Hemp Project Specialty Store Opens In Cedar Street Bridge
One way to do better than just getting on the bandwagon is to beat it to town. This is the method to the madness of Steve Logan of Sandpoint.
Logan’s Inca Hemp, in the Cedar Street Bridge, is the first store in the North Idaho-Eastern Washington region to offer the amazing variety of hemp products, he said. The only Inland Northwest store he knows about is in Missoula.
Logan’s collection of hemp products includes sweaters, purses and packs, tennis shoes, jewelry, oils and salves. That’s just the beginning. He also plans to offer blankets, place mats and straps.
Currently, Logan imports his products from Thailand, Romania and China. But he plans to be manufacturing his own products soon.
“We already have the twine and cordage; we have a seamstress lined up, and we’re taking orders,” Logan said. “We’ll be custom-making hemp clothing.”
The tough fiber, famous for its use in making ropes and sailcloth, comes from the stalk of the hemp plant, which “can be grown anywhere,” Logan said.
Anticipating that law enforcement officers might be interested in the plants, which are related to marijuana, Logan already “invited them over,” he said. Hemp does not have drug-related uses.
Logan came to North Idaho five years ago from Mountain View, Calif. He originally planned to live in Coeur d’Alene.
But traveling farther north, “I crossed that long bridge and knew I was home,” he said.
Although rumors resound that the giant Fred Meyer store planned for Coeur d’Alene is “on hold,” a bank that has branches in other Fred Meyer stores hasn’t given up hope.
Washington Mutual Savings Bank plans to include a branch in the new Fred Meyer that will make an “L” around Parker Toyota at Highway 95 and Kathleen Avenue. The bank will occupy about 1,200 square feet and will have three to five employees. It has about 260 locations in five Northwest states.
“We have a longstanding relationship with Fred Meyer,” said Washington Mutual spokesman Bill Ehrlich from his office in Seattle. “We’re well entrenched in the Inland Northwest, and we want to augment our presence in Idaho.”
The bank came into Idaho in 1994 and has three branches in Boise and one each in Nampa and Moscow.
Yes, another McDonald’s is comin’ to town.
The new store, the seventh McD’s in North Idaho, will be at 1615 E. Seltice Way, about a block east of Tidyman’s and between Seltice Way and Interstate 90. Construction should begin in early spring, and the restaurant should open in June.
The main section will look like the standard McDonalds and will seat 60-70 people, said Mark Ray, who owns 17 stores in the region. However, what will make this McDonalds a bit more unique will be an enclosed (by a roof and glass walls) play area that will seat another 30-40.
The restaurant will have about 60 employees.
Ray is himself a success story. He left Tacoma more than 30 years ago to work his way through Gonzaga University at McDonald’s.
“I worked my way up from the shake person” at one of Spokane’s first McDonalds, Ray said. The Monroe and Francis store was one of the company’s first 570 stores. McDonalds now has 16,000 stores.
Here’s a slight switch - a store expanding from Post Falls to Coeur d’Alene. Don’t be surprised to see this happening more - especially from the outlet malls, as in this case.
Cost Cutters Family Hair Salon is now in Appleway Plaza (the Log Cabin restaurant mini-mall) at 213 W. Appleway. The 1,000-square-foot salon is two suites in on the left side.
The four employees offer haircuts for men, women and children, perms, colors and a full line of professional hair care products. Manager is Eulavene McAtee, who relocated from the Clarkston, Wash., store.
Owners are Coeur d’Alene residents Terri and Brad Krohn, who have Cost Cutter stores in Clarkston, Pocatello, Twin Falls, Lewiston (that opened Monday) and Post Falls. They originally are from Minnesota and moved west when they bought the Idaho franchise rights.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Nils Rosdahl The Spokesman-Review