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East Oregonian
Saturday, June 20, 2015
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Contact Jade McDowell
at jmcdowell@eastorego-
nian.com or 541-564-4536.
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its cage. A pair of parakeets
coo and chirp in the back-
ground. And two huge tiger
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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
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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.
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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
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recall to 33.8 million, making
it the largest automotive
recall in U.S. history.
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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.
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disappear. Repeal would
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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
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excise tax on high-cost
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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
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(AP) — Repealing Pres-
ident Barack Obama’s
signature health care law
would modestly increase
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the number of uninsured
Americans would rise by
more than 20 million, said
a nonpartisan government
study released Friday.
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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
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decade, CBO said, even
though almost $1.7 trillion
in coverage costs would
to pressure from the National
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Administration and declared
many of its products defec-
tive, agreeing to double the
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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
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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
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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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