Daily Archives: Dec. 11, 2009

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“A few drinks is fine, but I learned not to bring a beer helmet with two straws built in. One straw is plenty.

— Electrician Kevin Moore on attending office holiday parties

Sonya’s Good Ole’ Cookies needs a home

WICHITA — Sonya Nicholson started making cookies out of her home as a part-time business eight years ago.

Then, after losing her job in August, she held an October cookie sale to keep from being evicted.

Now, she wants to open Sonya’s Good Ole’ Cookies across from the Riverside Perk.

The October sale is part of what’s motivating her.

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Cero’s Candies signs on with Kerr Enterprises

WICHITA — Wichita apparently is a hotbed of potential products for Arthur Kerr to market domestically and internationally.

Connie’s Cookies and Byblos Restaurant already have deals with Kerr Enterprises of New York to market products.

Now, Cero’s Candies is working with Kerr to sell its peanut brittle.

“This is really kind of our first venture,” Cero’s general manager Marni Eickelman says of actively marketing to potential customers outside of Wichita.

She says they particularly will focus on Canada but look at opportunities in Japan, the United Kingdom and on the East and West Coasts.

Catalogs and magazines are possibilities, too.

“It’s kind of exciting and new, something different,” Eickelman says.

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