Daily Archives: March 1, 2010

Phil Ruffin donates space to the Wichita State University crew team

March 1, 20105:11 p.m.

WICHITA — The Wichita State University crew team has a new home, albeit a temporary one, thanks to Phil Ruffin.

Ruffin is letting the team use the building he owns in Delano that used to house Kansas Golf and Turf. The team doesn’t have to pay anything but the utilities.

“We were happy to do it for WSU,” Ruffin says. “After all, I went there two years.”

For the previous eight years, BG Products donated space for the team along the river at South Wichita Street.

Last summer’s major hail storm damaged a BG maintenance building that now has to be demolished, and the company is moving maintenance to the building the crew team has been using.

“The good thing was BG was there when nobody else would stand up,” says Galen Myers, BG chairman and CEO.

The team is still seeking a permanent home.

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You don’t say

March 1, 20103:01 p.m.

“Have they really ever been here?”

— Darrin Hackney of Heroes Sports Bar & Grill on how he’s now asking people seeking charitable donations from Heroes to become Facebook fans first

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‘Til We Meet Again custom casket store to open at Towne West Square

March 1, 20101:11 p.m.

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WICHITA — Nathan Smith wants to talk about his new store, but first he has a few questions.

“Are you ready?” he says of the new business at Towne West Square.

“Are you sure you’re ready? Is Wichita ready?”

His business, ’Til We Meet Again, will sell custom caskets and urns.

“It’s very specialized, very unique,” Smith says. “You can personalize it however you want.”

That could be with such things as a college-themed casket or one decorated with motorcycle memorabilia. There’s a whole service-oriented line, such as for firemen and members of the military.

The business is a switch for Smith, who has been a sales-and-marketing consultant across the country for the last 16 years.

“I was tired of the travel and tired of relocating my family,” he says.

He’s long had the idea for this company.

“I drew my first custom casket in a meeting — a very boring meeting, obviously.”

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