GENEVA, Ill. – After nearly 88 years in business in the same location, Erday’s will sell its entire inventory and close its doors, president Victor Erday III said today. The store’s inventory sale opens to the public on Thursday. Erday’s, located at 10 N. Third St., will be open 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. weekdays, […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The two-year run of Jake’s Mens Wear is coming to a swift end as the store has lost its lease and will sell its entire inventory in a quitting business sale that begins Thursday, owner Jake Toman said today. “We had a year-to-year lease and a very fair short-term rate that went […]
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Imber’s Men’s Wear, which has served the local community for 80 years, is going out of business and will sell its entire inventory, owner Alan Legow announced today. The store’s inventory sale opens to the public on Thursday. Imber’s Men’s Wear, located at 144 N. Main St., will be open 9:00 a.m. […]
Farmer-activist Chris Pawelski, who operates a fourth-generation muck farm in New York’s Black Dirt region is the topic of a cover story in the December 2012 issue of Onion World written by Eric Woolson, owner of The Concept Works. To read about Pawelski, his farm operation and activism, click on, “Planting Seeds for Sound Agricultural […]
SIOUX FALLS — A local businessman whose store was damaged during a car chase last month has launched a fund drive for a state trooper critically injured in the incident. David Jones, owner of David Jones Fashions for Men and Women said he hopes to collect at least 10,000 signatures on a giant […]
When James Johnson of Carzalia Valley Produce in Columbus, N.M., says sustainability is the buzzword in the onion industry, the fourth-generation farmer/businessman knows what he’s talking about, writes Eric Woolson in the November issue of Onion World. The entire article can be read at “Sustainability Practices Not New for Carzalia Valley Produce.”
An article by Eric Woolson, owner of The Concept Works, appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Carrot Country magazine. Woolson wrote about a national project to significantly improve the processes involved in growing organic carrots on a commercial scale. He interviewed five industry experts in research and production who are leading the four-year Carrot […]
WEST DES MOINES – The impending end of an internationally iconic clothing brand is leading to the closing of a local retail store, its owner said today. Blue Willi’s, the nearly six-year-old West Glen Town Center store that bears the same name as the clothing label, will sell its entire inventory and close its doors […]
DES MOINES — Iowa will be the setting for another feature-length movie in early 2013 and its backers announced today that it will be directed by Thor Moreno, who has two movie credits to his name in the past year. Executive producer Mike Snyder of Ankeny said filming of “Murder Incorporated”, a story about a […]
Eric Woolson, owner of The Concept Works, has written article about a likely 2013 legislative push to to expand the inspection of Iowa school district vehicles that carry students. The article, titled “Expansion of School Vehicle Inspections Sought in Iowa”, appears in the October issue of School Transportation News, a Torrance, Calif-based national publication.
