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Back Door marks second year
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Back Door Consignment celebrated its second birthday on June 1 and is headed into year No. 3 with plenty of spunk and merchandise. “We’re Carbondale’s secondhand department store,” said co-owner Marie Kuen. Back Door Consignment’s retail area covers 1,900 square feet. Offerings include furniture, men’s and women’s apparel, house wares, linens and more. “We’re not a thrift store,” Kuen said.“We’re higher-end.” Unusual items have included a boar’s head and elk head, and deer hide. “Things change almost by the minute.” Co-owner Monk Burkmier also builds picnic tables on premises. “We had some (display tables) but we had a run on them,” Kuen said. “They sold out.” Back Door Consignment is located either north of the Pour House’s back door or south of American Legion Post 100’s back door, depending on your orientation. The store is also the backside of the Churchill Building, which is located on Fourth Street. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week. And as Marie and Monk have noted since opening two years ago, “Carbondale is in fact the center of the universe.”
Susie Jimenez, owner/chef of Susie’s Custom Catering, is competing in the Food Network Star competition, which will premiere on June 5 at 9 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the Food Network. Stay tuned.
Did you lose your hive? When KDNK broadcasts its Lost Pet report every day, the hoped for result is usually reuniting dog and cat owners with their
Dinner at the Smithy The Village Smithy is now serving dinner on Wednesdays from 5 to 9 p.m. For details, see their ad on page 4.
Heading out
Diana Alcantara and her Carbondale Middle School ESL class visited The Sopris Sun in the Third Street Center last Friday and asked all kinds of pertinent questions, such as “Where does Cop Shop come from?” and “Do you ever have to report on something that shocks you?” The students read the Sun all year and were eager to learn about how it was put together each week. From left to right: Edgar Reyna, Beymar Silva, Elizabeth Salazar, Alex Salvidrez, Jenny Garcia and Diana Alcantara. Photo by Lynn Burton
They say it’s your birthday pets, or sometimes a tropical bird and on at least one occasion a rabbit. The Lost Pet report soared to new heights, so to speak, over the weekend when a caller reported a lost beehive between 10th and 11th Street. Apparently, the hive split and left no forwarding address. None of the
bees were wearing KDNK pet tags at the time of the bee flee, which could make it more difficult for their owners to claim them. Or maybe not. When the KDNK DJ asked the caller about distinguishing colorings or markings, she replied, “They are yellow.”
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Ron Miller and Joyce Illian have 64 years between them living in Marble (she’s at 29 years and he’s at 35). The pair has lived in a 100-year-old-plus house north of Beaver Lake Lodge since Illian bought it in 1983 but won’t be for long. They plan to move to a small cottage on a hill overlooking the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon in the next week or two and will rent out their house. Good luck, Ron and Joyce, and keep us posted. Astoria sounds like a cool place.
Birthday greetings go out to Elizabeth Salazar (June 5), and Ken Neubecker and Doug Self (June 6). Belated birthday greetings go out to: Sue Hopper, Richard Glassier, Louis Meyer, Joan Lamont, Dorie Hunt, Alex Salvidrez and Chip Munday.