North State Parent magazine

A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

Dads in Business

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Jose Trejo 360 Junk Haulers LLC

Jose Trejo 360 Junk Haulers LLC in business since 2024 Jose had a job that required him to be out of town four days a week. He was inspired to […]

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Brian Riley Red Bank Outfitters and Red Bank Outdoor Academy

Brian Riley Red Bank Outfitters and Red Bank Outdoor Academy in business since 1995 Brian’s outdoor business is the product of a lifetime of hard work and his determination to […]

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Dominick Lawler Pump Daddy Concrete LLC

Dominick Lawler Pump Daddy Concrete LLC in business since 2022 Dominick spent years working long hours out of town and he and his wife, Ashley, realized the only way to […]

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Brendan Sloan Clarke Watershed Schoohouse

Brendan Sloan Clarke Watershed Schoohouse in business since 2024 Watershed Schoolhouse in Chico was inspired by a gap Brendan saw in the standard school curriculum. Place-based education, community-building, personal development […]

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Thomas Harpham Bricks & Minifigs Redding

Thomas Harpham Bricks & Minifigs Redding in business since 2024 Thomas was inspired to start his business by LEGO® lovers of the North State.  There was nothing like Bricks & […]

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Mike Boyd Has Beans Coffee and Tea Company

Mike Boyd in business since 2022 Has Beans Coffee and Tea Company Retail-Wholesale est. 1976 Mike always loved coffee. A friend gave him a home coffee roaster and from there […]

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Jody Bartley Omega Mortgage Group

Jody Bartley Omega Mortgage Group serving Red Bluff since 2003 I learned at an early age that I was good at sales and very good with numbers, so mortgage finance […]

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From One Dad to Another: Partnership Over Pressure

Watching my young son discover the world—the way his eyes light up when he figures out how to stack blocks or the concentrated furrow of his brow as he works […]

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Five North State Dads Who Balance Family and Community

Jake Nolen and his wife of ten years, Emily, own and run No-Side Music, a music lesson and recording studio, from their home in Chico. The couple also are the […]

The men of Junto have formed a close-knit group that challenges and supports each individual.

Standing, left to right: Matthew Heath, Grant Sautner, Samuel Hess and Philip Bedford. Seated, left to right: Dustin Holley and Karim Lofty.

Junto — Men Meeting to Share Growth & Mutual Improvement

Over two hundred years ago Benjamin Franklin gathered friends from various backgrounds and occupations and put together a “Junto,” named from the Spanish word junta, meaning a group of men […]

Dads in Business 2019

HEY DADS – Spending quality time with your children will be your greatest reward in life. Providers, protectors and heroes in their everyday lives, North State dads are often those […]