"We are a small family-owned grocery store and ice cream shop located in Elmira, Idaho.
"We are dedicated to serving our community and providing high-quality goods to our customers.
That's what the folks at the Elmira Store want people to know.
After a several year hiatus, the Cook family has reopened the facility as a neighborhood grocery store, highlighted by burgers and shakes and a variety of candies.
The shakes have come back, along with several flavors of scoop ice cream. Next week, the staff will be back to flipping burgers during store hours.
Elmira Store was buzzing yesterday afternoon when I stopped by. I was headed to town to buy some lettuce cuz my garden supply has run its course.
Shortly before leaving I saw a post by Crissy on Facebook announcing that the store had reopened.
Guess I'll head north and get my lettuce there, I thought to myself while going out the door.
Once there, I could see that the word was out, as several cars took up most of the parking space.
Inside, Maria Cook was happily preparing shakes for customers. And, customers were happy to be there, visiting with each other and expressing their thrill that the store had reopened.
Maria told me that their kids had expressed the desire to run the store, so Ma and Pa are supporting them in getting it back off the ground.
She also told me that it's been a family tradition to operate the store, noting an aunt and uncle who ran it back in the 1940s.
While there, I found a container of baby lettuce and then started admiring the sourdough bread.
Maria and her daughter bake the bread, and, after sampling a slice of the cranberry, pecan and honey sourdough, I'd say they have the recipe perfected.
Twas tasty.
Good luck to the Cook's as they begin this new chapter alongside HWY 95 in Elmira.
YOUNGSTERS RAISE $125 FOR HOSPITAL
Bonner county youngsters have contributed $125 to the Bonner General hospital building fund due to the efforts of two girls, Penny Nelson and Loyce Hall.
The pair originated and wrote their own scripts for a radio program called the Earn-a-Dollar club heard every weekday morning at 8:15.
The largest contribution so far was by the “Eager Beavers,” a group of small youngsters who collected enough pies and cakes to hold a sale that netted $25 for the hospital.
A backyard circus put on by the north Sixth avenue Freckle club raised $12.96.
Individual kids earned their contributions by doing a wide variety of tasks such as picking huckleberries, baby-sitting, running errands, feeding geese, pulling weeds, and washing dishes.
Little Jay Miller earned 25 cents for getting dressed by himself and picking up his toys.
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