When I was in Hastings this past weekend I met a guy by the name of Marvin Hughes aka Butch.  Butch has turned the old Hastings Junior High School building into a business building for locals with small businesses.  Currently there are 12 different businesses and each owner is designated an area of the building to sell their products/services.  Some use old classrooms, the old band room and even the cafeteria. 

Some of the businesses include:

Simply Door Art by Nancy Parr.  Simply Door Art sells creatively decorated designs to hang on your front door at home.  You can check out some of her designs on her website: www.simplydoorart.com.

Form the Heart Creations, LLC by Deborah Brooks.  From The Heart Creations sells handmade jewelry and gifts.  Check out her website at www.heartcreations.com.

Woodland Archery.  Services that are provided: custom arrow building, complete set-up and tuning, custom bow strings by Winners Choice and Octane, Life-time tuning on all new bows sold by Woodland Archery, Professional and experienced service.  Visit their website at: www.woodland-archery.com.

Portraits by Kerry.  Photography studio for all those family and senior year portraits.  Her website is: www.portraitsbykerry.com.

If you want to get into fitness and working out the building also has Curves and Zumba available offered by two different owners. 

There are a couple other businesses such as a pottery and paintings that are made by two locals.

If you are ever in Hastings, I recommend you check out the old junior high building on 5th and Lincoln to see all the locals that working hard to provide services and goods to the best of Nebraskans and visitors.