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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2015
Dog groomer comes to you
Couple travels
across the U.S.
to fetch mobile
grooming van
massage dogs as they’re be-
ing cleaned, and the electric
grooming table adjusts for
different sizes of pets.
Prices for dog grooming
are based on the breed of the
pet and the condition of its
coat, said Lincoln, who styles
each clip to the customer’s
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
HAMMOND — A pet
groomer for 14 years, Karen
Lincoln was thinking of a job
for her partial retirement. Lit-
tle did she know it would take
her and her husband, James,
on a cross-country journey.
They traveled to New
Hampshire to pick up a con-
verted Dodge Sprinter van
with a full-service grooming
station inside for her new
business, The Dog Wash
Waggin’.
“The most common issue
I’ve heard from pet owners is
that they don’t like the time it
takes to drive to the groom-
er, wait two or three hours
to pick up their pet and then
return home again,” said Lin-
coln, who will travel from
Knappa to Cannon Beach to
owners wanting their animals
groomed.
The van features a self-con-
tained heated water source of
up to 60 gallons, stores its
own wastewater and uses a
vacuum system that picks up
hair as a dog is clipped and a
Cross country
When the Lincolns went
looking for mobile dog groom-
ing vans, the search took them
to the other end of the coun-
try in New Hampshire, from
which they proceeded south to
Florida to visit friends, then on
up to Hammond.
The van had to follow
a snowplow for 150 miles
through a storm, said James
Lincoln, but the roughest part
was going through demon-
strations in New York City.
The Lincolns traveled through
New York City during protests
in the aftermath of the Dec. 3
decision by a grand jury not
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Karen Lincoln, a pet groomer for 14 years, traveled to
New Hampshire with husband James to buy a mobile dog
washing and grooming vehicle for her new business, The
Dog Wash Waggin’.
hand-held dryer. The stainless
a Bathing Beauty System us-
ing pulses of warm water to
Pantaleo in the choking death
of Eric Garner.
Now back in Hammond
after her whirlwind tour of the
U.S., Karen Lincoln said she’s
starting the business, setting
up a Facebook page and her
website at www.thedogwash-
waggin.com. She’s also avail-
able at 503-440-6225.
Buoy Beer barrels into Portland
Buoy Beer Co. announced
that Maletis Beverage will
distribute its lineup of beer
to the greater Portland, Sa-
lem and southwest Wash-
ington regions.
“Maletis does great
work with a fantastic rep-
utation and we’re excited
to partner with them to get
exciting because it will allow us
to expand from the coast and
get our beers into the beer
mecca that is Portland,”
added Buoy Beer Head
Brewer Kevin Shaw, a
20-plus-year veteran of
a larger area in the coming months,”
said Buoy Beer co-founder David Kro-
ening.
“This partnership with Maletis is very
Northwest. “Maletis has
great relationships with re-
tailers and we look forward to
working with them to bring our beers
to the thirsty consumers in the north-
west.”
Buoy Beer Co. brews on a 20-barrel
Mathews presides
over chamber in 2015
The Astoria-Warrenton
Area Chamber of Com-
merce, at its annual ban-
quet Saturday night, an-
nounced Loran Mathews,
organizer of the Scandina-
vian Midsummer Festival,
as the president of its board
of directors for 2015. He is
joined by:
• David Reid, the pres-
ident throughout 2014
and the local proprietor
of Aflac. His term on the
board lasts until 2017.
• Treasurer Lorrie Radu
of P & L Johnson Mechan-
ical, whose term lasts until
2016.
• Caroline Wuebben
of Holiday Inn Express,
whose term ends this year.
The chamber’s advi-
sory board includes Andi
Day from the Long Beach
Visitors Bureau; Astoria
City Manager Brett Estes;
Warrenton City Manager
Kurt Fritsch; Superinten-
dent Craig Hoppes of the
Loran Mathews
Astoria School District;
Director Kevin Leahy from
Clatsop Economic Devel-
opment Resources (CEDR)
and Clatsop Community
College’s Small Business
Development Center; Bran-
don Craft from the Cham-
ber Ambassadors; and Clat-
sop County Manager Scott
Somers.
Metalcraft Fabrication brew house for
its main-line of European Style Lagers
and Northwest Ales. It also brews on a
Portland Kettle Works three-barrel pilot
system for specialty beers served in its
taproom and restaurant.
“Buoy’s waterfront location in As-
toria, where the Pacific Ocean meets
the Columbia River, is one of our
country’s greatest natural wonders and
our sales team will help bring a bit of
that experience to thousands of retail-
ers in Oregon and (southwest) Wash-
ington,” said Rob Maletis, owner of
Maletis Beverage.
Tongue Point
Job Corps earns
chamber honor
While Buoy Beer Company was named Asto-
ria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce’s member
of the year for 2014, Tongue Point Job Corps Center
took home the honors for January.
Many people driving past the Tongue Point Job
Corps Center sign on U.S. Highway 30 might not
know about the 64-acre campus, home to 473 students
training in 16 different trades, as well as earning col-
lege credit. Opening its doors to students 50 years ago
on Feb. 2, 1965, more than 25,000 young adults have
studied at Tongue Point.
The fourth largest employer in Clatsop County, Job
Corps has employed more than 150 local residents
every year since it opened. Through wages, student
spending, college tuition, local contracts and local
purchasing, it infuses about $10.5 million annually to
the local economy.
In addition to items crafted by students as part
of their learning, which are popular auction items
for nonprofits’ fundraisers, students and staff annu-
ally contribute more than 5,000 hours of communi-
ty service and career service training, worth about
$100,000, to nonprofit organizations and local agen-
cies.
Grow your business with social media
The Astoria Downtown Historic Dis-
trict Association (ADHDA) is holding
one of its merchant-focused series of
short Novel Efforts Downtown (NED)
Talks, “Five Ways to Get More Cus-
tomers through the Door with Social
Media,” at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Street 14
Coffee, 1410 Commercial St. NEDTalks
are free and open to the public. No RSVP
required.
Speaker Tara Gentile will help busi-
ness owners channel their everyday ac-
tivity into social media updates that bring
in customers, both new and loyal. Gentile
is a business strategist and the creator of
Quiet Power Strategy. Since 2009, she’s
grown a thriving business online using
social media with active communities
on Twitter, Facebook, and her blog. Her
work also has been feature in Fast Com-
pany, Forbes, DailyWorth, and Design*-
Sponge.
For information, call Alana Garner at
503-791-7940.
‘Ready, Set, Start Your
Business’ class offered
Clatsop
Economic
Development
Resourc-
es (CEDR) returns with
its continuing workshop
Ready, Set, Start Your Busi-
ness Jan. 21 in Astoria.
Instructor Tom Leiner,
co-owner of Pat’s Pantry
spice shop and an adviser
with CEDR and Clatsop
Community
College’s
Small Business Develop-
ment Center, teaches partic-
ipants how to:
• Identify their reasons
for starting a business.
• Decide whether busi-
ness ownership is right for
them.
• Evaluate business op-
portunities.
• Learn the basics of
starting a business.
• Research market po-
tential and the feasibility of
an idea.
• Plan for and manage
growth.
If participants decide
they want to actively pursue
opening a business, they
-
dential appointment with an
adviser from the college.
The workshop costs $20,
payable at class with check
or credit card. To register,
email SBDC@clatsopcc.
edu, or call 503-338-2402.
EDWARD STRATTON — The Daily Astorian
Jerry Richardson runs Advanced Collision Repair in
Seaside. Richardson, who has won multiple environ-
mental certifications and awards, has taken pains to
make his operation more environmentally conscious,
including a fully enclosed downdaft painting booth.
Making
the
Dollar
INTERVIEWS WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES
BY EDWARD STRATTON
Jerry Richardson, owner
Advanced Collision Repair
1202 South Holladay Drive
Seaside
503-738-9321 or
jerry@crash1-4me.com
What do you do?
“All phases of automotive repair. Collision is our
primary business, but we do home mechanical, also.
We have to, because when a car’s in a wreck, the me-
chanical part gets damaged. People don’t think of a
body shop as a mechanic’s shop, but we’re actually
more qualified than most mechanic’s shops.”
How did you get into this business?
“I started as a kid in school, just interested in
cars. Started working in my garage, around my folks’
house fixing things when I was a kid and got a job
at a shop — in 1968 was when I first got paid to fix
something. This business, I got the name Advanced
Auto Body in 1972. And it’s followed me tax-wise. I
moved down here in ’82 from Longview (Wash.) and
worked in a shop that was in Gearhart … for a while
and then bought a piece of property and had my own
shop at the (Seaside) airport where Kiwi Glass is.
Then (I) sold that and went home and worked for
a while — was doing insurance work at home —
and then bought this place and started fixing it up.
I think we (Richardson and wife Jan) bought this in
2003.”
Who is your clientele?
“We get a mix of everything. We have people come
from the Long Beach (Wash.) Peninsula, from Tilla-
mook, Seattle. We have some customers who actually
save their dents up and come to experience what we
do here. We do really high-quality work. The other
shops talk about it or advertise it, but we actually do
it.”
What are some of the quirks or challenges of
running your business?
“Challenges are dealing with the insurance compa-
ny, hampering our ability … to make a profit, or work
at such a tight margin to do a quality job that it’s dif-
ficult. The insurance company’s the biggest problem.
Everybody thinks ‘Oh; they pay so much.’ No, they
don’t. They chisel us down so tight that most shops
will buckle to that and do a cheap job and ‘Boom;
there you go.’ But we try to do a quality repair, so
we’re on a tighter margin.”
Clatsop County
Buyer: Michael A. Mur-
dock
Address: 170 S.W. Kal-
mia Ave., Warrenton
Price: $285,000
na Road, Seaside
Price: $340,000
Seller: Steven M. Scigli-
ano
Buyer: Justin M. Guyette
Address: 421 12th Ave.,
Seaside
Price: $215,000
Property Transactions
Sellers: Robert G. Murray
and Janice L. Murray
Buyer:
Angela
J.
Cooter
Address: 89556 Shady
Pine Road, Warrenton
Price: $520,000
Seller: Generation Mort-
gage Company
Buyers: Jeffrey Bodner
and Celeste Bodner
Address: 2145 N. Wahan-
Seller: Clatsop County
Buyer: U.S. Bank Nation-
al Association
Address: 799 4th Ave.,
Seaside
Price: $301,074
Seller: Sunrise Homes,
Inc.
Sellers: Donald M. Mc-
Daniel and Edith H. McDan-
iel
Buyers: Justin C. Hall and
Alesia Lau
Address: 1268 Kensing-
ton Ave., Astoria
Price: $196,000