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Please take note of the following closures at all of our locations:

Memorial Day Weekend Closures

  • Saturday, May 27, 2023: Closed
  • Sunday, May 28, 2023: Closed
  • Monday, May 29, 2023: Closed

We will reopen for regular business hours on Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

In 2020, a group of Washington Rock team members and their spouses traveled to Las Vegas for CONEXPO-CON/AGG, one of the largest construction trade shows in the world. People came from all over the world to attend, make connections, and showcase their products and ideas.

Our Washington Rock team trip to Las Vegas in 2020.

We rented a sprawling house about 20 minutes from the Strip and had two vans to shuttle employees to the show, nicknamed Van Damme and Van Morrison (one of my favorite memories).

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Please take note of the following closures at all of our locations:

Christmas Weekend Closures

  • Friday, December 23, 2022: Operating 6 AM to Noon; Closed After Noon
  • Saturday, December 24, 2022: Closed
  • Sunday, December 25, 2022: Closed
  • Monday, December 26, 2022: Closed

We will reopen for regular business hours on Tuesday, December 27, 2022.

New Year’s Weekend Closures

  • Saturday, December 31, 2022: Closed
  • Sunday, January 1, 2023: Closed
  • Monday, January 2, 2023: Closed

We will reopen for regular business hours on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.

We’re excited to announce that gift cards are available for purchase! They feature a beautiful new design by artist Zoe Radford. Our gift cards make the perfect stocking stuffer

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In front of the community movie theater in Friday Harbor, a perch welcomes anyone who passes by. It’s not your everyday park bench: it’s sculpted granite, refined in its well-formed lines and polished surfaces, yet preserving a natural form in its organic waves and cu­rves. Like its creator Tom Small, it is solid, stable, and unpretentious. It invites viewers to pause and enjoy a few minutes’ rest and peace.

One of Tom’s sculptural benches sits in front of the movie theatre in Friday Harbor. Photo courtesy of Tom Small.

The bench is one of sculptor Tom Small’s first public pieces. Seeing people seated on it brings Tom a sense of fulfillment when he ventures into town, and it reminds him of his primary goal in stone carving. 

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