Local photographer nationally known
Precious Time Photo-
graphy is a business where its name says it all – until you see the examples of the artist’s work. Then you really understand how the business and the name work together.
Cassandra Lindquist photographs children. Somehow her ability to capture a child’s perfect expression and personality and to combine it with a delightful pose and technical expertise (lighting, angle, timing) results in a permanent memory with a photo.
Lindquist’s special touch hasn’t gone unnoticed nationally. Combining her photography with her business knack, Precious Time has contracts for twice yearly kids’ photo shoots with 66 stores across the country. The promotions primarily are in Pottery Barn Kids, Gymboree and Janie & Jack stores. She has 30 photographers who do the shoots, and the processing and packaging is done at the company headquarters on Fourth Street in Coeur d’Alene.
Precious Time is expanding to a studio at 412 Sherman Ave. The grand opening will be 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The regular hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, starting Monday.
Originally from Harrison, Lindquist graduated from Kootenai High School and went to the University of Idaho and the University of San Diego. She came to Coeur d’Alene in 2003 after nine years in Seattle. She has been shooting professionally for 15 years.
Phone 765-1991 or check www.yourkidsreally.com on the Internet.
Car, dog wash planned
A Post Falls location that has been occupied by car dealerships is being rebuilt for another car business. But this time it’s also going to the dogs.
Post Falls Car Wash Plaza and Ritzy’s Dog Spa should open by the end of October at the northeast corner of the Highway 41 and Mullan Avenue intersection. The complex will include five self-serve bays, two touchless automatic bays, nine interior-cleaning (vacuum-shampoo) stations, two dog-bath stations and a comfortable inside waiting area.
The facility will be identical to Coeur d’Alene Car Wash Plaza that owners John Hansen and Barb Chisholm built at the intersection of Ramsey Road and Kathleen Avenue last year. The pair own neighboring acreage at each location for future development, and Hansen said they hope to build as many as 20 similar wash plazas in the Inland Northwest. A company credit card will be good at all locations. Raised in Spokane, Hansen has residences in Coeur d’Alene and Lake Tahoe. Chisholm is from Spokane.
Businesses collaborate
Working together helps each other and their customers, according to owners of four businesses that have combined in Sawmill Crossing, a new commercial complex at 444 Bay St., Post Falls.
The businesses are M.L. Architecture, Signal Point Marketing & Design, Jarrinx Networks and River City Paint & Decorating. Located across Seltice Way from Tidyman’s, the complex opened this summer. The owner is Post Falls developer Sherm Stapleton.
Mark Latham, who designed the structure, owns M.L. Architecture and specializes in custom residential design. His identical twin Tom has Signal Point Marketing, which produces restaurant guides and promotional material. Jason Rutherford has Jarrinx, an Internet Web design firm, and David Perez specializes in custom paint and window coverings at River City Paint.
This week’s tidbits
•The Parade of Homes is Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Aug. 26-28 in 11 new houses in Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Hayden and Blanchard. Members of the North Idaho Building Contractors Association show off their work as well as the products of landscaping, decorating and furniture companies. Admission (sold for this event for the first time) is $5 with tickets at the NIBCA office at 1928 Fourth St., Coeur d’Alene, and at any of the houses.
•Places with outdoor seating (restaurants, coffee houses, taverns) pay annual $30 encroachment fees and $19.28 sewer-cap fees (per seat) in Coeur d’Alene. They must allow a 42.5-inch pedestrian passageway. If a business wants a planter or other structure on the sidewalk, it must apply to the City Council and also pay the encroachment fee.