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Echo Valley Ranch, Inc.
“Monthly Grains of Wisdom”
November 2014 Issue
Echo on the Go!
Upcoming Local Events
October
25th- AERC: Redneck Ride
25th- Blue Jeans Ball @ C-Horse Ranch
31st - HALLOWEEN @ EVR
November
1st- AERC: Lake Sonoma
6th- Cowpoke Fall Gathering @ Loomis
7th-9th- Christensen’s Annual
Anniversary Sale
8th- Fall Wine & Brew Fest @ The Ridge
8th- Veterans Day
21st- Mountain Mandarin Festival
27th- Thanksgiving - EVR Closed
28th-30th- AERC: Gold Rush Shuffle Pioneer
December
3rd- Girl’s Night Out
Upcoming Festivities
The holiday season is fast approaching! There will be lots of events and
fun seasonal things to do. Girls Night Out is Wednesday, December 3rd,
6:30 p.m. at Echo Valley. It’s the 7th anniversary of Girls Night Out and
will be a great event as always. We will be pulling the Placer FFA kids
again this year in the Festival of Lights Parade in December. We might
add another EVR truck or 2 just for fun. We will be closed November 27th
for Thanksgiving. I know some people will be cooking those delicious
turkeys from the fair that day, can’t wait! Persimmons, pomegranates,
walnuts and mandarins should be arriving soon. Holiday baking is one
of our employees’ favorite pastimes. Remember the Mandarin Festival on November 21st at the Gold Country Fairgrounds.
Penny and Connie will be live on KAHI am950 again this
year Saturday morning, 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
6th- Orchard Days-Mountain Mandarins
Congratulations to
Marsha Williams for
winning our Monthly
“MGW” Drawing!
No Tricks, Just Treats &
SPOOKTACULAR Deals
on Halloween at EVR!
Come visit to see how our staff
dresses up this year!
EVR
Brag
Board
Fun festivities will be held too!
Thank you all for your
generous support of Breast
Cancer awareness month!
Echo Valley had great fun
decking out the store in
PINK from head to toe and
was happy to contribute
towards such an important
cause.
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accomplished recently? Is there an upcoming
event in the community or something that
deserves recognition? Send your story and
contact information to EVRinfo@echoranch.com.
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Get to Know Our Valued
Employees at EVR...“Breanne”
EVR Lounge Wear
SALE 40% OFF
Fly Control (including Amigo fly sheets!)
SALE 25% OFF
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Echo Valley has secured all our hay contracts for the
winter, the barns up north are full of EVR hay. There is
a good supply of alfalfa, orchard/alfalfa, orchard grass
and grain hays. The only hay we have been short on
is good meadow grass, but we should have enough
through December. Wheat straw and certified weed
free Rice straw will be available all winter. Prices
remain high as the demand for good hay remains
strong.
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$8.99 Reg. $13.99
Canidae Pure (grain free) 4 Lb. Bag
SALE Buy 1, Get 1 50% OFF
**NEW ITEMS**
Fungasol & Botanicals Liniment
Integrity Horse Feeds
All sale items are
while supplies last.
Our employee of the month is Breanne Pelletier. She
has been with Echo Valley for a month and loves it here!
Bree is a transplant from Southern California. She has dogs, a cat and some chickens. Bree
is a nature lover and enjoys playing the ukulele - we are expecting a solo concert soon! She
is always up for an adventure and in her spare time likes to paint, play the piano and refinish
old, unloved furniture. Stop by and say hay to our newest addition - Bree!
Each newsletter we’ll continue to tell you why we value each of our employees so much.
Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. Your Hometown Proud,
“Feed Store and a Whole Lot More.”
Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. is unique in that they
started as a family-run business and have kept that
atmosphere alive for nearly 45 years. As a business
owner, Greg Kimler is involved with the business
daily and is always eager to show his community
pride and encourage the same from his employees.
Greg Kimler, Owner and Connie Watson,
General Manager of Echo Valley Ranch, Inc.
Greg’s father Gene Kimler started Echo Valley as a
hay business in Grass Valley on the original Echo
Valley Ranch. “Because we had livestock, we had hay
and large trucks; it was just natural to start hauling
and selling hay because it fit in with our ranch
livestock operation,” Greg Kimler said. That was
about 1970. As the business grew, Greg learned to
Echo Valley Ranch, Inc.
drive truck and haul hay from his father and both trends and information on the feed and supplies.
were sometimes on the road.
“People might be surprised at how involved we
“My father was a hard worker and very creative”, are in our community. We are fortunate to have
Greg said, “which eventually lead to Echo Valley’s enough staff to spread out and attend horse and
expansion to Auburn selling hay and also adding agriculture events, festivals, social events and we
feed, and we just kept growing from there.”
donate to them too, Kimler said. “We also like to
“Our employees have been with us for years, one has put on our own events. We are a fun loving group
been here more than 20 years. Many of them leave who believe in old fashioned work ethics - honesty,
for school or work, but come back to Echo. At Echo integrity, hard work, and support the community in
Valley we all “walk the walk”. We have Endurance which you live and work.”
riders, pleasure horse owners, 4H & FFA kids, small
Everyone at Echo Valley Ranch, Inc. is proud to
livestock owners and everyone has that important be a part of our community, we are here to serve
commitment to the agricultural lifestyle,” Kimler you and we encourage you to support your local
added.
hometown businesses
“My father always had a large scale at our ranch
and to this day we still weigh our hay and
are certified weigh masters,” he said. “That
way the public knows how much they are
really getting for their dollar. The scale also
allows us to weigh cars and trucks for
DMV along with the occasional elephant.
(Yes, we did weigh Suzie, the elephant.)”
As an added customer convenience they
recently added propane. Customers can
bring in their bottles for refill and,
purchase a filled bottle and they can also
refill your camper or motor home as well.
Echo Valley employees are taught to
acknowledge everyone who comes in and
to never say no. If they don’t have it, they
will find it for you. Kimler encourages his
product representatives to come in
Old Echo Valley Ranch home place in Grass Valley, CA,
frequently to teach the crew about current
where we started selling hay in 1970.
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