A Hot Time in the Olde Town this week(end)
Published 2:33 pm Monday, November 16, 2015
Two openings and a handful of moves are on my list to mention this week, and you’re in luck because most of them are having special events in the coming days.
First up is the Nov. 19 official opening of Dandelion Wines at 112 W. Main Street in Enterprise.
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I teased you last week with a mention of this business and now you can stop in and take in the marvel of the long, skinny (10×110 feet) shop adjacent to Wild Carrot Herbals for yourself.
There will be wine tastings, snacks, live music by Janis Carper and, I’m betting, socializing with a lot of your neighbors.
The next opening has been keenly anticipated since The Local Loaf closed its doors late last summer. Our first question, or moan, was ‘where, oh where were we going to get our wood-fired pizza!’
Well, that question has been answered and Silver Lake Bistro has announced they are opening their doors at 19 South Main St. in Joseph on Nov. 21. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and, yes, there will be wood-fired pizza, dinner specials, drinks (including wine) and more.
Silver Lake Bistro has been featuring a few pizza experiments on their Facebook page and, boy, do they look good.
There has been some shuffling of addresses on Joseph’s Main Street, and you can check out the moves the same day you’re checking out Silver Lake Bistro because a number of Joseph businesses will be having open houses Saturday.
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Missy’s Uptown Art is one.
A Joseph Main Street standard, “Missy’s Uptown Art,” has moved. After 10 years in its old location at 18 S. Main St. next to Valley Bronze Gallery, Missy has moved across the street and downsized to her new 13 S. Main St. gallery space.
Downsize might be the wrong word — maybe I should say “cozied,” since Missy Marshall will continue to offer exactly the same merchandise she had in the other shop — including framing services.
“The shop is bigger than it looks,” Marshall said.
As usual, she will continue to feature Robert Dawson, Dean Crouser and many more local artists.
Her regular winter hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, or you can make a celebration of it and check out her new digs during her Open House Celebration Nov. 21 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Valley Bronze Gallery is expanding into the space vacated by Missy.
“We took the carpet and ceilings out and we’re going to remodel it so it matches the other side,” said Nancy Parmenter, director.
“We’re very excited. We’ll have new and exciting stuff and we’ll be open seven days a week in the gallery and offer tours of the foundry daily as well.”
Valley Bronze, like Missy’s, will be holding an open house celebration Nov. 21 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. You won’t be able to see the new expansion yet, but you will be able to peruse the new art in the gallery, sample some snacks and put your name in for door prizes.
“We just want to get some local people in,” Parmenter said.
For more information, visit www.valleybronzegallery.com.
And finally, a belated mention of the opening of Terri Malec’s “Edge of the Wilderness” gallery, which has been open for nearly a year at 11 S. Main St. in Joseph.
“I always liked being in a gallery,” Malec said. “I had my own gallery from 1987 to 1994 and I’d been in Kelly Wick’s ‘Kelly’s Gallery’ and I had a lot of work I wanted to show, so I decided to jump in and do it again.”
Malec’s gallery, though tiny, manages to mix numerous media, from bronzes to paints and prints, to pottery, to gift cards to goat-milk soap — all displayed on antique furnishings that also are for sale.
Malec is working limited hours right now — just 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Christmas. After that it will be just Saturdays.
To learm more, visit the gallery’s site at www.marysfieldstudio.com or its Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/qgo8czh.
Please send your Biz Buzz news tips to Kathleen Ellyn at kellyn@wallowa.com.
Editor’s note (Nov. 19): A previous version of this column listed an incorrect artist name for the works being displayed at Missy’s Uptown Art.