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When local supports local
As a consumer, you can spend your money anywhere you choose. Steve Walbolt, owner of MDG Flooring America and Kiba Studios, suggests that supporting locally owned businesses can offer advantages to your community. Here, he explains more. Q: How does shopping local help one’s community?A: The money you spend with a local business is more...
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Katy Dix Brahler, of Re/Max, gives the inside scoop on what’s happening in the real estate market right now
Local Re/Max Realtor Katy Dix Brahler doesn’t like to brag, and she doesn’t have to. Her numbers speak for themselves. In 2022, she sold more than $18 million in real estate. How does she manage to operate up in the rarified atmosphere so few real estate agents ever reach? By staying steps ahead of what’s happening in the...
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Are you open? Here’s how to keep your holiday hours up to date
During the holiday season, many businesses change their hours depending on the day of week when various holidays fall. This can be confusing and frustrating to customers. Are you open on Christmas Day? Are you closing early Christmas Eve? What about New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? Are you closing completely for the last week of the...
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A Final Thought: The Power of Apology
I have been taken to task by Mimi readers upset at my use of Jesus’s name as an interjection in my November column, My How Time Flies. We often call out to the heavens instinctively and spontaneously in moments of great joy, fear or shock, yet one can soften these reactions to the less offensive “gosh,” “golly,” “jees,”...
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ABC Equipment Rental & Sales sells and rents top-quality brands, including Kubota construction equipment
Right now ABC Equipment Rental & Sales co-owners Alan Zatik and Jamie Terpay are helping area contractors get the equipment they need and enjoy the last-minute tax advantages offered by Section 179 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.{1} When you take delivery of your equipment before the end of the year you may be able to write off your entire...
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