Category: Local Business

By Cathy Loffland
The Haysville Times

Dr Rey and Family

Dr. Rey grew up in Haysville and graduated from Campus High School.
Eventually, Rey became a high school history teacher in Andover.
Seeing what a neighbor went through with a hip replacement, Rey wanted to do something to help people.
Rey went to Medical School at Kansas University and just finished at Wesley Family Practice.
“After the end of my first year of residency I changed from emergency room to family practice,” said Dr. Rey.
In looking for a place to practice and call home, Dr. Rey interviewed all over the country. “But choosing a place was not an easy decision, but I felt like the Family Med Center Group was a great opportunity for me,” said Dr. Rey.
Dr. Rey’s family also lives in the area.
The Family Med Center Group as a whole is committed to Haysville and offering top notch Medical care in Haysville.
Dr. Rey feels that since he is fresh out of Medical School and residency, he is full of energy and excited about coming home to Haysville to practice.
“I want to be able to teach people about medicine and their health,” said Dr. Rey.
Dr. Rey has been married for 16 years to his high school sweetheart Donelle. They have two kids: four-year-old Hunter and one-year-old Abigail.
Dr. Rey likes to spend time with his family. He also likes to travel, exercise, and hike in the mountains.
The new doctor will be taking care of newborns to adults. He will not be doing any ob care.
The Haysville Family Med Center has an x-ray and lab facility here in Haysville. The main location in Derby has a new ambulatory surgery center. They also have the capabilities to do Ultra Sound, MRI, and CT scans in Derby. As a patient of Family Med Center, you wouldn’t have to go to Wichita for tests unless it involved an overnight stay.
Dr. Rey is looking forward to working with Haysville residents and providing state of the art medical care to Haysville.

By Press Release
The Haysville Times

The fire that occurred at the Honky Tonk Night Club, 7426 S. Broadway, in Haysville, on May 12, has been determined to have been intentionally set.
Evidence obtained through the investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms, Kansas State Fire Marshals Office, Sedgwick County Fire District, Haysville Police, and the Wichita Fire Department accelerant detection canine, aided in the investigator’s determination.
Investigators are seeking further information anyone may have related to this fire. A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered by the Kansas Committee for Arson Prevention for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of a person or persons involved in setting the fire or conspiring to set the fire.
Please call the Sedgwick County Fire Tip Line at 316-660-9090 for anonymous tips, or 316-660-3473 if you would like to speak to an investigator.

The Honky Tonk bar located in the 7400 block of south Broadway was destroyed by a fire early Friday morning. Be watching here and The Haysville Times for more information on the fire.

By Cathy Loffland
The Haysville Times

Photo Credit: Cathy Loffland

Boeing Wichita Credit Union has moved in to Haysville and was joined on Tuesday morning by Chamber members, City Council and City employees for their ribbon cutting and open house.
Gary Reglli, President and Lacey Browning, Branch Manager and fellow board members cut the ribbon and were welcomed to Haysville by a large crowd.
The Boeing Wichita Credit Union has been in the Wichita area going on 71 years. This is their tenth branch in the Sedgwick County area. They offer a wide range of accounts, including consumer mortgage and commercial.
“We chose Haysville because we have a very good membership base in the Haysville area. We have also have been planning to put a branch in the Haysville area for a long time,” said Reglli.
Something that sets BWCU apart from everybody else is the fact they will have Sunday hours in the Haysville Branch.
At BWCU you will find the high value free checking account. They have no minimum balance, free checks, free ATM’s. There is no charge for using ATM’s anywhere. They will give you a debit card (that has your picture on it) the same day you open the account.
Browning, Branch Manager, has been with BWCU for five and half years. She is looking forward to being able to help Haysville with all their financial needs.
So take the time to welcome BWCU to the community. You will find them located in the Peachwood Center or reach them at 683-1199. They are open Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Formerly Food-4-Less Haysvilles biggest grocery store is now a Homeland store after a recent merger of stores by the parent company Associated Wholesale Grocers. For more information on the Homeland chain of stores visit their website http://www.homelandstores.com .

According to our current poll, at this time the majority of you would like to see a “traditional diner” style restaurant open in town. Weve received word that a new restaurant serving home style food will be opening the first of the year. Coincidence? Id rather think that your opinions make things happen… quickly!
Anyway be watching for Pams Diner to open on January 3rd at 311 N. Main, the location previously occupied by Fayes.

The Haysville Times – December 15, 2005 – 3:28 PM
By Cathy Loffland

On Thursday afternoon December 15th, Dana and Dave Haislett were joined by friends and city officials for the groundbreaking on their new office park.
Dana Haislett is the owner of Shelter Insurance on North Main. “After 18 years of renting I decided it was time to own my own building,” said Dana.
Dana and her husband Dave have been working on this since February of this year and have kept it quiet because they didn’t want to jinx the whole thing. They bought the land that her current office is already on from the city. The new building will be built behind the current location of Shelter Insurance. This will be first of three phases of building on this property. The first phase will be about 2,000 square feet. Haislett will occupy half of the building. The other half of the property will be leased out.
Haislett contacted Kevin McMullen to find out how to acquire the building she wanted. McMullen is a client of Haislett’s and he also is a designer that works with K&M building.
McMullen and his partner own K&M building and they helped Haislett with everything from designing the office to building the new office park.
The dirt work will be started by the first of the year and the building will be ready for tenants to move in by May of 2006.
The new office park will be called Haysville Executive Park and will be a very nice addition to Haysville. It will have a stone front which will have a very professional look about it and be very appealing when people are driving down Main Street
The Shelter Insurance office will move in and have the same amount of space they already have. The old building will be moved or destroyed. The parking lot will go in that area.
“I’m very excited about the new building,” said Haislett.

The Haysville Times
By Cathy Loffland

The Dollar General Store is gearing up for the move to their new building. “What a lot people don’t know is that the whole building we are in now is not all ours,” said Dena Hancock, store manager.
Their new building, however, will all belong to the store, meaning the new store is bigger and will definitely have more floor space. They are now looking at moving into the new building in January.
The crew will move stuff over and stay open as long as possible. “We will shut down a few days, but we won’t close any longer than we absolutely have to,” said Hancock. So keep your eyes open and watch for the progress on the new store.

The Haysville Times
By Barb Walters

As the finishing touches are being put on Italian Bistro Restaurants in Andover, Augusta and other small communities, Haysville’s hopes for a full service dining establishment have been dimmed by Pizza Hut’s recent turn around. Once touting their intentions for an Italian Bistro for Haysville, Pizza Hut has scrapped those plans and instead decided to downsize their presence here. The current dine-in facility will be closing in the future and the company has plans for a Pizza Hut Wing Street to be located just south of the new Senior Housing Development. Wing Street will offer carry out and delivery only. The local Pizza Hut management could give no details on expected opening and closing dates, referring calls to Corporate Headquarters. A message left at their media relations desk went unreturned. Meanwhile, Pizza Hut’s turn around has left many residents feeling betrayed, some calling for a boycott. Former councilmember Tom Gibson said he was not surprised about the company backing out of the deal they made with the city.
“They were never a good neighbor to begin with,” he said. “I hate to lose businesses here but the truth is they don’t support the community in the first place. They aren’t Chamber (of Commerce) members, they would not sponsor a little league team, and they don’t donate pizza to Project Graduation at Campus, although various pizza restaurants outside of Haysville do.” Gibson suggested that citizens who would like to see any type of business come to Haysville to contact a franchise owner in the area. “If you want to have a Village Inn, for example, call the one in Wichita and suggest they take a look at locating a franchise here. This is an opportunity for someone else to come to town.”
Councilmember Mike Streets felt that the current Pizza Hut wasn’t getting a good enough response from the community to continue with their agreement to open a larger establishment here. “My family gets a pizza every week from the Pizza Hut, as we try to support all the business in Haysville that we possibly can,” he explained. “I am sure that their decision is based on the amount of support that they get from this community. I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to having a new Bistro restaurant in our community.”
Not everyone is looking at the decision in a negative way. “I am somewhat disappointed in their decision,” said Councilmember Keith Pierce. “But I’m certain that their decision was based on what would allow them to be the most successful here in town. I, for example, rarely would sit down and eat at the Hut…I am typically a carry out customer with regards to pizza. I am very pleased, however, that they have chosen to stay and believe that this action has actually opened up some new options for development of the area along Main Street. Granted, this does put the Realtor hat firmly back on the Mayor and somewhat on Council…but, we now have a nice additional property back along Main to wheel and deal with. I believe this situation offers more promise than penalty.”
The boycott seems to have had a positive impact on at least one Haysville business. Penny Felt, manager of Casey’s General Store, reported an increase in pizza orders. Last weekend, Casey’s employees were dividing large pizzas in half to fit into medium boxes as they had run out of the large boxes. The one thing that is clear is that Pizza Hut’s decision to break its agreement with the city will not stop Haysville from courting other businesses to come and experience a community with much to offer.

The Haysville Times
By Angie Gumm

At a February city council meeting earlier this year, the council approved a request from Pizza Hut to buy 42,015 square feet at 200 N. Main, across the street from their current location. An agreement was reached that the city would not let any restaurant that bought the old Pizza Hut building sell food that would “directly compete” with food Pizza Hut was selling. Pizza Hut indicated that it would be putting in a Pizza Hut Bistro, which serves a larger variety of Italian food. There was even talk from Pizza Hut that Haysville would get one of the biggest Pizza Huts in the state.
Now, however, Pizza Hut has cancelled its plans, and is planning to lease the South end of the Main St. building which hosts Curves and Family Dollar. The new store will be a Pizza Hut Wing Street, which will have a drive-thru, carryout, and delivery, but there will be no dine-in seating.
Pizza Hut spokeswoman Julie Hildebrand said that the company had no signed contract with the City. “We did some research on Haysville, and what we could sustain there,” she said. “And we found that Haysville would be better served with a drive-thru, carry-out facility.”
Mayor Bruce Armstrong said he is boycotting Pizza Hut, because they are not “community-minded.”
“When a company as large as that decides to just lease space instead of building, they’re taking from the community and not putting back to it,” he said. “They’re not a very community-minded business if that’s what they’re going to do.”
Once the current restaurant closes, there will be no nighttime full-service inside city limits. (Whitehorse Steakhouse is outside of the city.)
As for the boycott, the Mayor said, “I’m not going to issue a major statement about it. Everybody can do what they think is right.” Some callers to the paper, however, have been showing support for the boycott.
Hildebrand responded to the boycott by saying that, “Pizza Hut has been in Haysville for 30 years, and we look forward to continuing to serve the people of Haysville.”