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KEEP IT LOCAL

Rexburg

St. Anthony

Sugar City

Ashton

Andeverywherein between

Island Park

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150 W. MAIN — 356-7722 — REXBURG

EMMILIE BUCHANAN [email protected]

REXBURG—With spring cleaning season approaching, one Rexburg com-pany is making big noise here locally and nationally with a new approach to garage organization.

Rexburg is the headquarters for Monkey Bar Storage Systems, a com-pany that came to the area in 2006.

Monkey Bar Storage Systems, also known as Gorgeous Garage has over 80 dealers throughout North America. They choose to stay in Rexburg.

“As we have rapidly expanded, we’ve been presented with opportunities to move our business elsewhere. We have made the decision to stay here in Rexburg, based on a number of factors. One factor that received serious con-sideration was the culture of our sur-roundings,” said Kris Nielson, CEO of Gorgeous Garage

The company was started in 2002 when founder Jared Newman wanted to make his garage more efficient. He began to question the use of his garage when it could no longer fit both of his cars. What followed was an idea that has turned into a national patented com-pany, offering homeowners organized garages at affordable prices.

The Monkey Bar systems efficiently consolidates garage items by making use of the vertical space for storage. Through a system of shelves, hooks and steel brackets, the storage system is a

completely customizable system that will accommodate any garage.

“It allows long term storage to be moved up and out of the way, and allows the things you use more often to be hang-ing. It saves you space because every-thing is condensed.” said Area Manager J.T. Wilde.

The system costs less than a third of cabinet storage. Also, because of how the system is designed, the shelves are capable of holding up to one thousand pounds every 4 feet.

“We offer high quality products at a really good price,” said Wilde when asked about why the company is so success-ful. “People are staying in their houses longer; they start to need new solutions to their storage needs. It’s the total bang for your buck.”

The company is looking optimistically towards the future.

“The sky’s the limit,” said J.T. Wilde, Area Manager for the company. “We’ve been doing great things locally and nationally. We’ll continue to expand like we have.”

Locally, the company envisions each member of the Rexburg community equipped with their product, and offered at an affordable price.

“As the manufacturer of this patented garage storage system, we’ve chosen to extend our product and service at a sub-stantially discounted rate to our local community members. We see this as an opportunity to give back to the area we love so much,” said Wilde.

Monkey Bar Storagecourtesey photo

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EMMILIE [email protected]

REXBURG—Two local men are busy at work in the base-ment of the Family Crisis Center sawing, drilling and hammer-ing new shelves. Margie Harris, director for the center walks past them with a perplexed look on her face. “Why are you here?” she asks. They were waiting while their wives interned and decided to build some shelves. This is the type of character that keeps the Family Crisis Center running.

Because of the continual sup-port of local schools, students and volunteers, the Family Crisis Center is offering more services than ever to give back to the community. On March 15, they will open the doors of a new thrift store.

The Family Crisis Center is a non-profit organization offer-ing services locally for victims of domestic violence and sex-ual assault. Dependent almost entirely upon grants, the organi-zation has struggled for stability due to government spending and a shifty economy. New ideas for creating local stability are being sought out.

And that’s why the thrift store is the perfect fit.

“The community is highly generous,” said Harris. “They will always turn around and donate again.”

It will provide In October of 2011, the Family

Crisis Center moved to its new location on Main Street. Since then, they have offered contin-ued services for domestic abuse and adopted new means of com-munity support.

After the move, the Family Crisis Center board made the decision to open the thrift store, and have been working towards

it ever since. It has required a lot of repair and renovation, but through the help of local volun-teers and Eagle Scout projects it will be ready to open in March.

The thrift store will be open Thursdays and Fridays from 10-3, and will accept cash only.

The new location expanded the Family Crisis Center from 24 hundred square feet to 9 thousand square feet. They now have the space for the thrift store and the food bank, which will be in the basement.

Harris said that things have fallen into place for the thrift store to become a reality, but it has come from the generosity of others.

“We couldn’t have gotten this far without volunteers,” said Margie. “We’re in the position to set this facility up, but really it’s the community helping the community.”

Along with the thrift store, the Family Crisis Center will offer food services as well.

Last summer local grocery stores Broulim’s and Albertsons began donating food such as produce and baked goods to the Crisis Center once a week.

The food bank had been estab-lished previously at the Crisis Center for established clients. However, due to the economic downturn, this organization saw a need within the community to extend food services outside of their clientele. With no funds designated specifically for a food bank, they started receiving donations.

The food bank is open on Wednesdays from 6-7. Those interested in this service will be required to fill out forms indi-cating their need for assistance.

With the growth of the cen-ter, and the need to sustain their services locally, the Family Crisis

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Family Crisis Center ‘Thrift Store’Standard journal/EMMIlIE BuCHanan

Standard journal/EMMIlIE BuCHanan

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WE MEAN BUSINESS!SHOPPING LOCAL

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Telephone: (208) 356-5700Fax: (208) 356-5799

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Executive DirectorRexburg Area Chamber of Commerce

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SUGAR CITY— Perseverance, attention to detail and quality customer service has kept Brad’s Sinclair up and running- and celebrating its 10-year anniver-sary.

After a beginning struggle to sustain success and customers, Brad’s Sinclair remains as the only gas station in Sugar City, and has been faithfully serving the community since February of 2002.

In 2011 the store received the Secret Shopper award. Out of 2,700 locations in the U.S., only 22 stores will be given the award. A mystery shopper from the Sinclair company will come three different times within the year and observe three different aspects of the store: cleanliness, image and customer service. Each area has a 50 point check-list, and stores must score 100%

to be eligible. Brad’s Sinclair won this award

previously in 2006. Brad Orme, owner of the store

said he is always looking for ways to expand and update the store. Some of the changes to the store include new coolers, fuel pumps and an increased selec-tion of merchandise.

“We carry everything from knives to oil to milk.” he said.

Orme said the store is an asset to the community because people appreciate having a place to buy a gallon of milk at 9 p.m. He said Brad’s Sinclair is always looking to meet the needs of the community.

“We pay attention to detail,” said Orme. “It’s always clean, always friendly, and always well stocked.”

This summer, Brad’s Sinclair will host an event to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. It will include giveaways, prizes and awards.

10 years of successEmmiliE Buchanan/Standard Journal

the orme’s at Brad’s Sinclair in Sugar city.

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Coupon Expires 9/30/12

Stop, Eat, and Shop

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160 W. 2nd S. Suite #103Rexburg, ID. 83440 • 656-0355

Updated Classics with an Edgy TwistWomen’s BoutiqueClothing & Accessories

KEEP IT LOCALJOYCE [email protected]

ST. ANTHONY — A love of handcrafted soap has morphed into a small business for Amy Grows.

With help from her husband, Walt, son, Casey, and a loyal customer base, the Camas Creek Soap Co. has grown to the break-even stage.

“We’re somewhat self-sup-porting,” she says during a tour of the company’s factory, supply room and show room — also known as her kitchen and laun-dry room.

Since the company launched two years ago, she’s sold soap from Island Park to New Zealand and from Spain to the Midwest. And her well-organized and pro-fessionally displayed product has become a mainstay of area farmers markets and craft fairs.

Island Park campers, includ-ing camp hosts, search out her citronella-scented Shoo Fly soap to help keep the bugs at bay.

Fly-fishing shop customers buy her packages of pretty soaps with soft loofah sponges on a hand-made redwood soap dish as presents for their wives and girl friends back home.

Kids seek out the colorfully labeled Cotton Candy and Mud Pie soap.

She and her family make all of these soaps and more by hand from recipes fine-tuned by expe-rience.

Amy says she’s always been interested in handmade soaps, mainly because she loved the scents and the way they make her skin feel. She tried many before deciding to try her own hand at the craft to develop

the best bar for her. She found a company that came close to producing the perfect bars and asked if she could learn from them.

She took two basic classes from a woman that runs the Greencastle Soap Co. in north-ern Idaho, perused plenty of books and gave it a try.

“It’s really a science,” she says. Though people have made soap throughout history, and the basic concept of soap made from lye and tallow or oils has been around since the 17th century, making a perfect bar of soap takes the right ingredients in the right proportions and seri-ous attention to detail.

She has experimented with many recipes for different soaps and keeps meticulous notes about what does and doesn’t work.

Cautious as she was learning the craft, “now I’m braver, bolder and experiment more,” she says. Still, she’s found that shortcuts don’t work.

Also through trial and error, she has found the best suppliers for her olive, coconut and essen-tial oils, as well as the chemicals she uses to make lye. She buys as locally as much as possible. She grows her own flowers and herbs, and family members in different climates supply some of the herbs she uses. Her brother grows rosemary. He also sends her flowers seeds, such as calen-dulas, which she grows, too, and uses in her soaps.

Other ingredients come right from the kitchen pantry — oat-meal and cornmeal for exfoliat-ing properties and tumeric for color.

The small batches that pro-

duce a six-pounds block of soap are cooked up in a stainless steel pot on her stove with the mixing done carefully by hand and poured slowly into the molds made by her husband. The blocks are cooled, cured and cut by hand, and the edges are shaped with the most basic of kitchen gadgets, a potato peeler.

While selling the finished product brings in enough cash to keep the company in business, the fun part is being able to give it away, she says.

The company cooked up bars of camouflage-colored soap and wrapped them in labels with the 116th Engineer’s symbol and sent care packages of soap and Starbucks coffee packets to National Guard members serv-

ing in Afghanistan.On a smaller scale, Amy has

enjoyed giving bars of soap to kids for pennies and to others for no reason at all. She handed this reporter a cleverly stamped bar made of a blend of oils formulat-ed to help dry skin. And she has donated bars of soap as prizes for the upcoming Feathers ‘n’ Fins cross-country ski race in Island Park Saturday.

Most of her sales come through word of mouth. “My daughter is my Midwest rep,” she says. Her daughter sells the soap to friends and neighbors in Indiana.

Orders also go to New Mexico and California and even to folks who pick up the products in parking lots in Idaho Falls.

Occasionally she will barter her soap for other products or ser-vices.

She doesn’t market via the Internet, preferring to handle orders via email at [email protected] . Upper valley cus-tomers are welcome to drop by her factory at her house to pick up the soap they need.

She works at soap production and sales only when she’s not working at her day job as a for-estry technician for the Forest Service for three quarters of the year. The day job limits the size of the soap business by necessity.

“When I retire I’d like to have a shop, a storefront,” she says. But for now she and the family are having fun making a prod-uct people like and will buy.

STANDARD JOURNAL/JOYCE EDLEFSEN

Amy Grows’ Camas Creek Soap Co. is ramping up production to fill orders from customers and build up stock for summer. These bars of soap will soon go to a fly-fishing shop in Island Park.

Cooking up soap

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Rena Torres arranges some of the items in her Baubles n Bits shop in St. Anthony. The shop is located in the rear of Sassy Floral on Bridge Street and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Torres has been marketing her jewelry, clothing and other boutique items on Facebook for a couple of years. Now customers can shop in person at the St. Anthony location.

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REXBURG - An out-door community event that combines neighborliness, fresh produce, crafts and delicious baked goods is coming again to Rexburg.

The Farmers Market, located just south of the Rexburg Tabernacle, will start up the end of April. The market will be operat-ing every Friday through the middle of October from 4 to 8 p.m.

A variety of entertain-ment is also in the works.

“There will be some great vendors and qual-ity produce,” said Rexburg spokesman Scott Johnson. “There’s something to be said for community mem-bers selling to community members.”

Vendors who are inter-ested in participating should contact the market manager at rexburgfarm-ersma rket @ g ma i l .c om before the last booths are gone.

For more information on the Farmers Market, go to farmersmarket.rexburg.org.

KEEP IT LOCALRexburg Farmers Market

courtesey photos

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Carousel InfoThe Carousel will open May 26 and will be open Monday thru Saturday 12:00-7:00 PM. Admission is $1 per ride.

The Carousel is the jewel of Porter Park and has been a family fun landmark in Rexburg for many years.

Come celebrate a birthday party this summer. Rent the carousel from 7:00-9:00 PM for $120.

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(MCS) – When buying anything from furniture to electronics, consumers are often inclined to turn to their nearby big box store as a first stop in comparison shopping. Although big box retailers do offer competitive prices, they may not be the best option for consumers trying to stay on budget or close to it. Boutique shops, often offer competitive prices and better overall ser-vice than bigger chains.• Good Things Come in Smaller Packages

Price is a major factor in where people shop. Millions

of people turn to big box retailers thinking they will get the best prices, but a lit-tle research can yield other findings. While some bigger chains may offer doorbuster sales luring customers in with the “item du jour,” in general, prices on most everyday items are the same or higher than other retailers. All it takes is an online comparison of a certain product to show the similarity in pricing.

According to University of Utah assistant market-ing professors Arul and Himanshu Mishra, it’s com-

mon to find similar pricing on most items in many big box stores. Therefore, these retailers use big-ticket items to attract customers, who then just stay in the store to get the remaining higher-margin items and accessories on their lists.

Shopping in smaller stores or independent online retail-ers also may be preferable to many consumers. The trend is to revitalize “Main Street America” by shopping small-er retailers and Mom & Pop establishments. Some compa-nies actually offer incentives

to do so. During the 2010 holiday season, American Express credited a portion of customers’ accounts on items purchased at small busi-nesses on the Saturday after Black Friday. There is a new initiative to rename that day “Small Business Saturday” in an effort to encourage more consumers to shop small busi-nesses, specialty and boutique retailers.• Better Service, Low Prices

Many shoppers, particu-larly younger shoppers with less disposable income, are under the mistaken impres-sion that big box retailers are the best way to shop due to widespread advertising by these retail giants. This type of shopping, however, could come at the expense of poor customer service or limited selection. Many independent retailers, offer price matching to remain competitive with the larger merchants in the area, and it’s hard to beat independent retailers on cus-tomer service or the avail-ability of a wide selection of distinct items.

What sets many smaller retailers apart from big box retailers is their dedication to service and providing cus-tomers with extensive prod-uct information, including customer product reviews, to help them make an informed decision.• Smaller Crowds and Fewer Hassles

Another advantage to shopping smaller retailers or even online is that shoppers

don’t have to drive long dis-tances, fight crowds, endure long lines, or hunt for parking spots, making for a stress-free shopping experience that’s also smart from an environ-mental standpoint.

Because of a more spe-cialized selection, dedicated product specialists also may be more knowledgeable about the stock and functionality of certain items.• Local Gives More Back

A September 2009 study in Civic Economics titled “Thinking Outside the Box: A Report on Independent Merchants and the Local Economy,” reviewed financial data from 15 locally owned businesses in New Orleans and compared these stores’ impact on the local econ-omy to that of an average SuperTarget(R) store. The study found that only 16 per-cent of the money spent at a SuperTarget stays in the local economy. In contrast, the local retailers returned more than 32 percent of their revenue to the local economy.

In many cases, local busi-nesses also shop local, equip-ping their stores and build-ing their Web sites with resources from other local companies. For example, through various affiliations, StudentMarket.com supports many U.S.-based furniture businesses, including sever-al North Carolina furniture manufacturers. This means more money is being kept in the neighborhood and in the country.

Buying local has it’s benefits

standard journal/derek Bergquist

some of the many local shops that can be found in rexburg, these are located on Main street.


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