What’s in the Big Red Barn?

The Haysville Times – April 19, 2004 – 3:46 PM
By Cathy Loffland
Well, the fixture is River City Rubber Works. The owners are Dana DeCicco, Mary Odette and LeAnne Hubbard. DeCicco and Odette first started the company in 1996, after working together for two years in the greeting card business. They were doing cards that matched characteristics of different states. For instance, they had a hay bale on it for Kansas that read: “Hay there!”
“We were doing wrapping paper and gift bags to match the cards and somebody asked us if we did rubber stamps, and we thought we could do that,” said DeCicco. So they dropped the cards and went to rubber stamps.
The team went to Superior Stamps in Wichita and talked to Kenny Lowrack and asked him how they could get into rubber stamps. Lowrack gave them advice and made an investment to help them get their first catalog out. “To this day Lowrack will call us and tell us about a piece of equipment for sale or we call him for advice,” said DeCicco. Continue reading “Whats in the Big Red Barn?”