Burned Businesses Bounce Back
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We~ther~ Burned businesses bounce back Partly cloudy Hi: 80 Lo: 60 Card shop, hair salon and bus INSIDE station now open Harvesting By Spring Gillingham hope Staff Writer Local clinic helps A fire destroyed the Bloomfield Building, but the blaze left six patients get back into scorched businesses and their work world owners smoldering. Now that smolder has turned to Page 2 flame and three of the six are back in business, with the others close Let the good behind. Bullpen Sports Cards, the Hair- times roll Port and Northwestern Stage Lines have all relocated and reopened, WSU students will and Washington Sportswear get· to ride the bus for Unlimited plans to reopen in free in the fall. August. The owners of the Cougar Cafe Page 3 would like to reopen by the time students return and the owner of the Nica Gallery also is investigat- Art in the ing the possibility of reopening. Staff photo by Dave Zumwalt park at Neil Minnehan, owner of Bull- Moscow pen Sports Cards. has relocated his Neil Minneham trades with Steven Inaba and Jeremy Shafer in his new shop. shop at E. 414 Main St., across from Sea First bank and above Ken Mocow Rendezvous An irreplaceable collection of Vogel Clothing. will feature The autographed Cincinnati Reds Recycler nabbed for putting Nylons and Riders in N. W. Stage Lines has relocated memorabilia, when Fred Hutchin- the Sky. to N. W. 10'02 Nye SI. ~hich is son was coach, was one of the near Dissmores Family Center most sentimental losses, Minne- tons of tape in dumpsters and next to 100I Kuts. han said. Page 6 discovered the waste material, he The HairPort has relocated to S. By Dave Field decided to call the Nez Pierce 126 Grand Ave. in the "flatiron" Minnehan said the greatest sen- Staff Writer 'Firecracker' building. timental loss was his personal bas- County Sheriff. Lloyd McKenna learned the With the reel and case Minnehan said he established ketball collection from 1961, val- pops at Daggy hard way last week that recycling included, the antiquated video his sports card shop in the Bloom- ued from $3,000 to $5,000 a set. can come with a price. equipment weighs 22 pounds. field Building approximately one Acting adds to play He said he would not try to rebuild The aluminum reel alone weighs year before the fire. After the fire, about the hopes and that collection because the cost To his chagrin, the Lewiston, approximately 1 pound. he said it took about two and a half now would be too high compared Idaho resident has been forced to Saur said aluminum is selling dreams of a southern months to find a new business site to when he first started it. pay $49.18 per ton for disposing for a meager 18 cents per pound, and to rebuild a respectable display family. an estimated 6.25 tons of 2-inch although in large quantities and for the customers. Page 6 Minnehan said his insurance did video tape and the 3 by 15-inch in bigger cities, exchange rates By the time students come back not cover about $50,000 of the plastic cases he bought in an auc- could be as high as 30 cents. store's losses and about half of THESUMMEREVERGREEN in the fall, Minnehan said he hopes tion at WSU June 25. All told, Saur estimated the that in personal losses. IS PRINTED USING to have his collections built back uncompactable garbage took . Washington Sportswear Unlim- He also was obligated to com- @ RECYCLED PAPER up through the I940s . He said he is between 20 to 25 cubic yards of ited co-owner, Warren Bingham, pensate Nez Pierce County for trying to rebuild most of what the the four additional hours it took space, or approximately one gar- Copyright" 1992 Summer Evergreen store had before: but will be for garbage collectors to haul the bage truck full. See BURN: page 8 unable to do so exactly. material back to the landfill. "I thought -it just wasn't fair McKenna, who has been for the residents of Nez Pierce unavailable for comment, was County to pay for him, when he booked for illegal disposal of is making money on it," Saur A WSU aim nus in office? said. commercial material by Nez Pierce County Sheriff deputies. The obsolete '60s-vintage "The Cascade curtain is at the He has since negotiated with the video tape was sold in an auction lowest level it has ever been," he Morrison hopes to commissioner's office to pay at WSU Materials and Resource said. In the past the interests of the approximately $350 in restitution Management: The tape had been East and West have been much dif- be thefirst Coug to the county, although the Sher- 'passed around various public uni- ferent, Morrison said. But now iffs department was unable to versities across the state before education, employment and envi- disclose exact figures. winding up at WSU. Governor ronment are main issues that affect McKenna purchased the video Saur said the tapes were everyone. equipment for $2.50 with the marked property of the Univer- By Robert Rochon Morrison said he is receiving sole purpose of recycling the alu- sity of Washington. However, Staff Writer strong support from Western minum reels that the tape is after contacting the university he Washington residents as well as Perched high above Husky Sta- wound around. However, learned that the UW had given politicians. He said he will be the dium, gubernatorial-candidate Sid because his intent was to make a them to KCTS, a public televi- next governor of Washington Morrison said he was the only profit on the transaction, dispos- sion station in Seattle. .state. Cougar rooter in the Husky presi- ing the unrecyclable waste is The goose chase did not end Although the 4th District Con- dent's box during the -1981Apple considered commercial use of the there for Sauro KCTS had Sid MOrrisc.m gressman from Toppenish grew up Cup. waste dump, incurring a com- returned the hundreds of tapes to on a farm, and was a year ahead of Late in the third quarter, to the been there ever since, has decided mercial rate for dumping. the UW, which in tum shipped his classmates in high school, he jubilation of Morrison, WSU to go ahead and run state-wide. To compound the headache for them to WSU for storage. Saur scored a touchdown. After Morri- said he did most of his growing up If elected, he will be the only disposal technicians, the well- then was able to reach Wayne son stood to celebrate, he felt a tug at WSU - or WSC as it was back WSU alumnus, and the first East- intentioned .McKenna evenly Gash, manager of WSU Materi- then, where he found out the world on his jacket. ern Washington resident in 50 deposited the waste in six als and Resource Management A sour-faced man looked up at was different from life on the years, to be elected governor. dumpsters across the county, in were the video tape was kept. him and said, "You don't ever . farm. "It's not an East vs. West prominent locales such as Because the auction was a public want to run state-wide, do you?" "I had a lot of growing up to thing," Morrison said, "it just Juliaetta, Coyote Gulch, and Jack sale, Gash revealed to Saur that "And he was serious," Morri- do," he said, "and in a hurry, tum s out that way. ' , Spur. Places which Nez Pierce McKenna had bought the tapes. son said from his office in Wash- He.credits his own style and per- too. " "He's an old customer who ington D.C. Wednesday. He said his three years at WSU County Deputy Sheriff Scott sonality , pervasive during the time Whitcomb confesses are pretty always comes looking for mate- It has been over 11 years since he spent in Washington, D.C. and "were very informative" but he rial content that he can strip also admitted he had some fun . obscure. that Apple Cup, and Morrison, in the state Legislature, for the When Charlie Saur, general down and recycle," Gash said. who was elected to the U.S. House lack of animosity from politicians See MORRISON: page 7 manager of the Nez Pierce "I guess this was just one time of Representatives in 1980 and has on the West side of the Cascades .. County and Lewiston Landfill, things went against him." 2 The Evergreen Friday, July 10,1992 WSU,Pullman, Wash. Harvest House helping people grow said. Non-tradtional method Recently Medicare,would no longer pay for adult day care services. shows no distinction Staff member Luann Nelson said even though Harvest House is not necessarily an adult day care, it still gets listed under that between clients, patients title. She said many club members receive By Lloyd D. Brown money from Medicare to cover their Harvest Staff Writer House costs. But Nelson says people with only Medi- Harvest House has very little to do with care funding are not turned away from Har- harvests, but it has much to do with grow- vest House services. ing. "We try to work with them to pay a very Based on a non-traditional form of treat- small amount. That's just to get them to ment started in New York in the 1940's, place some value," said Nelson, "People adults with chronic mental illnesses get who come here realize this is a real valuable together three days a week to work on social part of their treatment.