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A new flooring business has opened in Glide, with a unique twist.
Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring offers hardwood flooring, which is all made on site. It’s also wood from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, where owners Lee and Lisa Sheldon previously lived.
Lee Sheldon retired from the Air Force and had a custom cabinet shop in Seattle. He moved east with his wife and accumulated a vast collection of timber after being asked to clean up trees from yards following Hurricane Katrina.
The business, at 19190 N. Umpqua Highway, offers floors using 12 different kinds of wood, from ambrosia maple to shag bark hickory to black walnut.
Making flooring out of the wood started as a hobby for Sheldon. On a drive around Roseburg, he said, he fell in love with Glide and decided to move there.
He then decided to turn his hobby into a business.
Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring is family-run, with the couple’s grandson Jay Sheldon also involved.
It is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Information: 496-2588.
SHANGRI-GONE: The growing has stopped at Shangri-La Farm.
The Umpqua nursery business, started in 2003, offered up its last plants last weekend. Owner Sandra Beck closed the operation.
She said the business was going well, she just wanted to make a change. She is moving to Sedona, Ariz.
“It’s hard to run it from a distance,” Beck said.
Shangri-La had one part-time employee.
Beck started by selling plants at the Douglas County Farmers Market in 2000. In 2003, she converted a hayfield at her ranch into a nursery and started selling
exclusively from there.
Her property is for sale.
COFFEE CENTRAL: A pair of sisters have taken over a Sutherlin coffee spot.
Katie Mock and Melissa Meyer are running Central Brew at 1100 W. Central Ave. Their focus is on organic, natural drinks and coffee-making methods.
All the coffee is organic and decaffeinated coffee is made through a “100 percent chemical-free process.”
They also use all-natural syrup in their other drinks.
Central Brew’s summer hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.
Mock said they employ a couple part-time weekend workers.
SAVE WHILE YOU WAIT: The Energy Trust of Oregon has replaced Roseburg traffic signals with energy-efficient Light-Emitting Diode units.
The main targets in the statewide project were green lights, because “traffic signals are green the majority of the time,” according to an Energy Trust release.
Except, of course, for the intersection of Winchester Avenue and Diamond Lake Boulevard. I always seem to be staring at red, there.
Fortunately, red LEDs were replaced under a prior program.
• Got tips? You can reach reporter Paul Craig at 957-4211 or by e-mail at pcraig@newsreview.info.
Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring offers hardwood flooring, which is all made on site. It’s also wood from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, where owners Lee and Lisa Sheldon previously lived.
Lee Sheldon retired from the Air Force and had a custom cabinet shop in Seattle. He moved east with his wife and accumulated a vast collection of timber after being asked to clean up trees from yards following Hurricane Katrina.
The business, at 19190 N. Umpqua Highway, offers floors using 12 different kinds of wood, from ambrosia maple to shag bark hickory to black walnut.
Making flooring out of the wood started as a hobby for Sheldon. On a drive around Roseburg, he said, he fell in love with Glide and decided to move there.
He then decided to turn his hobby into a business.
Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring is family-run, with the couple’s grandson Jay Sheldon also involved.
It is open daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Information: 496-2588.
SHANGRI-GONE: The growing has stopped at Shangri-La Farm.
The Umpqua nursery business, started in 2003, offered up its last plants last weekend. Owner Sandra Beck closed the operation.
She said the business was going well, she just wanted to make a change. She is moving to Sedona, Ariz.
“It’s hard to run it from a distance,” Beck said.
Shangri-La had one part-time employee.
Beck started by selling plants at the Douglas County Farmers Market in 2000. In 2003, she converted a hayfield at her ranch into a nursery and started selling
exclusively from there.
Her property is for sale.
COFFEE CENTRAL: A pair of sisters have taken over a Sutherlin coffee spot.
Katie Mock and Melissa Meyer are running Central Brew at 1100 W. Central Ave. Their focus is on organic, natural drinks and coffee-making methods.
All the coffee is organic and decaffeinated coffee is made through a “100 percent chemical-free process.”
They also use all-natural syrup in their other drinks.
Central Brew’s summer hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.
Mock said they employ a couple part-time weekend workers.
SAVE WHILE YOU WAIT: The Energy Trust of Oregon has replaced Roseburg traffic signals with energy-efficient Light-Emitting Diode units.
The main targets in the statewide project were green lights, because “traffic signals are green the majority of the time,” according to an Energy Trust release.
Except, of course, for the intersection of Winchester Avenue and Diamond Lake Boulevard. I always seem to be staring at red, there.
Fortunately, red LEDs were replaced under a prior program.
• Got tips? You can reach reporter Paul Craig at 957-4211 or by e-mail at pcraig@newsreview.info.
