For Tyler Groover, owner of Hip House, a full service residential general contracting business in Ashland, his background in the residential construction industry started as far back as he can remember. 

It is the Paddington Family of Store’s 50th Anniversary Open House on November 17th through the 19th. Paddington will be celebrating at all three stores with lots of free gifts, grand prizes, live music from North and South Medford High School Choirs, The Siskiyou Violins, Kristen Calvin and lots of other great talent.

Bearclaw Landscape Services is celebrating 28 years in the valley, although owner Juan Meraz got his start in the landscape business in 1988, working for Rainbow Landscape Company. He jokes that in those early years, he did landscaping for newly built homes, and the ground was so hard and compacted from the construction crews that he had to use a bear claw to break up the soil. When he decided to start his own company, the first thing that came to mind was “Bearclaw,” and the rest is history.

When it comes to staying fit (and healthy), there a number of key ingredients: nutrition, reducing stress, sleep … and exercise. At Bennettfit365, which opened in 2020 in Ashland at 1154 Oak Street, owner Tyler Bennett, with eleven years of experience in personal training and nutrition coaching, is there for you.

Medford Women’s Clinic, LLP (3170 State Street, Medford) opened in 2000. Doctors Carissa Ross, Mary Strizzi, Emily Steinbis, and Jonathan Freeman provide a wide range of women-related services, including low- and high-risk obstetrics, problem based gynecology, in-office procedures, and surgeries.