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BUSINESS
Bear Creek Roofing
BY ANN PARK
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Tim and Maria Berry love living and working in their community.
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Business: Roofing
860 W Riverdale Rd, Riverdale, UT 84405 (801) 668-6379 bearcreekroofing.com T im Berry has been roofing since 1991. He founded Bear Creek Roofing in 2007, and Tim and Maria have been running it together since they married in 2011. “We want to thank everyone in the area for their support. We love living and working here and being part of the community.” Their blended family includes seven children ranging in ages from twenty-three down to five. They work very hard to run a successful company and a busy family at the same time. “We want to teach our kids a strong work ethic,” Maria says. “We want to provide service to others as a family and as a company, and we hope the family will learn from that.” They are very happy to have two of their adult children working with them. Tim is the practical expert and
works in partnership with an exceptional team. He believes in doing great work and getting the job done right the first time. Maria heads up the administrative support side of the company. Her background in retail management has given her the skills needed to support the company as they grow. Tim’s daughter, Beth, has a great natural talent with technology and has been a big help with modernizing and computerizing the company. At Bear Creek roofing, their team members become their “work-family”. Their goal is to keep their crews all year long and from year to year. Keeping these experienced craftsmen allows them to provide the highest-quality work. It’s not their policy to make quick seasonal hires each year. They really try to be careful with hiring and only pick people with the same goals and vision. “Our employees are our friends, and they have families to support. It’s important to us that they are able to do that. One of our goals for the company is that our employees are able to get what they want too,” Maria says. One of the things that sets Bear Creek Roofing apart is their sales policy. A roof is a big investment and an essential part of the value of your home. “If you ask our opinion on a repair or a problem, we’re going to be consulting with our most experienced roofer. We want to make sure we’re meeting your needs and giving you the quality you want, but not offering unnecessary extras. We want to be kind to your budget too. Referrals are very important to us; we want our customers to be happy with the work we did and satisfied that they paid a fair price.” The Berry family has loved being in the roofing business. Tim says, “If you have any questions, concerns, or want a second opinion about your roof, you can call us anytime, and we’ll be happy to come out for a free roof inspection.”
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS Farr Better Ice Cream
BY ANN PARK
Asael Farr & Sons Company has a rich history in Ogden. Not many businesses reach their 100 th Anniversary. That’s 100 years of getting along with family, producing a well-loved product, working hard, and adapting to change. The world has changed significantly since 1920. But we still love ice cream! The Farr Better Ice Cream shop is the longest continuously operating ice cream shop in Utah. The Farr family got their start selling ice. In those days, no one had a fridge or a freezer, and they used the ice to keep their food cold. In the winter when the ponds froze, they would harvest the layer of ice and store it, carefully insulated, for use during the warmer months. As the Farr family grew and changes came, they decided to move into the ice cream business. By 1929, they were producing twenty gallons of ice cream per hour. They began with vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, and soon added several other fruit and nut flavors. Within 20-30 years, they developed over 600 different ice cream flavors, some of which are still used today. Currently, they are producing over 20,000 gallons a day.
The Farr family has preserved some of the marketing materials from decades past. Much of their original artwork and cartoons were produced by Burke Mattson. FUN FACTS In the 1930's ice cream was 5 CENTS! Popular flavor: PLAYDOUGH He went on to work for Disney on some of their classic and best-loved films. He drew the famous Farr’s Quality Kid, who was their mascot for many years. The western theme was everywhere in popular culture and entertainment at the time. What have ice cream flavors been like through the years? In the beginning, it was all about nuts. Everyone craved nuts of all kinds in their ice cream. Fruit flavors were also a must. That was ice cream until about 1960, when flavors like Batman, Robin, and Nuts-About-Baseball appeared. The 1970’s were a turning point in ice cream flavors with the introduction of Cookies and Cream. Before that, no one realized you could crush cookies and put them into ice cream. Candy flavors quickly followed. Nowadays, everyone wants chunks of cookies or candy in their ice cream. Most recent was the invention of a cookie-dough flavor, which changed the world for a lot of people. Another frequent choice at the ice cream counter is playdough ice cream. Michael Farr was deeply involved in the development of this eye-catching flavor. “It’s one of our most popular flavors,” he said. It was difficult to create, and the flavors and recipe are top-secret. It includes tastes that are hard to identify when you eat it. Exactly what they are remains a mystery. It took a while for the grocery industry to embrace ice cream. For some time, people had to go to the ice cream parlor. By the 50’s and 60’s, everyone was buying ice cream to take home to their own freezer. Farr’s Ice Cream is a household name in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, but it’s sold all over the western US. The company estimates that over a billion servings of Farr Better Ice Cream have been consumed. I think it’s time to make it a billion and one. But what flavor to choose...?
