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Walpole Business News Round-up
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Walpole Business News Round-Up
Burdick’s Chocolate OctoberFest, JMDesigns New Hours; First Day Opens in Seattle and More!
by Chuck Bingaman
The Restaurant at Burdick’s Chocolates on Main Street in Walpole will sponsor its annual OctoberFest all day and evening September 28 and 29 featuring live music and special menus prepared by guest chef Karl-Heinz Mersmann. Why OctoberFest in September? Burdick’s chocolate and pastry chef—and German native—Michael Klug explains that traditionally in Germany OctoberFest begins in the third week in September and ends on the first week in October. Burdick’s General Manager Cathy Watson also reports that Burdick’s Restaurant will be featured in an upcoming edition of Gourmet Magazine and that Burdick’s chocolate penguins will be featured in the Holiday Catalog of Garnet Hill, the Franconia, NH-based mail-order company. Finally, Cathy reports that Burdick’s chocolate making operation plans is moving into its new quarters on Main Street today and tomorrow and will begin production there on Monday....JMFloral on Main Street in Walpole is now operating on new and expanded hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sundays Noon to 4:00 p.m. Proprietor Jayson Munn recently expanded his facilities for stocking and cooling cut flowers, especially a wider variety of roses, and his new phone number is 756-9300….One of Walpole’s little known treasures is the bookshop of Ray Boas, Bookseller, on the Common just south of the Catholic Church. Ray had out-of-print bookstores in New Jersey and Connecticut prior to relocating to Walpole in 2002, and he was one of the pioneers of Internet bookselling in the early 1990s. Today his business is primarily Internet based, and he ships 75 to 100 books a week, sometimes to as many as eight countries in a single day. Visitors are always welcome to browse the more than 13,000 titles on the shelves. The shop is open all the time, “by chance or appointment.” Ray suggests calling ahead 756-9900, or pulling down the drive and “listening for our Westies to bark announcing your arrival.” …Walpole lawyer Nathan R. Lynch, in addition to his full time practice, has joined the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover as a part-time adjunct professor this fall to teach a course titled New England Practice. The class is designed to give law students a glimpse into the different procedural rules and laws of the six New England states. Billing itself as “the most affordable school of law in New England” the school says its mission is “to make practical, affordable, high quality legal education, and resulting social and economic mobility, available to capable but less privileged persons who have been traditionally excluded from the legal profession.”…. Todd Nielsen, president of EOS Tours in Walpole, has announced a new educational tour organized for the Archeological Institute of America departing in February 2007 titled “Egypt’s Valley of the Kings”. This one-time tour will spend nine full days in and around Luxor Egypt and visit 29 royal tombs most of which are closed to the public. EOS is the managing agent and Todd is the director for tour programs of several leading museums and scholarly organizations in the USA…. Walpole architect/entrepreneur David Howard of FirstDay Cottages has announced a new Seattle, Washington office to begin marketing FirstDays in the Pacific Northwest. A recent study showed that there are now 32 FirstDay cottages built in a 20-mile radius of Walpole, and Howard is hoping to replicate the company’s rapid growth here in other areas of the country. The company has a particularly good web site at www.firstdaycottage.com…. Walpole Creamery, the town’s new ice cream manufacturer, passed needed state inspections last Thursday, is running test operations in advance of opening and expects to throw a Grand Opening celebration on Sunday afternoon, September 24. For more information, call 445-5700.
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