Mountain Home changing hands
Editor:
I’m excited to share that in January 2019, the operations and ownership of Mountain Home will transfer to Alexa Cowley of Alexa Interiors.
As many of you likely know, Alexa has been in business in Evergreen for 18 years, and her business has grown to include eight interior designers. Alexa and her team are incredibly qualified to provide excellent design ideas alongside the quality furniture and attentive customer service you’ve come to expect from Mountain Home.
They are also energetic and fun. Truly, Mountain Home is in great hands.
This is a natural progression for Mountain Home and for me. Mountain Home has served this community for more than 50 years, starting as a small department in The Hardware store run by my late husband, Ted Lamontagne. Twenty years ago, when I married Ted and took over Mountain Home, I had no idea what I was getting into.
Having the opportunity to help create a sense of home for so many members of this community has truly been a privilege, and words can’t describe my gratitude for the support and encouragement I’ve received as I learned how to run the store and to better serve the needs of our community. I’m especially grateful to my staff for their unwavering commitment to serving our customers.
Thank you, Peggie, Gwen, Joan, and the many others who have partnered with me to make Mountain Home the store it is today.
Whitman and I will continue to oversee the Evergreen Design Center — the Hiwan barn and Bunkhouse — and partner with our 10 stores to bring you everything you need for your home
I’d love to celebrate this next chapter with you. We’ll be hosting our annual Christmas Open House over the weekend of Nov. 9: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. I hope to see you then.
Kay D’Evelyn La Montagne
Treat refugees with compassion
Editor:
This message was sent to my members of Congress:
We must all step forward in the face of our president’s wrong and un-American rhetoric. We must open the arms of the greatest country in the world to refugees who are fleeing poverty, crime and persecution.
First and foremost, these are poor people who need help. We should be sending them material moral and legal aid.
These people aren’t illegal, they’re fleeing a horrible life to ask for asylum; they are not invading us.
All of us, even “Native Americans,” are children of immigrants. We must wisely continue to be the hope of the world.
Please do your and our job of wisely and safely welcoming the poor persecuted people to America.
Frank Y. Parce
Evergreen
Make sure house numbers are visible
Editor:
This is to all our neighbors: When you have lived at the same address for a number of years, it’s easy to be on autopilot and not pay attention to the house numbers that display your address.
For police officers, EMS and fire/rescue that may be responding to your house in the event of an emergency, your house numbers are what they are looking for.
Make it a point to really look at your house numbers to see if
• All the numbers are still there.
• They are large enough to be seen easily from the street.
• No vegetation has grown over them, limiting visibility.
This goes for your own home as well as any properties you may rent out for things like AirBNB vacations, long-term rentals and/or other uses. Please take a moment to be sure your address is clearly visible to anyone who may need to see it.
If you can see the numbers, so can we! If not, know that we can’t either.
Please take a moment today to check your address sign visibility, so we can find you should you need assistant from first responders in the future.
Mike Weege
Evergreen fire chief