PORT ANGELES — Business was just beginning to blossom for Sandy Long when the Dec. 9 Naval Elks Lodge fire closed her new store on South Lincoln Street.
“This store has been a wonderful opportunity for me,” Long said Thursday.
“But the Elks need the space to meet in here until they reopen upstairs.”
Her business, Stuff for Home and Garden, was a one-of-a-kind in Port Angeles, specializing in vintage garden items, found objects and vintage furniture, similar to outlets in Sequim and Port Townsend.
The store, which opened last spring, was closed by smoke and water damage after the pre-Christmas fire.
Long reopened it a week ago for her closing sale.
The Elks Lodge board let her out of her lease, which had about two months left.
That will free her up for her next enterprise barely two blocks around the corner at 110 E. First St. — Itty Bitty Buzz.
An amiable businesswoman and former college professor from Shreveport, La., who holds a doctorate in psychology, Long has become partners with Dale Ferguson, owner of The Buzz on North Sequim Avenue in Sequim.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
