In fact, the region’s largest credit union, Wright-Patt Credit Union of Fairborn, has more than 40 various available positions due to growth, according to Darrick Weeks, chief operating officer. Kettering-based Day Air Credit Union has two open jobs in the mortgage loans, due to its growing volume of home-loan business, said CEO Bill Burke.
• Two weeks ago we spotlighted some of the “pop-up” businesses (and efforts to recruit more) in downtown Dayton. The restaurant known as Olive, An Urban Dive at the former Wympee on East Third Street and Wayne Avenue found a creative way to give a boost to the new pop-ups: Diners who present a receipt from one of the shops can get an order of sweet potato fries of fried leeks for free. Now that’s mighty neighborly.
• Toxic Brew, the much-anticipated brewpub coming to 431 E. Fifth St. in Dayton’s Oregon District, won’t open in July as its owners had hoped. In a blog posting, the brewpub’s owners say they are still working out issues that come with obtaining building permits and updating a 130-year-old historic building to modern building codes. Sounds like it will take a couple of more months or so, but there is good news to report, too: Toxic’s brewhouse equipment has been delivered.
• Edible Ohio Valley magazine, which is distributed free at some local restaurants and markets, has written a great profile of Doug Seibert and Leslie Garcia, owners of Peach Mountain Organics in Spring Valley (the story is also available online at www.ediblecommunities.com). Doug and Leslie sell their produce and flowers at the Yellow Springs Market Saturday mornings and also supply some area restaurants, including The Winds and Meadowlark. And they are also the winners of the 2012 Stewardship Award presented by the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association. Besides all that, their salad mix, garlic, kale, tomatoes and yellow squash are delicious.
• Ghostlight Coffee at 1201 Wayne Ave. has teamed up with Fressa Food Truck and Thistle Confections to offer a new summertime Saturday night dinner option in Dayton’s South Park neighborhood, according to Ghostlight owner Shane Anderson. The coffee shop normally closes at 7 p.m. but is staying open until 10 p.m. on Saturday nights through the end of the summer. The Fressa Food Truck will be stationed at Wayne Avenue and Clover Street on Saturday evenings, and Thistle Confections will be serving desserts. Ghostlight Coffee will offer its full menu of iced coffee beverages and handmade sodas.
• Okay, we already knew that authors Jane and Michael Stern of “Roadfood” fame were fans of The Pine Club, Dayton’s iconic steakhouse at 1926 Brown St., because they spoke glowingly about the restaurant’s hamburgers in their 2009 book “500 Things to Eat Before It’s Too Late.” But Michael Stern has delivered another powerful little shout-out to the Pine Club, this time in a recent USA Today story entitled “The USA’s best steakhouse.” There, nestled into a longer story about the historic and REALLY iconic Peter Luger Steak House in Brooklyn, is the following paragraph:
“Not all USA TODAY panelists are Luger loyalists. Says restaurant-rating veteran Michael Stern, creator of Roadfood.com: ‘As much as I like the high-end New York steak houses (when someone else is paying), they can’t hold a candle to eating beef in the heartland.’ His top pick: The Pine Club in Dayton, Ohio.”
Do you think the “tastemakers” on the coasts have figured out we’re not just living in flyover country here in Dayton, Ohio?
Nahhhhh.
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