BUSINESS BRIEFS: Sales associate joins Sequim retail business . . . and other items
Published 12:01 am Sunday, May 24, 2015
SEQUIM — Pondicherri, a 23-year retail and wholesale business at 119 E. Washington St., has added Chelsea Winfield as a new sales associate.
The store is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
For more information, phone 360-681-4431.
Wave debt sale
KIRKLAND — Broadband operator Wave, which operates Internet and cable TV services on the North Olympic Peninsula, has raised $130 million to fund expansion plans on the West Coast.
The debt sale, announced Thursday but finalized after investors were lined up in April, is the first time the company has tapped outside investors since a $1 billion fundraising and refinancing of its existing debt in 2012.
In past years, the company would add broadband capacity “at about the rate that we’re able to reinvest [our] profits,” Wave Chief Executive Steve Weed said.
“What’s really different here is we’re accelerating the growth. The opportunity is good enough that we’ve decided to take advantage of the opportunity to grow faster.”
Weed, a longtime telecom executive, founded the privately held Kirkland company in 2002 and has since amassed a $2.5 billion broadband network carrying Internet, voice and cable-TV service for 420,000 customers on the North Olympic Peninsula, the Puget Sound area, Portland, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Massage practice
PORT ANGELES — Amber Bellamy has opened Atma Massage Healing Therapies, a massage therapy and MCKS Pranic healing practice, at her office, 634 E. Eighth St.
Her services include Swedish, deep tissue, treatment, prenatal, on-site chair massage, Pranic healing and Pranic psychotherapy.
Bellamy helps run the Free Pranic Healing Clinic.
She also offers chair massages at Bliss Hair Co. & Apparel, 207 W. First St., every third Thursday of the month through August from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For any additional information about Bellamy’s services, call or text 360-912-3373.
Tattoo shop moves
PORT ANGELES — Jimbo Cutler, owner of Port Angeles Tattoo, has moved his business to a larger space at the Carpenters Hall, 420 E. First St.
The new shop has a separate lobby, private art room and a private tattoo room with sterile stainless-steel equipment and wheelchair accessibility.
Cutler has been professionally tattooing for three years.
The shop is open from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily for consultations and appointments.
For more information, visit www.jimbo.tattoo, phone 360-797-4265 or email portangelestattoo@gmail.com.
Marketing talk
PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe will host a marketing seminar for business owners Tuesday afternoon.
Featured will be Kevin Elliff of Windridge Solutions from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the tribe’s Heritage Training Center at 401 E. First St.
Elliff’s “Integration Digital Marketing” seminar will cover the basics needed to engage customers and clients online.
The training is offered free of charge and is open to the public.
For more information or to reserve a seat, phone 360-417-8545.
KONP talk guests
PORT ANGELES — Here is this week’s schedule for the 1:05 p.m. to 2 p.m. local talk show segment on KONP radio, at 1450 AM, 101.7 FM and www.konp.com on the Internet outside the Port Angeles area.
Station General Manager Todd Ortloff hosts the Monday through Thursday segments.
This week’s scheduled lineup:
■ Monday: Memorial Day programming.
■ Tuesday: Master Gardeners Jeanette Stehr-Green, Judy English and Bill Wroble.
■ Wednesday: Pre-empted by Seattle Mariners game.
■ Thursday: Tom Swanson, area manager and vice president of Green Crow Corp., on his cross-country bike ride in support of education. Green Crow and the Port Angeles Education Foundation have established a fund that has raised $65,000 so far.
Second segment: Clallam County Commissioners Jim McEntire and Mike Chapman and County Administrator Jim Jones.
