Variety and drug stores are the old souls of retail –at once nostalgic and entirely relevant. They carry better quality items than a dollar store and are less daunting than a big box store. They carry the items you need every day, the items you forget to pack, and the best gifts. They are the […]
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Playing at the Sandbox
When I first walked into Sandbox Bookstore in Moses Lake in early August 2023, I immediately noticed the cozy, peaceful ambiance that exists within any of my favorite bookstores throughout the Pacific Northwest, along with a type of creative chaos that emerges whenever used and new books share shelving.Sandbox has that intentional, personalized curation, allowing […]
It’s time to get comfortable (and update your appliances) at Moore Furniture
You can’t put a price tag on service. But that’s exactly what they do every day at Moore Furniture in Ephrata. Today the store is mostly ran by the fourth and fifth generation, including brothers Mike and Kelly Moore, Kelly’s wife Janice, and Mike’s sons, Matt and Nick. It was Nick Moore who took some […]
Game Night
Game night is the best! They are perfect for all those long, cold nights ahead of us, and a great way to spend time with friends and family in a “together” sort of way, instead of an all-on-our-own-screens kind of way. They are also a great way of avoiding all those topics we are trying […]
Something for Everybody Kind of Atmosphere
The ghost town of Menno in Adams County, near Lind, just sort of faded away, save the Mennonite church, which remains a center of community 100 years later. And since 1978 the Mennonite Country Auction revives the town for one day on the church grounds into a bustling, family-friendly, old-fashioned, good-time-for-everyone spectacle for one special […]
A Tasty Investment
The Lioness Lions of Moses Lake are fiercely independent and deeply committed to their community. Once, their work was more hands-on-service driven. Today, their work centers around one of, if not the, most significant investments our region has ever made: the Space Burger.An initial investment in 1964 of approximately $5,000 returned a whopping $1,000,000 (that’s […]