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Business

  • Elks Home now open to public

        After more than 100 years of serving only Elk members, the Elks National Home in Bedford is now offering its services to the public.
        And the phones are ringing off the hook.

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  • More space for Floors and More

    Floors and More moved from its original West Main Street location to the 6C’s Shopping Center this past summer. The move has provided more space and better customer parking for the business of Bob and Jann Sloper.

        The showroom is more than double the size of what it had. One side of the showroom, a space the same size as the Main Street store, is dedicated to samples of the flooring the business has to offer, and it also now has expanded flooring lines.

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  • Peaks of Otter Lodge closes

    By Ralph Berrier Jr.

    Landmark News Service

         Carole Edwards and Jackie Werb drove to the Peaks of Otter on a gorgeous fall morning last week to take one last trip around Abbott Lake and have a final meal at the restaurant.
        The Peaks of Otter Lodge at milepost 86 on the Blue Ridge Parkway shut down this week. Last Thursday's Thanksgiving meal was the last large-scale event at the lodge, whose final guests checked out Monday morning.

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  • Signs of the times

        Customers of Lyons Jewelers who showed up at the Bedford store the day after Election Day got a surprise.

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  • Restaurant move provides real-world project

        When Original Italian Pizza (OIP) moved from its longtime home at the west end of Bedford to its new home in the old Wal-Mart Plaza, Domenica LoPiccolo wanted to commission Leslie Padgett to do a mural.

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  • Lago Pizza is still open at Moneta plaza

        Shoprite is no more, but the plaza is not entirely vacant. The gas station and car wash are still operating and Lago Pizza is still open    The pizza place and Italian restaurant is operated by Júlio Ortiz and Esperanza Forero.

        “We started just with a take-out,” said Forero.

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  • Harman Eye Center adds optometrist to its staff

        Harman Eye Center’s newest addition is Dr. Tracy Scheibe.

        A native of Knoxville, Tenn., Dr. Scheibe has lived in Beford County for six years, five of them in the Five Forks area. She earned her doctor of optometry degree from Illinois College of Optometry in 1999.
        She’s a baseball fan.
        “I like the Cubs, the Chicago Cubs,” she said.
        That choice was not influenced by the fact that Illinois College of Optometry is located in Chicago.

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  • Going chemical-free

        Ben Coleman, of Mountain Run Farm, decided to go chemical free after his son was born.
        “I didn’t feel good about sitting him in a field that I just fertilized,” he said. “We made a point never to bring chemicals down this driveway.”
        He has built the soil with manure and he said this has brought the soil to life.

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  • Low spray makes sense

        Walter Gross, now 78, grew up in the orchard business.

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  • New plan leads to growth

        D&L Cattle, in Goode, is run by a father and son team. The D is for David Arrington and the L is for Lynwood Arrington, David’s father.

        “We’ve raised cattle for several years,” said Lynwood Arrington.
        Previously they sold cattle to the market, but they began direct marketing to the public this year, in February, an idea that a cousin suggested. It sounded like a good idea and they began working in September, 2011, to put a plan in action.

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