Daily Archives: Sept. 10, 2012

You don’t say

Sept. 10, 20125:10 p.m.

“Regardless of what the forecast really says, can you just tell everybody 82 and sunny?”

– Kansas State Fair general manager Denny Stoecklein’s recent request to KWCH, Channel 12, meteorologist Mark Larson

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Blue Moon Caterers looking for new space

Sept. 10, 20124:52 p.m.

WICHITA — Bill Rowe is looking for new space for his Blue Moon Caterers.

Currently, the 10-year-old company shares a kitchen with his Red Bean’s Bayou Grill site at 7447 W. 21st St., but Rowe says it’s not big enough for both staffs.

“We need a traffic light in our kitchen on Fridays and Saturdays,” he says. “It is insane. We are busy.”

Rowe says that “Blue Moon has grown explosively in the last year and a half.”

“We’re turning away work because we just don’t have the kitchen capacity.”

Rowe says he’d also like to have an events center so he can cater parties and meetings and rent the space, too.

“That would be nice,” he says. “It’s not critical.”

Rowe is close to a deal for west-side space, but it’s not done. Regardless of whether it works out or he needs to look elsewhere, he’d like to finalize something in time to be in new space by April.

“I would like to have us move by next wedding season.”

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Sister Moses owner Linda Burton has two new sister businesses: Traveling Sister and Calamity Jane’s Resale

Sept. 10, 201211:16 a.m.

UPDATED — Sister Moses is no longer an only child.

Linda Burton, who owns the shop at Comotara Center at 29th and Rock Road, now has two sister companies –  literally and figuratively.

In July, she started Traveling Sister, which is something of a traveling boutique where she can sell clothing and accessories in people’s homes and at events.

Next month, Burton is opening Calamity Jane’s Resale in Normandie Center at Central and Woodlawn.

So much new business at once is creating some chaos in Burton’s world.

“It’s so bad, one of the girls is working out of the bathroom,” she says, laughing.

Burton says Traveling Sister has already gone as far as Texas, where Sister Moses has a lot of online customers.

“This weekend in Leavenworth, it was insane,” Burton says.

The events are parties of at least about 20 women, who can sip wine and shop in a friend’s home or at an event.

“It’s networking, and it’s finding out about more places that we can go to,” Burton says. “The great thing about it is it’s 20 girls that are being waited on.”

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