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Page 8A BUSINESS East Oregonian Saturday, June 20, 2015 Higher deficits if Family investing in Main Street health law tossed HERMISTON By JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian A local family is trying redirect local shoppers from the Tri-Cities to Main Street Hermiston with two new business ventures. Rob Zumwalt and his son Sheridan opened Z Sports Collectibles last week. He and his wife Alisa also purchased Bloomz Floral & Boutique DQGDUHH[SDQGLQJWKHÀRZHU shop into a full-scale boutique and candy shop. “We’re trying to work really hard to keep people in town by staying very competitive on prices,” he said. “We’re trying to give people different things than they’ve had available in Hermiston before.” One of those things the Zumwalts noticed when they returned to Hermiston after several years of living in Portland was that there was nowhere in town to buy sports collectibles like NFL jerseys, hats and mugs. Sheridan, a former Hermiston High School football player, said he had worked in a sports store in Portland as a teenager and really enjoyed it. He also has experience helping extended family members run various businesses, so he and his father decided to set up shop in Hermiston. In addition to offering sports merchandise, they also threw in super hero and Star Wars themed items to appeal Staff photo by Jade McDowell Sheridan Zumwalt, left, and Rod Zumwalt opened Z Sports Collectibles on Main Street this month. to a broader range of people. “We tried to make it as diverse as possible,” he said. “Kids aren’t always into sports.” The store features everything from Batman watches to Miami Dolphins lanyards. Sheridan said the longer the store is open the more he and his father can WDLORU WKHLU VHOHFWLRQ WR ¿W local customers’ interest. Seattle Seahawks items have already proved popular, and he said several people have requested more Portland Timbers merchandise. Rod said the idea had “been in the works for a long time.” The transition has been a busy one because it comes on the heels of the Zumwalts taking over ownership of %ORRP] WKH ÀRZHU VKRS RQ the corner of Highway 395 and Main Street, a month ago. Alisa Zumwalt and Terra Nava are running the store’s day to day operations, which they have expanded to include gourmet chocolates and other sweets, boutique gifts, tuxedo rentals, party supplies and more. “We’re trying to be as fun and laid back as possible,” Alisa said. Rod said they retained the same staff at Bloomz so people who were used WR ZRUNLQJ ZLWK D VSHFL¿F ÀRULVW RQ DUUDQJHPHQWV FDQ continue to do so. He said the family is trying to become a true part of the Main Street community, involving both businesses in endeavors like Funfest and the city’s 3 on 3 basketball tournament. Z Sports Collectibles is located at 215 E. Main St. behind Lucky Endz and Goss Family Jewelers. It is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Bloomz Floral & Boutique is at 106 E. Main St. and is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. ——— Contact Jade McDowell at jmcdowell@eastorego- nian.com or 541-564-4536. 1HZSHWVWRUHVSHFLDOL]HVLQELJ¿VK A scaly iguana darts across its cage. A pair of parakeets coo and chirp in the back- ground. And two huge tiger RVFDU¿VKDOPRVWDIRRWORQJ each with black-and-orange calico marbling, lurk in the water of their tank. Welcome to All Pets LLC, Pendleton’s newest animal shop. Owner John All, 34, spent roughly $5,000 to open the menagerie last Saturday at 220 S.E. Third St. The new business owner worked for two years at a local Sinclair gas station. $IWHUJHWWLQJD¿VKWDQNZLWK tax return money, he looked around town for something WR¿OOLWEXWFRXOGQ¶W¿QGWKH NLQGRI¿VKKHZDQWHG The aggressive kind, that is. See, All remembers coming home as a teenager WR KLV EHORYHG JROG¿VKGH- YRXULQJ RVFDU ¿VK ³, MXVW are costs you don’t think of right away when starting a pet store, he said. A $100 business license here. Thirty dollars monthly for business insurance there. Plus the occasional emergency run to buy animal medicine. Once, he had a tank of ¿VKWKDWVHHPHGKHDOWK\EXW KHFDPHLQWRWKHVKRSWR¿QG them “dead overnight.” Among the lizards, birds DQG ¿VK WKH VWRUH RIIHUV$OO Staff Photo by Jonathan Bach Two oscar fish swim in a tank in All Pets LLC, Pend- wagers his best-sellers so leton’s newest pet shop. Owner John All opened the far have been colorful angel shop June 13. ¿VKDQGHHOVERWKIUHVKZDWHU ¿VK ³(YHU\RQH ZDQWV DQ ORYH ELJ PHDQ ¿VK WKDW HDW the shop by himself. JROG¿VK´ KH VDLG ³7KH\¶UH 7KLV LV KLV ¿UVW IRUD\ eel,” he said. He said people want to sort of like little puppy dogs. into business ownership. You come home and they’re It’s “kind of terrifying, but know if he’ll begin to sell VDOWZDWHU ¿VK ³1HYHU WULHG at the glass, wanting to see exciting, too,” he said. what you’re doing.” He doesn’t know exactly that in my whole life, so So, he decided to start when he’ll break even but that would be an even larger a pet store with money his seems glad to have made OHDUQLQJ FXUYH WR ¿JXUH WKDW mother had set aside for him. some $300 since opening last out,” All said. Will he? All used a large portion of the weekend. He said, “I might. I’ll set funds to rent a retail space, All has found that entre- then he bought tanks and preneurship doesn’t come something up in the back so if food for the animals. He runs without its surprises. There it fails, nobody has to see it.” GM adds more than 243,000 cars to Takata air bag recall DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding more than 243,000 compact hatchbacks in the U.S. and Canada to the growing recall for air bags that can explode with too much force. The company said Friday that the expanded recall for passenger air bags covers the Pontiac Vibe from 2003 through 2007. The cars were designed by Toyota and made at jointly owned factory in California. They’re twins of the Toyota Matrix, which was recalled earlier. The Vibe recall comes after Takata Corp. of Japan agreed in May to double the VL]H RI LWV DLU EDJ LQÀDWRU recall to 33.8 million, making it the largest automotive recall in U.S. history. The propellant in some 7DNDWD LQÀDWRUV FDQ EXUQ too quickly, blowing apart a metal canister and sending shrapnel into the passenger compartment. The problem has been blamed for at least seven deaths and more than 100 injuries. Last month Takata bowed disappear. Repeal would UHGXFH GH¿FLWV LQ WKH ¿UVW few years but increase them steadily as time goes on. Repeal would up the number of uninsured people by about 24 million people, and the share of U.S. adults with health insurance would drop from roughly 90 percent now to about 82 percent, the report said. On the other side of the balance sheet, the report says that completely repealing the law would, on average, boost the economy by 0.7 percent a year after the start of 2020. That’s mostly because more people would enter the workforce or work more hours to make up for the lack of govern- ment health care subsidies. But the positive economic effects of repeal would fade over time, the budget agency said, offset by the increased budget GH¿FLWV 5HSHDO RI WKH excise tax on high-cost plans is a major reason why GH¿FLWV ZRXOG LQFUHDVH LQ later years, because more and more plans would be hit by this “Cadillac tax.” HERMISTON Fontaines back in restaurant business By SEAN HART EO Media Group PENDLETON By JONATHAN BACH East Oregonian WA S H I N G T O N (AP) — Repealing Pres- ident Barack Obama’s signature health care law would modestly increase WKH EXGJHW GH¿FLW ZKLOH the number of uninsured Americans would rise by more than 20 million, said a nonpartisan government study released Friday. The report from the &RQJUHVVLRQDO%XGJHW2I¿FH comes ahead of a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling that could have a major impact on the Affordable Care Act, nullifying health insurance subsidies for some 6 million people in more than 30 states. The budget analysts said that would add a host of new uncertainties to their estimates. Republicans now in control of both chambers of Congress say they are not backing away from their promise to repeal Obamacare. But repealing the law’s spending cuts and tax increases would add $137 billion to the federal GH¿FLW RYHU WKH FRPLQJ decade, CBO said, even though almost $1.7 trillion in coverage costs would to pressure from the National +LJKZD\ 7UDI¿F 6DIHW\ Administration and declared many of its products defec- tive, agreeing to double the QXPEHU RI DLU EDJ LQÀDWRUV being recalled. Chuck and Karen Fontaine took over Stock- mans Restaurant in Herm- iston late last year, but they aren’t new to the Hermiston restaurant scene. The Fontaines bought WKHLU ¿UVW +HUPLVWRQ restaurant, the Steel Wheel, in 1976 and later changed the name to Fontaine’s Restaurant. That restaurant was a staple in Hermiston until the couple semi-re- tired in 2006. Karen said she has been excited to see many former customers at Stockmans, at 1530 N. First Street in Hermiston. “Both of us came from here, and my husband’s mother had a restaurant here back in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s,” she said. “We just like it. We like the restaurant business. We like the people.” She said they decided not to change the name to Fontaine’s — at least not yet — because they only signed a three-year contract. After that, she said she would be 75 and her husband would be 80. “We think that’s prob- ably long enough,” she said. “We think, by the time we’re that old, we probably should be getting the heck out of here.” Karen Fontaine said, although it features the same quality service and Sean Hart photo Karen and Chuck Fon- taine took over Stock- mans Restaurant in Hermiston in December. skill in the kitchen, Stock- mans is different than their previous restaurants. While their former focus was on higher-end meals, such as steak and lobster, Stock- mans offers meals such as meat loaf and hot roast beef sandwiches. “We have lamb and steaks, so they’re a little upgraded, but then you still have the chicken fried steaks and the old-fashioned meals,” she said. Another big change is that Stockmans offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. The business opens at 6 a.m. every day and stays open until 10 p.m. Sundays and Mondays and until 11 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Karen Fontaine said they are trying to get lottery machines for the lounge area, which would probably then remain open longer. With longer hours, she said Stockmans has 20 employees. 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