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Downtown Profile: Kana Winery - March 06, 2008 - Kana Winery has made their home in the base of the Larson Building for a number of years. ''Kana'' is a native word for the spirit or the fire within a mountain, in reference to the perceived supernatural power of volcanic activity. On their website they explain that ''the Yakima and Columbia Valleys are awash with volcanic soil influences, providing terroir from the millennia of ''Kana'' ...
Downtown Profile: Glass Kaleidoscope - February 28, 2008 - Last fall, owners Sandi Drury and Jacob Lee moved The Glass Kaleidoscope from 36th Avenue to downtown. Their new space is open and roomy with a coffee bar, cafe seating, and retail space in the front and a separate studio space in the back. A customer can grab a latte and enjoy the experience of seeing the glass making process. Drury and Lee have a number of pieces available for sale and are ...
Chris Malland of Sports Center - February 20, 2008 - Chris Malland, one of the owner's of Yakima Sports Center, is truly a community-minded guy. When renovating the historic 1910 building that houses the Sports Center, Chris hired all local contractors and laborers, as well as ordering most of the materials from local sources. All of the design elements, from the copper bar top to the swiveling stools, were created by Yakima residents and Chris ...