New businesses optimistic about relocation

Nick Ianniello

Mineral Independent

With several local businesses relocating to the north side of the Clark Fork River in Downtown Superior, the area is holding an open house Friday to showcase the new and old businesses in the area.

“We’re going to have refreshments and specials throughout all of the businesses,” said Monica Ray, co-owner of Streamside Realty and Accord Property Management.

From 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, several business in downtown Superior will be opening their doors and offering specials to customers who come by to say hello.

The Montana Bar, Sense of Balance, Superior Color and Lumber, Cessna’s, The Body Whisperer, the Superior Soda Fountain, Iron Mountain Massage and Beauty Salon, Iron Mountain Graphics, Four Aces Bar, NAPA Auto Parts, Streamside Realty, WIT Construction and Ronni Haskins CPA will all be open with refreshments and specials for anyone who drops by.

Some of the businesses will be having a scavenger hunt, encouraging customers to find different items throughout their stores.

Ray said that anyone who manages to visit all of the businesses that are open will be eligible for a drawing at the end of the event if they get a card that will be available punched at each business they visit.

The drawing will include a car battery charger, hats, certificates to Iron Mountain Massage and Beauty Salon and several other prizes from local businesses.

Mary Jo Berry, owner of Iron Mountain Graphics, said that they hope people will realize that they can get just about anything they need in downtown Superior.

“It’s mainly just encouraging people to buy local and spend their dollars locally,” said Berry.

While many businesses, including Sense of Balance and Iron Mountain Graphics, are celebrating their move to a new location, Brenda Reynolds, the owner of The Body Whisperer, is using the event as a kick off for her new massage business in Superior.

“A lot of people don’t know that her business is open yet,” said Berry about Reynolds’s shop.

Reynolds, who has lived in the area since 1993, opened her massage parlor on Dec. 1 after finishing her time at the Montana School of Massage in Missoula.

Reynolds offers Swedish, deep tissue, myofascial release, reflexology, acupressure, lymphatic facilitation, body talk and reiki 1 massages and she has had over 650 hours of experience and training.

Reynolds said that her massage techniques are useful for anything from simple relaxation to helping deal with physical problems.

“I deal a lot with therapeutic massage. It’s good for anyone who has had issues with pain or aches,” Reynolds said.

Bill Merriman, one of Reynolds’s early customers, said that before coming in for a massage at The Body Whisperer he had trouble moving his arms without pain, and since working with Reynolds he has regained a lot of motion in his limbs.

All of the businesses involved in the open house are excited to open up their doors to the people of Mineral County to show them what they have to offer.

“I think we’re very optimistic about the future here,” said Ray.