Six workshops offered at small business center
Six workshops will be offered by the Small Business Development Center at 406 Main St. in Lewiston at Lewis-Clark State College in September.
The titles, times prices are as follows:
Improve Your Website to Increase Sales, 5:30 p.m., Sept. 5, $20.
Use Social and Local Online Marketing for Search Engine Optimization, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 12, $20.
Basic Accounting & Record Keeping, 5:30 p.m. Sept. 19, $20.
QuickBooks Basics, Parts 1 & 2, Sept. 21 and 28, 5:30 p.m., $90.
QuickBooks Reports, 5:30 p.m., Sept. 26, 5:30 p.m., $30.
Additional information and registration is available by calling (208) 792-2465.
Pullman Regional Hospital to hold open house Sept. 8
PULLMAN – A fourth operating room will be in the spotlight during an open house set for 5:30 p.m., Sept. 8, at Pullman Regional Hospital.
Those attending are asked to RSVP by Wednesday online at pullmanregional.org/building-surgical-excellence.
The hospital will provide tours of the addition and new technology in use in all of its operating rooms, including high-definition cameras, which can take pictures that can be emailed to patients along with post-procedure instructions.
The upgrade will help meet new demands for surgery at the hospital. Over the past five years, the number of procedures performed increased by 20 percent. The hospital’s three operating rooms were used 85 percent of the time by general surgeons, orthopedists, urologists, opthamologists, gynecologists, gastroenterologists, and ear, nose and throat specialists, often doing da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery.
The total cost of the expansion was $2.3 million. Of that, $700,000 came from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories founder Ed Schweitzer and his wife, Beatriz.
Another $250,000 was contributed by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in Vancouver, Wash. The trust was created by the will of Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock, co-founder of Tektronix. The company supports sustainable efforts to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest.
Marshalls store is coming to Moscow
MOSCOW Bargain hunters will have a new place to shop in Moscow this fall.
Marshalls will carry a mix of shirts, ties, sneakers, home decor, educational toys and designer fragrances at discounts of as much as 60 percent when it opens in the former Hastings space at the Palouse Mall. It will be one of more than 1,040 locations of an off-price retail chain in the United States.
The retailer uses a variety of strategies to assemble its inventory, according to its website.
It buys from big brand, boutique, up-and-coming and designer labels. It purchases in instances where designers have made more than they can sell, department stores canceled orders or when retailers bought more than their customers wanted. It also has some of its merchandise manufactured just for its stores.
Marshalls receive deliveries with thousands of new items each week and store managers dont know what will be arriving until delivery truck doors open.
The business is part of the multi-national TJX Companies, which also operates T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post. It first entered the area in 2012 when it put a T.J. Maxx at Nez Perce Plaza in Lewiston.
TJX Companies had revenues of more than $33 billion in 2016 at its more than 3,800 stores in nine countries and its three e-commerce sites, according to its website.