Businesses Spinning Off from Camera Corner; Port Angeles Forward Forum
Two former employees of The Camera Corner (which closed when the owner retired) now have their own full-time businesses.
Pixel Perfect Imaging, owned by Jeanne Pumphrey, has just opened in Joyce. It’s in the building formerly occupied by Clallam Broadband — 50893 State Highway 112. The store will offer DVD and CD productions, photo restoration, portrait photos, poster printing and passport photos. If you don’t want to go all the way to Joyce, there will be a drop-off box at Veela Café, next door to the former location of The Camera Corner.
Will Parsinen is running Infinite Image — transferring film and videos onto DVDs — out of his home on O Street.
Jason Kauffman, owner of Sterling Impressions (First Street, downtown P.A.), had been an employee of The Camera Corner for five years.
And speaking of resources and assistance for local businesses — PA Forward will be hosting a 2-hour forum this Thursday at 6 p.m. The forum is called “Together We Can — Business Resources Support Forum” and it’ll be held at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 321 East Fifth Street, P.A. It’s free and it’s open to the public.
PA Forward includes Don Perry and Cherie Kidd from the City Council, and representatives of the Clallam County Economic Development Council, Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Community and Economic Development Department, and the Port Angeles Business Association.
Other groups participating in the forum include: Peninsula College Business Training and Worker Retraining Center, Entrepreneur Institute, Clallam Business Incubator, Shorebank Enterprise Cascadia, Small Business Development Center and SCORE Business Counselors.
Pixel Perfect Imaging, owned by Jeanne Pumphrey, has just opened in Joyce. It’s in the building formerly occupied by Clallam Broadband — 50893 State Highway 112. The store will offer DVD and CD productions, photo restoration, portrait photos, poster printing and passport photos. If you don’t want to go all the way to Joyce, there will be a drop-off box at Veela Café, next door to the former location of The Camera Corner.
Will Parsinen is running Infinite Image — transferring film and videos onto DVDs — out of his home on O Street.
Jason Kauffman, owner of Sterling Impressions (First Street, downtown P.A.), had been an employee of The Camera Corner for five years.
And speaking of resources and assistance for local businesses — PA Forward will be hosting a 2-hour forum this Thursday at 6 p.m. The forum is called “Together We Can — Business Resources Support Forum” and it’ll be held at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 321 East Fifth Street, P.A. It’s free and it’s open to the public.
PA Forward includes Don Perry and Cherie Kidd from the City Council, and representatives of the Clallam County Economic Development Council, Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Community and Economic Development Department, and the Port Angeles Business Association.
Other groups participating in the forum include: Peninsula College Business Training and Worker Retraining Center, Entrepreneur Institute, Clallam Business Incubator, Shorebank Enterprise Cascadia, Small Business Development Center and SCORE Business Counselors.
Labels: Clallam Broadband, Clallam Business Incubator, Entrepreneur Institute, Infinite Image, PA Forward, Pixel Perfect Imaging, Sterling Impressions, The Camera Corner, Veela Cafe
posted by Tom Harper at 6:48 PM
10 Comments:
opened in Joyce
The paper is over at Helen's house so I can't look at it again until in the morning because Helen goes to bed very early.
But I thought it said that she was going to have her shop in Sequim. Maybe her part time work was in Joyce?
Actually, those looking into getting by in the future should consider green things and survival, there is going to be some decent money in that, at least enough to make a living on.
I'm good at that, maybe I should get into it. Na, I have enough money to get by and I'm not greedy.
Actually, I wish that those so called business experts would just go away. I never needed any of them when I had a business and I don't need one now.
They just want this town to grow so they can make more money off of it. I don't, I just want to get by okay in a community that cares about more than money.
I hope a lot of local merchants go to that forum and use the information they get. I know the economy is bad and all that, but some store owners have a much better grasp than others about customer service and selling products that the public wants to buy.
The downtown business community need only look to our own dear Edna Petersen for a perfect example of how to run a successful business.
Although she has borne the brunt of a variety of insults and negative remarks by a host of sharp-tongued nattering ninnies and their leftist vegetable monger cohorts, Edna is ever the model of gracious decorum and a savvy business woman.
Learn from Edna Petersen if you wish to make downtown a vibrant, successful place!
That's true about Edna. Whatever anyone thinks of her, she knows how to run a business.
Lots of good shops in town, and Necessities & Temptations is one of the most attractive. I think everybody will be OK if we can just hang on -- it will get better.
I'm sad about the businesses we've lost, but glad that some people, like the Camera Corner folk, are able to make it work for them.
Anonymous 5:43 am and Edna should get a room.
I know of two more shops that may be closing down soon. It's going to be a bumpy ride. I think that PA has seen it's hay-day.
I suggest that everyone learns to live on less, and be thankful for it. With the world economy going the way it is, Westport may even have to slow down and lay off workers.
Or get into building something besides pecker extension boats for the rich.
PA will be fine. When we complete our major development with golf course and ski area planned just west of town, and bring major players in the industrial sector to the waterfront, our economy will pick up. We will also see the US Navy bring a few surface ships to homeport here.
Lots of folks will be coming up from CA; that will get our real estate back up to where it should be.
Why would anyone want to give Edna such a buttlicking? Must be Edna writing about herself...because no one else likes her that much. She's rude to people, and she's sharp tongued, and from what I can tell...she doesn't have that many friends.
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