Judging by its life-impacting client reviews and a bright and beautiful new 3,000-square-foot environment in Liberty Lake, more great things are in store for Sarah Hamilton FACE.
The 5-year-old Liberty Lake aesthetic clinic ranks in the top 1 percent nationally among cosmetic injectable practices and was voted the No. 1 med spa in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene for the third consecutive year by readers of the Inlander. The new space will just further this mission.
“We are an immersion of a medical and spa-like environment,” said owner Sarah Hamilton. “Our new medical aesthetic clinic offers a sleek, calm, inviting and bright space.”
The success starts with the experienced team of six providers. Hamilton herself has 17 years as an aesthetic nurse and national trainer for two companies.
“I really enjoy training and educating colleagues,” she said. “As a national trainer and speaker for both Allergan and Galderma, the two main medical product companies used in our industry, I am able to give back and help other injectors learn the safest and best techniques. At FACE, we are known for and focus on a natural-looking, global approach to facial cosmetics, emphasizing healthy skin and subtle enhancements.”
Sarah and her team’s goals are to provide that “undetectable” injectable results with Botox and fillers: You leave looking more rested and refreshed but not overdone.
Located at 1334 N. Whitman Lane, Suite 210, treatments include wrinkle relaxers, fillers, laser, peels, facials and much more.
While patients come from throughout the region, including as far away as Lewiston and Tri-Cities, Liberty Lake is home for Hamilton. She and her husband, Joe, have lived here since 2000, raising three kids and investing in the community, its schools and local nonprofits. Together, they founded Pilgrim’s Market, an organic grocery store in Coeur d’Alene they have owned and operated for the past 23 years.
Note from Josh:This post is updated as of June 1, 2020, to reflect the cancellation of the 2020 season for one of our community’s finest summer traditions, the Rockin’ B Ranch. An edited version of the original subject of this post — a feature on Rockin’ B’s Miss Shirley — is still included at the bottom of this post.
But first, below is a letter from Rockin’ B owners Scott and Pamela Brownlee sharing the news of the season’s cancellation:
June 1, 2020
Hi, Rockin’ B Fans —
We are deeply thankful for our staff’s thoughtful and intelligent responses to our request for input re the 2020 Rockin’ B season in light of the ongoing corona-virus pandemic. They all broadened our thought processes and helped us keep a perspective on as many of the considerations as possible.
We have pendulized from, “Of course we should simply close for the season,” to, “Let’s wait and see,” to (Scott scheming), “I bet we can think of ways to make it work (with enough buckets and pulleys).” And indeed, with their suggestions, there are many ways we thought of to maybe make it work.
But ‘maybe’ may-be a huge spectre of a word right now. In trying to take into consideration all the business aspects, all the show aspects, all the physical plant logistics aspects, all the staffing aspects, all the legal aspects, all the good citizenship aspects, we were always aware of the ‘maybe’ aspects.
In every category, we felt our emphasis should never be on the ‘chances of’ but on the ‘consequences of’. Our prime concern must always be for the safety of our patrons, musicians, cast, and staff. With all the contingency scenarios we could project, there was nothing that could possibly guarantee 100% certainty of safety.
With that lack of assurance we cannot find it in our hearts to do anything but suspend the 2020 shows.
We know many of you have been waiting for news so you can be making your summer plans, and we’re deeply sorry that it has taken so long to make a decision. With directives changing daily, any hopes we had of a partial season kept being put back later and later. The final straw was the Spokane Health Department officer saying that moving to Phase 3 by mid-June would be ‘premature’. That makes Phase 4, where we fall, even later in July or August.
At our driveway entrance this year, a Dusty Bicuspid cut-out is Vanna-White-ing toward our larger sign with a picture of the Riders of the Rockin’ B and the show dates for the 2020 season. Underneath, we put an add-on banner saying, “God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.” We will keep the big sign and paste a cross-out banner over the 2020 dates saying, “See you in 2021.”
We’ll leave “God willin’ and the creek don’t rise.”
We hope and pray you and yours are safe and well.
With love, appreciation, and gratitude for you all,
Scott and Pamela Brownlee
‘Miss Shirley’ home on ranch
As reservations manager, “Miss Shirley” Darlington has attended nearly every Rockin’ B Ranch cowboy supper show since 2004. After 30 years managing a professional building and recruiting physicians for a hospital in the Midwest, Miss Shirley had the proper skillset for work at the Rockin’ B — she just never realized exercising those skills could be so much fun.
“What can be better than going to work, listening to music all night, having good food and watching people go through the line raving about the place?” Miss Shirley said. “It’s my happy place.”
She says all credit for that goes to Scott and Pamela Brownlee, the founders and musicians who opened the Rockin’ B in 1994 on their property “100 yards south of I-90 exit 299” at the state line.
Between Scott’s bass playing, creativity and humorous acting and Miss Pammie “with her singing and yodeling — I mean, she has brought me to tears — I never, ever, ever get tired of listening to them,” Miss Shirley said. “It’s an easy thing to sell when you love it so much.”
The rest of the Riders of the Rockin’ B add their musical gifts to the evening, while the “go back till it’s gone” BBQ supper is made fresh each night. Even the barbecue sauce and marinade are homemade, Miss Shirley said, and a Cantina is available for the grown-up folks.
Then there’s the humor, which starts outside the barn prior to dinner with a rubber chicken-flying, outhouse-exploding shootout featuring the Marshal and his bumbling deputy, Dusty Bicuspid. Later, during the stage show, Dusty shares the story of “Rindercella,” which has become such a hit that returning adults will complain if it isn’t included in the set.
“He is probably the greatest ad libber in the world,” she said of Dusty, who looks suspiciously like Scott with teeth missing. “Nothing ever floors him. He has a comment back for everything, and his (exchanges) with the kids are absolutely priceless.”
Between Dusty’s appearances and the toe-tappin’ music, the cowboy supper shows are known to keep family members of all ages entertained all the live-long evening.
These days, Miss Shirley’s favorite place to watch the show is from the back so she can watch the joy on the faces of the people she met on the phone or in the ticket line. She said she’s seen many a bad day or bad mood reversed by the Rockin’ B.
“It’s like when you go on vacation and you forget that you’re broke and you have problems,” Miss Shirley said. “You walk into the barn, and it’s like those problems just fly out.”
By Kathy Boykin Executive Director, Inland Empire Utility Coordinating Council
I’m a homeowner wanting to plant some trees in my yard. Does the “Call or Click Before You Dig” law apply to me, and if it does, what happens when I use it?
Yes, in the state of Washington the law (RCW 19.122) applies to homeowners digging more than 12 inches in depth anywhere on their property, and it’s safer to also include those first 12 inches. While it is a law, I’ve found in 28 years working with this program that homeowners who utilize it view it as an incredible free service. Why? The electric, gas, water, sewer, phone and cable lines on your property are your responsibility — any damage you cause is fixed at your expense and could impact services not only to your home but to your neighbors as well. Statistically, those who use the program have a 99 percent chance of not hitting anything.
All that’s required is a little planning ahead. Before you dial 811 or visit www.CallBeforeYouDig.org, you are asked per the law to mark the area where you plan to dig with white paint (such as a circle or the four corners) and give the impacted utilities two full business days to mark the location of the utilities you will want to avoid. The day of the call does not count. The service even tells you what the different colors used to mark the area mean and which utilities you can expect to be coming by. Then, after two business days have passed, you can carefully start your work and just leave the markings in place during the life of your project. If your project takes more than 45 days, you will need another locate request.
I was recently at a national conference and learned that shovels have replaced backhoes as the top digger upper — meaning uninformed homeowners are the main culprit for this preventable damage. It doesn’t have to happen to you. The other day a lady mentioned the statement, “think before you dig,” and that really is perfect. A free service meant to protect you, the homeowner — it really is a no-brainer.
