FEB 2021
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THE QUARANTINES AND SOCIAL DISTANCING OF 2020 GAVE PEOPLE A LOT OF FREE TIME. SOME PEOPLE STARTED PLAYING GOLF, WHILE OTHERS SIMPLY PLAYED MORE. MANY PEOPLE DISCOVERED en, who works at Salem’s hand-crafted apparel and we’re already A NEW LOVE OF DOING THINGS OUTDOORS, Creekside Golf Club, said looking ahead to embroidering and WHILE OTHERS CAME UP WITH IDEAS FOR that he’d always wanted to making hats.” COMBINING ALL THE THINGS THEY LOVE TO do something different in the DO OUTSIDE. golf industry. “Having a line of Their handcrafting may not sound
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THAT’S HOW BEN WIDDALL (ABOVE RIGHT) always appealed to me,” he said. “COVID enough to share their early attempts on AND SILVIO FRANCESCHI (ABOVE LEFT), gave me time to think more about it their Instagram account and it made TWO LONG-TIME GOLF BUDDIES, and it was great when I discovered that for great video. The efforts have paid off, CAME UP WITH THEIR IDEA FOR Silvio was having those same thoughts.” too, with several local shops in Salem PIN HIGH PNW, A NEW LIFESTYLE offering to carry the goods. “We are COMPANY BASED IN SALEM, The two friends started Pin High PNW really excited that people will be able OREGON. in the early summer of 2020, literally to shop our products locally, and to
from the ground up. They started with support small businesses!” dropshipping apparel from their website which let them focus on their ideas and At the end of 2020, Pin High’s efforts designs. Then, they started learning the caught the attention of Tempercraft, a art of screen-printing. local company specializing in stainless steel containers. Representatives from “We wanted to cut out the middle-man Tempercraft reached out to Pin High and make our gear more affordable for and collaborated on a wide-range of everyone, so we started screen printing insulated drinkware (above). Widdall in our living rooms,” sad Widdall. “We’re said they have some giveaways planned currently working on our first batch of for later in the year.
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