The Steel Forest Furniture Company is bringing locally crafted furniture to Main Street in Columbus.
The new furniture store will open Sept. 29 at 515 Main St. in the restored Odd Fellows building. It will offer “hand-crafted, custom steel furniture and accent pieces specially designed to reflect its customers’ unique styles.”
Chip Gerber, the owner of the company, is president of Mississippi Steel Processing and began working on wood and steel furniture as a hobby. Formerly unable to produce the amount of furniture he wanted due to limited time for woodworking, Gerber found the opportunity to turn his hobby into a profession through his interactions with Mark Perrot’s Mississippi Farm Tables in Aberdeen.
While the wooden parts for the furniture come out of Aberdeen, the steel features are all processed and manufactured in Columbus. Each piece of Steel Forest furniture is first processed at Steel Dynamics Inc. From there, it goes to Mississippi Steel Processing, and the secondary products and scrap metal are then turned into furniture products at Layhill Precision Fabrication.
All New Cattleman’s Steak and Fish, located at 301 Tuscaloosa Road, has come under new management and is reopening Sept. 29.
Terry McCool, the new owner, will open the doors to Cattleman’s Steak and Fish at 4:30 p.m., offering an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. The restaurant’s hours are 4:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday with a lunch buffet.
Monday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and as they have done every year since 2012, Krispy Kreme Donuts celebrated with free donuts for those who came to stores dressed as or speaking like a pirate.
Krispy Kreme in Columbus, located at 1725 Highway 45, has been participating in Talk Like a Pirate Day since 2013, a year after it opened. According to Jessica Carpenter, a store manager, this year the store gave away 524 dozen donuts to those in costume, and 59 to those who attended the store with their “mateys” shouting “Yo-hos” and “Arghs.” This was a total of 6,347 donuts.
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