Polk County News
2A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • September 6, 2017
BUSINESS NOTES
CrossFit gym moves to Main Street
DALLAS — Harvest CrossFit has moved to 761 Main St., in the
former Polka Dots building.
The Dallas Area Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon
cutting at the new location on Friday at 11 a.m.
Regular classes are offered Monday and Wednesday at 5 a.m.,
6 a.m., 8:30 a.m., noon, 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 8:30 a.m., noon, 4:30 p.m., 5:30
p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Go to harvestcrossfit.com for information on
pricing, introductory classes and programs for children and
teens.
Contact: Devin Jones — 509-899-2388 or devin@harvest-
crossfit.com; or MacLarin Jones — 509-859-3779 or
maclarin@harvestcrossfit.com.
State Farm moves to East Ellendale
DALLAS — State Farm agent Mitch Ratzlaff’s office has
moved to a newly remodeled building on East Ellendale in Dal-
las.
Ratzlaff’s new address is 488 E. Ellendale Ave., suite No. 1, across
Polk Station Road from the Dallas Department of Motor Vehicles
office. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Contact: 503-623-5875 or www.mitchratzlaff.com.
JOLENE GUZMAN/Itemizer-Observer
Ari Riecke, left, Anytime Fitness manager, and owners Kelly and Michael Davis recently reopened the downtown gym.
Anytime Fitness flexes muscles
at new downtown location
By Jolene Guzman
Anytime Fitness
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — Michael Davis
hasn’t gotten a lot of sleep
lately.
Davis and his wife, Kelly
Davis, recently opened their
new Anytime Fitness loca-
tion on Main Street in Dal-
las, and the remodel has
been his life for months.
“We are still trying to get
the finishing touches done.
We just couldn’t get it all
done before we had to be
out of the old building,”
Kelly said. “We had to move
in before we were complete-
ly finished. It’ll be another
two weeks, and we will be
done.”
Michael’s full-time job is
as a contractor, so he and a
small crew of family did
most of the work on an ex-
tensive remodel of the gym,
located in the former Plain &
Fancy shop.
On occasion, he and his
son would work for more
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than 36 hours at a time.
“We basically destroyed
everything, and then my
youngest son and I pretty
much put it back together,”
Michael said. “We’ve done
everything. We did the
demo. We poured the con-
crete floors. We framed
everything back in, insulat-
ed, painted, hung the doors,
did all the finish work.”
He installed a new roof
and took out a second story
in part of the building,
which was built in 1910.
“It leaves all of what
would normally be hidden
exposed on the inside,
which is kind of unique,” he
said. “It’s got little rough
ends here and there, but it is
a 107 years old. It’s entitled
to have a few rough ends.”
The building has housed
many businesses in its time
— a gas station, car dealer-
ship, hardware store and gift
shop — and Michael found
several relics from its past
lives. Kelly, who was born in
Dallas, plans to create a
shadow box and timeline
that will document the his-
tory of the building.
“We would really like to
showcase what this building
has been for the last 107
years,” she said.
Michael said a few mem-
bers stopped by as it evolved
from gift shop to gym, and a
few seemed worried about
the opening timeline.
“They would have this
puzzled and confused look
and would ask, ‘When are
you going to open?’”
Michael said.
But the family made it
work. Kelly took a vacation
from her full-time job at a
dentist’s office to help with
the move and make sure the
transition was smooth.
The new location pro-
vides about 2,000-square
feet of space for equipment,
a larger classroom and a
designated parking lot.
Now that they own the
gym building, the couple has
more freedom to make
changes as they see fit.
“We have some pretty
good exposure on Main
Street, and we were able to
take a building that was just
sitting here and make it to
s o m e t h i n g p r a c t i c a l ,”
Michael said.
That is another highlight
to the new location. Kelly
and Michael said they want
their business to be part of
the slow rebirth they see
happening in the city’s core.
Their hope is the move will
have their members spend
more time downtown.
“Our wish is for down-
town Dallas to be revital-
ized,” Kelly said.
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By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
D A L L A S — Tu e s d a y
marked the beginning of a
new school year and a new
school for Oakdale Heights
Elementary School Principal
Todd Baughman.
Baughman held the same
position at Lyle Elementary
School for 13 years.
“I’m really excited to work
with this new team,” Baugh-
man said Friday as teachers,
staff, and construction
crews rushed to get the
building ready Tuesday’s ar-
rival of students.
The 2017-18 school year
will be a transition for
Baughman and Oakdale.
Construction at the school
won’t be finished before
school begins, so students
will have to use temporary
detours around the multi-
purpose room that won’t be
complete for a few more
months. Students will have
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“ The
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“The kids are going to be ex-
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ground equipment. Unfor-
tunately, it won’t quite be
ready for the beginning of
the year.”
Construction on the mul-
tipurpose room will contin-
ue until January, as original-
ly planned.
Crews worked feverishly
last week to get the front en-
trance ready for Tuesday’s
“Orientation Day,” a day-
long open house in which
students and parents can
bring school supplies, meet
teachers and get informa-
tion on bus routes and
school lunches.
Workers were still paving
the sidewalk and working
on the roof and siding of the
entrance Friday.
“If everything goes ac-
cording to what we’ve been
planning and hearing for
the last couple of weeks, we
are on track, just in the nick
of time,” Baughman said.
He said his switch from
Lyle to Oakdale has been
smooth. He began spending
time at Oakdale in the
spring, gradually getting the
point where he was there
every day.
“Our mission is the same
at both of our K-3 schools.
We have shared practices,
instructional practices
a cro ss bo t h sc ho o l s,”
Baughman said. “We work a
lot jointly. The K-3 schools,
our staffs are together fre-
quently for trainings and get
togethers to share ideas and
support each other.”