New garage door business opens

They first were co-workers in Seattle, fixing and installing garage doors from Belltown to Redmond, Issaquah and Kirkland.

Now they team up on the Palouse as Palouse Garage Door, which opened in Colfax in September. Sam Vietz and Joe Girard are assisted by their wives, Nicole and Misty, who manage the office, based out of the Vietz home in Colfax with storage space in Pullman at Ken Paulson's Plumbing.

The company works on residential and commercial overhead garage doors, sliders and gates.

They serve all of Whitman County plus into Latah County and the Moscow area.

Girard works two days per w...