Post Falls store offers high-efficiency log-burning stove

The world’s first Presto Log Burning Stove, developed here in North Idaho, is offered at 509 Fabrications, opening Monday at 6512 W. Seltice Way on the west side of Post Falls.

Invented by Frank Reed of Hayden and developed by Dusty and Gary Henderson, the stove burns just one piece of wood at a time and can burn all night on one load of fuel. The Hendersons have built and developed prototypes over the last few years and have filed patents and tested them with the EPA to sell them in the U.S. and Canada.

“It gives the consumers a product that burns really efficiently for the dollars spent to put fuel in the BTUs they get out of it,” Dusty said. “Not everyone can lift a 50-pound bag of pellets, but just about everyone can lift a 4-to-8-pound log to load this stove that will burn all night with a nice even heat from a load of fuel.”

The product was voted the “Best new marketable product of the year” at the national Hearth Patio and BBQ Show in Atlanta. Hours at 509 Fabrication are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays by appointment. Phone 509-993-3767. Check www.509fab.com.

New U.S. Forest Service construction starts on Kathleen

New offices and a warehouse for the Forest Service will be built at 2208 W. Kathleen Ave.

The offices will replace the current leased buildings that house the supervisor’s and Bureau of Land Management offices at 3815 Schreiber Way and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service place in Spokane Valley. This will include 173 full-time employees — 36 from BLM, 19 from Fish and Wildlife and 118 from the Forest Service.

The project is in four phases. The first phase with the dispatch center and inter-agency hotshot facility will be completed in 2018, and the entire project will be completed in 2021.

Meckel Family Insurance opens

Sales professionals for Allstate Insurance are now at Meckel Family Insurance Co. in Suite D at 1602 E. Seltice Way in Post Falls.

Owner Fred Meckel has sales professionals Jackie Olson, Mikael Timothy and Miriam Nevarez. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays and Saturday by appointment. Phone 208-457-3949.

A Gift of Giving Celebration this Friday will include Christmas goodies. Free Santa photos for kids will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Those who donate items there for the Children’s Village will receive gift cards for a raffle to the White House Grill. Especially needed are fuzzy socks, undergarments, waterproof gloves and pajamas.

loanDepot opens here Tuesday

A new office for loanDepot opens Tuesday in Suite 200 at 1910 Northwest Blvd.

The firm offers mortgages (FHA, V.A., conventional and jumbo), refinancing and personal loans. Personnel include Carla Durheim (branch manager), Veronica Garnsey (loan consultant with loan specialist David Borges) and Joshua Murray (loan consultant with loan specialist Kristi Delzer). Started in 2010, loanDepot has more than 180 locations.

Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phone 208-758-0960. Check www.loandepot.com.

Now for the Tidbits

- Construction has begun for a new Ellenbecker Eye Clinic at 2020 Riverstone Drive and Active Family Healthcare at 919 W. Canfield Ave.

- Renovation is under way at the former Kelly’s Pub building at 726 N. Fourth St. Next spring it will be a breakfast-lunch eatery called Ten/6. Badass Backyard Brewing will be in Suite C at 317 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave. Pizza & Pretzels and Nail Lounge will open in Silver Lake Mall.

- MoMo sushi bar, wok and grill will be where Bonsai Bistro was at 101 E. Sherman. Tomlinson-Sotheby’s Realty is expanding downtown. Hague Law will expand at 401 Front Ave. Details soon.

- On Appleway watch for Firehouse Subs across from Winco. A second tenant is possible.

- Future new hotels include a Staybridge Suites under construction in Riverstone and a Fairfield Inn on Northwest Boulevard. The Shilo Inn on Appleway will change to Comfort Suites after a major remodel. Openings coming on Fourth Street include the Relic Moon offering piercing and body jewelry and the White Pine coffee place.

- T-Mobile will open soon in Suite F at 3134 E. Mullan Ave. in Post Falls. New construction off Mullan Avenue will be a Coachman Auto Body. And neighboring Kootenai Motors is moving to Hayden. Amerimart will open a gas station and convenience store at 7035 W. Seltice Way. Details soon.

- A new Asian eatery will be where the Kynrede Cafe was removed in Hayden. Watch for El Taco Loco off Canfield Avenue.

- Money talks. But all mine ever says is goodbye.

- Since there is no time like the present, he decided it was time to present the present.

- The Getaway! A man walked into a Topeka Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. There wasn’t much so he tied up the clerk and worked the counter for three hours until the police grabbed him.

- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.