Downtown skate park opens
By Steve Cahalan | La Crosse Tribune
Owners Carl and Lisa Johnson opened the area’s only
indoor skate park on Saturday at 215 State St. in downtown La Crosse.
For the next few weeks, Coalition Skate Park will be open only on
Saturdays and Sundays, Carl Johnson said Tuesday, and construction will
continue on weekdays. The skate park will be open seven days a week once
the Johnsons’ Pro Skate & Snowboard retail store moves to the State
Street location from their Smith’s Cycling & Fitness store at Seventh
and State streets. “I’m guessing that will be in about a month,” Johnson
said.
Pro Skate sells skateboards, snowboards and in-line
skates. For now, anyone who wants to skate at Coalition Skate Park
should first go to Pro Skate at Seventh and State streets to register
and buy tickets, Johnson said. “There’s demand for this,” he said of the
indoor skate park. For more information, check its Web site at
www.coalitionskatepark.com
or call (608) 782-4300.
The Channel Cat coffee shop and art gallery at 266 Main
St. in downtown Lansing, Iowa, will have a one-day closing sale from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 3, said business owners Laura Siitari and
Mike Martin. The business closed in late December, Martin said Tuesday.
Items to be sold March 3 include commercial coffee equipment,
kitchenware, gifts, artwork, photos, tables, chairs and counters. The
Channel Cat closed because they’ve both started full-time jobs, and
hadn’t had a weekend off in about five years, Martin said. He became
assistant editor/sports editor of the Waukon Standard newspaper in
Waukon, Iowa. And Siitari works for Inland Label and Marketing in La
Crosse. Siitari and Martin opened the RiverRoad Gallery in 2002, and
they merged that with The Channel Cat in early 2006. They will continue
selling their photos and artwork online at
www.riverroadgallery.net .
Fred Mathews of Holmen, Wis., who does business under
the Ultimate Plus name, has become a state-licensed asbestos inspector.
“I just do inspections; I don’t do removals,” Mathews said. He will
inspect commercial or residential buildings within 100 miles of Holmen.
Mathews said many people don’t know about government requirements for
inspection and handling of asbestos during demolition and renovation of
buildings. He also said imported asbestos still is being used in the
United States. Mathews’ Web site is
www.ultimateplusonline.com
and his phone number is (608) 487-1911.
The Dog Hut restaurant at 615 Detloff Drive, along Hwy.
93, in Arcadia, Wis., closed in early November.
But the restaurant’s owners, Dan and Marlene Gurney of
Fairchild, Wis., opened a Dog Hut in late November at 1502 Bellinger
St., near Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, Wis. The Arcadia location was
the Gurneys’ first Dog Hut. It closed because there weren’t enough
available workers in that community, Dan Gurney said Tuesday. Gurney
said he and his wife hope to open a Dog Hut this spring in Winona,
Minn., and eventually want to have a few locations in La Crosse. The
Winona and La Crosse restaurants could be owned by the Gurneys or by a
franchisee, he said. Chicago-style hot dogs are the specialty of their
1950s/1960s-style restaurant.
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