Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. “Monthly Grains of Wisdom” November 2014 Issue Echo on the Go! Upcoming Local Events October 25th- AERC: Redneck Ride 25th- Blue Jeans Ball @ C-Horse Ranch 31st - HALLOWEEN @ EVR November 1st- AERC: Lake Sonoma 6th- Cowpoke Fall Gathering @ Loomis 7th-9th- Christensen’s Annual Anniversary Sale 8th- Fall Wine & Brew Fest @ The Ridge 8th- Veterans Day 21st- Mountain Mandarin Festival 27th- Thanksgiving - EVR Closed 28th-30th- AERC: Gold Rush Shuffle Pioneer December 3rd- Girl’s Night Out Upcoming Festivities The holiday season is fast approaching! There will be lots of events and fun seasonal things to do. Girls Night Out is Wednesday, December 3rd, 6:30 p.m. at Echo Valley. It’s the 7th anniversary of Girls Night Out and will be a great event as always. We will be pulling the Placer FFA kids again this year in the Festival of Lights Parade in December. We might add another EVR truck or 2 just for fun. We will be closed November 27th for Thanksgiving. I know some people will be cooking those delicious turkeys from the fair that day, can’t wait! Persimmons, pomegranates, walnuts and mandarins should be arriving soon. Holiday baking is one of our employees’ favorite pastimes. Remember the Mandarin Festival on November 21st at the Gold Country Fairgrounds. Penny and Connie will be live on KAHI am950 again this year Saturday morning, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. 6th- Orchard Days-Mountain Mandarins Congratulations to Marsha Williams for winning our Monthly “MGW” Drawing! No Tricks, Just Treats & SPOOKTACULAR Deals on Halloween at EVR! Come visit to see how our staff dresses up this year! EVR Brag Board Fun festivities will be held too! Thank you all for your generous support of Breast Cancer awareness month! Echo Valley had great fun decking out the store in PINK from head to toe and was happy to contribute towards such an important cause. Want a SHOUTOUT about something you’ve accomplished recently? 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At Echo Valley Ranch we respect your privacy and value you as a customer; this information will not be shared for any other purpose. 205 Nevada Street Auburn, CA 95603 www.echoranch.com 530-823-1482 Greg says, “HAY!” aO Get to Know Our Valued Employees at EVR...“Breanne” EVR Lounge Wear SALE 40% OFF Fly Control (including Amigo fly sheets!) SALE 25% OFF ! - Greg als ci Echo Valley has secured all our hay contracts for the winter, the barns up north are full of EVR hay. There is a good supply of alfalfa, orchard/alfalfa, orchard grass and grain hays. The only hay we have been short on is good meadow grass, but we should have enough through December. Wheat straw and certified weed free Rice straw will be available all winter. Prices remain high as the demand for good hay remains strong. ur EVR Sp o e 8 Paste ut SALEGastro $8.99 Reg. $13.99 Canidae Pure (grain free) 4 Lb. Bag SALE Buy 1, Get 1 50% OFF **NEW ITEMS** Fungasol & Botanicals Liniment Integrity Horse Feeds All sale items are while supplies last. Our employee of the month is Breanne Pelletier. She has been with Echo Valley for a month and loves it here! Bree is a transplant from Southern California. She has dogs, a cat and some chickens. Bree is a nature lover and enjoys playing the ukulele - we are expecting a solo concert soon! She is always up for an adventure and in her spare time likes to paint, play the piano and refinish old, unloved furniture. Stop by and say hay to our newest addition - Bree! Each newsletter we’ll continue to tell you why we value each of our employees so much. Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. Your Hometown Proud, “Feed Store and a Whole Lot More.” Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. is unique in that they started as a family-run business and have kept that atmosphere alive for nearly 45 years. As a business owner, Greg Kimler is involved with the business daily and is always eager to show his community pride and encourage the same from his employees. Greg Kimler, Owner and Connie Watson, General Manager of Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. Greg’s father Gene Kimler started Echo Valley as a hay business in Grass Valley on the original Echo Valley Ranch. “Because we had livestock, we had hay and large trucks; it was just natural to start hauling and selling hay because it fit in with our ranch livestock operation,” Greg Kimler said. That was about 1970. As the business grew, Greg learned to Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. drive truck and haul hay from his father and both trends and information on the feed and supplies. were sometimes on the road. “People might be surprised at how involved we “My father was a hard worker and very creative”, are in our community. We are fortunate to have Greg said, “which eventually lead to Echo Valley’s enough staff to spread out and attend horse and expansion to Auburn selling hay and also adding agriculture events, festivals, social events and we feed, and we just kept growing from there.” donate to them too, Kimler said. “We also like to “Our employees have been with us for years, one has put on our own events. We are a fun loving group been here more than 20 years. Many of them leave who believe in old fashioned work ethics - honesty, for school or work, but come back to Echo. At Echo integrity, hard work, and support the community in Valley we all “walk the walk”. We have Endurance which you live and work.” riders, pleasure horse owners, 4H & FFA kids, small Everyone at Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. is proud to livestock owners and everyone has that important be a part of our community, we are here to serve commitment to the agricultural lifestyle,” Kimler you and we encourage you to support your local added. hometown businesses “My father always had a large scale at our ranch and to this day we still weigh our hay and are certified weigh masters,” he said. “That way the public knows how much they are really getting for their dollar. The scale also allows us to weigh cars and trucks for DMV along with the occasional elephant. (Yes, we did weigh Suzie, the elephant.)” As an added customer convenience they recently added propane. Customers can bring in their bottles for refill and, purchase a filled bottle and they can also refill your camper or motor home as well. Echo Valley employees are taught to acknowledge everyone who comes in and to never say no. If they don’t have it, they will find it for you. Kimler encourages his product representatives to come in Old Echo Valley Ranch home place in Grass Valley, CA, frequently to teach the crew about current where we started selling hay in 1970. 205 Nevada Street Auburn, CA 95603 www.echoranch.com Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. 530-823-1482 OPEN
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