On Biz: Lie down, exercise at this business

Tired of pounding the pavement for your daily exercise? Wondering how much of that kind of workout your joints can take?

Tone for Life is a new business in Roseburg and it offers therapeutic exercise machines. The motorized machines are tables on which people lie to do a variety of exercises. The business at 335 N.E. Nash has seven machines and a cardio room.

“As far as we know, there are no others like them in Douglas County,” said Michelle Bassett, the office manager for both Tone for Life and Eagle Chiropractic. Tone for Life is leasing its location from Eagle with the two sharing the parking lot between them.

Harold “Stan” Stansbury is the owner and certified chiropractic assistant who is operating the business. Bassett and her husband, Dr. Loren Bassett, owners of Eagle Chiropractic, are helping Stansbury get the new business up and running.

Since opening two months ago, Tone for Life's membership has grown to 35.

“Business is gradually picking up,” Stansbury said. “We've had members lose 2 to 9 inches in overall body measurements in a 12-visit period.”

Each machine utilizes a combination of physical therapy and isometric exercise movements so that people of all ages, regardless of health issues or limitations, can use them. The Tone for Life brochure says that evenly measured repetitions on each of the seven machines two hours per week is equivalent to 10 hours of strenuous traditional exercise.

Sessions to use the machines and cardio room are available by appointment.

The hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and the phone number is 541-464-2721.

From Badger to Beaver State

Tim Cobb and Mike Newell first established a Goodfellas Italian/American Restaurant in Wisconsin. They opened and operated three in that state before selling out.

Now, after about a 2,000-mile trip west, they're recreating the theme in Myrtle Creek. The co-owners opened a new Goodfellas Italian/American Restaurant at 639 N. Myrtle Rd. three weeks ago. They spent two weeks remodeling the former Popeye's Galley site that they are leasing before opening the doors for business.

“We're both Christians, we asked God to lead us in the right direction, and this is where He brought us,” Cobb said. “We'd never been to Oregon, but we love it. We plan on staying.”

Cobb and Newell are both chefs and share time in the kitchen. They have three full-time employees.

The lunch menu features $7 to $8 items and Cobb describes the $12 to $14 dinner choices as “upscale.” The restaurant seats about 50 and includes two private areas that seat two people each. Those tables must be reserved.

Cobb described the 1930s theme of the restaurant as mobster with a gangster menu that includes names such as “Capone,” “godfather,” “wise guy” and “jailhouse.”

Restaurant hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and closed on Sunday.

“Business has been so good, it would probably be best if you called for reservations for dinner,” said Cobb.

The business number is 541-863-7386.

Caffeine charity

Drink up and help fill up the food boxes at the United Community Action Network.

Dutch Bros. Coffee customers will be able to do both Friday. The company is again celebrating “Dutch ‘Luv' Day” in preparation for Valentine's Day with the ‘Cans for Coffee' food drive. On Friday, customers will receive any 16 oz. beverage free with the donation of three cans of food. Canned goods will be donated to the United Community Action Network.

Four Roseburg Dutch Bros. locations — 770 N.W. Garden Valley Blvd. 2360 Stewart Parkway, 1731 N.E. Stephens St. and 2082 Diamond Lake Blvd. — will participate in the food drive.

Local links to Chapter 11

The bankruptcy filing of one of Eugene's largest commercial developers is being felt to a smaller degree in Douglas County.

Arlie & Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 20 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Eugene. The company owes more than $50 million to more than 200 creditors, a handful in Douglas County.

The company, owned by John Musumeci and his wife, Suzanne Arlie, owns the two Roseburg buildings that house the Rodeo Steak House & Grill and the Sizzler restaurant on Garden Valley Boulevard. Those buildings and property are valued at a combined $3.4 million, according to the Douglas County Assessor's Office.

Two weeks before the company filed bankruptcy, Arlie & Company sold two other properties, one that housed Quest Diagnostics next to the Rodeo Steak House, and 2 acres of undeveloped land on Stewart Parkway.

The two properties combined were valued at $860,000, according to the Assessor's Office. Roseburg-Northwest Llc. of Salt Lake City paid $2.5 million for them.

The company's bankruptcy filing lists Umpqua Bank among its Douglas County creditors. Others are the Rodeo Steak House, Pacific Air Comfort, the Roseburg Urban Sanitary District, S&S Sweeping, Robert Gallager and Adam Falk of Yoncalla.

BIZZ BUZZ

“The current political and business atmosphere in Oregon doesn't give small business owners like us much hope for a short term turnaround. At this point, overcoming the economic slowdown has almost become a personal challenge to stay alive during the storm.  Being a fairly new business (opened two years ago) we hope to hang on, but feel it will be a long road.  We are very thankful for the support by our community and just hope to get the word out that we are here to serve them.”

Jane and Terry Knowlton, owners

Oakland Wood Products, LLC

Oakland

• On Biz is not an endorsement, only an introduction to businesses in the community. Reporter Craig Reed can be reached at 957-4210 or creed@nrtoday.com.