This is a story about a new business in Logan, but itâs also a story about a local woman with a new outlook on work and life.
Molly Winborg is the manager and sole employee of a new outlet for Coleman Knitting Mills, a longtime Ogden business specializing in high school letter jackets and cheerleading uniforms. Sheâs been busy this month setting up the new store, which is tucked into a retail space between Logan Lanes and Dominoâs Pizza at 1200 North on Main Street.
âI have a huge, wonderful opportunity that Iâm so excited about, and I just feel really blessed,â said Winborg, a 53-year-old single mother who left a position at a national retail chain to work for the clothing manufacturer. âI donât know how they picked me, but Iâm so excited. I just wanted to get out of the big corporate mess. I wanted to work for a smaller, personalized company, and they are the nicest people Iâve ever met in my life. They hired me kind of sight-unse
When I was a young college student I studied German, history, and art in Vienna, Austria. Earlier, I had gained some appreciation for opera. Living a couple of blocks away from the Viennese Opera House, I found myself seeing an opera or two every week. I went stehplatz (standing room), that cost me around 20 cents, sitting with other Austrian students in the hall waiting to be let in and the performances to begin.
I attended the University of Vienna as part of an American travel-abroad program. When the school year began, I was almost the only American student attending the operas. As the year progressed other Americans gradually joined so that by the end of the school year there were scores of us. Many had become avid opera-goers and had learned to clap vigorously and yell âbravoâ to the singers, who had become their idols. Thanks to Michael Ballam, we have interest in opera in Logan. I would suggest that we might âgrowâ more interest in art . if we had a art mu