By Gary Meyer
Just a wee bit of silliness to get folks to visit the wonderful business owners and employees who are local treasures in this community.
Grab yourself a treasure map (like we did) at any of the businesses listed below, stop in at all of them to say ‘hi’ and to receive a gift from their treasure chest.

Frazier Park
ACE/ Frazier Park Lumber
California Bank & trust
Chatterpillar
Computers & Games
Frazier Mountain Real Estate
Mountain Day Spa
Mountain Propane
National Property Management
Sue’s Tavern
Your T-Shirt Man

Gorman
Antiques on the Grapevine

Lebec
Dr. Peter Porazik, DDS
StarCycle

Lake of the Woods
Lola 4 Pets
Pine Mountain Craft

Pine Mountain Village
COWFest Artisan’s Gallery
Basecamp Info Cafe
Old Bear Bed & Breakfast

Your Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce (with lots of push from Robin Willoughby and Rachel Unell) has taken Small Business Saturday and stretched it right through Saturday, Dec. 14 with the annual Treasure Hunt.

Arrr…! Set sail for small businesses here at home!

Photo captions:

Ace Hardware’s Captain Harry Spyrka (center) marks our treasure map with help from first mate Randi (left) and quartermaster Robin (right).

Antelope Valley Bank Manager Sherry Dumin with crew members (l-r) Brenda Graham, Sargon Tooma, Claudia Hager and Alex Vega put an “X” to mark the spot on our treasure map. Note the treasure chest of goodies!

Wendy and Peter Bogdanoff of Chatterpillar Toys & Gifts are surrounded by…what else…a mountain of toys and gifts as they stamp our treasure map.

Tania Allen at Pine Mountain Craft stamps our treasure map at her shop’s new location in Lake of the Woods.

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This is part of the December 13, 2013 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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