Press & Features
Four features across eight years from KING 5, KOMO, the Everett Herald, and My Everett News. Headlines, dates, and original links below.
“They don't want tools. They want money.”
Brenda Humbert, KING 5
KING 5 covered Brenda's decision to stop accepting cash at her south Everett shop in response to a wave of break-ins along Evergreen Way. She called it her loss prevention strategy and pointed to her largely senior clientele as the reason.
Read the original article →“It's an extra step. But what's the alternative?”
Brenda Humbert, KOMO
KOMO ran a parallel story the same day on Brenda's no-cash policy and the safety reasoning behind it. The shop had also installed thirteen surveillance cameras as part of her broader response to neighborhood crime.
Read the original article →“It just needs to be cleaned up. It should be safe.”
Brenda Humbert, Everett Herald
The Herald wrote a feature on the shop's exterior: dozens of flower pots, a miniature pier with shell-covered pilings, gulls, pelicans, a faux lighthouse, and a ship's wheel. The article documented Brenda's transformation of her stretch of Colby Avenue.
Read the original article →“I only like to cut hair.”
Brenda Humbert, My Everett News
My Everett News profiled Brenda directly: a lifelong Everett native, the path through Monroe, Duvall, and Redmond, opening her first shop in 2014, and moving to Colby Avenue in 2018.
Read the original article →All quotes are direct excerpts from the original articles, attributed and under fifteen words each.
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