Yuma Business Direct - Featured Stories
More than technique
Over the past two decades, Cindy Turrentine estimates that more than 15,000 students have passed through her studio. She feels blessed to have been able to touch the lives of so many young people and believes they learned more than dance steps in her classrooms. Whether they went on to professional dance careers or other professions, she hopes lessons of kindness, tenaciousness,...
'We leave a piece of our soul'
General contractor Jim Pilkington puts more than time and sweat, brick and mortar into a project. "No matter what size of the project, we leave a little piece of our soul there," he said. "I'm so fortunate as a builder to drive by a building and be flooded with memories. Those memories replenish the soul. It's such a rewarding profession to leave a piece of my soul and have it replenished."...
Partnership works well for siblings who run Grocery Outlet
BY JOYCE LOBECK Yuma Business Direct Editor Bobby Scarborough and his sister Lori McKenna fought growing up, as siblings do. But as the middle children in a family of four, they also were partners. They still are. Together they run the Green Trees Grocery Outlet business Bobby started in 1998 with a few shelves of groceries in front of the building at 2187 W. 16th St., where he...
Local works to improve YRMC; Richard Hernandez helps with hospital's service efficiency
Richard Hernandez doesn't use the tools usually associated with someone who is a black belt. His tools are flow charts, graphs and lists that paper the walls of his office in the basement of Yuma Regional Medical Center. It's the "think tank" for the hospital's Six Sigma project team, for which Hernandez acts as facilitator as a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Bestowed...
Attorney found car business not for him
Waldo Israel always expected to go into business. Instead he ended up with a law practice specializing in business. The two aren't so far apart, he reflected. And over the years, many clients have become good friends. "I like assisting and dealing with business people," he said. "They're practical as well as focused, real goal-oriented ... building their business and...
Yuma Realtor has a passion for preserving historic buildings
Carolyn McKelvey Malouff sees more than faded wood and crumbling mortar when she looks at a neglected old building that has seen better days. It's those better days that intrigue her - the building in its glory, the people who passed through it, it's very soul. Take, for example, Hotel Del Sol. "It was heart-rending to see such a beautiful old building," she...
Jet-setter works for ag company
Cindy Baker majored in personnel relations and has two passions: agriculture and education. So why does her passport show a trail of travel to places as far as China and Europe? It came about quite by chance and a process of professional evolution. Today, as president of the recently formed Exigent Sciences, Baker handles state, federal and international pesticide regulatory efforts...
Helping people best part for banker
Bill Liddle doesn't like to use the word no - he would rather find a way to provide the financing an enterprising entrepreneur needs to start on the path to a successful business. It's more fun that way for Liddle, the head of the AEA Federal Credit Union Business Services Department begun in the fall of 2004. "As a financial institution, we lacked that service," said...
Following opportunities, from Arkansas farm to Yuma farm equipment dealer
It's not as if Dennis Booth planned to end up owning a farm equipment dealership in Yuma, but he can't imagine any other place he would rather be. "I was following opportunities," he said as he reflected on how it came to be. "They led me to this spot. I've had a good life." His life journey started on a farm in Jonesboro, Ark. When Booth was 9, his father sold...
Still in the family
BY JOYCE LOBECK Yuma Business Direct Editor At 91, Bessie Gutierrez is physically frail, but she still reigns as matriarch of the family-owned restaurant business she founded 61 years ago. Even a recent fall down the stairs didn't keep her from presiding over a groundbreaking ceremony for the new building that will replace the aging Mr. G. "I was trying to be a ballet...
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