If you are anything like me, you need to blow off steam every once in a while.
With that in mind, a new splatter paint and rage room business, Outrageous Rooms, is opening May 1 at 2601 Cleda Drive, next to the Diesel Clinic, owner Emily Smith said.
Smith decided to pursue the business after realizing there wasn’t a place for kids to go and just be messy, and further, she liked the idea of working people like her having somewhere to smash something to bits.
“There’s not much to do for children in the area,” Smith said. “We just thought with our kids, we have a teenager who likes to break stuff, and then we have a 2-year-old who wants to color. I work full time, and at the end of the day, I get mad. I want to scream. I want to break something.
So, I think it’s going to be a really fun experience for anybody in all age ranges.”
Smith said she started renovating the space in mid-March and expects to put the finishing touches on by the end of this month.
The new business will feature three rooms for children and adults to splatter paint onto ceramic animal molds and shapes and one room for people to smash those same ceramic molds with whatever they please, Smith said.
For those interested, it will cost $35 per splatter paint project or to smash something in the rage room and you can book an appointment through the company website.
While Smith is trying to break some things down at her new business, others in the Golden Triangle are about to move into some new digs.
Anna Garner, owner of Dawg House Playground and Salon, located at 316 Hwy. 12 W., will move her business to a new location at 13585 Hwy. 12 to expand its current operations and have a more open floor plan.
Garner started working on a buildout for a new space in May 2021 and has been preparing for the move ever since. With the new building will come expanded services for pet boarding, which will now include cats, more space for doggy day care and other outdoor activities for pets.
“Kind of post-COVID, dog numbers went up as more people got dogs,” Garner said. “So, our business has been booming really ever since, and we have the market for it. So we’ve just been working toward that goal this whole time of getting into a new building.”
Garner expects to open by May 20 and have a grand opening event shortly thereafter for customers to tour the new facilities.
“We’ll have giveaways,” she said. “We’ll have some people set up from hopefully from the Oktibbeha Humane Society, a local trainer there to give some stuff out. So it will be a really big event for us.”
Unfortunately, every door we open must eventually close. The same could be said for What’s For Dinner, which will close permanently at the end of its dinner service Friday evening.
The restaurant, located at 506-1 Academy Road, next to Oby’s, will serve its last meals after five years of business. The restaurant announced the closing April 13 on its Facebook page.
I contacted owner Cindy Brown about the closing, but I suppose she was too busy making sure the last few days of business will go as well as all the others.
To end on a good note, the restaurant will offer a going-out-of-business sale, which features $3 off large, $2 off medium, and $1 off small portions of its best-seller, chicken spaghetti.
Finally, my friends, we swing back to Lowndes County for one final update.
International Paper, located at 4345 Carson Road, has partnered the United Way of Lowndes and Noxubee to deliver 500 feminine hygiene kits to local schools throughout the Golden Triangle.
Communications Manager Kellum Hawk said the project will benefit impoverished students in local schools who don’t have regular access to feminine hygiene products.
To do this, IP employees put together kits of hygiene products donated by Procter and Gamble, a personal care and hygiene products company, and then given to United Way, which delivers them to local schools.
Well, folks, that’s the show. Make sure to check back in next week for more goings on in business.
Dispatch reporter Grant McLaughlin writes about business openings and closings, as well as other unique business news. Send business tips to biz@cdispatch.com.
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