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Hoffman Expert Cleaning had its ribbon cutting at its new auto detailing location in Carlyle on Saturday, Aug. 1. Pictured are, FROM LEFT, Carlyle City Councilman Jim McClaren, Kylee Peters, Carlyle City Councilman Tammy Peters, Brad Hoffman, Seth Hoffman, Carlyle Mayor Judy Smith and Carlyle City Councilmen Bruce Hilmes and Jeff Taylor. Photo by Matt Wilson A new car detailing business in Carlyle had its grand opening and ribbon cutting on Saturday, Aug. 1.
Hoffman Expert Cleaning is owned and operated by Seth Hoffman.
Hoffman has both an exterior cleaning business and a car detailing business. They are two different businesses under one company.
He started the exterior cleaning portion of the business in April 2019. He then got into the car detailing and power washing business. He bought the current Hoffman Expert Cleaning building for the vehicle portion of his business on March 25.
"It has been pretty much non-stop work trying to get everything going," Hoffman said.
Most of the vehicle detailing will be done at the new location. They will do interior and exterior cleaning and waxing, metal polishing, paint correction, headlight restoration and glass scratch repair.
Hoffman's grandmother and uncle also were in the car detailing business.
Hoffman started the business in Carlyle at his parents house. He moved to Beckemeyer for about five years and was working out of a pole barn.
The current auto detailing place focuses on basic vehicles like cars, trucks and SUVs. They are hoping to expand more and get into semi trucks, RVs and campers. They do work on some farms with the exterior cleaning side of the business, and they are hoping to expand to wash and do paint corrections on bigger pieces of farm equipment.
Hoffman's plan was to always run his own business. He went to Kaskaskia College for 2-1/2 years and got his associate degree, then worked for two years as a bookkeeper for a landscaping company.
"I have always wanted to get into cleaning," Hoffman said. "It is just something that everybody needs. As I started doing that, I started to notice all of the different things I could expand into. There are different things that people need done, and it all just kind of ties together."
There is one full-time and one part-time employee at the auto detailing business. They are hoping to expand next year and focus more on the detailing side. Hoffman's hope is to get a team of six to eight people and see where they go from there.
Hoffman said the business has been busy so far this year. The exterior cleaning side has been taking up a lot of time, and they have slowly been inching into detailing.
Hoffman is a 2015 Carlyle High School graduate. He has lived in Carlyle all of his life except for the five years he was in Beckemeyer.
Hoffman Expert Cleaning is located at 391 Franklin Street in Carlyle.
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Town hall Meeting Breese City Councilman Jason Davinroy announced during the Aug. 4 council meeting that there will be a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Breese American Legion.
The purpose of the town hall meeting will be to discuss the new Breese Nature Amphitheater that will be placed at Northside Park. The amphitheater will replace the former stage at Northside Park that had to be torn down due to safety issues.
The city is applying for an Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development (OSLAD) grant through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. They had to come up with a name for the new area, and thought the Breese Nature Amphitheater would be appropriate.
"This is a project for the community and it helps out the parks system," Breese Mayor Kevin Timmermann said. "It is just another venue that Breese wants to give back to the community."
There will be nature improvements and additions to the area.
During the July 21 meeting, a contract with Nickas Architecture, LLC, out of Columbia for stage and pavilion design services at Northside Park in the amount of $6,950 was approved.
Timmermann said one of the main reasons the old stage was torn down was because it became a safety issue. The city's risk insurance looked at the former stage and said there was a big question mark on safety.
Clinton County Showcase, Breese Optimist Club Fall Fest and Community Link Buddy Walk all used the stage.
In other Northside Park improvements, crews have been taking down some of the diseased trees. These trees will be replaced with new trees in the near future.
In the finance portion of the meeting, the council approved the Breese Lawn and Garden redevelopment agreement in the amount of $218,250.
The purchase of a 2027 Dodge Durango from K&J Automotive in the amount of $43,583 was approved during the public safety portion of the meeting.
The purchase of a Stryker PowerPro2 in the amount of $38,845.30 was approved. The Stryker PowerPro2 is a gurney that will go in the back of the Breese ambulance.
Participants in the Breese EMS golf scramble on Saturday, Aug. 1, at Bent Oak Golf Course were thanked. Some of the proceeds from the scramble went to help pay for the new gurney. Don and Phyllis Gallagher made a $5,000 donation toward the gurney.
In the public buildings portion of the meeting, it was announced that Breese Public Library had two commemorative benches installed in honor of longtime library board members Jim Sprengel and Yvonne Ratermann.
In zoning, the council approved the findings and facts and conclusions for a variance filed by J.T. Build for Jered and Catherine Huegen at 924 North Fifth Street, and approved an ordinance granting a variance filed by J.T. Build for that residence.
Jered Huegen was at the council meeting and said he would be adding a sunroom to the residence.
During the mayor's report, Timmermann thanked everyone for a successful Breese EMS golf tournament. There were teams from outside of Breese including Germantown, Aviston and Beckemeyer.
"There was participation from a lot of different communities, and it's greatly appreciated," Timmermann said.
The next Breese City Council meeting is set for Aug. 18 at Breese City Hall.
