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Sun., Dec. 31, 2017
Front and Center: Ted Schinzel makes big business out of small business
If you’re determined to make 2018 the year you launch your startup, a good first step might be visiting the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Spokane branch office at 801 W. …
Sun., Jan. 1, 2017
Front and Center: Be happy it’s Pizza Rita
Brian Dickmann would rather be scammed 100 times than lose a Pizza Rita customer.
Sun., Dec. 25, 2016
Front and Center: Kathy Jo Avery helps resolve bad habits with hypnotherapy
Changing bad habits can be tricky, but Kathy Jo Avery offers help through her hypnotherapy practice.
Sun., Dec. 18, 2016
Front and Center: Jung Kim kicked his way into the gym business
Jung Kim operates three dojos – with headquarters at the North Division Y and gyms also on the South Hill and in the Spokane Valley. His students demonstrate their board-breaking …
Sun., Dec. 11, 2016
Front and Center: Avista’s Mike Broemeling is the company’s point man for customer service
Mike Broemeling has had one job title at Avista: director of customer and shared services. The biggest part of that involves overseeing the utility’s call center, or “contact center,” which …
Sun., Dec. 4, 2016
Front and Center: Sean Curran turned tongue twisters into a career
Sean Curran makes the business a speech therapy fun for clients and personally rewarding.
Sun., Nov. 27, 2016
Front and Center: Donald Sewell has turned a landscape photography hobby into a business
Donald Sewell’s calendars depicting Northwest landscapes are readily available in checkout lines at Rosauers or Yoke’s. During a recent interview, Sewell discussed the challenges of turning a hobby into a …
Sun., Nov. 20, 2016
Front and Center: Steven Forsness steers obsession into a business of painting bicycles
People bring their bicycles to Steve Forsness for a personal touch, and he delivers with custom paint jobs on everything from BMX racers to high-end carbon fiber triathlon bikes.
Sun., Nov. 13, 2016
Front and Center: Pam Almeida is the drive behind Meals on Wheels
Pam Almeida says her Meals on Wheels program is more than providing meals to people across the county, it’s a way to lower health-care costs and enrich lives.
Sun., Nov. 6, 2016
Front and Center: Brooke Matson brings a creative spark to teaching
Brooke Matson creating an alternative educational experience as executive director of Spark Central.
Sun., Oct. 30, 2016
Front and Center: Anne Mitchell has an eye for the talent
Talk about occupational hazards. Anne Mitchell once got a 3 a.m. text that read, “I don’t think I’m called back tomorrow. I was prematurely eaten by a dragon.”
Sun., Oct. 23, 2016
Front and Center: Lonnie Benn turned a passion for welding as a teenager into a successful career
Lonnie Benn has been welding for five decades and now teaches the next generation how to do it right.
Sun., Oct. 16, 2016
Front and Center: Tim Culpepper is the bark behind Gonzaga’s ROTC program
Leading ROTC programs at colleges used to be a job for officers in the sunset of their career. Not so at Gonzaga, where Maj. Tim Culpepper took the coveted military …
Sun., Oct. 9, 2016
Front and Center: Gary Westermann, owner of Marlin Windows, has clear view of how to make a business work
Gary Westermann, the owner of Marlin Windows, shares advice about energy efficient windows, the benefits of aluminum and the importance of employing can-do people.
Sun., Aug. 7, 2016
Front & Center: Tainio Technology cultivates success
Running in circles isn’t always a waste of time. “When I was in college, I took a fitness class,” recalls Athena “Teena” Tainio, “and one day while running around the …
Sun., June 19, 2016
Front & Center: Dog trainer Penney Morse shares new tricks
Dog trainer Penney Morse helps owners break bad habits and teaches new tricks.
Sun., April 24, 2016
Front & Center: House mover Jude Doty give new life to old homes
There is household recycling, and then there’s whole house recycling. Most of us divert a few ounces of aluminum, paper and plastic from the waste stream each week.
Tue., Feb. 16, 2016
Front and Center: Business coach Kevin Weir instills teamwork
Kevin Weir has always been a team player. Ask him about high school, and he recounts wrestling and football at Ferris.
Sun., Jan. 10, 2016
Front and Center: The Best of Balazs
Harold Balazs has always been part artist, part prankster. He even borrowed his motto – “transcend the bullshit” – from original “merry prankster” Ken Kesey.
Mon., Jan. 4, 2016
Front & Center: Land Expressions
When Dave Nelson graduated from Washington State University three decades ago, the economy was emerging from recession and there weren’t many opportunities for freshly minted landscape architects.
Sun., Dec. 6, 2015
Front & Center: Dave Richardson found a good home at Spokane Humane Society
Since taking the reins 10 years ago, Dave Richardson has stabilized the Spokane Humane Society’s finances, increased the animal save rate to 98 percent, and eliminated euthanasia as a means …
UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 2, 2015
Front & Center: Drawing for dollars and a laugh
As hobbies go, what could be more affordable than drawing cartoons? But as a career, cartooning is a joke. Just ask David Rowles, who has been tickling Journal of Business …
Sun., Sept. 27, 2015
Bushels of success
REARDAN – Keith Bailey earned his college degree through what he jokingly calls Washington State University’s “extended program.” “I started college in 1974 and finished in ’92.”
Sun., Sept. 20, 2015
Copper roofing expert still going strong at 70
Years ago, actors Robert Wagner and Jill St. John contacted Joe Zappone about having copper shingles installed on their roof. “Jill and I got along good on the phone,” Zappone …
Sun., Sept. 6, 2015
Whitworth professor makes music his lifelong pursuit
Brent Edstrom’s job description sounds exhausting: college professor, author, transcriber, composer, performer. “One of the things I always tell my students is that the music business requires an entrepreneurial spirit,” …
Sun., Aug. 23, 2015
Customers become canvas for Tiger Tattoo owner
In his youth, Walt Dailey envisioned becoming a doctor. “It only appealed to me because they make a lot of money and have respect,” he acknowledged.
Sun., Aug. 2, 2015
Winning strategy
On Berry Fowler’s 31st birthday, his mother gave him a book titled “Ten Young Millionaires.” Fowler, an art teacher, read the book over Christmas break, got inspired, and within a …
Sun., July 26, 2015
Eyes on the skies
Dirty shorts and cleats aren’t typical attire when applying for a job. But Michelle Skomars is anything but typical. And the job application was an impulse.
Sun., July 19, 2015
Log furniture business thrives on low, high tech
Dan Booterbaugh traces the roots of his career to a high school elective that may be heading toward extinction: wood shop. “When I was a senior,” he recalled, “I had …
