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NAPA to hold open house on June 28
Scott Wagar
06/26/2012
NAPA Auto Parts in Bottineau will be having an open house on June 28 (Thursday) in celebration of opening a new store in the local community.
Bottineau’s NAPA is a family owned business. Dale Myers, along with his two sons, Matthew and Mitch, are the individuals behind Bottineau’s NAPA.
Dale’s father founded Myers and Association Inc. in 1983 and opened his first NAPA store in Minot. Since that time, the Myers family has also opened NAPA stores in Bismarck, and now Bottineau.
The Myers made the decision to come to Bottineau because of NAPA’s goal of expanding its stores across the nation and Myers interests in the local area.
“NAPA is looking to expand its market. In the last couple of years, we’ve been up to the area looking around, and we liked the town here in Bottineau,” said Matthew, who is the president of the company and general manager of the three NAPA stores the family owns in North Dakota. “We thought it would be a good fit for both sides and we wanted to grow our own business. Bottineau seems like a growing community and I think it needs a NAPA.”
Dale added that his family has been part of the Stanley community for over three generations, and they know and understand the importance of being part of a small town.
“We are hometown people, too, and when we come into a community we look at what kind of services we can offer a community,” Dale said. “And, we feel we can bring something to this community that it needs, like good service, good parts and NAPA’s good program. It’s an opportunity for us to just come into the community and be part of a community, and we definitely want to be part of this community because it’s a good community.”
Mitch has moved to Bottineau to be the store’s manger, while Matt and his father will continue to live in the Minot area, which is the central headquarters for the family’s three NAPA stores in the state.
Presently, NAPA has six employees in Bottineau, which includes Mitch and five people from the Bottineau area.
According to Dale, he and his wife have four children and a number of grandchildren. When it comes to the family owned business, he also considers all his employees as part of the family’s lineage tree.
“Family to us is important, even in the business I often relate to the employees as family because that is the foundation I live by,” Dale said. “In fact, when I look at the reason I am here, it is because I believe God has given me the opportunity to be in this community. He is our CEO and I have a real strong faith in that first and foremost. I have the opportunity to affect the community for the purpose of Christ, and that’s what is important. So, we are here to do a job and give service in that part, but to me there is greater vision, and that is caring about and helping people because that’s what it is all about.”
The grand opening at NAPA on Thursday will go on all day. The Myers will be serving a free lunch (hotdogs, beans and soda) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and give out door prizes. The general public is welcome to the event.