greydog;
Morning sir, thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.
Just south of us is the town of Oroville, WA which has a population of about 1850 people as of 2020 according to my search.
Ben Prince's store - the famous "Prince's of Oroville" was associated with Ace Hardware, but also had a grocery division and in it's heyday there was a big surplus building on the west side of Oroville as well. The parking lot was sufficiently full of Canuck vehicles that a new gas station was put up opposite Prince's.
In a border town in rural Washington, besides LEO and agriculture they were a major employer as well as a big part of the annual GDP for Oroville.
We'd go down to Spence's Sporting Goods regularly and shoot the breeze with Spencer Higby who was always plugged in to the local economic situation, later becoming County Commissioner after he closed the sports store.
Anyways greydog, Prince's is closed now as there wasn't enough Canuck traffic to keep it open.
I'd be surprised if that was a unique situation as well.
Thanks again, all the best to you all this week and good luck on your upcoming hunts.
Dwayne
