It’s Your Business
Uniontown Tree seedlings available
The Fayette County Conservation District seedling and fruit tree sale is underway. Tree seedlings, fruit trees and nest boxes are all available again this year. There is no limit to the number of items that can be purchased.
Order forms and payments must be received by March 19 at the Fayette County Conservation District office, 10 Nickman Plaza, Lemont Furnace, Pa. 15456. The pick-up time is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 31 at the Fayette County Fairgrounds, Route 119 north, Uniontown.
Species available are seedlings, including white and purple rhododendron, Burning Bush, Chinese chestnut, American Mountain ash, white flowering dogwood, sawtooth (gobbler) oak, Winterberry holly, Colorado blue spruce, Norway spruce, Canadian hemlock and eastern white pine. Fruit trees available include Crimson Crisp, Redfree, Golden Delicious apple; Hedelfingen cherry, Creasthaven peach, Flavortop nectarine and Clapp’s Favorite and Potomac pear.
Also available are Eastern bluebird nest boxes.
For more information or for tree descriptions and order forms, call the conservation district at 724-438-4497.
Perryopolis
Liberty St. Caf? opens
Grand opening for the new Liberty St. Caf? at 109 Liberty St., Perryopolis, was held Jan. 18.
The new restaurant serves homemade soups, sandwiches and side dishes, specialty desserts, fresh breads, rolls and pastries and New England coffees. The menu will also feature various specials. Liberty St. Caf? is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Diners can eat in or order takeouts.
Owner is Mary Secrest. Telephone is 724-736-8370.
Greensburg
No-till seminar Wednesday
This idea of reducing the amount of plowing done to a field before planting, called “no-till,” will be the focus of this year’s Southwest Regional Tillage Conference and trade show at Giannilli’s II in Greensburg from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. All farmers and interested individuals are invited to attend.
Nationally known speakers Sjoerd Duiker, assistant professor of soil management and applied soil physics from Penn State University Department of Crops and Soils, and Wayne Reeves, research agronomist with U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service in the Soils Dynamics Laboratory of the University of Auburn, will speak on the “No-till Revolution,” and “Progress in Conservation Systems” respectively.
A panel discussion will feature area no-till farmers Bob Dorazio of Lake Lynn, Fayette County; Chris Kimmel of Shelocta, Armstrong County; and Norm Graham of Butler, Butler County.
The event is sponsored by Penn’s Corner Resource Conservation and Development, Natural Resources Conservation Service (the Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, and Indiana County offices), Penn State Cooperative Extension (main campus and Armstrong, Beaver, Fayette, Indiana and Westmoreland locations), and the Indiana and Westmoreland Conservation Districts.
Registration is required and space is limited. There is a fee to attend that includes all events, a continental breakfast and lunch.
For more information, call Bobbi Bailey at Penn’s Corner Resource Conservation and Development at 724-834-9063, ext. 116, or by email at bobbi.bailey@pa.usda.gov.
Uniontown
Nina’s Place opens
Nina’s Place at 65 Lebanon Ave., Uniontown, has been opened under the ownership and management of Grace Miller. Nina’s was formerly Vance’s Diner. Nina’s will offer a full menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Included on the menu are many Weight Watchers’ dishes for dieters. Both homemade meals and desserts are available 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 7 a.m. through 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Miller has become known for and will specialize in a 16 oz. steak dinner. Miller owns and operates several other Fayette County businesses, which include the 19th Hole on Route 21 and Daker’s on Gallatin Avenue. Take out is available at the newly opened diner.
Telephone is 724-439-NINA.
New Stanton
Grocer ranked in service
Shop ‘n Save has been ranked third in the nation for customer service excellence in an independent survey recently conducted by the National Retail Federation and American Express.
“The Shop ‘n Save independent owners have always prided their respective stores on excellent service,” said Bill Lipsky, director of merchandising for Shop ‘n Save. “They place a very high importance on treating their customers right. To receive an award such as this confirms their commitment to providing the best shopping experience possible in each of the Shop ‘n Save stores.”
More than 8,000 consumers participated in the survey, in which consumers were asked to write in the name of the drug or food retailer that delivers the best customer service. BIG Research conducted the survey in September 2006. The research group said it took into account both the number of responses for each retailer and annual sales to put retailers on a level playing field.
Locally owned and operated Shop ‘n Save currently operates 80 supermarkets within Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. Established in 1968 as one of the nation’s first discount grocery stores, Shop ‘n Save offers customers everyday low prices on name brand and private label products.
For more information, visit www. shopnsavefood.com.