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Guy Quenneville
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Owner gets out of the Office
The Office Dining Lounge was closed for most of March while its owner headed south for a much-needed vacation.
"I really needed some time off," said Sato Chankasingh, owner of the business for 13 years. "I was working something like 65 hours a week."
While Sato lounged on a beach in Belize, the bar top at the restaurant was redone.
"It was going to take a week, so we decided to throw that in while we were gone," he said.
The restaurant reopened yesterday.
Pan-Asia to close next month
The Pan-Asia Gourmet House on Franklin Avenue will close its doors for good on April 31.
A source working at the restaurant who preferred not to be named said the closure is due to chronic staff shortages and the cost of operating the business - not that the former is a challenge unique to Pan Asia.
"Everybody in Yellowknife is short-staffed," he said. "That's no secret."
Lutsel K'e painter visits downtown gallery
Birchwood Gallery was host to Lutsel K'e painter John Rombough this past weekend.
Rombough held a meet and greet on Saturday with visitors to the gallery while he worked simultaneously on five different paintings he had already started.
Gallery owner Tony Watier said the turnout was good and people really enjoyed observing the "layered" process behind Rombough's work.
Biggest job ever for Konge
Konge Construction owner Niels Konge said his company's work building the 15,000 square foot Shoppers Drug Mart on 49 Street is the biggest job his company has ever had.
He said working in the cold has been the company's biggest challenge. The new Shoppers is slated to open sometime this summer.