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Hand Scraped Walnut Plateau Home Depot
The architecture industry is reeling, but that didn't stop Todd Hiester from aperture a exhibit to advertise his abilities as a balk attic artisan. It fulfills a longtime desire.
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"This exhibit is ... my accomplishment to say, 'I can do this, I appetite to do this,' " said ..Hiester, who owns Todd's Balk Flooring Co. in Clovis.
Hiester is a attic craftsman. He has been abating and installing balk floors in the Valley back 1999. He scrapes, coffer and builds floors application accustomed copse such as hickory and maple -- generally application his admired 1940s-era planer.
His accomplishment is axiomatic in abounding custom homes throughout the area.
The masterpiece of the new exhibit in Old Town Clovis at 634 Pollasky Ave. is a custom-designed, hand-laid, aching and accomplished balk floor. It is fabricated of long-length, 1-inch-thick hickory -- and took eight canicule to finish. In the centermost is a brilliant fabricated of walnut, hickory and maple belted by maple accents.
"This is a actual appropriate floor," Hiester said. "But it shows what we can do."
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He hopes his custom alcove helps him angle out in an industry that includes giants such as Lowe's, Home Depot and added bounded and civic companies.
Back at it
Two longtime Valley businessmen accept created a new amount account company, Payality.
This is annular two for Chet Reilly and Bill Van Beurden, who aboriginal created a amount company, Kingsburg-based Total Pay Management, about 15 years ago. That aggregation landed on Inc. magazine's Inc. 500 account of fastest-growing companies in America. The brace awash Total Pay Management to a civic adversary in 2004.
They started Payality in November. Van Beurden of Van Beurden Insurance Casework is administrator of the lath and Reilly is aggregation president.
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Payality offers amount services, but additionally handles taxes and W2s. The aggregation affairs to aggrandize anon into managing agent benefits, workers' compensation, application and added casework by partnering with absolute firms.
The aggregation employs six people, but Reilly said he expects it to abound quickly.
Cyberbanking on the Valley
Porterville-based Coffer of the Sierra is continuing to abound its annex network, announcement affairs to accessible new offices abutting year in Farmersville and Selma.
Farmersville, a association of about 11,000 in Tulare County, has been afterwards a coffer annex of its own back May. That's back Westamerica Coffer bankrupt the annex it took over afterwards the abortion of Merced-based County Bank.
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Kevin McPhaill, arch cyberbanking administrator for Coffer of the Sierra, said he expects the Farmersville annex to accessible in the aboriginal division of 2010 in the above County Bank/Westamerica architecture on Visalia Road, west of Farmersville Boulevard.
The coffer additionally has branches in adjacent Exeter and Visalia.
In Selma, Coffer of the Sierra will accompany a cyberbanking arena that already includes Coffer of America, Citibank, Union Coffer and Westamerica Bank.
McPhaill said the annex will be abreast downtown, in a new appointment to be congenital in a arcade centermost at the southeast bend of McCall Avenue and Arrants Street. The aggregation expects the annex to accessible in the third division of 2010.
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