Rustic Restaurant now open

The new Rustic Restaurant opened last weekend at 309 E. Sherman Ave. (next to Clark’s Jewelers).

With simple, fresh ingredients in small-batch recipes, the menu includes burgers, wings, baguettes, paninies, pizzas, spuds, salads, chilies, desserts and beverages. Meats, produce and other items are locally sourced. Breakfast will be coming.

With table and bar seating for about 50 people, Rustic is open noon to 8 p.m. and will expand to 11 a.m. to about 9 p.m. daily with music and four TVs. General manager is Erin Repson. Phone 660-8052. Check www.eatrustic.com.

Major plans set for Wayne Drive in Hayden

Three major developments are planned for North Wayne Drive between Prairie and Honeysuckle avenues in Hayden.

On the north end, K.D. Hull Corp. plans a six-story complex of 20,000 square feet per floor to be Honeysuckle Senior Living. With 70 apartments, the complex will have an activity area and a pool on the ground floor and underground parking below.

All of this will be on the east side of Wayne Avenue. On the west side, also at Honeysuckle, is the Idaho Central Credit Union building under construction with a 8760 N. Government Way address. It will open mid-summer. Check www.iccu.com.

South of ICCU will be Hayden Medical Plaza, a two-story, 59,000-square-foot office building with a 166-car underground parking garage and parking next to the building also. With the building opening next year, marketing and leasing is under way. Check Kiemle & Hagood Realty at 770-2590 and www.khco.com.

Farther to the south on the east side of Wayne Avenue, a sign says Total Wellness Dentistry is coming.

Petal Pushers Nursery

new to Post Falls

After a 10-year business absence, Petal Pushers Nursery is open at 201 E. 6th Ave. in Post Falls. It’s parallel to I-90 on the frontage road of the west-bound Spokane Street exit.

With two new greenhouses, owner Stacey Bishop offers locally grown annuals, veggies, herbs, hanging baskets, custom planting of customers’ pots, garden consultation and design and installation of landscapes.

Bishop started Petal Pushers (named for her 31-pound shop kitty Petal) 25 years ago at the Farmers’ Market and was there for 14 years. The business also was at Government Way for several years.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 to 4 Sundays. Check www.petalpushers.com.

AFLAC opens in Cd’A

The voluntary supplemental insurance company AFLAC has opened an office at 2003 N. Third St. With the initials for American Family Life Assurance Company, AFLAC offers group and individual plans such as accident, cancer, dental, vision, disability, life, hospital and critical care.

In-office appointments are with mangers and associates (with more than 114 years of AFLAC experience) Jan Pollard, Susan Mensching, Lynne Carroll, Jimmie Delbridge, Karen Ball, Rod Bair and Lisa Hall.

The company began in 1955. Its headquarters is in Columbus, Ga. A grand opening here will be soon. Phone 666-5450. Check www.aflac.com.

Sprint opens office

on Best Avenue

The telecommunications holding company Sprint has opened an office at 131 E. Best Ave. (the former location of Radio Shack).

Sprint provides wireless and internet services with wireless voice, messaging and broadband services through various subsidiaries and wholesale access to wireless networks. The company headquarters is in Overland Park, Kan.

Hours in Coeur d’Alene are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. Cole Young is general manager. Phone 6654-3510. Check www.sprint.com.

Now for the Tidbits

- Places opening soon include Hollywood Revolver (in the former Grail building off Seltice Way), Republic Kitchen & Taphouse at 120 E. 4th Ave. in Post Falls, El Taco Loco off Canfield Avenue, Castaway Cellars in the Plaza Shops downtown, Philly Express on Northwest Boulevard, Gyro Shack in Ironwood Square and Little Caeser’s Pizza in Hayden.

- Dairy Queen has closed temporarily on Appleway to revamp for a new owner.

- Annie Wooden, one of my early journalism alumni at North Idaho College, has purchased the Sanders County Ledger in Thompson Falls, Mont. It is the first newspaper I worked for...in my early 1960s high school days. Yea, Annie!

- A real headline: New sick policy requires two-day notice.

- My new vacuum cleaner is gathering dust.

- Today is Father’s Day. I’m lucky to have kids Cory in Coeur d’Alene, Paul in Post Falls and Mariah in Seattle, four precious grandkids and my wife Mary.

- “Flack” is slang for a press agent. “Flak” is a type of anti-aircraft fire and used figuratively as a barrage of criticism. Don’t give me any flak.

- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.