Hope has a solid core of community businesses. Not so well known though are these interesting ventures!
When is the last time you walked into a health food store and bought or ordered a pair of shoes. Yes, Treehouse Health Foods is selling shoes. Well, very soon anyway! And not just any old economy loafers. Lonni and Joe have researched the market extensively. They will provide shoes and workboots that you can't find in town already and are known for their good quality.
Manon Schonewille has an online business called Join a Family. Manon's family is familiar with the ins and outs of finding and incorporating au-pairs into their family. She realized though that the connecting mechanisms for au-pairs and searching families weren't as well set up and not as family friendly as she would have preferred. So, she made a better one, with the help of her web developer husband Matthijs, of Exit170.com.
Anna Gladue of Anna's Incense chose to close her storefront location and run her unique business behind another store front, at Page's Bookstore .
The same scenario played itself out in the business lives of Nancy Brown and Arly Doyle of the Leafusion Tea Company . Although faithful patrons loved their Tea Shoppe, they opted to bring their tea joy to the people with Home Tea Parties!
What was Peggy Sue's is now Backstage Pass Emporium. Eclectic here equals belly dancing costumes, music lessons, hard icecream cones, rock'nroll memorabelia and now partnered with the Sasquatch Sign Company . All this under one roof! Why wouldn't you stop in here?
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