Top left: Kyle Avelar on a rafting trip. Bottom left: Kyle (in orange) with his aunts, uncles and lots of cousins. Above: Kyle at Dodger Stadium after a L.A. Dodgers and San Francisco Giants game.
Meet our staff “I have worked at Murphy’s off and on for about four years,” says Kyle, sitting outside at the café tables in front of the Sunny Brae Murphy’s Market. “I started during my senior year in high school before I moved to Chico. Since then, I have lived in Los Angeles and San Jose with a high paying job selling DirecTV. But I was working six days a week and commuting three hours a day! So I called Murphy’s and asked if they still had a job for me and moved back home.” “It is slower here and I have days off to go
Kyle Avelar, Sunny Brae
to Willow Creek where the family has a cabin. I can take my dog to the river. The beach is great, too, and so are the Giants!” “My Portuguese family has lots of aunts, uncles and cousins and, of course, my mom, dad and my grandparents. My dad and uncles coach baseball and I like to help out at the tournaments. I chalk the field and baselines and such, because anything and everything is fun with baseball.” “Part of the family likes staying on the Rogue
River and have been whitewater rafting there for 45 years.” “It’s nice to work at Murphy’s. I get to see friends and family, my uncle Carlos is the Sunny Brae store manager, and get know the customers, who are just great. So far I have worked at four of the markets: Sunny Brae, Cutten, Glendale and Trinidad.” There’s another one, too, Westwood Murphy’s in Arcata. Which Murphy’s is closest to your house? By Colleen Hole, Advertising, North Coast Journal
Sunny Brae • Glendale • Trinidad • Cutten • Westwood
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