Dietz, a traveling evangelist, started it in the 1940s when he settled in North Idaho and purchased the three acres before I-90 was built. is interdenominational with support from local churches. A Nampa native, he was educated in religion and human behavior in Toronto and California. Vieselmeyer came to Coeur d’Alene and joined Highway Evangelism 19 years ago. They own eight Christian retail stores in North Idaho and Eastern Washington. The Christian Gift Center will replace the Bible Book Nook, also owned by Daryl Bursch of Spokane and his family. Planned reconstruction of the I-90 interchange will have a positive effect on the facility, Vieselmeyer said, because it will gain more visibility and better access. It will be used for seminars, conferences and Christian performances. Plans are for the auditorium to seat up to 400 people, with seating along five angles and sloping toward the stage. Ron Vieselmeyer, president of Highway Evangelism, said the second and third buildings probably are two and four years away, with their timing and order of construction depending on the preferences of major funders. A 14,500-square-foot auditorium and office building will be built on the site of the current store. The three-phase plan calls for an 8,000-square-foot youth center with gymnasium to be built where the house is now, between the new store and the freeway. The existing two-level building and a neighboring house, respectively to the west and south of the new building, will be removed. Robinson transferred from Georgia.Īlso looking toward the future, a new Christian gift center and future youth center and auditorium are becoming reality for Highway Evangelism Inc., of Coeur d’Alene.Ĭonstruction began last week on a 4,500-square-foot Christian Gift Center, which will replace the 40-year-old Bible Book Nook between Appleway and Interstate 90, just east of its intersection with Northwest Boulevard and Ramsey Road. In addition to Utah, other Fabral plants are in Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, Georgia and Lancaster, Pa., its headquarters. He attributed the company’s success to listening to its customers and meeting their needs with products of long-standing quality. Now with 12 local employees, with only two transfers, the company should grow by 50 percent in the next few years, Robinson said. Fabral selected the Thayer Industrial Park site at 658 Boekel Road for financial and good labor market reasons, he said. The Rathdrum plant has taken over some Northwest orders from its Utah plant, but primarily it is exploring new markets, Robinson said. The company has six other fabrication plants throughout the country, but this is the first in the Northwest. The 35-year-old company produces metal roofing and siding for agricultural, commercial, industrial and residential markets. The variety of what we produce takes space.” “We hit the ground running,” Steve Robinson said. When the Rathdrum structure was built this winter, footings were poured to allow the physical plant to double in size. But the growing company has planned ahead. tours next week, the 28,000-square-foot metal roofing and siding plant already is too small, its manager said. The new Fabral plant was built with the future in mind.
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