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The coming year could prove to be a good one for business development in

Hoke County, Economic Develop-ment Director Don Porter believes.

“I think 2017 is shaping up very well,” he said. “Things are develop-ing on the 401 corridor.”

A new shopping center is cur-rently under construction near the Stone Gables apartment commu-nity, and Hoke County’s second ABC liquor store will be one of its first occupants. Developer Metcon, which handled construction on a number of other projects in the county, is also actively pursuing more companies to locate to the shopping center.

More retail means more dollars staying in Hoke County, Porter said.

“It’s encouraging to see the vari-ous plazas and shopping centers being built, but it’s more encourag-ing when you start hearing from developers and people wanting to

Look for another big development on US 401

bring the business in,” he said.That project was actually an-

nounced some time ago and was “on the book,” but those kinds of developments are dependent on businesses wanting to expand and move into the new retail space.

“If you don’t have people who want to make the investment as the ABC store is doing, it doesn’t help us very much,” Porter said.

The Stone Gables shopping cen-ter could be the first in a number of commercial developments coming to Hoke County in 2017. More are on the way for the heavily popu-lated eastern area of the county.

“I think within the next few

months, you’ll start hearing about another major development there on 401,” Porter said.

However, it’s too soon to be able to say what kinds of stores will be going into the open space once the buildings are constructed and ready to be occupied.

“We don’t know yet, the de-veloper doesn’t even know yet. They’re recruiting like we’re doing. I was able to help the developer of that development with some important data on rooftops in that area and it’s very encouraging,” Porter said.

Business and especially business expansion is all about strategy, the economic development director said. And so is keeping dollars in Hoke County. Without enough lo-cal options to attract customers, it’s a quick drive over to Fayetteville’s shopping centers.

“You can either develop your own and serve the people where they are, or they’ll go find it, so for instance, with the ABC store, just right up a little bit further east, there’s one right across the (county) line. I’m sure enough of our people frequent that store, but by putting our own store on that side…you’re talking about keep-ing our dollars on our side. I think we’re going to be seeing more of that in 2017 in regard to our busi-nesses,” Porter said.

The N.C. 211 corridorA major development for the

future of Hoke County was an-nounced in late 2016 with the state’s decision to proceed with turning N.C. 211 between Raeford and Aberdeen into a four-lane road.

While it’s long been on the state’s to-do list, the project finally got started in a meaningful way with engineers beginning the long process of studying the surround-

ing land to both sides of 211 to map out how to add another two lanes of traffic with the least amount of dis-turbance to homes, businesses and cultural landmarks such as churches and cemeteries, while also protect-ing any vulnerable wildlife areas.

Could N.C. 211 eventually become the next Highway 401 cor-ridor, with business and residential growth expanding into western Hoke County?

Porter said that safety is first and foremost the reasoning behind the road widening project, but that there are considerations for how the county will need to proceed once the construction is eventually completed.

“I’ve always looked at that not only on a business angle, I look at 211 just at the standpoint of safety, safety first. In the 17 years I’ve been here, we’ve had some ungodly accidents along that road that far outweigh any business that we could even establish there,” he said. “But the thing that we’ll have to do is with the development of that corridor, we’ll have to look more seriously at the infrastructure.”

Hoke County spent nearly a decade working on expanding the water and sewer lines to the 401 corridor and other parts of the county, seeking grant funding and low or zero-interest loans through federal programs where possible. The county also completed con-struction in 2015 on a wastewater

(See PORTER, page 4)

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(Continued from page 3)treatment plant to provide additional capacity for its sewer service. But if the land along N.C. 211 begins to develop as well, it could mean starting again – but in the opposite direction, across the western part of the county.

Without retail growth to match the road expansion, however, it wouldn’t necessarily be an advan-tage for Hoke, Porter said.

“If we don’t make it convenient for people to shop here, the only advantage would be for them to get to Moore County faster,” he said.

The major business in that area now is Quantico Tactical, which sells weapons and tactical gear pri-marily for military and law enforce-ment members, Porter said.

Working for the futureThe county’s economic develop-

ment board is currently working to figure out how best to move the county forward into the future. An engineering firm is finishing up work on the county’s additional commercial and industrial sites and planned to give them the final briefing at the February economic development board meeting.

That information will be useful in future planning purposes, Porter said.

“What we need to do now is take a look at where we’ve been, where we are and what we need to do to get to the next level,” he said.

The project was co-sponsored by funds from local and regional sources, so as to spread the cost out.

“A prime example of the sup-port we’re getting…anything that we can ever do to lessen the cost expenses on our taxpayers, we do, and in the case of this project, the county and the city did their part, but we also were able to get buy-in and assistance from A&R Railroad and North Carolina Southeast and economic development partner-ship,” Porter said.

It’s going to be “an interesting process,” he added.

Supporting job growthThe major job-producing in-

dustries in the county have largely remained the same over the last decade, Porter said.

“If you look back over the last 10 years or so, the only thing we lost was the House of Raeford,” Porter said. Many of those employees are now employed with Butterball, or with Sanderson Farms or Moun-taire.

For the future, Porter said, he and other county leaders are working on supporting existing businesses such as Unilever, Alpla, Burlington and other companies that involve advanced manufacturing processes.

“The jobs that we’re trying to create for our people are good jobs, advanced technology jobs,” he said. “We want our young folks who want to stay home to be able to stay home and make a decent living.”

The economic developer also works to market Hoke County as a good place for major industries to locate when they’re searching for a new site. The county’s industrial park still has plenty of room for adding more businesses, Porter said.

“We’re still getting a lot of inter-est in the industrial park, but it’s just one of those things where you have to keep doing what you can do to stay in the hunt and keep from get-ting eliminated,” Porter said. “We have painstakingly taken advantage of what we have, rather than com-plaining about what we don’t have.”

The shopping center at Walmart has all of its storefronts full, a new TLC car wash opened up nearby and the cell phone provider Verizon is also currently building a new store by the center in front of East Hoke Middle School.

That area continues to be a popu-lar location for businesses large and small, Porter said.

“I still think there’s tremendous potential in that area there, there’s also tremendous property behind it (Walmart) that’s expandable, and that’s always a good thing,” he said. “If they think they can make money, they’re going to open a business in your area.”

Additionally, Porter anticipates that there could be further growth coming from Fort Bragg over the next few years due to changes in the federal administration. The defense industry has “dwindled” in the area in the last four years, but could become a growth sector again.

“Because of our geographic loca-tion to Fort Bragg, I see the defense industry gearing back up as op-posed to what we’ve had for the last four or five years. I spent 30 years, 14 days in the Army, and from a military service standpoint, we always did substantially better with a Republican administration.”

That could mean more people coming to live in Hoke County.

“Just from my way of thinking, at least over the next four years, you won’t see a decrease, I think we’ll

see an increase,” Porter said.And to young people planning

their futures, and to families looking for advice for their children – ad-vanced technology and healthcare are the fields of the future. That’s the suggestions Porter said he plans to give his four grandchildren in preparing them for adulthood.

Hoke County High School and Sandhills Community College are ramping up efforts to prepare young people for careers in health and technology. Those programs are “only going to get better over the years,” Porter said, and addition-ally the county’s two hospitals are strongly focused on hiring locally where at all possible.

“Both of those hospitals are doing very well, and they are both tremendous corporate partners,” Porter said.

“When people come to me and want to talk about relocating, they want to know three things…number one, what’s your school system like, do you have a good educational system. Two, what’s your crime rate, are you going to protect me, am I and my family going to be safe. And three, if I get sick, how far do I have to go to get to a hospital to get medical care. We can answer all three of those with tremendous certainty and that’s why people continue to flock here over and over again.”

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H oke County’s zoning ordi-nance probably won’t be an issue for most home remod-

els, County Planner Robert Farrell said, but if you’re adding an extra

bedroom or building a garage onto the house, you’ll need to drop by his

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the house, as long as it’s residential, there’s no zoning involved. It’s only when you expand the square foot-age,” he said. “At that point you come in and get a zoning permit, and we have you draw up a site plan. Nothing fancy, it can be hand drawn, you just need to show the existing buildings and then also where you’re going to be expanding and how far away that is from the property line, so we can make sure you’re meeting your setbacks.”

Setbacks are required distances from the edge of the property line for certain buildings. As with most other zoning and permitting regula-

What permits do you need, what are zoning rules?tions, local government officials have set rules for setback distances depending on various factors.

Additionally, the zoning office will have homeowners speak with the Environmental Health Depart-ment to find out if they’re on a sep-tic tank system, and if so, to make sure any proposed expansions won’t impact the septic system.

“If it does, then they have to clear it before we’ll issue our zoning permit, but if there’s no impact, we can go ahead and issue the zoning permit and turn it on over,” Farrell said.

That’s where Andy Connor, Hoke County’s chief building inspector, and the inspections department takes over.

There’s a whole different set of rules about permits for inspections, Connor said.

“If it’s remodeling, some things don’t require permits. If they’re do-ing some minor remodeling, if the

cost does not exceed $15,000,” it doesn’t need a permit, he said.

That amount was recently upped from $5,000 to $15,000, allowing for more work to be done before a permit is required. Typi-cally that is when homeown-ers are involved in ac-tivities like sheetrock removal and adding or remov-ing load-bearing walls in the home.

And when electricians and plumbers get in-volved, that’s usually going to need an inspection unless it’s just simple cosmetic work, Connor said.

“If they’re doing anything to the electrical, plumbing, mechanical system, a permit’s always required for that unless it’s changing out some receptacles or light fixtures or something minor like that,” he said.

When adding on to an existing home, even if it’s a small addition, it’s going to have to go through the permitting process.

“They might say, it’s just a 10 by 10, but any addition to a home re-quires a building permit and inspec-tions,” Connor said.

Something like that could pos-sibly be wrapped up and approved in a single trip to the county of-fice, which is housed in the L.E. McLauchlin building.

The drawing of the site plan doesn’t have to be an engineer’s drawing unless it’s commercial work, or if the square footage exceeds 2,500 square feet or costs over $90,000. In those cases, a professional engineer drawing is

required. The purpose of the drawings is to

make sure that the homeowner has a good idea of how to proceed with

the proj-ect. The county office is there to ensure that codes are followed, but they can’t offer a how-to guide for the actual construc-tion or home improve-ment process.

“By having some

drawings, we can see that their intent is to meet the code and espe-cially if it’s a homeowner, that they know what they’re going to do,” Connor said. “We’re to verify that it’s done properly, not to tell them how to do it.”

Most of the people who come to the county inspections office to seek permits for improvement projects are professional contractors, as han-dling the permits is often included as part of the contract for their work. The contractors can handle the permitting process for the proj-ect, and it’s better – and safer – to have the permits in the contractor’s name, not the homeowner’s, Con-nor said.

“When they assume those per-mits, they’re assuming responsibil-ity for that particular contractor,” he said.

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It’s been years since Raeford had a furniture store on Main Street, but the Dunlap fam-

ily is bringing back local shopping options for homeowners looking for just the right style for their home and budget.

Tom Dunlap worked in furniture wholesale for over 20 years before deciding to go into business selling directly to customers through his own storefront. A space available in an historic building in downtown Raeford turned out to be a cozy location for a display room with lots of daily traffic.

“I got the family together and we talked about it, and then we prayed about it, and everything just fell into place,” Dunlap said.

Dunlap’s wife, Linda, and their son, Tommy, who is active duty in the military, all pitch in to as-sist customers and the family even makes most of their own furniture deliveries.

“We’re all family here, we’re a small business, small operation but we’re looking to grow,” Dunlap said. “One thing we push is good service to our customers.”

It’s the personal touch that at-tracts shoppers to Dunlap Furniture and keeps them coming back.

“We want to treat all of our cus-tomers with courtesy and respect. It goes a long way, we’ve had a lot of repeat customers,” he said.

The storefront carries a variety of different furniture for homes, employee Josh Suggs said.

“We carry a good mix. We carry bedroom suits, we carry living room suits, we also do TVs. But what our big goal is, especially here in Raeford, if somebody needs something, we try to not make them have to go and shop a bunch of places,” he said. “We try to get everything in one stop, especially this day and time where you go and run your credit and they send

it through about 40 times and hurt your credit.”

One thing that’s unique to Dun-lap Furniture is they will only run credit scores once, which won’t have as much of an impact on the score, Suggs said. The business also strives to work with customers on finding the options that are right for them.

“We try to tell you what’s your best option and give you your best choices and not be pushy,” he said. “A lot of stores they want to you to buy, buy, buy. We want you to make

the right decision as well as buy.”That was part of a business

decision that even went into how the company pays its employees, Dunlap said.

“Nobody here works on commis-sion, so there’s no reason for them to push a customer,” he said. “We want them to feel relaxed when they come in here.”

The store is small for the moment, but the business could expand in the future to offer more floor space to display various home furnishings.

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But it’s the chandeliers that draw the eye, visible through the shop’s large display windows even from nearby Highway 401 Bypass. Dozens of glittering chandeliers in every shape and size descend from the ceiling, gleaming just overhead and filling the entire store with danc-ing crystals reflecting the light in all directions.

It’s a showstopper showplace for people looking to buy a higher-end decorative lighting fixture for their home, or for contractors outfitting their newest construction project with better-than-basic accouter-ments.

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touches on what they hope will become a big draw for customers not only from Hoke County but from around the region.

“We just started remod-eling and put the lighting showroom here (last year),” she said. “I have such access to manufacturers that we wanted to incorporate it here a little more.”

Aaron’s is a family busi-ness, founded by the Sealeys with their first business location in Fayetteville, now expanded to include Raeford and Little River in South Carolina. Sealey, her husband and their old-est son each run one of the three Aaron’s locations, with Felisha overseeing the Raeford office, her husband managing the Fayetteville store and their son operating the business in Little River.

The company has 10 employees in Raeford and about 35 across all

three stores.So where did the name Aaron’s

come from?It actually started out as a way

to get more customers to the busi-ness, Sealey said. A long time ago, Sealey’s husband did heating and air work, but since his last name starts with a letter “S,” customers would often find another company before getting to his advertisement in the phone book. Someone suggested to him to give his business a name with two or even three letter “A”s so his listing would be the first thing that customers saw when they flipped through the phone book pages.

He settled on Aaron’s, and it stuck – and years later, the couple named their younger son Joshua Aaron.

Aaron’s Supply has three heating and air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical supply houses for contrac-tors and shoppers, and stocks a wide variety of higher-end home goods.

“We have accessories, any kind of accessories…we do rugs, we do lighting, we do plumbing, we do bathrooms, we do faucets and

Plumbing, electrical, lighting—Aaron’sshowers and things like that also,” Sealey said. The store sells products to match many different decorating styles, including the industrial look and the modern contemporary look as well as more traditional styles.

The lighting showroom in Ra-eford came about after the Sealeys successfully launched one at the location in Little River.

“It was so successful there that we decided to do it here, because it is a passion and it requires a lot of work,” Sealey said. “But we also have other things going on within the business.”

The company’s business includes a lot of work with contractors but also homeowners who are sent to pick out their new fixtures when working with those contractors to remodel their homes. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, Sealey said.

“We do a lot of commercial things in South Carolina because it’s the North Myrtle Beach area. Here, we do a lot with the heating and air

mostly, and we’re just now kicking off the showroom.”

The company also has agreements with Fort Bragg and even sells prod-ucts worldwide.

“We’ve sold ceiling fans to Africa, we do a lot of different things,” Sealey said.

The new lighting display in Raeford is a high-end showroom, but the company also offers special contractor packages to bring the cost down for larger purchases. And many people are looking for a way to make their home stand out from the neighborhood crowd, Sealey said.

“I find that a lot of people who come in here, if they’ve bought a tract home and there’s 50 in their neighborhood and they all look exactly alike, they want theirs to be a little different, a little special, so they come in to get something special. And we have such variety,” she said.

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Aaron’s offers a number of ser-vices, too, and will even have some-one with interior design experience come to a home to help the home-owner plan out their new decorating scheme. “We don’t mind going to the home if someone is doing their whole home or building a house, and they just have it roughed in and they want some ideas, we don’t mind traveling to do that for no fee. We deliver free,” she said. “If they order a chandelier and it’s not in stock, it’ll come in a few days and we’ll deliver it to them.” Besides keeping dollars

in the local economy by shopping in Hoke County, buying in a brick and mortar store also comes with the advantage of being able to see and touch the product before making a purchase.

“A lot of times if you look online and you’re looking for a light fixture for your house, you can’t touch it and see if it’s good quality or if it’s made correctly, or if you have prob-lems, you’ll have problems returning it, and our prices are generally less than online,” Sealey said. “If you have an issue, we are there to take care of the issue.”

The company does not install their HVAC systems but does sell them, and will also have Delta faucets on display soon.

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“It’s Swarovski crystals and they can choose the color of the crystals, they can get into it as much as they want,” Sealey said.

It’s the customer service and personal touch that really sets the

business apart, she said. Three of the local Aaron’s Supply customer service representatives have experi-ence in interior decorating and are on hand to help customers who need a guiding light to pick out the perfect item to fit their home.

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Dee Inman and Michael Inman are co-owners of Floors to Go, which was started in 1996. The company started in a small office on Main Street and expanded, and in 2003 opened in its current location on Highway 401.

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Right now, the most popular flooring options are hard surface floors including the luxury vinyl

and the laminate flooring styles. They’re more durable and last a long time and are easier for home-owners to maintain, making them a good choice for people with chil-dren, pets or just not a lot of time to spend cleaning.

If a customer isn’t sure what kind of flooring is best for their situation, the staff at Floors to Go can help walk them through the process of picking out the right option for their home.

“First we question how long they’re going to be in the home, if they’re going to be staying there or if they’re just trying to sell it or try-ing to rent it, how many people are in the home and if they have pets,” Inman said.

The business further expanded about five years ago to add paint sales. The paint store is connected to the Floors to Go location on the highway. Some of the paint brands the store carries include PPG and Pratt and Lambert.

The paint business can cater to homeowners looking for a durable, washable paint that can handle rambunctious kids and pets, and contractors who are looking for a basic neutral paint for a house that’s being put up for sale.

And more than the products they offer for sale at Floors to Go, both of the co-owners have experience in home remodeling. Dee Inman is a licensed general contractor, and Mike Inman has an electrical license.

“We do remodels now. We do kitchen remodels, bathroom re-models, home repairs. We also have lighting available, so we do pretty much top to bottom now,” she said.

The company works to offer customers very competitive pricing on its products and services. They can usually match and often beat the prices offered by larger home improvement centers, Inman said.

They hope to encourage more people to shop locally and keep more dollars in the Hoke County economy.

“We would like more people to (See FLOORS, page 18)

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From mozzarella moons and frickle pickles to wasabi salmon salads and shrimp

and grits entrees, the Mill at Puppy Creek restaurant on Johnson Mill Road has something for every taste – and with its newly completed renovations, has a brand-new and welcoming look, too.

Lisa Adams loved the old Mill restaurant and building from the moment she first set foot inside some years ago.

“We would come to the Mill periodically and I loved it, my kids loved it, all my friends loved it,” she recalled.

Whether it was for a special occasion like a hail and farewell or just a nice evening out, she trea-sured her visits to the atmospheric building on the creek, where people could dine in or step out on the deck to feed the resident turtles. But Adams saw something more, too: potential for improvement.

“I would leave going, oh my gosh, that place could be so amaz-ing if someone would give it some love,” she said.

After flooding from Hurricane

Matthew invaded the building and washed away part of the much-loved deck, Adams took the plunge. She drove to Raeford to look up the restaurant operator’s information, and paid him a visit.

Now, the Fayetteville business-woman’s name is on the property lease, and workers have given the Mill the facelift Adams has wanted to give it for years.

Fortunately, the renovation work and flood repair was mostly cos-metic in nature, she said. Although the water rose up around the Mill and the roaring creek destroyed part of the deck, for the most part, the century-old building withstood the storm well.

“The damage was fairly minimal, there was no structural damage. I attribute that because the building’s been here for 104 years. It was built very solidly,” Adams said, noting its original purpose as a functional water-powered mill. The back wall of the building is solid concrete, she said.

Besides tearing out the carpet, removing the wallpaper, refinishing the woodwork, replacing the light-

Old Mill, back from flood, gets newing and upgrading the kitchen appliances, Adams and her crew also rebuilt the exterior deck that’s a favorite with guests. The entire contents of the building were removed to allow for the renova-tions and the interior completely revamped.

“Basically my goal is to really kind of recreate a rustic atmosphere, where people really feel com-fortable and want to spend time with their family, date night on Friday, be out on the deck with live music,” she said.

Adams hired a new chef whose menu includes a wide variety of appetizers, salads, soups, sand-wiches and entrees for all tastes and budgets. The horseradish-fried dill pickles served with ranch dip, Bavarian-style pretzels served with beer cheese, grass-fed beef sliders and spinach artichoke dip served with grilled pita chips ap-petizers start off a meal. Classic sandwiches like the Reuben, the Mill Club and the Italian sub join the Gristmill Cheese Steak and the Grain Hopper, a three-cheese grilled sandwich served on thick sourdough bread.

The menu includes burgers like the Southern Charmer, which offers Angus steak topped with pimento cheese, and the Horse Hopper, which in-Heavy rains and a hurricane shut down the restaurant, but it’s back, remodeled and with a new menu.

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cludes corned beef, a fried egg and bacon aioli among other toppings. The grill serves up a 16-ounce Angus rib-eye steak, grilled barra-mundi and shrimp grits, plus pasta alfredo with chicken or blackened shrimp.

The pizza offerings include a gar-den lover’s with house-made tomato sauce, veggies and a balsamic glaze, the Butcher’s Choice with five different meats, a Buffalo chicken variety and more.

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The restaurant is newly open for business. The Old Mill Restaurant’s

website is https://www.themillat-puppycreek.com/ and its Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/themillatpuppycreek. The phone number is (910) 878-0030. The res-taurant is located at 1825 Johnson Mill Road.

For many years, Hoke County customers had to cross the county line to

Cumberland or Moore to pick out new furniture for their homes, but that changed not long ago when the Fayetteville-based Southern Fur-niture business decided to move to Raeford.

“I think we were the first to come back here in many a year,” company owner Tom Moore said.

The company lost its lease on one of its two stores in Fayetteville and

started to look for another storefront to occupy. When a real estate agent suggested moving to Raeford into the former Goody’s location, the company checked out the property and found it to be a good fit for its needs.

“We came and looked and it all worked out, we were able to move out of that and move to Raeford. We enjoy being here, this is going on our third year. We enjoy the area, fantastic customers and business has been brisk,” Moore said.

Southern Furniture has been in business since 1999 and still has its first store open in Fayetteville.

Although the company had to transform a longtime clothing store into a furniture display showroom, the store space had been well main-tained and the business didn’t have to do much work to prepare it for their needs.

“We know that Hoke County is growing, and the shopping center we’re in here seems to be pretty well maintained and it’s a safe envi-

ronment to come shop, it’s well-lit,” Moore said. The location next to Food Lion and CVS also draws in customers just stopping by to take a look at what the business has to offer.

The store in Raeford carries mid-priced furniture of all varieties, and can also special order items for customers.

“We carry all home furnishings – sofas, loveseats, bedrooms, pictures, mattresses, dining rooms, dinettes,”

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(Continued from page 13)Moore said.

New homeowners can use the store as a way to get a “whole houseful” of furniture and acces-sories. The upholstery and bedroom sets are the company’s most popular items, with living room sofas and chairs a close second.

“We’ve been pretty successful so far,” Moore said.

The company has four employees to assist customers at its Raeford location. The business offers financ-ing programs to help buyers make their purchases, and also offers layaway options.

Southern Furniture works to focus on offering a lot of American-made furniture, and has lines such as Bassett, Southern Motion and Lazy Boy.

Doing business in a county like Hoke that’s undergone tremendous growth in a short period of time was attractive for the company, Moore said.

And now, Southern Furniture is here to stay as part of the commu-nity. “We enjoy your business and we love the atmosphere of being a small hometown, and we want to be your hometown furniture store,” he said.

Southern Furniture is located at 234 Cole Avenue in Raeford. The store is open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday 10-6 p.m. For customer assistance, call 848-2491.

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Fresh-cut flowers can bright-en up any room, and can brighten up a loved one’s

day, too, Patricia Murphy knows. “We have a lot of young military

members who come in here, they buy a lot of flowers. A lot of ‘I’m sorry’ flowers,” she said, laughing.

Murphy spent 21 years in the United States Army, is married to a retired Hoke County law enforce-ment officer and has three children. She became interested in flowers as a child because her mother loved to arrange them, she said. Step-ping into her family’s shotgun-style house in eastern North Carolina was almost like walking into a flower shop filled with fresh arrangements.

“Once you walked in – flowers, good Lord,” she said.

That experience is repeated now when walking into Patricia’s Flower Shop. Murphy founded the business in Raeford in 2014 and opened her first brick and mortar shop in 2015.

Going from more than 20 years of service in the military to running a flower shop and event planning business was a big change. Her new endeavor is worlds away from her previous military service and work with the government, Murphy said.

“The federal government is a dif-ferent animal,” she said.

After retiring from the Army, Murphy went back to school to earn a master’s degree in public admin-istration. She and her husband built their dream home in Hoke County in 2010 and plan to stay here.

A few years ago, Murphy and her sisters discussed going into business together to manage their own event

planning company. But life got in the way, and she was left as the primary investor in the business.

“We started with my three sisters, however they decided not to go for-ward in business with me, so I went on in business by myself,” she said.

Flowers and interior design have always been one of her passions, and she was excited at the chance to open her own business.

“I have always wanted a flower shop. I thought it was so neat to have flowers around you every day, and really that’s how I started,” she said.

The storefront is located on Highway 401 Business not far from

Hoke County High School. The location gets a lot of traffic from people stopping by to check out the florist shop.

The store offers whatever floral services a customer might need, Murphy said.

“We offer any service that a full florist offers. We have funeral ar-rangements – silk and fresh – we have plants, we have vases that cater to births, we have a boy and girl vase. When someone has a baby, we have vases that celebrate that mo-ment,” she said.

The shop is also filled to the brim with carefully arranged live plants ready to decorate a home, office or be given away as gifts. The small container gardens are something of a specialty for the flower shop.

“We have a lot of dish gardens, we are famous for our dish gar-dens,” Murphy said.

The business works to keep prices reasonable for customers. For

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special events, the shop will even rent vases to be used as table cen-terpieces so that the organizers can save money on their big day.

“I just did a wedding and she didn’t really have the money to purchase everything, so we rented everything to her and we set it up ourselves,” Murphy said.

Patricia’s Flower Shop has a 10-person family staff that can help handle large events like weddings and parties. They are quick at set-ting up arrangements and helping the special day run smoothly.

As for their stock of flowers, with access to wholesalers, the store can get just about any kind of flower that a customer might want.

“We offer every type of flower there is. Some flowers we don’t carry on a daily basis. Let’s say if you want a bird of paradise, that’s a very exotic flower and a very costly flower—I don’t have that on hand. However, if you want it (a certain day), I’m able to go to the whole-saler and pick up what I normally don’t have,” Murphy said.

Some of the company’s most popular flowers are double lilies, in-cluding ones that have a fragrance.

The store also does customized door wreaths and other arrange-ments. If a customer is having trouble bringing their dream cre-ation to life, the staff at Patricia’s Flower Shop can help out.

“If you see a picture on Pinter-est and you bring it to me, if you’re willing to pay the price of the prod-ucts and labor, I’m willing to do the arrangement just like on Pinterest,” Murphy said.

The store also partners with De-signs by Tammy out of Dunn and sells woodwork designs in the shop.

Patricia’s Flower Shop has a diverse customer base across all demographics, the owner said.

“I have a lot of customers that would not go anywhere else,” she said.

Even the expanded space in their new location isn’t quite enough room for all the business they’re getting, and Murphy hopes to add another venture in the future.

“I want to open up a pottery center. I also have experience in the pottery wheel, and I want to open up a center where families can go and make a mug together, but we just don’t have the building,” she said.

The company is still growing as

more people discover the work that they do.

Patricia’s Flower Shop is located at 485 Highway 401 Business. The phone number is (910) 248-6416, and the website is http://www.patri-ciasflowershop.net/.

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(Continued from page 5)the licensure procedure for con-

tractors in North Carolina, Connor said.

For smaller projects, it’s perfectly fine for homeowners to do their own work, as long as they follow the guidelines and get the permits.

“Anyone can do work to their own residence as long as it’s their primary residence, they can assume responsibility for obtaining the permits if they’re doing the work,” Connor said.

To make the process a little simpler for homeowners doing their own work and seeking their own permits, the county offers checklists to follow to make sure a homeown-er knows all the proper permits to obtain for the project.

There is a set schedule of fees for each type of permit; the fee sched-ule is available through the county

office.

The problem with storage buildingsOne issue that the county has

been seeing recently involves homeowners buying prefabricated metal storage buildings to place on their property to use as anything from a garage to a storage shed to workshop.

“Folks are buying them online or they’ll pick up a magazine, a little bargain trader type deal in the convenience store, and they’ll see a company that can get them a 5,000 square foot building for $5,000, so to speak. They purchase it, those folks will come in an erect that building and then if the concrete’s there, they’re out of there in a day’s time,” Connor said.

The problem is that people don’t realize they need a permit to have these buildings installed on their

property, Connor said. The build-ings aren’t always installed prop-erly, and are sometimes placed in a bad position on the lot.

“Sometimes it’s on top of the septic tank,” Farrell said.

People realize too late that the buildings need permits, and if they later want to add electric service to the building, they run into other problems.

“We had one homeowner who bought one, he came in and wanted to get an electrical permit to put some power on his building. He didn’t have a building permit. He could not get those folks to assume responsibility for the engineered building that they sold him and erected,” Connor said. “He’s in the process of trying to hire another engineer to look at it and give him some kind of documentation. It’s going to cost him a lot.”

Meanwhile, the company he bought from won’t return his phone calls. That’s a situation the county office is seeing more and more recently, the chief inspector said.

Any building added on to the property must have a permit if it’s over 12 feet in any dimension, Connor said. Sheds or prefabricated buildings under 12 feet in all dimen-sions don’t require permits.

If in doubt, it’s always wise to call the inspections department just to make sure, Connor said.

The Hoke County inspections and zoning departments are located at 423 East Central Avenue in the L.E. McLauchlin building. The phone number is 875-8407. The department’s website is available through

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Floors(Continued from page 11)shop local and realize that we are here,” Inman said.

The business has five full time and two part time employees and multiple subcontractors.

Floors to Go is located at 7072 Fayetteville Road. The phone number is (910) 875-1050 and the website is http://raeford.floorstogo.com/.

(Continued from page 7)“We’re small for a furniture store,

and we’re going to do some expand-ing when the time comes,” Dunlap said.

Dunlap Furniture is able to keep their prices down thanks to years of experience working in furniture wholesale and working directly with furniture stores.

“Now we’re dealing directly with a lot of these different compa-nies, Ashley and Bassett and sev-

eral ….we can still keep our prices down in comparison to Cumberland County,” the owner said.

The store opened in late 2015 and business has been growing ever since.

“People are learning that we’re here and they’re seeing our prices,” Dunlap said.

The company works to buy in bulk when possible to pass savings on to their customers.

Some of the most popular items are the outdoor furniture, because

Dunlap’s outdoor furniture is made of a tough, durable polywood con-struction that comes with a lifetime warranty, Suggs said.

“It’s forever, you can leave it outside,” he said.

It’s been good to do business as a new company in Hoke County, Dunlap said.

“The people here are just so nice. This is a good community,” he said.

Dunlap Furniture is located at 114 Main Street in Raeford. The store phone number is (910) 878-1581.

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