By Chase Holmes, News Reporter
ARGO — A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held for three businesses coming to Argo on Friday, Aug 4.
The three businesses that are ready to be given a proper Argo welcoming are Carbon Fitness, Beverly’s Dance Unlimited of Argo, and The Fifth Element coffee shop. All three share the same building. The ribbon cutting will take place at 9 a.m.
Malachi Fanning, GM of Carbon Fitness, said the community has been waiting on this for a long time. “Everything has been going smoothly. We’re on track to open on the fifth, this Saturday. Everybody seems to be loving. They keep telling us Argo has been needing something like this for a long time now.”
Fanning said the grand opening will take place Saturday, August 5 and it will be an evening worth attending. “With the grand opening, we want to have everybody from the community as well as our members. We’re gonna have a food truck and a bouncy has and stuff like that to bring members of the community in,” he said.
Jessica Tidwell, Choreographer for Beverly’s Dance Unlimited, said she is excited to get going.
“We are very excited to be working with everybody and excited to get going,” she said. “We have been in the business since 1964. Mrs. Beverly has been in the business since she was 16 years old. We are a Christian dance studio so we try and create a space for kids no matter what is going on at home or school they can forget all that for a while and dance. We try and give them that creative space.”
Trisha Shockley, owner of The Fifth Element, said they are ready to offer their very best to Argo. “We want to be the absolute best coffee and nutrition bar around. Customers can come in and pick their element and we will work until we get it right. We have coffee, protein shakes, smoothies, and healthy things as well as snowballs.”
As for the ribbon cutting, Shockley said snacks and drinks will be available for the ceremony but they need a few more weeks to get everything ready for customers. The Fifth Element is looking to open the last week of August.
The respective businesses want to welcome everyone to the ribbon cutting ceremony to ring in a new era of businesses in Argo.