
- ”Fewer” is easily countable. “Less” is an amount such as “less salt in the shaker.”
- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.