Denare Beach’s Alpine Convenience Store is moving to a seasonal schedule.
Owner Deb Arsenault says the store will close after regular hours tomorrow, Saturday, and reopen on April 1, 2016.
“It’s not a decision I made lightly,” she said. “It’s been several months of thinking, ‘Is this the right thing?’”
After 24 years of owning and operating different businesses, Arsenault says she is ready for some R and R and a chance to spend more time with family and friends.
The Alpine, she says, remains a strong business.
“The support that we get from the community is amazing,” said Arsenault.
While the Alpine will not reopen until April 1, she says this winter will be a trial run and that she may close the store for shorter periods of time in future years.
Arsenault, who is originally from Creighton, purchased the Alpine in 2005.
Prior to that, she and her family operated a game farm and a retail store in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, between 1996 and 2005.
Arsenault got her start in business in 1991 when she built from scratch Deb’s Shore Lunch, a restaurant in Denare Beach that she owned until 1995. The restaurant later changed names and was destroyed by fire.
