Pointe Pest Control moves corporate office
With outlets around the Northwest, Pointe Pest Control has moved into its new corporate office and warehouse at 6020 W. Seltice Way. The 6,000-square-foot facility is next to Service-master in Stateline.
With 50 employees, the team is a full-service pest control service for residences and businesses and offers bedbug remediation, termite service, bird exclusion and removal and attic and crawl-space cleanout.
The company has offices in Lewiston, Tri-Cities and Yakima, Wash., and Albany and Bend, Ore. Hours here are 7:50 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. weekdays and 24 hours through its call center. Key people are Jacob Borg, president; David Isenberger, Greg See, Sara Arrojas, Jennifer Golla and Tom Bloom. Phone (509) 590-4100. Check www.pointepest.com.
Good Samaritan Thriftexpands on Fourth
The Good Samaritan Rehabilitation Thrift Store has expanded into three spaces at 1610 N. Fourth St. In this original location for almost two years, it is now in the area vacated by the move of Pepe Caldo Pizzaria to Ironwood Drive.
With all this space, the thrift store offers everything from “clothes to garden supplies in a Christian environment,” according to Nancy Cafferty, manager. “It’s more like a boutique. We want to thank the community for its continuous, generous donations. It all goes to support the Good Samaritan program.”
She is helped by Ken Fraley, assistant manager, and Susan Harding, floor and desk manager.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Phone 665-6985.
Here’s what we need
Information in this column is gathered from new (or future) or relocated businesses within the past two months. The business must have a “commercial” location — not be out of a home or website only.
If possible, we try to run the information on a Sunday soon before the place opens. It we get the information far ahead, we try to “tease” the news in the Tidbit section and then run the full item soon ahead of the opening.
If a new building is under construction, readers want to know what that place will be — so we try to tell them. And then we’ll run another item just before the place opens for business.
We don’t run what in journalism we call in-depth articles here. We run what we call the Basic W’s — the who, what, when, where.
We ask for the name, address, size of the business — maybe what was in that location previously or where the business is moving from — and if anything is planned for the location they’re leaving. If the street is relatively unknown, it helps to have what major streets or other businesses are nearby.
Tell us what the business offers (in some detail), the days and hours it’ll be open and the customer-client contact information (phone and website).
It helps to have the key people and their positions and related education and experience if that would be of interest to the reader.
Here’s the Tidbits
- Watch for news on Grill From Ipanema, Anthony’s Restaurant, Empire Eye and Beyond Bones Family Chiropractic in Riverstone, Orban Family Dental near Winco, Benjamin Powell Galleries on Sherman, Sweet Peaks Ice Cream and Abi’s Ice Cream on Fourth Street between Sherman and Lakeside, Monet Floors & Home Design on Government Way, Real Deals on Home Decor and G.I. Java Coffee on Fourth Street, new branches of Idaho Central Credit Union in Post Falls and Hayden, Panera Bread in Hayden, Terre Coffee & Bakery on Northwest Boulevard, Cracker Barrel on Appleway and 777 Take-n-Bake Pizza on Best.
- The suspect in our recent pastor shooting was described as a blonde. Wrong. “Blonde” is a female noun. He has blond hair. Sometimes a blond male is called a towhead, which comes from the freshly cut yellow end of a log that will be towed to a truck.
- Even though this shooting is a disturbing story, the national news showed a map with “Coeur d’Alene” printed on it — spelled correctly.
- Evidently the goofy quote we ran last week from Mariah Carey was fabricated in a British publication. Sorry.
- When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
- A real headline: “Barbershop singers bring joy to school for the deaf.”
- There’s no ham in hamburger.
- Now that today we’re back to Daylight Savings Time, clocks that have been an hour wrong will be right again.
- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.