Don Idler, right, with Atascadero Chamber Board Chairman Jack Porter
Anita Robinson, right, with Chair-elect Chuck Braun
It was a weekend of big honors for many and today we name a few. Hats off to Atascadero Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Don Idler (Idler’s Appliances), and Community Service Honoree Anita Robinson (Mission Community Bank).
John and Sandy Dunn
And there’s no doubt John Dunn’s SLO Citizen of the Year surprise was made all the sweeter by his wife Sandy’s successful surgery two days later … Atascadero-based Impact Absorbents has made big business out of spills and is now cleaning up for itself: the company has been named winner of a Pacific Coast Business Times’ “Family Owned Business” award. Impact Absorbents manufactures and distributes absorbent products used to clean up spills from milk-aisle mishaps to large scale industrial problems … Check out page 70 in this month’s Sunset Magazine for a burst of hometown pride. SLO photographer Chris Leschinsky shot a gorgeous photo at the home of Ed Thoma (Thoma Electric). The spectacular setting was designed by landscape architect Jeffrey Gordon Smith of Los Osos and planted by SLO’s Al Hummell and staff of Rainscape … Zazz Daniel’s StoryAD Network is integrating advertising imagery and personal stories in closed circuit broadcasts “now showing” at Kennedy Club Fitness locations and the Hearst Castle gift shop … And It’s in the Mail’s Rane Aguilar has joined forces with Poor Richard’s Press, combining the two companies into a direct mail powerhouse.
